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horse that thou so often hast bestrid. Shak. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. Shak.

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

The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime.

A chief broken or opening like a carpenter's bevel. Encyc. Brit.

Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.

t (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery. See how I am bewitched; behold, mine arm Is like a blasted sapling withered up. Shak.

A Russian sect. See Raskolnik.

Having two earlike projections at its base, as a leaf.

Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses.

A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub. [Prov. Eng.]

Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.

enly; to brave. -- To bid fair, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely.

Having two teeth or two toothlike processes; two-toothed.

Having two fingers or fingerlike projections.

Having the opposite surfaces alike.

Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.

sel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland. Why choose we, then, like bilanders to creep Along the coast, and land in view to keep Dryden.

To strike; to peck. [Obs.]

oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. (d) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).

stic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.