BEU [178] BEV is said a learned is los We still say a bevir-horse for a lean horse, or one The Gael, name, it by friend, S. which broad tail ; los denoting a tail, worn out with age or hard work ; lydan, signifies and leathan broad. s. a S. C. B. a beaver, written Lhuyd BEUCH, (gutt.) A bough, branch, afangc signifies by avangk, adliangk. It is also denominated l/iostlydan. Amiddis ane rank tre lurkis a goldhi bench, Ir. davaran loisleathain. With aureate leuis, and flexibil twistis teuch. Pennant, "were formerly found Doug. Virgil, 167. 41. "Beavers," says in Great Britain ; but the breed has been extirpated A.-S. boga, boh, id. from bug-an to bend. many years ago. The latest account we have of them with is in Giraldua Cambrensis, who travelled through To BEUCHEL, (gutt.) v. n. To walk Wales in 1188. He a brief of their man- or in a or gives history short steps, feeble, constrained, ners and that in his time were found in " ; adds, they only halting manner, to shamble. A beuchelin the river Teivi. Two or three waters in that principality still bear the name Llyn yr afangc, or the beaver lake. body," one who walks in this manner, Roxb. We imagine they must have been very scarce even Teut, boechel-en, baechel-en, niti, eonari. of the in earlier times ; for by the laws Hoel Ada, price of a beaver's skin (croen Llosttydari) was fixed at one s. A little, feeble, and crooked BEUCHEL, hundred and twenty pence, a great sum in those days." creature, ibid. Brit. Zool. i. 70. in this : That the of Boece is, instance, Germ, biigel, Teut. beughel, Su.-G. bygel, curvatura testimony of from this circumstance, that Isl. beyyl-a tortuosum reddo, from beyg-ia, to bend. worthy credit, appears a head of this animal has lately been dug up from a moss in Berwickshire and is now in the Museum BEUCHIT,par<. pa. (gutt.) Bowed, crooked, peat ; of the of the of Scotland. S. Society Antiquaries There is also part of the skeleton of a beaver, which thare To the streme thay turnit foreschip, was presented by the late Dr. Farquharson, from the Kest doun thare beuchil ankeris ferme of grip. Loch of Marlies in Perthshire. Doug. Virgil, 162. 23. * A.-S. bug-an, curvare. BEVERAGE, s. The third sense of this " as Johns, A treat Border. term, given by is, upon BEUGH, *. (gutt.) A limb, a leg, wearing a new suit of clothes." Sym lap on horse-back lyke a rae, till a In S. it another idea. The of a And ran him heuch ; suggests beverage Says, William, cum ryde down this brae, new piece of dress, is a salute given by the person who Thocht ye suld brek a beugh. appears in it for the first time, more commonly by a ii. 183. st. 16. Scott, Evergreen, male to a favourite female. One is said to gie the bever- Who came and tuik her by the bengh, age, or to get the beverage; as, "She gat the beverage And with a rung both auld and teugh, o' his braw new coat." One or two generations ago, Laid on her, while she bled eneugh, when the use of the razor was more sparing, it was And for dead left her lying. very common for a man to give the beverage of his Watson's Coll. i. 46. beard. is Isl. 6o</, Alem. puac, Germ, bug, id. The term applied both to man and to other animals; as Isl. BEVEREN, BEVERAND, part. pr. hinder- that and ; vurderbng, the forequarter, hinderbug, the He glissed up with his eighen, grey wer, grete on that burde quarter. Both Ihre and Wachter view bug-en, to bend, With his beveren berde, bright. and Sir Gal. ii. 2. it is of its that an Sir Oawan as the origin ; as by means joints animal bends itself. It is evidently of the same family This is mentioned in the Gl. as not understood. his full or beard with BoucM, q. v. Perhaps the phrase signifies flowing ; as same with from A.-S. befer-an, circumdare ; or the s. stroke sometimes a violent which Sibb. renders BEVEL, A ; beverand, "shaking, nodding;" This is a with the S. deriving it from Teut. bev-en, contremere. push elbow, " North." provincial E. word. Severing, trembling. He Is brother ? says now, thy gone Gl. Grose. "Bibber, to tremble." Ibid. With that Truth took him by the neck, A.-S. beoff-ian, tremere, trepidare, bef-ian, bif-gean, And gave him their, as some suppone, id. tremor. Alem. Franc, bib-un, Three bevels till he gard him beck. beofung, bifung, tremere. Many's Truth's Travels, Pennecuik's Poems, p. 92. Crook-backed. This is a derivative from Baff, beff, q. v. BEUGLE-BACKED, adj. Beugle-back'd, bodied like a beetle. v. n. To To BEVER, BAIVER, BEWEH, Watson's Coll. it 54. from or A.