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

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Beautee, s. beauty, B 162, C 7, F 34; Beauty (personified), R. 952, 1006; 2. 39, 67.

Beautees, s. pl. (also Beauteis, Beautes, Bewtees), apparently an error for Busshes, bushes, I 858 n.

Be-bled, pp. bloodied, covered with blood, B 3. m 2. 9. See Bi-bledde.

Beblotte, imp. s. blot, T. ii. 1027.

Bechen, adj. beechen, made of beech, G 1160.

Become, v. become, 3. 115; go to, L. 2214; pp. gone to, 7. 247.

Bed, s. L. 2211; station, B 3862; bed (of herbs), B 4411; Beddes, gen. 3. 1254; A 293, F 643; L. 1334; Bedde, dat. L. 2210.

Beddinge, s. bedding, couch, A 1616.

Bede, v. offer, proffer, HF. 32; G 1065; T. iv. 1105; ger. to offer, T. v. 185; to present, 1. 110; 1 pr. s. proffer, 7. 304; Bedeth,

pr. s. proffers, E 1784; Bede, 2 pr. pl. offer, E 360; Bede, 1 pt. pl. directed, told, I 65; Boden, pp. commanded, T. iii. 691; ordered, L. 266; bidden, D 1030. A.S. bēodan.