_Gawan and Gol._
This word is common in O. E. A. S. _bleoh_, _blio_, color.
_To_ BLEACH _down_, or _along_, _v. n._ To fall flat to the ground.
_Bleach_ is also used to denote a fall of this description, Loth.
Perhaps from Isl. _blak-a_, verberare; as denoting the effect of a
violent blow.
BLEACH, _s._ A blow, S. B.
_Gl. Shirr._
_Poems Buchan Dialect._
_To_ BLEAD, _v. a._ Apparently, to train, or to lead on to the chace.
_Statist. Acc._
Alem. _blait-en_, _beleit-en_, comitari, conducere.
BLEAR, _s._ Something that obscures the sight.
V. ~Bleiris~.
_Ross._
_To_ BLECK, BLEK, _v. a._
1. To blacken, literally, S.
_Polwart._
2. To injure one's character.
_Bannatyne Poems._
3. To cause moral pollution.
_Abp. Hamiltoun._
A. S. _blaec-an_, denigrare. Isl. _blek_, liquor tinctorius.
_To_ BLECK, _v. a._ To puzzle, to reduce to a nonplus, in an examination
or disputation, S.
Germ. _black-en_, _plack-en_, vexare, exagitare.
_To_ BLEEZE, _v. n._
1. To become a little sour. Milk is said to _bleeze_, or to be
_bleezed_, when it is turned, but not congealed, S.; _blink_, synon.
From Germ. _blaes-en_, to blow; or, _blitz-en_, fulgurare; heat,
especially when accompanied by lightning, more generally producing this
effect.
2. The part. _bleezed_ signifies the state of one on whom intoxicating
liquor begins to operate, S. It especially denotes the change produced
in the expression of the countenance; as, _He looked bleezed-like_.
BLED, _part. pa._ Perhaps, sprung.
_Gawan and Gol._
BLEFLUM, BLEPHUM, _s._ A sham, an illusion, what has no reality in it,
S.
V. ~Blaflum~, _v._
_Rutherford._
Isl. _flim_, irrisio, carmen famosum. Hence _flimt-a_, diffamo,
_flimt_, nugae infames, G. Andr. p. 74. Su. G. _flimm-a_, illudere.
BLEHAND, BLIHAND, _adj._
_Sir Trist._
"_Blue_, from _bleah_, Sax. _caeruleus_. Blehand brown. A bluish
brown," Gl. The word is merely A. S. _blae-hewen_ a little transformed.
The idea seems, "a brownish colour, inclining to purple or violet."
BLEIB, _s._
1. A pustule, a blister. "A burnt _bleib_," a blister caused by burning,
S.
_Bleb_, a blister, A. Bor. Gl. Grose.
2. _Bleibs_, _pl._ An eruption to which children are subject, in which
the spots appear larger than in the measles; Loth. Border.
V. ~Blob~.
BLEIRIE, _adj._ A term applied to weak liquor, which has little or no
strength; as _bleirie ale_, Fife.
BLEIRING, _part. pa._ _Bleiring Bats_.
_Polwart._
This seems to be the _botts_, a disease in horses. _Bleiring_ may
express the effect of pain in making the patient to cry out; Teut.
_blaer-en_, boare, mugire.
BLEIRIS, _s. pl._ Something that prevents distinctness of vision.
_Philotus._
This is the same with _blear_, _s._ only used in the _pl._ Ihre
mentions E. _blear-eyed_, as allied to Su. G. _blir-a_, _plir-a_, oculis
semiclausis videre.
BLEIS, BLES, BLESS, BLEISE, _s._
1. Blaze, bright flame, S. B.
_Barbour._
2. A torch, S.
_Douglas._
A. S. _blaese_, fax, taeda, a torch, any thing that makes a blaze,
Su. G. _bloss_, id. Somn.
3. A signal made by fire, S.
BLEIS, _s._ The name given to a river-fish.
_Sibbald._
This seems to be what in E. is called _Bleak_, Cyprinus alburnus,
Linn.
BLELLUM, _s._ An idle talking fellow, Ayrs.
_Burns._
_To_ BLEME, _v. n._ To bloom, to blossom.
_Bannatyne Poems._
BLEMIS, _s. pl._ Blossoms, flowers.
_Houlate._
Belg. _bloem_, Isl. _bloma_, Alem. _bluom_, flos, flosculus. Teut.
