ber, pret. of bear.

berafrynd, V, [71] b: a drinking word, in response to passilodion.

bere, V, [264] a, 2: bigg, a sort of coarser barley (Hordeum hexastichum, not H. vulgare or distichum).

berl, V, [224], 26: birl, dispense.

bern, barn, bairn, IV, 456, 7-9, 12; V, [247], 11: (A. S. bearn) child.

berne, III, 295, 5: (A. S. beorn, fighting man, brave, etc.) man.

berry, brown berry comb, II, 224, 1: the material of this comb is elsewhere said to be haw bayberry; all the passages describing it are corrupt.

beryde, I, 326, 2: made a bere, noise.

bescro, III, 110, 26; V, [80], 49: beshrew, curse.

bese, I, 329, 58: shalt be.