sheep's leather dressed and coloured red, f. bazane, sheep's leather. In Scotland, sheepskin mittens, with the wool on the inside, are called Bauzonmittens.-Bauzon also signifies a badger, in old English; it may therefore signify perhaps badger skin. Be that, p. 4, by that time. Bearyng arowe, p. 138, an arrow that carries well.-Or, perhaps bearing, or birring, i. e. whirring, or whizzing arrow: from Isl. Bir. Ventus, or A. S. Bene fremitus. Bedight, bedecked. Bedyls, beadles.

Beheard, heard.
Beete, did beat.
Beforn, before.

Begylde, beguiled, deceived.
Behests, commands, injunctions.
Behove, p. 141, behoof.
Belyfe, p. 135, belive, immedi-
ately, by and by, shortly.
Bende-bow, a bent bow, qu.
Ben, bene, been.
Benison, blessing.

Bent, p. 4, bents, p. 35, (where
bents, long coarse grass, &c.
grow) the field; fields.
Benynge, p. 76, benigne, benign,
kind.

Beste, beest, art.
Bestis, beasts.
Bestrawghted, p. 148, distracted.
Beth, be, are.

Bickarte, p. 4, bicker'd, skir-
mished. (It is also used some-
times in the sense of "Swiftly
coursed," which seems to be
the sense, p. 4. Mr. Lambe.)*
Bille, &c. p. 221, I have delivered
a promise in writing, con-
firmed by an oath.
Blane, p. 9, blanne, did blin,
i. e. linger, stop.

Blaw, s. blow.
Blaze, to emblazon, display.
Blee, colour, complexion.
Bleid, s. blede, bleed.
Blist, blessed.

Blive, belive, immediately.
Bloomed, p. 238, beset with bloom.
Blude, blood, bluid reid, s. blood
red.

Bluid, bluidy, s. blood, bloody.
Blyve, belive, instantly.
Boare, bare.

Bode, p. 73, abode, stayed.
Boltes, shafts, arrows.
Bomen, p. 4, bowmen.
Bonny, bonnie, s. comely.
Boone, a favour, request, peti-
tion.

Boot, boote, advantage, help,
assistance.

Borrowe, borowe, pledge, surety. Borowe, p. 126, to redeem by a pledge.

Borowed, p. 26, warranted,
pledged, was exchanged for.
Bot and, s. p. 90. (It should
probably be both and) and also.
Bot, but.

Bote, boot, advantage.
Bougill, s. bugle-horn, hunting-
horn.

Bounde, bowynd, bowned, pre-
pared, got ready. The word
is also used in the North in the
sense of went' or 'was going."
Bowndes, bounds.

Bowne ye, prepare ye, get ready. Bowne, ready; bowned, prepared.

Bowne to dyne, p. 33, going to
dine. Bowne is a common
word in the North for going,"
e. g. Where are you bowne to?
Where are you going?
Bowre, bower, habitation: cham-
ber parlour, perhaps from Isl.
bouan, to dwell.
Bowre-window,chamber window.

• Mr. Lambe also interprets Bickering, by rattling, e. g.

And on that slee Ulysses head
Sad curses down does bicker.

Translat. of Ovid.

Bowys, bows.

Braid, s. broad, large.
Brandes, swords.
Breere, brere, briar.

Bred bannor, broad banner.
Breech, p. 239, breeches.
Breeden bale, breed mischief.
Breng, bryng, bring.
Brether, brethren.

Cast, p. 6, mean, intend.
Cawte, vid. Kawte.

Caytiffe, caitif, slave, despicable wretch, p. 36.

Cetywall, p. 238, setiwall, the herb Valerian: also, Mountain Spikenard. See Gerard's Herbal.

Chanteclere, the cock.

Broad arrow, a broad forked- Chays, chace.

headed arrow, s.

Brodinge, pricking.

Brook, p. 12, enjoy.

Brooke, p. 228, bear, endure.
Browd, broad.

Bryttlynge, p. 5, brytlyng, ibid.
cutting up, quartering, carv-
ing.

Bugle, bugle-horn, hunting-horn.
Bushment, p. 74, ambushment,
ambush, a snare to bring them
into trouble.
Buske ye, dress ye.
Busket, buskt, dressed.
Buskt them, p. 74, prepared
themselves, made themselves
ready.

Busk and boun, p. 92, i.e. make
yourselves ready and go. Boun,
to go. (North country).
But if, unless.
Buttes, buts to shoot at.
By thre, p. 120, of three.
Bye, buy, pay for; also, abye,
suffer for.

Byears, beeres, biers.
Bydys, bides, abides.

Byll, bill, an ancient kind of
halbert, or battle-ax, p. 5.
Byn, bine, bin, been, be, are.
Byrche, birch-tree, birch-wood.
Byste, beest, art.

