Bacon. No. I.
Benes. I. alibi Beans. Chaucer, v. _bene_.
Bef. 6. MS. Ed. 17. Beef, Buf, Buff. MS. Ed. 27. 42, 43.
Buth. 6. 23. 30. alibi, been, are. Chaucer has _beth_.
Ben. MS. Ed. 4. 27. be. Chaucer v. _bein_ and _ben_.
Balles. 152. Balls or Pellets.
Blank Desire. 193, 194. bis. Lel. Coll. VI. p. 5. In No. 193, we meet
with _Blank desne_, but the Contents has _Desire_, which is right,
as appears from the sequel. In MS. Ed. 29. it is _Blank-Surry_, and
_Sury_, and _Sure_, and _de Sur_. II. 19. de Syry, 31. and here No.
37, it is Dessorre. and we have _Samon in Sorry_. Lel. Coll. VI. p.
17. Perches, ibid. Eels p. 28. 30. where it is a Potage. whence I
conceive it either means _de Surrey_, i. e. Syria, v. Chaucer. v.
_Surrey_. Or it may mean _to be desired_, as we have _Horsys of
Desyr_. Lel. Coll. IV. p. 272. See No. 63. and it is plainly written
_Desire_ in Godwin de Præsul. p. 697. In this case, the others are
all of them corruptions.
Blank Dessorre. v. Blank Desire.
Blank Desne. v. Blank Desire.
Berandyles. MS. Ed. 27.
Bred, Breed. MS. Ed. passim. Bread.
Bove. 167. Above. Chaucer. Belg. _Boven_.
Blode. 11. alibi. Blod. MS. Ed. 9. Blood.
Batour. 149. of eggs, 161. 179. Batur, 28. Batour. ibid. 19. Batter.
Boter. MS. Ed. 38. Butter.
Borage. 6.
Betes. 6. Beets. Fr. _Bete_.
Bursen. n. name of a dish. Bursews, No. 179, is a different dish.
Brek. MS. Ed. 6. 23. break, bruise.
Brest, breste. MS. Ed. 1. 14. burst.
Bukkennade. 17. a dish. Buknade, 118. where it means a mode of
dressing. vide MS. Ed. 45. 52.
Bryddes. 19. Briddes, 60. 62. Birds, per metathesin. Chaucer.
Brawn of Capons. 20. 84. Flesh. Braun. MS. Ed. 29. v. Chaucer, we now
say, _brawn of the arm_, meaning the flesh. Hence _brawn-fall'n_.
Old Plays, XI. p. 85. Lylie's Euphues, p. 94. 142. Chaucer. Brawn is
now appropriated to these rolls which are made of Brawn or Boar, but
it was not so anciently, since in No. 32 we have _Brawn of Swyne_,
which shews the word was common to other kinds of flesh as well as
that of the Boar; and therefore I cannot agree with Dr. Wallis in
deducing _Brawn _ from _Aprugna_.
Blank maunger. 36. 192. Chaucer writes _Blank manger_. Blomanger. MS.
Ed. 14. 33. 34. II. 7. N. B. a very different thing from what we make
now under that name, and see Holme, III. p. 81.
Bronchis. MS. Ed. 55. Branches.
Braan. MS. Ed. II. 10. Bran.
Bet. MS. Ed. II. 21. Beaten.
Broche. MS. Ed. 58. a Spit.
Brewet of Almony. 47. v. Almony. of Ayrenn, or eggs, 91. MS. Ed. 23.
Eles in Brewet, 110. where it seems to be composed of Bread and Wine.
Muskles in Brewet, 122. Hens in Bruet, MS. Ed. 7. Cold, 131. 134.
Bruet and Brewet are French _Brouet_, Pottage or Broth. Bruet riche,
Lel. Coll. IV. p. 226. _Beorwete_, p. 227, as I take it. _Blanche
Brewet de Alyngyn_, MS. Ed. 13. 23.
Boon. 55. Bone. Chaucer.
Brennyng. 67. 188. burning, per metathesin, from _bren_ or _brenne_,
used by Skelton, in the Invective against Wolsey, and many old
authors. Hence the disease called brenning or burning. Motte's
Abridgement of Phil. Trans. part IV. p. 245. Reid's Abridgement,
part III. p. 149. Wiclif has _brenne_ and _bryne_. Chaucer, v.
_bren_, _Brinne_, &c.
Blake. 68. Black. Chaucer.
Berst. 70. 181. 192. burst. Chaucer. A.S. [Anglo-Saxon: berstan].
Breth. 71. Air, Steam. MS. Ed. N° 2. hence _brether_, breather.
Wiclif.
Bronn. 74. brown. A.S. [Anglo-Saxon: brun].
Butter. 81. 91. 92. 160. Boter, MS. Ed. 38. and so _boutry_ is
Buttery. Lel. Coll. IV. p. 281. _Almonde Butter_. Lel. VI. p. 6.
Rabelais, IV. c. 60.
Bynethen. 92. under, beneath. Chaucer, bineth.
Bolas. 95. bullace. Chaucer.
Bifore. 102. before. Wiclif. Matth. xiv. Chaucer has _biforne_, and
byforne.
Brasey. a compound sauce, 107.
Ballac broth. 109.
Brymlent. Tart de Brymlent. 167. v. ad loc.
Bloms. 171. Flowers, Blossoms. Chaucer.
Bothom. 173. bottom, pronounced _bothom_ now in the north. Chaucer,
bottym, MS. Ed. 48.
Brode. 189. broad, v. abrode.
Bataiwyng. 189. embatteling. qu. if not misread for _bataillyng_. See
Chaucer, v. batailed.
Bord. MS. Ed. II. 27. board. Chaucer.
Breyt, breth. MS. Ed. 17. 58. Broth.
Blank Surry. MS. Ed. 29. II. 19. v. Blank Desire.
Bismeus. MS. Ed. 16.