Beastie, dimin. of beast.
Beet, to add fuel to fire.
Beld, bald.
Belyve, by and by.
Ben, into the spence or par-
lour.
Benlomond, a noted moun-
tain in Dumbartonshire..
Bethankit, grace after meat.
Beuk, a book.
Bicker, a kind of wooden
dish, a short race.
Awn, the beard of barley, Bien, wealthy, plentiful.
Backlins, comin', back, returning.
Baide, endured, did stay.
Birken-shaw, Birchen-woodshaw, a small wood.
Birkie, a clever fellow.
Birring, the noise of partridges, &c. when they spring.
Bairntime, a family of chil-Bit, crisis, nick of time.
Bang, to beat, to strive.
Bardie, diminutive of bard.
Barefit, barefooted.
Barmie, of, or like harm,
Batch, a crew, a gang.
Batts, botts.
Baudrons, a cat.
Bauld, bold.
Bawk, bank.
Baws'nt, baving a white stripe
down the face.
Be, to let be, to give over, to
Bizz, a bustle, to buzz.
Blastie, a shrivelled dwarf, a
term of contempt.
Blastit, blasted.
Blate, bashful, sheepish.
Blather, bladder.
Blaud, a flat piece of any
thing; to slap.
Blaw, to blow, to boast.
Bleerit, bleared, sore with
rheum.
Bleert and blin, bleared and
blind.
Bleczing, blazing.
Blellum, idle talking fellow.
Blether, to talk idly, non-
Blink, a little while, a smil. | Brattle, a short race, hurry,
ing look, to look kindly, to
shine by fits.
Blinker, a term of contempt.
Blinkin, smirking.
Blue-gown, one of those beg-
gars 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 jan-
nack, or loaf made of oat-
meal.
Boord, a board.
Boortree, the shrub elder;
planted much of old in
hedges of baru-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.
Braign't, reeled forward.
Bruik, a kind of harrow.
Brainge, to run rashly for-
ward.
Brak, broke, made insolvent.
Branks, a kind of wooden
curb for horses.
Brush, a sudden illness.
Brats,coarse clothes, rags,&c.
Braw, fine, handsome.
Brawlyt, or brawlie, very
well, finely, heartily.
Braxie, a morbid sheep.
Breastie, dimin. of breast.
Breastit, did spring up or
forward.
Breckan, fern.
Breef, au invulnerable or ir-
resistible 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 ou returning from
church.
Brugh, a burgh.
Bruilzie, a broil, a combus-
tion.
Brunt, did burn, burnt.
Brust, to burst, burst.
Buchan-bullers, the boiling
of the sea among the rocks
on the coast of Buchau.
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, broad-
built.
Bum-clock,a humming beetle that flies in the summer evenings.
Bummin, humming as bees.[ Carl, an old man.
Burdies, dimin. of birds.
Burn, water, a rivulet.
Burnewin, i. e, burn
wind, a blacksmith,
Burnie, dimin. of burn.
Buskie, bushy.
Buskit, dressed.
Busks, dresses.
Busle, a bustle, to bustle.
Buss, shelter.
But, bot, with.
But an' ben, the country kit-
chen and parlour.
By himself, lunatic, distract-
ed.
Byke, a bee-hive.
Byre, a cow-stable, a shippen.
CA', To call, to name, to drive. Ca't, or ca'd, called, driven, calved.
Cadger, a carrier.
Carlin, a stout old woman.
Cartes, cards.
Caudron, a caldron.
Cauk and keel, chalk and red
clay.
Cauld, cold.
Caup, a wooden drinking-
vessel.
Chanter, a part of a bagpipe.
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, fire-place.
Chimla-lug, the fire-side.
Chittering, shivering, trem-
bling.
Chockin, choaking.
Chow, to chew; cheek for
chow, side by side.
Chuffie, fat-faced.
Clachan,a small village about
a church, a hamlet.
Cadie, or caddie, a person, Claise, or claes, clothes.
a young fellow.
Caff, chaff.
Caird, a tinker.
Cairn, a loose heap of stones.
Calf-ward, a small inclosure
for calves.
Callan, a boy.
Caller, fresh, sound, refresh-
ing.
