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         n 1: bedding rolled up for carrying

English Dictionary: betrayal by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
betrayal
n
  1. an act of deliberate betrayal [syn: treachery, betrayal, treason, perfidy]
  2. the quality of aiding an enemy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
better half
n
  1. a person's partner in marriage [syn: spouse, partner, married person, mate, better half]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
better-looking
adj
  1. pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion; "a fine-looking woman"; "a good-looking man"; "better-looking than her sister"; "very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray; "our southern women are well-favored"- Lillian Hellman
    Synonym(s): fine-looking, good-looking, better- looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bitter almond
n
  1. almond trees having white blossoms and poisonous nuts yielding an oil used for flavoring and for medicinal purposes
    Synonym(s): bitter almond, Prunus dulcis amara, Amygdalus communis amara
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bitter almond oil
n
  1. pale yellow essential oil obtained from bitter almonds by distillation from almond cake or meal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bitter aloes
n
  1. a purgative made from the leaves of aloe [syn: aloes, bitter aloes]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bitter lemon
n
  1. tart lemon-flavored carbonated drink
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bitterly
adv
  1. with bitterness, in a resentful manner; "she complained bitterly"
  2. indicating something hard to accept; "he was bitterly disappointed"
  3. extremely and sharply; "it was bitterly cold"; "bitter cold"
    Synonym(s): piercingly, bitterly, bitingly, bitter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
by trial and error
adv
  1. in an empirical manner; "this can be empirically tested"
    Synonym(s): empirically, through empirical observation, by trial and error
    Antonym(s): theoretically
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Badderlocks \Bad"der*locks\, n. [Perh. for Balderlocks, fr.
      Balder the Scandinavian deity.] (Bot.)
      A large black seaweed ({Alaria esculenta}) sometimes eaten in
      Europe; -- also called {murlins}, {honeyware}, and {henware}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Batter \Bat"ter\, n.
      A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding
      slope.
  
      {Batter rule}, an instrument consisting of a rule or frame,
            and a plumb line, by which the batter or slope of a wall
            is regulated in building.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Beadroll \Bead"roll`\, n. (R. C. Ch.)
      A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain
      number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads
      of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general.
  
               On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
               It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of
               English worthies, to find how few are directly
               represented in the male line.                  --Quart. Rev.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bethrall \Be*thrall"\, v. t.
      To reduce to thralldom; to inthrall. [Obs.] --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Betrayal \Be*tray"al\n.
      The act or the result of betraying.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Better \Bet"ter\, a.; compar. of Good. [OE. betere, bettre, and
      as adv. bet, AS. betera, adj., and bet, adv.; akin to Icel.
      betri, adj., betr, adv., Goth. batiza, adj., OHG. bezziro,
      adj., baz, adv., G. besser, adj. and adv., bass, adv., E.
      boot, and prob. to Skr. bhadra excellent. See {Boot}
      advantage, and cf. {Best}, {Batful}.]
      1. 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.
  
      2. Preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness,
            acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect.
  
                     To obey is better than sacrifice.      --1 Sam. xv.
                                                                              22.
  
                     It is better to trust in the Lord than to put
                     confidence in princes.                        --Ps. cxviii.
                                                                              9.
  
      3. Greater in amount; larger; more.
  
      4. Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the
            patient is better.
  
      5. More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance;
            a better knowledge of the subject.
  
      {All the better}. See under {All}, adv.
  
      {Better half}, an expression used to designate one's wife.
  
                     My dear, my better half (said he), I find I must now
                     leave thee.                                       --Sir P.
                                                                              Sidney.
  
      {To be better off}, to be in a better condition.
  
      {Had better}. (See under {Had}).
  
      Note: The phrase had better, followed by an infinitive
               without to, is idiomatic. The earliest form of
               construction was [bd]were better[b8] with a dative; as,
               [bd]Him were better go beside.[b8] (--Gower.) i. e., It
               would be better for him, etc. At length the nominative
               (I, he, they, etc.) supplanted the dative and had took
               the place of were. Thus we have the construction now
               used.
  
                        By all that's holy, he had better starve Than but
                        once think this place becomes thee not. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Half \Half\, n.; pl. {Halves}. [AS. healf. See {Half}, a.]
      1. Part; side; behalf. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
  
                     The four halves of the house.            --Chaucer.
  
      2. One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided,
            or considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by of; as,
            a half of an apple.
  
                     Not half his riches known, and yet despised.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
                     A friendship so complete Portioned in halves between
                     us.                                                   --Tennyson.
  
      {Better half}. See under {Better}.
  
      {In half}, in two; an expression sometimes used improperly
            instead of in [or] into halves; as, to cut in half.
            [Colloq.] --Dickens.
  
      {In, [or] On}, {one's half}, in one's behalf; on one's part.
            [Obs.]
  
