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 natural family of monoecious trees and shrubs, including the genera Betula; Alnus; Carpinus; Corylus; Ostrya; and Ostryopsis.

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.

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.

An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.

A water carrier, as to a household or a regiment.

Same as Bheesty.

An Indian monkey (Macacus Rhesus), protected by the Hindus as sacred. See Rhesus.

a principality in the Himalayas northeast of India.

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bhutan.

a native or inhabitant of Bhutan.

Having two hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by negative atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of bases. See Diacid.

Having points in two directions.

Having two angles or corners.

Biangular.

Biangular.

Occurring twice a year; half-yearly; semiannual.

Having two anthers.

Having, or consisting of, tow joints.

To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.

Having two auricles, as the heart of mammals, birds, and reptiles.

Having two axes; as, biaxial polarization; biaxial crystals.

To drink; to sip; to tipple.

Addicted to drinking.

The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling.

Having to hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by positive or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of acids. See Dibasic.

A bibcock. See Bib, n., 3.

To drink; to tipple.

One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.

Idle talk; babble.

Pieces of timber bolted to certain parts of a mast to support the trestletrees.

A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle.

A small decorative object without practical utility.

See Bebeerine.

Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling.

A book.

A great drinker; a tippler.

lacking a bib.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority.

The quality of being biblical; a biblical subject.

According to the Bible.

Learning or literature relating to the Bible.

One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.

Bibliographer.

One who writes, or is versed in, bibliography.

Pertaining to bibliography, or the history of books.