Read Ebook: An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language in which the words are explained in their different senses authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used or the titles of the works in which they occur and deduced from their originals by Jamieson John

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This word is still in use in our courts of law, as denoting satisfaction for an injury done to any party.

From the name of the assay-master of the mint.

ATTAMIE, A skeleton, S.

AW, used for ~All~, S.

AWAY. This word seems to have been used occasionally as a verb.

AWALT SHEEP, one that has fallen backward, or downhill, and cannot recover itself, S.

BACHLANE; To ~Bachle~.

BAL, BALL, the initial syllable of a great many names of places in Scotland.

BALK and BURRAL, a ridge raised very high by the plough, and a barren space of nearly the same extent, alternately, S. B.

BAND , to unite; a phrase borrowed from architecture.

Apparently corrupted from ~Bail-fire~.

BARKING and FLEEING, a phrase used to denote one, who, especially from prodigality, is believed to be on the eve of bankruptcy, S.

BARLA-BREIKIS, BARLEY-BRACKS, A game generally played by young people in a corn-yard, S.

BARLA-FUMMIL, BARLA-FUMBLE, An exclamation for a truce by one who has fallen down in wrestling or play.

BARLEY-MEN.

BARME HORS, A horse without a saddle, Ang.

BARREL-FERRARIS.

BASE DANCE, A kind of dance, slow and formal in its motions.

BASS.

BEANSHAW.

BEAR LAND, land appropriated for a crop of barley, S.

BEARIS BEFOR, Ancestors.

Chaucer uses the v. ~Bede~ as signifying to offer.

BE-EAST, Towards the East.

BEENJIN, improperly written, is expl. "fawning."

It is used more simply, as referring to the act of beating with strokes; applied to metal.

~Doun Beft~ signifies, beat down, overthrown.

It occurs also in O. E.

~Begeik~ is the more common term, S. B.

~Behold~ occurs in the same sense.

~Beilding~ also occurs, where it seems doubtful whether buildings or shelter be meant.

The word is used in this sense by R. Glouc.

This seems to be the only modern sense of the term in S.

TO BELL THE CAT, to contend, with one, especially, of superior rank or power; to withstand him, either by words or actions; to use strong measures, without regard to consequences, S.

Anciently this term denoted the person who was blindfolded in the game.

BELLY-FLAUGHT.

BELLY-HUDDROUN.

BENMOST is used as a superlative, signifying innermost.

To inter, to bury.

BERY BROUNE, a shade of brown approaching to red.

This is evidently the same with ~Brittyn~, q. v.

BETAUCHT, BETUK, Delivered, committed in trust; delivered up.

BETHLERIS. Leg. ~Bechleris~. Bachelors.

BEVIS.

From the subst. v. conjoined with the prep., q. what one must submit to for a time.

BYCHT.

This sense is common in O. E.

From the same origin with ~Bedis~, q. v.

BY-EAST, towards the east.

This word is used in various senses, S.

BIGS, Barbour, xix. 392. Pink. ed. Leg. ~Lugis~.

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