“To get them _brats_, then, ye maun toil an’ spin.”
_Ramsay._ The Gentle Shepherd.
“To see her whol’d stockings, her _brat_, an’ her gown.”
_Anderson._ Our Sukey.
Braw, S, fine, handsomely attired.
“Upon the banks o’ flowing Clyde
The lasses busk them _braw_.”
_Burns._ Of a’ the Airts.
Break, C, a joke, a bit of fun.
“Joe Tyson teem’t a pint o’ yall doon Danny Towson’ back. Wasn’t that
a _break_?”—Heard at Dean.
Buirdly, S, stout, strongly made.
“They say ill ale has been the deid
O’ monie a _buirdly_ loon.”
_Ferguson._ Leith Races.
Burn, S, a brook.
“Beside that brig, out owre that _burn_,
Where water bickereth bright and sheen.”
Ballad—Thomas the Rhymer.
Burnewin, S, a blacksmith (burn the wind).
“An’ _burnewin_ comes on like death
At every chaup.”
_Burns._ Scotch Drink.
But, S, the outer apartment of a house.
“The auld wife cried _but_ the house, ‘Jenny, come ben!’”
Song—The Yellow Hair’d Laddie.
But, S, without (probably from _be out_).
“Beauty _but_ bounty’s but bauch.”—Proverb.
But and, Old S, also, likewise.
“Adieu madame, my mother dear,
_But and_ my sisters three.”
Ballad—Lord Maxwell’s Good Night.
Byspel, C, a mischievous person.
“It’s a fair _byspel_ ’at is’t. It breaks o’ ’at cūms iv it geàt.”