Glossary. 
Bent, 112/3, Ap. inclined, disposed. 
Beshreawd, 102/7, ff. ruined, cursed. 
Connected with the shvew mouse, 
to which deadly qualities were at 
one time attributed. 
Bestad, 113/23, Zp. 
situated. 
Bestowe, 16/34, v. zmp. place, arrange. 
circumstanced, 
Betanie, 45/3, s. the plant Betony, Be- 
tonica officinalis, Linn. 
Betwix, 74/2, adv. between. 
twex. 
Bewraies, 108/4, v. gr. ¢. betrays. 
Bex, 37/12, s. fl. beaks. Fr. dec, pl. 
becs. 
Biefe; 21/11, s. beef. 
Big, 33/36, s. teat, pap. A.S. dige, a 
bosom.—Bailey’s Dict. 1735. It 
also occurs in Gifford’s Dialogue 
on Witches, 1603. 
Bil, 17/8; Bill, 33/22, s. billhook. 
Bilde, 95/6, v. build. 
Billet, 53/12, s. chopped-up wood. 
Bin, 107/1, A. been. 
Blabs, 100/3, s. AZ. chatterboxes, talka- 
tive persons. ‘‘ Cacgueteur, babil- 
lard, baguenaudier, bavard. A 
blab, a long tongue: one that 
telleth whatsoever he heareth.””— 
Nomenclator, 1585. 
Blade, 19/14, s. blades of grass. 
Blaze, 108/4, v. spread abroad the re- 
port of, d/aze abroad. Cf. Spenser, 
Be Ope ly xin 7: A.S. blesan, to 
blow. 
Blenge, 100/3, v. blenge, mix. 
Blessed thistle, 44/t, s. so called fron 
its supposed power of counteracting 
the effects of poison ; Carduus 
benedictus. 
Blew, 43/3, ad. blue. 
Blindfild, 90/3, adj. blindfold. 
Blisse, 2/3, v. bless, praise. 
Block in the fier, 10/57, a block of wood 
in the fire. 
Blocks, 17/11, s. f/. blocks of wood, 
trunks and stumps of trees. 
Bloodwort, 39/4, s. bloody-veined dock, 
Rumex sanguineus. 
Blouse, 16/37, s. red-faced wife or girl. 
‘© A girl or wench whose face locks 
red by running abroad in the wind 
and weather is called a d/ouz, and 
said to have a dlouzing colour.”— 
Kennett, MS. Lansd. 1033. See 
also Thoresby’s Letter to Ray, 
HIDs Soc. B.17- 
A.S. be- 
321 
Blowne, 2/10, Af. reported. 
Bobbed, 1138/5, A. pouting. 
Boddle, 51/11, s. ‘‘a weed like the 
Mayweed, but bears a large yellow 
flower.’-—T.R. From Dutch éu7- 
del, a purse, because it bears 
gools or goldins, gold coins, Dutch 
gulden, a punning allusion to its 
yellow flowers. 
Boies, 57/34, s. pl. boys. 
Bold, 2/9, v. pt. ¢. embolden, encourage. 
Bold, 63/22, adj. proud. 
Boll, 83/2, s. washing-bowl, tub. 
Bolted, 67/2, pp. sifted, examined. 
Bolted-bread =a loaf of sifted wheat 
meal mixed with rye. See Bolt 
and Lolting-cloth in Peacock’s 
Gloss. of Manley and Corringham. 
Boollesse, 34/4, s. bullace, small tartish 
plums, black or yellow. Called 
in Cambridgeshire ‘‘ Cricksies.” 
‘*T believe the word to be Celtic : 
Trish éz/os, a prune, Breton Zo/os, 
a bullace, Gaelic Jdu/laistear, a 
bullace, a sloe.”—Note by Rev. 
W. W. Skeat. ‘A bullace, frute, 
pruneolum.’—Manip. Vocab. 
Boone, 62/17, s. request, prayer. 
Boord, 23/12, s. boards, planks. 
Boorde, 88/1, s. the table, meals. 
Bootie, 48/14, s. booty, prey. 
Borough, 33/7, s. burrows, 
A.S. bcorg, beorh. 
Botch, 74/5, v. zmp. patch. 
Botles, 43/3, s. chrysanthemum. ‘‘ Boyul 
or bothule, herbe or Cowslope, 
Vactinia.’ ” Prompt. Parv. 
Bots, 44/22, s. p/. a disease (worms) 
troublesome to horses. Gaelic 
botus, a bott ; botteag, a maggot. 
Bottle, 21/15, s. the leathern bottle. 
Bowd, 19/39, s. weevil, Curculio gra- 
narius ; bowd-eaten=eaten by wee- 
vils. ‘* Bowde, malte worme.” 
“Malte bowde or wevyl.”—Prompt. 
Parv. 
Bowe, 17/13, s. bow. 
Bows, 86/12, s. £2. boughs, sticks. A.S. 
bog, doh. 
Brag, 19/14, s. boast, sham, pretence ; 
94/16, value, estimation. 
Braggeth, ’62/ I, v. pr. t. boasts, brags. 
Welsh dvagzaw. Fr. braguer. 
warren, 
Brake, 15/33, s. underwood, ferns, etc. 
Brakes, ‘‘ Their light firing in Nor- 
folk, that is wherewith they bake 
and brew,” —T.R. 
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