_bloem-en_, florere.
_To_ BLENK, BLINK, _v. n._
1. To open the eyes, as one does from a slumber, S.
_Barbour._
2. To throw a glance on one, especially as expressive of regard, S.
_Ross._
3. To look with a favourable eye; used metaph. in allusion to the
shining of the sun, after it has been covered with a cloud.
V. ~Blink~, _v._
_Baillie._
Belg. _blenck-en_, _blinck-en_, Su. G. _blaenk-a_, to shine, to
glance, to flash as lightning.
BLENK, BLINK, _s._
1. A beam, a ray.
_Douglas._
2. "A glimpse of light," S. Sir J. Sinclair's Observ. p. 113.
3. Hence transferred to the transient influence of the rays of the sun,
especially in a cold or cloudy day. Thus it is common to speak of "a
warm _blink_," "a clear blink," S.
_Sir J. Sinclair._
4. A gleam of prosperity, during adversity.
_Godscroft._
5. Also transferred to a glance, a stroke of the eye, or transient view
of any object; the idea being borrowed, either from the quick
transmission of the rays of light, or from the short-lived influence of
the sun when the sky is much obscured with clouds, S.
_Douglas._
6. A kindly glance, a transient glance expressive of regard, S.
_Burns._
7. A moment. "I'll not stay a _blink_," I will return immediately. _In a
blink_, in a moment, S.
_Ramsay._
Su. G. _blink_, _oegonblink_, is a glance, a cast of the eye, oculi
nictus; Germ. _blick_, Belg. _blik_, _oogenblik_, id.; the twinkling of
the eye, a moment.
BLENT, _pret._ Glanced, expressing the quick motion of the eye.
_Gawan and Gol._
Perhaps allied to Su. G. _bliga_, _blia_, intentis oculis aspicere,
q. _bligent_.
BLENT, _s._ A glance.
_Douglas._
BLENT, _pret._ Lost, as applied to sight.
_King's Quair._
Perhaps from A. S. _blent_, the part. of A. S. _blend-ian_, caecare,
used in a neuter sense; or from A. S. _blinn-an_, cessare, whence
_blind_, deficiens.
BLENTER, _s._ A flat stroke; Fife.
Alem. _bliuun_, to strike; _bliuenti_, percutiens, striking;
Schilter. Moes. G. _bliggwan_, id.
_To_ BLETHER, BLATHER, _v. n._
1. To speak indistinctly, to stammer, S. pron. like _fair_.
2. To prattle, S.
Su. G. _bladdr-a_, Germ, _plauder-n_, to prattle, to chatter, to
jabber; Teut. _blater-en_, stultè loqui; Lat. _blater-are_, to babble.
_To_ BLETHER, BLATHER, BLADDER, _v. a._ To talk nonsensically, S.
_Lyndsay._
BLETHERAND, _pret._
_Fordun._
Allied perhaps to Teut. _blater-en_, _blaeter-en_, proflare fastum,
gloriari.
BLETHER, BLATHER, _s._ Nonsense, foolish talk, S.; often used in pl.
_Hamilton._
BLAIDRY, _s._ Nonsense, foolish talk.
_Ramsay._
BLEW. _To look blew_, to seem disconcerted. It conveys both the idea of
astonishment and of gloominess, S.
_Peblis to the Play._
_Blew_, S. is often synon. with _blae_, livid.
BLICHAM, _s._ (gutt.) A contemptuous designation for a person, Perths.
BLICHT, _adj._ An epithet expressive of the coruscation of armour, in
the time of action.
_Houlate._
A. S. _blic-an_, coruscare; _blect_, coruscatus. Alem. _blechet_,
Germ. _blicket_, splendet.
_To_ BLIN, BLYN, BLYNE, _v. n._ To cease, to desist, S.; also _blind_.
_Wallace._
A. S. _blinn-an_, cessare, contr. from _bilinn-an_, id. In Isl. and
Su. G. it occurs in its simple form, _linn-a_, also, _lind-a_, id.
_To_ BLIN, _v. a._ To cause to cease.
_Chron. S. Poet._
BLIND HARIE, Blind man's buff, S. _Belly-blind_, synon.
_Herd._
In the Scandinavian _Julbock_, from which this sport seems to have
originated, the principal actor was disguised in the skin of a _buck_ or
_goat_. The name _Blind Harie_ might therefore arise from his rough
attire; as he was called _blind_, in consequence of being blindfolded.
