Bigot. (An old Norman word (signifying as much as, De par Dieu; or our, for Gods sake) made good French, and signifying) an hypocrite, or, one that seemeth much more holy than he is; also, a scrupulous, or superstitious fellow.
Bigotage: m. Hypocrisie, holines only in shew; also, scrupulous curiositie, superstitious deuotion.
Bigotation. as Bigotage, or Bigotise. Bigotie; or, Bigotise: f. Hypocrisie; superstition, too much curiositie, or scruple of conscience.
Bigotte. Chauses à la bigotte. Close, or strait venitians tyed below the knee; Priests breeches.
Bigotté: m. ée: f. Turned hypocrite, or, made full of scruple.
Bigotter. To make superstitious, to fill with hypocrisie; or, to infect with too much scruple of conscience.
Biguarruge. as Bigarruge. Bihay. de bihay. Bias, awry, crooking, obliquely, aslope, with a compasse; Looke Biais. Bihayser. To crooke; to go by bias, fetch a compasse, stand aslope, turne awry; also, to place bias, put compasse, make aslope, set awry.
Bihore. A word, or voice wherewith French carters hasten on their horses.
Bihoreau: m. A kind of little Heron, which haunteth rocks, and hilly places, and hath a peake of feathers falling backward on the hinder part of his head.
Bijon: m. Liquid rozen; tarre.
Bile: f. Choller, gall; anger, fretfulnesse; melancholy intermixed with choller.
Bileux: m. euse: f. Angrie, chollericke, teastie, full of gall, full of rancor.
Billard. as Billart. Billard. pied billard. A splay foot.
Billardier: m. ere: f. Baker-legd; that hath crooked legs, or goes in at the knees.
Billart: m. A short and thicke trunchion, or cudgell; hence, the cudgell in the play at trap; and, a billard, or the sticke wherewith we touch the ball at billyards; also, a baker-legd fellow.
Bille: f. A small bowle, or billyard ball; also, a young stocke of a tree to graft on; also, a lingot, wedge, or gad of mettall; also, money, coine, chinkes; (Baragouin) also, a kind of sea fish, that hath a white line running along from her gills to her taile; otherwise, resembling a Pearch. Danser en bille. To daunce verie lustily. Ce n'est bille pareille. This is no euen match; the coin is not of like allay. Cela courra bille pareille. That shall run the same course, vndergo the same hazard; that shall tast, or be partaker, of whatsoeuer betides the other.
Billebarré: m. ée: f. Crosse barred.
Billeboquet: m. A cord, or line (hauing at either end, and in the middle, a sticke fastened vnto it) wherewith Gardeners measure out their beds, and borders; also, a Bob; a bullet hanging by a line from the middle of a stick hollowed at the one end, or both, for the receiuing thereof.
Biller. To play at Billiards; also, to fasten the rope of a boat to the wood which runs ore-crosse the hammes of the horses that are to draw it.
Billeron. la Maille billeron; Looke Maille.
Billet. A little bill, note, or ticket (stucke vp on a post, or doore;) as Etiquet.
Billette: f. A billet of wood; also, a little bowle, somewhat longer than an ordinarie one; also, a passage toll, or through-toll; so called of a little log thats hung on
a tree for a signe, or to giue warning, therof. Billettes d'une espieu. Crosse barres of yron, or steele, somewhat aboue the head of a boare speare, to keepe it from running too farre, and therby the beast from comming too neere him that assailes him.
Bille-vezées: f. Trash; trifles, toyes, nifles.
Billion: m. A million of millions.
Billon: m. A twig, or shute of a full yeares growth; also, base, cried downe, or called in, coyne, which either hath no siluer in it, or not so much as it should haue; also, the mettal wherof base coyn is made; whence, Monnoye noire is also tearmed, Monnoye de billon; & the siluer that hath aboue a sixt part of Empirance, or allay in it, is held no better than Billon. Billonnage: m. A melting, or making of Billon; also, (more particularly) a changing of one peece of coine for another, or of one kind of coyne into another; an vnauthorised altering, melting, or imbasing of coyne.
Billonné: m. ée: f. Melted, or made into, Billon; also, changed, as a bad peece of coine for a good one, or, as a good one into a bad one; altered, melted, and (in the melting) imbased, as coyne (without warrant for it.)
Billonnement: m. as Billonnage. Billonner. To make of, or melt into, Billon; also, (more particularly) to change a bad peece of coyne for a good one, or a good one into a bad one; to alter, melt, & (in the melting) to imbase, the kings coyn, without any warrant for it.
Billonneur: m. An ordinarie melter of coine, or mettal into Billon; also, a changer of bad coyne for good, or of good into bad; one that without authoritie, and to make a gaine to himselfe, alters, or melts, and (in melting) imbases, coine.
Billos. Certaine imposts leuied vpon wines: ¶Breton. Billot: m. A billet, blocke, or log (of wood;) also, a wedge, lingot, or lumpe (of mettall;) also, as Piece à pommette. Homme neuf, & de billot. A rude, or vnfashioned; a raw, or vnexperienced, fellow.
Bimauve: f. The marsh mallow, moorish mallow, white mallow. Bimauve sauvage. Mouse mallow, wild mallow, veruine mallow, cut mallow, Simons mallow.
Bimbeloté: m. ée: f. Furnished with paultrie ware, or pedling stuffe.
Bimblotier: m. A paultrie Pedler; or, as Brimblotier. Binage: m. as Binement. Binaire. nombre binaire. The number of two.
Binarchie. The ioynt rule, or equall authoritie, of two Princes in one countrey.
Binart: m. A wry-neckt fellow.
Biné: m. ée: f. Digged, laboured, or weeded, as a vine; turned vp as the ground in a vineyard, the second time.
Binement: m. A labouring, digging, or grubbing vp of weeeds, &c; the second worke done in vineyards as soone as the vines haue branched, and put forth their clusters.
Biner. To labour, or turne vp, the ground; to digge, or grub vp, weedes, &c, in vineyards, the second time; (especially in May; when commonly the vines haue put forth.)
Bineur: m. A labourer, digger, turner vp of the ground, grubber vp of weeds, in vineyards.
Bingu. Troubled, molested, vexed: ¶Gascon.