BROCKED, BROAKIT, adj. Variegated, having a mixture of black and white, S. A cow is said to be broakit, that has black spots or streaks, mingled with white, in her face, S. B.
Statist. Acc.

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.

To BROD, 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 a pike-staff, S. This is the same with broggit-staff.

V. Brog.

BRODYRE, BRODIR, s. A brother; pl. bredir, bredyre.
Wyntown.

To BROG, v. a. To pierce, to strike with a sharp instrument, S.
Acts Ja. I.

Hence broggit staff, mentioned as a substitute for an ax. The term prog-staff is 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 phrase burg und emmer is used in a similar sense, as denoting legal security.  Our brogh and Germ. burg both denote suretyship.  The proper meaning of emmer is not known.

To BROGLE, 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.

To BROIGH, 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.

To Brok, Brock, v. a. To cut, crumble, or fritter any thing into shreds or small parcels, S.

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 for broched, 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.

To BRONSE, 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, as water-brose, kail-brose.
Ross.

To BROTCH, 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 great brothe of sweet," a vulgar phrase used to denote a violent perspiration, S.

BROUDSTER, s. Embroiderer.
V. Browdin.
Pitscottie.

Fr. brod-er, to embroider.

BROUKIT, BROOKED, BRUCKIT, BRUKET, adj. The face is said to be broukit, 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 with Brocked, Broakit.  We may add to the etymon there given, Dan. broged, variegated; speckled, grisled.

BROW, s. Nae brow, no favourable opinion. "An ill brow," 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.
"To browden on a 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.

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.

 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 royal brugh;" "A brugh of 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 a brugh or brogh, 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 a bruick-boil, S. B., pron. as brook.

Isl. bruk, elatio, tumor; expl. of a swelling that suppurates.

To BRUIK, 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.

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.

BRUS, s. Force, impetus.
Douglas.

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 to win the bruse.
Burns.
 2. Metaph., to strive, to contend in whatever way.
R. Galloway.
This means nothing more than riding for the brose, broth or kail, the prize of spice-broth allotted in some places to the victor.

To BRUS, BRUSCH, v. a. To force open, to press up.
Wyntown.

To BRUSCH, 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.

To BRUST, v. n. To burst.
R. Bruce.

Teut. brost-en, brusten, Sw. brist-a, id.

BRWHS, s. Apparently, the same with Brus.
Wyntown.

To BU, 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.

Bu-kow, s. Any thing frightful, as a scarecrow, applied also to a hobgoblin, S.
V. Cow.

From bu, and kow, cow, a goblin.

Bu-man, s. A goblin; the devil, S. used as Bu-kow.

BUB, BOB, s. A. blast, a gust of severe weather.
Douglas.

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.

To BUCK, v. n. To push, to butt, Perths.

Alem. bock-en, to strike; Su. G. bock, impulsus.

To BUCK out, 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 a thrawn buckie, and sometimes, in still harsher language, a Deil's buckie, S.
Ramsay.

Buckie Ingram, that species of crab denominated Cancer bernardus, Newhaven.

Buckie Prins, A periwinkle; Turbo terebra, Linn. Also called Water-spouts, Loth.

To BUCKLE, 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 from Boks, 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 been offered?

To Bud, 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; from bu, an ox.

To BUFF, 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.

To BUFF, v. a. To buff corn, to give grain half thrashing, S.

"The best of him is buft," 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.

To BUFF out, 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 the skin of 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 him S. B.

Teut. bof, celeusma, a cheer made by mariners.  Stye might 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.

To BUIGE, 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, from bac-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, bok signifying 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. and s.

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, or buste, 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.

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.

To BUKK, 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, probably Blind 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.

Bulyiements is still used ludicrously for clothing, S.

To BULL, v. n. To take the bull; a term used with respect to a cow. Both the v. and s. are pron. q. bill, S.

Bill-siller, S., is analogous to Teut. bolle-gheld, merces pro admissura tauri.

To BULLER, v. n.
 1. To emit such a sound as water does, when rushing violently into any cavity, or forced back again, S.
Douglas.

 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, baul mugitus.

 5. It is used as v. a. to denote the impetus or 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. the v.

BULLETSTANE, s. A round stone, S.

Isl. bollut-ur, round; bollut, convexity.

To BULLIRAG, v. a. To rally in a contemptuous way, to abuse one in a hectoring manner, S.

Isl. baul, bol, maledictio, and raegia, 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.

To BUM, 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.

