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BLAW, s. A pull, a draught; a cant term, used among topers, S. Ferguson.

BLAWN COD, a split cod, half-dried, Ang.; so denominated, perhaps, because exposed for some time to the wind.

BLAWORT, s. The Blue bottle; Centaurea cyanus, Linn., S. Witch-bells, also Thumbles, S. B. Neill.

From bla, livid, q. v. and wort, an herb.

BLAZE, s. The name given to allum ore, S.

BLE, BLIE, s. Complexion, colour. Gawan and Gol.

This word is common in O. E. A. S. bleoh, blio, color.

To BLEACH down, or along, v. n. To fall flat to the ground. Bleach is also used to denote a fall of this description, Loth.

Perhaps from Isl. blak-a, verberare; as denoting the effect of a violent blow.

BLEACH, s. A blow, S. B. Gl. Shirr. Poems Buchan Dialect.

To BLEAD, v. a. Apparently, to train, or to lead on to the chace. Statist. Acc.

Alem. blait-en, beleit-en, comitari, conducere.

BLEAR, s. Something that obscures the sight. V. Bleiris. Ross.

To BLECK, BLEK, v. a. 1. To blacken, literally, S. Polwart. 2. To injure one's character. Bannatyne Poems. 3. To cause moral pollution. Abp. Hamiltoun.

A. S. blaec-an, denigrare. Isl. blek, liquor tinctorius.

To BLECK, v. a. To puzzle, to reduce to a nonplus, in an examination or disputation, S.

Germ. black-en, plack-en, vexare, exagitare.

To BLEEZE, v. n. 1. To become a little sour. Milk is said to bleeze, or to be bleezed, when it is turned, but not congealed, S.; blink, synon.

From Germ. blaes-en, to blow; or, blitz-en, fulgurare; heat, especially when accompanied by lightning, more generally producing this effect.

2. The part. bleezed signifies the state of one on whom intoxicating liquor begins to operate, S. It especially denotes the change produced in the expression of the countenance; as, He looked bleezed-like.

BLED, part. pa. Perhaps, sprung. Gawan and Gol.

BLEFLUM, BLEPHUM, s. A sham, an illusion, what has no reality in it, S. V. Blaflum, v. Rutherford.

Isl. flim, irrisio, carmen famosum. Hence flimt-a, diffamo, flimt, nugae infames, G. Andr. p. 74. Su. G. flimm-a, illudere.

BLEHAND, BLIHAND, adj. Sir Trist.

"Blue, from bleah, Sax. caeruleus. Blehand brown. A bluish brown," Gl. The word is merely A. S. blae-hewen a little transformed. The idea seems, "a brownish colour, inclining to purple or violet."

BLEIB, s. 1. A pustule, a blister. "A burnt bleib," a blister caused by burning, S.

Bleb, a blister, A. Bor. Gl. Grose.

2. Bleibs, pl. An eruption to which children are subject, in which the spots appear larger than in the measles; Loth. Border. V. Blob.

BLEIRIE, adj. A term applied to weak liquor, which has little or no strength; as bleirie ale, Fife.

BLEIRING, part. pa. Bleiring Bats. Polwart.

This seems to be the botts, a disease in horses. Bleiring may express the effect of pain in making the patient to cry out; Teut. blaer-en, boare, mugire.

BLEIRIS, s. pl. Something that prevents distinctness of vision. Philotus.

This is the same with blear, s. only used in the pl. Ihre mentions E. blear-eyed, as allied to Su. G. blir-a, plir-a, oculis semiclausis videre.

BLEIS, BLES, BLESS, BLEISE, s. 1. Blaze, bright flame, S. B. Barbour. 2. A torch, S. Douglas.

A. S. blaese, fax, taeda, a torch, any thing that makes a blaze, Su. G. bloss, id. Somn.

3. A signal made by fire, S.

BLEIS, s. The name given to a river-fish. Sibbald.

This seems to be what in E. is called Bleak, Cyprinus alburnus, Linn.

BLELLUM, s. An idle talking fellow, Ayrs. Burns.

To BLEME, v. n. To bloom, to blossom. Bannatyne Poems.

BLEMIS, s. pl. Blossoms, flowers. Houlate.

Belg. bloem, Isl. bloma, Alem. bluom, flos, flosculus. Teut. bloem-en, florere.

To BLENK, BLINK, v. n. 1. To open the eyes, as one does from a slumber, S. Barbour. 2. To throw a glance on one, especially as expressive of regard, S. Ross. 3. To look with a favourable eye; used metaph. in allusion to the shining of the sun, after it has been covered with a cloud. V. Blink, v. Baillie.

Belg. blenck-en, blinck-en, Su. G. blaenk-a, to shine, to glance, to flash as lightning.

BLENK, BLINK, s. 1. A beam, a ray. Douglas. 2. "A glimpse of light," S. Sir J. Sinclair's Observ. p. 113. 3. Hence transferred to the transient influence of the rays of the sun, especially in a cold or cloudy day. Thus it is common to speak of "a warm blink," "a clear blink," S. Sir J. Sinclair. 4. A gleam of prosperity, during adversity. Godscroft. 5. Also transferred to a glance, a stroke of the eye, or transient view of any object; the idea being borrowed, either from the quick transmission of the rays of light, or from the short-lived influence of the sun when the sky is much obscured with clouds, S. Douglas. 6. A kindly glance, a transient glance expressive of regard, S. Burns. 7. A moment. "I'll not stay a blink," I will return immediately. In a blink, in a moment, S. Ramsay.

Su. G. blink, oegonblink, is a glance, a cast of the eye, oculi nictus; Germ. blick, Belg. blik, oogenblik, id.; the twinkling of the eye, a moment.

BLENT, pret. Glanced, expressing the quick motion of the eye. Gawan and Gol.

Perhaps allied to Su. G. bliga, blia, intentis oculis aspicere, q. bligent.

BLENT, s. A glance. Douglas.

BLENT, pret. Lost, as applied to sight. King's Quair.

Perhaps from A. S. blent, the part. of A. S. blend-ian, caecare, used in a neuter sense; or from A. S. blinn-an, cessare, whence blind, deficiens.

BLENTER, s. A flat stroke; Fife.

Alem. bliuun, to strike; bliuenti, percutiens, striking; Schilter. Moes. G. bliggwan, id.

To BLETHER, BLATHER, v. n. 1. To speak indistinctly, to stammer, S. pron. like fair. 2. To prattle, S.

Su. G. bladdr-a, Germ, plauder-n, to prattle, to chatter, to jabber; Teut. blater-en, stultè loqui; Lat. blater-are, to babble.

To BLETHER, BLATHER, BLADDER, v. a. To talk nonsensically, S. Lyndsay.

BLETHERAND, pret. Fordun.

Allied perhaps to Teut. blater-en, blaeter-en, proflare fastum, gloriari.

BLETHER, BLATHER, s. Nonsense, foolish talk, S.; often used in pl. Hamilton.

BLAIDRY, s. Nonsense, foolish talk. Ramsay.

BLEW. To look blew, to seem disconcerted. It conveys both the idea of astonishment and of gloominess, S. Peblis to the Play.

Blew, S. is often synon. with blae, livid.

BLICHAM, s. (gutt.) A contemptuous designation for a person, Perths.

BLICHT, adj. An epithet expressive of the coruscation of armour, in the time of action. Houlate.

A. S. blic-an, coruscare; blect, coruscatus. Alem. blechet, Germ. blicket, splendet.

To BLIN, BLYN, BLYNE, v. n. To cease, to desist, S.; also blind. Wallace.

A. S. blinn-an, cessare, contr. from bilinn-an, id. In Isl. and Su. G. it occurs in its simple form, linn-a, also, lind-a, id.

To BLIN, v. a. To cause to cease. Chron. S. Poet.

BLIND HARIE, Blind man's buff, S. Belly-blind, synon. Herd.

In the Scandinavian Julbock, from which this sport seems to have originated, the principal actor was disguised in the skin of a buck or goat. The name Blind Harie might therefore arise from his rough attire; as he was called blind, in consequence of being blindfolded. Or it may signify, Blind Master, or Lord, in ironical language. V. Herie.

BLIND MAN'S BALL, or Devil's snuff-box, Common puff-ball, S. V. Flor. Suec. Lightfoot.

It is also called Blind man's een, i. e. eyes, S. B. An idea, according to Linn., prevails throughout the whole of Sweden, that the dust of this plant causes blindness.

BLYNDIT, pret. Blended. Gawan and Gol.

BLINDLINS, BLYNDLINGIS, adv. Having the eyes closed, hoodwinked. It denotes the state of one who does any thing as if he were blind, S. V. Lingis

Germ. Dan. blindlings, id.

Douglas.

BLINDS, s. pl. The Pogge, or Miller's Thumb, a fish, Cottus Cataphractus, Linn. West of S. Statist. Acc.

Perhaps it receives this name, because its eyes are very small.

To BLINK, v. n. 1. To become a little sour; a term used with respect to milk or beer, S. Bleeze, synon. Chr. Kirk. 2. To be blinkit, to be half drunk, Fife.

Su. G. blaenk-a, Germ. blink-en, coruscare, to shine, to flash, to lighten; q. struck with lightning, which, we know, has the effect of making liquids sour; or as denoting that of sunshine, or of the heat of the weather.

BLINNYNG, part. pr. Leg. Blumyng. Maitland Poems.

BLYPE, s. A coat, a shred; applied to the skin, which is said to come off in blypes, when it peels in coats, or is rubbed off, in shreds; S. Burns.

Perhaps radically the same with Flype, q. v. or a different pron. of Bleib.

To BLIRT, v. n. To make a noise in weeping, to cry. It is generally joined with Greet. To blirt and greet, i. e. to burst out a-crying, S. Kelly.

Germ. blaerr-en, plarr-en, mugire, rugire. Perhaps E. blurt is also radically allied.

BLIRT, s. The action expressed by the v. "A blirt of greeting," a violent burst of tears, accompanied with crying, S. B.

To BLITHE, BLYTHE, v. a. To make glad. Wallace.

A. S. bliths-ian, laetari; Alem. blid-en, gaudere. But perhaps our v. is immediately formed from the adj.

BLITHEMEAT, s. The meat distributed among those who are present at the birth of a child, or among the rest of the family, S. pronounced blyidmeat, Ang. as the adj. itself, blyd, blyid.

I need not say, that this word has its origin from the happiness occasioned by a safe delivery.

BLYVARE. Perhaps for Blyther, more cheerful. Houlate.

BLYWEST, adj. in the superl. Houlate.

"Blythest, most merry," Gl. Perhaps it rather refers to colour; q. the palest.

To BLIZZEN, v. a. Drought is said to be blizzening, when the wind parches and withers the fruits of the earth, S. B.

Su. G. blas-a, Germ. blas-en, A. S. blaes-an, to blow.

BLOB, BLAB, s. Any thing tumid or circular, S. 1. A small globe or bubble of any liquid. Bellenden. 2. A blister, or that rising of the skin which is the effect of a blister or of a stroke, S. Gl. Complaynt. 3. A large gooseberry; so called from its globular form, or from the softness of its skin, S. 4. A blot, a spot; as "a blab of ink," S. denominated perhaps from its circular form.

Radically the same word with Bleib, q. v.

BLOBBIT, part. pa. Blotted, blurred. V. Blob. Acts Ja. I.

To BLOCK, v. a. To plan, to devise. Baillie.

Teut. block-en, assiduum esse in studiis, in opere, in ergastulo; a sense evidently borrowed from a workman, who blocks out his work roughly, before he begins to give it a proper form.

BLOIK, BLOK, BLOCK, s. 1. A scheme, a contrivance; generally used in a bad sense. Douglas. 2. A bargain, an agreement. Acts Ja. VI.

BLOCKER, s. A term formerly used in S. to denote a broker; q. one who plans and accomplishes a bargain. Minsheu.

BLOISENT, part. pa. One is said to have a bloisent face, when it is red, swollen, or disfigured, whether by intemperance, or by being exposed to the weather; Ang.

This appears to be radically the same with E. blowze; "sun-burnt, high-coloured;" Johns. Teut. blose, rubor, purpurissum, redness, the colour of purple; blos-en, rubescere; blosende wanghen, rubentes genae, purpled cheeks.

To BLOME, BLUME, v. n. To shine, to gleam. Barbour.

Su. G. blomm-a, to flourish; E. bloom, used metaph.: or perhaps from A. S. be, a common prefix, and leom-an to shine, as gleam is from geleom-an, id.

BLONK, BLOUK, s. A steed, a horse, Gawan and Gol.

Alem. planchaz, equus pallidus, hodie blank; Schilter. Thus blonk may have originally meant merely a white horse, q. Fr. blanc cheval.

BLONKS, s. pl. King Hart.

If this does not denote horses, as above, it may mean blocks of wood.

BLOUT, adj. Bare, naked. V. Blait. Douglas.

Su. G. Isl. blott, Belg. bloot, id. The tautological phrase blott och bar is used in Sw.

BLOUT, s. 1. The sudden breaking of a storm, S. Bloutenin, Clydesd. 2. "A blout of foul weather," a sudden fall of rain, snow or hail, accompanied with wind, S. 3. A sudden eruption of a liquid substance, accompanied with noise, S.

Probably allied to Su. G. bloet, humidus; bloeta waegar, viae humidae.

BLUBBER, BLUBBIR, s. A bubble of air, S. V. Blob. Henrysone.

