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To reduce to thralldom; to inthrall. [Obs.] Spenser.

To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books. Poe.

To beat or thump soundly. Shak.

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

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.

To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle. [Obs.] Carlyle.

me 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.

The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion.

To attack with the tongue; to abuse; to insult.

A plant of the genus Betonica (Linn.).

of Betake.

Torn in pieces; tattered.

To put in violent motion; to agitate; to disturb; to toss. "My betossed soul." Shak.

e; to deck. After them followed two other chariots covered with red satin, and the horses betrapped with the same. Stow.

or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city. Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men. Matt. xvii. 22.

The act or the result of betraying.

One who, or that which, betrays.

Betrayal. [R.] Udall.

To set in order; to adorn; to deck, to embellish; to trim. Shak.

rriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman. He, in the first flower of my freshest age, Betrothed me unto the only heir. Spenser. Ay, and we are betrothed. Shak.