| Bac n. | Chaplet | ||||||||||
| Bache n | The vale of a stream or rivulet | ||||||||||
| Back n. | The surface of a river, the waves | ||||||||||
| Backboneless adj. | Destitute of strength, character; weak | ||||||||||
| Backcast vb. | Throw back | ||||||||||
| Back-town n. | Hicksville, boondocks | ||||||||||
| Backwardness n. | Retardation, regression | ||||||||||
| Badling n. | Thug | ||||||||||
| Baft adv. | Behind, to the rear of, aft | ||||||||||
| Bairn n. | Child. Cognates: Bairnless: childless; Bairnly, Bairnish: childish; Bairnhood: childhood, infancy |
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| Bairn-bed n. | Womb | ||||||||||
| Bale n. | Harm. injury | ||||||||||
| Baleless adj | Harmless, innocent | ||||||||||
| Bale-fire n. | Holocaust | ||||||||||
| Baneful adj. | life destroying, pernicious esp. poisonous. Cognates: banefulness, banefully |
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| Baneless adj. | Innocent, harmless | ||||||||||
| Banesman n. | Murderer, killer, assassin | ||||||||||
| Banewort n. | Belladona, Deadly Nightshade | ||||||||||
| Barefaceness n. | Effrontery, openness, shamelessness | ||||||||||
| Bareness n. | Nakedness, nudity | ||||||||||
| Bargh n. | Low detached ridge, hill, steep hill, road up a hill. From OE. beorgh, beorh: mount |
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| Barton n. | Farmstead, bere-earn, barley enclosure, enclosure, pen for poultry | ||||||||||
| Be pref. | Causative rendering nouns, adjectives etc,. into verbs | ||||||||||
| Bead n. | Small perforated body of glass, amber, wood, metal, etc., 2. Prayer. Cognates: beadfolk, beadhouse |
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| Beadle vb. | Announce, proclaim | ||||||||||
| Beadledom n. | Stupid officiousness, church bureaucracy | ||||||||||
| Beam n. | Tree. Cognates: beamless: treeless. | ||||||||||
| Beam n. | Throw out or radiate bems of light, emit rays. Cognates: beamish, beamless,, beamsome |
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| Becall n. | Accuse, miscall, summons | ||||||||||
| Be’clepe vb. | Complain, indict, accuse; summons, appeal (to a highr court) | ||||||||||
| Be’dip vb. | Embrace, fold in arms, | ||||||||||
| Be’close vb. | Enclose, shut up | ||||||||||
| Be’deal vb. | Deprive, bereave, free of | ||||||||||
| Be’do vb. | put to, shut, befoul, defile with ordure | ||||||||||
| Be’dwellan vb. | Mislead, lead into error | ||||||||||
| Beeishness n. | Busyness (extreme) | ||||||||||
| Beforeness n. | Anteriority, pre-existence, priority | ||||||||||
| Beforetime adv. | former, previously | ||||||||||
| Be’god vb. | Deify | ||||||||||
| Be’grede vb. | Cry, weep | ||||||||||
| Be’grip vb. | Apprehend, seize, catch | ||||||||||
| be’hap vb. | befall. happen, behappen | ||||||||||
| be’hele vb. | Conceal, cover, envelope | ||||||||||
| Behew vb. | Cut down | ||||||||||
| Behight n. | Promise (behote) | ||||||||||
| Bethither adv. | On this side | ||||||||||
| Behoveful adj. | Advantageous, expedient, needful, necessary. Cognates: behovefully, behovefulness |
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| Behoving adj. | Needful, incumbent, appropriate | ||||||||||
| Behovesome adj. | Useful, of service | ||||||||||
| Beingless n. | Non-existent, off no being | ||||||||||
| Beingness n. | Entity, actuality, existence | ||||||||||
| Bekend | Known | ||||||||||
| Bekenning n. | Knowledge; acquaintance | ||||||||||
| Belewe vb. | Betray, | ||||||||||
| Beliefful adj. | Full of faith, believing | ||||||||||
| Beliefless adj. | Without faith or believing, atheistic, godless | ||||||||||
| Belirt vb. | deceive, cheat, fool | ||||||||||
| Belive vb. | Remain, live on, survive | ||||||||||
| Bellow vb. | Roar | ||||||||||
| Beme n. | Loud noise, din; 2. trumpet Cognate: Bemer a trumpeter. |
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| Bemouth vb. | Praise(verbally), Declaim, grandiloquize | ||||||||||
| Ben vb. | Look at | ||||||||||
| Bendsome adj. | Flexible | ||||||||||
| Bendwise adv. | Diagonally | ||||||||||
| Bene n. | Prayer, petition, boon, | ||||||||||
