B

B

BAACH, a. Ungrateful to the taste. V. Bauch.

BABIE, BAWBIE, s. A copper coin equal to a halfpenny English, S. Knox.

Fr. bas-piece, base or billon money.

BABIE-PICKLE, s. The small grain, which lies in the bosom of a larger one, at the top of a stalk of oats, S. V. Pickle.

BACHLANE; To Bachle. V. Bauchle.

BACK, s. An instrument for toasting bread above the fire, made of pot-metal, S.

Germ. backen, to bake.

BACK, s. A large vat used for cooling liquors, S.

Belg. bak, a trough.

BACK, BACKING, s. A body of followers, or supporters, S. Baillie.

BACK-BREAD, s. A kneading-trough, S.

BACK-CAST, s. A relapse into trouble, or that which is the occasion of it, S.

BACK-CAW, s. The same as Back-cast, S.

BACKE, s. The bat. V. Bak, Backie-bird.

BACKINGS, s. pl. Refuse of wool or flax, used for coarser stuffs, S. Statist. Acc.

Swed. bakla lin, to dress flax.

BACKLINS, s. Backwards; as, To gae backlins, to go with the face turned opposite to the course one takes, S. V. the termination Lingis.

BACK-SEY, s. V. Sey.

BACK-SET, s. 1. A check, any thing that prevents growth or vegetation, S. 2. Whatsoever causes a relapse, or throws one back in any course, S. Wodrow.

Eng. back and set.

BACKSPANG, s. A trick, or legal quirk, by which one takes the advantage of another, after every thing seemed to have been settled in a bargain, S.

Back and spang, to spring.

To BACK-SPEIR, v. a. 1. To trace a report as far back as possible, S. 2. To cross-question; S.

Back and speir, to examine.

V. Spere, v.

BACK-SPEIRER, BACK-SPEARER, s. A cross-examinator, S. Cleland.

BACK-SPRENT, s. The back-bone, S.

Back, and S. sprent, a spring.

BADE, pret. of Bide, q. v.

BADE, BAID, s. 1. Delay, tarrying. Wallace. 2. Place of residence, abode. Sibbald.

BADDERLOCK, BADDERLOCKS, s. A species of eatable fucus, S. Lightfoot.

BADDOCK, s. Apparently the coal fish, or Gadus carbonarius, Aberd. Statist. Acc.

BADDORDS, s. pl. Low raillery. Ross.

BADLYNG, s. A low scoundrel. Scot. Poems Reprinted.

Franc. baudeling, a cottager.

BADNYSTIE, s. Silly stuff. Douglas.

Fr. badinage, id.

BADOCH, s. A marine bird of a black colour. Sibbald.

BADRANS, BATHRONS, s. A designation for a cat, S. Henrysone.

To BAE, v. n. To bleat, S.

BAE, s. The sound emitted in bleating, S.

Fr. bee, id.

To BAFF, v. a. To beat. S. V. Beff.

BAFF, BEFF, s. A stroke, a blow, S.

BAGENIN, s. Indelicate toying, Fife.

BAGATY, BAGGETY, s. The female of the lump, or sea-owl, a fish, S. Sibbald.

BAG-RAPE, s. A rope of straw, used in fastening the thatch of a roof, Ang.

BAGREL, s. A child, Dumfr.

Su. G. bagge, puer.

BAY, s. The sound caused by the notes of birds. Douglas.

BAICH, BAICHIE, s. A child, Perths.

C. B. bachgen, Teut. bagh, puer.

Polwart.

To BAICHIE, v. n. To cough, S. B.

BAIKIE, BAKIE, s. The stake to which an ox or cow is bound in the stall, Ang.

Sw. paak, a stake.

S. Prov.

BAIKIE, BACKET, s. A square wooden vessel, for carrying coals to the fire, S.

BAIL, BAILE, BAYLE, BALL, BELE, BELLE, s. 1. A flame, or blaze of what kind soever. Barbour. 2. A bonfire. Sir Gawan. 3. A fire kindled as a signal. Douglas. 4. Metaph. the flame of love. Henrysone.

A. S. bael, Su. G. baal, a funeral pile, Isl. baal, a strong fire.

BAYLE-FYRE, s. A bonfire.

A. S. bael-fyr, the fire of a funeral pile.

BAILCH, s. A very lusty person, S. B.

V. Belch.

Ross.

BAILLE, s. A mistress. Wallace.

Fr. belle, id.

BAILLIE, BAILIE, s. 1. A magistrate second in rank, in a royal borough, an alderman, S. Lyndsay. 2. The baron's deputy in a burgh of barony, S. Statist. Acc.

Fr. baillie, an officer, L. B. baliv-us.

BAILLIERIE, s. 1. The extent of a bailie's jurisdiction, S. Wodrow. 2. The extent of a sheriff's jurisdiction. Acts Ja. I.

BAYNE, BANE, adj. 1. Ready, prepared, S. B. Wallace. 2. Alert, lively, active. Wallace.

Isl. bein-a, expedire.

BAYNLY, adv. Readily, cheerfully.

BAYNE, "Forte, a kind of fur," Rudd. Douglas.

BAIR, BAR, s. A boar. Barbour.

A. S. bar, Germ. baer, Lat. verr-es, id.

BAIRD, s. A poet or bard. Acts Ja. VI.

C. B. bardh, Gael. Ir. bard.

BAIRMAN, s. A bankrupt. Reg. Maj.

E. bare, nudatus.

BAIRN, BARNE, s. A child, S. Douglas.

Moes. G. barn, a child, from bair-an, ferre, gignere, A. S. bearn.

BAIRNHEID, BARNEHEID, s. 1. The state of childhood. Inventories. 2. Childishness. Dunbar.

BAYRNIS-BED, s. The matrix. Complaynt S.

BAIRNLY, adj. Childish, S.

Sw. barnslig, puerilis.

BAIRNLINESS, s. Childishness, S.

BAIRN-TYME, BARNE-TEME, s. Brood of children, S. Houlate.

A. S. bearn-team, liberorum sobolis procreatio.

BAIRNS-PART of Gear, that part of a father's personal estate to which his children are entitled to succeed, and of which he cannot deprive them by any testament, or other gratuitous deed to take effect after his death, S. Stair.

BAIRNS-PLAY, s. The sport of children, S. Rutherford.

BAIRNS-WOMAN, s. A dry nurse, S.

BAIS, adj. Having a deep or hoarse sound.

Fr. bas, E. base.

Douglas.

BAISDLIE, adv. In a state of stupefaction. V. Bazed. Burel.

BAISE, s. Haste, expedition, S. B.

Su. G. bas-a, citato gradu ire.

To BAISS, v. a. To sew slightly, S.

Fr. bast-ir, E. baste.

To BAIST, v. a. To overcome, S. B.

Isl. beyst-a, ferire.

BAIST, s. One who is struck by others, especially in the sports of children, S. B.

BAISTIN, s. A drubbing, S.

BAIT, s. A boat. V. Bat.

To BAYT, v. a. To give food to. Barbour.

Isl. beit-a, to drive cattle to pasture, beit pasture.

To BAYT, v. n. To feed. Gl. Sibb.

BAITTLE, adj. Denoting that sort of pasture, where the grass is short and close, Selkirks.

Isl. beitinn, fit for pasture.

BAIVEE, s. A species of whiting. Sibbald.

BAK, BACKE, BAKIE-BIRD, s. The bat or rearmouse, S. Douglas.

Su. G. nattbacka, id.

BAKE, s. A small cake, a biscuit, S. Burns.

BAKGARD, s. A rear-guard. Wallace.

BAKIE, s. The black-headed gull, Orkn.

BAKIE, s. The name given to one kind of peat, S. Ess. Highl. Soc.

E. bake, to knead.

BAKIE, s. A stake. V. Baikie.

BAKIN-LOTCH, s. A species of bread. Evergreen.

BAKSTER, BAXSTER, s. A baker, S. Burrow Lawes.

A. S. baecestre, a woman-baker.

BAL, BALL, the initial syllable of a great many names of places in Scotland.

Ir. Gael. baile, ball, a place or town; Su. G. Isl. bol, id. domicilium, sedes, villa, from bo, bo-a, bu-a, to dwell, to inhabit.

BALAS, s. A sort of precious stone, said to be brought from Balassia in India.

Fr. balais, bastard ruby.

BALAX, s. A hatchet, Aberd.

Isl. bolyxe, Su. G. baalyxa, a large axe.

BALBEIS, s. pl. Halfpence. V. Babie. Maitland Poems.

BALD, BAULD, adj. 1. Bold, intrepid, S. Wyntown. 2. Irascible, S. Douglas. 3. Pungent to the taste, or keenly affecting the organ of smelling, S. 4. Keen, biting; expressive of the state of the atmosphere, S. Davidson. 5. Certain, assured. Henrysone. 6. Used obliquely, bright; as "a bald moon." Kelly.

A. S. bald, beald, Su. G. Alem. Germ. bald, audax.

To BALD, v. a. To embolden. Douglas.

BALDERRY, s. Female-handed orchis, a plant, S. Lightfoot.

BALK and BURRAL, a ridge raised very high by the plough, and a barren space of nearly the same extent, alternately, S. B. V. Bauk, s. Statist. Acc.

BALDERDASH, s. Foolish and noisy talk, S.

Isl. bulldur, stultorum balbuties.

BALEN, adj. Made of skin. V. Pauis. Douglas.

Isl. Su. G. baelg, Germ. balg, a skin.

BALYE, s. A space on the outside of the ditch of a fortification, commonly surrounded by strong palisades. Spotswood.

Fr. bayle, a barricado, L. B. ball-ium.

BALLANT-BODDICE, s. Boddice made of leather, anciently worn by ladies in Scotland, S. B. V. Balen.

BALLINGAR, BALLINGERE, s. A kind of ship.

Fr. ballinjier.

Wallace.

BALOW, s. 1. A lullaby, S. Ritson. 2. A term used by a nurse, when lulling her child. Old Song.

Fr. bas, là le loup, "be still, the wolf is coming."

BAMULLO, BOMULLOCH, To gar one lauch, sing or dance Bamullo, to make one change one's mirth into sorrow, Ang. Perths.

C. B. bw terror, Gael. mula, mullach, gloomy brows, q. "the spectre with the dark eye-brows."

BANCHIS, s. pl. Deeds of settlement.

Ital. banco, a bank.

Dunbar.

BANCOURIS, s. pl. Coverings for stools or benches.

Teut. banckwerc, tapestry; Fr. banquier, a bench-cloth.

To BAN, BANN, v. n. Often applied in S., although improperly, to those irreverent exclamations which many use in conversation, as distinguished from cursing. A. Douglas.

BAND (To take), to unite; a phrase borrowed from architecture. Rutherford.

BAND, s. Bond, obligation, S. Wyntown. To mak band, to come under obligation, to swear allegiance. Wallace.

BAND of a hill. The top or summit. Douglas.

Germ. bann, summitas, Gael. ben.

BANDKYN, s. A cloth, the warp of which is thread of gold, and the woof silk, adorned with figures. Douglas.

L. B. bandequin-us.

BANDOUNE, BANDOWN, s. Command, orders. V. Abandon. Wallace.

Germ. band, a standard.

BANDOUNLY, adv. Firmly, courageously. Wallace.

BANDSTER, BANSTER, s. One who binds sheaves after the reapers in the harvest-field, S. Ritson.

A. S. Germ. band, vinculum.

BANE, s. Bone, S. Wyntown.

A. S. ban, Alem. bein, id.

BANE, King of Bane, the same with King of the Bean, a character in the Christmas gambols. This designation is given to the person who is so fortunate as to receive that part of a divided cake which has a bean in it; Rex fabae. Knox.

BANE-FYER, s. A bonfire, S. Acts Ja. VI.

Apparently corrupted from Bail-fire.

BANEOUR, BANNEOURE, s. A standard-bearer. Barbour.

BANERER, s. Properly, one who exhibits his own distinctive standard in the field, q. "the lord of a standard." Douglas.

Teut. bander-heer, baner-heer, baro, satrapa.

BANERMAN, s. A standard-bearer. Wallace.

Su. G. banersman, vexillifer.

BANES-BRAKIN, s. A bloody quarrel, "the breaking of bones," S. Poems Buchan Dial.

To BANG, v. n. To change place with impetuosity; as, to bang up, to start from one's seat or bed; to bang to the dore, to run hastily to the door, S. Ramsay.

Su. G. baang, tumult, Isl. bang-a, to strike.

To BANG out, v. a. To draw out hastily, S. Ross.

BANG, s. 1. An action expressive of haste; as, He cam wi' a bang, S. In a bang, suddenly, S. Ross. 2. A great number, a crowd, S. Ramsay.

To BANG, v. n. To push off with a boat, in salmon-fishing, without having seen any fish in the channel, Aberd. Law Case.

BANGEISTER, BANGSTER, s. 1. A violent and disorderly person, who regards no law but his own will. Maitland Poems. 2. A braggart, a bully, S. Ross. 3. A loose woman, Clydes.

Isl. bang-a, to strike, bang-ast, to run on one with violence.

BANGSTRIE, s. Strength of hand, violence to another in his person or property.

From Bangster.

Acts Ja. VI.

BANKERS, s. pl. Apparently the same with Bancouris, q. v.

BANKROUT, s. A bankrupt. Skene.

Fr. banquerout, Ital. bancorotto, Teut. banckrote, id.

