AUKWART, AWKWART, _prep._ across; athwart.
AULD-CLUITY, _s._ the devil.
AULDEST, _adj._ oldest; elder.
AULD, _adj._ old; aged.
AULDFARRANT, AULDFARRAND, _adj._ sagacious.
AULD-MOU'D, _adj._ sagacious in discourse. Sometimes used as crafty.
AUMUS, _s._ an alms.
AVA, _adv._ at all.
AWA, _adv._ away.
AWFU', _adj._ awful.
AWIN, AWYN, _adj._ own. This is the common _pronoun_ in the south of Scotland; in other parts, _ain_.
AWNIE, _adj._ bearded.
AWNS, _s. pl._ the beards of corn or barley.
AWSK, _s._ the newt or eft.
AWSOME, _adj._ awful; appalling.
_To_ AX, _v. a._ to ask.
AX-TREE, _s._ an axle-tree.
AYONT, _prep._ beyond.
AY, _adv._ yes.
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BABIE, BAWBIE, _s._ a halfpenny.
BACHLE, BAUCHLE, _s._ an old shoe or slipper.
BACKLINS, _adv._ backwards. _To gae backlins_, to walk backwards, like a ropemaker.
BACKSPANG, _s._ a trick, or legal quirk; advantage taken by one over another.
_To_ BACK-SPEIR, _v. a._ to trace a report as far back as possible; to cross-question.
BACK-SPEIRER, _s._ a cross-examiner.
BADE, _pret_. of bide.
BADRANS, BATHRONS, _s._ a designation for a cat.
_To_ BAE, _v. n_. to bleat like sheep.
_To_ BAFF, _v. a_. to beat.
BAFF, _s._ a stroke or blow.
BAIKIE, _s._ the stake to which a cow is fastened in the stall.
BAILIE, _s._ an alderman; the deputy of a baron in a borough of barony.
BAIR, BAR, _s._ a boar.
BAIRD, _s._ a bard or poet.
BAIRN, BARNE, _s._ a child.
BAIRNHEID, _s._ childhood.
BAIRNLY, _adj._ childish.
BAIRNLINESS, _s._ childishness.
BAIRNS-MAID, _s._ a nursery-maid.
BAIS, _adj._ having a deep or hollow sound: bass.
_To_ BAYT, _v. n_. to feed.
BAISEE, BAIVIE, _s._ a large fire; a great blaze.
BAKE, _s._ a biscuit.
BAKSTER, BAXSTER, _s._ a baker.
BALD, BAULD, _adj._ bold; intrepid.
BALDERDASH, _s._ foolish noisy nonsense.
BALK, BURRAL, _s._ an elevated ridge, raised by a plough.
BALLANT, _s._ a ballad; a song.
BALOW, BALOO, _s._ a lullaby; a term used by nurses when lulling children.
_To_ BAN, BANN, _v. a._ to curse.
BANNIN, _pr. pa_. swearing.
BANDKYN, _s._ a species of cloth, the warp of which is thread of gold and the woof silk, and adorned with figures.
BANDSTER, BANSTER, _s._ one who binds sheaves after the reapers in the harvest field.
BANE, _s._ a bone.
BANE-FYER, _s._ a bonfire.
_To_ BANG, _v. a_. to change place with impetuosity-- as, _to bang up_, to start to our feet suddenly.
BANNOCK, _s._ a cake of barley or pease meal baked on a girdle.
BANNOCK-FLUKE, _s._ a turbot.
BAP, _s._ a thick cake, baked in an oven, with yeast in it, and made of flour, oat meal, or barley meal, and sometimes a mixture of two of them.
BARE, _adj._ lean; meagre; naked; uncovered.
_To_ BARKEN, _v. n_. to become hard; to clot.
BARLA-BREIKIS, BURLEY-BRAKS, _s._ a game played in a corn-yard, running round the stacks.
BARLEY, _s._ a term used by children in games, when a truce, or a cessation for the time, is demanded.
BARNE. See BAIRN.
BASSIE, _s._ an old horse.
BASTOUN, _s._ a heavy staff; a baton.
BAITH, _adj._ both.
