ben, royal ben, I, 478 f.,12,46: (emended frombend) bone. Seeroelle-bone.benbow, III, 54,6; 104,5; 132,5; bend bow, III, 7,4; 8,25; 11,6; bende bowe, III, 309,44; bent bow, III, 8G2; 106,16,17: bow, simply, the bow being in actual use only in III, 11, 54, 104 (?), 106,16, 309.bend, III, 145,5: where the way turned (?).bend, III, 362,71:pret.of bend. So II, 125,G6:pret.of bend (should not have been changed to bent, p. 122).bended, IV, 78,1: bounded.benjed, II, 403,2; beenged, bynged, made humble obeisance, cringed.bent the way, IV, 442,13: took her course over.bent, sword bent in the middle clear, middle brown, IV, 12,11,12: nonsense, or close upon nonsense.bent, I, 3,1; 5,D1: a coarse, reedy grass.bent,bents, II, 58,16,18; 62,11; 172,24,25,27,35,43; III, 295,5; 296,20; 297,40; 307,5,8; 308,26; 312,28; IV, 86,3: field, fields covered with bent grass.benty ground, atween the brown and benty ground, IV, 27,12: between heather and bent ground.benty line, III, 7,5: line of bent grass.ber,pret.of bear.berafrynd, V,71b: a drinking word, in response to passilodion.bere, V,264a,2: bigg, a sort of coarser barley (Hordeum hexastichum, notH. vulgareordistichum).berl, V,224,26: birl, dispense.bern,barn,bairn, IV, 456,7-9,12; V,247,11: (A. S. bearn) child.berne, III, 295,5: (A. S. beorn, fighting man, brave, etc.) man.berry, brown berry comb, II, 224,1: the material of this comb is elsewhere said to be haw bayberry; all the passages describing it are corrupt.beryde, I, 326,2: made a bere, noise.bescro, III, 110,26; V,80,49: beshrew, curse.bese, I, 329,58: shalt be.beside,besids, III, 357,38,41,43,45-7: aside from, away from.beside, in addition to, four and thirty stripes comen beside the rood, II, 59,29: referring to the scourging before the crucifixion.besom, hid herself in the besom of the broom, I, 398,9: besom seems to be twigs (asscopaeis both twigs and broom). Wedgwood cites from a Dutch dictionary of 1654, brem-bessen, broom-twigs, scopae spartiae.bespeak:pret.bespa(c)ke, III, 420,26,30,35; 430,9; 431,19,23; bespoke, V,149,8-11; bespake him, I, 286,52-5; III, 419 f.,6,13,22,24: spake.bespeek, IV, 498,1,3,9: speak with.bespoke, V,149,10, well-bespoke: well-spoken.bestand, III, 105,23: help, avail.bested,bestead, circumstanced. ferre and frembde bested, III, 63,138: in the position of one from a distance and a stranger. hard bestead, III, 161,36.bestial, IV, 41, note *: all the animals of a farm.best man, IV, 342,4: principal servant.bet, II, 151,H4: booted.betaken, II, 59,38: made over.bete,beet, III, 310,68: better, second, relieve. Seebeet.beth,both, III, 59,53,54; 79,54: be, old plural.bether, V,283,8: better.Bethine, II, 4,12, for rhyme: if meant for anything, Bethany is meant, however inappropriate.betide, II, 411 a, last line but two: nearest that ever fall to one, an unlikely phrase. Motherwell reads whateer betide.betide, I, 503 b,4, what news do ye betide? i.e. what do you (does your coming) signify? or, as at I, 205,F10(doth thee betide), what news has befallen you, come to your knowledge?betide, boots of the tangle (sea-weed) that nothing can betide, V,259a,11: should read to the effect, That’s brought in by the tide.betook, I, 126,6: took (simply).bets,pl., V,257,10: boots.bett, II, 44,14,pret.of bete, beet: kindled.better.she stood, and better she stood (printed bitter), I, 492,5; they rode, and better they rode, I, 102,10; 492,10,14; he rade and better rade, II, 209,D5: longer, farther still. better swam, V,140,e7. better be, I, 128,13: still more.beuk, book.bewch, III, 91 b: bough.bewrailed, V,55,38: berailed.bewray, V,86,35: reveal.beyt, V,79,25: beeth, be.bickering, IV, 7,34: (hail) pattering.bide,byde, I, 430,4,5,8,9; II, 177,14; 289,A2; 313,14; III, 465,30; V,108,B8: stay.p. p.bidden, IV, 262 f.,32,33; 524,9. bide (a doulfou day), II, 159,23: await, look for. bide anither bode, III, 268,12; 270,12: wait for another offer. I never bade a better bode, III, 267,15. your wedding to bide, III, 387,11: await. bide it whoso may, IV, 433,21: await the result? (obscure passage). bide frae me, V,236,16: stay away. In: she bade the bride gae in, II, 195,30, it is not likely that a rival would bid a bride; interpret rather, she waited for the bride to go.bidene,bydene,bydeene, I, 105 a,20: immediately (or, all together). I, 273,34: successively, one after another. III, 65,185: together. III, 73,350: simultaneously, oren masse.biek,beek, IV, 77,3: bask. Seebeek.bier, III, 161,32; V,161,1;162,D1: cry, lamentation.bierly,beerly(bride), I, 467,29; II, 75,19; 132,24; the same as buirdly bride, II, 82,51: portly, stately (large and well made). Seebuirdly.big,bigg, I, 15,13; 17,16; 108,1; II, 330,1; 331,1; 332,1: build.pret.andp. p.biggit, bigget, IV, 202,K5; 203,13.pret.bug, IV, 199,17.p. p.buggin, bugn, IV, 445,1; 446,1. build a stack for corn, I, 17,12; 428,11; V,206a,8.bigane, I, 334,5: covered, wrought.biggeall, beguile.bigging,biggin, II, 115,23,24; 117,10,11; 123,25,26; 255,11,12; 257,19,20; IV, 128,2-4: building, house, “properly of a large size, as opposed to a cottage.”bigly(Icelandic, byggiligr, habitable), commodious, pleasant to live in, I, 68,32; 107,1,3; II, 98,30-32,35,36; 172 f.,40,42,45; 294,4,5; 370,6; 417,3; 419,45: frequent epithet of bower. II, 358,26, of a bier: handsomely wrought.bile,v., V,305a,6: boil.bill, V,15,16,18: a paper. bills, IV, 422,45,46: (the necessary legal) papers. sworne into my bill, III, 411,5: sworn in writing.bill, I, 302,B12; 303,10; IV, 331 b,2: bull.billaments,I, 433,17: habiliments, of head-gear.billie,billy, comrade, brother; “a term expressive of affection and familiarity:” I, 448,A2,4; III, 464,2,5,6,19; 467,56; 489,11; V,128,29. born billy, III, 495 b,23,24. Seebully.Billie Blin,Bellie Blind, I, 73,35,44; 86,29; 466 f.,14,23; II, 464,15,16; 470,60-63; 472,31; V,239,39: see I, 67; V,285b.belly-blind, II, 464,15,16: may mean here nothing more than an innocent warlock or wizard.billy-pot, I, 164,L6: pot with a semicircular handle (bail)?binë, be not: V,238,18.binge, IV, 462,30: bend.binkes, I, 334,9: benches.binna, be not.bint, V,110,12: bind, pay for.bird(burd), I, 76,50,51; II, 314,29,30;C10; 316,12; IV, 422,2,5,10: maid, lady. bird her lane, II, 313,12,19: maid by herself, solitary. II, 272,5: child, boy.birk.he was standing on the birk, II, 165,13, seems to be nonsense. There is no birk to stand on unless the floor is birken, and nothing could be more inept than a reference to that matter.birlin, II, 28,1: drinking. Seebirl.birl,berl, II, 28,1; 92,17; 219,6; IV, 154,9; 166,1; 234,35; 385,1: drink. II, 152,J3; 299,16; 368,7: ply with drink. birled in him, II, 144,3,4: poured into. Of dispensing both bread and wine: II, 191,34,35; V,224,26. birled wi them, IV, 438,8: should apparently be birled them wi.ptc., birlin, II, 28,1.birnande, burning.birtled, I, 273,42: cut up.bisette, I, 334,8: devote (to the matter a space greater by two miles).bit(used with a noun instead of a diminutive), wee bit banes, I, 225,L7: bits of.bit, but. bit an(d), II, 30,4; 132,26: and also.bitaihte, I, 244,11: committed to.bitten, V,130,13: taken in, cheated.bla, III, 350,53,54: blow.blabring, V,247,9: babbling. Seeblobberin.bla’d, II, 21,6: bla it, blow it.blaewort, IV, 212,6: corn bluebottle, round-leaved bell-flower, bluebell of Scotland.blaise,blaisse, IV, 503,19; 505,49: display, show forth, display itself.blan,blane,blanne, II, 53,29; 140,23; 265,9; III, 309,41; 405,13; 406,38; 466,40:pret.of blin, stop, cease.blast, V,82,39: puff, breathe hard.blate, II, 260,2; III, 160,10; 163,85: dumfoundered, abashed, silly. spake blate, II, 470,47,50: bashfully, diffidently.blavers, V,213,14: corn bluebottle (blaewort).blaw, I, 15,B2; 16C2: blow.pret.blow, III, 112,65.p. p.blawin, I, 17,D1; blawn, I, 15,B1; 16,C1,2.pres. p.blawn (blawing), II, 114,20.blee, I, 272,13,20,24; 293,1; II, 364,26; 442,1,2: color, complexion.bleed, blood.bleed, I, 441,5,7,pret.of bleed: bled.bleeze, III, 457,B4: blaze.blewe, I, 326,7: blew on a horn (see st.10).blin, blind.blin,blyn,blinne, II, 138,3; V,14f.,2,20: (belin) cease, stop.pret.blan. Seeblan.blind,blint, II, 345,26; 382,6; IV, 265,A b8; 486,10: blinded.blink,n., IV, 136,17; 360,15; 384,3,4; look, glance. IV, 390,7, of the moon: gleam. IV, 389 b: (of time) moment.blink, to look: II, 433,6; IV, 127,14; 351,7; 353,18; 416,2; V,53,107;54,3;154,A11: glance, emit, throw a glance. III, 371,27; IV, 256 f.,1,10: shine, glitter. blinkin ee, IV, 194, (4,)5; 201,25; 203,5; 211,9: shining, twinkling. wha is this that blinks in Willie’s ee? II, 189,25: sends brightness into, whose brightness is reflected from. nor ever did he blink his ee (at the gallows), IV, 12,B8: wink, shut, blench, his look was steadfast. cam blinkin on an ee, II, 475,17: winking as if blind, playing the blind.blint, II, 17 b; IV, 515,12: blinded. Seeblind.bliss: bless.blobberin, II, 256,13: perhaps, blubbering, crying; perhaps==blabring. V,247,9: babbling.block, II, 216,16: exchange. IV, 148,54: bargain; lost the better block, had the worse in a bargain or dealing.blood,blude, II, 114,16; 123,13: man (disrespectfully), fellow.blow,pret., blew.blowe, II, 478,8: blossom.blowe(wynde), II, 478,12: give vent to.blowe(boste), III, 59,59: give breath to, utter.blude,bluid, blood. Seeblood.bluid is gude, IV, 433,21: good to dream of.bluntest, III, 492,25: stupidest.blutter, III, 161,43: dirty.blyue,belyfe,beliue, III, 29,144; 71,300; 74,371: quickly, immediately.boad,n., V,243,11: offer.boams, fire-boams (not beams), IV, 96,D3: bombs.board-floor, II, 160,5,6: should probably be bower-floor, as in 159,6,9; 161,6,8.bocht: bought.bocking, III, 161,33: vomiting, belching.boddom, bottom.bode,n., offer: III, 267,15; 268,12; 270,12; 272,14.bodë,p. p., III, 67,222: bidden, invited.bodes, wild fowl bodes on hill, II, 410,7: announces day. Cf. II, 230,5, the wild fule boded day.bode-words, III, 4,19: messages.body:faith, faikine, of my body, III, 180,17; 199,24; 216,33; 296,16; 472,7; truth of my body, III, 180,B,7; 181,15,16,21; IV, 7,31: either by my personal faith, or, by my body. faith in my body, III, 411,6.body-clothes; IV, 152,7: clothes of my body.bold,bauld(of fire), II, 116,18; 117,12; 119,5,6; 123,18,27: sharp, brisk.boldly(understand), IV, 146,19: freely, confidently, fully (verbiage).bokin, bodkin.bolts, IV, 409,1: rods, bars (to make a petticoat stand out).bon,bone,boune, on the way, going. Seeboun.bone, boon.bone, sadle of the bone, V,219,13. Seebane,roelle-bone.bonins, by, V,253a,4: in plenty (Gypsy cant).bonnetie, V,306,2,3:dimin.of bonnet.booting, III, 159,1: making of boot or booty.boot,v., IV, 501,26: matter. Seebote.bord,borde,bowrd, V,78,1; 80,48,49: jest, sport, amusement, comic tale.bord, II, 450,80; 451,84: should perhaps bebore, as in 445,77. Still, carried him out of the saddle by the impact of the spear which bored him through is not unlikely, and we have, p. 454,55, out of his saddle bore him he did.borden,adj., IV, 506,73: of plank; borden tree, wooden plank.born alive, ye were, IV, 521,19;A, IV, 26,16, has ‘That I love best that’s born alive,’ i.e. of all that are born. The ye should be yt, that, and probably was so meant.borough-town,borrow’s toun,borrous-toun, etc. Seeborrows-town,burrow-town.borowe,borrow,n.III, 59,62-64,66; 68,237,250: security. III, 405,9: sponsor, vindicator.borowe,borrow,v., I, 309,A3; II, 177,27; III, 25,50; 298,69; 329,6; IV, 33,15-18,20,21: set free, deliver, ransom.borowehode, III, 68,239: securityship.borrows-town,borrous-toun, IV, 229,1; V,117,A6,7;126,1: borough-town, borough, corporate town. Seeborough(burrow)-town.boskyd, III, 112,60: busked, made ready. Seebusk.bot, but. bot and: seebut and.bot, without. Seebut.bot, II, 94,3: behoved.bote,boote,boot, II, 45,30,34; III, 27,104; 94,55; 187,33: help, use, advantage, (boot,v., IV, 501,26: matter.)both,beth, III, 59,53,54; 79,54: be (old plural).bottle(of hay), V,114,4: bundle.bottle.be my bottle, V,170,1: hold my own, bear my full part, in drinking? Corrupt?bottys, butts.boud, V,176,17: behoved, were obliged.bouerie, II, 232,1: diminutive of bower, chamber.bought==bucht, IV, 198,1; 199,17,23: fold, pen.bouk,buik,buke, II, 149,14; IV, 127,14; 484 a: trunk, body.boun,bowne,bune,bound,bownd,bowynd,v., make ready, go. buske yee, bowne yee, III, 91,5; 431,25: make ready. boun, bound, I, 369,44; IV, 183,2; V,256,5: go. make ye boun, I, 75,18: go. must bound home, V,9,4. get up and bound your way, II, 405,9: go, come. bownd away, III, 161,30; bowynd hym to ryde, III, 295,1; bounded for to ride, II, 118,7: set out, went. bound him to his brand, III, 160,23: went, betook himself. was boon, boun, bound, II, 298,5; IV, 432,2; V,256a,4: going, on the way. how she is bune, II, 191,30: going on. go boun away, IV, 224,15,16(tautology): go, depart.boun,bon,bowne,bowen,bowyn,bun,adj.