BANNOCK, BONNOCK, BANNO, s. A cake, baked of dough in a pretty wet state, and toasted on a girdle, S. Bannatyne Poems.

Ir. boinneog, bunna, Gael. bonnach, a cake.

Bear-bannock, s. A cake of this description, baked of barley-meal, S. Ritson.

BANNOCK-FLUKE, s. The name given to the genuine turbot, from its flat form as resembling a cake, S. Stat. Acc.

BANNOCK-HIVE, s. Corpulence, induced by eating plentifully, S. V. Hive. Morison.

BANRENTE, s. A banneret. Acts Ja. I.

BANSTICKLE, s. The three-spined stickle-back, gasterosteus aculeatus, Linn, S. Barry.

BANWIN, s. As many reapers as may be served by one bandster, S. Fife, S. A.

A. S. band, vinculum, and win, labor.

BAP, s. 1. A thick cake baked in the oven, generally with yeast, whether made of oat-meal, barley-meal, flour of wheat, or a mixture, S. Ritson. 2. A roll, a small loaf of wheaten bread, of an oblong form, S.

BAR, s. The grain in E. called barley; bar-meal, barley-meal; bar-bread, bar-bannock, &c. S. B.

Moes. G. bar, hordeum.

BAR, s. A boar. V. Bair.

To BAR, v. n. To bar from bourdes, apparently to avoid jesting. Bannatyne Poems.

Fr. barr-er, to keep at a distance.

BARBAR, BARBOUR, adj. Barbarous, savage.

Fr. barbare, id.

Kennedy.

BARBER, s. What is excellent in its kind, a low term, S.

Su. G. baer-a, illustrare.

BARBLES, s. pl. A species of disease. Polwart.

Fr. barbes, a white excrescence which grows under the tongue of a calf.

BARBLYT, part. pa. Barbed. Barbour.

Fr. barbele, id.

To BARBULYIE, v. a. To disorder, to trouble, Perths. Montgomery.

Fr. barbouillé, confusedly jumbled.

BARDACH, BARDY, adj. 1. Stout, fearless, determined, S. B. Ross. 2. Irascible, contentious, and at the same time uncivil and pertinacious in managing a dispute, S. R. Galloway.

Isl. barda, pugnax, bardagi, Su. G. bardaga, praelium.

BARDILY, adv. 1. Boldly, with intrepidity, S. 2. Pertly, S.

BARDIE, s. A gelded cat, Ang.

BARDIS, s. pl. Trappings. Douglas.

Goth. bard, a pole-ax.

BARDYNGIS, s. pl. Trappings of horses. Bellenden.

BARDISH, adj. Rude, insolent in language. Baillie.

From bard, S. baird, a minstrel.

BARE, adj. Lean, meagre, S.

A. S. bare, baer, nudus.

To BARGANE, v. n. To fight, to contend. Wallace.

Su. G. baer-ia, beargh-a, ferire, pugnare.

BARGANE, s. 1. Fight, battle, skirmish. Barbour. 2. Contention, controversy, S. B. Ross. 3. Struggle, S. B. Ross.

BARGANER, s. A fighter, a bully. Dunbar.

BARGANYNG, s. Fighting. Barbour.

To BARK, v. a. To tan leather, S. Chalmerl. Air.

Su. G. bark-a, decorticare, barka hudar, coria glabra reddere.

BARKER, s. A tanner, S.

Dan. barker, id.

To BARKEN, v. n. To clot, to become hard; part. pa. barknyt. Douglas.

BARKING and FLEEING, a phrase used to denote one, who, especially from prodigality, is believed to be on the eve of bankruptcy, S.

BARLA-BREIKIS, BARLEY-BRACKS, A game generally played by young people in a corn-yard, S. Bannatyne MS.

Perh. q. breaking the barley, or parley.

BARLA-FUMMIL, BARLA-FUMBLE, An exclamation for a truce by one who has fallen down in wrestling or play. Chr. Kirk.

Fr. parlez, foi melez, "let us have a truce, and blend our faith."

BARLEY, s. A term used in the games of children, when a truce is demanded, S.

Fr. parlez, E. parley.

BARLEY-MEN. V. Burlaw.

BARLEY-BOX, s. A small box of a cylindrical form, now made as a toy for children, but formerly used by farmers for carrying samples of barley, or other grain to market, S.

BARLICHOOD, s. A fit of ill-humour, especially as the result of intemperance, S. Ramsay.

From barley; as expressing the effect of any intoxicating beverage.

BARME HORS, A horse without a saddle, Ang. Wyntown.

BARMY, adj. 1. Volatile, giddy. Montgomery. 2. Passionate, choleric. "A barmy quean," a passionate woman, S.

From E. barm, yeast.

BARMKYN, BERMKYN, s. The rampart or outermost fortification of a castle. Wallace.

Fr. barbacane; or Teut. barm, a mound, with the termination kin.

BARNAGE, s. 1. Barons or noblemen, collectively viewed. Old Fr. Wallace. 2. A military company; including both chieftains and followers. Douglas.

BARNAT, adj. Native. Our barnat land, q. the land of our barnheid or nativity. Wallace.

BARNE, s. The same with Barnage.

Old Fr. barnez, nobility.

Wallace.

BARNE, s. A child. V. Bairn.

BARNE, s. Apparently for barme, bosom. Douglas.

BARNS-BREAKING, s. Any mischievous or injurious action; in allusion to the act of breaking up a barn for carrying off corn, S.

BARRACE, BARRAS, BARRES, BARROWIS, s. 1. A barrier, an outwork at the gate of a castle. Wyntown. 2. An inclosure made of felled trees for the defence of armed men. Wallace. 3. Lists for combatants. Douglas.

Old Fr. barres, palaestra.

BARRAT, s. 1. Hostile intercourse, battle. Wallace. 2. Contention, of whatever kind. Dunbar. 3. Grief, vexation, trouble. Gawan and Gol.

Su. G. Isl. baratta, praelium.

BARRATRIE, s. The crime of clergymen who went abroad to purchase benefices from the see of Rome for money. Acts Ja. I.

L. B. baratria, from O. Fr. barat, deceit.

BARREL-FERRARIS. V. Ferraris.

BARREL-FEVERS, s. pl. A term used by the vulgar, to denote the disorder produced in the body by intemperate drinking, S.

BARRIE, s. A swaddling cloth of flannel, in which the legs of an infant are wrapped for defending them from the cold, S.

BARTANE, s. Great Britain. Bannatyne Poems.

BARTANYE, BERTANYE, s. Britanny. Bellenden.

BARTIZAN, BERTISENE, s. A battlement on the top of a house or castle, or around a spire, S. Statist. Acc.

O. Fr. bretesche, wooden towers used for defence, Ital. bertesca.

BASE DANCE, A kind of dance, slow and formal in its motions. Complaynt S.

Fr. basse danse.

To BASH, v. a. To beat to sherds, Loth. Smash synon.

Su. G. bas-a, to strike.

BASH, s. A blow, S. A.

To BASH up, v. a. To bow or bend the point of an iron instrument inwards, Loth.

BASING, BASSING, s. A bason; pl. basingis.

Fr. bassin, id.

Bellenden.

BASS. 1. This term is used in S. for the inner bark of a tree. 2. A mat laid at a door for cleaning the feet; also, one used for packing bales, S.

Teut. bast, cortex.

BASSIE, s. A large wooden dish, used for carrying meal from the girnal to the bakeboard, S. B. Ross.

Fr. bassin, a bason.

BASSIE, s. An old horse, Clydes. Loth. V. Bawsand.

BASSIL, s. A long cannon, or piece of ordnance. Pitscottie.

Abbrev. from Fr. basilic.

BASSIN, adj. Of or belonging to rushes. Douglas.

Teut. biese, juncus, scirpus; L. B. basse, a collar for cart-horses made of flags.

BASSNYT, adj. White-faced. V. Bawsand. Gl. Sibb.

BASTAILYIE, s. A bulwark, a blockhouse. Bellenden.

Fr. bastille, a fortress, a castle furnished with towers.

BASTILE, BASTEL, s. A fortress, principally meant for securing prisoners, South of S. V. preceding word. Statist. Acc.

BASTOUN, s. A heavy staff, a baton.

Fr. baston, baton, id.

Douglas.

BAT, s. A staple, a loop of iron, S.

BATAILL, s. 1. Order of battle, battle-array. Barbour. 2. A division of an army, a battalion. Barbour. 3. It seems to signify military equipment. Barbour.

Fr. bataille, order of battle; also, a squadron, battalion, or part of an army; deduced from Germ. batt-en, caedere, A. S. beatt-an, id.

BATE, BAIT, s. A boat. Barbour.

A. S. Alem. Isl. and Su. G. bat; C. B. and Ir. bad, cymba.

BATHE, BAITH, BAYTH, BAID, adj. Both, S. Baid is the pron. of Angus. Wyntown.

Moes. G. ba, bai, bagoth; A. S. ba, buta; Alem. bedia, bedu, beidu; Isl. and Su. G. bade; Dan. baade; Germ. beide; Belg. beyde; ambo.

BATIE, BAWTY, s. A name for a dog, without any particular respect to species; generally given, however, to those of a larger size; S. Poems Buchan Dial.

Perhaps from O. Fr. baud, a white hound; baud-ir, to excite dogs to the chace.

BATIE, BAWTIE, adj. Round and plump, applied either to man or beast, Clydesd.

BATIE-BUM, BATIE-BUMMIL, s. A simpleton, an inactive fellow. V. Blaitiebum. Maitland P.

From batie a dog, and bum, to make a humming noise. Teut. bommel, a drone.

BATS, s. pl. The disease in horses called in E. the bots, S. Polwart.

Teut. botte, papula, a swelling with many reddish pimples that eat and spread; Swed. bett, pediculi, from bit-a, mordere.

BATTALLING, BATTELLING, s. A battlement. Douglas.

Fr. bastillé, batillé, turriculis fastigiatus.

BATTAR-AX, s. A battle-ax. Dunbar.

Fr. battre, Ital. battar-e, to strike; also, to fight.

To BATTER, v. a. To paste, to cause one body to adhere to another by means of a viscous substance, S.

BATTER, s. A glutinous substance, used for producing adhesion, paste, S.

To BATTER, v. a. To lay a stone so as to make it incline to one side, or to hew it obliquely; a term used in masonry, S.

Fr. battre, to beat.

BATTILL-GERS. "Thick, rank, like men in order of battle," Rudd. This, however, may be the same with baittle, applied to grass that is well stocked, South of S.

Teut. bottel, and bottel-boom, denote the arbutus, or wild strawberry tree.

BATWARD, s. A boatman; literally, a boat-keeper. Wyntown.

Isl. bat, cymba, and vard, vigil, Swed. ward, custodia.

BAVARD, adj. Worn out, in a state of bankruptcy. Baiver and baiver-like, are used in S. to signify shabby in dress and appearance. V. Bevar. Baillie.

Fr. bavard, baveur, a driveller; also, a babbler.

BAUBLE, s. A short stick, with a head carved at the end of it like a poupée, or doll, carried by the fools of former times. Lord Hailes.

Fr. babiole, a toy, a gewgaw.

BAUCH, BAUGH, BAACH, (gutt.) adj. 1. Ungrateful to the taste. In this sense waugh is now used, S. Polwart. 2. Not good, insufficient in whatever respect, S. as "a baugh tradesman," one who is far from excelling in his profession. Ramsay. Bauch-shod, a term applied to a horse, when his shoes are much worn, S. 3. Indifferent, sorry, not respectable, S. Ramsay. 4. Not slippery. In this sense ice is said to be bauch, when there has been a partial thaw. The opposite is slid or gleg, S.

Isl. bag-ur, reluctans, renuens; bage, jactura, nocumentum (offals); baga, bardum et insulsum carmen.

BAUCHLY, adv. Sorrily, indifferently, S. Ramsay.

BAUCHNESS, s. Want, defect of any kind, S.

To BAUCHLE, BAWCHYLL, BACHLE, (gutt.) BASHLE, v. a. 1. To wrench, to distort, to put out of shape; as "to bauchle shoon," to wear shoes in so slovenly a way as to let them fall down in the heels, S. Journ. London. 2. To treat contemptuously, to vilify. Wallace. Bashel may be allied to Fr. bossel-er, to bruise.

Isl. backell, luxatus, valgus, shambling, biag-a violare, whence biag-adr luxatus, membrorum valetudine violatus.

BAUCHLE, BACHEL, s. 1. An old shoe, used as a slipper, S. 2. Whatsoever is treated with contempt or disrespect. To mak a bauchle of any thing, to use it so frequently and familiarly, as to shew that one has no respect for it, S. Ferguson's Prov.

BAUGIE, s. An ornament; as, a ring, a bracelet. Douglas.

Teut. bagge gemma; Isl. baug-r; Alem. boug, A. S. beag, Fr. bague, Ital. bagun, annulus.

BAUK, BAWK, s. 1. One of the cross-beams in the roof of a house, which support and unite the rafters, S. 2. The beam by which scales are suspended in a balance, S.

Teut. balck waeghe, a balance. We invert the term, making it weigh-bauks.

Germ. balk, Belg. balck, Dan. bielke, a beam.

BAUK, BAWK, s. A strip of land left unploughed, two or three feet in breadth, S. Statist. Acc.

A. S. and C. B. balc, Su. G. balk, porca, a ridge of land between two furrows; Isl. baulkur, lira in agro, vel alia soli eminentia minor.