To BLUDDER, BLUTHER, v. a. 1. To blot paper in writing, to disfigure any writing, S.

Su. G. pluttra, incuriose scribere; Moes. G. blothjan, irritum reddere.

2. To disfigure the face with weeping, or in any other way, S. Ross. Cleland.

To BLUDDER, BLUTHER, v. n. To make a noise with the mouth in taking any liquid, S.

BLUE BONNETS, BLUE BOTTLES, S. Centaurea cyanus, Linn. Lightfoot.

BLUE-GOWN, s. The name commonly given to a pensioner, who, annually, on the King's birth-day, receives a certain sum of money, and a blue gown or cloak, which he wears with a badge on it, S. V. Bedeman.

BLUFFLEHEADED, adj. Having a large head, accompanied with the appearance of dulness of intellect, S.; perhaps from E. bluff.

BLUIDVEIT, BLUIDWYTE, s. A fine paid for effusion of blood. Skene. Reg. Maj.

A. S. blodwite, pro effuso sanguine mulcta; from blod, sanguis, and wite, poena, mulcta.

To BLUITER, v. n. 1. To make a rumbling noise; to blurt, S. 2. To bluiter up with water, to dilute too much, S. 3. To blatter, to pour forth lame, harsh, and unmusical rhymes. Polwart.

Germ. plaudern, nugari et mentiri, plauderei, mixta nugis mendacia. In sense 2. it seems to be merely a dimin. from Blout, q. v.

BLUITER, BLUTTER, s. 1. A rumbling noise; as that sometimes made by the intestines, S. 2. Apparently used to denote filth in a liquid state. Cleland.

To BLUME, v. n. To blossom, S. bloom, E.

To BLUNK, v. a. To spoil a thing, to mismanage any business, S. Hence,

BLUNKIT, BLINKIT, part. pa. "Injured by mismanagement, or by some mischievous contrivance," Gl. Sibb.

BLUNKET, s. Expl. "Pale blue; perhaps any faint or faded colour; q. blanched." Sibb. Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.

BLUNT, adj. Stripped, bare, naked. Douglas.

This seems to be radically the same with Blout, q. v.

BLUNTIE, s. A sniveller, a stupid fellow, S. Burns.

BLUP, s. One who makes a clumsy or awkward appearance; Loth. It is apparently the same with Flup, q. v.

To BLUSTER, v. a. To disfigure in writing. V. Bludder, v. Baillie.

BLUTE, s. An action; used in a bad sense. A fuil blute, a foolish action, S. B. perhaps the same with Blout, q. v.

BOAKIE, s. A sprite, a hobgoblin, Aberd. Shetl.

Norw. bokje, Isl. bocke, bokki, vir grandis et magnificus. In Sanscrit buka is the name of an evil spirit. O. Teut. bokene, phantasma, spectrum.

BOAL, BOLE, s. 1. A square aperture in the wall of a house, for holding small articles; a small press generally without a door; S. This is most common in cottages. Ramsay. 2. A perforation through the wall of a house, for occasionally giving air or light; usually with a wooden shutter instead of a pane of glass, S.

BOARDTREES, s. pl. A term used for the plank on which a corpse is stretched; S. B.

To BOAST, BOIST, v. a. To threaten. V. Boist.

To BOB, BAB, v. n. To dance, S. Herd.

BOB, s. Gust, blast. V. Bub.

BOB, s. 1. A bunch; used as synon. with cow, S. Priests of Peblis. 2. The same word, pronounced bab, is used for a bundle of flowers, a nosegay.

S. Fr. bube, a bunch; Isl. bobbe, a knot.

BOB, s. A mark, a but, S.; either q. a small bunch set up as a mark, or, from the sense of the E. v., something to strike at.

BOB, s. A taunt, a scoff, S. B.

Teut. babb-en, to prate; Isl. komenn i bobba, os correptum, at bobsa, babare (to bark,) canum vox est. Su. G. babe, sermo inconditus.

BOBBY, s. A grandfather, S. B. Ross.

BOBBYN, s. The seed-pod of birch, Loth.

Fr. bubon, a great bunch.

Evergreen.

BOBBINS, s. The water-lily, S. B. Bobbins are properly the seed-vessels. V. Cambie-leaf.

BOCE; Burel, Watson's Coll. ii. 26. V. Boss.

To BOCK, v. a. To vomit. V. Bok.

BOCK-BLOOD, s. A spitting, or throwing up of blood. Polwart.

BOD, s. A person of small size, a term generally applied, somewhat contemptuously, to one who is dwarfish, although of full age, S.

To BODE, v. a. To proffer, often as implying the idea of some degree of constraint. "He did na merely offer, but he boded it on me;" S.

BODEN, part. pa. Preferred.

BODE, BOD, s. An offer made in order to a bargain, a proffer, S. Ramsay.

Germ. bot, id. from biet-en, to offer. Isl. bud, a proffer, from bioth-a, offerre, exhibere, praebere.

BODE, s. Delay. Sir Egeir.

BODDUM, s. 1. Bottom. Douglas. 2. Hollow, valley. Douglas.

Alem. bodem, Germ. Belg. boden, solum, fundus.

BODEN, part. pa. Proffered. V. Bode, v.

BODEN, BODIN, BODYN, part. pa. 1. Prepared, provided, furnished, in whatever way, S. Acts Ja. I.

Weil-boden, or ill-boden, well, or ill provided in whatever respect, S.

2. It seems to be used, in one instance, in an oblique sense, as signifying matched. V. Boun. Barbour.

Su. G. bo, Isl. bo-a, to prepare, to provide; wael bodd, well provided against the cold.

BODY, s. Strength, bodily ability. Barbour.

A. S. bodig not only signifies the body in general, but stature.

BODLE, BODDLE, s. A copper coin, of the value of two pennies Scots, or the third part of an English penny. Rudd.

These pieces are said to have been denominated from a mint-master of the name of Bothwell.

BODWORD, BODWART, BODWORDE, s. A message, S. B. Wallace.

A. S. boda, a messenger, and word. Su. G. Isl. bodword is edictum, mandatum.

BOETINGS, BUITINGS, s. pl. Half-boots, or leathern spatterdashes. Dunbar.

Teut. boten schoen, calceus rusticus e crudo corio; Kilian.

BOGGARDE, s. A bugbear. Rollocke.

A. Bor. boggart, a spectre. C. B. bwg, larva, terriculamentum.

BOGILL, BOGLE, s. 1. A spectre, a hobgoblin, S. A. Bor. Douglas. 2. A scarecrow, a bugbear, S. synon. doolie, cow; being used in both senses.

C. B. bugul, fear, bwgwly, to frighten.

BOGILL about the stacks, or simply, Bogle, a play of children or young people, in which one hunts several others around the stacks of corn in a barn-yard, S. Ritson.

It seems the same game with that called Barley-bracks, q. v. The name has probably originated from the idea of the huntsman employed being a scarecrow to the rest.

BOGILL-BO, s. 1. A hobgoblin or spectre, S. Ramsay. 2. A pettish humour. Philotus.

In Lincolnsh. this word is used for a scarecrow, from bogill, or C. B. bogel-u, to affright, and bo, a hobgoblin, q. "the affrighting goblin."

To BOGG-SCLENT, v. n. Apparently, to avoid action, to abscond in the day of battle. Colvil.

Perhaps in allusion to him who sklents or strikes off obliquely from the highway, into a bog, to avoid being taken prisoner.

BOGSTALKER, s. An idle, wandering, and stupid fellow; one who seems to have little to do, and no understanding, S. V. Stalker. Ramsay.

Borrowed perhaps from outlaws, who were seen at a distance hunting in marshy places, where pursuit was more difficult.

BOID, s. Maitland Poems.

Isl. bode, a term used to denote a wave agitated by the wind; unda maris cum vadosis scopulis luctans.

BOIN, BOYN, BOYEN, BOWYNE, s. 1. A washing-tub, S. B. 2. A flat broad-bottomed vessel, into which milk is emptied from the pail, a bowyne, Loth.

Unless from Isl. boginn, curvus, or Dan. bugn-e, to bend, as respecting its form; I can offer no conjecture as to the origin.

BOYIS, s. In boyis, in fetters. Barbour.

Teut. boeye, compes, pedica, vinculum; boey-en compedire.

BOIS, adj. Hollow. V. Bos.

BOISSES. V. Boss. Knox's Hist.

To BOIST, BOAST, v. a. To threaten, to endeavour to terrify, S. Douglas.

C. B. bost-io, to vaunt one's self; bost, vaunting.

BOIST, BOST, s. Threatening, S. Wallace.

BOIT, s. A cask or tub used for the purpose of curing butcher-meat, or for holding it after it is cured; sometimes called a beef-boat, S. Ruddiman.

Germ. butte; Ital. botte, id., whence E. butt. Su. G. byttia, situla, cupa; Teut. botte, id. dolium, orca, cupa.

To BOK, BOCK, v. a. 1. To vomit, S. Gawan and Gol. 2. To reach, to incline to puke, S. 3. To belch, (eructare) S.

A. Bor. boke, bowk, to nauseate, to be ready to vomit; booac, to reach, to keck, ibid. Perhaps from A. S. bealc-an, eructare. It however has greater resemblance of puke, to which no etymon has been assigned.

BOK, BOCK, s. The act of reaching, S. Cleland.

BOKEIK, s. Bopeep, a game. Lyndsay.

BOKS, s. pl. "Corner teeth," Gl. Sibb. Maitland Poems.

To BOLDIN, BOLDYN, v. n. To swell. Douglas.

Boldin, Boulden, part. pa. swelled.

This is softened into bowdin, bowden, S. Often in the pret. and part. it is written bolnys, swells, (Doug. V.) and bolnyt. I hesitate whether these are contr. from boldinnys, boldinnyt, or the v. in another form, more nearly resembling Su. G. buln-a, Dan. bul-ner. Su. G. bul-na, bulg-ia, id. bolginn, swollen. Hence Isl. bilgia, Su. G. bolgia, a billow; because it is raised by the wind; and bolda, a boil, a tumour. Gael. builg-am to swell, builg, a blister.

BOLGAN LEAVES, Nipplewort, an herb, S. B. Lapsana communis, Linn.

Perhaps from Isl. bolg-a, tumere, or Su. G. bolginn, swollen, q. "swelling leaves," as being supposed by the vulgar in S. to be efficacious in removing swellings.

To BOLYN, v. n. To lay tack aboard. Maitland Poems.

O. Fr. bolin-er, to sail by a wind, or close upon a wind.

BOLL, Lintseed Boll. V. Bow.

BOLLMAN, s. A cottager, Orkn. Statist. Acc.

Perhaps from Su. G. Isl. bol, villa, and man, q. the inhabitant of a village. It is always pronounced bowman.

BOLME, s. A boom, a waterman's pole. Douglas.

Germ. baum, Belg. boom, a tree.

BOLNIT. V. Boldin.

BOLNYNG, s. Swelling. V. Boldin. Henrysone.

BOLSTER, s. That part of a mill in which the axletree moves, S.

BOMBILL, s. Buzzing noise; metaph. used for boasting. Polwart.

Teut. bommele, a drone.

BON, s. Apparently, bane, injury. Wallace.

BONALAIS, BONAILIE, BONNAILLIE, s. A drink taken with a friend, when one is about to part with him; as expressive of one's wishing him a prosperous journey, S. Wallace.

It is now generally pron. bonaillie, S. Bonalais might seem to be the plur. But perhaps it merely retains the form of Fr. Bon allez.

BONE, s. A petition, a prayer. Douglas.

O. E. id. Isl. baen, precatio, oratio; boon petitio, gratis acceptio, mendicatio, G. Andr. A. S. ben, bene, id.

BONETT, s. "A small sail, fixed to the bottom or sides of the great sails, to accelerate the ship's way in calm weather." Gl. Compl. Douglas.

Fr. bonnette, Sw. bonet, id.

BONIE, BONYE, BONNY, adj. 1. Beautiful, pretty, S. Maitland Poems. Boniest, most beautiful. Montgomerie. 2. It is occasionally used ironically, in the same way with E. pretty, S. Priests of Peblis. 3. Precious, valuable. Minstrelsy Border.

Bonny is used in the same sense by Shakspeare, and since his time by some other E. writers. But I suspect that it is properly S. Johnson derives it from Fr. bon, bonne, good. This is by no means satisfactory; but we must confess that we cannot substitute a better etymon.

BONYNES, s. Beauty, handsomeness. Philotus.

BONK, s. Bank. Douglas.

Probably corr. from A. S. bene. Isl. bunga, however, signifies tumor terrae.

BONNAGE, s. An obligation, on the part of the tenant, to cut down the proprietor's corn. Statist. Acc.

Evidently a corr. of Bondage.

BONNAR, s. "A bond," Gl.

Popular Ball.

BONNET. V. White Bonnet.

BONOCH, s. "A binding to tie a cow's hind legs when she is a-milking." Kelly.

BONSPEL, s. A match, at the diversion of curling on the ice, between two opposite parties, S. V. Curl. Graeme.

Belg. bonne, a village, a district, and spel, play; because the inhabitants of different villages or districts contend with each other in this sport, one parish, for example, challenging another. Or, the first syllable may be traced to Su. G. bonde, an husbandman.

BONXIE, s. The name given to the Skua Gull, Shetl. Neill.

BOO, BOW, s. A term sometimes used to denote a farm-house or village, in conjunction with the proper name, Ang.

