Part 6
1. A coarse kind of grass, growing on hilly ground, S. Agrostis vulgaris, Linn. Common hair-grass.
2. The coarse grass growing on the sea-shore, S. denoting the Triticum juncium, and also the Arundo arenaria.
_Lightfoot._
3. The open field, the plain, S.
_Douglas._
4. To _gae to the bent_, to provide for one's safety, to flee from danger, by leaving the haunts of men; as it is also vulgarly said, _to tak the cuntrie on his back_.
_Henrysone._
Teut. _biendse_; Germ. _bintz_, _bins_, a rush, juncus, scirpus; a _binden_, vincire, quia sportas, sellas, fiscellas, et similia ex juncis conteximus; Wachter.
BENTY, BENTEY, _adj._ Covered with bent-grass, S.
_Monroe's Iles._
_To_ BER _on hand_.
V. ~Bear~.
BERBER, _s._ Barberry, a shrub.
_Sir Gawan and Sir Gol._
L. B. _berberis_, Sw. id.
BERE, _s._ Noise; also, To ~Bere~.
V. ~Beir~.
BERE, _s._ Boar.
V. ~Bair~.
_Douglas._
BERE, _s._ Barley.
_Wyntown._
BERGLE, BERGELL, _s._ The wrasse, a fish, Orkn.
_Barry._
The first syllable of its name is undoubtedly from Isl. _berg_, a rock. Had it any resemblance to the eel, we might suppose the last from _aal_, q. the _rock eel_.
BERHEDIS, _s. pl._ Heads of boars.
V. ~Bere~.
_Gawan and Gal._
BERIT, _imperf._
V. ~Beir~, _v._
_To_ BERY, BERYSS, BERISCH, _v. a._
To inter, to bury.
_Douglas._
A. S. _byrig-an_, id. Junius says that A. S. _byrig-an_ is literally, tumulare. It may, however, be supposed that the primitive idea is found in Isl. _birg-ia_, Franc. _berg-an_, to cover, to hide, to defend.
BERIIS, _s._ Sepulture.
A. S. _byrigels_, sepultura. _Birielis_ is accordingly used by Wiclif for tombs.
BERYNES, BERYNISS, _s._ Burial, interment.
_Barbour._
A. S. _byrignesse_, sepultura.
BERY BROUNE, a shade of brown approaching to red.
_Gawan. and Gol._
We still say, "as brown as a _berry_," S. A. S. _beria_, bacca.
BERLE, _s._ Beryl, a precious stone.
_Houlate._
From this _s._ Doug. forms the adj. _beriall_, shining like beryl.
BERLY, _adj._ Apparently, strong, mighty.
_Henrysone._
This word is the same, I suspect, with E. _burly_, strong. If _berly_ be the ancient word, either from Germ. _bar_, vir illustris; or from _baer_, ursus; especially as Su. G. _biorn_, id. was metaph. used to denote an illustrious personage.
BERN, BERNE, _s._
1. A baron.
_Wallace._
2. It is often used in a general sense, as denoting a man of rank or authority; or one who has the appearance of rank, although the degree of it be unknown.
_Gawan and Gol._
3. A man in general.
_Douglas._
A. S. _beorne_, princeps, homo, Benson; "a prince, a nobleman, a man of honour and dignity," Somner. _Bern_, as denoting a man, in an honourable sense, may be from A. S. _bar_, free, or Lat. _baro_, used by Cicero, as equivalent to a lord or peer of the realm.
BERN, _s._ A barn, a place for laying up and threshing grain.
_Gawan and Gol._
A. S. _bern_, id. Junius supposes that this is comp. of _bere_, barley, and _ern_, place, q. "the place where barley is deposited," Gl. Goth.
BERSIS, _s._ "A species of cannon formerly much used at sea. It resembled the faucon, but was shorter, and of a larger calibre," Gl. Compl.
_Complaynt S._
Fr. _barce_, _berche_, "the piece of ordnance called a base;" Cotgr. pl. _barces_, _berches_.
BERTH, _s._ Apparently, rage.
