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Perhaps from Su. G. _ba.s.se_, vir potens, V. ~Bausy~, or _base_, spectrum, and _brun_, fuscus, q. the strong goblin of a brown appearance.
BAXTER, _s._ A baker, S.
V. ~Bakster~.
_Ramsay._
BAZED, BASED, BASIT, _part. pa._
_Watson's Coll._
_Maitland Poems._
Teut. _baes-en_, delirare; Belg. _byse_, _bysen_, turbatus; Su. G.
_bes-a_ denotes the state of animals so stung by insects, that they are driven hither and thither; Fr. _bez-er_, id.
BE, _prep._
1. By, as denoting the cause, agent, or instrument, S.
_Barbour._
2. Towards, in composition; as, _be-east_, towards the east; _be-west_, towards the west, S.
_Wyntown._
3. Of, concerning; as, _be the_, concerning thee.
_Wallace._
4. By the time that.
_Diallog._
5. During, expressive of the lapse of time.
_Keith._
A. S. _be_, per; de; circa.
_Be than_, by that time.
BE, _part. pa._ Been.
_Douglas._
_To_ BEAL.
V. ~Beil~.
BEANSHAW.
V. ~Benshaw~.
_To_ BEAR, BER, BERE, _v. a._ _To bear on hand_, to affirm, to relate.
_Wyntown._
_To bear upon_, to restrain one's self, S. B.
_Ross._
BEAR, BERE, _s._ Barley, having four rows of grains, S. Hordeum vulgare, Linn.
_Wyntown._
A. S. _bere_, Moes. G. _bar_, hordeum.
BEAR LAND, land appropriated for a crop of barley, S.
_To go through the bear land with_ one, to tell him all the grounds of umbrage at his conduct, to pluck a crow with him, S.
BEARIS BEFOR, Ancestors.
_Wallace._
A translation of Lat. _antecessores_.
BEARANCE, _s._ Toleration, S.
_J. Nicol._
BEAT, _s._ A stroke, a blow, a contusion, S. B. apparently the same with _Byt_ used in this sense by Douglas.
_To_ BEBBLE, _v. a._
