bakstere (A.S.) 14, 47, _a woman who bakes_
bale (A.S.) 70, 209, 381, 371 (?), evil, mischief, punishment
+bale (A.S.) 490, _a bon-fire_ (_rogus_)
baleis (A.N.) 184, 229, _a rod_
baleisen (A.N.) 87, _to beat with a rod_
balled (A.S.) 436, _bald_. _balled reson_, 176, _a bald reason, a bare
argument_
ballok-knyf (A.S.) 302, _a knife hung from the girdle_
bannen, banne (A.N.) 18, 143, 167, 310, _to ban, curse, banish_. _pret. s._
banned, 173
banyer (A.N.) 321, _a banner-bearer, standard-bearer_
barn (A.S.) 353, _a child_
baselarde (A.N.) 61, 302, _a kind of large dagger, carried in the girdle_
batauntliche (A.N.) 286, _hastily_. Cotgrave gives the Fr. phrase, il
arriva tout batant, _he came very hastily_
baude (A.S.) _a bawd_
baudy (A.N.) 88, _dirty_, applied to garments. Thus in Chaucer, Cant. T. l
16102:--
His overest sloppe it is not worth a mite
As in effect to him, so mote I go.
It is al _baudy_ and to-tore also.
baw (A.S.) 210, 419, _an interjection of contempt_. Whitaker says that the
word is still used in Lancashire, and that "the verb means _alvum levare_"
bayard (A.N.) 72, a term for a horse. It means properly a _bay horse_
beau-peere (A.N.) 383, _a common title for a monk_. "Beau-pere, titre que
l'on donnoit aux religieux." _Roquef._
beche (A.S.) _a beech-tree_
bede, _pl._ bedes (A.S.) prayer. Our modern word _beads_ is derived from
this word, because it was by such articles, hung on a cord, that our
forefathers reckoned the number of their prayers
bedeman (A.S.) 45, _a person who prays for another_
+been (A.S.) 493, _bees_
beigh (A.S.) _pl._ beighes, _rings, bracelets, collars_
bekene (A.S.) 363, _a beacon_
+beldyng (A.S.) 483, _building_. belded, 483, _built_
+bellyche (A.N.) 461, _fairly_
bel-sire (A.N.) 168, _grandfather_, or rather, _an ancestor_
belwe (A.S.) 222, _to bellow_
ben (A.S.) _to be_. _pres. pl._ arn, aren _or_ ben, we beth, 391, ye aren,
301, they arn, 375. _subj. sing._ weere, 15, 19, 417, _pl._ were. what she
were, 19
bene (A.S.) _a bean_, +_pl._ benen (A.S.) 495, _beans_
+beneson (A.N.) 489, _blessing_
+beouten (A.S.) 489, _without_
beren, bere (A.S.) _to bear_. _pr. s._ he berth, 341. _pret. s._ bere, 54,
bar, 28, 109, _pl._ baren, 98. _part. pas._ born, y-bore, 377
bergh (A.S.) 112, _a hill, mount_
bern (A.S.) 416, _a barn_
best, beest, _pl._ beestes (A.N.) _a beast, animal_
bet (A.S.) 389, _better_
bete (A.S.) 375, _to beat_. _pret. s._ bette, 184, 436. _part. pas._ y-bet
bete (A.S.) 131, _to amend, heal, abate_. that myghtt not bete my bale (Sir
Amadas, l. 46), _that might not amend my misfortune_. bete his nede (Rom.
of Alexand. l. 5065, in Weber), _to satisfy his need_
bettre (A.S.) _better_
bi- _or_ be- is a very common prefix to words in our language derived from
the Anglo-Saxon, and has chiefly an intensative power, although it modifies
the meaning in various degrees. Many verbs are no longer known, except in
this compound form. Thus we have:--
bi-dravelen (A.S.) 88, _to slobber or slaver on anything_
bi-fallen (A.S.) _to befal, happen_. _pr. sing._ bifel
bi-yete (A.S.) _begetting, offspring_
bi-ginnen (A.S.) _to begin_. _pret. s._ bi-gonne, 106
bi-heste (A.S.) 50, _a behest, command_
bi-hest (A.S.) 432, _a promise_
bi-holden (A.S.) _to behold_. _pr. sing._ biheeld
+bi-hirnen (A.S.) 488 (?)
bi-hoten (A.S.) _to promise_. _pres. s._ bi-hote, 104. _pret. s._
bi-highte, 81, 345, 389. bi-hote God, 133, _an exclamation_
by-japen (A.S.) 386, 453, _to mock_
bi-kennen (A.S.) 31, 154, _to commit to_
bi-knowen (A.S.) 13, 45, _to know, recognize, acknowledge_. _pret. s._
bi-knewe, 404, _part. past_, bi-knowe, 370
bi-lien (A.S.) 174, bi-lye, 101, _to calumniate_. _part. past_,
bi-lowen, 29
bi-love (A.S.) 184, _false love_ (?)
bi-loven (A.S.) 130, _to make friends_ (?)
