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BEILDY, _adj_ Affording shelter

_Ramsay_

BEILD, _adj_ Bold

_Houlate_

A S _beald_, id A S Alem _belde_, audacia

BEILL, _s_ Perhaps, sorrow, care, q _baill_

_Bannatyne Poems_

BEIN, _s_ Bone, Ang

One is said to be _aw frae the bein_, all frohly pleased; in allusion, as would see from the bone, when the body is swollen

BEIN, BEYNE, _adj_ ~Beinlier~

V ~Bene~

BEIR, BERE, BIR, BIRR, _s_

1 Noise, cry, roar

_Douglas_

The word is used in this sense by R Glouc

2 Force, i the violence of the wind, S

_Vir_, _virr_, Aberd

_Douglas_

O E _bire_, _byre_, _birre_ The term, especially as used in the second sense, seems nearly allied to Isl _byre_ (tempestas), Su G

_boer_, the wind; which seeere, as their root

_To_ BEIR, BERE, _v s_ To roar, to make a noise

_Wallace_

Teut _baeren_, _beren_, is expl by Kilian; Fremere, sublate et ferociter clamare more ursorum The learned writer seems thus to view it as a derivative from _baere_, _bere_, a bear