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Betterness :: Betterness (n.) The quality of being better or superior; superiority.

Better :: Better (n.) One who bets or lays a wager.

Better :: Better (compar.) In a superior or more excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits..

Last :: Last (v. i.) To endure use, or continue in existence, without impairment or exhaustion; as, this cloth lasts better than that; the fuel will last through the winter..

Improvement :: Improvement (n.) The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc..

Emendation :: Emendation (n.) Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document; as, the book might be improved by judicious emendations..

Disimprovement :: Disimprovement (n.) Reduction from a better to a worse state; as, disimprovement of the earth..

Amend :: Amend (v. i.) To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve.

Descent :: Descent (n.) Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc..

Bettermost :: Bettermost (a.) Best.

Better :: Better (a.) To improve or ameliorate; to increase the good qualities of.

Abetter :: Abetter (n.) Alt. of Abetto.

Such :: Such (a.) Of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; as, we never saw such a day; -- followed by that or as introducing the word or proposition which defines the similarity, or the standard of comparison; as, the books are not such that I can recommend them, or, not such as I can recommend; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better..

Betterment :: Betterment (n.) An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural.

New :: New (superl.) As if lately begun or made; having the state or quality of original freshness; also, changed for the better; renovated; unworn; untried; unspent; as, rest and travel made him a new man..

Overcome :: Overcome (v. t.) To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle..

Crane :: Crane (v. i.) to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap..

Ramist :: Ramist (n.) A follower of Pierre Rame, better known as Ramus, a celebrated French scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians..

Overreach :: Overreach (v. t.) To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat..

Amendment :: Amendment (n.) An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

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