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 Baillez luy belle. Goodly betide him; some bodie spit in his mouth, for now he hath hit it sure.  Il luy l'a baillé belle. He hath sold him a bargaine, he hath giuen him the boots, a gleeke, or gudgeon.  Il l'avoit failli belle. He scaped faire, or missed it narrowly; he was very neere it, he was very like to haue had, or hit, it.  Beau chanter souvent enuye: Prov. Sweet singing often loathes vs.  Belle chere &c. Looke Chere. Belle chose est tost ravie: Pro. A goodly thing is quickly snatched vp.  Belle femme mauvaise teste: Pro. Faire women either curst, or cruell, be.  Les beaux hommes au gibet: Pro. The gibbet makes an end of proper men.  Petites pucelles sont ensemble belles: Prov. Looke Pucelle. Qui viét est beau, qui apporte encores plus beau: Prov. No man's esteemd so faire as he that comes full-handed.

Beaucoup. Much, greatly, a great deale; also, many.  Beaucoup offrir à vn qui peu demande, c'est luy nier tout à plat sa demande: Prov. To offer much to him that asketh little, is slatly to denie him the little he asketh.  Trois beaucoup, & trois peu destruisent l'homme: Pro. viz. To speake much, and know but little; to spend much, and haue but little; to presume vpon much, and deserue but little.

Beau-fils: m. A step sonne, or sonne in law; Seeke Fils. Beau-frere: m. A brother in law.

Beau-pere: m. The title of a Frier which is a Confessor; also, a father in law; also, a father that hath bestowed all his children in mariage.

Beaupré. The sprit-sayle of a ship.

Beauregard: m. A Summer house, or Graunge; a house for pleasure, and recreation.

Beauté: f. Beautie, fairenesse, sweetnesse of fauor; comelinesse, goodlinesse, gracefulnesse.  Beauté Grecque. See Grec. Beauté sans bonté est comme vin esventé: Prov. Beautie without goodnesse is like wine that hath taken wind.  Beauté de femme fascheux resveille-matin: Prov. A (wanton) womans beautie breeds a restlesse morning.  Beauté & folie vont souvent de compaigne: Prov. Beautie and folly are often matcht together.  Fy de ieunesse, & de beauté desgarnie d'humilité: Pro. Looke Fy. Quand beau vient sur beau beau perd sa beauté: Pro. Beautie layed on beautie lookes beastly.

Beauvois. The name of a fruitfull red Vine.

Bec: m. The beake, or bill of a bird, &c; also, a Point of land at which two riuers meet. Bec à broüet. A little pratling peart girle; a prattle-basket. Bec d'Asne. A toole belonging to a Mason. Bec de Cane. A kind of Pinsers, made like a duckes beake; and toothed within to hold a bullet (for the drawing out whereof it is vsed) the more firmely; See Cane. Souliers à bec de cane: Old-fashioned shoes hauing long peakes, like beakes, sticking out for their toe-peece. Bec de Cicoigne. The hearb Storks-bill, Pink-needle, Cranes bill, Hearons bill. Bec de Corbin. A Pensioners halberd, or pollax; also, a Surgeons toole made like the beake of that bird; also, the anterior production of the shoulder blade; (so tearmed by some Anatomists.)  Bec de cigne. A Swans-bill; a Pinser, or Instrument, wherewith Surgeons pull bullets, &c, out of the bodie.  Bec de faulcon. A fashion of Pollax borne by the Peeres of France, and by the French kings Pensioners; Looke Faulcon. Bec de grue. as Bec de Cicoigne; also, a Surgeons toole made like a Cranes bill.  Bec iaulne. See Bejaune. Bec de la lampe; The socket, or snuffe of the lampe.  Bec large. as Bec de Cane. Bec de lezard. An instrument wherewith Surgeons draw out bullets, and the splents of bones.  Bec de lieure. An vpper lip cleft vp to the nose.  Bec d'oye. Wild tansie, siluer weed; also, the Porpoise, or Sea-hog.  Bec de perroquet. A Parrats beake; a Pinser which opens, and shuts with a Vice; and serues to pull splints of bones, and other hard things, out of the bodie.  Coup de bec. A peck, bob, iob, or stroke with the beake of an angrie bird; and (metaphorically) a flout, scoffe, gird, nip, cut; also, a mischiefe, iniurie, or ill turne, done; also, a kisse.  Orseau de bec. A Parasite, or Buffoone.  Tour de bec. A kisse; also, a word of the mouth.  Avoir bon bec. To speake discreetly, answere warily, aduisedly, or cunningly.  Avoir le bec gelé. To be tongue-tyed, silent, husht, as if his lips were frosen together.  Elles n'ont que le bec. They are all tongue, they can doe nought but prate, bable, tatle; or, they are but a little snout-faire, all their rest is not worth looking at.  Il a bien d'autre paille au bec. There's other kind of stuffe in him; he is another manner of man, then you thinke of.  Faillir par le bec. sa cause ne faillira par le bec. His matter will not be lost for want of words.  Faire le bec à vn. To teach one before hand what he shall say.  Il luy passa la plume par le bec. He drew his penne through his lips; he baffled, rid, gulled, abused him.  Tenir le bec en l'eau. To dally with; to delay, amuse, or hold in suspence.  Il n'a pas tenu le bec en l'eau. A man may safely say, he is drunke; but he that sayes, with water, wrongs him.

Becasse: f. A Woodcocke; See Beccasse. Becasseau, Becassine, & Becasson. A Snite, or Snipe.

Beccane. A kind of blacke grape which yeeldeth an excellent wine.

Beccard. The female Salmon.

Beccasse: f. A Woodcocke.  Beccasse de mer. The sea Pie; also, a kind of fish.  Beccasse petite. A Snite, or Snipe.

Beccassé: m. ée: f. Gulled, abused, woodcockised, made a woodcocke.

Beccasseau: m. A Snite; also, a little Woodcocke.

Beccassine: f. as Beccasseau; a Snite, or Snipe. Beccasson: m. The same.

Beccu: m. ue: f. Beaked; hauing a beake; beake-like; sharpe, or hooked, as a birds bill. Addition beccuë. The elbow; tearmed so by some Anatomists.