Tatler.

Pure oil and incense on the fire they throw, And fat of victims which his friends bestow. 6. To apply.

The sea was not the duke of Marlborough's element; otherwise the whole force of the war would infallibly have been bestowed there.

7. To lay out upon.

Swift.

And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, sheep, or for wine. Deuteronomy.

8. To lay up; to stow; to place.

And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestorved them in the house. 2 Kings. BESTOWER. n. s. [from bestow.] Giver; he that confers any thing; disposer.

They all agree in making one supreme God; and that there are several beings that are to be worshipped under him; some as the bestowers of thrones, but subordinate to the Supreme. Stilling fleet. BESTRA'UGHT. part. [Of this participle I have not found the verb; by analogy we may derive it from bestract; perhaps it is corrupted from distraught.] Distracted; mad; out of one's senses; out of one's wits.

Ask Marian, the fat alewife, if she knew me not. What! I am not bestraught. Shakspears. To BESTRE'W. v. a. part. pass. bestrewed, or bestrown. [from strew.] To sprinkle

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with studs, or shining prominences. Th' unsought diamonds Would so emblaze the forehead of the deep, And so bestud with stars, that they below Would grow inur'd to light. BET. n. s. [peddian, to wager; ped, a wager, Sax. from which the etymologists derive bet. I should rather imagine it to come from bezan,to mend, increase, or better, as a bet increases the original wager.] A wager; something laid to be won upon certain conditions. The hoary fool, who many days Has struggled with continued sorrow, Renews his hope, and blindly lays The desp'rate bet upon to-morrow.

Prior.

His pride was in piquette, Newmarket fame, and judgment at a bet. Pope. To BET. v. a. [from the noun.] To wager; to stake at a wager.

his head.

He drew a good bow: and dead? John of Gaunt loved him well, and betted much upon Shakspeare, He flies the court, for want of clothes;" Cries out 'gainst cocking, since he cannot bet, Ben Jonson

The god, unhappily engag'd, Complain'd, and sigh'd, and cried, and fretted, Lost every earthly thing he betted. Prior. BET. The old preterit of beat.

He staid for a better hour, till the hammer had wrought and bet the party more pliant. Bacon. To BETA'KE. v. a. pret. I betook; part. pass. betaken. [from take.]

1. To take; to seize: an obsolete sense. Then to his hands that writ he did betake, Which he disclosing read. Spenser. 2. To have recourse to: with the reciprocal pronoun.

The adverse party betaking itself to such prac tices as men embrace, when they behold things brought to desperate extremities. Hooker.

Thou tyrant!

Do not repent these things; for they are heavier Than all thy woes can stir; therefore betake thee To nothing but despair. Shakspeare.

The rest, in imitation, to like arms Betook them, and the neighbouring hills up tore. Milton.

3. To apply: with the reciprocal pro

To BETHINK. v. a. I bethought; I have bethought. [from think.] To recal to re. flection; to bring back to consideration or recollection. It is generally used with the reciprocal pronoun, and of before the subject of thought.

They were sooner in danger than they could almost bethink themselves of change. Sidney. I have bethought me of another fault. Shaksp I, better bethinking myself, and misliking his determination, gave him this order. Raleigh. He himself,

Insatiable of glory, had lost all:
Yet of another plea bethought him soon. Milton.
The nots were laid, yet the birds could never
bethink themselves till hampered, and past re-
L'Estrange.

covery.

Cherippus, then in time yourself bethink; And what your rags will yield by auction, sink. Dryden. A little consideration may allay his heat, and make him bethink himself, whether this attempt be worth the venture. Locke. BETHLEHEM. n. s. [See BEDLAM.] A hospital for lunaticks. BETHLEHEMITE. n. s. [See BEDLAMITE.] A lunatick; an inhabitant of

a madhouse.

BETHOUGHT. participle. [from bethink ; which see.]

To BETHRA'L. v. a. [from thrall.] To enslave; to conquer ; to bring into subjection.

Ne let that wicked woman 'scape away, For she it is that did my lord bethral. Spenser. To BETHU'MP. v. a. [from thump.] To beat; to lay blows upon: a ludicrous word.

