Part 6
A. S. _belg_, belly, and _thra_, affliction. This term, I am informed, is still used on the Border.
_To_ BELLWAVER, _v. n._
1. To straggle, to stroll, S.
2. To fluctuate, to be inconstant; applied to the mind, S.
I am informed, however, that the pronunciation of the term in some places in the west of S. is _bullwaver_; and that it is primarily applied to a _bull_ when going after the cow, and hence transferred to man, when supposed to be engaged in some amorous pursuit.
The origin of the latter part of the v. is obvious; either from E. _waver_ or L. B. _wayviare_, to stray. Perhaps the allusion may be to a ram or other animal, roaming with a _bell_ hung round its neck.
_To_ BELT, _v. a._
1. To gird, S.
Hence, in our old ballads _belted knights_ are often introduced.
2. To gird, metaph. used in relation to the mind.
_Bellenden._
3. To surround, to environ in a hostile manner.
_Bellenden._
Isl. _belt-a_, cingere zona.
_To_ BELT, _v. a._ To flog, to scourge, S.
_To_ BELT, _v. n._ To come forward with a sudden spring, S.
Isl. _bilt-a_, _bilt-ast_, signifies, to tumble headlong.
BELT, _part. pa._ Built.
_Douglas._
BELTANE, BELTEIN, _s._ The name of a sort of festival observed on the first day of May, O. S.; hence used to denote the term of Whitsunday.
_Peblis to the Play._
This festival is chiefly celebrated by the cow-herds, who assemble by scores in the fields, to dress a dinner for themselves, of boiled milk and eggs. These dishes they eat with a sort of cakes baked for the occasion, and having small lumps in the form of _nipples_, raised all over the surface. The cake seems to have been an offering to some Deity in the days of Druidism.--In Ireland, Beltein is celebrated on the 21st June, at the time of the solstice. There, as they make fires on the tops of hills, every member of the family is made to pass through the fire; as they reckon this ceremony necessary to ensure good fortune through the succeeding year.--The Gael. and Ir. word _Beal-tine_ or _Beil-tine_ signifies _Bel's Fire_; as composed of _Baal_ or _Belis_, one of the names of the sun in Gaul, and _tein_ signifying fire. Even in Angus a spark of fire is called a _tein_ or _teind_.
BELTH, _s._
_Douglas._
This word may denote a whirlpool or rushing of waters. I am inclined, however, to view it, either as equivalent to _belch_, only with a change in the termination, _metri causa_; or as signifying, figure, image, from A. S. _bilith_, Alem. _bilid_, _bileth_, id.
_To_ BEMANG, _v. a._ To hurl, to injure; to overpower, S. B.
_Minstrelsy Border._
_To_ BEME, _v. n._
1. To resound, to make a noise.
_Douglas._
2. To call forth by sound of trumpet.
_Gawan and Gol._
Germ. _bomm-en_, resonare; or A. S. _beam_, _bema_, tuba. It is evident that beme is radically the same with _bommen_, because Germ. _bomme_, as well as A. S. _beam_, signifies a trumpet.
BEME, _s._ A trumpet; ~Bemys~, pl.
_Gawan and Gol._
O. E. _beem_, id.
V. the _v._
BEMYNG, _s._ Bumming, buzzing.
_Douglas._
BEN, _adv._
1. Towards the inner apartment of a house; corresponding to ~But~, S.
_Wyntown._
It is also used as a preposition, _Gae ben the house_, Go into the inner apartment.
A ~But~ _and a_ ~Ben~, S.; i. e. a house containing two rooms.
_Statist. Acc._
2. It is used metaph. to denote intimacy, favour, or honour. Thus it is said of one, who is admitted to great familiarity with another, who either is, or wishes to be thought his superior; _He is far ben_. "_O'er far ben_, too intimate or familiar," Gl. Shirr.
_Lyndsay._
Leg. as in edit. 1670, _far ben_.
A. S. _binnan_, Belg. _binnen_, intus, (within); _binnen-kamer_, locus secretior in penetralibus domus; Kilian. Belg. _binnen gaan_, to go within, S. _to gae ben_; _binnen brengen_, to carry within, S. _to bring ben_.