Or it may signify, _Blind Master_, or _Lord_, in ironical language.
V. ~Herie~.
BLIND MAN'S BALL, or _Devil's snuff-box_, Common puff-ball, S. V. Flor.
Suec.
_Lightfoot._
It is also called _Blind man's een_, i. e. eyes, S. B. An idea,
according to Linn., prevails throughout the whole of Sweden, that the
dust of this plant causes _blindness_.
BLYNDIT, _pret._ Blended.
_Gawan and Gol._
BLINDLINS, BLYNDLINGIS, _adv._ Having the eyes closed, hoodwinked. It
denotes the state of one who does any thing as if he were blind, S.
V. ~Lingis~ Germ. Dan. _blindlings_, id.
_Douglas._
BLINDS, _s. pl._ The Pogge, or Miller's Thumb, a fish, _Cottus
Cataphractus_, Linn. West of S.
_Statist. Acc._
Perhaps it receives this name, because its eyes are very small.
To BLINK, _v. n._
1. To become a little sour; a term used with respect to milk or beer, S.
_Bleeze_, synon.
_Chr. Kirk._
2. To be _blinkit_, to be half drunk, Fife.
Su. G. _blaenk-a_, Germ. _blink-en_, coruscare, to shine, to flash,
to lighten; q. struck with lightning, which, we know, has the effect of
making liquids sour; or as denoting that of sunshine, or of the heat of
the weather.
BLINNYNG, _part. pr._ Leg. _Blumyng_.
_Maitland Poems._
BLYPE, _s._ A coat, a shred; applied to the skin, which is said to come
off _in blypes_, when it _peels_ in coats, or is rubbed off, in shreds;
S.
_Burns._
Perhaps radically the same with _Flype_, q. v. or a different pron.
of _Bleib_.
_To_ BLIRT, _v. n._ To make a noise in weeping, to cry. It is generally
joined with _Greet_. To _blirt and greet_, i. e. to burst out a-crying,
S.
_Kelly._
Germ. _blaerr-en_, _plarr-en_, mugire, rugire. Perhaps E. _blurt_ is
also radically allied.
BLIRT, _s._ The action expressed by the v. "A _blirt_ of greeting," a
violent burst of tears, accompanied with crying, S. B.
To BLITHE, BLYTHE, _v. a._ To make glad.
_Wallace._
A. S. _bliths-ian_, laetari; Alem. _blid-en_, gaudere. But perhaps
our v. is immediately formed from the adj.
BLITHEMEAT, _s._ The meat distributed among those who are present at the
birth of a child, or among the rest of the family, S. pronounced
_blyidmeat_, Ang. as the adj. itself, _blyd_, _blyid_.
I need not say, that this word has its origin from the _happiness_
occasioned by a safe delivery.
BLYVARE. Perhaps for _Blyther_, more cheerful.
_Houlate._
BLYWEST, _adj._ in the superl.
_Houlate._
"Blythest, most merry," Gl. Perhaps it rather refers to colour; q.
the palest.
_To_ BLIZZEN, _v. a._ Drought is said to be _blizzening_, when the wind
parches and withers the fruits of the earth, S. B.
Su. G. _blas-a_, Germ. _blas-en_, A. S. _blaes-an_, to blow.
BLOB, BLAB, _s._ Any thing tumid or circular, S.
1. A small globe or bubble of any liquid.
_Bellenden._
2. A blister, or that rising of the skin which is the effect of a
blister or of a stroke, S.
_Gl. Complaynt._
3. A large gooseberry; so called from its globular form, or from the
softness of its skin, S.
4. A blot, a spot; as "a _blab_ of ink," S. denominated perhaps from its
circular form.
Radically the same word with _Bleib_, q. v.
BLOBBIT, _part. pa._ Blotted, blurred.
V. ~Blob~.
_Acts Ja. I._
_To_ BLOCK, _v. a._ To plan, to devise.
_Baillie._
Teut. _block-en_, assiduum esse in studiis, in opere, in ergastulo;
a sense evidently borrowed from a workman, who _blocks_ out his work
roughly, before he begins to give it a proper form.
BLOIK, BLOK, BLOCK, _s._
1. A scheme, a contrivance; generally used in a bad sense.
_Douglas._
2. A bargain, an agreement.
_Acts Ja. VI._
BLOCKER, _s._ A term formerly used in S. to denote a broker; q. one who
plans and accomplishes a bargain.
