BEDWINE.—Wild Clymatis.
BEE-UCH GALL, or BACHE GALL.—A hard lump on the leaf of a beech tree.
BEE-UCH MAASTS.—Beech nuts.
BEER.—Pith, worth, solidity.
In the "Scouring of the White Horse" we find lines go—
At the Manor House, Hampstead Norreys, there is a pair of quaint old drinking horns. On the first is painted a yeoman of the olden time, and from his mouth comes the legend. "I love good beer;" on the other is similarly painted a labourer, who responds, and "So do I."
A country brewing is thus locally described—
Vorty gallons o' Taayble beer,
Vorty gallons o' Wus nor that,
An' vorty gallons o' Rattle tap."The Never Vear is strong beer.
The Rattle Tap is poor stuff indeed.
In haymaking time or harvest a man who drinks beer would require a gallon a day.BEERY.—Partially intoxicated.
BEGGAR.—To impoverish; to make bankrupt.
BEHAWLDEN.—Under obligation.
BELIKE.—Very probably, perhaps.
BELLOCK.—To roar loudly; to shout words in a coarse manner.
BELLOWSES.—Bellows; also the lungs.
BENNETS.—The long stalks of a species of grass with seeds thereon wherewith children make "bennet-baskets."
BENT, or BE-ANT.—Am not.
BERRY.—A rabbits warren (a corruption of 'burrow').