Chapter L: B. bestialia, pecudes; Fr. bestail

BESTREIK, _part. pa._ Drawn out; _gold bestreik_, gold wire or twist.

_Burel._

Teut. _be-streck-en_, extendere.

BESTURTED, _part. pa._ Startled, alarmed, afrighted, S.

Germ. _besturz-en_, to startle; _besturzt seyn_, to be startled.
Ihre views Isl. _stird-r_, rigid, immoveable, as the root.

BESWAKIT, _part. pa._ Apparently, soaked, drenched.

_Dunbar._

Isl. _sock_, mergor, _saukv-a_, mergi.

_To_ BESWEIK, _v. a._ To allure; to beguile; to deceive.

A. S. _swic-an_, _beswic-an_, Isl. _svik-ia_. Alem. _bisuich-en_,
Su. G. _swik-a_, Germ. _schwick-en_, id.

BET, _pret._ Struck.

_Gawan and Gol._

A. S. _beat-an_, Su. G. _bet-a_; _tu bete_, thou hast struck.

BET, BETT, _pret._ and _part._ Helped, supplied.

V. ~Beit~.

BET, _part. pa._ Built, erected.

_Douglas._

This is a secondary and oblique sense of the _v._ _Beit_, q. v.

BET, _adj._ Better.

_King's Quair._

A. S. _bet_, Teut. _bat_, _bet_, melius, potius, magis; Alem. _bas_, _baz_, melior, the compar. of _bat_, bonus. A. S. _bet-an_, emendare, and the other synon. verbs in the Northern languages, have been viewed as originating the term. _Bet_, indeed, seems to be merely the past part., mended, i. e. made _better_.

BETANE, _part. pa._ Perhaps, inclosed.

_Barbour._

A. S. _betien-en_, _betyn-an_, to inclose, to shut up.

BETAUCHT, BETUK, Delivered, committed in trust; delivered up.

V. ~Betech~.

_To_ BETECH, BETEACH, _v. a._ To deliver up, to consign; _betuk_, pret. _betaucht_, pret. and part. pa.

_Barbour._

Hence "the common Scots expression, _God I beteach me till_," Rudd.; and that used by Ramsay, _Betootch-us-to_; i. e. Let us commend ourselves to the protection of some superior being. O. E. _bitoke_, committed; also _bitaughten_, _bitakun_, _bitauht_. A. S. _betaec-an_, tradere, concedere, assignare, commendare; to deliver, to grant, to assign or appoint, to betake or recommend unto; Somner. _Betaehte_, tradidit.

BETHLERIS. Leg. ~Bechleris~. Bachelors.

_Houlate._

_To_ BETRUMPE, _v. a._ To deceive.

_Douglas._

_To_ BETREYSS, BETRASE, _v. a._ To betray.

_Barbour._

_Betrasit_, Douglas; _betraissed_, Wallace; _betraised_, Chaucer; _betraist_, R. Brunne. Germ. _trieg-en_, _betrieg-en_; Fr. _trah-ir_, id. _trahi-son_, treason.

BETWEESH, _prep._ Betwixt, S.

V. ~Atweesh~.

BEVAR, _s._ One who is worn out with age.

_Henrysone._

It is evidently from the same source with _Bavard_, adj. q. v. We still say a _bevir-horse_ for a lean horse, or one worn out with age or hard work; S.

BEVEL, _s._ A stroke; sometimes, a violent push with the elbow, S.

_Many._

This is a derivative from _Baff_, _beff_, q. v.

BEVEREN, BEVERAND, _part. pr._

_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._

Perhaps from A. S. _befer-an_, circumdare; or as the same with _beverand_, which Sibb. renders "shaking, nodding;" deriving it from Teut. _bev-en_, contremere. This is a provincial E. word. "_Bevering_, trembling. North." Gl. Grose.

BEVIE, (_of a fire_) _s._ A term used to denote a great fire; sometimes, _bevice_, S.

Perhaps from E. _bavin_, "a stick like those bound up in faggots,"
Johnson. It is thus used in O. E.

BEVIE, _s._ A jog, a push, S. from the same source with _bevel_.

V. ~Baff~, _s._

BEVIS.

V. ~Bevar~.

BEUCH, _s._ (gutt.) A bough, a branch, S.

_Douglas._

A. S. _boga_, _boh_, id. from _bug-an_, to bend.

BEUCHIT, _part. pa._ (gutt.) Bowed, crooked, S.

