BROCKED, BROAKIT,adj.Variegated, having a mixture of black and white, S. A cow is said to bebroakit, that has black spots or streaks, mingled with white, in her face, S. B.Statist. Acc.
Su. G.brokug,brokig, party-coloured; Ir.breach, speckled; Gael.brucach, speckled in the face.
BROCKLIE,adj.Brittle.V.Brukyl.
BROD,s.A board, any flat piece of wood, a lid, S. A. Bor.breid, a shelf or board, Ray.
Isl.broth, A. S.braed,bred, id.
ToBROD,v. a.1. To prick, to job; to spur, S.Douglas. Complaynt S.2. To pierce, used metaph., S.Ferguson.3. To incite, to stimulate; applied to the mind.Douglas.
Su. G.brodd, cuspis, aculeus; Isl.brodd, the point of an arrow; sometimes the arrow itself, a javelin, any pointed piece of iron or steel;brydd-a, pungere; Ir. Gael.brod-am, to spur, to stimulate.
Brod,Brode,s.1. A sharp-pointed instrument; as the goad used to drive oxen forward, S.Wyntown.2. A stroke with a sharp-pointed instrument, S.Complaynt S.3. An incitement, instigation.Douglas.
Broddit Staff, "A staff with a sharp point at the extremity," Gl. Sibb. Also called apike-staff, S. This is the same withbroggit-staff.
V.Brog.
BRODYRE,BRODIR,s.A brother; pl.bredir,bredyre.Wyntown.
Isl.brodur, pl.broeder.
Brodir-Dochter,s.A niece, S.Wyntown.Brodir-sonorbrother-son, andsister-son, are used in the same manner; andbrother-bairnfor cousin, S.
A Swed. idiom.Brorsdotter, niece;brorson, nephew;brorsbarn, the children of a brother.
BROD MALE, BRODMELL,s.The brood brought forth, or littered, at the same time.Douglas.
From A. S.brod, proles, andmael, tempus; or O. Germ,mael, consors,socius; whenceee-ghe-mael, conjunx, Kilian.
Brod Sow, A sow that has a litter.Polwart.
ToBROG,v. a.To pierce, to strike with a sharp instrument, S.Acts Ja. I.
Hencebroggit staff, mentioned as a substitute for an ax. The termprog-staffis now used in the same sense, q. v.
Brog,s.1. A pointed instrument; such as an awl, S.2. A job with such an instrument, S.
BROG, BROGUE,s.A coarse and light kind of shoe, made of horse-leather, much used by the Highlanders, and by those who go to shoot in the hills, S.
Ir. Gael.brog, a shoe.
Lord Hailes.
BROGH,s.Ye man bring brogh and hammer for't, i. e. You must bring proof for it, Loth.
In the North of Germany, the phraseburg und emmeris used in a similar sense, as denoting legal security. Ourbroghand Germ.burgboth denote suretyship. The proper meaning ofemmeris not known.
ToBROGLE,v. a.To prick, Loth.Brog, synon.
BROGUE,s."A hum, a trick," S.Burns.
Isl.brogd, astus, stratagemata, Verel.brigd, id.
BROICE. Leg.Broite.Barbour.
ToBROIGH,v. n.To be in a fume of heat; to be in a state of violent perspiration, and panting; Lanerks.V.Brothe, from which it is probably corr.
BROILLERIE,s.A state of contention.V.Brulyie.Godscroft.
Fr.brouillerie, confusion.
BROK, BROCK, BROKS,s.Fragments of any kind, especially of meat; S.Bannatyne Poems.
Moes. G.ga-bruko, Alem.bruch, id. Hence also Germ.brocke, a fragment.
ToBrok,Brock,v. a.To cut, crumble, or fritter any thing into shreds or small parcels, S.
Apparently formed as a frequentative frombreak; if not immediately from thes.
BROKAR,s.A bawd, a pimp.Douglas.
This is merely a peculiar use of E.broker.
BROKYLL,adj.Brittle.V.Brukyl.
BROKITTIS,s. pl.The same with E.Brocket, a red deer of two years old.
Fr.brocart, id.
Douglas.
BRONCHED,pret.Pierced.Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.
Probably an error forbroched, from Fr.brocher.
BRONDYN,part. pa.Branched.Houlate.
Fr.brondes, green boughs or branches.
BRONYS, BROUNYS, BROWNIS,s. pl.Branches, boughs.Douglas.
From the same origin with the preceding word.
ToBRONSE,v. n.To overheat one's self in a warm sun, or by sitting too near a strong fire, S.
Isl.bruni, inflammatio, Moes. G.brunsts, incendium.
BRONT,part. pa.Burnt, S.brunt.V.Bryn,v.Douglas.
BROO,s.Broth, juice, &c.V.Bree.
BROODIE,adj.1. Prolific; applied to the female of any species, that hatches or brings forth many young; as,a broodie hen, S.2. Fruitful, in a general sense, S.Z. Boyd.
