bi-loven (A.S.) 130, _to make friends_ (?)

by-menen (A.S.) _to signify_. _pret. s._ by-mente, 370

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by-molen (A.S.) 273, 274, _to spot, stain_

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by-nymen (A.S.) _to take from_. _part. past_, by-nomen, 62

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bi-quasshen (A.S.) 384, _to crush to pieces_

bi-reve (A.S.) 132, _to take from, bereave_

bi-seken, bi-sechen, 18 (A.S.) _to beseech_. _pret._ bi-soughte. _part. pas._ bi-sought

bi-seggen (A.S.) _to reproach, insult_. _part. past_, bi-seye, 437

bi-shetten (A.S.) 40, _to shut up_. _part. past_, bi-shet, 405

bi-snewed (A.S.) 301, _snowed over, covered with snow_

bi-swynken (A.S.) 323, _to labour hard_. _pret. pl._ bi-swonke, 442

bidden, bidde (A.S.) _to pray, to ask, beg, to require, to order_. _pres. s._ he bit, 308, 188. _pret. s._ bidde, bad, _pl._ beden, 372, 404. _part. act._ biddynge. (if he) bede, 157

bidder (A.S.) _pl._ bidderes, _an asker, petitioner_

biden (A.S.) 387, 428, _to bide, wait_. _part. past_, boden

bi-girdle (A.S.) 156, _a bag to hang at the girdle, a purse_

bynden (A.S.) _to bind_. _pret. s._ bond, 352. _part. pas._ bounden

bismere, bismare (A.S.) 82, 413, _infamy, reproach, disgrace_

biten, bite (A.S.) 446, _to bite, urge_. _pres. s._ bitit, 225. _pret. s._ boot, 82

bi-yonde (A.S.) _beyond_: when used indefinitely it signifies _beyond sea_, _ultra mare_

blancmanger (A.N.) 252, _a made dish for the table_. Receipts for cooking it are given in most of the early tracts on cookery

bleden (A.S.) _to bleed_. _pret. s._ bledde, 402, 415

blende (A.S.) 181, _to blind_. blent, _blinded_

bleren (A.S.) _to blear, to make a person's sight dim, impose upon him_. bler-eighed, 367, _blear-eyed_

blisful (A.S.) _joyful, full of happiness, blessed_

blody (A.S.) 129, 213, _by blood, of or in blood_

blosmen (A.S.) _to blossom_. _pret._ blosmede

blowen (A.S.) _to blow_. _pret. s._ blewe, _blew_. _part. past_, y-blowe, 360

blustren (A.N. ?) 108, _to wander or stray along without any particular aim_

bollen, bolne (A.S.) _to swell_. _pres. s._ bolneth, 84

boote (A.S.) 70, 139, 189, 209, 233, 266, _help, reparation, amendment, restoration, remedy_

bootne (A.S.) _to restore, remedy_. _part. pas._ bootned, 128

borde (A.S.) _table_. Hence the modern use of the word _board_ when we speak of "_board and lodging_"