(búinn,p. p.of Icelandic búa, to make ready): bound, ready. made him boun, III, 163,76. to batell were not bowyn, III, 295,4. make ye bowne, I, 75,18,22; III, 296,28. bun to bed, bon to rest, II, 191,26; V,35,B3. made him boun, bound, III, 163,76; V,81,2: equipped himself. your friends beene bowne, I, 210,14: ready to come. ready boun (tautology), IV, 432,5. Seeboun,v.boun, V,300,6: boon.bounties, V,231,14: presents, in addition to wages.bountieth, V,9,12: bounty, alms.bourde,v., III, 179 b: jest.bourden, III, 179 b: staff.bourn, III, 470 a: brook.boustouslie,bousterously,boustresslie,boustrouslie: I, 108,13; IV, 446,13; 447,13; 465,19,35: boisterously, roughly.bout, II, 27,18: bolt.bouted, I, 68,4; 70,4: bolted.bow, bough.bow, lintseed bow, I, 305,14: the boll or pod containing the seeds of flax.bow, II, 28,16: boll, a dry measure; of salt, two bushels; “for wheat and beans, four Winchester bushels; for oats, etc., six bushels.” Scottish, four firlots (see firlot). bow o bere, V,264a: boll of barley.bower, chamber: I, 65,A1; 68,25,32; 73,47; etc., etc. bouerie, II, 232,1: diminutive of the same.bower, house, home: I, 56,3; 79,3; 80,1; 107,1; etc., etc. Often indistinguishable from the above.bower-head, II, 76,11: top of the house. (Unless the reading should be tower-head; cf. II, 74,D5; 78,I14, but we have an upmost ha, highest room, II, 72,C14.)bower-yett, house-gate.bowie, V,306,15: a kind of tub.bown, V,273, No 239,4: bowed, bent.bowne,bownd,bowyn. Seeboun.bowrd, I, 264: comic tale. Seebord.bows(o London), I, 131,H1: arches of a bridge? windings of the river?box, V,19,18: a compartment partitioned off in a drinking-room.boyt, III, 109,3: both.bra,braw, I, 128,19; V,268,25;272,3,7,11: brave, fine, handsome. Seebraw.bracken,braken,brachan,breckin,breaken,breckan,brecken,breachan, IV, 257,B7; 268,21; 269,d19,f19; 272,11,3; 501,28,31,37; V,244,16,19,20; 265 b,19: fern, brake.brae,bra,bray, hillside, hill: I, 324,14; IV, 92,1; 264,15; 274,8; 448a, 3d st. braes o Yarrow, IV, 164 f.,1-9,B3-5: the equivalent word is sometimes, banks, pp. 168, 169, 170, 178; otherwise houms, p. 168, but downs, p. 166 f., and the topography seems to indicate hills. “Conjoined with a name, it denotes the upper part of a country, as the Braes of Angus.” Jamieson.brae, river-bank: III, 484a,32; burn-brae, IV, 275,C b8. Cholar foord brae-head, III, 482,21?brae, brow: III, 4,17.braid, IV, 399,28: breadth. Seebreed.Adj., broad.braid(broad)letter, II, 20,3; 25,3; 26,3; 27,3; 251,2; 393,4; IV, 118,C1; 119,D1; 120,1; 373,2; 382,3: either a letter on a broad sheet or a long letter. The king’s letter, II, 21,3; 23,E3; 24,3, is lang, and at 22,3, is large. A braid letter has been interpreted to be an open one, a patent, but in almost every case here cited the letter is said to be sealed. The letter at II, 251,2, is private and confidential, written by a lady. Private folk write broad letters, IV, 320,1; 339,13; 342,17; 343,7; a lady again, II, 382,5; 395,18; IV, 233,20; 342,6; 343,2.brain, II, 124,39; 130,28; 131,20; 133,9; 169,25; 407,10; III, 274,33: mad.brake,break, V,166,8;306,7: cause to break off, correct, cure.braken, III, 299,12,14; 300,25,26: fern. Seebracken.braken, I, 350,17:p. p.of break.bramly, III, 9,13: brambly, thorny.branded(bull), III, 459,7: of a reddish brown color.brank,n., III, 440,10: caper, prance, gallop.branken,branking, III, 299,4; 301,D1: galloping.branks, III, 480,9: a sort of bridle; a halter with two pieces of wood, instead of a leathern strap or a cord, over the nose, the whole resembling a muzzle.brash, sickness: II, 364,20; IV, 483,16.brast, I, 370,14,18; V,76,26;80,45;82,40: burst, broke, broken.brauches, I, 271,2: brooches. But perhapsbranches, the clothes embroidered with rings and sprigs.braw, I, 491,1,2, etc.; II, 80,3-7: comely. I, 127,21; 467,29; II, 23,E5: fine, handsome, finely dressed. I, 184,11; V,210,11: (of a meeting) pleasant. Seebraandbraws. braw wallie, IV, 296,F1: exclamation of admiration.brawn, IV, 212,5: calf of the leg.braws, IV, 269, f,19: fine things, finery.bray,brae, hillside, hill.brayd on, V,198b, after52: move on, fall on.brayde,breyde, at a brayde, III, 26,91; of a, III, 32,91: in a moment, of a sudden.breachan.Seebracken.bread,breed,bred, III, 339,13,16; 341,42: breadth.bread, broad.breaden, I, 433,9: braided (here, perhaps, woven).break,brake, V,166,8;306,7: cause to break off, correct, cure.break, till five minutes break, II, 325,19,20: expire.breaken.Seebracken.breast.smoothd his breist and swam, II, 248,9,15: made it even, level with the water. set her, his brest and swom, II, 459,8; V,137,5,9. bent his breast and swam, V,138,C3,5;141b,6,9;142a,4. lay on his brest and swumme, II, 247,14.breast, in a, IV, 11,12,13: in one voice (all at once, p. 13,4). in a breast, Scottish, sometimes=abreast, side by side.breast,v., II, 299,22, breast a steed: mount, by bringing the breast to it.breast-mills, II, 403,15: mills operated by a breast-wheel.breastplate, II, 380,15; 383,14; 385,4, etc.; IV, 486,6, etc.: some part of a woman’s attire, said here to be of steel instead of gold. Possibly a stomacher. “Curet, breastplate, or stomager.” Huloet, 1552. “Torace, also a placket, a stomacher, or brest plate for the body.” Florio. At II, 381,10, we havebracelets, which would be a plausible emendation forbreastplate, did not the latter occur quite a dozen times.breast-wine, II, 338,T7: milk (Irish ballad).breathed, II, 47, unto,21, on,22: does not seem to be the right word. Possiblybreved, gave information to (but the word is antique for the text, andonin22would not suit).brecham, III, 480,9: 492,4; brechen, III, 491,6: a straw collar for a horse, also a pack-saddle made of straw, so more probably here, carts not being used.brechan,brichan, IV, 157,7,12,14,18,19: (Gael. breacan) plaid.brechen.Seebrecham.breckan,-en,-in. Seebracken.bred,brede, V,283,8,18: bread.bred,bread,breed, III, 347,c44,g38: breadth.brede, I, 242,7: to have the whims attributed to breeding women? (Not satisfactory, as not being sufficiently simple. Prof. Kittredge has suggested to me gynnyst to wede, to go mad; which seems to me quite worth considering. The rhyme with the same sound in a different sense, is entirely allowable.)bree,brie, I, 129,14; 341,3,8,17; 417,13; III, 11,K; V,191f.,3,18,31: brow, eyebrow.bree,broth. Seebroo.breed,bread,bred,braid, III, 349,38; IV, 503,13,16; 505,45: breadth.breek-thigh, III, 464,15: thigh of his breeches.breeme, III, 285,19: fierce.breist.Seebreast.bren,brene,brenne,brin, II, 45,24; 59,32; III, 24,29,35; 361,b,c,28: burn.p. p.brent, II, 44,3,14; 46,47.brent(brow), II, 