Part 72 (1/2)

BIGS, Barbour, xix 392 Pink ed Leg ~Lugis~

BIKE, BYKE, BEIK, _s_

1 A building, an habitation, S

_Gawan and Gol_

2 A nest or hive of bees, wasps, or ants, S

_Douglas_

3 A building erected for the preservation of grain; Caithn

_Pennant_

4 Metaph an association or collective body; S

_Lyndsay_

_To skail the byke_, metaph to disperse an assembly of whatever kind; S

Isl _biik-ar_ denotes a hive, alvear; and Teut _bie-bock_, _bie-buyck_, apiarium, alveariu-a_, to build, part pa _bygdt_; q so prepared or built There seems to be no reason to doubt that the word, as used in sense 2, is the sa a habitation For what is a _byke_ or _bee-bike_, but a building or habitation of bees?

BYK, Apparently, an errat for _byt_, bite

_Dunbar_

BYKAT, BEIKAT, _s_ A e, because of the _beak_ which grows in his under jaw; Ang

BILBIE, _s_ Shelter, residence; Ang

This, I apprehend, is a very ancient word It us, conjoined, as denoting residence in a village; or more simply, from _Bolby_, villa prie Thus _bolby_ would signify a village which has a _praedium_, or territory of its own, annexed to it

BILEFT, _pret_ Remained, abode

_Sir Tristrem_

A S _belif-an_, superesse, to remain; Alem _bilib-en_, Franc, _biliu-en_, manere; Schilter

BILGET, _adj_ Bulged, jutting out

_Douglas_

Su G _bulg-ia_, to swell, whence Isl _bylgia_, a billow Or, Isl _eg belge_, curvo; _belgia huopta_, inflare buccas