Skip to main content
Search Section
Skip alphabetical navigation menu.

Browse Alphabetically

  • English Word Bet Definition An early form of Better.
  • English Word Betaine Definition 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.
  • English Word Betake Definition To take or seize.
  • English Word Betake Definition To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun.
  • English Word Betake Definition To commend or intrust to; to commit to.
  • English Word Betaken Definition of Betake
  • English Word Betaking Definition of Betake
  • English Word Betaught Definition Delivered; committed in trust.
  • English Word Bete Definition To better; to mend. See Beete.
  • English Word Bete Definition To mend; to repair.
  • English Word Bete Definition To renew or enkindle (a fire).
  • English Word Bete noire Definition Something especially hated or dreaded; a bugbear.
  • English Word Beteela Definition An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc.
  • English Word Beteem Definition To give ; to bestow; to grant; to accord; to consent.
  • English Word Beteem Definition To allow; to permit; to suffer.
  • English Word Betel Definition 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.
  • English Word Betel nut Definition The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime.
  • English Word Betelguese Definition A bright star of the first magnitude, near one shoulder of Orion.
  • English Word Bethabara wood Definition A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian.
  • English Word Bethel Definition A place of worship; a hallowed spot.
  • English Word Bethel Definition A chapel for dissenters.
  • English Word Bethel Definition A house of worship for seamen.
  • English Word Bethink Definition To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronoun, often with of or that before the subject of thought.
  • English Word Bethink Definition To think; to recollect; to consider.
  • English Word Bethinking Definition of Bethink
  • English Word Bethlehem Definition A hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam.
  • English Word Bethlehem Definition In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the eucharist is made.
  • English Word Bethlehemite Definition Alt. of Bethlemite
  • English Word Bethlemite Definition An inhabitant of Bethlehem in Judea.
  • English Word Bethlemite Definition An insane person; a madman; a bedlamite.