BAUKIE, s. The razorbill, Alca torda, Orkn. Barry.

BAUSY, adj. Big, strong. Dunbar.

Su. G. basse, vir potens.

To BAW, v. a. To hush, to lull. Watson.

Fr. bas, low.

V. Balow.

BAW, s. 1. A ball, used in play, S. Ramsay. 2. Money given to school-boys by a marriage company, to prevent their being maltreated; as otherwise they claim a right to cut the bride's gown, S. This is the same with Ball money, E. V. Coles.

Corr. from E. ball.

BAWAW, s. An oblique look, implying contempt or scorn, S. B. Ross.

BAWBIE, s. A half-penny. V. Babie.

BAWBURD, s. The larboard, or the left side of a ship. Douglas.

Fr. bas-bord; Isl. batforda, id.

BAWD, s. A hare, Aberd. Poems Buchan Dial.

A. S. Ir. and Gael, miol denotes a beast of whatever kind, miol bhuide, or boide, is a hare; also patas.

BAWD-BREE, s. Hare-soup, Aberd.

BAWDEKYN, s. Cloth of gold.

Fr. baldachin, baldaquin, baudequin, L. B. baldachinum, tissue de fil d'or.

To BAWME, v. a. 1. To embalm.

Fr. em-baum-er.

Wyntown. 2. To cherish, to warm. Douglas.

BAWSAND, BASSAND, BAWSINT, adj. 1. Having a white spot on the forehead or face; a term applied to a horse, cow, &c., S. Douglas. 2. It seems to be used as equivalent to brindled or streaked, S. A. Minstrelsy Bord.

Hence, it would seem, bassie, an old horse, S.

Fr. balzan, balsan, a horse that has a white mark on the feet; deduced from Ital. balzano, and this from Lat. bal-ius, a horse that has a white mark either on the forehead or feet. Germ. blaesse, Su. G. blaes, a white mark on the forehead of a horse. Hence perhaps E. blazon, and blaze.

BAWSY-BROWN, s. A hobgoblin; viewed as the same with Robin Goodfellow of England, and Brownie of S. Bannatyne Poems.

Perhaps from Su. G. basse, vir potens, V. Bausy, or base, spectrum, and brun, fuscus, q. the strong goblin of a brown appearance.

BAXTER, s. A baker, S. V. Bakster. Ramsay.

BAZED, BASED, BASIT, part. pa. Watson's Coll. Maitland Poems.

Teut. baes-en, delirare; Belg. byse, bysen, turbatus; Su. G. bes-a denotes the state of animals so stung by insects, that they are driven hither and thither; Fr. bez-er, id.

BE, prep. 1. By, as denoting the cause, agent, or instrument, S. Barbour. 2. Towards, in composition; as, be-east, towards the east; be-west, towards the west, S. Wyntown. 3. Of, concerning; as, be the, concerning thee. Wallace. 4. By the time that. Diallog. 5. During, expressive of the lapse of time. Keith.

A. S. be, per; de; circa.

Be than, by that time.

BE, part. pa. Been. Douglas.

To BEAL. V. Beil.

BEANSHAW. V. Benshaw.

To BEAR, BER, BERE, v. a. To bear on hand, to affirm, to relate. Wyntown.

To bear upon, to restrain one's self, S. B. Ross.

BEAR, BERE, s. Barley, having four rows of grains, S. Hordeum vulgare, Linn. Wyntown.

A. S. bere, Moes. G. bar, hordeum.

BEAR LAND, land appropriated for a crop of barley, S. To go through the bear land with one, to tell him all the grounds of umbrage at his conduct, to pluck a crow with him, S.

BEARIS BEFOR, Ancestors. Wallace.

A translation of Lat. antecessores.

BEARANCE, s. Toleration, S. J. Nicol.

BEAT, s. A stroke, a blow, a contusion, S. B. apparently the same with Byt used in this sense by Douglas.

To BEBBLE, v. a. 1. To swallow any liquid in small, but frequent draughts; whether the liquor be intoxicating or not, S. 2. To tipple, v. n. "He's ay bebbling and drinking;" he is much given to tippling, S.

It seems to be formed from Lat. bibere to drink, in the same manner as bibulus, soaking, drinking, or taking it wet.

BECHT, part. pa. Tied; Gl. Rudd.

Germ. bieg-en, flectere, is probably the origin.

To BECK, BEK, v. s. 1. To make obeisance, to cringe, S. Bannatyne Poems. 2. To curtsy; as restricted to the obeisance made by a woman, and contra-distinguished from bowing.

Isl. beig-a, Germ. bieg-en, to bow.

BECK, BEK, s. A curtsy, S. Maitland Poems.

BEDDY, adj. Expressive of a quality in grey-hounds; the sense uncertain. Watson's Coll.

It may signify, attentive to the cry of the huntsman. Fr. baudé, "a cry as of hounds, Breton;" Cotgr. It may, however, be the same word which occurs in the S. Prov.; "Breeding wives are ay beddie;" Kelly, p. 75. "Covetous of some silly things," N. In this sense it is probably allied to Isl. beid-a, A. S. bidd-an, Moes. G. bid-jan, Belg. bidd-en, to ask, to supplicate, to solicit.

BEDE, pret. Offered; from the v. Bid. Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.

Chaucer uses the v. Bede as signifying to offer.

A. S. baed, obtulit, from beodan.

BEDELUIN, part. pa. Buried, hid under ground. Douglas.

A. S. bedelfen, sepultus, infossus; be-delf-an, circumfodere.

BEDENE, BY DENE, adv. 1. Quickly, forthwith. Barbour. 2. It seems also to signify, besides, moreover; in addition, as respecting persons. Gawan and Gol. 3. It undoubtedly signifies, in succession, or "one after another." Gawan and Gol.

As belyve, very similar in sense, is undoubtedly the imperat. of belif-an, q. wait, stay; bedene may have been formed in the same manner, from Germ. bedien-en, to serve, to obey.

BEDIS, s. pl. Prayers. King's Quair.

Germ. bed-en; Germ. ge-bet, prayer. Hence O. E. bidde, and the phrase, to bidde prayers, to ask, to solicit them.

BEDE-HOUSE, s. A term used for an alms-house, S. B. Statist. Acc.

BEDE-MAN, BEIDMAN, s. 1. A person who resides in a bede-house, or is supported from the funds appropriated for this purpose, S. Statist. Acc. 2. In the Court of Exchequer, this term is used to denote one of that class of paupers who enjoy the royal bounty. The designation has originated from some religious foundation, in times of popery. Bedman occurs in O. E. V. Assoilyie, sense 3.

The origin is A. S. bead, a prayer. Hence, says Verstegan, the name of Beads, "they being made to pray on, and Beadsman."

BEDYIT, part. pa. Dipped. Douglas.

A. S. deag-an, tingere.

BEDOYF, part. pa. Besmeared, fouled. Douglas.

Su. G. doft, dupt, pulvis; or A. S. bedof-en, submersus, dipped.

BEDOWIN, part. pa. Douglas.

Rudd. expl. bedowyne, besmeared, deriving it from Belg. bedauwen, to bedew, or sprinkle.

BEDRAL, s. A person who is bedrid. V. Orphelin.

BEDREL, adj. Bedrid, Galloway. Douglas.

Corr. perhaps from A. S. bedrida, id.; Teut. bedder, clinicus, Germ. bed-reise.

BEDUNDER'D, part. pa. Stupified, confounded, S. q. having the ear deafened by noise.

Su. G. dundr-a, Belg. dender-en, tonare, to thunder.

BEE, s. The hollow between the ribs and hip-bone of a horse, S. B.

Perhaps from A. S. bige, byge, flexus, angulus, sinus; big-an, byg-ean, flectere, curvare.

BEE-ALE, s. A species of beer, or rather mead, made from the refuse of honey; S. B. This in Clydes. is called swats.

BEE-BREAD, s. The substance that goes to the formation of bees, S.

A. S. beo-bread signifies honeycomb.

BE-EAST, Towards the East. V. Be, prep.

BEELDE, BELD, s. "Properly an image.—Model of perfection or imitation." Gl. Wynt. Wyntown.

A. S. bilith, bild, Belg. beeld, beld, Sw. bild, imago.

To BEENGE, BYNGE, v. a. To cringe, in the way of making much obeisance, S. V. Beck. Ferguson.

This is undoubtedly from A. S. bens-ian, also written boens-ian, to ask as a suppliant; supplicitor petere, orare; bensiende, supplicans.

BEENJIN, improperly written, is expl. "fawning." J. Nicol.

BEEVIT, part. pa. Perhaps, installed as a knight. Gawan and Gol.

A. S. befeht, cinctus, girded, Somn.

V. Falow.

To BEFF, BAFF, v. a. To beat, to strike, S. Beft, beaten, pret. and part. pa. Douglas.

It is used more simply, as referring to the act of beating with strokes; applied to metal. Douglas.

Doun Beft signifies, beat down, overthrown.

BEFF, BAFF, s. A stroke. V. Baff.

BEFORN, prep. Before. Wallace. It occurs also in O. E. R. Brunne.

A. S. beforan, ante; coram.

BEFOROUTH, adv. Before, formerly. V. Forowth. Barbour.

BEFT, part. pa. Beaten. V. Beff.

To BEGARIE, v. a. 1. To variegate, to deck with various colours. Lyndsay. 2. To stripe, to variegate with lines of various colours, to streak. Begaryit, striped, part. pa. Douglas. 3. To besmear; to bedaub, to bespatter. "S. begaried, bedirted;" Rudd. vo. Laggerit. Lyndsay.

This v. has an evident affinity to our Gair, gare, a stripe of cloth, and Gaired, gairy, q. v. The word is immediately allied to Fr. begarr-er, to diversify; begarré, of sundry colours, mingled.

BEGAIRIES, s. pl. Stripes or slips of cloth sewed on garments, by way of ornament, such as are now worn in liveries; pessments, S. synon. Acts Ja. VI.

BEGANE, part. pa. Covered; Gold begane, overlaid with gold. Douglas.

Aurea tecta, Virg. According to Rudd. q. gone over. Chaucer uses the phrase, With gold begon, Rom. Rose, 943., "painted over with gold," Tyrwh.

To BEGECK, BEGAIK, BEGEIK, v. a. To deceive; particularly by playing the jilt, S.B. Dunbar.

Teut. gheck-en, deridere, ludibrio habere.

V. Geck.

BEGEIK, BEGINK, BEGUNK, s. 1. A trick, or illusion, which exposes one to ridicule, S. Ramsay. 2. It often denotes the act of jilting one in love; applied either to a male, or to a female, S. Begeik is the more common term, S. B. Morison.

BEGES, BEGESS, adv. By chance, at random. Evergreen.

From be, by, and gess, guess, Belg. ghisse.

BEGGER-BOLTS, s. pl. "A sort of darts or missile weapons. The word is used by James VI. in his Battle of Lepanto, to denote the weapons of the forceats, or galley-slaves." Gl. Sibb. Hudson writes beggers' bolts.

The word may have originated from contempt of the persons, who used these arms, q. bolts of beggars.

BEGOUTH, BEGOUDE, pret. Began. Wyntown. Begoud is now commonly used, S.

A. S. gynn-an, beginn-an, seem to have had their pret. formed like eode, from gan, ire: Beginnan, begeode.

BEGRAUIN, part. pa. Buried, interred. Douglas.

A. S. graf-an, fodere; Teut. be-gra-ven, sepelire.

BEGRETTE, pret. Saluted. Douglas.

A. S. gret-an, Belg. be-groet-en, salutare.

BEGRUTTEN, part. pa. Having the face disfigured with weeping, S.

Sw. begratande, bewailing.

V. Greit.

BEGUILE, s. A deception, trick, the slip; sometimes a disappointment, S. Ross.

BEGUNKIT, part. adj. Cheated, Clydes. V. Begeck.

To BEHALD, v. a. 1. To behold, S. behaud. Wyntown. 2. To have respect to, to view with favour or partiality. Douglas.

Spectat, Virg. A. S. beheald-an.

3. To wait, to delay; q. to look on for a while, S. used both as an active, and as a neuter verb. Ross. Behold occurs in the same sense. Baillie.

BEHAUYNGIS, s. pl. Manners, deportment. Bellenden.

Mores, Boeth.

V. Havings.

To BEHECHT, v. n. To promise. Douglas.

Chaucer, behete, A. S. behaet-an, id. R. Glouc. behet; R. Brunne, be-hette, promised.

BEHECHT, BEHEST, BEHETE, s. 1. Promise. Bellenden. 2. Engagement, covenant. Douglas. 3. Command. Douglas.

Chaucer, beheste, id.

BEHO, BOHO, s. A laughing-stock. "To mak a boho" of any thing, to hold it up to ridicule, S. B.

Alem. huohe, ludibrium.

To BEHUFE, v. n. To be dependent on. Douglas.

A. S. behof-ian, Belg. behoev-en, to stand in need of, egere, opus habere.

BEJAN CLASS, a designation given to the Greek class in the Universities of St Andrew's and Aberdeen; as, till of late, in that of Edinburgh. Hence, the students in this class are denominated Bejans.