I was never so bethumpt with words, Since first I call'd my brother's father dad. Shakspeare. To BETIDE. v. n. pret. It betided, or betid; part. pass. betid. [from zid, Sax. See TIDE.]

1. To happen to; to befal; to bechance, whether good or bad: with the person. Said he then to the palmer, reverend sire, What great misfortune hath betid this knight?

Spenser.

But say, if our deliverer up to heav'n' Must reascend; what will betide the few, His faithful, left among th' unfaithful herd, The enemies of truth?

2. Sometimes it has to.

Neither know I

What is betid to Cloten; but remain Perplext in all.

1

Milton.

Shakspeare.

To come to pass; to fall out; to hap

pen: without the person.

She, when her turn was come her tale to tell,
Told of a strange adventure that betided
Betwixt the fox, and th' ape by him misguided.
Spenser.

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire
With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales
Of woeful ages, long ago betid. Shakspeare.

Let me hear from thee by letters
Of thy success in love; and what news else
Betidet's here in absence of thy friend. Shaksp.
To become; to be the fate: with of.
If he were dead, what would betide of thee?
Shakspeare.
BETIME.adv. [from by and time
BETIMES.} that is, by the proper time.
Seasonably; early; before it is late.

Send succours,lords, and stop the rage betimes,
Shakspeare.

To measure life learn thou betimes, and know Tow'rd solid good what leads the nearest way. Milton

2. Soon; before long time has passed. Whiles they are weak, betimes with them contend;

1

For when they once to perfect strength do grow, Strong wars they make.

Spenser. He tires betimes, that spurs too fast betimes. Shakspeart.

There be some have an over early ripeness in their years, which fadeth betimes: these are first, such as have brittle wits, the edge whereof is soon turned. Bacons Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth; that is, enter upon a religious course betimes. Tillotsons Short is the date, alas! of modern rhymes; And 't is but just to let them live betimes. Popt. 3. Early in the day.

He that drinks all night, and is hanged be times in the morning, may sleep the sounder next day. Shakspears.

They rose betimes in the morning, and offered sacrifice. 1 Maccabees.

BETLE. Į n. s. [piper adulterinum.] An BE'TRE. Indian plant, called water pep

Miller.

BETO'OK. irreg. pret. [from betake; which see.] To BETO'SS. v. a. [from toss.] To disturb; to agitate; to put into violent motion.

What said my man, when my betossed soul Did not attend him as we rode? Shakspears To BETRAY. v. a. [trabir, Fr.]

1. To give into the hands of enemies by treachery, or breach of trust: with to before the person, otherwise into.

If ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the Gud of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it. 1 Chronicles.

Jesus said unto them, The Son of Man shall be betrayed into the hands of men. Matthew. For fear of nothing else but a betraying of the succours which reason offereth.

Wisdom

6. To show; to discover.

Ire, envy, and despair,

Which marr'd his borrow'd visage, and betray'd Milton. Him counterfeit, if any eye beheld. The Veian and the Gabian tow'rs shall fall, And one promiscuous ruin cover all; Nor, after length of years, a stone betray The place where once the very ruins lay. Addison. BETRAYER. n. s. [from betray.] He that betrays; a traitor.

The wise man doth so say of fear, that it is a betrayer of the forces of reasonable understandHooker. ing. You cast down your courage through fear, the betrayer of all succours which reason can afford. Sir J. Hayward. They are only a few betrayers of their country; they are to purchase coin, perhaps at half price, and vend it among us, to the ruin of the publick. Swift. To BETRI'M. v. a. [from trim.] To deck; to dress; to grace; to adorn; to embellish; to beautify; to decorate. Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims, Which spungy April at thy hest betrims, To make cold nymphs chaste crowns. Ta BETROTH. v. a. [from troth; betrowen, Dutch.]

Shaksp.

1. To contract to any one, in order to marriage; to affiance: used either of

Το

to come.

you

Having a desire to depart, and be with Christ; which is far better.

2.

The Corinthians that morning, as the days beSidney. fore, had the better.

The voyage of Drake and Hawkins was unfortunate; yet, in such sort, as doth not break our prescription, to have had the belter of the Spaniards.

Bacon.

Dionysius, his countryman, in an epistle to Pompey, after an express comparison, affords him the better of Thucydides. Brown's Vulg. Er. You think fit

To get the better of me, and you shall;
Since you will have it so;-1 will be yours.

