a short race.

Bie, or Bield, shelter.

Bien, wealthy, plentiful.
Big, to build.

Biggin, building, a house.
Biggit, built.
Bill, a bull.

Billie, a brother, a young fellow.
Bing, a heap of grain, potatoes,
&c.
Birk, birch.

Birken-shaw, Birchen-wood-shaw,
a small wood.
Birkie, a clever fellow.
Birring, the noise of partridges,
&c. when they spring.

Blaw, to blow, to boast.
Bleerit, bleared, sore with
rheum.

Bleert and blin, bleared and
blind.
Bleezing, blazing.

Blellum, idle talking fellow.
Blether, to talk idly, nonsense.
Bleth'rin, talking idly.
Blink, a little while, a smiling
look, to look kindly; to shine
by fits.
Blinker, a term of contempt.
Blinkin, smirkin.

Blue-gown, one of those beggars
who get annually, on the
king's birth-day, a blue cloak
or gown, with a badge.
Bluid, blood.
Bluntie, snivelling.
Blype, a shred, a large piece.
Bock, to vomit, to gush inter-
mittently.

Bocked, gushed, vomited.
Bodle, a small gold coin.
Bogles, spirits, hobgoblins.
Bonnie, or bonny, handsome,
beautiful.

Bonnock, a kind of thick cake of
bread, a small jannack, or
loaf made of oatmeal.
Boord, a board.

Boortree, the shrub elder; planted much of old in hedges of barn-yards, &c.

Boost, behoved, must needs.
Bore, a hole in the wall.

Botch, an angry tumour. Bouk, vomiting, gushing out. Bousing, drinking.

Bow-kail, cabbage.

Bowt, bended, crooked.
Brachens, fern.

Brae, a declivity, a precipice,
the slope of a hill.
Braid, broad.
Bragin't, reel'd forward.
Braik, a kind of harrow.
Brainge, to run rashly forward.
Brak, broke, made insolvent.
Branks, a kind of wooden curb
for horses.
Brash, a sudden illness.
Brats, coarse clothes, rags, &c.
Brattle, a short race, hurry,
fury.

Braw, fine, handsome.
Brawlyt, or brawlie, very well,
finely, heartily.
Braxie, a morbid sheep.
Breastie, diminutive of breast.
Breastit, did spring up or for-
ward.

Breckan, fern.

Brunt, did burn, burnt. Brust, burst.

Buchan-bullers, the boiling of the sea among the rocks on the coast of Buchan. Buckskin, an inhabitant of Virginia.

Bught, a pen.

Bughtin-time, the time of collecting the sheep in the pens to be milked.

Buirdly, stout-made, broadmade.

Bum-clock, a humming beetle
that flies in the summer even-
ings.
Bumming, humming as bees.
Bummle, to blunder.
Bummler, a blunderer.
Bunker, a window-seat.
Burdies, diminutive of birds.
Bure, did bare.

Burn, water, a rivulet. Burnewin, i. e. burn the wind, a blacksmith.

Burnie, dimin. of burn.
Bushie, bushy.

sistible spell.

Breeks, breeches.

Brent, smooth.

Brewin, brewing.

Brie, juice, liquid.

Brig, a bridge.
Brunstane, brimstone.

Brisket, the breast, the bosom.
Brither, a brother.

Brock, a badger. Brogue, a hum, a trick. Broo, broth, liquid, water. Broose, broth; a race at country weddings, who shall first reach the bridegroom's house on returning from church. Brugh, a burgh.

Busks, dresses.

Bussle, a bustle, to bustle.

Buss, shelter.

But, bot, with.

But an' ben, the country kitchen and parlour.

By himself, lunatic, distracted. Byke, a bee-hive.

Byre, a cow-stable, a sheep-pen.

CA', to call, to name, to drive. Ca't, or ca'd, called, driven, calved.

Cadger, a carrier.

Cadie, or caddie, a person, a young fellow. Caff, chaff.

Cairn, a loose heap of stones.
Calf-ward, a small enclosure for
calves.
Callan, a boy.

Caller, fresh, sound, refreshing. Canie, or cannie, gentle, mild, dexterous.

Cannilie, dexterously, gently. Cantie, or canty, cheerful, merry.

Cantraip, a charm, a spell.
Cap-stane, cope-stone, key-

stone.

Careerin, cheerfully.

Carl, an old man.

