The BLUE-EY'D LASSIE. IGA GAED a wafu gaet yestreen, Twa lovely e'en o'bonie blue ! Twas not her golden ringlets bright, Her lips like roses wat wi' dew, Nor heaving bosom, lilly white, It was her e'en sae bonie blue! She spak', she smild, my heart he wyld, She charm’d my Soul I wistna’ how! But ay the stoun, the deadly wound, Came frae her e'en fae bonie blue. But “spare to speak and Now to speed," She'll aiblins listen to my vow :, Should she refuse I'll lay my dead, To her twa e'en sae bonie blue ! EPIGRA M. The late FRANCIS GROSE, F. R. S. was of a very corpulent person. This gave birth to the following Epigram, by the Author, while over a bottle with the celebrated Antiquarian : HE Devil once heard that old Grose was a-dying, And whip! on the wings of the wind 'he came flying ; But when he beheld honeft FRANCIS a-moaning, And mark'd each bed-post with its burthen a-groaning; Confounded he roar'd, I shall leave him, by G • Ere carry to H_ Il such a damnable load.' THE ch and gh have always the guttural sound. The found of the English diphthong oo, is commonly spelled ou. The French u, a found which often occurs in the Scotch Language, is marked 00, or ui. The a in genuine Scotch words, except when forming a diphthong, or followed by an e mute after a single consonant, sounds generally like the broad English a in wall. The Scot h diphthongs, ae, always, and ea very often, sound like the French é masculine, The Scotch diphthong ey, founds like the Latin ei. A A Agley, of the right line, ', all wrong Airn, iron Aits, oats Ae, one Aiver, an old horse Aff, off, Af-loof, unpreme Aizle, a hot cinder ditated Alake, alas A fore, before Alane, alone Aft, oft Anaift, almost Amang, among oats, &c. An' and, if Bauld, bold, Bauldy, boldly Ance, one Bauk, a cross beam Ane, one, an Baukin, the end of a beam Anither, another Baws'nt, having a white ftripe Artłu', artful down the face Ale, ashes Be, to let be, to give over, to Alteer, abroad, stirring cease Aught, eight, poffeffion, as Beastie, dimin. of beast in a my augbt, in all my Beet, to add fuel to file pofleflion Befa', to befall Auld, old Behint, or behin', behind Auld-farrao, or auld-farrant, Belyve, by and by sagacious, cunniog, prudent Belly-fu', bellyful Ava, at all Ben, into the Spence or parlnur Awa, away Benlomond, a noted mountain Awfu', awful in Dunbartonshire Awkart, awkward Bethankit, the grace after meat Awn, the beard of Barley, Be't, be it Beuk, a book Amnie, bearded Bicker, a kind of wooden dish, Ayont, beyond. a short race Biel, or bield, shelter Bien, wealthy, plentiful Big, to build, Biggit, builded Biggin, building a house Bill, a bull Billie, a brother, a young fel. Baggie, the Belly low Baith, both Bing, a heap of grain, pota. Bairn, a child toes, &c. Bairntime, a brood, a family Birkie, a clever fellow of children Birring, the noise of patridges Bainie, having large bones stout &c. when they spring Baklins-comin, coming back, Bit, crisis, nick of iime returning Bizz, to bustle, a buzz Bane, bone Blastie, a shriveled dwarf, a Bang, an effort term of contempt Bardie, diminutive of bard Blattit, blasted Barefit, barefooted Blate, balhful, sheepish Barkin, barking Blather, the bladder Barkit, barked Blaud, a flat piece of any Barmie, of or like barm thing; to flap Bathfu', bashful Blaw, to blow, to boast Balch, a crew, a gang Bleacin, bleating Bleezin, blazing Baudrons, i cat Bledin, bleting BABad, did bid 1 Batts, butts Blether', to talk filly nonsense Brattle, a short race, húrry, Bleth'rin, talking idly fury Bliok, a little while, a smiling Braw, fine, handsome look, to look kindly, to shine Brawly, very well, finely, by fits heartily Blinker, a term of contempt Brawnie, sout, biawny Blinkin, smirking Braxie, a morkin sheep, &c. Blue gown, one of those beg Breakin, breaking gars who get annually on Breathin, breathing cloke oi gown, with a badge. Breaftit, did spring up or forBluid, blood, Bluidy, bloody ward Blusht, did blush Brees, an invulnerable, or irreBlype, a shred, a large pjece hilable spell Bock, to vomit, to gufh inter Breeks, beeches mittently Brewin, brewing Briškit, the breast, the bosom Broo, broth, liquid, water Bonnock, a kind of thick cake Broose, a race at country wedof bread dings who shall first reach Boorit, a board the bridegroom's house on Boost, behoved, must needs returning from Church Boortiie, the rub'elder, plan- Brugh, a bo ough ted much of old in bedges Bruilzie, a broil, a combustion of barn-yards, &c. Brunt, did burn Borch, an a' gry tumour Brunftane, brimstone Bother, to pocher Brust, to buift Bow-kail, cabbage Buckskin, an inhabitant of Bow't, bended, crooked Virginia Brachens, fern Buirdly, stout-made, broadBrae, declivity, a precipice, built the slope of a hill Buire, did bear Braid, broad Bum-clock, a huiming-beetle Braik, a kind of harrow that Aies in the Summer Braindge, to run rafhly forward evening Braindg't, reel'd forward Bummie, to bunder Brak, broke, made insolvent Bumming, humming as bees Bianks, a kind of wooden curb Bumier, a blunderer for horses Buin, water, a rivulet Brah, a sudden illness Burnewin, i.e. burn the wind, Brals, coarse clothes, rags a blacksmith |