Chapter C: B. budd, Corn. bud, profit, emolument. Or shall we view it

as formed from A. S. _bude_, obtulit, q. the bribe that has been _offered_?

_To_ ~Bud~, ~Budd~, _v. a._ To endeavour to gain by gifts, to bribe.

_Pitscottie._

BUDGE, _s._ A kind of bill, used in warfare.

_Douglas._

O. Fr. _bouge_, _boulge_, faucille, serpe; Roquefort.

BUFE, _s._ Beef, S. B.

Fr. _boeuf_, id. Isl. _bufe_, cattle; from _bu_, an ox.

_To_ BUFF, _v. n._ To emit a dull sound, as a bladder filled with wind does, S.

_Chr. Kirk._

_It played buff_, S. It made no impression.

Belg. _boff-en_, to puff up the cheeks with wind; Fr. _bouff-er_,
id.

_To_ BUFF, _v. a. To buff corn_, to give grain half thrashing, S.

"The best of him is _buft_," a phrase commonly used to denote that one's natural strength is much gone, S.

Alem. _buff-en_, pulsare.

_To buff herring_, to steep salted herrings in fresh water, and hang them up, S.

~Buff~, _s._ A stroke, a blow, S.

_Chr. Kirk._

Fr. _bouffe_, a blow, L. B. _buffa_, alapa.

_To_ BUFF _out_, _v. n._ To laugh aloud, S.

Fr. _bouffee_, a sudden, violent, and short blast, _buff-ir_, to
spurt.

BUFF, _s._ Nonsense, foolish talk, S.

_Shirrefs._

Teut. _beffe_, id. nugae, irrisio; Fr. _buffoi_, vanité; also
moquerie.

BUFF, _s._ Skin. _Stript to the buff_, stript naked, S.

Perhaps from E. _buff_, as denoting leather prepared from the
_skin_ of a buffalo.

BUFF NOR STYE. _He cou'd neither say buff nor stye_, S. i. e. "He could neither say one thing nor another." It is also used, but, I suspect, improperly, in regard to one who has no activity; _He has neither buff nor stye with him_ S. B.

Teut. _bof_, celeusma, a cheer made by mariners. _Stye_ might be viewed as referring to the act of mounting the shrouds, from Su. G. _stig-a_, to ascend.

BUFFER, _s._ A foolish fellow; a term much used among young people, Clydes.

Fr. _bouffard_, "often puffing, strouting out, swelling with anger,"
Cotgr.

BUFFETS, _s. pl._ A swelling in the glands of the throat, Ang. (_branks_, synon.) probably from Fr. _bouffé_, swollen.

BUFFETSTOOL, _s._ A stool with sides, in form of a square table with leaves, when these are folded down, S. Lincolns, id.

_A. Douglas._

Fr. _buffet_, a sideboard; expl. by Roquefort, dressoir, which
denotes a board for holding plates without box or drawer.

BUFFIE, BUFFLE, _adj._ Fat, purfled; applied to the face, S.

Fr. _bouffé_, blown up, swollen.

BUFFONS, _s. pl._ Pantomimic dances.

Fr. _boufons_, those by whom they were performed.

BUG, _pret._ Built.

V. ~Big~, _v._

_Minstrelsy Border._

BUGE, _s._ "Lamb's fur; Fr. _agnelin_." Rudd.

_Douglas._

Fr. _bouge_, E. _buge_, id.

BUGGE, _s._ A bugbear.

V. ~Boggarde~.

BUGGLE, _s._ A bog, a morass, S. B. This seems to be merely a dimin. from Ir. and E. _bog_.

BUGIL, BUGILL, _s._ A buglehorn.

_Douglas._

Q. _buculae cornu_, the horn of a young cow; or from Teut.
_boghel_, Germ. _bugel_, curvatura.

BUICK, _pret._ Court'sied; from the v. _Beck_.

_Ross._

_To_ BUIGE, _v. n._ To bow, to creenge.

_Maitland Poems._

A. S. _bug-an_, to bend.

BUIK, _s._ The body.

V. ~Bouk~.

BUIK, BUKE, _pret._ Baked.

_Dunbar._

A. S. _boc_, coxit, from _bac-an_.

BUIK, BUK, BUKE, _s._ A book, S.

_Dunbar._

Germ. _buch_, Alem. _bouch_, Belg. _boek_, A. S. _boc_, Moes. G. Isl. Su. G. _bok_, id. It has been generally supposed, that the Northern nations give this name to a book, from the materials of which it was first made, _bok_ signifying a beech-tree.

~Buik-lare~, _s._ Learning, the knowledge acquired by means of a regular education, S.

~Buik-lear'd~, ~Book-lear'd~, _adj._ Book-learned, S.

_A. Nicol._

Isl. _boklaerd-ur_, id.

V. ~Lare~, _v._ and _s._

BUIR, Leg. Leuir.

_Wallace._

BUISE, _To shoot the buise._

_Cleland._

Apparently, _to swing_, to be hanged; perhaps from Ital. _busco_,
the shoot of a tree.

BUIST, _s._ A part of female dress, anciently worn in S.

_Maitland Poems._

Fr. _busq_, or _buste_, plated body, or other quilted thing, worn to
make or keep the body straight. Ital. _busto_, stays or boddice.

BUIST, BUSTE, BOIST, _s._

1. A box or chest, S. _Meal-buist_, chest for containing meal.

_Acts Ja. II._

2. A coffin; nearly antiquated, but still sometimes used by tradesmen, Loth.

O. Fr. _boiste_, Arm. _bouest_, a box.

_To_ ~Buist~ _up_, _v. a._ To inclose, to shut up.

_Montgomerie._

~Buist-maker~, _s._ A coffin-maker, Loth.; a term now nearly obsolete.

BUISTY, _s._ A bed, Aberd.

_Gl. Shirr._ used perhaps for a small one, q. a little box.

V. ~Booshty~.

BUITH, _s._ A shop.

V. ~Bothe~.

BUITING, _s._ Booty.

_Montgomerie._

Fr. _butin_, Ital. _butino_, id.

BUITS, _s. pl._ Matches for firelocks.

_Baillie's Lett._

_To_ BUKK, _v. a._ To incite, to instigate.

_Evergreen._

Germ. _boch-en_, to strike, _bock-en_, to push with the horn; Su. G.
_bock_, a stroke; Isl. _buck-a_, calcitrare.

BUK-HID, BUK-HUD, _s._

V. ~Belly-blind~.

_Henrysone._

This seems to be an old name for some game, probably _Blind man's
Buff_.

BU-KOW, _s._ Any thing frightful; hence applied to a hobgoblin, S.

V. ~Bu~.

BULDRIE, _s._ Building, or mode of building.

_Burel._

BULYIEMENT, _s._ Habiliments; properly such as are meant for warfare.

V. ~Abulyiement~.

_Ross._

_Bulyiements_ is still used ludicrously for clothing, S.

_To_ BULL, _v. n._ To take the bull; a term used with respect to a cow. Both the _v._ and _s._ are pron. q. _bill_, S.

_Bill-siller_, S., is analogous to Teut. _bolle-gheld_, merces pro
admissura tauri.

_To_ BULLER, _v. n._

1. To emit such a sound as water does, when rushing violently into any cavity, or forced back again, S.

_Douglas._

Su. G. _bullr-a_, tumultuari, strepitum edere.

2. To make a noise with the throat, as one does when gargling it with any liquid, S. _guller_, synon.

_Bellenden._

3. To make any rattling noise; as when stones are rolled downhill, or when a quantity of stones falls together, S. B.

4. To bellow, to roar as a bull or cow does, S.; also pron. _bollar_, Ang.

Isl. _baul-a_, mugire, _baul_ mugitus.

5. It is used as _v. a._ to denote the _impetus_ or act productive of such a sound as is described above.

_Douglas._

~Buller~, ~Bulloure~, _s._

1. A loud gurgling noise, S.

_Douglas._

Hence, _the Bullers of Buchan_, the name given to an arch in a rock, on the coast of Aberdeenshire.

Su. G. _buller_, strepitus.

2. A bellowing noise; or a loud roar, S. B.

V. the _v._

BULLETSTANE, _s._ A round stone, S.

Isl. _bollut-ur_, round; _bollut_, convexity.

_To_ BULLIRAG, _v. a._ To rally in a contemptuous way, to abuse one in a hectoring manner, S.

Isl. _baul_, _bol_, maledictio, and _raegia_, deferre, to reproach.

BULLS, _s. pl._ Strong bars in which the teeth of a harrow are placed, S. B.

_Statist. Acc._

Su. G. _bol_, Isl. _bolr_, truncus.

