Batterfanged, adj. bruised,

beaten. The Blyton cabinet hes been that batterfang'd about so as no carpenter can mend it.'J. B., Messingham, Aug. 1867. He'd been a soldger in th' Roosian war an' came home strangely batterfanged about.' Batting-board, i. e. a beatingboard; a piece of board used by thatchers to beat down the thatch. Battledoor, a piece of cardboard

He

on which was printed the A.B.C., the Lord's prayer, and a few short syllables, employed as a substitute for the horn-book. They were in use here, in dames' schools, thirty years ago. does n't knaw his A.B.C. fra a battledoor' perhaps refers to this, and not to the battledoor with which the game of shuttlecock is played. Battle-royal, (1) a term used in the sport of cock-fighting. 'Battle-royal a fight between three, five, or seven cocks all engaged together, so that the cock which stands longest gets the day.' Sportsman's Dict. 1785. (2) A fight between several persons, where each one is the antagonist of all the others. Battle-twig, an earwig. Bauk, (1) a beam in a building; (2) the beam of a plough, a pair of scales, or a steelyard. [1399] 'j balke ferri cum les scales et ponderibus.'-Fabric rolls of York Minster, 336. (3) A squared beam of foreign timber; (4) an upright post in a stud and mud' house, or a cattle-shed whose walls consist of straw, thorns, or furze; (5) the strip of unploughed land which separates one property from another in an open field. 'Richard Welborne for plouing vp the kings Meere balk vja.’— Kirton - in - Lindsey Fine Roll, 1632. (6) The little ridges left in ploughing. More balks, more

barley; more seams, more beans.' (7) An irregularity, ridge, or mark on the ground; (8) a line marked on the ground to jump from.

Bauk, v. to hinder, to disappoint. An ignorant man came into a large property, and as a consequence married a lady.' A friend whom he had asked to dinner had neglected to keep his appointment, and the host had told the other guests that Mr

The .... had bauked him. wife, when the guests departed, rebuked her husband for having used such an 'ungenteel' word, telling him that he ought to have said that he had suffered a disappointment. The next day the husband was drawing' sheep, and requiring some red ochre with which to mark those he had selected for market, he called to one of his farm lads, saying, 'Come yaw here, Jack, and fetch me that rud fra off th' disappointment i' th' lathe.' Bauker, a bauk, q. v.

Bauk-filling, the filling up with

bricks, small stones, or plaster, of the angle between the wallplate and the roof of a building. The word bemfillinge, signifying the like thing, occurs in the Norham Accounts for 1344-5.-Raine, North Durham, 276. Bauk-hooks, s. pl. iron hooks

fastened into the beams of a kitchen, on which to hang cooking-vessels, bacon, &c. Bauk-tree, a principal beam in a building. I'll never hev a thief like that undernean my bauk-tree.'

Baum, (1) barm, i. e. yeast; (2) the pot-herb balm, Melissa officinalis.

Baum tea, infusion of 'balm,' used both for drinking and for fomentations.

(Also

Bawcock, a foolish person. Baw-tree, the elder-tree. spelt Bortree, Burtree.) Bawtry-salad, the weeds which come down the river Trent in summer time when the drains and ditches which communicate with it in the earlier part of its course are being cleansed. Bay, the space between the main beams of a barn. The space between two columns in the arcade of a church.

Bayting-cross-dale, land in Kirton-in-Lindsey, 1616. Be, by.

Beak, (1) the outshoot of a spout, a gurgoyle; (2) the pointed part of a blacksmith's anvil; (3) the reckin-hook,' the hook by which a pot is suspended over a fire. Beaker, a large glass or cup with

a stem.

Beal, the lowing of oxen. Beal, Beal-out, v. to shout, to bellow, to cry with much noise. Beam, a steelyard. Them oats 'all weigh thirteen stone to th' seck at th' beam this minnit.'

Waying at the King and Quenes beame in thole fourten thousand five hundrethe one half hundrethe and fyve poundes.'Account of Lincolnshire Bell Metal, 1554. 3 Miscel. Excheq. B. 9. 1. k. 5. Bean-swad, the pod of the bean. Beant, is not. 'It beant his, an' nivver was.' 'He beant a gentleman, though he's lots o' brass, an' they 've mad' a justice on him.'

Bear, a coarse kind of barley. Bearance, toleration, submission.

This is beyond all bearance. I shall give warnin' to leave tomorrow mornin'.'

Beard, a hedge made by setting

branches of thorns upright in the ground. Bearer, (1) a corbel; (2) a floor of timber submerged in a ditch or drain, for the purpose of affording a safe drinking-place for cattle. See Ralf Skirlaugh, ii. 89. (3) A person who assists in carrying a corpse to burial; (4) the horizontal supports of a wooden bridge.

