below the sun, lookit below the sun, II, 78, 15; III, 6, 6; in below the sun, 8, 6. See aneath the sun.
belted plaids, IV, 84, 11; 85, 3; 87, 2; V, [253], No 203, D 2: “properly twelve yards of tartan cloth worn round the waist, obliquely across the breast and left shoulder, and partly depending backwards, ut in bello gestatur.”
belyfe, straightway. See beliue.
belyue. See beliue.
bemean, V, [163], 4: bemoan, compassionate.
ben. Good ben be here, III, 267, 10: God’s (or good) benison? Probably corrupt.
ben (shoes o, sheen o), IV, 378, 7; 380, 14: bend, bend-leather, strong ox-leather, thickened by tanning.
ben, I, 56 f., C 2, 14; III, 267, 20; 268, 17; 270, 16; 272, 20; 274, 33: towards the inner apartment of the house, or parlor, in, within. come farer ben, I, 369, 51; he was ben, II, 313, 16; he wood her butt, he wood her ben, I, 56, 2. V, [216], B a 7; [219], 10; [242] b, 8.
ben, royal ben, I, 478 f., 12, 46: (emended from bend) bone. See roelle-bone.
benbow, III, 54, 6; 104, 5; 132, 5; bend bow, III, 7, 4; 8, 25; 11, 6; bende bowe, III, 309, 44; bent bow, III, 8 G 2; 106, 16, 17: bow, simply, the bow being in actual use only in III, 11, 54, 104 (?), 106, 16, 309.