Su. G. bo, Isl. bu, boo, domicilium, a house or dwelling, also, a village; Moes. G. baua, id.

In the Orkney Islands, where the Gothic was long preserved in greater purity than in our country, the principal farm-house on an estate, or in any particular district of it, is in a great many instances called the Boll or Bow.

Barry.

BOODIES, pl. Ghosts, hobgoblins, Aberd. Journal Lond.

It might be deduced from A. S. boda, a messenger, from bod-ian, to declare, to denounce. But it seems to be rather originally the same with C. B. bugudhai, hobgoblins, Gael. bodach, a ghost.

BOOL, s. A contemptuous term for a man, especially if advanced in years. It is often conjoined with an epithet; as "an auld bool," an old fellow, S.

Su. G. bol, the trunk of the body, as distinguished from the head and feet.

BOOLS of a pot, s. pl. Two crooked instruments of iron, linked together, used for lifting a pot by the ears, S.; also called clips.

Teut. boghel, numella; Germ. bugel, any thing that is circular or curved.

BOOL-HORNED, adj. Perverse, obstinate, inflexible, S. apparently from the same origin with Bools.

Boolie-horned, Border, and W. of S. A. Bor. buckle-horns, short crooked horns turned horizontally inwards.

BOONMOST, adj. Uppermost, S. pron. bunemist. Ross.

A. S. bufan, bufon, above, and most.

BOOT, BUT, BOUD, BIT, BUD, BOOST, v. imp. Behoved, was under a necessity of, S.; He boot to do such a thing; he could not avoid it. It bit to be; it was necessary that this should take place. Ross. Burns.

Bus and bud occur in the same sense in Ywaine and Gawin. Most probably it is a corr. of behoved, Belg. behoeft.

BOOST, s. A box. V. Buist.

BOR, BOIR, BORE, s. 1. A small hole or crevice; a place used for shelter, especially by smaller animals, S. Sir Tristrem. 2. An opening in the clouds, when the sky is thick and gloomy, or during rain, is called a blue bore, S. It is sometimes used metaph. Baillie.

Su. G. Germ. bor, terebra; Isl. bora, foramen; A. S. bor-ian, to pierce.

BORCH, BORGH, BOWRCH, BOROW, s. A surety. The term properly denotes a person who becomes bail for another, for whatever purpose. Wallace. 2. A pledge; any thing laid in pawn. Barbour.

The term occurs in both senses in O. E. A. S. borg, borh, fide-jussor; also, foenus; Germ. burge, a pledge. Su. G. borgen, suretyship. Ihre derives Su. G. and Isl. borg-a, to become surety, from berg-a, a periculo tueri, to protect from danger. The idea is certainly most natural: For what is suretyship, but warranting the safety of any person or thing?

To BORCH, v. a. To give a pledge or security for, to bail. Wallace.

To BORROW, BORW, v. a. 1. To give security for; applied to property. Wyntown. 2. To become surety for; applied to a person. Baron Courts.

Su. G. borg-a, id.

To BORROW one, to urge one to drink, Ang.

When one pledges another in company, he engages to drink after him; and in ancient times it was generally understood, that he who pledged another, was engaged to drink an equal quantity.

BORROWGANGE, s. A state of suretyship. Reg. Maj.

Su. G. edgaang, laggaang, are rendered by Ihre, actus jurandi, from gaa, ire; borrowgange may thus be merely the act of going or entering as a surety.

BORD, s. 1. A broad hem or welt, S. 2. The edge or border of a woman's cap, S.

Fr. bord, Belg. boord, a welt, a hem, or selvage; Isl. bard, bord, the extremity or margin.

BORDEL, s. A brothel, Dunbar.

Fr. bordel, id., Su. G. A. S. bord, a house. The dimin. of this, Ihre says, was L. B. bordell-um, bordil-e, tuguriolum, cujus generis quum olim meretricum stabula essent.

BORDELLAR, s. A haunter of brothels. Bellenden.

BORE, s. A crevice. V. Bor.

BORE'S- (or BOAR'S) EARS, s. pl. The name given to the Auricula, S. B. Primula auricula, Linn.

A bear is called a boar, S., especially S. B.

BORE-TREE, s. Sambucus nigra. V. Bourtree.

BOREAU, s. An executioner. V. Burio.

BORGH, s. A surety. V. Borch.

BORN. Wallace.

Born may have some affinity to Isl. borgun, Su. G. borgen, suretyship; q. one under contract or obligation.

BORROWING DAYS, the three last days of March, Old Stile, S. Complaynt S.

These days being generally stormy, our forefathers have endeavoured to account for this circumstance, by pretending that March borrowed them from April, that he might extend his power so much longer. Those who are much addicted to superstition will neither borrow nor lend on any of these days; lest the articles borrowed should be employed for the purposes of witchcraft, against the lenders. Some of the vulgar imagine, that these days received their designation from the conduct of the Israelites in borrowing the property of the Egyptians.

BOS, BOSS, BOIS, adj. 1. Hollow, S. Douglas. "A boss sound," that which is emitted by a body that is hollow, S. 2. Empty. A shell, without a kernel, is said to be boss. The word is also used to denote the state of the stomach when it is empty, or after long abstinence, S. Morison. 3. In the same sense, it is metaph. applied to a weak or ignorant person. One is said to be "nae boss man," who has a considerable share of understanding, S. B. Ramsay. 4. Poor, destitute of worldly substance, S. B.

Teut. bosse, umbo.

Ross.

BOSS, BOCE, s. Any thing hollow. Burel. The boss of the side, the hollow between the ribs and the haunch, S.

BOSS, BOISS, s. 1. A small cask. Pitscottie. 2. It seems to denote a bottle, perhaps one of earthen ware; such as is now vulgarly called a gray-beard. Dunbar. 3. In pl. bosses, boisses, a term of contempt, conjoined with auld, and applied to persons of a despicable or worthless character. Knox.

From Fr. boire, to drink, whence boisson, drink, or busse, a cask for holding wines.

BOT, conj. But, often confounded with but, prep. signifying, without. Douglas.

A. S. butan, buton, are used precisely as S. but, without.

BOTAND, BUT-AND, prep. Besides. Percy.

BOTAND, adv. 1. But if, except. Barbour. 2. Moreover, besides. Maitland Poems.

In the latter sense, it is from A. S. butan, praeter.

BOTCARD, s. A sort of artillery used in S. in the reign of Ja. V. Pitscottie.

The same instruments seem to be afterwards called battars, ib. Fr. bastarde, "a demie canon, or demie culverin; a smaller piece of any kind," Cotgr.

BOTE, BUTE, s. 1. Help, advantage; E. boot, Doug. 2. Compensation, satisfaction; Acts Parl. pass.

A. S. bote, id. from bet-an, emendare, restaurare.

Kin-bote, compensation or "assithment for the slaughter of a kinsman;" Skene, Verb. Sign.

A. S. cyn, cognatio, and bote.

Man-bot, the compensation fixed by the law, for killing a man, according to the rank of the person. Ibid.

A. S. man-bot, id.

Theift-bote, compensation made to the king for theft.

Reg. Maj.

BOTHE, BOOTH, BUITH, s. A shop made of boards; either fixed, or portable, S. V. Lucken. Douglas.

Hence the Luckenbooths of Edinburgh, wooden shops, made for being locked up. Teut. boede, bode, domuncula, casa, Kilian; Su. G. bud, taberna mercatorum, apotheca; Isl. bud, id.

BOTHIE, BOOTHIE, s. A cottage, often used to denote a place where labouring servants are lodged, S. Neill.

Su. G. bod, a house, a cottage; Gael. bothag, bothan, a cot.

To BOTHER, BATHER, v. a. To teaze one by dwelling on the same subject, or by continued solicitation, S.

BOTHNE, BOTHENE, s. 1. A park in which cattle are fed and inclosed. Skene. 2. A barony, lordship, or sheriffdom. Assis. Reg. Dav.

L. B. bothena, baronia, aut territorium.

BOTINYS, s. pl. Buskins; Gl. Sibb.

Fr. botine, cothurnus.

V. Boiting.

BOTTLE-NOSE, s. A species of whale, S. Orkn. Statist. Acc.

BOTTOM-ROOM, s. The name vulgarly given to the space occupied by one sitter in a church, S.

BOTWAND, s. Perhaps, a rod of authority. Kennedy.

Germ. bot, power, and wand, a rod.

BOUCHT, BOUGHT, s. A curvature or bending of any kind, S. "The bought of the arm," the bending of the arm at the elbow. Journ. Lond. Where the sea forms a sort of bay, it is said to have a bought, S.

A. S. bogeht, arcuatus, crooked; bug-an, to bend. Germ. bug, sinus; bucht, curvatura littoris, Wachter.

To BOUCHT, BOUGHT, v. a. To fold down, S.

Isl. bukt-a, Teut. buck-en, flectere, curvare.

BOUCHT, BOUGHT, BUCHT, BUGHT, s. 1. A small pen, usually put up in the corner of the fold, into which it was customary to drive the ewes, when they were to be milked; also called ewe-bucht, S. Douglas. 2. A house in which sheep are inclosed, Lanerks.; an improper sense. Statist. Acc.

Teut. bocht, bucht, septum, septa, interseptum, sepimentum clausum.

To BOUCHT, BOUGHT v. a. To inclose in a fold, S.; formed from the s. Ross.

BOUCHT-KNOT, s. A running knot; one that can easily be loosed, in consequence of the cord being doubled, S.

BOUGARS, s. pl. Cross spars, forming part of the roof of a cottage, used instead of laths, on which wattling or twigs are placed, and above these divots, and then the straw or thatch, S. Chr. Kirk.

Lincolns. bulkar, a beam; Dan. biaelke, pl. bielcker, beams. Su. G. bialke, a small rafter, tigillum, in Westro-Goth. is written bolkur.

BOUK, BUIK, s. 1. The trunk of the body, as distinguished from the head or extremity, S. A bouk of tauch, all the tallow taken out of an ox or cow, S.

Germ. bauch von talge, id.

A bouk-louse, one that has been bred about the body.

Teut. beuck, truncus corporis.

2. The whole body of man, or carcase of a beast, S. Douglas. 3. The body, as contradistinguished from the soul. R. Bruce. 4. Size, stature, S. bulk; Boukth, bulk, Gl. Lancash. J. Nicol. 5. The greatest share, the principal part, S. Cleland.

To BOUK, v. n. To bulk, S.

Hence,

BOUKIT, BOWKIT, part. pa. 1. Large, bulky; S. Douglas. 2. Boukit and muckle-boukit are used in a peculiar sense; as denoting the appearance which a pregnant woman makes, after her shape begins to alter.

BOUKSUM, BOUKY, adj. Of the same sense with Boukit, S. Poems Buchan Dialect.

BOUKE, s. A solitude. Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.

A. S. buce, secessus, "a solitary and secret place," Somner.

BOULDEN, part. pa. Swelled, inflated. V. Boldin.

BOULE, "Round," Rudd. Douglas.

Teut. bol, tumidus, turgidus; or boghel, beughel, curvatura semicircularis, from bogh-en, arcuare.

BOULENA, A sea cheer, signifying, Hale up the bowlings. Complaynt S.

BOULENE, s. The same with E. Bowline. A rope fastened to the middle part of the outside of a sail. Complaynt S.

Sw. bog-lina, id. from bog, flexus.

BOUN, BOUNE, BOWN, adj. Ready, prepared, S. Barbour. Bone is used in the same sense, O. E.

Su. G. bo, bo-a, to prepare, to make ready; Isl. bu-a, id. Boen or boin is the part. pa.

To BOUN, BOWN, v. a. 1. To make ready, to prepare. Wallace. 2. To go, to direct one's course to a certain place. Sir Egeir.

BOUND, BUND, part. pa. Pregnant. Douglas.

To BOUNT, v. n. To spring, to bound.

Fr. bond-ir, id.

Burel.

BOUNTÉ, s. Worth, goodness. Barbour.

Fr. bonté, id.

BOUNTETH, BOUNTITH, s. 1. Something given as a reward for service or good offices. Watson's Coll. 2. It now generally signifies what is given to servants, in addition to their wages, S; bounties, S. B. Ramsay.

Gael. bunntais seems merely a corr. of this word.

BOUR, BOURE, s. A chamber; sometimes a retired apartment, such as ladies were wont to possess in ancient times. Douglas.

A. S. bur, bure, conclave, an inner chamber, a parlour, a bower. Teut. buer, id. Dan. buur, conclave, Su. G. Isl. bur, habitaculum. Isl. jungfrubur, gynaeceum, ubi olim filiae familias habitabant; literally, the young lady's bower. Hence bour-bourding, jesting in a lady's chamber, Pink.

BOURACH, BOWROCK, s. 1. An inclosure; applied to the little houses that children build for play, especially those made in the sand, S. Kelly. "We'll never big sandy bowrocks together." S. Prov. Kelly. 2. A crowd, a ring, a circle, S. B. Poems Buchan Dialect. 3. A confused heap of any kind, S. B. Such a quantity of body-clothes as is burdensome to the wearer, is called a bourach of claise; Ang. Statist. Acc. 4. A cluster, as of trees, S. Ferguson.

A. S. beorh, burg, an inclosure, a heap; Su. G. borg.

Burrach'd, Bourach'd, part. pa. Inclosed, environed, S. B. Ross.

BOURACH, BORRACH, s. A band put round a cow's hinder legs at milking, S.

Gael. buarach.

