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BET'TY, n. [Supposed to be a cant word from the name of a maid; but qu. is it not from the root of beat or L.peto?]

An instrument to break open doors.

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Betty (betty)
n.((?))
Bet"ty
  1. A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.
    [Written also bettee.]

    The powerful betty, or the artful picklock.
    Arbuthnot.

  2. A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters.
  3. A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask.
    [U. S.] Bartlett.

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Noah Says...
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws....All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
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