[References are usually to volume, page, and stanza.]
ba IV, 354, (Child #240 C) (Child #240 D) 1: a lullaby.
baas balls.
baba II, 339, (Child #93 T) (Child #93 U) (Child #93 V) 19: baby.
bace V, 104 a = bash (Swed. basa): beat; pret. baist, III, 164, b (Child #134 A) 26(?). See baist.
bacheeleere II, 58, (Child #61 A) 13: young knight devoted to the service of a lady.
back-spald V, 106, E (Child #277 E) 4: hinder part of the shoulder.
bad, bade V, 18, 9; 27, 41; 243, 11: ordered, offered. (A.S. beódan.)
bad, bade, baed III, 267, (Child #157 A) (Child #157 B) 15: abode, stopped, waited for. II, 115, (Child #65 A) (Child #65 B) 22; III, 312, (Child #162 B) 28; V, 236, 17: remained, staid. (A.S. bídan.)
badgers III, 477, (Child #187 A) 8: pedlars.
baed II, 115, (Child #65 A) (Child #65 B) 22: abode, stopped. See bad.
baffled II, 479: thwarted (perhaps, made a fool of). IV, 146 f., (Child #211 A) 11, 31: affronted, insulted, or disgraced.
bail life in, III, 10, (Child #114 H) (Child #114 I) 19: in power, at disposal.
bailie III, 385, (Child #173 A) (Child #173 B) 12: municipal officer, alderman. IV, 326, (Child #236 D) (Child #236 E) 12: bailiff, steward, manager of an estate. See baylye.
bairn, barn, bern III, 437, (Child #178 G) 28, 36; 453, 17; IV, 309, (Child #234 A) 5; 310, 12: child.
baist pret., III, 164, b 26: beat. baste, p.p., III, 165, (Child #135 A) 92: beaten. (Icel. beysta?) See bace.
baked II, 403, (Child #100 F) (Child #100 G) 2: becked, curtsied, made obeisance.
bale II, 45, (Child #59 A) 30, 44; 58, 11; 419, 51; 466, 34; III, 92, (Child #118 A) 11, 16; 99, 51: ill, trouble, mischief, harm, calamity, destruction. See balys.
bale I, 355, (Child #39 I) 41: fire.
bale-fire II, 118, (Child #65 C) (Child #65 D) 9; 119, 19; 155, 36; IV, 467, 12, 14: bonfire, large fire.
ballants IV, 129, (Child #209 B) (Child #209 C) 30: ballads.
ballup III, 181, (Child #140 B) 15 (ballock): front or flap of breeches.
balow IV, 351, (Child #240 A) 1; 352, C 1: lullaby, sing a lullaby to.
balys III, 310, (Child #162 A) 68: misfortunes, troubles. See bale.
ban, band I, 69, (Child #5 A) 38; 73, 53; II, 376, (Child #98 C) 36; III, 491, (Child #188 C) 12: hinge.
ban, bann v., I, 304, E (Child #33 E) 5; 305, 6; III, 104, (Child #120 A) 8; IV, 87, (Child #203 C) (Child #203 D) 14; V, 115, (Child #279 app) 7: curse.
ban, band, bande, bond IV, 388, (Child #247 A) 7: band. IV, 388, (Child #247 A) 11: bond.
ban I, 55, (Child #4 A) (Child #4 B) 12: bound (pret.).
band, bande III, 430, (Child #178 A) 8; 431, 7: bond, compact.
band-dogs, bandoggs III, 123, (Child #123 A) 16; 125, 31; 126, B b 31; c 31: dogs that are kept chained (on account of their fierceness).
banded IV, 388, (Child #247 A) 7: bound, secured with bands.
bane I, 285, (Child #30 A) 33; III, 92, (Child #118 A) 7: destruction, death.
bane saddle of the bane (Manuscript bone), I, 468, (Child #53 D) 13; bouer o bane, II, 185, (Child #73 B) 31: meaning probably the royal bone of I, 466, (Child #53 B) (Child #53 C) 10. See roelle bone.
bane-fire II, 146, (Child #68 B) 23; 331, 17: bonfire.
bang II, 438, (Child #107 B) 4: may be any implement for banging; it is sometimes stick, here strap (in should be wi).
bang IV, 85, (Child #203 A) (Child #203 B) 5: emend to hang.
bangisters IV, 37, (Child #195 A) (Child #195 B) 7; 38, 9: people violent and regardless of law.
banis III, 78, 453: slayers, murderers.
banished III, 401, (Child #174 A) 15: possibly with the meaning banned, but the ordinary sense does well enough.
bank sea-bank, IV, 229, (Child #221 K) 3, 7: shore (?).
bankers I, 334, 9: carpets, tapestries for benches.
banket III, 446 b: banquet.
banneret II, 395, N (Child #99 N) 1: banner-bearer (see B 1; E 1; I 1; K 1; M 1; P 1).
barck, bark II, 239, (Child #79 A) (Child #79 B) 1: birk, birch.
barelins II, 212, (Child #75 I) 12: barely.
bargain III, 181, (Child #140 B) 13: brawl, fight.
barker V, 78, (Child #273 app) 11; 80, 43, 49, etc.; 82, 20: tanner.
barking I, 109, C (Child #8 C) 10: who uses bark, as a tanner.
barm I, 243, (Child #23 A) 7: lap.
barn-well thrashing, II, 322, (Child #93 A) 8: the well has no sense, and has probably been caught from 9, at the far well washing. To be dropped.
barn, barne II, 437, (Child #107 A) 85; IV, 141, (Child #209 app) 17; V, 114, 10; 267, 3: (A.S. bearn) child. III, 308, (Child #162 A) 14: (A.S. beorn) man, fighting man.
baron I, 293, (Child #31 A) 2; 294 f., 5, 9, 23, 28: simply knight, and that, in all cases but the first, vaguely.
barras oer the, IV, 372, (Child #244 A) (Child #244 B) 6: beyond the barriers (as 374, A b, after 5).
barrine bairn.
base-court III, 470 b: lower or outer court.
bassonet, basnet, basnit III, 298, (Child #161 A) 51, 52; 308 f., 29, 32: a light helmet, shaped like a skull-cap.
bat but.
batit baited.
batts blows, burden of, III, 465, (Child #185 A) 20: all the blows (beating) he can bear.
baubee, bawbee III, 268, (Child #157 B) (Child #157 C) 6; 269, D 6; 270, 4, 5; V, 242 b, 5: halfpenny.
baube II, 132, (Child #66 C) 30: babe.
baucheld sheen, IV, 380, (Child #245 C) 26: shoes down at the heels (ill-bukled, wrongly, V, 276, 18).
bay by.
bayberry kame IV, 471 f., 2, 4: a corrupt passage, yielding no sense (so of other readings here).
bay dogs III, 126 f., e, f 31: dogs that bring to bay, or that bay (?).
baylleful III, 298, (Child #161 A) 58: destructive, deadly.
baylye III, 28, (Child #116 A) 140: bailiff, sheriff's officer (to execute writs, etc.). III, 332, (Child #166 A) 15: chief magistrate, mayor. See bailie.
bayne perdition.
bayr V, 110, (Child #279 A) 13: byre, cowhouse.
be = by. be to and al be on, I, 242, (Child #22 A) 11: by two[s] and all by one[s]. be, be that, III, 100, (Child #119 A) 73; 482, 26: by the time that. sey be, V, 79, (Child #273 app) 26: about. See by.
be's, be 's it be's, III, 160, (Child #134 A) 9: shall be = it s' be.
be wi IV, 261, (Child #226 D) (Child #226 E) 23: tolerate, bear with.
beager beggar.
beagly V, 224, 10. See bigly.
beam beam gold, II, 402, (Child #100 E) (Child #100 F) 10: for learning? Probably corrupt.
beame of the utuer beame, IV, 506, 59: utuer is perhaps utter, outer; but what outer beam would Horsley come to in climbing the mast? Probably corrupt. If we read, of (=on) the utter (outer) bane (bone), which rhymes, we have to explain the outer bone of the buttocke.
bean bone.
bear I, 149, (Child #11 G) (Child #11 H) (Child #11 I) 6: move on, proceed.
bear bier.
bear beer.
bear IV, 324, C (Child #236 C) 1: barley.
bear-seed IV, 323, (Child #236 A) 6: barley; bear-seed time seems to refer to barley-harvest.
beare mercy as the lawes will thee beare, V, 53, (Child #271 A) 98: have for (as in, bear malice, etc.).
beare pret., II, 266, (Child #83 A) (Child #83 B) 30: bare.
beared buried.
