tailed tit.

North.

BILLY-WIX, 8. An owl. East.

BILOKE, part. p. Fastened; locked. BILOWE, v. (A.-S.) To bend; to bow.

BILTER, S. The water-rail. North.
BILYVE, S. (4.-S.) Food.
BIM-BOM, (1) s. The sound of bells.

(2) s. Cobwebs. Somerset. BIMEBY, adv. By and by. Somerset. BIMELDE, V. (A.-S.) To speak of a thing.

Dame, God the forzelde,

Bote on that thou me nout bimelde.
Wright's Anecd. Lit., p. 3.

BIMENE, v. (A.-S. bemænan.) To lament; to pity; to bemoan. Part. p., biment, bemoaned. Pret. t., biminde, mourned, lamented.

BIN. (1) Been.

(2) adv. Being, in the sense of because. "Why dessunt stand up?" "Bin ez cant." Devon. BIND, S. (1) Any indurated argilla

ceous substance. A mining term. (2) A certain number of eels; according to Kennett, two hundred and fifty.

(3) A hop-stalk. South.

(4) Anything that binds. East. BIND-CORN, Ss. Buck-wheat. BIND-DAYS, S. Days on which ten

ants were bound to reap their lord's corn at harvest-time. BINDING, S. (1) A hazel rod or thorn, used for binding the hedgetops. North.

(2) The tiring of a hawk. BINDING-BAND, 8. A girdle.

Ceinture. A girdle, or binding-band: a girth. Nomenclator, 1585.

BINDING-BEAN-TREE,S. The black

thorn.

BINDING-COURSE, S. The top course of hay before it is bound on the cart with a rope. North.

8. The se

BINDING-TUESDAY, J cond Tuesday after Easter.

BIND-WEED, s. The wild convolvulus.

BINE, s. The stalk of the hopBYNE, plant. 了

bridgeshire, according to Cam

den's Britannia, malt was called byne.

BINETHEN, prep. Beneath.

BING, (1) v. To begin to turn sour, said of milk. Chesh.

(2) adv. Away. Decker.
(3) v. To go. A cant term.
(4) s. A superior kind of lead.
(5) s. A bin.

BINGE, V. To soak a vessel in water

to prevent its leaking. Linc. Leic. It is also used in the sense of to soak, generally.

BINGER, adj. Tipsy. Linc. BING-STEAD, s. The place where ore is deposited in the furnace. It was also termed bing-place, and bing-hole.

BINIME, v. (4.-S.) To take away. BINK, S. A bench. North." The bink of a coal-pit," the subterraneous vault in a mine.

BINNE, adv. (A.-S. binnan.) Within.
BINNICK, S. A minnow. Somers.
BINSTEAD, S. A bay in a barn for
housing corn. Northampt.
BIPARTED, Ladj. (Lat. biparti-
BIPARTITED, tus.) Parted in two.
Of Quintus Ramista his father's third son.
As if one tree bare two boughs, none be-
side;

So thou dost all things in two parts divide.
If all thing else should bipartited be,
What of thy fathers goods would come to
thee?
Owen's Epigrams, 1677.
BIQUASSHEN, v. (A.-S.) To crush
to pieces.
BIRAFTE, pret. t. of bireve. Be-
BIRAU3TE,reft.
BIRCHING-LANE.

"To send a per

son to birching-lane," a proverbial phrase for ordering him to be whipped.

(2) s. Any pet animal. Kent. (3) s. Bread. Exmoor. BIRD-BATTING, S. A method of catching birds at night with a net and light. BIRD-BOLT, S. (1) A short thick arrow with a broad flat end, used to kill birds without piercing. (2) The burbot. BIRD-BOY, 8. A boy who drives birds from the corn. BIRD-CALL, S. A small whistle used to imitate the call of birds.

BIRDER, S. (1) A bird-catcher.

Dont talk to a body so; I cannot hold out if thou dost, my eyes will run over, poor fool, poor birdsnies, poor lambkin!

Otway, Soldier's Fortune, 1681.

BIRD-TENTING, S. Watching the birds to drive them away from the corn.

BIRE, 8. (4.-S.) A stall; a cowhouse. BIREDI, (1) v. (A.-S.) To counsel.

(2) part. p. Buried. BIRELAY, S. (A.-N.) A virelay. Perhaps a mere clerical error.

BIREPE, v. To bind.
BIREVE, v. To bereave.
BIREWE, v. (A.-S.) To rue.
BIRFUL, adj. Roaring.
BIRGAND, 8. A sort of wild

BIRGANDER,

} goose.

