but, if ye be a maiden but, I, 72, 25: corrupt; read, binna maiden yet?
but and, bot and, but an, bat an==and also: I, 18, F 7; 69, 49; 72, 5; 345, C 8, 9, 10; 464, 8; 474, 36; IV, 418, 5; V, [246] b, 4, 6, 8.
but nor hed, II, 191, 27: but and had not.
but than==but and, IV, 465, 23.
by (cf. also be), II, 56 a; 433, 2; III, 22, 2; 91, 2; IV, 420, 2, 4; 422, 2: about, concerning (as, by a knight I say my song). V, [272] b, 3, 7, 11; [277], 4; 278, 20 (spelled bay), 31: in comparison with, on comparing (by 272 b, 34, should perhaps be but; cf. 114). kend thy freind by thy foe, III, 420, 18: in distinction from. by than, III, 77, 435: by the time that. by weeke, spend forty pounds by weeke, II, 442, 7: distributively, a week. So, by yere, III, 61, 92. he maun do them by, V, [169], 12: do without. no far by, V, [123], 10: not far off. called young Brichen by, I, 465, 5: called on, to. ca’d by Andrew Lammie, IV, 302, 1: called by the name of.
by and bye, the keys hang at that lady by and bye, I, 471, 4: one next to the other (?).
by and by, IV, 196 f., 1, 14: nigh.
by and by, I, 287 f., 60, 71, 75, 77; V, [122], 1; [123], 1: directly, immediately.
by== aby, pay for, atone for: III, 97, 15.
byckarte, pret. of bicker, III, 307, 5: (fought) attacked (the deer).