An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 48

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BARTANE, _s._ Great Britain.

_Bannatyne Poems._

BARTANYE, BERTANYE, _s._ Britanny.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

BARTIZAN, BERTISENE, _s._ A battlement on the top of a house or castle, or around a spire, S.

_Statist. Acc._

O. Fr. _bretesche_, wooden towers used for defence, Ital.

_bertesca_.

BASE DANCE, A kind of dance, slow and formal in its motions.

_Complaynt S._

Fr. _ba.s.se danse_.

_To_ BASH, _v. a._ To beat to sherds, Loth. _Smash_ synon.

Su. G. _bas-a_, to strike.

BASH, _s._ A blow, S. A.

_To_ BASH _up_, _v. a._ To bow or bend the point of an iron instrument inwards, Loth.

BASING, Ba.s.sING, _s._ A bason; pl. _basingis_.

Fr. _ba.s.sin_, id.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

Ba.s.s.

1. This term is used in S. for the inner bark of a tree.

2. A mat laid at a door for cleaning the feet; also, one used for packing bales, S.

Teut. _bast_, cortex.

Ba.s.sIE, _s._ A large wooden dish, used for carrying meal from the _girnal_ to the _bakeboard_, S. B.

_Ross._

Fr. _ba.s.sin_, a bason.

Ba.s.sIE, _s._ An old horse, Clydes. Loth.

V. ~Bawsand~.

Ba.s.sIL, _s._ A long cannon, or piece of ordnance.

_Pitscottie._

Abbrev. from Fr. _basilic_.

Ba.s.sIN, _adj._ Of or belonging to rushes.

_Douglas._

Teut. _biese_, juncus, scirpus; L. B. _ba.s.se_, a collar for cart-horses made of flags.

Ba.s.sNYT, _adj._ White-faced.

V. ~Bawsand~.

_Gl. Sibb._

BASTAILYIE, _s._ A bulwark, a blockhouse.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

Fr. _bastille_, a fortress, a castle furnished with towers.

BASTILE, BASTEL, _s._ A fortress, princ.i.p.ally meant for securing prisoners, South of S.

V. preceding word.

_Statist. Acc._

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