Word Meanings - BEHEST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction. To do his master's high behest. Sir W. Scott. 2. A vow; a promise. The time is come that I should send it her, if I keep the behest that I have made. Paston.

Related words: (words related to BEHEST)

• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• WILLING
  1. Free to do or to grant; having the mind inclined; not opposed in mind; not choosing to refuse; disposed; not averse; desirous; consenting; complying; ready. Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound. Acts xxiv. 27. With wearied
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• COMMANDING
  1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• WILLIWAW; WILLYWAW
  A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan. W. C. Russell.
• WILLINGLY
  In a willing manner; with free will; without reluctance; cheerfully. Chaucer. The condition of that people is not so much to be envied as some would willingly represent it. Addison.
• WILLOW-WORT
  Same as Willow-weed. Any plant of the order Salicaceæ, or the Willow family.
• WILLEMITE
  A silicate of zinc, usually occurring massive and of a greenish yellow color, also in reddish crystals containing manganese.
• WILLY NILLY
  See WILL
• COMMANDATORY
  Mandatory; as, commandatory authority.
• SHOULDERED
  Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
• COMMANDO
  In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers. The war bands, called commandos, have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country. James Bryce.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WILLIER
  One who works at a willying machine.
• SHOULDER
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
• BEHEST
  1. That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction. To do his master's high behest. Sir W. Scott. 2. A vow; a promise. The time is come that I should send it her, if I keep the behest that I have made. Paston.
• WILLOWISH
  Having the color of the willow; resembling the willow; willowy. Walton.
• WILLOWED
  Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows. "Willowed meads." Collins.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• UNPROMISE
  To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
• TETRASPASTON
  A machine in which four pulleys act together. Brande & C.
• HUMP-SHOULDERED
  Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• SWILLINGS
  See 1
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• TOWILLY
  The sanderling; -- so called from its cry.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• SWILL
  To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. Smollett. 3. To inebriate; to fill with drink. I should be loth To meet the rudeness
• TASKMASTER
  One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton.