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Bonnilie, hand fomely, beau

tifully

Boonock, a kind of thick

cake of bread Boord, a board Boortree, the fhrub elder, planted much of old in hedges of barn-yards, &c. Booft, behoved, muft needs Botch an angry tumor Bother, to pother Bow-kail, cabbage Bow't, bended, crooked Brachens, fern Brae, a declivity, a precipice, the flope of a hill Braid, broad

Braik, a kind of harrow Braindge, to run rafhly forward

Braind'gt, reeled forward
Brak,broke, made infolvent
Branks, a kind of wooden
curb for horses
Brafh, a fudden illness
Brats, coarse cloaths, rags
Brattle, a fhort race, hurry,
fury

Braw, fine, handsome
Brawly, or brawlie, very
well, finely, heartily
Brawnie, ftout, brawny
Braxie, a morkin fheep, &c.
Breakin, breaking
Breaftie, dimin, of breaft

Breaftit, did fpring up or forward

Breathin, breathing

Breef, an invulnerable or irrefiftible spell

Breeks, breeches
Brewin, brewing
Brie, juice, liquid
Brig, a bridge
Brinftane, brimftone
Briket, the breast, the bo-

fom

Brither, a brother Brogue, a hum, a trick Broo, broth, liquid, water Broose, a race at country weddings, who shall firft reach the bridegroom's houfe, on returning from

church

Brugh, a burgh

Bruilzie, a broil, a combuf-
tion
Brunt, did burn
Bruft, to burft

Buckskin, an inhabitant of
Virginia

Buirdly, ftout-made, broadbuilt Bum-clock, Bum-clock, a humming beetle that flies in the fummer evenings Bummin, humming as bees Bummler, a blunderer Bummlin, to blunder

Bure,

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Bure, did bear

Cantharidian, made of can

Burn, water, a rivulet

wind, a blackfmith

Burnie, dimin. of burn Bufkit, dreffed

Burnewin, i. e. burn the Cantie, or canty, chearful,

Bufle, a buftle; to buftle
But, without

But' an' ben, the country
kitchen and parlour
By himself, lunatic, diftract-

ed

Byre, a cow-ftable

C.

merry

Cantraip, a charm, a spell
Cap-ftane, cop-kone, key-
ftone
Careerin, chearfully
Careffin, careffing
Carlin, a ftout old woman
Carryin, carrying
Cartes, cards

Ca't or ca'd, called, driven, calved

Cauld, cold

Caup, a wooden drinking
veffel

'A', to call, to name, to Chanter, a part of a bag

CA

drive

Cadger, a carrier

pipe Chantin, chanting

Cadie, or caddie, a perfon, Chap, a perfon, a fellow, a

a young fellow

Caff, chaff

Cáird, a tinker

Cairn, a loose heap of ftones
Calf-ward, a final inclofure
for calves
Callan, a boy
Caller, fresh, found
Cam, did come
Canna, cannot

Cannie, gentle, mild, dex

trous

Cannilie, dextrously, gently

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clothing

Clap, clapper of a mill
Clarket, wrote

Clash, an idle tale, the ftory of the day

Clatter, to tell little idle fto-
ries; an idle ftory
Claut, to clean, to scrape
Clauted, fcraped
Claw, to fcratch

Cleed, to clothe

Clinkin, jerking, clinking
Clinkumbell, who rings the
church bell
Clips, fheers

Clifhmaclaver, idle converfation

Clock, to hatch; a beetle
Clockin, hatching
Cloot, the hoof of a cow,
fheep, &c.

Clootie, an old name for the devil

Clour, a bump or swelling
after a blow
Coaxin, wheedling
Coble, a fishing boat.
Cog, a wooden difh
Coggie, dimin. of cog
COILA, from Kyle, a dif-
trict of Ayrshire, so call-

ed, faith tradition, from Coil or Coilus, a Pictish monarch

Collie, a general, and fome-
times a particular name
for country curs
Comin, coming
Commaun, command
Cood, the cud

Coof, a blockhead, a ninny
Cookit, appeared and difap-
peared by fits
Cooft, did caft

Cootie, wooden kitchen difh, alfo thofe fowls, whofe legs are clad with feathers, are Jaid to be cootie

Core, corps, party, clan
Corn't, fed with oats

Cotter, the inhabitant of a
cot-boufe or cottage
Couthie, kind, loving
Cove, a cave

Cowe, to terrify, to keep under, to lop; a fright, a branch of furze, broom, &c.

Cowp, to barter, to tumble
over; a gang
Cowpit, tumbled
Cowrin, cowering
Cowte, a colt

Cozie, fnug; cozily, fnugly
Crabbit, crabbed, fretful
Crack, converfation; to con-
verfe

Crackin,

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Crackin, converfing Craft or croft, a field near a houfe, in old busbandry Crambo-clink, or crambojingle, rhymes, doggrel verfes

Crank, the noife of an ungreased wheel Crankous, fretful, captious Cranreuch, the hear froft Crap, a crop, to top Craw, a crow of a cock, a rook

Creel, a basket; to have one's wit in a creel, to be craz'd, to be fafcinated Creepin, creeping Creethie, greafy

Cronie, crony,

quaintance

an old ac

Crood or croud, to coo as a

dove.

Croon, a hollow continued moan; to make a noife like the continued roar of a bull, to hum a tune Crooning, humming Crouchie, crook-backed" Croufe, chearful, courage

ous

Croufly, chearfully, courageoufly

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Dancin, dancing Dappl't, dappled

Darklins, daikling

Crump, hard and brittle, Daud, to thrath; to abufe

Spoken of bread

Daur,

Daur, to dare, daur't, dared Daurg or daurk, a day's la. bour

Dawd, a large piece
Dawtit or dawtet, fondled,
careffed

Dearies, dimin. of dears
Dearthtu', dear

Deave, to deafen

Deil-ma-care ! no matter!

for all that!

Deleeret, delirious

Delvin, delving

Delcrive, to defcribe

Defervin, deferving
Devle, a tanning blow
Dight, to wipe, to clean corn
from chaff; cleaned from

chaff

Dimpl't, dimpled
Ding, to wort, to push

Dinna, do not

Dirl, a flight

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ftroke or pain Difrefpecket, difrefpected Dizzen, or diz'n, a dozen Dizzie, dizzy, giddy Doited, flupified, hebetated Dolefu', doleful Dolt, ftupified, crazed Donfie, unlucky

Dool, forrow; to fing drol,

to lament, to mourni

Dorty, faucy, nice

Douce or douse, fober, wife, prudent

Doucely, foberly, prudently Dought, was or were able Doure, flour, durable, ftubborn, fullen

Dow, am or are able, to can Dowff, pithlefs, wanting force Dowie, worn with grief, fatigue, &c.

Downa, am or are not able,

cannot

Doylt, ftupid

Drap, a drop; to drop
Drapping, dropping
Dreadfu', dreadful
Dreep, to ooze, to drop
Dreeping, oozing, dropping
Dribble, drizzling, flaver
Driegh, flow
Drift, a drove
Drinkin, drinking
Droddum, the breech

Droop-rumpl't that droops

at the crupper

Drouth, thirst, drought
Drucken, drunken

Drumbly, muddy

Drummock, meal and wa-
ter mixed raw
Drunt, pet, four humour
Dryin, drying

Dub, a fmall pond
Duddie, ragged
Duds, rags, clothes
Dung, worited, pushed, dri-

ven

Dush,

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