Beas, used as pl. of Beast; horned

cattle. Rychard Holland hath taken of straungers vj beas to gyest in the Lordes commene & therfore he is in þe mercie of be lord iij'. iiij.'-Scotter Manor Roll, 5 & 6 Phil. & Mary. "Richard Richardsone for making the common beas foulde vj. viija.—Kirton-in-Lindsey Ch. Acc. 1597. All ye Bease both old & young 23 li.'-Inventory of John Johnson of Keadby, 1703. Them Scotch beas was strange an' dear; they'll eat their heads off afore gress begins to graw!'

Beast. See Beastlings. Beasts, s. pl. neat cattle. Beastlings, Beslings, Bislings, Beast, Beastings, the first milk of a cow after calving. Puddings are commonly made of it; and it is the custom when a cow calves to send small quantities of it to the neighbours as presents. It is very unlucky not to distribute gifts of beastlings or to wash out the vessels in which they have been sent. "The beestings, or first milk drawn from the cow.'-Treatise on Live Stock, 1810, 44.

Beat, a bundle of flax or hemp. 'Bind the femble into sheaves or beats.' Arth. Young, Linc.

Agric. 1799, 159. Beat 'em, the conqueror; a term

in the sport of cock-fighting. Beater, (1) a flat piece of wood

with a shaft inserted in its upper surface used for crushing the seed-vessels of flax; (2) a stick with a knob at the end used for mashing potatoes; (3) the projecting pieces of wood inside a churn.

Beaucliff Blose, a grass field at Northorpe.

Beaupleader, fines of. Fines for unfair pleading; a law term. See Jacobs' and Cowel's Dict. sub voc. 'All Pasche fines and fines of beaupleader yearly paid by the customary tenants.'Certificate of Sale of Manor of Kirton-in-Lindsey, 1799. Beau-pot. See Bough-pot. Beck, a brook, as Bottesfordbeck, Grains-beck. Beckstoans, stones placed at intervals in the bed of a beck for persons to step upon. Their places have now, in most instances, been supplied by footbridges. Ther was a raw o' beckstoans at th' boddom o Cruchin land for folks to get ower into Messingham by.' Beck-bottoms, Beck-sides, s. pl. low lands beside a brook.

Beck-rails, s. pl. rails placed across a brook to hinder cattle from straying.

Bed, (1) the piece of wood which lays on the top of an axletree of a cart or waggon for the soles to rest on. Also called packing. (2) A seam of rock. There's no iron-stone to speak on i' th' second bed.' (3) A woman is said to 'get her bed' or to be 'brought to bed' when she gives birth to a child; (4) 'He's getten out o' th' wrong side o' th' bed this mornin',' is said of one who has arisen in a bad temper. Bed, v. (1) to lie stones evenly in a wall. If them stoans is n't dresst square they we'nt bed reight.' (2) To go to bed.

'When female virtue beds with manly worth,

We catch the rapture and we spread it forth.'

Bell Inscription. Kirton in Holland, ii. Bell.

'And we will wed, and we will bed, But not in our alley.'

Sally in our alley. Bedded, pp. (1) matted as corn is by climbing weeds; (2) in bed. 'pe king hire hauede wedded, and haueden ben samen bedded.'-Havelok, 2270. Bedding, (1) bedclothes.

And also Napery and Beddynge sufficient for their lodginge.'-Lease of Scotter Manor, 1537. (2) Stable litter.

Bede, interj. exclamation to horses, meaning, Go to the right.' (Obsolescent.) Bede-house, an alms-house. There were three sides of a quadrangle of cottages called bede-houses at Alkborough. Bedfast, adj. confined to bed. Bed-happin', bed-clothes.

Yer

father's such a man for bed-happin', I nivver can put him enew blankets on.'

Bedlam, a mad-house.

Bedleland, a toft, with an oxgang annexed in Kirton-inLindsey was so called. The tenure by which it was held was for the tenant to keep the Lords corne in the fieldes from the spoyle of cattle.'-Norden's Survey of the Manor of Kirtonin-Lindsey, 1616, p. 9.

Bed-ropes, s. pl. the ropes which knit together the harden cloth, between the bed-stocks, which supports the mattress. Bed-staff, a pole for tucking in the clothes of a bed, which stands with one of its sides next a wall. Bed-stocks, the wooden frame of a bed. Three bedstoks are men

'Th'

tioned in the inventory of Robert Abraham of Kirton-in-Lindsey, 1519.'-Gent. Mag. 1864, i. 501. Bed-stowp, a bed - post. poor owd lady was so troubled in her mind she made away wi' her sen, by hingin' her sen to a bed-stowp. Bedstoopes inameld, vallances of gold.'-Geruis Markham, The famous whore, 1609.

Ed. 1868, p. 26.
Bed-twilt, a bed-quilt.

Bee-bee, nurse's interjection, meaning go to sleep. The same as bye-bye.