Canie, or cannie, gentle, mild,
dextrous.
Cannilie, dextrously, gently.
Cantie, or canty, cheerful,
Cantraip, a charm, a spell.
Cap-stane, cope-stone, key-
Claith, cloth.
Claithing, clothing.
Claivers, nousense, not speak-
ing sense.
Clap, clapper of a mill.
Clarkit, wrote.
Clash, an idle tale, the story
of the day.
Clatter, to tell little idle sto-
ries; 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.
Clips, sheers.
Clishmaclaver, idle conver-
sation.
Clock, to hatch, a beetle.
Clockin, hatching.
Cloot, the hoof of a cow,
sheep, &c.
Clootie, an old name for the
Devil.
Cotter, the inhabitant of a
cothouse, or cottage.
Couthie, kind, loving.
Cove, a cove.
Cowe, to terrify, to keep un-
der, to lop a fright; a
branch of furze, broom, &c.
Coup, to barter, to tumble
over, a gang.
Cowpit, tumbled.
Cowrin, cowering.
Cowte, a colt.
Clour, a bump or swelling Cozily, snugly.
after a blow.
Cluds, clouds.
Coaxin, wheedling.
Coble, a fishing boat.
Cockernony, a lock of hair
tied upon a girl's head; a
cap.
Crabbit, crabbed, fretful.
Crack, conversation, to con-
Crackin, conversing.
Craft, or croft, a field near a
house, in old husbandry.
Craiks, cries or calls inces-
santly, a bird.
Crambo-clink, or crambo-
jingle, rhymes, doggrel ver-
Coft, bought.
Cog, a wooden dish.
Coggie, dimin. of cog.
Coila, from Kyle, a district
of Ayrshire; so called, saith
tradition, from Coil, or Coi-
lus, a Pictish monarch.
Collie, a general, and some-
times a particular, name Crap, a crop, to crop.
for country curs.
Collieshangie, quarrelling.
Commaun, command.
Cood, the cud.
Crank, the noise of an un
greased wheel.
Crankous, fretful, captious.
Cranreuch, the boar frost.
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
Core, corps, party clan.
Corn't, fed with oats.
Craw, a crow of a cock, a
rook.
Creel, a basket; to have one's
wits in a creel, to be craz'd,
to be fascinated.
Creeshie, greasy.
Crood, or croud, to coo as a
dove.
Croon, a hollow and conti.
nued moan; to make a
noise like the continued
roar of a bull; to hum a
tane.
Crooning, humming.
Crouchie, crook-backed.
Crouse, cheerful, courageous.
Crousely, cheerfully, coura-
geously.
Crowdie, a composition of Davoc, David.
oatmeal and boiled water, Dawd, a large piece. sometimes from the broth Dawtit, or dawtet, fondled,
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.
Curchic, a curtesy.
Curler, a player at a game on
the ice, practised in Scot-
land, 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
pigeon.
Cutty, short, a spoon broken
in the middle.
Dearies, dimin. of dears.
Dearthfu', dear.
Deave, to deafen.
Deil-ma-care! no matter! for
all that!
Deleerit, delirious.
Descrive, to describe.
Dight, to wipe, to clean corn
from chaff.
Dight, cleaned from chaff.
Dights, cleans.
Ding, to worst, to push.
Dinna, do not.
Dirl,a slight tremulous stroke
or pain.
Dizzen, or diz'n, a dozen.
Doited, stupified, hebetated.
Dolt, stupitied, crazed.
Donsic, unlucky.
Dool, sorrow; to sing dool,
to lament, to mourn.
Doos, doves.
wood-Dorty, saucy, nice.
Douce, or douse, sober, wise,
prudent.
Doucely, soberly, prudently.
Dought, was or were able.
Doup, backside.
Doup-skelper,one that strikes
the tail.
Dour and din, sullen, sallow.
Doure, stout, durable, sullen,
stubborn.
Douser, more prudent.
Dow, am or are able, can.
Dewff,pithless, wanting force.
Dowie, worn with grief, fa-
tigue, &c. half asleep. Downa, am or are not able, cannot.
Doylt, stupid.
Drap, a drop, to drop.
Daurg, or daurk, a day's la- Drapping, dropping.
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