by-menen (A.S.) _to signify_. _pret. s._ by-mente, 370
by-molen (A.S.) 273, 274, _to spot, stain_
by-nymen (A.S.) _to take from_. _part. past_, by-nomen, 62
bi-quasshen (A.S.) 384, _to crush to pieces_
bi-reve (A.S.) 132, _to take from, bereave_
bi-rewe (A.S.) 242, _to rue_
bi-seken, bi-sechen, 18 (A.S.) _to beseech_. _pret._ bi-soughte. _part.
pas._ bi-sought
bi-semen (A.S.) _to appear_
bi-setten (A.S.) 93, 95, _to place, set_
bi-seggen (A.S.) _to reproach, insult_. _part. past_, bi-seye, 437
bi-sherewen (A.S.) 75, _to curse_
bi-shetten (A.S.) 40, _to shut up_. _part. past_, bi-shet, 405
bi-sitten (A.S.) 36, 195, _to beset_
+be-slomered, 476, _bedaubed_
bi-snewed (A.S.) 301, _snowed over, covered with snow_
bi-speren (A.S.) 303, _to lock up_
bi-swynken (A.S.) 323, _to labour hard_. _pret. pl._ bi-swonke, 442
bi-tiden (A.S.) _to happen to, betide_
bi-wicchen (A.S.) 405, _to bewitch_
bicche (A.N.) 98, _a bitch_
bidden, bidde (A.S.) _to pray, to ask, beg, to require, to order_. _pres.
s._ he bit, 308, 188. _pret. s._ bidde, bad, _pl._ beden, 372, 404. _part.
act._ biddynge. (if he) bede, 157
bidder (A.S.) _pl._ bidderes, _an asker, petitioner_
biden (A.S.) 387, 428, _to bide, wait_. _part. past_, boden
bienfait (A.N.) _a benefit_
bi-girdle (A.S.) 156, _a bag to hang at the girdle, a purse_
bi-hynde (A.S.) _behind_
bikere (A.S.) 429, _to skirmish, fight_
+bild (A.S.) 460, _a building_
bile (A.S.) _a bill_
bilyve (A.S.) 410, 425, _food_
bynden (A.S.) _to bind_. _pret. s._ bond, 352. _part. pas._ bounden
bisie (A.S.) _busy_
bismere, bismare (A.S.) 82, 413, _infamy, reproach, disgrace_
biten, bite (A.S.) 446, _to bite, urge_. _pres. s._ bitit, 225. _pret. s._
boot, 82
byte (A.S.) 381, _a morsel_, _bit_
bi-time (A.S.) _betimes_
bittre (A.S.) 393, _bitterly_
bi-yonde (A.S.) _beyond_: when used indefinitely it signifies _beyond sea_,
_ultra mare_
blancmanger (A.N.) 252, _a made dish for the table_. Receipts for cooking
it are given in most of the early tracts on cookery
bleden (A.S.) _to bleed_. _pret. s._ bledde, 402, 415
blenche (A.S.) 112, _to draw back_
blende (A.S.) 181, _to blind_. blent, _blinded_
+blenying (A.S.) 468, _blistering_
bleren (A.S.) _to blear, to make a person's sight dim, impose upon him_.
bler-eighed, 367, _blear-eyed_
blisse (A.S.) _joy, happiness_
blisful (A.S.) _joyful, full of happiness, blessed_
blody (A.S.) 129, 213, _by blood, of or in blood_
bloo (A.S.) _blue_
blosmen (A.S.) _to blossom_. _pret._ blosmede
blowen (A.S.) _to blow_. _pret. s._ blewe, _blew_. _part. past_, y-blowe,
360
blustren (A.N. ?) 108, _to wander or stray along without any particular
aim_
bochier (A.N.) _a butcher_
+bode ( ) 493 (?)
bolden (A.S.) _to encourage, embolden_
bole (A.S.) _a bull_
bolk (A.S.) 100, _a belching_
bolle (A.S.) 83, 99, _a bowl_
bollen, bolne (A.S.) _to swell_. _pres. s._ bolneth, 84
book, _pl._ bokes (A.S.) _a book_
boold (A.S.) 373, _bold_
boon (A.S.) _a bone_
boor (A.S.) _a boar_
boot (A.S.) _a boat_
boote (A.S.) 70, 139, 189, 209, 233, 266, _help, reparation, amendment,
restoration, remedy_
bootne (A.S.) _to restore, remedy_. _part. pas._ bootned, 128
boot-les (A.S.) 369, _without boots_
borde (A.S.) _table_. Hence the modern use of the word _board_ when we
speak of "_board and lodging_"
bord-lees (A.S.) 239, _without table_
borgh, 70, 143, 181, 346. borugh, 426, 439, _pl._ borwes, 19 (A.S.) _a
pledge, surety_. _s. in obj. case_, borwe, 285
borwen (A.S.) 71, _to give security, or a pledge to release a person or
thing, to bail, to borrow_. _pret. s._ borwed
bosarde (A.N.) 189, _a worthless or useless fellow_. It is properly the
name of a worthless species of hawk, which is unfit for sporting; and is
thus used in Chaucer's version of the Romance of the Rose, l. 4033:--
This have I herde ofte in saying,
That man ne maie for no daunting
Make a sperhawke of _a bosarde_.