† betiev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To tie round, bind fast.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (transitive)] > bind > bind round or about
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a1556 Ld. Vaux in R. Edwards Paradyse Daynty Deuises (1576) sig. A*ii I turne, I change from side to side, And stretche me oft, in sorowes linkes betyde.
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