baude (A.S.) _a bawd_ baudy (A.N.) 88, _dirty_, applied to garments. Thus in Chaucer, Cant. T. l 16102:-- His overest sloppe it is not worth a mite As in effect to him, so mote I go. It is al _baudy_ and to-tore also. baw (A.S.) 210, 419, _an interjection of contempt_. Whitaker says that the word is still used in Lancashire, and that "the verb means _alvum levare_" bayard (A.N.) 72, a term for a horse. It means properly a _bay horse_ beau-peere (A.N.) 383, _a common title for a monk_. "Beau-pere, titre que l'on donnoit aux religieux." _Roquef._ beche (A.S.) _a beech-tree_ bede, _pl._ bedes (A.S.) prayer. Our modern word _beads_ is derived from this word, because it was by such articles, hung on a cord, that our forefathers reckoned the number of their prayers bedeman (A.S.) 45, _a person who prays for another_ +been (A.S.) 493, _bees_ beigh (A.S.) _pl._ beighes, _rings, bracelets, collars_ bekene (A.S.) 363, _a beacon_ +beldyng (A.S.) 483, _building_. belded, 483, _built_ +bellyche (A.N.) 461, _fairly_ bel-sire (A.N.) 168, _grandfather_, or rather, _an ancestor_ belwe (A.S.) 222, _to bellow_ ben (A.S.) _to be_. _pres. pl._ arn, aren _or_ ben, we beth, 391, ye aren, 301, they arn, 375. _subj. sing._ weere, 15, 19, 417, _pl._ were. what she were, 19 bene (A.S.) _a bean_, +_pl._ benen (A.S.) 495, _beans_ +beneson (A.N.) 489, _blessing_ +beouten (A.S.) 489, _without_ beren, bere (A.S.) _to bear_. _pr. s._ he berth, 341. _pret. s._ bere, 54, bar, 28, 109, _pl._ baren, 98. _part. pas._ born, y-bore, 377 bergh (A.S.) 112, _a hill, mount_ bern (A.S.) 416, _a barn_ best, beest, _pl._ beestes (A.N.) _a beast, animal_ bet (A.S.) 389, _better_ bete (A.S.) 375, _to beat_. _pret. s._ bette, 184, 436. _part. pas._ y-bet bete (A.S.) 131, _to amend, heal, abate_. that myghtt not bete my bale (Sir Amadas, l. 46), _that might not amend my misfortune_. bete his nede (Rom. of Alexand. l. 5065, in Weber), _to satisfy his need_ bettre (A.S.) _better_ bi- _or_ be- is a very common prefix to words in our language derived from the Anglo-Saxon, and has chiefly an intensative power, although it modifies the meaning in various degrees. Many verbs are no longer known, except in this compound form. Thus we have:-- bi-dravelen (A.S.) 88, _to slobber or slaver on anything_ bi-fallen (A.S.) _to befal, happen_. _pr. sing._ bifel bi-yete (A.S.) _begetting, offspring_ bi-ginnen (A.S.) _to begin_. _pret. s._ bi-gonne, 106 bi-heste (A.S.) 50, _a behest, command_ bi-hest (A.S.) 432, _a promise_ bi-holden (A.S.) _to behold_. _pr. sing._ biheeld +bi-hirnen (A.S.) 488 (?) bi-hoten (A.S.) _to promise_. _pres. s._ bi-hote, 104. _pret. s._ bi-highte, 81, 345, 389. bi-hote God, 133, _an exclamation_ by-japen (A.S.) 386, 453, _to mock_ bi-kennen (A.S.) 31, 154, _to commit to_ bi-knowen (A.S.) 13, 45, _to know, recognize, acknowledge_. _pret. s._ bi-knewe, 404, _part. past_, bi-knowe, 370