BOURBEE, s. The spotted Whistle fish, S. Sibbald.

To BOURD, v. n. To jest, to mock, S. Ramsay.

Fr. bourd-er, id. But this seems to be merely an abbrev. of behourd-ir, bohord-er, to just together with lances. Bohord, behord, is originally a Gothic word, as being used by old Northern writers.

BOURD, BOURE, s. A jest, a scoff, S. Kelly. Houlate.

BOURIE, s. A hole made in the earth by rabbits, or other animals that hide themselves there; E. a burrow. Monroe.

From the same origin with Bourach.

BOURTREE, BORETREE, BOUNTREE, s. Common elder, a tree; Sambucus nigra, Linn.; A. Bor. Burtree. Lightfoot.

It seems to have received its name from its being hollow within, and thence easily bored by thrusting out the pulp.

BOUSHTY, s. Expl. "bed." Aberd. Shirrefs.

The same with Buisty, q. v.

BOUSTOUR, BOWSTOWRE, s. A military engine, anciently used for battering walls. Wyntown.

Su. G. byssa, bossa, signifies a mortar, an engine for throwing bombs; Bombarda, Ihre; formerly byssor; from byssa, theca, a box, or case; because in these tubes, as in cases, bullets are lodged.

BOUSUM, BOWSOM, adj. 1. Pliant, tractable. Palice Honour.

A. S. bocsum, buhsum, obediens, tractabilis, from bug-an, Belg. buyg-en, flectere.

2. "Blythe, merry," Rudd.

To BOUT, BOWT, v. n. To spring, to leap, S. "bouted up," Rudd. vo. up-boltit. Lyndsay.

Teut. botten, op-bott-en, to rebound, resilire.

BOUT, s. A sudden jerk in entering or leaving an apartment; a hasty entrance or departure; the act of coming upon one by surprise; S.

BOUTGATE, s. 1. A circuitous road, a way which is not direct, S. from about, and gait way. Ross. 2. A circumvention, a deceitful course, S. R. Bruce. 3. An ambiguity, or an equivocation, in discourse. Bp. Forbes.

BOW, s. A boll; a dry measure, S. Monroe.

BOW, BOLL, LINTBOW, s. The globule which contains the seed of flax. Bow is the pron. S. Polwart.

Germ. boll, id. oculus et gemma plantae, caliculus ex quo flos erumpit; Wachter.

BOW, BOWE, s. 1. The herd in general; whether inclosed in a fold or not. Douglas. 2. A fold for cows, S. Bannatyne Poems.

Su. G. bo, bu, either the herd or the flock; armenta, pecora, grex; Dan. boe, a shed, booth or stall.

BOW, s. 1. An arch, a gateway, S. Knox. 2. The arch of a bridge, S. Muses Threnodie.

Teut. boghe, id. arcus, concameratio; from bogh-en, flectere; A. S. bog-a, "an arch of a bridge or other building;" Somner.

BOW, s. As applied to a house. V. Boo.

BOWAND, adj. Crooked. Douglas.

A. S. bugend, id.

BOWAT, s. A hand-lanthern. V. Bowet.

BOWBARD, s. A dastard, a person destitute of spirit. Douglas.

Teut. boeverje, nequitia. Or, shall we rather view it as originally the same with Bumbart, q. v.?

BOWBERT, adj. Lazy, inactive. Douglas.

BOWDEN, part. pa. Swollen. V. Boldin.

BOWELHIVE, s. An inflammation of the bowels, to which children are subject, S. V. Hive, v. Pennecuik.

BOWES and BILLES, A phrase used by the English, in former times, for giving an alarm in their camp or military quarters. Knox.

BOWET, BOWAT, s. A hand-lanthern, S. Bowit, A. Bor. Abp. Hamiltoun.

Perhaps from Fr. bougette, a little coffer; if not allied to bougie, a small wax-candle.

BOWGER, s. The puffin, or coulter-neb, a bird; alca arctica, Linn. Martin.

BOWGLE, s. A wild ox, a buffalo. Dunbar.

Lat. bucul-us, a young ox. Hence bugle-horn.

BOWIE, s. 1. A small barrel or cask, open at one end; S. Ferguson. 2. It denotes a small tub for washing, S. 3. It also sometimes signifies a milk pail, S. Ramsay.

Fr. buie, a water-pot or pitcher; Cotgr.

Hence,

BOWIEFU', s. The fill of a small tub, S. J. Nicol.

BOW-KAIL, s. Cabbage, S. so called from the circular form of this plant. For the same reason its Belg. name is buys-kool. Burns.

Bow-stock, s. The same. "A bastard may be as good as a bow-stock, by a time;" S. Prov. Kelly.

BOWLAND, part. adj. Hooked, crooked. Douglas.

Teut. boghel-en, arcuare. Bowland is just the part. pr. boghelend, contr.

BOWLIE, BOOLIE, adj. Crooked, deformed; Boolie-backit, humpbacked; sometimes applied to one whose shoulders are very round, S V. Beugle-backed.

Germ. bucklig, Dan. bugelt, id. from bugle, a bunch or hump; and this from bug-en, to bend; Dan. boeyel, crookedness, boeyelig, flexible.

To BOWN, v. a. To make ready. V. Boun, v.

BOWRUGIE, s. Burgess; the third estate in a Parliament or Convention; in resemblance of Fr. bourgeois. Wallace.

BOWSIE, adj. Crooked, S.

Fr. bossu, id.

BOWSUNES, s. Obedience. Wyntown.

A. S. bocsumnesse, obedientia.

BOWT, s. 1. A bolt, a shaft; in general. Chron. S. Poet. 2. A thunderbolt, S. Ross.

To BOX, v. a. To wainscot, to cover with boards, S.

BOXING, s. Wainscotting; Sir J. Sinclair, p. 170., S.

BRA, BRAE, BRAY, s. 1. The side of a hill, an acclivity, S. Barbour. 2. The bank of a river, S. Breea, A. Bor. id. 3. A hill, S. Ross. 4. Conjoined with a name, it denotes the upper part of a country; as "Bra-mar, Bra-Cat, the Braes of Angus;" S. Sir J. Sinclair. To gae down the brae, metaph. to be in a declining state, in whatever sense; to have the losing side, S.

C. B. bre, a mountain, pl. breon, bryn; Gael. bre, bri, brigh, a hill. Isl. braa, cilium, the brow; whence augnabraa, the eye-brow; and bratt signifies steep, having an ascent.

To BRA, v. n. 1. To bray. 2. To make a loud and disagreeable noise. Douglas.

BRAAL, s. A fragment. "There's nae a braal to the fore," There is not a fragment remaining, Ang.

BRABBLACH, s. The refuse of any thing; as of corn, meat, &c. Fife.

Gael. prabal, id.

BRACE, s. A chimney-piece, a mantle-piece, S.

BRACHELL, s. A dog; properly, one employed to discover or pursue game by the scent. Wallace.

Alem. brak; Germ. brack, id. canis venaticus, forte investigator; O. Fr. brachez. Verel. expl. Isl. rakke canis, deriving it from racka, frakka, cursitare.

BRACHEN, (gutt.) BRAIKIN, BRECKEN, s. The female fern, Polypodium filix foemina, Linn. Burns.

In Smoland in Sweden, the female fern is called braeken; Sw. stotbraakin, id. In is a termination in Gothic, denoting the female gender.

ROYAL BRACHENS, s. pl. The flowering fern, S. Osmunda regalis, Linn. Lightfoot.

BRACKS, s. A disease of sheep. V. Braxy.

BRAD, part. pa. Roasted. V. next word.

To BRADE, v. a. To roast. Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.

A. S. braed-an, id. braedde, assatus.

To BRADE, BRAID, v. n. 1. To move quickly, to take long steps in rapid succession. Douglas. 2. To spring, to start. Gawan and Gol. 3. To break out, to issue with violence. Douglas. 4. To draw out quickly; used actively, especially with respect to the unsheathing or brandishing of a sword, or other weapon of this kind. Wallace.

Isl. braad-a, accelerare. At bregd-a sverde, gladium evaginare vel stringere. A. S. braed-an, exerere, stringere.

BRADE, BRAIDE, s. A start, a spring, a quick motion of the body. Dunbar.

Isl. bregd, versura.

To BRADE, BRAID, v. a. To attack, to assault; Rudd.

Isl. bregd-a manne nidur, sternere virum.

BRAID, s. Assault, aim to strike. Douglas.

It is used in a similar sense, O. E. Isl. bregd, nisus, an attempt, an exertion.

BRADE, adj.; S. V. Braid.

To BRADE, BRAID, v. a. To turn round. Gawan and Gol.

Isl. bregd-a, vertere.

To BRADE, BRAID, BREDE, BREED, v. n. 1. To resemble, to be like in manners; especially as denoting that similarity which characterises the same stock or family; with the prep. of. Ferguson's S. Prov. 2. To appear, to be manifest. Dunbar.

Isl. bregd-a, bregth-a, Su. G. braa, denote the resemblance of children, in dispositions, to their progenitors. Bregdur barni til aettar, progenitoribus suis quisque fere similis est.

To BRADE, BRAID up, v. a. "To braid up the head," to toss it as a high-mettled horse does, or to carry it high. Dunbar.

A. S. bred-an, Belg. breyd-en, to extend.

To BRAG, v. a. 1. To reproach, to upbraid. Ruddiman. 2. To defy, S. B. Morison.

Su. G. brigd-a, exprobrare; Isl. bregd-a, opprobrare.

BRAGING, s. Boasting. Gawan and Gol.

BRAGWORT, s. Expl. "Mead, a beverage made from the dregs of honey." Gl. Sibb.

Braggot, Gl. Lancash. C. B. bragod, id.

To BRAID up the burde; marked as used by James I.

BRAID, BRADE, adj. 1. Broad, S. Ritson. 2. Plain, intelligible. Douglas.

Moes. G. Isl. braid, A. S. bred, latus.

BRAID, BRADE, adv. Widely. Douglas.

BRAID-BAND, BROAD-BAND, s. 1. Corn laid out, in the harvest field, on the band, but not bound, is said to be lying in braid-band, S. 2. To be laid in broad-band, metaph. to be fully exposed. Z. Boyd.

To BRAIK, v. n. To reach. V. Braking. Lyndsay.

BRAIK, s. A threat. Douglas.

Isl. brak-a, strepo.

BRAIK, BREAK, s. An instrument used in dressing hemp or flax, for loosening it from the core, S. Watson's Coll.

Teut. braecke, id. malleus stuparius, vulgo linifrangibula.

BRAIK, s. An internal mortification; a disease among sheep, Ang. V. Braxy.

Su. G. braeck, a defect of any kind.

BRAIKIT, adj. Speckled, S.

Ir. breac, brek, id.

BRAYMEN, s. pl. The name given to those who inhabit the southern declivity of the Grampian hills, S. D. Buchanan.

BRAIN, s. Voice. "A braw brain," "a strong brain," a powerful voice, Ang.

To BRAINDGE, v. n. "To run rashly forward," S. O. Burns.

Shall we view this as an oblique sense of Belg. brins-en, to neigh?

BRAYNE, BRANE, adj. Mad, furious. Douglas.

A. S. brinn-an, to burn, bren, bryne, fervor; whence bryne-adl, a fever; Su. G. braanad, fervor, ardor.

Brayn-wod, Brane-wod, adj. Mad, in a state of insanity. Wyntown. V. Brayne and Wod.

BRAIRD, s. The first sprouting of grain. V. Breer.

To BRAIS, v. a. To embrace. Dunbar.

Fr. bras, the arm, whence embrace, q. in arms.

BRAIS, s. pl. Snares, gins. Douglas.

A. S. braegd, figmentum, braegden, fraud; gebraegdas, crafts, frauds, subtile contrivances; Isl. Su. G. bragd, fraus.

BRAISE, BRAZE, s. The Roach, a fish, S. Ure.

Sw. brazen, cyprinus brama, bream; Teut. braessem, id. cyprinus latus.

BRAITH, adj. Violent, severe. Wallace.

Isl. Su. G. braede, ira, animi fervor.

BRAITHFUL, BREITHFUL, adj. Sharp, violent. Douglas.

BRAITHLIE, adj. The same with Braithful; or perhaps in the sense of struggling. Douglas.

Su. G. bryt-a, brott-as, Isl. briot-a, luctare.

BRAITHLY, adv. Violently, with great force. Wallace.

To BRAK, v. n. To break, S. B. Ross.

A. S. brac-an, id. Isl. eg braaka, frango.

BRAKE, s. A large and heavy kind of harrow, chiefly used for breaking in rough ground, S.

To BRAK, v. n. To express great sorrow on any account. One says, "I'm like to brak," S. B.

This is probably allied to Isl. braek, brek, wailing.

BRAK, BRAKE, adj. Somewhat salt, brackish. Douglas.

Belg. brack, salsus.

BRAKING, s. Puking, reaching, S. B. Ross.

Teut, braeck-en, to vomit, braecke, nausea.

BRALD, part. pa. Decked, dressed. Maitland Poems.

Fr. brell-er, to glitter.

BRANDED, part. pa. Bordered, having a margin. Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.

Germ. braun, Isl. brun, limbus.

BRANDED, BRANNIT, adj. Having a reddish-brown colour, as if singed by fire. A branded cow is one that is almost entirely brown, S.

Germ. braun, id.

Minstrelsy Bord.

BRANDEN, part. pa. Grilled. V. Brid.

