Betrothment (n.) The act of betrothing, or the state of being betrothed; betrothal.
Betrust (v. t.) To trust or intrust.
Betrustment (n.) The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted.
Betso (n.) A small brass Venetian coin.
Better (a.) Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
Better (a.) Preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness, acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect.
Better (a.) Greater in amount; larger; more.
Better (a.) Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the patient is better.
Better (a.) More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance; a better knowledge of the subject.
Better (n.) Advantage, superiority, or victory; -- usually with of; as, to get the better of an enemy.
Better (n.) One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural.
Better (compar.) In a superior or more excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits.
Better (compar.) More correctly or thoroughly.
Better (compar.) In a higher or greater degree; more; as, to love one better than another.
Better (compar.) More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and better.
Bettered (imp. & p. p.) of Better
Bettering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Better
Better (a.) To improve or ameliorate; to increase the good qualities of.
Better (a.) To improve the condition of, morally, physically, financially, socially, or otherwise.
Better (a.) To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.
Better (a.) To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
Better (v. i.) To become better; to improve.
Better (n.) One who bets or lays a wager.
Betterment (n.) A making better; amendment; improvement.
Betterment (n.) An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural.
Bettermost (a.) Best.
Betterness (n.) The quality of being better or superior; superiority.
Betterness (n.) The difference by which fine gold or silver exceeds in fineness the standard.
Bettong (n.) A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.
Bettor (n.) One who bets; a better.
Betty (n.) A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.
Betty (n.) A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters.
Betty (n.) A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask.
Betulin (n.) A substance of a resinous nature, obtained from the outer bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor.
Betumbled (imp. & p. p.) of Betumble
Betumble (v. t.) To throw into disorder; to tumble.
Betutored (imp. & p. p.) of Betutor
Betutor (v. t.) To tutor; to instruct.
Between (prep.) In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.
Between (prep.) Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two.
Between (prep.) Belonging in common to two; shared by both.
Between (prep.) Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion.
Between (prep.) With relation to two, as involved in an act or attribute of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge between or to choose between courses; to distinguish between you and me; to mediate between nations.
Between (prep.) In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock.
Between (n.) Intermediate time or space; interval.
Betwixt (prep.) In the space which separates; between.
Betwixt (prep.) From one to another of; mutually affecting.
Beurre (n.) A beurre (or buttery) pear, one with the meat soft and melting; -- used with a distinguishing word; as, Beurre d'Anjou; Beurre Clairgeau.
Bevel (n.) Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.
Bevel (n.) An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square.
Bevel (a.) Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
Bevel (a.) Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.
Beveled (imp. & p. p.) of Bevel
Bevelled () of Bevel
Beveling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bevel
Bevelling () of Bevel
Bevel (v. t.) To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
Bevel (v. i.) To deviate or incline from an angle of 90¡, as a surface; to slant.
Beveled (a.) Alt. of Bevelled
Bevelled (a.) Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.
Bevelled (a.) Replaced by two planes inclining equally upon the adjacent planes, as an edge; having its edges replaced by sloping planes, as a cube or other solid.
Bevel gear () A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.
Bevelment (n.) The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.
Bever (n.) A light repast between meals; a lunch.
Bevered (imp. & p. p.) of Bever
Bever (v. i.) To take a light repast between meals.
Beverage (v. t.) Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage.
Beverage (v. t.) Specifically, a name applied to various kinds of drink.
Beverage (v. t.) A treat, or drink money.
Bevile (n.) A chief broken or opening like a carpenter's bevel.
Beviled (a.) Alt. of Bevilled
Bevilled (a.) Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.
Bevies (pl. ) of Bevy
Bevy (n.) A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.
Bevy (n.) A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes.
Bewailed (imp. & p. p.) of Bewail
Bewailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bewail
Bewail (v. t.) To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over.
Bewail (v. i.) To express grief; to lament.
Bewailable (a.) Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.
Bewailer (n.) One who bewails or laments.
Bewailing (a.) Wailing over; lamenting.
Bewailment (n.) The act of bewailing.
Bewake (v. t. & i.) To keep watch over; to keep awake.
Beware (v. i.) To be on one's guard; to be cautious; to take care; -- commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided.
Beware (v. i.) To have a special regard; to heed.
Beware (v. t.) To avoid; to take care of; to have a care for.
Bewash (v. t.) To drench or souse with water.
Bewept (imp. & p. p.) of Beweep
Beweeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beweep
Beweep (v. t.) To weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears.
Beweep (v. i.) To weep.
Bewet (imp. & p. p.) of Bewet
Bewetted () of Bewet
Bewet (v. t.) To wet or moisten.
Bewhore (v. t.) To corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of.
Bewhore (v. t.) To pronounce or characterize as a whore.
Bewigged (imp. & p. p.) of Bewig
Bewig (v. t.) To cover (the head) with a wig.
Bewildered (imp. & p. p.) of Bewilder