burh-tún
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A city-inclosure, city-dwelling; urbis septum, urbana domus
burh-wered
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A city-multitude; urbis multitudo Heánra burhwered vulgus vel plebs, Wrt. Voc. 18, 37
buter-geþweor
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Butter-curd, what is coagulated, butter; butyri coagulum, butyrum Buter-geþweor ǽlc and cýsgerunn losiaþ [MS. losaþ] eów butyrum omne et caseus pereunt vobis, Coll. Monast. Th. 28, 19
Linked entry: ge-þweor
Butting-tún
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BODDINGTON, Gloucestershire Offóron hie ðone here hindan æt Buttingtúne on Sæferne staðe they followed after the army to Boddington on the bank of the Severn, Chr. 894; Erl. 92, 22. Mr. Earle has the following pertinent note on the locality Two places
býcniend-líc gemet
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The indicative mood; indicativus modus, Ælfc. Gr. 21; Som. 23, 18, MS. C
byrc-holt
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A birch holt or grove; betuletum, Ælfc. Gl. 47; Som. 65, 21
Linked entry: birc-holt
byrd-dæg
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A birth-day; natalis dies
byrgen-leóþ
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A tomb-elegy, an epitaph; sepulcrale carmen, epitaphium On his byrgenne is awriten byrgen-leóþ scriptnm est in tumba ipsius epitaphium, Bd. 2, 1; S. 500, 18
Linked entries: byrg-leóþ byrig-leóþ bergels-leóþ
byrgen-song
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A burial song; cantus sepulcralis, Leo 116
Linked entry: bergel-song
byrgere
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A burier, corpse-bearer; vespillo, Cot. 155
byrhtm
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Noise, tumult; fragor, tumultus, Apstls. Kmbl. 42; Ap. 21
byrig
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A mulberry-tree; morus He ofslóh byrig heora on hagule occidit moros eorum in pruina, Ps. Spl. 77, 52: L. M. 2, 53; Lchdm. ii. 274, 17
Byríne
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Birinus, the first bishop of Wessex, Chr. 649; Th. 50, 3, col. 2, 3; 51, 2, col. 1
byrn-wíggend
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A soldier clothed in armour, a mailed warrior; loricatus miles vel bellator Bealde byrnwíggende bold warriors, Judth. 9; Thw. 21, 13; Jud. 17
byrst
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A bristle; seta Byrst seta, Wrt. Voc. 286, 57: Glos. Epnl. Recd. 162, 49. Hyre twigu beóþ swylce swínene [MS. swinen] byrst its twigs are like swine bristles, Herb. 52, 2; Lchdm. i. 156, 3
býsting
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BIESTINGS, the first milk of a cow after calving; colostrum Býsting, þicce meolc biestings, thick milk, Ælfc. Gl. 33; Som. 62, 20; Wrt. Voc. 28, 3
Linked entry: bísting
cæder-beám
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A cedar-tree; cedrus Hériaþ Drihten, muntas and ealle beorgas, treówu wæstmbǽru, and ealle cæder-beám laudate Dominum, montes et omnes colles, ligna fructifera, el omnes cedri, Ps. Spl. 148, 9
cæn-ryn
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A generation, Ps. Spl. 47, 12
cáfer-tún
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A hall, inclosure, court, vestibule; atrium, vestibulum Mycel and rúm heall vel cáfertún atrium, Ælfc. Gl. 109; Som. 79, 21; Wrt. Voc. 58, 61: Lk. Bos. 11, 21: Jn. Bos. 18, 15: Bt. 18, 1; Rawl. 38, 30. Seó fǽmne geneálǽhte ðam cáfertúne ðyses húses the
Linked entry: ceafer-tún