Fr. bejaune, a novice, an apprentice, a young beginner in any science, art, or trade. Cotgr. derives bejaune from bec jaulne, literally a yellow beak or bill. Du Cange observes that L. B. bejaunus signifies a young scholar of any university, and bejaunium the festivity that is held on his arrival. The term is thus very emphatic, being primarily used in relation to a bird newly hatched, whose beak is of a deep yellow.

To BEJAN, v. a. When a new shearer comes to a harvest-field, he is initiated by being lifted by the arms and legs, and struck down on a stone on his buttocks; Fife. This custom has probably had its origin in some of our universities. It is sometimes called horsing.

BEIK, s. A hive of bees. V. Byke.

To BEIK, BEKE, BEEK, v. a. 1. To bask, S. Barbour. 2. To warm, to communicate heat to. Ramsay. 3. It is often used in a neuter sense, S. Ywaine.

Belg. baeker-en is used in the same sense; baeker-en een kindt, to warm a child. We say, To beik in the sun; so, Belg. baekeren in de sonne. But our word is more immediately allied to the Scandinavian dialects; Su. G. bak-a, to warm.

BEIK, adj. Warm. Bannatyne Poems.

BEIK, s. 1. This word primarily signifying the beak or bill of a fowl, is "sometimes used for a man's mouth, by way of contempt;" Rudd. Douglas. 2. It is used, as a cant word, for a person; "an auld beik," "a queer beik," &c. S.

Belg. biek, Fr. bec, rostrum. It may be observed that the latter is metaph. applied to a person.

V. Bejan.

To BEIL, BEAL, v. n. 1. To suppurate, S. Maitland Poems. 2. To swell or rankle with pain, or remorse; metaph. applied to the mind, S. B. Ross. Wodrow.

Belg. buyl-en, protuberare? Ihre derives Su. G. bold, a boil, from Isl. bolg-a, intumescere.

BEILIN, s. A suppuration, S.

BEILD, BIELD, s. 1. Shelter, refuge, protection, S. Gawan and Gol.

"Every man bows to the bush he gets bield frae;" S. Prov. Every man pays court to him who gives him protection.

2. Support, stay, means of sustenance, S. Douglas. 3. A place of shelter; hence, applied to a house, a habitation; S. Morison.

A. Bor. beild, id.

Beilding also occurs, where it seems doubtful whether buildings or shelter be meant. Gawan and Gol.

Isl. baele denotes both a bed or couch, and a cave, a lurking place; cubile, spelunca. It is highly probable, that baele is radically the same with Isl. boele, domicilium, habitatio; from bo, to build, to inhabit.

To BEILD, v. a. 1. To supply, to support. Wallace. 2. In one passage it seems to signify, to take refuge; in a neuter sense. Gawan and Gol.

This verb, it would seem, has been formed from the noun, q. v., or has a common origin with Isl. bael-a, used to denote the act of causing cattle to lie down.

BEILDY, adj. Affording shelter. Ramsay.

BEILD, adj. Bold. Houlate.

A. S. beald, id. A. S. Alem. belde, audacia.

BEILL, s. Perhaps, sorrow, care, q. baill. Bannatyne Poems.

BEIN, s. Bone, Ang.

One is said to be aw frae the bein, all from the bone, when proud, elevated, or highly pleased; in allusion, as would seem, to the fleshy parts rising from the bone, when the body is swollen.

BEIN, BEYNE, adj. Beinlier. V. Bene.

BEIR, BERE, BIR, BIRR, s. 1. Noise, cry, roar. Douglas. The word is used in this sense by R. Glouc. 2. Force, impetuosity; often as denoting the violence of the wind, S. Vir, virr, Aberd. Douglas.

O. E. bire, byre, birre. The term, especially as used in the second sense, seems nearly allied to Isl. byre (tempestas), Su. G. boer, the wind; which seem to acknowledge byr-ia, boer-ia, surgere, as their root.

To BEIR, BERE, v. s. To roar, to make a noise. Wallace.

Teut. baeren, beren, is expl. by Kilian; Fremere, sublatè et ferociter clamare more ursorum. The learned writer seems thus to view it as a derivative from baere, bere, a bear.

BEIRD, s. A bard, a minstrel. V. Baird. Douglas.

BEYRD, pret. Laid on a bere. Maitland Poems.

From A. S. baer, baere, feretrum.

BEIRTH, BYRTHE, s. Burden, incumbrance, charge; Gl. Sibb.

Dan. byrde, byrth; Isl. byrd; Su. G. boerd-a; Belg. borde, A. S. byrth-in; from Moes. G. bair-an, Su. G. baer-a, to bear.

BEIS, v. s. Be, is; third p. sing. subj. S. Douglas.

Here the second pers. is improperly used for the third. A. S. byst, sis; Alem. Franc. bist, es, from bin, sum; Wachter, vo. Bin.

BEIS, BEES, One's head is said to be in the bees, when one is confused or stupified with drink or otherwise, S. Shirrefs.

Teut. bies-en, aestuari, furente impetu agitari; or from the same origin with Bazed, q. v.

BEIST, BEISTYN, s. The first milk of a cow after she has calved, S. biestings, E.

A. S. beost, byst; Teut. biest, biest melck, id. (colostrum).

To BEIT, BETE, BEET, v. a. 1. To help, to supply; to mend, by making addition. Henrysone. To beit the fire, or beit the ingle. To add fuel to the fire, S. "To beet, to make or feed a fire." Gl. Grose. To beit a mister, to supply a want, Loth. 2. To blow up, to inkindle, applied to the fire. Douglas. 3. To bring into a better state, by removing calamity or cause of sorrow. Wallace.

A. S. bet-an, ge-bet-an, to mend, to restore to the original state; Belg. boet-en; Isl. bet-a, Su. G. boet-a, id. boet-a klaeder, to repair or mend clothes. A. S. bet-an fyr, corresponds to the S. phrase mentioned above, struere ignem.

Bett, part. pa. Supplied. Wallace.

BEIT, s. An addition, a supply, S. B. V. the v.

BEITMISTER, s. That which is used in a strait, for supplying any deficiency; applied either to a person or to a thing; Loth. V. Beit, v. and Mister.

To BEKE, v. a. To bask. V. Beik.

BEKEND, part. Known; S. B. bekent. Douglas.

Germ. bekaunt, id. Teut. be-kennen, to know; A. S. be-cunnan, experiri.

BELCH, BAILCH, BILCH, s. (gutt.) 1. A monster. Douglas. 2. A term applied to a very lusty person, S. B. "A bursen belch, or bilch, one who is breathless from corpulence, q. burst, like a horse that is broken-winded. Ross.

Teut. balgh, the belly; or as it is pron. bailg, Moray, from Su. G. bolg-ia, bulg-ia, to swell.

BELD, adj. Bald, without hair on the head, S. V. Bellit. Burns.

Seren. derives it from Isl. bala, planities. With fully as much probability might it be traced to Isl. bael-a, vastare, prosternere, to lay flat.

BELD, s. Pattern, model of perfection. V. Beelde.

BELD, imperf. v. Perhaps, took the charge of, or protected. Houlate.

Fr. bail, a guardian. In this sense it is nearly allied to E. bailed, Fr. bailler, to present, to deliver up. As, however, we have the word beild, shelter, protection, beld may possibly belong to a verb corresponding in sense.

BELD CYTTES, s. pl. Bald coots. Houlate.

The bald coot receives its name from a bald spot on its head. It is vulgarly called bell-kite, S.

BELDIT, part. pa. Imaged, formed. V. Beelde. Houlate.

Belg. beeld-en, Germ. bild-en, Sw. bild-a, formare, imaginari. A. S. bild, bilith, Germ. Sw. bild, belaete, an image.

To BELE, v. s. "To burn, to blaze." Wyntown.

This, however, may mean, bellowed, roared, from A. S. bell-an, Su. G. bal-a, id. Chaucer uses belle in the same sense.

BELE, s. A fire, a blaze. V. Bail.

To BELEIF, v. a. To leave; pret. beleft.

A. S. be and leof-an, linquere.

Douglas.

To BELEIF, BELEWE, v. a. To deliver up. Douglas. It is also used as a v. n. with the prep. of. Barbour.

A. S. belaew-an, tradere; belaewed, traditus.

BELEFE, s. Hope. Douglas.

To BELENE, v. n. To tarry; or perhaps, to recline, to rest. Sir Gawan.

A. S. bilen-ed, inhabited.

V. Leind.

Or allied to Germ. len-en, recumbere.

BELEWYT, imperf. v. Delivered up. V. Beleif, v. 2.

BELGHE, s. Eructation, E. belch. Z. Boyd.

BELYVE, BELIFF, BELIUE, BELIFE, adv. 1. Immediately, quickly. Douglas. 2. By and by, S. Barbour. This seems to be the only modern sense of the term in S. 3. At length. Douglas. 4. It is used in a singular sense, S. B. Litle belive, or bilive, a small remainder. Popular Ball.

Chaucer belive, blive, quickly; Gower, blyve, id. Hickes mentions Franc. belibe, as signifying protinus, confestim; and Junius refers to Norm. Sax. bilive. This is certainly the same word; from Alem. and Franc. belib-an, manere; A. S. belif-an, id.

To BELY, v. a. To besiege. Spotswood.

TO BELL THE CAT, to contend, with one, especially, of superior rank or power; to withstand him, either by words or actions; to use strong measures, without regard to consequences, S. Godscroft.

Fr. Mettre la campane au chat, "to begin a quarrel, to raise a brabble; we say also, in the same sense, to hang the bell about the cat's neck." Cotgr.

To BELLER, v. n. To bubble up. Bp. Galloway.

Isl. belg-ia, inflare buccas.

BELL-PENNY, s. Money laid up, for paying the expence of one's funeral; from the ancient use of the passing-bell. This word is still used in Aberbrothick.

BELL-KITE, s. The bald Coot. V. Beld Cyttes.

BELLAN, s. Fight, combat. Douglas.

Lat. bellum.

BELLE, s. Bonfire. V. Bail.

BELLING, s. The state of desiring the female; a term properly applied to harts. Douglas.

Rudd. derives the phrase from Fr. belier, a ram; but perhaps it is rather from Isl. bael-a, bel-ia, baul-a, Germ. bell-en, mugire, boare.

BELLIS, s. pl. Wallace.

BELLIT, adj. Bald. Fordun. Scotichron.

BELLY-BLIND, s. The play called Blind-man's buff, S. A.: Blind Harie, synon. S. Anciently this term denoted the person who was blindfolded in the game. Lyndsay.

In Su. G. this game is called blind-bock, i. e. blind goat; and in Germ. blinde kuhe, q. blind cow. It is probable, that the term is the same with Billy Blynde, mentioned in the Tales of Wonder, and said to be the name of "a familiar spirit, or good genius."

BELLY-FLAUGHT. 1. To slay, or flay, belly-flaught, to bring the skin overhead, as in flaying a hare, S. B. Monroe's Iles. 2. It is used in Loth. and other provinces, in a sense considerably different; as denoting great eagerness or violence in approaching an object. Ramsay. 3. It is also rendered, "flat forward." J. Nicol.

BELLY-HUDDROUN. V. Huddroun.

BELLY-THRA, s. The colic. Gl. Complaynt.

A. S. belg, belly, and thra, affliction. This term, I am informed, is still used on the Border.

To BELLWAVER, v. n. 1. To straggle, to stroll, S. 2. To fluctuate, to be inconstant; applied to the mind, S.

I am informed, however, that the pronunciation of the term in some places in the west of S. is bullwaver; and that it is primarily applied to a bull when going after the cow, and hence transferred to man, when supposed to be engaged in some amorous pursuit.

The origin of the latter part of the v. is obvious; either from E. waver or L. B. wayviare, to stray. Perhaps the allusion may be to a ram or other animal, roaming with a bell hung round its neck.

To BELT, v. a. 1. To gird, S. Hence, in our old ballads belted knights are often introduced. 2. To gird, metaph. used in relation to the mind. Bellenden. 3. To surround, to environ in a hostile manner. Bellenden.

Isl. belt-a, cingere zona.

To BELT, v. a. To flog, to scourge, S.

To BELT, v. n. To come forward with a sudden spring, S.

Isl. bilt-a, bilt-ast, signifies, to tumble headlong.

BELT, part. pa. Built. Douglas.

BELTANE, BELTEIN, s. The name of a sort of festival observed on the first day of May, O. S.; hence used to denote the term of Whitsunday. Peblis to the Play.

This festival is chiefly celebrated by the cow-herds, who assemble by scores in the fields, to dress a dinner for themselves, of boiled milk and eggs. These dishes they eat with a sort of cakes baked for the occasion, and having small lumps in the form of nipples, raised all over the surface. The cake seems to have been an offering to some Deity in the days of Druidism.—In Ireland, Beltein is celebrated on the 21st June, at the time of the solstice. There, as they make fires on the tops of hills, every member of the family is made to pass through the fire; as they reckon this ceremony necessary to ensure good fortune through the succeeding year.—The Gael. and Ir. word Beal-tine or Beil-tine signifies Bel's Fire; as composed of Baal or Belis, one of the names of the sun in Gaul, and tein signifying fire. Even in Angus a spark of fire is called a tein or teind.

BELTH, s. Douglas.

This word may denote a whirlpool or rushing of waters. I am inclined, however, to view it, either as equivalent to belch, only with a change in the termination, metri causa; or as signifying, figure, image, from A. S. bilith, Alem. bilid, bileth, id.

To BEMANG, v. a. To hurl, to injure; to overpower, S. B. Minstrelsy Border.