bearing arrow III, 29, (Child #116 A) 150; 202, 33; 341, 53: "an arrow that carries well," Percy; "an arrow made to carry especially straight," Nares; but on the first occasion a broad arrow is used when "an arrow that carries well" (straight) is equally, or even more, necessary, and on the third a bearing and a broad arrow are used indifferently, III, 29, (Child #116 A) 153, 159; 341, 56. Perhaps a very long arrow, such as required to be carried in the hand. "Longe arrowes like standarts with socetts of stell for my Lord's foutemen to here in their hands, when they ryn with my Lorde" are noted as berrying arrows in the preparations for the Earl of Northumberland's expedition to Terouenne, 5 Henry VIII. Dillon's Fairholt's Costume in England, II, 8, 1885. Mr. C.J. Longman, himself an archer, remarking that a bearing arrow is used for a range of 20 score paces, III, 29, (Child #116 A) 148, 150, and a broad arrow for 6 score, 153, suggests that a bearing arrow was probably what is now called a flight-arrow, a thin, light arrow with a tapering point for long shooting.
bearly V, 219, 17: buirdly.
beat IV, 379, (Child #245 B) (Child #245 C) 15: boot, recompense.
became II, 422, (Child #103 B) (Child #103 C) 2: came.
became his courtisie III, 464, (Child #185 A) 18: that is, his courtesy became him (as in Shakspere's "youth becomes the livery that it wears"). See become.
because III, 29, (Child #116 A) 157: in order that.
beck made a beck on her knee, II, 359, (Child #96 B) 7, 9: curtsy.
becke (A.S. bee), I, 334, 8: stream, brook.
become them well, IV, 147, (Child #211 A) 22: look well in them (i.e., they became him well); so III, 464, (Child #185 A) 18; cf. set, IV, 331, 18. place, part, does well become me, IV, 152, D (Child #212 D) 2; 153, 1: suit. See became.
becomed pret. of become, IV, 505, 53.
bed I, 272, (Child #29 A) 9: offered. See bede.
bed-head} I, 184, (Child #15 A) (Child #15 B) 44, 46: the top of the box or case of a Scottish bed. I, 116, C (Child #9 C) 5: should be bed-stock, as the rhyme shows.
bed-stock I, 115, (Child #9 B) (Child #9 C) 3; IV, 94, (Child #204 A) (Child #204 B) 7; V, 208, 4: the outer side of a bed, that farther from the wall.
bede v., II, 499 b: offer. See bed.
bedone I, 271, (Child #29 A) 2; II, 183, (Child #73 A) 20: worked, ornamented.
bedyls III, 28, (Child #116 A) 140: under-bailiffs, summoners.
bee-ba II, 330, (Child #93 G) (Child #93 H) 11, 12: sounds to lull a child.
beeds that beeds, I, 69, (Child #5 A) 67: string of beads.
beek, biek IV, 69, (Child #200 E) 22; 77, 3, c 3: bask.
beenits IV, 381, (Child #245 C) (Child #245 D) 12: bayonets.
beere II, 445, (Child #109 A) 73: bare, bore.
beerly (bride), II, 132, (Child #66 C) 24: large and well made; stately. See bierly. beerly, burly cheer, I, 298, (Child #32 A) 4; 300, 4: great, huge.
beet, bete, beik III, 495 a; IV, 517, 15: better, help. Of fire, II, 120, (Child #65 E) (Child #65 F) 16, 17; IV, 467, 13: kindle, keep up. p.p. bett, II, 44, (Child #59 A) 14. See bete.
beet II, 475, (Child #110 J) (Child #110 K) 7; III, 281, (Child #158 C) 2: behooved.
beet v., inf., II, 151, H (Child #68 H) 2: boot, furnish with boots. pret. bet, 4.
beets n. pl., IV, 187, (Child #216 A) 10: boots.
beette III, 298, (Child #161 A) 54: pret. of beat.
befa IV, 357, C (Child #241 C) 4: may befall (he does not care what name he gets). IV, 357 f., (Child #241 B) (Child #241 C) 6, 8, 12, 14: belong to, suit.
befalle, I, 241, (Child #22 A) 2: may it befall!
before taen your God before, II, 62 b, (Child #61 app) 15, representing 'minged not Christ before,' II, 59, (Child #61 A) 21: an artificial-sounding expression, which may mean, previously taken God for your helper.
beforne II, 58, (Child #61 A) 15; III, 13, (Child #115 A) 12, 14: before. II, 58, (Child #61 A) 15, before (morning).
beft III, 161, (Child #134 A) 26: beat. 164, 92: beaten.
begane, bigane IV, 366, D (Child #243 D) 4: overlaid, covered.
begeck, begack give a, III, 162, (Child #134 A) 63; 164, b 63: play a trick on, make a fool of. (A.S. geác, cuckoo, simpleton.)
begoud, begood, begud I, 473, (Child #53 H) 11; II, 99, B b 9; IV, 167, C (Child #214 C) 10; 194, B 5; 195, 14; 201, 21; 203, 15; 224, 13: began.
beguile p.p., III, 36, (Child #116 app) 41: beguiled.
begule beguile.
behad II, 160, (Child #69 B) 3: behold.
behear II, 240 f., (Child #80 A) 7, 9; III, 93, (Child #118 A) 46; 131, 3: hear. beheard him, III, 421, (Child #177 A) 58: heard.
beheld II, 61, (Child #61 app) 12: tarried.
beheste III, 90 b: promise.
behind his hand a stroke behind his hand, II, 63, (Child #61 app) 24: seems =: backhanded stroke.
behote III, 71, (Child #117 A) 315; pres., promise, thou behote, III, 71, (Child #117 A) 297: didst promise.
beik, beet, bete on, II, 121, (Child #65 F) (Child #65 G) 20: put on fuel.
being II, 410, (Child #101 B) (Child #101 C) 26: means of living.
belinger IV, 74, G b 3: corruption or misprint for (best?) ginger.
beliue, belyfe, belyue, blyue III, 4, (Child #114 A) (Child #114 B) 18; 28, 125; 29, 144; 35, 18; 84, 87, 300; 94, 53; 117, 13: soon, immediately.
bell silken, III, 261, D (Child #156 D) 7: conical canopy? corrupted from beild, shelter (screen)? Aytoun, with great probability, conjectures pall. Cf. A 10; E 10; F 14, which support the emendation.
Bell (Archie), III, 491, (Child #188 C) 3, 7: billie (comrade, brother), as in D, III, 492, (Child #188 C) (Child #188 D) 2.
belle bere the, I, 328, 42; II, 58, (Child #61 A) 1; V, 202 b: stand foremost, take the lead.
bell-groat I, 251, A (Child #25 A) 3, 5. Same as next word belling-great.
belling-great I, 252, (Child #25 B) (Child #25 C) (Child #25 D) 3, 5: groat for ringing bell.
belly-blind, billie-blind. See Billie Blin.
below the sun lookit below the sun, II, 78, (Child #62 I) 15; III, 6, (Child #114 D) (Child #114 E) 6; in below the sun, 8, 6. See aneath the sun}r}.
belted plaids IV, 84, (Child #203 A) 11; 85, 3: 87, 2; V, 253, No 203, D 2: "properly twelve yards of tartan cloth worn round the waist, obliquely across the breast and left shoulder, and partly depending backwards, ut in bello gestatur."
belyfe straightway. See beliue.
belyue See beliue.
bemean V, 163, (Child #293 D) 4: bemoan, compassionate.
ben Good ben be here, III, 267, (Child #157 A) (Child #157 B) 10: God's (or good) benison? Probably corrupt.
ben (shoes o, sheen o), IV, 378, (Child #245 A) (Child #245 B) 7; 380, 14: bend, bend-leather, strong ox-leather, thickened by tanning.
ben I, 56 f., C (Child #4 C) 2, 14; III, 267, (Child #157 A) (Child #157 B) 20; 268, 17; 270, 16; 272, 20; 274, 33: towards the inner apartment of the house, or parlor, in, within, come farer ben, I, 369, (Child #41 A) (Child #41 B) 51; he was ben, II, 313, (Child #91 B) 16; he wood her butt, he wood her ben, I, 56, (Child #4 B) (Child #4 C) 2. V, 216, B a 7; 219, 10; 242 b, 8.
ben royal ben, I, 478 f., (Child #53 M) 12, 46: (emended from bend) bone. See roelle-bone.
