Part 55 (2/2)

_Aurea tecta_, Virg. According to Rudd. q. _gone over_. Chaucer uses the phrase, _With gold begon_, Rom. Rose, 943., ”painted over with gold,” Tyrwh.

_To_ BEGECK, BEGAIK, BEGEIK, _v. a._ To deceive; particularly by playing the jilt, S.B.

_Dunbar._

Teut. _gheck-en_, deridere, ludibrio habere.

V. ~Geck~.

BEGEIK, BEGINK, BEGUNK, _s._

1. A trick, or illusion, which exposes one to ridicule, S.

_Ramsay._

2. It often denotes the act of jilting one in love; applied either to a male, or to a female, S.

~Begeik~ is the more common term, S. B.

_Morison._

BEGES, BEGESS, _adv._ By chance, at random.

_Evergreen._

From _be_, by, and _gess_, guess, Belg. _ghisse_.

BEGGER-BOLTS, _s. pl._ ”A sort of darts or missile weapons. The word is used by James VI. in his Battle of Lepanto, to denote the weapons of the _forceats_, or galley-slaves.” Gl. Sibb. Hudson writes _beggers' bolts_.

The word may have originated from contempt of the persons, who used these arms, q. _bolts_ of _beggars_.

BEGOUTH, BEGOUDE, _pret._ Began.

_Wyntown._

_Begoud_ is now commonly used, S.

A. S. _gynn-an_, _beginn-an_, seem to have had their pret. formed like _eode_, from _gan_, ire: _Beginnan_, _begeode_.

BEGRAUIN, _part. pa._ Buried, interred.

_Douglas._

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