BROOSE,s.A race at country weddings.V.Bruse.
BROSE,s.A kind of pottage made by pouring water or broth on meal, which is stirred while the liquid is poured, S. The dish is denominated from the nature of the liquid, aswater-brose,kail-brose.Ross.
A. S.ceales briu, kail-broo, S.;briwas niman, to take pottage or brose.
BROT, BROTACH,s.A quilted cloth or covering, used for preserving the back of a horse from being ruffled by theShimach, on which the pannels are hung, being fastened to a pack-saddle; Mearns.
Isl.brot, plicatura.
ToBROTCH,v. a.To plait straw-ropes round a stack of corn, S. B.; synon.Brath, q. v.
Isl.brus-a, to fasten.
BROTHE,s."A greatbrotheof sweet," a vulgar phrase used to denote a violent perspiration, S.
The word may be radically the same withfroth; or allied to Isl.braede,braedde, liquefacio.
ToBrothe,v. n.To be in a state of profuse perspiration, S.Chron. S. Poet.
BROTEKINS, BROTIKINS,s. pl.Buskins, a kind of half boots.Lyndsay.
Fr.brodequin, Teut.broseken, a buskin.
BROUDSTER,s.Embroiderer.V.Browdin.Pitscottie.
Fr.brod-er, to embroider.
BROUKIT, BROOKED, BRUCKIT, BRUKET,adj.The face is said to bebroukit, when it has spots or streaks of dirt on it, when it is partly clean and partly foul. A sheep, that is streaked or speckled in the face, is designed in the same manner.Burns.
There can be no doubt that this is originally the same withBrocked,Broakit. We may add to the etymon there given, Dan.broged, variegated; speckled, grisled.
BROW,s. Nae brow, no favourable opinion. "An illbrow," an opinion preconceived to the disadvantage of any person or thing, S.Mary Stewart.
BROWDIN, BROWDEN,part. pa.Fond, warmly attached, eagerly desirous, having a strong propensity, S. It often implies the idea of folly in the attachment, or in the degree of it.Montgomerie."Tobrowden ona thing, to be fond of it. North." Gl. Grose.
It may be formed from Belg.broed-en, to brood, to hatch; all creatures being fond of their young.
BROWDYN,part. pa.Embroidered.Wyntown.
C. B.brod-io, and Fr.brod-er, to embroider. Isl.brydd-a, pungere,brodd, aculeus.
BROWDIN,part. pa.Expl. "clotted, defiled, filthy," Gl. Sibb.Chr. Kirk.
Teut.brodde, sordes.
BROWDYNE,part. pa.Displayed, unfurled.Barbour.
A. S.braed-an, to dilate, to expand.
BROWNIE,s.A spirit, till of late years supposed to haunt some old houses, those, especially, attached to farms. Instead of doing any injury, he was believed to be very useful to the family, particularly to the servants, if they treated him well; for whom, while they took their necessary refreshment in sleep, he was wont to do many pieces of drudgery, S.Douglas.
Ruddiman seems to think that these spirits were calledBrownies, from their supposed "swarthy or tawny colour." They may be viewed as corresponding with theSwartalfar, i. e.swarthyorblackelves of the Edda, as theLiosalfar, or white elves, are analogous to ourFairies.
BROWST, BROWEST,s.1. As much malt liquor as is brewed at a time, S.Burrow Lawes.2. Used metaph. to denote the consequences of any one's conduct, especially in a bad sense. This is often called "an illbrowst," S.Kelly.
Isl.brugg-a raed, invenire callida consilia;brugga suik, struere insidias.
Browster,Browstare,s.A brewer, S.Douglas.
A. S.briw-an, coquere cerevisiam; Teut.brouw-en, id.; Isl. egbrugg-a, decoquo cerevisias. In the ancient Saxon, the terminationsteraffixed to a s. masculine, makes it feminine. Thus,baecestreproperly signifiespistrix, "a woman-baker." Somn.
ToBRUB,v. a.To check, to restrain, to keep under, to oppress, to break one's spirit by severity, S. B.; allied perhaps to A. Bor.brob, to prick with a bodkin, Gl. Grose.
BRUCHE,s.V.Broche.
BRUCKIT,adj.V.Brocked.
BRUCKLE,adj.Brittle.V.Brukyl.
BRUDERMAIST,adj.Most affectionate; literally, most brotherly.Dunbar.
BRUE.s.V.Bree.
BRUGH, BROGH, BROUGH, BURGH,s.1. An encampment of a circular form, S. B.
In Lothian, encampments of the circular form are calledRing-forts, from A. S.hring, orbis, circulus.
2. This name is also given to the stronger sort of houses in which the Picts are said to have resided.Brand.3. A borough. "A royalbrugh;" "Abrughof barony," as distinguished from the other, S. B.V.Burch.4. A hazy circle round the disk of the sun or moon, generally considered as a presage of a change of weather, is called abrughorbrogh, S.Statist. Acc.
