320 
or wronge, szszster.’’ — Prompt. 
Parv. 
Aumbrie, 75/2, s. cupboard, pantry. 
See Prompt. Parv. s.v. Awmebry. 
L. Lat. almonarium. See also 
Wedgwood, s.v. Amory. 
Auailes, p. 2, v. pv. ¢. is useful or profit- 
able. 
Auens, 39/1, s. herb bennet—gezm ur- 
banum. Welsh afans. The roots 
gathered in the spring and put into 
ale give it a pleasant flavour. 
Auise Avouse, 55/4, ‘‘is French jargon 
for assure yourself, take care.”— 
Mavor. 
Auouch, 10/12, v. own, acknowledge. 
**T'llavouch it to his head.” —Shak. 
Mids. Night’s Dream, i. I. 
Awe, 56/2, s. August. 
Ayer, 16/20, s. air. 
B. 
Baggage, 21/21, s. foul stuff, perhaps 
from Fr. dagasse. 
Baggedglie tit 16/6, worthless beasts, 
baggagely. 
Baies, 81/2, s. gl. chidings, reproof. 
Halliwell has this word, misspelt 
baics, as from Hunter’s additions to 
Boucher, 
Bailie, 10/18, s. bailiff, steward. Lat. 
bajulus. Fr. baillz. 
Baiting, 85/2, feeding, eating. 
Balke, s. ‘*What is in some places 
called a mier bank, being narrow 
slips of land between ground and 
ground.” —T.R. A.S. dale. Welsh 
vale, a strip of land. ‘‘A dalke or 
banke of earth ranged or standing 
up betweene two furrowes.’—Ba- 
ret’s Alvearie. Halliwell, s.v. Balk, 
refers to this passage and explains 
Balke as a piece of timber. 
Ball, 95/2, s. a common name for a 
horse. Inthe Prompt. it is applied 
to a sheep, and in the Privy Purse 
expenses of Henry VIII. p. 43, to 
a dog. 
Band, 46/17, s. bands or ropes of straw. 
Bandes, 9/24, s. bonds, engagements. 
Bandog, 10/19, s. a dog always tied up 
on account of his fierceness ; ac- 
cording to Bewick a species of 
mastiff crossed with a bull-dog. 
Dutch dand-hond. 
Bane, 81/6, s. poison. 
Glossary. 
Bane, 46/23, s. ruin. A.S. dana. O. 
Icel. dant. 
Banish, 9/29, v. free, clear. 
Banket, 28/3, v. gr. ¢. feast, banquet. 
Barberies, 34/3, s. barberry ; Jderberis 
vulgaris, Linn. 
Barberlie, 51/4, adv. like a barber. 
Bare, 74/6, adj. uncouer your bare= 
strip the clothes off and whip you. 
Barelie, 56/23, s. barley. 
Bargaine, 16/3, s. contract, agreement. 
Barth, 33/26, s. shelter. ‘‘ Barth, 
ground floor, floor.”— Spurrell’s 
Welsh Dict. ‘‘ A warm place or 
pasture for calves or lambs.—Ray. 
“* A place near the farm-house well- 
sheltered.” —T.R. 
Bartilmewtide, 57/47, St. Bartholomew’s 
Day, 24th August. 
Bassel, 42/1, Bazell, 50/34, s. basil, 
much used in cookery, especially 
in France. Ocymum basilicum.— 
Gerard’s Herball. So called prob- 
ably from its being used in some 
royal (BaotAtxoy) medicine or bath. 
Baulme, 42/2, s. balsam, contracted 
from Lat. dalsamum. 
Bauen, 57/33, s. light loose faggots. 
O. Fr. baffe=a faggot. ‘*‘ Baven, 
the smaller trees whose sole use is 
for the fire.” —Skinner. 
Bayted, 64*/7, pA. baited. 
Beare off, 17/2, v. ward off, keep off. 
Beare out, 16/10, v. keep off, protect 
from. 
Beares, 20/1, v. gv. ¢. provides, furnishes. 
*Bease, 57, s. p/. beasts, cows. 
Beastlie, 20/2, adj. stupid, careless. 
Beath, 23/9, v. to place before the 
fire, to straighten by heating. 
Beck, 46/28, s. beak. 
*Beclip, 30, v. anticipate, surprise. 
Bedstraw, 19/40, s. clean straw. 
Beene, 651/22, s. property, wealth. 
Fr. dzen. 
Beere, 96/84, s. bier. 
Beetle, 22/1, s. a wooden club or 
mallet, its head hooped with iron, 
and studded all over with nails, 
used for splitting wood. 
Beggerie, 10/40, s. beggary, poverty. 
Begilde, 57/27, Beguilde, 10/56, Af. 
cheated, disappointed. 
Begon, 99/5, 2%. begun. 
Behoouing, 2/5, ad. belonging, properto. 
Bellifull, 46/27, s. sufficiency, satisfac- 
tion. 
