Bergerie: f. A sheepe-fold; sheepe-coat, or sheepe-house; also, the skill, or trade, of keeping, feeding, and grasing of sheepe.
Bergerolle: f. A young shepheardesse.
Bergeronnette: f. The little bird called a Wagtaile; also, a young, or little, shepheardesse.
Bergerotte. as Bergerolle. A young shepheardesse.
Bergier. as Berger. Bergiere: f. A shepheardesse.
Berichot. as Berchot. A Wren.
Bericles. Corruptly for Besycles. A pair of spectacles. ¶Rab. Beril. as Berille. Berille: m. A Berill; a six-square precious stone, of an oylie, or sea-greene, colour.
Berlaffe: f. A slash, gash, deepe cut, great wound.
Berlaffé: m. ée: f. Slashed, gashed, wounded extreamely.
Berlaffer. To slash, gash, wound extreamely.
Berlan: m. A common tipling house; a house of gaming, or of any other disorder. Compaignons du berlan. Pot-companions, ale-knights; disordered vnthrifts; a knot of idle, and gracelesse fellowes, that, ouer a pot, vse to censure, and deride all Estates.
Berlandier. An ordinarie haunter of dicing, or tipling houses; also, the keeper, or owner, of one of them.
Berle: f. The great water Parsenip, great water Parsely, or salade Parsely; called also, Belders, and Bell-rags.
Berlin. as Berdin. Berlingasse: f. A peece of coyne worth about vj. d. sterling.
Berlingue. as Berlingasse. Berlong. as Barlong. Berluë: f. The being sand-blind, or purblind; dulnesse, or dimnesse of sight.
Berlué. Purblinded, made sand-blind.
Berluement: m. Purblindnesse; or, as Berluë. Berluquer. To trifle out the time (a word sometimes vsed at Play.)
Bernadet: m. A kind of small-headed, great-eyed, wide-mouthed, rough and thick-skinned, dog-fish.
Bernage: m. The carriage, prouision, household-stuffe, equipage, furniture, traine, followers of a princes court, or campe; also, the necessarie carriage, baggage, or luggage belonging to an armie, or any other companie; also, noblenesse, courtesie, gallantnes of humor, open-heartednesse; also, Meslin, or seuerall sorts of corne mingled; whence; Bled bernage; Looke Bled. Bernagoë: f. A Carpenters Wimble, or Dible.
Bernaque. The foule called a Barnacle.
Bernard. A proper name; Bernard; also, a light-braind, or shittle-headed fellow. Bernard l'hermite. A kind of small, and (of it selfe) naked Crabfish, or Crayfish; as Branchuë. Passer par l'arc S. Bernard. To beray himselfe.
Berne: f. A Siue, or Vanne; also, a great kettle; also, a kind of Moorish garment, or such a mantle as Irish gentlewomen weare.
Berné: m. ée: f. Vanned, or winnowed, as corne; also, canuassed, or tossed in a Siue; also, mocked, flouted, ridden, abused, ieasted at. Il a esté berné. He hath beene soundly tossed, throughly canuassed; (a phrase most commonly applied to an ignorant, or dull-headed fellow, that hath prouoked a learned penne, or tongue, to fall aboord him.)
Berner. To vanne, or winnow corne; also, to canuasse, or
tosse in a siue; (a punishment inflicted on such as commit grosse absurdities;) also, to flout, mocke, deride, ride, abuse, ieast, scoffe at.
Bernie: f. Rug; also, a mantle thereof.
Berretin: m. A little cap, or bonnet.
Berröette: f. A Wheelebarrow.
Bers. as Ber (vieil mot) or, as Berceau; ¶Vandom. Bers de chariot. The sides, rackes, or rayles of a chariot, or waggon.
Bersaut: m. A Quintaine, or Whintaine, for countrey youths to run at.
Bersé. Rocked in a cradle; Seeke Bercé. Il l'a si longuement bersé qu'il l'a endormy en son opinion. He hath by his faire words, and long persuasions, layed asleepe his iudgement, and woon him to be of his opinion.
Berseau. A little cradle; or as Berceau. Berser. To rocke, in a cradle; to shog, or swing vp and downe. La teste luy berse en gondolle. His head totters like a boat in a storme.
Bertaudé: m. ée: f. Curtalled; also, notched, or cut vneuenly.
Bertauder. To curtall a horse; to cut off his eares and taile; also, to notch, or cut the haire vneuenly.
Berthe: f. The name of a French queene, which was an excellent housewife; whence the Prouerbe, Au temps passé Berthe filoit. The greatest women did in old time spin.
Bertonneau. A Bret, or Turbot. ¶Norm. Bertouder, or Bertourder. as Bertauder. Bertouser. The same.
Bertrand: m. Bertrand (a proper name for a man.) Os Bertrand. The share-bone; or, the coniunction of the great bones which flanke the sides, and whereunto the thigh-bones are fastened. Roy Bertrand. The (little) Wren. Deschausser Bertrand. To be drunke, mellow, cup-*shotten; to whip the cat, shoo the goose, or see the deuill. Qui aime Bertrand aime son chien: Pro. Loue me, loue my dog.
Beryl. as Beril. Besace: f. A wallet, scrip, satchell, bag, pouch, or poake. Mettre à la besace. To beggar, impouerish, vndoe, ouerthrow the estate or fortunes of, turne out of house and harbour. Qui plus despend qu'il ne pourchasse il ne luy faut pas de besace: Prov. (Although the vnthrift needs no pocket, yet may he, in good time, carrie a wallet.)
Besacier: m. The bag-bearer, or wallet-bearer of a begging, or beggarly companie.
Besaguë: f. A (double-tounged) mattocke.
Besanner. To giue leather a graine, in dressing; or to dresse a sheepes skin like Spanish leather; also, as Bazaner. Besant: m. A Besant; an auncient peece of golden coyne (worth fiftie pounds Tourn.) thirteene whereof the French kings were accustomed to offer at the Masse of their Consecration in Rheims; to which end Henry the second (after some discontinuance of that custome) caused the same number of them to be made, and called them Bysantins; but they were not worth aboue a double duckat the peece.
Besas. Aumes-ace, on the dice.
Besch: m. A Southwest wind. ¶Rab.
Beschage: m. An opening, or digging vp, of the ground (with a Besche.)