A. S.beorg,borh, munimentum, agger, arx, "a rampire, a place of defence and succour," Somner;burg, castellum, Lye. The origin is probably found in Moes. G.bairgs, mons.
BRUICK, BRUK,s.A kind of boil, S.Gl. Complaynt.
An inflamed tumour or swelling of the glands under the arm is called abruick-boil, S. B., pron. asbrook.
Isl.bruk, elatio, tumor; expl. of a swelling that suppurates.
ToBRUIK, BRUKE, BROOK,v. a.To enjoy, to possess.Poems Buchan Dial.
A. S.bruc-an, Franc.gebruch-en, Su. G. Isl.bruk-a, Belg.bruyck-en, Germ.brauch-en, to use.
BRUKYL, BROKYLL, BROKLIE,adj.1. Brittle, easily broken, S.Kelly.Hamilton.2. Metaph. used in relation to the unsettled state of political matters.Baillie.3. It seems to signify soft, pliable, as applied to the mind.Wyntown.4. Fickle, inconstant.Wallace.5. Inconstant, as including the idea of deceit.King's Quair.6. Weak, delicate, sickly, S. B.7. Apt to fall into sin, or to yield to temptation.Abp. Hamiltoun.
Teut.brokel, fragilis, frombrok-en, frangere; Sw.braeckelig, id. Germ.brocklicht, crumbling.
Bruckilness,Brokilness,s.1. Brittleness, S.2. Apparently, incoherence, or perhaps weakness; used metaphorically.King's Quair.
BRUDY,adj.Prolific.V.Broodie.Bellenden.
BRULYIE, BRULYEMENT,s.1. A brawl, broil, fray, or quarrel, S.Ross.2. Improperly used for a battle.Hamilton.
Fr.brouiller, to quarrel; Su. G.bryl-la,foerbrilla, to embroil.
ToBRUND,v. n.To emit sparks as a flint does when struck.—It's brundin, the fire flies from it, S. B.
Su. G.brinn-a, to burn.
Brunds,Brundis,Brwndys,s. pl.1. Brands, pieces of wood lighted.Wallace.2. It seems to signify the remains of burnt wood, reduced to the state of charcoal, and as perhaps retaining some sparks.Barbour.3. The term is still commonly used in Ang., only with greater latitude.
A. S.brondmay be the origin; as in the second sense it merely denotes a firebrand almost entirely burnt out.
BRUS,s.Force,impetus.Douglas.
Belg.bruyssch-en, to foam or roar like the sea; Su. G.brus-a, sonare; De aquis cum impetu ruentibus aut fluctibus maris; Ihre.
BRUSE, BROOSE, BRUISE,s. To ride the bruse.1. To run a race on horseback at a wedding, S., a custom still preserved in the country. Those who are at a wedding, especially the younger part of the company, who are conducting the bride from her own house to the bridegroom's, often set off, at full speed, for the latter. This is called,riding the bruse. He who first reaches the house is said towin the bruse.Burns.2. Metaph., to strive, to contend in whatever way.R. Galloway.This means nothing more than riding for thebrose,brothorkail, the prize ofspice-brothallotted in some places to the victor.
ToBRUS, BRUSCH,v. a.To force open, to press up.Wyntown.
Sicamb.bruys-en, premere, strepere.
ToBRUSCH,v. n.To burst forth, to rush, to issue with violence.V.Brus,s.Wallace.
BRUSIT,part. pa.Embroidered.Houlate.
L. B.brusd-us,brust-us, acupictus; Du Cange.
Brusury,s.Embroidery.Douglas.
BRUSSLE,s.Bustle, Loth.V.Breessil.
A. S.brastl-ian, strepere.
ToBRUST,v. n.To burst.R. Bruce.
Teut.brost-en,brusten, Sw.brist-a,id.
BRWHS,s.Apparently, the same withBrus.Wyntown.
ToBU, BUE,v. n.To low. It properly denotes the cry of a calf, S.
Lat.boo,—are, id.
BU, BOO,s.1. A sound meant to excite terror, S.Presb. Eloquence.2. A bugbear, an object of terror, Ibid.
Belg.bauw, a spectre; C. B.bo, a hobgoblin.
Bu-kow,s.Any thing frightful, as a scarecrow, applied also to a hobgoblin, S.V.Cow.
Frombu, andkow,cow, a goblin.
Bu-man,s.A goblin; the devil, S. used asBu-kow.
BUB, BOB,s.A. blast, a gust of severe weather.Douglas.
Allied perhaps to Isl.bobbe, malum, noxae; or E.bob, to beat, as denoting the suddenness of its impulse.
BUBBLY,adj.Snotty, S. A. Bor.
Bubblyjock,s.The vulgar name for a turkey cock, S. synon.Polliecock, S. B.Grose.
