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Index.
| AU | BES |
| Au replaces a, 121 | Baste, 117 |
| Auchinleck Romances, the, 252 | Bâton, 117 |
| Audlay, 124, 260, 282, 283 | Baxter, 124, 281, 312 |
| Aught, 101 | Be, 4, 10, 12, 36, 61, 155 |
| Augustine, St., 305 | — the Prefix, 15 |
| Awake, 96 | Be, ben, buth (sunt), 61, 82, 104, 115, 256, 263, 278 |
| Award, 275 | |
| Aware, 73 | Beadle, 71 |
| Away, 100 | Bear, 4, 43 |
| Awdry, St., 191 | Bear the bell, 194 |
| Awe, 70, 73 | Bearing, 130 |
| Awkward, 261 | Beast, 148, 223 |
| Axe, for ask, 49, 104 | Because, 26, 242, 269 |
| Aye, 12, 100, 130 | Becket, 15, 69, 177, 239, 242 |
| Ayenbite of Inwyt, 188, 208, 209, 262, 263, 284 | Become (decere), bicumelic, 79, 82 |
| Aytoun, 306 | Become (fieri), 82 |
| Bed and board, 34 | |
| B inserted in a word, 74 | Bede, 19, 35, 37, 46, 85, 217, 218, 268 |
| — replaces g and k, 82, 117 | |
| Bede (prayer), 189, 287 | |
| Backward, 261 | Bedell, Bishop, 154, 310 |
| Bacon, Lord, 289, 303, 308 | Bedford, 45, 47, 162, 210 |
| Bacon, Roger, 227, 233 | Been (gewesen), 70, 73 |
| Bad (malus), 176, 207; badder, 275 | Before, 49, 98 |
| Beforehand, 118 | |
| Bad (jussit) 129 | Beforesaid, 137 |
| Backbiter, 121 | Beggar, 122 |
| Bære, old English adjectival ending, 11 | Begotten, 143 |
| Behight, 164, 287, 301 | |
| Bag, 122, 188, 189 | Belief, 78, 82, 117, 175 |
| Bait, 169 | Belike, 275 |
| Bait, to, 255 | Belittle, 82 |
| Balder, 36, 176 | Belly, 235 |
| Baldness, 176 | Belong, 105 |
| Ball, 115 | Below, 72, 186 |
| Balliol, John, 176 | Ben Jonson, 281 |
| Ban, 92 | Benedictines, the, 304 |
| Baptim, baptism, 292 | Beowulf, the 18, 27, 28, 30, 32, 47, 79, 216 |
| Barclay, 280, 288 | |
| Barley, 64 | Bequest, 167 |
| Barnes, Mr., 33, 37, 260, 316 | Berners, Lord, 288 |
| Barrow, 177 | Beseech, 80 |
| Bask, 42 | Besides, 85, 119, 179 |
