An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 83

Lat. _blater-are_, Teut. _blater-en_, stulte loqui.

BLAUCHT, _adj._ Pale, livid.

_Palace of Hon._

A. S. _blac_, _blaec_; Su. G. _blek_, Isl. _bleik-r_, E. _bleak_, pallidus. A. S. _blac-ian_, Su. G. _blek-na_, to wax pale.

BLAVING, BLAUING, _s._ Blowing.

_Gawan and Gol._

A. S. _blawan byman_, buccina canere.

BLAW, _s._ A blow, a stroke.

_Wallace._

Teut. _blaew-en_, caedere. _Blaw_ is used in this sense. Gl.

Westmorel.

_To_ BLAW, _v._ Used both as _a._ and _n._

1. To blow; in a literal sense referring to the wind. S.

_Douglas._

A. S. _blaw-an_, flare.

2. To breathe, S.

_Abp. Hamiltoun._

3. To publish, to make known. S.

_Burel._

E. _blow_ is used in the same sense.

4. To brag, to boast, S. _Blast_, synon.

_Barbour._

_Douglas._

Germ. _blaw_, falsus, mendax, dolosus. Teut. _blas-en_, flare et nimiis vanisque laudibus rem efferre, ac inani flatu infarcire.

5. To magnify in narration, especially from a principle of ostentation, S.

6. To flatter, to coax.

_Baillie._

S. Prov. "Ye first burn me, and then _blaw_ me."

7. To _blaw_ in one's _lug_, to cajole or flatter a person, so as to be able to guide him at will, S.

_Nicol Burne._

_To blow in the ear_, id. O. E.

Su. G. _blaas-a_, to instil evil counsel. Teut. _oor-blaesen_, not only signifies, in aurem mussare, sive mussitare, obgannire in aurem; but is rendered, blandiri.

8. To huff a man at draughts. _I blaw_, or _blow you_, I take this man, S.

Su. G. _blaas-a_, to blow, is used in this very sense. _Blaasa bort en bricka i damspel_, Seren.

9. To _blaw appin_ locks or bolts, and to loose fetters, by means of a magical power ascribed to the breath, S.

_Satan's Invisible World._

10. _To blaw out_ on one, to reproach him.

_Wallace._

BLAW, _s._

1. A blast, a gust, S. Rudd.

_Gawan and Gol._

2. The sound emitted by a wind instrument.

3. A falsehood, a lie told from ostentation. _He tells greit blaws_, S.

B.

_Ramsay._

BLAW, _s._ A pull, a draught; a cant term, used among topers, S.

_Ferguson._