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BEILDY, _adj._ Affording shelter.

_Ramsay._

BEILD, _adj._ Bold.

_Houlate._

A. S. _beald_, id. A. S. Alem. _belde_, audacia.

BEILL, _s._ Perhaps, sorrow, care, q. _baill_.

_Bannatyne Poems._

BEIN, _s._ Bone, Ang.

One is said to be _aw frae the bein_, all from the bone, when proud, elevated, or highly pleased; in allusion, as would seem, to the fleshy parts rising from the bone, when the body is swollen.

BEIN, BEYNE, _adj._ ~Beinlier~.

V. ~Bene~.

BEIR, BERE, BIR, BIRR, _s._

1. Noise, cry, roar.

_Douglas._

The word is used in this sense by R. Glouc.

2. Force, impetuosity; often as denoting the violence of the wind, S.

_Vir_, _virr_, Aberd.

_Douglas._

O. E. _bire_, _byre_, _birre_. The term, especially as used in the second sense, seems nearly allied to Isl. _byre_ (tempestas), Su. G.

_boer_, the wind; which seem to acknowledge _byr-ia_, _boer-ia_, surgere, as their root.

_To_ BEIR, BERE, _v. s._ To roar, to make a noise.

_Wallace._

Teut. _baeren_, _beren_, is expl. by Kilian; Fremere, sublate et ferociter clamare more ursorum. The learned writer seems thus to view it as a derivative from _baere_, _bere_, a bear.

BEIRD, _s._ A bard, a minstrel.