An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 49

BASTOUN, _s._ A heavy staff, a baton.

Fr. _baston_, _baton_, id.

_Douglas._

BAT, _s._ A staple, a loop of iron, S.

BATAILL, _s._

1. Order of battle, battle-array.

_Barbour._

2. A division of an army, a battalion.

_Barbour._

3. It seems to signify military equipment.

_Barbour._

Fr. _bataille_, order of battle; also, a squadron, battalion, or part of an army; deduced from Germ. _batt-en_, caedere, A. S.

_beatt-an_, id.

BATE, BAIT, _s._ A boat.

_Barbour._

A. S. Alem. Isl. and Su. G. _bat_; C. B. and Ir. _bad_, cymba.

BATHE, BAITH, BAYTH, BAID, _adj._ Both, S. ~Baid~ is the p.r.o.n. of Angus.

_Wyntown._

Moes. G. _ba_, _bai_, _bagoth_; A. S. _ba_, _buta_; Alem. _bedia_, _bedu_, _beidu_; Isl. and Su. G. _bade_; Dan. _baade_; Germ. _beide_; Belg. _beyde_; ambo.

BATIE, BAWTY, _s._ A name for a dog, without any particular respect to species; generally given, however, to those of a larger size; S.

_Poems Buchan Dial._

Perhaps from O. Fr. _baud_, a white hound; _baud-ir_, to excite dogs to the chace.

BATIE, BAWTIE, _adj._ Round and plump, applied either to man or beast, Clydesd.

BATIE-b.u.m, BATIE-b.u.mMIL, _s._ A simpleton, an inactive fellow.

V. ~Blaitieb.u.m~.

_Maitland P._

From _batie_ a dog, and _b.u.m_, to make a humming noise. Teut.

_bommel_, a drone.

BATS, _s. pl._ The disease in horses called in E. the _bots_, S.

_Polwart._

Teut. _botte_, papula, a swelling with many reddish pimples that eat and spread; Swed. _bett_, pediculi, from _bit-a_, mordere.

BATTALLING, BATTELLING, _s._ A battlement.

_Douglas._

Fr. _bastille_, _batille_, turriculis fastigiatus.

BATTAR-AX, _s._ A battle-ax.

_Dunbar._

Fr. _battre_, Ital. _battar-e_, to strike; also, to fight.

_To_ BATTER, _v. a._ To paste, to cause one body to adhere to another by means of a viscous substance, S.

BATTER, _s._ A glutinous substance, used for producing adhesion, paste, S.

_To_ BATTER, _v. a._ To lay a stone so as to make it incline to one side, or to hew it obliquely; a term used in masonry, S.

Fr. _battre_, to beat.

BATTILL-GERS. "Thick, rank, like men in order of battle," Rudd. This, however, may be the same with _baittle_, applied to gra.s.s that is well stocked, South of S.

Teut. _bottel_, and _bottel-boom_, denote the arbutus, or wild strawberry tree.