Beastie, dimin. of beast. Beet, to add fuel to fire. Beld, bald. Belyve, by and by. Ben, into the spence or par- lour.
Benlomond, a noted moun- tain in Dumbartonshire.. Bethankit, grace after meat. Beuk, a book.
Bicker, a kind of wooden dish, a short race.
Awn, the beard of barley, Bien, wealthy, plentiful.
Backlins, comin', back, returning.
Baide, endured, did stay.
Birken-shaw, Birchen-woodshaw, a small wood.
Birkie, a clever fellow.
Birring, the noise of partridges, &c. when they spring.
Bairntime, a family of chil-Bit, crisis, nick of time.
Bang, to beat, to strive. Bardie, diminutive of bard. Barefit, barefooted. Barmie, of, or like harm, Batch, a crew, a gang. Batts, botts. Baudrons, a cat. Bauld, bold. Bawk, bank.
Baws'nt, baving a white stripe down the face.
Be, to let be, to give over, to
Bizz, a bustle, to buzz.
Blastie, a shrivelled dwarf, a
term of contempt.
Blastit, blasted.
Blate, bashful, sheepish. Blather, bladder.
Blaud, a flat piece of any
thing; to slap.
Blaw, to blow, to boast. Bleerit, bleared, sore with rheum.
Bleert and blin, bleared and blind. Bleczing, blazing.
Blellum, idle talking fellow. Blether, to talk idly, non-
Blink, a little while, a smil. | Brattle, a short race, hurry,
ing look, to look kindly, to shine by fits. Blinker, a term of contempt. Blinkin, smirking. Blue-gown, one of those beg- gars who get annually, on the king's birth-day, a blue cloak or gown, with a badge. Bluid, blood.
Bluntie, snivelling. Blype, a shred, a large piece. Bock, to vomit, to gush inter- mittently.
Bocked, gushed, vomited. Bodle, a small gold coin. Bogles, spirits, hobgoblins. Bonnie, or bonny, handsome, beautiful.
Bonnock, a kind of thick cake of bread, a small jan- nack, or loaf made of oat- meal.
Boord, a board.
Boortree, the shrub elder; planted much of old in hedges of baru-yards, &c. Boost, behoved, must needs. Bore, a hole in the wall. Botch, an angry tumour. Bouk, vomiting, gushing out. Bousing, drinking. Bow-kail, cabbage. Bowt, bended, crooked. Brachens, fern.
Brae, a declivity, a precipice, the slope of a hill. Braid, broad.
Braign't, reeled forward. Bruik, a kind of harrow. Brainge, to run rashly for- ward.
Brak, broke, made insolvent. Branks, a kind of wooden curb for horses. Brush, a sudden illness. Brats,coarse clothes, rags,&c.
Braw, fine, handsome. Brawlyt, or brawlie, very well, finely, heartily. Braxie, a morbid sheep. Breastie, dimin. of breast. Breastit, did spring up or forward. Breckan, fern. Breef, au invulnerable or ir- resistible spell. Breeks, breeches. Brent, smooth. Brewin, brewing. Brie, juice, liquid. Brig, a bridge.
Brunstane, brimstone. Brisket, the breast, the bosom. Brither, a brother. Brock, a badger.
Brogue, a hum, a trick. Broo, broth, liquid, water. Broose, broth; a race at country weddings, who shall first reach the bridegroom's house ou returning from church.
Brugh, a burgh.
Bruilzie, a broil, a combus- tion.
Brunt, did burn, burnt. Brust, to burst, burst. Buchan-bullers, the boiling of the sea among the rocks on the coast of Buchau. Buckskin, an inhabitant of Virginia. Bught, a pen. Bughtin-time, the time of collecting the sheep in the pens to be milked. Buirdly, stout made, broad- built.
Bum-clock,a humming beetle that flies in the summer evenings.
Bummin, humming as bees.[ Carl, an old man.
Burdies, dimin. of birds.
Burn, water, a rivulet. Burnewin, i. e, burn
wind, a blacksmith, Burnie, dimin. of burn. Buskie, bushy. Buskit, dressed. Busks, dresses.
Busle, a bustle, to bustle. Buss, shelter. But, bot, with.
But an' ben, the country kit- chen and parlour. By himself, lunatic, distract- ed.
Byke, a bee-hive.
Byre, a cow-stable, a shippen.
CA', To call, to name, to drive. Ca't, or ca'd, called, driven, calved.
Cadger, a carrier.
Carlin, a stout old woman. Cartes, cards.
Caudron, a caldron.
Cauk and keel, chalk and red clay. Cauld, cold.
Caup, a wooden drinking- vessel.
Chanter, a part of a bagpipe. Chap, a person, a fellow, a blow.
Chaup, a stroke, a blow. Cheekit, cheeked.
Cheep, a chirp, to chirp. Chiel,or cheel,a young fellow. Chimla, or chimlie, a fire- grate, fire-place. Chimla-lug, the fire-side. Chittering, shivering, trem- bling.
Chockin, choaking. Chow, to chew; cheek for chow, side by side. Chuffie, fat-faced. Clachan,a small village about a church, a hamlet.
Cadie, or caddie, a person, Claise, or claes, clothes.
a young fellow.
