in conjunction with the proper name, Ang.
Su. G. _bo_, Isl. _bu_, _boo_, domicilium, a house or dwelling, also,
a village; Moes. G. _baua_, id.
In the Orkney Islands, where the Gothic was long preserved in greater
purity than in our country, the principal farm-house on an estate, or in
any particular district of it, is in a great many instances called the
_Boll_ or _Bow_.
_Barry._
BOODIES, _pl._ Ghosts, hobgoblins, Aberd.
_Journal Lond._
It might be deduced from A. S. _boda_, a messenger, from _bod-ian_,
to declare, to denounce. But it seems to be rather originally the same
with C. B. _bugudhai_, hobgoblins, Gael. _bodach_, a ghost.
BOOL, _s._ A contemptuous term for a man, especially if advanced in
years. It is often conjoined with an epithet; as "an auld _bool_," an
old fellow, S.
Su. G. _bol_, the trunk of the body, as distinguished from the head
and feet.
BOOLS _of a pot_, _s. pl._ Two crooked instruments of iron, linked
together, used for lifting a pot by the ears, S.; also called _clips_.
Teut. _boghel_, numella; Germ. _bugel_, any thing that is circular
or curved.
BOOL-HORNED, _adj._ Perverse, obstinate, inflexible, S. apparently from
the same origin with ~Bools~.
_Boolie-horned_, Border, and W. of S. A. Bor. _buckle-horns_, short
crooked horns turned horizontally inwards.
BOONMOST, _adj._ Uppermost, S. pron. _bunemist_.
_Ross._
A. S. _bufan_, _bufon_, above, and _most_.
BOOT, BUT, BOUD, BIT, BUD, BOOST, _v. imp._ Behoved, was under a
necessity of, S.; _He boot to do_ such a thing; he could not avoid it.
_It bit to be_; it was necessary that this should take place.
_Ross. Burns._
_Bus_ and _bud_ occur in the same sense in Ywaine and Gawin. Most
probably it is a corr. of _behoved_, Belg. _behoeft_.
BOOST, _s._ A box.
V. ~Buist~.
BOR, BOIR, BORE, _s._
1. A small hole or crevice; a place used for shelter, especially by
smaller animals, S.
_Sir Tristrem._
2. An opening in the clouds, when the sky is thick and gloomy, or during
rain, is called a _blue bore_, S. It is sometimes used metaph.
_Baillie._
Su. G. Germ. _bor_, terebra; Isl. _bora_, foramen; A. S. _bor-ian_,
to pierce.
BORCH, BORGH, BOWRCH, BOROW, _s._ A surety. The term properly denotes a
person who becomes bail for another, for whatever purpose.
_Wallace._
2. A pledge; any thing laid in pawn.
_Barbour._
The term occurs in both senses in O. E. A. S. _borg_, _borh_,
fide-jussor; also, foenus; Germ. _burge_, a pledge. Su. G. _borgen_,
suretyship. Ihre derives Su. G. and Isl. _borg-a_, to become surety,
from _berg-a_, a periculo tueri, to protect from danger. The idea is
certainly most natural: For what is suretyship, but warranting the
_safety_ of any person or thing?
_To_ BORCH, _v. a._ To give a pledge or security for, to bail.
_Wallace._
_To_ BORROW, BORW, _v. a._
1. To give security for; applied to property.
_Wyntown._
2. To become surety for; applied to a person.
_Baron Courts._
Su. G. _borg-a_, id.
_To_ BORROW _one_, to urge one to drink, Ang.
When one _pledges_ another in company, he engages to drink after
him; and in ancient times it was generally understood, that he who
pledged another, was engaged to drink an equal quantity.
BORROWGANGE, s. A state of suretyship.
_Reg. Maj._
Su. G. _edgaang_, _laggaang_, are rendered by Ihre, actus jurandi,
from _gaa_, ire; _borrowgange_ may thus be merely the act of _going_ or
_entering_ as a surety.
