Auenture, adventure, A. 64. O.Fr. _aventure_. Auise, advise, B. 1365. Avow, B. 664. Avoy, away! B. 863. Avyle, defile, B. 1151, 1713. Avysyoun, vision, A. 1184. Awayed, shown, A. 710. Awayle, avail, B. 408. Awowe, avow, C. 333. Ay, always, ever, A. 33, 720. A.S. _áva_, _a_, all, ever. O.Fris. _a_. Germ. _je_, ever. Ayre, heir, B. 650, 1709. Ayþer, each, A. 831. Aywhere, everywhere, B. 228. Aȝer = asure, B. 1457. Aȝly = awly, fearfully, B. 874, 937. Dan. _ave_, fear. Eng. _awe_. O.Eng. _agh_. Cf. A.S. _aglác_, misery, grief. {Aȝt, Aȝte,} ought, _pret._ of _aȝe_, _agh_, or _awe_, B. 122. Aȝt, eight, B. 357, C. 11, 29. Aȝt-sum, sorrowful, B. 411. Aȝtþe, eighth, A. 1011. Baboyne, baboon, B. 1409. Babtem, A. 627. See _Baptem_. Bachlereȝ, batchelors, young men not yet raised to the order of knighthood, B. 86. Baft, abaft, C. 148. A.S. _baefta_, the hinder part. Bagge, baggage. C. 158. Bale, bales, C. 157. Sw. _bal_. Fr. _balle_, _bal_, a ball or pack. Bale, sorrow, woe; also misery, calamity, A. 18, 373; B. 1243, 1256; _baleȝ_, A. 123, 807. O.Fris. _bale_. A.S. _bealu_, torment, destruction. Icel. _böl_. Phrases: “bodyly _bale_” (pain), A. 478; “_bale_ (torment) of helle,” A. 651, “_bale_-stour,” death pang, C. 426. Baleleȝ = baleless, innocent, C. 227. Balke, ridge of land, balk, A. 62. Icel. _balkr_, the division between the stalls in a cow-house. Sw. _balka_, to partition off. “To my shepe wylle I stalk, and herkyn anone, Ther abyde on a _balk_, or sytt on a stone.” --(Town. Myst. p. 99.) Balleful = baleful, wretched, wicked, B. 979. Balter, hop, jump, skip, C. 459. Balterande, halting, limping, B. 103. Sc. _balter_, to dance. “He baltyrde, he bleryde.” --(Morte Arthure, p. 66.) Etymologically it is connected with _palter_ and _falter_, and is applicable either to the unsteady gait of the lame or faltering steps of the blind. Baly = bayly, authority, jurisdiction, dominion, A. 1083. Baneres, B. 1404. Banne, proclamation, decree, B. 95, 1361. Banne, curse, B. 468, 885. Sw. _bann_, excommunication; _banna_, to reprove, chide, curse. “_Bannet_ worthe the bale tyme þat ho borne was.” T. B. 1388. Banne, comfort, strengthen, B. 620. O.Sc. _bawne_. Bantel, A. 991, 1017; B. 1459, posts, pillars. Baptem, baptism, A. 627, 653. Baptysed, A. 818. Barayn, barren, B. 659. Bare, _adj._ naked, B. 452; _sb._ 791. Bare, only, B. 1573. Sw. _bara_. Bared, disclosed, B. 1149. Bare-heued, bare-headed, B. 633. {Bareres, Barreȝ,} bars, barriers, B. 963, 1239; C. 321. W. _bar_, rail, shaft. Fr. _barre_; _barrière_, a barrier. Cf. Sw. _s-parre_. Eng. _s-par_. Barme, bosom, C. 510. A.S. _bearm_. “_Barme_ gremium.” (Prompt. Parv.) “He fond Horn in arme On Rymenhilde _barme_.” --(K. Horn, p. 294.) Barnage, childhood, B. 517. Barne, child, son, A. 426; _barneȝ_, A. 1040; B.