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

BEGOUTH, BEGOUDE, pret. Began.
Wyntown.
Begoud is now commonly used, S.

A. S. gynn-an, beginn-an, seem to have had their pret. formed like eode, from gan, ire: Beginnan, begeode.

BEGRAUIN, part. pa. Buried, interred.
Douglas.

A. S. graf-an, fodere; Teut. be-gra-ven, sepelire.

BEGRETTE, pret. Saluted.
Douglas.

A. S. gret-an, Belg. be-groet-en, salutare.

BEGRUTTEN, part. pa. Having the face disfigured with weeping, S.

Sw. begratande, bewailing.

V. [Greit].

BEGUILE, s. A deception, trick, the slip; sometimes a disappointment, S.
Ross.