191,25; IV, 272,2; 387,1: high and straight. Also, smooth, unwrinkled.brents, I, 74,76,78: door-posts, or doors. (Icelandic brandar, postes, Egilsson; ships’ beaks used as ornaments over the chief door of dwellings, Vigfusson.)brest.Seebreast.brest, burst.brether, brothers, brethren, I, 104,10; III, 478,15. bretheren, III, 26,74; 478,14. brethern, bretherne, II, 73,17; 160,3,9; III, 57,27; 67,217. brothren, III, 29,148. brethen, III, 22,4,6; 23,10; V,135b,19.bretther o degs, with a b. of d. ye’ll clear up my nags, IV, 312,3(the reading may bebretlher...clean): corrupt. “brathay an degs would mean with old cloth and torn rags: brathay (obsolete) worn out brats or clothes.” W. Forbes.breyde,n., with a breyde, III, 110,20: with a rush, in haste.breyde,v., III, 110,9: rushed, bounded.bride-steel,brid-stell,bride-stool,bride-styl, IV, 181,7,8; 182,F2,3; 183,2; V,256a,4,5: seat in church where the bridegroom and bride sat before the beginning of the service.brie, brow. Seebree.brig,brigue, I, 118,D2; II, 24,14; 177,13,15; 272,13: bridge.bright,bryghte, I, 285,25; 293,2; 296,51,56; 327,12,21: sheen, beautiful.brim, II, 274,3: sea. In, fa oure the brim, IV, 419,16,26, the brim of a precipice may be meant.brin, II, 146,23; V,223a, No 68,A22: burn.bring hame, I, 76,53; 367,9; II, 97,24; 425,9,10; V,41,17: give birth to. brought King James hame, II, 345,29: brought into the world, (come hame, be born, seehame.)brirben, II, 217,2,4. tabean brirben (printed by Herd birben) is corrupt. A copy mentioned by Finlay had birchen; see IV, 471,221.brither, II, 163,7,11,16; 164,17; 165,3; V,123,4;299,4: brother.Brittaine,Litle, I, 285,24,33,37.brittled,bryttled,brittened, I, 328,51; III, 7,7: cut up.broad(brode)arrow,brod arwe(aro), III, 13,9; 29,153,159; 106,16; 307,5; 341,56; “catapulta.” Prompt. Parv. The Catholicon explains catapulta to be “sagitta cum ferro bipenni, quam sagittam barbatam vocant.” Way. Cotgrave: “Rallion. An arrow with a forked, or barbed head; a broad arrow.” broode-headed arrowe, IV, 505,56; 506,64; broode-arrowe-head, 506,59.broad letter.Seebraid letter.broad-mouthd axe, IV, 123,14: broad axe.broad sow, V,91,3: a sow that has a litter (brod=breed).brockit,brookit,bruckit, I, 303,8; 304,E8,F8; V,213,8: streaked or speckled in the face, streaked with dirt. Seebroked,bruchty.brodinge, II, 58,14: shooting up, sprouting. (Old Eng. brodden.)brogues, IV, 70,G4; 72,I7; 269 a,d20; V,265, No 227,20;301, No 200: coarse light shoes of horse-hide, worn especially by Highlanders.broke,brook, III, 69 f.,271,274,279; 310,62: enjoy.broked cow, III, 459,7: a cow that has black spots or streaks mixed with white in her face. Seebrockit.broken, IV, 356,12: bankrupt, ruined.broken men, III, 473,19,24; IV, 41, note *: men under sentence of outlawry, or who lived as vagabonds and public depredators, or were separated from their clans in consequence of crimes. Jamieson.broo,brue,bree,brie, II, 30,11: brow.broo,brue,bree, I, 160,C2,D3; 161,E3; IV, 449,2,3: broth. I, 499,4; V,98,9,10: water in which something has been boiled.brook,broke,bruik, II, 189,33,34; 420,7; III, 212,8; IV, 435,14: enjoy.broom-cow, I, 394,5: twig of broom.brose-cap, II, 463,25: pottage-, porridge-bowl.brot,p. p., V,296,2,3, etc.: brought.brothered, IV, 373,17: broidered? (He is to have a change of clothes every month, and those embroidered?)brough, V,128,29,30: borough, town.brought hame.Seebring hame.broun,brown, IV, 169,F2;G1(browns, brouns, in the MSS.). Might be thought a corruption ofbrand, butbrandoccurs in each case immediately after.Brownforbrown bladewould be extraordinary.browen, III, 9,4: brewed, (browncorrected from earlier MS.)browȝt,browt,browthe, brought.brown ground, IV, 27,12: brown with heather.brown sword, I, 70,22; 294,24; III, 71,305. Brún as an epithet of sword in Anglo-Saxon has been interpreted literally, as denoting that the weapon was wholly or in part of bronze; also as gleaming, which may at first seem forced. Gleaming is the meaning given to brown sword by Mätzner, who cites three cases from romances. We have bright brown sword, II, 139,22; 241,24; 266,26,27; and, blades both browne and bright, III, 93,36. The late Mr. Edward Bangs, remarking upon these passages, suggests that the blades may have been artificially browned with acid and then polished, as gun-barrels still are, and he refers to P. Lacombe’s description of the magnificent sword of Charles V, Armes et Armures, p. 221: “la lame est d’acier bruni presque noir.” We have browne tempered blade, III, 35,13, meaning, probably, a blade tempered to that color.browt,browthe, brought.browst, V,306,12: brewage.bruchty,brucket,brockit, I, 301 f.,A5,9; V,213a, No 33,5: spotted or streaked with dirt; of a sheep, streaked or speckled in the face. Seebrockit.brue, V,209a: broo, broth, soup.brue, I, 334,3: brow.bruik, II, 422,2; IV, 385,27; V,179,12,13: enjoy, possess. Seebrook.brune, III, 9,H8: error forbrume(which is the reading in an earlier MS.).brung,pret.,p. p.of bring, IV, 191,B, after7; 466,11.brunt, IV, 211,2; 392,17; 468,17: burnt.brusted,brusten, II, 186,15; IV, 2,6: burst.bryde, II, 442,3; 478,1: young woman.bryk, III, 13,13: breeches, hose.bryn, I, 136,R4: should probably bebrim, as inR,b,c.brin, brow, from the Icelandic, is unlikely.bryngyow on your way, III, 99,45: take, accompany.bryste, I, 327,12: burst.brytlyng,bryttlynge, III, 307,8; 308,13: (breaking) cutting up. Seebrittled.bucht,bught,bought,n., IV, 193,1,2,5; 194,6,9; 195 f.,1,3,4; 198 f.,1,3,6; etc.: a small pen, usually put up in the corner of the field, into which it was customary to drive the ewes when they were to be milked. Jamieson.bucht,bught,v., IV, 200,1,18; 201,10; 205,22: go into the bucht, or pen.pret.buchted, IV, 201,24: drove into the pen;p. p., 201,11: built a pen for (cf. 198,8; 200,19).buckle, crisp, curl (of hair). Curling Buckle, IV, 357,C6,7: one with hair crisped or curled.buckled up our lap, II, 473,17: fastened up apron or gown so as to make a bag for carrying away meal.bucklings, V,183,21: encounters?bud, I, 72 f.,7,62: behooved. Seebuse.bug, IV, 199,17,pret.of big: built.bugge, I, 243,1: buy.buggin,bugn,p. p.of big, IV, 445 b,1; 446 b,1: built.
ben, royal ben, I, 478 f.,12,46: (emended frombend) bone. Seeroelle-bone.
benbow, III, 54,6; 104,5; 132,5; bend bow, III, 7,4; 8,25; 11,6; bende bowe, III, 309,44; bent bow, III, 8G2; 106,16,17: bow, simply, the bow being in actual use only in III, 11, 54, 104 (?), 106,16, 309.
