erstadj.adv.

Brit.

/əːst/, U.S.

/ərst/

Forms: Old English–Middle English ǽrest, ǽrost, ǽrst, Middle English erest, Middle English arst, (Middle English ? eroust, Middle English erast, eerst), Middle English–1600s earst, (Middle English earest), Middle English–1500s erste, (1500s ierst, 1500s, 1600s yerst), Middle English– erst.

Etymology: Old English ǽrest , superlative of ǽr (see ere n.); representing Germanic *airisto-, whence Old High German êrist (Middle High German êrist, modern German erst), Old Saxon êrist (Dutch eerst).

A. adj.

†1. First in time or serial order. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > firstness > [adjective]

erstOE

foremostc1000

firstlOE

onec1384

firstmosta1400

primec1429

firstena1600

fust1851

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > [adjective] > preceding in order > first in order

erstOE

foremostc1000

firstlOE

OE Guthlac A 437 Wæs seo æreste earmra gæsta costung ofercumen.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 75 Ec of heom wrat þer his uers and sancte peter wrat þet ereste.

a1225 Leg. Kath. 885 Þes alre schafte schuppent, Schawde ure eareste aldren..Þe wit & te wei of lif.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 10 Pauwel þe earest ancre.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1324 Þes wes þe æreste [c1300 Otho ereste] king þe ferde vt to ræuing.

†2. absol. in adverbial phrases. now (then) at erst: now (then) and not sooner; cf. German erst dann. (Apparently through misunderstanding of this, Spenser has at erst = ‘as soon as possible, at once’.) on erst (only early Middle English; also on alre erst): in the first place, at first.

ΚΠ

a1225 St. Marher. 14 Þenne þudde ich in ham luueliche þohtes, on earst hare unþonckes.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 193 Þenne an earst bigineð þe deoflen toweden.

c1230 Hali Meid. 17 Þat is on alre earst þe stude & te time.

c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2688 Tho tarst [= at arst] bigan Godrich to go Vpon the Danshe.

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iii. xi. 95 But þan atte arst ben þei verray good.

c1386 G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale 151 And thanne at erst thus to him sayde sche.

1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. vi And than at erst fro hense will I wynde.

1475 Bk. Noblesse 6 Now at erst the irness be brennyng hote.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Sept. 6 And now at earst the dirke night doth hast.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iv. sig. Q3 Abandon this forestalled place at erst.

B. adv.

†1. Earliest, soonest, first in order of time.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adverb] > earliest or first of all

foremostOE

erstOE

firstc1180

aforewarda1200

erstly1600

OE Beowulf 616 Þa freolic wif ful gesealde ærest East-Dena eþelwearde.

c1000 Ælfric Genesis xix. 53 And eode seo yldre swystor ærost to his bedde.

c1230 Hali Meid. 15 Þ urh ure lafdi meidenhad þat hit bigon earst þe meiden Marie.

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A iv. 29 Bote Concience com arst to Court bi A Myle.

1377 Piers Plowman B. xiv. 216 Arst in þe Maister þan in þe man.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7233 But Ector the honerable erst was on fote.

†2. In the first place, before something else is or was done; in preference to doing something else. (Sometimes pleonastically before ere.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > firstness > [adverb]

erstc1260

firstlya1475

fust1907

c1260 Ballad in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 101 Arst we sullen scinin him ay rowe.

c1300 K. Alis. 6480 Ac arst mony of his knyghtis gode Loren theo balles in heore hode.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2061 A win-tre... Orest it blomede and siðen bar.

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iv. 5 Bote Reson Rede me þer-to Arst wol I dye!

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 468 I shal seke treuthe arst ar I se Rome.

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 1281 Ac arst þow schalt sykery me..þat þou, etc.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 258/4 Why hast not thou erst taken awey the sowle fro my body.

1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. D.vi^v He shuld haue erst proued his parte trw & myn false.

1578 Bk. Christian Prayers in Private Prayers (1851) 511 Having erst uttered the bowels of thy mercy, thou gavest up the ghost.

