Belly timber.  Food of all sorts.

Bell swagger.  A noisy bullying fellow.

Bellwether.  The chief or leader of a mob; an idea
  taken from a flock of sheep, where the wether has a bell
  about his neck.

Bene.  Good—­BENAR.  Better.  Cant.

Bene bowse.  Good beer, or other strong liquor.  Cant.

Bene cove.  A good fellow.  Cant.

Bene darkmans.  Goodnight.  Cant.

Bene FEARERS.  Counterfeiters of bills.  Cant.

Bene FEAKERS of GYBES.  Counterfeiters of passes.  Cant.

BENESHIPLY.  Worshipfully.  Cant.

Ben.  A fool.  Cant.

Benish.  Foolish.

Benison.  The beggar’s benison:  May your ***** and
  purse never fail you.

BERMUDAS.  A cant name for certain places in London,
  privileged against arrests, like the Mint in Southwark,
  Ben.  Jonson.  These privileges are abolished.

Bess, or Betty.  A small instrument used by house-breakers
  to force open doors.  Bring bess and glym; bring the
  instrument to force the door, and the dark lantern.  Small
  flasks, like those for Florence wine, are also called betties.

Bess.  See brown bess.

Best. To the best in Christendom:  i.e. the best **** in
  Christendom; a health formerly much in vogue.

Bet.  A wager.—­To bet.  To lay a wager.

Betty Martin.  That’s my eye, Betty Martin; an answer
  to any one that attempts to impose or humbug.

BETWATTLED. Surprised, confounded, out of one’s senses;
  also bewrayed.

Bever.  An afternoon’s luncheon; also a fine hat; beaver’s
  fur making the best hats,

Beverage.  Garnish money, or money for drink, demanded
  of any one having a new suit of clothes.

Bible.  A boatswain’s great axe.  Sea term.

Bible oath.  Supposed by the vulgar to be more binding
  than an oath taken on the Testament only, as being the
  bigger book, and generally containing both the Old and New
  Testament.

Biddy, or chick-A-Biddy.  A chicken, and figuratively
  a young wench.

Bidet, commonly pronounced Biddy.  A kind of tub, contrived
  for ladies to wash themselves, for which purpose they
  bestride it like a French poney, or post-horse, called in
  French bidets.

BIENLY.  Excellently.  She wheedled so bienly; she coaxed
  or flattered so cleverly.  French.

Bill at sight.  To pay a bill at sight; to be ready at all
  times for the venereal act.

Bilboa.  A sword.  Bilboa in Spain was once famous for
  well-tempered blades:  these are quoted by Falstaff, where
  he describes the manner in which he lay in the buck-basket. 
  Bilboes, the stock; prison.  Cant.