An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
Chapter 58 : BEILDY, _adj._ Affording shelter. _Ramsay._ BEILD, _adj._ Bold. _Houlate._ A. S. _beald

BEILDY, _adj._ Affording shelter.

_Ramsay._

BEILD, _adj._ Bold.

_Houlate._

A. S. _beald_, id. A. S. Alem. _belde_, audacia.

BEILL, _s._ Perhaps, sorrow, care, q. _baill_.

_Bannatyne Poems._

BEIN, _s._ Bone, Ang.

One is said to be _aw frae the bein_, all from the bone, when proud, elevated, or highly pleased; in allusion, as would seem, to the fleshy parts rising from the bone, when the body is swollen.

BEIN, BEYNE, _adj._ ~Beinlier~.

V. ~Bene~.

BEIR, BERE, BIR, BIRR, _s._

1. Noise, cry, roar.

_Douglas._

The word is used in this sense by R. Glouc.

2. Force, impetuosity; often as denoting the violence of the wind, S.

_Vir_, _virr_, Aberd.

_Douglas._

O. E. _bire_, _byre_, _birre_. The term, especially as used in the second sense, seems nearly allied to Isl. _byre_ (tempestas), Su. G.

_boer_, the wind; which seem to acknowledge _byr-ia_, _boer-ia_, surgere, as their root.

_To_ BEIR, BERE, _v. s._ To roar, to make a noise.

_Wallace._

Teut. _baeren_, _beren_, is expl. by Kilian; Fremere, sublate et ferociter clamare more ursorum. The learned writer seems thus to view it as a derivative from _baere_, _bere_, a bear.

BEIRD, _s._ A bard, a minstrel.

V. ~Baird~.

_Douglas._

BEYRD, _pret._ Laid on a bere.

_Maitland Poems._

From A. S. _baer_, _baere_, feretrum.

BEIRTH, BYRTHE, _s._ Burden, inc.u.mbrance, charge; Gl. Sibb.

Dan. _byrde_, _byrth_; Isl. _byrd_; Su. G. _boerd-a_; Belg. _borde_, A. S. _byrth-in_; from Moes. G. _bair-an_, Su. G. _baer-a_, to bear.

BEIS, _v. s._ Be, is; third p. sing. subj. S.

_Douglas._

Here the second pers. is improperly used for the third. A. S.

_byst_, sis; Alem. Franc. _bist_, es, from _bin_, sum; Wachter, vo.

_Bin_.

BEIS, BEES, One's head is said to be _in the bees_, when one is confused or stupified with drink or otherwise, S.

_s.h.i.+rrefs._

Teut. _bies-en_, aestuari, furente impetu agitari; or from the same origin with _Bazed_, q. v.

BEIST, BEISTYN, _s._ The first milk of a cow after she has calved, S.

_biestings_, E.

A. S. _beost_, _byst_; Teut. _biest_, _biest melck_, id.

(colostrum).

_To_ BEIT, BETE, BEET, _v. a._

1. To help, to supply; to mend, by making addition.

_Henrysone._