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To get the better of. [Colloq.]

A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial. [Scot.]

To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronoun, often with of or that before the subject of thought. I have bethought me of another fault. Shak. The rest . . . may . . . bethink themselves, and recover. Milton. We be…

More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and better. [Colloq.] To think better of (any one), to have a more favorable opinion of any one. -- To think better of (an opinion, resolution, etc.), to reconsider and alter one's decision.

Shak. Betwixt and between, in a midway position; so-so; neither one thing nor the other. [Colloq.]

A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies. What a bevy of beaten slaves have we here ! Beau. & Fl.

An Irish serving woman or girl. [Colloq.]

ump to draw the bilge water from the gold of a ship. -- Bilge water (Naut.), water which collects in the bilge or bottom of a ship or other vessel. It is often allowed to remain till it becomes very offensive. -- Bilge ways, the timbers which support the cradle of a ship upon the ways, and which slide upon the launch…

A male goat. [Colloq.]

One who takes pleasure in rearing or collecting rare or curious birds.

The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups.

An airwoman; an aviatress. [Colloq.]

To cheat; to trick; to take in. [Colloq.] Pope.

One who cheats; a sharper. [Colloq.] Spectator.

A slave ship; a slaver. [Colloq.] F. T. Bullen.

The act or practice of collecting natives of the islands near Queensland for service on the Queensland sugar plantations. [Australia]

The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively. [Obs.]

A notorious gambler. [Colloq.]

Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery. [Colloq.] Blarney stone, a stone in Blarney castle, Ireland, said to make those who kiss it proficient in the use of blarney.

-- In full blast, in complete operation; in a state of great activity. See Blast, n., 2. [Colloq.]