BEN-END, _s._
1. _The ben-end of a house_, the inner part of it, S.
2. Metaph., the best part of any thing; as, _the ben-end of one's dinner_, the principal part of it, S. B.
BEN-HOUSE, _s._ The inner or principal apartment, S.
BENNER, _adj._ A comparative formed from _ben_. Inner, S. B.
_Poems Buchan Dial._
BENMOST is used as a superlative, signifying innermost.
_Ferguson._
Teut. _binnenste_ is synon.
BEN-INNO, _prep._ Within, beyond, S. B.
_Journal Lond._
From _ben_, q. v. and A. S. _inne_, or _innon_, within; Alem. _inna_; Isl. _inne_, id.
~There-ben~, _adv._ Within, in the inner apartment, S.
V. ~Thairben~.
BEND, _s._
1. Band, ribbon, or fillet; pl. _bendis_.
_Douglas._
"_Bend_, a border of a woman's cap, North.; perhaps from _band_," Gl. Grose.
2. It is used improperly for a fleece.
_Douglas._
A. S. _bend_, _baende_, Moes. G. _bandi_, Germ. _band_, Pers. _bend_, vinculum.
_To_ BEND, _v. n._ To drink hard; a cant term, S.
_Ramsay._
BEND, _s._ A pull of liquor, S.
_Ramsay._
BENDER, _s._ A hard drinker, S.
_Ramsay._
BENE, _v. subst._ Are.
_Bellenden._
Chaucer, _ben_, id. from _beon_, third p. pl. subj. of the A. S. substantive verb.
BENE is also used for _be_.
_King's Quair._
BENE, BEIN, BEYNE, BIEN, _adj._
1. Wealthy, well-provided, possessing abundance, S.
_Henrysone._
This is perhaps the most common sense of the term, S. Thus we say, _A bene_ or _bein farmer_, a wealthy farmer, one who is in easy, or even in affluent circumstances; _a bein laird_, &c.
2. Warm, genial. In this sense it is applied to a fire, S.
_Douglas._
3. Pleasant.
_Douglas._
4. Happy, blissful, S.
_Ferguson._
5. Splendid, showy.
_Wallace._
6. Good, excellent in its kind.
_Dunbar._
7. Eager, new-fangled. People are said to be _bein_ upon any thing that they are very fond of, Loth. In this sense _bayne_ occurs in O. E.
Isl. _bein-a_ signifies to prosper, to give success to any undertaking. _Bein_, as allied to this, signifies hospitable; _beine_, hospitality, hospitis advenae exhibita beneficentia. G. Andr. mentions the v. _beina_, as signifying, hospitii beneficia praestare. _Beini_, hospitality, liberality.
BENELY, BEINLY, _adv._ In the possession of fulness, S.
_L. Scotland's Lament._
BENE, _adv._ Well; _full bene_, full well.
_Douglas._
This word is most probably from Lat. _benè_, well.
BENJEL, _s._ A heap, a considerable quantity; as "a _benjel_ of coals," when many are laid at once on the fire, S. B. _Bensil_, however, is used in the same sense in the South and West of S.
V. ~Bensell~.
BENK, BINK, _s._ A bench, a seat. It seems sometimes to have denoted a seat of honour.
_Kelly._
Dan. _benk_, Germ. _bank_, scamnum; Wachter.
BENN, _s._ A sash.
V. ~Bend~.
_Statist. Acc._
BENORTH, _prep._ To the northward of; _besouth_, to the southward of, S.
_Wyntown._
BENSELL, BENSAIL, BENT-SAIL, _s._
1. Force, violence of whatever kind, S.
_Douglas._
2. A severe stroke; properly that which one receives from a push or shove, S.
3. "A severe rebuke," Gl. Shirr. "I got a terrible _bensell_;" I was severely scolded, S.
4. _Bensil of a fire_, a strong fire, South and West of S.
It is not unlikely that the word was originally _bent-sail_, as alluding to a vessel driven by the force of the winds.
