An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Isl. sock, mergor, saukv-a, mergi.

To BESWEIK, v. a. To allure; to beguile; to deceive.

A. S. swic-an, beswic-an, Isl. svik-ia. Alem. bisuich-en, Su. G. swik-a, Germ. schwick-en, id.

BET, pret. Struck.
Gawan and Gol.

A. S. beat-an, Su. G. bet-a; tu bete, thou hast struck.

BET, BETT, pret. and part. Helped, supplied.
V. [Beit].

BET, part. pa. Built, erected.
Douglas.

This is a secondary and oblique sense of the v. [Beit], q. v.

BET, adj. Better.
King's Quair.

A. S. bet, Teut. bat, bet, melius, potius, magis; Alem. bas, baz, melior, the compar. of bat, bonus. A. S. bet-an, emendare, and the other synon. verbs in the Northern languages, have been viewed as originating the term. Bet, indeed, seems to be merely the past part., mended, i. e. made better.