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Glossary of Latin Words.
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  • basto : — a staff.
  • bastonicum : — close custody.
  • basum. Per basum tolnetum capere, to take toll by strike.
  • batalia : — battle.
  • batella, batellus : — a small boat.
  • batellagium : — boat-hire.
  • batellarius : — a boatman ; a bateller, the lowest order in Oriel College.
  • batellatus : — embattled.
  • batellus : — a boat. See batillus.
  • bateria : — battery, beating.
  • batilda : — toll for boats (?).
  • batillayium : — carriage by boat ; boat-hire.
  • batillare : — to send by boat.
  • batillus : — a bat ; a beetle ; a clapper ; a boat.
  • batitoria : — a fulling mill.
  • batium. See barium.
  • bativa, batura : — battery.
  • batleuga. See banleuga.
  • batus : — a boat ; a measure, 12½ gallons ; a peck ; a vessel used in feeding horses ; a bat.
  • baubare : — to bark ; to bay.
  • baubella : — jewels.
  • bauca : — a bason.
  • baucaria : — a tapster.
  • baudekinum. See baldekinum.
  • bausanus : — a badger, a bawson.
  • bausia, bosia : — treason, felony.
  • bausiare, bosiare : — to rebel.
  • bauzanus: — piebald. (Fr. baugant, bauzant.)
  • baya. See baia.
  • bazantius. See bisantius.
  • bazeyna : — basil, prepared leather.
  • bechare : — to dig ; to use a pick-axe.
  • becnus : — some sort of fish.
  • beconagium : — contribution for the maintenance of beacons.
  • bedelaria : — the office of beadle, or district to which his office extends ; bedellary.
  • bedellus : — a beadle, or bedell.
  • bederipa. See bedrepium.
  • bedrepium : — bedripe, harvest work done by tenants as a customary service ; it sometimes means a definite amount, perhaps a day's work.
  • bedripus. See bedrepium.
  • bedum : — the portion of a mill-stream which turns the wheel and is boarded up to increase the force of water.
  • belfredus : — a belfry.
  • belgiga : — a car, a chariot.
  • bellicrepa : — a master.
  • belligerare : — to make war.
  • bellum : — a battle; used, as the English word is, to denote a portion of an army ; a judicial combat, duel.
  • benda : — a band, either metal or stuff ; a bar ; a bend (heraldic).
  • beneificare : — to confer a benefice on ; to enfeoff.
  • beneficium : — a benefice, an ecclesiastical living or promotion.