Part 69 (1/2)

BEW, _adj._ Good, honourable. _Bew schyris_, or _schirris_, good Sirs.

Fr. _beau_, good.

_Douglas._

_To_ BEWAVE, BEWAUE, _v. a._ To cause to wander or waver.

_Palice of Honour._

A. S. _waf-ian_, vacillare, fluctuare.

BEWIS, BEWYS, _s. pl._ Boughs.

V. ~Beuch~.

_Douglas._

BEWIS, _s. pl._ Beauties.

O. Fr. _beau_, beauty.

_Maitland Poems._

BEWITH, _s._ A thing which is employed as a subst.i.tute for another, although it should not answer the end so well.

_Ramsay._

One who arrives, when the regular dinner is eaten, is said to get ”only a _bewith_ for a dinner,” S.

From the subst. v. conjoined with the prep., q. what one must submit to for a time.

_To_ BEWRY, _v. a._ To pervert, to distort.

_Douglas._

Teut. _wroegh-en_, torquere, angere.

BY, _prep._

1. Beyond, S.

_Pitscottie._