The name seems to have originated from the shape of his comb.
BUCHT,s.A bending; a fold.V.Bought.
ToBUCK,v. n.To push, to butt, Perths.
Alem.bock-en, to strike; Su. G.bock, impulsus.
ToBUCKout,v. n.To make a guggling noise.
BUCKER,s.A name given to a species of whale, West of S.Statist. Acc.
BUCKIE, BUCKY,s.1. Any spiral shell of whatever size, S.Muse's Threnodie.The Roaring Buckie, Buccinum undatum, Linn. is the common great whelk.
Teut.buck-en, to bow, to bend; as this expresses the twisted form of the shell.
2. A perverse or refractory person is denominated athrawn buckie, and sometimes, in still harsher language, aDeil's buckie, S.Ramsay.
Buckie Ingram, that species of crab denominated Cancer bernardus, Newhaven.
Buckie Prins, A periwinkle; Turbo terebra, Linn. Also calledWater-spouts, Loth.
ToBUCKLE,v. a.To join two persons in marriage; used in a low or ludicrous sense, S.Macneill.
Buckle-the-beggars, s. One who marries others in a clandestine and disorderly manner, S.
BUCKTOOTH,s.Any tooth that juts out from the rest, S.
Sibb. derives this fromBoks, q. v. Perhaps allied to Su. G.bok, rostrum.
BUD,s.A gift; generally one that is meant as a bribe.Acts Ja. I.
C. B.budd, Corn.bud, profit, emolument. Or shall we view it as formed from A. S.bude, obtulit, q. the bribe that has beenoffered?
ToBud,Budd,v. a.To endeavour to gain by gifts, to bribe.Pitscottie.
BUDGE,s.A kind of bill, used in warfare.Douglas.
O. Fr.bouge,boulge, faucille, serpe; Roquefort.
BUFE,s.Beef, S. B.
Fr.boeuf, id. Isl.bufe, cattle; frombu, an ox.
ToBUFF,v. n.To emit a dull sound, as a bladder filled with wind does, S.Chr. Kirk.
It played buff, S. It made no impression.
Belg.boff-en, to puff up the cheeks with wind; Fr.bouff-er, id.
ToBUFF,v. a. To buff corn, to give grain half thrashing, S.
"The best of him isbuft," a phrase commonly used to denote that one's natural strength is much gone, S.
Alem.buff-en, pulsare.
To buff herring, to steep salted herrings in fresh water, and hang them up, S.
Buff,s.A stroke, a blow, S.Chr. Kirk.
Fr.bouffe, a blow, L. B.buffa, alapa.
ToBUFFout,v. n.To laugh aloud, S.
Fr.bouffee, a sudden, violent, and short blast,buff-ir, to spurt.
BUFF,s.Nonsense, foolish talk, S.Shirrefs.
Teut.beffe, id. nugae, irrisio; Fr.buffoi, vanité; also moquerie.
BUFF,s.Skin.Stript to the buff, stript naked, S.
Perhaps from E.buff, as denoting leather prepared from theskinof a buffalo.
BUFF NOR STYE.He cou'd neither say buff nor stye, S. i. e. "He could neither say one thing nor another." It is also used, but, I suspect, improperly, in regard to one who has no activity;He has neither buff nor stye with himS. B.
Teut.bof, celeusma, a cheer made by mariners.Styemight be viewed as referring to the act of mounting the shrouds, from Su. G.stig-a, to ascend.
BUFFER,s.A foolish fellow; a term much used among young people, Clydes.
Fr.bouffard, "often puffing, strouting out, swelling with anger," Cotgr.
BUFFETS,s. pl.A swelling in the glands of the throat, Ang. (branks, synon.) probably from Fr.bouffé, swollen.
BUFFETSTOOL,s.A stool with sides, in form of a square table with leaves, when these are folded down, S. Lincolns, id.A. Douglas.
Fr.buffet, a sideboard; expl. by Roquefort, dressoir, which denotes a board for holding plates without box or drawer.
BUFFIE, BUFFLE,adj.Fat, purfled; applied to the face, S.
Fr.bouffé, blown up, swollen.
BUFFONS,s. pl.Pantomimic dances.
Fr.boufons, those by whom they were performed.
BUG,pret.Built.V.Big,v.Minstrelsy Border.
BUGE,s."Lamb's fur; Fr.agnelin." Rudd.Douglas.
Fr.bouge, E.buge, id.
BUGGE,s.A bugbear.V.Boggarde.
BUGGLE,s.A bog, a morass, S. B.
This seems to be merely a dimin. from Ir. and E.bog.
BUGIL, BUGILL,s.A buglehorn.Douglas.
Q.buculae cornu, the horn of a young cow; or from Teut.boghel, Germ.bugel, curvatura.
BUICK,pret.Court'sied; from the v.Beck.Ross.
