Part 56 (2/2)

V. ~Havings~.

_To_ BEHECHT, _v. n._ To promise.

_Douglas._

Chaucer, _behete_, A. S. _behaet-an_, id. R. Glouc. _behet_; R.

Brunne, _be-hette_, promised.

BEHECHT, BEHEST, BEHETE, _s._

1. Promise.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

2. Engagement, covenant.

_Douglas._

3. Command.

_Douglas._

Chaucer, _beheste_, id.

BEHO, BOHO, _s._ A laughing-stock. ”To mak a _boho_” of any thing, to hold it up to ridicule, S. B.

Alem. _huohe_, ludibrium.

_To_ BEHUFE, _v. n._ To be dependent on.

_Douglas._

A. S. _behof-ian_, Belg. _behoev-en_, to stand in need of, egere, opus habere.

BEJAN CLa.s.s, a designation given to the Greek cla.s.s in the Universities of St Andrew's and Aberdeen; as, till of late, in that of Edinburgh.

Hence, the students in this cla.s.s are denominated _Bejans_.

Fr. _bejaune_, a novice, an apprentice, a young beginner in any science, art, or trade. Cotgr. derives _bejaune_ from _bec jaulne_, literally a yellow beak or bill. Du Cange observes that L. B.

_bejaunus_ signifies a young scholar of any university, and _bejaunium_ the festivity that is held on his arrival. The term is thus very emphatic, being primarily used in relation to a bird newly hatched, whose beak is of a deep yellow.

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