Fr.à l'aventure, id.
AVER, AVIR, AIVER,s.1. A horse used for labour, a cart-horse, S.Bellenden.2. An old horse, one that is worn out with labour, S.Dunbar.3. A gelded goat, S.V.Hebrun.Statist. Acc.
L. B.afferi,affri, jumenta vel cavalli colonici;averia,averii, equi, boves, jumenta; Du Cange.
V.Arage.
AVERIL,s.Apparently a diminutive fromaver, a beast for labour.Dunbar.
AVERILE, AVYRYLE,s.April.Wyntown.
AVERIN, AVEREN, AIVERIN,s.Cloudberry or knoutberry, S. Rubus chamaemorus, Linn.; eaten as a dessert in the north of S.Ross.
Perhaps from Germ.averwild, anden, a term now applied in Su. G. to the berry of the juniper; Gael.oidh' rac,oirak.
AVIL,s.The second crop after lea or grass; Galloway.V.Awat.
AVILLOUS,adj.Contemptible, debased.Chron. Scot. P.
Fr.avili,ie, in contemptionem adductus; Dict. Trev.
AUISE,s.Advice, counsel;avis, Chaucer;avys, R. Brunne.
Fr.avis.
Douglas.
AVYSE, AWISE,s.Manner, fashion.Douglas.
A. S.wisa,wise, Alem.uuis,uuisa, Belg.wijse, modus.
AVISION,s.Vision; Chaucer, id.Douglas.
Fr.avision, vision, fantaisie; Gl. Roquefort.
AUKWART, AWKWART,prep.Athwart, across.Wallace.
AULD,s.Age.Abp. Hamiltoun.
A. S.aeldsenectus, Moes. G.aldsaetas.
V.Eild.
AULDFARREN,adj.Sagacious, S.;audfarand, id. A. Bor.Ramsay.
Moes. G.aldold, and Swed.far-a, Germ.far-en, experiri; Swed.faren, Isl.farinn, peritus; Belg.aervaaren, skilful.
AULD-MOU'D,adj.Sagacious in discourse; sometimes implying the idea of craft, S. B.Ross.
Fromauldold, andmou'ormow, the mouth.
AULD-FATHER,s.A grandfather; a term used by some in the west of S.
A. S.eald-faeder, Belg.oud-vader, avus.
AULD-WARLD,adj.Antique, antiquated, S.Ferguson.
Fromauldold, andwarldworld.
AULIN.Scouti-aulin,Dirty Aulin, the arctic gull, Orkn. Loth.Pennant.V.Scouti-Aulin, andSkaitbird.
AULTRAGES, AULTERAGES,s. pl.The emoluments arising from the offerings made at an altar, or from the rents appointed for the support of it.Spotswood.
L. B.altarag-ium,alterag-ium, obventio altaris; Du Cange.
AUMERS,s. pl.Embers.V.Ameris.
ToAUNTER, AWNTYR,v. a.To hazard, to put into the power of accident.Barbour.
Fr.aventur-er, risquer, mettre au hazard; Dict. Trev.
Aunteris used by Chaucer and Gower in a neuter sense.V.Anter,v.
AUNTER,s.Adventure; O. E.antre, R. Brunne.Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.
Fr.aventure,auenture, abbreviated.
AUNTEROUS,adj.Adventurous.Gl. Sibb.
O. Fr.aventureux, hasardé; L. B.adventor-ius; Gl. Roquefort.
ToAVOKE,v. a.To call away, to keep off.
Lat.avoc-are.
Baillie.
AVOUTERIE, ADVOUTERIE,s.Adultery.Gl. Sibb.
O. Fr.avoutrie; Ital.avolteria; Lat.adulter-ium; Teut.vouter-en, fornicare, camerare.
AVOW, AVOWE,s.1. A vow; used in the same sense by Chaucer.Douglas.2. Discovery, declaration; in modern language, avowal.Minstrelsy Bord.
Fr.avou-er, to confess.
AUSTIE,adj.Austere, harsh.Henrysone.
A. S.ostige, knotty, fromost, Teut.oest, a knot, properly in wood.
ToAW, AWE,v. a.To owe, S.Wallace.
Isl.aa,atte, debeo, debuit; A. S.ag,ahte; Su. G.a; Moes. G.aih, habeo, imperf.aiht-a.
V.Aigh,Aucht.
AW, sometimes to be viewed as the third pers. sing. of thev.; signifying owed, ought.Wallace.
ToAUCHT, AWCHT, AUGHT,v. a.To owe.V.Aw.Peblis to the Play.
AW, used forAll, S.Bannatyne P.Wyth aw, withal.Douglas.
AWA,adv.Away; the general pronunciation in S.Douglas.
ToAWAIL, AWAL,v. a.1. To let fall.Barbour.2. To descend; used in a neuter sense.Wallace.