ToBUIGE,v. n.To bow, to creenge.Maitland Poems.
A. S.bug-an, to bend.
BUIK,s.The body.V.Bouk.
BUIK, BUKE,pret.Baked.Dunbar.
A. S.boc, coxit, frombac-an.
BUIK, BUK, BUKE,s.A book, S.Dunbar.
Germ.buch, Alem.bouch, Belg.boek, A. S.boc, Moes. G. Isl. Su. G.bok, id. It has been generally supposed, that the Northern nations give this name to a book, from the materials of which it was first made,boksignifying a beech-tree.
Buik-lare,s.Learning, the knowledge acquired by means of a regular education, S.
Buik-lear'd,Book-lear'd,adj.Book-learned, S.A. Nicol.
Isl.boklaerd-ur, id.
V.Lare,v.ands.
BUIR, Leg. Leuir.Wallace.
BUISE,To shoot the buise.Cleland.
Apparently,to swing, to be hanged; perhaps from Ital.busco, the shoot of a tree.
BUIST,s.A part of female dress, anciently worn in S.Maitland Poems.
Fr.busq, orbuste, plated body, or other quilted thing, worn to make or keep the body straight. Ital.busto, stays or boddice.
BUIST, BUSTE, BOIST,s.1. A box or chest, S.Meal-buist, chest for containing meal.Acts Ja. II.2. A coffin; nearly antiquated, but still sometimes used by tradesmen, Loth.
O. Fr.boiste, Arm.bouest, a box.
ToBuistup,v. a.To inclose, to shut up.Montgomerie.
Buist-maker,s.A coffin-maker, Loth.; a term now nearly obsolete.
BUISTY,s.A bed, Aberd.Gl. Shirr.used perhaps for a small one, q. a little box.V.Booshty.
BUITH,s.A shop.V.Bothe.
BUITING,s.Booty.Montgomerie.
Fr.butin, Ital.butino, id.
BUITS,s. pl.Matches for firelocks.Baillie's Lett.
ToBUKK,v. a.To incite, to instigate.Evergreen.
Germ.boch-en, to strike,bock-en, to push with the horn; Su. G.bock, a stroke; Isl.buck-a, calcitrare.
BUK-HID, BUK-HUD,s.V.Belly-blind.Henrysone.
This seems to be an old name for some game, probablyBlind man's Buff.
BU-KOW,s.Any thing frightful; hence applied to a hobgoblin, S.V.Bu.
BULDRIE,s.Building, or mode of building.Burel.
BULYIEMENT,s.Habiliments; properly such as are meant for warfare.V.Abulyiement.Ross.
Bulyiementsis still used ludicrously for clothing, S.
ToBULL,v. n.To take the bull; a term used with respect to a cow. Both thev.ands.are pron. q.bill, S.
Bill-siller, S., is analogous to Teut.bolle-gheld, merces pro admissura tauri.
ToBULLER,v. n.1. To emit such a sound as water does, when rushing violently into any cavity, or forced back again, S.Douglas.
Su. G.bullr-a, tumultuari, strepitum edere.
2. To make a noise with the throat, as one does when gargling it with any liquid, S.guller, synon.Bellenden.3. To make any rattling noise; as when stones are rolled downhill, or when a quantity of stones falls together, S. B.4. To bellow, to roar as a bull or cow does, S.; also pron.bollar, Ang.
Isl.baul-a, mugire,baulmugitus.
5. It is used asv. a.to denote theimpetusor act productive of such a sound as is described above.Douglas.
Buller,Bulloure,s.1. A loud gurgling noise, S.Douglas.Hence,the Bullers of Buchan, the name given to an arch in a rock, on the coast of Aberdeenshire.
Su. G.buller, strepitus.
2. A bellowing noise; or a loud roar, S. B.V.thev.
BULLETSTANE,s.A round stone, S.
Isl.bollut-ur, round;bollut, convexity.
ToBULLIRAG,v. a.To rally in a contemptuous way, to abuse one in a hectoring manner, S.
Isl.baul,bol, maledictio, andraegia, deferre, to reproach.
BULLS,s. pl.Strong bars in which the teeth of a harrow are placed, S. B.Statist. Acc.
Su. G.bol, Isl.bolr, truncus.
BULL-SEGG,s.The great cat-tail or reedmace, Typha latifolia, Linn. S. B.
BULL-SEGG,s.A gelded bull.V.Segg.
BULTY,adj. Large, Fife.
This may be allied to Teut.bult, gibbus, tuber; Belg.bult, a bunch,bultje, a little bunch; Isl.buld, crassus.
BULWAND,s.The name given to common mugwort, Orkney, Caithn.Neill.
ToBUM,v. n.1. To buzz, to make a humming noise; used with respect to bees, S. A. Bor.J. Nicol.2. Used to denote the noise of a multitude.Hamilton.3. As expressing the sound emitted by the drone of a bag-pipe, S.Ferguson.4. Used to denote the freedom of agreeable conversation among friends, S. B.