BULL-SEGG, _s._ The great cat-tail or reedmace, Typha latifolia, Linn. S. B.

BULL-SEGG, _s._ A gelded bull.

V. ~Segg~.

BULTY, _adj_. Large, Fife.

This may be allied to Teut. _bult_, gibbus, tuber; Belg. _bult_, a
bunch, _bultje_, a little bunch; Isl. _buld_, crassus.

BULWAND, _s._ The name given to common mugwort, Orkney, Caithn.

_Neill_.

_To_ BUM, _v. n._

1. To buzz, to make a humming noise; used with respect to bees, S. A. Bor.

_J. Nicol._

2. Used to denote the noise of a multitude.

_Hamilton._

3. As expressing the sound emitted by the drone of a bag-pipe, S.

_Ferguson._

4. Used to denote the freedom of agreeable conversation among friends, S. B.

Belg. _bomm-en_, to resound; Teut. _bomme_, a drum.

~Bum~, _s._ A humming noise, the sound emitted by a bee, S.,

V. the _v._

~Bumbee~, _s._ A humblebee, a wild bee that makes a great noise, S. _Bumble-bee_, id. A. Bor.

Q. the _bee_ that _bums_.

~Bum-Clock~, _s._ A humming beetle, that flies in the summer evenings.

_Burns._

BU-MAN, _s._ A name given to the devil.

V. under ~Bu~.

BUMBARD, _adj._ Indolent, lazy.

Ital. _bombare_, a humble-bee.

_Dunbar._

~Bumbart~, _s._

1. The drone-bee, or perhaps a flesh-fly.

_Melvill's MS._

2. A drone, a driveller.

_Dunbar._

BUMBAZED, BOMBAZED, _adj._ Stupified, S.

V. ~Bazed~.

_Ross._

Q. stupified with noise; from Teut. _bomme_, tympanum, and _baesen_,
delirare.

BUMMACK, BUMMOCK, _s._

1. An entertainment anciently given at Christmas by tenants to their landlords, Orkn.

_Wallace's Orkn._

2. A brewing of a large quantity of malt, for the purpose of being drunk at once at a merry meeting.--Caithn.

Isl. _bua_, parare, and _mage_ socius, q. to make preparation for one's companions; or _bo_ villa, incola, and _mage_, the fellowship of a village or of its inhabitants.

BUMMIL, BUMMLE, BOMBELL, _s._ Expl. a drone, an idle fellow.

V. ~Batie-Bummil~.

_Burns._

Teut. _bommele_, fucus.

_To_ BUMMIL, _v. a._ To bungle; also, as _v. n._ to blunder, S.

_Ramsay._

~Bummeler~, ~Bumler~, _s._ A blundering fellow, S.

BUMP, _s._ A stroke. "He came _bump_ upon me," he came upon me with a stroke, S.

Isl. _bomps_, a stroke against any object, _bomp-a_, cita ruina
ferri.

BUN, BUNN. _s._ A sweet cake or loaf, generally one of that kind which is used at the new year, baked with fruit and spiceries; sometimes for this reason called a _sweetie-scone_, S.

_Statist. Acc._

Ir. _bunna_, a cake.

BUN, _s._

1. The same as E. _bum_.

_Lyndsay._

2. This word signifies the tail or brush of a hare, Border; being used in the same sense with _fud_.

_Watson's Coll._

Ir. _bon_, _bun_, the bottom of any thing; Dan. _bund_, id.; Gael.
_bun_, bottom, foundation.

BUN, _s._ A large cask placed in a cart, for the purpose of bringing water from a distance; Ang.

This may be radically the same with S. _boyn_, a washingtub.

BUNE, BOON, _s._ The inner part of the stalk of flax, the core, that which is of no use, afterwards called _shaws_, Ang. _Been_, id. Morays.

BUNEWAND, _s._ The cow-parsnip, Heracleum sphondylium, is called _Bunwand_, S. B.

_Montgomerie._

This appears to be of the same meaning with _Bunwede_, q. v.

BUNG, _adj._ Tipsy, fuddled; a low word, S.

_Ramsay._

Q. Smelling of the _bung_.

BUNKER, BUNKART, _s._

1. A bench, or sort of low chest serving for a seat.

_Ramsay._

2. A seat in a window, which also serves for a chest, opening with a hinged lid, S.

_Sir J. Sinclair._

3. It seems to be the same word which is used to denote an earthen seat in the fields, Aberd.

_Law Case._

A. S. _benc_, Su. G. _baenck_, a bench; Isl. _buncke_, acervus,
strues; a heap.

BUNKLE, _s._ A stranger. "The dog barks, because he kens you to be a _bunkle_." This word is used in some parts of Angus.

