Beyked, _pp._ warmed, dried, 24/23. M.E. _beken_, answering to an A.S. form _bécan_* (not found), formed as a secondary verb, by vowel-change, from A.S. _bóc_, pt. t. of _bacan_, to bake. So also _lay_ from _lie_, _set_ from _sit_, etc. See _beken_ in Stratmann, who refers to Le Bone Florence, l. 99, Iwain and Gawain, l. 1459, O.E. Homilies, i. 269, and Test. of Creseyde, 26. Beykyng, _s._ warming, drying, 24/12. See above. Beytynge, _pres. pt._ feeding, lit. baiting, 22/12. Bier, _s._ buyer, 134/30. Bigge, _adj._ big, large (with reference to clods), 10/4. Blacke-thorne, _s._ blackthorn, 124/14. Blankettes, _s. pl._ blankets, 146/79. Blend-corn, _s._ wheat mixed with rye, 34/19. (_Blend_ = blended.) Blesse, _v._ to bless, 146/2. Blome, _pr. pl._ bloom, 24/16. Bloude, _s._ blood, 145/8; also the name of a sickness among sheep, 48/2. Bloud-yren, _s._ bleeding-iron, lancet, 58/29. Blyssomme, _v._ to copulate, said of sheep, 37/14. A ewe is said to be _blissom_, i.e. blithe-some, eager. Cf. _lissom_ = lithe-some. Bobbed, _pt. pl._, struck, 166/29. Bodkyn, _s._ bodkin, 142/6. Boget, _s._ a budget, wallet, 142/1. Boke, book, 3/2, etc.; bokes, _pl._ 142/4. Bolles, _s. pl._ pods, 146/50. Lit. “swellings;” see below. Cf. Du. _bol_, swollen. Bolne, _v._ to swell, 128/29; bolneth, _pr. s._ swells, 128/21. Cf. Swed. _bulna_, Dan. _bulne_, to swell. Bolster, _s._ place of support, 4/51. The bed of a timber carriage is called a _bolster_ (Wright). Bord-clothes, _s. pl._ table-cloths, 146/45. Borde, _s._ board, 122/27. Bores, _s. pl._ boars, 121/9. Bottelles, _s. pl._ bottles, 141/69. Bottes, _s. pl._ bots, a kind of worms troublesome to horses, 102/1. Bowes, _s. pl._ boughs, 122/21. Bowes, _s. pl._ the bent pieces of wood (beneath the yoke) which pass round the necks of yoked oxen, 5/3. Usually called _oxbows_, as in Tusser. Bracer, _s._ bracer, armour for the arms, 142/3. See Chaucer, C.T. 111. Braked, _pp._ bruised in a brake or machine for crushing flax, 146/42. Breade-come, _s._ corn to be ground to _bread meal_, for making brown bread, 20/16. See note to P. Plowman, C. ix. 61. Breake thy faste, _phr._ breakfast, 149/8. Breaketh, _pr. s._ breaks in, 120/3. Brede, _s._ breadth, 110/3, 132/18. A.S. _brǽdu_. Brekefaste, _s._ breakfast, 146/12. Bren, _v._ burn, 27/10; brenne, 131/2. Brode, _adj._ broad, 2/14. Brodye, _adj._ ready to lay (as hens), lit. brood-y, 146/24. Broken-wynded, _s._ a being broken in the wind (said of a horse), 85/1. Brome, _s._ the plant broom, 44/4. Brouse, _s._ small sprigs which the cattle eat, 132/3; and see _notes_ to 38/3, 126/9. O. F. _broust_, a sprig. Brouse, _v._ to browze, eat off, 131/3. Derived from the sb. above.