An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 97

BOTCARD, s. A sort of artillery used in S. in the reign of Ja. V.

_Pitscottie._

The same instruments seem to be afterwards called _battars_, ib.

Fr. _b.a.s.t.a.r.de_, "a demie canon, or demie culverin; a smaller piece of any kind," Cotgr.

BOTE, BUTE, _s._

1. Help, advantage; E. _boot_, Doug.

2. Compensation, satisfaction; Acts Parl. pa.s.s.

A. S. _bote_, id. from _bet-an_, emendare, restaurare.

~Kin-bote~, compensation or "a.s.sithment for the slaughter of a kinsman;"

Skene, Verb. Sign.

A. S. _cyn_, cognatio, and _bote_.

~Man-bot~, the compensation fixed by the law, for killing a man, according to the rank of the person. Ibid.

A. S. _man-bot_, id.

~Theift-bote~, compensation made to the king for theft.

_Reg. Maj._

BOTHE, BOOTH, BUITH, _s._ A shop made of boards; either fixed, or portable, S.

V. ~Lucken~.

_Douglas._

Hence the _Luckenbooths_ of Edinburgh, wooden shops, made for being _locked_ up. Teut. _boede_, _bode_, domuncula, casa, Kilian; Su. G.

_bud_, taberna mercatorum, apotheca; Isl. _bud_, id.

BOTHIE, BOOTHIE, _s._ A cottage, often used to denote a place where labouring servants are lodged, S.

_Neill._

Su. G. _bod_, a house, a cottage; Gael. _bothag_, _bothan_, a cot.

_To_ BOTHER, BATHER, _v. a._ To teaze one by dwelling on the same subject, or by continued solicitation, S.

BOTHNE, BOTHENE, _s._

1. A park in which cattle are fed and inclosed.

_Skene._

2. A barony, lords.h.i.+p, or sheriffdom.

_a.s.sis. Reg. Dav._

L. B. _bothena_, baronia, aut territorium.

BOTINYS, _s. pl._ Buskins; Gl. Sibb.

Fr. _botine_, cothurnus.

V. ~Boiting~.

BOTTLE-NOSE, _s._ A species of whale, S. Orkn.

_Statist. Acc._

BOTTOM-ROOM, _s._ The name vulgarly given to the s.p.a.ce occupied by one sitter in a church, S.

BOTWAND, _s._ Perhaps, a rod of authority.

_Kennedy._

Germ. _bot_, power, and _wand_, a rod.

BOUCHT, BOUGHT, _s._ A curvature or bending of any kind, S. "The _bought_ of the arm," the bending of the arm at the elbow.

_Journ. Lond._

Where the sea forms a sort of bay, it is said to have a _bought_, S.

A. S. _bogeht_, arcuatus, crooked; _bug-an_, to bend. Germ. _bug_, sinus; _bucht_, curvatura littoris, Wachter.

_To_ BOUCHT, BOUGHT, _v. a._ To fold down, S.

Isl. _bukt-a_, Teut. _buck-en_, flectere, curvare.