To BLAW, v. Used both as a. and n.
 1. To blow; in a literal sense referring to the wind. S.
Douglas.

A. S. blaw-an, flare.

 2. To breathe, S.
Abp. Hamiltoun.
 3. To publish, to make known. S.
Burel.
E. blow is used in the same sense.
 4. To brag, to boast, S. Blast, synon.
Barbour.
Douglas.

Germ. blaw, falsus, mendax, dolosus.  Teut. blas-en, flare et nimiis vanisque laudibus rem efferre, ac inani flatu infarcire.

 5. To magnify in narration, especially from a principle of ostentation, S.
 6. To flatter, to coax.
Baillie.
S. Prov. "Ye first burn me, and then blaw me."
 7. To blaw in one's lug, to cajole or flatter a person, so as to be able to guide him at will, S.
Nicol Burne.
To blow in the ear, id. O. E.

Su. G. blaas-a, to instil evil counsel.  Teut. oor-blaesen, not only signifies, in aurem mussare, sive mussitare, obgannire in aurem; but is rendered, blandiri.

 8. To huff a man at draughts. I blaw, or blow you, I take this man, S.

Su. G. blaas-a, to blow, is used in this very sense. Blaasa bort en bricka i damspel, Seren.

 9. To blaw appin locks or bolts, and to loose fetters, by means of a magical power ascribed to the breath, S.
Satan's Invisible World.

 10. To blaw out on one, to reproach him.
Wallace.

BLAW, s.
 1. A blast, a gust, S. Rudd.
Gawan and Gol.
 2. The sound emitted by a wind instrument.
 3. A falsehood, a lie told from ostentation. He tells greit blaws, S. B.
Ramsay.

BLAW, s. A pull, a draught; a cant term, used among topers, S.
Ferguson.

BLAWN COD, a split cod, half-dried, Ang.; so denominated, perhaps, because exposed for some time to the wind.

BLAWORT, s. The Blue bottle; Centaurea cyanus, Linn., S. Witch-bells, also Thumbles, S. B.
Neill.

From bla, livid, q. v. and wort, an herb.

BLAZE, s. The name given to allum ore, S.

BLE, BLIE, s. Complexion, colour.
Gawan and Gol.

This word is common in O. E.   A. S. bleoh, blio, color.

To BLEACH down, or along, v. n. To fall flat to the ground. Bleach is also used to denote a fall of this description, Loth.

Perhaps from Isl. blak-a, verberare; as denoting the effect of a violent blow.

BLEACH, s. A blow, S. B.
Gl. Shirr.
Poems Buchan Dialect.

To BLEAD, v. a. Apparently, to train, or to lead on to the chace.
Statist. Acc.

Alem. blait-en, beleit-en, comitari, conducere.

BLEAR, s. Something that obscures the sight.
V. Bleiris.
Ross.

To BLECK, BLEK, v. a.
 1. To blacken, literally, S.
Polwart.
 2. To injure one's character.
Bannatyne Poems.
 3. To cause moral pollution.
Abp. Hamiltoun.

A. S. blaec-an, denigrare.  Isl. blek, liquor tinctorius.

To BLECK, v. a. To puzzle, to reduce to a nonplus, in an examination or disputation, S.

Germ. black-en, plack-en, vexare, exagitare.

To BLEEZE, v. n.
 1. To become a little sour. Milk is said to bleeze, or to be bleezed, when it is turned, but not congealed, S.; blink, synon.

From Germ. blaes-en, to blow; or, blitz-en, fulgurare; heat, especially when accompanied by lightning, more generally producing this effect.

2. The part. bleezed signifies the state of one on whom intoxicating liquor begins to operate, S. It especially denotes the change produced in the expression of the countenance; as, He looked bleezed-like.

BLED, part. pa. Perhaps, sprung.
Gawan and Gol.

BLEFLUM, BLEPHUM, s. A sham, an illusion, what has no reality in it, S.
V. Blaflum, v.
Rutherford.

Isl. flim, irrisio, carmen famosum.  Hence flimt-a, diffamo, flimt, nugae infames, G. Andr. p. 74.  Su. G. flimm-a, illudere.

BLEHAND, BLIHAND, adj.
Sir Trist.

"Blue, from bleah, Sax. caeruleus. Blehand brown. A bluish brown," Gl.  The word is merely A. S. blae-hewen a little transformed.  The idea seems, "a brownish colour, inclining to purple or violet."

