imp. p. p. of Bestride.

p. p. of Bestrew.

imp. p. p. Bestick.

To set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set thickly; to stud; as, to bestud with stars.

To lure; to cheat.

An early form of Better.

The second letter of the Greek alphabet, B, /. See B, and cf. etymology of Alphabet.

Excessive or extended use of the b sound in speech, due to conversion of other sounds into it, as through inability to distinguish them from b, or because of difficulty in pronouncing them.

A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beet-root molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.

To take or seize.

a type of particle accelerator which accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux.

Delivered; committed in trust.

To better; to mend. See Beete.

To mend; to repair.

An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc.

To give ; to bestow; to grant; to accord; to consent.

A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber with ovate many-nerved leaves.

A bright star of the first magnitude, near one shoulder of Orion.

the 2nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

To think; to recollect; to consider.

A hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam.

An inhabitant of Bethlehem in Judea.

imp. p. p. of Bethink.

To reduce to thralldom; to inthrall.

To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books.

To beat or thump soundly.

To come to pass; to happen; to occur.

In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early.

To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle.

To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.

The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion.

To attack with the tongue; to abuse; to insult.

A plant of the genus Betonica (Linn.).

imp. of Betake.

Torn in pieces; tattered.

To put in violent motion; to agitate; to disturb; to toss.

To draw into, or catch in, a trap; to insnare; to circumvent.

To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city.

The act or the result of betraying.

One who, or that which, betrays.

Betrayal.

To set in order; to adorn; to deck, to embellish; to trim.

To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.

The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance.

The act of betrothing, or the state of being betrothed; betrothal.

To trust or intrust.

The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted.

A small brass Venetian coin.

One who bets or lays a wager.

more familiar or renowned than the other of two. Antonym of lesser-known.

more pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion.

being in a more prosperous condition.

changing for the better; -- antonym of worsening.

A making better; amendment; improvement.

Best.

The quality of being better or superior; superiority.

A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.

a genus of marsupials including the jerboa kangaroo, the bettong.

One who bets; a better.

A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.

a term originally applied to a substance obtained as a resin or tar by extraction from the outer bark of the common European white birch (Betula alba); now referring to the chemical compound (C30H50O2) having a cyclopentanophenanthrene ring system, which is the main constituent of that extract, and which may be obtained crystalline; -- called also birch camphor.

To throw into disorder; to tumble.

To tutor; to instruct.

Intermediate time or space; interval.

A beurr/ (or buttery) pear, one with the meat soft and melting; -- used with a distinguishing word; as, Beurr/ d'Anjou; Beurr/ Clairgeau.

a particle accelerator which is capable of accelerating protons up to 6 gigaeletron volts.

To deviate or incline from an angle of 90/, as a surface; to slant.

Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.

The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.

To take a light repast between meals.

Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage.

A chief broken or opening like a carpenter's bevel.

Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.

A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.

To express grief; to lament.

Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.

One who bewails or laments.

Wailing over; lamenting.

The act of bewailing.

To keep watch over; to keep awake.

To avoid; to take care of; to have a care for.

To drench or souse with water.

To weep.

To wet or moisten.

To corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of.

To cover (the head) with a wig.

To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for lack of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.

Greatly perplexed; as, a bewildered mind.

The state of being bewildered; bewilderment.

Causing bewilderment or great perplexity; as, bewildering difficulties.

The state of being bewildered.

To make wintry.

A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs.

To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.

The state of being bewitched.

One who bewitches.

The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination.

Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming.

The act of bewitching, or the state of being bewitched.

To fill with wonder.

To wrap up; to cover.

To expose; to reveal; to disclose; to betray.

One who, or that which, bewrays; a revealer.

Betrayal.

To wreck.

To wreak; to avenge.

Embroidered.

A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis.

The territory ruled by a bey.

Further away; at a distance; yonder.

The second branch of a stag's horn.

A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants.

The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.

A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points.

A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea.

Pertaining to, or compounded with, bezoar. A medicine containing bezoar.

Having the qualities of an antidote, or of bezoar; healing.

A low fellow or scoundrel; a beggar.

A Russian sect. See Raskolnik.

To drink to excess; to revel.