BATIE, BAWTIE, _s._ a name applied to dogs, generally large ones, without reference to sex.
BATS, _s. pl._ the bots, a disease in horses.
_To_ BATTER, _v. a_. to paste.
BAUCHLE, BACHEL, _s._ an old shoe.
BAUGH, _adj._ ungrateful to the taste.
BAUK, BAWK, _s._ a cross beam in the roof of a house.
BAUK, BAWK, _s._ a strip of land, two or three feet wide, left unploughed.
BAUSY, _adj._ strong; big.
_To_ BAW, _v. a_. to hush; to lull in the manner of nursing a child.
BAW, _s._ a ball.
BAWBEE, a halfpenny.
BAWDEKYN, _s._ cloth of gold.
BAXTER, _s._ a baker.
BEAR, BERE, _s._ barley.
_To_ BECK, _v_. to curtsey.
BEDRAL, _s._ a person who is bedrid.
BEGRUTTEN, _part. pa._ having the face disfigured with weeping.
BEIK, BIKE, _s._ a hive of bees.
BEIK, BEKE, BEEK, _v. a_. to bask, as in the sun.
BEILD, BIELD, _s._ shelter; refuge.
BEIN, BANE, _s._ bone.
BIRR, _s._ noise; cry; force.
BEKE, BEIK, BEEK, _v. a._ to bask.
BELD, _adj._ bald; without hair on the head.
BELE, _s._ a fire; a blaze.
BELYVE, _adv._ by and by.
_To_ BELL THE CAT, to contend with a person of superior rank; to withstand him, either by actions or words, especially the former.
BELLY-THRA, _s._ the colic.
_To_ BELT, _v. a._ to gird; to flog; to scourge.
BEN, _adv._ towards the inner apartments of a house. A room is generally called _ben_, and the kitchen _but_.
BEN-END, _s. the ben-end of a house_, the inner end of it.
BEN, BIN, _s._ a mountain.
BENE, BIEN, _adj._ wealthy; having abundance.
BENK, BINK, _s._ a bench; a seat.
BENORTH, _prep._ to the northward of.
BENSHIE, BENSHI, _s._ a fairy's wife.
BENT, _s._ a coarse grass growing on sand-hills.
BERE, BEAR, _s._ barley.
BERN, _s._ a barn.
_To_ BESEIK, _v. a._ to beseech; to entreat.
BESYNE, BYSIM, _s._ a bawd.
BESOUTH, _prep_, to the southward of.
BEST-MAN, _s._ groomsman; _best-maid_, the bridesmaid.
BETWEESH, _prep_, betwixt.
BEUCH, a branch; a bough.
BEVIE, _s._ a great fire.
_To_ BEWRY, _v. a._ to pervert, to distort.
BIB, _s._ a piece of linen used to keep the breast of a child clean when feeding it.
BICK, _s._ a bitch; the female of the canine species.
_To_ BICKER, _v. a._ to fight with stones as schoolboys; to run off quickly.
BICKER, BIQUOUR, _s._ a small wooden dish, made in the form of a washing-tub, the staves being alternately black and white.
_To_ BIDE, BYDE, _v. n._ to wait for; to abide; to endure; to suffer.
_To_ BIG, _v. a._ to build.
BIGGIN, BYGGYN, _s._ a building.
BIGGIT, _part. pa._ built.
BIKE, BEIK, BINK, _s._ a nest of wild bees or wasps.
BILGET, _adj._ bulged; swelling out.
BILLIE, BILLY, _s._ a companion; a comrade.
BINDWOOD, _s._ ivy.
BING, _s._ a heap; a pile of wood.
BINK. See BIKE.
BIRD, BURD, _s._ a bird; a damsel; a lady.
BIRDIE, _s._ a little bird.
BIRK, _s._ a birch-tree.
_To_ BIRK, _v. n._ to give a tart or sharp answer.
BIRKIN, _adj._ of or belonging to birch-wood.
BIRKY, _s._ a lively young man; a mettlesome person.
BIRL, _v. n_. to ply with drink; to club money for the purpose of purchasing drink.
BIRN, _v. a._ to burn.