BLEIB, s.
 1. A pustule, a blister. "A burnt bleib," a blister caused by burning, S.

2. Bleibs, pl. An eruption to which children are subject, in which the spots appear larger than in the measles; Loth. Border.
V. Blob.

BLEIRIE, adj. A term applied to weak liquor, which has little or no strength; as bleirie ale, Fife.

BLEIRING, part. pa. Bleiring Bats.
Polwart.

This seems to be the botts, a disease in horses.  Bleiring may express the effect of pain in making the patient to cry out; Teut. blaer-en, boare, mugire.

BLEIRIS, s. pl. Something that prevents distinctness of vision.
Philotus.

This is the same with blear, s. only used in the pl.  Ihre mentions E. blear-eyed, as allied to Su. G. blir-a, plir-a, oculis semiclausis videre.

BLEIS, BLES, BLESS, BLEISE, s.
 1. Blaze, bright flame, S. B.
Barbour.
 2. A torch, S.
Douglas.

A. S. blaese, fax, taeda, a torch, any thing that makes a blaze, Su. G. bloss, id. Somn.

3. A signal made by fire, S.

BLEIS, s. The name given to a river-fish.
Sibbald.

This seems to be what in E. is called Bleak, Cyprinus alburnus, Linn.

BLELLUM, s. An idle talking fellow, Ayrs.
Burns.

To BLEME, v. n. To bloom, to blossom.
Bannatyne Poems.

BLEMIS, s. pl. Blossoms, flowers.
Houlate.

Belg. bloem, Isl. bloma, Alem. bluom, flos, flosculus.  Teut. bloem-en, florere.

To BLENK, BLINK, v. n.
 1. To open the eyes, as one does from a slumber, S.
Barbour.
 2. To throw a glance on one, especially as expressive of regard, S.
Ross.
 3. To look with a favourable eye; used metaph. in allusion to the shining of the sun, after it has been covered with a cloud.
V. Blink, v.
Baillie.

Belg. blenck-en, blinck-en, Su. G. blaenk-a, to shine, to glance, to flash as lightning.

BLENK, BLINK, s.
 1. A beam, a ray.
Douglas.
 2. "A glimpse of light," S. Sir J. Sinclair's Observ. p. 113.
 3. Hence transferred to the transient influence of the rays of the sun, especially in a cold or cloudy day. Thus it is common to speak of "a warm blink," "a clear blink," S.
Sir J. Sinclair.
 4. A gleam of prosperity, during adversity.
Godscroft.
 5. Also transferred to a glance, a stroke of the eye, or transient view of any object; the idea being borrowed, either from the quick transmission of the rays of light, or from the short-lived influence of the sun when the sky is much obscured with clouds, S.
Douglas.
 6. A kindly glance, a transient glance expressive of regard, S.
Burns.
 7. A moment. "I'll not stay a blink," I will return immediately. In a blink, in a moment, S.
Ramsay.

To BLETHER, BLATHER, v. n.
 1. To speak indistinctly, to stammer, S. pron. like fair.
 2. To prattle, S.

BLETHER, BLATHER, s. Nonsense, foolish talk, S.; often used in pl.
Hamilton.

BLAIDRY, s. Nonsense, foolish talk.
Ramsay.

Blew, S. is often synon. with blae, livid.

BLICHAM, s. (gutt.) A contemptuous designation for a person, Perths.

BLICHT, adj. An epithet expressive of the coruscation of armour, in the time of action.
Houlate.

A. S. blic-an, coruscare; blect, coruscatus. Alem. blechet, Germ. blicket, splendet.

To BLIN, BLYN, BLYNE, v. n. To cease, to desist, S.; also blind.
Wallace.

A. S. blinn-an, cessare, contr. from bilinn-an, id.  In Isl. and Su. G. it occurs in its simple form, linn-a, also, lind-a, id.

To BLIN, v. a. To cause to cease.
Chron. S. Poet.

BLIND HARIE, Blind man's buff, S. Belly-blind, synon.
Herd.

In the Scandinavian Julbock, from which this sport seems to have originated, the principal actor was disguised in the skin of a buck or goat.  The name Blind Harie might therefore arise from his rough attire; as he was called blind, in consequence of being blindfolded.  Or it may signify, Blind Master, or Lord, in ironical language.
V. Herie.

BLIND MAN'S BALL, or Devil's snuff-box, Common puff-ball, S. V. Flor. Suec.
Lightfoot.

