THE DIALECT OF B Baan, the pronunciation of houn. In the sense of ready, going, or directed, is very common. * Wheer ar' ta baan 9* := Where are yoa going? * He^s nooan baan to get t* brass ' = He*s not about to get the money. Scott uses this word in his Lady of t?ie Lake, canto yL ver. 15 :
- To hero boune for battle strife,
Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array.' Again in the fSar more ancient ballad of Bobin Hood and Otiy of Oiebome^ first printed in 1765 : ' Busk'yee, bowne yee, my merry men all, And John shaU go with mee. This word is not the same as bound, obliged, for that is called bun. Baat, t. e. bout : very common for without This is the same as hut frequently fotmd in old writings, as in ^ lytell Oeste of Bobin Hoody first prmted 1489 :
- Bvt he come this ylk6 day
Disheryted shall he be ' (2 Fytte, ver. 6). Again : "* What doost thou here," sayd the Abbot,
- But thou haddest brought thy pay ?" ' (ver. 24)—
in both which cases it is used for without^ or more strictly for unkM, Also in that amusing ballad. The I^aird o' Drum, ver. 15 : ' The first time that I married a wife, She was far abune my degree ; She wadna hae walk'd thro' the yetts o* Drum, But the pearlin abune her bree, And I durstna gang in the room where she was. But my hat below my knee ! ' Babby (gl, babi), a baby ; also a picture or print in a book. For instance, boys at play, guessing whether there were an illustration on the next page, would say, * Bobby o'er the leaf? ' Again, one seeing a tutor teaching Euclid with diagrams, expressed his idea of the study by remarking, * It's babby lakin yon I ' See Laking. HaUiweU says bobs is used m the same sense. Backend, the autumn. They also sometimes say the hackend of the week, but the ' latter end ' is more common. Backset^ a prop, or anything to lean or fall back upon ; money laid up for a rainy day. Backside (pronounced backsawd), the premises in the back part of a house : a word of ancient usage in this sense. Occurs in Exod. iii. 1 : * And he led the flock to the bachide of the desert.' Backword. When one has accepted an engagement, and wishes to withdraw from it, he * sends backword,'