_To_ BENSEL, _v. a._ To bang, or beat, Gl. Sibb. "_Bensel_, to beat or bang. Vox rustica, Yorksh." Gl. Grose.
BENSHAW, BEANSHAW, _s._ A disease, apparently of horses.
_Polwart._
Formed perhaps from A. S. _ban_, Teut. _been_, os, and _hef_, elevatio; q. the swelling of the bone.
BENSHIE, BENSHI, _s._ Expl. "Fairy's wife."
_Pennant._
It has been observed, that this being, who is still reverenced as the tutelar daemon of ancient Irish families, is of pure Celtic origin, and owes her title to two Gaelic words, _Ben_ and _sighean_, signifying the head or chief of the fairies. But it seems rather derived from Ir. Gael. _ben_, _bean_ a woman, said by Obrien to be the root of the Lat. _Venus_, and _sighe_, a fairy or hobgoblin.
BENT, _s._
1. A coarse kind of grass, growing on hilly ground, S. Agrostis vulgaris, Linn. Common hair-grass.
2. The coarse grass growing on the sea-shore, S. denoting the Triticum juncium, and also the Arundo arenaria.
_Lightfoot._
3. The open field, the plain, S.
_Douglas._
4. To _gae to the bent_, to provide for one's safety, to flee from danger, by leaving the haunts of men; as it is also vulgarly said, _to tak the cuntrie on his back_.
_Henrysone._
Teut. _biendse_; Germ. _bintz_, _bins_, a rush, juncus, scirpus; a _binden_, vincire, quia sportas, sellas, fiscellas, et similia ex juncis conteximus; Wachter.
BENTY, BENTEY, _adj._ Covered with bent-grass, S.
_Monroe's Iles._
_To_ BER _on hand_.
V. ~Bear~.
BERBER, _s._ Barberry, a shrub.
_Sir Gawan and Sir Gol._
L. B. _berberis_, Sw. id.
BERE, _s._ Noise; also, To ~Bere~.
V. ~Beir~.
BERE, _s._ Boar.
V. ~Bair~.
_Douglas._
BERE, _s._ Barley.
_Wyntown._
BERGLE, BERGELL, _s._ The wrasse, a fish, Orkn.
_Barry._
The first syllable of its name is undoubtedly from Isl. _berg_, a rock. Had it any resemblance to the eel, we might suppose the last from _aal_, q. the _rock eel_.
BERHEDIS, _s. pl._ Heads of boars.
V. ~Bere~.
_Gawan and Gal._
BERIT, _imperf._
V. ~Beir~, _v._
_To_ BERY, BERYSS, BERISCH, _v. a._
To inter, to bury.
_Douglas._
A. S. _byrig-an_, id. Junius says that A. S. _byrig-an_ is literally, tumulare. It may, however, be supposed that the primitive idea is found in Isl. _birg-ia_, Franc. _berg-an_, to cover, to hide, to defend.
BERIIS, _s._ Sepulture.
A. S. _byrigels_, sepultura. _Birielis_ is accordingly used by Wiclif for tombs.
BERYNES, BERYNISS, _s._ Burial, interment.
_Barbour._
A. S. _byrignesse_, sepultura.
BERY BROUNE, a shade of brown approaching to red.
_Gawan. and Gol._
We still say, "as brown as a _berry_," S. A. S. _beria_, bacca.
BERLE, _s._ Beryl, a precious stone.
_Houlate._
From this _s._ Doug. forms the adj. _beriall_, shining like beryl.
BERLY, _adj._ Apparently, strong, mighty.
_Henrysone._
This word is the same, I suspect, with E. _burly_, strong. If _berly_ be the ancient word, either from Germ. _bar_, vir illustris; or from _baer_, ursus; especially as Su. G. _biorn_, id. was metaph. used to denote an illustrious personage.
BERN, BERNE, _s._
1. A baron.
_Wallace._
2. It is often used in a general sense, as denoting a man of rank or authority; or one who has the appearance of rank, although the degree of it be unknown.
