In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small
cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the
work of the landlord's farm.
To soil. See Beray.
To expose; to reveal; to disclose; to betray. [Obs. or Archaic] The murder being once done, he is in less fear, and in more hope that the deed shall not be bewrayed or known. Robynson (More's Utopia. ) Thy ...
