BPage 186
- English Word Better Definition More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and better.
- English Word Better Definition To improve or ameliorate; to increase the good qualities of.
- English Word Better Definition To improve the condition of, morally, physically, financially, socially, or otherwise.
- English Word Better Definition To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.
- English Word Better Definition To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
- English Word Better Definition To become better; to improve.
- English Word Better Definition One who bets or lays a wager.
- English Word Bettered Definition of Better
- English Word Bettering Definition of Better
- English Word Betterment Definition A making better; amendment; improvement.
- English Word Betterment Definition An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural.
- English Word Bettermost Definition Best.
- English Word Betterness Definition The quality of being better or superior; superiority.
- English Word Betterness Definition The difference by which fine gold or silver exceeds in fineness the standard.
- English Word Betting Definition of Bet
- English Word Bettong Definition A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.
- English Word Bettor Definition One who bets; a better.
- English Word Betty Definition A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.
- English Word Betty Definition 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.
- English Word Betty Definition A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask.