Glossary of Latin Words.
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- basto : — a staff.
- bastonicum : — close custody.
- basum. Per basum tolnetum capere, to take toll by strike.
- batalia : — battle.
- batella, batellus : — a small boat.
- batellagium : — boat-hire.
- batellarius : — a boatman ; a bateller, the lowest order in Oriel College.
- batellatus : — embattled.
- batellus : — a boat. See batillus.
- bateria : — battery, beating.
- batilda : — toll for boats (?).
- batillayium : — carriage by boat ; boat-hire.
- batillare : — to send by boat.
- batillus : — a bat ; a beetle ; a clapper ; a boat.
- batitoria : — a fulling mill.
- batium. See barium.
- bativa, batura : — battery.
- batleuga. See banleuga.
- batus : — a boat ; a measure, 12½ gallons ; a peck ; a vessel used in feeding horses ; a bat.
- baubare : — to bark ; to bay.
- baubella : — jewels.
- bauca : — a bason.
- baucaria : — a tapster.
- baudekinum. See baldekinum.
- bausanus : — a badger, a bawson.
- bausia, bosia : — treason, felony.
- bausiare, bosiare : — to rebel.
- bauzanus: — piebald. (Fr. baugant, bauzant.)
- baya. See baia.
- bazantius. See bisantius.
- bazeyna : — basil, prepared leather.
- bechare : — to dig ; to use a pick-axe.
- becnus : — some sort of fish.
- beconagium : — contribution for the maintenance of beacons.
- bedelaria : — the office of beadle, or district to which his office extends ; bedellary.
- bedellus : — a beadle, or bedell.
- bederipa. See bedrepium.
- bedrepium : — bedripe, harvest work done by tenants as a customary service ; it sometimes means a definite amount, perhaps a day's work.
- bedripus. See bedrepium.
- bedum : — the portion of a mill-stream which turns the wheel and is boarded up to increase the force of water.
- belfredus : — a belfry.
- belgiga : — a car, a chariot.
- bellicrepa : — a master.
- belligerare : — to make war.
- bellum : — a battle; used, as the English word is, to denote a portion of an army ; a judicial combat, duel.
- benda : — a band, either metal or stuff ; a bar ; a bend (heraldic).
- beneificare : — to confer a benefice on ; to enfeoff.
- beneficium : — a benefice, an ecclesiastical living or promotion.