Caff, chaff. Caird, a tinker. Cairn, a loose heap of stones. Calf-ward, a small inclosure for calves. Callan, a boy. Caller, fresh, sound, refresh- ing.
Canie, or cannie, gentle, mild, dextrous. Cannilie, dextrously, gently. Cantie, or canty, cheerful,
Cantraip, a charm, a spell. Cap-stane, cope-stone, key-
Claith, cloth. Claithing, clothing. Claivers, nousense, not speak- ing sense. Clap, clapper of a mill. Clarkit, wrote.
Clash, an idle tale, the story of the day.
Clatter, to tell little idle sto- ries; an idle story. Claught, snatched at, laid hold of.
Claut, to clean, to scrape. Clauted, scraped. Clavers, idle stories. Claw, to scratch. Cleed, to clothe. Cleeds, clothes.
Cleekit, having caught. Clinkin, jerking, clinking. Clinkumbell, who rings the church-bell. Clips, sheers.
Clishmaclaver, idle conver- sation.
Clock, to hatch, a beetle. Clockin, hatching.
Cloot, the hoof of a cow, sheep, &c.
Clootie, an old name for the Devil.
Cotter, the inhabitant of a cothouse, or cottage. Couthie, kind, loving. Cove, a cove.
Cowe, to terrify, to keep un- der, to lop a fright; a branch of furze, broom, &c. Coup, to barter, to tumble over, a gang. Cowpit, tumbled. Cowrin, cowering. Cowte, a colt.
Clour, a bump or swelling Cozily, snugly.
after a blow.
Cluds, clouds.
Coaxin, wheedling. Coble, a fishing boat. Cockernony, a lock of hair tied upon a girl's head; a cap.
Crabbit, crabbed, fretful. Crack, conversation, to con-
Crackin, conversing. Craft, or croft, a field near a house, in old husbandry. Craiks, cries or calls inces- santly, a bird.
Crambo-clink, or crambo- jingle, rhymes, doggrel ver-
Coft, bought. Cog, a wooden dish. Coggie, dimin. of cog. Coila, from Kyle, a district of Ayrshire; so called, saith tradition, from Coil, or Coi- lus, a Pictish monarch. Collie, a general, and some- times a particular, name Crap, a crop, to crop. for country curs. Collieshangie, quarrelling. Commaun, command. Cood, the cud.
Crank, the noise of an un
greased wheel. Crankous, fretful, captious. Cranreuch, the boar frost.
Coof, a blockhead, a ninny. Cookit, appeared, and disap. peared by fits. Coost, did cast.
Coot, the ancle or foot. Cootie, a wooden kitchen dish also those fowls whose legs are clad with feathers are said to be cootie.
Corbies, a species of the
Core, corps, party clan. Corn't, fed with oats.
Craw, a crow of a cock, a rook.
Creel, a basket; to have one's wits in a creel, to be craz'd, to be fascinated. Creeshie, greasy.
Crood, or croud, to coo as a dove.
Croon, a hollow and conti. nued moan; to make a noise like the continued roar of a bull; to hum a tane.
Crooning, humming. Crouchie, crook-backed. Crouse, cheerful, courageous. Crousely, cheerfully, coura- geously.
Crowdie, a composition of Davoc, David.
oatmeal and boiled water, Dawd, a large piece. sometimes from the broth Dawtit, or dawtet, fondled,
of beef, mutton, &c. Crowdie-time, breakfast-time. Crowlin, crawling. Crummock, a cow with crooked horns.
Crump, hard and brittle; spoken of bread. Crunt, a blow on the head with a cudgel.
Cuif, a blockhead, a ninny. Cummock, a short staff with a crooked head. Curchic, a curtesy. Curler, a player at a game on the ice, practised in Scot- land, called curling. Curlie, curled, whose hair falls naturally in ringlets. Curling, a well-known game on the ice. Curmurring, murmuring, a slight rumbling noise. Curpin, the crupper. Cushat, the dove, or pigeon. Cutty, short, a spoon broken in the middle.
Dearies, dimin. of dears. Dearthfu', dear. Deave, to deafen. Deil-ma-care! no matter! for all that! Deleerit, delirious. Descrive, to describe. Dight, to wipe, to clean corn from chaff.
Dight, cleaned from chaff. Dights, cleans.
Ding, to worst, to push. Dinna, do not.
Dirl,a slight tremulous stroke or pain.
Dizzen, or diz'n, a dozen. Doited, stupified, hebetated. Dolt, stupitied, crazed. Donsic, unlucky. Dool, sorrow; to sing dool, to lament, to mourn. Doos, doves. wood-Dorty, saucy, nice.
Douce, or douse, sober, wise, prudent.
Doucely, soberly, prudently. Dought, was or were able. Doup, backside. Doup-skelper,one that strikes the tail.
Dour and din, sullen, sallow. Doure, stout, durable, sullen, stubborn.
Douser, more prudent. Dow, am or are able, can. Dewff,pithless, wanting force. Dowie, worn with grief, fa-
tigue, &c. half asleep. Downa, am or are not able, cannot.
Doylt, stupid.
Drap, a drop, to drop.
Daurg, or daurk, a day's la- Drapping, dropping.
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