To BEME, v. n. 1. To resound, to make a noise. Douglas. 2. To call forth by sound of trumpet. Gawan and Gol.

Germ. bomm-en, resonare; or A. S. beam, bema, tuba. It is evident that beme is radically the same with bommen, because Germ. bomme, as well as A. S. beam, signifies a trumpet.

BEME, s. A trumpet; Bemys, pl. Gawan and Gol.

O. E. beem, id.

V. the v.

BEMYNG, s. Bumming, buzzing. Douglas.

BEN, adv. 1. Towards the inner apartment of a house; corresponding to But, S. Wyntown. It is also used as a preposition, Gae ben the house, Go into the inner apartment.

A But and a Ben, S.; i. e. a house containing two rooms. Statist. Acc.

2. It is used metaph. to denote intimacy, favour, or honour. Thus it is said of one, who is admitted to great familiarity with another, who either is, or wishes to be thought his superior; He is far ben. "O'er far ben, too intimate or familiar," Gl. Shirr. Lyndsay. 3. Leg. as in edit. 1670, far ben.

A. S. binnan, Belg. binnen, intus, (within); binnen-kamer, locus secretior in penetralibus domus; Kilian. Belg. binnen gaan, to go within, S. to gae ben; binnen brengen, to carry within, S. to bring ben.

BEN-END, s. 1. The ben-end of a house, the inner part of it, S. 2. Metaph., the best part of any thing; as, the ben-end of one's dinner, the principal part of it, S. B.

BEN-HOUSE, s. The inner or principal apartment, S.

BENNER, adj. A comparative formed from ben. Inner, S. B. Poems Buchan Dial.

BENMOST is used as a superlative, signifying innermost. Ferguson.

Teut. binnenste is synon.

BEN-INNO, prep. Within, beyond, S. B. Journal Lond.

From ben, q. v. and A. S. inne, or innon, within; Alem. inna; Isl. inne, id.

There-ben, adv. Within, in the inner apartment, S. V. Thairben.

BEND, s. 1. Band, ribbon, or fillet; pl. bendis. Douglas. "Bend, a border of a woman's cap, North.; perhaps from band," Gl. Grose. 2. It is used improperly for a fleece. Douglas.

A. S. bend, baende, Moes. G. bandi, Germ. band, Pers. bend, vinculum.

To BEND, v. n. To drink hard; a cant term, S. Ramsay.

BEND, s. A pull of liquor, S. Ramsay.

BENDER, s. A hard drinker, S. Ramsay.

BENE, v. subst. Are. Bellenden.

Chaucer, ben, id. from beon, third p. pl. subj. of the A. S. substantive verb.

BENE is also used for be. King's Quair.

BENE, BEIN, BEYNE, BIEN, adj. 1. Wealthy, well-provided, possessing abundance, S. Henrysone.

This is perhaps the most common sense of the term, S. Thus we say, A bene or bein farmer, a wealthy farmer, one who is in easy, or even in affluent circumstances; a bein laird, &c.

2. Warm, genial. In this sense it is applied to a fire, S. Douglas. 3. Pleasant. Douglas. 4. Happy, blissful, S. Ferguson. 5. Splendid, showy. Wallace. 6. Good, excellent in its kind. Dunbar. 7. Eager, new-fangled. People are said to be bein upon any thing that they are very fond of, Loth. In this sense bayne occurs in O. E.

Isl. bein-a signifies to prosper, to give success to any undertaking. Bein, as allied to this, signifies hospitable; beine, hospitality, hospitis advenae exhibita beneficentia. G. Andr. mentions the v. beina, as signifying, hospitii beneficia praestare. Beini, hospitality, liberality.

BENELY, BEINLY, adv. In the possession of fulness, S. L. Scotland's Lament.

BENE, adv. Well; full bene, full well. Douglas.

This word is most probably from Lat. benè, well.

BENJEL, s. A heap, a considerable quantity; as "a benjel of coals," when many are laid at once on the fire, S. B. Bensil, however, is used in the same sense in the South and West of S. V. Bensell.

BENK, BINK, s. A bench, a seat. It seems sometimes to have denoted a seat of honour. Kelly.

Dan. benk, Germ. bank, scamnum; Wachter.

BENN, s. A sash. V. Bend. Statist. Acc.

BENORTH, prep. To the northward of; besouth, to the southward of, S. Wyntown.

BENSELL, BENSAIL, BENT-SAIL, s. 1. Force, violence of whatever kind, S. Douglas. 2. A severe stroke; properly that which one receives from a push or shove, S. 3. "A severe rebuke," Gl. Shirr. "I got a terrible bensell;" I was severely scolded, S. 4. Bensil of a fire, a strong fire, South and West of S.

It is not unlikely that the word was originally bent-sail, as alluding to a vessel driven by the force of the winds.

To BENSEL, v. a. To bang, or beat, Gl. Sibb. "Bensel, to beat or bang. Vox rustica, Yorksh." Gl. Grose.

BENSHAW, BEANSHAW, s. A disease, apparently of horses. Polwart.

Formed perhaps from A. S. ban, Teut. been, os, and hef, elevatio; q. the swelling of the bone.

BENSHIE, BENSHI, s. Expl. "Fairy's wife." Pennant.

It has been observed, that this being, who is still reverenced as the tutelar daemon of ancient Irish families, is of pure Celtic origin, and owes her title to two Gaelic words, Ben and sighean, signifying the head or chief of the fairies. But it seems rather derived from Ir. Gael. ben, bean a woman, said by Obrien to be the root of the Lat. Venus, and sighe, a fairy or hobgoblin.

BENT, s. 1. A coarse kind of grass, growing on hilly ground, S. Agrostis vulgaris, Linn. Common hair-grass. 2. The coarse grass growing on the sea-shore, S. denoting the Triticum juncium, and also the Arundo arenaria. Lightfoot. 3. The open field, the plain, S. Douglas. 4. To gae to the bent, to provide for one's safety, to flee from danger, by leaving the haunts of men; as it is also vulgarly said, to tak the cuntrie on his back. Henrysone.

Teut. biendse; Germ. bintz, bins, a rush, juncus, scirpus; a binden, vincire, quia sportas, sellas, fiscellas, et similia ex juncis conteximus; Wachter.

BENTY, BENTEY, adj. Covered with bent-grass, S. Monroe's Iles.

To BER on hand. V. Bear.

BERBER, s. Barberry, a shrub. Sir Gawan and Sir Gol.

L. B. berberis, Sw. id.

BERE, s. Noise; also, To Bere. V. Beir.

BERE, s. Boar. V. Bair. Douglas.

BERE, s. Barley. Wyntown.

BERGLE, BERGELL, s. The wrasse, a fish, Orkn. Barry.

The first syllable of its name is undoubtedly from Isl. berg, a rock. Had it any resemblance to the eel, we might suppose the last from aal, q. the rock eel.

BERHEDIS, s. pl. Heads of boars. V. Bere. Gawan and Gal.

BERIT, imperf. V. Beir, v.

To BERY, BERYSS, BERISCH, v. a. To inter, to bury. Douglas.

A. S. byrig-an, id. Junius says that A. S. byrig-an is literally, tumulare. It may, however, be supposed that the primitive idea is found in Isl. birg-ia, Franc. berg-an, to cover, to hide, to defend.

BERIIS, s. Sepulture.

A. S. byrigels, sepultura. Birielis is accordingly used by Wiclif for tombs.

BERYNES, BERYNISS, s. Burial, interment. Barbour.

A. S. byrignesse, sepultura.

BERY BROUNE, a shade of brown approaching to red. Gawan. and Gol.

We still say, "as brown as a berry," S. A. S. beria, bacca.

BERLE, s. Beryl, a precious stone. Houlate.

From this s. Doug. forms the adj. beriall, shining like beryl.

BERLY, adj. Apparently, strong, mighty. Henrysone.

This word is the same, I suspect, with E. burly, strong. If berly be the ancient word, either from Germ. bar, vir illustris; or from baer, ursus; especially as Su. G. biorn, id. was metaph. used to denote an illustrious personage.

BERN, BERNE, s. 1. A baron. Wallace. 2. It is often used in a general sense, as denoting a man of rank or authority; or one who has the appearance of rank, although the degree of it be unknown. Gawan and Gol. 3. A man in general. Douglas.

A. S. beorne, princeps, homo, Benson; "a prince, a nobleman, a man of honour and dignity," Somner. Bern, as denoting a man, in an honourable sense, may be from A. S. bar, free, or Lat. baro, used by Cicero, as equivalent to a lord or peer of the realm.

BERN, s. A barn, a place for laying up and threshing grain. Gawan and Gol.

A. S. bern, id. Junius supposes that this is comp. of bere, barley, and ern, place, q. "the place where barley is deposited," Gl. Goth.

BERSIS, s. "A species of cannon formerly much used at sea. It resembled the faucon, but was shorter, and of a larger calibre," Gl. Compl. Complaynt S.

Fr. barce, berche, "the piece of ordnance called a base;" Cotgr. pl. barces, berches.

BERTH, s. Apparently, rage. Wyntown.

Isl. and Sw. braede, id.

BERTHINSEK, BIRDINSEK, BURDINSECK. The law of Berthinsek, a law, according to which no man was to be punished capitally for stealing a calf, sheep, or so much meat as he could carry on his back in a sack. Skene.

A. S. ge-burthyn in saeca, a burden in a sack; or from ge-beor-a, portare.

BERTYNIT, BERTNYT, pret. and part. pa. Struck, battered. Wallace.

This is evidently the same with Brittyn, q. v.

BESAND, BEISAND, s. An ancient piece of cold coin, offered by the French kings at the mass of their consecration at Rheims, and called a Bysantine, as the coin of this description was first struck at Byzantium or Constantinople. It is said to have been worth, in French money, fifty pounds Tournois. Kennedy.

To BESEIK, v. a. To beseech, to entreat. Douglas.

A. S. be and sec-an, to seek; Belg. ver-soek-en, to solicit, to entreat; Moes. G. sok-jan, to ask, used with respect to prayer.

BESY, adj. Busy. Wyntown.

A. S. bysi, Belg. besigh, id.; allied perhaps to Teut. byse turbatus, bijs-en, violento impetu agitari.

BESYNES, s. Business. Wyntown.

BESYNE, BYSENE, BYSIM, s. Expl. "whore, bawd," Gl. Sibb. V. Bisym.

BESCHACHT, part. pa. 1. Not straight, distorted, Ang. 2. Torn, tattered; often including the idea of dirtiness, Perths. The latter seems to be an oblique use. V. Shacht.

To BESLE, or BEZLE, v. n. To talk much at random, to talk inconsiderately and boldly on a subject that one is ignorant of, Ang.

Belg. beuzel-en, to trifle, to fable; Teut. beusel-en, nugari.

BESLE, BEZLE, s. Idle talking, Ang.

Belg. beusel, id.

BESMOTTRIT, part. pa. Bespattered, fouled. Douglas.

A. S. besmyt-an, maculare, inquinare; Belg. besmodder-en, Germ. schmader-n, schmatter-n, to stain, S. to smadd, Su. G. smitt-a.

BESOUTH, prep. To the southward of. V. Benorth.

BEST, part. pa. Struck, beaten. V. Baist. Barbour.

BEST, part. pa. Perhaps, fluttering, or shaken. Barbour.

Isl. beyst-i, concutio.

BEST, s. "Beast, any animal not human," Gl. Wynt. Wyntown.

The term is still used in this general sense, S. pronounced q. baist. S. B.

BEST-MAN, s. Brideman; as best-maid is bride-maid; from having the principal offices in waiting on the bride, S.

BESTIAL, (off Tre) s. An engine for a siege. Wallace.

It seems uncertain, whether this word be formed from Lat. bestialis, as at first applied to the engines called rams, sows, &c., or from Fr. bastille, a tower; L. B. bastillae.

BESTIALITÉ, s. Cattle. Complaynt S.

L. B. bestialia, pecudes; Fr. bestail.

BESTREIK, part. pa. Drawn out; gold bestreik, gold wire or twist. Burel.

Teut. be-streck-en, extendere.

BESTURTED, part. pa. Startled, alarmed, afrighted, S.

Germ. besturz-en, to startle; besturzt seyn, to be startled. Ihre views Isl. stird-r, rigid, immoveable, as the root.

BESWAKIT, part. pa. Apparently, soaked, drenched. Dunbar.

Isl. sock, mergor, saukv-a, mergi.

To BESWEIK, v. a. To allure; to beguile; to deceive.

A. S. swic-an, beswic-an, Isl. svik-ia. Alem. bisuich-en, Su. G. swik-a, Germ. schwick-en, id.

BET, pret. Struck. Gawan and Gol.

A. S. beat-an, Su. G. bet-a; tu bete, thou hast struck.

BET, BETT, pret. and part. Helped, supplied. V. Beit.

BET, part. pa. Built, erected. Douglas.

This is a secondary and oblique sense of the v. Beit, q. v.

BET, adj. Better. King's Quair.

A. S. bet, Teut. bat, bet, melius, potius, magis; Alem. bas, baz, melior, the compar. of bat, bonus. A. S. bet-an, emendare, and the other synon. verbs in the Northern languages, have been viewed as originating the term. Bet, indeed, seems to be merely the past part., mended, i. e. made better.

BETANE, part. pa. Perhaps, inclosed. Barbour.

