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baet, baeten, baetin, bait, baitchel, baitchelt, baitchil, baiten, baitin, bate, baten, bateys, batin, bead, beadin, beat, beatchelt, beatchle, beaten, beater, beaties, beatin, beatocks, beet, beeties, beetlies, beit, beiten, beitin, bet, betchell, bett, betted, betten, beyt, boat, bote, misbeat, misbeet, misbeit,
beat [bit, bet, NN.b. beit]
n. What can surpass something else. A sheaf or bundle of flax, as made up for the mill. I. A plaited bunch of dried stalks of grass or bent or straw.
v. To beat, to soften butter (by beating), to melt. To tie up flax in sheaves.
pt. beat
pp. beat, beaten
Compounds and phrases etc.
awn beat: To admit defeat.
beatchle: S. To beat or thrash a person, carpet or clothes etc. pt. pp. beatchelt
beater: col. The heart.
beaties, beatocks: SW. Mashed potatoes mixed with flanouring ingredients.
beatin: Beating.
misbeat: To become crossed or tangled, through being wrongly connected up in the loom.
baet, bait, bate, beat, beet, beit, beyt,
beat [bit, bet]
v. To bet, to wager, to risk.
Beattie,
Beatrice [ˈbitrɪs, ˈbetrɪs]
n. The Personal name Beatrice.
dim. Beattie [ˈbiti, ˈbete]
Beaulie, Beauly, Beulie,
Beauly [ˈbjuli]
pn. Beauly (Inverness-shire).
beautifu, beautifuhll, beauty, beautyfu, beowtifie, beowty, bewotifie, bewty, byowtifu, byowty,
beauty [ˈbjuːtɪ, MN. bjʌutɪ]
n. Beauty.
Compounds and phrases etc.
beautifu [-fə S. -fɛ, -fɪ, EC. -fe, WC. -fɑ, N. -fɛ, U. I. -fu]: Beautiful.
baiver, beaver, beyver, biever, biever, fiber,
beaver [ˈbiːvər, ˈbeːvər]
also fiber [ˈfɪbər]
n. The beaver Castor fiber. A hat made of beaver fur.
baible, beb, bebbin, bebble, bib,
beb [ˈbɛb]
v. To sip, to tipple. Of liquids: to brim over.
bebble
v. To tipple.
Compounds and phrases etc.
bebbin: Sipping, tippling, brimming over.
baik, beck, beckit, beckon, beckt, bek, burney-baker, burnie-baker, burnie-becker,
beck [ˈbɛk]
n. A bow, a curtsey.
v. To bow, to curtsey, to bend.
pt. pp. beckit
Compounds and phrases etc.
beckon: To make a gesture with the hand, arm, or head to encourage or instruct someone to approach or follow.
burnie-becker: SW. The dipper Cinclus cinclus.
baid, bed, bed_rid, bed-claes, beddacks, beddal, bedderel, beddie, beddies, beddit, beddle, beddock, beddocks, beddrel, bedgels, bedlar, bed-lid, bed-lids, bedocks, bedral, bedrall, bed-recess, bedrel, bedril, bedrill, beds, bedstaan, bedstan, bedstaun, bedstaund, bed-stock, beducks, betherell, bethral, bethrel, binnin, binnin_bed, bun-bed, bund-bed, bund-in-bed, bun-in-bed, bunnen, bunnen_bed, caaffie, caafie, caff-bed, caffie, carebed, close-bed, hurlie-bed, langbed, lang-bed, neuk-bed, pee_the_bed, pee_the_beds, peebed, peebeds, peethebed, pee-the-bed, peeverie, peevery, peevory, pieverie, pievery, pish-the-bed, press-bed, sattle-bed, settle-bed, trinnle-bed, trundle_bed, trunnle-bed, twa-bedded, twa-beddit, twae-bedded, twae-beddit,
bed [ˈbɛd]
n. A bed, a flat base or foundation, a level structure, a bank in the sea.
dim. beddie, beddock a small bed, a cot.
pl. beds, dim. beddies. Beds. The spaces chalked on the pavement for playing the game of peevers.
v. To put to bed. To spread straw for animals.
pt. pp. beddit
Compounds and phrases etc.
bed-claes: Bed-clothes.
beddin: Bedding, going to bed, putting to bed.
bed-hap, A bed cover.
bedlar [-lər], bedral [-ral, -rəl, -rɪl, ˈbeðərəl]: A person confined to bed, a bedridden person, a bedridden, maimed or crippled person.
bed-lids: The doors of a box-bed.
bed-recess: An alcove or recess in a tenement flat which held a boxed-in or curtained-off bed.
bedstaund: A bedside table.
bed-stock: The strong beam of wood that runs along the front of a bed.
bund-bed, MN. bund-in-bed: A bed shut in with folding or sliding doors.
caff-bed: A mattress filled with chaff. dim. caffie.
carebed: A sick bed.
close-bed, closed-in bed: A box-bed.
hurlie-bed A low bed on castors stored under a box-bed.
langbed I.Sh.: An improvised bed on the floor to temporarily accomodate several people.
leddy's beds: NEC. N. I.Ork. Lady's bedstraw Galium verum.
neuk-bed: (Orkney) A bed in a recess in a specially built extension of a house.
pee-the-bed, pish-the-bed: The dandelion Taraxacum officinale.
peevery beds The pattern for hopscotch.
press-bed: A bed built into a (bed-)recess in the wall and shut off from the room by wooden doors.
sattle-bed: A wooden bed which can be folded into a seat.
set-in bed: A bed in a (bed-)recess.
trinnle-bed: A truckle-bed, a bed on wheels or castors.
twa-beddit: Twin-bedded.
bedeen, bedein, bedin,
bedeen [bəˈdin]
adv. Immediately, quickly, soon, early. Often used in literature as an expletive or to eke out a line in poetry.
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