It is also called Blind man's een, i. e. eyes, S. B.  An idea, according to Linn., prevails throughout the whole of Sweden, that the dust of this plant causes blindness.

BLYNDIT, pret. Blended.
Gawan and Gol.

BLINDLINS, BLYNDLINGIS, adv. Having the eyes closed, hoodwinked. It denotes the state of one who does any thing as if he were blind, S.
V. Lingis

Germ.  Dan. blindlings, id.

Douglas.

BLINDS, s. pl. The Pogge, or Miller's Thumb, a fish, Cottus Cataphractus, Linn. West of S.
Statist. Acc.

Perhaps it receives this name, because its eyes are very small.

To BLINK, v. n.
 1. To become a little sour; a term used with respect to milk or beer, S. Bleeze, synon.
Chr. Kirk.
 2. To be blinkit, to be half drunk, Fife.

Su. G. blaenk-a, Germ. blink-en, coruscare, to shine, to flash, to lighten; q. struck with lightning, which, we know, has the effect of making liquids sour; or as denoting that of sunshine, or of the heat of the weather.

BLINNYNG, part. pr. Leg. Blumyng.
Maitland Poems.

BLYPE, s. A coat, a shred; applied to the skin, which is said to come off in blypes, when it peels in coats, or is rubbed off, in shreds; S.
Burns.

Perhaps radically the same with Flype, q. v. or a different pron. of Bleib.

To BLIRT, v. n. To make a noise in weeping, to cry. It is generally joined with Greet. To blirt and greet, i. e. to burst out a-crying, S.
Kelly.

Germ. blaerr-en, plarr-en, mugire, rugire.  Perhaps E. blurt is also radically allied.

BLIRT, s. The action expressed by the v. "A blirt of greeting," a violent burst of tears, accompanied with crying, S. B.

To BLITHE, BLYTHE, v. a. To make glad.
Wallace.

A. S. bliths-ian, laetari; Alem. blid-en, gaudere.  But perhaps our v. is immediately formed from the adj.

BLITHEMEAT, s. The meat distributed among those who are present at the birth of a child, or among the rest of the family, S. pronounced blyidmeat, Ang. as the adj. itself, blyd, blyid.

I need not say, that this word has its origin from the happiness occasioned by a safe delivery.

BLYVARE. Perhaps for Blyther, more cheerful.
Houlate.

BLYWEST, adj. in the superl.
Houlate.

"Blythest, most merry," Gl. Perhaps it rather refers to colour; q. the palest.

To BLIZZEN, v. a. Drought is said to be blizzening, when the wind parches and withers the fruits of the earth, S. B.

Su. G. blas-a, Germ. blas-en, A. S. blaes-an, to blow.

BLOB, BLAB, s. Any thing tumid or circular, S.
 1. A small globe or bubble of any liquid.
Bellenden.
 2. A blister, or that rising of the skin which is the effect of a blister or of a stroke, S.
Gl. Complaynt.
 3. A large gooseberry; so called from its globular form, or from the softness of its skin, S.
 4. A blot, a spot; as "a blab of ink," S. denominated perhaps from its circular form.

Radically the same word with Bleib, q. v.

BLOBBIT, part. pa. Blotted, blurred.
V. Blob.
Acts Ja. I.

To BLOCK, v. a. To plan, to devise.
Baillie.

Teut. block-en, assiduum esse in studiis, in opere, in ergastulo; a sense evidently borrowed from a workman, who blocks out his work roughly, before he begins to give it a proper form.

BLOIK, BLOK, BLOCK, s.
 1. A scheme, a contrivance; generally used in a bad sense.
Douglas.
 2. A bargain, an agreement.
Acts Ja. VI.

BLOCKER, s. A term formerly used in S. to denote a broker; q. one who plans and accomplishes a bargain.
Minsheu.

BLOISENT, part. pa. One is said to have a bloisent face, when it is red, swollen, or disfigured, whether by intemperance, or by being exposed to the weather; Ang.

This appears to be radically the same with E. blowze; "sun-burnt, high-coloured;" Johns.  Teut. blose, rubor, purpurissum, redness, the colour of purple; blos-en, rubescere; blosende wanghen, rubentes genae, purpled cheeks.

To BLOME, BLUME, v. n. To shine, to gleam.
Barbour.

Su. G. blomm-a, to flourish; E. bloom, used metaph.: or perhaps from A. S. be, a common prefix, and leom-an to shine, as gleam is from geleom-an, id.

