Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and IndexesChaucer, Geoffrey
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Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes
Chaucer, Geoffrey
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500
BUFFET, _s._ blow; Buffettes, _pl._ I 258.
BUGLE-HORN, _s._ drinking-horn made from the 'bugle' or ox, F 1253.
BUILDEN, _ger._ to build up, D 1977. See BULDE, BILDE.
BUK, _s._ buck (A.S. _bucc_), 5. 195; Bukke (A.S. _bucca_), B 1946; Bukkes,
_gen._ buck's (see note), A 3387; Bukkes, _pl._ 3. 429.
BULDE, _v._ build; Bulte, _pt. s._ built, A 1548. A.S. _byldan_. See BILDE,
BUILDEN.
BULLE, _s._ papal bull, C 909; Bulles, _pl._ C 336, E 739, 744.
BULTE; _pt. s. of_ Bulde.
BULTE, _v._ boult, sift, B 4430.
BUMBE, _v._; Bumbith, _pr. s._ booms (as a bittern), D 972 _n_.
BURDOUN, _s._ burden of a song, bass-accompaniment, A 673; Burdon, A 4165.
BUREL, _adj._ rough, unlettered, F 716; lay (people), D 1872, 1874. The
idea is that of a man dressed in _burel_, or coarse woollen cloth. See
BOREL.
BURGEYS, _s._ burgess, citizen, T. iv. 345; A 369, 754.
BURGH, _s._ borough; Burghes, _pl._ D 870.
BURIE, _v._ bury; Buried, _pp._ 2. 14; Burieth, _imp. pl._ E 571; Bury, _2
pr. pl. subj._ 3. 207.
BURIELS, _s. pl._ burial-places, i.e. the Catacombs, G 186. Originally
_buriels_ as the _singular_ form of the sb. (see the note).
BURNE, _v._ burnish; Burned, _pp._ burnished, A 1983, B 4054, F 1247;
polished, HF. 1387; lustrous, C 38. See BORNE.
BURNET, _adj._ made of coarse brown cloth, R. 226.
BURTHE, _s._ birth, B 3. m 6. 10; T. v. 209; B 2757. See BIRTHE.
BURYING, _s._ burial, L. 1831; Buryinge, T. v. 1499.
BUSH, _s._ 1. 89; HF. 485; A 1517, 1527, E 2155, 2208; Busshes, _pl._ 9.
34; B 3. m 1. 2.
BUSK, _s._ bush, R. 54; A 2013 _n_; Buskes, _pl._ R. 102 _n_; A 1579.
BUSSHEL, _s._ bushel (of), T. iii. 1025; bushel, A 4244, D 1746; B 1. p 4.
66; bushel-measure, I 1036.
BUSSHES, _pl._ bushes, I 858. (MSS. E. Seld. Sn. beautees; Cm. beauteis;
Hl. beautes; Pt. bewtees.) Apparently a corrupt passage.
BUT, _conj._ except, unless, 2. 82; 3. 117, 592, 1000, 1188, 1234; 4. 49,
208; 5. 159, 459, 567; 11. 4; L. 35, 1616, 2645; T. i. 987, ii. 370; A 582,
B 431, C 741, D 1245, E 174, F 803, 1115, &c.; but, A 73, 148, &c.
BUT, _as s._ an exception, a 'but,' I 494.
BUT AND, but if, L. 1790.
BUT-IF, _conj._ unless, R. 250; 3. 1023; 15. 11; L. 13; T. iv. 637; A 351;
656, B 2001, 2750, 3688, F 687, 912, 1172; But-yif, B 2. p 4. 71.
BUTTOK, _s._ buttock, A 3803; D 2142; Buttokes, _pl._ A 3975, I 424.
BUXOM, _adj._ yielding, 6. 125; B 1367; obedient, B 1287, 1333.
BUXOMLY, _adv._ obediently, E 186.
BUXUMNESSE, _s._ yielding, submission, 13. 15.
BY, _prep._ by, A 25, &c.; as regards, with respect to, concerning, 6. 126;
L. 271; T. i. 225, 957; B 4. p 2. 111; B 5. p 1. 33; A 244, B 2425, D 229,
G 1005, 1438; with reference to, 5. 4, 158, 477; HF. 286; H 187; A. ii. 3.
50; for, on account of, R. 844; _by proces_, in process, B 2665; _by me_,
beside me (_with accent on_ by), T. ii. 991; _by this_, already, B 4. m 3.
16; _by the morwe_, in the morning, L. 49; H 16.
BY, _adv._ beside; _faste by_, close at hand, R. 1274; L. 2091; B 3116.
BY, _for_ Bye, _v._
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