| Engl. | bully | "applies to birds, fishes etc. which are short and thick set"; tadpole |
| Engl. | bull | thick set animal |
| Engl. | bulldog | thick set dog |
| Engl. | bullfinch etc. | thickset bird, Dutch bolvink id. |
| Engl. | bull-bird, bull's eye | Ringed Plovers, 163, 164 (roundish birds) |
| Engl. | bullyhead, green bull | Greenfinch, 416 |
| Engl. | bullhead et var. | Plover, 162 |
| Engl. | bullheaded wigeon | Pochard, 50 |
| Engl. | bulrush | Typha, plant with a cylindrical seedhead |
| Engl. | bullhead | bullfrog |
| Engl. | bullthrush | Mistle Thrush, 340 (the largest thrush), cf. Ital. bottacioð4.5.19., Breton bondraskð4.5.15. |
| Engl. | bellthrush | Mistle Thrush, 340 |
| Engl. | belly | rounded part of the body, bulge |
| Engl. | bell | bell |
| Engl. | bellows | blast-bag |
| Ital. | bellicóne | big jar |
| Engl. | billow | surge, swell, bull |
| Ital. | billo | Turkey, 5 |
| Franç. | bille | small ball |
| Franç. | belon | flat and rounded oyster |
| Franç.rég. | reibelet et var. | Wren, 406 |
| Franç.: Cantal | potobillou | Wren, 406 (also 4.5.20) |
| Franç. | bille-cul | also bi,bion,billeri,guilleri Little Grebe, 70, cf. botaculð4.5.19. |
| Dutch | bil | the posterior |
| Engl. | billy | various thickset, roundish birds: Puffin, 73; Grebe 70; Guillemot, 74, Blue Tit, 391; also: unfledged bird; (Amer.) a club, see cudgel 4.1.14 |
| Engl. | billy-hooter | Tawny Owl, 239 (rounded head) |
| Engl. | old-will | Barn Owl, 238 (rounded head) |
| Engl. | bill, will, willock | Puffin, 73 |
| Engl. | billy-goat | the massive male of the nanny-goat |
| Engl. | willy et var. | Guillemot, 74; Puffin, 73; fishtrap basket; proper name (cf. Thomas ð4.4.8.1.) |
| Engl. | willy-fisher | Little Grebe, 70 |
| Engl. | william | a kind of pear (swollen at base) |
| Engl. | master williams | Tawny Owl, 239 (cf. billy-hooter, above) |
| Cymric | gwilem, wiliog | Guillemot, 74 |
| Franç. | guillemot | Guillemot, 74 |
| Franç. | guillaume | a kind of pear (cf. william); Guillemot, 74; poppy; scarecrow; a given name (originally: big and short man, cf. Thomasð4.4.8.1.) |
| Engl. | swell | to grow in bulk, etc. |
| Germ. | welle | wave |
| Engl. | wall | embankment, bulwark, battlement, etc. |
| Franç. | ville | city, cf. gorodð4.5.19., townð4.4.8.2.; also wyl, romance residue it toponyms (Allswyl etc.) |