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Rh *basto : — a staff.
 * bastonicum : — close custody.
 * basum. Per basum tolnetum capere, to take toll by strike.
 * batalia : — battle.
 * batella, batellus : — a small boat.
 * batellagium : — boat-hire.
 * batellarius : — a boatman ; a bateller, the lowest order in Oriel College.
 * batellatus : — embattled.
 * batellus : — a boat. See batillus.
 * bateria : — battery, beating.
 * batilda : — toll for boats (?).
 * batillayium : — carriage by boat ; boat-hire.
 * batillare : — to send by boat.
 * batillus : — a bat ; a beetle ; a clapper ; a boat.
 * batitoria : — a fulling mill.
 * batium. See barium.
 * bativa, batura : — battery.
 * batleuga. See banleuga.
 * batus : — a boat ; a measure, 12½ gallons ; a peck ; a vessel used in feeding horses ; a bat.
 * baubare : — to bark ; to bay.
 * baubella : — jewels.
 * bauca : — a bason.
 * baucaria : — a tapster.
 * baudekinum. See baldekinum.
 * bausanus : — a badger, a bawson.
 * bausia, bosia : — treason, felony.
 * bausiare, bosiare : — to rebel.
 * bauzanus: — piebald. (Fr. baugant, bauzant.)
 * baya. See baia.
 * bazantius. See bisantius.
 * bazeyna : — basil, prepared leather.
 * bechare : — to dig ; to use a pick-axe.
 * becnus : — some sort of fish.
 * beconagium : — contribution for the maintenance of beacons.
 * bedelaria : — the office of beadle, or district to which his office extends ; bedellary.
 * bedellus : — a beadle, or bedell.
 * bederipa. See bedrepium.
 * bedrepium : — bedripe, harvest work done by tenants as a customary service ; it sometimes means a definite amount, perhaps a day's work.
 * bedripus. See bedrepium.
 * bedum : — the portion of a mill-stream which turns the wheel and is boarded up to increase the force of water.
 * belfredus : — a belfry.
 * belgiga : — a car, a chariot.
 * bellicrepa : — a master.
 * belligerare : — to make war.
 * bellum : — a battle; used, as the English word is, to denote a portion of an army ; a judicial combat, duel.
 * benda : — a band, either metal or stuff ; a bar ; a bend (heraldic).
 * beneificare : — to confer a benefice on ; to enfeoff.
 * beneficium : — a benefice, an ecclesiastical living or promotion.