Bracer, _s._ bracer, armour for the arms, 142/3. See Chaucer, C.T. 111.
Braked, _pp._ bruised in a brake or machine for crushing flax, 146/42.
Breade-come, _s._ corn to be ground to _bread meal_, for making brown bread, 20/16. See note to P. Plowman, C. ix. 61.
Breake thy faste, _phr._ breakfast, 149/8.
Brede, _s._ breadth, 110/3, 132/18. A.S. _brǽdu_.
Brodye, _adj._ ready to lay (as hens), lit. brood-y, 146/24.
Broken-wynded, _s._ a being broken in the wind (said of a horse), 85/1.
Brouse, _s._ small sprigs which the cattle eat, 132/3; and see _notes_ to 38/3, 126/9. O. F. _broust_, a sprig.
Brouse, _v._ to browze, eat off, 131/3. Derived from the sb. above.
Broyse, _imp. s._ bruise, 59/12; broysed, _pp._ 6/30.
Brumentes, _s. pl._ inventories, 152/5. Roquefort gives: ‘_Brevememt_ [obviously an error for _Brevement_], état de dépense, mémoire, agenda, bordereau.’ He also notes _breumen_, used for _brevement_, briefly. Hence _brument_ is for _brevement_, i.e. short list, abstract.
Bryse, _imp. s._ bruise, 129/3. _See_ Broyse.
Bulder-stones, _s. pl._ smooth large round stones, 15/28.
Bull, _s._ harrow-bull, 15/9. _See_ Harowe-bulles.
Bulleys, _s. pl._ bullaces, 136/4, 140/1.
Bunnes, _s. pl._ dry stalks, 70/9. “_Bun_, a dry stalk;” Wright. Cf. Gael. _bun_, a root, stock, stump; _bunan_, stubble.
Busshell-pokes, _s. pl._ bags or sacks holding a bushel, 141/69.
But, _prep._ except, 122/1; but and, _conj._ if, 44/2.
By and by, _phr._ exactly, distinctly, in order one after the other, 126/15; immediately, 42/8. See Wright’s Gloss.
Bygge, _s._ bigg, the name of a kind of barley, 13/27. _Bigg_ occurs as the name of a kind of barley A.D. 1474-5; see Rogers, Hist. Agric. vol. iii. Icel. _bygg_, Dan. _byg_, barley.
Byrdes, _s. pl._ birds, chickens, 146/30.
Camborell, _s._ the hock of an animal, 107/3. Usually _cambrel_ or _gambrel_.
Can, _pr. s._ knows, 52/7; _pr. pl._ 147/26.
Candell-lyghte, _s._ candle-light, 149/5.
Candelmas, _s._ the day of the purification of the Virgin, Feb. 2, 134/22.
Canker, cancer, a disease of horses, _note_ to 83/1; p. 141.
Carte-ladder, _s._ a frame-work behind a cart, 5/27. See _carte-ladders_, 5/30.
Cart-sadel, _s._ the small saddle placed on a horse in the shafts, 5/27.