Perhaps originally a mendicant; from Isl. _bon_, mendicatio, and
_karl_, vulgarly _kall_, homo.

BUNNERTS, _s. pl._ Cow-parsnip, S. B. Heracleum sphondylium, Linn.

Perhaps Q. _biorn-oert_, which in Sw. would be, the bear's wort.

BUNTLING, _s._ Bantling, E., a bird, S.

BUNWEDE, _s._ Ragwort, an herb; Senecio jacobaea, Linn. S. _binweed_; synon. _weebow_.

_Houlate._

This name is also given, S. to the Polygonum convolvulus, which in
Sw. is called _Binda_.

BUR, _s._ The cone of the fir, S. B.

Su. G. _barr_ denotes the leaves or needles of the pine.

BUR-THRISSIL, _s._ The spear-thistle, S. Carduus lanceolatus. _Bur-thistle_, id. A. Bor.

_To_ BURBLE, _v. n._ To purl.

_Hudson._

Teut. _borbel-en_, scaturire.

BURCH, BWRCH, BUROWE, _s._ Borough, town.

_Dunbar._

Moes. G. _baurgs_; A. S. _burg_, _burh_, _buruh_, id.

BURD, _s._ A lady, a damsel.

V. ~Bird~.

BURD, BURDE, _s._ Board, table.

_Dunbar._

Moes. G. _baurd_, asser, tabula, A. S. _bord_, id.

~Burdclaith~, _s._ A tablecloth, S. Westmorel., id.

_Dunbar._

From _burd_, and _claith_, cloth.

BURDALANE, _s._ A term used to denote one who is the only child left in a family; q. _bird alone_, or, solitary; _burd_ being the pron. of _bird_.

_Maitland MSS._

BURDE, _s._ Ground, foundation.

Su. G. _bord_, a footstool.

_Bellenden._

BURDE, _s._ A strip, properly an ornamental salvedge; as a "_burde_ of silk," a salvedge of silk.

_Dunbar._

Su. G. _borda_, limbus vel praetexta; unde _silkesborda_, cingulum
sericum vel limbus; _gullbord_, limbus aureus; Teut. _boord_, limbus.

BURDYN, _adj._ Wooden, of or belonging to _boards_.

_Wallace._

A. S. _bord_, S. _burd, buird_, a board, a plank.

BURDING, _s._ Burden.

V. ~Birth, Byrth~.

_Montgomerie._

BURDINSECK.

V. ~Berthinsek~.

BURDIT, _part. pa._ Stones are said to be _burdit_, when they split into lamina, S. perhaps from _burd_, a board; q. like wood divided into thin planks.

BURDLY, BUIRDLY, _adj._ Large and well-made, S. The E. word _stately_ is used as synon.

_Burns._

Isl. _burdur_, the habit of body, strength, propriae vires;
_afburdur menn_, excellent men.

BURDON, BURDOUN, BURDOWNE, _s._

1. A big staff, such as pilgrims were wont to carry.

_Douglas._

Fr. _bourdon_, a pilgrim's staff; O. Fr. _bourde_, a baton; Isl.
_broddstafur_, scipio, _hastulus_, hastile.

2. _Be staff and burdon_; a phrase respecting either investiture or resignation.

_Bellenden._

BURDOUN, _s._ "The drone of a bag-pipe, in which sense it is commonly used in S."

_Ruddiman._

Fr. _bourdon_, id.

BURDOWYS, _s._ Men who fought with clubs.

_Barbour._

_Burdare_, (Matt. Paris), is to fight with clubs, after the manner
of clowns, qui, he says, Anglis _Burdons_.

BUREDELY, _adv._ Forcibly, vigorously.

V. ~Burdly~.

_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._

BUREIL, BURAL, _adj._ Vulgar, rustic.

_Wallace._

Chaucer _borel_, id.; L. B. _burell-us_, a species of coarse cloth;
Teut. _buer_, a peasant.

BURG _of ice_, a whale-fisher's phrase for a field of ice floating in the sea, S., most probably from its resemblance of a _castle_.

BURGENS, _s. pl._ Burgesses.

