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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.

One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender.

To make better. [Obs.]

The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.

To surpass; to get the better of. [Colloq.]

he whole extent; thoroughly; wholly; as, she is her mother all over. [Colloq.] -- All the better, wholly the better; that is, better by the whole difference. -- All the same, nevertheless. "There they [certain phenomena] remain rooted all the same, whether we recognize them or not." J. C. Shairp. "But Rugby is a very…

- To get along, to get on; to make progress, as in business. "She 'll get along in heaven better than you or I." Mrs. Stowe.

The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker.

To make better; to improve; to meliorate. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. Macaulay.

The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. "Amelioration of human affairs." J. S. Mill.

To change or modify in any way for the better; as,

An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

Soon; in a little while. As it shall better appear anon. Stow.

ate of being aroused. Whatever has associated itself with the arousal and activity of our better nature. Hare.

a common criminal case. -- Articles of war, rules and regulations, fixed by law, for the better government of the army. -- In the article of death Etym: [L. in articulo mortis], at the moment of death; in the dying struggle. -- Lords of the articles (Scot. Hist.), a standing committee of the Scottish Parliament to w…

over. In the order I assign to them. Loudon. The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned. Southey. He assigned to his men their several posts. Prescott.

machine-made carpet, resembling moquette in construction and appearance, but finer and of better material.