C.

Calde, callyd, p. 6, called.

Camscho, s. stern, grim.

Check, to rate at.
Check, to stop.

Child, p. 81, knight. Children,
p. 35, knights.

Christentye, christiantè, Christendom.

Churl, one of low birth, a villain,

or vassal.

Chyf, chyfe, chief.
Clawde, clawed, tore, scratched;
p. 141, figuratively, beat.
Cleaped, cleped, called, named.
Clerke, scholar.

Clim, the contraction of Clement.
Clowch, clutch, grasp.
Clough, a North country word
for a broken cliff.
Coate, cot, cottage.
Cockers, p. 238, a sort of buskins
or short boots fastened with
laces or buttons, and often
worn by Farmers or Shep-
herds. In Scotland they are
called Cutikins, from Cute,
the ankle.-"Cokers: Fisher-
men's Boots.' (Littleton's
Diction.)

Cold bee, p. 224, was.

Cowde dye, p. 25, died (a phrase). Collayne, Cologn steel.

Comen, commyn, come.

Confetered, confederated, entered into a confederacy.

Cordiwin, p. 238, cordwayne, properly Spanish, or Cordovan leather here it signifies a more vulgar sort.

Can, cane, pp. 21, 23, 'gan; p. 21. Corsiare, p. 9, courser, steed.

Cote, cot, cottage. Item, coat.
Coulde, cold. Item, could.
Countie, p. 234, count, earl.
Coupe, a pen for poultry.
Couth, could.

Coyntrie, p. 239, Coventry.
Crancky, merry, sprightly, ex-
ulting.
Credence, belief.
Crevis, crevice, chink.
Cricke, s. properly an ant: but
in p. 154, means probably any
small insect.

Cristes cors, p. 6, Christ's curse.
Crowch, crutch.
Cryance, belief, f. creance.
[Whence recreant.] But in p.
35, &c. it seems to signify
'fear' f. crainte.
Cum, s. come, p. 7, came.

D.

Dampned, condemned.
De, dey, dy, pp. 6, 7, 11, die.
Deepe-fette, deep-fetched.
Deid, s. dede, deed. Item, dead.
Deip, s. depe, deep.
Deir, s. deere, dere, dear.
Dell, deal, part; p. 80, every
dell, every part.
Denay, deny (rhithmi gratia.)
Depured, purified, run clear.
Descreeve, describe.
Dight, decked, put on.
Dill, p. 33, dole, grief, pain.-
Dill I drye, p. 33, pain I suffer.
-, Dill to him was dight, p. 33,
grief was upon him.
Dint, stroke, blow.
Dis, p. 61, this.

Discust, discussed.

Dites, dities.

Dochter, s. daughter.
Dole, grief.

Dolefulle dumps, pp. 148, 207,
sorrowful gloom; or heaviness
of heart.

Dolours, dolorous, mournful.
Doth, dothe, doeth, do.
Doughte, Doughete, Doughetie,
Dowghtye, doughty, formida-
ble.

Doughetie, i. e. doughty man.
Dounae, s. p. 31, am not able;
properly, cannot take the trou-
ble.

Doute, doubt. Item, fear.
Doutted, doubted, feared.
Dois, s. doys, does.
Drap, s. drop.

Dre, p. 10, drie, p. 90, suffer.
Dreid, s. dreede, drede, dread.
Dreips, s. drips, drops.
Drovyers, drovers, p. 201, such
as drive herds of cattle, deer,

In the Ballad of "Sir Cauline," we have "Eldridge Hills," p. 35. "Eldridge Knighte," p. 35, 40. "Eldridge Sworde," p. 37, 42.So Gawin Douglas calls the Cyclops, the Elriche Brethir, i. e. brethren (b. ii. p. 91, 1. 16.) and in his Prologue to b. vii. (p. 202, 1. 3.) he thus describes the Night-Owl.

"Laithely of forme, with crukit camscho beik,
Ugsome to here was his wyld Elrische shreik."

In Bannatyne's MS. Poems, (fol. 135, in the Advocate's Library at Edin burgh) is a whimsical Rhapsody of a deceased old woman, travelling in the other world; in which

"Scho wanderit, and zeid by, to an Elrich well.".

Enharpid, &c. p. 75, hooked, or Finaunce, p. 77, fine, forfei

In the Glossary to G. Douglas, Elriche, &c. is explained by "Wild, hideous: Lat. Trux, immanis;" but it seems to imply somewhat more, as in Allan Ramsey's Glossaries.

An ingenious correspondent in the north, thinks Freit is not "an unlucky omen," but "that thing which terrifies;" viz. Terrors will pursue them that look after frightful things. Fright is pronounced by the common people in the north, Freet. p. 92.

Fuyson, foyson, plenty; also, | Gret, grat, great.