_Douglas._

A. S. _bug-an_, curvare.

BEUGH, _s._ (gutt.) A limb, a leg, Border.

_Evergreen._

Isl. _bog_, Alem. _puac_, Germ. _bug_, id. The term is applied both to man and to other animals. Both Ihre and Wachter view _bug-en_, to bend, as the origin; as it is by means of its joints that an animal bends itself.

BEUGLE-BACKED, _adj._ Crook-backed.

_Watson._

A. S. _bug-an_, to bow; Teut. _boechel_, gibbus. Germ. _bugel_, a dimin. from _bug_, denoting any thing curved or circular. It is undoubtedly the same word that is now pronounced _boolie-backit_, S.

BEUKE, _pret. v._ Baked.

_Douglas._

A. S. _boc_, pret. of _bac-an_, pinsere.

BEULD, _adj._ Bow-legged, Ang.; q. _beugeld_ from the same origin with _beugle_, in _Beugle-backed_, q. v.

BEW, _adj._ Good, honourable. _Bew schyris_, or _schirris_, good Sirs.

Fr. _beau_, good.

_Douglas._

_To_ BEWAVE, BEWAUE, _v. a._ To cause to wander or waver.

_Palice of Honour._

A. S. _waf-ian_, vacillare, fluctuare.

BEWIS, BEWYS, _s. pl._ Boughs.

V. ~Beuch~.

_Douglas._

BEWIS, _s. pl._ Beauties.

O. Fr. _beau_, beauty.

_Maitland Poems._

BEWITH, _s._ A thing which is employed as a substitute for another, although it should not answer the end so well.

_Ramsay._

One who arrives, when the regular dinner is eaten, is said to get "only a _bewith_ for a dinner," S.

From the subst. v. conjoined with the prep., q. what one must submit
to for a time.

_To_ BEWRY, _v. a._ To pervert, to distort.

_Douglas._

Teut. _wroegh-en_, torquere, angere.

BY, _prep._

1. Beyond, S.

_Pitscottie._

2. Besides, over and above.

_Pitscottie._

3. Away from, without, without regard to, contrary to.

_Wallace._

_By_, as thus used, is sometimes directly contrasted with _be_, as signifying _by_ in the modern sense of the term. This may be viewed as an oblique sense of _by_ as signifying _beyond_; perhaps in allusion to an arrow that flies wide from the mark.

4. In a way of distinction from, S.

_Wallace._

BY, _adv._ When, after; q. by the time that.

_Pitscottie._

This idiom is very ancient, Moes. G. _Bi the galithun thai
brothrjus is_; _When_ his brethren were gone up.

BY-HAND, _adv._ Over, S.

V. ~Hand~.

BY-LYAR, _s._ A neutral.

_Knox._

From the _v_. _To lie by_, E.

BIAS, a word used as a mark of the superlative degree; _bias bonny_, very handsome; _bias hungry_, very hungry, Aberd.

BIB, _s._ A term used to denote the stomach, Ang., borrowed, perhaps, from the use of that small piece of linen, thus denominated, which covers the breast or stomach of a child.

BYBILL, _s._ A large writing, a scroll so extensive that it may be compared to a book.

_Detection Q. Mary._

The word occurs in a similar sense in O. E. As used by Chaucer, Tyrwhitt justly renders it "any great book." In the dark ages, when books were scarce, those, which would be most frequently mentioned, would doubtless be the _Bible_ and _Breviary_. Or, this use of the word may be immediately from L. B. _biblus_, a book, (Gr. βιβλος), which occurs in this sense from the reign of Charlemagne downwards.

BICHMAN, _s._ Perhaps, for _buthman_, q. _boothman_, one who sells goods in a _booth_.

_Dunbar._

In edit. 1508, it is _buthman_.

BYCHT.

V. ~Lycht~.

_Houlate._

BICK, _s._ A bitch; "the female of the canine kind," S.

A. S. _bicca_, _bicce_, id.; Isl. _bickia_, catella.

_To_ BICKER, BYKER, _v. a._ This _v_., as used in S., does not merely signify, "to fight, to skirmish, to fight off and on," as it is defined in E. dictionaries. It also denotes,

1. The constant motion of weapons of any kind, and the rapid succession of strokes, in a battle or broil.

_Wallace._

2. To fight by throwing stones; S.

3. To move quickly; S.

4. It expresses the noise occasioned by successive strokes, by throwing of stones, or by any rapid motion; S.