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Show B B T E . T was néver fo betbumpt with words Since firft I call'd my brother's father dad Shak 70 BETO'ss, w. a. [fromsofs.] To difturb to agitate ; to put into violent motion BeTI'DE. @. 2. pret. It betided, o etid5 part. pafl. betid, [from wb, Sax See TipE. 1. Tohappen to; to befal; to bechance whether good or bad :-with the perfon Said he then to the palmer reverend fire ‘What great misfortune hath betid this knight Did not attend him as we rode Zo BETRA'Y. @. a. [trabir, Fr. 1. To give into the hands of enemies b treachery, or breach of truft: with before the perfon, otherwife zzz0 If ye be come to betray me 20 mine encmies fecing there is no wrong in mine hands, the Go of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it 1 Chronicles Jefus faid unto them, The Son of man fha Mattheaw be betrayed into the hands of men For fear of nothing elfe but a betraying of th Wifdom fuccours which reafon offercth He was not to be won, either by promife o . Maft reafcend, what will detide the few His faithful, left among th' unfaithful herd The enemies of truth Milton 2. Sometimes it has 7o Neither know What is betid to Cloten; but remai Perplext in all Shakefpeare come to pafs; to fall out; to hap pen : without the perfon She, when her ttrn was come her tale to tell Told of a firange adventure that betide Betwixt the fox, and th® ape by him mifguided In winter's tedious nights, fit by the fir reward 2. T Of woeful ages, long ago betid Shake[peare Let me hear from thee by letter Of thy fuccefs in love; and what news elf Shakefp Betideth here in abfence of thy friend 4. To become ; to be the fate: with of Be fwift to hear, but be cautious of your tongue Watts left you éetray your ignorance 5. To make liable to fall into fomethin inconvenient His abilities created him great confidence; an this waslike enough to betray him fo great errours King Charles The bright genius is ready to be fo forward, a is, by the proper time. Send fuccours, 16rds, and ftop the rage betime Shakefpeare To meafure life learn thou betimes, and kno ‘Toward folid good what leads the neareft way. i/z - often betrays itfelf into great errours in judgment Watts There be fome have an over early ripenefs i their years, which fadeth Jefimes: thefe ave firft fuch as have brittle wits, the edge whereof is foo turned Bacon Ire, envy, and defpair ‘Which marr'd his borrow'd vifage, and betray' Him counterfeit, if any eye beheld Milton The Veian-and the Gabian tow'rs fhall fall And one promifcuous ruin cover all Nor, after length of years, a ftone betra The place where once the very ruins lay. Addifin BeTrA"YER. 7. /. [from betray.] He tha betrays ; a traitor The wife man doth fo fay of fear, that it i a betrayer of the forces of reafonable underftand Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth ing that is, enter upon a religious courfe betimes. Tillot/ 3. Early in the day He that drinks all night, and is hanged detime in the morning, may fleep the founder next day Shakefpeare They rofe betimes in the morning, and oftere 1 Mace. iv. §2 facrifice We know not wherefore churches fhould be th worfe, if, at this time, when they are delivere into God's own poffeffion, ceremonies fit to betoke fuch intents, and to accompany fuch a&ions, b Hooler ufual A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bo Confpicuous with three lifted colours gay Miltorn clean.sh data import.tsv out README Betskening peace from God 2. To forethow ; to prefignify The kindling azure, and the mountain's bro Tllum'd with fluid gold, his near approac Thorifon Betoken glad Be'rony n. f [betonica, Lat. A plant greatly efteemed as a vulnerary herb Miller BeTo'ok.. [irreg, pret. from, betake ; whic fee. 2 Sir . Hayward They are only a few betrayers of their country they are to purchaf coin, perhap at half price and vend it among us, to the ruin of the publick ‘ Savift ZoBeTr1'M. v. a. [from trim.] To deck to drefs Be'rre. Y n fo [piper adulterinum.] A Be'rre. § Indidn plant, called wate Did pepper Zo BET0'RKEN. w. a. [from zoken. 