Before night begins to fall. From morning until evening. In the daytime before sunset.

(transitive) To become a friend of, to make friends with. / (transitive, dated) To act as a friend to, to assist. / (transitive) To favor.

To envelop in fog or smoke. / To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties). / To obscure, make less clear (a subject, issue, etc.).

To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute. / (specifically) To defecate on, to soil with excrement. / (figuratively) To stain or mar (for example with infamy or disgrace).

to be fit for

(cricket) Describing the way of getting out in which the ball would have hit the batsman's wicket, but hits the batsman's legs or more rarely another part of the batsman's body without first hitting the bat or a hand holding the bat.

(cricket) An instance of a batsman being out due to the leg before wicket law.

present participle of befit

appropriate, becoming

(literally) Having living quarters in the forecastle / Describing seamen rather than officers