1587 M. Grove Pelops & Hippodamia (1878) 13 Earst t'obtaine that still, Which they perceiue doth please the flesh.

1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 138^v And ierst with sodaine feare, Lepte of the bed.

†3. At first, as opposed to afterwards. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

a1175 Cott. Hom. 229 Aceas he him leorninchnihtes erest twelf..siððan twa and sefentiȝe.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13704 Ærst [c1300 Otho earest] heo lette fleon to feond-liche swiðe. flan..seoððen speren chrakeden.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 389 Luþer he was arst ynou, & wel wors he was þo.

c1330 Arth. & Merl. 8497 Taurus hit [= hight] Wawain arst.

a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) lvi. 11 Which comforteth the mynde that erst for fere shoke.

1605 S. Rowlands Hell's broke Loose sig. D3^v Tamberlaine Was earst a Sheepheard ere he play'd the King.

†4.

a. Sooner, earlier; before a specified time or event: esp. with negatives; not erst: not before, not till then. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adverb]

erea900

beforeeOE

forec1000

toforec1175

therebeforec1200

toforehand1258

forne toc1275

orc1275

andersitha1300

alreadyc1300

rather?1316

beforehandc1330

erstc1330

aforec1350

theretoforea1375

aforehanda1387

forthwitha1400

forwitha1400

or?a1400

ereward14..

toforetimec1400

aforetimes1429

aforetime1433

afore seasons1463

heretoforetime1481

forouth1487

aforrow?a1513

beforrow1568

paravant1590

antecedently1593

formerly1596

precedently1611

preveniently1633

preallably1652

previously1655

precedaneously1657

somewhiles1657

antecedaneously1661

aft1674

prior1675

anteriorly1681

antecedent1690

previous1712

priorly1742

c1330 Florice & Bl. 799 Arst ne schal hit neuer bi do.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 337 Þanne þe money schal be payde and nouȝt arst.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 405 Bi sentence of the iuge..and not erst, neither other wise.

1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 34 The wedowes bewailled gretly because he was not erst comen.

1588 in W. K. Clay Liturg. Services Q. Eliz. (1847) Of thy most singular bounty, and never yerst seen care.

†b. conjunctional phrases, erst than, that = before conj. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

?a1400 Arthur 291 Now, erst þan we goo ferþer Every man þat ys here Sey a Pater noster.

1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 1032 Far may be sought Erst that ye can finde, etc.

5. Before the present time:

(a) Referring to a remoter past: ‘Once upon a time’, formerly, of old. archaic or poetic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb]

erea822

fernOE

whileOE

erera1000

whilereOE

onceOE

somewhile1154

whilomc1175

herebeforec1200

somewhilesa1250

yorea1250

orc1275

rather?a1300

erewhilec1305

sometimea1325

sometimec1330

at or in sometime1340

in arrear1340

heretoforea1375

fernyear1377

once upon a timec1380

behinds1382

beforetimea1393

of olda1393

erenow1393

umquhilea1400

erst14..

fornec1400

yore whilec1400

of before1402

late1423

abefore1431

beforetimes1449

whilesc1480

sometime1490

aforrow?a1513

behind1526

quondamc1540

in foretime(s?c1550

erstwhile1569

erstwhiles1569

aleare1581

erewhiles1584

sometimes1597

formerly1599

anciently1624

olim1645

somewhile since1652

quondamly1663

forepassed1664

sometimea1684

backward1691

historically1753

time back1812

had-been1835

when1962

14.. Songs & Carols (Warton Club) 22 That ilke blys That arte [? read arste] haȝt ben, and alwey is.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 69 As yerst the Phrygian Knight, So ours..did smite His Trojan horse.

1729 T. Cooke Tales 185 To Strains which erst the brave Tyrtæus sung.

1789 S. T. Coleridge Anthem Chr. Hosp. Let full gratitude now prompt the tear Which erst did sorrow force to flow.

1808 W. Wordsworth Inscr. Coleorton The ivied ruins of forlorn Grace Dieu; Erst a religious House.

a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 48 Count o'er the friends whom erst you knew.

(b) Misused as prep. = before adv.