1.. To fignify ; to mark; to reprefent Hooker You caft down your courage through fear, th betrayer of all fuccours which reafon can afford Short is the date, alas! of modern rhymes Pope And "tis but juft to let them live erimes t grace to adorn to em bellith ; to beautify ; to decorate ‘Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims ‘Which fpungy April at thy heft betrims To make cold nymphs chafte crowns. - Shakefp 7 BeTrO' TH. @w trowen, Dutch. a [fro #roth be 1. To contra& to any one, in order t marriage ; to affiance: ufed ecither o men or women He, in the firft flower of my frefheft age Betrothed me unto the only hei Of aimoft mighty king, moft rich and fage Spenfer To her, my lord Was I betrothed, ere 1 Hermia faw. - Shakefpeare By foul's publick promife th Was fold then, and éetroth'd to Victory 2. 'T have 'as affiance Cowley by promif o ‘marriage An wha ma to confecration 'is ther wife, and hath ot t2ken her turn into his houfey that hath betrothed let him go and reDeuteronomy ¢ t h church w t fhall net r being canonically promoted Ay 7o BETRU'ST. . 4. [from #ruf.] To truft; to put into the power of anothe in confidence of fidelity Betruft him wit all the good which our ow capacity will allow us, or his fufliciency encourag /" us, to hope for, either in this life, or-that to Come Grew Whatfoever you would Zetraff to your memr;: Watzs let it be difpofed in a proper method Be'rTER. adj. The comparative of g [bec, good, becena, better, Sax.] Hay ing good qualities in a greater degre than fomething elfe See Goonp He has a horfe betzer tha the Neapolitan's; better bad habit of frowning than the count Paly tine Shakefpe Merch, of Peice I have feen better faces in my time Than ftand on any fhoulders that I fe Before me at this inftant Shakefpeare Having a defire to depart, and be with Chrift which is far better Philippians The BE'TTER 1. The fuperiority; the advantage: wit the particle of before him, or that, ove which the advantage is gained Th Corinthian that morning as the day Sicdney before, had the better Th voyag fortunate and Hawkins was un of Drak yet, in fuc fort, as doth not brea of the Spaour prefcription, to have had zbe bette niards 6. To fhow ; to difcover 2. Soon ; before long time has ‘pafled hilesthey are weak, betimes with them contend For when they dnce to perfe&t firength do grow Strong wars they make Spenfer He tires betinies, that fpurs too fatt betimes. Shak that wer fomethin 4. To make know better concealed Shakefpeare 1. Seafonably; early; before it is late en has bee Bearing my words and doings to the Lord ! Afi/t Beri'mr. ) adv. [from by and time ; tha Beri'mEs. that whic difcove How would'ft thou again betray me If he were dead, what would detide of thee Knolles to betray the city trufted to fecrecy . To expofe to evil by revealing {fome thing enbrufted Spenfer With good old folks, and let them tell thee tale Shakefpeare k i p h f b t t n m n fl"d ; og ; g,i 3 . To o If any perfon be confecrdted a bifho What faid my man, when my betofed fou Spenfer But fay, if our deliverer up to heav' 3. T BE Bacon Dionyfius, his coyntryman, in an epiftle t Pompey, after an exprefs comparifon, affords hi the better of Thucydides. Brown's Vulg, Errours You think fi To get the better of me, and you fhal Since you will have it fo-I will be yours Seutherne The gentleman had always fo much the better o the fatirift, that the perfons touched did not kno Prigr where to fix their refentment 2. Improvement to improve it as, for the better, foa If I have altered him any where for the bette Y muf at th fam tim acknowledge that Dryden could have done nothing without him Bs'TTER. adv. [comparativ Well, in a greater degree of avell. Hofea Then it was better with me than now Better a mechanick rule were ftretched or broken, than a great beauty were omitted. . Dryder The better to underfrand the exteit of ou Lot knowledge, one thing is to be obferved He that would know the idea of infinity, canno do better, than by confidering to what infinity 18- Locke attributed 7o BE"TTER. . 4. [from the noun. 1. To improve ; to meliorate. The caufe of his taking upon him our nature was to bezter the quality, and to advance the con- I‘Iualzer. with my opinion, which is- Shakfpeart bettered with his own learning dition thereof He is furnithe Heir to all his lands and goods Which I have etter'd, rather than decreas'd. Sbak But Jonathan, to whom both hearts were known With well-tim'd zeal, and with an artful care Reftor'd and Jerter'd foon the nice affair. Cowley The church of England, the pureft and beft reforme churc i the world fo well re.form_e_d that it will be found eafier to alter than better 1 outh conftitation The Romans ‘took pains to hew out a paffag for thefe lakes to difcharge t}tfnf,d_v??'\‘ gm. 4;};; :5 zering ofilie air. g, To |