Chapter L: B. brusd-us, brust-us, acupictus; Du Cange

~Brusury~, _s._ Embroidery.

_Douglas._

BRUSSLE, _s._ Bustle, Loth.

V. ~Breessil~.

A. S. _brastl-ian_, strepere.

_To_ BRUST, _v. n._ To burst.

_R. Bruce._

Teut. _brost-en_, _brusten_, Sw. _brist-a_, _id._

BRWHS, _s._ Apparently, the same with _Brus_.

_Wyntown._

_To_ BU, BUE, _v. n._ To low. It properly denotes the cry of a calf, S.

Lat. _boo_, _--are_, id.

BU, BOO, _s._

1. A sound meant to excite terror, S.

_Presb. Eloquence._

2. A bugbear, an object of terror, Ibid.

Belg. _bauw_, a spectre; C. B. _bo_, a hobgoblin.

~Bu-kow~, _s._ Any thing frightful, as a scarecrow, applied also to a hobgoblin, S.

V. ~Cow~.

From _bu_, and _kow_, _cow_, a goblin.

~Bu-man~, _s._ A goblin; the devil, S. used as _Bu-kow_.

BUB, BOB, _s._ A. blast, a gust of severe weather.

_Douglas._

Allied perhaps to Isl. _bobbe_, malum, noxae; or E. _bob_, to beat,
as denoting the suddenness of its impulse.

BUBBLY, _adj._ Snotty, S. A. Bor.

~Bubblyjock~, _s._ The vulgar name for a turkey cock, S. synon. _Polliecock_, S. B.

_Grose._

The name seems to have originated from the shape of his comb.

BUCHT, _s._ A bending; a fold.

V. ~Bought~.

_To_ BUCK, _v. n._ To push, to butt, Perths.

Alem. _bock-en_, to strike; Su. G. _bock_, impulsus.

_To_ BUCK _out_, _v. n._ To make a guggling noise.

BUCKER, _s._ A name given to a species of whale, West of S.

_Statist. Acc._

BUCKIE, BUCKY, _s._

1. Any spiral shell of whatever size, S.

_Muse's Threnodie._

_The Roaring Buckie_, Buccinum undatum, Linn. is the common great whelk.

Teut. _buck-en_, to bow, to bend; as this expresses the twisted form
of the shell.

2. A perverse or refractory person is denominated a _thrawn buckie_, and sometimes, in still harsher language, a _Deil's buckie_, S.

_Ramsay._

~Buckie Ingram~, that species of crab denominated Cancer bernardus, Newhaven.

~Buckie Prins~, A periwinkle; Turbo terebra, Linn. Also called _Water-spouts_, Loth.

_To_ BUCKLE, _v. a._ To join two persons in marriage; used in a low or ludicrous sense, S.

_Macneill._

~Buckle-the-beggars~, s. One who marries others in a clandestine and disorderly manner, S.

BUCKTOOTH, _s._ Any tooth that juts out from the rest, S.

Sibb. derives this from _Boks_, q. v. Perhaps allied to Su. G.
_bok_, rostrum.

BUD, _s._ A gift; generally one that is meant as a bribe.

_Acts Ja. I._