Blather, bladder.

Braid, broad.

Blaud, a flat piece of any thing,

to slap.

Blaw, to blow, to boast.

Bleezing, blazing.

Blellum, idle talking fellow.

Blether, to talk idly, nonsense.
Bleth'rin, talking idly.
Blink, a little while, a smiling
look, to look kindly, to shine
by fits.

Blinker, a term of contempt.
Blinkin, smirking.

Blue-gown, one of those beggars
who get annually on the king's
birth-day a blue cloak or gown,
with a badge.
Bluid, blood.

Blype, a shred, a large piece. Bock, to vomit, to gush intermittently.

Bocked, gushed, vomited.
Rodle, a small old coin.
Bonnie, or bonny, handsome,
beautiful.

Bonnock, a kind of thick cake of
bread, a small jannock or loaf
made of oatmeal.
Boord, a board.

Bore, a hole in a wall.
Boortree, the shrub elder; plant-
ed much of old in hedges of
barn-yards, &c.

Boost, behoved, must needs.
Botch, an angry tumour.
Bousing, drinking.

Braik, a kind of harrow.
Brainge, to run rashly forward.
Braing't, reeled forward.
Brak, broke, made insolvent.
Branks, a kind of wooden curb

for horses.

Brash, a sudden illness.

Brats, coarse clothes, rags, &c.
Brattle, a short race, hurry.
Braw, fine, handsome.
Brawlyt, or brawlie, very well,

finely, heartily.

Braxie, a morbid sheep.
Breastie, dimin. of breast.
Breastit, did spring up or for-
ward.

Breef, an invulnerable or irre
sistible spell.
Breeks, breeches.
Brewin, "brewing.

Brie, juice, liquid.

Brig, a bridge.

Brunstane, brimstone.

Brisket, the breast, the bosom, Brither, a brother. Brock, a badger. Brogue, a hum, a trick. Broo, broth, liquid, water. Broose, broth, a race at country weddings, who shall first reach the bridegroom's house on returning from church. Brugh, a burgh.

Bruilzie, a broil, a combustion. Brunt, did burn, burnt. Brust, to burst, burst. Buchan-bullers, the boiling of the sea among the rocks on the coast of Buchan.

Buckskin,