Part 8
BLANDED BEAR, barley and common bear mixed, S.
_Statist. Acc._
From Su. G. _bland-a_ is formed _blan-saed_, meslin or mixed corn.
BLAND, _s._ A drink used in the Shetland Islands.
_Brand._
Isl. _blanda_, cinnus, mixtura, pro potu, aqua mixto; Su. G. _bland_ dicebatur mel aqua permixtum.
_To_ BLANDER, _v. a._
1. To babble, to diffuse any report, such especially as tends to injure the character of another, S.
2. Sometimes used to denote the want of regard to truth in narration; a thing very common with tattlers, S. B.
Perhaps from Isl. _bland-a_, Dan. _bland-er_, to mingle, as denoting the blending of truth with falsehood.
BLANDIT, _part. pa._ Flattered, soothed.
_Dunbar._
Fr. _blander_, to soothe, Lat. _blandiri_.
_To_ BLASH, _n. a._ To soak, to drench. "To _blash_ one's stomach," to drink too copiously of any weak and diluting liquor; S.
V. ~Plash~.
Perhaps radically the same with _plash_, from Germ. _platz-en_.
BLASH, _s._ A heavy fall of rain; S.
BLASHY, _adj._ Deluging, sweeping away by inundation; S.
_Ramsay._
_Blashy_, "thin, poor; Northumb."
BLASNIT, _adj._ Perhaps, bare, bald, without hair.
_Bannatyne Poems._
Germ. _bloss_, bare, _bloss-en_, to make bare; or rather, Teut. _bles_, calvus, whence _blesse_, frons capillo nuda.
BLASOWNE, _s._
1. Dress over the armour, on which the armorial bearings were blazoned.
_Wyntown._
2. The badge of office worn by a king's messenger on his arm, S.
_Erskine._
Germ. _blaesse_ denotes a sign in general. Thence _blazon_, a term marking that sign, in heraldry, which is peculiar to each family. The origin seems to be Su. G. _blaesse_.
V. ~Bawsand~.
_To_ BLAST, _v. n._
1. To pant, to breathe hard, S. B.
_Ross._
2. To smoke tobacco, S. B.
3. To blow with a wind instrument.
_Gawan and Gol._
4. To boast, to speak in an ostentatious manner. S.
Su. G _blaas-a_, inspirare, Germ. _blas-en_, flare. Isl. _blast-ur_, halitus, flatus.
Hence,
BLAST, _s._ A brag, a vain boast, S.
_Z. Boyd._
BLASTER, _s._ A boaster; also, one who speaks extravagantly in narration, S.
BLASTIE, _s._ "A shrivelled dwarf; a term of contempt," S. q. what is _blasted_.
_Burns._
_To_ BLAST, v. a. To blow up with gunpowder.
_Statist. Acc._
BLASTER. One who is employed to blow up stones with gunpowder; S.
_Pennant._
BLATE, _adj._ Bashful.
V. ~Blait~.
_To_ BLATHER, _v. n._ To talk nonsensically.
BLATHER, _s._
V. ~Blether~.
BLATTER, _s._ A rattling noise; S.
_Ramsay._
Lat. _blater-are_, Teut. _blater-en_, stultè loqui.
BLAUCHT, _adj._ Pale, livid.
_Palace of Hon._
A. S. _blac_, _blaec_; Su. G. _blek_, Isl. _bleik-r_, E. _bleak_, pallidus. A. S. _blac-ian_, Su. G. _blek-na_, to wax pale.
BLAVING, BLAUING, _s._ Blowing.
_Gawan and Gol._
A. S. _blawan byman_, buccina canere.
BLAW, _s._ A blow, a stroke.
_Wallace._
Teut. _blaew-en_, caedere. _Blaw_ is used in this sense. Gl. Westmorel.
_To_ BLAW, _v._ Used both as _a._ and _n._
1. To blow; in a literal sense referring to the wind. S.
_Douglas._
A. S. _blaw-an_, flare.
2. To breathe, S.
_Abp. Hamiltoun._
3. To publish, to make known. S.
_Burel._
E. _blow_ is used in the same sense.
4. To brag, to boast, S. _Blast_, synon.
_Barbour._
_Douglas._
Germ. _blaw_, falsus, mendax, dolosus. Teut. _blas-en_, flare et nimiis vanisque laudibus rem efferre, ac inani flatu infarcire.
5. To magnify in narration, especially from a principle of ostentation, S.
6. To flatter, to coax.
_Baillie._
S. Prov. "Ye first burn me, and then _blaw_ me."
7. To _blaw_ in one's _lug_, to cajole or flatter a person, so as to be able to guide him at will, S.
_Nicol Burne._
_To blow in the ear_, id. O. E.
Su. G. _blaas-a_, to instil evil counsel. Teut. _oor-blaesen_, not only signifies, in aurem mussare, sive mussitare, obgannire in aurem; but is rendered, blandiri.
8. To huff a man at draughts. _I blaw_, or _blow you_, I take this man, S.
Su. G. _blaas-a_, to blow, is used in this very sense. _Blaasa bort en bricka i damspel_, Seren.
9. To _blaw appin_ locks or bolts, and to loose fetters, by means of a magical power ascribed to the breath, S.
_Satan's Invisible World._
10. _To blaw out_ on one, to reproach him.
_Wallace._
BLAW, _s._
1. A blast, a gust, S. Rudd.
_Gawan and Gol._
2. The sound emitted by a wind instrument.
3. A falsehood, a lie told from ostentation. _He tells greit blaws_, S. B.
_Ramsay._
BLAW, _s._ A pull, a draught; a cant term, used among topers, S.
_Ferguson._
BLAWN COD, a split cod, half-dried, Ang.; so denominated, perhaps, because exposed for some time to the _wind_.
BLAWORT, _s._ The Blue bottle; Centaurea cyanus, Linn., S. _Witch-bells_, also _Thumbles_, S. B.
_Neill._
From _bla_, livid, q. v. and _wort_, an herb.
BLAZE, _s._ The name given to allum ore, S.
BLE, BLIE, _s._ Complexion, colour.
_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._