BRANDNEW, BRENTNEW, a phrase equivalent to spick and span, quite new, S. Ross.

Teut. brand new, id., from brand, incendium, ustio.

BRANDER, BRANDRETH, s. A gridiron. Wyntown.

S. brander, A. S. brandred, "a brand-iron;" Dan. brandrith; Teut. brand-roede, brander, fulcrum focarium.

To BRANDER, v. a. To broil on a grid-iron, to grill, S. Sir J. Sinclair.

BRANDRETH. V. Brander.

BRANDUR, s. A border. V. Branded.

BRANE, s. Bran, the husks of corn ground. Dunbar.

BRANEWOD, s. Wood for burning. Chr. Kirk.

A. S. bryne incendium, and wude, wood.

BRANG, pret. Brought, S. J. Nicol.

To BRANGLE, v. n. 1. To shake, to vibrate. Douglas. 2. To menace, to make a threatening appearance. Douglas. 3. To shake, applied to the mind; to confound, to throw into disorder; used actively. Godscroft.

Fr. branl-er, to shake; Su. G. brang-as, cum labore perrumpere velle.

BRANGILL, s. A kind of dance. Douglas.

Fr. branle, "a brawle, or daunce, wherein many men and women move all together;" Cotgr.

BRANIT, part. pa. Brawned; a term formed from E. brawn, the fleshy or musculous part of the body. Dunbar.

To BRANK, v. a. 1. To bridle, to restrain. Godly Sangs. 2. v. n. To raise and toss the head, as spurning the bridle; applied to horses. Douglas. 3. To bridle up one's self. Maitland Poems. 4. To prance, to caper. Ramsay.

Teut. brank-en and proncken, both signify, ostentare se, dare se spectandum; Germ. prang-en, id.; Su. G. prunk-a, superbire. Wachter gives prang-en, as also signifying, premere, coarctare.

BRANKEN, part. pr. Gay, lively, S. A. J. Nicol.

BRANKS, s. pl. 1. A sort of bridle, often used by country people in riding. Instead of leather, it has on each side a piece of wood joined to a halter, to which a bit is sometimes added; but more frequently a kind of wooden noose resembling a muzzle, S. Montrose's Mem.

Within these few years, an iron bit was preserved in the steeple of Forfar, formerly used, in that very place, for torturing the unhappy creatures who were accused of witchcraft. It was called The Witch's Branks.

Gael. brancas, a halter. But our word seems originally the same with Teut. pranghe, muyl-pranghe, postomis, pastomis, confibula; instrumentum quod naribus equorum imponitur; Kilian.

2. Branks, I suspect, is sometimes used in S. as synon. with jugs or pillory. Howie.

BRANKS, s. pl. A swelling in the chops, S. A. from the compression of the parts, as the chops of a horse are compressed by the branks which he wears; the buffets, S. B.

BRANNOCK, s. The Samlet, or small fish generally known in S. by the name of Par. Branlin, Yorks.

BRASAND, part. pr. Embracing.

Fr. bras, the arm.

Douglas.

To BRASE, BRASS, v. a. To bind, to tie. Wallace.

Fr. embrass-er, to bind.

BRASERIS, BRASARIS, s. pl. Vambraces, armour for the arms. Wallace.

Fr. brassar, brassard, brassart, id.; brachiale ferreum; from bras, the arm, Lat. brach-ium.

To BRASH, v. a. To assault, to attack. V. Bresche. Sir W. More.

Teut. broes-en, tempestuosum et furentem ventum spirare; or from A. S. beraes-an, impetuose proruere, irruere.

BRASH, BRASHE, s. An effort, an attack, an assault; as E. brush is used. Muses Thren.

BRASHY, BRAUSHIE, adj. Stormy, S. J. Nicol.

BRASH, s. A transient attack of sickness; a bodily indisposition of whatever kind, S. Quhither, synon. S. B. Burns.

The disorder to which children are often subject after being weaned, is called the speaning-brash. We also speak of "a brash of the teeth." This, perhaps, is merely a different sense of the s. as explained above. Isl. breisk, however, signifies infirm, breiskleike, weakness, G. Andr.

BRASHY, adj. Delicate in constitution, subject to frequent ailments, S.

To BRAST, v. n. To burst. Douglas.

Brast is used in the same sense by R. Glouc.

BRAT, s. 1. Clothing in general. The bit and the brat, S. Food and raiment. Scotch Presb. Eloq. 2. A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean, S. "Brat, a coarse apron, a rag, Lincolns." Gl. Grose. 3. Coarse clothing, S.; dudds, synon.

A. S. bratt signifies both pallium and panniculus; "a cloak, a rag," Somner. C. B. brathay, rags.

4. Scum, S. It does not necessarily signify refuse; but is also applied to the cream which rises from milk, especially of what is called a sour cogue, or the floatings of boiled whey. Statist. Acc.

BRATCHART, s. A contemptuous term equivalent to E. whelp. V. Brachell. Montgomerie.

From Fr. bratchet, a kind of small hound; or immediately formed from Brach.

To BRATH, v. a. To plait straw-ropes round a stack, crossing them at intervals, S. B.

A. S. braed-an, to weave together; Isl. bregd-a, nectere fila in funem.

Brathins, s. pl. The cross ropes of the roof of a thatched house, or stack; also called etherins, Ang.

Isl. bragd, nexus.

BRATHLY, adj. Noisy. V. Braithlie.

To BRATTYL, BRATTLE, v. n. 1. To make a clashing or clattering noise, S. Douglas. 2. To advance rapidly, making a noise with the feet, S. Ramsay.

Isl. briot-a, bryt-a, exagitare, hue illucque movere, ut luctantes; Teut. bortel-en, tumultuari.

Brattyl, Brattle, s. 1. A clattering noise, as that made by the feet of horses, when prancing, or moving rapidly, S. Ross. 2. Hurry, rapid motion of any kind, S. Ramsay. 3. A short race, S. Burns. 4. Fury, violent attack, S. Burns.

BRAVERY, s. A bravado, a gasconade. Spotswood.

Fr. braverie, id. from braver, to brave, to play the gallant.

BRAUITIE, s. 1. A show, a pageant. Burel. 2. Finery in dress, S. V. Braw. Burel.

Fr. braveté, pour avoir de beaux habits; Gl. Roquefort.

BRAUL, BRAWL, s. The same as Brangle. Complaynt S.

Fr. bransle, branle.

BRAUSHIE, adj. Stormy. V. Brash, v.

BRAW, BRA', adj. 1. Fine, gaily dressed, S. Morison.

Teut. brauwe, ornatus, bellus; Fr. brave, id. Isl. braer, nitet, splendet.

2. Handsome, S. Burns. 3. Pleasant, agreeable, S. A. Nicol. 4. Worthy, excellent, S. A braw man, a worthy man, S.

Su. G. braf, bonus, praestans. En braf man, the very phrase still used by the vulgar in S. Germ. brav, id. Braw is often used adverbially, as conjoined with the copulative: Braw and able, abundantly able for any work or undertaking; Braw and weel, in good health.

Hence,

Brawly, adv. Very well, S. sometimes brawlins, Ang.; browlies, browlins, Aberd. Journal Lond.

Sw. Han mor braf, He is well, Wideg.

Braws, pl. Fine clothes, one's best apparel, S. Ross.

Evidently from the adj. sense 1.

BRAWEN, part. pa. Perhaps, boiled.

A. S. browen, coctus.

Polwart.

To BRAWL, v. n. To run into confusion; part. pr. brawland. Barbour.

Fr. brouill-er, to embroil, to confound. Su. G. bryll-a, perturbare.

BRAWLIT, part. pa. Perhaps marbled, mixed; from the same v.; Fr. brouill-er, to jumble. L. Scotland's Lament.

BRAWLINS, s. pl. The trailing Strawberry tree, or Bear-berry, S. B. Arbutus uva ursi, Linn. The name is sometimes applied to the fruit of the Vaccinium vitis Idaea, or red bill-berry.

Gael. braoilag denotes a whortleberry.

BRAXY, BRAXES, BRACKS, s. 1. A disease in sheep, S. Statist. Acc.

This is also called braik and bracks, Ang. A. S. breac, rheuma; broc sickness, disease; Su. G. brak, id.

2. A sheep which has died of disease; also, mutton of this description, S. Burns.

BRAZE, s. A roach. V. Braise.

BRAZARS, s. pl. Armour for the arms. V. Braseris.

To BRE. V. Biggit. K. Hart.

BRE, BREE, s. The eye-brow, S. B. Douglas. "He moved neither ee nor bree; i. e. eye nor eyebrow." V. Bra. Ross.

A. S. breg, palpebra; Isl. braa.

BREADBERRY, s. That food of children, which in E. is called pap, S.

Perhaps from bread and A. Bor. berry, to beat; q. "bruised bread."

BREAK, s. A division of land in a farm, S. Statist. Acc.

To BREAK, v. a. To disappoint, S. B. "I'se no break you, I shall not disappoint you," Shirr. Gl.

Isl. bregd-a, frustrari aliquem.

BREAK (of a hill) s. A hollow in a hill, S.

Isl. breck-a, crepido, declivitas.

BREARDS, s. pl. The short flax recovered from the first tow, by a second hackling. The tow, thrown off by this second hackling, is called backings. Edin. Courant.

To BREAST, v. n. To spring up or forward; a term applied to a horse, S. Burns.

From the action of the breast in this effort.

Breast-woddie, s. That part of the harness of a carriage-horse, which goes round the breast, S. B. V. Rig-Widdie. Journal Lond.

BRECHAME, BRECHEM, s. The collar of a working-horse, S. V. Haims. Bannatyne Poems.

Baurghwan is used in the same sense, A. Bor. Gael. Ir. braigh, the neck; whence braighaidain, a collar. The last syllable has more resemblance of Teut. hamme, a collar.

BREDDIT, part. pa. Apparently, wreathed. Palice of Hon.

A. S. bred-an, Teut. breyd-en, to wreathe.

BREDE, WYNTER-BREDE, s. Provisions for winter. Douglas.

This may be merely bread. But Isl. braad is rendered, praeda, esca, carnivori animalis.

BREDIR, s. pl. Brethren. V. Brodir.

BREDIS.

In Bredis. V. Abreid. Houlate.

In brede, as used by Chaucer, is rendered abroad.

BREE, BRIE, S. B. BREW, BROO, S. s. 1. Broth, soup. Ross. "Bree, broth without meal," Gl. Yorks. 2. Juice, sauce, S. "Breau is supping meat, or gravy and fat for brewis," Gl. Yorks. 3. Water; moisture of any kind, S. Burns. Thus snaw-brue is melted snow; herring-bree, the brine of a herring-barrel, S.

A. S. briw, Germ. brue, bruhe, id. liquor; q. decoctum, according to Wachter, from brau-en, to boil; Isl. brugg, calida coctio, from brugg-a, coquere.

BREE, s. Hurry, bustle. Shirrefs.

Su. G. bry, turbare, vexare.

BREE, s. The eye-brow. V. Bre.

To BREED of, to resemble. V. Brade.

BREEK, BREIK, s. One leg of a pair of breeches, S. pl. breeks, breiks, breeches. Godscroft.

Anc. Goth. and Isl. brok; A. S. braec, brec; Su. G. braeckor; C. B. bryccan; Gael. brigis; Ir. broages; Lat. bracca, id. From this dress, the Romans gave the name of Gallia Braccata to one part of Gaul.

BREELLS, s. pl. Spectacles in general; but more strictly double-jointed spectacles, Clydes.

Germ. brill, Su. G. briller, id. oculi vitrei, L. B. berill-us.

BREER, BRERE, BRAIRD, BREARD, s. The first appearance of grain above ground, after it is sown, S. A fine breer, an abundant germination. Ramsay.

A. S. brord, frumenti spicae, "corn new come up, or the spires of corn," Somner. "Bruart, the blades of corn just sprung up;" Gl. Lancash.

To Breer, Brere, Breard, v. n. To germinate, to shoot forth from the earth; applied especially to grain, S. Brerde, part. pa. Loth, brairded. Douglas.

Breirding, s. Germination; used metaph. in relation to divine truth. Rutherford.

BREESSIL, s. The act of coming on in a hurry, Fife.

A. S. brastl, crepitus, strepitus, brastl-ian, crepitare, strepere. Isl. brys, ardens calor; bryss-a, fervide aggredi.

BREGER, s. One given to broils and bloodshed. Burel.

Fr. briguer, a quarrelsome, contentious, or litigious person. The origin is most probably Su. G. brigd-a, litigare.

BREHON, s. The name given to hereditary judges appointed by authority to determine, on stated times, all the controversies which happened within their respective districts. By the Brehon law, even the most atrocious offenders were not punished with death, imprisonment, or exile; but were obliged to pay a fine called Eric. Dr. Macpherson.

Ir. breathav, breitheav, still signifies a judge. Bullet supposes that Breth has been used in this sense by the ancient Gauls; whence Vergobret, the name of the supreme magistrate among them. Ir. Fear go fraith literally signifies the man who judges.

To BREY, v. a. To terrify. Wyntown.

A. S. breg-an, id. probably allied to Sw. bry, to vex.

To BREID, BREDE, v. n. To resemble. V. Brade, v. 5.

BREID, s. Breadth. On breid, broad, or in breadth. Lyndsay.

A. S. braed; Su. G. bredd, id. Brede occurs in O.E.

R. Brunne.

BREYFE, BREVE, s. A writing. Wyntown.