Bee-bread, a substance found

in bee-hives, not honey or wax. Bee-flower, the wall-flower. Beeld, likeness. 'She's the very beeld o' her brother when she's a man's hat on,' Beeld, v. to build. Beeraway, a bat; vespertilio. Beery, adj. somewhat drunk. Bees, flies.

'There 's honey-bees an' tother bees an' all.' Th' owd

man leg was strange an' bad,

bees struck it.'

Bees. If a swarm of bees alight on a dead tree or the dead bough of a living tree, there will be a death in the family of the owner during the year. Bees should

be told when the head of the household dies. If this be not done they will die. It is also common to give them some of the funeral cake and wine. A correspondent of the Stamford Mercury, 15 April, 1870, gives the following as the form of telling the bees used at Stallingborough, near Grimsby, some thirty years ago:—

'Honey bees! honey bees! hear what I say!

Your master, J. A., has passed away.

But his wife now begs you will freely stay,

And still gather honey for many a day. Bonny bees, bonny bees, hear what I say!' Bee-skep, a bee-hive. Beetle, a large mallet. Beetle-head, a stupid person. Beffing, Beffling, pres. part. (1) barking; (2) coughing. Beggarly. Land which has become exhausted from want of manure is said to have become beggarly.

Beginner, one who begins something, a founder. He's a new beginner, but he does n't frame badly.' "The first beginner of the New-Connexion Methodists was Alexander Kilham of Epworth.'

Of all things great, you great
beginner,

Take pity on a garter'd sinner.'
Burlesque Epitaph on John Shef-
field, Duke of Buckingham. Add.
MS. 5832, fol. 160.

Be-gor, Be-gock, Be-gow, Begum, Be-jegs, Be-jeggers, various forms of imprecation. Behave, v. to conduct oneself properly. Come, behave!' is a caution often given to obstreperous children. Behaviour, Behav'our, good manners. 'You see she 'd been lady's maid to Miss.

so she hed gotten to knaw be-
haviour as well as ony lady in
Lincolnsheere.'

Behint, adv. behind.
Beholding, part. beholden to,

obliged to. 'I'm much behold-
ing to you, sir, for them sticks
you've gin us.' 'I'll not be be-
holding to you for a farden.'
This peculiar substitution is very
old.

Behout, prep. without. 'Mak

'I

was that belagged wi' pickin' 'taties I could hardly get home.' Belch, worthless conversation, flavoured with dirt or obscenity. Belder, to roar. What are tá

belderin' e that how for.'

This

Belfry, a shed made of wood and sticks, furze, or straw. word is used in the older sense; the form belfry being a corruption, due to its being applied to a tower in which bells are suspended. Symeon of Durham tells us that Henry I. 'ligneam turrim quam Berefreit vocant erexit.'-Surtees Soc. Ed. i. 124. Many other spellings of the word may be found in Du Fresne, Gloss. sub voc. Belfredus. The Scotter Manor Roll for I. Mary says that Richard Robinson of Messingham removed ‘ligna sua super le belfrey et jacent in communi via,' for which he was fined x'.

In the inventory of John Nevill of Faldingworth, co. Lincoln, taken in 1590, occurs, 'the belfrey with other wood xx'.' A complaint was made to a Lindsey justice of peace, sitting at Winterton, in 1873, that the belfry of was ruinous, and liable to fall upon the passers-by. Belike, adv. probably, apparently, perhaps. Belike I may, but I don't promise nowt.' Belk, force, violence.

Th' chim

ley-pot blew off wi' such an a belk, I thought nothing but that it would ha comed thriff th'

roof.'

Belk, v. to belch.

Belking, adv. big, clumsy. Ap-
plied to men and women.
Bell, the cry of deer.
Bell-Car-Dale, land in Kirton-in-
Lindsey, 1787.

Bell-man, a town-crier. A family at Louth took the name of Belman from one or more of their Bell-oven, a vessel of iron, somemembers having held this post. what like a flat-topped bell, with a handle at the top, used for baking cakes. The hearth where the wood or turf fire had burnt was swept clean, the cakes laid upon the sole,' the bell-oven inverted over them and covered with hot ashes. They are probably now out of use in this part of Lincolnshire, but are still employed in the north of England. Bells, s. pl. the large bubbles formed in water by violent rain. 'It bells, it bells, it bubbles i' th' dike,' is a child's exclamation on seeing violent rain.

Bellus, v. to bellow; to low as

oxen do. Belly-band, the strap under a horse's body in harness; girths of a saddle.

Belly-cheer, food. Belly-full, enough, a sufficiency. 'He's gotten his belly-full this time,' said of a person who after years of litigation had lost his cause in the highest court of appeal. Belly-naked, adj. entirely naked. See Percy's Folio MS.; Loose Songs, 24,