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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the game of solo, a forfeit.
  • noun A bugbear; a person or thing regarded with special dislike or aversion.
  • etc. Obsolete form of beat, beet, beet, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To better; to mend. See beete.

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