The ch and gh have always the guttural sound. The sound of the English diphthong oo, is commonly spelled ou. The French u, a sound which often occurs in the Scottish language, is marked oo, or ui. The a in genuine Scottish words except when forming a diphthong or followed by an e mute after a single consonant, sounds generally like the broad English a in wall. The Scottish diphthong ae, always, and ea, very often sound like the French e masculine. The Scottish diphthong ey, sounds like the Latin ei. anes, once anither, another antrin, different attour, out-over auld, old auld farran, or auld farrant, sagacious, ounning, ingenious Auld Nick, one of the ma ny names for the devil auld warld, old world auntie, dimin. of aunt awa', away ayont, beyond Ba', a ball B. back-gaun, going back bagnet, a bayonet bailie, a magistrate bairn, a child bairnies, children bairnly, childish baith, both ban, to swear bane, a bone banefu, baneful bang, an effort, a great number; to conquer bannet, a bonnet bannin, swearing bannocks, bread thicker than cakes, and round bant'rin, bantering bardie, dimin. of bard barkent, when mire, blood, &c. hardens upon any thing like bark barras, boroughs baudrons, a cat bauk, a cross beam bauld, bold bauldly, boldly bauthrin, bustling, flutter ing bawbee, a halfpenny beardly, stout-made, broad built beastie, dimin. of beast bedeckit, dressed bedeen, immediately, in haste ben-by, into the spence or birks, birch trees parlour bendin, bending benmost, inmost beted, befel bewitchin, bewitching beyont, beyond bicker, a kind of wooden dish, a short race bide, to abide, to suffer bield, shelter bien, wealthy, plentiful bienly, wealthy, plentifully big, to build biggin, a house; building bike, or byke, a nest of bees billie, a brother, a young fellow bink, a shelf birle, to drink; common people joining their bo dles for purchasing liquor; they call it birling a bodle birn, a burnt mark birsle, to bruise birze, to bruise.. bisket, a biscuit: blate, bashful, sheepish dim with water or rlieum bleerin, blearing bleezin, blazing blinkin, the flame rising and falling, as of a lamp when the oil is exhausted blude, blood blue-gown, one of those beggars who get annually on the king's birth | day, a blue cloak or gown, with a badge bluidy, bloody bodden, or bodin, or bowden, provided, furnished bodle, one sixth of a penny English bogles, spirits, hobgoblins bonnie, or bonny, beautiful, handsome borrows, borough bougil, the crow of a cock brae, a declivity, a precipice the slope of a hill braid, broad brak, broke braw, or bra', fine, hand some brawest, finest in apparel, handsomest brawly, finely, handsomely breedin, breeding breeks, breeches brisket, or bisket, breast, bosom brither, brother broachie, dimin. of broach brock, a badger brodit, pricked broggs, a kind of strong shoes broodit, brooded broom-thackit, overgrown with broom brose, a composition of oatmeal and boiled water browster, brewer bruik, to endure, to suffer brulzie, a broil, a com bustion brunt, did burn buik, or buke, a book, bulk buit, but bumbaz'd, confused, made to look and stare like an idiot bure, did bear burn, water, a rivulet burnie, dimin. of burn burnin, burning busk, dress buskit, dressed buss, a bush busses, bushes. but and ben, the country kitchen and parlour bygane, bypast byre, a cow-stable C. Ca', to call, to name, to drive cabbage-fauld, a place in which cabbage grows ca'd, called, drove cadgie, cheerful cadgily, cheerfully cadie, a person, a young fellow caird, or card, a tinker cairn, a loose heap of stones callant, a boy caller, cool, fresh, sound cam, came canna, cannot cannily, gently canny, cautious, gentle, lucky cantily, merrily, cheerfully cantrip, a charm, a spell canty, merry, cheerful cap, a wooden drinking vessel capernoity, whimsical, ill natured carefu', careful carena, care not carle, an old man carlin, a stout old woman carline, an old woman carritch, catechism ca's, drives cassen, cast |