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BYPTICIT, _part. pa._ Dipped or dyed.

Lat. _baptizo_.

_Houlate._

BIR, BIRR, _s._ Force.

I find that Isl. _byr_, expl. ventus ferens, is deduced from _ber-a_, ferre; Gl. Edd. Saem.

V. ~Beir~.

BIRD, BEIRD, BRID, BURD, _s._

1. A lady, a damsel.

_Gawan and Gol._

As _bridde_ is the word used by Chaucer for bird, it is merely the A. S. term for pullus, pullulus. _Bird_, as applied to a damsel, appears to be the common term used in a metaph. sense.

2. Used, also metaph., to denote the young of quadrupeds, particularly of the fox.

V. ~Tod's Birds~.

BYRD, _v. imp._ It behoved, it became.

_Barbour._

A. S. _byreth_, pertinet. This imp. v. may have been formed from _byr-an_, _ber-an_, to carry, or may be viewed as nearly allied to it.

Hence _bireth_, gestavit; Germ. _berd_, _ge-baerd_, id., _sich berd-en_, gestum facere. Su. G. _boer-a_, debere, pret. _borde_, anciently _boerjade_.

BIRDING, _s._ Burden, load.

V. ~Birth, Byrth~.

_Douglas._

A. S. _byrthen_, Dan. _byrde_, id.

BIRD-MOUTH'D, _adj._ Mealy-mouth'd, S.

_Ramsay._

BYRE, _s._ Cowhouse, S. _Byer_, id. c.u.mb.