_Wyntown._

Lat. _burgens-es_.

BURGEOUN, _s._ A bud, a shoot.

_Douglas._

Fr. _burgeon_, id.; Su. G. _boerja_, oriri; Isl. _bar_, gemma
arborum.

BURIAN, _s._ A mound, a tumulus; or a kind of fortification, S. Aust.

_Statist. Acc._

From A. S. _beorg_, _burg_, mons, acervus; or _byrigenn_, _byrgene_,
sepulcrum, monumentum, tumulus.

BURIO, BOREAU, BURRIO, BURIOR, BURRIOUR, _s._ An executioner.

_Bellenden._

Fr. _bourreau_, id.

BURLAW, BYRLAW, BIRLEY, BARLEY. _Byrlaw Court_, a court of neighbours, residing in the country, which determines as to local concerns.

_Skene. Reg. Maj._

From Belg. _baur_ (boer) a husbandman, and _Law_; or as Germ. _bauer_, A. S. _bur_, Isl. _byr_, signify a village, as well as a husbandman, the term may signify the _Law_ of the _village_ or district.

~Burlie-Bailie~, _s._ An officer employed to enforce the laws of the _Burlaw-courts_.

_Ramsay._

BURLED, BURLIT, _part. pa._

_Acts Ja. II._

Does this signify _burnt_, from Fr. _brul-er_?

BURLY, _s._ A crowd, a tumult, S. B.

Teut. _borl-en_, to vociferate. Hence E. _hurly-burly_.

BURLY, BUIRLIE, _adj._ Stately, strong; as applied to buildings.

_Wallace._

Teut. _boer_, Germ. _bauer_, a boor, with the termination _lic_,
denoting resemblance.

BURLINS, _s. pl._ The bread _burnt_ in the oven in baking, S. q. _burnlins_.

BURN, _s._

1. Water, particularly that which is taken from a fountain or well S.

_Ferguson._

Moes. G. _brunna_, Su. G. _brunn_, Isl. _brunn-ur_, Germ. _brun_, Teut. _burn_, _borne_, a well, a fountain; Belg. _bornwater_, water from a well. A rivulet, a brook. S. A. Bor.

_Douglas._

2. E. bourn. In this sense only A. S. _burn_, and _byrna_, occur; or as signifying a torrent.

3. The water used in brewing, S. B.

_Lyndsay_.

4. Urine, S. B. "To make one's _burn_," mingere. Germ. _brun_, urina.

~Burnie~, ~Burny~, is sometimes used as a dimin. denoting a small brook, S.

_Beattie_.

_To_ BURN, _v. a._

1. One is said to be _burnt_, when he has suffered in any attempt. _Ill burnt_, having suffered severely, S.

_Baillie._

2. To deceive, to cheat in a bargain, S. One says that he has been _brunt_, when overreached. These are merely oblique senses of the E. v.

BURNET, _adj._ Of a brown colour.

_Douglas._

Fr. _brunette_, a dark brown stuff formerly worn by persons of
quality.

BURNEWIN, _s._ A cant term for a blacksmith, S.

_Burns._

"_Burn-the-wind_,--an appropriate term," N.

BURNT SILVER, BRINT SILVER, silver refined in the furnace.

_Acts Ja. II._

Isl. _brendu silfri_, id. Snorro Sturleson shews that _skirt
silfr_, i. e. pure silver, and _brennt silfr_, are the same.

BURR, BURRH, _s._ The whirring sound made by some people in pronouncing the letter _r_; as by the inhabitants of Northumberland, S.

_Statist. Acc._

This word seems formed from the sound.

BURRA, _s._ The most common kind of rush, Orkn.; there the Juncus squarrosus.

BURRACH'D, _part. pa._ Inclosed.

V. ~Bowrach'd.~

_To_ BURRIE, _v. a._ To overpower in working, to overcome in striving at work, S. B.

Allied perhaps to Fr. _bourrer_, Isl. _ber-ia_, to beat.

BURRY, _adj._

_Henrysone._

Either rough, shaggy, from Fr. _bourru_, "flockie, hairie, rugged,"
Cotgr. or savage, cruel, from Fr. _bourreau_, an executioner.

V. ~Burio~.

BURROWE-MAIL,

V. ~Mail~.

BURSAR, _s._ One who receives the benefit of an endowment in a college, for bearing his expences during his education there, S.

_Buik of Discipline_.