| Beneap adj. | Lying beneath the reach of higher water | ||||||||||
| Benight vb. | Overtaken by the darkness | ||||||||||
| Benim vb. | Take away, remove, | ||||||||||
| Benimming n. | Removal | ||||||||||
| Bensy vb. | Bless, consecrate, make hallow, purify | ||||||||||
| Benward adv | Towards the interior, inwards, innerly | ||||||||||
| Beod n. | Table. Cf: Board, as in board and lodgings. | ||||||||||
| Beot n. | Vow, threat, boat, promise. Cognate: Beoten vb, threaten |
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| Berede vb. | To advise, counsel, inform, plan | ||||||||||
| Berewick n. | Village, demesne farm, dwelling, habitation | ||||||||||
| Berg n. | Mountain | ||||||||||
| Bergfall n. | Avalanche | ||||||||||
| Berman n. | Bearer, carrier, porter | ||||||||||
| Bermother n. | Womb.uterus | ||||||||||
| Berne n. | Warrior | ||||||||||
| Berrhless n. | Salvation | ||||||||||
| Berry vb. | Thresh, trod | ||||||||||
| Berre n. | Grove, shady place. Survives in placenames as bere, beere, bear | ||||||||||
| Besay vb. | To defend, apologise, speak for | ||||||||||
| Beschrew vb. | Make evil, wicked, pervert,deprave, corrupt | ||||||||||
| Besibbing n. | Affinity, resembling, having a likeness to | ||||||||||
| Besmit vb. | Stain, contaminate, effect | ||||||||||
| Bespeak vb. | To consider carefully | ||||||||||
| Bestand vb. | To stand near, stand over in solitude (by the grave), mourn | ||||||||||
| Bestead vb. | To help, assist, relieve, be of service, avail; go in stead of | ||||||||||
| Bester n. | One who gets the best of others by fraud; fraudster | ||||||||||
| Beshew vb. | To bestraught | ||||||||||
| Beswart vb. | To blacken, denigrate | ||||||||||
| Beswike vb. | To betray, deceive, cheat | ||||||||||
| Beswiker n. | To cheat, betrayer, deceiever | ||||||||||
| Beswikking ger. | Cheating, deceiving, betraying | ||||||||||
| Be’tee vb. | To draw over as , cover, | ||||||||||
| Beteem vb. | To pour over; give birth to, reproduce | ||||||||||
| Beteeming adj. | Copious, profusive, | ||||||||||
| Bethough adv. | Intended, contrived, purposed (of a thing); as in ill-bethoughed evil, |
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| Bethrall vb | To enslave | ||||||||||
| Betide vb | To befall, happen to | ||||||||||
| Betidings n. | Event, Fortune, accident, befalling | ||||||||||
| Betoken vb. | To signify, mean, denote, express in words, symbolize | ||||||||||
| Betokening n. | Signification, meaning, emblem, omen, portent | ||||||||||
| Betroth vb. | To engage a woman in a contract of marriage | ||||||||||
| Beet vb. | To make good, amend, better, correct, reform, mend, heal wound, reform |
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| Beeting vb | To repent, relieve hunger, thirst, any sign of want, assist, help | ||||||||||
| Beeting n. | Making a fire (kindling) | ||||||||||
| Betterhood n. | Superiority | ||||||||||
| Betweche vb. | To exorcise, rid | ||||||||||
| Betweenness n. | Intermediate stage or state | ||||||||||
| Between-whiles n. | Intervals | ||||||||||
| Bewain vb. | To profit, Take advantage, (wain: gain) | ||||||||||
| Bewend vb. | To turn round or away | ||||||||||
| Bewhape vb. | To bewilder, amaze, confound utterly | ||||||||||
| Bewist n. | Food, provisions, victuals; living | ||||||||||
| Bewist n. | State or condition of life (Wist: being, sense of being) |
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| Bewist n. | Dwelling, soujourn, living | ||||||||||
| Bewist n. | Dwelling, place, abode, habitation | ||||||||||
| Bewith n. | Stopgap, substitute | ||||||||||
| Beword vb. | To happen, come to pass | ||||||||||
| Bewray vb. | To accuse, malign, speak evil of, discredit,expose,reveal, disclose
prejudishly. ALSO: bewrayer, bewrraying, bewrayness
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| Bewreak vb. | to avenge, awreak | ||||||||||
| Beyelp vb. | To talk loudly of | ||||||||||
| Beyondness n. | Condition or quality of beyond | ||||||||||
| Bibode n. | Commandment | ||||||||||
| Bid vb. | to invite to a feast | ||||||||||
| Bide n. | Byde-dwelling place, habitat | ||||||||||
