B.
Bacon. No. I.
Benes. I. alibi Beans. Chaucer, v. bene.
Bef. 6. MS. Ed. 17. Beef, Buf, Buff. MS. Ed. 27. 42, 43.
Buth. 6. 23. 30. alibi, been, are. Chaucer has beth.
Ben. MS. Ed. 4. 27. be. Chaucer v. bein and ben.
Balles. 152. Balls or Pellets.
Blank Desire. 193, 194. bis. Lel. Coll. VI. p. 5. In No. 193, we meet with Blank desne, but the Contents has Desire, which is right, as appears from the sequel. In MS. Ed. 29. it is Blank-Surry, and Sury, and Sure, and de Sur. II. 19. de Syry, 31. and here No. 37, it is Dessorre. and we have Samon in Sorry. Lel. Coll. VI. p. 17. Perches, ibid. Eels p. 28. 30. where it is a Potage. whence I conceive it either means de Surrey, i. e. Syria, v. Chaucer. v. Surrey. Or it may mean to be desired, as we have Horsys of Desyr. Lel. Coll. IV. p. 272. See No. 63. and it is plainly written Desire in Godwin de Præsul. p. 697. In this case, the others are all of them corruptions.
Blank Dessorre. v. Blank Desire.
Blank Desne. v. Blank Desire.
Berandyles. MS. Ed. 27.
Bred, Breed. MS. Ed. passim. Bread.
Bove. 167. Above. Chaucer. Belg. Boven.
Blode. 11. alibi. Blod. MS. Ed. 9. Blood.
Batour. 149. of eggs, 161. 179. Batur, 28. Batour. ibid. 19. Batter.
Boter. MS. Ed. 38. Butter.
Borage. 6.
Betes. 6. Beets. Fr. Bete.
Bursen. n. name of a dish. Bursews, No. 179, is a different dish.
Brek. MS. Ed. 6. 23. break, bruise.
Brest, breste. MS. Ed. 1. 14. burst.
Bukkennade. 17. a dish. Buknade, 118. where it means a mode of dressing. vide MS. Ed. 45. 52.
Bryddes. 19. Briddes, 60. 62. Birds, per metathesin. Chaucer.
Brawn of Capons. 20. 84. Flesh. Braun. MS. Ed. 29. v. Chaucer, we now say, brawn of the arm, meaning the flesh. Hence brawn-fall'n. Old Plays, XI. p. 85. Lylie's Euphues, p. 94. 142. Chaucer. Brawn is now appropriated to these rolls which are made of Brawn or Boar, but it was not so anciently, since in No. 32 we have Brawn of Swyne, which shews the word was common to other kinds of flesh as well as that of the Boar; and therefore I cannot agree with Dr. Wallis in deducing Brawn from Aprugna.
Blank maunger. 36. 192. Chaucer writes Blank manger. Blomanger. MS. Ed. 14. 33. 34. II. 7. N. B. a very different thing from what we make now under that name, and see Holme, III. p. 81.
Bronchis. MS. Ed. 55. Branches.
Braan. MS. Ed. II. 10. Bran.
Bet. MS. Ed. II. 21. Beaten.
Broche. MS. Ed. 58. a Spit.
Brewet of Almony. 47. v. Almony. of Ayrenn, or eggs, 91. MS. Ed. 23.
Eles in Brewet, 110. where it seems to be composed of Bread and Wine.
Muskles in Brewet, 122. Hens in Bruet, MS. Ed. 7. Cold, 131. 134.
Bruet and Brewet are French Brouet, Pottage or Broth. Bruet riche,
Lel. Coll. IV. p. 226. Beorwete, p. 227, as I take it. Blanche
Brewet de Alyngyn, MS. Ed. 13. 23.
Boon. 55. Bone. Chaucer.
Brennyng. 67. 188. burning, per metathesin, from bren or brenne, used by Skelton, in the Invective against Wolsey, and many old authors. Hence the disease called brenning or burning. Motte's Abridgement of Phil. Trans. part IV. p. 245. Reid's Abridgement, part III. p. 149. Wiclif has brenne and bryne. Chaucer, v. bren, Brinne, &c.
Blake. 68. Black. Chaucer.
Berst. 70. 181. 192. burst. Chaucer. A.S. [Anglo-Saxon: berstan].
Breth. 71. Air, Steam. MS. Ed. N° 2. hence brether, breather.
Wiclif.
Bronn. 74. brown. A.S. [Anglo-Saxon: brun].
Butter. 81. 91. 92. 160. Boter, MS. Ed. 38. and so boutry is
Buttery. Lel. Coll. IV. p. 281. Almonde Butter. Lel. VI. p. 6.
Rabelais, IV. c. 60.
Bynethen. 92. under, beneath. Chaucer, bineth.
Bolas. 95. bullace. Chaucer.
Bifore. 102. before. Wiclif. Matth. xiv. Chaucer has biforne, and byforne.
Brasey. a compound sauce, 107.
Ballac broth. 109.
Brymlent. Tart de Brymlent. 167. v. ad loc.
Bloms. 171. Flowers, Blossoms. Chaucer.
Bothom. 173. bottom, pronounced bothom now in the north. Chaucer, bottym, MS. Ed. 48.
Brode. 189. broad, v. abrode.
Bataiwyng. 189. embatteling. qu. if not misread for bataillyng. See
Chaucer, v. batailed.
Bord. MS. Ed. II. 27. board. Chaucer.
Breyt, breth. MS. Ed. 17. 58. Broth.
Blank Surry. MS. Ed. 29. II. 19. v. Blank Desire.
Bismeus. MS. Ed. 16.