_Gawan and Gol._
3. A man in general.
_Douglas._
A. S. _beorne_, princeps, homo, Benson; "a prince, a nobleman, a man of honour and dignity," Somner. _Bern_, as denoting a man, in an honourable sense, may be from A. S. _bar_, free, or Lat. _baro_, used by Cicero, as equivalent to a lord or peer of the realm.
BERN, _s._ A barn, a place for laying up and threshing grain.
_Gawan and Gol._
A. S. _bern_, id. Junius supposes that this is comp. of _bere_, barley, and _ern_, place, q. "the place where barley is deposited," Gl. Goth.
BERSIS, _s._ "A species of cannon formerly much used at sea. It resembled the faucon, but was shorter, and of a larger calibre," Gl. Compl.
_Complaynt S._
Fr. _barce_, _berche_, "the piece of ordnance called a base;" Cotgr. pl. _barces_, _berches_.
BERTH, _s._ Apparently, rage.
_Wyntown._
Isl. and Sw. _braede_, id.
BERTHINSEK, BIRDINSEK, BURDINSECK. _The law of Berthinsek_, a law, according to which no man was to be punished capitally for stealing a calf, sheep, or so much meat as he could carry on his back in a sack.
_Skene._
A. S. _ge-burthyn in saeca_, a burden in a sack; or from _ge-beor-a_, portare.
BERTYNIT, BERTNYT, _pret._ and _part. pa._ Struck, battered.
_Wallace._
This is evidently the same with ~Brittyn~, q. v.
BESAND, BEISAND, _s._ An ancient piece of cold coin, offered by the French kings at the mass of their consecration at Rheims, and called a _Bysantine_, as the coin of this description was first struck at _Byzantium_ or Constantinople. It is said to have been worth, in French money, fifty pounds _Tournois_.
_Kennedy._
_To_ BESEIK, _v. a._ To beseech, to entreat.
_Douglas._
A. S. _be_ and _sec-an_, to seek; Belg. _ver-soek-en_, to solicit, to entreat; Moes. G. _sok-jan_, to ask, used with respect to prayer.
BESY, _adj._ Busy.
_Wyntown._
A. S. _bysi_, Belg. _besigh_, id.; allied perhaps to Teut. _byse_ turbatus, _bijs-en_, violento impetu agitari.
BESYNES, _s._ Business.
_Wyntown._
BESYNE, BYSENE, BYSIM, _s._ Expl. "whore, bawd," Gl. Sibb.
V. ~Bisym~.
BESCHACHT, _part. pa._
1. Not straight, distorted, Ang.
2. Torn, tattered; often including the idea of dirtiness, Perths. The latter seems to be an oblique use.
V. ~Shacht~.
_To_ BESLE, or BEZLE, _v. n._ To talk much at random, to talk inconsiderately and boldly on a subject that one is ignorant of, Ang.
Belg. _beuzel-en_, to trifle, to fable; Teut. _beusel-en_, nugari.
BESLE, BEZLE, _s._ Idle talking, Ang.
Belg. _beusel_, id.
BESMOTTRIT, _part. pa._ Bespattered, fouled.
_Douglas._
A. S. _besmyt-an_, maculare, inquinare; Belg. _besmodder-en_, Germ. _schmader-n_, _schmatter-n_, to stain, S. to _smadd_, Su. G. _smitt-a_.
BESOUTH, _prep._ To the southward of.
V. ~Benorth~.
BEST, _part. pa._ Struck, beaten.
V. ~Baist~.
_Barbour._
BEST, _part. pa._ Perhaps, fluttering, or shaken.
_Barbour._
Isl. _beyst-i_, concutio.
BEST, _s._ "Beast, any animal not human," Gl. Wynt.
_Wyntown._
The term is still used in this general sense, S. pronounced q. _baist_. S. B.
BEST-MAN, _s._ Brideman; as _best-maid_ is bride-maid; from having the _principal_ offices in waiting on the bride, S.
BESTIAL, (_off Tre_) _s._ An engine for a siege.