bend, III, 145,5: where the way turned (?).
bend, III, 362,71:pret.of bend. So II, 125,G6:pret.of bend (should not have been changed to bent, p. 122).
bended, IV, 78,1: bounded.
benjed, II, 403,2; beenged, bynged, made humble obeisance, cringed.
bent the way, IV, 442,13: took her course over.
bent, sword bent in the middle clear, middle brown, IV, 12,11,12: nonsense, or close upon nonsense.
bent, I, 3,1; 5,D1: a coarse, reedy grass.
bent,bents, II, 58,16,18; 62,11; 172,24,25,27,35,43; III, 295,5; 296,20; 297,40; 307,5,8; 308,26; 312,28; IV, 86,3: field, fields covered with bent grass.
benty ground, atween the brown and benty ground, IV, 27,12: between heather and bent ground.
benty line, III, 7,5: line of bent grass.
ber,pret.of bear.
berafrynd, V,71b: a drinking word, in response to passilodion.
bere, V,264a,2: bigg, a sort of coarser barley (Hordeum hexastichum, notH. vulgareordistichum).
berl, V,224,26: birl, dispense.
bern,barn,bairn, IV, 456,7-9,12; V,247,11: (A. S. bearn) child.
berne, III, 295,5: (A. S. beorn, fighting man, brave, etc.) man.
berry, brown berry comb, II, 224,1: the material of this comb is elsewhere said to be haw bayberry; all the passages describing it are corrupt.
beryde, I, 326,2: made a bere, noise.
bescro, III, 110,26; V,80,49: beshrew, curse.
bese, I, 329,58: shalt be.
beside,besids, III, 357,38,41,43,45-7: aside from, away from.
beside, in addition to, four and thirty stripes comen beside the rood, II, 59,29: referring to the scourging before the crucifixion.
besom, hid herself in the besom of the broom, I, 398,9: besom seems to be twigs (asscopaeis both twigs and broom). Wedgwood cites from a Dutch dictionary of 1654, brem-bessen, broom-twigs, scopae spartiae.
bespeak:pret.bespa(c)ke, III, 420,26,30,35; 430,9; 431,19,23; bespoke, V,149,8-11; bespake him, I, 286,52-5; III, 419 f.,6,13,22,24: spake.
bespeek, IV, 498,1,3,9: speak with.
bespoke, V,149,10, well-bespoke: well-spoken.
bestand, III, 105,23: help, avail.
bested,bestead, circumstanced. ferre and frembde bested, III, 63,138: in the position of one from a distance and a stranger. hard bestead, III, 161,36.
bestial, IV, 41, note *: all the animals of a farm.
best man, IV, 342,4: principal servant.
bet, II, 151,H4: booted.
betaken, II, 59,38: made over.
bete,beet, III, 310,68: better, second, relieve. Seebeet.
beth,both, III, 59,53,54; 79,54: be, old plural.
bether, V,283,8: better.
Bethine, II, 4,12, for rhyme: if meant for anything, Bethany is meant, however inappropriate.
betide, II, 411 a, last line but two: nearest that ever fall to one, an unlikely phrase. Motherwell reads whateer betide.
betide, I, 503 b,4, what news do ye betide? i.e. what do you (does your coming) signify? or, as at I, 205,F10(doth thee betide), what news has befallen you, come to your knowledge?
betide, boots of the tangle (sea-weed) that nothing can betide, V,259a,11: should read to the effect, That’s brought in by the tide.
betook, I, 126,6: took (simply).
bets,pl., V,257,10: boots.
bett, II, 44,14,pret.of bete, beet: kindled.
better.she stood, and better she stood (printed bitter), I, 492,5; they rode, and better they rode, I, 102,10; 492,10,14; he rade and better rade, II, 209,D5: longer, farther still. better swam, V,140,e7. better be, I, 128,13: still more.
beuk, book.
bewch, III, 91 b: bough.
bewrailed, V,55,38: berailed.
bewray, V,86,35: reveal.
beyt, V,79,25: beeth, be.
bickering, IV, 7,34: (hail) pattering.
bide,byde, I, 430,4,5,8,9; II, 177,14; 289,A2; 313,14; III, 465,30; V,108,B8: stay.p. p.bidden, IV, 262 f.,32,33; 524,9. bide (a doulfou day), II, 159,23: await, look for. bide anither bode, III, 268,12; 270,12: wait for another offer. I never bade a better bode, III, 267,15. your wedding to bide, III, 387,11: await. bide it whoso may, IV, 433,21: await the result? (obscure passage). bide frae me, V,236,16: stay away. In: she bade the bride gae in, II, 195,30, it is not likely that a rival would bid a bride; interpret rather, she waited for the bride to go.
bidene,bydene,bydeene, I, 105 a,20: immediately (or, all together). I, 273,34: successively, one after another. III, 65,185: together. III, 73,350: simultaneously, oren masse.
biek,beek, IV, 77,3: bask. Seebeek.
bier, III, 161,32; V,161,1;162,D1: cry, lamentation.
bierly,beerly(bride), I, 467,29; II, 75,19; 132,24; the same as buirdly bride, II, 82,51: portly, stately (large and well made). Seebuirdly.
big,bigg, I, 15,13; 17,16; 108,1; II, 330,1; 331,1; 332,1: build.pret.andp. p.biggit, bigget, IV, 202,K5; 203,13.pret.bug, IV, 199,17.p. p.buggin, bugn, IV, 445,1; 446,1. build a stack for corn, I, 17,12; 428,11; V,206a,8.
bigane, I, 334,5: covered, wrought.
biggeall, beguile.
bigging,biggin, II, 115,23,24; 117,10,11; 123,25,26; 255,11,12; 257,19,20; IV, 128,2-4: building, house, “properly of a large size, as opposed to a cottage.”
bigly(Icelandic, byggiligr, habitable), commodious, pleasant to live in, I, 68,32; 107,1,3; II, 98,30-32,35,36; 172 f.,40,42,45; 294,4,5; 370,6; 417,3; 419,45: frequent epithet of bower. II, 358,26, of a bier: handsomely wrought.
bile,v., V,305a,6: boil.
bill, V,15,16,18: a paper. bills, IV, 422,45,46: (the necessary legal) papers. sworne into my bill, III, 411,5: sworn in writing.
bill, I, 302,B12; 303,10; IV, 331 b,2: bull.
billaments,I, 433,17: habiliments, of head-gear.
billie,billy, comrade, brother; “a term expressive of affection and familiarity:” I, 448,A2,4; III, 464,2,5,6,19; 467,56; 489,11; V,128,29. born billy, III, 495 b,23,24. Seebully.
Billie Blin,Bellie Blind, I, 73,35,44; 86,29; 466 f.,14,23; II, 464,15,16; 470,60-63; 472,31; V,239,39: see I, 67; V,285b.
belly-blind, II, 464,15,16: may mean here nothing more than an innocent warlock or wizard.
billy-pot, I, 164,L6: pot with a semicircular handle (bail)?
binë, be not: V,238,18.
binge, IV, 462,30: bend.
binkes, I, 334,9: benches.
binna, be not.
bint, V,110,12: bind, pay for.
bird(burd), I, 76,50,51; II, 314,29,30;C10; 316,12; IV, 422,2,5,10: maid, lady. bird her lane, II, 313,12,19: maid by herself, solitary. II, 272,5: child, boy.
birk.he was standing on the birk, II, 165,13, seems to be nonsense. There is no birk to stand on unless the floor is birken, and nothing could be more inept than a reference to that matter.
birlin, II, 28,1: drinking. Seebirl.
birl,berl, II, 28,1; 92,17; 219,6; IV, 154,9; 166,1; 234,35; 385,1: drink. II, 152,J3; 299,16; 368,7: ply with drink. birled in him, II, 144,3,4: poured into. Of dispensing both bread and wine: II, 191,34,35; V,224,26. birled wi them, IV, 438,8: should apparently be birled them wi.ptc., birlin, II, 28,1.
