Old-English:
bæst, baest, best,
Latin (Machine generated):
TILIO,
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Research Literature
BW III:
Bierbaumer, Peter.
Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
Cp:
Hessels, John Henry.
An Eighth-Century Latin Anglo-Saxon Glossary. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1890.
Cp:
Lindsay, Wallace Martin.
The Corpus Glossary. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1921.
Cp:
Wynn, J. B.
An Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Corpus Glosses. Unpubl. Diss. Oxford: 1961.
DOE:
Cameron, Angus, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette di Paolo Healey, et al. (eds.).
Dictionary of Old English (A to G). CD-Rom. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for the Dictionary of Old English Project, 2008.
Ep, Erf:
Pheifer, J.D. (ed.).
Old English Glosses in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
Ep:
Brown, Alan Kelsey.
The Epinal Glossary edited with Critical Commentary of the Vocabulary. Vol. I: Edition. Vol. II: Commentary. Diss., Stanford University. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1969.
Bischoff, Bernard, et al. (eds.)..
The Épinal, Erfurt, Werden and Corpus Glossaries. Early English manuscripts in facsimile 22. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1988.
Lindsay, Wallace Martin.
Corpus, Épinal, Erfurt and Leyden Glossaries. Publications of the Philological Society VIII. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 144.
MS Epinal, Bibliotheque Municipale, 72.
MS Erfurt, Wissenschaftliche Allgemeinbibliothek, Amplonianus F.42.
Sauer, Hans.
"Old English Plant-Names in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary: Etymology, Word-Formation and Semantics." In: _Words, Lexemes, Concepts - approaches to the lexicon. Studies in honour of Leonhard Lipka._ Ed. Wolfgang Falkner and Hans-Jörg Schmidt. Tübingen: Narr, 1999. 23-38.
L TILIA denotes 'Tilia L., lime tree, Linde' and in a figurative sense 'bast, Lindenbast' (cf. Klotz 1879, s.v.), bæst is only documented in these glosses. For the adjectival use see →bæsten.