BORD, _s._
1. A broad hem or welt, S.
2. The edge or border of a woman's cap, S.
Fr. _bord_, Belg. _boord_, a welt, a hem, or selvage; Isl. _bard_,
_bord_, the extremity or margin.
BORDEL, _s._ A brothel, Dunbar.
Fr. _bordel_, id., Su. G. A. S. _bord_, a house. The dimin. of
this, Ihre says, was L. B. _bordell-um_, _bordil-e_, tuguriolum, cujus
generis quum olim meretricum stabula essent.
BORDELLAR, _s._ A haunter of brothels.
_Bellenden._
BORE, _s._ A crevice.
V. ~Bor~.
BORE'S- (or BOAR'S) EARS, _s. pl._ The name given to the Auricula, S. B.
Primula auricula, Linn.
A bear is called a _boar_, S., especially S. B.
BORE-TREE, _s._ Sambucus nigra.
V. ~Bourtree~.
BOREAU, _s._ An executioner.
V. ~Burio~.
BORGH, _s._ A surety.
V. ~Borch~.
BORN.
_Wallace._
_Born_ may have some affinity to Isl. _borgun_, Su. G. _borgen_,
suretyship; q. one under contract or obligation.
BORROWING DAYS, the three last days of March, Old Stile, S.
_Complaynt S._
These days being generally stormy, our forefathers have endeavoured
to account for this circumstance, by pretending that March _borrowed_
them from April, that he might extend his power so much longer. Those
who are much addicted to superstition will neither borrow nor lend on
any of these days; lest the articles borrowed should be employed for the
purposes of witchcraft, against the lenders. Some of the vulgar imagine,
that these days received their designation from the conduct of the
Israelites in _borrowing_ the property of the Egyptians.
BOS, BOSS, BOIS, _adj._
1. Hollow, S.
_Douglas._
"A _boss_ sound," that which is emitted by a body that is hollow, S.
2. Empty. A shell, without a kernel, is said to be _boss_. The word is
also used to denote the state of the stomach when it is empty, or after
long abstinence, S.
_Morison._
3. In the same sense, it is metaph. applied to a weak or ignorant
person. One is said to be "nae _boss_ man," who has a considerable share
of understanding, S. B.
_Ramsay._
4. Poor, destitute of worldly substance, S. B.
Teut. _bosse_, umbo.
_Ross._
BOSS, BOCE, _s._ Any thing hollow.
_Burel._
_The boss of the side_, the hollow between the ribs and the haunch, S.
BOSS, BOISS, _s._
1. A small cask.
_Pitscottie._
2. It seems to denote a bottle, perhaps one of earthen ware; such as is
now vulgarly called a _gray-beard_.
_Dunbar._
3. In pl. _bosses_, _boisses_, a term of contempt, conjoined with
_auld_, and applied to persons of a despicable or worthless character.
_Knox._
From Fr. _boire_, to drink, whence _boisson_, drink, or _busse_, a
cask for holding wines.
BOT, _conj._ But, often confounded with _but_, prep. signifying,
without.
_Douglas._
A. S. _butan_, _buton_, are used precisely as S. _but_, without.
BOTAND, BUT-AND, _prep._ Besides.
_Percy._
BOTAND, _adv._
1. But if, except.
_Barbour._
2. Moreover, besides.
_Maitland Poems._
In the latter sense, it is from A. S. _butan_, praeter.
BOTCARD, s. A sort of artillery used in S. in the reign of Ja. V.
_Pitscottie._
The same instruments seem to be afterwards called _battars_, ib.
Fr. _bastarde_, "a demie canon, or demie culverin; a smaller piece of
any kind," Cotgr.