-S. to Teut. boechel, Germ. shake, to tremble ; especially, age bug-an, bow; gibbus. " curved or " bugel, a dimin. from bug, denoting any thing ; as, We're auld beverin bodies ; infirmity circular. It is undoubtedly the same word that is now " Beverin wi' the with the perils," shaking pronounced boolie-backit, S. Berwicks. V. BEVEREN. palsy, Roxb. used to denote BEVIE, (of a fire) s. A term fire S. BEUER, BEVER, . A beaver. a great ; sometimes, bevice, ' ' E. "a stick like those bound Besyde Loohnes ar mony martrikis, beuers, quhit- Perhaps from bavin, up It is thus used in 0. E. redis, and toddis." Bellend, Descr. ch. 8. This refers in faggots," Johnson. like a now I lie smother- to what is said by Boeee. Ad haec martirillae, fouinae, "Though I blazed bevin, yet like wet straw." Saker's Narbonus, Part II. p. 46. Jibri, lutraeque incomparabili numero. ing " faullourde I take notice of this word, because it seems to afford "Batten great fagottes, [Fr.] ; Palsgrave, a proof that this animal once existed in Scotland. B. iii. f. 19. "Boethius dicit fibrum seu castorem in Sibbald says, s. A a S. from the same an nunc nescio." Pro- BEVIE, jog, push, Scotia reperiri ; reperietur, source with bevel. V. s. drom. P. ii. lib. 3. p. 10. BAFF, BEV [179] BEY s. of a s. BEVIL-EDGE, The edge sharp tool, BEWIS, pi. Beauties. O. Fr. beau, sloping towards the point, a term much used beauty. by masons, S. V. BEVEL, v. E. Of lad yes bewtie to declair I do rejois to tell : BEVIS. V. BEVAR. Sueit, sueit is thair beans, whil thai be contractit. v. Baked. Ay BEUKE, pret. Maitland Poems, p. 187. For skant of vittale, the comes in quernis of stane s. A which is as Thay grand, and syne beuke at the fyre ilkane. BEWITH, thing employed Doug. Virgil, 18. 37. a substitute for another, although it should A.-S. boc, pret. of bac-an, pinsere. not answer the end so well. BEULD, adj. Bow legged, Ang.; q. beugeld This bevnth, when cunyie is scanty, Will keep them frae making din. fron the same origin with beugle, in Beugle- Ramsay's Works, a 288. v. backed, q. One who arrives, when the regular dinner is eaten, is said to get "only a bewith for a S. From BEW, adj. Good, honourable. Bew schyris, dinner," the subst. v. conjoined with the what one or Sirs. Fr. prep., q. schirris, good beau, good. must submit to for a time. Yit selfe I this by my fynd prouerbe perfyte, The blak craw thinkis hir awin birdis quhyte. BEWITH, . A place of residence, a domi- Sa fans with beto wil me, acAyris, ye Iierk, Perths. Can not persaif an fait in al my werk. cile, Doug. Virgil, 272. 31. I am at a loss whether to view this as formed in the Lo this is bew have same manner with as all, schirris, gude day. Bewith, a substitute ; or allied to Ibid. 484. 32. the Goth, verbs signifying to build, to inhabit, A.-S. Su.-G. To v. a. To cause to by-an, bo, bo-a, bu-a, Isl. by, in pret. buid, in- BEWAVE, BEWAUE, habited ; whence bud, Su.-G. bod, mansio, E. booth, wander or waver. and S. bothie. Eneas the banke on hie Has behaldand the clummyn, wyde quhare large sie, To BEWRY, v. a. To pervert, to distort. Gyf schyp tharon niicht be ony persauit, Than wald I knaw the cause and resoun Quhilk late before the windis had beicavit. quhy, That ony mycht peruert or yit bewry Doug. Virgil, 18. 41. Thy commaundenientis ? as weill Eneas, Virgil discriues, Doug. Virgil, 313. 41. In countreis seir was by the seyis rage, Vertere, Virg. Teut. ivroegh-en, Bewauit oft Police of Honour, iii. 39. torquere, angere. A.-S. wqf-ian, vacillare, fluctuate. BEWTER, s. The bittern. To BEWAVE, BEWAUE, v. a. 1. To shield, "Ther is great store of capercalegs, blackwaks, murefowls, heth-hens, swanes, turtle-doves, to hide, Renfr.; obviously the same with bewters, herons, dowes, steares or stirlings," tc. Sir R. Gor- used G. v. BYWAUE, by Doug. q. don's Sutherl. p. 3. The author of the Surv. of Sutherl. must have 2. To lay wait for, to means of Agr. overpower by from another MS. than that from which the some base quoted stratagem, Ayrs. work has been published. For he writes "swans, This seems to be merely a secondary sense, borrowed benters, turtledoves." V. p. 169. from the artful means frequently employed to shroud The latter is undoubtedly an error of some tran- a wicked design; the A.-S.