beating, a. pulsating, throbbing, pulsatile.

beau, n. lover, sweetheart, gallant, swain, flame, cicisbeo, admirer,
suitor, inamorato; dandy, popinjay, dude, fop, coxcomb, exquisite, blade.

beautiful, a. fair, lovely, handsome, comely, personable, beauteous,
elegant, exquisite. Antonyms: homely, ugly, repulsive, unlovely,
hideous, uncomely, inelegant.

beautify, v. embellish, adorn, grace, garnish.

beauty, n. loveliness, fairness, elegance, comeliness, pulchritude,
grace, exquisiteness, charm, attraction. Associated Words: æsthetics,
æsthetician, æstheticism, æsthete, æsthetic, esthetology, Apollo, Adonis,
Venus, Hebe, Hyperion, Houri, Aphrodite.

becloud, v. dim, cloud, obscure, adumbrate, obfuscate.

becoming, a. appropriate, fit, seemly, befitting, comely. Antonyms:
See unbecoming.

bed, n. berth, bunk, couch, cot; pallet, paillasse, mattress; cradle,
trundle-bed; deposit, seam, vein, stratum. Associated Words:
decumbiture, lectual, clinic, clinical, valance, alcove.

bedbug, n. chinch.

bedclothes, n. pl. Associated Words: floccillation, carphology,
tilmus.