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
from aver, 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. aver wild, and en, 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. aeld senectus, Moes. G. alds aetas.
V. Eild.
AULDFARREN, adj. Sagacious, S.;
audfarand, id. A. Bor.
Ramsay.
Moes. G. ald old, 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.
From auld old, and mou' or mow, 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.
From auld old, and warld world.
AULIN. Scouti-aulin, Dirty Aulin, the
arctic gull, Orkn. Loth.
Pennant.
V. Scouti-Aulin, and Skaitbird.
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.
To AUNTER, AWNTYR, v. a. To hazard,
to put into the power of accident.
Barbour.
Fr. aventur-er, risquer, mettre au hazard; Dict. Trev.
Aunter is 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.
To AVOKE, 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, from ost, Teut. oest, a knot, properly in wood.
To AW, 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.
AW, sometimes to be viewed as the third
pers. sing. of the v.; signifying owed,
ought.
Wallace.
To AUCHT, AWCHT, AUGHT, v. a.
To owe.
V. Aw.
Peblis to the Play.
AW, used for All, S.
Bannatyne P.
Wyth aw, withal.
Douglas.
AWA, adv. Away; the general pronunciation
in S.
Douglas.
To AWAIL, 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.
To AWAILL, 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. of awaeg-an, to take away, or awegg-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; de via; Gl. Roquefort.
AWALT SHEEP, one that has fallen
backward, or downhill, and cannot recover
itself, S.
V. Awail.
Gl. Sibb.
To AWANCE, v. a. To advance.
Fr. avanc-er, id.
Wallace.
AWAT, s. Ground ploughed after the first crop from lea. The crop produced is called the awat-crap, also pronounced award; Ang. Avil, Galloway, aewall, Clydes. id.
A. S. afed, pastus, af-at, depastus; or Su. G. awat, afat, deficiens; or perhaps from af-val, diminution, as the same with Awalt, q. v.
AWAWARD, s. The vanguard.
Barbour.
Fr. avantgarde.
AWBYRCHOWNE, AWBERCHEOUN,
s. The habergeon, or breastplate.
Wyntown.
Franc. halsberge, Isl. halsbeorg, collare chalybeum, from hals the neck, and berga to defend; Fr. haubergeon; L. B. halberg-ium.
AWBLASTER, s.
1. A crossbow-man,
alblastere, and arblast, 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.
To AWENT, v. a. To cool or refresh by
exposing to the air.
Barbour.
A. S. awynd-wian, ventilare, from wind, 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, with ad prefixed, 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; printed aumons.
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, Probably a 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.
To AX, 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.
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. geond ultra, with a prefixed; or on, as afield, originally on 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; 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.
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.