BLONK, BLOUK, s. A steed, a horse,
Gawan and Gol.

Alem. planchaz, equus pallidus, hodie blank; Schilter.  Thus blonk may have originally meant merely a white horse, q. Fr. blanc cheval.

BLONKS, s. pl.
King Hart.

If this does not denote horses, as above, it may mean blocks of wood.

BLOUT, adj. Bare, naked.
V. Blait.
Douglas.

Su. G.  Isl. blott, Belg. bloot, id.  The tautological phrase blott och bar is used in Sw.

BLOUT, s.
 1. The sudden breaking of a storm, S. Bloutenin, Clydesd.
 2. "A blout of foul weather," a sudden fall of rain, snow or hail, accompanied with wind, S.
 3. A sudden eruption of a liquid substance, accompanied with noise, S.

BLUBBER, BLUBBIR, s. A bubble of air, S.
V. Blob.
Henrysone.

To BLUDDER, BLUTHER, v. a.
 1. To blot paper in writing, to disfigure any writing, S.

BLUE-GOWN, s. The name commonly given to a pensioner, who, annually, on the King's birth-day, receives a certain sum of money, and a blue gown or cloak, which he wears with a badge on it, S.
V. Bedeman.

BLUFFLEHEADED, adj. Having a large head, accompanied with the appearance of dulness of intellect, S.; perhaps from E. bluff.

BLUIDVEIT, BLUIDWYTE, s. A fine paid for effusion of blood.
Skene. Reg. Maj.

A. S. blodwite, pro effuso sanguine mulcta; from blod, sanguis, and wite, poena, mulcta.

To BLUITER, v. n.
 1. To make a rumbling noise; to blurt, S.
 2. To bluiter up with water, to dilute too much, S.
 3. To blatter, to pour forth lame, harsh, and unmusical rhymes.
Polwart.

Germ. plaudern, nugari et mentiri, plauderei, mixta nugis mendacia.  In sense 2. it seems to be merely a dimin. from Blout, q. v.

BLUITER, BLUTTER, s.
 1. A rumbling noise; as that sometimes made by the intestines, S.
 2. Apparently used to denote filth in a liquid state.
Cleland.

To BLUME, v. n. To blossom, S. bloom, E.

To BLUNK, v. a. To spoil a thing, to mismanage any business, S. Hence,

BLUNKIT, BLINKIT, part. pa. "Injured by mismanagement, or by some mischievous contrivance," Gl. Sibb.

BLUNKET, s. Expl. "Pale blue; perhaps any faint or faded colour; q. blanched." Sibb.
Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.

BLUNT, adj. Stripped, bare, naked.
Douglas.

This seems to be radically the same with Blout, q. v.

BLUNTIE, s. A sniveller, a stupid fellow, S.
Burns.

BLUP, s. One who makes a clumsy or awkward appearance; Loth. It is apparently the same with Flup, q. v.

To BLUSTER, v. a. To disfigure in writing.
V. Bludder, v.
Baillie.

BLUTE, s. An action; used in a bad sense. A fuil blute, a foolish action, S. B. perhaps the same with Blout, q. v.

BOAKIE, s. A sprite, a hobgoblin, Aberd. Shetl.

Norw. bokje, Isl. bocke, bokki, vir grandis et magnificus.  In Sanscrit buka is the name of an evil spirit.  O. Teut. bokene, phantasma, spectrum.

BOAL, BOLE, s.
 1. A square aperture in the wall of a house, for holding small articles; a small press generally without a door; S. This is most common in cottages.
Ramsay.
 2. A perforation through the wall of a house, for occasionally giving air or light; usually with a wooden shutter instead of a pane of glass, S.

BOARDTREES, s. pl. A term used for the plank on which a corpse is stretched; S. B.

To BOAST, BOIST, v. a. To threaten.
V. Boist.

To BOB, BAB, v. n. To dance, S.
Herd.

BOB, s. Gust, blast.
V. Bub.

BOB, s.
 1. A bunch; used as synon. with cow, S.
Priests of Peblis.
 2. The same word, pronounced bab, is used for a bundle of flowers, a nosegay.

S. Fr. bube, a bunch; Isl. bobbe, a knot.

BOB, s. A mark, a but, S.; either q. a small bunch set up as a mark, or, from the sense of the E. v., something to strike at.

