Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume XXIV Part 32

BRAID, BRADE, _adj._ wide; broad.

BRANDNEW. See BRENTNEW.

BRANDER, _s._ a gridiron.

_To_ BRANDER, _v. n._ to broil.

BRANG, _part. pa._ brought.

BRANKS, _s._ a swelling in the glands of the neck.

BRAT, _s._ a coa.r.s.e ap.r.o.n.

BRATCHET, BRATCHART, _s._ an opprobrious term, equivalent to _whelp_.

BRAW, BRA, _adj._ fine; gaily-dressed.

BRAWLY, BRAVELY, _adv._ very well.

BRAWS, _s._ fine clothes; a person's best suit.

BRAXY, BRACKS, _s._ a disease in sheep.

BREADBERRY, _s._ pap, used as food for children.

BREAK (_of a hill_,) _s._ a hollow cleft in a hill.

BRECHAME, BRECHEM, _s._ the collar of a horse.

BREE, BRIE, BREW, BROO, _s._ broth; soup.

BRE, BREE, _s._ the eyebrow.

BREEKS, BREIKS, _s._ breeches.

BREER, BREARD, _s._ the first blades of grain which appear above ground.

_To_ BREER, _v. n._ to germinate.

BREID, _s._ breadth.

BRENT, _adj._ high; straight; upright.

BRENTNEW, quite new.

BRIG, BREG, BRYG, _s._ a bridge.

_To_ BRIZE, BIRSE, _v. a._ to bruise; to drive or push.

BROCHAN, _s._ oatmeal boiled to a consistence thicker than gruel.

BROCK, _s._ a badger.

BROCKED, BROCKET, _adj._ streaked and spotted, as a _brockit cow_.

BROCKLIE, _adj._ brittle.

BROD, _s._ a flat piece of wood; a board.

_To_ BROG, _v. a._ to pierce.

BROGUE, _s._ a coa.r.s.e kind of shoe made of horse leather with the hair on, used by Highlanders.

BROK, _s._ refuse; fragments.

BROO, _s._ broth.

BROONIE, _s._ a spirit supposed to haunt farm-houses, and which, if treated well, performed the duties of the servants while they were sleeping.

BROSE, _s._ a kind of food made by pouring hot water on oatmeal, and mixing them together. _Kail-brose_ is made by subst.i.tuting broth for water.

BROWST, _s._ the quant.i.ty of malt liquor brewed at one time.

BRUGH, BURGH, _s._ a borough; a circular encampment; the hazy circle round the moon.

BRUSE, BROOSE, BRUISE, _v. a._ _To ride the bruise_, to run a race on horseback at country weddings. Metaphorically-- to contend; to strive.

_To_ BRUSH, _v. a._ to rush forth with speed.

BU, BOO, _s._ a sound often made use of to excite terror in children. _Bu-man,_ the devil, or a goblin; an imaginary evil being; a phrase used to keep children in subjection.

BUBBLY, _adj._ snotty.

BUBBLYJOCK, _s._ a turkey-c.o.c.k.

BUCHT, _s._ a fold; a bending; the fold of a ribbon.

BUCKIE, BUCKY, _s._ any spiral sh.e.l.l.

BUCKIE-INGRAM, _s._ the soldier-crab, _Cancer bernardus_, which always inhabits the sh.e.l.ls of other animals.

_To_ BUCKLE, _v. a._ to join together, as in marriage.

BUCKLE-THE-BEGGARS, _s._ a person who marries others in a clandestine manner.

BUCKTOOTH, _s._ a tooth jutting out from the others.

BUFF, _s._ a stroke; nonsense.