benbow III, 54, 6; 104, 5; 132, 5; bend bow, III, 7, (Child #114 E) (Child #114 F) 4; 8, 25; 11, 6; bende bowe, III, 309, (Child #162 A) 44; bent bow, III, 8 G (Child #114 G) 2; 106, 16, 17: bow, simply, the bow being in actual use only in III, 11, 54, 104 (?), 106, 16, 309.
bend III, 145, (Child #128 A) 5: where the way turned (?).
bend III, 362, 71: pret. of bend. So II, 125, G 6: pret. of bend (should not have been changed to bent, p. 122).
bended IV, 78, (Child #202 A) 1: bounded.
benjed II, 403, (Child #100 F) (Child #100 G) 2; beenged, bynged, made humble obeisance, cringed.
bent the way IV, 442, 13: took her course over.
bent, sword bent in the middle clear, middle brown, IV, 12, (Child #191 B) (Child #191 C) 11, 12: nonsense, or close upon nonsense.
bent I, 3, (Child #1 A) 1; 5, D 1: a coarse, reedy grass.
bent, bents II, 58, (Child #61 A) 16, 18; 62, 11; 172, 24, 25, 27, 35, 43; III, 295, (Child #161 A) 5; 296, 20; 297, 40; 307, 5, 8; 308, 26; 312, 28; IV, 86, (Child #203 B) (Child #203 C) 3: field, fields covered with bent grass.
benty ground atween the brown and benty ground, IV, 27, (Child #193 B) 12: between heather and bent ground.
benty line III, 7, (Child #114 E) (Child #114 F) 5: line of bent grass.
ber pret. of bear.
berafrynd V, 71 b: a drinking word, in response to passilodion.
bere V, 264 a, 2: bigg, a sort of coarser barley (Hordeum hexastichum, not H. vulgare or distichum).
berl V, 224, 26: birl, dispense.
bern, barn, bairn IV, 456, 7-9, 12; V, 247, 11: (A.S. bearn) child.
berne III, 295, (Child #161 A) 5: (A.S. beorn, fighting man, brave, etc.) man.
berry brown berry comb, II, 224, (Child #76 G) (Child #76 H) 1: the material of this comb is elsewhere said to be haw bay berry; all the passages describing it are corrupt.
beryde I, 326, (Child #37 C) 2: made a bere, noise.
bescro III, 110, (Child #121 A) 26; V, 80, (Child #273 app) 49: beshrew, curse.
bese I, 329, 58: shalt be.
beside, besids III, 357, (Child #168 app) 38, 41, 43, 45-7: aside from, away from.
beside in addition to, four and thirty stripes comen beside the rood, II, 59, (Child #61 A) 29: referring to the scourging before the crucifixion.
besom hid herself in the besom of the broom, I, 398, (Child #43 F) 9: besom seems to be twigs (as scopae is both twigs and broom). Wedgwood cites from a Dutch dictionary of 1654, brem-bessen, broom-twigs, scopae spartiae.
bespeak pret. bespa(c)ke, III, 420, (Child #177 A) 26, 30, 35; 430, 9; 431, 19, 23; bespoke, V, 149, (Child #289 A) 8-11; bespake him, I, 286, (Child #30 A) 52-5; III, 419 f., (Child #177 A) 6, 13, 22, 24: spake.
bespeek IV, 498, 1, 3, 9: speak with.
bespoke V, 149, (Child #289 A) 10, well-bespoke: well-spoken.
bestand III, 105, (Child #120 A) 23: help, avail.
bested, bestead circumstanced, ferre and frembde bested, III, 63, (Child #117 A) 138: in the position of one from a distance and a stranger, hard bestead, III, 161, (Child #134 A) 36.
bestial IV, 41, note *: all the animals of a farm.
best man IV, 342, (Child #238 E) 4: principal servant.
bet II, 151, H (Child #68 H) 4: booted.
betaken II, 59, (Child #61 A) 38: made over.
bete, beet III, 310, (Child #162 A) 68: better, second, relieve. See {+{beet}+}.
beth, both III, 59, (Child #117 A) 53, 54; 79, 54: be, old plural.
bether V, 283, 8: better.
Bethine II, 4, (Child #54 C) (Child #54 D) 12, for rhyme: if meant for anything, Bethany is meant, however inappropriate.
betide II, 411 a, last line but two: nearest that ever fall to one, an unlikely phrase. Motherwell reads whateer betide.
betide I, 503 b, 4, what news do ye betide? i.e. what do you (does your coming) signify? or, as at I, 205, F (Child #17 F) 10 (doth thee betide), what news has befallen you, come to your knowledge?
betide boots of the tangle (sea-weed) that nothing can betide, V, 259 a, 11: should read to the effect, That's brought in by the tide.
betook I, 126, (Child #10 A) 6: took (simply).
bets pl., V, 257, 10: boots.
bett II, 44, (Child #59 A) 14, pret. of bete, beet: kindled.
better she stood, and better she stood (printed bitter), I, 492, 5; they rode, and better they rode, I, 102, (Child #7 C) (Child #7 D) 10; 492, 10, 14; he rade and better rade, II, 209, D (Child #75 D) 5: longer, farther still, better swam, V, 140, e 7. better be, I, 128, (Child #10 C) 13: still more.
beuk book.
bewch III, 91 b: bough.
bewrailed V, 55, (Child #271 B) 38: berailed.
bewray V, 86, (Child #273 app) 35: reveal.
beyt V, 79, (Child #273 app) 25: beeth, be.
bickering IV, 7, (Child #190 A) 34: (hail) pattering.
bide, byde I, 430, (Child #47 C) (Child #47 D) 4, 5, 8, 9; II, 177, (Child #72 C) 14; 289, A 2; 313, 14; III, 465, (Child #185 A) 30; V, 108, B (Child #278 B) 8: stay. p.p. bidden, IV, 262 f., (Child #226 E) 32, 33; 524, 9. bide (a doulfou day), II, 159, (Child #69 A) 23: await, look for. bide anither bode, III, 268, (Child #157 B) (Child #157 C) 12; 270, 12: wait for another offer. I never bade a better bode, III, 267, (Child #157 A) (Child #157 B) 15. your wedding to bide, III, 387, (Child #173 C) (Child #173 D) 11: await, bide it whoso may, IV, 433, (Child #262 A) 21: await the result? (obscure passage), bide frae me, V, 236, 16: stay away. In: she bade the bride gae in, II, 195, (Child #73 H) 30, it is not likely that a rival would bid a bride; interpret rather, she waited for the bride to go.
bidene, bydene, bydeene I, 105 a, 20: immediately (or, all together). I, 273, (Child #29 A) 34: successively, one after another. III, 65, (Child #117 A) 185: together. III, 73, (Child #117 A) 350: simultaneously, or en masse.
biek, beek IV, 77, (Child #201 A) 3: bask. See beek.
bier III, 161, (Child #134 A) 32; V, 161, (Child #293 A) (Child #293 B) 1; 162, D 1: cry, lamentation.
bierly, beerly (bride), I, 467, (Child #53 C) 29; II, 75, (Child #62 E) (Child #62 F) 19; 132, 24; the same as buirdly bride, II, 82, (Child #62 J) 51: portly, stately (large and well made). See buirdly.
big, bigg I, 15, (Child #2 A) (Child #2 B) 13; 17, 16; 108, 1; II, 330, (Child #93 G) (Child #93 H) 1; 331, 1; 332, 1: build, pret. and p.p. biggit, bigget, IV, 202, K (Child #217 K) 5; 203, 13. pret. bug, IV, 199, (Child #217 G) 17. p.p. buggin, bugn, IV, 445, 1; 446, 1. build a stack for corn, I, 17, (Child #2 D) 12; 428, 11; V, 206 a, 8.
bigane I, 334, 5: covered, wrought.
biggeall beguile.
bigging, biggin II, 115, (Child #65 A) (Child #65 B) 23, 24; 117, 10, 11; 123, 25, 26; 255, 11, 12; 257, 19, 20; IV, 128, (Child #209 B) 2-4: building, house, "properly of a large size, as opposed to a cottage."
bigly (Icelandic, byggiligr, habitable), commodious, pleasant to live in, I, 68, (Child #5 A) 32; 107, 1, 3; II, 98, (Child #63 J) 30-32, 35, 36; 172 f., 40, 42, 45; 294, 4, 5; 370, 6; 417, 3; 419, 45: frequent epithet of bower. II, 358, (Child #96 A) 26, of a bier: handsomely wrought.
bile v., V, 305 a, 6: boil.
bill V, 15, (Child #267 A) 16, 18: a paper, bills, IV, 422, (Child #257 B) (Child #257 C) 45, 46: (the necessary legal) papers, sworne into my bill, III, 411, (Child #176 A) 5: sworn in writing.
bill I, 302, B (Child #33 B) 12; 303, 10; IV, 331 b, (Child #236 app) 2: bull.
billaments I, 433, (Child #48 A) 17: habiliments, of head-gear.
billie, billy comrade, brother; "a term expressive of affection and familiarity:" I, 448, A (Child #51 A) 2, 4; III, 464, (Child #185 A) 2, 5, 6, 19; 467, 56; 489, 11; V, 128, (Child #282 A) 29. born billy, III, 495 b, 23, 24. See bully.