_Wyntown._
Isl. and Sw. _braede_, id.
BERTHINSEK, BIRDINSEK, BURDINSECK. _The law of Berthinsek_, a law, according to which no man was to be punished capitally for stealing a calf, sheep, or so much meat as he could carry on his back in a sack.
_Skene._
A. S. _ge-burthyn in saeca_, a burden in a sack; or from _ge-beor-a_, portare.
BERTYNIT, BERTNYT, _pret._ and _part. pa._ Struck, battered.
_Wallace._
This is evidently the same with ~Brittyn~, q. v.
BESAND, BEISAND, _s._ An ancient piece of cold coin, offered by the French kings at the mass of their consecration at Rheims, and called a _Bysantine_, as the coin of this description was first struck at _Byzantium_ or Constantinople. It is said to have been worth, in French money, fifty pounds _Tournois_.
_Kennedy._
_To_ BESEIK, _v. a._ To beseech, to entreat.
_Douglas._
A. S. _be_ and _sec-an_, to seek; Belg. _ver-soek-en_, to solicit, to entreat; Moes. G. _sok-jan_, to ask, used with respect to prayer.
BESY, _adj._ Busy.
_Wyntown._
A. S. _bysi_, Belg. _besigh_, id.; allied perhaps to Teut. _byse_ turbatus, _bijs-en_, violento impetu agitari.
BESYNES, _s._ Business.
_Wyntown._
BESYNE, BYSENE, BYSIM, _s._ Expl. "whore, bawd," Gl. Sibb.
V. ~Bisym~.
BESCHACHT, _part. pa._
1. Not straight, distorted, Ang.
2. Torn, tattered; often including the idea of dirtiness, Perths. The latter seems to be an oblique use.
V. ~Shacht~.
_To_ BESLE, or BEZLE, _v. n._ To talk much at random, to talk inconsiderately and boldly on a subject that one is ignorant of, Ang.
Belg. _beuzel-en_, to trifle, to fable; Teut. _beusel-en_, nugari.
BESLE, BEZLE, _s._ Idle talking, Ang.
Belg. _beusel_, id.
BESMOTTRIT, _part. pa._ Bespattered, fouled.
_Douglas._
A. S. _besmyt-an_, maculare, inquinare; Belg. _besmodder-en_, Germ. _schmader-n_, _schmatter-n_, to stain, S. to _smadd_, Su. G. _smitt-a_.
BESOUTH, _prep._ To the southward of.
V. ~Benorth~.
BEST, _part. pa._ Struck, beaten.
V. ~Baist~.
_Barbour._
BEST, _part. pa._ Perhaps, fluttering, or shaken.
_Barbour._
Isl. _beyst-i_, concutio.
BEST, _s._ "Beast, any animal not human," Gl. Wynt.
_Wyntown._
The term is still used in this general sense, S. pronounced q. _baist_. S. B.
BEST-MAN, _s._ Brideman; as _best-maid_ is bride-maid; from having the _principal_ offices in waiting on the bride, S.
BESTIAL, (_off Tre_) _s._ An engine for a siege.
_Wallace._
It seems uncertain, whether this word be formed from Lat. _bestialis_, as at first applied to the engines called _rams_, _sows_, &c., or from Fr. _bastille_, a tower; L. B. _bastillae_.
BESTIALITÉ, _s._ Cattle.
_Complaynt S._
L. B. _bestialia_, pecudes; Fr. _bestail_.
BESTREIK, _part. pa._ Drawn out; _gold bestreik_, gold wire or twist.
_Burel._
Teut. _be-streck-en_, extendere.
BESTURTED, _part. pa._ Startled, alarmed, afrighted, S.
Germ. _besturz-en_, to startle; _besturzt seyn_, to be startled. Ihre views Isl. _stird-r_, rigid, immoveable, as the root.
BESWAKIT, _part. pa._ Apparently, soaked, drenched.
_Dunbar._
Isl. _sock_, mergor, _saukv-a_, mergi.
_To_ BESWEIK, _v. a._ To allure; to beguile; to deceive.