BOTE, BUTE, _s._
1. Help, advantage; E. _boot_, Doug.
2. Compensation, satisfaction; Acts Parl. pass.
A. S. _bote_, id. from _bet-an_, emendare, restaurare.
~Kin-bote~, compensation or "assithment for the slaughter of a kinsman;"
Skene, Verb. Sign.
A. S. _cyn_, cognatio, and _bote_.
~Man-bot~, the compensation fixed by the law, for killing a man,
according to the rank of the person. Ibid.
A. S. _man-bot_, id.
~Theift-bote~, compensation made to the king for theft.
_Reg. Maj._
BOTHE, BOOTH, BUITH, _s._ A shop made of boards; either fixed, or
portable, S.
V. ~Lucken~.
_Douglas._
Hence the _Luckenbooths_ of Edinburgh, wooden shops, made for being
_locked_ up. Teut. _boede_, _bode_, domuncula, casa, Kilian; Su. G.
_bud_, taberna mercatorum, apotheca; Isl. _bud_, id.
BOTHIE, BOOTHIE, _s._ A cottage, often used to denote a place where
labouring servants are lodged, S.
_Neill._
Su. G. _bod_, a house, a cottage; Gael. _bothag_, _bothan_, a cot.
_To_ BOTHER, BATHER, _v. a._ To teaze one by dwelling on the same
subject, or by continued solicitation, S.
BOTHNE, BOTHENE, _s._
1. A park in which cattle are fed and inclosed.
_Skene._
2. A barony, lordship, or sheriffdom.
_Assis. Reg. Dav._
L. B. _bothena_, baronia, aut territorium.
BOTINYS, _s. pl._ Buskins; Gl. Sibb.
Fr. _botine_, cothurnus.
V. ~Boiting~.
BOTTLE-NOSE, _s._ A species of whale, S. Orkn.
_Statist. Acc._
BOTTOM-ROOM, _s._ The name vulgarly given to the space occupied by one
sitter in a church, S.
BOTWAND, _s._ Perhaps, a rod of authority.
_Kennedy._
Germ. _bot_, power, and _wand_, a rod.
BOUCHT, BOUGHT, _s._ A curvature or bending of any kind, S. "The
_bought_ of the arm," the bending of the arm at the elbow.
_Journ. Lond._
Where the sea forms a sort of bay, it is said to have a _bought_, S.
A. S. _bogeht_, arcuatus, crooked; _bug-an_, to bend. Germ. _bug_,
sinus; _bucht_, curvatura littoris, Wachter.
_To_ BOUCHT, BOUGHT, _v. a._ To fold down, S.
Isl. _bukt-a_, Teut. _buck-en_, flectere, curvare.
BOUCHT, BOUGHT, BUCHT, BUGHT, _s._
1. A small pen, usually put up in the corner of the fold, into which it
was customary to drive the ewes, when they were to be milked; also
called _ewe-bucht_, S.
_Douglas._
2. A house in which sheep are inclosed, Lanerks.; an improper sense.
_Statist. Acc._
Teut. _bocht_, _bucht_, septum, septa, interseptum, sepimentum
clausum.
_To_ BOUCHT, BOUGHT _v. a._ To inclose in a fold, S.; formed from the
_s._
_Ross._
BOUCHT-KNOT, _s._ A running knot; one that can easily be loosed, in
consequence of the cord being _doubled_, S.
BOUGARS, _s. pl._ Cross spars, forming part of the roof of a cottage,
used instead of laths, on which wattling or twigs are placed, and above
these _divots_, and then the straw or thatch, S.
_Chr. Kirk._
Lincolns. _bulkar_, a beam; Dan. _biaelke_, pl. _bielcker_, beams.
Su. G. _bialke_, a small rafter, tigillum, in Westro-Goth. is written
_bolkur_.
BOUK, BUIK, _s._
1. The trunk of the body, as distinguished from the head or extremity,
S.
A _bouk of tauch_, all the tallow taken out of an ox or cow, S.
Germ. _bauch von talge_, id.
A _bouk-louse_, one that has been bred about the body.
