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BEFORN, _prep._ Before.
_Wallace._
It occurs also in O. E.
_R. Brunne._
A. S. _beforan_, ante; coram.
BEFOROUTH, _adv._ Before, formerly.
V. ~Forowth~.
_Barbour._
BEFT, _part. pa._ Beaten.
V. ~Beff~.
_To_ BEGARIE, _v. a._
1. To variegate, to deck with various colours.
_Lyndsay._
2. To stripe, to variegate with lines of various colours, to streak.
_Begaryit_, striped, _part. pa._
_Douglas._
3. To besmear; to bedaub, to bespatter. "S. _begaried_, bedirted;" Rudd.
vo. ~Laggerit~.
_Lyndsay._
This _v._ has an evident affinity to our _Gair_, _gare_, a stripe of cloth, and _Gaired_, _gairy_, q. v. The word is immediately allied to Fr. _begarr-er_, to diversify; _begarre_, of sundry colours, mingled.
BEGAIRIES, _s. pl._ Stripes or slips of cloth sewed on garments, by way of ornament, such as are now worn in liveries; _pessments_, S. synon.
_Acts Ja. VI._
BEGANE, _part. pa._ Covered; _Gold begane_, overlaid with gold.
_Douglas._
_Aurea tecta_, Virg. According to Rudd. q. _gone over_. Chaucer uses the phrase, _With gold begon_, Rom. Rose, 943., "painted over with gold," Tyrwh.
_To_ BEGECK, BEGAIK, BEGEIK, _v. a._ To deceive; particularly by playing the jilt, S.B.
_Dunbar._
Teut. _gheck-en_, deridere, ludibrio habere.
V. ~Geck~.
BEGEIK, BEGINK, BEGUNK, _s._
1. A trick, or illusion, which exposes one to ridicule, S.
_Ramsay._
2. It often denotes the act of jilting one in love; applied either to a male, or to a female, S.
~Begeik~ is the more common term, S. B.
_Morison._
BEGES, BEGESS, _adv._ By chance, at random.
_Evergreen._
From _be_, by, and _gess_, guess, Belg. _ghisse_.
BEGGER-BOLTS, _s. pl._ "A sort of darts or missile weapons. The word is used by James VI. in his Battle of Lepanto, to denote the weapons of the _forceats_, or galley-slaves." Gl. Sibb. Hudson writes _beggers' bolts_.
The word may have originated from contempt of the persons, who used these arms, q. _bolts_ of _beggars_.
BEGOUTH, BEGOUDE, _pret._ Began.
_Wyntown._
_Begoud_ is now commonly used, S.
A. S. _gynn-an_, _beginn-an_, seem to have had their pret. formed like _eode_, from _gan_, ire: _Beginnan_, _begeode_.
BEGRAUIN, _part. pa._ Buried, interred.
_Douglas._
