1. An inhabitant of Bethlehem in Judea.
2. An insane person; a madman; a bedlamite.
3. One of an extinct English order of monks.
Bethought
(Be*thought") imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
Bethrall
(Be*thrall") v. t. To reduce to thralldom; to inthrall. [Obs.] Spenser.
Bethumb
(Be*thumb") v. t. To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books. Poe.
Bethump
(Be*thump") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bethumped or Bethumpt; p. pr. & vb. n. Bethumping.]
To beat or thump soundly. Shak.
Betide
(Be*tide") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Betided Obs. Betid ; p. pr. & vb. n. Betiding.] [OE. bitiden; pref.
bi-, be- + tiden, fr. AS. tidan, to happen, fr. tid time. See Tide.] To happen to; to befall; to come to ;
as, woe betide the wanderer.
What will betide the few ?
Milton.
Betide
(Be*tide"), v. i. To come to pass; to happen; to occur.
A salve for any sore that may betide.
Shak.
Shakespeare has used it with of. "What would betide of me ?"
Betime
(Be*time" Be*times") adv. [Pref. be- (for by) + time; that is, by the proper time. The -s is an
adverbial ending.]
1. In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early.
To measure life learn thou betimes.
Milton.
To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work.
Barrow.
2. In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with.
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes.
Shak.
Betitle
(Be*ti"tle) v. t. To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle. [Obs.] Carlyle.
Betoken
(Be*to"ken) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Betokened ; p. pr. & vb. n. Betokening.]
1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.
A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . .
Betokening peace from God, and covenant new.
Milton.
2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark
cloud often betokens a storm.
Syn. — To presage; portend; indicate; mark; note.
Béton
(||Bé`ton") n. [F. béton, fr. L. bitumen bitumen.] (Masonry) The French name for concrete; hence,
concrete made after the French fashion.
Betongue
(Be*tongue") v. t. To attack with the tongue; to abuse; to insult.
