GLOSSARY
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- Beam, 20, 26, 197, boom, Du. boom, A. S. beam. Go. bagm-s, a tree
- Bear, 38, to carry; Go. bairada, bairanda, bairan, passive; from bairan, to bear, or carry
- Bear, bere, 20, 23, 200, 212, the coarse variety of bar-ley; Go. bari-zevas, made of barley
- Beck, 204, E., from N. bekk-r, Du. beek, Ger. Bach=brook
- Beds, 127, child's game
- Beenin, 149 (Buch.) to beene, make the staves of a barrel swell by steeping. See Go. bulna, to swell.—Jam.
- Beese, 167, Cu., Sc. beas', pi. of beast
- Beeter, 183, Cu., beetin' stick, Cu.
- Beets, 183, lit. makes bet-ter, mends the fire
- Begoud, 36, 89, past of Eng. began, 92
- Begowk, 128, 150, Sc. "For he meets wi' a great begeck frae empty binks." Jam. begeik, begink, begunk; prob. under influence of "gowk," the cuckoo; Ab. begeck, Bu. begyte
- Beiks, bikes, 124, 157
"Thrang as bumbees frae their bikes,
The lauds an' lasses loup the dykes."
- †Beist, 32, 132, comm. Teut., or. obsc. Du. and Ger. beist; Fris. bjüst—"beitan, bite," not conn.—N. E. D.
- Bend-leather, 134, for soles of boots
- Bennert, 177, Nithsd.
- Berry, 25, 26, Go. basi, in weina-basi, the grape
- Besom, 85, 137, a broom, O. Fris. besma; Ger. Besen. As an opprobrious epithet strictly Sc. "A. S. besma, Go. bisma; cf. Lat. ferula."—Kl.
- Bethel, beadle, 14, 73; betheral, 118. Bedellus is the Latinised form. O. E. bydel; from Go. biudan, to offer
- Bet-ter, 29, batiza, batists, Go. better, best
- Beut-money, 26, 130, 186, buit, Go. bôta, advantage, good; Eng. to boot
- Bew, 81 (Lan.) blue
- Bewray, 30 (Bible), Go. wrohjan
- Bid, 56, to order, combines two originally distinct verbs—(1) O. E. beodan, Go. biudan, to command; Sc. bode, an offer at an auction; Baidjan, 56, is for biudan. (2) O. E. biddan. Go. bidjan, pray, ask urgently, Sc. bedesman
- Bide, 33, 90, Go. beidan; bide=stay; also endure, tolerate
- Bien, 136, 174, Eng. dial. bain; O. N. beinn, straight, hospitable
- Big ha'—Bible, 219
- Bike, 124
- Billy, 173 (Borders), companion
"Ye are a lad, ye are but bad,
An' a billie to his son a canna be."
"Bord. Minstr."
familiar form of Willy.—N. E. D.
- Bine, 209, Lan.
- Binnd, 36, Go. bindan, to bind
- Birk, birch, 252
- Birley-man, 64, from byrlaw, burlaw, the law of the baer (Ic.) or village community
- Birse, 134, 151, bristle
"The elshin, the lingle, and the birse!"
"Souters o' Selkirk."
- Birssy, 63, irascible, Gael. bairseag, a scold
- Birsling sun, 122, scorching. Jam. birsle, brissle, to parch by fire. A. S. brastl, glowing, brastlian, to burn. "I trained on birsled peas and whisky."—"Tom Cringle's Log." (J. B. F.)
- Bi-sunja, 33, Go. See san, sooth
- Bit, 94, a bit bread
- Bite, 32, Go. beitan, to bite
- Bittock, 86 (dimin.)
- Bi-waibjan, 26, Go. to weave. Root general over Ind.–Ger. tongues, evidence of high antiquity of the art
- Black-a-vised, 61, dark visaged
- Blad, 197, C. Du. leaf in general; cf. "Ilka blade o' gress"
- Blate, 86, 137, bashful. Go. bleiths, 32
"An' leukit feel blate."
"Christmas Ba'ing."
"Ye're no blate," by litotes, insolent
- Blawin, 134, boasting, from blowing (fig.)
- Blowans haithjos, 23, Go. flowers of the field, blooms of the heath
- Blinnd, 18, blind, blinds, Go. blind
- Bocht, bauhta, 12, Go. pret. of bugjan, to buy
