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BAWDEKYN, _s._ cloth of gold.
BAXTER, _s._ a baker.
BEAR, BERE, _s._ barley.
_To_ BECK, _v_. to curtsey.
BEDRAL, _s._ a person who is bedrid.
BEGRUTTEN, _part. pa._ having the face disfigured with weeping.
BEIK, BIKE, _s._ a hive of bees.
BEIK, BEKE, BEEK, _v. a_. to bask, as in the sun.
BEILD, BIELD, _s._ shelter; refuge.
BEIN, BANE, _s._ bone.
BIRR, _s._ noise; cry; force.
BEKE, BEIK, BEEK, _v. a._ to bask.
BELD, _adj._ bald; without hair on the head.
BELE, _s._ a fire; a blaze.
BELYVE, _adv._ by and by.
_To_ BELL THE CAT, to contend with a person of superior rank; to withstand him, either by actions or words, especially the former.
BELLY-THRA, _s._ the colic.
_To_ BELT, _v. a._ to gird; to flog; to scourge.
BEN, _adv._ towards the inner apartments of a house. A room is generally called _ben_, and the kitchen _but_.
BEN-END, _s. the ben-end of a house_, the inner end of it.
BEN, BIN, _s._ a mountain.
BENE, BIEN, _adj._ wealthy; having abundance.
BENK, BINK, _s._ a bench; a seat.
BENORTH, _prep._ to the northward of.
BENs.h.i.+E, BENs.h.i.+, _s._ a fairy's wife.
BENT, _s._ a coa.r.s.e gra.s.s growing on sand-hills.
BERE, BEAR, _s._ barley.
BERN, _s._ a barn.
_To_ BESEIK, _v. a._ to beseech; to entreat.
BESYNE, BYSIM, _s._ a bawd.
BESOUTH, _prep_, to the southward of.
BEST-MAN, _s._ groomsman; _best-maid_, the bridesmaid.
BETWEESH, _prep_, betwixt.
BEUCH, a branch; a bough.
BEVIE, _s._ a great fire.
_To_ BEWRY, _v. a._ to pervert, to distort.
BIB, _s._ a piece of linen used to keep the breast of a child clean when feeding it.
BICK, _s._ a b.i.t.c.h; the female of the canine species.
_To_ BICKER, _v. a._ to fight with stones as schoolboys; to run off quickly.
BICKER, BIQUOUR, _s._ a small wooden dish, made in the form of a was.h.i.+ng-tub, the staves being alternately black and white.
_To_ BIDE, BYDE, _v. n._ to wait for; to abide; to endure; to suffer.
_To_ BIG, _v. a._ to build.
BIGGIN, BYGGYN, _s._ a building.
BIGGIT, _part. pa._ built.
BIKE, BEIK, BINK, _s._ a nest of wild bees or wasps.
BILGET, _adj._ bulged; swelling out.
BILLIE, BILLY, _s._ a companion; a comrade.
BINDWOOD, _s._ ivy.
BING, _s._ a heap; a pile of wood.
BINK. See BIKE.
