Part 55 (1/2)

BEFORN, _prep._ Before.

_Wallace._

It occurs also in O. E.

_R. Brunne._

A. S. _beforan_, ante; coram.

BEFOROUTH, _adv._ Before, formerly.

V. ~Forowth~.

_Barbour._

BEFT, _part. pa._ Beaten.

V. ~Beff~.

_To_ BEGARIE, _v. a._

1. To variegate, to deck with various colours.

_Lyndsay._

2. To stripe, to variegate with lines of various colours, to streak.

_Begaryit_, striped, _part. pa._

_Douglas._

3. To besmear; to bedaub, to bespatter. ”S. _begaried_, bedirted;” Rudd.

vo. ~Laggerit~.

_Lyndsay._

This _v._ has an evident affinity to our _Gair_, _gare_, a stripe of cloth, and _Gaired_, _gairy_, q. v. The word is immediately allied to Fr. _begarr-er_, to diversify; _begarre_, of sundry colours, mingled.

BEGAIRIES, _s. pl._ Stripes or slips of cloth sewed on garments, by way of ornament, such as are now worn in liveries; _pessments_, S. synon.

_Acts Ja. VI._

BEGANE, _part. pa._ Covered; _Gold begane_, overlaid with gold.

_Douglas._