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A. S. _graf-an_, fodere; Teut. _be-gra-ven_, sepelire.
BEGRETTE, _pret._ Saluted.
_Douglas._
A. S. _gret-an_, Belg. _be-groet-en_, salutare.
BEGRUTTEN, _part. pa._ Having the face disfigured with weeping, S.
Sw. _begratande_, bewailing.
V. ~Greit~.
BEGUILE, _s._ A deception, trick, the slip; sometimes a disappointment, S.
_Ross._
BEGUNKIT, _part. adj._ Cheated, Clydes.
V. ~Begeck~.
_To_ BEHALD, _v. a._
1. To behold, S. _behaud_.
_Wyntown._
2. To have respect to, to view with favour or partiality.
_Douglas._
_Spectat_, Virg. A. S. _beheald-an_.
3. To wait, to delay; q. to look on for a while, S. used both as an active, and as a neuter verb.
_Ross._
~Behold~ occurs in the same sense.
_Baillie._
BEHAUYNGIS, _s. pl._ Manners, deportment.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
_Mores_, Boeth.
V. ~Havings~.
_To_ BEHECHT, _v. n._ To promise.
_Douglas._
Chaucer, _behete_, A. S. _behaet-an_, id. R. Glouc. _behet_; R.
Brunne, _be-hette_, promised.
BEHECHT, BEHEST, BEHETE, _s._
1. Promise.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
2. Engagement, covenant.
_Douglas._
3. Command.
_Douglas._
Chaucer, _beheste_, id.
BEHO, BOHO, _s._ A laughing-stock. "To mak a _boho_" of any thing, to hold it up to ridicule, S. B.
Alem. _huohe_, ludibrium.
_To_ BEHUFE, _v. n._ To be dependent on.
_Douglas._
A. S. _behof-ian_, Belg. _behoev-en_, to stand in need of, egere, opus habere.
BEJAN CLa.s.s, a designation given to the Greek cla.s.s in the Universities of St Andrew's and Aberdeen; as, till of late, in that of Edinburgh.
Hence, the students in this cla.s.s are denominated _Bejans_.
Fr. _bejaune_, a novice, an apprentice, a young beginner in any science, art, or trade. Cotgr. derives _bejaune_ from _bec jaulne_, literally a yellow beak or bill. Du Cange observes that L. B.
_bejaunus_ signifies a young scholar of any university, and _bejaunium_ the festivity that is held on his arrival. The term is thus very emphatic, being primarily used in relation to a bird newly hatched, whose beak is of a deep yellow.