Teut. _beuck_, truncus corporis.
2. The whole body of man, or carcase of a beast, S.
_Douglas._
3. The body, as contradistinguished from the soul.
_R. Bruce._
4. Size, stature, S. _bulk_; _Boukth_, bulk, Gl. Lancash.
_J. Nicol._
5. The greatest share, the principal part, S.
_Cleland._
_To_ BOUK, _v. n._ To bulk, S.
Hence,
BOUKIT, BOWKIT, _part. pa._
1. Large, bulky; S.
_Douglas._
2. _Boukit_ and _muckle-boukit_ are used in a peculiar sense; as
denoting the appearance which a pregnant woman makes, after her shape
begins to alter.
BOUKSUM, BOUKY, _adj._ Of the same sense with _Boukit_, S.
_Poems Buchan Dialect._
BOUKE, _s._ A solitude.
_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._
A. S. _buce_, secessus, "a solitary and secret place," Somner.
BOULDEN, _part. pa._ Swelled, inflated.
V. ~Boldin~.
BOULE, "Round," Rudd.
_Douglas._
Teut. _bol_, tumidus, turgidus; or _boghel_, _beughel_, curvatura
semicircularis, from _bogh-en_, arcuare.
BOULENA, A sea cheer, signifying, Hale up the bowlings.
_Complaynt S._
BOULENE, _s._ The same with E. _Bowline_. A rope fastened to the middle
part of the outside of a sail.
_Complaynt S._
Sw. _bog-lina_, id. from _bog_, flexus.
BOUN, BOUNE, BOWN, _adj._ Ready, prepared, S.
_Barbour._
_Bone_ is used in the same sense, O. E.
Su. G. _bo_, _bo-a_, to prepare, to make ready; Isl. _bu-a_, id.
_Boen_ or _boin_ is the part. pa.
_To_ BOUN, BOWN, _v. a._
1. To make ready, to prepare.
_Wallace._
2. To go, to direct one's course to a certain place.
_Sir Egeir._
BOUND, BUND, _part. pa._ Pregnant.
_Douglas._
_To_ BOUNT, _v. n._ To spring, to bound.
Fr. _bond-ir_, id.
_Burel._
BOUNTÉ, _s._ Worth, goodness.
_Barbour._
Fr. _bonté_, id.
BOUNTETH, BOUNTITH, _s._
1. Something given as a reward for service or good offices.
_Watson's Coll._
2. It now generally signifies what is given to servants, in addition to
their wages, S; _bounties_, S. B.
_Ramsay._
Gael. _bunntais_ seems merely a corr. of this word.
BOUR, BOURE, _s._ A chamber; sometimes a retired apartment, such as
ladies were wont to possess in ancient times.
_Douglas._
A. S. _bur_, _bure_, conclave, an inner chamber, a parlour, a
_bower_. Teut. _buer_, id. Dan. _buur_, conclave, Su. G. Isl. _bur_,
habitaculum. Isl. _jungfrubur_, gynaeceum, ubi olim filiae familias
habitabant; literally, the young lady's bower. Hence _bour-bourding_,
jesting in a lady's chamber, Pink.
BOURACH, BOWROCK, _s._
1. An inclosure; applied to the little houses that children build for
play, especially those made in the sand, S.
_Kelly._
"We'll never big sandy _bowrocks_ together."
_S. Prov. Kelly._
2. A crowd, a ring, a circle, S. B.
_Poems Buchan Dialect._
3. A confused heap of any kind, S. B. Such a quantity of body-clothes as
is burdensome to the wearer, is called _a bourach of claise_; Ang.
_Statist. Acc._
4. A cluster, as of trees, S.
_Ferguson._
A. S. _beorh_, _burg_, an inclosure, a heap; Su. G. _borg_.
~Burrach'd~, ~Bourach'd~, _part. pa._ Inclosed, environed, S. B.