Suberne.

Prior.

The gentleman had always so much the better of the satirist, that the persons touched did not know where to fix their resentment. Improvement; as, for the better, so as to improve it.

If I have altered him any where for the better, I must at the same time acknowledge, that I could have done nothing without him. Dryden. BETTER. adv. [comparative of well.] Well, in a greater degree.

Then it was better with me than now. Hosea. Better a mechanick rule were stretched or broken, than a great beauty were omitted. Dryd. The better to understand the extent of our knowledge, one thing is to be observed. Locke.

He that would know the idea of infinity, cannot do better, than by considering to what Locke. infinity is attributed.

TO BETTER. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To improve; to meliorate.

The cause of his taking upon him our nature, was to better the quality, and to advance the condition thereof.

With well-tim'd zeal, and with an artful care, Restor'd and better'd soon the nice affair. Corley.

The church of England, the purest and best reformed church in the world; so well reformed, that it will be found easier to alter than better its South. constitution.

The Romans took pains to hew out a passage for these lakes to discharge themselves for the Addison. bettering of the air. 2. To surpass; to exceed.

The works of nature do always aim at that Hooker. which cannot be bettered.

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age; he hath, indeed, better bettered expectation, than you must expect of me to tell Shakspeare.

The courtesy of nations allows you my better, in that you are the first-born. Shakspeare. That ye thus hospitably live, Is mighty grateful to your betters, And makes e'en gods themselves your debtors. Prior.

I have some gold and silver by me, and shall be able to make a shift when many of my betters are starving. Swift. BE'TTOR. N.S. [from To bet.] One that lays bets or wagers.

I observed a stranger among them of a genteeler behaviour than ordinary; but, notwithstanding he was a very fair better, nobody would Addison. take him up.

BETTY. n. s. [probably a cant word, signifying an instrument which does what is too often done by à maid within.] An instrument to break open doors.

Record the stratagems, the arduous exploits, and the nocturnal scalades, of needy heroes, describing the powerful betty, or the artful picklock. Arbuthnot.

BETWEEN. prep. [bezpeonan, berpinan, Saxon; from the original word ʊpa, tavo.]

1. In the intermediate space. What modes

Of smell, the headlong lioness betrveen And hound sagacious on the tainted green! Pope. 2. From one to another: noting inter

Five years since, there was some speech of marriage Betwixt myself and her. Shakspeare. BE'VEL. n. s. In masonry and joinery, BE'VIL. a kind of square, one leg of which is frequently crooked, according to the sweep of an arch or vault. It is moveable on a point or centre, and so may be set to any angle. An angle that is not square, is called a bevil angle, whether it be more obtuse, or more acute, than a right angle. Builder's Dict. Their houses are very ill built, their walls bevil, without one right angle in any apartment. Swift. To BE'VEL. v. a. [from the noun.] Το cut to a bevel angle.

These rabbets are ground square; but the rabbets on the groundsel are bevelled downwards, that rain may the freelier fall off. Moxon. BE'VER. See BEAVER. BE'VERAGE. n. s. [from bevere, to drink, Ital.]

1. Drink; liquor to be drank in general. I am his cupbearer;

If from me he have wholesome beverage,
Account me not your servant.

Shakspeare.
Grains, pulses, and all sorts of fruits, either
bread or beverage may be made almost of all.
Brown's Vulgar Errours.
A pleasant beverage he prepar'd before,
Of wine and honey mix'd.

Dryden. The coarse lean gravel on the mountain sides Scarce dewy bev'rage for the bees provides. Dryden.

2. Beverage, or water cyder, is made by putting the mure into a fat, adding water, as you desire it stronger or smaller. The water should stand fortyeight hours on it, before you press it; when it is pressed, tun it up immediately. Mortimer.

3.

A treat upon wearing a new suit of clothes.

4. A treat at first coming into a prison, called also garnish. BE'VY. n. s. [beva, Ital.]

1. A flock of birds.

2. A company; an assembly.

And in the midst thereof, upon the floor, A lovely bevy of fair ladies sat, Courted of many a jolly paramour. They on the plain

F. Queen

Long had not walk'd, when, from the tents, behold A bevy of fair women.

Milton.

