An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 68

_Barbour._

Hence "the common Scots expression, _G.o.d I beteach me till_," Rudd.; and that used by Ramsay, _Betootch-us-to_; i. e. Let us commend ourselves to the protection of some superior being. O. E. _bitoke_, committed; also _bitaughten_, _bitakun_, _bitauht_. A. S. _betaec-an_, tradere, concedere, a.s.signare, commendare; to deliver, to grant, to a.s.sign or appoint, to betake or recommend unto; Somner. _Betaehte_, tradidit.

BETHLERIS. Leg. ~Bechleris~. Bachelors.

_Houlate._

_To_ BETRUMPE, _v. a._ To deceive.

_Douglas._

_To_ BETREYSS, BETRASE, _v. a._ To betray.

_Barbour._

_Betrasit_, Douglas; _betraissed_, Wallace; _betraised_, Chaucer; _betraist_, R. Brunne. Germ. _trieg-en_, _betrieg-en_; Fr. _trah-ir_, id. _trahi-son_, treason.

BETWEESH, _prep._ Betwixt, S.

V. ~Atweesh~.

BEVAR, _s._ One who is worn out with age.

_Henrysone._

It is evidently from the same source with _Bavard_, adj. q. v. We still say a _bevir-horse_ for a lean horse, or one worn out with age or hard work; S.

BEVEL, _s._ A stroke; sometimes, a violent push with the elbow, S.

_Many._

This is a derivative from _Baff_, _beff_, q. v.

BEVEREN, BEVERAND, _part. pr._

_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._

Perhaps from A. S. _befer-an_, circ.u.mdare; or as the same with _beverand_, which Sibb. renders "shaking, nodding;" deriving it from Teut. _bev-en_, contremere. This is a provincial E. word. "_Bevering_, trembling. North." Gl. Grose.

BEVIE, (_of a fire_) _s._ A term used to denote a great fire; sometimes, _bevice_, S.

Perhaps from E. _bavin_, "a stick like those bound up in f.a.ggots,"

Johnson. It is thus used in O. E.

BEVIE, _s._ A jog, a push, S. from the same source with _bevel_.

V. ~Baff~, _s._

BEVIS.

V. ~Bevar~.

BEUCH, _s._ (gutt.) A bough, a branch, S.

_Douglas._

A. S. _boga_, _boh_, id. from _bug-an_, to bend.

BEUCHIT, _part. pa._ (gutt.) Bowed, crooked, S.

_Douglas._

A. S. _bug-an_, curvare.

BEUGH, _s._ (gutt.) A limb, a leg, Border.

_Evergreen._

Isl. _bog_, Alem. _puac_, Germ. _bug_, id. The term is applied both to man and to other animals. Both Ihre and Wachter view _bug-en_, to bend, as the origin; as it is by means of its joints that an animal bends itself.

BEUGLE-BACKED, _adj._ Crook-backed.

_Watson._

A. S. _bug-an_, to bow; Teut. _boechel_, gibbus. Germ. _bugel_, a dimin. from _bug_, denoting any thing curved or circular. It is undoubtedly the same word that is now p.r.o.nounced _boolie-backit_, S.

BEUKE, _pret. v._ Baked.

_Douglas._

A. S. _boc_, pret. of _bac-an_, pinsere.

BEULD, _adj._ Bow-legged, Ang.; q. _beugeld_ from the same origin with _beugle_, in _Beugle-backed_, q. v.