      {To cry halves}, to claim an equal share with another.
  
      {To go halves}, to share equally between two.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bitterling \Bit"ter*ling\, n. [G.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A roachlike European fish ({Rhodima amarus}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bitterly \Bit"ter*ly\, adv.
      In a bitter manner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Botryolite \Bot"ry*o*lite\, n. [Gr. [?] cluster of grapes +
      -lite.] (Min.)
      A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Drill \Drill\, n.
      1. An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making
            holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with
            its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a
            succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill
            press.
  
      2. (Mil.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the
            military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution
            of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict
            instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of
            any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as,
            infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.
  
      3. Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity
            and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin
            grammar.
  
      4. (Zo[94]l.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which
            kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through
            the shell. The most destructive kind is {Urosalpinx
            cinerea}.
  
      {Bow drill}, {Breast drill}. See under {Bow}, {Breast}.
  
      {Cotter drill}, [or] {Traverse drill}, a machine tool for
            drilling slots.
  
      {Diamond drill}. See under {Diamond}.
  
      {Drill jig}. See under {Jig}.
  
      {Drill pin}, the pin in a lock which enters the hollow stem
            of the key.
  
      {Drill sergeant} (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer whose
            office it is to instruct soldiers as to their duties, and
            to train them to military exercises and evolutions.
  
      {Vertical drill}, a drill press.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bow \Bow\ (b[d3]), n. [OE. bowe, boge, AS. boga, fr. AS.
      b[umac]gan to bend; akin to D. boog, G. bogen, Icel. bogi.
      See {Bow}, v. t.]
      1. Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow.
  
                     I do set my bow in the cloud.            --Gen. ix. 13.
  
      2. A weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic
            material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of
            which an arrow is propelled.
  
      3. An ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by
            doubling a ribbon or string.
  
      4. The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and
            fastens it to the yoke.
  
      5. (Mus.) An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a
            number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it,
            used in playing on a stringed instrument.
  
      6. An arcograph.
  
      7. (Mech. & Manuf.) Any instrument consisting of an elastic
            rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving
            reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and
            arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
  
      8. (Naut.) A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking
            the sun's altitude at sea.
  
      9. (Saddlery) sing. or pl. Two pieces of wood which form the
            arched forward part of a saddletree.
  
      {Bow bearer} (O. Eng. Law), an under officer of the forest
            who looked after trespassers.
  
      {Bow drill}, a drill worked by a bow and string.
  
      {Bow instrument} (Mus.), any stringed instrument from which
            the tones are produced by the bow.
  
      {Bow window} (Arch.) See {Bay window}.
  
      {To draw a long bow}, to lie; to exaggerate. [Colloq.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Black \Black\, a. [OE. blak, AS. bl[91]c; akin to Icel. blakkr
      dark, swarthy, Sw. bl[84]ck ink, Dan. bl[91]k, OHG. blach,
      LG. & D. blaken to burn with a black smoke. Not akin to AS.
      bl[be]c, E. bleak pallid. [?]98.]
      1. Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the
            color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark
            color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a
            color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.
  
                     O night, with hue so black!               --Shak.
  
      2. In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in
            darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the
            heavens black with clouds.
  
                     I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      3. Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness;
            destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked;
            cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible. [bd]This day's
            black fate.[b8] [bd]Black villainy.[b8] [bd]Arise, black
            vengeance.[b8] [bd]Black day.[b8] [bd]Black despair.[b8]
            --Shak.
  
      4. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen;
            foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
  
      Note: Black is often used in self-explaining compound words;
               as, black-eyed, black-faced, black-haired,
               black-visaged.
  
      {Black act}, the English statute 9 George I, which makes it a
            felony to appear armed in any park or warren, etc., or to
            hunt or steal deer, etc., with the face blackened or
            disguised. Subsequent acts inflicting heavy penalties for
            malicious injuries to cattle and machinery have been
            called black acts.
  
      {Black angel} (Zo[94]l.), a fish of the West Indies and
            Florida ({Holacanthus tricolor}), with the head and tail
            yellow, and the middle of the body black.
  
      {Black antimony} (Chem.), the black sulphide of antimony,
            {Sb2S3}, used in pyrotechnics, etc.
  
      {Black bear} (Zo[94]l.), the common American bear ({Ursus
            Americanus}).
  
      {Black beast}. See {B[88]te noire}.
  
      {Black beetle} (Zo[94]l.), the common large cockroach
            ({Blatta orientalis}).
  
      {Black and blue}, the dark color of a bruise in the flesh,
            which is accompanied with a mixture of blue. [bd]To pinch
            the slatterns black and blue.[b8] --Hudibras.
  
      {Black bonnet} (Zo[94]l.), the black-headed bunting ({Embriza
            Sch[d2]niclus}) of Europe.
  
