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The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly. [R.] Goodwin.

A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages.

se 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.

A treat, or drink money. [Slang]

To combine or treat with a bichromate, esp. with bichromate of potassium; as, bichromatized gelatine.

The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.

parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party; shared by two; as, a bipartite treaty.

To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen. "Bituminated walls of Babylon." Feltham.

To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.

Any book which treats of necromancy.

A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough. A man whose manners and sentiments are decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard. Macaulay.

w hot and cold Etym: (a saying derived from a fable of , to favor a thing at one time and treat it coldly at another; or to appear both to favor and to oppose. -- To blow off, to let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose; as, the engine or steamer is blowing off. -- To blow out. (a) To be driven out…

To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse. He blunders and confounds all these together. Stillingfleet.

A composition, written or printed; a treatise. A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Milton.

The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See Plant.

A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat. Shenstone. B. Johnson.

Mingled with brandy; made stronger by the addition of brandy; flavored or treated with brandy; as, brandied peaches.

th up. "His bridling neck." Wordsworth. By her bridling up I perceived she expected to be treated hereafter not as Jenny Distaff, but Mrs. Tranquillus. Tatler.

ives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter. Giving them not a little the air of brigands or banditti. Jeffery.

To prepare or treat with bromine; as, to bromize a silvered plate.