_Minsheu._
BLOISENT, _part. pa._ One is said to have a _bloisent face_, when it is
red, swollen, or disfigured, whether by intemperance, or by being
exposed to the weather; Ang.
This appears to be radically the same with E. _blowze_; "sun-burnt,
high-coloured;" Johns. Teut. _blose_, rubor, purpurissum, redness, the
colour of purple; _blos-en_, rubescere; _blosende wanghen_, rubentes
genae, purpled cheeks.
_To_ BLOME, BLUME, _v. n._ To shine, to gleam.
_Barbour._
Su. G. _blomm-a_, to flourish; E. _bloom_, used metaph.: or perhaps
from A. S. _be_, a common prefix, and _leom-an_ to shine, as _gleam_ is
from _geleom-an_, id.
BLONK, BLOUK, _s._ A steed, a horse,
_Gawan and Gol._
Alem. _planchaz_, equus pallidus, hodie _blank_; Schilter. Thus
_blonk_ may have originally meant merely a _white_ horse, q. Fr. _blanc_
cheval.
BLONKS, _s. pl._
_King Hart._
If this does not denote horses, as above, it may mean _blocks_ of
wood.
BLOUT, _adj._ Bare, naked.
V. ~Blait~.
_Douglas._
Su. G. Isl. _blott_, Belg. _bloot_, id. The tautological phrase
_blott och bar_ is used in Sw.
BLOUT, _s._
1. The sudden breaking of a storm, S. _Bloutenin_, Clydesd.
2. "A _blout_ of foul weather," a sudden fall of rain, snow or hail,
accompanied with wind, S.
3. A sudden eruption of a liquid substance, accompanied with noise, S.
Probably allied to Su. G. _bloet_, humidus; _bloeta waegar_, viae
humidae.
BLUBBER, BLUBBIR, _s._ A bubble of air, S.
V. ~Blob~.
_Henrysone._
_To_ BLUDDER, BLUTHER, _v. a._
1. To blot paper in writing, to disfigure any writing, S.
Su. G. _pluttra_, incuriose scribere; Moes. G. _blothjan_, irritum
reddere.
2. To disfigure the face with weeping, or in any other way, S.
_Ross. Cleland._
_To_ BLUDDER, BLUTHER, _v. n._ To make a noise with the mouth in taking
any liquid, S.
BLUE BONNETS, BLUE BOTTLES, S. Centaurea cyanus, Linn.
_Lightfoot._
BLUE-GOWN, _s._ The name commonly given to a pensioner, who, annually,
on the King's birth-day, receives a certain sum of money, and a _blue
gown_ or cloak, which he wears with a badge on it, S.
V. ~Bedeman~.
BLUFFLEHEADED, _adj._ Having a large head, accompanied with the
appearance of dulness of intellect, S.; perhaps from E. _bluff_.
BLUIDVEIT, BLUIDWYTE, _s._ A fine paid for effusion of blood.
_Skene. Reg. Maj._
A. S. _blodwite_, pro effuso sanguine mulcta; from _blod_, sanguis,
and _wite_, poena, mulcta.
_To_ BLUITER, _v. n._
1. To make a rumbling noise; to blurt, S.
2. _To bluiter up_ with water, to dilute too much, S.
3. To blatter, to pour forth lame, harsh, and unmusical rhymes.
_Polwart._
Germ. _plaudern_, nugari et mentiri, _plauderei_, mixta nugis
mendacia. In sense 2. it seems to be merely a dimin. from _Blout_,
q. v.
BLUITER, BLUTTER, _s._
1. A rumbling noise; as that sometimes made by the intestines, S.
2. Apparently used to denote filth in a liquid state.
_Cleland._
_To_ BLUME, _v. n._ To blossom, S. _bloom_, E.
_To_ BLUNK, _v. a._ To spoil a thing, to mismanage any business, S.
Hence,
BLUNKIT, BLINKIT, _part. pa._ "Injured by mismanagement, or by some
mischievous contrivance," Gl. Sibb.
BLUNKET, _s._ Expl. "Pale blue; perhaps any faint or faded colour; q.
_blanched_." Sibb.
_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._
BLUNT, _adj._ Stripped, bare, naked.
_Douglas._
This seems to be radically the same with _Blout_, q. v.