Billie Blin, Bellie Blind I, 73, (Child #5 C) 35, 44; 86, 29; 466 f., 14, 23; II, 464, (Child #110 D) 15, 16; 470, 60-63; 472, 31; V, 239, 39: see I, 67; V, 285 b.
belly-blind II, 464, (Child #110 D) 15, 16: may mean here nothing more than an innocent warlock or wizard.
billy-pot I, 164, L (Child #12 L) 6: pot with a semicircular handle (bail)?
bine be not: V, 238, 18.
binge IV, 462, 30: bend.
binkes I, 334, 9: benches.
binna be not.
bint V, 110, (Child #279 A) 12: bind, pay for.
bird, burd I, 76, (Child #5 D) (Child #5 E) 50, 51; II, 314, (Child #91 B) (Child #91 C) (Child #91 D) 29, 30; C 10; 316, 12; IV, 422, (Child #257 B) (Child #257 C) 2, 5, 10: maid, lady, bird her lane, II, 313, (Child #91 B) 12, 19: maid by herself, solitary. II, 272, (Child #83 F) 5: child, boy.
birk he was standing on the birk, II, 165, (Child #69 F) (Child #69 G) 13, seems to be nonsense. There is no birk to stand on unless the floor is birken, and nothing could be more inept than a reference to that matter.
birlin II, 28, (Child #58 I) (Child #58 J) 1: drinking. See birl.
birl, berl II, 28, (Child #58 I) (Child #58 J) 1; 92, 17; 219, 6; IV, 154, (Child #212 F) 9; 166, 1; 234, 35; 385, 1: drink. II, 152, J (Child #68 J) 3; 299, 16; 368, 7: ply with drink, birled in him, II, 144, (Child #68 A) 3, 4: poured into. Of dispensing both bread and wine: II, 191, (Child #73 F) 34, 35; V, 224, 26. birled wi them, IV, 438, (Child #265 A) 8: should apparently be birled them wi. ptc., birlin, II, 28, (Child #58 I) (Child #58 J) 1.
birnande burning.
birtled I, 273, (Child #29 A) 42: cut up.
bisette I, 334, 8: devote (to the matter a space greater by two miles).
bit (used with a noun instead of a diminutive), wee bit banes, I, 225, L (Child #20 L) 7: bits of.
bit but. bit an(d), II, 30, (Child #58 K) (Child #58 L) 4; 132, 26: and also.
bitaihte I, 244, (Child #23 A) 11: committed to.
bitten V, 130, (Child #283 A) 13: taken in, cheated.
bla III, 350, 53, 54: blow.
blabring V, 247, 9: babbling. See blobberin.
bla'd, II, 21, (Child #58 A) (Child #58 B) 6: bla it, blow it.
blaewort IV, 212, (Child #219 A) 6: corn bluebottle, round-leaved bell-flower, bluebell of Scotland.
blaise, blaisse IV, 503, 19; 505, 49: display, show forth, display itself.
blan, blane, blanne II, 53, (Child #60 A) 29; 140, 23; 265, 9; III, 309, (Child #162 A) 41; 405, 13; 406, 38; 466, 40: pret. of blin, stop, cease.
blast V, 82, (Child #273 app) 39: puff, breathe hard.
blate II, 260, (Child #82 A) 2; III, 160, (Child #134 A) 10; 163, 85: dumfoundered, abashed, silly, spake blate, II, 470, (Child #110 F) 47, 50: bashfully, diffidently.
blavers V, 213, 14: corn bluebottle (blaewort).
blaw I, 15, B (Child #2 B) 2; 16 C 2: blow. pret. blow, III, 112, (Child #121 A) 65. p.p. blawin, I, 17, D (Child #2 D) 1; blawn, I, 15, B (Child #2 B) 1; 16, C 1, 2. pres. p. blawn (blawing), II, 114, (Child #65 A) 20.
blee I, 272, (Child #29 A) 13, 20, 24; 293, 1; II, 364, (Child #96 E) 26; 442, 1, 2: color, complexion.
bleed blood.
bleed I, 441, (Child #49 D) (Child #49 E) 5, 7, pret. of bleed: bled.
bleeze III, 457, B (Child #183 B) 4: blaze.
blewe I, 326, (Child #37 C) 7: blew on a horn (see st. 10).
blin blind.
blin, blyn, blinne II, 138, (Child #67 A) 3; V, 14 f., (Child #267 A) 2, 20: (belin) cease, stop. pret. blan. See blan.
blind, blint II, 345, (Child #94 A) 26; 382, 6; IV, 265, A b 8; 486, 10: blinded.
blink n., IV, 136, (Child #209 J) 17; 360, 15; 384, 3, 4; look, glance. IV, 390, (Child #248 A) 7, of the moon: gleam. IV, 389 b: (of time) moment.
blink to look: II, 433, (Child #107 A) 6; IV, 127, (Child #209 A) 14; 351, 7; 353, 18; 416, 2; V, 53, (Child #271 A) 107; 54, 3; 154, A 11: glance, emit, throw a glance. III, 371, (Child #169 C) 27; IV, 256 f., (Child #226 A) 1, 10: shine, glitter, blinkin ee, IV, 194, (Child #217 A) (Child #217 B) (Child #217 C) (4), 5; 201, 25; 203, 5; 211, 9: shining, twinkling, wha is this that blinks in Willie's ee? II, 189, (Child #73 E) 25: sends brightness into, whose brightness is reflected from, nor ever did he blink his ee (at the gallows), IV, 12, B (Child #191 B) 8: wink, shut, blench, his look was steadfast, cam blinkin on an ee, II, 475, (Child #110 J) (Child #110 K) 17: winking as if blind, playing the blind.
blint II, 17 b; IV, 515, 12: blinded. See blind.
bliss bless.
blobberin II, 256, (Child #81 K) (Child #81 L) 13: perhaps, blubbering, crying; perhaps = blabring. V, 247, 9: babbling.
block II, 216, (Child #76 A) 16: exchange. IV, 148, (Child #211 A) 54: bargain; lost the better block, had the worse in a bargain or dealing.
blood, blude II, 114, (Child #65 A) 16; 123, 13: man (disrespectfully), fellow.
blow pret., blew.
blowe II, 478, (Child #111 A) 8: blossom.
blowe (wynde), II, 478, (Child #111 A) 12: give vent to.
blowe (boste), III, 59, (Child #117 A) 59: give breath to, utter.
blude, bluid blood. See blood.
bluid is gude IV, 433, (Child #262 A) 21: good to dream of.
bluntest III, 492, (Child #188 C) (Child #188 D) 25: stupidest.
blutter III, 161, (Child #134 A) 43: dirty.
blyue, belyfe, beliue III, 29, (Child #116 A) 144; 71, 300; 74, 371: quickly, immediately.
boad n., V, 243, 11: offer.
boams fire-beams (not beams), IV, 96, D (Child #204 D) 3: bombs.
board-floor II, 160, (Child #69 B) 5, 6: should probably be bower-floor, as in 159, 6, 9; 161, 6, 8.
bocht bought.
booking III, 161, (Child #134 A) 33: vomiting, belching.
boddom bottom.
bode n., offer: III, 267, (Child #157 A) (Child #157 B) 15; 268, 12; 270, 12; 272, 14.
bodë, p.p., III, 67, (Child #117 A) 222: bidden, invited.
bodes wild fowl bodes on hill, II, 410, (Child #101 B) (Child #101 C) 7: announces day. Cf. II, 230, (Child #77 B) (Child #77 C) 5, the wild fule boded day.
bode-words III, 4, (Child #114 A) (Child #114 B) 19: messages.
body faith, faikine, of my body, III, 180, (Child #140 A) (Child #140 B) 17; 199, 24; 216, 33; 296, 16; 472, 7; truth of my body, III, 180, B, (Child #140 B) 7; 181, 15, 16, 21; IV, 7, (Child #190 A) 31: either by my personal faith, or, by my body, faith in my body, III, 411, (Child #176 A) 6.
body-clothes IV, 152, (Child #212 B) (Child #212 C) (Child #212 D) 7: clothes of my body.