| Bideme vb. | To condemn | ||||||||||
| Biding n. | Place, abode | ||||||||||
| Bidstand n. | Highwayman, Bidstander, Bailupman | ||||||||||
| Bi’dwellan vb. | To mislead into error | ||||||||||
| Bield n. | Boldness, courage, 2. Shelter, comfort Also:Bieldness | ||||||||||
| Bi’fele vb. | To commit, entrust, assign, grant | ||||||||||
| Bigg vb. | To dwell, inhabit, place or locate oneself in, have an abode | ||||||||||
| Bigger vb. | To build, erect, construct, form, fashion, pile up. | ||||||||||
| Bi’gale vb. | to charm by incantation, enchant | ||||||||||
| Bi’gang vb. | To worship | ||||||||||
| Biggermost adj. | Vain, conceited, boastful, impudent | ||||||||||
| Bi’hede vb. | To notice, percieve, pay attention to, take care care of, guard gainst, procure, prepare |
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| Bi’howe vb. | To benxious, becareful for | ||||||||||
| Bike n. | Nest or hive of hornets, bees, wasps, shep., 2. Swarm, throng, crowd(contemptously). 3. well-filled store 4. Buiding, habitation |
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| Bi’kenned adj. | Begotten | ||||||||||
| Bi’laub vb. | To mock, deride, laugh at | ||||||||||
| Bi’melden vb. | To betray, Inform against | ||||||||||
| Bi’peche vb. | To cheat, decieve, delude | ||||||||||
| Bi’peching n. | Deception, fraud | ||||||||||
| Birde n. | Birth, off-spring, family, nation | ||||||||||
| Birle vb. | To pour Also: birling, birler | ||||||||||
| Birthdom n. | Inheritance, birthhood, birthright | ||||||||||
| Birthful adj. | Prolific, productive | ||||||||||
| Birthright n. | Inheritance, bithright | ||||||||||
| Bismer n. | Shame, disgrace, reproach, insult, mockery, scorn, derision | ||||||||||
| Bisson n. | Blind, sightless, destitute of sight, Also: bissonness, bissonhood, bissondom |
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| Bi’theck vb. | To thatch, cover, bedeck | ||||||||||
| Bi’trum vb & n.. | Surround, beset, 2. n. trim, strong, fit, firm | ||||||||||
| Bive n. | Shake, tremble | ||||||||||
| Bi’wihele vb. | to soothsay, bewitch, overcome by witchcraft | ||||||||||
| Bi’wit vb. | To look after, guard against, protect | ||||||||||
| Bi’wite vb. | To beguile, ensorce 2. Go away, leave | ||||||||||
| Bi’wrench vb. | to defeat, deprive | ||||||||||
| Blædfast adj. | Prosperous, glorious (blaed:prosperous) | ||||||||||
| Blake adj & n. | Become pale, ghostly, 2. abashed, spiritless, awkwardness, shamefaced, timid, bashful, diffident, slow, sheepish, insipid |
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| Blead n. | Breath, blowing, inspiration | ||||||||||
| Blede n. | Flower, blossom, bloom, fruit | ||||||||||
| Blench vb. | Cheat, elude, run away from, foil, turn away (eyes), shirk | ||||||||||
| Blete adj. | Miserable | ||||||||||
| Blethe adj. | Weak, timid, spiritless, | ||||||||||
| Blethely adv. | Kindly, generously, benevolently, gladly | ||||||||||
| Blick n. | Gold | ||||||||||
| Blike vb. | Shine, glitter, glimmer | ||||||||||
| Blin vb. | Cease, desist, leave off, stop, delay, tarry | ||||||||||
| Blithe adj. | Cheery Also:Blitheful, blithesome, blithsomeness | ||||||||||
| Board n. | (In OE.) a shield. 2. a hem, edge, coast, as in seaboard. 3. a ship’s side. 4. piece of timber sawn thin, as in floorboard, weatherboard 5. stage of a theatre. 6. tablet on which games are played. 6 a table used for meals; food served at the table, as in board and lodgings 7. a table at which a council is held; person who meet at a council table. 8. any piece of furniture resembling a table, as in sideboard |
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| Byspel n. | Parable | ||||||||||
| Byss n. | Fineness & value | ||||||||||
| By-swelt vb. | Burn, scorch, | ||||||||||
| By-swenke vb. | Work hard, exert, do with industry | ||||||||||
| Bysybbe, (Bysib) n. | Relative, kin, kinfolk | ||||||||||
| By-tale n. | Irrevelant tale or story | ||||||||||
| By- time n. | Spare time | ||||||||||
| By-water n. | Waterway to the side of the main stream | ||||||||||
| By-word n, | proverb
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