An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 56

A. S. _graf-an_, fodere; Teut. _be-gra-ven_, sepelire.

BEGRETTE, _pret._ Saluted.

_Douglas._

A. S. _gret-an_, Belg. _be-groet-en_, salutare.

BEGRUTTEN, _part. pa._ Having the face disfigured with weeping, S.

Sw. _begratande_, bewailing.

V. ~Greit~.

BEGUILE, _s._ A deception, trick, the slip; sometimes a disappointment, S.

_Ross._

BEGUNKIT, _part. adj._ Cheated, Clydes.

V. ~Begeck~.

_To_ BEHALD, _v. a._

1. To behold, S. _behaud_.

_Wyntown._

2. To have respect to, to view with favour or partiality.

_Douglas._

_Spectat_, Virg. A. S. _beheald-an_.

3. To wait, to delay; q. to look on for a while, S. used both as an active, and as a neuter verb.

_Ross._

~Behold~ occurs in the same sense.

_Baillie._

BEHAUYNGIS, _s. pl._ Manners, deportment.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

_Mores_, Boeth.

V. ~Havings~.

_To_ BEHECHT, _v. n._ To promise.

_Douglas._

Chaucer, _behete_, A. S. _behaet-an_, id. R. Glouc. _behet_; R.

Brunne, _be-hette_, promised.

BEHECHT, BEHEST, BEHETE, _s._

1. Promise.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

2. Engagement, covenant.

_Douglas._

3. Command.

_Douglas._

Chaucer, _beheste_, id.

BEHO, BOHO, _s._ A laughing-stock. "To mak a _boho_" of any thing, to hold it up to ridicule, S. B.

Alem. _huohe_, ludibrium.

_To_ BEHUFE, _v. n._ To be dependent on.

_Douglas._

A. S. _behof-ian_, Belg. _behoev-en_, to stand in need of, egere, opus habere.

BEJAN CLa.s.s, a designation given to the Greek cla.s.s in the Universities of St Andrew's and Aberdeen; as, till of late, in that of Edinburgh.

Hence, the students in this cla.s.s are denominated _Bejans_.

Fr. _bejaune_, a novice, an apprentice, a young beginner in any science, art, or trade. Cotgr. derives _bejaune_ from _bec jaulne_, literally a yellow beak or bill. Du Cange observes that L. B.

_bejaunus_ signifies a young scholar of any university, and _bejaunium_ the festivity that is held on his arrival. The term is thus very emphatic, being primarily used in relation to a bird newly hatched, whose beak is of a deep yellow.