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 Beccusse: f. A tumult, vprore, hurrie, hurliburly.

Becdasse. ¶Rab. as Beccasse. Becdoye. A Dolphin.

Becfigue. The daintie little bird, called by some, a Gnat-*snapper, or Fig-eater; (I rather thinke, that wanting the bird, as we doe, we want also a name for it.)

Beche: f. An instrument of Husbandrie, &c, hauing a crooked, or in-bending, and beake-like, head; and vsed for the opening, or breaking vp, of hard, or stony ground, whereinto the Besche (or spade) cannot enter.

Bechebois: m. A Speight, or Wood-picker.

Bechée: f. A beake-full, or bill-full of; also, the pecking of an angrie bird.

Becher. as Bescher. Bechet. as Brochet; A Pike-fish. Bechevet. teste à teste Bechevet. The play with pins, called, heads, and points; also, the lying of two in a bed, the one right, the other with his head at the feet; See Beschever. Becheur. as Bescheur. Bechique: f. A medicine for the Cough.

Bechistre. A tempest, or storme.

Bechu: m. uë: f. Beaked; hauing a beake, like a bird, hooked, or sharpe, as a beake.

Bechus. A kind of deformed thing in the sea, thats neither fish, nor plant, yet seemes to moue of it selfe. ¶Langued. Becquade: f. A pecke, iob, or bob with a beake.

Becque: f. A ditch, or trench made vpon the high way; (also, as Beche. ¶Norm.)

Becqué. Beaked; a tearme of Heraldrie.

Becquebo. A Woodpecker, or Highaw.

Becquée. as Bechée. Becquefigue. as Becfique. Becquer. To pecke, or bob with the beake.

Becquet. The name of an apple thats good to be eaten raw; also, a Pike (fish;) Looke Bequet. Becquetant: m. ante: f. Pecking, as a bird; also, nodding with the head; also, playing, or checking, like a horse, with the mouth.  Faim becquetante. Biting, or pricking, hunger.

Becqueté: m. ée: f. Pecked, or iobbed at.

Becquetement: m. A pecking; also, a nodding; also, a checking with the mouth.

Becqueter. To pecke, like a bird; also, to nod with the head; also, a horse to play, or checke with the mouth.

Becquillon: m. A little beake, or bill.

Becu. as Bechu. Bedacier: m. ere: f. Beadle-like; of, or belonging to, a Beadle.

Bedaine: f. A short barre of steele, or of yron; also, a forked arrow for a Crosse-bow; also, ill lucke; also, a fat guts, or gorbellie; also, the belly; and hence;  Prendre bedaine sur la plaine. To take the measure of his belly on the ground; or, to fall on his belly.

Bedat. bois b. ou vedat. An inclosed wood; a wood that lyes not open, or, is not common.

Bedaud: m. A fedle, minion, fauourite; a dilling, or darling.  Mon petit bedaud. My pretie ape, my little bullie.

Bedeau: m. A Beadle; a Verger; also, (in Normandie, and other places) an vnder Bayliffe, or yeoman to a Sergeant; or Catchpole inferior to the Sergeant.

Bedegar: m. Our Ladies thistle.

Bedengue. A certaine apple, that yeelds most excellent cyder.

Bedier: m. A doult, sot, cokes, ninnie, noddie. Deniers avancent les bediers: Prov. Money ad-*
 * uanceth Meacockes.

Bedon: m. A Tabret; also, the belly.  Mon bedon. My pretie rogue, my sweet bully.  Ce que dit le bedon, a de credit son: Prov. The belly must also be listned vnto; the appetite beares great sway in all humane actions.

Bedondaine: f. That part of the belly which is between the nauell, and priuities.

Bedonner. To play vpon a taber.

Bedoual. as Bedouau. Bedouau. A young Brocke, or Badger; also, a sea-cob, or sea-gull.

Bedoue. A Gray, Brocke, Boson, Badger.

Bée: f. The bleating of a sheepe; also, a hole, ouerture, or opening, in the wall, or other part, of a house &c.

Bée. gueule bée. Gaping, with an open mouth.

Beelant. A sheepe. ¶Barr. Beellement: m. A bleating; or, the crie of a sheepe.

Beeller. To bleat, or crie, like a sheepe.

Beement: m. A gaping.

Been: m. An Arabian Plant, of two kinds, viz. a white, and a red one; (which difference is bred onely by their roots.)  Been blanc. The white (Arabian) Bene; Some of our moderne Herballists call srothic Poppie, or spatling Poppie, white Bene.  Been rouge. The red (Arabian) Bene; the same Herballists call, red Valerian, or Cow-basill; and others, Limeworte, or Catch-flye, red Bene; all improperly.

Béer. To gape, or open the mouth very wide; Looke Bayer. Béer contre vn four. is, in effect, as much as, To halt before a criple, or speake Latine before clerkes.

Befflé: m. ée: f. Deceiued, mocked, gulled.

Beffler. To deceiue, mocke, or gull, with faire words, &c.

Beffleries: f. Fooleries, mockeries, gudgeons, gulleries.

Beffroy: m. A Beacon, or, a Watch-tower, from which things may be discerned farre off; also, an Allarum bell; also, a suddaine feare; also, a place wherein wild beasts are kept; Looke Baffroy. Begauder. To loyter.

Begayement: m. A fambling, or maffling in the mouth; and (most properly) the imperfect pronunciation of a child, that begins, or but learnes, to speake.

Beguayer. To famble, fumble, maffle in the mouth; to speake imperfectly, or, as a child, that but begins to speake.

Begude: f. A Cote, Cottage, thatched shed, or shelter.

Begue: f. A Sea-mew.

Begue: com. Fambling, fumbling, maffling in the mouth; imperfectly, or childishly, speaking.  Navire begue. A ship whose stemme, beake, or nose is pointed with yron, or brasse.

Beguée: m. as Beguer. Beguer: m. A Sergeant, or Officer, that executes the Commaundements giuen, and Commissions sent out, by the publicke Magistrate. ¶Bearnois. Begueyement. as Begayement. Begueyer. as Beguayer. Beguin: m. A Biggin for a child.

Beguines: f. An Order of Nunnes, or religious women, who commonly be all old, or well in yeares.

Beguiner. To put on a Biggin.

Beguoyement. as Begayement.

Behen. A very cordiall root; of two sorts; white, and red; Looke Ben.

Behistre. A horrible storme, or tempest in the aire. ¶Pic.