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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.]

To allow; to permit; to suffer. [Obs.] So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Shak.

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.]

To mend; to repair. [Obs.] Chaucer.

uantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal. Diabetes mellitus Etym: [NL., sweet diabetes], that form of diabetes in which the urine contains saccharine matter. -- Diabetes insipidus Etym: [NL., lit., diabetes], the form of diabetes in which the urine contains no abnormal cons…

Dull; stupid. [Obs.]

A morbid condition characterized by the presence of acetone in the blood, as in diabetes.

Excess of acetone in the urine, as in starvation or diabetes.

A genus of palms, one species of which produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime.

An oily liquid substance, C8H13O2N, the chief alkaloid of the betel nut, to which the latter owes its anthelmintic action.

Pertaining to diabetes; as, diabetic or diabetical treatment. Quian. Diabetic sugar. (Chem.) Same as Dextrose.

A condition in which glucose is discharged in the urine; diabetes mellitus.

The Java plum; also, a drug obtained from its bark and seeds, used as a remedy for diabetes.

Containing saccharine matter; marked by saccharine secretions; as, mellitic diabetes.

The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See .

The betel nut. Balfour (Cyc. of India).