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To give ; to bestow; to grant; to accord; to consent. [Obs.] Spenser. Milton.

A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. I is a woody climber with ovate manynerved leaves.

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

A bright star of the first magnitude, near one shoulder of Orion. [Written also Betelgeux and Betelgeuse.]

ighly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian.

A place of worship; a hallowed spot. S. F. Adams.

o think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronoun, often with of or that before the subject of thought. I have bethought me of another fault. Shak. The rest . . . may . . . bethink themselves, and recover. Milton. We bethink a means to break it off. Shak.

A hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam.

An inhabitant of Bethlehem in Judea.

imp. & p. p. of Bethink.

To reduce to thralldom; to inthrall. [Obs.] Spenser.

To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books. Poe.

To beat or thump soundly. Shak.

To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer. What will betide the few Milton.

In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow.

To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle. [Obs.] Carlyle.

me visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton.

The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion.

To attack with the tongue; to abuse; to insult.

A plant of the genus Betonica (Linn.).