BOB, s. A taunt, a scoff, S. B.

Teut. babb-en, to prate; Isl. komenn i bobba, os correptum, at bobsa, babare (to bark,) canum vox est.  Su. G. babe, sermo inconditus.

BOBBY, s. A grandfather, S. B.
Ross.

BOBBYN, s. The seed-pod of birch, Loth.

Fr. bubon, a great bunch.

Evergreen.

BOBBINS, s. The water-lily, S. B. Bobbins are properly the seed-vessels.
V. Cambie-leaf.

BOCE; Burel, Watson's Coll. ii. 26.
V. Boss.

To BOCK, v. a. To vomit.
V. Bok.

BOCK-BLOOD, s. A spitting, or throwing up of blood.
Polwart.

BOD, s. A person of small size, a term generally applied, somewhat contemptuously, to one who is dwarfish, although of full age, S.

To BODE, v. a. To proffer, often as implying the idea of some degree of constraint. "He did na merely offer, but he boded it on me;" S.

BODEN, part. pa. Preferred.

BODE, BOD, s. An offer made in order to a bargain, a proffer, S.
Ramsay.

BODEN, part. pa. Proffered.
V. Bode, v.

BODEN, BODIN, BODYN, part. pa.
 1. Prepared, provided, furnished, in whatever way, S.
Acts Ja. I.

 2. It seems to be used, in one instance, in an oblique sense, as signifying matched.
V. Boun.
Barbour.

Su. G. bo, Isl. bo-a, to prepare, to provide; wael bodd, well provided against the cold.

BODY, s. Strength, bodily ability.
Barbour.

A. S. bodig not only signifies the body in general, but stature.

BODLE, BODDLE, s. A copper coin, of the value of two pennies Scots, or the third part of an English penny.
Rudd.

BOETINGS, BUITINGS, s. pl. Half-boots, or leathern spatterdashes.
Dunbar.

BOGGARDE, s. A bugbear.
Rollocke.

BOGILL, BOGLE, s.
 1. A spectre, a hobgoblin, S. A. Bor.
Douglas.
 2. A scarecrow, a bugbear, S.  synon. doolie, cow; being used in both senses.

C. B. bugul, fear, bwgwly, to frighten.

BOGILL about the stacks, or simply, Bogle, a play of children or young people, in which one hunts several others around the stacks of corn in a barn-yard, S.
Ritson.

It seems the same game with that called Barley-bracks, q. v.  The name has probably originated from the idea of the huntsman employed being a scarecrow to the rest.

BOGILL-BO, s.
 1. A hobgoblin or spectre, S.
Ramsay.
 2. A pettish humour.
Philotus.

In Lincolnsh. this word is used for a scarecrow, from bogill, or C. B. bogel-u, to affright, and bo, a hobgoblin, q. "the affrighting goblin."

To BOGG-SCLENT, v. n. Apparently, to avoid action, to abscond in the day of battle.
Colvil.

Perhaps in allusion to him who sklents or strikes off obliquely from the highway, into a bog, to avoid being taken prisoner.

BOGSTALKER, s. An idle, wandering, and stupid fellow; one who seems to have little to do, and no understanding, S.
V. Stalker.
Ramsay.

Borrowed perhaps from outlaws, who were seen at a distance hunting in marshy places, where pursuit was more difficult.

BOID, s.
Maitland Poems.

Isl. bode, a term used to denote a wave agitated by the wind; unda maris cum vadosis scopulis luctans.

BOIN, BOYN, BOYEN, BOWYNE, s.
 1. A washing-tub, S. B.
 2. A flat broad-bottomed vessel, into which milk is emptied from the pail, a bowyne, Loth.

BOIS, adj. Hollow.
V. Bos.

BOISSES.
V. Boss.
Knox's Hist.

To BOIST, BOAST, v. a. To threaten, to endeavour to terrify, S.
Douglas.

To BOK, BOCK, v. a.
 1. To vomit, S.
Gawan and Gol.
 2. To reach, to incline to puke, S.
 3. To belch, (eructare) S.

BOKS, s. pl. "Corner teeth," Gl. Sibb.
Maitland Poems.

To BOLDIN, BOLDYN, v. n. To swell.
Douglas.

BOLL, Lintseed Boll.
V. Bow.

BOLLMAN, s. A cottager, Orkn.
Statist. Acc.

Perhaps from Su. G.  Isl. bol, villa, and man, q. the inhabitant of a village.  It is always pronounced bowman.

