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set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set thickly; to stud; as, to bestud with stars. Milton.

selves to treaty and submission. Burke. The rest, in imitation, to like arms Betook them. Milton. Whither shall I betake me, where subsist Milton.

To give ; to bestow; to grant; to accord; to consent. [Obs.] Spenser. Milton.

ught me of another fault. Shak. The rest . . . may . . . bethink themselves, and recover. Milton. We bethink a means to break it off. Shak.

happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer. What will betide the few Milton.

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.

. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton.

r physician; a better house; a better air. Could make the worse appear The better reason. Milton.

In the space which separates; between. From betwixt two aged oaks. Milton.

o have a care for. [Obs.] "Priest, beware your beard." Shak. To wish them beware the son. Milton.

A skirmishing. "Frays and bickerings." Milton.

ll knees to thee shall bow of them that bide In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell. Milton.

A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal. Milton.

A great wave or flood of anything. Milton.

fection; commerce binds nations to each other. Who made our laws to bind us, not himself. Milton.

The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth. "At her next birth." Milton.

ears. The angelic song in Bethlehem field, On thy birthnight, that sung thee Savior born. Milton.

Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. "Divine right of bishopdom." Milton.

ompounded with bitumen; containing bitumen. Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed. Milton. Bituminous coal, a kind of coal which yields, when heated, a considerable amount of volatile bituminous matter. It burns with a yellow smoky flame. -- Bituminous limestone, a mineral of a brown or black color, emitting an…

One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale. "Avoided as a blab." Milton. For who will open himself to a blab or a babbler. Bacon.