Belg.bomm-en, to resound; Teut.bomme, a drum.
Bum,s.A humming noise, the sound emitted by a bee, S.,V.thev.
Bumbee,s.A humblebee, a wild bee that makes a great noise, S.Bumble-bee, id. A. Bor.
Q. thebeethatbums.
Bum-Clock,s.A humming beetle, that flies in the summer evenings.Burns.
BU-MAN,s.A name given to the devil.V. underBu.
BUMBARD,adj.Indolent, lazy.
Ital.bombare, a humble-bee.
Dunbar.
Bumbart,s.1. The drone-bee, or perhaps a flesh-fly.Melvill's MS.2. A drone, a driveller.Dunbar.
BUMBAZED, BOMBAZED,adj.Stupified, S.V.Bazed.Ross.
Q. stupified with noise; from Teut.bomme, tympanum, andbaesen, delirare.
BUMMACK, BUMMOCK,s.1. An entertainment anciently given at Christmas by tenants to their landlords, Orkn.Wallace's Orkn.2. A brewing of a large quantity of malt, for the purpose of being drunk at once at a merry meeting.—Caithn.
Isl.bua, parare, andmagesocius, q. to make preparation for one's companions; orbovilla, incola, andmage, the fellowship of a village or of its inhabitants.
BUMMIL, BUMMLE, BOMBELL,s.Expl. a drone, an idle fellow.V.Batie-Bummil.Burns.
Teut.bommele, fucus.
ToBUMMIL,v. a.To bungle; also, asv. n.to blunder, S.Ramsay.
Bummeler,Bumler,s.A blundering fellow, S.
BUMP,s.A stroke. "He camebumpupon me," he came upon me with a stroke, S.
Isl.bomps, a stroke against any object,bomp-a, cita ruina ferri.
BUN, BUNN.s.A sweet cake or loaf, generally one of that kind which is used at the new year, baked with fruit and spiceries; sometimes for this reason called asweetie-scone, S.Statist. Acc.
Ir.bunna, a cake.
BUN,s.1. The same as E.bum.Lyndsay.2. This word signifies the tail or brush of a hare, Border; being used in the same sense withfud.Watson's Coll.
Ir.bon,bun, the bottom of any thing; Dan.bund, id.; Gael.bun, bottom, foundation.
BUN,s.A large cask placed in a cart, for the purpose of bringing water from a distance; Ang.
This may be radically the same with S.boyn, a washingtub.
BUNE, BOON,s.The inner part of the stalk of flax, the core, that which is of no use, afterwards calledshaws, Ang.Been, id. Morays.
BUNEWAND,s.The cow-parsnip, Heracleum sphondylium, is calledBunwand, S. B.Montgomerie.
This appears to be of the same meaning withBunwede, q. v.
BUNG,adj.Tipsy, fuddled; a low word, S.Ramsay.
Q. Smelling of thebung.
BUNKER, BUNKART,s.1. A bench, or sort of low chest serving for a seat.Ramsay.2. A seat in a window, which also serves for a chest, opening with a hinged lid, S.Sir J. Sinclair.3. It seems to be the same word which is used to denote an earthen seat in the fields, Aberd.Law Case.
A. S.benc, Su. G.baenck, a bench; Isl.buncke, acervus, strues; a heap.
BUNKLE,s.A stranger. "The dog barks, because he kens you to be abunkle." This word is used in some parts of Angus.
Perhaps originally a mendicant; from Isl.bon, mendicatio, andkarl, vulgarlykall, homo.
BUNNERTS,s. pl.Cow-parsnip, S. B. Heracleum sphondylium, Linn.
Perhaps Q.biorn-oert, which in Sw. would be, the bear's wort.
BUNTLING,s.Bantling, E., a bird, S.
BUNWEDE,s.Ragwort, an herb; Senecio jacobaea, Linn. S.binweed; synon.weebow.Houlate.
This name is also given, S. to the Polygonum convolvulus, which in Sw. is calledBinda.
BUR,s.The cone of the fir, S. B.
Su. G.barrdenotes the leaves or needles of the pine.
BUR-THRISSIL,s.The spear-thistle, S. Carduus lanceolatus.Bur-thistle, id. A. Bor.
ToBURBLE,v. n.To purl.Hudson.
Teut.borbel-en, scaturire.
BURCH, BWRCH, BUROWE,s.Borough, town.Dunbar.
Moes. G.baurgs; A. S.burg,burh,buruh, id.
BURD,s.A lady, a damsel.V.Bird.
BURD, BURDE,s.Board, table.Dunbar.
Moes. G.baurd, asser, tabula, A. S.bord, id.
Burdclaith,s.A tablecloth, S. Westmorel., id.Dunbar.
Fromburd, andclaith, cloth.