A. S. braue, literae; Germ. brief, a letter; Isl. Su. G. bref, epistola, diploma; Fr. brief, breve, a writ. These are all from Lat. breve.

To Breif, Breve, Breue, Brew, v. a. 1. To write, to commit to writing. Palace of Hon. 2. To compose. Dunbar.

Alem. gebriaf-an, scribere; Su. G. bebref-wa, literis confirmare. L. B. breviare, in breves redigere.

BREIRD, s. The surface, the uppermost part, the top of any thing, as of liquids. Melvill's MS.

Evidently the same with Brerd, q. v.

BREITH, adj. Proceeding from fervour of mind. V. Braith.

Su. G. braede, ira.

Breithful. V. Braithful.

BREK, s. Breach. Wattir brek, the breaking out of water. Douglas.

BREK, s. Uproar, tumult. Douglas.

Isl. brak, strepitus, tumultus, eg brak-a, strepo, cerpo, Su. G. braak-a; metaph. de molesto quovis labore.

BREME, adj. Furious, Wynt. V. Brim.

BRENDE, part. pa. Burnt, so as to be thoroughly purified. V. Burnt Silver. Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.

BRENE, s. Corslet, habergeon. V. Birnie. Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.

BRENT, pret. and part. Burned; S. brunt. Douglas.

A. S. brenn-ing, burning; Isl. brenn, ardeo.

BRENT, adj. High, straight, upright, S. Maitland Poems. It most frequently occurs in one peculiar application, in connexion with brow, as denoting a high forehead, as contra-distinguished from one that is flat. Douglas.

A. Bor. brant, or brunt, steep. A brant hill, Northumb. It is also used in Westmorel. Brent-brow, a steep hill; Su. G. bryn, vertex montis; Isl. brun-a, to lift one's self on high. Meo judicio bryn notat id, quod ceteris superstat, aut prae aliis eminet; Ihre. Isl. brun, Germ. aug-braunen, Alem. braane, the eyebrow. Sw. brant, steep; en brant klippa, a steep rock.

BRENT-NEW, quite new. V. Brand-new.

BRERD, s. The whole substance on the face of the earth. Gawan and Gol.

A. S. brerd, summum.

To BRERE, v. n. To germinate. V. Breer.

BRESCHE, s. An attack. Knox.

Su. G. brask-a, sonitum edere, tumultum excitare denotat, a simplici brask, sonitus; Ihre. It may, however, be originally the same with Brash, q. v.

BRESS, pl. Bristles. Dunbar.

BRESSIE, s. A fish, supposed to be the Wrasse, or Old Wife, Labrus Tinca, Linn. Sibbald.

Perhaps radically the same with E. wrasse.

BREST, part. pa. Forcibly removed; or as denoting the act of breaking away with violence; for burst. Douglas.

Breste, to burst. Chaucer.

BRETH, s. Apparently, rage, wrath. Houlate.

Su. G. Isl. braede, praeceps ira, furor. This is probably allied to braad-a, accelerare.

BRETHIR, BRETHER, s. pl. Brethren. Wyntown.

Isl. and Sw. broeder, brethren.

BRETS, s. pl. The name given to the Welch or ancient Britons, in general; also, to those of Strat-clyde, as distinguished from the Scots and Picts. Lord Hailes.

Wyntown uses Brettys as the pl.

A. S. Brettas, Britones; Bryt, Brito, Britannus.

BRETTYS, s. A fortification. Wyntown.

L. B. breteschia, briteschia. It properly denotes wooden towers or castles: Bretachiae, castella lignea, quibus castra et oppida muniebantur, Gallis Bretesque, breteches; Du Cange. Perhaps radically allied to Su. G, bryt-a, to contend, to make war.

To BREVE, v. a. To write. V. Breif.

BREW, s. Broth, soup. V. Bree.

BREW-CREESH, s. A term expressive of a duty paid to a landholder or superior, which occurs in old law-deeds. It is still used, Aberd. Sometimes it is called Brew-tallow.

BRIBOUR, BRYBOUR, s. A low beggarly fellow. Bannatyne Poems.

Fr. bribeur, "a beggar, a scrap-craver; also, a greedy devourer;" briber, to beg; and this from bribe, a lump of bread given to a beggar; Cotgr. C. B. briw, brib, a morsel, a fragment.

BRICHT, BRYCHT, A young woman, strictly as conveying the idea of beauty. Wallace.

Merely a poetical use of the adj. bright; in the same manner as ancient writers used fre, clere, &c.

BRID, BRIDDE, s. A bird, a pullet. Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.

A. S. brid is used for chicken, as also S. burd.

BRIDLAND, part. pre. Polwart.

Apparently, q. bridalling, drinking as freely as men do at a bridal.

BRIG, BREG, BRYG, s. A bridge, S. A. Bor. Lancash. Wallace.

A. S. bricg, brigge, Su. G. brygga, Belg. brug, id. Ihre views brygga as a diminutive from bro, anc. bru, which has the same meaning.

BRIGANER, s. pl. A robber, S. B.

Evidently from brigand.

Journ. Lond.

BRIL, s. The merry thought of a fowl. V. Breels. Sibbald.

Teut. bril, ossiculum circa pectus a specilli similitudine dictum.

BRYLIES, s. pl. Bearberries. V. Brawlins.

BRIM, BRYM, BREME, adj. 1. Raging, swelling; applied to the sea. Bellenden.

Isl. brim, the raging of the sea. The word is thus defined; Aestus maris, vehementibus procellis littus verberans; Olai Lex. Run. A. S. brim, brym, salum, aequor, mare, the sea.

2. Fierce, violent. Bellenden. 3. Stern, rugged, applied to the countenance. Douglas. 4. Denoting a great degree either of heat or of cold. Douglas. Thus, "a brim frost," is still a common phrase for a severe frost, S. B.

Brymly, adv. Fiercely, keenly. Wall. vii. 995. V. Artailye.

BRIM, s. A cant term for a trull, Loth.

Callander of Craigforth, in some MS. notes, mentions brim, as signifying a scold, S. This has most probably been the primary sense.

To BRYN, BRIN, BIRN, v. a. To burn. Barbour.

Su. G. brinn-a, Germ. brenn-an, id. A. S. bryne, burning.

Brynstane, Brynt-stane, s. Brimstone, sulphur. Douglas.

A. S. bryn, incendium, and stan, q. lapis incendii seu incendiarius. Sw. braensten, id.

BRIN, BRINN, s. A ray, a beam, a flash, S. B. Poems Buchan Dial.

BRINK. To Brink. Perhaps, inwardly. Sir Tristrem.

Q. in pectore; Isl. Su. G. bring-a, pectus.

BRINKIT, part. pa. Perhaps, bronzed. Bannatyne Poems.

Su. G. brinna, to burn, or braecka, to roast.

BRISKET, BISKET, s. The breast, S. Morison.

Fr. brichet, id. Perhaps we have the origin of the word in Isl. briosk, Sw. brusk, gristle. The word in E. denotes "the breast of an animal." It bears this sense also in S., and is sometimes corr. called briskin.

BRISMAK, s. The name given to Torsk, our Tusk, in Shetland.

BRISSAL, adj. Brittle. Gl. Sibb.

Alem. bruzzi, fragilitas; Otfrid. Fr. bresiller, rompre, briser, mettre en pièces; Gl. Roquefort.

BRISSEL-COCK, s. Apparently the turkey-cock. Pitscottie.

Denominated perhaps from its rough and bristly appearance; or q. Brasil-cock, as, according to Pennant, the turkey was unknown to the old world before the discovery of America. "The first birds of this kind," he supposes, "must have been brought from Mexico."

To BRISSLE, v. a. To broil, &c. V. Birsle.

To BRIST, BRYST, s. To burst. Wyntown.

Isl. brest-a, Dan. brist-er, frangi, rumpi, cum fragore (crepitu) dissilire.

BRITH, s. A term which seems to mean wrath or contention. Gawan and Gol.

Su. G. braede, anger; brigd, controversy; brigd-a, to litigate.

To BRITTYN, BRYTEN, BRETYN, v. a. 1. To break down, in whatever way. Gawan and Gol. 2. To kill; applied both to man and beast. V. Bertynit. Douglas.

It is also written bertyn. A. S. bryt-an, Su. G. bryt-a, Isl. briot-a, frangere.

BRITURE, Houlate iii. 8., is in Bannatyne MS. brit ure.

To BRIZE, v. a. To bruise. V. Birse.

BROAD-BAND. V. Braid-band.

To BROCHE, v. a. To prick, to pierce. Douglas.

Fr. brocher un cheval, to spur a horse, properly to strike him hard with the spurs.

Hence,

Broche, s. 1. A spit. Gawan and Gol. 2. "A narrow piece of wood or metal to support the stomacher," Gl. Sibb. 3. A wooden pin on which yarn is wound, S. Douglas.

Evidently the same with Fr. broche, a spit. Arm. brochen signifies a spit; from broch-a, to pierce, transfigere.

BROCHAN, s. (gutt.) Oat-meal boiled to a consistence somewhat thicker than gruel, S. It differs from crowdie, as this is oat-meal stirred in cold water. Martin.

Gael. brochan, pottage, also, gruel; C. B. bryhan, a sort of flummery.

BROCHE, BRUCHE, BROACH, s. 1. A chain of gold, a sort of bulla, or ornament worn on the breast. Douglas. 2. A fibula, a clasp, a breast-pin, S. Muses Threnodie.

Isl. bratz signifies fibūla, Su. G. braz, from Isl. brus-a, to fasten together. Gael. broiside, a clasp; broisde, a brooch, Shaw.

BROCHT, s. The art of puking. V. Braking. Leg. Bp. St Androis.

C. B. brock, spuma.

To BROCK. V. Brok.

BROCKED, BROAKIT, adj. Variegated, having a mixture of black and white, S. A cow is said to be broakit, that has black spots or streaks, mingled with white, in her face, S. B. Statist. Acc.

Su. G. brokug, brokig, party-coloured; Ir. breach, speckled; Gael. brucach, speckled in the face.

BROCKLIE, adj. Brittle. V. Brukyl.

BROD, s. A board, any flat piece of wood, a lid, S. A. Bor. breid, a shelf or board, Ray.

Isl. broth, A. S. braed, bred, id.

To BROD, v. a. 1. To prick, to job; to spur, S. Douglas. Complaynt S. 2. To pierce, used metaph., S. Ferguson. 3. To incite, to stimulate; applied to the mind. Douglas.

Su. G. brodd, cuspis, aculeus; Isl. brodd, the point of an arrow; sometimes the arrow itself, a javelin, any pointed piece of iron or steel; brydd-a, pungere; Ir. Gael. brod-am, to spur, to stimulate.

Brod, Brode, s. 1. A sharp-pointed instrument; as the goad used to drive oxen forward, S. Wyntown. 2. A stroke with a sharp-pointed instrument, S. Complaynt S. 3. An incitement, instigation. Douglas.

Broddit Staff, "A staff with a sharp point at the extremity," Gl. Sibb. Also called a pike-staff, S. This is the same with broggit-staff.

V. Brog.

BRODYRE, BRODIR, s. A brother; pl. bredir, bredyre. Wyntown.

Isl. brodur, pl. broeder.

Brodir-Dochter, s. A niece, S. Wyntown. Brodir-son or brother-son, and sister-son, are used in the same manner; and brother-bairn for cousin, S.

A Swed. idiom. Brorsdotter, niece; brorson, nephew; brorsbarn, the children of a brother.

BROD MALE, BRODMELL, s. The brood brought forth, or littered, at the same time. Douglas.

From A. S. brod, proles, and mael, tempus; or O. Germ, mael, consors, socius; whence ee-ghe-mael, conjunx, Kilian.

Brod Sow, A sow that has a litter. Polwart.

To BROG, v. a. To pierce, to strike with a sharp instrument, S. Acts Ja. I.

Hence broggit staff, mentioned as a substitute for an ax. The term prog-staff is now used in the same sense, q. v.

Brog, s. 1. A pointed instrument; such as an awl, S. 2. A job with such an instrument, S.

BROG, BROGUE, s. A coarse and light kind of shoe, made of horse-leather, much used by the Highlanders, and by those who go to shoot in the hills, S.

Ir. Gael. brog, a shoe.

Lord Hailes.

BROGH, s. Ye man bring brogh and hammer for't, i. e. You must bring proof for it, Loth.

In the North of Germany, the phrase burg und emmer is used in a similar sense, as denoting legal security. Our brogh and Germ. burg both denote suretyship. The proper meaning of emmer is not known.

To BROGLE, v. a. To prick, Loth. Brog, synon.

BROGUE, s. "A hum, a trick," S. Burns.

Isl. brogd, astus, stratagemata, Verel. brigd, id.

BROICE. Leg. Broite. Barbour.

To BROIGH, v. n. To be in a fume of heat; to be in a state of violent perspiration, and panting; Lanerks. V. Brothe, from which it is probably corr.

BROILLERIE, s. A state of contention. V. Brulyie. Godscroft.

Fr. brouillerie, confusion.

BROK, BROCK, BROKS, s. Fragments of any kind, especially of meat; S. Bannatyne Poems.

Moes. G. ga-bruko, Alem. bruch, id. Hence also Germ. brocke, a fragment.

To Brok, Brock, v. a. To cut, crumble, or fritter any thing into shreds or small parcels, S.

Apparently formed as a frequentative from break; if not immediately from the s.

BROKAR, s. A bawd, a pimp. Douglas.

