Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Baste, v. baste; Basting, pres. part. basting, tacking on, R. 104.

Bataile, s. battle, fight, L. 1647; troop, B 5. m 1. 3; Batayle, battle, 5. 539; A 1609; Bataille, A 879, B 3879, G 386; Bátail, L. 1631; Bátailes, pl. B 3509; Bátailles, A 61; Batáilles, F 659.

Batailen, v. fight, B 1. p 4. 149; pr. pl. B 4. p 7. 31.

Batailled, adj. embattled, i.e. notched with indentations, B 4050.

Batere, v. batter; Batereth, pr. s. strikes, I 556.

Bath, s. D 1253.

Bathe, both (Northern), A 4087.

Bathe, ger. to bathe, to bask, T. ii. 849; refl. to bask, B 4457; Batheth, pr. s. bathes, E 1085; Bathen, 2 pr. pl. bathe, T. i. 22; Bathed, pp. A 3, 2006, D 1253.

Baude, s. bawd, T. ii. 353; D 1354; Baudes, pl. C 479, D 1339, I 886.

Bauderye, s. bawdry, act of a pandar, T. iii. 397; D 1303; Bauderie, gaiety, mirth, A 1926.