birnande, burning.
birtled, I, 273,42: cut up.
bisette, I, 334,8: devote (to the matter a space greater by two miles).
bit(used with a noun instead of a diminutive), wee bit banes, I, 225,L7: bits of.
bit, but. bit an(d), II, 30,4; 132,26: and also.
bitaihte, I, 244,11: committed to.
bitten, V,130,13: taken in, cheated.
bla, III, 350,53,54: blow.
blabring, V,247,9: babbling. Seeblobberin.
bla’d, II, 21,6: bla it, blow it.
blaewort, IV, 212,6: corn bluebottle, round-leaved bell-flower, bluebell of Scotland.
blaise,blaisse, IV, 503,19; 505,49: display, show forth, display itself.
blan,blane,blanne, II, 53,29; 140,23; 265,9; III, 309,41; 405,13; 406,38; 466,40:pret.of blin, stop, cease.
blast, V,82,39: puff, breathe hard.
blate, II, 260,2; III, 160,10; 163,85: dumfoundered, abashed, silly. spake blate, II, 470,47,50: bashfully, diffidently.
blavers, V,213,14: corn bluebottle (blaewort).
blaw, I, 15,B2; 16C2: blow.pret.blow, III, 112,65.p. p.blawin, I, 17,D1; blawn, I, 15,B1; 16,C1,2.pres. p.blawn (blawing), II, 114,20.
blee, I, 272,13,20,24; 293,1; II, 364,26; 442,1,2: color, complexion.
bleed, blood.
bleed, I, 441,5,7,pret.of bleed: bled.
bleeze, III, 457,B4: blaze.
blewe, I, 326,7: blew on a horn (see st.10).
blin, blind.
blin,blyn,blinne, II, 138,3; V,14f.,2,20: (belin) cease, stop.pret.blan. Seeblan.
blind,blint, II, 345,26; 382,6; IV, 265,A b8; 486,10: blinded.
blink,n., IV, 136,17; 360,15; 384,3,4; look, glance. IV, 390,7, of the moon: gleam. IV, 389 b: (of time) moment.
blink, to look: II, 433,6; IV, 127,14; 351,7; 353,18; 416,2; V,53,107;54,3;154,A11: glance, emit, throw a glance. III, 371,27; IV, 256 f.,1,10: shine, glitter. blinkin ee, IV, 194, (4,)5; 201,25; 203,5; 211,9: shining, twinkling. wha is this that blinks in Willie’s ee? II, 189,25: sends brightness into, whose brightness is reflected from. nor ever did he blink his ee (at the gallows), IV, 12,B8: wink, shut, blench, his look was steadfast. cam blinkin on an ee, II, 475,17: winking as if blind, playing the blind.
blint, II, 17 b; IV, 515,12: blinded. Seeblind.
bliss: bless.
blobberin, II, 256,13: perhaps, blubbering, crying; perhaps==blabring. V,247,9: babbling.
block, II, 216,16: exchange. IV, 148,54: bargain; lost the better block, had the worse in a bargain or dealing.
blood,blude, II, 114,16; 123,13: man (disrespectfully), fellow.
blow,pret., blew.
blowe, II, 478,8: blossom.
blowe(wynde), II, 478,12: give vent to.
blowe(boste), III, 59,59: give breath to, utter.
blude,bluid, blood. Seeblood.
bluid is gude, IV, 433,21: good to dream of.
bluntest, III, 492,25: stupidest.
blutter, III, 161,43: dirty.
blyue,belyfe,beliue, III, 29,144; 71,300; 74,371: quickly, immediately.
boad,n., V,243,11: offer.
boams, fire-boams (not beams), IV, 96,D3: bombs.
board-floor, II, 160,5,6: should probably be bower-floor, as in 159,6,9; 161,6,8.
bocht: bought.
bocking, III, 161,33: vomiting, belching.
boddom, bottom.
bode,n., offer: III, 267,15; 268,12; 270,12; 272,14.
bodë,p. p., III, 67,222: bidden, invited.
bodes, wild fowl bodes on hill, II, 410,7: announces day. Cf. II, 230,5, the wild fule boded day.
bode-words, III, 4,19: messages.
body:faith, faikine, of my body, III, 180,17; 199,24; 216,33; 296,16; 472,7; truth of my body, III, 180,B,7; 181,15,16,21; IV, 7,31: either by my personal faith, or, by my body. faith in my body, III, 411,6.
body-clothes; IV, 152,7: clothes of my body.
bold,bauld(of fire), II, 116,18; 117,12; 119,5,6; 123,18,27: sharp, brisk.
boldly(understand), IV, 146,19: freely, confidently, fully (verbiage).
bokin, bodkin.
bolts, IV, 409,1: rods, bars (to make a petticoat stand out).
bon,bone,boune, on the way, going. Seeboun.
bone, boon.
bone, sadle of the bone, V,219,13. Seebane,roelle-bone.
bonins, by, V,253a,4: in plenty (Gypsy cant).
bonnetie, V,306,2,3:dimin.of bonnet.
booting, III, 159,1: making of boot or booty.
boot,v., IV, 501,26: matter. Seebote.
bord,borde,bowrd, V,78,1; 80,48,49: jest, sport, amusement, comic tale.
bord, II, 450,80; 451,84: should perhaps bebore, as in 445,77. Still, carried him out of the saddle by the impact of the spear which bored him through is not unlikely, and we have, p. 454,55, out of his saddle bore him he did.
borden,adj., IV, 506,73: of plank; borden tree, wooden plank.
born alive, ye were, IV, 521,19;A, IV, 26,16, has ‘That I love best that’s born alive,’ i.e. of all that are born. The ye should be yt, that, and probably was so meant.
borough-town,borrow’s toun,borrous-toun, etc. Seeborrows-town,burrow-town.
borowe,borrow,n.III, 59,62-64,66; 68,237,250: security. III, 405,9: sponsor, vindicator.
borowe,borrow,v., I, 309,A3; II, 177,27; III, 25,50; 298,69; 329,6; IV, 33,15-18,20,21: set free, deliver, ransom.
borowehode, III, 68,239: securityship.
borrows-town,borrous-toun, IV, 229,1; V,117,A6,7;126,1: borough-town, borough, corporate town. Seeborough(burrow)-town.
boskyd, III, 112,60: busked, made ready. Seebusk.
bot, but. bot and: seebut and.
bot, without. Seebut.
bot, II, 94,3: behoved.
bote,boote,boot, II, 45,30,34; III, 27,104; 94,55; 187,33: help, use, advantage, (boot,v., IV, 501,26: matter.)
both,beth, III, 59,53,54; 79,54: be (old plural).
bottle(of hay), V,114,4: bundle.
bottle.be my bottle, V,170,1: hold my own, bear my full part, in drinking? Corrupt?
bottys, butts.
boud, V,176,17: behoved, were obliged.
bouerie, II, 232,1: diminutive of bower, chamber.
bought==bucht, IV, 198,1; 199,17,23: fold, pen.
bouk,buik,buke, II, 149,14; IV, 127,14; 484 a: trunk, body.
boun,bowne,bune,bound,bownd,bowynd,v., make ready, go. buske yee, bowne yee, III, 91,5; 431,25: make ready. boun, bound, I, 369,44; IV, 183,2; V,256,5: go. make ye boun, I, 75,18: go. must bound home, V,9,4. get up and bound your way, II, 405,9: go, come. bownd away, III, 161,30; bowynd hym to ryde, III, 295,1; bounded for to ride, II, 118,7: set out, went. bound him to his brand, III, 160,23: went, betook himself. was boon, boun, bound, II, 298,5; IV, 432,2; V,256a,4: going, on the way. how she is bune, II, 191,30: going on. go boun away, IV, 224,15,16(tautology): go, depart.
