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To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm.

To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally. Be swift to hear, but cautious of your tongue, lest you betray your ignorance. T. Watts.

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.

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

More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and better. [Colloq.] To think better of (any one), to have a more favorable opinion of any one. -- To think better of (an opinion, resolution, etc.), to reconsider and alter one's decision.

ed in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two. If things should go so between them. Bacon.

twixt myself and her. Shak. Betwixt and between, in a midway position; so-so; neither one thing nor the other. [Colloq.]

one's guard; to be cautious; to take care; -- commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided. Beware of all, but most beware of man ! Pope. Beware the awful avalanche. Longfellow.

At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope.

all, which turns it from a straight line. Being ignorant that there is a concealed bias within the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away. Sir W. Scott.

To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle. Petty things about which men cark and bicker. Barrow.

make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).

Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.

A child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head. An old woman's biggin for a nightcap. Massinger.

A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.

Formed of, or having, two laminæ, or thin plates.

Bilge water. Bilge free (Naut.), stowed in such a way that the bilge is clear of everything; -- said of a cask. -- Bilge pump, a pump to draw the bilge water from the gold of a ship. -- Bilge water (Naut.), water which collects in the bilge or bottom of a ship or other vessel. It is often allowed to remain till it be…

To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.

A great wave or flood of anything. Milton.