, -eiche, pl. beacha and beich, f., a bee; mo chnuas beiche, my bees' hoarding (applied to a person as a term of endearment Fer.); beach ghabhair, a wasp (the pl. beich is found in Kea., F. F., and in T. G.; ordinary pl. in M., at least, is beacha).

, -aighe, a., full of or abounding in bees.

, indec. a., dirty, muddy (Antrim).

, g. id., pl. -ridhe, m., a beehive; also a bee-farmer.

, -áin, pl. id., m., a mushroom; beacán bearach (Don.).

, -áin, pl. id., m., a wasp.

, m., a horse-fly.

, indec. a., waspish, stinging, fretful.

, -ainne, -a, f., a place for storing honey or beehives; an apiary.

, -aighe, a., abounding in beehives, stored with honey.

, -óige, -óga, f., a young bee; a bee; beachóg chapaill, a wasp; beachóg, usual word for bee in Don.

, -a, -anna, m., a circle, a ring, compass; meditation; an assurance, a compact (O'N.).

, -eichte, a., perfect, exact, particular, sure, certain, literal; go b. perfectly, entirely, for ever.

, -aighe, a., round, circular, globular.

, -a, f., accuracy, particularity, criticism; bhain mé b. as, I criticised it (Tory).

, g. id., pl. -ridhe, m., a critic (O'N.).

, -amhla, a., authoritative; rowid, circular.

, p. a., of accurate knowledge.

, -ughadh, v. tr., I certify, assure; I perfect, I complete; I compass, I embrace; I meditate; I perceive (also beadh, -a, m., bad news, injury; flattery.

, a., sweet-mouthed, luxurious, nice, fond of delicacies; fastidious, saucy, impudent, dapper; aisling beadaidhe, a fleeting dream (Der.).

, g. id., pl. -dhthe, m., a flatterer; a lover of dainties; a childish word for goose.

, -a, f., sweetmouthedness, fondness for dainties; sauciness, impertinence.

, the prong of a grape, fork, etc. (Om., Der.); recte beanglán (?).

, gsf. bige, comp. lugha, little, small, tiny; is beag orm é, I despise him; is beag liom é, I think it too small; is beag liom, 7c., I do not stick at, etc.; beag nach, almost; is beag duine, 7c., few persons, etc.; ní beag dom . . . gan, 7c., was it not enough that I should . . not to add, etc.; is beag ná go mbáthfar ann mé, I'll almost get drowned there; tá an fearthain beag is do bheith réidh, the rain is almost over; ní beag liom S. ag freagra, 7c., I think it sufficient that S. replying, etc. (Kea., F. F.), anois beag, just now, a moment ago; ní beag sin, "and no more at present" (in old epistolary style); is beag má, scarcely, hardly; beag is also used as a dim. for persons and things, often in the sense of óg: Tomás beag often signifies Thomas the younger.

, -áin, m., a little; few; followed by gen. takes tie with poss. pron; fíor-beagán, very little, very few.

(or beadhán), -áin, pl. id., m., a sting; beaghán do'n bhás an grádh, love is a sting till death (Der. and Om,.).

, -e, a., of little sense, half-witted.

, -dhighe, a., fainthearted, timid; mean-spirited.

, -aighe, a., fearless, courageous, independent.

, -aire, a., valueless, contemptible; beag-luach, id.

, m., a useless person.

, ad., almost, nearly; beagnach re trí mhíle bliadhan, almost for three thousand years (Kea., F. F.).

, f., shamelessness.

, -righe, a., shameless, brazen.

, -laighe, a., short-lived.

, -bhighe, a., of small profit, worthless.

, g. id., f., nonsense, absurdity.

, -aigh, pl. id. and -aighe, m., a road, way, path; a mountain pass; an inlet; a passage; ar a bhealach, on his way; as an mbealach, amiss, wrong; bealach mór, high-road; "fág an bealach," clear the way; ar aon bhealach, of the same way of thinking. bealach has a wider signification than bóthar; bíonn sconnsa le bóthar, a bóthar has fences, a bealach need not have; bealach is used as a common word for road or way in U.; common in place-names: Bealach an Doirín, Ballaghaderreen; Bealach Oisín, a steep mountain pass in Iveragh (Ker.); an Bealach Mór, a road across Bere Island, Co. Cork.

