Bespeak
- n. A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.)
- v. t. To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.
- v. t. To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate.
- v. t. To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances.
- v. t. To speak to; to address.
- v. i. To speak.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.