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 114 Bee-butt. A bee-hive. Butt, a beehive, is a Celtic Cornish word. Bee-skip. A bee-hive. M.A.C. Bee-s^^6 ? Skiber is Celtic Cornish for, a large room. Beat^ or Bete. Turf cut and dried, for burning at home, or in the fields. Beat burrows. Heaps of dry turf collected for burning on the open ground. Also used of the burrows when burnt. Beat-burning. The firing of dried turf for the sake of the ashes as manure. Bete (Saxon) to make fires. " To bete fires." Chaucer, Beauty. Used as a term of contempt, thus, "that beauty ! '' or thus, " you'm a putty beauty ! " Becker. A species of bream. c. Bed-ale. Christening or lying in ale. Polwhele. Bedman. A sexton, c. Bedh is Celtic Cornish for, a grave. Bedoled. Overdone by grief or pain — see Dowlin. Bed-tye. A feather bed — see Tye. Bedwaddled, or Betwattled. Bewildered, con- fused. W.T.A.P. Beety. To mend fishing nets. Beheemed. Sickly. m.a.c. Bell-metal. A brass pot or crock used for boiling fruits for preserves or jams.