_Backbran' (brand)_, _Backbron' (brond)_, A big brand or block of wood
put on the back of the fire.
_Ballywrag_, scold.
_Bandy_, a long stick with a bent end to beat abroad cow-dung.
_Barken_, _Barton_, a stack-yard or cow yard.
_Bavèn_, a faggot of long brushwood.
_Beä'nhan'_ (1, 3, 5), bear in hand, uphold or maintain, as an opinion
or otherwise.
_Beät_ (1, 4), _up_, to beat one's way up.
_Bennets_, flower-stalks of grass.
_Be'th_, birth.
_Bibber_, to shake with cold.
[This is a Friesic and not an Anglo-Saxon form of the word, and
Halbertsma, in his "Lexicon Frisicum," gives it, among others,
as a token that Frisians came into Wessex with the Saxons.
_See_ Eltrot.]
_Bissen_, thou bist not.
_Bittle_, a beetle.
_Blatch_, black stuff; smut.
_Blather_, a bladder.
_Bleäre_ (1, 3), to low as a cow.
_Blind-buck o' Davy_, blindman's buff.
_Bloodywarrior_, the ruddy Stock gilliflower.
_Blooèns_, blossoms.
_Blooth_, blossom in the main.
_Bluevinny_, blue mouldy.
_Brack_, a breach. "Neither brack nor crack in it."
_Bran'_, a brand.
_Brantèn_, brazen-faced.
_Bring-gwaïn_ (Bring-going), to bring one on his way.
_Brocks_, broken pieces (as of food).
_Bron'_, a brand.
_Bruckly_, _Bruckle_, brittle.
_Bundle_, to bound off; go away quickly.
_Bu'st_, burst.