_Ross._
BOURACH, BORRACH, _s._ A band put round a cow's hinder legs at milking,
S.
Gael. _buarach_.
BOURBEE, _s._ The spotted Whistle fish, S.
_Sibbald._
_To_ BOURD, _v. n._ To jest, to mock, S.
_Ramsay._
Fr. _bourd-er_, id. But this seems to be merely an abbrev. of
_behourd-ir_, _bohord-er_, to just together with lances. _Bohord_,
_behord_, is originally a Gothic word, as being used by old Northern
writers.
BOURD, BOURE, _s._ A jest, a scoff, S.
_Kelly._
_Houlate._
BOURIE, _s._ A hole made in the earth by rabbits, or other animals that
hide themselves there; E. a _Burrow_.
_Monroe._
From the same origin with ~Bourach~.
BOURTREE, BORETREE, BOUNTREE, _s._ Common elder, a tree; Sambucus nigra,
Linn.; A. Bor. _Burtree_.
_Lightfoot._
It seems to have received its name from its being hollow within, and
thence easily _bored_ by thrusting out the pulp.
BOUSHTY, _s._ Expl. "bed." Aberd.
_Shirrefs._
The same with _Buisty_, q. v.
BOUSTOUR, BOWSTOWRE, _s._ A military engine, anciently used for
battering walls.
_Wyntown._
Su. G. _byssa_, _bossa_, signifies a mortar, an engine for throwing
bombs; Bombarda, Ihre; formerly _byssor_; from _byssa_, theca, a box, or
case; because in these tubes, as in cases, bullets are lodged.
BOUSUM, BOWSOM, _adj._
1. Pliant, tractable.
_Palice Honour._
A. S. _bocsum_, _buhsum_, obediens, tractabilis, from _bug-an_,
Belg. _buyg-en_, flectere.
2. "Blythe, merry," Rudd.
_To_ BOUT, BOWT, _v. n._ To spring, to leap, S. "_bouted up_," Rudd. vo.
_up-boltit_.
_Lyndsay._
Teut. _botten_, _op-bott-en_, to rebound, resilire.
BOUT, _s._ A sudden jerk in entering or leaving an apartment; a hasty
entrance or departure; the act of coming upon one by surprise; S.
BOUTGATE, _s._
1. A circuitous road, a way which is not direct, S. from _about_, and
_gait_ way.
_Ross._
2. A circumvention, a deceitful course, S.
_R. Bruce._
3. An ambiguity, or an equivocation, in discourse.
_Bp. Forbes._
BOW, _s._ A boll; a dry measure, S.
_Monroe._
BOW, BOLL, LINTBOW, _s._ The globule which contains the seed of flax.
_Bow_ is the pron. S.
_Polwart._
Germ. _boll_, id. oculus et gemma plantae, caliculus ex quo flos
erumpit; Wachter.
BOW, BOWE, _s._
1. The herd in general; whether inclosed in a fold or not.
_Douglas._
2. A fold for cows, S.
_Bannatyne Poems._
Su. G. _bo_, _bu_, either the herd or the flock; armenta, pecora,
grex; Dan. _boe_, a shed, booth or stall.
BOW, _s._
1. An arch, a gateway, S.
_Knox._
2. The arch of a bridge, S.
_Muses Threnodie._
Teut. _boghe_, id. arcus, concameratio; from _bogh-en_, flectere;
A. S. _bog-a_, "an arch of a bridge or other building;" Somner.
BOW, _s._ As applied to a house.
V. ~Boo~.
BOWAND, _adj._ Crooked.
_Douglas._
A. S. _bugend_, id.
BOWAT, _s._ A hand-lanthern.
V. ~Bowet~.
BOWBARD, _s._ A dastard, a person destitute of spirit.
_Douglas._
Teut. _boeverje_, nequitia. Or, shall we rather view it as
originally the same with _Bumbart_, q. v.?