This is merely a peculiar use of E. broker.

BROKYLL, adj. Brittle. V. Brukyl.

BROKITTIS, s. pl. The same with E. Brocket, a red deer of two years old.

Fr. brocart, id.

Douglas.

BRONCHED, pret. Pierced. Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.

Probably an error for broched, from Fr. brocher.

BRONDYN, part. pa. Branched. Houlate.

Fr. brondes, green boughs or branches.

BRONYS, BROUNYS, BROWNIS, s. pl. Branches, boughs. Douglas.

From the same origin with the preceding word.

To BRONSE, v. n. To overheat one's self in a warm sun, or by sitting too near a strong fire, S.

Isl. bruni, inflammatio, Moes. G. brunsts, incendium.

BRONT, part. pa. Burnt, S. brunt. V. Bryn, v. Douglas.

BROO, s. Broth, juice, &c. V. Bree.

BROODIE, adj. 1. Prolific; applied to the female of any species, that hatches or brings forth many young; as, a broodie hen, S. 2. Fruitful, in a general sense, S. Z. Boyd.

BROOSE, s. A race at country weddings. V. Bruse.

BROSE, s. A kind of pottage made by pouring water or broth on meal, which is stirred while the liquid is poured, S. The dish is denominated from the nature of the liquid, as water-brose, kail-brose. Ross.

A. S. ceales briu, kail-broo, S.; briwas niman, to take pottage or brose.

BROT, BROTACH, s. A quilted cloth or covering, used for preserving the back of a horse from being ruffled by the Shimach, on which the pannels are hung, being fastened to a pack-saddle; Mearns.

Isl. brot, plicatura.

To BROTCH, v. a. To plait straw-ropes round a stack of corn, S. B.; synon. Brath, q. v.

Isl. brus-a, to fasten.

BROTHE, s. "A great brothe of sweet," a vulgar phrase used to denote a violent perspiration, S.

The word may be radically the same with froth; or allied to Isl. braede, braedde, liquefacio.

To Brothe, v. n. To be in a state of profuse perspiration, S. Chron. S. Poet.

BROTEKINS, BROTIKINS, s. pl. Buskins, a kind of half boots. Lyndsay.

Fr. brodequin, Teut. broseken, a buskin.

BROUDSTER, s. Embroiderer. V. Browdin. Pitscottie.

Fr. brod-er, to embroider.

BROUKIT, BROOKED, BRUCKIT, BRUKET, adj. The face is said to be broukit, when it has spots or streaks of dirt on it, when it is partly clean and partly foul. A sheep, that is streaked or speckled in the face, is designed in the same manner. Burns.

There can be no doubt that this is originally the same with Brocked, Broakit. We may add to the etymon there given, Dan. broged, variegated; speckled, grisled.

BROW, s. Nae brow, no favourable opinion. "An ill brow," an opinion preconceived to the disadvantage of any person or thing, S. Mary Stewart.

BROWDIN, BROWDEN, part. pa. Fond, warmly attached, eagerly desirous, having a strong propensity, S. It often implies the idea of folly in the attachment, or in the degree of it. Montgomerie. "To browden on a thing, to be fond of it. North." Gl. Grose.

It may be formed from Belg. broed-en, to brood, to hatch; all creatures being fond of their young.

BROWDYN, part. pa. Embroidered. Wyntown.

C. B. brod-io, and Fr. brod-er, to embroider. Isl. brydd-a, pungere, brodd, aculeus.

BROWDIN, part. pa. Expl. "clotted, defiled, filthy," Gl. Sibb. Chr. Kirk.

Teut. brodde, sordes.

BROWDYNE, part. pa. Displayed, unfurled. Barbour.

A. S. braed-an, to dilate, to expand.

BROWNIE, s. A spirit, till of late years supposed to haunt some old houses, those, especially, attached to farms. Instead of doing any injury, he was believed to be very useful to the family, particularly to the servants, if they treated him well; for whom, while they took their necessary refreshment in sleep, he was wont to do many pieces of drudgery, S. Douglas.

Ruddiman seems to think that these spirits were called Brownies, from their supposed "swarthy or tawny colour." They may be viewed as corresponding with the Swartalfar, i. e. swarthy or black elves of the Edda, as the Liosalfar, or white elves, are analogous to our Fairies.

BROWST, BROWEST, s. 1. As much malt liquor as is brewed at a time, S. Burrow Lawes. 2. Used metaph. to denote the consequences of any one's conduct, especially in a bad sense. This is often called "an ill browst," S. Kelly.

Isl. brugg-a raed, invenire callida consilia; brugga suik, struere insidias.

Browster, Browstare, s. A brewer, S. Douglas.

A. S. briw-an, coquere cerevisiam; Teut. brouw-en, id.; Isl. eg brugg-a, decoquo cerevisias. In the ancient Saxon, the termination ster affixed to a s. masculine, makes it feminine. Thus, baecestre properly signifies pistrix, "a woman-baker." Somn.

To BRUB, v. a. To check, to restrain, to keep under, to oppress, to break one's spirit by severity, S. B.; allied perhaps to A. Bor. brob, to prick with a bodkin, Gl. Grose.

BRUCHE, s. V. Broche.

BRUCKIT, adj. V. Brocked.

BRUCKLE, adj. Brittle. V. Brukyl.

BRUDERMAIST, adj. Most affectionate; literally, most brotherly. Dunbar.

BRUE. s. V. Bree.

BRUGH, BROGH, BROUGH, BURGH, s. 1. An encampment of a circular form, S. B.

In Lothian, encampments of the circular form are called Ring-forts, from A. S. hring, orbis, circulus.

2. This name is also given to the stronger sort of houses in which the Picts are said to have resided. Brand. 3. A borough. "A royal brugh;" "A brugh of barony," as distinguished from the other, S. B. V. Burch. 4. A hazy circle round the disk of the sun or moon, generally considered as a presage of a change of weather, is called a brugh or brogh, S. Statist. Acc.

A. S. beorg, borh, munimentum, agger, arx, "a rampire, a place of defence and succour," Somner; burg, castellum, Lye. The origin is probably found in Moes. G. bairgs, mons.

BRUICK, BRUK, s. A kind of boil, S. Gl. Complaynt.

An inflamed tumour or swelling of the glands under the arm is called a bruick-boil, S. B., pron. as brook.

Isl. bruk, elatio, tumor; expl. of a swelling that suppurates.

To BRUIK, BRUKE, BROOK, v. a. To enjoy, to possess. Poems Buchan Dial.

A. S. bruc-an, Franc. gebruch-en, Su. G. Isl. bruk-a, Belg. bruyck-en, Germ. brauch-en, to use.

BRUKYL, BROKYLL, BROKLIE, adj. 1. Brittle, easily broken, S. Kelly. Hamilton. 2. Metaph. used in relation to the unsettled state of political matters. Baillie. 3. It seems to signify soft, pliable, as applied to the mind. Wyntown. 4. Fickle, inconstant. Wallace. 5. Inconstant, as including the idea of deceit. King's Quair. 6. Weak, delicate, sickly, S. B. 7. Apt to fall into sin, or to yield to temptation. Abp. Hamiltoun.

Teut. brokel, fragilis, from brok-en, frangere; Sw. braeckelig, id. Germ. brocklicht, crumbling.

Bruckilness, Brokilness, s. 1. Brittleness, S. 2. Apparently, incoherence, or perhaps weakness; used metaphorically. King's Quair.

BRUDY, adj. Prolific. V. Broodie. Bellenden.

BRULYIE, BRULYEMENT, s. 1. A brawl, broil, fray, or quarrel, S. Ross. 2. Improperly used for a battle. Hamilton.

Fr. brouiller, to quarrel; Su. G. bryl-la, foerbrilla, to embroil.

To BRUND, v. n. To emit sparks as a flint does when struck.—It's brundin, the fire flies from it, S. B.

Su. G. brinn-a, to burn.

Brunds, Brundis, Brwndys, s. pl. 1. Brands, pieces of wood lighted. Wallace. 2. It seems to signify the remains of burnt wood, reduced to the state of charcoal, and as perhaps retaining some sparks. Barbour. 3. The term is still commonly used in Ang., only with greater latitude.

A. S. brond may be the origin; as in the second sense it merely denotes a firebrand almost entirely burnt out.

BRUS, s. Force, impetus. Douglas.

Belg. bruyssch-en, to foam or roar like the sea; Su. G. brus-a, sonare; De aquis cum impetu ruentibus aut fluctibus maris; Ihre.

BRUSE, BROOSE, BRUISE, s. To ride the bruse. 1. To run a race on horseback at a wedding, S., a custom still preserved in the country. Those who are at a wedding, especially the younger part of the company, who are conducting the bride from her own house to the bridegroom's, often set off, at full speed, for the latter. This is called, riding the bruse. He who first reaches the house is said to win the bruse. Burns. 2. Metaph., to strive, to contend in whatever way. R. Galloway. This means nothing more than riding for the brose, broth or kail, the prize of spice-broth allotted in some places to the victor.

To BRUS, BRUSCH, v. a. To force open, to press up. Wyntown.

Sicamb. bruys-en, premere, strepere.

To BRUSCH, v. n. To burst forth, to rush, to issue with violence. V. Brus, s. Wallace.

BRUSIT, part. pa. Embroidered. Houlate.

L. B. brusd-us, brust-us, acupictus; Du Cange.

Brusury, s. Embroidery. Douglas.

BRUSSLE, s. Bustle, Loth. V. Breessil.

A. S. brastl-ian, strepere.

To BRUST, v. n. To burst. R. Bruce.

Teut. brost-en, brusten, Sw. brist-a, id.

BRWHS, s. Apparently, the same with Brus. Wyntown.

To BU, BUE, v. n. To low. It properly denotes the cry of a calf, S.

Lat. boo, —are, id.

BU, BOO, s. 1. A sound meant to excite terror, S. Presb. Eloquence. 2. A bugbear, an object of terror, Ibid.

Belg. bauw, a spectre; C. B. bo, a hobgoblin.

Bu-kow, s. Any thing frightful, as a scarecrow, applied also to a hobgoblin, S. V. Cow.

From bu, and kow, cow, a goblin.

Bu-man, s. A goblin; the devil, S. used as Bu-kow.

BUB, BOB, s. A. blast, a gust of severe weather. Douglas.

Allied perhaps to Isl. bobbe, malum, noxae; or E. bob, to beat, as denoting the suddenness of its impulse.

BUBBLY, adj. Snotty, S. A. Bor.

Bubblyjock, s. The vulgar name for a turkey cock, S. synon. Polliecock, S. B. Grose.

The name seems to have originated from the shape of his comb.

BUCHT, s. A bending; a fold. V. Bought.

To BUCK, v. n. To push, to butt, Perths.

Alem. bock-en, to strike; Su. G. bock, impulsus.

To BUCK out, v. n. To make a guggling noise.

BUCKER, s. A name given to a species of whale, West of S. Statist. Acc.

BUCKIE, BUCKY, s. 1. Any spiral shell of whatever size, S. Muse's Threnodie. The Roaring Buckie, Buccinum undatum, Linn. is the common great whelk.

Teut. buck-en, to bow, to bend; as this expresses the twisted form of the shell.

2. A perverse or refractory person is denominated a thrawn buckie, and sometimes, in still harsher language, a Deil's buckie, S. Ramsay.

Buckie Ingram, that species of crab denominated Cancer bernardus, Newhaven.

Buckie Prins, A periwinkle; Turbo terebra, Linn. Also called Water-spouts, Loth.

To BUCKLE, v. a. To join two persons in marriage; used in a low or ludicrous sense, S. Macneill.

Buckle-the-beggars, s. One who marries others in a clandestine and disorderly manner, S.

BUCKTOOTH, s. Any tooth that juts out from the rest, S.

Sibb. derives this from Boks, q. v. Perhaps allied to Su. G. bok, rostrum.

BUD, s. A gift; generally one that is meant as a bribe. Acts Ja. I.

C. B. budd, Corn. bud, profit, emolument. Or shall we view it as formed from A. S. bude, obtulit, q. the bribe that has been offered?

To Bud, Budd, v. a. To endeavour to gain by gifts, to bribe. Pitscottie.

BUDGE, s. A kind of bill, used in warfare. Douglas.

O. Fr. bouge, boulge, faucille, serpe; Roquefort.

BUFE, s. Beef, S. B.

Fr. boeuf, id. Isl. bufe, cattle; from bu, an ox.

To BUFF, v. n. To emit a dull sound, as a bladder filled with wind does, S. Chr. Kirk.

It played buff, S. It made no impression.

Belg. boff-en, to puff up the cheeks with wind; Fr. bouff-er, id.

To BUFF, v. a. To buff corn, to give grain half thrashing, S.

"The best of him is buft," a phrase commonly used to denote that one's natural strength is much gone, S.

Alem. buff-en, pulsare.

To buff herring, to steep salted herrings in fresh water, and hang them up, S.

Buff, s. A stroke, a blow, S. Chr. Kirk.

Fr. bouffe, a blow, L. B. buffa, alapa.

To BUFF out, v. n. To laugh aloud, S.

Fr. bouffee, a sudden, violent, and short blast, buff-ir, to spurt.

BUFF, s. Nonsense, foolish talk, S. Shirrefs.

Teut. beffe, id. nugae, irrisio; Fr. buffoi, vanité; also moquerie.

BUFF, s. Skin. Stript to the buff, stript naked, S.

