Chapter VII: Preface (6)

_Ba'_, ball.
_Badrans_, a cat.
_Bairns_, children.
_Bair_, bear, boar.
_Baith_, both.
_To ban_, to curse.
_Banefire_, bonfire.
_Bannocks_, a sort of unleavened bread, thicker than cakes, and round.
_Barlickhood_, a fit of drunken angry passion.
_Bassend_, see _Bawsy_.
_Baugh_, sorry, indifferent.
_Bauk_, balk.
_Bauld_, bold.
_Bawk_, a rafter, joist; likewise, the space between cornfields; to
frustrate.
_Bawsy_, bawsand-fac'd, is a cow, or horse, with a white face.
_Be_, by.
_Bedeen_, immediately, in haste.
_Begunk_, a trick, a cheat.
_Beik_, to bask.
_Beild_, or _beil_, a shelter.
_Bein_, or _been_, wealthy, comfortable. A _been_ house, a warm
well-furnished one.
_Ben_, the inner room of a house.
_Come farer ben_, be better received.
_Bend_, a pull of liquor.
_Bend the bicker_, quaff out the cup.
_Bent_, a coarse kind of grass growing on hilly ground; the open
field, the plain.
_To the bent_, fled out of reach.
_Betooch-us-to_, Heaven preserve us.
_Beuk_, baked.
_Bicker_, a wooden dish.
_Bide_, to await.
_Bigonet_, a linen cap or coif.
_Billy_, brother, a young man.
_Birks_, birch-trees.
_Birky_,--_auld birky_, old boy.
_Birn_, a burnt mark.
_Birns_, the stalks of burnt heath.
_Black-sole_, a confidant in courtship.
_Blae_, black and blue, the colour of the skin when bruised.
_Blaeberry_, bilberry.
_Blashy_, plashy, deluging.
_Blate_, bashful.
_Blaw_, blow; to boast.
_Bleech_, to blanch or whiten.
_Bleer_, to bedim with tears.
_Bleez_, blaze.
_Blob_, a drop.
_Bob_, to move up and down as in dancing.
_Bobbit bands_, tasselled bands (worn about the neck).
_Bode_, to proffer.
_Bonny_, beautiful.
_Bouk_, bulk.
_Bourd_, jest or dally.
_Bowt_, bolt.
_Brae_, the side of a hill, a steep bank.
_Braid_, broad.
_Brankan_, prancing, a capering.
_Brattle_, to advance rapidly, making a noise with the feet.
_Brats_, aprons of coarse linen.
_Braw_, brave; fine in apparel.
_Breaks_, becomes bankrupt.
_Brecken_, fern.
_Briss_, to press.
_Brock_, a badger.
_Broe_, broth.
_Brown cow_, a ludicrous expression for ale or beer, as opposed to
milk.
_Bught_, the little fold where the ewes are inclosed at milking-time.
_Bumbazed_, confused; made to stare and look like an idiot.
_Burn_, or _burnie_, a brook.
_Busk_, to deck, dress.
_Bustine_, fustian (cloth.)
_But_, often used for _without_; as "_but_ feed or favour."
_But a flaw_, without a lie.
_But_,--_fetch but_, bring into the outer apartment, or that used as a
kitchen.
_By and attour_, over and above.
_By_,--_flings by_, throws aside.
_Byre_, or _byar_, a cow-house.