Anglish wordbook/B
From The Anglish Moot
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| bakehouse | n | a shop where breads are baked and sold; bakery [extension of existing word, from compound of bake 'to cook food in an oven' & house]
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| bane | n | a person or thing that ruins or spoils; that which causes death or destroys life; a deadly poison.; curse, nemesis, undoing [neologism, from OE bana slayer; that which destroys life; causes death, destruction, ruin or woe, as in a watery bane.]
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| banewave | n | a very large ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic explosion.; tsunami, killer wave [neologism, from OE bana slayer. Bane: that which destroys life; causes death, destruction, ruin or woe. Wave an advancing ridge or swell of liquid, as of the sea; a moving billow of water.]
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| banewyrm | n | a huge, winged serpent with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire; dragon, Grendel [neologism, from OE bana slayer. Bane: that which destroys life; causes death, destruction, ruin or woe. wyrm a worm, snake, or serpent]
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| Bayerland | n | Bavaria; Bayern [calque from Icelandic Bæjaraland, derived from OE Bægware-, Bægere- 'The Bavarians' + -land]
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| becloud | v | to obfuscate, or make muddled, to confuse an issue; confuse, beguile, deceive [existing rare English word, a compound of BE- and cloud]
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| beforemath | n | the events and situations that lead to a particualr end; antecedence, here-to-fore, foregoings [neologism & antonymn of aftermath. From the Old English words: before & math a mowing]
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| bitter earth | n | in chemistry, an alkaline earth, now recognised as oxide of magnesium (MgO); magnesium [putting together of the OE words: bitter & earth]
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| blissend | n | a quiet and easy death; means of procuring this; euthanasia [a blending of the OE words: bliss: happy end& send: easy death]
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| blood-month | n | the eleventh month of the year, so called because the heathen Anglo-Saxons sacrificed cattle to their gods; November [Anglo-Saxon, from Blōt-Mōnath]
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| brath | n | Impetuousity, violence, ire; wrathful [dialectal, C15th-16th Northern dialects, from OE braþþe < ME:braþ & ON:brað]
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| brock | n | a small mammal of the kind Meles meles, with black and white stripes on its head; badger [dialectual, from OE brocc < Celtic]
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| brownfield | n | an abandoned, contaminated industrial site; industrial wasteland, atterground [neologism; a putting together of OE words: brown & field]
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| by-gone | adj | that has gone-by; things that are passed; deceased; arrears; the past(rare); former, past, happened [a putting together of OE words: by & gone]
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