| Old English | English |
| Bac n. | Chaplet |
| Bache n | The vale of a stream or rivulet |
| Back n. | The surface of a river, the waves |
| Backboneless adj. | Destitute of strength, character; weak |
| Back-town n. | Hicksville, boondocks |
| Backwardness n. | Retardation, regression |
| Badling n. | Thug |
| Baft adv. | Behind, to the rear of, aft |
| Bairn n. | Child. Cognates: Bairnless: childless; Bairnly, Bairnish: childish; Bairnhood: childhood, infancy |
| Bairn-bed n. | Womb |
| Bale n. | Harm. injury |
| Baleless adj | Harmless, innocent |
| Bale-fire n. | Holocaust |
| Balk n. | A ridge, esp. between furrows. 2. a ridge in the way, obstacle, hindrance. 3. a beam of timber. 4. a partition (late OE.) 5. a gang-way of a ship. |
| Balk vb. | To plough in ridges. 2. pass over or by, avoid, stop at an obstacle. 3. hinder, obstruct. |
| Balkmonger n | The maker or dealer of or in timber beams, spec. cross-beams stretching from wall to wall. |
| Baneful adj. | life destroying, pernicious esp. poisonous. Cognates: banefulness, banefully |
| Bane-ivy n | A tenacious creeping plant with invasive weed-like qualities. |
| Baneless adj. | Innocent, harmless |
| Banesman n. | Murderer, killer, assassin |
| Banewort n. | Belladona, Deadly Nightshade |
| Barefaceness n. | Effrontery, openness, shamelessness |
| Bareness n. | Nakedness, nudity |
| Bargh n. | Low detached ridge, hill, steep hill, road up a hill. From OE. beorgh, beorh: mount |
| Barton n. | Farmstead, bere-earn, barley enclosure, enclosure, pen for poultry |
| Be pref. | Causative rendering nouns, adjectives etc,. into verbs |
| Bead n. | Small perforated body of glass, amber, wood, metal, etc., 2. Prayer. Cognates: beadfolk, beadhouse |
| Bead-faring n | A pilgrimage, going on a pilrimage. |
| Beadle vb. | Announce, proclaim |
| Beadledom n. | Stupid officiousness, church bureaucracy |
| Beam n. | Tree. Cognates: beamless: treeless. |
| Beam n. | Throw out or radiate bems of light, emit rays. Cognates: beamish, beamless,, beamsome |
| Becall n. | Accuse, miscall, summons |
| Be'clepe vb. | Complain, indict, accuse; summons, appeal (to a highr court) |
| Be'dip vb. | Embrace, fold in arms, |
| Be'close vb. | Enclose, shut up |
| Be'deal vb. | Deprive, bereave, free of |
| Be'do vb. | put to, shut, befoul, defile with ordure |
| Be'dwellan vb. | Mislead, lead into error |
| Bee n. | |
| Bee phr. | "To have bees in the head" - to be angry, choleric, a little crazy. |
| Bee-drove n | A great crowd, multitude, throng or teeming of people or other creatures. |
| Been n. | Plural of bee (obs). |
| Beholdingness n | Obligation. |
| Beeishness n. | Busyness (extreme) |
| Beermonger n | Brewers and sellers of beer and lagers. |
| Bee-wine n | Nectar. |
| Beforeness n. | Anteriority, pre-existence, priority |
| Beforetime adv. | former, previously |
| Be'god vb. | Deify |
| Be'grede vb. | Cry, weep |
| Be'grip vb. | Apprehend, seize, catch |
| be'hap vb. | befall. happen, behappen |
| be'hele vb. | Conceal, cover, envelope |
| Behew vb. | Cut down |
| Behight n. | Promise (behote) |
| Bethither adv. | On this side |
| Beholdingness .n | Obligation. |
| Behoveful adj. | Advantageous, expedient, needful, necessary. Cognates: behovefully, behovefulness |
| Behoving adj. | Needful, incumbent, appropriate |
| Behovesome adj. | Useful, of service |
| Beingless n. | Non-existent, off no being |
| Beingness n. | Entity, actuality, existence |
| Bekend | Known |
| Bekenning n. | Knowledge; acquaintance |
| Belewe vb. | Betray, |
| Beliefful adj. | Full of faith, believing |