Bum, s. A humming noise, the sound emitted by a bee, S.,
V. the v.

Bumbee, s. A humblebee, a wild bee that makes a great noise, S. Bumble-bee, id. A. Bor.

Q. the bee that bums.

Bum-Clock, s. A humming beetle, that flies in the summer evenings.
Burns.

BU-MAN, s. A name given to the devil.
V. under Bu.

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, and baesen, 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, and mage socius, q. to make preparation for one's companions; or bo villa, incola, and mage, 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.

To BUMMIL, v. a. To bungle; also, as v. n. to blunder, S.
Ramsay.

Bummeler, Bumler, s. A blundering fellow, S.

BUMP, s. A stroke. "He came bump upon 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 a sweetie-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 with fud.
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 called shaws, Ang. Been, id. Morays.

BUNEWAND, s. The cow-parsnip, Heracleum sphondylium, is called Bunwand, S. B.
Montgomerie.

This appears to be of the same meaning with Bunwede, q. v.

BUNG, adj. Tipsy, fuddled; a low word, S.
Ramsay.

Q. Smelling of the bung.

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 a bunkle." This word is used in some parts of Angus.

Perhaps originally a mendicant; from Isl. bon, mendicatio, and karl, vulgarly kall, 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 called Binda.

BUR, s. The cone of the fir, S. B.

Su. G. barr denotes the leaves or needles of the pine.

BUR-THRISSIL, s. The spear-thistle, S. Carduus lanceolatus. Bur-thistle, id. A. Bor.

To BURBLE, v. n. To purl.
Hudson.

Teut. borbel-en, scaturire.

BURCH, BWRCH, BUROWE, s. Borough, town.
Dunbar.

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.

From burd, and claith, cloth.

BURDALANE, s. A term used to denote one who is the only child left in a family; q. bird alone, or, solitary; burd being the pron. of bird.
Maitland MSS.

BURDE, s. Ground, foundation.

Su. G. bord, a footstool.

Bellenden.

BURDE, s. A strip, properly an ornamental salvedge; as a "burde of silk," a salvedge of silk.
Dunbar.

Su. G. borda, limbus vel praetexta; unde silkesborda, cingulum sericum vel limbus; gullbord, limbus aureus; Teut. boord, limbus.

BURDYN, adj. Wooden, of or belonging to boards.
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 be burdit, when they split into lamina, S.

Perhaps from burd, a board; q. like wood divided into thin planks.

BURDLY, BUIRDLY, adj. Large and well-made, S. The E. word stately is used as synon.
Burns.

BUREDELY, adv. Forcibly, vigorously.
V. Burdly.
Sir Gawan and Sir Gal.

BUREIL, BURAL, adj. Vulgar, rustic.
Wallace.

Chaucer borel, id.; L. B. burell-us, a species of coarse cloth; Teut. buer, a peasant.

BURG of ice, a whale-fisher's phrase for a field of ice floating in the sea, S., most probably from its resemblance of a castle.

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; or byrigenn, byrgene, sepulcrum, monumentum, tumulus.

BURIO, BOREAU, BURRIO, BURIOR, BURRIOUR, s. An executioner.
Bellenden.

BURLAW, BYRLAW, BIRLEY, BARLEY. Byrlaw Court, a court of neighbours, residing in the country, which determines as to local concerns.
Skene. Reg. Maj.

BURNT SILVER, BRINT SILVER, silver refined in the furnace.
Acts Ja. II.

BURRACH'D, part. pa. Inclosed.
V. Bowrach'd.

To BURRIE, 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.  Bourse also 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.

To BUSCH, v. n. To lay an ambush; pret. buschyt
Wallace.

O. E. bussed.

R. Brunne.

Ital. bosc-are, imbosc-are, from bosco, q. to lie hid among bushes.

Buschement, s. Ambush.
Wallace.

O. E. bussement.

R. Brunne.

To BUSE, BUST, v. a. To inclose cattle in a stall, S. B.

A. S. bosg, bosig, praesepe; E. boose, a stall for a cow, Johns.

To BUSH, 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.

To BUSK, 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; hence butz 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 to rush.
Barbour.

Busking, s. Dress, decoration.
Acts Ja. VI.

BUSK, s. A bush.
Douglas.

BUSSIN, s. A linen cap or hood, worn by old women, much the same as Toy, 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-bust or box.

To BUST, v. a. To powder, to dust with flour, Aberd. Must, synon.

This v. is probably formed from bust, buist, a box, in allusion to the meal-buist.

To BUST, 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.