BURDALANE,s.A term used to denote one who is the only child left in a family; q.bird alone, or, solitary;burdbeing the pron. ofbird.Maitland MSS.
BURDE,s.Ground, foundation.
Su. G.bord, a footstool.
Bellenden.
BURDE,s.A strip, properly an ornamental salvedge; as a "burdeof silk," a salvedge of silk.Dunbar.
Su. G.borda, limbus vel praetexta; undesilkesborda, cingulum sericum vel limbus;gullbord, limbus aureus; Teut.boord, limbus.
BURDYN,adj.Wooden, of or belonging toboards.Wallace.
A. S.bord, S.burd, buird, a board, a plank.
BURDING,s.Burden.V.Birth, Byrth.Montgomerie.
BURDINSECK.V.Berthinsek.
BURDIT,part. pa.Stones are said to beburdit, when they split into lamina, S.
Perhaps fromburd, a board; q. like wood divided into thin planks.
BURDLY, BUIRDLY,adj.Large and well-made, S. The E. wordstatelyis used as synon.Burns.
Isl.burdur, the habit of body, strength, propriae vires;afburdur menn, excellent men.
BURDON, BURDOUN, BURDOWNE,s.1. A big staff, such as pilgrims were wont to carry.Douglas.
Fr.bourdon, a pilgrim's staff; O. Fr.bourde, a baton; Isl.broddstafur, scipio,hastulus, hastile.
2.Be staff and burdon; a phrase respecting either investiture or resignation.Bellenden.
BURDOUN,s."The drone of a bag-pipe, in which sense it is commonly used in S."Ruddiman.
Fr.bourdon, id.
BURDOWYS,s.Men who fought with clubs.Barbour.
Burdare, (Matt. Paris), is to fight with clubs, after the manner of clowns, qui, he says, AnglisBurdons.
BUREDELY,adv.Forcibly, vigorously.V.Burdly.Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.
BUREIL, BURAL,adj.Vulgar, rustic.Wallace.
Chaucerborel, id.; L. B.burell-us, a species of coarse cloth; Teut.buer, a peasant.
BURGof ice, a whale-fisher's phrase for a field of ice floating in the sea, S., most probably from its resemblance of acastle.
BURGENS,s. pl.Burgesses.Wyntown.
Lat.burgens-es.
BURGEOUN,s.A bud, a shoot.Douglas.
Fr.burgeon, id.; Su. G.boerja, oriri; Isl.bar, gemma arborum.
BURIAN,s.A mound, a tumulus; or a kind of fortification, S. Aust.Statist. Acc.
From A. S.beorg,burg, mons, acervus; orbyrigenn,byrgene, sepulcrum, monumentum, tumulus.
BURIO, BOREAU, BURRIO, BURIOR, BURRIOUR,s.An executioner.Bellenden.
Fr.bourreau, id.
BURLAW, BYRLAW, BIRLEY, BARLEY.Byrlaw Court, a court of neighbours, residing in the country, which determines as to local concerns.Skene. Reg. Maj.
From Belg.baur(boer) a husbandman, andlaw; or as Germ.bauer, A. S.bur, Isl.byr, signify a village, as well as a husbandman, the term may signify thelawof thevillageor district.
Burlie-Bailie,s.An officer employed to enforce the laws of theBurlaw-courts.Ramsay.
BURLED, BURLIT,part. pa.Acts Ja. II.
Does this signifyburnt, from Fr.brul-er?
BURLY,s.A crowd, a tumult, S. B.
Teut.borl-en, to vociferate. Hence E.hurly-burly.
BURLY, BUIRLIE,adj.Stately, strong; as applied to buildings.Wallace.
Teut.boer, Germ.bauer, a boor, with the terminationlic, denoting resemblance.
BURLINS,s. pl.The breadburntin the oven in baking, S. q.burnlins.
BURN,s.1. Water, particularly that which is taken from a fountain or well S.Ferguson.
Moes. G.brunna, Su. G.brunn, Isl.brunn-ur, Germ.brun, Teut.burn,borne, a well, a fountain; Belg.bornwater, water from a well. A rivulet, a brook. S. A. Bor.
Douglas.
2. E. bourn.
In this sense only A. S.burn, andbyrna, occur; or as signifying a torrent.
3. The water used in brewing, S. B.Lyndsay.4. Urine, S. B. "To make one'sburn," mingere. Germ.brun, urina.
Burnie,Burny, is sometimes used as a dimin. denoting a small brook, S.Beattie.
ToBURN,v. a.1. One is said to beburnt, when he has suffered in any attempt.Ill burnt, having suffered severely, S.Baillie.2. To deceive, to cheat in a bargain, S. One says that he has beenbrunt, when overreached. These are merely oblique senses of the E. v.
BURNET,adj.Of a brown colour.Douglas.
Fr.brunette, a dark brown stuff formerly worn by persons of quality.
