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▪ I. bey, n.|beɪ|
Forms: 6 by(e, 7 beye, bei, 7– bey.
[a. Osmanli bey ‘prince, governor,’ mod. pronunciation of beg: see beg n.1]
A Turkish governor of a province or district: also a title of rank.
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. 168 The By who is the gouernour of the Iland. Ibid. II. i. 176 You goe to the Bye, onely for that he will inquire newes of you. 1649Alcoran A iv b, Bashaws, or Vice-Roys, Beyes, or Governors. 1687Rycaut Hist. Turks I. 250 Letters sent to the young Bei at Tunis. 1768Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 27/2 The Basha of Bosnia being joined by the Bey of Romelia. 1813Byron Br. Abydos ii. xxi, And wouldst thou save that haughty Bey?
Hence beydom, beyship.
1860Tristram Gt. Sahara ii. 37 The semi-independent beydom of Tittery. 1867Standard 2 Mar., We..kept our remarks to his titles, his colonelcy, and his beyship.
▪ II. † bey, v. Obs.
Forms: 1 béᵹan, bíeᵹan, bíᵹan, býᵹan, 2 beiȝen, 2–4 beien, 3–4 beie, beighe(n, beyghe(n, 4 bie, buyen, buȝen, 9 dial. bay.
[Com. Teut.: OE. Anglian bę́ᵹan, WSax. bíęᵹan, bíᵹan, býᵹan wk. vb. = OFris. bêja, ON. beygja (Sw. böja, Da. böie), OHG. bougen (MHG. böugen, mod.G. beugen), MDu. bôghen, Goth. baugjan, causal of biugan, baug, in OE. búᵹan, béah to bow (intr.). In the 13th c. there was confusion between this verb, and the primary buȝen to bow, partly because both verbs began to be used both transitively and intransitively, partly because of the ambiguity of the letter u (= ū or ü), so that buȝen might be for OE. búᵹan, or OE. býᵹan. At length the strong verb took also a weak past buȝede, buhde: see bow. Bey, bay, is not found in literature after the 14th c., but seems to have survived in dialects.]
1. trans. To bend, cause to bow.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxv, Hwelcne boh..swelce þu beᵹan mæᵹe. c1000Ags. Gosp. Mark xv. 19 [Hi] heora cneow biᵹdon. c1160Hatt. G. ibid., Hire cneow beiᵹdon. a1225Juliana 77 Wið [þat] ilke ha beide hire & beah duuelunge adun bihefdet to þer eorðe. c1230Hali Meid. 3 Bei þin eare, þat is beo buhsum to mi lare. c1300Beket 1529 Whan i ne mai his hurte so buye. a1325Maximon in Rel. Ant. I. 122 He chaungeþ al my ble, Ant buȝeþ me to grounde. [1851Cumberl. Gloss., Bay, to bend.]
2. intr. To bend, bow.
c1205Lay. 1051 Ah he mot nede beien þe mon þe ibun den bið. a1225St. Marher. 7 Buh nu ant bei to me. Ibid. 22 Ant te bodi beide . ant beh to þer eorðe. c1230Hali Meid. 15 Þat hit ne breke ne beie. c1300K. Alis. 4373 Theo spere was styf and nought no beyghed.
▪ III. bey
obs. form of boy (Promp. Parv.). |