, -aidh and -lta, m., grease; the act of greasing.

, g. id., f. (pron. beallthaine, where eall is pron. as in ceall, a church, in M.), the Irish May Festival, the month of May; lá Bealtaine, the first day of May; mí na Bealtaine, the month of May; oidhche Bhealtaine, May eve; Sean-bhealtaine, "Old May," that is the month beginning about the 11th of May, the month of May (Old Style); in Om., etc., béaltaine; in Don. and Con., beáltaine.

, bright or sunny May day; lá b. fóghmhair, a bright or sunny day in harvest; buidhe is sometimes used as a strengthening adverb, as is fada buidhe uaidh é, it is far indeed from it.

, -uighthe, pl. id., m., an anointing, a greasing.

, -ughadh, v. tr., I anoint, grease.

, p. a., oily, spruce (E. R.).

, g. mná, d. mnaoi, pl. mná, gpl. ban, dpl. mnáibh, a woman, a wife; bean chaointe, g. mná caointe, pl. id., a female mourner; bean tighe, woman of the house, housewife, good wife, housekeeper; bean choimhdeach, waiting-woman, waiting-maid; bean uasal, lady; bean phósta, a wife; bean riaghalta, a nun.

See <<bainim>> and <<buainim>>.

, g. mná cabhartha, f., a midwife.

, f., a female satirist.

, f., a wet nurse.

, f., a female attendant.

, -a, pl. id., f., a ladies' association.

, f., a female assistant, a midwife.

, f., a female fortune-teller.

, -áin, pl. id., m., a bough, a branch; a scion, a graff, the blade of a fork; beangán luibhe, a herb bud.

, -a, pl. id., also g. beinne d. beinn, f., a mountain peak, a peak, a headland, a horn; a point, a crest; a gable, a top, a step; a trail or dress-skirt; heed, care, attention; dependence; níl b. agam ort, I am independent of you, I heed you not; níl aon bheann aici air, (the cow) has no relish for it (her food); ceithre beanna tighe, four corners of a house; gach beann de'n gcrann, every arm of the tree (in pl., the arms of a cross). beann enters largely into place-names; it is applied to high mountain peaks as well as small eminences; cf., Beann Gulban in Sligo, Beann Árd, a townland in Kerry, etc.; nom. also binn or beinn.

, f., a horn, etc.; fig., a long ear; cf., asal is péire beanna air, an ass with a pair of long ears (B.); also, a couplet or half-stanza, whence leath-bheann, a line(?).

, m., a peaked or gabled mansion; beanna-bhruigh Bhriain ciarthuilte 'mhadraidhibh uisc', the turreted mansions of Brian overflown with otters (O'Ra.). See <<brog>>.

, -aighe, a., horned, forked; peaked (as mountains); an t-Oileán Trí-bheannach = Trinacria (Sicily).

, -chta, pl. id., m., a benediction, a beatitude; act of blessing; ex., Dia dá bheannachadh.

, -e, a., abounding in peaks or gables.

, m., a peaked hill. See <<cnoc>>.

, -a, f., a blessing; beannacht leat, good-bye; b. Dé le n-a anam, God rest his soul.

, m., a horned buck. See P. O'C.

, -ghairbhe, a., rough-peaked.

, -aine, a., bright-gabled (of a house).

, -óige, -óga, f., a coif, a cap, a corner of a woman's cloak. See beannán.

, -aighe, crested, towering, high-headed (Co. Wick., P. O'C.).

, g. mná -, pl. id., f., a bride.

-uighthe, m., act of blessing; benediction; saluting, greeting.

, -ughadh, v. tr., I bless; intr., with do, I salute.

, indec. p. a., blessed, holy.

, -a, f., a blessing; holiness.

, -ora, -oiridhe, m., one who blesses.

, g. -ráidh, pl. -ráidhte, m., woman's gossip.

, f., a woman in childbirth.

, pl. mná siubhail, f., a strolling woman; a woman who begs.

, g. mná -, pl. id., f., a housewife, a housekeeper, a landlady; somet. indec. in sp. l., esp. in form bean a' tighe.

, f., a midwife.

, g. mná uaisle, pl. id., f., a gentlewoman, a lady.

See <<bior>>.

, -aighe, -acha, f., a two-year-old heifer.

, -óra, -óiridhe, m., a barber (A.).