| Beliefless adj. | Without faith or believing, atheistic, godless |
| Belirt vb. | deceive, cheat, fool |
| Belive vb. | Remain, live on, survive |
| Bellow vb. | Roar |
| Beme n. | Loud noise, din; 2. trumpet Cognate: Bemer a trumpeter. |
| Bemouth vb. | Praise(verbally), Declaim, grandiloquize |
| Ben vb. | Look at |
| Bendsome adj. | Flexible |
| Bendwise adv. | Diagonally |
| Bene n. | Prayer, petition, boon, |
| Beneap adj. | Lying beneath the reach of higher water |
| Benight vb. | Overtaken by the darkness |
| Benim vb. | Take away, remove, |
| Benimming n. | Removal |
| Bensy vb. | Bless, consecrate, make hallow, purify |
| Benward adv | Towards the interior, inwards, innerly |
| Beod n. | Table. Cf: Board, as in board and lodgings. |
| Beot n. | Vow, threat, boat, promise. Cognate: Beoten vb, threaten |
| Berede vb. | To advise, counsel, inform, plan |
| Berewick n. | Village, demesne farm, dwelling, habitation |
| Berg n. | Mountain |
| Bergfall n. | Avalanche |
| Berman n. | Bearer, carrier, porter |
| Bermother n. | Womb.uterus |
| Berne n. | Warrior |
| Berrhless n. | Salvation |
| Berry vb. | Thresh, trod |
| Berre n. | Grove, shady place. Survives in placenames as bere, beere, bear |
| Besay vb. | To defend, apologise, speak for |
| Beschrew vb. | Make evil, wicked, pervert,deprave, corrupt |
| Besibbing n. | Affinity, resembling, having a likeness to |
| Besmit vb. | Stain, contaminate, effect |
| Bespeak vb. | To consider carefully |
| Bestand vb. | To stand near, stand over in solitude (by the grave), mourn |
| Bestead vb. | To help, assist, relieve, be of service, avail; go in stead of |
| Bester n. | One who gets the best of others by fraud; fraudster |
| Beshew vb. | To bestraught |
| Beswart vb. | To blacken, denigrate |
| Beswike vb. | To betray, deceive, cheat |
| Beswiker n. | To cheat, betrayer, deceiever |
| Beswikking ger. | Cheating, deceiving, betraying |
| Be'tee vb. | To draw over as , cover, |
| Beteem vb. | To pour over; give birth to, reproduce |
| Beteeming adj. | Copious, profusive, |
| Bethough adv. | Intended, contrived, purposed (of a thing); as in ill-bethoughed evil, |
| Bethrall vb | To enslave |
| Betide vb | To befall, happen to |
| Betidings n. | Event, Fortune, accident, befalling |
| Betoken vb. | To signify, mean, denote, express in words, symbolize |
| Betokening n. | Signification, meaning, emblem, omen, portent |
| Betroth vb. | To engage a woman in a contract of marriage |
| Beet vb. | To make good, amend, better, correct, reform, mend, heal wound, reform |
| Beeting vb | To repent, relieve hunger, thirst, any sign of want, assist, help |
| Beeting n. | Making a fire (kindling) |
| Betterhood n. | Superiority |
| Betweche vb. | To exorcise, rid |
| Betweenness n. | Intermediate stage or state |
| Between-whiles n. | Intervals |
| Bewain vb. | To profit, Take advantage, (wain: gain) |
| Bewend vb. | To turn round or away |
| Bewhape vb. | To bewilder, amaze, confound utterly |
| Bewist n. | Food, provisions, victuals; living |
| Bewist n. | State or condition of life (Wist: being, sense of being) |
| Bewist n. | Dwelling, soujourn, living |
| Bewist n. | Dwelling, place, abode, habitation |
| Bewith n. | Stopgap, substitute |
| Beword vb. | To happen, come to pass |
| Bewray vb. | To accuse, malign, speak evil of, discredit,expose,reveal, disclose prejudishly. ALSO: bewrayer, bewrraying, bewrayness |
| Bewreak vb. | to avenge, awreak |
| Beyelp vb. | To talk loudly of |
| Beyondness n. | Condition or quality of beyond |
| Bibode n. | Commandment |
