Bairn, child

Baudrins, the cat
Bannet, bonnet
Barra, borough
Bardly, brany stout
Baxter, a baker

Batie, a name given to a dog Bannock, a very thick round oat cake

Bassie, the name of a horse
Bailie, alderman

Beasties, cattle

Beted, happened to, fell out
Beyont, beyond
Bent, the open field
Blear, watery-eyed, weeping,
disease of the eyes, faint
light

Beek, or beik, to bask
Bein, wealthy, comfortable
Bend, draught to drink
Ben, the inner room
Behad, behold

Beengene, bowing

Bedeen, immediately, in haste
Birk, birch tree
Big, build

Bink, a kitchen dresser
Bield, a shelter

Bicker, a wooden dish, a fight among boys with stones, to

run

Birl, to join for liquor
Birkie, a waggish active fellow
Bike, a hive of bees in the
ground

Birn, burden, birns, the stalks
of burnt heath
Birze, to bruize
Biggen, building
Blaw, blow, blawn, blown
Blink, a glancing light, a little
while, a kind look
Bluegown, one of the beggars
who have been soldiers and
who get annually on the
king's birth-day a blue cloak
or gown with a badge
Blude, blood
Blate, bashful

Blawart, a blue flower

Bluff, hearty, bold

Bonny, handsome, pretty Boddle, a small Scotch coin Boden, or bodden, provided or furnished

Bourach, warren, grup, tuft Bowie, a milk pail, a small tub Bra', fine in apparel, brave, excellent, fine appearance Brae, the side of a hill, or bank of a river

Breeks, breeches

Browster, a brewer, browsterwife, an ale-house keeper Brose, oat meal scalded with boiling water Braid, broad Broach, a clasp

Brulzie, a squabble, or combat

Brodit, pierced

Burn, a small run of water, or brook Buss, bush

Buik, baked, a book, the body, bulk

Busk, to dress fine
Bum, humming, as of bees
Buit, would
But, without
Bure, did bare
Bygane, bygone, bypast
Byre, cowstable.

C

Cadie, a young fellow, a messenger, or guide in Edin burgh

Ca'd, drove, called
Cadgi, happy, cheerful
Cantily, cheerfully, canty, cheer-
ful

Callant, a boy
Carenaby, care not for
Cauld, cold, caldrife, suscepti-
ble of cold, spiritless, not af-
fectionate

Capernity, quarrelsome, mis

chievous

Caller, fresh, sound, cool
Carline, a stout old woman
Carl, an old man
Cawsey, a paved street
Canty, merry, cheerful
Cap, or quegh, a turned wooden
dish

Cairn, a loose heap of stones &c.
Canzeed, coin, money
Chiel, a term like fellow, some-
times respectfully and some-
times contemptuously used
Chirm, or chirming, chirping
like birds

Cheap, to chirp as a bird, to creak as a carriage wheel Chappin, a quart

Cladin, cloathing
Claver, clover
Clash, to tattle

Clarty, dirty, filthy
Claith, cloth

Clad, cloathed, covered
Clamehewit, an unlucky blow
Claw, scratch
Clung, empty, lean

Clugh, a cliff, a hollow between two rocks

Cog, or Coggie, a wooden dish made with staves and hoops] Coft, bought Cour, couch, creep Colley, or collie, a certain species of dogs

Couth, comfortable, kind, lov-
ing, snug.
Coble, a fishing boat
Coup, to tumble, to barter, a
gang, or riotous company, a
favour or favourable bargain
Coof, blockhead, a ninny
Corbie, a raven
Cow, to terrify, to keep under,
to lop or cut, a branch of wi-
thered 'heath, broom, &c. an
imaginary thing to frighten
children or people timid by
night

Cod, a pillow
Couter, ploughshare
Connoch, to eat greedily
Codroch, rude, clumsy
Crammin, cramming.
Crack, to discourse

Crap, the gizzard, the stomach,

crap, crop, crap, did creep
Craig, a rock the throat or neck
Creesh, grease, to grease
Crowdy, a kind of pottage
Craw, crow

Crummy, the name of a cow
Cruizy, a lamp

Cronie, neighbour, companion

Dight, to wipe, to clean, to make ready

Divit, a thin covering for houses Dowie, melancholy, sad, sor. rowful

Dool, sorrow, to sing dool, to
lament, to mourn
Docken, dock weed
Dinna, do not

Doited, dozed, or crazed as ia
old age
Doggie, a dog

Doup, the backside, the end of a candle

Dour, sullen, stubborn, stout, durable

Dorts, a proud pet, dorty, proud,
conceited, saucy, nice
Dosse, douse, or throw down
Donnart, stupid. See doited
Dow, can, is able, dowe, or pid.

geon

Douna, am not able

Eident, industrious

Eiry, shy, afraid

all

ther

Findrum, speldins, dried had