_Wallace._
It seems uncertain, whether this word be formed from Lat. _bestialis_, as at first applied to the engines called _rams_, _sows_, &c., or from Fr. _bastille_, a tower; L. B. _bastillae_.
BESTIALITÉ, _s._ Cattle.
_Complaynt S._
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.
C. B. _bicre_, a battle; "Pers. _pykar_." id. Gl. Wynt.
BICKER, BIKERING, _s._
1. A fight carried on with stones; a term among schoolboys, S.
2. A contention, strife, S.
_Baillie._
BICKER, BIQUOUR, _s._ A bowl, or dish for containing liquor; properly, one made of wood; S.
_Evergreen._
Germ. _becher_; Isl. _baukur_, _bikare_; Sw. _bagare_; Dan. _begere_; Gr. and L. B. βεικαρι, _baccarium_; Ital. _bicchiere_, patera, scyphus.
_To_ BID, _v. a._
1. To desire, to pray for.
_Henrysone._
This sense is common in O. E.
2. To care for, to value.
_Douglas._
From the same origin with ~Bedis~, q. v.
_To_ BIDE, BYDE, _v. a._
1. To await, to wait for.
_Kelly._
2. To suffer, to endure. "He _bides_ a great deal of pain;" S. Westmorel, id.
_Ross._
An oblique sense of Moes. G. _beid-an_, A. S. _bid-an_, expectare.
_To_ BIDE _be_, _v. n._ To continue in one state, S.
BIDINGS, _s. pl._ Sufferings.
V. ~Bide~, _v._
BY-EAST, towards the east.
V. ~Be~, _prep._
BIERDLY, BIERLY, _adj._
_Popular Ball._
It is viewed as the same with _Burdly_, q. v. But to me it seems rather to signify, fit, proper, becoming, from Isl. _byr-iar_, _ber_, decet, oportet.
BIERLING, _s._ A galley, S. B.
_Statist. Acc._
BIG, BIGG, _s._ A particular species of barley, also denominated _bear_, S. Cumb. id. barley.
_Statist. Acc._
Isl. _bygg_, hordeum, Dan. _byg_, Su. G. _biugg_, id.
_To_ BIG, BYG, _v. a._ To build; S., Cumb., Westmorel., id.
_Wallace._
This word occurs in O. E. although not very frequently. A. S. _bycg-an_, Isl. _bygg-ia_, Su. G. _bygg-a_, aedificare, instruere, a frequentative from _bo_, id.; as it is customary with the Goths thus to augment monosyllables in _o_; as _sugg-a_ from _so_, a sow.
BIGGAR, _s._ A builder, one who carries on a building.
_Acts Marie._
BIGGING, BYGGYN, BYGGYNGE, _s._ A building; a house, properly of a larger size, as opposed to a cottage, S.
_Wallace._
_Biggin_, a building, Gl. Westmorel. Isl. _bigging_, structura.
BIGGIT, _part. pa._ Built.
This word is used in various senses, S.
_Biggit land_, land where there are houses or buildings, contrasted with one's situation in a solitude, or far from any shelter during a storm, S.
_Barbour._
_Weill biggit_, well-grown, lusty.
_Melvill's MS._
_A weill biggit body_ is one who has acquired a good deal of wealth, S. B.
BIGGIT, _pret._ Perhaps, inclined.
A. S. _byg-an_, flectere.
_King Hart._
BIGLY, BYGLY, _adj._ Commodious, or habitable.
_Bludy Serk._
From A. S. _big-an_, habitare, and _lic_, similis.
BIGHTSOM, _adj._ Implying an easy air, and, at the same time, activity, S. B.
_Morison._
Perhaps q. _buxom_, from A. S. _bocsum_ flexibilis; _byg-an_, to bend.
BIGONET, _s._ A linen cap or coif.
_Ramsay._
From the same origin with E. _biggin_, "a kind of coif, or linen-cap for a young child;" Phillips. Fr. _beguin_. id.
BYGANE, BIGANE, BYGONE, _adj._
1. Past; S. The latter is mentioned by Dr Johnson as "a Scotch word."
_Acts Ja. I._