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 Faire le voyage de Baviere. To get the Pockes; or, to trauell for them.

Bauldrier. as Baudrier. Bauldrieur. Looke Baudrieur. Bauldroy: m. The sea-toad, or diuell of the sea; an ougly, and rauenous fish.

Baulme: m. Baulme; also, Balme-mint, Speare-mint, Garden-mint.  Baulme crespu. Crispe balme, crosse mint, curled mint.  Baulme sauvage. Horse-mint, wild mints, water-mints.

Baulme: m. Baulme, or Balsamum. Looke Basme. Baulme de Iesus Christ. An excellent balme, made of the best oyle, and old wine.  Bois de baulme. The sweet wood of the Balsame tree.

Baume: m. as Baulme. Baume: f. A hole, denne, caue, grot.

Bavois: m. A Table, or Paper, containing th' estimate of the rights of Seigneuriage, Foiblage, and Brassage, according to the seuerall rates of gold, siluer, and bullion, then currant, or made currant by the kings Ordinances.

Bavoler. To wag, wauer; flicker, or flye low, like a gnat in Vintage time.

Bavolet: m. A Billiment, or head-attire, worne by the women of Picardie; also, a Shittle-cocke.

Bavoleté. Chambriere bavoletée. A shittle-braind, or giddie-headed wench; also, one that weares a Bavolet. Bavon: m. A bib, mocket, or mocketer, for the bosome of a slauering child, &c.

Bavouer. as Bavois. Bauracineux: m. euse: f. Salt; or clammie; (from the minerall Borax; which the Arabians tearme Baurach.)

Baus: m. as Bauds; also, the beames, or floore-timbers, of a ship; the great pieces of timber that lye from side to side, within the Hould. Bausme: m. The Baulme tree, or Balsame tree; also, Baulme it selfe; Looke Baulme. Bausouïns: m. Streamers (in ships, &c.)

Baut: m. Baude: f. as Baude; iocond, merrie, blithe. Bay: m. Baye: f. Bay, of colour.  Le bay à miroir. A bright-dapled bay.

Bayard: m. A man that gapes, or gazes earnestly at a thing; a flye-catcher, a greedie and vnmannerly beholder.

Bayarde: f. A woman that earnestly beholds, greedily eyes, eagerly lookes, and in looking gapes, at a thing; a gazing houswife.

Bayart: m. as Bayard; also, a basket, or dosser, vsed for the carrying of earth, and fastened, for the same purpose, about the necke with two leatherne thongs. Bayart: m. arde: f. as Bay, (whence wee also tearme a bay horse, a bayard.)

Baybaye: f. A scornefull moe, or mouth made.

Baye: f. A lye, fib, foist, gull, rapper; a cosening tricke, or tale; also, a berrie; also, the cloth called Bayes; also, a bay of land. Repaistre de bayes. Looke Repaistre.

Bayer. To gape, or open the mouth very wide; also, to stand gaping, and gazing about, as home-bred hoidons doe when they come into an honourable presence; (hence) also, to behold wistly; also, to couet greedily, eagerly to gape after; Looke Béer.

Bayeul: m. as Bahu; a Trunke.

Bayeure: f. A gaping, or yawning; a holding, or setting of the mouth wide open.

Bayle: m. as Bailli, or as Baile; a Bayliffe. ¶Gasc. Bayonnette: f. A kind of small flat pocket-dagger, furnished with kniues; or a great knife to hang at the girdle, like a dagger.

Bayonnier. as Arbalestier. (an old word.) Bazane: f. Sheepes leather dressed like Spanish leather, and coloured red, greene, or yellow, &c, for shoes, or the couerings of bookes.

Bazaner. as Besanner; also, to blot, staine, or besmeare, (as with blacking;) to bleake, to beduske. Se bazaner. To wax bleake, tawnie, swart, blackish.

Bazanne. as Bazane. Bazaveresque: f. The name of a delicate Italian Peare thats ripe in August.

Baze: f. A Basis, or Base; the ground, foundation, root, or foot of a thing; Looke Base. Bazenne. as Bazane. Bazette. Toile baz. (Linnen) cloth which is but halfe white, or hath not beene throughly whitened.

Bazilles: f. Rocke Sampire, Crestmarine.

Bazoche. Looke Basoche. Beant: m. ante: f. Gaping, opening the mouth wide; also, gazing wistly, vnmannerly, or affectionately at.

Bearn. A Prouince of Aquitame, seated at the root, or foot, of the Pyrenean mountaines.  Cape de Bearn. See Cape. C'est la loy du pays de Bearn que le batu paye l'amende: Prov. The custome of Bearne is, that he thats beaten shall pay for the bloudwipe.

Beat: m. ate: f. Happie, blessed, holy, sacred; perfect; excellent.  Beat pere. as Beaupere. Habit de beat, ongles de chat: Prov. A wolfe in a sheepes skin.

Beatifié: m. ée: f. Beatified; made blessed.

Beatifier. To beatifie; to make blessed, sacred, or happie.

Beatiles: f. as Beatilles. Beatilles: f. Trinkets, or vaine toyes, wherewith finicall people decke themselues; trifles, nifles, odde attires; also, women of a low stature.

Beatitude: f. Beatitude, blessednesse, happinesse, felicitie, fulnesse of perfection, perfect goodnesse, or tranquilitie.

Beau: m. as Beauté; (whence;)  Quand beau vient sur beau, beau petd sa beauté: Prov. Beautie set off by beautie lookes beastly; or, beautie vsed as a foyle to beautie soyles it.

Beau: m. belle: f. Beautious, faire, beautifull; seemely, comely; proper, handsome, gracefull; of a goodly presence, of a sweet aspect, of a pleasing dye, or hue. Belle dame. A kind of Dwale, or sleeping Nightshade. Tout beau. Take you leisure, soft and faire, not too fast; hold there hoe; ynough's as good as a feast. À beau ieu bel argent. Round play, in good earnest, in good proportion; to good purpose; or, one for another; as in; À beau ieu beau retour. A tit for a tat, a tut for a tush, as good euery whit as was brought. I'ay beau attendre. I stay to much purpose; here's goodly tarrying sure; I shall but loose my labor, how long soeuer I tarrie. Il a beau faire chois de. He hath good leaue to chuse. Il a beau se leuer tard. ''He may lye long ynough; he may get vp as late as he will. Seeke'' Leuer. Ils l'avoyent beau flatter. They were glad, or faine, they held it their best course, to flatter him.