bedeck (bedek)

t. [ Such wonderful and pricele gifts as these, Fit to bedeck the limbs of godde es! William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 245. bedeen (bē-dēn'), adv . [North. E. and Sc., bedene , beden, bidene, biden ; of uncertain origin; appar. bid- , which seems to be an unexplained substitute for bi , E. by , prep. (le prob. a corruption of mid , with, or of with ), + ene, ane , once, at once, an , one: see once , one, and cf. anon , of somewhat similar formation. Bedeen is often a mere expletive.] 11. In a body; together: as, all bedeen .-21. In order; one after another.-3. Forthwith; straightway.-4. Anon; by and by. Read on our Bibles, pray bedeen . Blackwood's Mag., XXVIII. 738.