bold, bauld (of fire), II, 116, (Child #65 B) 18; 117, 12; 119, 5, 6; 123, 18, 27: sharp, brisk.
boldly (understand), IV, 146, (Child #211 A) 19: freely, confidently, fully (verbiage).
bokin bodkin.
bolts IV, 409, (Child #253 A) 1: rods, bars (to make a petticoat stand out).
bon, bone, boune on the way, going. See boun.
bone boon.
bone sadle of the bone, V, 219, 13. See bane, roelle-bone.
bonins, by, V, 253 a, 4: in plenty (Gypsy cant).
bonnetie V, 306, 2, 3: dimin. of bonnet.
booting III, 159, (Child #134 A) 1: making of boot or booty.
boot v., IV, 501, 26: matter. See bote.
bord, borde, bowrd V, 78, (Child #273 app) 1; 80, 48, 49: jest, sport, amusement, comic tale.
bord II, 450, (Child #109 B) 80; 451, 84: should perhaps be bore, as in 445, 77. Still, carried him out of the saddle by the impact of the spear which bored him through is not unlikely, and we have, p. 454, 55, out of his saddle bore him he did.
borden adj., IV, 506, 73: of plank; borden tree, wooden plank.
born alive ye were, IV, 521, 19; A, IV, 26, (Child #193 A) (Child #193 B) 16, has 'That I love best that's born alive,' i.e. of all that are born. The ye should be yt, that, and probably was so meant.
borough-town, borrow's toun, borrous-toun etc. See borrows-town, burrow-town.
borowe, borrow n. III, 59, (Child #117 A) 62-64, 66; 68, 237, 250: security. III, 405, (Child #175 A) 9: sponsor, vindicator.
borowe, borrow v., I, 309, A (Child #34 A) 3; II, 177, (Child #72 C) 27; III, 25, (Child #116 A) 50; 298, 69; 329, 6; IV, 33, (Child #194 C) 15-18, 20, 21: set free, deliver, ransom.
borowehode III, 68, (Child #117 A) 239: securityship.
borrows-town, borrous-toun IV, 229, (Child #221 K) 1; V, 117, A (Child #280 A) 6, 7; 126, 1: borough-town, borough, corporate town. See borough, burrow-town, town.
boskyd III, 112, (Child #121 A) 60: busked, made ready. See busk.
bot but. bot and: see but and.
bot without. See but.
bot II, 94, (Child #63 G) 3: behoved.
bote, boote, boot II, 45, (Child #59 A) 30, 34; III, 27, (Child #116 A) 104; 94, 55; 187, 33: help, use, advantage, (boot, v., IV, 501, 26: matter.)
both, beth III, 59, (Child #117 A) 53, 54; 79, 54: be (old plural), bottle (of hay), V, 114, 4: bundle.
bottle be my bottle, V, 170, (Child #297 A) 1: hold my own, bear my full part, in drinking? Corrupt?
bottys butts.
boud V, 176, (Child #301 A) 17: behoved, were obliged, bouerie, II, 232, (Child #77 D) (Child #77 E) 1: diminutive of bower, chamber.
bought = bucht, IV, 198, (Child #217 F) (Child #217 G) 1; 199, 17, 23: fold, pen.
bouk, buik, buke II, 149, (Child #68 D) (Child #68 E) 14; IV, 127, (Child #209 A) 14; 484 a: trunk, body.
boun, bowne, bune, bound, bownd, bowynd v., make ready, go. buske yee, bowne yee, III, 91, (Child #118 A) 5; 431, 25: make ready, boun, bound, I, 369, (Child #41 A) (Child #41 B) 44; IV, 183, (Child #215 H) 2; V, 256, 5: go. make ye boun, I, 75, (Child #5 D) 18: go. must bound home, V, 9, (Child #266 A) 4. get up and bound your way, II, 405, (Child #100 I) 9: go, come, bownd away, III, 161, (Child #134 A) 30; bowynd hym to ryde, III, 295, (Child #161 A) 1; bounded for to ride, II, 118, (Child #65 C) (Child #65 D) 7: set out, went, bound him to his brand, III, 160, (Child #134 A) 23: went, betook himself, was boon, boun, bound, II, 298, (Child #89 A) 5; IV, 432, (Child #262 A) 2; V, 256 a, 4: going, on the way. how she is bune, II, 191, (Child #73 F) 30: going on. go boun away, IV, 224, (Child #221 F) 15, 16 (tautology): go, depart.
boun, bon, bowne, bowen, bowyn, bun adj. (búinn, p.p. of Icelandic búa, to make ready): bound, ready, made him boun, III, 163, (Child #134 A) 76. to batell were not bowyn, III, 295, (Child #161 A) 4. make ye bowne, I, 75, (Child #5 D) 18, 22; III, 296, (Child #161 A) 28. bun to bed, bon to rest, II, 191, 26; V, 35, B (Child #269 B) 3. made him boun, bound, III, 163, 76; V, 81, (Child #273 app) 2: equipped himself, your friends beene bowne, I, 210, (Child #18 A) 14: ready to come, ready boun (tautology), IV, 432, (Child #262 A) 5. See boun, v.
boun V, 300, 6: boon.
bounties V, 231, 14: presents, in addition to wages.
bountieth V, 9, (Child #266 A) 12: bounty, alms.
bourde v., III, 179 b: jest.
bourden III, 179 b: staff.
bourn III, 470 a: brook.
boustouslie, bousterously, boustresslie, boustrouslie I, 108, (Child #8 A) (Child #8 B) 13; IV, 446, 13; 447, 13; 465, 19, 35: boisterously, roughly.
bout II, 27, (Child #58 H) (Child #58 I) 18: bolt.
bouted I, 68, (Child #5 A) 4; 70, 4: bolted.
bow bough.
bow lintseed bow, I, 305, (Child #33 G) 14: the boll or pod containing the seeds of flax.
bow II, 28, (Child #58 I) (Child #58 J) 16: boll, a dry measure; of salt, two bushels; "for wheat and beans, four Winchester bushels; for oats, etc., six bushels." Scottish, four firlots (see firlot). bow o here, V, 264 a: boll of barley.
bower chamber: I, 65, A 1; 68, 25, 32; 73, 47; etc., etc. bouerie, II, 232, (Child #77 D) (Child #77 E) 1: diminutive of the same.
bower house, home: I, 56, (Child #4 B) (Child #4 C) 3; 79, 3; 80, 1; 107, 1; etc., etc. Often indistinguishable from the above.
bower-head II, 76, (Child #62 F) 11: top of the house. (Unless the reading should be tower-head; cf. II, 74, D (Child #62 D) 5; 78, I 14, but we have an upmost ha, highest room, II, 72, C (Child #62 C) 14.)
bower-yett house-gate.
bowie V, 306, 15: a kind of tub.
bown V, 273, No 239, 4: bowed, bent.
bowne, bownd, bowyn See boun.
bowrd I, 264: comic tale. See bord.
bows (o London), I, 131, H 1: arches of a bridge? windings of the river?
box V, 19, (Child #267 app) 18: a compartment partitioned off in a drinking-room.
boyt III, 109, (Child #121 A) 3: both.
bra, braw I, 128, (Child #10 C) 19; V, 268, 25; 272, 3, 7, 11: brave, fine, handsome. See braw.
bracken, braken, brachan, breckin, breaken, breckan, brecken, breachan IV, 257, B (Child #226 B) 7; 268, 21; 269, d 19, f 19; 272, 11, 3; 501, 28, 31, 37; V, 244, 16, 19, 20; 265 b, 19: fern, brake.
brae, bra, bray hillside, hill: I, 324, (Child #37 A) (Child #37 B) 14; IV, 92, 1; 264, 15; 274, 8; 448 a, 3d st. braes o Yarrow, IV, 164 f., (Child #214 A) 1-9, B 3-5: the equivalent word is sometimes, banks, pp. 168, 169, 170, 178; otherwise houms, p. 168, but downs, p. 166 f., and the topography seems to indicate hills. "Conjoined with a name, it denotes the upper part of a country, as the Braes of Angus." Jamieson.
brae river-bank: III, 484 a, (Child #187 D) 32; burn-brae, IV, 275, C b 8. Cholar foord brae-head, III, 482, (Child #187 C) 21?
brae brow: III, 4, (Child #114 A) (Child #114 B) 17.
braid IV, 399, (Child #251 A) 28: breadth. See breed. Adj., broad.