A. S. betien-en, betyn-an, to inclose, to shut up.

BETAUCHT, BETUK, Delivered, committed in trust; delivered up. V. Betech.

To BETECH, BETEACH, v. a. To deliver up, to consign; betuk, pret. betaucht, pret. and part. pa. Barbour.

Hence "the common Scots expression, God I beteach me till," Rudd.; and that used by Ramsay, Betootch-us-to; i. e. Let us commend ourselves to the protection of some superior being. O. E. bitoke, committed; also bitaughten, bitakun, bitauht. A. S. betaec-an, tradere, concedere, assignare, commendare; to deliver, to grant, to assign or appoint, to betake or recommend unto; Somner. Betaehte, tradidit.

BETHLERIS. Leg. Bechleris. Bachelors. Houlate.

To BETRUMPE, v. a. To deceive. Douglas.

To BETREYSS, BETRASE, v. a. To betray. Barbour.

Betrasit, Douglas; betraissed, Wallace; betraised, Chaucer; betraist, R. Brunne. Germ. trieg-en, betrieg-en; Fr. trah-ir, id. trahi-son, treason.

BETWEESH, prep. Betwixt, S. V. Atweesh.

BEVAR, s. One who is worn out with age. Henrysone.

It is evidently from the same source with Bavard, adj. q. v. We still say a bevir-horse for a lean horse, or one worn out with age or hard work; S.

BEVEL, s. A stroke; sometimes, a violent push with the elbow, S. Many.

This is a derivative from Baff, beff, q. v.

BEVEREN, BEVERAND, part. pr. Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.

Perhaps from A. S. befer-an, circumdare; or as the same with beverand, which Sibb. renders "shaking, nodding;" deriving it from Teut. bev-en, contremere. This is a provincial E. word. "Bevering, trembling. North." Gl. Grose.

BEVIE, (of a fire) s. A term used to denote a great fire; sometimes, bevice, S.

Perhaps from E. bavin, "a stick like those bound up in faggots," Johnson. It is thus used in O. E.

BEVIE, s. A jog, a push, S. from the same source with bevel. V. Baff, s.

BEVIS. V. Bevar.

BEUCH, s. (gutt.) A bough, a branch, S. Douglas.

A. S. boga, boh, id. from bug-an, to bend.

BEUCHIT, part. pa. (gutt.) Bowed, crooked, S Douglas.

A. S. bug-an, curvare.

BEUGH, s. (gutt.) A limb, a leg, Border. Evergreen.

Isl. bog, Alem. puac, Germ. bug, id. The term is applied both to man and to other animals. Both Ihre and Wachter view bug-en, to bend, as the origin; as it is by means of its joints that an animal bends itself.

BEUGLE-BACKED, adj. Crook-backed. Watson.

A. S. bug-an, to bow; Teut. boechel, gibbus. Germ. bugel, a dimin. from bug, denoting any thing curved or circular. It is undoubtedly the same word that is now pronounced boolie-backit, S.

BEUKE, pret. v. Baked. Douglas.

A. S. boc, pret. of bac-an, pinsere.

BEULD, adj. Bow-legged, Ang.; q. beugeld from the same origin with beugle, in Beugle-backed, q. v.

BEW, adj. Good, honourable. Bew schyris, or schirris, good Sirs.

Fr. beau, good.

Douglas.

To BEWAVE, BEWAUE, v. a. To cause to wander or waver. Palice of Honour.

A. S. waf-ian, vacillare, fluctuare.

BEWIS, BEWYS, s. pl. Boughs. V. Beuch. Douglas.

BEWIS, s. pl. Beauties.

O. Fr. beau, beauty.

Maitland Poems.

BEWITH, s. A thing which is employed as a substitute for another, although it should not answer the end so well. Ramsay. One who arrives, when the regular dinner is eaten, is said to get "only a bewith for a dinner," S.

From the subst. v. conjoined with the prep., q. what one must submit to for a time.

To BEWRY, v. a. To pervert, to distort. Douglas.

Teut. wroegh-en, torquere, angere.

BY, prep. 1. Beyond, S. Pitscottie. 2. Besides, over and above. Pitscottie. 3. Away from, without, without regard to, contrary to. Wallace.

By, as thus used, is sometimes directly contrasted with be, as signifying by in the modern sense of the term. This may be viewed as an oblique sense of by as signifying beyond; perhaps in allusion to an arrow that flies wide from the mark.

4. In a way of distinction from, S. Wallace.

BY, adv. When, after; q. by the time that. Pitscottie.

This idiom is very ancient, Moes. G. Bi the galithun thai brothrjus is; When his brethren were gone up.

BY-HAND, adv. Over, S. V. Hand.

BY-LYAR, s. A neutral. Knox.

From the v. To lie by, E.

BIAS, a word used as a mark of the superlative degree; bias bonny, very handsome; bias hungry, very hungry, Aberd.

BIB, s. A term used to denote the stomach, Ang., borrowed, perhaps, from the use of that small piece of linen, thus denominated, which covers the breast or stomach of a child.

BYBILL, s. A large writing, a scroll so extensive that it may be compared to a book. Detection Q. Mary.

The word occurs in a similar sense in O. E. As used by Chaucer, Tyrwhitt justly renders it "any great book." In the dark ages, when books were scarce, those, which would be most frequently mentioned, would doubtless be the Bible and Breviary. Or, this use of the word may be immediately from L. B. biblus, a book, (Gr. βιβλος), which occurs in this sense from the reign of Charlemagne downwards.

BICHMAN, s. Perhaps, for buthman, q. boothman, one who sells goods in a booth. Dunbar.

In edit. 1508, it is buthman.

BYCHT. V. Lycht. Houlate.

BICK, s. A bitch; "the female of the canine kind," S.

A. S. bicca, bicce, id.; Isl. bickia, catella.

To BICKER, BYKER, v. a. This v., as used in S., does not merely signify, "to fight, to skirmish, to fight off and on," as it is defined in E. dictionaries. It also denotes, 1. The constant motion of weapons of any kind, and the rapid succession of strokes, in a battle or broil. Wallace. 2. To fight by throwing stones; S. 3. To move quickly; S. 4. It expresses the noise occasioned by successive strokes, by throwing of stones, or by any rapid motion; S.

C. B. bicre, a battle; "Pers. pykar." id. Gl. Wynt.

BICKER, BIKERING, s. 1. A fight carried on with stones; a term among schoolboys, S. 2. A contention, strife, S. Baillie.

BICKER, BIQUOUR, s. A bowl, or dish for containing liquor; properly, one made of wood; S. Evergreen.

Germ. becher; Isl. baukur, bikare; Sw. bagare; Dan. begere; Gr. and L. B. βεικαρι, baccarium; Ital. bicchiere, patera, scyphus.

To BID, v. a. 1. To desire, to pray for. Henrysone.

This sense is common in O. E.

2. To care for, to value. Douglas.

From the same origin with Bedis, q. v.

To BIDE, BYDE, v. a. 1. To await, to wait for. Kelly. 2. To suffer, to endure. "He bides a great deal of pain;" S. Westmorel, id. Ross.

An oblique sense of Moes. G. beid-an, A. S. bid-an, expectare.

To BIDE be, v. n. To continue in one state, S.

BIDINGS, s. pl. Sufferings. V. Bide, v.

BY-EAST, towards the east. V. Be, prep.

BIERDLY, BIERLY, adj. Popular Ball.

It is viewed as the same with Burdly, q. v. But to me it seems rather to signify, fit, proper, becoming, from Isl. byr-iar, ber, decet, oportet.

BIERLING, s. A galley, S. B. Statist. Acc.

BIG, BIGG, s. A particular species of barley, also denominated bear, S. Cumb. id. barley. Statist. Acc.

Isl. bygg, hordeum, Dan. byg, Su. G. biugg, id.

To BIG, BYG, v. a. To build; S., Cumb., Westmorel., id. Wallace.

This word occurs in O. E. although not very frequently. A. S. bycg-an, Isl. bygg-ia, Su. G. bygg-a, aedificare, instruere, a frequentative from bo, id.; as it is customary with the Goths thus to augment monosyllables in o; as sugg-a from so, a sow.

BIGGAR, s. A builder, one who carries on a building. Acts Marie.

BIGGING, BYGGYN, BYGGYNGE, s. A building; a house, properly of a larger size, as opposed to a cottage, S. Wallace.

Biggin, a building, Gl. Westmorel. Isl. bigging, structura.

BIGGIT, part. pa. Built.

This word is used in various senses, S.

Biggit land, land where there are houses or buildings, contrasted with one's situation in a solitude, or far from any shelter during a storm, S. Barbour. Weill biggit, well-grown, lusty. Melvill's MS. A weill biggit body is one who has acquired a good deal of wealth, S. B.

BIGGIT, pret. Perhaps, inclined.

A. S. byg-an, flectere.

King Hart.

BIGLY, BYGLY, adj. Commodious, or habitable. Bludy Serk.

From A. S. big-an, habitare, and lic, similis.

BIGHTSOM, adj. Implying an easy air, and, at the same time, activity, S. B. Morison.

Perhaps q. buxom, from A. S. bocsum flexibilis; byg-an, to bend.

BIGONET, s. A linen cap or coif. Ramsay.

From the same origin with E. biggin, "a kind of coif, or linen-cap for a young child;" Phillips. Fr. beguin. id.

BYGANE, BIGANE, BYGONE, adj. 1. Past; S. The latter is mentioned by Dr Johnson as "a Scotch word." Acts Ja. I. 2. Preceding; equivalent to E. predeceased. Douglas.

BYGANES, BIGONES, used as s. pl. denoting what is past, but properly including the idea of transgression or defect. 1. It denotes offences against the sovereign, or the state, real or supposed. Baillie. 2. It is used in relation to the quarrels of lovers, or grounds of offence give by either party, S. Morison. 3. It often denotes arrears, sums of money formerly due, but not paid, S. Wodrow.

BIGS, Barbour, xix. 392. Pink. ed. Leg. Lugis.

BIKE, BYKE, BEIK, s. 1. A building, an habitation, S. Gawan and Gol. 2. A nest or hive of bees, wasps, or ants, S. Douglas. 3. A building erected for the preservation of grain; Caithn. Pennant. 4. Metaph. an association or collective body; S. Lyndsay. To skail the byke, metaph. to disperse an assembly of whatever kind; S.

Isl. biik-ar denotes a hive, alvear; and Teut. bie-bock, bie-buyck, apiarium, alvearium, Kilian. The Isl. word is probably from Su. G. bygg-a, to build, part. pa. bygdt; q. something prepared or built. There seems to be no reason to doubt that the word, as used in sense 2, is the same with that denoting a habitation. For what is a byke or bee-bike, but a building or habitation of bees?

BYK, Apparently, an errat. for byt, bite. Dunbar.

BYKAT, BEIKAT, s. A male salmon; so called, when come to a certain age, because of the beak which grows in his under jaw; Ang.

BILBIE, s. Shelter, residence; Ang.

This, I apprehend, is a very ancient word. It may be either from Su. G. byle, habitaculum, and by, pagus, conjoined, as denoting residence in a village; or more simply, from Bolby, villa primaria; from bol, praedium, and by, a village. Thus bolby would signify a village which has a praedium, or territory of its own, annexed to it.

BILEFT, pret. Remained, abode. Sir Tristrem.

A. S. belif-an, superesse, to remain; Alem. bilib-en, Franc, biliu-en, manere; Schilter.

BILGET, adj. Bulged, jutting out. Douglas.

Su. G. bulg-ia, to swell, whence Isl. bylgia, a billow. Or, Isl. eg belge, curvo; belgia huopta, inflare buccas.

To BILL, v. a. To register, to record. Bp. Forbes.

BILLIE, BILLY, s. 1. A companion, a comrade. Minstrelsy Border. 2. Fellow, used rather contemptuously, S. synon. chield, chap. Shirrefs. 3. As a term expressive of affection and familiarity; S. Ramsay. 4. A lover, one who is in suit of a woman. Evergreen. Still used in this sense, S. B. 5. A brother, S. Minstrelsy Border. 6. Apparently used in allusion to brotherhood in arms, according to the ancient laws of chivalry. Minstrelsy Border. 7. A young man. In this sense it is often used in the pl. The billies, or, the young billies, S. B. It is expl. "a stout man, a clever fellow," Gl. Shirr.

8. Sometimes it signifies a boy, S. B. as synon. with callan. Ross.

It is probably allied to Su. G. Germ. billig, Belg. billik, equalis; as denoting those that are on a footing as to age, rank, relation, affection, or employment.

BILLIT, adj. "Shod with iron," Rudd. Billit ax. Douglas.

This phrase is perhaps merely a circumlocution for the bipennis, or large ax.

V. Balax.

BILTER, s. A child, Dumfr.; Isl. pilter, puellus.

BIN, s. A mountain, S. O. Galloway.

From Gael. ben, id., Lomond bin, being synon. with Benlomond.

BIND, BINDE, s. 1. Dimension, size; especially with respect to circumference. A barrel of a certain bind, is one of certain dimensions, S.; hence Barrell bind. Acts Ja. III. 2. It is used more generally to denote size in any sense. Acts Marie. 3. Metaph. to denote ability. "Aboon my bind" beyond my power. This is often applied to pecuniary ability; S.

This use of the word is evidently borrowed from the idea of binding a vessel with hoops.

BINDLE, s. The cord or rope that binds any thing, whether made of hemp or of straw; S.

