Blether', to talk filly nonfenfe Bleth'rin, talking idly Blink, a little while, a fmiling look, to look kindly, to fhine by fits Blinker, a term of contempt Blinkin, fmirking Blue gown, one of those beggars who get annually on the Kings birth day, a blue cloke or gown, with a badge. Bluid, blood, Bluidy, bloody Blufht, did blush
Blype, a fhred, a large piece Bock, to vomit, to gufh intermittently
Bocked, gufh, vomited Bodle, a fmall old coin, in value one fixth of a penny Bonie, handfome, beautiful Bonilie, handsomely, beautifully Bonnock, a kind of thick cake of bread Boord, a board
Booft, behoved, must needs` Boort ie, the fhrub elder, planted much of old in hedges of barn-yards, &c. Botch, an angry tumour
Brattle, a fhort race, húrry, fury
Braw, fine, handsome
Brawly, very well, finely,
heartily
Brawnie, ftout, bawny
Braxie, a morkin sheep, &c.
Breakin, breaking
Breathin, breathing
Breaftie, dimin. of breast
Breaftit, did fpring up or for-
ward
Breef, an invulnerable, or irre
Linable spell
Breeks, beeches
Brewin, brewing
B. ie, juice, liquid
Frig, a bridge
Brifkit, the breast, the bosom
Brither, a brother
Brogue, a hum, a trick
Broo, broth, liquid, water
Broofe, a race at country wed-
dings who fhall first reach
the bridegroom's house on
returning from Church
Brugh, a bo ough
Bruilzie, a broil, a combuftion Brunt, did burn
Brunftane, brimstone
Bruft, to bu ift
Buckskin, an inhabitant of
Buirdly, ftout-made, broad
built Buire, did bear
Bum-clock, a humming-beetle that flies in the Summer evening
Bummie, to blunder
Bumming, humming as bees
Bumler, a blunderer
Burn, water, a rivulet
Burnewin, i.e. burn the wind,
a blacksmith
Ca't or ca'd, called, driven, calved
Cadie or caddie, a young fel-
low who runs messages
Cadger, a carrier
Caff, chaff
Caird, a tinker
Cairn, a locfe heap of stones Calf-ward, a mall inclosure for calves
Callan, a boy
Caller, fresh, found
Cam, did come
Canna, cannot
Cannie, gentle, mild, dextrous
Canilie, dextroufly, gently
Cantharidian, made of cantha-
rides
Cantraip, a charm, a spell
Cantie, chearful, merry
Cape-fane, cope-ftone, key-,
Chantin, chanting
Chap, a peifon, a fellow, a blow
Chearfu', chearful
Cheep, a chirp; to chirp
Checkit, checked
Chiel, or cheel, a young fellow
Chimla, or chimlie, a fire-grate
Chimla-lug, the firefide
Chittering, fhivering, trembling
Chow, to chew; cheek for
chow, fide by fide
Choakin, choking
Chuffie, fat-faced
Claife, or claes, cloaths
Clafh, an idle tale, the story
of the day
Claw, to fcratch
Clachan, a fmall village, a hamlet
Clarkit, wrote
Clap, clapper of a mill
Claut, to clean, to scrape
Clauted, fcraped
Clatter, to tell idle ftories; an
idle story
Cleed, to clothe
Cleith, cloth, claithing, loath ing
Clinkin, jerking, clinking
Clinkumbell, who rings the
church bell
Clips, fheers
Climaclaver,idle converfation
Clock, to hatch; a beetle
Clockin, hatching
Clour, a bump or fwelling af
Cloot, the hoof of a cow, sheep, &c.
Clootie, an old name for the
Devil
Coaxin, wheedling
Coble, a fishing boat
Ceg, a wooden dish
Coggie, dimin. of cog
Colie, a general aud fome-
times a peculiar name for
country cur dogs
Comin, coming
Commaun, command
Cood, the cud
Coof, a blockhead, a ninny
Cookit, appeared and dif.p-
peared by fits
Csoft did caft
Cootie, wooden kitchen dish;
all tbfe fowls whofe Legs
are clad with feathers, are
Jaid to be cootie
Core, corps, party, clan
COILA, from Kyle, a district
of Ayrilire, fo called, faith
tradition, from Coil, or Coi-
lus, a Pictish monarch
Cotter, the inhabitant of a cot-
house or cottage
Cowe, to terrify to keep under
to lop; a fright, a branch of
furze, broom, &c.
