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_Barbour_

Hence ”the common Scots expression, _God I beteach me till_,” Rudd; and that used by Ramsay, _Betootch-us-to_; i e Let us co O E _bitoke_, cohten_, _bitakun_, _bitauht_ A S _betaec-an_, tradere, concedere, assignare, con or appoint, to betake or recommend unto; Somner _Betaehte_, tradidit

BETHLERIS Leg ~Bechleris~ Bachelors

_Houlate_

_To_ BETRUMPE, _v a_ To deceive

_Douglas_

_To_ BETREYSS, BETRASE, _v a_ To betray

_Barbour_

_Betrasit_, Douglas; _betraissed_, Wallace; _betraised_, Chaucer; _betraist_, R Brunne Ger-en_; Fr _trah-ir_, id _trahi-son_, treason

BETWEESH, _prep_ Betwixt, S

V ~Atweesh~

BEVAR, _s_ One who is worn out with age

_Henrysone_

It is evidently from the same source with _Bavard_, adj q v We still say a _bevir-horse_ for a lean horse, or one worn out with age or hard work; S

BEVEL, _s_ A stroke; sometimes, a violent push with the elbow, S

_Many_

This is a derivative from _Baff_, _beff_, q v

BEVEREN, BEVERAND, _part pr_

_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal_

Perhaps from A S _befer-an_, circumdare; or as the sa;” deriving it from Teut _bev-en_, contre North” Gl Grose

BEVIE, (_of a fire_) _s_ A terreat fire; sometimes, _bevice_, S

Perhaps froots,”