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Dictionary of Oldest Words

by Herbert Coleridge

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Baru, add AS. bearh

Bert, v. n. == crepitum ventris edere. Rel. Ant. ii. p. 211

Bidde, v. n. == need, ought. HD. 1733. Another form of ‘bud.’ Dan. bör. Compare Chaucer’s ‘bode.’ Rom. Rose, 790

Birde, sb. For HD. 2760, read Wright’s L. P. pp. 25, 30

Birde, vb. pret. == it behoved. HD. 2760. ON. byrjar. Dan. bör

Brol? Rel. Ant. ii. 192

By, v. a. == to defame. Manuel des Pecches, 1355. ON. bía, maculare

Ferblet. Possibly ‘suffused with blood,’ ‘sanguine.’ Cf. ‘forbled,’ in the Anturs of Arthur at Tarne Wathelan, st. 51

Graueth. Probably for ‘graveth,’ or ‘geraveth,’ from AS. reáf, clothing

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