Glossary : B
Ba': a ball
Backet: bucket: box
Backit: backed
Backlins-comin: coming back
Back-yett: gate at the back
Bade: endured
Bade: asked
Baggie: stomach
Baig'nets: bayonets
Baillie: magistrate of a Scots burgh
Bainie: bony
Bairn: child
Bairntime: brood
Baith: both
Bakes: biscuits
Ballats: ballads
Balou: lullaby
Ban: swear
Ban': band (of the Presbyterian clergyman)
Bane: bone
Bang: an effort; a blow; a large number
Bang: to thump
Banie: v bainie
Bannet: bonnet
Bannock: bonnock: a thick oatmeal cake
Bardie: dim of bard
Barefit: barefooted
Barket: barked
Barley-brie: or bree: barley-brew-ale
or whiskey
Barm: yeast
Barmie: yeasty
Barn-yard: stackyard
Bartie: the Devil
Bashing: abashing
Batch: a number
Batts: the botts; the colic
Bauckie-bird: the bat
Baudrons: Baudrans: the cat
Bauk: cross-beam
Bauk: v bawk
Bauk-en': beam-end
Bauld: bold
Bauldest: boldest
Bauldly: boldly
Baumy: balmy
Bawbee: a half-penny
Bawdrons: v baudrons
Bawk: a field path
Baws'nt: white-streaked
Bear: barley
Beas': beasts: vermin
Beastie: dim of beast
Beck: a curtsy
Beet: feed: kindle
Beild: v biel
Belang: belong
Beld: bald
Bellum: assault
Bellys: bellows
Belyve: by and by
Ben: a parlor (ie: the inner apartment);
into the parlor
Benmost: inmost
Be-north: to the northward of
Be-south: to the southward of
Bethankit: grace after meat
Beuk: a book: devil's pictur'd beuks-playing-cards
Bicker: a wooden cup
Bicker: a short run
Bicker: to flow swiftly and with a slight noise
Bickerin: noisy contention
Bickering: hurrying
Bid: to ask: to wish: to offer
Bide: abide: endure
Biel: bield: a shelter; a sheltered spot
Biel: comfortable
Bien: comfortable
Bien: bienly: comfortably
Big: to build
Biggin: building
Bike: v byke
Bill: the bull
Billie: fellow: comrade: brother
Bings: heaps
Birdie: dim of bird; also maidens
Birk: the birch
Birken: birchen
Birkie: a fellow
Birr: force: vigor
Birring: whirring
Birses: bristles
Birth: berth
Bit: small (eg: bit lassie)
Bit: nick of time
Bitch-fou: completely drunk
Bizz: a flurry
Bizz: buzz
Bizzard: the buzzard
Bizzie: busy
Black-bonnet: the Presbyterian elder
Black-nebbit: black-beaked
Blad: v blaud
Blae: blue: livid
Blastet: blastit: blasted
Blastie: a blasted (ie: damned) creature;
a little wretch
Blate: modest: bashful
Blather: bladder
Blaud: a large quantity
Blaud: to slap: pelt
Blaw: blow
Blaw: to brag
Blawing: blowing
Blawn: blown
Bleer: to blear
Bleer't: bleared
Bleeze: blaze
Blellum: a babbler; a railer; a blusterer
Blether: blethers: nonsense
Blether: to talk nonsense
Bletherin': talking nonsense
Blin': blind
Blink: a glance: a moment
Blink: to glance: to shine
Blinkers: spies: oglers
Blinkin: smirking: leering
Blin't: blinded
Blitter: the snipe
Blue-gown: the livery of the licensed beggar
Bluid: blood
Bluidy: bloody
Blume: to bloom
Bluntie: a stupid
Blypes: shreds
Bobbed: curtsied
Bocked: vomited
Boddle: a farthing
Bode: look for
Bodkin: tailor's needle
Body: bodie: a person
Boggie: dim of bog
Bogle: a bogie: a hobgoblin
Bole: a hole: or small recess in the wall
Bonie: bonnie: pretty: beautiful
Bonilie: prettily
Bonnock: v Bannock
'Boon: above
Boord: board: surface
Boord-en': board-end
Boortress: elders
Boost: must needs
Boot: payment to the bargain
Bore: a chink: recess
Botch: an angry tumor
Bouk: a human trunk; bulk
Bountith: bounty
'Bout: about
Bow-hough'd: bandy-thighed
Bow-kail: cabbage
Bow't: bent
Brachens: ferns
Brae: the slope of a hill
Braid: broad
Broad-claith: broad-cloth
Braik: a harrow
Braing't: plunged
Brak: broke
Brak's: broke his
Brankie: gay: fine
Branks: a wooden curb: a bridle
Bran'y: brandy
Brash: short attack
Brats: small pieces: rags
Brats: small children
Brattle: a scamper
Brattle: noisy onset
Braw: handsome: fine: gaily
dressed
Brawlie: finely: perfectly:
heartily
Braxies: sheep that have died of braxie (a disease)
Breastie: dim of breast
Breastit: sprang forward
Brechan: ferns
Breeks: breeches
Breer: brier
Brent: brand
Brent: straight: steep (ie:
not sloping from baldness)
Brie: v barley-brie
Brief: writ
Brier: briar
Brig: bridge
Brisket: breast
Brither: brother
Brock: a badger
Brogue: a trick
Broo: soup: broth: water;
liquid in which anything is cooked
Brooses: wedding races from the church to the home
of the bride
Brose: a thick mixture of meal and warm water; also
a synonym for porridge
Browster wives: ale wives
Brugh: a burgh
Brulzie: brulyie: a brawl
Brunstane: brimstone
Brunt: burned
Brust: burst
Buckie: dim of buck; a smart younker
Buckle: a curl
Buckskin: Virginian: the buckskin kye:
negroes
Budget: tinker's bag of tools
Buff: to bang: to thump
Bughtin: folding
Buirdly: stalwart
Bum: the buttocks
Bum: to hum
Bum-clock: beetle: cockchafer:
Junebug
Bummle: a drone: a useless fellow
Bunker: a seat
Bunters: harlots
Burdies: dim of bird or burd (a lady); maidens
Bure: bore
Burn: a rivulet
Burnewin: the blacksmith (ie: burn the
wind)
Burnie: dim of burn: a rivulet
Burr-thistle: spear-thistle
Busk: to dress; to garb; to dress up; to adorn
Buss: a bush
Bussle: bustle
But: without
But: butt: in the kitchen (ie:
the outer apartment)
By: past: aside
By: beside
By himsel: beside himself
Bye attour (ie: by and attour): beside
and at a distance
Byke: a bees' nest; a hive; a swarm; a crowd
Byre: a cow-house