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1. To swallow any liquid in small, but frequent draughts; whether the liquor be intoxicating or not, S.

2. To tipple, _v. n._ ”He's ay _bebbling_ and drinking;” he is much given to tippling, S.

It seems to be formed from Lat. _bibere_ to drink, in the same manner as _bibulus_, soaking, drinking, or taking it wet.

BECHT, _part. pa._ Tied; Gl. Rudd.

Germ. _bieg-en_, flectere, is probably the origin.

_To_ BECK, BEK, _v. s._

1. To make obeisance, to cringe, S.

_Bannatyne Poems._

2. To curtsy; as restricted to the obeisance made by a woman, and contra-distinguished from bowing.

Isl. _beig-a_, Germ. _bieg-en_, to bow.

BECK, BEK, _s._ A curtsy, S.

_Maitland Poems._

BEDDY, _adj._ Expressive of a quality in grey-hounds; the sense uncertain.

_Watson's Coll._

It may signify, attentive to the cry of the huntsman. Fr. _baude_, ”a cry as of hounds, Breton;” Cotgr. It may, however, be the same word which occurs in the S. Prov.; ”Breeding wives are ay _beddie_;” Kelly, p. 75. ”Covetous of some silly things,” N. In this sense it is probably allied to Isl. _beid-a_, A. S. _bidd-an_, Moes. G. _bid-jan_, Belg.

_bidd-en_, to ask, to supplicate, to solicit.

BEDE, _pret._ Offered; from the v. ~Bid~.

_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._

Chaucer uses the v. ~Bede~ as signifying to offer.

A. S. _baed_, obtulit, from _beodan_.

BEDELUIN, _part. pa._ Buried, hid under ground.

_Douglas._

A. S. _bedelfen_, sepultus, infossus; _be-delf-an_, circ.u.mfodere.