BURNEWIN,s.A cant term for a blacksmith, S.Burns."Burn-the-wind,—an appropriate term," N.
BURNT SILVER, BRINT SILVER, silver refined in the furnace.Acts Ja. II.
Isl.brendu silfri, id. Snorro Sturleson shews thatskirt silfr, i. e. pure silver, andbrennt silfr, are the same.
BURR, BURRH,s.The whirring sound made by some people in pronouncing the letterr; as by the inhabitants of Northumberland, S.Statist. Acc.
This word seems formed from the sound.
BURRA,s.The most common kind of rush, Orkn.; there the Juncus squarrosus.
BURRACH'D,part. pa.Inclosed.V.Bowrach'd.
ToBURRIE,v. a.To overpower in working, to overcome in striving at work, S. B.
Allied perhaps to Fr.bourrer, Isl.ber-ia, to beat.
BURRY,adj.Henrysone.
Either rough, shaggy, from Fr.bourru, "flockie, hairie, rugged," Cotgr. or savage, cruel, from Fr.bourreau, an executioner.
V.Burio.
BURROWE-MAIL,V.Mail.
BURSAR,s.One who receives the benefit of an endowment in a college, for bearing his expences during his education there, S.Buik of Discipline.
L. B.Bursar-ius, a scholar supported by a pension; Fr.boursier, id. from L. B.bursa, an ark, Fr.bourse, a purse.Boursealso signifies "the place of a pensioner in a college," Cotgr.
Bursary,Burse,s.The endowment given to a student in a university, an exhibition, S.Statist. Acc.
BURSIN, BURSTEN,part. pa.1. Burst, S.Lyndsay.2. Overpowered with fatigue; or so overheated by exertion as to drop down dead, S.
BUS,s.A bush, S.buss.V.Busk.Douglas.
BUSCH,s.Boxwood, S. B.Douglas.
Belg.bosse-boom,busboom, Fr.bouis,buis, Ital.busso, id.
ToBUSCH,v. n.To lay an ambush; pret.buschytWallace.
O. E.bussed.
R. Brunne.
Ital.bosc-are,imbosc-are, frombosco, q. to lie hid among bushes.
Buschement,s.Ambush.Wallace.
O. E.bussement.
R. Brunne.
ToBUSE, BUST,v. a.To inclose cattle in a stall, S. B.
A. S.bosg,bosig, praesepe; E.boose, a stall for a cow, Johns.
ToBUSH,v. a.To sheathe, to inclose in a case or box, S.; applied to the wheels of carriages.
Su. G. Belg.bosse, a box or case of any kind.
BUSH,interj.Expressive of a rushing sound, as that of water spouting out, Tweedd.J. Nicol.
L. B.bus-bas, a term used to denote the noise made by fire-arms or arrows in battle.
ToBUSK,v. a.1. To dress, to attire one's self, to deck, S.;bus, A. Bor. id.Douglas.
Germ.butz-en,buss-en, Belg.bocts-en, Su. G.puts-a,puss-a, ornare, decorare; Germ.butz,buss, ornatus; hencebutz frau, a well-dressed woman.
2. To prepare, to make ready, in general, S.Sir Tristrem.3.v. n.To tend, to direct one's course towards.Gawan and Gol.4. It sometimes seems to imply the idea of rapid motion; as equivalent torush.Barbour.
Busking,s.Dress, decoration.Acts Ja. VI.
BUSK,s.A bush.Douglas.
Su. G. Isl.buske, Germ.busch, Belg.bosch, frutex. Ital.bosco, wood.
BUSKENING,s.Sir Egeir.
Apparently high-flown language, like that used on the stage; from E.buskin, the high shoe anciently worn by actors.
BUSSIN,s.A linen cap or hood, worn by old women, much the same asToy, q. v. West of S.
Perhaps from Moes. G.buss-us, fine linen, Gr. βυσσινον, id.
BUSSING,s.Covering.Evergreen.
Perhaps from Germ.busch,fascis, a bundle, a fardel.
BUST,s.A box.V.Buist.
BUST, BOOST,s."Tar mark upon sheep, commonly the initials of the proprietor's name," Gl. Sibb.
Perhaps what is taken out of the tar-bustor box.
ToBUST,v. a.To powder, to dust with flour, Aberd.Must, synon.
Thisv.is probably formed frombust,buist, a box, in allusion to themeal-buist.
ToBUST,v. a.To beat, Aberd. Isl.boest-a, id.
BUSTINE,adj."Fustian, cloth," Gl.Ramsay.
Perhaps it rather respects the shape of the garment; from Fr.buste, "the long, small or sharp-pointed, and hard-quilted belly of a doublet;" Cotgr.
BUSTUOUS, BUSTEOUS,adj.1. Huge, large in size.Douglas.2. Strong, powerful.Lyndsey.3. "Terrible, fierce," Rudd.4. Rough, unpolished.Douglas.