BLUNTIE, _s._ A sniveller, a stupid fellow, S.
_Burns._
BLUP, _s._ One who makes a clumsy or awkward appearance; Loth. It is
apparently the same with _Flup_, q. v.
_To_ BLUSTER, _v. a._ To disfigure in writing.
V. ~Bludder~, _v._
_Baillie._
BLUTE, _s._ An action; used in a bad sense. _A fuil blute_, a foolish
action, S. B. perhaps the same with _Blout_, q. v.
BOAKIE, _s._ A sprite, a hobgoblin, Aberd. Shetl.
Norw. _bokje_, Isl. _bocke_, _bokki_, vir grandis et magnificus. In
Sanscrit _buka_ is the name of an evil spirit. O. Teut. _bokene_,
phantasma, spectrum.
BOAL, BOLE, _s._
1. A square aperture in the wall of a house, for holding small articles;
a small press generally without a door; S. This is most common in
cottages.
_Ramsay._
2. A perforation through the wall of a house, for occasionally giving
air or light; usually with a wooden shutter instead of a pane of glass,
S.
BOARDTREES, _s. pl._ A term used for the plank on which a corpse is
stretched; S. B.
_To_ BOAST, BOIST, _v. a._ To threaten.
V. ~Boist~.
_To_ BOB, BAB, _v. n._ To dance, S.
_Herd._
BOB, _s._ Gust, blast.
V. ~Bub~.
BOB, _s._
1. A bunch; used as synon. with _cow_, S.
_Priests of Peblis._
2. The same word, pronounced _bab_, is used for a bundle of flowers, a
nosegay.
S. Fr. _bube_, a bunch; Isl. _bobbe_, a knot.
BOB, _s._ A mark, a but, S.; either q. a small bunch set up as a mark,
or, from the sense of the E. v., something to strike at.
BOB, _s._ A taunt, a scoff, S. B.
Teut. _babb-en_, to prate; Isl. _komenn i bobba_, os correptum, _at
bobsa_, babare (to bark,) canum vox est. Su. G. _babe_, sermo
inconditus.
BOBBY, _s._ A grandfather, S. B.
_Ross._
BOBBYN, _s._ The seed-pod of birch, Loth.
Fr. _bubon_, a great bunch.
_Evergreen._
BOBBINS, _s._ The water-lily, S. B. _Bobbins_ are properly the
seed-vessels.
V. ~Cambie-leaf~.
BOCE; Burel, Watson's Coll. ii. 26.
V. ~Boss~.
_To_ BOCK, _v. a._ To vomit.
V. ~Bok~.
BOCK-BLOOD, _s._ A spitting, or throwing up of blood.
_Polwart._
BOD, _s._ A person of small size, a term generally applied, somewhat
contemptuously, to one who is dwarfish, although of full age, S.
_To_ BODE, _v. a._ To proffer, often as implying the idea of some degree
of constraint. "He did na merely offer, but he _boded_ it on me;" S.
BODEN, _part. pa._ Preferred.
BODE, BOD, _s._ An offer made in order to a bargain, a proffer, S.
_Ramsay._
Germ. _bot_, id. from _biet-en_, to offer. Isl. _bud_, a proffer,
from _bioth-a_, offerre, exhibere, praebere.
BODE, _s._ Delay.
_Sir Egeir._
BODDUM, _s._
1. Bottom.
_Douglas._
2. Hollow, valley.
_Douglas._
Alem. _bodem_, Germ. Belg. _boden_, solum, fundus.
BODEN, _part. pa._ Proffered.
V. ~Bode~, _v._
BODEN, BODIN, BODYN, _part. pa._
1. Prepared, provided, furnished, in whatever way, S.
_Acts Ja. I._
_Weil-boden_, or _ill-boden_, well, or ill provided in whatever respect,
S.
2. It seems to be used, in one instance, in an oblique sense, as
signifying matched.
V. ~Boun~.
_Barbour._
Su. G. _bo_, Isl. _bo-a_, to prepare, to provide; _wael bodd_, well
provided against the cold.
BODY, _s._ Strength, bodily ability.
_Barbour._
A. S. _bodig_ not only signifies the body in general, but stature.
BODLE, BODDLE, _s._ A copper coin, of the value of two pennies Scots, or
the third part of an English penny.
_Rudd._
These pieces are said to have been denominated from a mint-master
of the name of _Bothwell_.
