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of Betake.

Torn in pieces; tattered.

To put in violent motion; to agitate; to disturb; to toss. "My betossed soul." Shak.

e; to deck. After them followed two other chariots covered with red satin, and the horses betrapped with the same. Stow.

or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city. Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men. Matt. xvii. 22.

The act or the result of betraying.

One who, or that which, betrays.

Betrayal. [R.] Udall.

To set in order; to adorn; to deck, to embellish; to trim. Shak.

rriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman. He, in the first flower of my freshest age, Betrothed me unto the only heir. Spenser. Ay, and we are betrothed. Shak.

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.