GLOSSARY. 



Blopan, prset. f bleo)', pp. blojien, to Uow, 

 bloom, blossom, Jlorere. Tjieopa he be)' 

 jse)ilice bloj'an, M.Sp. p. 16, Trees 

 lie shall cause suddenly to bloom. Mid 

 blowendum wyrtum, Horn. II. 352, 

 with blooming worts. OS ^ hi becomou 

 to j-umuni pcinenbura jelba jffiSjie 

 Sebloiien, M.II. 99 b, Till they came 

 to a shining plain, fair and blooming 

 (" fairly blown "). C.E. 199, 200, etc. 



Bogen. See Bo'Sen, convertible, Lb. p. 

 310, note. Lb. III. iv. xxvi. xxx. Ixii. 1. 



Box, neut, ? Lb. II. lix. 14. tobjiocenuin 

 pealyboxe, Mark xiv. 3. Buxus, box 

 tjieop. Buxum, j-opcajiuen box, ^G. 

 5, Tilt. It is therefore direct from the 

 late Latin, and seems to follow its gender. 



Bo'Sen, gen. -ej- ; probably wild thyme, thy- 

 mus serpyllum. Bot)enej*, Lb. III. iv. In 

 Hb. Ixxxi. boSen is rosemary, which is 

 a native of the south of Europe. In 

 Hb. cxlix. it is employed to translate 

 thyme, and this is native to England. 

 " Lolium, bo^en," Gl. Somn., p. 77 a, 

 but darnel is not to the unskilled eye 

 at all like thyme and rosemary ; it 

 seems however to be considered only 

 as a mean herb by the glossator. 

 The drawing in MS. V., fol. 39 d, 

 has not simple leaves as for either rose- 

 mary or thyme it should have (H.), but 

 it may be the artists view of either. 

 " Rosmarinus, sundeav vel bothen vel 

 " feld medere," Gl. Dun. "Rosmarinus, 

 " sundeaw," Gl. Mone, p. 322 b. ; this 

 is a failure to translate ros marinus as 

 sea dew ; our sundew or drosera is wholly 

 different. In MS. Bodley, 130, there is 

 no drawing of rosmariuus, but a hand of 

 the 14th century has glossed the article 

 " feld modere;" this seems to come of 

 very careless observation. "Rosmari- 

 " num, feld maidere," Gl. Mone, p. 322 a. 

 White bothen is great daisie, says 

 Gerarde. 



Bpea'5, brittle. Hb. cxl. 1. evOpavaros. 



Bpecan, verb reflexive, bjiecan hme, 

 make an effort to spew. Lb. II. Hi. 1. 



Bjiecan — ro7it. 



"Brakyn or castyn or spewe, vomo 

 " evomo," Prompt. Parv. " Brakynge or 

 " parbrakynge, vomitus, cvomitus," id. 



Bjiebe? a particolour ed cloth; nub bpebe. 

 Lb. IIL ii. 1. Cf. Bjiaebelf, stragulum, 

 Gl. in Lye. Cf. Bp/jb, C.E. 218, line 9. 

 Brcgben, C.E. 219, line 13. 



Bjiegban, prcet. bpseb, p. part, bjiogben, to 

 do anything with a sudden jerk or start. 

 Lb. IL li. 3. etc. 



Bjiyj-ejjyjic, fern., gen. -e, pimpernel, ana- 

 gallis. " Anagallis, brisewort," Gl. Raw- 

 linson, c. 506. Gl. Harl. 3388. Leech- 

 doms, vol. I. p. 374. 



2. Bellis peren7iis,MSi.Ija\id. 553, fol. 9. 

 Plainly for Hembriswyrt. See Ban- 

 pypc, 2. 



Bjnjian, to brcic, pra;t. bpeop, p. part, 

 bpopen. Lb. I. xlvii. 3, make a brewit, 

 a lomentum, dress. Lb. I. xxxvi. Bpip 

 his mere ]n> ele. Lb. ILli. 1,3. O.T. 

 254, 9. Horn. L 352. 



B]iyJ)en, neut., what has been brewed. Lb. 

 I. Ixvii. 2. C.E. p. 1G1,4 = MS. fol. 47 a, 

 8, where the use of barm is mentioned. 

 He jeann ... an bjiy^en mealces ; one 

 brewing of malt; malt for one brewing. 

 Wulfgeats Will, unpublished. 



Bjiocmince, -an, fem., mentha hirsuta, 

 Bot. Hb. cvi. '' Sisymbrium, an herbe, 

 " wherof bee two kyndes, the one is 

 " called Sisymbrium alone, whiche is also 

 " called Thymbrea, in englishe water 

 " mynte." Elyots Diet, by T. Cooper. 

 See the synonyms from mediaeval sources 

 in the Flora Britannica, with the words 

 " In aquosis vulgaris." 



Bjiom, gen. -ef, masc. ? broom, cytisus 

 scoparius, (Hooker). Lb. I. ii. 14. 



BpoJ^ejipyjir, fem., gen. -e, penny royal, 

 rneutha pulegium, Gl. Brux. 



Bjiune^an, a dative : Lb. I. iv. 6, a dis- 

 ease, brunella ; as I conclude from the 

 following ; " oris vitium cum linguaj 

 " tumore, exasperatione, siccitate et 

 " nigredine ; unde et nomen teutonice 

 " habet, vulgo brunella." Kilian in 



