Anagrams of: BRETTICES

• informal terms for journalists

• French playwright (1791-1861)

• someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts

• a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut

• score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking

• cut in half or cut in two

• An early three-stringed instrument, somewhat like a simple violin only pear shaped, played with a bow and used in Medieval and the early Renaissance eras.

• alcoholic liquor flavored with bitter herbs and roots

• cut in three

• (comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another

• (comparative of `good') changed for the better in health or fitness

• something superior in quality or condition or effect

• someone who bets

• a superior person having claim to precedence

• the superior one of two alternatives

• comparative of `well'; in a better or more excellent manner or more advantageously or attractively or to a greater degree etc.

• from a position of superiority or authority

• (comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable

• more than half

• surpass in excellence

• to make better

• get better

• baby bed with high sides made of slats

• a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)

• a bin or granary for storing grains

• the cards discarded by players at cribbage

• a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two

• use a crib, as in an exam

• take unauthorized (intellectual material)

• line with beams or planks