Perhaps from E. buff, as denoting leather prepared from the skin of a buffalo.

BUFF NOR STYE. He cou'd neither say buff nor stye, S. i. e. "He could neither say one thing nor another." It is also used, but, I suspect, improperly, in regard to one who has no activity; He has neither buff nor stye with him S. B.

Teut. bof, celeusma, a cheer made by mariners. Stye might be viewed as referring to the act of mounting the shrouds, from Su. G. stig-a, to ascend.

BUFFER, s. A foolish fellow; a term much used among young people, Clydes.

Fr. bouffard, "often puffing, strouting out, swelling with anger," Cotgr.

BUFFETS, s. pl. A swelling in the glands of the throat, Ang. (branks, synon.) probably from Fr. bouffé, swollen.

BUFFETSTOOL, s. A stool with sides, in form of a square table with leaves, when these are folded down, S. Lincolns, id. A. Douglas.

Fr. buffet, a sideboard; expl. by Roquefort, dressoir, which denotes a board for holding plates without box or drawer.

BUFFIE, BUFFLE, adj. Fat, purfled; applied to the face, S.

Fr. bouffé, blown up, swollen.

BUFFONS, s. pl. Pantomimic dances.

Fr. boufons, those by whom they were performed.

BUG, pret. Built. V. Big, v. Minstrelsy Border.

BUGE, s. "Lamb's fur; Fr. agnelin." Rudd. Douglas.

Fr. bouge, E. buge, id.

BUGGE, s. A bugbear. V. Boggarde.

BUGGLE, s. A bog, a morass, S. B.

This seems to be merely a dimin. from Ir. and E. bog.

BUGIL, BUGILL, s. A buglehorn. Douglas.

Q. buculae cornu, the horn of a young cow; or from Teut. boghel, Germ. bugel, curvatura.

BUICK, pret. Court'sied; from the v. Beck. Ross.

To BUIGE, v. n. To bow, to creenge. Maitland Poems.

A. S. bug-an, to bend.

BUIK, s. The body. V. Bouk.

BUIK, BUKE, pret. Baked. Dunbar.

A. S. boc, coxit, from bac-an.

BUIK, BUK, BUKE, s. A book, S. Dunbar.

Germ. buch, Alem. bouch, Belg. boek, A. S. boc, Moes. G. Isl. Su. G. bok, id. It has been generally supposed, that the Northern nations give this name to a book, from the materials of which it was first made, bok signifying a beech-tree.

Buik-lare, s. Learning, the knowledge acquired by means of a regular education, S.

Buik-lear'd, Book-lear'd, adj. Book-learned, S. A. Nicol.

Isl. boklaerd-ur, id.

V. Lare, v. and s.

BUIR, Leg. Leuir. Wallace.

BUISE, To shoot the buise. Cleland.

Apparently, to swing, to be hanged; perhaps from Ital. busco, the shoot of a tree.

BUIST, s. A part of female dress, anciently worn in S. Maitland Poems.

Fr. busq, or buste, plated body, or other quilted thing, worn to make or keep the body straight. Ital. busto, stays or boddice.

BUIST, BUSTE, BOIST, s. 1. A box or chest, S. Meal-buist, chest for containing meal. Acts Ja. II. 2. A coffin; nearly antiquated, but still sometimes used by tradesmen, Loth.

O. Fr. boiste, Arm. bouest, a box.

To Buist up, v. a. To inclose, to shut up. Montgomerie.

Buist-maker, s. A coffin-maker, Loth.; a term now nearly obsolete.

BUISTY, s. A bed, Aberd. Gl. Shirr. used perhaps for a small one, q. a little box. V. Booshty.

BUITH, s. A shop. V. Bothe.

BUITING, s. Booty. Montgomerie.

Fr. butin, Ital. butino, id.

BUITS, s. pl. Matches for firelocks. Baillie's Lett.

To BUKK, v. a. To incite, to instigate. Evergreen.

Germ. boch-en, to strike, bock-en, to push with the horn; Su. G. bock, a stroke; Isl. buck-a, calcitrare.

BUK-HID, BUK-HUD, s. V. Belly-blind. Henrysone.

This seems to be an old name for some game, probably Blind man's Buff.

BU-KOW, s. Any thing frightful; hence applied to a hobgoblin, S. V. Bu.

BULDRIE, s. Building, or mode of building. Burel.

BULYIEMENT, s. Habiliments; properly such as are meant for warfare. V. Abulyiement. Ross.

Bulyiements is still used ludicrously for clothing, S.

To BULL, v. n. To take the bull; a term used with respect to a cow. Both the v. and s. are pron. q. bill, S.

Bill-siller, S., is analogous to Teut. bolle-gheld, merces pro admissura tauri.

To BULLER, v. n. 1. To emit such a sound as water does, when rushing violently into any cavity, or forced back again, S. Douglas.

Su. G. bullr-a, tumultuari, strepitum edere.

2. To make a noise with the throat, as one does when gargling it with any liquid, S. guller, synon. Bellenden. 3. To make any rattling noise; as when stones are rolled downhill, or when a quantity of stones falls together, S. B. 4. To bellow, to roar as a bull or cow does, S.; also pron. bollar, Ang.

Isl. baul-a, mugire, baul mugitus.

5. It is used as v. a. to denote the impetus or act productive of such a sound as is described above. Douglas.

Buller, Bulloure, s. 1. A loud gurgling noise, S. Douglas. Hence, the Bullers of Buchan, the name given to an arch in a rock, on the coast of Aberdeenshire.

Su. G. buller, strepitus.

2. A bellowing noise; or a loud roar, S. B. V. the v.

BULLETSTANE, s. A round stone, S.

Isl. bollut-ur, round; bollut, convexity.

To BULLIRAG, v. a. To rally in a contemptuous way, to abuse one in a hectoring manner, S.

Isl. baul, bol, maledictio, and raegia, deferre, to reproach.

BULLS, s. pl. Strong bars in which the teeth of a harrow are placed, S. B. Statist. Acc.

Su. G. bol, Isl. bolr, truncus.

BULL-SEGG, s. The great cat-tail or reedmace, Typha latifolia, Linn. S. B.

BULL-SEGG, s. A gelded bull. V. Segg.

BULTY, adj. Large, Fife.

This may be allied to Teut. bult, gibbus, tuber; Belg. bult, a bunch, bultje, a little bunch; Isl. buld, crassus.

BULWAND, s. The name given to common mugwort, Orkney, Caithn. Neill.

To BUM, v. n. 1. To buzz, to make a humming noise; used with respect to bees, S. A. Bor. J. Nicol. 2. Used to denote the noise of a multitude. Hamilton. 3. As expressing the sound emitted by the drone of a bag-pipe, S. Ferguson. 4. Used to denote the freedom of agreeable conversation among friends, S. B.

Belg. bomm-en, to resound; Teut. bomme, a drum.

Bum, s. A humming noise, the sound emitted by a bee, S., V. the v.

Bumbee, s. A humblebee, a wild bee that makes a great noise, S. Bumble-bee, id. A. Bor.

Q. the bee that bums.

Bum-Clock, s. A humming beetle, that flies in the summer evenings. Burns.

BU-MAN, s. A name given to the devil. V. under Bu.

BUMBARD, adj. Indolent, lazy.

Ital. bombare, a humble-bee.

Dunbar.

Bumbart, s. 1. The drone-bee, or perhaps a flesh-fly. Melvill's MS. 2. A drone, a driveller. Dunbar.

BUMBAZED, BOMBAZED, adj. Stupified, S. V. Bazed. Ross.

Q. stupified with noise; from Teut. bomme, tympanum, and baesen, delirare.

BUMMACK, BUMMOCK, s. 1. An entertainment anciently given at Christmas by tenants to their landlords, Orkn. Wallace's Orkn. 2. A brewing of a large quantity of malt, for the purpose of being drunk at once at a merry meeting.—Caithn.

Isl. bua, parare, and mage socius, q. to make preparation for one's companions; or bo villa, incola, and mage, the fellowship of a village or of its inhabitants.

BUMMIL, BUMMLE, BOMBELL, s. Expl. a drone, an idle fellow. V. Batie-Bummil. Burns.

Teut. bommele, fucus.

To BUMMIL, v. a. To bungle; also, as v. n. to blunder, S. Ramsay.

Bummeler, Bumler, s. A blundering fellow, S.

BUMP, s. A stroke. "He came bump upon me," he came upon me with a stroke, S.

Isl. bomps, a stroke against any object, bomp-a, cita ruina ferri.

BUN, BUNN. s. A sweet cake or loaf, generally one of that kind which is used at the new year, baked with fruit and spiceries; sometimes for this reason called a sweetie-scone, S. Statist. Acc.

Ir. bunna, a cake.

BUN, s. 1. The same as E. bum. Lyndsay. 2. This word signifies the tail or brush of a hare, Border; being used in the same sense with fud. Watson's Coll.

Ir. bon, bun, the bottom of any thing; Dan. bund, id.; Gael. bun, bottom, foundation.

BUN, s. A large cask placed in a cart, for the purpose of bringing water from a distance; Ang.

This may be radically the same with S. boyn, a washingtub.

BUNE, BOON, s. The inner part of the stalk of flax, the core, that which is of no use, afterwards called shaws, Ang. Been, id. Morays.

BUNEWAND, s. The cow-parsnip, Heracleum sphondylium, is called Bunwand, S. B. Montgomerie.

This appears to be of the same meaning with Bunwede, q. v.

BUNG, adj. Tipsy, fuddled; a low word, S. Ramsay.

Q. Smelling of the bung.

BUNKER, BUNKART, s. 1. A bench, or sort of low chest serving for a seat. Ramsay. 2. A seat in a window, which also serves for a chest, opening with a hinged lid, S. Sir J. Sinclair. 3. It seems to be the same word which is used to denote an earthen seat in the fields, Aberd. Law Case.

A. S. benc, Su. G. baenck, a bench; Isl. buncke, acervus, strues; a heap.

BUNKLE, s. A stranger. "The dog barks, because he kens you to be a bunkle." This word is used in some parts of Angus.

Perhaps originally a mendicant; from Isl. bon, mendicatio, and karl, vulgarly kall, homo.

BUNNERTS, s. pl. Cow-parsnip, S. B. Heracleum sphondylium, Linn.

Perhaps Q. biorn-oert, which in Sw. would be, the bear's wort.

BUNTLING, s. Bantling, E., a bird, S.

BUNWEDE, s. Ragwort, an herb; Senecio jacobaea, Linn. S. binweed; synon. weebow. Houlate.

This name is also given, S. to the Polygonum convolvulus, which in Sw. is called Binda.

BUR, s. The cone of the fir, S. B.

Su. G. barr denotes the leaves or needles of the pine.

BUR-THRISSIL, s. The spear-thistle, S. Carduus lanceolatus. Bur-thistle, id. A. Bor.

To BURBLE, v. n. To purl. Hudson.

Teut. borbel-en, scaturire.

BURCH, BWRCH, BUROWE, s. Borough, town. Dunbar.

Moes. G. baurgs; A. S. burg, burh, buruh, id.

BURD, s. A lady, a damsel. V. Bird.

BURD, BURDE, s. Board, table. Dunbar.

Moes. G. baurd, asser, tabula, A. S. bord, id.

Burdclaith, s. A tablecloth, S. Westmorel., id. Dunbar.

From burd, and claith, cloth.

BURDALANE, s. A term used to denote one who is the only child left in a family; q. bird alone, or, solitary; burd being the pron. of bird. Maitland MSS.

BURDE, s. Ground, foundation.

Su. G. bord, a footstool.

Bellenden.

BURDE, s. A strip, properly an ornamental salvedge; as a "burde of silk," a salvedge of silk. Dunbar.

Su. G. borda, limbus vel praetexta; unde silkesborda, cingulum sericum vel limbus; gullbord, limbus aureus; Teut. boord, limbus.

BURDYN, adj. Wooden, of or belonging to boards. Wallace.

A. S. bord, S. burd, buird, a board, a plank.

BURDING, s. Burden. V. Birth, Byrth. Montgomerie.

BURDINSECK. V. Berthinsek.

BURDIT, part. pa. Stones are said to be burdit, when they split into lamina, S.

Perhaps from burd, a board; q. like wood divided into thin planks.

BURDLY, BUIRDLY, adj. Large and well-made, S. The E. word stately is used as synon. Burns.

Isl. burdur, the habit of body, strength, propriae vires; afburdur menn, excellent men.

BURDON, BURDOUN, BURDOWNE, s. 1. A big staff, such as pilgrims were wont to carry. Douglas.

Fr. bourdon, a pilgrim's staff; O. Fr. bourde, a baton; Isl. broddstafur, scipio, hastulus, hastile.

2. Be staff and burdon; a phrase respecting either investiture or resignation. Bellenden.

BURDOUN, s. "The drone of a bag-pipe, in which sense it is commonly used in S." Ruddiman.

Fr. bourdon, id.

BURDOWYS, s. Men who fought with clubs. Barbour.

Burdare, (Matt. Paris), is to fight with clubs, after the manner of clowns, qui, he says, Anglis Burdons.

BUREDELY, adv. Forcibly, vigorously. V. Burdly. Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.

BUREIL, BURAL, adj. Vulgar, rustic. Wallace.

Chaucer borel, id.; L. B. burell-us, a species of coarse cloth; Teut. buer, a peasant.

BURG of ice, a whale-fisher's phrase for a field of ice floating in the sea, S., most probably from its resemblance of a castle.