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Glossarial Index. 



Barbes, s. pi. the barbies, small excre- 

 scences of flesh in a horse's mouth, 

 82/i. &^ Lam pas. 



Baste, s. piece of bast, 188/30 ; bastes, 

 pi. 136/22. 



Bate, z/. to lower, abate, 15 3/ 16. 



Bauson, s. badger, 71/7. 



Bayly, or Baylye, J. bailiff, 134/3, 

 141/57, 148/40. 



Bayting. See note to sect 8 (ch. 8, 11. 

 9 and 13); p. 131. 



Beate, v. improve {not beat], 8/20. 

 Lowl. So. beet, A. S. betan, to better. 

 '■^Beet-axe, the instrument used in 

 beeting ground in denshering." — 

 Wright 



Beetle-browed, having projecting brows, 

 note to 56/9 ; p. 139. 



Begonne, prob. an error for be gone, i.e. 

 are dropped, I8/10. See the note. 



Begotten, pp. obtained, 1 69/30, 42. 



Behouable, adj. fitting, 155/ 10. 



Belte, V. to shear the buttocks and tails 

 of sheep, 4O/24. Burl is used in the 

 same sense ; see belt and burl in Old 

 Country Words, ed. Britten, pp. 134, 



136. 

 Belybandes, s. pi. 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, I3/26. 



A reduplicated word. Bere is the 



same as bar- in bar-ley. A.S. bere, 



barley. 

 Bernard, St., 156/25, 164/io. 

 Best lykinge, adj. superl. goodliest, best 



in appearance, 48/13. 

 Besyde, prep, on the one side, sideways 



out of, 139/17. 

 Better, adj. compar. 5/i2. 

 Beyked, //. warmed, dried, 24/23. 



M.E. beken, answering to an A.S. 



form bee an * (not found), formed as a 



secondary verb, by vowel-change, 



from A.S. bSc, 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, 1. 99, Iwain and 



Gawain, 1. 1459, O.E. Homilies, i. 



269, and Test, of Creseyde, 26. 

 Beykyng, s. warming, drying, 24/i2. 



See above. 



Beytynge, /^^j./i". feeding, lit baiting, 



22/12. 

 Bier, s. buyer, 1 34/30. 

 Bigge, adj. big, large (with reference to 



clods), 10/4. 

 Blacke-thorne, .f. blackthorn, I24/14. 

 Blankettes, s. pi. blankets, 1 46/79. 

 Blend-corn, s. wheat mixed with rye, 



34/19. (^/^«^ = blended. ) 

 Blesse, v. to bless, 146/2. 

 Blome, pr. pi. bloom, 24/i6. 

 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. 

 Bobbed, pt. pi. struck, 1 66/29. 

 Bodkyn, s. bodkin, 142/6. 

 Boget, .r. a budget, wallet, 142/r. 

 Boke, book, 3/2, etc. ; bokes, //. I42/4. 

 Bolles, s. pi. pods, I46/50. Lit. 



"swellings;" see below. Cf. Du. 



bol, swollen. 

 Bolne, V. to swell, 1 28/29 '■> bolneth, 



/;-. 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. pi. table-cloths, 1 46/4 5. 

 Borde, s. board, 122/2 7. 

 Bores, s. pi. boars, 121/9. 

 Bottelles, s. pi. bottles, I4I/69. 

 Bottes, s. pi. bots, a kind of worms 



troublesome to horses, 102/i. 

 Bowes, s. pi. boughs, 122/21. 

 Bowes, s. pi. the bent pieces of wood 



(beneath the yoke) which pass round 



the necks of yoked oxen, 5/3. Usually 



called oxbows, as in Tusser. 

 Bracer, s. bracer, armour for the arms, 



142/3. See Chaucer, C.T. in. 

 Braked, //. bruised in a brake or 



machine for crushing flax, I46/42. 

 Breade-come, s. corn to be ground to 



bread meal, for making brown bread, 



20/16. See note to P. Plowman, 



C. ix. 61. 

 Breake thy faste, phr. breakfast, 149/8. 

 Breaketh, /r. s. breaks in, 120/3. 

 Brede, s. breadth, IIO/3, 132/i8. A.S. 



brcedu. 

 Brekefaste, s. breakfast, 14 6/ 12. 

 Bren, v, burn, ^Ijio; brenne, 131/2. 



