BPage 181
- 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.