An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 88

_To_ BLIZZEN, _v. a._ Drought is said to be _blizzening_, when the wind parches and withers the fruits of the earth, S. B.

Su. G. _blas-a_, Germ. _blas-en_, A. S. _blaes-an_, to blow.

BLOB, BLAB, _s._ Any thing tumid or circular, S.

1. A small globe or bubble of any liquid.

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

2. A blister, or that rising of the skin which is the effect of a blister or of a stroke, S.

_Gl. Complaynt._

3. A large gooseberry; so called from its globular form, or from the softness of its skin, S.

4. A blot, a spot; as "a _blab_ of ink," S. denominated perhaps from its circular form.

Radically the same word with _Bleib_, q. v.

BLOBBIT, _part. pa._ Blotted, blurred.

V. ~Blob~.

_Acts Ja. I._

_To_ BLOCK, _v. a._ To plan, to devise.

_Baillie._

Teut. _block-en_, a.s.siduum esse in studiis, in opere, in ergastulo; a sense evidently borrowed from a workman, who _blocks_ out his work roughly, before he begins to give it a proper form.

BLOIK, BLOK, BLOCK, _s._

1. A scheme, a contrivance; generally used in a bad sense.

_Douglas._

2. A bargain, an agreement.

_Acts Ja. VI._

BLOCKER, _s._ A term formerly used in S. to denote a broker; q. one who plans and accomplishes a bargain.

_Minsheu._

BLOISENT, _part. pa._ One is said to have a _bloisent face_, when it is red, swollen, or disfigured, whether by intemperance, or by being exposed to the weather; Ang.

This appears to be radically the same with E. _blowze_; "sun-burnt, high-coloured;" Johns. Teut. _blose_, rubor, purpurissum, redness, the colour of purple; _blos-en_, rubescere; _blosende w.a.n.ghen_, rubentes genae, purpled cheeks.

_To_ BLOME, BLUME, _v. n._ To s.h.i.+ne, to gleam.

_Barbour._

Su. G. _blomm-a_, to flourish; E. _bloom_, used metaph.: or perhaps from A. S. _be_, a common prefix, and _leom-an_ to s.h.i.+ne, as _gleam_ is from _geleom-an_, id.

BLONK, BLOUK, _s._ A steed, a horse,

_Gawan and Gol._

Alem. _planchaz_, equus pallidus, hodie _blank_; Schilter. Thus _blonk_ may have originally meant merely a _white_ horse, q. Fr. _blanc_ cheval.

BLONKS, _s. pl._

_King Hart._

If this does not denote horses, as above, it may mean _blocks_ of wood.

BLOUT, _adj._ Bare, naked.

V. ~Blait~.

_Douglas._

Su. G. Isl. _blott_, Belg. _bloot_, id. The tautological phrase _blott och bar_ is used in Sw.

BLOUT, _s._

1. The sudden breaking of a storm, S. _Bloutenin_, Clydesd.

2. "A _blout_ of foul weather," a sudden fall of rain, snow or hail, accompanied with wind, S.

3. A sudden eruption of a liquid substance, accompanied with noise, S.

Probably allied to Su. G. _bloet_, humidus; _bloeta waegar_, viae humidae.

BLUBBER, BLUBBIR, _s._ A bubble of air, S.