BOWBERT, _adj._ Lazy, inactive.
_Douglas._
BOWDEN, _part. pa._ Swollen.
V. ~Boldin~.
BOWELHIVE, _s._ An inflammation of the bowels, to which children are
subject, S.
V. ~Hive~, _v._
_Pennecuik._
BOWES ~and~ BILLES, A phrase used by the English, in former times, for
giving an alarm in their camp or military quarters.
_Knox._
BOWET, BOWAT, _s._ A hand-lanthern, S. _Bowit_, A. Bor.
_Abp. Hamiltoun._
Perhaps from Fr. _bougette_, a little coffer; if not allied to
_bougie_, a small wax-candle.
BOWGER, _s._ The puffin, or coulter-neb, a bird; _alca arctica_, Linn.
_Martin._
BOWGLE, _s._ A wild ox, a buffalo.
_Dunbar._
Lat. _bucul-us_, a young ox. Hence _bugle-horn_.
BOWIE, _s._
1. A small barrel or cask, open at one end; S.
_Ferguson._
2. It denotes a small tub for washing, S.
3. It also sometimes signifies a milk pail, S.
_Ramsay._
Fr. _buie_, a water-pot or pitcher; Cotgr.
Hence,
BOWIEFU', _s._ The fill of a small tub, S.
_J. Nicol._
BOW-KAIL, _s._ Cabbage, S. so called from the circular form of this
plant. For the same reason its Belg. name is _buys-kool_.
_Burns._
~Bow-stock~, _s._ The same. "A bastard may be as good as a _bow-stock_,
by a time;" S. Prov.
_Kelly._
BOWLAND, _part. adj._ Hooked, crooked.
_Douglas._
Teut. _boghel-en_, arcuare. _Bowland_ is just the part. pr.
_boghelend_, contr.
BOWLIE, BOOLIE, _adj._ Crooked, deformed; _Boolie-backit_, humpbacked;
sometimes applied to one whose shoulders are very round, S.
V. ~Beugle-backed~.
Germ. _bucklig_, Dan. _bugelt_, id. from _bugle_, a bunch or hump;
and this from _bug-en_, to bend; Dan. _boeyel_, crookedness, _boeyelig_,
flexible.
_To_ BOWN, _v. a._ To make ready.
V. ~Boun~, _v._
BOWRUGIE, _s._ Burgess; the third estate in a Parliament or Convention;
in resemblance of Fr. _bourgeois_.
_Wallace._
BOWSIE, _adj._ Crooked, S.
Fr. _bossu_, id.
BOWSUNES, _s._ Obedience.
_Wyntown._
A. S. _bocsumnesse_, obedientia.
BOWT, _s._
1. A bolt, a shaft; in general.
_Chron. S. Poet._
2. A thunderbolt, S.
_Ross._
_To_ BOX, _v. a._ To wainscot, to cover with boards, S.
BOXING, s. Wainscotting; Sir J. Sinclair, p. 170., S.
BRA, BRAE, BRAY, _s._
1. The side of a hill, an acclivity, S.
_Barbour._
2. The bank of a river, S. _Breea_, A. Bor. id.
3. A hill, S.
_Ross._
4. Conjoined with a name, it denotes the upper part of a country; as
"_Bra-mar, Bra-Cat, the Braes of Angus;_" S.
_Sir J. Sinclair._
_To gae down the brae_, metaph. to be in a declining state, in whatever
sense; to have the losing side, S.
C. B. _bre_, a mountain, pl. _breon_, _bryn_; Gael. _bre_, _bri_,
_brigh_, a hill. Isl. _braa_, cilium, the brow; whence _augnabraa_, the
eye-brow; and _bratt_ signifies steep, having an ascent.
_To_ BRA, _v. n._
1. To bray.
2. To make a loud and disagreeable noise.
_Douglas._
BRAAL, _s._ A fragment. "There's nae a _braal_ to the fore," There is
not a fragment remaining, Ang.