BIRGE, 8. A bridge. Northampt. BIRIEL, S. Burial; also, a grave. BIRK, 8. A birch-tree. North. BIRL, 8. A rattling noise. North. BIRLADY. By our Lady. North. BIRLE, v. (1) (A.-S.) To pour out; to draw wine.

(2) To powder; to spangle. BIRLER, S. The master of the revels at a bidding-wedding in Cumberland, one of whose duties is to superintend the refreshments. BIRLET, 8. (Fr. bourlet.) A band for a lady's head.

BIRNY, 8. (A.-S.) A cuirass, or coat of mail.

BIRR, 8. (4.-S.) Force; impetus;
a rapid whirling motion. North.
BIRRET, S. A hood. Skinner.
BIRSE, S. A bristle. North.
BIRSEL. v. To roast, or to broil.
North.

BIRT, S. A kind of turbot. "Byrte
fyshe, rhombus." Huloet.
BIRTH, S. A place; a station.
BIRTHDOM, S. Birthright.
BIRTH-WORT, s. The aristolochia.
The English and Greek names
have the same signification (the
latter from ἄριστα ταῖς λόχοις,
i. e., good for women in child-
birth).

BIRTLE, (1) adj. Brittle. East.

(2) s. A summer apple. Yorksh. BIRYE, S. (4.-S.) A city, or town. BIS, 8. (1) (4.-N.) A silk of fine texture, generally described with the epithet purple. "Purple and bis " are sometimes mentioned separately, but the former is then probably used as the name of a stuff.

Girt Windsore Castle rounde. Anon I saw Under a canapie of crymson bysse,

BISCAN, 8. A finger-glove. Devon. BISCHEDE, v. To overflow. BISCHET, part. p. Shut up. BISCHYNE, v. To shine upon. BISCORE, adv. Immediately. BISCOT, 8. (4.-S.) A fine imposed on the owners of marsh lands for not keeping them in repair. BISCOTIN, S. (Fr.) A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, eggs, and other ingredients. BISCUIT, S. A plain cake as distin

guished from a richerone. Sussex. BISE, v. (A.-S.) To look about. BISEGGEN, v. (A.-S.) To reproach. BISEKEN, v. (A.-S.) To beBISECHEN, seech.

BISELET, 8. A carpenter's tool.
BISEMEN, v. (4.-S.) To appear.
BISEN, adj. Blind. See Bisne.
BISENDE, v. (4.-S.) To send to.
BISETTEN, v. To place; to set.
BISGEE, S. A short-handled mat-
tock, to serve for a pickaxe and
axe. West.

BISHREWE, V. (A.-S.) To curse.
BISHETTE, v. To shut up.
BISHOP, (1) s. A kind of punch

made of roasted oranges, lemons,
and wine. The name is said to
have been derived from a custom
in old times of regaling bishops
with spiced wine, when they
visited the University. Its cha-
racter is given in the following
lines:

Three cups of this a prudent man may take; The first of these for constitution's sake, The second to the lass he loves the best, The third and last to lull him to his rest.

(2) s. A popular name for a ladybird.

(3) v. To make artificial marks

on a horse's tooth, in order to
deceive buyers as to its age.
(4) v. To confirm. Bishopping,
confirmation.

Wanne the bisschop bisschopeth the,
Tokene of marke he set to the.

William de Shoreham.

(5) s. A pinafore or bib. Warw. (6) v. To water the balls, a term among printers.

(7) s.

That firy round in a burning candle called the bishop." Florio. BISHOP'D MILK, S. Milk that is burned in the boiling, whence it acquires a particular taste. In Staffordshire it is called griev'd or grew'd milk. In many parts, especially in Shropshire and Cheshire, when milk is burned, instead of saying "it is bishop'd," the phrase is, "the bishop has set his foot in it."

Blesse Cisley, good mistriss, that bushop doth ban,

For burning the milk of her cheese to the pan. Tusser's Husbandry.

When a thinge speadeth not well, we borowe speach and saye, The bysshope hath blessed it, because that nothinge speadeth well that they medyll withall. Yf the podeche be burned to, or the meate over rosted, we saye, The bysshope hath put his fote in the potte, or The bysshope playd the coke, because the byshopes burn who thei lust and whosoever displeaseth them.