braid (broad) letter, II, 20, (Child #58 A) 3; 25, 3; 26, 3; 27, 3; 251, 2; 393, 4; IV, 118, C (Child #208 C) 1; 119, D 1; 120, 1; 373, 2; 382, 3: either a letter on a broad sheet or a long letter. The king's letter, II, 21, (Child #58 A) (Child #58 B) 3; 23, E 3; 24, 3, is lang, and at 22, 3, is large. A braid letter has been interpreted to be an open one, a patent, but in almost every case here cited the letter is said to be sealed. The letter at II, 251, (Child #81 F) (Child #81 G) 2, is private and confidential, written by a lady. Private folk write broad letters, IV, 320, (Child #235 J) (Child #235 K) 1; 339, 13; 342, 17; 343, 7; a lady again, II, 382, (Child #99 B) (Child #99 C) 5; 395, 18; IV, 233, (Child #222 A) 20; 342, 6; 343, 2.
brain II, 124, (Child #65 H) (Child #65 I) 39; 130, 28; 131, 20; 133, 9; 169, 25; 407, 10; III, 274, (Child #157 G) (Child #157 H) 33: mad.
brake, break V, 166, (Child #294 A) 8; 306, 7: cause to break off, correct, cure.
braken III, 299, (Child #161 B) (Child #161 C) 12, 14; 300, 25, 26: fern. See bracken.
braken I, 350, (Child #39 G) 17: p.p. of break.
bramly III, 9, (Child #114 G) (Child #114 H) 13: brambly, thorny.
branded (bull), III, 459, (Child #184 A) 7: of a reddish brown color.
brank n., III, 440, (Child #179 A) 10: caper, prance, gallop.
branken, branking III, 299, (Child #161 B) (Child #161 C) 4; 301, D 1: galloping.
branks III, 480, (Child #187 B) 9: a sort of bridle; a halter with two pieces of wood, instead of a leathern strap or a cord, over the nose, the whole resembling a muzzle.
brash sickness: II, 364, (Child #96 E) 20; IV, 483, 16.
brast, I, 370, (Child #41 B) (Child #41 C) 14, 18; V, 76, (Child #273 A) 26; 80, 45; 82, 40: burst, broke, broken.
branches, I, 271, (Child #29 A) 2: brooches. But perhaps branches, the clothes embroidered with rings and sprigs.
braw I, 491, 1, 2, etc.; II, 80, (Child #62 J) 3-7: comely. I, 127, (Child #10 B) 21; 467, 29; II, 23, E (Child #58 E) 5; fine, handsome, finely dressed. I, 184, (Child #15 A) (Child #15 B) 11; V, 210, 11: (of a meeting) pleasant. See bra and braws. braw wallie, IV, 296, F (Child #232 F) 1: exclamation of admiration.
brawn IV, 212, (Child #219 A) 5: calf of the leg.
braws IV, 269, f, 19: fine things, finery.
bray, brae, hillside, hill.
brayd on V, 198 b, after 52: move on, fall on.
brayde, breyde at a brayde, III, 26, (Child #116 A) 91; of a, III, 32, 91: in a moment, of a sudden.
breachan See bracken.
bread, breed, bred III, 339, (Child #167 A) 13, 16; 341, 42: breadth.
bread broad.
breaden I, 433, (Child #48 A) 9: braided (here, perhaps, woven).
break, brake V, 166, (Child #294 A) 8; 306, 7: cause to break off, correct, cure.
break till five minutes break, II, 325, (Child #93 C) 19, 20: expire.
breaken See bracken.
breast smoothd his breist and swam, II, 248, (Child #81 C) (Child #81 D) 9, 15: made it even, level with the water, set her, his brest and sworn, II, 459, (Child #110 A) 8; V, 137, (Child #286 A) (Child #286 B) 5, 9. bent his breast and swam, V, 138, C (Child #286 C) 3, 5; 141 b, 6, 9; 142 a, 4. lay on his brest and swumme, II, 247, (Child #81 C) 14.
breast in a, IV, 11, (Child #191 A) (Child #191 B) 12, 13: in one voice (all at once, p. 13, 4). in a breast, Scottish, sometimes = abreast, side by side.
breast v., II, 299, (Child #89 A) 22, breast a steed: mount, by bringing the breast to it.
breast-mills, II, 403, (Child #100 F) (Child #100 G) 15: mills operated by a breast-wheel.
breastplate II, 380, (Child #99 A) 15; 383, 14; 385, 4, etc.; IV, 486, 6, etc.: some part of a woman's attire, said here to be of steel instead of gold. Possibly a stomacher. "Curet, breastplate, or stomager." Huloet, 1552. "Torace, also a placket, a stomacher, or brest plate for the body." Florio. At II, 381, (Child #99 B) 10, we have bracelets, which would be a plausible emendation for breast-plate, did not the latter occur quite a dozen times.
breast-wine II, 338, T (Child #93 T) 7: milk (Irish ballad).
breathed II, 47, unto, (Child #59 B) 21, on, 22: does not seem to be the right word. Possibly breved, gave information to (but the word is antique for the text, and on in 22 would not suit).
brecham III, 480, (Child #187 B) 9: 492, 4; brechen, III, 491, 6: a straw collar for a horse, also a pack-saddle made of straw, so more probably here, carts not being used.
brechan, brichan IV, 157, (Child #213 A) 7, 12, 14, 18, 19: (Gael, breacan) plaid.
brechen See brecham.
breckan, brecken, breckin See bracken.
bred, brede V, 283, 8, 18: bread.
bred, bread, breed III, 347, c 44, g 38: breadth.
brede I, 242, (Child #22 A) 7: to have the whims attributed to breeding women? (Not satisfactory, as not being sufficiently simple. Prof. Kittredge has suggested to me gynnyst to wede, to go mad; which seems to me quite worth considering. The rhyme with the same sound in a different sense, is entirely allowable.)
bree, brie I, 129, (Child #10 D) (Child #10 E) 14; 341, 3, 8, 17; 417, 13; III, 11, K; V, 191 f., (Child #305 A) 3, 18, 31: brow, eyebrow.
bree broth. See broo.
breed, bread, bred, braid III, 349, 38; IV, 503, 13, 16; 505, 45: breadth.
breek-thigh III, 464, (Child #185 A) 15: thigh of his breeches.
breeme III, 285, (Child #159 A) 19: fierce.
breist See breast.
bren, brene, brenne, brin II, 45, (Child #59 A) 24; 59, 32; III, 24, (Child #116 A) 29, 35; 361, b, c, 28: burn. p.p. brent, II, 44, (Child #59 A) 3, 14; 46, 47.
brent (brow), II, 191, (Child #73 F) 25; IV, 272, (Child #228 B) (Child #228 C) 2; 387, 1: high and straight. Also, smooth, unwrinkled.
brents I, 74, (Child #5 C) (Child #5 D) 76, 78: door-posts, or doors. (Icelandic brandar, postes, Egilsson; ships' beaks used as ornaments over the chief door of dwellings, Vigfusson.)
brest See breast.
brest burst.
brother, brothers, brethren I, 104, (Child #7 F) 10; III, 478, (Child #187 A) 15. bretheren, III, 26, (Child #116 A) 74; 478, 14. brethern, bretherne, II, 73, (Child #62 C) 17; 160, 3, 9; III, 57, (Child #117 A) 27; 67, 217. brethren, III, 29, (Child #116 A) 148. brethen, III, 22, (Child #116 A) 4, 6; 23, 10; V, 135 b, 19.
bretther o degs, with a b. of d. ye'll clear up my nags, IV, 312, (Child #235 A) 3 (the reading may be bretlher ... clean): corrupt, "brathay an degs would mean with old cloth and torn rags: brathay (obsolete) worn out brats or clothes." W. Forbes.
breyde n., with a breyde, III, 110, (Child #121 A) 20: with a rush, in haste.
breyde v., III, 110, (Child #121 A) 9: rushed, bounded.
bride-steel, brid-stell, bride-stool, bride-styl IV, 181, (Child #215 D) (Child #215 E) 7, 8; 182, F 2, 3; 183, 2; V, 256 a, 4, 5: seat in church where the bridegroom and bride sat before the beginning of the service.
brie brow. See bree.
brig, brigue I, 118, D 2; II, 24, (Child #58 E) (Child #58 F) 14; 177, 13, 15; 272, 13: bridge.
bright, bryghte I, 285, (Child #30 A) 25; 293, 2; 296, 51, 56; 327, 12, 21: sheen, beautiful.
brim II, 274, (Child #83 G) 3: sea. In, fa oure the brim, IV, 419, (Child #257 A) 16, 26, the brim of a precipice may be meant.
brin II, 146, (Child #68 B) 23; V, 223 a, No 68, A 22: burn.
bring hame I, 76, (Child #5 D) (Child #5 E) 53; 367, 9; II, 97, (Child #63 J) 24; 425, 9, 10; V, 41, (Child #270 A) 17; give birth to. brought King James hame, II, 345, (Child #94 A) 29: brought into the world, (come hame, be born, see hame.)
brirben II, 217, (Child #76 A) (Child #76 B) 2, 4. tabean brirben (printed by Herd birben) is corrupt. A copy mentioned by Finlay had birchen; see IV, 471, 221.
brither II, 163, (Child #69 E) 7, 11, 16; 164, 17; 165, 3; V, 123, (Child #281 A) (Child #281 B) 4; 299, 4: brother.