Su. G. bindel, a headband, a fillet, from bind-as, to bind. Teut. bindel, ligamen.

BINDWOOD, s. The vulgar name for ivy, S.; Hedera helix, Linn.; pron. binwud.

Denominated, perhaps, from the strong hold that it takes of a wall, a rock, trees, &c. q. the binding wood. It is probably the same which is written benwood.

Statist. Acc.

BING, s. 1. A heap in general. Lyndsay. 2. A heap of grain, S. Douglas. 3. A pile of wood; immediately designed as a funeral pile. Douglas. 4. "A temporary inclosure or repository made of boards, twigs, or straw ropes, for containing grain or such like;" Gl. Sibb., where it is also written binne.

Dan. bing, Sw. binge, Isl. bing-r, cumulus.

To BYNGE, v. n. To cringe. V. Beenge.

To BINK, v. a. To press down, so as to deprive any thing of its proper shape. It is principally used as to shoes, when, by careless wearing, they are allowed to fall down in the heels; S.

O. Teut. bangh-en, premere, in angustum cogere. Sw. bank-a, to beat, seems allied; q. to beat down.

BINK, s. 1. A bench, a seat; S. B. Priests of Peblis. 2. A wooden frame, fixed to the wall of a house, for holding plates, bowls, spoons, &c. Ang. It is also called a Plate-rack; S. Colvil.

BINK, s. A bank, an acclivity, S. B. Evergreen.

Wachter observes that Germ. bank, Su. G. baenk, denote any kind of eminence.

V. Benk.

BINWEED. V. Bunwede.

BYPTICIT, part. pa. Dipped or dyed.

Lat. baptizo.

Houlate.

BIR, BIRR, s. Force.

I find that Isl. byr, expl. ventus ferens, is deduced from ber-a, ferre; Gl. Edd. Saem. V. Beir.

BIRD, BEIRD, BRID, BURD, s. 1. A lady, a damsel. Gawan and Gol.

As bridde is the word used by Chaucer for bird, it is merely the A. S. term for pullus, pullulus. Bird, as applied to a damsel, appears to be the common term used in a metaph. sense.

2. Used, also metaph., to denote the young of quadrupeds, particularly of the fox. V. Tod's Birds.

BYRD, v. imp. It behoved, it became. Barbour.

A. S. byreth, pertinet. This imp. v. may have been formed from byr-an, ber-an, to carry, or may be viewed as nearly allied to it. Hence bireth, gestavit; Germ. berd, ge-baerd, id., sich berd-en, gestum facere. Su. G. boer-a, debere, pret. borde, anciently boerjade.

BIRDING, s. Burden, load. V. Birth, Byrth. Douglas.

A. S. byrthen, Dan. byrde, id.

BIRD-MOUTH'D, adj. Mealy-mouth'd, S. Ramsay.

BYRE, s. Cowhouse, S. Byer, id. Cumb. Gawan and Gol.

Perhaps allied to Franc. buer, a cottage; byre, Su. G. byr, a village; Germ. bauer, habitaculum, cavea; from Su. G. bo, bu-a, to dwell. Or from Isl. bu, a cow; Gael. bo, id.

BIRK, s. Birch, a tree; S. Betula alba, Linn. Douglas.

A. S. birc, Isl. biorki, Teut. berck, id.

To BIRK, v. n. To give a tart answer, to converse in a sharp and cutting way; S.

A. S. birc-an, beorc-an, to bark, q. of a snarling humour.

Hence,

BIRKIE, adj. Tart, in speech, S.

BIRKY, s. 1. A lively young fellow; a person of mettle; S. Poems Buchan Dial. 2. Auld Birky, "In conversation, analogous to old Boy," Gl. Shirr. Ramsay.

Allied perhaps to Isl. berk-ia, jactare, to boast; or biarg-a, opitulari, q. one able to give assistance.

BIRKIN, BIRKEN, adj. Of, or belonging to birch; S. Gawan and Gol.

A. S. beorcen, id.

To BIRL, BIRLE, v. a. 1. This word primarily signifies the act of pouring out, or furnishing drink for guests, or of parting it among them. Douglas. 2. To ply with drink. Minst. Border. 3. To drink plentifully, S. Douglas. 4. To club money for the purpose of procuring drink. "I'll birle my bawbie," I will contribute my share of the expence; S. Ramsay.

In Isl. it is used in the first sense; byrl-a, infundere, miscere potum. In A. S. it occurs in sense third, biril-ian, birl-ian, haurire. Hence byrle, a butler. Isl. byrlar, id. Birle, O. E. has the same signification.

To BIRL, v. n. V. Birr, v.

BIRLAW-COURT, also BIRLEY-COURT. V. Burlaw.

BIRLEY-OATS, BARLEY-OATS, s. pl. A species of oats, S. Statist. Acc.

It seems to have received its name from its supposed resemblance to barley.

BIRLIE, s. A loaf of bread; S. B.

BIRLIN, s. A small vessel used in the Western Islands. Martin.

Probably of Scandinavian origin, as Sw. bars is a kind of ship; and berling, a boat-staff, Seren. I am informed, however, that in Gael. the word is written bhuirlin.

To BIRN, v. a. To burn. V. Bryn.

BIRN, BIRNE, s. A burnt mark; S. Acts Charles II. Skin and Birn, a common phrase, denoting the whole of any thing, or of any number of persons or things; S. from A. S. byrn, burning. Acts Marie.

BIRN, s. A burden, S. B. Ross. To gie one's birn a hitch, to assist him in a strait, S. B. Poems Buchan Dial.

An abbreviation of A. S. byrthen, burden; if not from C. B. biorn, onus, byrnia, onerare; Davies.

BIRNIE, BYRNIE, s. A corslet, a brigandine. Douglas.

A. S. byrn, byrna, Isl. bryn, brynia, Sw. bringa, thorax, lorica, munimentum pectoris; probably from Isl. bringa, pectus.

BIRNS, s. pl. Roots, the stronger stems of burnt heath, which remain after the smaller twigs are consumed; S.

A. S. byrn, incendium.

Pennycuik.

BIRR, s. Force. V. Beir.

To BIRR, v. n. To make a whirring noise, especially in motion; the same with birle, S. V. Beir, s. Douglas.

To Birl, v. n. 1. To "make a noise like a cart driving over stones, or mill-stones at work." It denotes a constant drilling sound, S. Popular Ball. 2. Used improperly, to denote quick motion in walking, Loth.

Birl seems to be a dimin. from the v. Birr, used in the same sense, formed by means of the letter l, a common note of diminution.

BIRS, BIRSE, BYRSS, BIRSSIS, s. 1. A bristle, "a sow's birse," the bristle of a sow, S. Evergreen. 2. Metaph. for the beard. Knox. 3. Metaph. for the indication of rage or displeasure. "To set up one's birss," to put one in a rage. The birse is also said to rise, when one's temper becomes warm, in allusion to animals fenced with bristles, that defend themselves, or express their rage in this way, S Course of Conformitie.

A. S. byrst, Germ. borst, burst, Su. G. borst, id. Ihre derives it from burr, a thistle. Sw. saettia up borsten, to put one in a rage; borsta sig, to give one's self airs, E. to bristle up.

Birssy, adj. 1. Having bristles, rough, S. Douglas. 2. Hot-tempered, easily irritated, S. 3. Keen, sharp; applied to the weather. "A birssy day," a cold bleak day, S. B.

To BIRSE, BIRZE, BRIZE, v. a. 1. To bruise, S. Watson. Palice of Honour.

Brise is common in O. E.

2. To push or drive; to birse in, to push in, S. Shirrefs.

A. S. brys-an, Belg. brys-en; Ir. bris-im; Fr. bris-er, id.

BIRSE, BRIZE, s. A bruise, S.

To BIRSLE, BIRSTLE, BRISSLE, v. a. 1. To burn slightly, to broil, to parch by means of fire; as, to birsle pease, S. Douglas. 2. To scorch; referring to the heat of the sun, S. Douglas. 3. To warm at a lively fire, S. A. Bor. brusle, id.

Su. G. brasa, a lively fire; whence Isl. brys, ardent heat, and bryss-a, to act with fervour, ec breiske, torreo, aduro; A. S. brastl, glowing, brastlian, to burn, to make a crackling noise.

BIRSLE, BRISSLE, s. A hasty toasting or scorching, S.

BIRTH, BYRTH, s. Size, bulk, burden. V. Burding. Douglas.

Isl. byrd, byrth-ur, byrth-i, Dan. byrde, Su. G. boerd, burden; whence byrding, navis oneraria. The origin is Isl. ber-a, Su. G. baer-a, A. S. ber-an, byr-an, portare.

BIRTH, s. A current in the sea, caused by a furious tide, but taking a different course from it, Orkn. Caithn. Statist. Acc.

Isl. byrdia, currere, festinare, Verel.; as apparently signifying a strong current.

BY-RUNIS, s. pl. Arrears. Skene.

This is formed like By-ganes, q. v.

BYRUNNING, part. pr. Waved. Douglas.

Moes. G. birinn-an, percurrere.

BISHOPRY, s. Episcopacy, government by diocesan bishops. Apologet. Relation.

A. S. biscoprice, episcopatus.

BISHOP'S FOOT. It is said, The Bishop's foot has been in the broth, when they are singed, S.

This phrase seems to have had its origin in times of Popery, when the clergy had such extensive influence, that hardly any thing could be done without their interference. A similar phrase is used A. Bor. "The bishop has set his foot in it, a saying in the North, used for milk that is burnt-to in boiling."

BISKET, s. Breast. V. Brisket.

BISM, BYSYME, BISNE, BISINE, s. Abyss, gulf. Douglas.

Fr. abysme, Gr. αβυσσος.

BISMAR, BYSMER, s. A steelyard, or instrument for weighing resembling it; sometimes bissimar, S. B., Orkn. V. Pundlar. Barry.

Isl. bismari, besmar, libra, trutina minor; Leg. West Goth. bismare, Su. G. besman; Teut. bosemer, id. stater; Kilian. G. Andr. derives this word from Isl. bes, a part of a pound weight.

BISMARE, BISMERE, s. 1. A bawd. Douglas. 2. A lewd woman, in general. Douglas.

"F. ab A. S. bismer, contumelia, aut bismerian, illudere, dehonorare, polluere," Rudd.

BISMER, s. The name given to a species of stickle-back, Orkn. Barry.

BISMING, BYISMING, BYISNING, BYSENING, BYSYNT, adj. Horrible, monstrous. V. Byssym. Douglas.

BYSPRENT, part. pa. Besprinkled, overspread. Douglas.

Belg. besprengh-en, to sprinkle.

BISSARTE, BISSETTE, s. A buzzard, a kind of hawk. Acts Ja. II.

Germ. busert, Fr. bussart, id.

To BYSSE, BIZZ, v. n. To make a hissing noise, as hot iron plunged into water, S. Douglas.

Belg. bies-en, to hiss like serpents.

BISSE, BIZZ, s. A hissing noise, S. Ferguson.

BYSSYM, BYSYM, BESUM, BYSN, BISSOME, BUSSOME, BYSNING, s. 1. A monster. Houlate. 2. A prodigy, something portentous of calamity. Knox. 3. Bysim is still used as a term highly expressive of contempt for a woman of an unworthy character, S. V. Bisming.

Mr Macpherson, vo. Bysynt, mentions A. S. bysmorfull, horrendus. Isl. bysmarfull has the same sense; bysna, to portend; bysn, a prodigy, grande quod ac ingens, G. Andr.

BISTAYD, BISTODE, pret. Perhaps, surrounded. Sir Tristrem.

A. S. bestod, circumdedit, from bestand-an, Teut. besteen, circumsistere, circumdare.

BYSTOUR, BOYSTURE, s. A term of contempt; the precise meaning of which seems to be lost. Polwart.

Several similar terms occur, as Fr. bistorié, crooked, boister, to limp; bustarin, a great lubber.

BIT, s. A vulgar term used for food, S. Bit and baid, meat and clothing, S. B. Ross.

Although baid be understood of clothing, I suspect that it, as well as bit, originally signified food, from A. S. bead, a table.

BYT, s. The pain occasioned by a wound. Douglas.

A. S. byt, morsus, metaph. used.

BYTESCHEIP, s. A contemptuous term, meant as a play on the title of Bishop. Semple.

BITTILL, s. A beetle, a heavy mallet, especially one used for beating clothes. Houlate.

To BYWAUE, v. a. To cover, to hide, to cloak. Douglas.

A. S. bewoef-an, Moes. G. biwaib-jan, id.

To BIZZ, v. n. To hiss. V. Bysse.

To BIZZ, BIZZ about, v. n. To be in constant motion, to bustle, S.

Su. G. bes-a, a term applied to beasts which, when beset with wasps, drive hither and thither; Teut. bies-en, bys-en, furente ac violento impetu agitari, Kilian.

BLA, BLAE, adj. Livid; a term frequently used to denote the appearance of the skin when discoloured by a severe stroke or contusion, S. Douglas.

Su. G. blaa, Isl. bla-r, Germ. blaw, Belg. blauw, Franc. plauu, lividus, glaucus.

To BLABBER, BLABER, BLEBER, v. n. To babble, to speak indistinctly. R. Bruce.

Teut. blabber-en, confuse et inepte garrire, Jun. vo. Blab.

Hence,

BLABERING, s. Babbling. Douglas.

