An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 67

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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language



An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 67


BEST, _part. pa._ Perhaps, fluttering, or shaken.


_Barbour._


Isl. _beyst-i_, concutio.


BEST, _s._ "Beast, any animal not human," Gl. Wynt.


_Wyntown._


The term is still used in this general sense, S. p.r.o.nounced q.


_baist_. S. B.


BEST-MAN, _s._ Brideman; as _best-maid_ is bride-maid; from having the _princ.i.p.al_ offices in waiting on the bride, S.


b.e.s.t.i.a.l, (_off Tre_) _s._ An engine for a siege.


_Wallace._


It seems uncertain, whether this word be formed from Lat.


_b.e.s.t.i.a.lis_, as at first applied to the engines called _rams_, _sows_, &c., or from Fr. _bastille_, a tower; L. B. _bastillae_.


b.e.s.t.i.a.lITe, _s._ Cattle.


_Complaynt S._


L. B. _b.e.s.t.i.a.lia_, pecudes; Fr. _bestail_.


BESTREIK, _part. pa._ Drawn out; _gold bestreik_, gold wire or twist.


_Burel._


Teut. _be-streck-en_, extendere.


BESTURTED, _part. pa._ Startled, alarmed, afrighted, S.


Germ. _besturz-en_, to startle; _besturzt seyn_, to be startled.


Ihre views Isl. _stird-r_, rigid, immoveable, as the root.


BESWAKIT, _part. pa._ Apparently, soaked, drenched.


_Dunbar._


Isl. _sock_, mergor, _saukv-a_, mergi.


_To_ BESWEIK, _v. a._ To allure; to beguile; to deceive.


A. S. _swic-an_, _beswic-an_, Isl. _svik-ia_. Alem. _bisuich-en_, Su. G. _swik-a_, Germ. _schwick-en_, id.


BET, _pret._ Struck.


_Gawan and Gol._


A. S. _beat-an_, Su. G. _bet-a_; _tu bete_, thou hast struck.


BET, BETT, _pret._ and _part._ Helped, supplied.


V. ~Beit~.


BET, _part. pa._ Built, erected.


_Douglas._


This is a secondary and oblique sense of the _v._ _Beit_, q. v.


BET, _adj._ Better.


_Kings Quair._


A. S. _bet_, Teut. _bat_, _bet_, melius, potius, magis; Alem. _bas_, _baz_, melior, the compar. of _bat_, bonus. A. S. _bet-an_, emendare, and the other synon. verbs in the Northern languages, have been viewed as originating the term. _Bet_, indeed, seems to be merely the past part., mended, i. e. made _better_.


BETANE, _part. pa._ Perhaps, inclosed.


_Barbour._


A. S. _betien-en_, _betyn-an_, to inclose, to shut up.


BETAUCHT, BETUK, Delivered, committed in trust; delivered up.


V. ~Betech~.


_To_ BETECH, BETEACH, _v. a._ To deliver up, to consign; _betuk_, pret.


_betaucht_, pret. and part. pa.







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