BODWORD, BODWART, BODWORDE, _s._ A message, S. B.
_Wallace._
A. S. _boda_, a messenger, and _word_. Su. G. Isl. _bodword_ is
edictum, mandatum.
BOETINGS, BUITINGS, _s. pl._ Half-boots, or leathern spatterdashes.
_Dunbar._
Teut. _boten schoen_, calceus rusticus e crudo corio; Kilian.
BOGGARDE, _s._ A bugbear.
_Rollocke._
A. Bor. _boggart_, a spectre. C. B. _bwg_, larva, terriculamentum.
BOGILL, BOGLE, _s._
1. A spectre, a hobgoblin, S. A. Bor.
_Douglas._
2. A scarecrow, a bugbear, S. synon. _doolie_, _cow_; being used in both
senses.
C. B. _bugul_, fear, _bwgwly_, to frighten.
BOGILL _about the stacks_, or simply, _Bogle_, a play of children or
young people, in which one hunts several others around the stacks of
corn in a barn-yard, S.
_Ritson._
It seems the same game with that called _Barley-bracks_, q. v. The
name has probably originated from the idea of the huntsman employed
being a scarecrow to the rest.
BOGILL-BO, _s._
1. A hobgoblin or spectre, S.
_Ramsay._
2. A pettish humour.
_Philotus._
In Lincolnsh. this word is used for a scarecrow, from _bogill_, or
C. B. _bogel-u_, to affright, and _bo_, a hobgoblin, q. "the affrighting
goblin."
_To_ BOGG-SCLENT, _v. n._ Apparently, to avoid action, to abscond in the
day of battle.
_Colvil._
Perhaps in allusion to him who _sklents_ or strikes off obliquely
from the highway, into a _bog_, to avoid being taken prisoner.
BOGSTALKER, _s._ An idle, wandering, and stupid fellow; one who seems to
have little to do, and no understanding, S.
V. ~Stalker~.
_Ramsay._
Borrowed perhaps from outlaws, who were seen at a distance hunting
in marshy places, where pursuit was more difficult.
BOID, _s._
_Maitland Poems._
Isl. _bode_, a term used to denote a wave agitated by the wind;
unda maris cum vadosis scopulis luctans.
BOIN, BOYN, BOYEN, BOWYNE, _s._
1. A washing-tub, S. B.
2. A flat broad-bottomed vessel, into which milk is emptied from the
pail, a _bowyne_, Loth.
Unless from Isl. _boginn_, curvus, or Dan. _bugn-e_, to bend, as
respecting its form; I can offer no conjecture as to the origin.
BOYIS, _s._ _In boyis_, in fetters.
_Barbour._
Teut. _boeye_, compes, pedica, vinculum; _boey-en_ compedire.
BOIS, _adj._ Hollow.
V. ~Bos~.
BOISSES.
V. ~Boss~.
_Knox's Hist._
_To_ BOIST, BOAST, _v. a._ To threaten, to endeavour to terrify, S.
_Douglas._
C. B. _bost-io_, to vaunt one's self; _bost_, vaunting.
BOIST, BOST, _s._ Threatening, S.
_Wallace._
BOIT, _s._ A cask or tub used for the purpose of curing butcher-meat, or
for holding it after it is cured; sometimes called a _beef-boat_, S.
_Ruddiman._
Germ. _butte_; Ital. _botte_, id., whence E. _butt_. Su. G.
_byttia_, situla, cupa; Teut. _botte_, id. dolium, orca, cupa.
_To_ BOK, BOCK, _v. a._
1. To vomit, S.
_Gawan and Gol._
2. To reach, to incline to puke, S.
3. To belch, (eructare) S.
A. Bor. _boke_, _bowk_, to nauseate, to be ready to vomit; _booac_,
to reach, to keck, ibid. Perhaps from A. S. _bealc-an_, eructare. It
however has greater resemblance of _puke_, to which no etymon has been
assigned.
BOK, BOCK, _s._ The act of reaching, S.
_Cleland._
BOKEIK, _s._ Bopeep, a game.
_Lyndsay._
BOKS, _s. pl._ "Corner teeth," Gl. Sibb.
_Maitland Poems._
_To_ BOLDIN, BOLDYN, _v. n._ To swell.
_Douglas._
~Boldin~, ~Boulden~, _part. pa._ swelled.
