the wild Mare; as children who sitting vpon both ends of a long Pole, or Timber-log (supported only in the middest) lift one another vp and downe; hence, also to tottar, swag, swing, lift, or heaue often vp and downe.
Bacées: f. as Brilées. Bacelle. as Chastelleine. An old word.
Bachat: m. A Bassa; a chiefe Commaunder, Gouernour, or Officer, vnder the great Turke.
Bachelage: m. Bachlership, prentishood.
Bachelerie: f. A bachlership; the degree, estate, condition of an Esquire, or Bacheler.
Bachelette: f. A young, and marriageable girle, maid, or wench. ¶Pic. Bachelier: m. A bacheler; a youth of sixteene, or eighteene yeares of age; also, he that hath passed Master in a trade, but is not yet sworne of the Companie; also, a Batcheler of Art; also, a title of gentrie inferiour to Banneret, and superiour to Escuyer; a young gentleman that aspires vnto Knighthood, and the priuiledge of bearing a Banner in the field; also, the Lord of a castle, fort, great house, or Place, that is deriued from (but in iurisdiction equall with) an Earledome, Vicountie, or Baronie. Bachelier en busche. A woodden loggarhead.
Bachelier: m. ere: f. Bachelerly, bacheler-like; of, or belonging to, a bacheler. Chevalier bachelier. Marched vnder other mens colours, and had twice as much pay as th' Esquire.
Bachevaleureux. as Chevaleureux. Bachot: m. A wherrie; or small ferry-boat.
Bachoüe: f. A kind of flat-sided basket, of wicker, close wouen, and pitched in th' inside; vsed in time of Vintage.
Bacille: f. The hearbe Sampire; or, as Bassille. Bacilles doubles. The double Crowfoot, or Bachelers buttons.
Bacinet. as Bassinet. The hearbe Crowfoot.
Baclé: m. ée: f. Close bolted; shut, or made vp on the inside.
Bacler. To bolt, close, or shut close, on the inside, with a short woodden bolt.
Bacon: m. Bacon, or (the fat of Bacon) Lard.
Bacquaige. as Bagage. Bacquet: m. A pale, or bucket; also, a small and shallow tub, vsually set vnder a wine vessell, or the spout, or cocke of a fountaine, to receiue the liquor that distils, or descends, from it.
Bacqueter. To lade, or draine a riuer, or other water, with pales, or buckets.
Bacquier: m. A hog fed in the stye; a stye-fed hog.
Bacul: m. A Crupper for an Asse, or Moyle.
Bacule: f. A square, and heauie dore (commonly) hanging, and held vp, by chaynes, a pretie distance without the maine gate of a fortresse, and let fal (as a Portcullis) in a trice, with a whurrie, and to the confusion of them it reaches, or lights on; also, as Bascule. A la bacule. The riding of the wild mare; also, the punishment of misses in some games, to be clapt on the bumme with a batting-staffe. En bacule. Hanging a slope, as the Bacule. Baculer. To bumpe on the Posteriorums with a Bat; or, as Baccoler. Badauderie: f. Sottishnesse, fopperie, doltishnesse.
Badaudise. as Badauderie. Badault: m. A foole, dolt, sot, fop, asse, coxcombe; gaping hoydon.
Badé: m. A crie, as of hounds. ¶Breton.
Badecoquille: f. The name of a small shell-fish.
Badelaire: m. A short, and broad back-sword, bending towards the point like a Turkish scimitar.
Badelori: m. as Badault. Badelorié: m. ée: f. Besotted; made a gull, or foole.
Badigoines: f. The great, and hanging lips, or slowching chaps of beastes (especially horses) or of beastly fellowes.
Badin: m. as Badault; also, a Iugler; Tumbler; or any such sport-maker. Badin enfariné; & Badin sans farine. A notable coxcombe, an Asse in graine; also, a foole, or Vice in a play. Aller en badin. To goe slowly, as one that seemes to count the steps he sets. Escholier babillard prez le feu, & badin hors la classe: Prov. Looke Escolier. Badinage: m. Foolerie, fopperie; toying, tumbling, iugling; any kind of apish gambolling. Il est fait au badinage. He hath his part readie, his lesson at his fingers end; he hath got the tricke of it; he is throughly instructed how to handle the matter, how to carrie the complot.
Badinement. Foolishly, apishly, sottishly, foppishly.
Badiner. To play the foole, or Vice; to vse apish trickes, and toyes; to tumble, or iuggle; to trifle it any way. Badiner les perdris. To driue Partridges into a Tunnell.
Badinerie: f. as Badinage. Baditin: m. The water Lillie, or water Rose.
Badoüiner. C'est, Besongner come vn Asne. ¶Rab.
Baffoüé: m. ée: f. Hoodwinked; also, deceiued; also, besmeared; also, baffled, disgraced, vnworthily handled, iniuriously vsed, reuiled, reproched.
Baffoüer. To hoodwinke; also, to deceiue; also, to besmeare; also, to baffle, abuse, reuile, disgrace, handle basely in tearmes, giue reprochfull words of, or vnto.
Baffray. as Baffroy. Baffroy: m. A Beacon; or a watch-tower of timber, &c; also, an Allarum Bell; and, the greatest Bell in in a Church; and chiefest clocke in a Towne; also, a Bastile of timber, whereout besiegers beat the besieged.
Bafoüé. as Baffoüé. Bagage: m. The cariage of an armie; luggage, bag, and baggage; also, the carters, boyes, and Mulettiers, that looke vnto it.
Bagagier: m. A carrier of souldiors baggage, or luggage.
Bagasse: f. A Baggage, Queane, Iyll, Punke, Flirt.
Bagatelle: f. A toy, trifle, nifle, thing of small value.
Bagatelleries: f. Triflings, toyings, idle trickes, or, tricks of Legerdemaine.
Bagateur: m. A maker of playing cards.
Bagatin: m. A base Italian coyne of Brasse; worth about the sixteenth part of our penny.
Baglon: m. as Baillon; a gag. Bagnoire. as Baignoire. Bagois: m. Gibridge, fustian, strange talke; idle tatle.
Bagos: m. A man-baud; a Ribauld.
Bague: f. (is properly) a ring, or iewell set with one precious stone, or more; also, the Ring whereat gallants run with launces; (whence, Courir la bague; to run at the Ring;) also, the reward bestowed on, or prize gained by, him that does the best in a publicke Game, or Exercise; as tilting, wrestling, running, leaping, &c; (and hence;)