These were clearly different from the besague (an axe with two edges) described in the Glossaries of Meyrick and Carpentier, in v. Besogium.

He headed for home, walking a little faster now, as if chivied along by some old cold wind that didn't quite reach the sunlit world.

masc. g. masculine gender

Nay, so very well skilled was she in this art (which we may call Labiomancy) as 'tis generally believed (though I could get no personal testimony of it, some persons being dead, and otherers removed into Ireland, who sometimes lay with her), that in the night time when in bed, if she might lay but her hand on their lipps, so as to feel the motions of them, she could perfectly understand what her bedfellows said though it were never so dark.”