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

The act of betrothing, or the state of being betrothed; betrothal.

To trust or intrust. [Obs.]

The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted. [Obs.] Chipman.

A small brass Venetian coin. [Obs.]

Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air. Could make the worse appear The better reason. Milton.

A making better; amendment; improvement. W. Montagu.

Best. [R.] "The bettermost classes." Brougham.

The quality of being better or superior; superiority. [R.] Sir P. Sidney.

A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.

One who bets; a better. Addison.

A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open. [Written also bettee.] The powerful betty, or the artful picklock. Arbuthnot.

ubstance of a resinous nature, obtained from the outer bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor. Watts.

To throw into disorder; to tumble. [R.] From her betumbled couch she starteth. Shak.

To tutor; to instruct. Coleridge.

In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.

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

e or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection. "The whole tribe abets the villany." South. Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth Gay.…

The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc.

Abetment. [R.]