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

Bett, part. pa. Supplied.
Wallace.

BEIT, s. An addition, a supply, S. B.
V. [the v.]

BEITMISTER, s. That which is used in a strait, for supplying any deficiency; applied either to a person or to a thing; Loth.
V. [Beit], v. and [Mister].

To BEKE, v. a. To bask.
V. [Beik].

BEKEND, part. Known; S. B. bekent.
Douglas.

Germ. bekaunt, id. Teut. be-kennen, to know; A. S. be-cunnan, experiri.

BELCH, BAILCH, BILCH, s. (gutt.)
1. A monster.
Douglas.
2. A term applied to a very lusty person, S. B.
"A bursen belch, or bilch, one who is breathless from corpulence, q. burst, like a horse that is broken-winded.
Ross.

Teut. balgh, the belly; or as it is pron. bailg, Moray, from Su. G. bolg-ia, bulg-ia, to swell.

BELD, adj. Bald, without hair on the head, S.
V. [Bellit].
Burns.

Seren. derives it from Isl. bala, planities. With fully as much probability might it be traced to Isl. bael-a, vastare, prosternere, to lay flat.