An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

BEGANE, part. pa. Covered; Gold begane, overlaid with gold.
Douglas.

Aurea tecta, Virg. According to Rudd. q. gone over. Chaucer uses the phrase, With gold begon, Rom. Rose, 943., "painted over with gold," Tyrwh.

To BEGECK, BEGAIK, BEGEIK, v. a. To deceive; particularly by playing the jilt, S.B.
Dunbar.

Teut. gheck-en, deridere, ludibrio habere.

V. [Geck].

BEGEIK, BEGINK, BEGUNK, s.
1. A trick, or illusion, which exposes one to ridicule, S.
Ramsay.
2. It often denotes the act of jilting one in love; applied either to a male, or to a female, S.
Begeik is the more common term, S. B.
Morison.

BEGES, BEGESS, adv. By chance, at random.
Evergreen.

From be, by, and gess, guess, Belg. ghisse.

BEGGER-BOLTS, s. pl. "A sort of darts or missile weapons. The word is used by James VI. in his Battle of Lepanto, to denote the weapons of the forceats, or galley-slaves." Gl. Sibb. Hudson writes beggers' bolts.

The word may have originated from contempt of the persons, who used these arms, q. bolts of beggars.