Cowp, to barter, to tumble
over; a fall, a gang Cowpit, tumbled
Cowte, a colt
Cowrin, cowering
Couthie, kind, loving
Cove, a cavern
Cozie, foug, coizely, fnugly
Crabit, crabbid, fretful
Crack, converfation: to con-
verle
Crakin, conve: fing
Craft, or cr ft, a field near a
houfe, in old husbandry
Crank, the noife of an un-
greafed wheel
Crankous, fretful, captions
Crambo clink, or crambo-jin-
gle, rhymes, doggerel verfes
Cranreuch, the hoar froft
Crap, a crop, the top
Craw, a clow of a cock, a rook
Creel, a basket; to have one's
wits in a creel; to be claz'd,
to be fafcinated
Crefhie, grealy
Creepin, creeping
Cronie, crony
Crood or croud, to coo as a
dove
Croon, a hollow continued
moan; to make a noile like
the continued roar of a bull,
to hum a tune
Crooning, humming
Crowlen, crawling
Crouchie, crock-backed
Crowdie time, breakfast time
Croufe, chcarful, courageous
Crously, chearfully, courage-
oully
Crufhin, crushing, crusht,
crushed
Crump, hard and brittle, Spoken
of bread
Crunt, a blow on the head
with a cudgel
Cuif, a block-head, a ninny
Cummock, a fhort flaff with a
crooked head
Curler, a player on ice
Cu fhie, a courtefy
Curling, a well known game
on ice
Curlie, curled, whofe hair falls naturally in ringlets Cormurring, murmuring, flight, rumbling noife Curpin, the crupper
Cufhat, the dove, or wood pigeon.
Dainty, pleafant, good hu-
moured, agreeable
Daimen, rare, now and then;
daimen-icker, an ear of corn.
now and then
Dancin, dancing
Dappl't, dappled
Darg, a day's labour
Darklins, darkling
Daud, to thrash, to abuse
Daur, to dare, daurt, dared
Daw'd, a large piece
Dautit or dauted, fondled,
carreffed
Dearies, dimin. of dears
Dearthfu', dear
Deave, to deafen
Deil-ma care! no matter! for
all that!
Deleeret, delirious
Delvin, digging with a fpade
Defcrive, to describe
Defervin, deferving
Devel, a funning blow
Dimpl't, dimpled
Dight, to wipe, to clean corn
from chaff; cleaned from
chaff
Ding, to worft, to push
Dinna, do not
Lirl, a flight tremulous ftroke or pain
Difrefpeckit, disrespected
Dizzen, a dozen
Doure, font, durable, tubborn, fullen
Dow, am, or are able to, can Downa, am or are not able,
Dowie, worn with grief, tatigue, &c.
Dowff, pithlefs, wanting force
Drap a drop; to drop
Drapping, dropping
Dreadfu', dreadful
Dreep. to ooze, to drop
Dreeping, oozing, dropping
Drift, a drove
Dribble, drizzling, flaver
Drinkin, drinking
Droddum, the breech
Droop-rumpl't, that droops at the crupper
Drouth, thirst, drought
Drumlie, muddy
Drunt, pet, four humour Brummock, meal and water mixed raw
Draken, drunken
Dryin, drying
Dub, a fmall pond of water
Dud. rags, cloathes
Duddie, ragged
Dung, wortted, pushed, driven
Duh, to push as a ram, &c.
Dusht, push'd by aram, ox, &c.
Enfuin, enfuing
Efpecial, especially
Eydent, diligent.
A' fall, lot; to fall
Fae, a foe
Fac't, faced
Faem, foam
Faddom't, fathomed
Fairin, a fairing, a prefent
Faithfu', faithful
Fallow, fellow
Fand, did find
Farl, a cake of bread
Fareweel, farewell
Fafh, trouble, care; to trou-
ble, to care for
Fafh't, troubled
Fatterels, ribbon ends, &c.
Faften-een, Faftens-Even
Fauld, a feld; to fold
Faulding, folding
Faut, fault
Faw font, decent, feemly
Feckfu', large, brawny, flout
Feckless, puny, weak, filly
Fear't, frighted
Fearfu', fightful
Feat, neat, fpruce
Feg, a fig
Feide, feud, enmity
Fecht, to fight, fechtin, fight-
ing
Fell, keen, biting; the flesh
iminediately under the skin;
a field pretty level on the
fide or top of a hill
Fend, to five comfortably
Ferlie or ferly, to wonder; a
wonder, a term of contempt
Fetch, to pull by fits
Fetch't, pulled intermittently
Fidge, to fidgit
Fidgin, fdgeting
Fier, found, healthy; a bro-
ther, a friend
Feint, fiend, a petty oath Filsle, to make a ruling noise, to fidget; a buftle
Fittie lan', the near horfe of
the hindmoft pair in the
plough
Fizz, to make a hiffing noise
like fermentation
Flatterin', flattering
Flainen, fannel
Fleeth, a fleece
Fleg, a kick, a random blow Flingin tree, a piece of timber hung by way of partition between two horfes in a fable, a flail
Fleech, to fupplicate in a flattering manner
Fleechin, fupplicating Flether, to decoy by fair words
Fletherin, flattering
Flitcher, to flutter as young
neftlings when their dam
approaches
Flitcherin, fluttering
Fley, to fcare, to frighten
Fley'd, frighted, scared
Flik, to fret at the yoke
Tlifkit, fretted
Flinders, fhreds, broken pie
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