Obs. rare. Also bewanȝe. [f. BE- + WAIN, gain. Perh. there was a vb. of the same form: it is even possible that we have a vb. in the first quot.] Profit, advantage.
c. 1375. Barbour, St. Ninian, 754. Mene cummis þar of landis sere … Of þe pardone for be-wanȝe. Ibid., 1279. Sir, ȝe ma haf na bewayne Vith sanctis þis [= þus] to mak bargane.