Brittaine, Litle Brittaine I, 285, (Child #30 A) 24, 33, 37. brittled, bryttled, brittened, I, 328, 51; III, 7, (Child #114 E) (Child #114 F) 7: cut up.
broad, brode, brode arrow, brod arwe, brod aro III, 13, (Child #115 A) 9; 29, 153, 159; 106, 16; 307, 5; 341, 56; "catapulta." Prompt. Parv. The Catholicon explains catapulta to be "sagitta cum ferro bipenni, quam sagittam barbatam vocant." Way. Cotgrave: "Rallion. An arrow with a forked, or barbed head; a broad arrow." broode-headed arrowe, IV, 505, 56; 506, 64; broode- arrowe-head, 506, 59.
broad letter See braid letter.
broad-mouthd axe IV, 123, (Child #208 I) 14: broad axe.
broad sow V, 91, (Child #274 A) 3: a sow that has a litter (brod = breed).
brockit, brookit, bruckit I, 303, (Child #33 C) (Child #33 D) (Child #33 E) 8; 304, E 8, F 8; V, 213, 8: streaked or speckled in the face, streaked with dirt. See broked, bruchty.
brodinge II, 58, (Child #61 A) 14: shooting up, sprouting. (Old Eng. brodden.)
brogues IV, 70, G (Child #200 G) 4; 72, I 7; 269 a, d 20; V, 265, No 227, 20; 301, No 200: coarse light shoes of horse-hide, worn especially by Highlanders.
broke, brook III, 69 f., (Child #117 A) 271, 274, 279; 310, 62: enjoy.
broked cow III, 459, (Child #184 A) 7: a cow that has black spots or streaks mixed with white in her face. See brockit.
broken IV, 356, (Child #241 A) (Child #241 B) 12: bankrupt, ruined.
broken men III, 473, (Child #186 A) 19, 24; IV, 41, note *: men under sentence of outlawry, or who lived as vagabonds and public depredators, or were separated from their clans in consequence of crimes. Jamieson.
broo, brue, bree, brie II, 30, (Child #58 K) (Child #58 L) 11: brow.
broo, brue, bree I, 160, C (Child #12 C) 2, D 3; 161, E 3; IV, 449, 2, 3: broth. I, 499, 4; V, 98, (Child #275 A) (Child #275 B) 9, 10: water in which something has been boiled.
brook, broke, bruik II, 189, (Child #73 E) 33, 34; 420, 7; III, 212, (Child #148 A) 8; IV, 435, (Child #263 A) 14: enjoy.
broom-cow I, 394, (Child #43 A) (Child #43 B) 5: twig of broom.
brose-cap II, 463, (Child #110 C) 25: pottage-, porridge-bowl.
brot p.p., V, 296, 2, 3, etc.: brought.
brothered IV, 373, (Child #244 C) 17: broidered? (He is to have a change of clothes every month, and those embroidered?)
brough V, 128, (Child #282 A) 29, 30: borough, town.
brought hame See bring hame.
broun, brown IV, 169, F (Child #214 F) 2; G 1 (browns, brouns, in the Manuscripts). Might be thought a corruption of brand, but brand occurs in each case immediately after. Brown for brown blade would be extraordinary.
browen III, 9, (Child #114 G) (Child #114 H) 4: brewed, (brown corrected from earlier Manuscript)
browjt, browt, browthe brought.
brown ground IV, 27, (Child #193 B) 12: brown with heather.
brown sword I, 70, (Child #5 A) (Child #5 B) 22; 294, 24; III, 71, (Child #117 A) 305. Brún as an epithet of sword in Anglo-Saxon has been interpreted literally, as denoting that the weapon was wholly or in part of bronze; also as gleaming, which may at first seem forced. Gleaming is the meaning given to brown sword by Mätzner, who cites three cases from romances. We have bright brown sword, II, 139, (Child #67 A) (Child #67 B) 22; 241, 24; 266, 26, 27; and, blades both browne and bright, III, 93, (Child #118 A) 36. The late Mr. Edward Bangs, remarking upon these passages, suggests that the blades may have been artificially browned with acid and then polished, as gun-barrels still are, and he refers to P. Lacombe's description of the magnificent sword of Charles V, Armes et Armures, p. 221: "la lame est d'acier bruni presque noir." We have browne tempered blade, III, 35, (Child #116 app) 13, meaning, probably, a blade tempered to that color.
browt, browthe brought.
browst V, 306, 12: brewage.
bruchty, brucket, brockit I, 301 f., A (Child #33 A) 5, 9; V, 213 a, No 33, 5: spotted or streaked with dirt; of a sheep, streaked or speckled in the face. See brockit.
brue V, 209 a: broo, broth, soup.
brue I, 334, 3: brow.
bruik II, 422, (Child #103 B) (Child #103 C) 2; IV, 385, (Child #246 A) (Child #246 B) 27; V, 179, (Child #302 A) 12, 13: enjoy, possess. See brook.
brune III, 9, H (Child #114 H) 8: error for brume (which is the reading in an earlier Manuscript).
brung pret., p.p. of bring, IV, 191, B, after 7; 466, 11.
brunt IV, 211, (Child #218 A) (Child #218 B) 2; 392, 17; 468, 17: burnt.
brusted, brusten II, 186, (Child #73 C) 15; IV, 2, (Child #189 A) 6: burst.
bryde II, 442, (Child #109 A) 3; 478, 1: young woman.
bryk III, 13, (Child #115 A) 13: breeches, hose.
bryn I, 136, R (Child #10 R) 4: should probably be brim, as in R, b, c. brin, brow, from the Icelandic, is unlikely.
bryng yow on your way, III, 99, (Child #119 A) 45: take, accompany.
bryste I, 327, 12: burst.
brytlyng, bryttlynge III, 307, (Child #162 A) 8; 308, 13: (breaking) cutting up. See brittled.
bucht, bught, bought n., IV, 193, (Child #217 A) 1, 2, 5; 194, 6, 9; 195 f., 1, 3, 4; 198 f., 1, 3, 6; etc.: a small pen, usually put up in the corner of the field, into which it was customary to drive the ewes when they were to be milked. Jamieson.
bucht, bught v., IV, 200, (Child #217 H) 1, 18; 201, 10; 205, 22: go into the bucht, or pen. pret. buchted, IV, 201, (Child #217 H) (Child #217 I) 24: drove into the pen; p.p., 201, 11: built a pen for (cf. 198, 8; 200, 19).
buckle crisp, curl (of hair). Curling Buckle, IV, 357, C (Child #241 C) 6, 7: one with hair crisped or curled.
buckled up our lap II, 473, (Child #110 H) 17: fastened up apron or gown so as to make a bag for carrying away meal.
bucklings V, 183, (Child #304 A) 21: encounters?
bud I, 72 f., (Child #5 C) 7, 62: behooved. See buse.
bug IV, 199, (Child #217 G) 17, pret. of big: built.
bugge I, 243, (Child #23 A) 1: buy.
buggin, bugn p.p. of big, IV, 445 b, 1; 446 b, 1: built.
buik, bouk IV, 485, 12, 14: body.
buik, buke IV, 411, (Child #254 A) 2; V, 122, (Child #281 A) 9: book.
buik II, 71, (Child #62 B) 10: pret. of bake (A.S. bác).
builded pret., III, 123, (Child #123 A) 4; sheltered, hid. (A.S. byldan, Scot, bield.)
buird V, 138, (Child #286 B) (Child #286 C) 11, 12, 14: board.
buirdly, buirlie (bride), II, 82, (Child #62 J) 51; 130, 8: portly, stately, large and well made, buirdlie men, II, 315, E (Child #91 E) 6. See bierly.
buke II, 165, (Child #69 F) (Child #69 G) 14: bouk, body. The verse is suspicious; more sense could be had by reading Maist fair, etc., and making the line the beginning of the speech of the fourth brother. See bouk, bulk.
