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