Part 61 (1/2)

V ~Beld Cyttes~

BELLAN, _s_ Fight, combat

_Douglas_

Lat _bellum_

BELLE, _s_ Bonfire

V ~Bail~

BELLING, _s_ The state of desiring the female; a term properly applied to harts

_Douglas_

Rudd derives the phrase from Fr _belier_, a ram; but perhaps it is rather froire, boare

BELLIS, _s pl_

_Wallace_

BELLIT, _adj_ Bald

_Fordun_

_Scotichron_

BELLY-BLIND, _s_ The play called Blind-man's buff, S A: _Blind Harie_, synon S

Anciently this terame

_Lyndsay_

In Su G this gaoat; and in Germ _blinde kuhe_, q blind cow It is probable, that the term is the same with _Billy Blynde_, mentioned in the Tales of Wonder, and said to be the naenius”

BELLY-FLAUGHT

1 To _slay_, or _flay_, _belly-flaught_, to bring the skin overhead, as in flaying a hare, S B

_Monroe's Iles_

2 It is used in Loth and other provinces, in a sense considerably different; as denoting great eagerness or violence in approaching an object