BRABBLACH, _s._ The refuse of any thing; as of corn, meat, &c. Fife.
Gael. _prabal_, id.
BRACE, _s._ A chimney-piece, a mantle-piece, S.
BRACHELL, _s._ A dog; properly, one employed to discover or pursue game
by the scent.
_Wallace._
Alem. _brak_; Germ. _brack_, id. canis venaticus, forte
investigator; O. Fr. _brachez_. Verel. expl. Isl. _rakke_ canis,
deriving it from _racka_, _frakka_, cursitare.
BRACHEN, (gutt.) BRAIKIN, BRECKEN, _s._ The female fern, Polypodium
filix foemina, Linn.
_Burns._
In Smoland in Sweden, the female fern is called _braeken_; Sw.
_stotbraakin_, id. _In_ is a termination in Gothic, denoting the female
gender.
ROYAL BRACHENS, _s. pl._ The flowering fern, S. Osmunda regalis, Linn.
_Lightfoot._
BRACKS, _s._ A disease of sheep.
V. ~Braxy~.
BRAD, _part. pa._ Roasted.
V. next word.
_To_ BRADE, _v. a._ To roast.
_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._
A. S. _braed-an_, id. _braedde_, assatus.
_To_ BRADE, BRAID, _v. n._
1. To move quickly, to take long steps in rapid succession.
_Douglas._
2. To spring, to start.
_Gawan and Gol._
3. To break out, to issue with violence.
_Douglas._
4. To draw out quickly; used actively, especially with respect to the
unsheathing or brandishing of a sword, or other weapon of this kind.
_Wallace._
Isl. _braad-a_, accelerare. _At bregd-a sverde_, gladium evaginare
vel stringere. A. S. _braed-an_, exerere, stringere.
BRADE, BRAIDE, _s._ A start, a spring, a quick motion of the body.
_Dunbar._
Isl. _bregd_, versura.
_To_ BRADE, BRAID, _v. a._ To attack, to assault; Rudd.
Isl. _bregd-a manne nidur_, sternere virum.
BRAID, s. Assault, aim to strike.
_Douglas._
It is used in a similar sense, O. E. Isl. _bregd_, nisus, an
attempt, an exertion.
BRADE, _adj._; S.
V. ~Braid~.
_To_ BRADE, BRAID, _v. a._ To turn round.
_Gawan and Gol._
Isl. _bregd-a_, vertere.
_To_ BRADE, BRAID, BREDE, BREED, _v. n._
1. To resemble, to be like in manners; especially as denoting that
similarity which characterises the same stock or family; with the prep.
_of_.
_Ferguson's S. Prov._
2. To appear, to be manifest.
_Dunbar._
Isl. _bregd-a_, _bregth-a_, Su. G. _braa_, denote the resemblance
of children, in dispositions, to their progenitors. _Bregdur barni til
aettar_, progenitoribus suis quisque fere similis est.
_To_ BRADE, BRAID _up_, _v. a._ "To _braid up_ the head," to toss it as
a high-mettled horse does, or to carry it high.
_Dunbar._
A. S. _bred-an_, Belg. _breyd-en_, to extend.
_To_ BRAG, _v. a._
1. To reproach, to upbraid.
_Ruddiman._
2. To defy, S. B.
_Morison._
Su. G. _brigd-a_, exprobrare; Isl. _bregd-a_, opprobrare.
BRAGING, _s._ Boasting.
_Gawan and Gol._
BRAGWORT, _s._ Expl. "Mead, a beverage made from the dregs of honey."
Gl. Sibb.
_Braggot_, Gl. Lancash. C. B. _bragod_, id.
_To_ BRAID _up the burde_; marked as used by James I.
BRAID, BRADE, _adj._
1. Broad, S.
_Ritson._
2. Plain, intelligible.
_Douglas._
Moes. G. Isl. _braid_, A. S. _bred_, latus.
