bestride (bestrid)

t.; pret. bestrode or bestrid, pp. bestridden, bestrid, improperly be strided (Sterne), ppr. bestriding. [ME. bestriden (pret. best rood, bestrode, pp. wanting), Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colo us. Shak., J. C., 1. 2. The animal he bestrode was a broken-down plough-horse. Irving, Sketch-Book, p. 436. 2. To step over; cro by stepping. When I first my wedded mistre saw Bestride my threshold. Shak., Cor., iv. 5. 3. To dispose of. Give me but the name and nature of your malefactor, Middle ton (and others ), The Widow, i. 1. 4. To give; confer; impart gratuitously: followed by on or upon before the recipient: as, to bestow praise or blame impartially. Consecrate yourselves... to the Lord,.. bestow upon you a ble ing. and I'll bestow him according to his merits. that he may Ex. xxxii. 29. be teach to another who pledges a forfeit in return on the opposite contingency.-2. That which is wagered; also, that about which a wager is made. But, on: Six Barbary horses against six French swords, their a igns, and three liberal conceited carriages: that's the French bet against the Danish. Shak ., Hamlet, v. 2. bet3t. An obsolete preterit of beat1 . Betal (bē'tä), n. [L., a beet: see beet1 .] A genus of apetalous plants, natural order Chenopod i ace a. See beet1 .