An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 84

BLAWN COD, a split cod, half-dried, Ang.; so denominated, perhaps, because exposed for some time to the _wind_.

BLAWORT, _s._ The Blue bottle; Centaurea cya.n.u.s, Linn., S.

_Witch-bells_, also _Thumbles_, S. B.

_Neill._

From _bla_, livid, q. v. and _wort_, an herb.

BLAZE, _s._ The name given to allum ore, S.

BLE, BLIE, _s._ Complexion, colour.

_Gawan and Gol._

This word is common in O. E. A. S. _bleoh_, _blio_, color.

_To_ BLEACH _down_, or _along_, _v. n._ To fall flat to the ground.

_Bleach_ is also used to denote a fall of this description, Loth.

Perhaps from Isl. _blak-a_, verberare; as denoting the effect of a violent blow.

BLEACH, _s._ A blow, S. B.

_Gl. s.h.i.+rr._

_Poems Buchan Dialect._

_To_ BLEAD, _v. a._ Apparently, to train, or to lead on to the chace.

_Statist. Acc._

Alem. _blait-en_, _beleit-en_, comitari, conducere.

BLEAR, _s._ Something that obscures the sight.

V. ~Bleiris~.

_Ross._

_To_ BLECK, BLEK, _v. a._

1. To blacken, literally, S.

_Polwart._

2. To injure one's character.

_Bannatyne Poems._

3. To cause moral pollution.

_Abp. Hamiltoun._

A. S. _blaec-an_, denigrare. Isl. _blek_, liquor tinctorius.

_To_ BLECK, _v. a._ To puzzle, to reduce to a nonplus, in an examination or disputation, S.

Germ. _black-en_, _plack-en_, vexare, exagitare.

_To_ BLEEZE, _v. n._

1. To become a little sour. Milk is said to _bleeze_, or to be _bleezed_, when it is turned, but not congealed, S.; _blink_, synon.

From Germ. _blaes-en_, to blow; or, _blitz-en_, fulgurare; heat, especially when accompanied by lightning, more generally producing this effect.

2. The part. _bleezed_ signifies the state of one on whom intoxicating liquor begins to operate, S. It especially denotes the change produced in the expression of the countenance; as, _He looked bleezed-like_.

BLED, _part. pa._ Perhaps, sprung.

_Gawan and Gol._

BLEFLUM, BLEPHUM, _s._ A sham, an illusion, what has no reality in it, S.

V. ~Blaflum~, _v._

_Rutherford._

Isl. _flim_, irrisio, carmen famosum. Hence _flimt-a_, diffamo, _flimt_, nugae infames, G. Andr. p. 74. Su. G. _flimm-a_, illudere.

BLEHAND, BLIHAND, _adj._

_Sir Trist._

"_Blue_, from _bleah_, Sax. _caeruleus_. Blehand brown. A bluish brown," Gl. The word is merely A. S. _blae-hewen_ a little transformed.

The idea seems, "a brownish colour, inclining to purple or violet."