boun,bon,bowne,bowen,bowyn,bun,adj.(búinn,p. p.of Icelandic búa, to make ready): bound, ready. made him boun, III, 163,76. to batell were not bowyn, III, 295,4. make ye bowne, I, 75,18,22; III, 296,28. bun to bed, bon to rest, II, 191,26; V,35,B3. made him boun, bound, III, 163,76; V,81,2: equipped himself. your friends beene bowne, I, 210,14: ready to come. ready boun (tautology), IV, 432,5. Seeboun,v.
boun, V,300,6: boon.
bounties, V,231,14: presents, in addition to wages.
bountieth, V,9,12: bounty, alms.
bourde,v., III, 179 b: jest.
bourden, III, 179 b: staff.
bourn, III, 470 a: brook.
boustouslie,bousterously,boustresslie,boustrouslie: I, 108,13; IV, 446,13; 447,13; 465,19,35: boisterously, roughly.
bout, II, 27,18: bolt.
bouted, I, 68,4; 70,4: bolted.
bow, bough.
bow, lintseed bow, I, 305,14: the boll or pod containing the seeds of flax.
bow, II, 28,16: boll, a dry measure; of salt, two bushels; “for wheat and beans, four Winchester bushels; for oats, etc., six bushels.” Scottish, four firlots (see firlot). bow o bere, V,264a: boll of barley.
bower, chamber: I, 65,A1; 68,25,32; 73,47; etc., etc. bouerie, II, 232,1: diminutive of the same.
bower, house, home: I, 56,3; 79,3; 80,1; 107,1; etc., etc. Often indistinguishable from the above.
bower-head, II, 76,11: top of the house. (Unless the reading should be tower-head; cf. II, 74,D5; 78,I14, but we have an upmost ha, highest room, II, 72,C14.)
bower-yett, house-gate.
bowie, V,306,15: a kind of tub.
bown, V,273, No 239,4: bowed, bent.
bowne,bownd,bowyn. Seeboun.
bowrd, I, 264: comic tale. Seebord.
bows(o London), I, 131,H1: arches of a bridge? windings of the river?
box, V,19,18: a compartment partitioned off in a drinking-room.
boyt, III, 109,3: both.
bra,braw, I, 128,19; V,268,25;272,3,7,11: brave, fine, handsome. Seebraw.
bracken,braken,brachan,breckin,breaken,breckan,brecken,breachan, IV, 257,B7; 268,21; 269,d19,f19; 272,11,3; 501,28,31,37; V,244,16,19,20; 265 b,19: fern, brake.
brae,bra,bray, hillside, hill: I, 324,14; IV, 92,1; 264,15; 274,8; 448a, 3d st. braes o Yarrow, IV, 164 f.,1-9,B3-5: the equivalent word is sometimes, banks, pp. 168, 169, 170, 178; otherwise houms, p. 168, but downs, p. 166 f., and the topography seems to indicate hills. “Conjoined with a name, it denotes the upper part of a country, as the Braes of Angus.” Jamieson.
brae, river-bank: III, 484a,32; burn-brae, IV, 275,C b8. Cholar foord brae-head, III, 482,21?
brae, brow: III, 4,17.
braid, IV, 399,28: breadth. Seebreed.Adj., broad.
braid(broad)letter, II, 20,3; 25,3; 26,3; 27,3; 251,2; 393,4; IV, 118,C1; 119,D1; 120,1; 373,2; 382,3: either a letter on a broad sheet or a long letter. The king’s letter, II, 21,3; 23,E3; 24,3, is lang, and at 22,3, is large. A braid letter has been interpreted to be an open one, a patent, but in almost every case here cited the letter is said to be sealed. The letter at II, 251,2, is private and confidential, written by a lady. Private folk write broad letters, IV, 320,1; 339,13; 342,17; 343,7; a lady again, II, 382,5; 395,18; IV, 233,20; 342,6; 343,2.
brain, II, 124,39; 130,28; 131,20; 133,9; 169,25; 407,10; III, 274,33: mad.
brake,break, V,166,8;306,7: cause to break off, correct, cure.
braken, III, 299,12,14; 300,25,26: fern. Seebracken.
braken, I, 350,17:p. p.of break.
bramly, III, 9,13: brambly, thorny.
branded(bull), III, 459,7: of a reddish brown color.
brank,n., III, 440,10: caper, prance, gallop.
branken,branking, III, 299,4; 301,D1: galloping.
branks, III, 480,9: a sort of bridle; a halter with two pieces of wood, instead of a leathern strap or a cord, over the nose, the whole resembling a muzzle.
brash, sickness: II, 364,20; IV, 483,16.
brast, I, 370,14,18; V,76,26;80,45;82,40: burst, broke, broken.
brauches, I, 271,2: brooches. But perhapsbranches, the clothes embroidered with rings and sprigs.
braw, I, 491,1,2, etc.; II, 80,3-7: comely. I, 127,21; 467,29; II, 23,E5: fine, handsome, finely dressed. I, 184,11; V,210,11: (of a meeting) pleasant. Seebraandbraws. braw wallie, IV, 296,F1: exclamation of admiration.
brawn, IV, 212,5: calf of the leg.
braws, IV, 269, f,19: fine things, finery.
bray,brae, hillside, hill.
brayd on, V,198b, after52: move on, fall on.
brayde,breyde, at a brayde, III, 26,91; of a, III, 32,91: in a moment, of a sudden.
breachan.Seebracken.
bread,breed,bred, III, 339,13,16; 341,42: breadth.
bread, broad.
breaden, I, 433,9: braided (here, perhaps, woven).
break,brake, V,166,8;306,7: cause to break off, correct, cure.
break, till five minutes break, II, 325,19,20: expire.
breaken.Seebracken.
breast.smoothd his breist and swam, II, 248,9,15: made it even, level with the water. set her, his brest and swom, II, 459,8; V,137,5,9. bent his breast and swam, V,138,C3,5;141b,6,9;142a,4. lay on his brest and swumme, II, 247,14.
breast, in a, IV, 11,12,13: in one voice (all at once, p. 13,4). in a breast, Scottish, sometimes=abreast, side by side.
breast,v., II, 299,22, breast a steed: mount, by bringing the breast to it.
breast-mills, II, 403,15: mills operated by a breast-wheel.
breastplate, II, 380,15; 383,14; 385,4, etc.; IV, 486,6, etc.: some part of a woman’s attire, said here to be of steel instead of gold. Possibly a stomacher. “Curet, breastplate, or stomager.” Huloet, 1552. “Torace, also a placket, a stomacher, or brest plate for the body.” Florio. At II, 381,10, we havebracelets, which would be a plausible emendation forbreastplate, did not the latter occur quite a dozen times.
breast-wine, II, 338,T7: milk (Irish ballad).
breathed, II, 47, unto,21, on,22: does not seem to be the right word. Possiblybreved, gave information to (but the word is antique for the text, andonin22would not suit).
brecham, III, 480,9: 492,4; brechen, III, 491,6: a straw collar for a horse, also a pack-saddle made of straw, so more probably here, carts not being used.
brechan,brichan, IV, 157,7,12,14,18,19: (Gael. breacan) plaid.
brechen.Seebrecham.
breckan,-en,-in. Seebracken.
bred,brede, V,283,8,18: bread.
bred,bread,breed, III, 347,c44,g38: breadth.
brede, I, 242,7: to have the whims attributed to breeding women? (Not satisfactory, as not being sufficiently simple. Prof. Kittredge has suggested to me gynnyst to wede, to go mad; which seems to me quite worth considering. The rhyme with the same sound in a different sense, is entirely allowable.)
bree,brie, I, 129,14; 341,3,8,17; 417,13; III, 11,K; V,191f.,3,18,31: brow, eyebrow.
bree,broth. Seebroo.
breed,bread,bred,braid, III, 349,38; IV, 503,13,16; 505,45: breadth.
breek-thigh, III, 464,15: thigh of his breeches.
