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_Barry._

BISMING, BYISMING, BYISNING, BYSENING, BYSYNT, _adj._ Horrible, monstrous.

V. ~Byssym~.

_Douglas._

BYSPRENT, _part. pa._ Besprinkled, overspread.

_Douglas._

Belg. _besprengh-en_, to sprinkle.

BISSARTE, BISSETTE, _s._ A buzzard, a kind of hawk.

_Acts Ja. II._

Germ. _busert_, Fr. _bussart_, id.

_To_ BYSSE, BIZZ, _v. n._ To make a hissing noise, as hot iron plunged into water, S.

_Douglas._

Belg. _bies-en_, to hiss like serpents.

BISSE, BIZZ, _s._ A hissing noise, S.

_Ferguson._

BYSSYM, BYSYM, BESUM, BYSN, BISSOME, BUSSOME, BYSNING, _s._

1. A monster.

_Houlate._

2. A prodigy, something portentous of calamity.

_Knox._

3. _Bysim_ is still used as a term highly expressive of contempt for a woman of an unworthy character, S.

V. ~Bisming~.

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