Fr.aval-er, to go, or fall, down; also, to let fall; Teut.af-vall-en, decidere;af-val, casus; Su. G.afal,affal, lapsus.
ToAWAILL, AWAILYE,v. n.To avail.Barbour.
AWAY. This word seems to have been used occasionally as a verb.Barbour.
A. S.aweg, away, may be viewed as the imperat. ofawaeg-an, to take away, orawegg-an, to depart.
AWAYMENTIS,s. pl.Consultations; Gl. Perhaps preparations, or preliminaries.Wyntown.
Perhaps from O. Fr.avoy-er, to put in train;avoyment, enquêté, ouverture; devia; Gl. Roquefort.
AWALT SHEEP, one that has fallen backward, or downhill, and cannot recover itself, S.V.Awail.Gl. Sibb.
ToAWANCE,v. a.To advance.
Fr.avanc-er, id.
Wallace.
AWAT,s.Ground ploughed after the first crop from lea. The crop produced is called theawat-crap, also pronouncedaward; Ang.Avil, Galloway,aewall, Clydes. id.
A. S.afed, pastus,af-at, depastus; or Su. G.awat,afat, deficiens; or perhaps fromaf-val, diminution, as the same withAwalt, q. v.
AWAWARD,s.The vanguard.Barbour.
Fr.avantgarde.
AWBYRCHOWNE, AWBERCHEOUN,s.The habergeon, or breastplate.Wyntown.
Franc.halsberge, Isl.halsbeorg, collare chalybeum, fromhalsthe neck, andbergato defend; Fr.haubergeon; L. B.halberg-ium.
AWBLASTER,s.1. A crossbow-man,alblastere, andarblast, O. E.Barbour.2. The crossbow itself; Fr.arbaleste.Wallace.
Fr.arbelestier, L. B.arcubalista, arbalista.
AWCY,s.Perhaps, pain, torment.
A. S.ace,aece, dolor.
Sir Gawan and Sir Gol.
AWEDE,adj.In a state approaching to insanity.Sir Tristrem.
A. S.awed-an,awoed-an, insanire.
ToAWENT,v. a.To cool or refresh by exposing to the air.Barbour.
A. S.awynd-wian, ventilare, fromwind, ventus.
AWERTY, AUERTY,adj.Cautious, experienced;auerty, R. Brunne.Barbour.
Fr.averti, warned, advertised.
AWIN, AWYN, AWNE,adj.Own, proper, S.awne; Gl. Yorks. id. This is the common pron. of the south of S.; in other parts,ain.Wallace.
Moes. G.aigin,aihn, proprius, A. S.agen, Germ.eighen, Belg.eyghen, Su. G.egen, id. from their respective verbs denoting right or property.
AWISE,s.Manner, fashion.V.Avyse.
AWISE, AWYSEE,adj.Prudent, considerate, cautious.Barbour.
Fr.avisé, prudens, cautus, consideratus; deduced in Dict. Trev. from Goth.wis-an, A. S.vis-an, withadprefixed, L. B.avisare.
AWISELY,adv.Prudently, circumspectly.Barbour.
AWMON, HEWMON,s.A helmet.Gl. Sibb.
AMOUS,s.A cap or cowl; a covering for the head; printedaumons.Houlate M. S.
L. B.almuc-ia, O. Fr.aumusse, from Germ.mutze, S.mutch.
AWNIE,adj.Bearded, S.V.Next word.Burns.
AWNS,s. pl.The beards of corn, S.Anes, Prov. E.Bar awns, the beards of barley, Ang. Perths.
Moes. G.ahana, Su. G.agn, Gr. αχνα, αχνη, chaff; Alem.agena, id.; also, a shoot or stalk.
AWP, WHAUP,s.The curlew, a bird, S.V.Quhaip.Gl. Sibb.
AWORTH,adv."Worthily," Tytler.King's Quair.
A. S.awyrth-ian, glorificare.
AWRO, Probablya wro, a corner.Gl. Complaynt S.
Su. G.wra, pron.wro, angulus.
AWS, AWES,of a mill-wheel,s.The buckets or projections on the rims which receive the shock of the water as it falls, S.Statist. Acc.
AWSK,s.The newt or eft.V.Ask.
AWSOME,adj.Appaling, awful, S. B.Rutherford.
AWSTRENE,adj.Stern, austere.V.Asterne.Henrysone.
Lat.auster-us, or A. S.styrn.
AWTAYNE,adj.Haughty.Wyntown.
O. Fr.hautain, grand, sublime, elevé, Gl. Roquefort; from Lat.alt-us.
AWTER,s.An altar; Chaucer, id.
O. Fr.autiere, Lat.altare.
Barbour.
ToAX,v. a.To ask, S.Asched,axede, asked; R. Glouc.Ruddiman.
A. S.ahs-ian,ax-ian, interrogare.
AXIS, ACKSYS,s. pl.Aches, pains.Axes, id. Orkn.King's Quair.
