English English Dictionary

of Better

A making better; amendment; improvement.

An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural.

Best.

The quality of being better or superior; superiority.

The difference by which fine gold or silver exceeds in fineness the standard.

of Bet

A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.

One who bets; a better.

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.

A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask.

A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.

A substance of a resinous nature, obtained from the outer bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor.

To throw into disorder; to tumble.

of Betumble

To tutor; to instruct.

of Betutor

Intermediate time or space; interval.

In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock.

Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two.