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 quld farran, or auld farrant, sagacious, cunning, 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, fluttering 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 rheum 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 bow den, 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 |