Bestead - BESTEAD', v.t. bested' pret.and pp. bested. [be and stead.] To profit.
How little you bestead.
1. To accommodate.
They shall pass through it, hardly bestead. Isa 8.
That is, distressed; perplexed.
2. To dispose
Betray - BETRA'Y, v.t. [L.traho.]
1. To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; as, an officer betrayed the city.
The son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men. Mat 17.
2. To violate by fraud, or unfaithfulness; as, to betray a trust.
If the people of America ever betray their trust, their guilt will merit even greater punishment than other nations have suffered, and the indignation of heaven.
3. To violate confidence by disclosing a secret, or that which was intrusted; to expose; followed by the person, or the thing; as, my friend betrayed me, or betrayed the secret.
4. To disclose, or permit to appear, what is intended to be kept secret, or what prudence would conceal.
Be swift to hear, but cautions of your tongue, lest you betray your ignorance.
Hence,
5. To mislead or expose to inconvenience not foreseen; as, great confidence betrays a man into errors.
6. To show; to discover; to indicate what is not obvious at first view, or would otherwise be concealed.
Nor, after length of years, a stone betray
The place where once the very ruins lay.
This river betrays its original in its name.
All the names in the country betray great antiquity.
7. To fail, or deceive.
But when I rise, I shall find my legs betraying me.
Bewray - BEWRA'Y, v.t. beray. To disclose perfidiously; to betray; to show or make visible.
Thy speech bewrayeth thee. Mat 23.
[This word is nearly antiquated.]
Bid - BID, v.t. pret. bid, or bade; pp. bid, bidden. [L. peto, to drive at, to attack, to ask, to desire, to beseech, anciently beto; impetus. Applied to the voice, it denotes utterance, a driving of sounds, which is applied to asking, prayer, and command. Class Bd.]
1. To ask; to request; to invite.
Go ye into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. Math.22.
This sense is antiquated, but we have the same word from the Latin, in invite, [in and bid.]
2. To command; to order or direct.
And Peter answered him and said, Lord,if it be thou, bid me come to thee on the water. Mat 14.
3. To offer; to propose; as, to bid a price at an auction.
4. To proclaim; to make known by a public voice.
Our bans thrice bid.
5. To pronounce or declare; as, to bid a welcome.
6. To denounce, or threaten; as, to bid defiance.
7. To wish or pray.
Neither bid him good speed. 2 John 10.
To bid beads, is to pray with beads, as the Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer.
Also, to charge parishioners to say a number of paternosters.
To bid fair, is to open or offer a good prospect; to appear fair.
BID or BID'DEN, pp. of bid. Invited; offered; commanded.
BID, n. An offer of a price; a word much used at auctions.
Bind - BIND, v.t.
1. To tie together,or confine with a cord, or any thing that is flexible; to fasten as with a band, fillet or ligature.
2. To gird, inwrap or involve; to confine by a wrapper, cover or bandage; sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.
3. To confine or restrain, as with a chain, fetters or cord; as, bind him hand and foot.
4. To restrain in any manner.
He bindeth the floods from overflowing. Job 28.
5. To oblige by a promise, vow, stipulation, covenant, law, duty or any other moral tie; to engage.
If a man shall swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond. Num 30.
We are bound by the laws of kindness, of nature, of a state, &c.
6. To confirm or ratify.
Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven. Mat 16.
7. To distress, trouble, or confine by infirmity.
Whom Satan hath bound these eighteen years. Luke 13.
8. To constrain by a powerful influence or persuasion.
I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem. Acts 20.
9. To restrain the natural discharges of the bowels; to make costive; as, certain kinds of food bind the body or bowels.
10. To form a border; to fasten with a band, ribin, or any thing that strengthens the edges; as, to bind a garment or carpet.
11. To cover with leather or anything firm; to sew together and cover; as, to bind a book.
12. To cover or secure by a band; as, to bind a wheel with tire.
13. To oblige to serve, by contract; as, to bind an apprentice; often with out; as, to bind out a servant.
14. To make hard or firm; as, certain substances bind the earth.
To bind to is to contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife.
To bind over is to oblige by bond to appear at a court.
BIND, v.i. To contract; to grow hard or stiff; as, clay binds by heat.
1. To grow or become costive.
2. To be obligatory.
BIND, n. A stalk of hops, so called from its winding round a pole or tree, or being bound to it.
1. A bind of eels, is a quantity consisting of 10 strikes, each containing 25 eels, or 250 in the whole.
2. Among miners, indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxyd of iron.