buke, buik book.
bukeld V, 276, 18. See baucheld.
buld build, built.
bull-baits I, 103, E (Child #7 E) 4: represents strokes, blows (cf. other versions), and must have some such sense. Possibly a corruption of buffets, though I see not how. A compounding of Old English bollen, to strike, and of beat would be unlikely. Bull-baits, for violent assaults, no doubt seemed good enough to the reciter.
bully, billy IV, 146 f., (Child #211 A) 5, 12, 18-21, etc.: brother, fellow, mate. See billie.
bullyship IV, 147, (Child #211 A) 29, 33: comradeship.
bun II, 191, (Child #73 F) 26; IV, 45, (Child #196 A) (Child #196 B) 6: boun(d), ready to go.
bun V, 267 a, 9: bound, tied up.
bune (how she is), II, 191, (Child #73 F) 30: going on, faring.
burd, bird I, 69 f., (Child #5 A) 70, 72; 71, 57; II, 282, (Child #86 A) 6; III, 393, (Child #173 I) 14; 394, K 3; IV, 418, (Child #257 A) 2, 3, 5, etc.; 420, 2, 4, 5, etc.; 424, 1, 2, 4; V, 228 f., 12, 22, 34, 35: damsel, maid, lady. V, 229, 32: perhaps offspring.
burd-alone he lay burd-alone, I, 298, (Child #32 A) 2: solitary, by himself; cf. maid alone, II, 149, (Child #68 D) (Child #68 E) 2.
Burd Alone II, 95, (Child #63 G) (Child #63 H) 1, 3, 4, 5: desolate, forlorn one; corruption of Burd Helen, 96, J 2: cf. bird her lane.
bure I, 108, (Child #8 A) (Child #8 B) 8: bore (pret.).
Burgesse (?), IV, 503, 4; 504, 24: Bordeaux. Should probably be Burdesse.
burgh IV, 53, (Child #198 B) 15-17: town.
burken II, 133, (Child #66 D) (Child #66 E) 8: birken, birchen.
Burlow-beanie I, 287, (Child #30 A) 60, 65, 70, 74: = Billy Blin, which see (I, 67).
burly I, 300, 4. See beerly.
burn, bourn I, 438, A (Child #49 A) 3, 4; III, 440, (Child #179 A) 16; 460, 27: brook.
burn-brae IV, 76, (Child #201 A) 1: hillside with a brook at the bottom.
burnyssht III, 63, (Child #117 A) 136: shining, made bright.
burrow-town, burrows-town IV, 288, E (Child #231 E) 3; 299, d 13: properly, chartered town, corporate town; perhaps nothing more than a town of some size, larger than a village. See borrows-town.
bursen IV, 4 b 6: burst, bursen day, IV, 481, 20: overpoweringly fatiguing.
buse þe buse agayne, I, 328, 54: it behoves thee (other texts, thou most), pret. (personal) bot, II, 94, (Child #63 G) 3; beet, III, 281, (Child #158 C) 2; bud, boud, I, 73, (Child #5 C) 62; V, 176, 17.
busk, buss (Icel. búask, old reflexive of búa, make ready, from the participle of which comes boun, so that busk and boun are of the same origin and equiva- lent). 1. make ready, buske you, III, 73, (Child #117 A) 340. busk and boune, II, 24, (Child #58 E) (Child #58 F) 5; III, 434, 22. buske yee, bowne yee, III, 91, (Child #118 A) 5. the[y] buske them bowne, he buskes him bowne, III, 285, (Child #159 A) 26, 38. they busked and made them bowne, III, 284, (Child #159 A) 2. 2. dress, deck, busk and mak yow braw, II, 23, E (Child #58 E) 5. busk the bride, II, 104, 16, 18; 105, 10, 11; 106, 11. p.p. busket, III, 433, (Child #178 C) (Child #178 D) 3. weel-busked hat, IV, 199, (Child #217 G) 9: decorated, buskit wi rings, V, 203 a. busk on you the flowers, II, 465, (Child #110 E) 3: put on as ornaments, buskit fire wi leaves, II, 411, 10: set about, busk your ship roon (with feather beds), IV, 381, (Child #245 C) (Child #245 D) 8, cf. 10: wrap, sheathe. 3. betake oneself, go. I wol me buske ouer the salte see: III, 59, (Child #117 A) 56. See buskit.
buske III, 97, (Child #119 A) 12: bush.
busker III, 252, (Child #155 N) (Child #155 O) 16: corrupt; testament in other copies.
buskit, busket III, 433, (Child #178 C) (Child #178 D) 3: dressed, buskit his bow in her hair, I, 131, (Child #10 G) 15: furnished, strung. See busk.
buss I, 130, (Child #10 E) (Child #10 F) 16; II, 133, (Child #66 D) (Child #66 E) 8; III, 3, (Child #114 A) 6; 5, P 7; 6, 6: bush.
buss IV, 510, 4; 513 a, 1: busk, make ready, dress. See busk.
busshement III, 71, (Child #117 A) 301: ambuscade.
busting n., V, 301 b, 3: padding or tbe like used to improve the figure.
but prep., without: I, 16, (Child #2 B) (Child #2 C) 6; 420, 9, 10; 450, 3; III, 161, (Child #134 A) 30; IV, 41 b; 326, 16; 329, A, b after 12.
but III, 267, (Child #157 A) (Child #157 B) 20; 268, 17; 270, 16; 272, 20; 274, 33: towards the outer apartment or kitchen, without, out. gae butt the house and bid her come ben, V, 115, (Child #279 app) 6. he wood her butt, he wood her ben, I, 56 f., C 2, 14; cf. V, 219, 10. but it speaks, V, 306, 6: out speaks.
but if ye be a maiden but, I, 72, (Child #5 C) 25: corrupt; read, binna maiden yet?
but and, bot and, but an, bat an = and also: I, 18, P 7; 69, 49; 72, 5; 345, C 8, 9, 10; 464, 8; 474, 36; IV, 418, (Child #257 A) 5; V, 246 b, 4, 6, 8.
but nor bed II, 191, (Child #73 F) 27: but and had not.
but than = but and, IV, 465, 23.
by (cf. also be) II, 56 a; 433, 2; III, 22, (Child #116 A) 2; 91, 2; IV, 420, (Child #257 B) 2, 4; 422, 2: about, concerning (as, by a knight I say my song). V, 272 b, 3, 7, 11; 277, 4; 278, 20 (spelled bay), 31: in comparison with, on comparing (by 272 b, 34, should perhaps be but; cf. 114). kend thy freind by thy foe, III, 420, (Child #177 A) 18: in distinction from, by than, III, 77, (Child #117 A) 435: by the time that, by weeke, spend forty pounds by weeke, II, 442, (Child #109 A) 7: distributively, a week. So, by yere, III, 61, (Child #117 A) 92. he maun do them by, V, 169, (Child #296 A) 12: do without, no far by, V, 123, (Child #281 A) (Child #281 B) 10: not far off. called young Brichen by, I, 465, 5: called on, to. ca'd by Andrew Lammie, IV, 302, (Child #233 A) 1: .called by the name of.
by and bye the keys hang at that lady by and bye, I, 471, (Child #53 E) (Child #53 F) 4: one next to the other (?).
by and by IV, 196 f., (Child #217 D) (Child #217 E) 1, 14: nigh.
by and by I, 287 f., (Child #30 A) 60, 71, 75, 77; V, 122, (Child #281 A) 1; 123, 1: directly, immediately.
by = aby, pay for, atone for: III, 97, (Child #119 A) 15.
byckarte pret. of bicker, III, 307, (Child #162 A) 5: (fought) attacked (the deer).
byd must, am under necessity.
byddys III, 308, (Child #162 A) 26: abides.
byde III, 297, (Child #161 A) 37: wait. p.p. byddin, V, 202 a: staid. pret. byde, there was naething byde him wi, IV, 428, (Child #260 B) 11: nothing which did remain.
bydene See bideue.
bye fell III, 440, (Child #179 A) 8: a rocky hill or piece of high land lying off or aside of the way.
bye-yett IV, 21, (Child #192 D) (Child #192 E) 10: side-gate (subsidiary, not principal).
bygane gone by.
byggande ptc., I, 327, 33: building.
byrde I, 327, 22: woman (wife or maid). See burd.
byre II, 182, (Child #73 A) 8; 184, 13; 188, 13; IV, 293, (Child #232 A) (Child #232 B) 9; 297, 9: cow-house.
bystode hard bystode, III, 98, (Child #119 A) 33: hard pressed.
bytecke commit to: I, 327, 29.
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