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To bestride.

Out of one's senses; distracted; mad. [Obs.] Shak.

To streak.

To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [Spelt also bestrow.] Milton.

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.

imp. & p. p. of Bestride.

p. p. of Bestrew.

imp. & p. p. Bestick.

To set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set thickly; to stud; as, to bestud with stars. Milton.

To lure; to cheat. [Obs.] Gower.

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.

The second letter of the Greek alphabet, B, b. See B, and cf. etymology of Alphabet. Beta (B, b) is used variously for classifying, as:

Penetrating rays readily deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances, as radium. They consist of negatively charged particles or electrons, apparently the same in kind as those of the cathode rays, but having much higher velocities (about 35,000 to 180,000 miles per second).…

conversion of other sounds into it, as through inability to distinguish them from b, or because of difficulty in pronouncing them.

A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beetroot molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.

To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun. 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.

Delivered; committed in trust. [Obs.]

To better; to mend. See Beete. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Something especially hated or dreaded; a bugbear.

An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc. [Obs.]