am becalmed, the sail sticks to the mast; that is, my shirt
sticks to my back. His prad is becalmed; his horse knocked up.

BECK. A beadle. See HERMANBECK.

BED. Put to bed with a mattock, and tucked up with a
spade; said of one that is dead and buried. You will go up
a ladder to bed, i.e. you will be hanged. In many country
places, persons hanged are made to mount up a ladder,
which is afterwards turned round or taken away, whence the
term, "Turned off."

BEDFORDSHIRE. I am for Bedfordshire, i.e. for going to bed.

BEDIZENED. Dressed out, over-dressed, or awkwardly ornamented.

BED-MAKER. Women employed at Cambridge to attend
on the Students, sweep his room, &c. They will put their
hands to any thing, and are generally blest with a pretty
family of daughters: who unmake the beds, as fast as they
are made by their mothers.

BEEF. To cry beef; to give the alarm. They have cried beef
on us. Cant.--To be in a man's beef; to wound him with
a sword. To be in a woman's beef; to have carnal
knowledge of her. Say you bought your beef of me, a jocular
request from a butcher to a fat man. implying that he
credits the butcher who serves him.

BEEF EATER. A yeoman of the guards, instituted by Henry