breeme, III, 285,19: fierce.
breist.Seebreast.
bren,brene,brenne,brin, II, 45,24; 59,32; III, 24,29,35; 361,b,c,28: burn.p. p.brent, II, 44,3,14; 46,47.
brent(brow), II, 191,25; IV, 272,2; 387,1: high and straight. Also, smooth, unwrinkled.
brents, I, 74,76,78: door-posts, or doors. (Icelandic brandar, postes, Egilsson; ships’ beaks used as ornaments over the chief door of dwellings, Vigfusson.)
brest.Seebreast.
brest, burst.
brether, brothers, brethren, I, 104,10; III, 478,15. bretheren, III, 26,74; 478,14. brethern, bretherne, II, 73,17; 160,3,9; III, 57,27; 67,217. brothren, III, 29,148. brethen, III, 22,4,6; 23,10; V,135b,19.
bretther o degs, with a b. of d. ye’ll clear up my nags, IV, 312,3(the reading may bebretlher...clean): corrupt. “brathay an degs would mean with old cloth and torn rags: brathay (obsolete) worn out brats or clothes.” W. Forbes.
breyde,n., with a breyde, III, 110,20: with a rush, in haste.
breyde,v., III, 110,9: rushed, bounded.
bride-steel,brid-stell,bride-stool,bride-styl, IV, 181,7,8; 182,F2,3; 183,2; V,256a,4,5: seat in church where the bridegroom and bride sat before the beginning of the service.
brie, brow. Seebree.
brig,brigue, I, 118,D2; II, 24,14; 177,13,15; 272,13: bridge.
bright,bryghte, I, 285,25; 293,2; 296,51,56; 327,12,21: sheen, beautiful.
brim, II, 274,3: sea. In, fa oure the brim, IV, 419,16,26, the brim of a precipice may be meant.
brin, II, 146,23; V,223a, No 68,A22: burn.
bring hame, I, 76,53; 367,9; II, 97,24; 425,9,10; V,41,17: give birth to. brought King James hame, II, 345,29: brought into the world, (come hame, be born, seehame.)
brirben, II, 217,2,4. tabean brirben (printed by Herd birben) is corrupt. A copy mentioned by Finlay had birchen; see IV, 471,221.
brither, II, 163,7,11,16; 164,17; 165,3; V,123,4;299,4: brother.
Brittaine,Litle, I, 285,24,33,37.
brittled,bryttled,brittened, I, 328,51; III, 7,7: cut up.
broad(brode)arrow,brod arwe(aro), III, 13,9; 29,153,159; 106,16; 307,5; 341,56; “catapulta.” Prompt. Parv. The Catholicon explains catapulta to be “sagitta cum ferro bipenni, quam sagittam barbatam vocant.” Way. Cotgrave: “Rallion. An arrow with a forked, or barbed head; a broad arrow.” broode-headed arrowe, IV, 505,56; 506,64; broode-arrowe-head, 506,59.
broad letter.Seebraid letter.
broad-mouthd axe, IV, 123,14: broad axe.
broad sow, V,91,3: a sow that has a litter (brod=breed).
brockit,brookit,bruckit, I, 303,8; 304,E8,F8; V,213,8: streaked or speckled in the face, streaked with dirt. Seebroked,bruchty.
brodinge, II, 58,14: shooting up, sprouting. (Old Eng. brodden.)
brogues, IV, 70,G4; 72,I7; 269 a,d20; V,265, No 227,20;301, No 200: coarse light shoes of horse-hide, worn especially by Highlanders.
broke,brook, III, 69 f.,271,274,279; 310,62: enjoy.
broked cow, III, 459,7: a cow that has black spots or streaks mixed with white in her face. Seebrockit.
broken, IV, 356,12: bankrupt, ruined.
broken men, III, 473,19,24; IV, 41, note *: men under sentence of outlawry, or who lived as vagabonds and public depredators, or were separated from their clans in consequence of crimes. Jamieson.
broo,brue,bree,brie, II, 30,11: brow.
broo,brue,bree, I, 160,C2,D3; 161,E3; IV, 449,2,3: broth. I, 499,4; V,98,9,10: water in which something has been boiled.
brook,broke,bruik, II, 189,33,34; 420,7; III, 212,8; IV, 435,14: enjoy.
broom-cow, I, 394,5: twig of broom.
brose-cap, II, 463,25: pottage-, porridge-bowl.
brot,p. p., V,296,2,3, etc.: brought.
brothered, IV, 373,17: broidered? (He is to have a change of clothes every month, and those embroidered?)
brough, V,128,29,30: borough, town.
brought hame.Seebring hame.
broun,brown, IV, 169,F2;G1(browns, brouns, in the MSS.). Might be thought a corruption ofbrand, butbrandoccurs in each case immediately after.Brownforbrown bladewould be extraordinary.
browen, III, 9,4: brewed, (browncorrected from earlier MS.)
browȝt,browt,browthe, brought.
brown ground, IV, 27,12: brown with heather.
brown sword, I, 70,22; 294,24; III, 71,305. Brún as an epithet of sword in Anglo-Saxon has been interpreted literally, as denoting that the weapon was wholly or in part of bronze; also as gleaming, which may at first seem forced. Gleaming is the meaning given to brown sword by Mätzner, who cites three cases from romances. We have bright brown sword, II, 139,22; 241,24; 266,26,27; and, blades both browne and bright, III, 93,36. The late Mr. Edward Bangs, remarking upon these passages, suggests that the blades may have been artificially browned with acid and then polished, as gun-barrels still are, and he refers to P. Lacombe’s description of the magnificent sword of Charles V, Armes et Armures, p. 221: “la lame est d’acier bruni presque noir.” We have browne tempered blade, III, 35,13, meaning, probably, a blade tempered to that color.
browt,browthe, brought.
browst, V,306,12: brewage.
bruchty,brucket,brockit, I, 301 f.,A5,9; V,213a, No 33,5: spotted or streaked with dirt; of a sheep, streaked or speckled in the face. Seebrockit.
brue, V,209a: broo, broth, soup.
brue, I, 334,3: brow.
bruik, II, 422,2; IV, 385,27; V,179,12,13: enjoy, possess. Seebrook.
brune, III, 9,H8: error forbrume(which is the reading in an earlier MS.).
brung,pret.,p. p.of bring, IV, 191,B, after7; 466,11.
brunt, IV, 211,2; 392,17; 468,17: burnt.
brusted,brusten, II, 186,15; IV, 2,6: burst.
bryde, II, 442,3; 478,1: young woman.
bryk, III, 13,13: breeches, hose.
bryn, I, 136,R4: should probably bebrim, as inR,b,c.brin, brow, from the Icelandic, is unlikely.
bryngyow on your way, III, 99,45: take, accompany.
bryste, I, 327,12: burst.
brytlyng,bryttlynge, III, 307,8; 308,13: (breaking) cutting up. Seebrittled.
bucht,bught,bought,n., IV, 193,1,2,5; 194,6,9; 195 f.,1,3,4; 198 f.,1,3,6; etc.: a small pen, usually put up in the corner of the field, into which it was customary to drive the ewes when they were to be milked. Jamieson.
bucht,bught,v., IV, 200,1,18; 201,10; 205,22: go into the bucht, or pen.pret.buchted, IV, 201,24: drove into the pen;p. p., 201,11: built a pen for (cf. 198,8; 200,19).
buckle, crisp, curl (of hair). Curling Buckle, IV, 357,C6,7: one with hair crisped or curled.
buckled up our lap, II, 473,17: fastened up apron or gown so as to make a bag for carrying away meal.
bucklings, V,183,21: encounters?
bud, I, 72 f.,7,62: behooved. Seebuse.
bug, IV, 199,17,pret.of big: built.
bugge, I, 243,1: buy.
buggin,bugn,p. p.of big, IV, 445 b,1; 446 b,1: built.