Part 55 (1/2)

BEFORN, _prep_ Before

_Wallace_

It occurs also in O E

_R Brunne_

A S _beforan_, ante; coram

BEFOROUTH, _adv_ Before, formerly

V ~Forowth~

_Barbour_

BEFT, _part pa_ Beaten

V ~Beff~

_To_ BEGARIE, _v a_

1 To variegate, to deck with various colours

_Lyndsay_

2 To stripe, to variegate with lines of various colours, to streak

_Begaryit_, striped, _part pa_

_Douglas_

3 To besaried_, bedirted;” Rudd

vo ~Laggerit~

_Lyndsay_

This _v_ has an evident affinity to our _Gair_, _gare_, a stripe of cloth, and _Gaired_, _gairy_, q v The word is iarre_, of sundry colours, led

BEGAIRIES, _s pl_ Stripes or slips of cloth sewed on garments, by way of ornament, such as are noorn in liveries; _pessments_, S synon

_Acts Ja VI_

BEGANE, _part pa_ Covered; _Gold begane_, overlaid with gold