, -a, f., the trade of a barber; scolding.

, -nan, -naidhe, f., a gap, a breach, a chasm; b. bhaoghail, gap of danger; ní bhainfeadh an diabhal an bh. díot;, you beat the devil; common in placenames, as Beárna Gaoithe, etc.

, -aighe, a., gapped; hacked; an Chathair Bheárnach, Cahirbearnagh, a hill and townland in Cork, west of Millstreet.

, -aidh, m., a gapping, a biting; a beárnadh ubhaill, by the biting of an apple (O'D.).

, -adh, v. tr., I make a gap, make a breach; I bite.

, -rtha, m., act of shaving, clipping; scian bhearrtha, a razor; bearradh chaorach, fleecy clouds, portending rain; a ripple on water (Don.).

, -e, pl. id., f., a slice, a cut; a segment, a shred.

, -adh, v. tr., I shave, shear, cut, clip.

, -áin, pl. id., m., inconvenience, pain, grief, anguish, misery, strife, contention; a small bundle, a sheaf.

, -aighe, a., miserable, distressed, distracted, lamentable.

, g. id., pl. -dhthe, a fomentor of strife (O'N.).

, m., a bob-tail (W. Ker.)

, p. a., shorn, shaved, cropped, clipped, pinched, pecked at; clean, genteel, neat.

, -óra, -óiridhe, m., a barber, a shaver, a shearer, a clipper; a scold, satirist.

, -a, f., act of scolding, satirising.

, -eirte, pl. -a and -eirte, f., an act, a deed; behaviour; a game or trick (at cards), a move in a game, an appointment, a situation; ní dhéanfaidh sé an bheart, it will not do; scaoil beart thart, do not trouble about everything, let some things pass unnoticed.

, g. beirt and birt, pl. id. m., a bunch or heap (of the hair, etc.); a bundle (of rushes, straw, etc.), chiefly carried on the back or shoulders; dim. beirtín or birtín. beart, g. beirte, f., gear, apparatus, paraphernalia, chiefly in compounds; e.g. cois-bheart, foot-gear, i.e. boots, shoes, etc.; cinn-bheart, head-gear, i.e. headdress, hat, etc.; láimh-bheart, a muff, a sleeve; coirp-bheart, raiment, cloth.

, -aighe, a., active, feat-performing; resourceful, cunning; in clusters (of the hair).

, -a, f., trickery; beartaidheacht bháidhte, submerging or overpowering trickery (T. G.).

, -adh, v. tr., I say, I pronounce, as an opinion or judgment; I think, imagine, estimate.

, -adh, v. tr., I brandish, I threaten, I wield. See <<beartuighim>>.

, g. id., pl. -ridhe, m., a brandisher.

, -uighthe, m., act of brandishing; act of conceiving; judging; thinking; gathering; tucking up.

, -ughadh, v. tr. and intr., I wield, brandish, flourish; gather up; I estimate, think, meditate, conjecture. See <<beartaim>>.

, g. -adh, d. -aidh, f., life, existence; food; property, estate; the world; Dé do bh., 'sé do bh., welcome, hail; nár ab é do bh. (Muns., nár a dé do bh.). never welcome you! beatha na n-éag, death, like the Latin natalis, used of the death of saints.

, -dhigh, pl. id., and -acha, m., an animal, a beast (also beathach)

, -mhla, a., brisk, lively, gay, smart, high-spirited, vital.

, -óige, -óga, f., the beech tree (O'C.).

, -uighthe, m., act of keeping alive; nourishing, feeding; food.

, -ughadh, v. tr., I feed, support, sustain, nourish, educate.

, p. a., fed, nourished, well-fed, stout, fleshy, fat.

, -ora, -oiridhe, m., a feeder, a victualler.

, g. id., m., whiskey (aqua vitae).

, indec. a., weak-witted.

, a., of small reading, ill-educated.

, -e, pl. -lte and -eanna, f., a belt; beilt aprúin, apron strings.

, -e, f., the Minerva of the Irish.

, g. id., pl. -idhe, m., somet. f., as an bheinín, the little woman; dim. of bean.

, -e, -idhe, f., a cheese-rennet, beinnín, g. id., pl. -idhe, m., a pinnacle; dim. of beann.

