ppl. a. [f. BECALM v. + -ED.] a. Calmed, quieted, stilled. b. Motionless for want of wind.
a. 1567. Cowley, Solit., Wks. 1710, II. 693. Theyre like a becalmed Ship.
1666. Dryden, Ann. Mirab., xcix. (J.). The moon shone clear on the becalmed floud.
a. 1674. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., III. xv. 491. The silence of a becalmd Conscience.