A. S.aece, dolor;egesa, horror; Moes. G.agis, terror.
AX-TREE,s.An axle-tree, S.
A. S.eax,ex; Alem.ahsa, Germ.achse, axis; perhaps from Isl.ak-a, to drive a chariot or dray, G. Andr.
AYONT,prep.Beyond, S.Ross.A. S.geondultra, with a prefixed; oron, asafield, originallyon field.
AYONT,prep.Beyond, S.Ross.
A. S.geondultra, with a prefixed; oron, asafield, originallyon field.
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; ToBachle.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 asBack-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 terminationLingis.
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 onebackin any course, S.Wodrow.
Eng.backandset.
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.
Backandspang, to spring.
ToBACK-SPEIR,v. a.1. To trace a report as far back as possible, S.2. To cross-question; S.
Backandspeir, 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.ofBide, 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.
ToBAE,v. n.To bleat, S.
BAE,s.The sound emitted in bleating, S.
Fr.bee, id.
ToBAFF,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.
ToBAICHIE,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, frombair-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-PARTofGear, 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.
ToBAISS,v. a.To sew slightly, S.
Fr.bast-ir, E.baste.
ToBAIST,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.
ToBAYT,v. a.To give food to.Barbour.
Isl.beit-a, to drive cattle to pasture,beitpasture.
ToBAYT,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, frombo,bo-a,bu-a, to dwell, to inhabit.
BALAS,s.A sort of precious stone, said to be brought fromBalassiain 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 "abaldmoon."Kelly.
A. S.bald,beald, Su. G. Alem. Germ.bald, audax.
ToBALD,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, Togaronelauch,singordance Bamullo, to makeonechange one's mirth into sorrow, Ang. Perths.
C. B.bwterror, 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.
ToBAN, 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.
BANDof 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 withKing 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 abeanin it;Rex fabae.Knox.
BANE-FYER,s.A bonfire, S.Acts Ja. VI.
Apparently corrupted fromBail-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.
ToBANG,v. n.To change place with impetuosity; as, tobang 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.
ToBANGout,v. a.To draw out hastily, S.Ross.
BANG,s.1. An action expressive of haste; as, Hecam wi' a bang, S.In a bang, suddenly, S.Ross.2. A great number, a crowd, S.Ramsay.
ToBANG,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.
FromBangster.
Acts Ja. VI.
BANKERS,s. pl.Apparently the same withBancouris, 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 onebandster, S. Fife, S. A.
A. S.band, vinculum, andwin, 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.
ToBAR,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.
ToBARBULYIE,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.
Frombard, S.baird, a minstrel.
BARE,adj.Lean, meagre, S.
A. S.bare,baer, nudus.
ToBARGANE,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.
ToBARK,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.
ToBARKEN,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.breakingthebarley, orparley.
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 ofbarley, or other grain to market, S.
BARLICHOOD,s.A fit of ill-humour, especially as the result of intemperance, S.Ramsay.
Frombarley; 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. "Abarmyquean," 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 terminationkin.
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 ourbarnheidor nativity.Wallace.
BARNE,s.The same withBarnage.
Old Fr.barnez, nobility.
Wallace.
BARNE,s.A child.V.Bairn.
BARNE,s.Apparently forbarme, bosom.Douglas.
BARNS-BREAKING,s.Any mischievous or injurious action; in allusion to the act ofbreakingup abarnfor 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.
ToBASH,v. a.To beat to sherds, Loth.Smashsynon.
Su. G.bas-a, to strike.
BASH,s.A blow, S. A.
ToBASHup,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 thegirnalto thebakeboard, 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.Baidis 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.
Frombatiea dog, andbum, to make a humming noise. Teut.bommel, a drone.
BATS,s. pl.The disease in horses called in E. thebots, S.Polwart.
Teut.botte, papula, a swelling with many reddish pimples that eat and spread; Swed.bett, pediculi, frombit-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.
ToBATTER,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.
ToBATTER,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 withbaittle, applied to grass that is well stocked, South of S.
Teut.bottel, andbottel-boom, denote the arbutus, or wild strawberry tree.
BATWARD,s.A boatman; literally, a boat-keeper.Wyntown.
Isl.bat, cymba, andvard, vigil, Swed.ward, custodia.
BAVARD,adj.Worn out, in a state of bankruptcy.Baiverandbaiver-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 apoupée, ordoll, 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 sensewaughis now used, S.Polwart.2. Not good, insufficient in whatever respect, S. as "abaughtradesman," 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 bebauch, when there has been a partial thaw. The opposite isslidorgleg, 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.
ToBAUCHLE, 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.Bashelmay be allied to Fr.bossel-er, to bruise.
Isl.backell, luxatus, valgus, shambling,biag-aviolare, whencebiag-adrluxatus, 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 ofany 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.