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.

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.

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.

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.

BIGGIT, part. pa. Built.

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.

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.

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.

 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.