BEJAN, a term for freshmen, or undergraduates of the first year, in the Scottish universities (Fr. bejaune, from bec jaune, "yellow beak," in allusion to unfledged birds) . The phrase was introduced from the French universities, where the levying of bejaunium, "footing-money," had been prohibited by the statutes of the University of Orleans in 1365 and by those of Toulouse in 1401.