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2. Irascible, S.

_Douglas._

3. Pungent to the taste, or keenly affecting the organ of smelling, S.

4. Keen, biting; expressive of the state of the atmosphere, S.

_Davidson._

5. Certain, a.s.sured.

_Henrysone._

6. Used obliquely, bright; as "a _bald_ moon."

_Kelly._

A. S. _bald_, _beald_, Su. G. Alem. Germ. _bald_, audax.

_To_ BALD, _v. a._ To embolden.

_Douglas._

BALDERRY, _s._ Female-handed orchis, a plant, S.

_Lightfoot._

BALK and BURRAL, a ridge raised very high by the plough, and a barren s.p.a.ce of nearly the same extent, alternately, S. B.

V. ~Bauk~, _s._

_Statist. Acc._

BALDERDASH, _s._ Foolish and noisy talk, S. Isl. _bulldur_, stultorum balbuties.

BALEN, _adj._ Made of skin.

V. ~Pauis~.

_Douglas._

Isl. Su. G. _baelg_, Germ. _balg_, a skin.

BALYE, _s._ A s.p.a.ce on the outside of the ditch of a fortification, commonly surrounded by strong palisades.

_Spotswood._

Fr. _bayle_, a barricado, L. B. _ball-ium_.

BALLANT-BODDICE, _s._ Boddice made of leather, anciently worn by ladies in Scotland, S. B.

V. ~Balen~.

BALLINGAR, BALLINGERE, _s._ A kind of s.h.i.+p.

Fr. _ballinjier_.

_Wallace._

BALOW, _s._

1. A lullaby, S.

_Ritson._

2. A term used by a nurse, when lulling her child.

_Old Song._

Fr. _bas, la le loup_, "be still, the wolf is coming."

BAMULLO, BOMULLOCH, To _gar_ one _lauch_, _sing_ or _dance Bamullo_, to make _one_ change one's mirth into sorrow, Ang. Perths.

C. B. _bw_ terror, Gael. _mula_, _mullach_, gloomy brows, q. "the spectre with the dark eye-brows."

BANCHIS, _s. pl._ Deeds of settlement.

Ital. _banco_, a bank.

_Dunbar._

BANCOURIS, _s. pl._ Coverings for stools or benches.

Teut. _banckwerc_, tapestry; Fr. _banquier_, a bench-cloth.

_To_ BAN, BANN, _v. n._ Often applied in S., although improperly, to those irreverent exclamations which many use in conversation, as distinguished from cursing.

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