_Batchelor._ _Bachelor_, an unmarried man, a knight, one who has taken
his first degree in a college.
_Bayard._ _Bayard_, a bay horse, a blood-horse; so called in Chaucer, and
in old romances. Byard, abbreviation of the term.
_Beauford._ _Beau_, beautiful; _ford_, a ford. A beautiful ford.
_Belfield._ _Bel_, beautiful; _feld_, a field. A beautiful field.
_Belford._ _Bel_, beautiful, good; _ford_, a ford. A good ford.
_Bellamy._ _Bel amy_, from _bel_, good, and _amy_, a friend. A good
friend.
_Bellenere._ _Belle_, beautiful; _nere_, a refuge. A beautiful refuge.
_Bokel._ _Bokel_, a buckle.
_Borell._ _Borel_, coarse cloth of a brown color, made of plain, coarse
stuff. Borel folk, borel men, were laymen.
_Bortel._ _Bordel_, a brothel.
_Bos._ _Bos_, a protuberance.
_Bosek._ _Bos_, a protuberance; _ig_, an adjective termination. Bossy.
Bose, Bosee, from the same roots.
_Boser._ _Bos_, a protuberance; _ere_, an agent. One who, or that which,
has a protuberance.
_Boshart._ _Bos_, a protuberance; _heort_, a hart. A humped hart.
_Bossard._ _Bosard_, a buzzard, a species of hawk unfit for sporting.
Bossart, Bossert, identical in derivation and meaning.
_Boswell._ Latin _bos_, an ox; _well_, a well, a fountain. An ox-well; a
well where oxen are watered.
_Bosworth._ _Bos_, an ox; _weordh_, value, price. Ox-value.
_Botler._ _Botel_, or _botelle_, a bottle; _ere_, an agent. A bottler.
Butler, from the same radix.
_Bottle._ _Botel_, or _botelle_, a bottle.
_Brear._ _Brere_, a briar, a bramble.
_Brearey._ _Brere_, a bramble; _ig_, an adjective termination. Briery;
brambly; full of briars; rough.
_Brearley._ _Brere_, a bramble; _líc_, like. Bramble-like; briery.
_Brinton._ _Brin_, a sprig, a slip; _tún_, a house, an enclosure. A
hot-bed; a green-house; a nursery.
_Buffett._ _Buffette_, a blow.
_Burdon._ _Burdoun_, a humming noise, the base in music.