of bees.

BEIK, BEKE, BEEK, _v. a_. to bask, as in the sun.

BEILD, BIELD, _s._ shelter; refuge.

BEIN, BANE, _s._ bone.

BIRR, _s._ noise; cry; force.

BEKE, BEIK, BEEK, _v. a._ to bask.

BELD, _adj._ bald; without hair on the head.

BELE, _s._ a fire; a blaze.

BELYVE, _adv._ by and by.

_To_ BELL THE CAT, to contend with a person of superior
rank; to withstand him, either by actions or words, especially
the former.

BELLY-THRA, _s._ the colic.

_To_ BELT, _v. a._ to gird; to flog; to scourge.

BEN, _adv._ towards the inner apartments of a house. A room
is generally called _ben_, and the kitchen _but_.

BEN-END, _s. the ben-end of a house_, the inner end of it.

BEN, BIN, _s._ a mountain.

BENE, BIEN, _adj._ wealthy; having abundance.

BENK, BINK, _s._ a bench; a seat.

BENORTH, _prep._ to the northward of.

BENSHIE, BENSHI, _s._ a fairy's wife.

BENT, _s._ a coarse grass growing on sand-hills.

BERE, BEAR, _s._ barley.

BERN, _s._ a barn.

_To_ BESEIK, _v. a._ to beseech; to entreat.

BESYNE, BYSIM, _s._ a bawd.

BESOUTH, _prep_, to the southward of.

BEST-MAN, _s._ groomsman; _best-maid_, the bridesmaid.

BETWEESH, _prep_, betwixt.

BEUCH, a branch; a bough.

BEVIE, _s._ a great fire.

_To_ BEWRY, _v. a._ to pervert, to distort.

BIB, _s._ a piece of linen used to keep the breast of a
child clean when feeding it.

BICK, _s._ a bitch; the female of the canine species.

_To_ BICKER, _v. a._ to fight with stones as
schoolboys; to run off quickly.

BICKER, BIQUOUR, _s._ a small wooden dish, made in the form
of a washing-tub, the staves being alternately black and white.

_To_ BIDE, BYDE, _v. n._ to wait for; to abide; to
endure; to suffer.

_To_ BIG, _v. a._ to build.

BIGGIN, BYGGYN, _s._ a building.

BIGGIT, _part. pa._ built.

BIKE, BEIK, BINK, _s._ a nest of wild bees or wasps.

BILGET, _adj._ bulged; swelling out.

BILLIE, BILLY, _s._ a companion; a comrade.

BINDWOOD, _s._ ivy.

BING, _s._ a heap; a pile of wood.

BINK. See BIKE.

BIRD, BURD, _s._ a bird; a damsel; a lady.

BIRDIE, _s._ a little bird.

BIRK, _s._ a birch-tree.

_To_ BIRK, _v. n._ to give a tart or sharp answer.

BIRKIN, _adj._ of or belonging to birch-wood.

BIRKY, _s._ a lively young man; a mettlesome person.

BIRL, _v. n_. to ply with drink; to club money for the
purpose of purchasing drink.

BIRN, _v. a._ to burn.

BIRS, BIRSE, _s._ a bristle.
_His birse is up_, he i