A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).
A degree of certainty.
alternative form of beth
To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.
To be sure of something; to be able to count on something.
To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round.
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A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British Caribbean, and a fourpenny piece, or groat, in the British West Indies.)
A ten-cent piece, dime.
An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first came into use, the Spanish 8 reales coin was widely used as a dollar equivalent, and thus the 1 real coin was equivalent to 12.5 cents.)
In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents.
A small amount of something.
Specifically, a small amount of time.
A portion of something.
Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree.
A prison sentence, especially a short one.
An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
The cutting iron of a plane.
A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
A unit of measure for information entropy.
A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").
To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
, bitten
bitten.
Having been bitten.