ΚΠ

1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 109 Erst all time And all incarnate emanations.

†b. Referring to a recent past: Not long ago, a little while since. Often in Spenser and Milton.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [adverb]

neweneOE

newlyeOE

unyoreeOE

noweOE

newOE

lateOE

yesterdaya1300

freshlya1387

of newa1393

anewa1425

newlingsa1425

latewardc1434

the other dayc1450

lately?c1475

erst1480

latewards1484

sith late1484

alatea1500

recently1509

even now1511

late-whiles1561

late ygo1579

formerly1590

just now1591

lastly1592

just1605

low1610

this moment1696

latewardly1721

shortsyne1768

sometime1779

latterly1821

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxxii. 250 That ferefull company, that I spak of eerst.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 153 But a litle earst ye confessed the thyng, which ye do now deny.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. D8^v The armes, that earst so bright did show.

1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xv. xcv. 381 The vgliest was this Plot, Preuented earst miraculously.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 233 Meanwhile the other Champions, yerst In hurry of the fight disperst, Arriv'd.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1543 This..horrid spectacle Which earst my eyes beheld and yet behold.

1791 W. Cowper Retirem. 100 Forth skipped the cat, not now replete As erst with airy self-conceit.

6. In combination with adjectives and participial adjectives.

ΚΠ

1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. B Wherewith Flora had in plentie poudred the freshnesse of her earst-green hue.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 100 The earst remembred Sir Ric..entertained at one time..the Admirals of the English, Spanish, & Netherland fleets.

1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol (1749) 135 All but the stout And erst unconquer'd Hildebrand.

Derivatives

ˈerstly adv. in the first place.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adverb] > earliest or first of all