, g. id., pl. -acha, -sidhe, f., a seat, a bench; a magistrate's seat; dim. beinnsín; beinnsín luachra, a tuft of rushes.

, -iughadh, v. tr. and intr., I boil, seethe, beirbhighis, -e, f., an anniversary, a feast, a vigil.

, -ais, m., a birth; one newly born; the "cleaning" or after-birth of animals. See <<beiritheas>>.

, vl. breith, v. tr. and intr., irreg. (see Paradigms), I bear, take, bring, carry, I bring forth, I carry off as a prize (with buadh); with ar: rugas ar scórnaigh air, I seized him by the throat; beirim air, I lay hold of him; beirim suas air, I overtake him, I seize him violently; with le (in pronoun combination), I take with me; béarad liom é, I will take it with me; with breath (as object), I pass judgment on (ar); ní ag breith breithe ort é, not that I am judging you; lay eggs: tá na cearca ag breith, the hens are laying; gach lá bhéaraidh ort, every day that will overtake you, i.e, every day of your life; beir as, be off (Kilk.).

, -this, m., a birth; one newly born.

, -e, -eacha, f., an edge, point, border, as in beirrdeis an chlaidhimh.

, -e, f., a couple, a pair, two persons; an bheirt, both; moladh beirte, arbitration (where two arbitrate).

, p. a., brought forth, born; captured, overtaken; tá beirthe air, he is captured, beirtín, g. id., pl. -idhe, m., a little bundle, a little burden; nom. also birtín.

, -a, f., carrying of little burdens (O'N.).

See <<biseach>>.

, -e, f., a birch tree; the second letter of the alphabet.

, vl. of atáim, being, state of being; generally, but not always, having the b aspirated; ar tí bheith, about to be; le bheith, in order to be; ar bheith, ar mbeith, iar mbeith, having been, on being; chum a bheith, for the purpose of being, about to be; go beith tuirseach, to the point of being weary; go beith corrtha, to the point of being tired (Kea., T. S.).

See <<bitheamhnach>>.

, -aigh m., the Old Testament (also peteairleach, vetus lex).

, -dhigh, pl. id., m., a beast, an animal. See <<beathaidheach>>.

(part. nec. of atáim), advisable, right, proper; cf. ní beithte dhuit 'gá dhéanamh (almost obs.)

, gm. bí, gf. beo, beoithe, a., alive, living, beo, g. id. and bí, pl. beodha, m., a living person; the living; quick-flesh; life; quick-hedge; tairnge i mbeo, a nail in the quick; tá an mac sain ag dul i mbeo orm, that youth is giving me great trouble; ní nádúrtha an beo 'ná an marbh, life is not more natural than death.

, -áin, pl. id., m., a small fire.

, f., a burning candle; a living witness. See <<coinneal>>.

, -aighe, a., flaying alive.

, -choscairt, v. tr., I flay alive, beo-chruth, -otha, pl. id., m., mortal shape.

, a., lively, living, active, sprightly.

, -a, f., courage, vigour, liveliness.

, -mhla, a., lively, brisk, zealous, vigorous.

, -a, f., liveliness, quickness, activity, vigour.

, -ughadh, v. tr., I animate, invigorate.

, -adh, v. tr., I flay alive.

, -e, f., quick-sand.

, -aighe, a., active, vigorous.

, -ghoin, v. tr., I wound to the quick.

, -rtha, m., act of burning to the quick.

, -artha, pl. id., f., a living sacrifice, beoir, -orach, dat. beoraigh or beoir, f., beoir, a favourite drink of the Irish; beer; whiskey; also beoil (Don.).

, f., brine, pickle, beol, -oil, m., the mouth (poet.). See <<béal>>.

, -luit, m., act of wounding to the quick; a severe wound.

, -áin, pl. id., m., a prattler.

, f., hot embers.

, g. id., f., liveliness, activity, friskiness.

, -aithe, a., quick, active, sprightly.

, -aire, a., pathetic, feeling.

, m., quick-sight, discernment.

, -aighe, a., quick-sighted, discerning.

, -aighe, a., spruce, bright, dapper, glittering.

, -rtha, m., separation during life; a divorce.

, -a, f., liveliness, animation (O'N.).

, -lta, m., act of piercing to the quick.

, -aighe, pregnant with live young.

, watch; breathnuigh ar, look at (Con.).