A. S. _swic-an_, _beswic-an_, Isl. _svik-ia_. Alem. _bisuich-en_, Su. G. _swik-a_, Germ. _schwick-en_, id.
BET, _pret._ Struck.
_Gawan and Gol._
A. S. _beat-an_, Su. G. _bet-a_; _tu bete_, thou hast struck.
BET, BETT, _pret._ and _part._ Helped, supplied.
V. ~Beit~.
BET, _part. pa._ Built, erected.
_Douglas._
This is a secondary and oblique sense of the _v._ _Beit_, q. v.
BET, _adj._ Better.
_King's Quair._
A. S. _bet_, Teut. _bat_, _bet_, melius, potius, magis; Alem. _bas_, _baz_, melior, the compar. of _bat_, bonus. A. S. _bet-an_, emendare, and the other synon. verbs in the Northern languages, have been viewed as originating the term. _Bet_, indeed, seems to be merely the past part., mended, i. e. made _better_.
BETANE, _part. pa._ Perhaps, inclosed.
_Barbour._
A. S. _betien-en_, _betyn-an_, to inclose, to shut up.
BETAUCHT, BETUK, Delivered, committed in trust; delivered up.
V. ~Betech~.
_To_ BETECH, BETEACH, _v. a._ To deliver up, to consign; _betuk_, pret. _betaucht_, pret. and part. pa.
_Barbour._
Hence "the common Scots expression, _God I beteach me till_," Rudd.; and that used by Ramsay, _Betootch-us-to_; i. e. Let us commend ourselves to the protection of some superior being. O. E. _bitoke_, committed; also _bitaughten_, _bitakun_, _bitauht_. A. S. _betaec-an_, tradere, concedere, assignare, commendare; to deliver, to grant, to assign or appoint, to betake or recommend unto; Somner. _Betaehte_, tradidit.
BETHLERIS. Leg. ~Bechleris~. Bachelors.
_Houlate._
_To_ BETRUMPE, _v. a._ To deceive.
_Douglas._
_To_ BETREYSS, BETRASE, _v. a._ To betray.
_Barbour._
_Betrasit_, Douglas; _betraissed_, Wallace; _betraised_, Chaucer; _betraist_, R. Brunne. Germ. _trieg-en_, _betrieg-en_; Fr. _trah-ir_, id. _trahi-son_, treason.
BETWEESH, _prep._ Betwixt, S.
V. ~Atweesh~.
BEVAR, _s._ One who is worn out with age.
_Henrysone._
It is evidently from the same source with _Bavard_, adj. q. v. We still say a _bevir-horse_ for a lean horse, or one worn out with age or hard work; S.
BEVEL, _s._ A stroke; sometimes, a violent push with the elbow, S.
_Many._
This is a derivative from _Baff_, _beff_, q. v.
BEVEREN, BEVERAND, _part. pr._
_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._
Perhaps from A. S. _befer-an_, circumdare; or as the same with _beverand_, which Sibb. renders "shaking, nodding;" deriving it from Teut. _bev-en_, contremere. This is a provincial E. word. "_Bevering_, trembling. North." Gl. Grose.
BEVIE, (_of a fire_) _s._ A term used to denote a great fire; sometimes, _bevice_, S.
Perhaps from E. _bavin_, "a stick like those bound up in faggots," Johnson. It is thus used in O. E.
BEVIE, _s._ A jog, a push, S. from the same source with _bevel_.
V. ~Baff~, _s._
BEVIS.
V. ~Bevar~.
BEUCH, _s._ (gutt.) A bough, a branch, S.
_Douglas._
A. S. _boga_, _boh_, id. from _bug-an_, to bend.
BEUCHIT, _part. pa._ (gutt.) Bowed, crooked, S.
_Douglas._
A. S. _bug-an_, curvare.
BEUGH, _s._ (gutt.) A limb, a leg, Border.
_Evergreen._
Isl. _bog_, Alem. _puac_, Germ. _bug_, id. The term is applied both to man and to other animals. Both Ihre and Wachter view _bug-en_, to bend, as the origin; as it is by means of its joints that an animal bends itself.