This is softened into _bowdin_, _bowden_, S. Often in the _pret._
and _part._ it is written _bolnys_, swells, (Doug. V.) and _bolnyt_. I
hesitate whether these are contr. from _boldinnys_, _boldinnyt_, or the
v. in another form, more nearly resembling Su. G. _buln-a_, Dan.
_bul-ner_. Su. G. _bul-na_, _bulg-ia_, id. _bolginn_, swollen. Hence
Isl. bilgia, Su. G. bolgia, a billow; because it is raised by the wind;
and _bolda_, a boil, a tumour. Gael. _builg-am_ to swell, _builg_, a
blister.
BOLGAN LEAVES, Nipplewort, an herb, S. B. Lapsana communis, Linn.
Perhaps from Isl. _bolg-a_, tumere, or Su. G. _bolginn_, swollen,
q. "swelling leaves," as being supposed by the vulgar in S. to be
efficacious in removing swellings.
_To_ BOLYN, _v. n._ To lay tack aboard.
_Maitland Poems._
O. Fr. _bolin-er_, to sail by a wind, or close upon a wind.
BOLL, _Lintseed Boll_.
V. ~Bow~.
BOLLMAN, _s._ A cottager, Orkn.
_Statist. Acc._
Perhaps from Su. G. Isl. _bol_, villa, and _man_, q. the inhabitant
of a village. It is always pronounced _bowman_.
BOLME, _s._ A boom, a waterman's pole.
_Douglas._
Germ. _baum_, Belg. _boom_, a tree.
BOLNIT.
V. ~Boldin~.
BOLNYNG, _s._ Swelling.
V. ~Boldin~.
_Henrysone._
BOLSTER, _s._ That part of a mill in which the axletree moves, S.
BOMBILL, _s._ Buzzing noise; metaph. used for boasting.
_Polwart._
Teut. _bommele_, a drone.
BON, _s._ Apparently, bane, injury.
_Wallace._
BONALAIS, BONAILIE, BONNAILLIE, _s._ A drink taken with a friend, when
one is about to part with him; as expressive of one's wishing him a
prosperous journey, S.
_Wallace._
It is now generally pron. _bonaillie_, S. _Bonalais_ might seem to
be the plur. But perhaps it merely retains the form of Fr. _Bon allez_.
BONE, _s._ A petition, a prayer.
_Douglas._
O. E. id. Isl. _baen_, precatio, oratio; _boon_ petitio, gratis
acceptio, mendicatio, G. Andr. A. S. _ben_, _bene_, id.
BONETT, _s._ "A small sail, fixed to the bottom or sides of the great
sails, to accelerate the ship's way in calm weather." Gl. Compl.
_Douglas._
Fr. _bonnette_, Sw. _bonet_, id.
BONIE, BONYE, BONNY, _adj._
1. Beautiful, pretty, S.
_Maitland Poems._
_Boniest_, most beautiful.
_Montgomerie._
2. It is occasionally used ironically, in the same way with E. _pretty_,
S.
_Priests of Peblis._
3. Precious, valuable.
_Minstrelsy Border._
_Bonny_ is used in the same sense by Shakspeare, and since his time
by some other E. writers. But I suspect that it is properly S. Johnson
derives it from Fr. _bon_, _bonne_, good. This is by no means
satisfactory; but we must confess that we cannot substitute a better
etymon.
BONYNES, _s._ Beauty, handsomeness.
_Philotus_.
BONK, _s._ Bank.
_Douglas._
Probably corr. from A. S. _bene_. Isl. _bunga_, however, signifies
tumor terrae.
BONNAGE, _s._ An obligation, on the part of the tenant, to cut down the
proprietor's corn.
_Statist. Acc._
Evidently a corr. of _Bondage_.
BONNAR, _s._ "A bond," Gl.
_Popular Ball._
BONNET.
V. ~White Bonnet~.
BONOCH, _s._ "A binding to tie a cow's hind legs when she is a-milking."
_Kelly._
BONSPEL, _s._ A match, at the diversion of _curling_ on the ice, between
two opposite parties, S.
V. ~Curl~.
_Graeme._
Belg. _bonne_, a village, a district, and _spel_, play; because the
inhabitants of different villages or districts contend with each other
in this sport, one parish, for example, challenging another. Or, the
first syllable may be traced to Su. G. _bonde_, an husbandman.
BONXIE, _s._ The name given to the Skua Gull, Shetl.
_Neill._