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

BESAND, BEISAND, s. An ancient piece of cold coin, offered by the French kings at the mass of their consecration at Rheims, and called a Bysantine, as the coin of this description was first struck at Byzantium or Constantinople. It is said to have been worth, in French money, fifty pounds Tournois.
Kennedy.

To BESEIK, v. a. To beseech, to entreat.
Douglas.

A. S. be and sec-an, to seek; Belg. ver-soek-en, to solicit, to entreat; Moes. G. sok-jan, to ask, used with respect to prayer.

BESY, adj. Busy.
Wyntown.

A. S. bysi, Belg. besigh, id.; allied perhaps to Teut. byse turbatus, bijs-en, violento impetu agitari.

BESYNES, s. Business.
Wyntown.

BESYNE, BYSENE, BYSIM, s. Expl. "whore, bawd," Gl. Sibb.
V. [Bisym].

BESCHACHT, part. pa.
1. Not straight, distorted, Ang.
2. Torn, tattered; often including the idea of dirtiness, Perths. The latter seems to be an oblique use.
V. [Shacht].

To BESLE, or BEZLE, v. n. To talk much at random, to talk inconsiderately and boldly on a subject that one is ignorant of, Ang.

Belg. beuzel-en, to trifle, to fable; Teut. beusel-en, nugari.