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.

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.

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.

a history or description of books and manuscripts, with notices of the different editions, the times when they were printed, etc.

A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration.

Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic divines to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over that of the pope or the church, and by Protestants to an excessive regard to the letter of the Scriptures.

Relating to bibliology.

A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events.

A mania for acquiring books.

One who has a mania for books. Relating to a bibliomaniac.

Pertaining to a passion for books; relating to a bibliomaniac.

Relating to the binding of books.

A bookbinder.

Pertaining to the art of binding books.