BEUGLE-BACKED, _adj._ Crook-backed.
_Watson._
A. S. _bug-an_, to bow; Teut. _boechel_, gibbus. Germ. _bugel_, a dimin. from _bug_, denoting any thing curved or circular. It is undoubtedly the same word that is now pronounced _boolie-backit_, S.
BEUKE, _pret. v._ Baked.
_Douglas._
A. S. _boc_, pret. of _bac-an_, pinsere.
BEULD, _adj._ Bow-legged, Ang.; q. _beugeld_ from the same origin with _beugle_, in _Beugle-backed_, q. v.
BEW, _adj._ Good, honourable. _Bew schyris_, or _schirris_, good Sirs.
Fr. _beau_, good.
_Douglas._
_To_ BEWAVE, BEWAUE, _v. a._ To cause to wander or waver.
_Palice of Honour._
A. S. _waf-ian_, vacillare, fluctuare.
BEWIS, BEWYS, _s. pl._ Boughs.
V. ~Beuch~.
_Douglas._
BEWIS, _s. pl._ Beauties.
O. Fr. _beau_, beauty.
_Maitland Poems._
BEWITH, _s._ A thing which is employed as a substitute for another, although it should not answer the end so well.
_Ramsay._
One who arrives, when the regular dinner is eaten, is said to get "only a _bewith_ for a dinner," S.
From the subst. v. conjoined with the prep., q. what one must submit to for a time.
_To_ BEWRY, _v. a._ To pervert, to distort.
_Douglas._
Teut. _wroegh-en_, torquere, angere.
BY, _prep._
1. Beyond, S.
_Pitscottie._
2. Besides, over and above.
_Pitscottie._
3. Away from, without, without regard to, contrary to.
_Wallace._
_By_, as thus used, is sometimes directly contrasted with _be_, as signifying _by_ in the modern sense of the term. This may be viewed as an oblique sense of _by_ as signifying _beyond_; perhaps in allusion to an arrow that flies wide from the mark.
4. In a way of distinction from, S.
_Wallace._
BY, _adv._ When, after; q. by the time that.
_Pitscottie._
This idiom is very ancient, Moes. G. _Bi the galithun thai brothrjus is_; _When_ his brethren were gone up.
BY-HAND, _adv._ Over, S.
V. ~Hand~.
BY-LYAR, _s._ A neutral.
_Knox._
From the _v_. _To lie by_, E.
BIAS, a word used as a mark of the superlative degree; _bias bonny_, very handsome; _bias hungry_, very hungry, Aberd.
BIB, _s._ A term used to denote the stomach, Ang., borrowed, perhaps, from the use of that small piece of linen, thus denominated, which covers the breast or stomach of a child.
BYBILL, _s._ A large writing, a scroll so extensive that it may be compared to a book.
_Detection Q. Mary._
The word occurs in a similar sense in O. E. As used by Chaucer, Tyrwhitt justly renders it "any great book." In the dark ages, when books were scarce, those, which would be most frequently mentioned, would doubtless be the _Bible_ and _Breviary_. Or, this use of the word may be immediately from L. B. _biblus_, a book, (Gr. βιβλος), which occurs in this sense from the reign of Charlemagne downwards.
BICHMAN, _s._ Perhaps, for _buthman_, q. _boothman_, one who sells goods in a _booth_.
_Dunbar._
In edit. 1508, it is _buthman_.
BYCHT.
V. ~Lycht~.
_Houlate._
BICK, _s._ A bitch; "the female of the canine kind," S.
A. S. _bicca_, _bicce_, id.; Isl. _bickia_, catella.
_To_ BICKER, BYKER, _v. a._ This _v_., as used in S., does not merely signify, "to fight, to skirmish, to fight off and on," as it is defined in E. dictionaries. It also denotes,
1. The constant motion of weapons of any kind, and the rapid succession of strokes, in a battle or broil.
_Wallace._
2. To fight by throwing stones; S.
3. To move quickly; S.
4. It expresses the noise occasioned by successive strokes, by throwing of stones, or by any rapid motion; S.
C. B. _bicre_, a battle; "Pers. _pykar_." id. Gl. Wynt.
BICKER, BIKERING, _s._
1. A fight carried on with stones; a term among schoolboys, S.
2. A contention, strife, S.
_Baillie._
BICKER, BIQUOUR, _s._ A bowl, or dish for containing liquor; properly, one made of wood; S.
