batauntliche (A.N.) [286], hastily. Cotgrave gives the Fr. phrase, il arriva tout batant, he came very hastily
baude (A.S.) a bawd
baudy (A.N.) [88], dirty, applied to garments. Thus in Chaucer, Cant. T. l 16102:—
His overest sloppe it is not worth a mite
As in effect to him, so mote I go.
It is al baudy and to-tore also.
baw (A.S.) [210], [419], an interjection of contempt. Whitaker says that the word is still used in Lancashire, and that "the verb means alvum levare"
bayard (A.N.) [72], a term for a horse. It means properly a bay horse
beau-peere (A.N.) [383], a common title for a monk. "Beau-pere, titre que l'on donnoit aux religieux." Roquef.
beche (A.S.) a beech-tree