Nor rode the nymph alone; Around a bevy of bright damsels shone. Pape. To BEWA'IL. v. a. [from wail.] To bemoan; to lament; to express sorrow for.

In this city he Hath widow'd and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour berail the injury. Sbakst. Yet wiser Ennius gave command to all His friends, not to bewail his funeral.

Sir John Denbam. I cannot but bezvail, as in their first principles, the miscries and calamities of our children.

To BEWA'RE. v. n. [from be and ware, or wary, that is, cautious: thus, in an old treatise, I have found be ye ware. See WARY. Lepanian, Saxon; warer, Danish.]

1. To regard with caution; to be suspi cious of danger from: generally the particle of goes before the thing which excites caution.

You must beware of drawing or painting clouds, winds, and thunder, towards the bottom of your piece. Dryden. Every one ought to be very careful to beware what he admits for a principle. Locke. Warn'd by the sylph, oh pious maid, beware! This to disclose is all thy guardian can ; Beware of all, but most beware of man. Pope. 2. It is observable, that it is only used in such forms of speech as admit the word be: thus we say, he may beware, let him beware, he will beware; but not he did beware, or he has been ware. To BEWE EP. v. a. [from weep.] To weep over or upon; to bedew with tears. Old fond eyes,

Beweep this cause again, I'll pluck ye out,
And cast you, with the waters that you lose,
To temper clay.

Larded all with sweet flowers,
Which bewept to the grave did go
With true love showers.

Shakspeare.

Shakspeare.

To BEWE'T. v. a. [from wet.] To wet; to moisten; to bedew; to water. His napkin, with his true tears all beret, Can do no service on her sorrowful cheeks. Shakspeare's Titus Andronicus. To BEWILDER. v. a. [from wild.] To lose in pathless places; to confound for want of a plain road; to perplex; to entangle; to puzzle.

We parted thus; I homeward sped my way, Bewilder'd in the wood till dawn of day. Dryd. We no solution of our question find; Your words bewilder, nor direct the mind.

Blackmore.

It is good sometimes to lose and bewilder ourWatts. selves in such studies. To BEWITCH. v. a. [from witch.] 1. To injure by witchcraft, or fascination, or charms.

Look how I am bewitch'd; behold, mine arm Is, like a blasted sapling, wither'd up. Shaksp

I have forsworn his company hourly this twenty years, and yet I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal has not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hang'd! Shakspeare.

My flocks are free from love, yet look so thin: What magick has bewitch'd the woolly dams, And what ill eyes beheld the tender lambs?

Sidney.

Dryden. 2. To charm; to please to such a degree, as to take away the power of resistance. Doth even beauty beautify, And most betwitch the wretched eye. The charms of poetry our souls bewitch; The curse of writing is an endless itch. Dryden. I do not know, by the character that is given of her works, whether it is not for the benefit of mankind that they were lost; they were filled with such bewitching tenderness and rapture, that it might have been dangerous to have given them a reading.

Addison,

sirers.

She saw a pretty blush in Philodea's cheeks bewray a modest discontentment.

Sidney. Men do sometimes bewray that by deeds, which to confess they are hardly drawn. Hooker. Next look on him that seems for counsel fit, Whose silver locks bewray his store of days. Fairfax. BEWRA'YER. n. s. [from beray.] Betrayer; discoverer; divulger.

When a friend is turned into an enemy, and a bewrayer of secrets, the world is just enough to accuse the perfidiousness of the friend. Addison. BEYOND. prep. [begeond, begeondan, Saxon.]

1. Before; at a distance not yet reached.
What's fame? a fancy'd life in others breath;
A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death:
Just what you hear, you have.

Pope.

2. On the further side of. Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou should'st say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us? Deuteronomy. Now we are on land, we are but between death and life; for we are beyond the old world and the new. Bacon.

We cannotthink men beyondsea will part with their money for nothing.

3. Further onward than.

He that sees a dark and shady grove,

Locke.

Stays not, but looks beyond it on the sky. Herbert.

4. Past; out of the reach of.

Beyond the infinite and boundless reach

Of mercy, if thou didst this deed of death,
Art thou damn'd, Hubert.

Shakspeare.

Yet these declare

Thy goodness beyond thought, and pow'r divine.

Milton.