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Most; largest; as, the best part of a week. Best man, the only or principal groomsman at a wedding ceremony.

To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. Shak. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. Shak.

That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager. "Having made his bets." Goldsmith.

tracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.

ct of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance. "The feast of betrothal." Longfellow.

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

A light repast between meals; a lunch. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

ium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants. [Written also besant, byzant, etc.]

A fight with stones between two parties of boys. [Scot.] Jamieson.

One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.

ny paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc. Bill of adventure. See under Adventure. -- Bill of costs, a statement of the items which form the total amount of the costs of a party to a suit or action. -- Bill of credit. (a) Wi…

A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio.

See Sweet gum.

Pertaining to, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).

A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit.

A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit. According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. Gibbon.

The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.

An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent.

or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

ystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.