Carlin, a stout old woman. Cartes, cards.

Caudron, a caldron.

Clap, clapper of a mill.
Clarkit, wrote.

Clash, an idle tale, the story of the day.

Clatter, to tell little idle stories; an idle story.

Claught, snatched at, laid hold of.

Claut, to clean, to scrape.
Clauted, scraped.
Clavers, idle stories.
Claw, to scratch.

Cleed, to clothe.
Cleeds, clothes.
Cleekit, having caught.
Clinkin, jerking, clinking.
Clinkumbell, who rings the
church-bell.

clay. Cauld, cold.

Caup, a wooden drinkingvessel.

Cesses, taxes.

Chanter, a part of a bag-pipe.
Chap, a person, a fellow, a blow.
Chaup, a stroke, a blow.
Cheekit, cheeked.
Cheep, a chirp, to chirp.
Chiel, or cheel, a young fellow.
Chimla, or chimlie, a fire-grate,
a fire-place.
Chimla-lug, the fire-side.
Chittering, shivering, tremb-
ling.

Chockin, choking.

Clishmaclaver, idle conversation.

Clock, to hatch, a beetle.
Clockin, hatching.

Cloot, the hoof of a cow, sheep, &c.

Clootie, an old name for the
Devil.

Clour, a bump or swelling after
a blow.
Cluds, clouds.
Coaxin, wheedling.
Coble, a fishing-boat.
Cockernony, a lock of hair tied
upon a girl's head; a cap.
Coft, bought.

Cog, a wooden dish.

side by side.

Chuffie, fat-faced.

Clachan, a small village about a

church, a hamlet.

Claise, or claes, clothes.

Claith, cloth.

Claithing, clothing.

ing sense.

Coila, from Kyle, a district of Ayrshire; so called, saith tradition, from Coil, or Coilus, a Pictish monarch. Collie, a general, and sometimes a particular, name for country

curs.

Commaun, command.

Cood, the cud.

Coof, a blockhead, a ninny.
Cookit, appeared, and disap-
peared by fits.
Coost, did cast.

Coot, the ancle or foot.
Cootie, a wooden kitchen dish;
-also those fowls whose legs are
clad with feathers are said to

be cootie.

Corbies, a species of the crow.
Core, corps, party, clan.
Corn't, fed with oats.
Cotter, the inhabitant of a cot-

house, or cottage. Couthie, kind, loving. Cove, a cove.

Cowe, to terrify, to keep under, to lop; a fright, a branch of furze, broom, &c. Coup, to barter, to tumble over, a gang. Cowpit, tumbled. Cowrin, cowering. Coute, a colt.

Cozie, snug.

Cozily, snugly.

Crabbit, crabbed, fretful.

Crack, conversation, to con

verse.

Crackin, conversing.

Craft, or croft, a field near a house (in old husbandry). Craiks, cries or calls incessantly, a bird. Crambo-clink, or crambo jingle, rhymes, doggerel verses. Crank, the noise of an ungreased wheel.

Crankous, fretful, captious. Cranreuch, the hoar-frost. Crap, a crop, to crop. Craw, a crow of a cock, a rook. Creel, a basket; to have one's wits in a creel, to be crazed, to be fascinated.

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Creeshie, greasy.

Crood, or croud, to coo dove.

moan;

as a

Croon, a hollow and continued to make a noise like the continued roar of a bull; to hum a tune.

Crooning, humming.
Crouchie, crook-backed.
Crouse, cheerful, courageous.
Crousely, cheerfully, courage-
ously.

Croudie, a composition of oat-
meal and boiled water, some-
times from the broth of beef,
mutton, &c.
Crowdie-time, breakfast-time.
Crowlin, crawling.
Crummock, a cow with crooked
horns.

Crump, hard and brittle; spoken of bread.

Crunt, a blow on the head with a cudgel.

Cuif, a blockhead, a ninny. Cummock, a short staff with a

crooked head.

Curchie, a courtesy.

Curler, a player at a game on the ice, practised in Scotland, called curling.

Curlie, curled, whose hair falls naturally in ringlets. Curling, a well known game on the ice.

Curmurring, murmuring, a slight rumbling noise. Curpin, the crupper. Cushat, the dove, or wood-pigeon.

Cutty, short, a spoon broken in the middle.

DADDIE, a father.

Daffin, merriment, foolishness. Daft, merry, giddy, foolish.

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