BRAID, BRADE, _adv._ Widely.
_Douglas._
BRAID-BAND, BROAD-BAND, _s._
1. Corn laid out, in the harvest field, on the band, but not bound, is
said to be _lying in braid-band_, S.
2. _To be laid in broad-band_, metaph. to be fully exposed.
_Z. Boyd._
_To_ BRAIK, _v. n._ To reach.
V. ~Braking~.
_Lyndsay._
BRAIK, s. A threat.
_Douglas._
Isl. _brak-a_, strepo.
BRAIK, BREAK, _s._ An instrument used in dressing hemp or flax, for
loosening it from the core, S.
_Watson's Coll._
Teut. _braecke_, id. malleus stuparius, vulgo linifrangibula.
BRAIK, _s._ An internal mortification; a disease among sheep, Ang.
V. ~Braxy~.
Su. G. _braeck_, a defect of any kind.
BRAIKIT, _adj._ Speckled, S.
Ir. _breac_, _brek_, id.
BRAYMEN, _s. pl._ The name given to those who inhabit the southern
declivity of the Grampian hills, S.
_D. Buchanan._
BRAIN, _s._ Voice. "A braw _brain_," "a strong _brain_," a powerful
voice, Ang.
_To_ BRAINDGE, _v. n._ "To run rashly forward," S. O.
_Burns._
Shall we view this as an oblique sense of Belg. _brins-en_, to
neigh?
BRAYNE, BRANE, _adj._ Mad, furious.
_Douglas._
A. S. _brinn-an_, to burn, _bren_, _bryne_, fervor; whence
_bryne-adl_, a fever; Su. G. _braanad_, fervor, ardor.
~Brayn-wod~, ~Brane-wod~, _adj._ Mad, in a state of insanity.
_Wyntown._
V. ~Brayne~ and ~Wod~.
BRAIRD, _s._ The first sprouting of grain.
V. ~Breer~.
_To_ BRAIS, _v. a._ To embrace.
_Dunbar._
Fr. _bras_, the arm, whence embrace, q. _in arms_.
BRAIS, _s. pl._ Snares, gins.
_Douglas._
A. S. _braegd_, figmentum, _braegden_, fraud; _gebraegdas_, crafts,
frauds, subtile contrivances; Isl. Su. G. _bragd_, fraus.
BRAISE, BRAZE, _s._ The Roach, a fish, S.
_Ure._
Sw. _brazen_, cyprinus brama, bream; Teut. _braessem_, id. cyprinus
latus.
BRAITH, _adj._ Violent, severe.
_Wallace._
Isl. Su. G. _braede_, ira, animi fervor.
BRAITHFUL, BREITHFUL, _adj._ Sharp, violent.
_Douglas._
BRAITHLIE, _adj._ The same with ~Braithful~; or perhaps in the sense of
struggling.
_Douglas._
Su. G. _bryt-a_, _brott-as_, Isl. _briot-a_, luctare.
BRAITHLY, _adv._ Violently, with great force.
_Wallace._
_To_ BRAK, _v. n._ To break, S. B.
_Ross._
A. S. _brac-an_, id. Isl. _eg braaka_, frango.
BRAKE, _s._ A large and heavy kind of harrow, chiefly used for breaking
in rough ground, S.
_To_ BRAK, _v. n._ To express great sorrow on any account. One says,
"I'm like to _brak_," S. B.
This is probably allied to Isl. _braek_, _brek_, wailing.
BRAK, BRAKE, _adj._ Somewhat salt, brackish.
_Douglas._
Belg. _brack_, salsus.
BRAKING, _s._ Puking, reaching, S. B.
_Ross._
Teut, _braeck-en_, to vomit, _braecke_, nausea.
BRALD, _part. pa._ Decked, dressed.
_Maitland Poems._
Fr. _brell-er_, to glitter.