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- Awn, 20, Eng. ear of corn, Go. ah-s, ah-ana, chaff—"the little sharp thing," Lat. acus, a needle
- Awsome, 98
- Azjin, 211, C. Du.; cf. eysell (Hamlet)
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- Baas, 207, C. Du., Amer.–Eng. boss. N. E. D. says, supposed cog. with Ger. Base, female cousin, baas, master, both arising out of dialect child-words for father (badar) in various familiar senses
- Baasht plooms, 110, bruised, perh. N., but possibly onomatop.
- Bab, 114, to close, Ayr.
- Bachelor's buttons, 121
- Back o' beyont, 168
- Bad, 56, Go. pret, bidjan, to pray; cf. to bid one's beads or prayers, from Go. bida, a prayer or bead
- Baikie, in coo-baikie, 131, 147, piece of wood fastening cows in stall
- †Bain, 156, 230, bainne (Gael.), milk, MacB. Ir. banne, a drop, Sl. banja, a bath, Eng. bath. N. E. D. says bath not conn. with bain, but is Ger. bähen, cog. fovere, orig. idea=heat; no Gael. conn.
- Bairn, bairnie, bairnlie, 2, 19, 24, 32, 56, 66, 69, barn-ilo, Go. from bear, "We're aw Joahn Tamson's bairns," O. E. beam, Go. "Thata barn, Jesu"
- Bairseag, 151 (Gael.), a scold, N. berj-a, to strike, cog. birr, birrle
- Baitr-aba, 22, 30, 87, Go. bitterly
- Balm, 121, balsam (flower)
- Bands, 75, necktie of a beneficed or "placed" clergyman.—Not in Jam.
- Bandster, 177, Fi.
- Banewort, 177
- Bannock, 150, 183, Gael, bannach; bunnock, 107, Lat. panicium, panis, bread
- Banst-s, 24, Go. a barn, O.E. *bos, O. N. bás-s, E. boosy, M. E. bosig, a cow-stall, O. T. *banso-z, Ger. Banse
- Baps and beer, 129, 177, baps, a thick cake, generally with yeast in it
- Barefit broth, 156, made with a little butter or dripping, but without meat
- Bare-gorp, 181 (Cu.), a nestling bird. See gorbet
- Barley-break, 155
- Barley me that, 173, Cu., syn. of chaps me
- Barrin-oot, 186
- †Bauch, 12, 86, 129, dulled, as ice after thaw, synon. wauch; perhaps O. N. bagr, awkward, N. Eng. baff. "not Go. bauths, deaf."—N. E. D.; weak, pithless, bauths. Go. deaf; ch sometimes interchanges with th; Go. bauths not under bauch in N. E. D., but cf. sense in Go. banth wairthan, 12, to become worthless
- Bauchles, 208
- Bauckie, 18, 154, bawki-bird, bak, baukie—
"The laverock and the lark, the bawkie an' the bat,
The heather bleet, the mire snipe:
Hoo mony birds is that?"J. B. F.
- Baudrons, 68, 135, pussy—
"Here baudrons sits and cocks her head"
"Old Ball."
Gael. beadrach, a playful girl; beadradh, a fondling
- Bauks, 131, 140, 151, dividing ridges between fields, left in grass; com. Teut. O. N. bjalki, a beam; also a weigh-beam—
"Give your neebor the cast o' the bauk."
Hugh Miller.
- Bauld, balths, 14, Go. bold, Ger. bald, quickly
- Bawsent, 223
- Be, bi, 52, 62, Ger. bei, E. by
- Bead, beadsman, 56, Go. bidjan, to pray
- Beaked, 122, basked; bekand, 62, may be only a form of bask, which again is a variant of bath.—N. E. D. Beck, to bathe, Roxb.—Jam. Beek, beik—
"While the sun was beakin' warm and bonnie,
Owre the haughs and holms o' the Garnock."
Duguid. (J. B. F.)
- Beal, 139 (suppurate), var. of boil, Ic. bola, a blain, Du. buil, Ger. Beule, Go. uf-bauljan, to puff up