BLACKAVICED, adj. Dark of the complexion, S. from black and Fr. vis, the visage. Ramsay.

BLACK-BOYDS, s. pl. The name given to the fruit of the bramble, West of S.

BLACK-BURNING, adj. Used in reference to shame, when it is so great as to produce deep blushing, or to crimson the countenance, S. Ramsay.

Su. G. Isl. blygd, shame, blushing; blygd-a, to blush; q. the burning of blushes.

BLACK-COCK, s. The Heath-cock, black Game, S. Tetrao tetrix, Linn. V. Penn. Zool. p. 266. Tetrao seu Urogallus minor.—Gallus palustris Scoticus, Gesn. Nostratibus, the Black cock. Sibb. Scot. p. 16. V. Capercailye.

BLACK FISH, fish when they have recently spawned. V. Reid Fische.

BLACK-FISHING, s. Fishing for salmon, under night, by means of torches, S. V. Leister. Statist. Acc.

BLACK-FOOT, s. A sort of matchmaker; one who goes between a lover and his mistress, endeavouring to bring the fair one to compliance, S. pronounced black-fit; synon. Mush, q. v.

BLACK-HEAD, s. The Powit-gull, Shetl. Neill.

BLACK-MAIL. V. Mail.

BLACK PUDDING. V. Mart.

BLACK SPAUL, a disease of cattle, S. Essays Highl. Soc.

BLAD, BLAUD, s. A large piece of any thing, a considerable portion, S. expl. "a flat piece of any thing," Gl. Burns. Polwort.

"A blad of bread," is a large flat piece. "I gat a great blad of Virgil by heart;" I committed to memory a great many verses from Virgil.

To ding in blads, to drive in pieces. Melville's MS.

This word, as perhaps originally applied to food, may be from A. S. blaed, fruit of any kind; blaed, bled, also denoted pot-herbs; Ir. bladh, a part; bladh-am, I break.

Blads and dawds, is still the designation given to large leaves of greens boiled whole, in a sort of broth, Aberd. Loth.

BLAD, s. A person who is of a soft constitution; whose strength is not in proportion to his size or looks; often applied to a young person, who has become suddenly tall, but is of a relaxed habit, S. B.

Allied, perhaps, to A. S. blaed, as denoting, either the boughs or leaves of trees, or growing corn; as both often shoot out so rapidly as to give the idea of weakness; or, to Germ. blode, the original sense of which is, weak, feeble.

BLAD, s. A portfolio, S. B.

As the E. word is comp. of Fr. porter, to carry, and feuille, a leaf; the S. term has a similar origin, being evidently from Su. G. blad, A. S. blaed, folium.

To BLAD. 1. Used impers. "Its bladdin on o' weet," the rain is driving on; a phrase that denotes intermitting showers accompanied with squalls, S. 2. To abuse, to maltreat in whatever way. Aberd. Corn is said to be bladdit, when overthrown by wind. 3. To slap, to strike; to drive by striking, or with violence, S. Dad, synon. Evergreen.

Germ. blodern is used in the first sense. Es blodert, it storms and snows; also, blat-en, to blow. Isl. blaegt-a indeed signifies, to be moved by the wind, motari aura; O. Fr. plaud-er, to bang, to maul.

BLAD, s. A squall; always including the idea of rain, S. A heavy fall of rain is called "a blad of weet," S. B.

Bladdy, adj. Inconstant, unsettled; applied to the weather. "A bladdy day," is one alternately fair and foul.

BLAD, s. A dirty spot on the cheek, S. perhaps q. the effect of a blow, Gael. blad, however, is synon.

BLADARIE, s. Perhaps, vain glory. R. Bruce.

Teut. blaeterije, jactantia, vaniloquentia.

BLADDERAND, BLADDRAND V. Blether.

BLADE, s. The leaf of a tree, S.

A. S. blaed, bled; Su. G. Isl. Belg. blad, Germ. blat, Alem. plat, id.; perhaps the part. pa. of A. S. blew-an, blow-an, florere, to bud, to burgeon; blaewed, q. what is blowed, or shot forth; just as Franc. bluat, flos, is from bly-en, florere.

BLADOCH, BLEDOCH, BLADDA, s. Butter-milk, S. B. Bannatyne Poems.

Ir. bladhach, Gael. blath-ach, id. C. B. blith, milk in general.

BLADRY, s. Expl. "trumpery." Kelly.

It may be either the same with Bladarie, or Blaidry, q. v.

BLAE, BLAY, s. The rough parts of wood left in consequence of boring or sawing, S. B.

Germ. bleh, thin leaves or plates; lamina, bracteola; Wachter.

BLAES, s. pl. Apparently, lamina of stone, S. Law Case.

BLAE, adj. Livid. V. Bla.

BLAE-BERRY, s. The Billberry; Vaccinium myrtillus, Linn. Ramsay.

Sw. bla-baer, vaccinium, Seren. Isl. blaber, myrtilli; G. Andr.

To BLAFLUM, v. a. To beguile, S. V. Bleflum. Ramsay.

BLAIDRY, s. Nonsense. V. Blether, v.

BLAIDS, s. pl. Watson's Coll.

A. S. blaedr, Su. G. blaedot, and Germ. blater, denote a pimple, or swelling with many reddish pimples that eat and spread. A. S. blaecth, leprosy.

BLAIN, s. A mark left by a wound, the discolouring of the skin after a sore, S. Rutherford.

A. S. blegene, Belg. bleyne, pustula. But our term is more closely allied to Isl. blina, which is not only rendered pustula, but also, caesio ex verbere; G. Andr. Germ. blae-en, to swell.

BLAIN, s. A blank, a vacancy. A blain in a field, a place where the grain has not sprung, Loth.

Probably a metaph. use of the preceding word.

BLAIR, s. That part of flax which is afterwards used in manufacture, properly after it has been steeped, and laid out for being dried; for it is subsequently called lint, S. This in E. is denominated harle.

Sw. blaer, hards of flax; but rather from Isl. blaer, aura, because it is thus exposed to the drought.

To BLAIR, v. n. To become dry by exposure to the drought, Ang.

BLAIRIN, s. The ground appropriated for drying flax, Ang.

This term also denotes the ground on which peats are laid out to be dried, ibid.

BLAIRAND, part. pr. Roaring, crying.

Teut. blaer-en, mugire, Gl. Sibb.

BLAIT, adj. Naked, bare. Pr. of Peblis.

BLAIT, BLATE, adj. 1. Bashful, sheepish, S. Ramsay. 2. Blunt, unfeeling; a secondary sense. Douglas. 3. Curt, rough, uncivil. Spalding. 4. Easily deceived. Gl. Surv. Nairn.

O. E. blade, silly, frivolous; or in the same sense in which we now speak of a blunt reason or excuse. Isl. blaad-ur, blauth-ur, blaud, soft. The word seems to be primarily applied to things which are softened by moisture. Mollis, limosus, maceratus. Hence used to signify what is feminine; as opposed to huat-ar, masculine. It also signifies, timid. Bleyde, softness, fear, shame; hugbleith, softness of mind; Germ. Su. G. blode, Belg. blood, mollis, timidus.

BLAIT-MOUIT, adj. Bashful, sheepish, q. ashamed to open one's mouth.

BLAITIE-BUM, s. Simpleton, stupid fellow. Lyndsay.

If this be the genuine orthography, perhaps from Teut. blait, vaniloquus; or rather, blait, sheepish, and bomme, tympanum. But it is generally written Batie-bum, q. v.

BLAK of the EIE, the apple of the eye, S. R. Bruce.

BLAN, pret. Caused to cease. Gawan and Gol.

It is undoubtedly the pret. of blin; A. S. blan, blann, cessavit.

BLANCHART, adj. White. Gawan and Gol.

Fr. blanc, blanche, id. The name blanchards is given to a kind of linen cloth the yarn of which has been twice bleached, before it was put into the loom; perhaps immediately from Teut. blancke, id. and aerd, Belg. aardt, nature.

V. Art.

BLANCIS, s. pl. Ornaments worn by those who represented Moors, in the Pageant exhibited at Edinburgh, A. 1590. Watson's Coll.

If not allied to Fr. blanc, white, it may be a cognate of Germ. Su. G. blaess, Isl. bles, signum album in fronte equi; whence E. blason, S. Bawsand, q. v.

BLAND, s. Some honourable piece of dress worn by knights and men of rank. Maitland Poems.

Blanda, according to Bullet, is a robe adorned with purple, a robe worn by grandees. Su. G. blyant, bliant, a kind of precious garment among the ancients, which seems to have been of silk.

To BLAND, v. a. To mix, to blend. Douglas.

Su. G. Isl. bland-a, to mix.

BLANDED BEAR, barley and common bear mixed, S. Statist. Acc.

From Su. G. bland-a is formed blan-saed, meslin or mixed corn.

BLAND, s. A drink used in the Shetland Islands. Brand.

Isl. blanda, cinnus, mixtura, pro potu, aqua mixto; Su. G. bland dicebatur mel aqua permixtum.

To BLANDER, v. a. 1. To babble, to diffuse any report, such especially as tends to injure the character of another, S. 2. Sometimes used to denote the want of regard to truth in narration; a thing very common with tattlers, S. B.

Perhaps from Isl. bland-a, Dan. bland-er, to mingle, as denoting the blending of truth with falsehood.

BLANDIT, part. pa. Flattered, soothed. Dunbar.

Fr. blander, to soothe, Lat. blandiri.

To BLASH, n. a. To soak, to drench. "To blash one's stomach," to drink too copiously of any weak and diluting liquor; S. V. Plash.

Perhaps radically the same with plash, from Germ. platz-en.

BLASH, s. A heavy fall of rain; S.

BLASHY, adj. Deluging, sweeping away by inundation; S. Ramsay.

Blashy, "thin, poor; Northumb."

BLASNIT, adj. Perhaps, bare, bald, without hair. Bannatyne Poems.

Germ. bloss, bare, bloss-en, to make bare; or rather, Teut. bles, calvus, whence blesse, frons capillo nuda.

BLASOWNE, s. 1. Dress over the armour, on which the armorial bearings were blazoned. Wyntown. 2. The badge of office worn by a king's messenger on his arm, S. Erskine.

Germ. blaesse denotes a sign in general. Thence blazon, a term marking that sign, in heraldry, which is peculiar to each family. The origin seems to be Su. G. blaesse.

V. Bawsand.

To BLAST, v. n. 1. To pant, to breathe hard, S. B. Ross. 2. To smoke tobacco, S. B. 3. To blow with a wind instrument. Gawan and Gol. 4. To boast, to speak in an ostentatious manner. S.

Su. G blaas-a, inspirare, Germ. blas-en, flare. Isl. blast-ur, halitus, flatus.

Hence,

BLAST, s. A brag, a vain boast, S. Z. Boyd.

BLASTER, s. A boaster; also, one who speaks extravagantly in narration, S.

BLASTIE, s. "A shrivelled dwarf; a term of contempt," S. q. what is blasted. Burns.

To BLAST, v. a. To blow up with gunpowder. Statist. Acc.

BLASTER. One who is employed to blow up stones with gunpowder; S. Pennant.

BLATE, adj. Bashful. V. Blait.

To BLATHER, v. n. To talk nonsensically.

BLATHER, s. V. Blether.

BLATTER, s. A rattling noise; S. Ramsay.

Lat. blater-are, Teut. blater-en, stultè loqui.

BLAUCHT, adj. Pale, livid. Palace of Hon.

A. S. blac, blaec; Su. G. blek, Isl. bleik-r, E. bleak, pallidus. A. S. blac-ian, Su. G. blek-na, to wax pale.

BLAVING, BLAUING, s. Blowing. Gawan and Gol.

A. S. blawan byman, buccina canere.

BLAW, s. A blow, a stroke. Wallace.

Teut. blaew-en, caedere. Blaw is used in this sense. Gl. Westmorel.

To BLAW, v. Used both as a. and n. 1. To blow; in a literal sense referring to the wind. S. Douglas.

A. S. blaw-an, flare.

2. To breathe, S. Abp. Hamiltoun. 3. To publish, to make known. S. Burel. E. blow is used in the same sense. 4. To brag, to boast, S. Blast, synon. Barbour. Douglas.

Germ. blaw, falsus, mendax, dolosus. Teut. blas-en, flare et nimiis vanisque laudibus rem efferre, ac inani flatu infarcire.

5. To magnify in narration, especially from a principle of ostentation, S. 6. To flatter, to coax. Baillie. S. Prov. "Ye first burn me, and then blaw me." 7. To blaw in one's lug, to cajole or flatter a person, so as to be able to guide him at will, S. Nicol Burne. To blow in the ear, id. O. E.

Su. G. blaas-a, to instil evil counsel. Teut. oor-blaesen, not only signifies, in aurem mussare, sive mussitare, obgannire in aurem; but is rendered, blandiri.

8. To huff a man at draughts. I blaw, or blow you, I take this man, S.

Su. G. blaas-a, to blow, is used in this very sense. Blaasa bort en bricka i damspel, Seren.

9. To blaw appin locks or bolts, and to loose fetters, by means of a magical power ascribed to the breath, S. Satan's Invisible World.

10. To blaw out on one, to reproach him. Wallace.

BLAW, s. 1. A blast, a gust, S. Rudd. Gawan and Gol. 2. The sound emitted by a wind instrument. 3. A falsehood, a lie told from ostentation. He tells greit blaws, S. B. Ramsay.