Tyndale, Obedience of a Christen Man, 1535. BISHOP'S-FINGER, S. A guide-post. BISHOPSWORT, s. (A.-S.) A plant, a species of carum. BISIE, adj. (4.-S.) Busy. BISILKE, 8. Some kind of silk. "Bisilke the groce conteyning xii. dossen peces, x.s." Rates of Custome House, 1545. BISITTEN, v. To beset. BISK, (1) 8. A term at tennis, a stroke allowed to the weaker party to equalise the players. Car. I am for you at tennis. Prigg. I'll give you a bisk at Longs for ten pound. Shadwell, True Widow, 1679.

(2) To counsel.

BISPEL, S. (1) (4.-S.) A term of reproach. Cumb.

(2) A natural child. BISPEREN, v. (A.-S.) To lock up. BISPRENGDE, part.p. Sprinkled. Biss, s. (4.-N.) A hind. BISHADEWE, v. To shade over. BISSEN. Art not. West. BISSYN, v. To lull children to BYSZYNE, sleep. Prompt. P. BIST. Thou art; art thou? West. BISTANDE, V. (A.-S.) To stand by or near.

BISTERE, V. To bestir.

BISTOCKTE, S. A stock of provisions laid by. BISTRETE, adj. Scattered.

BISWINKEN, v. To labour hard. BISYHED, S. (4.-S.) Business; trouble.

BIT, (1) pres. t. Biddeth.

(2) s. The lower end of a poker. It is also used as a verb, to put a new end to a poker. West.

BITAISTE, pret. t. of bitake. Gave. (3) s. The nick of time. North. BITAKE, v. (4.-S.) To give; to commit to.

BITCH, S. (1) A term of reproach, given more especially to the female companion of a vagrant. The term "byche-clowte" is applied to a worthless woman, in the Cov. Myst., p. 218.

(2) A miner's tool for boring. North. BITCH-DAUGHTER, s. The nightmare. Yorksh.

BITE. (1) To bite the ear, was once an expression of endearment. Ben Jonson has biting the nose in a similar sense. To bite the thumb at a person, was an insult; the thumb in this action represented a fig, and the whole was equivalent to giving the fico, a relic of an obscene gesture. Dags and pistols !

To bite his thumb at me!

Wear I a sword To see men bite their thumbs? Randolph, Muses' L. Glass, O. Pl., ix, 220.

'Tis no less disrespectful to bite the nail of your thumb, by way of scorn and disdain, and drawing your nail from between your teeth, to tell them you value not this what they can do.

Rules of Civility, 1678.

(2) v. (A.-S.) To drink.

Was therinne no page so lite,
That evere wolde ale bite.
Havelok, 1731.

(3) s. The hold which the short
end of a lever has upon the thing
to be lifted.

(4) v. To smart.

(5) To cheat.

For al suche tyme of love is lore,

And like unto the bitter-swete;
For though it thinke a man fyrst swete,
He shal wel felen, at laste,
That it is sower, and maie not laste.
Gower, ed. 1554, f. 174.

Thy wit is a very bitter-sweeting; it is a
most sharp sauce. Shakesp., Rom., ii, 4.
What in displeasure gone!
And left me such a bitter-sweet to gnaw
upon ?
Fair Em., 1631.
BITTER-SWEET, s. The wood night-
shade. Gerard.
BITTERFUL, adj. Sorrowful. Chauc.
BITTLIN, 8. A milk-bowl.
BITTON, S. A bittern.

Stuck with ostrige, cranes, parrots, bittons, cockes, and capons feathers.

Dial. between the Cap & the Hut, 1565. BITTRE, adv. (A.-S.) Bitterly. BITTYWELP, adv. Headlong. Bedf. BIVE, 8. A twin lamb. Twin lambs

are still called bive lambs on the borders of Sussex and Kent. BIWAKE, V. To watch; to guard. BIWARE, v. To warn.

BIWENTE, pret. t. Turned about. BIWEVE, v. (1) (A.-S.) To cover. (2) To weave; to work. BIWICCHE, v. To bewitch.

BLABBER, v. (1) To talk idly. (2) To loll out the tongue. To mocke anybody by blabboring out the tongue is the part of waghalters and lewd boyes, not of well mannered children.

Schoole of Good Manners, 1629.

(3) To whistle to a horse. BLABBER-LIPPED, adj. Having thick lips. See Blobber and Blub. BLACK, adj. Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious. BLACK-ALMAIN, 8. A kind of dance.

BLACKAMOOR, s. (1) A negro.

The Moore soe pleas'd this new-made empress' eie,

That she consented to him secretlye
For to abuse her husband's marriage bed:
And soe in time, a blackamore she bred.
Percy, Reliques, i, 223.