beholder (bo holder)

[ sees. Was this the face That, like the sun, did make beholders wink? Shak., Rich. II., iv. 1. [ behold- beholding1 (bē-holding), n. ynge , bihaldunge ; beholden , behold.] The act of looking at; gaze; view; sight. The revenges we are bound to take upon your traitorous father are not fit for your beholding . Shak ., Lear, iii. 7. Spenser, F. Q., III. vii. 47. 3. To addre . Whom soone as he beheld he knew, and thus behight . Spenser, F. Q., V. iv. 25. Why of late Didst thou behight me borne of English blood? Spenser, F. Q., I. x. 64. 4. To pronounce; declare to be. between beneath and below . Jesus. IMG:content-1875.png:[blocks in formation] one. bihour, bohourd, etc., "a juste or tourney of many together with launces and batleaxes; also a bustling or blustering noise" (Cotgrave);