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 Bardane la grande. The burre-dock, clote bur, great burre.  Petite bardane. The louse-burre, ditch-burre, lesse burre docke.

Barde: f. A long saddle for an Asse, or moyle, made onely of course canuas stuffed with flockes.  Iavelin de barde. A barbed Jauelin, for a horseman.

Bardé: m. ée: f. Barbed, or trapped, as a great horse; also, bound, or tied ouer, and acrosse.

Barde: com. Blunt, blockish, dull-witted, hard-headed, sottish.

Bardeau: m. A shingle, or small boord, such as houses are couered with.

Bardelle: f. A Bardello; the quilted, or canuas saddle, wherewith coults are backed.

Barder. To barbe, or trap, horses; also, to bind, or tye acrosse, ouercrosse, or ouerthwart.

Bardes: f. Barbes, or trappings, for horses of seruice, or of shew.

Bardeure: f. A trapping of a horse; also, an ouerthwart binding, or tying.

Bardococulage: m. A being armed, or couered all ouer, with cowles; Monkerie; or a Monkish habit.

Bardococulé: m. ée: f. Dressed or armed in, adorned or couered with, a cowle, or Monkes hood.

Bardou: m. A sot, a blockehead, a dull fellow; (an old word.)

Baretter. as Bariner; To churne. Barge: f. A certaine fowle, that hath no spleene; shee is onely somewhat lesse than a Curlue, but otherwise resembles her; also, the banke of a riuer, or water.

Barguignard. A bargaining, or chaffering person; or as Barguigneur. Barguigne: f. A bargaine; or a wrangling, and dodging in bargaine-making.

Barguigner. To chaffer; to bargaine; or (more properly) to wrangle, dodge, haggle, brabble, in the making of a bargaine.  Apres besongne faitte le fol barguigne: Prov. The foole beginnes to wrangle when his worke is ended; or, When worke is ended fooles fall out about it; (viz. for want of agreeing before hand.)

Barguigneur: m. A dodger, or hagler, a wrangling bargainer; one that vses to cheapen much, and buy nothing; or, vses many words about a thing, but comes not neere the price of it.

Baricaue: f. as Barricave. Baricquer. To bray like an Elephant.

Baril. as Barril. Barillet. A little barrell.

Barillier: m. A maker of barrels; also, an officer that tends, and lookes to, the caske of a great mans sellor.

Bariner. To churne butter.

Bariquade: f. as Barriquade. Barique: f. The halfe of a Queuë, or Poinson; a vessell somewhat bigger than our barrell.

Bariqué: m. ée: f. Barricadoed.

Bariquelle: f. A skiffe, or little boat, like a Wherrie, or scull.

Bariteau: m. A Siue made of haire.

Baritonnant. Wagging, dangling; also, braying.

Baritonner. To wag, or dangle, vp and downe; also to bray like an Elephant.

Barizel: m. A Captaine, or leader of Catchpoles; an ordinarie Prouost Marshall.

Barlong: m. A vessell, plot, or proportion thats of more length than breadth; See Balongue. Barlong: m. gue: f. More long than broad; or, longer in one place than in another.

Barlonguer. To make; or grow, or be, more long than broad.

Barluë: f. A glimmering; or a dimme, duskie, or imperfect light; also, pur-blindnesse.

Barme: f. The banke of a riuer, &c.

Barnabé: m. (A proper name) Barnabie. À la S. Barnabé la faux au pré: Prov. (That is about the eleuenth of June.)

Barnage: m. ''All the traine, stuffe, and equipage of a great person carried, and going, along with him in a progresse, or iourney. Looke'' Bernage. Barnez. The Nobilitie, or Barons; (an old, and seldome vsed, word.)

Barocco. Barocco; the name of a Syllogisticall mood in Logicke; Hence (with an equiuocall allusion to the word Broc) The Tiplers phrase;  Conclure in Barocco. To draw a moist conclusion out of a Tankerd, or Flagon; to conclude by quaffing, or with a carouse.

Baron: m. A husband (¶Pic. and in our Law;) also, a Baron, or Lord Baron: In which sence it hath two significations; one generall, for an immediate vassall of the Crowne, (whether he be Duke, Marquesse, Earle, or Prince,) that hath not any right, or priuiledge, of Soueraigntie; (whence, les Barons de France:) Another speciall, for a Baron, or the Lord of a Baronie (see Baronnie) whose ranke is (as is England) next below a Viscounts''; (if their tenures be equall; for otherwise a Baron that holds immediatly of the King, or of a royall Countie, &c, goes before a Viscount that holds of a Countie, &c, which is not royall;) and howsoeuer next aboue a Lo. Chastellains. In old time les Barons were th' ordinarie Magistrats of France; and the title grew so common, that all Hauts Iusticiers (especially such, as had incroached vpon le Droict de Ressort) vsurped it: At this day (no lesse commonly) the eldest sonne to the Lord of a village, is in many Prouinces tearmed, le Baron; And no better than the Burghers of some priuiledged townes, as Bourges, &c, do stile themselues Barons; (which degrees of Barons very often deserue to be Englished, Bare-ones;) The Lo. Baron may, of himselfe wall and fortifie the principall village of his Baronie; and keepe the keyes of the gates thereof whether th' inhabitants will or no; and in time of daunger, appoint a Captaine therin; but this with their consents.''  Parez vn herisson il semblera Baron: Prov. Good, (or gay) clothes will make a Monkie seeme a Monsieur.

Baron: m. onne: f. (Sain & baron) Of the male kind; also, manly, hardie, strong.

Barone: f. ''A Baronnesse; the Ladie of a Baronie, or wife of a Lo. Baron.''

Baronie: f. as Baronnie.

Baronnie: f. A Baronie; a Lordship of dignitie, superiour to a Chastelenie, and inferiour to a Vicountie; Some define it, Any chiefe Seigneurie, next vnto the Soueraigne, held immediately of the Crowne,; Others, A title peculiar to certaine Seigneuries that are held onely of the King, and haue no other title; which definition agrees best with the moderne, and th' other with the ancient, French Baronies, whereof originally there were but three, viz. Bourbon, Coucy, and Beaujeu; all held immediatly of the Crowne, and at length made Dutchies, Marquessates, or Earledomes; so that they haue left almost no markes of, nor matches to, themselues behind them: For all, or the most of