Besyn. Well nigh whittled, almost drunke, somwhat ouer-*seene. (v.m.) Bete. Looke Bette. Betelle: f. A certaine Indian Sallate hearbe, that resembles the Gilliflower plant; or, bastard Pepper, called among th' Indians Betle, & Betre. Betoine: f. Betonie, Sarxiphagon (an hearbe.) Betoine coronnaire, ou de couronnes. The Cloue Gilliflower. Betoine sauvage, as Armoires; sweet Williams.
Beton: m. Beest; the first milke a female giues, after the birth of her young one.
Betosne. as Betoine. Betourne: com. Dizzie, or giddie in the head. (v.m.) Betrescher. To trim, tackle, make tight, a ship, &c; also, to decke, adorne, tricke vp; set, ranke, or dispose things orderly, or handsomely; (an old word.)
Bette: f. des bettes. The hearbe Beet, or Beets. Bette blanche. The common white Beet, or best kind of Beets. Bette estrangere. The Roman, or strange, red Beet. Bette noire. The blacke Beet, or worst kind of Beets; (Mathiolus & Dodoneus call the common red Beet Beta nigra.) Bette des prez. as Bette sauvage. Bette rouge. The common red Beet; also, as; Bette Romaine. The Roman, or strange, red Beet. Bette sauvage. Hearbe Pirola, Winter-green, wild Beets.
Bette-rave. A kind of delicate red Parsenip, which, boyled, yeelds a sweet vermillion sap.
Bettes. Beets, &c, (as before in Bette;) also, tipling, sipping, bowsing, quaffing; and hence; Entrer en bettes. To grow merrie, or mellow in drinking; or to fall a chattering, as gossips do when they haue drunke hard, together.
Beturre: f. A sinke-hole.
Beu: m. beuë: f. Drunke, bowsed, bibbed, tipled, swilled, quaffed; sucked vp; receiued, or soaked in. Apres beu dodo: Prov. After drinke rest.
Beuf: m. An Oxe, a Beefe; Beefe; Looke Bœuf. Beuffroy: m. A watch-tower, or high place fit for discouerie; See Beffroy. Beufle: m. A Bufle, Bugle, or wild Oxe. Prendre vn beufle par le museau: Pro. To performe a hard, or hazardous, exploit.
Beugler. as Bugler. Beur. moyne beur. A lubberly Monke; or in stead of Beuveur; a quaffing Monke.
Beuratte: f. A Churne.
Beurée. The name of a very tender, and delicat Peare.
Beurichon. A Wrenne.
Beuriere: f. A Churne; also, as Beurriere. Beurre: m. Butter. Bas de beurre. Buttermilke. Tour de beurre. One of the three famous towers of S. Maries church in Roan; built with the mony that was payed by those of that diocesse, for a dispensation to eat butter in Lent. Vn Seigneur de beurre combat bien vn vassal d'acier. A Prouerbe expressing the great oddes a lord hath of his tenant.
Beurrette: f. A Churne.
Beurreux: m. euse: f. Butterie; fattie; greasie; full of butter.
Beurrier: m. A butter man.
Beurrier: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to, butter.
Vn pot beurrier. A butter pot.
Beurriere: f. A butter woman.
Beuvailler. To drinke excessiuely, or very often; to swill, quaffe, tiple.
Beuvande: f. Small wine, household wine, seruants wine.
Beuvereau: m. A sipper; a small drunkard.
Beuverie. Excessiue drinking, swilling, quaffing, bowsing, trolling of the bowle.
Beuveron. A riuer in the Prouince of Solongne; called so, because in Summer it is all drunke vp by the earth; also, a drench, or mash for a horse.
Beuveter. To drinke, to sip, to sup.
Beuvette. See Buvette. Beuveur: m. A drinker, swiller, quaffer; a tosse-pot. Cela sent son beuveur d'eau. One may well discerne by that how strict, spare, or poore, a diet he keepes; or, that sauors of a poore, or starued, spirit. Prodigue, & grand beuveur de vin, n'a du sien ne four, ne moulin: Pro. The tipling vnthrift keepes nor myll, nor ouen.
Beuvoire de Venus. The fullers thistle, or tazle.
Beuvrage: m. Beuerage, drinke.
Bezanne. as Bazane. Bezant: m. An auncient coyne of gold; Looke Besant. Bezans. Besants, in Blason; (they must euer be round, whole, and of mettall.) Bezanté d'or. Bezanted Or; or, charged with Besants; a tearme of Blason. Bezarder. To dye. ¶ Barrag. Bezer. A Cow to run vp and downe, holding vp her taile, when the brizze doth sting her.
Bezet. Aller à Sainct Bezet. To trot, gad, runne, or wander vp and downe, like one that hath a brizze in his tayle.
Bezoard: m. A Beazar stone; (breeds in the maw of the Goat called, a Beazar.)
Bezoche: f. is, in some countries, the instrument of Husbandrie, tearmed in others, Hoyau. Looke Hoyau. Bezole: f. The name of a certaine fish, thats found (only) in the Lake of Geneva. Biains. as Bians (in Anjou.) Biais: m. Byas, compasse, a slope, or sloping. Biais passé. (So do workmen call) a gate, or dore made byas. Ie ne le prends pas de ce biais. I meane it not this way, I take it not in this manner. Il ne s'y print pas de bon biais. He went not the right way to worke; he tooke not a right course in the matter.
Biaisant: m. ante: f. Crooking, byasing, sloping, fetching a compasse.
Biaisément. Crookingly, obliquely, byas-wise, aslope, with a compasse.
Biaiser. To crooke, stand aslope, fetch a compasse, go awry, make about; or, as Bihayser. Biaiseure: f. Slopenesse, byasnesse, compasse, obliquenesse, or obliquitie.
Bians: m. Daies works both of men, and beasts, due vnto Landlords by all tenants (who are no gentlemen) within the Countie of Poictou. Biaque. Ceruse, or white lead, wherewith women paint.
Biarn: m. A white cloth of course wooll with interwouen streakes of blew, whereof the countrey people about Languedoc make cloakes.
Biaut. A kind of Brittish course garment, or iacket, worne loose ouer other apparrell.
Bibaille: f. A present, fayring, New-yeares gift.
Bibelots: m. Hucklebones; or, the play at hucklebones.
