beist, beisten, be is tings

[BIESTINGS.] bēild-y, a. [Scotch beild ; y.) Affording * bēit, * bēte, * beet (O. Eng . ), beet ( Scotch ), shelter. v.t. [A.S. betan, gebetan = to make better, 499 to improve, to kindle or to mend a fire, to mend, to restore.) [BEET.] 1. To help, to supply; to mend by making addition. "At luv is law a quhyle I think to leit, And so with birds blythly my bail is to be it ." Henrys one. ( Bannatyne Poems , p. 132.) 2. To blow up, to kindle (applied to the fire). "Quhen he list gant or blaw, the fyre is bet , And from that furnis the flambe doith brist or glide. Doug.: Virgil , 87, 55. 3. To bring into a better state by removing calamity or cause of sorrow. "Allace, quha sall the be it now off thi baill! Allace, quhen quhen sall off harmys thow be haill!" Wallace , xi. 1,119, MS . (Jamie son.)