      {Black canker}, a disease in turnips and other crops,
            produced by a species of caterpillar.
  
      {Black cat} (Zo[94]l.), the fisher, a quadruped of North
            America allied to the sable, but larger. See {Fisher}.
  
      {Black cattle}, any bovine cattle reared for slaughter, in
            distinction from dairy cattle. [Eng.]
  
      {Black cherry}. See under {Cherry}.
  
      {Black cockatoo} (Zo[94]l.), the palm cockatoo. See
            {Cockatoo}.
  
      {Black copper}. Same as {Melaconite}.
  
      {Black currant}. (Bot.) See {Currant}.
  
      {Black diamond}. (Min.) See {Carbonado}.
  
      {Black draught} (Med.), a cathartic medicine, composed of
            senna and magnesia.
  
      {Black drop} (Med.), vinegar of opium; a narcotic preparation
            consisting essentially of a solution of opium in vinegar.
           
  
      {Black earth}, mold; earth of a dark color. --Woodward.
  
      {Black flag}, the flag of a pirate, often bearing in white a
            skull and crossbones; a signal of defiance.
  
      {Black flea} (Zo[94]l.), a flea beetle ({Haltica nemorum})
            injurious to turnips.
  
      {Black flux}, a mixture of carbonate of potash and charcoal,
            obtained by deflagrating tartar with half its weight of
            niter. --Brande & C.
  
      {Black fly}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) In the United States, a small, venomous, two-winged
                  fly of the genus {Simulium} of several species,
                  exceedingly abundant and troublesome in the northern
                  forests. The larv[91] are aquatic.
            (b) A black plant louse, as the bean aphis ({A. fab[91]}).
                 
  
      {Black Forest} [a translation of G. Schwarzwald], a forest in
            Baden and W[81]rtemburg, in Germany; a part of the ancient
            Hercynian forest.
  
      {Black game}, or {Black grouse}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Blackcock},
            {Grouse}, and {Heath grouse}.
  
      {Black grass} (Bot.), a grasslike rush of the species {Juncus
            Gerardi}, growing on salt marshes, and making good hay.
  
      {Black gum} (Bot.), an American tree, the tupelo or
            pepperidge. See {Tupelo}.
  
      {Black Hamburg (grape)} (Bot.), a sweet and juicy variety of
            dark purple or [bd]black[b8] grape.
  
      {Black horse} (Zo[94]l.), a fish of the Mississippi valley
            ({Cycleptus elongatus}), of the sucker family; the
            Missouri sucker.
  
      {Black lemur} (Zo[94]l.), the {Lemurniger} of Madagascar; the
            {acoumbo} of the natives.
  
      {Black list}, a list of persons who are for some reason
            thought deserving of censure or punishment; -- esp. a list
            of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, made
            for the protection of tradesmen or employers. See
            {Blacklist}, v. t.
  
      {Black manganese} (Chem.), the black oxide of manganese,
            {MnO2}.
  
      {Black Maria}, the close wagon in which prisoners are carried
            to or from jail.
  
      {Black martin} (Zo[94]l.), the chimney swift. See {Swift}.
  
      {Black moss} (Bot.), the common so-called long moss of the
            southern United States. See {Tillandsia}.
  
      {Black oak}. See under {Oak}.
  
      {Black ocher}. See {Wad}.
  
      {Black pigment}, a very fine, light carbonaceous substance,
            or lampblack, prepared chiefly for the manufacture of
            printers' ink. It is obtained by burning common coal tar.
           
  
      {Black plate}, sheet iron before it is tinned. --Knight.
  
      {Black quarter}, malignant anthrax with engorgement of a
            shoulder or quarter, etc., as of an ox.
  
      {Black rat} (Zo[94]l.), one of the species of rats ({Mus
            rattus}), commonly infesting houses.
  
      {Black rent}. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
  
      {Black rust}, a disease of wheat, in which a black, moist
            matter is deposited in the fissures of the grain.
  
      {Black sheep}, one in a family or company who is unlike the
            rest, and makes trouble.
  
      {Black silver}. (Min.) See under {Silver}.
  
      {Black and tan}, black mixed or spotted with tan color or
            reddish brown; -- used in describing certain breeds of
            dogs.
  
      {Black tea}. See under {Tea}.
  
      {Black tin} (Mining), tin ore (cassiterite), when dressed,
            stamped and washed, ready for smelting. It is in the form
            of a black powder, like fine sand. --Knight.
  
      {Black walnut}. See under {Walnut}.
  
      {Black warrior} (Zo[94]l.), an American hawk ({Buteo
            Harlani}).
  
      Syn: Dark; murky; pitchy; inky; somber; dusky; gloomy; swart;
               Cimmerian; ebon; atrocious.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Butyryl \Bu"ty*ryl\, n. [Butyric + -yl.] (Chem.)
      The radical ({C4H7O}) of butyric acid.

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