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BEILDY, _adj._ Affording shelter.
_Ramsay._
BEILD, _adj._ Bold.
_Houlate._
A. S. _beald_, id. A. S. Alem. _belde_, audacia.
BEILL, _s._ Perhaps, sorrow, care, q. _baill_.
_Bannatyne Poems._
BEIN, _s._ Bone, Ang.
One is said to be _aw frae the bein_, all from the bone, when proud, elevated, or highly pleased; in allusion, as would seem, to the fleshy parts rising from the bone, when the body is swollen.
BEIN, BEYNE, _adj._ ~Beinlier~.
V. ~Bene~.
BEIR, BERE, BIR, BIRR, _s._
1. Noise, cry, roar.
_Douglas._
The word is used in this sense by R. Glouc.
2. Force, impetuosity; often as denoting the violence of the wind, S.
_Vir_, _virr_, Aberd.
_Douglas._
O. E. _bire_, _byre_, _birre_. The term, especially as used in the second sense, seems nearly allied to Isl. _byre_ (tempestas), Su. G.
_boer_, the wind; which seem to acknowledge _byr-ia_, _boer-ia_, surgere, as their root.
_To_ BEIR, BERE, _v. s._ To roar, to make a noise.
_Wallace._
Teut. _baeren_, _beren_, is expl. by Kilian; Fremere, sublate et ferociter clamare more ursorum. The learned writer seems thus to view it as a derivative from _baere_, _bere_, a bear.
BEIRD, _s._ A bard, a minstrel.
V. ~Baird~.
_Douglas._
BEYRD, _pret._ Laid on a bere.
_Maitland Poems._
From A. S. _baer_, _baere_, feretrum.
BEIRTH, BYRTHE, _s._ Burden, inc.u.mbrance, charge; Gl. Sibb.
Dan. _byrde_, _byrth_; Isl. _byrd_; Su. G. _boerd-a_; Belg. _borde_, A. S. _byrth-in_; from Moes. G. _bair-an_, Su. G. _baer-a_, to bear.
BEIS, _v. s._ Be, is; third p. sing. subj. S.
_Douglas._
Here the second pers. is improperly used for the third. A. S.
_byst_, sis; Alem. Franc. _bist_, es, from _bin_, sum; Wachter, vo.
_Bin_.
BEIS, BEES, One's head is said to be _in the bees_, when one is confused or stupified with drink or otherwise, S.
_s.h.i.+rrefs._
Teut. _bies-en_, aestuari, furente impetu agitari; or from the same origin with _Bazed_, q. v.
BEIST, BEISTYN, _s._ The first milk of a cow after she has calved, S.
_biestings_, E.
A. S. _beost_, _byst_; Teut. _biest_, _biest melck_, id.
(colostrum).
_To_ BEIT, BETE, BEET, _v. a._
1. To help, to supply; to mend, by making addition.
_Henrysone._
