Akwart, auk ward Aften, often Aff, off; Aff loof, unpreme- Ayont, beyond Barefit, barefooted Batch, a crew, a gang Bade, endured, did stay en', the end of a beam Bad, did bid Awa', away Baggie, the belly Awn, the beard of barley, Bafhfu', bafhful oats, &c. Awnie, bearded Awfu', awful Backlins comin, coming Be, to let be, to give over, to cease Beuk, a book Behint, or behin', behind Be't, be it Blink, a little while, a fmiling look; to look kindly, to shine by fits Blinker a term of contempt Blinkin, fmirking Ben, into the Spence or par- Bluid, blood; Bluidy, bloody lour Belyve, by and by Beet, to add fuel to fire Beastie, dimin. of beast Benlomond, a noted mountain in Dumbartonshire Belly-fu', belly-full Blather, bladder Blaw, to blow, boast Bleth'ren, talking idly Bethankit, the grace after Blate, bashful, fheepish Biggin, building, a house Bicker, a kind of wooden difh, a fhort race Birkie, a clever fellow Bing, a heap of grain, potatoes, &c. Bill, a bull Bizz, a bustle, to buzz Birring, the noise of partridges, &c. when they fpring Bit, crifis, nick of time Blaftie, a fhrivelled dwarf, a term of contempt R 3 Blusht, did blush Blype, a fhred, a large piece Bleatin, bleating Blue gown, one of those beggars who get annually, on the King's birthday, a blue cloak or gown with a badge Bonnie, or bonny, handfome, beautiful Bonnilie, hamdfomely, beautifully Bonnock, a kind of thick cake of bread Bother, to pother Bodle, à fmall old coin Boortree, the shrub elder, planted much of old in hedges of barn-yards, &c. Boord, a board Botch, Botch, an angry tumor Bruft, to burft Brither, a brother Brats, coarse clothes, rags curb for horfes Brae, a declivity, a precipice, the flope of a hill Brachens, fern Broofe, a race at country weedings, who fhall firit reach the bridegroom's house on returning from church Brattle, a fhort race, hurry, fury Braindge, to run rafhly for ward Braind'gt, reeled forward Brifket, the breaft, the bofom Breaftit, did fpring up or forward Breaftie, dimin, of breaft Braik, a kind of harrow Braxie, a morkin sheep, &c. Bruilzie, a broil, a combuf. tion Buirdly, ftout-made, broadbuilt Bum-clock, a humming beetle that flies in the fummer evenings Bummin, humming as bees Burn, water, a rivulet Burnie, dimin. of burn Burnewin, i. e. burn the wind, a blacksmith Bufle, a buftle; to buftle But an' ben, the country kitchen and parlour Bufkit, dreffed Bummle, to blunder Bummler, a blunderer Buckkin, an inhabitant of Virginia But, without Bure, did bear Byre, Caff, chaff Chap, a perfon, a fellow, a blow Chiel, or cheel, a young fellow Chow, to chew; check for Chanter, a part of a bag- Clash, an idle tale, the story are clad with feathers, are faid to be cootie Cloot, the hoof of a cow, sheep, &c. Clootie, an old name for the Cooft, did caft devil. Clips, sheers Claut, to clean, to scrape Clatter, to tell little idle cot-house or cottage Cood, the cud Cog, a wooden dish Coggie, dimin. of cog Cowe, to terrify, to keep under, to lop; a fright, a branch of furze, broom, &c. Commaun, command Cozie, fnug; cozily, fnugly Cowp, to barter, to tumble over; a gang Cowpit, tumbled Cove, a cave Cootie, wooden kitchen dish, aljo thofe fowls, whoje legs Cowte, a colt Coof, a blockhead, a ninny Crack, converfation; to con- |