Beetle-browed, having projecting brows, _note_ to 56/9; p. 139.
Begonne, prob. an error for _be gone_, i.e. are dropped, 18/10. See the note.
Belte, _v._ to shear the buttocks and tails of sheep, 40/24. _Burl_ is used in the same sense; see _belt_ and _burl_ in Old Country Words, ed. Britten, pp. 134, 136.
Belybandes, _s. pl._ belly-bands for a horse in a cart, 5/28.
Bende, _adj._ bent, 3/49; _as s._ bent piece, 4/33.
Bendfoder, _s._ fodder of straw and hay mingled, _note_ to 6/27; p. 131.
Be-pysse hym-selfe, give out moisture, 25/27.
Bere-barleye, _s._ a kind of barley, 13/26. A reduplicated word. _Bere_ is the same as _bar-_ in _bar-ley_. A.S. _bere_, barley.
Best lykinge, _adj. superl._ goodliest, best in appearance, 48/13.
Besyde, _prep._ on the one side, sideways out of, 139/17.
Beyked, _pp._ warmed, dried, 24/23. M.E. _beken_, answering to an A.S. form _bécan_* (not found), formed as a secondary verb, by vowel-change, from A.S. _bóc_, pt. t. of _bacan_, to bake. So also _lay_ from _lie_, _set_ from _sit_, etc. See _beken_ in Stratmann, who refers to Le Bone Florence, l. 99, Iwain and Gawain, l. 1459, O.E. Homilies, i. 269, and Test. of Creseyde, 26.
Beykyng, _s._ warming, drying, 24/12. See above.
Beytynge, _pres. pt._ feeding, lit. baiting, 22/12.
Bigge, _adj._ big, large (with reference to clods), 10/4.
Blend-corn, _s._ wheat mixed with rye, 34/19. (_Blend_ = blended.)
Bloude, _s._ blood, 145/8; also the name of a sickness among sheep, 48/2.
Bloud-yren, _s._ bleeding-iron, lancet, 58/29.
Blyssomme, _v._ to copulate, said of sheep, 37/14. A ewe is said to be _blissom_, i.e. blithe-some, eager. Cf. _lissom_ = lithe-some.
Boke, book, 3/2, etc.; bokes, _pl._ 142/4.
Bolles, _s. pl._ pods, 146/50. Lit. “swellings;” see below. Cf. Du. _bol_, swollen.
Bolne, _v._ to swell, 128/29; bolneth, _pr. s._ swells, 128/21. Cf. Swed. _bulna_, Dan. _bulne_, to swell.
Bolster, _s._ place of support, 4/51. The bed of a timber carriage is called a _bolster_ (Wright).
Bord-clothes, _s. pl._ table-cloths, 146/45.
Bottes, _s. pl._ bots, a kind of worms troublesome to horses, 102/1.
Bowes, _s. pl._ the bent pieces of wood (beneath the yoke) which pass round the necks of yoked oxen, 5/3. Usually called _oxbows_, as in Tusser.