BOLME, s. A boom, a waterman's pole.
Douglas.

Germ. baum, Belg. boom, a tree.

BOLNIT.
V. Boldin.

BOLNYNG, s. Swelling.
V. Boldin.
Henrysone.

BOLSTER, s. That part of a mill in which the axletree moves, S.

BOMBILL, s. Buzzing noise; metaph. used for boasting.
Polwart.

Teut. bommele, a drone.

BON, s. Apparently, bane, injury.
Wallace.

BONALAIS, BONAILIE, BONNAILLIE, s. A drink taken with a friend, when one is about to part with him; as expressive of one's wishing him a prosperous journey, S.
Wallace.

It is now generally pron. bonaillie, S.  Bonalais might seem to be the plur.  But perhaps it merely retains the form of Fr. Bon allez.

BONE, s. A petition, a prayer.
Douglas.

O. E. id.  Isl. baen, precatio, oratio; boon petitio, gratis acceptio, mendicatio, G. Andr.  A. S. ben, bene, id.

BONETT, s. "A small sail, fixed to the bottom or sides of the great sails, to accelerate the ship's way in calm weather." Gl. Compl.
Douglas.

Fr. bonnette, Sw. bonet, id.

BONIE, BONYE, BONNY, adj.
 1. Beautiful, pretty, S.
Maitland Poems.
Boniest, most beautiful.
Montgomerie.
 2. It is occasionally used ironically, in the same way with E. pretty, S.
Priests of Peblis.
 3. Precious, valuable.
Minstrelsy Border.

Bonny is used in the same sense by Shakspeare, and since his time by some other E. writers.  But I suspect that it is properly S.  Johnson derives it from Fr. bon, bonne, good.  This is by no means satisfactory; but we must confess that we cannot substitute a better etymon.

BONYNES, s. Beauty, handsomeness.
Philotus.

BONK, s. Bank.
Douglas.

Probably corr. from A. S. bene.  Isl. bunga, however, signifies tumor terrae.

BONNAGE, s. An obligation, on the part of the tenant, to cut down the proprietor's corn.
Statist. Acc.

Evidently a corr. of Bondage.

BONNAR, s. "A bond," Gl.

Popular Ball.

BONNET.
V. White Bonnet.

BONOCH, s. "A binding to tie a cow's hind legs when she is a-milking."
Kelly.

BONSPEL, s. A match, at the diversion of curling on the ice, between two opposite parties, S.
V. Curl.
Graeme.

Belg. bonne, a village, a district, and spel, play; because the inhabitants of different villages or districts contend with each other in this sport, one parish, for example, challenging another.  Or, the first syllable may be traced to Su. G. bonde, an husbandman.

BONXIE, s. The name given to the Skua Gull, Shetl.
Neill.

BOO, BOW, s. A term sometimes used to denote a farm-house or village, in conjunction with the proper name, Ang.

BOOLS of a pot, s. pl. Two crooked instruments of iron, linked together, used for lifting a pot by the ears, S.; also called clips.

BOOL-HORNED, adj. Perverse, obstinate, inflexible, S. apparently from the same origin with Bools.

Boolie-horned, Border, and W. of S.  A. Bor. buckle-horns, short crooked horns turned horizontally inwards.

BOONMOST, adj. Uppermost, S. pron. bunemist.
Ross.

BOOT, BUT, BOUD, BIT, BUD, BOOST, v. imp. Behoved, was under a necessity of, S.; He boot to do such a thing; he could not avoid it. It bit to be; it was necessary that this should take place.
Ross. Burns.

BOOST, s. A box.
V. Buist.

BOR, BOIR, BORE, s.
 1. A small hole or crevice; a place used for shelter, especially by smaller animals, S.
Sir Tristrem.
 2. An opening in the clouds, when the sky is thick and gloomy, or during rain, is called a blue bore, S. It is sometimes used metaph.
Baillie.

BORCH, BORGH, BOWRCH, BOROW, s. A surety. The term properly denotes a person who becomes bail for another, for whatever purpose.
Wallace.
 2. A pledge; any thing laid in pawn.
Barbour.

BORE, s. A crevice.
V. Bor.

BORE'S- (or BOAR'S) EARS, s. pl. The name given to the Auricula, S. B. Primula auricula, Linn.

A bear is called a boar, S., especially S. B.

BORE-TREE, s. Sambucus nigra.
V. Bourtree.

