Birk, birch.

Birken-shaw, Birchen-wood-shaw, a small wood.

Birkie, a clever fellow.

Birring, the noise of partridges, &c. when they spring.

Bit, crisis, nick of time.
Bizz, a bustle, to buzz.

Blastie, a shrivelled dwarf, a term of contempt.

Blastit, blasted.

Blate, bashful, sheepish.
Blather, bladder.

Blaud, a flat piece of anything, to slap.
Blaw, to blow, to boast.

Bleerit, bleared, sore with rheum.

Bleert and blin, bleared and blind.

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.

Bluntie, snivelling.

Blype, a shred, a large piece.

Bock, to vomit, to gush intermittently. Bocked, gushed, vomited.

Bodle, a small gold coin.

Bogles, spirits, hobgoblins.

Bonnie or bonny, handsome, beautiful. Boord, a board.

Boortree, the shrub elder; planted much

of old in hedges of barn-yards, &c.

Boost, behoved, must needs.

Bore, a hole in the wall.

Botch, an angry tumour.

Bouk, vomiting, gushing out.

Bousing, drinking.

Bow-kail, cabbage.

Bout, bended, crooked.

Brachens, fern.

Brae, a declivity, a precipice, the slope

of a hill.

Braid, broad.

Bragin't, reeled forward.

Braik, a kind of harrow.

Brainge, to run rashly forward.

Brake, broke, made insolvent.

ranks, a kind of wooden curb for horses.

Brash, a sudden illness.

Brats, coarse clothes, rags, &c.

Brattle, a short race, hurry, fury.
Braw, fine, handsome.

Brawlyt or brawlie, very well, finely, heartily.

Braxie, a morbid sheep.

Breastie, diminutive of breast.
Breastit, did spring up or forward.
Breckan, fern.

Breef, an invulnerable or irresistible

spell.

Breeks, breeches.

Brust, burst.

Buckskin, an inhabitant of Virginia.
Bught, a pen.

Bughtin-time, the time of collecting the
sheep in the pens to be milked.
Buirdly, stout-made, broad-made.
Bum-clock, a humming beetle that flies
in the summer evenings.
Bumming, humming as bees.
Bummle, to blunder.
Bummier, a blunderer.
Bunker, a window-seat.

Burdies, diminutive of birds.
Bure, did bare.

Burn, water, a rivulet.

Burnewin, i.e. burn the wind, a blacksmith.

Burnie, dimin. of burn.

Bushie, bushy.

Buskit, dressed.

Busks, dresses.

Bussle, a bustle, to bustle.

Buss, shelter.

But, bot, with.

But an' ben, the country kitchen and parlour.

By himself, lunatic, distracted.

Byke, a bee-hive.

Byre, a cow-stable, a sheep-pen.

Ca', to call, to name, to drive.

Ca't or ca'd, called, driven, calved.
Cadger, a carrier.

Cadie or caddie, a person, a young fellow.

Caff, chaff.

Caird, a tinker.

Cairn, a loose heap of stones.

Calf-ward, a small enclosure for calves. Callan, a boy.

Caller, fresh, sound, refreshing.

Canie or cannie, gentle, mild, dexterous.
Cannilie, dexterously, gently.

Cantie or canty, cheerful, merry.
Cantruip, a charm, a spell.

Cap-stane, cope-stone, key-stone.
Carl, an old man.

Carlin, a stout old woman.
Cartes, cards.

Caudron, a caldron.

Cauk and keel, chalk and red clay.

Cauld, cold.

Caup, a wooden drinking vessel.

Cotter, the inhabitant of a cothouse, or cottage.

Couthie, kind, loving.

Cove, a cove.

Cowe, to terrify, to keep under, to lop; a fright, a branch of furze, broom, &c. Cowp, to barter, to tumble over; a gang. Cowpit, tumbled.

Cowrin, cowering.
Cowte, a colt.

Cozie, snug.

Cozily, snugly.

Crabbit, crabbed, fretful.

Crack, conversation, to converse.
Crackin, conversing.

Craft or craft, a field near a house (in old husbandry).

Craiks, cries or calls incessantly; a bird. Crambo clink or crambo jingle, rhymes, doggrel verses.

Crank, the noise of an ungreased wheel.
Crankous, fretful, captious.
Cranreuch, the hoar-frost.
Crap, a crop, to crop.

Craw, a crow of a cock, a rook.