| Bid vb. | to invite to a feast |
| Bide n. | Byde-dwelling place, habitat |
| Bideme vb. | To condemn |
| Biding n. | Place, abode |
| Bidstand n. | Highwayman, Bidstander, Bailupman |
| Bi'dwellan vb. | To mislead into error |
| Bield n. | Boldness, courage, 2. Shelter, comfort Also:Bieldness |
| Bi'fele vb. | To commit, entrust, assign, grant |
| Bigg vb. | To dwell, inhabit, place or locate oneself in, have an abode |
| Bigger vb. | To build, erect, construct, form, fashion, pile up. |
| Bi'gale vb. | to charm by incantation, enchant |
| Bi'gang vb. | To worship |
| Biggermost adj. | Vain, conceited, boastful, impudent |
| Bi'hede vb. | To notice, percieve, pay attention to, take care care of, guard gainst, procure, prepare |
| Bi'howe vb. | To benxious, becareful for |
| Bike n. | Nest or hive of hornets, bees, wasps, shep., 2. Swarm, throng, crowd(contemptously). 3. well-filled store 4. Buiding, habitation |
| Bi'kenned adj. | Begotten |
| Bi'laub vb. | To mock, deride, laugh at |
| Bi'melden vb. | To betray, Inform against |
| Bi'peche vb. | To cheat, decieve, delude |
| Bi'peching n. | Deception, fraud |
| Birde n. | Birth, off-spring, family, nation |
| Birle vb. | To pour Also: birling, birler |
| Birthdom n. | Inheritance, birthhood, birthright |
| Birthful adj. | Prolific, productive |
| Birthright n. | Inheritance, bithright |
| Bismer n. | Shame, disgrace, reproach, insult, mockery, scorn, derision |
| Bisson n. | Blind, sightless, destitute of sight, Also: bissonness, bissonhood, bissondom |
| Bi'theck vb. | To thatch, cover, bedeck |
| Bi'trum vb & n.. | Surround, beset, 2. n. trim, strong, fit, firm |
| Bive n. | Shake, tremble |
| Bi'wihele vb. | to soothsay, bewitch, overcome by witchcraft |
| Bi'wit vb. | To look after, guard against, protect |
| Bi'wite vb. | To beguile, ensorce 2. Go away, leave |
| Bi'wrench vb. | to defeat, deprive |
| Blædfast adj. | Prosperous, glorious (blaed:prosperous) |
| Blake adj & n. | Become pale, ghostly, 2. abashed, spiritless, awkwardness, shamefaced, timid, bashful, diffident, slow, sheepish, insipid |
| Blead n. | Breath, blowing, inspiration |
| Blede n. | Flower, blossom, bloom, fruit |
| Blench vb. | Cheat, elude, run away from, foil, turn away (eyes), shirk |
| Blete adj. | Miserable |
| Blethe adj. | Weak, timid, spiritless, |
| Blethely adv. | Kindly, generously, benevolently, gladly |
| Blick n. | Gold |
| Blike vb. | Shine, glitter, glimmer |
| Blin vb. | Cease, desist, leave off, stop, delay, tarry |
| Blithe adj. | Cheery Also:Blitheful, blithesome, blithsomeness |
| Board n. | (In OE.) a shield. 2. a hem, edge, coast, as in seaboard. 3. a ship's side. 4. piece of timber sawn thin, as in floorboard, weatherboard 5. stage of a theatre. 6. tablet on which games are played. 6 a table used for meals; food served at the table, as in board and lodgings 7. a table at which a council is held; person who meet at a council table. 8. any piece of furniture resembling a table, as in sideboard |
| Bookmonger n. | A bookseller. |
| Bottle up vb | Fig. repress, deny, hold in emotionally. |
| Brand new adj | Absolutely new. |
| Brimstream n | Rapidly flowing river. 2. a sea current |
| Byspel n. | Parable |
| Byss n. | Fineness & value |
| By-swelt vb. | Burn, scorch, |
| By-swenke vb. | Work hard, exert, do with industry |
| Bysybbe, (Bysib) n. | Relative, kin, kinfolk |
| By-tale n. | Irrevelant tale or story |
| By-time n. | Spare time |
| By-water n. | Waterway to the side of the main stream |
| By-word n, | Proverb |
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