BIRS, BIRSE, _s._ a bristle. _His birse is up_, he is in a passion. _He's a birsie man_, he is liable to be irritated easily.
_To_ BIRSLE, _v. a._ to broil; to roast.
BIRSSY, _adj._ having bristles; hot-tempered.
_To_ BIRZE, BRIZE, _v. a._ to bruise; to drive or push.
BISKET, BRISKET, _s._ the breast.
_To_ BISSE, BIZZ, _v. n_. to make a hissing sound, as hot iron plunged into water.
BISSOME, BYSSYM, _s._ an unworthy female.
BIT, _s._ a vulgar term used for food. _He takes the bit and the buffit wi't_, he takes the food and the blow along with it.
BITTILL, BEETLE, _s._ a wooden mallet for beating clothes.
_To_ BLABBER, _v. n._ to babble; to speak indistinctly.
BLACKAVICED, _a_. dark-complexioned.
BLACK-COCK, _s._ the black grouse.
BLACK-FISHING, _s._ fishing for salmon by torch light.
BLACK-FOOT, _s._ a person who makes matches, or goes between a lover and his mistress.
BLAD, _s._ a large piece of anything.
BLADE, _s._ the leaf of a tree.
BLADOCH, BLEDOCH, _s._ buttermilk.
BLAE, BLA, _adj._ livid; used when the skin is discoloured with a blow, or when chilled with cold.
BLAEBERRY, _s._ the bilberry.
BLAIDRY, _s._ nonsense; folly; silly talk.
BLAIN, _s._ a mark or blemish left by a wound.
BLAIT, _adj._ bashful; sheepish.
BLAIT-MOUIT, _adj._ sheepish; ashamed to open one's mouth, or speak. _ Ye'r no blait_, you are very forward or impudent--used metaphorically.
BLAITIE-BUM, _s._ a stupid, simple fellow.
BLASH, _s._ a heavy fall of rain.
BLASHY, _adj._ deluging, sweeping away, as in a flood; thin, poor, as applied to broth or soup.
_To_ BLAST, _v. n._ to smoke. _To take a blast_, to take a smoke.
BLATE, BLAIT, _adj._ bashful.
_To_ BLATHER, _v. n._ to talk nonsense; to talk ridiculously.
BLATTER, _s_, a rattling noise, such as that made by a heavy shower of rain or hail.
_To_ BLAW, _v_. to blow.
BLEAR, _s._ to obscure the sight.
BLEARD, _s._ dull of sight; having inflamed eyes.
BLEEZE, _v. n_. milk is said to be bleezed when it has become a little sour.
BLEIB, _s._ a pustule, a blister.
_The_ BLEIBS, _s. pl._ the chicken-pox.
_To_ BLENK, BLINK, _v. n._ to open the eyes as after slumber; to throw a glance of regard.
BLENK, BLINK, _s._ a gleam of light.
BLENT, _s._ a glance as in the quick motions of the eye.
_To_ BLETHER, _v. n._ to stammer, or speak indistinctly, or nonsensically.
BLIN, _adj._ blind.
BLINK. See BLENK.
_To_ BLIRT, _v. n._ to burst out a-crying or weeping.
BLOB, BLAB, _s._ 1. anything circular and turned; 2. a blister.
BLOBBIT, _part. pa._ bloated; blurred; blotched.
BLUBBER, _s._ a bubble of air.
_To_ BLUBBER, _v. a._ to cry, to weep.
BLUE-GOWN, _s._ a pensioner. Formerly all pensioners received a blue gown on the king's birthday.
BLUID, _s._ blood.
BLUIDY, _adj._ bloody; bloodthirsty; covered with gore.
BLUITER, BLUTTER, _v. n._ to make a rumbling noise.
BLUNTIE, _s._ a stupid fellow; a sniveller.
BOAL, BOLE, _s._ a small aperture or press in a house for the reception of small articles; a small opening in a wall for the admission of light or air.
BOB, _s._ a curtsey.
_To_ BOCK, _v. a._ to make a noise with the throat, as persons will frequently do before vomiting.
BOD, BODDY, _s._ a person of diminutive stature.
BODDUM, _s._ bottom.