Creel, a basket; to have one's wits in a creel, to be craz'd, to be fascinated. Creeshie, greasy.

Crood or croud, to coo as a dove. Croon, a hollow and continued moan; to make a noise like the continued roar of a bull, to hum a tune. Crooning, humming. Crouchie, crook-backed. Crouse, cheerful, courageous.

Crousely, cheerfully, courageously.

Crowdie, a composition of oatmeal and boiled water, sometimes from the broth of beef, mutton, &c. Crowdie-time, breakfast-time. Crowlin, crawling.

Crummock, a cow with crooked horns. Crump, hard and brittle; spoken of bread.

Crunt, a blow on the head with a cudgel. Cuif, a blockhead, a ninny.

Cummock, a short staff with a crooked head.

Curchie, a courtsey.

Curler, a player at a game on the ice, practised in Scotland, called curling." Curlie, curled, whose hair falls naturally in ringlets.

Curling, a well known game on the ice. Curmurring, murmuring, a slight rumbling noise.

Curpin, the crupper.

Cushat, the dove or wood-pigeon.

Cutty, short, a spoon broken in the middle.

Daddie, a father.

Daffin, merriment, foolishness.
Daft, merry, giddy, foolish.

Daimen, rare, now and then; daimenicker, an ear of corn now and then. Dainty, pleasant,good-humoured, agree able.

Dales, plains, valleys.

Freath, froth,

Frien', friend.

Fu', full.

Fud, the scat, or tail of the hare, cony, &c.

Fuff, to blow intermittently.

Fufft, did blow.

Fur, & furrow.

Furm, a form, bench.

Tyke, trifling cares; to piddle; to be in
a fuss about trifles.
Fyle, to soil, to dirty.
Fyl't, soiled, dirtied.

Gab, the mouth; to speak boldly or pertly.

Gaberlunzie, a pedlar.

Gadsman, a ploughboy, the boy that rides the horses in the plough.

Gae, to go; gaed, went; gaen, gone; gaun, going.

Gaet or gate, way, manner, road.

Gang, to go, to walk.

Gar, to make, to force to.

Gart, forced to.

Garten, a garter.

Gash, wise, sagacious, talkative; to con

Gree't, agreed.

Greet, to shed tears, to weep.
Greetin, crying, weeping.

Grippet, catched, seized.

Groat, to get the whistle of one's groat, to play a losing game.

Gronsome, loathsomely, grim.

Grozet, a gooseberry.

Grumph, a grunt, to grunt.

Grumphie, a sow.

Grun', the ground.

Grunstane, a grindstone.

Gruntle, the phiz, a grunting noise.
Grunzie, mouth.

Grushie, thick, of thriving growth.

Het, hot.

Heugh, a crag, a coal-pit.

Hilch, a hobble, to halt.
Hilchin, halting.

Himsel, himself.
Hiney, honey.
Hing, to hang.

Hirple, to walk crazily, to creep.

Hirsle, so many cattle as one person can attend.

Histie, dry, chapt, barren.
Hitcht, a loop, a knot.

Hizzie, huzzy, a young girl.

Hoddin, the motion of a sage countryman while riding on a cart-horse; humble.

Hog-score, a kind of distance line, in
curling, drawn across the rink.
Hog-shouther, a kind of horse-play, by
jostling with the shoulder; to jostle.
Hool, outer skin or case, a nut-shell,
pease-swade.

Hoolie, slowly, leisurely.
Hoolie! take leisure, stop.
Hoord, a hoard, to hoard.
Hoordit, hoarded.

Horn, a spoon made of horn.
Hornie, one of the many names of the
devil.

Host or hoast, to cough.
Hostin, coughing.

Hotch'd, turned topsy-turvy, blended, mixed.

Hosts, coughs.

Houghmagandie, fornication.
Houlet, an owl.

Housie, dimin. of house.
Hove, to heave, to swell.
Hovd, heaved, swelled.
Howdie, a midwife.

Howe, hollow, a hollow or dell.

Howebackit, sunk in the back (spoken of a horse, &c.)

Howff, a landlady, a house of resort.
Howk, to dig.

Howkit, digged.
Howkin, digging.
Houlet, an owl.
Hoy, to urge.
Hoy't, urged.

Hoyse, a pull upwards.
Hoyte, to amble crazily.
Hughoc, dimin. of hugh.
Hurcheon, a hedgehog.
Hurdies, the loins.
Hushion, cushion.