An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 129

_broddstafur_, scipio, _hastulus_, hastile.

2. _Be staff and burdon_; a phrase respecting either invest.i.ture or resignation.

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

BURDOUN, _s._ "The drone of a bag-pipe, in which sense it is commonly used in S."

_Ruddiman._

Fr. _bourdon_, id.

BURDOWYS, _s._ Men who fought with clubs.

_Barbour._

_Burdare_, (Matt. Paris), is to fight with clubs, after the manner of clowns, qui, he says, Anglis _Burdons_.

BUREDELY, _adv._ Forcibly, vigorously.

V. ~Burdly~.

_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._

BUREIL, BURAL, _adj._ Vulgar, rustic.

_Wallace._

Chaucer _borel_, id.; L. B. _burell-us_, a species of coa.r.s.e cloth; Teut. _buer_, a peasant.

BURG _of ice_, a whale-fisher's phrase for a field of ice floating in the sea, S., most probably from its resemblance of a _castle_.

BURGENS, _s. pl._ Burgesses.

_Wyntown._

Lat. _burgens-es_.

BURGEOUN, _s._ A bud, a shoot.

_Douglas._

Fr. _burgeon_, id.; Su. G. _boerja_, oriri; Isl. _bar_, gemma arborum.

BURIAN, _s._ A mound, a tumulus; or a kind of fortification, S. Aust.

_Statist. Acc._

From A. S. _beorg_, _burg_, mons, acervus; or _byrigenn_, _byrgene_, sepulcrum, monumentum, tumulus.

BURIO, BOREAU, BURRIO, BURIOR, BURRIOUR, _s._ An executioner.

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

Fr. _bourreau_, id.

BURLAW, BYRLAW, BIRLEY, BARLEY. _Byrlaw Court_, a court of neighbours, residing in the country, which determines as to local concerns.

_Skene. Reg. Maj._

From Belg. _baur_ (boer) a husbandman, and _Law_; or as Germ.

_bauer_, A. S. _bur_, Isl. _byr_, signify a village, as well as a husbandman, the term may signify the _Law_ of the _village_ or district.

~Burlie-Bailie~, _s._ An officer employed to enforce the laws of the _Burlaw-courts_.

_Ramsay._

BURLED, BURLIT, _part. pa._

_Acts Ja. II._

Does this signify _burnt_, from Fr. _brul-er_?

BURLY, _s._ A crowd, a tumult, S. B.

Teut. _borl-en_, to vociferate. Hence E. _hurly-burly_.

BURLY, BUIRLIE, _adj._ Stately, strong; as applied to buildings.

_Wallace._

Teut. _boer_, Germ. _bauer_, a boor, with the termination _lic_, denoting resemblance.

BURLINS, _s. pl._ The bread _burnt_ in the oven in baking, S. q.

_burnlins_.