Bannix. To drive away poultry, or to hunt them about. 'Go an' bannix they vowls out.' 'Dwon't bannix about they poor thengs like that!'—S.W.
Barley-buck. A boy's game, played by guessing at the number of fingers held up.—S.W. (Deverill.)
Bash, Bashet. At Harnham, Salisbury, a small raised footpath is known as the Bashet, while at Road certain houses built on the upper side of a similar footpath, close to the boundary line dividing Wilts and Somerset, are spoken of as being 'on the Bash.'
Bay. (1) Add:—S.W. (2) Add:—S.W.
*Bayle. Some plant which we cannot identify.—Obsolete.
'In this ground [near Kington St. Michael, grows] bayle.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 49, ed. Brit.
Bee-hackle. The straw covering of a hive. See Hackle (2)—S.W.
*Belly-vengeance. Add:—Also used of very inferior cider.
Bennets. (1) Add:—S.W.
Bird's-eye. Add:—(4) Veronica Buxbaumii, Ten., Buxbaum's Speedwell.—S.W. (Charlton.)