foremostOE

erstOE

firstc1180

aforewarda1200

erstly1600

1600 Chester Pl. Proem (Shaks. Soc.) 3 Their fore be boulde Erstelye to playe the same.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	erst
释义	erstadj.adv. Brit. /əːst/, U.S. /ərst/ Forms: Old English–Middle English ǽrest, ǽrost, ǽrst, Middle English erest, Middle English arst, (Middle English ? eroust, Middle English erast, eerst), Middle English–1600s earst, (Middle English earest), Middle English–1500s erste, (1500s ierst, 1500s, 1600s yerst), Middle English– erst. Etymology: Old English ǽrest , superlative of ǽr (see ere n.); representing Germanic airisto-, whence Old High German êrist* (Middle High German êrist, modern German erst), Old Saxon êrist (Dutch eerst). A. adj. †1. First in time or serial order. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > firstness > [adjective] erstOE foremostc1000 firstlOE onec1384 firstmosta1400 primec1429 firstena1600 fust1851 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > [adjective] > preceding in order > first in order erstOE foremostc1000 firstlOE OE Guthlac A 437 Wæs seo æreste earmra gæsta costung ofercumen. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 75 Ec of heom wrat þer his uers and sancte peter wrat þet ereste. a1225 Leg. Kath. 885 Þes alre schafte schuppent, Schawde ure eareste aldren..Þe wit & te wei of lif. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 10 Pauwel þe earest ancre. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1324 Þes wes þe æreste [c1300 Otho ereste] king þe ferde vt to ræuing. †2. absol. in adverbial phrases. now (then) at erst: now (then) and not sooner; cf. German erst dann. (Apparently through misunderstanding of this, Spenser has at erst = ‘as soon as possible, at once’.) on erst (only early Middle English; also on alre erst): in the first place, at first. ΚΠ a1225 St. Marher. 14 Þenne þudde ich in ham luueliche þohtes, on earst hare unþonckes. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 193 Þenne an earst bigineð þe deoflen toweden. c1230 Hali Meid. 17 Þat is on alre earst þe stude & te time. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2688 Tho tarst [= at arst] bigan Godrich to go Vpon the Danshe. c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iii. xi. 95 But þan atte arst ben þei verray good. c1386 G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale 151 And thanne at erst thus to him sayde sche. 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. vi And than at erst fro hense will I wynde. 1475 Bk. Noblesse 6 Now at erst the irness be brennyng hote. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Sept. 6 And now at earst the dirke night doth hast. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iv. sig. Q3 Abandon this forestalled place at erst. B. adv. †1. Earliest, soonest, first in order of time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adverb] > earliest or first of all foremostOE erstOE firstc1180 aforewarda1200 erstly1600 OE Beowulf 616 Þa freolic wif ful gesealde ærest East-Dena eþelwearde. c1000 Ælfric Genesis xix. 53 And eode seo yldre swystor ærost to his bedde. c1230 Hali Meid. 15 Þ urh ure lafdi meidenhad þat hit bigon earst þe meiden Marie. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A iv. 29 Bote Concience com arst to Court bi A Myle. 1377 Piers Plowman B. xiv. 216 Arst in þe Maister þan in þe man. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7233 But Ector the honerable erst was on fote. †2. In the first place, before something else is or was done; in preference to doing something else. (Sometimes pleonastically before ere.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > firstness > [adverb] erstc1260 firstlya1475 fust1907 c1260 Ballad in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 101 Arst we sullen scinin him ay rowe. c1300 K. Alis. 6480 Ac arst mony of his knyghtis gode Loren theo balles in heore hode. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2061 A win-tre... Orest it blomede and siðen bar. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iv. 5 Bote Reson Rede me þer-to Arst wol I dye! 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 468 I shal seke treuthe arst ar I se Rome. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 1281 Ac arst þow schalt sykery me..þat þou, etc. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 258/4 Why hast not thou erst taken awey the sowle fro my body. 1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. D.vi^v He shuld haue erst proued his parte trw & myn false. 1578 Bk. Christian Prayers in Private Prayers (1851) 511 Having erst uttered the bowels of thy mercy, thou gavest up the ghost. 1587 M. Grove Pelops & Hippodamia (1878) 13 Earst t'obtaine that still, Which they perceiue doth please the flesh. 1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 138^v And ierst with sodaine feare, Lepte of the bed. †3. At first, as opposed to afterwards. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1175 Cott. Hom. 229 Aceas he him leorninchnihtes erest twelf..siððan twa and sefentiȝe. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13704 Ærst [c1300 Otho earest] heo lette fleon to feond-liche swiðe. flan..seoððen speren chrakeden. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 389 Luþer he was arst ynou, & wel wors he was þo. c1330 Arth. & Merl. 8497 Taurus hit [= hight] Wawain arst. a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) lvi. 11 Which comforteth the mynde that erst for fere shoke. 1605 S. Rowlands Hell's broke Loose sig. D3^v Tamberlaine Was earst a Sheepheard ere he play'd the King. †4. a. Sooner, earlier; before a specified time or event: esp. with negatives; not erst: not before, not till then. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adverb] erea900 beforeeOE forec1000 toforec1175 therebeforec1200 toforehand1258 forne toc1275 orc1275 andersitha1300 alreadyc1300 rather?1316 beforehandc1330 erstc1330 aforec1350 theretoforea1375 aforehanda1387 forthwitha1400 forwitha1400 or?a1400 ereward14.. toforetimec1400 aforetimes1429 aforetime1433 afore seasons1463 heretoforetime1481 forouth1487 aforrow?a1513 beforrow1568 paravant1590 antecedently1593 formerly1596 precedently1611 preveniently1633 preallably1652 previously1655 precedaneously1657 somewhiles1657 antecedaneously1661 aft1674 prior1675 anteriorly1681 antecedent1690 previous1712 priorly1742 c1330 Florice & Bl. 799 Arst ne schal hit neuer bi do. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 337 Þanne þe money schal be payde and nouȝt arst. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 405 Bi sentence of the iuge..and not erst, neither other wise. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 34 The wedowes bewailled gretly because he was not erst comen. 1588 in W. K. Clay Liturg. Services Q. Eliz. (1847) Of thy most singular bounty, and never yerst seen care. †b. conjunctional phrases, erst than, that = before conj. Obsolete. ΚΠ ?a1400 Arthur 291 Now, erst þan we goo ferþer Every man þat ys here Sey a Pater noster. 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 1032 Far may be sought Erst that ye can finde, etc. 5. Before the present time: a. (a) Referring to a remoter past: ‘Once upon a time’, formerly, of old. archaic or poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] erea822 fernOE whileOE erera1000 whilereOE onceOE somewhile1154 whilomc1175 herebeforec1200 somewhilesa1250 yorea1250 orc1275 rather?a1300 erewhilec1305 sometimea1325 sometimec1330 at or in sometime1340 in arrear1340 heretoforea1375 fernyear1377 once upon a timec1380 behinds1382 beforetimea1393 of olda1393 erenow1393 umquhilea1400 erst14.. fornec1400 yore whilec1400 of before1402 late1423 abefore1431 beforetimes1449 whilesc1480 sometime1490 aforrow?a1513 behind1526 quondamc1540 in foretime(s?c1550 erstwhile1569 erstwhiles1569 aleare1581 erewhiles1584 sometimes1597 formerly1599 anciently1624 olim1645 somewhile since1652 quondamly1663 forepassed1664 sometimea1684 backward1691 historically1753 time back1812 had-been1835 when1962 14.. Songs & Carols (Warton Club) 22 That ilke blys That arte [? read arste] haȝt ben, and alwey is. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 69 As yerst the Phrygian Knight, So ours..did smite His Trojan horse. 1729 T. Cooke Tales 185 To Strains which erst the brave Tyrtæus sung. 1789 S. T. Coleridge Anthem Chr. Hosp. Let full gratitude now prompt the tear Which erst did sorrow force to flow. 1808 W. Wordsworth Inscr. Coleorton The ivied ruins of forlorn Grace Dieu; Erst a religious House. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 48 Count o'er the friends whom erst you knew. (b) Misused as prep. = before adv. ΚΠ 1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 109 Erst all time And all incarnate emanations. †b. Referring to a recent past: Not long ago, a little while since. Often in Spenser and Milton. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [adverb] neweneOE newlyeOE unyoreeOE noweOE newOE lateOE yesterdaya1300 freshlya1387 of newa1393 anewa1425 newlingsa1425 latewardc1434 the other dayc1450 lately?c1475 erst1480 latewards1484 sith late1484 alatea1500 recently1509 even now1511 late-whiles1561 late ygo1579 formerly1590 just now1591 lastly1592 just1605 low1610 this moment1696 latewardly1721 shortsyne1768 sometime1779 latterly1821 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxxii. 250 That ferefull company, that I spak of eerst. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 153 But a litle earst ye confessed the thyng, which ye do now deny. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. D8^v The armes, that earst so bright did show. 1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xv. xcv. 381 The vgliest was this Plot, Preuented earst miraculously. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 233 Meanwhile the other Champions, yerst In hurry of the fight disperst, Arriv'd. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1543 This..horrid spectacle Which earst my eyes beheld and yet behold. View more context for this quotation 1791 W. Cowper Retirem. 100 Forth skipped the cat, not now replete As erst with airy self-conceit. 6. In combination with adjectives and participial adjectives. ΚΠ 1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. B Wherewith Flora had in plentie poudred the freshnesse of her earst-green hue. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 100 The earst remembred Sir Ric..entertained at one time..the Admirals of the English, Spanish, & Netherland fleets. 1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol (1749) 135 All but the stout And erst unconquer'd Hildebrand. Derivatives ˈerstly adv. in the first place. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adverb] > earliest or first of all foremostOE erstOE firstc1180 aforewarda1200 erstly1600 1600 Chester Pl. Proem (Shaks. Soc.) 3 Their fore be boulde Erstelye to playe the same. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.adv.OE
随便看	to be bad kokum to be bad luck to be bad news to be badly served to be bagged to be battened on to be becalmed to be beforehand in the world to be beforehand with to be beforehand with the world to be behindhand in the world to be behindhand with the world to be beknown to be beleft to be beneath the mark to be bent to be beside the saddle to be best friends with to be bethought to be better than one's promise to be better than one's word to be between to be beyond a person to be bid for to be big on