BOREAU, s. An executioner.
V. Burio.

BORGH, s. A surety.
V. Borch.

BORN.
Wallace.

Born may have some affinity to Isl. borgun, Su. G. borgen, suretyship; q. one under contract or obligation.

BORROWING DAYS, the three last days of March, Old Stile, S.
Complaynt S.

These days being generally stormy, our forefathers have endeavoured to account for this circumstance, by pretending that March borrowed them from April, that he might extend his power so much longer.  Those who are much addicted to superstition will neither borrow nor lend on any of these days; lest the articles borrowed should be employed for the purposes of witchcraft, against the lenders.  Some of the vulgar imagine, that these days received their designation from the conduct of the Israelites in borrowing the property of the Egyptians.

BOS, BOSS, BOIS, adj.
 1. Hollow, S.
Douglas.
"A boss sound," that which is emitted by a body that is hollow, S.
 2. Empty. A shell, without a kernel, is said to be boss. The word is also used to denote the state of the stomach when it is empty, or after long abstinence, S.
Morison.
 3. In the same sense, it is metaph. applied to a weak or ignorant person. One is said to be "nae boss man," who has a considerable share of understanding, S. B.
Ramsay.
 4. Poor, destitute of worldly substance, S. B.

BOT, conj. But, often confounded with but, prep. signifying, without.
Douglas.

BOTAND, BUT-AND, prep. Besides.
Percy.

BOTHE, BOOTH, BUITH, s. A shop made of boards; either fixed, or portable, S.
V. Lucken.
Douglas.

Hence the Luckenbooths of Edinburgh, wooden shops, made for being locked up.  Teut. boede, bode, domuncula, casa, Kilian; Su. G. bud, taberna mercatorum, apotheca; Isl. bud, id.

BOTHIE, BOOTHIE, s. A cottage, often used to denote a place where labouring servants are lodged, S.
Neill.

Su. G. bod, a house, a cottage; Gael. bothag, bothan, a cot.

To BOTHER, BATHER, v. a. To teaze one by dwelling on the same subject, or by continued solicitation, S.

BOTHNE, BOTHENE, s.
 1. A park in which cattle are fed and inclosed.
Skene.
 2. A barony, lordship, or sheriffdom.
Assis. Reg. Dav.

L. B. bothena, baronia, aut territorium.

BOTINYS, s. pl. Buskins; Gl. Sibb.

Fr. botine, cothurnus.

V. Boiting.

BOTTLE-NOSE, s. A species of whale, S. Orkn.
Statist. Acc.

BOTTOM-ROOM, s. The name vulgarly given to the space occupied by one sitter in a church, S.

BOTWAND, s. Perhaps, a rod of authority.
Kennedy.

Germ. bot, power, and wand, a rod.

BOUCHT, BOUGHT, s. A curvature or bending of any kind, S. "The bought of the arm," the bending of the arm at the elbow.
Journ. Lond.
Where the sea forms a sort of bay, it is said to have a bought, S.

BOUK, BUIK, s.
 1. The trunk of the body, as distinguished from the head or extremity, S.
A bouk of tauch, all the tallow taken out of an ox or cow, S.

BOUKIT, BOWKIT, part. pa.
  1. Large, bulky; S.
Douglas.
 2. Boukit and muckle-boukit are used in a peculiar sense; as denoting the appearance which a pregnant woman makes, after her shape begins to alter.

BOUKSUM, BOUKY, adj. Of the same sense with Boukit, S.
Poems Buchan Dialect.

BOUKE, s. A solitude.
Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.

A. S. buce, secessus, "a solitary and secret place," Somner.

BOULDEN, part. pa. Swelled, inflated.
V. Boldin.

BOULE, "Round," Rudd.
Douglas.

Teut. bol, tumidus, turgidus; or boghel, beughel, curvatura semicircularis, from bogh-en, arcuare.

BOULENA, A sea cheer, signifying, Hale up the bowlings.
Complaynt S.

BOULENE, s. The same with E. Bowline. A rope fastened to the middle part of the outside of a sail.
Complaynt S.

Sw. bog-lina, id. from bog, flexus.

BOUN, BOUNE, BOWN, adj. Ready, prepared, S.
Barbour.
Bone is used in the same sense, O. E.

To BOUN, BOWN, v. a.
 1. To make ready, to prepare.
Wallace.
 2. To go, to direct one's course to a certain place.
Sir Egeir.