Bee-bird _s._ the White-throat
Bee-but, Bee-lippen, a bee-hive (_lepe_, a basket, Wiclif Acts ix, 25)
Beetel, Bittle, or Bitle _s._ a bron-bitle, or brand-bitle, a heavy
mallet for cleaving wood. Shaks. Hen. IV. "fillip me with a three man
beetle." Bitle-head _s._ a blockhead
Becal _v._ to abuse, to rail at
Bedfly _s._ a flea
Bed-lier _s._ a bed-ridden person
Beever _s._ a hedge-side encumbered with brambles
Begaur, Begaurz, Begumm, Begummers, words of asseveration and exclamation
Begrumpled _adj._ soured, displeased
Begurg _v._ begrudge
Behither _adv._ on this side
Belge, or Belve _v._ to bellow
Belk, or Bulk, _v._ to belch
Bell flower, Bell-rose, a Daffodil
Belsh _v._ to clean the tails of sheep
Benet, Bents _s._ Bennetty _adj._ long coarse grass, and plantain
stalks
Benge _v._ to continue tippling, to booze
Benns, or Bends, ridges of grass lands
Bepity _v.a._ to pity
Beskummer _v._ to besmear, abuse, reproach
Bethink _v._ to grudge, ex. He bethink'd I but everything
Betwattled _v.n._ to be in a distressed state of mind, also _v.a._
Betwit, to rake up old grievances
Bevorne, before
Bibble _v._ to tipple. Bibbler _s._
Biddy _s._ a chick. Chick-a-Biddy, a term of endearment
Biddy's eyes _s._ pansy
Bide _v._ to live or lodge in. Bidin _s._ a place where a man lives
Big, Beg, Begotty _adj._ grand, consequential, ex. Too big for his
birches
Billid _adj._ distracted, mad
Billy _s._ a bundle of straw, or reed, one-third part of a sheaf
Bim-boms _s._ anything hanging as a bell, icicles, or tags of a woman's
bonnet, or dress
Bin, Bin'swhy _conj._ because, seeing that, prob. "being," provided that
Binnic, or Bannisticle _s._ stickle-back
Bird-battin _v._ taking birds at night with a net attached to two poles.
Shaks. bat-fowling
Bird's-meat, Bird's-pears _s._ hips and haws
Bisgee, (g hard), (Fr. _besaigue_. Lat _bis-acuta_) _s._ a mooting or
rooting axe, sharp at both ends and cutting different ways
Bis't _v._ Art thou? (Germ. _bist du_)
Bit _s._ the lower end of a poker _v._ to put a new end to a poker
Bivver _v._ to shake or tremble, ex. They'll make he bivver, (A S
_bifian_, to tremble)
Blackhead _s._ a boil, a pinswil
Black-pot _s._ black-pudding
Blacky-moor's-beauty _s._ Sweet scabious
Blake _v._ to faint (A S _blaecan_, to grow pale)
Blanker, Vlanker, Flanker _s._ a spar
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