_Evergreen._
Germ. _becher_; Isl. _baukur_, _bikare_; Sw. _bagare_; Dan. _begere_; Gr. and L. B. βεικαρι, _baccarium_; Ital. _bicchiere_, patera, scyphus.
_To_ BID, _v. a._
1. To desire, to pray for.
_Henrysone._
This sense is common in O. E.
2. To care for, to value.
_Douglas._
From the same origin with ~Bedis~, q. v.
_To_ BIDE, BYDE, _v. a._
1. To await, to wait for.
_Kelly._
2. To suffer, to endure. "He _bides_ a great deal of pain;" S. Westmorel, id.
_Ross._
An oblique sense of Moes. G. _beid-an_, A. S. _bid-an_, expectare.
_To_ BIDE _be_, _v. n._ To continue in one state, S.
BIDINGS, _s. pl._ Sufferings.
V. ~Bide~, _v._
BY-EAST, towards the east.
V. ~Be~, _prep._
BIERDLY, BIERLY, _adj._
_Popular Ball._
It is viewed as the same with _Burdly_, q. v. But to me it seems rather to signify, fit, proper, becoming, from Isl. _byr-iar_, _ber_, decet, oportet.
BIERLING, _s._ A galley, S. B.
_Statist. Acc._
BIG, BIGG, _s._ A particular species of barley, also denominated _bear_, S. Cumb. id. barley.
_Statist. Acc._
Isl. _bygg_, hordeum, Dan. _byg_, Su. G. _biugg_, id.
_To_ BIG, BYG, _v. a._ To build; S., Cumb., Westmorel., id.
_Wallace._
This word occurs in O. E. although not very frequently. A. S. _bycg-an_, Isl. _bygg-ia_, Su. G. _bygg-a_, aedificare, instruere, a frequentative from _bo_, id.; as it is customary with the Goths thus to augment monosyllables in _o_; as _sugg-a_ from _so_, a sow.
BIGGAR, _s._ A builder, one who carries on a building.
_Acts Marie._
BIGGING, BYGGYN, BYGGYNGE, _s._ A building; a house, properly of a larger size, as opposed to a cottage, S.
_Wallace._
_Biggin_, a building, Gl. Westmorel. Isl. _bigging_, structura.
BIGGIT, _part. pa._ Built.
This word is used in various senses, S.
_Biggit land_, land where there are houses or buildings, contrasted with one's situation in a solitude, or far from any shelter during a storm, S.
_Barbour._
_Weill biggit_, well-grown, lusty.
_Melvill's MS._
_A weill biggit body_ is one who has acquired a good deal of wealth, S. B.
BIGGIT, _pret._ Perhaps, inclined.
A. S. _byg-an_, flectere.
_King Hart._
BIGLY, BYGLY, _adj._ Commodious, or habitable.
_Bludy Serk._
From A. S. _big-an_, habitare, and _lic_, similis.
BIGHTSOM, _adj._ Implying an easy air, and, at the same time, activity, S. B.
_Morison._
Perhaps q. _buxom_, from A. S. _bocsum_ flexibilis; _byg-an_, to bend.
BIGONET, _s._ A linen cap or coif.
_Ramsay._
From the same origin with E. _biggin_, "a kind of coif, or linen-cap for a young child;" Phillips. Fr. _beguin_. id.
BYGANE, BIGANE, BYGONE, _adj._
1. Past; S. The latter is mentioned by Dr Johnson as "a Scotch word."
_Acts Ja. I._
2. Preceding; equivalent to E. predeceased.
_Douglas._
BYGANES, BIGONES, used as _s. pl._ denoting what is past, but properly including the idea of transgression or defect.
1. It denotes offences against the sovereign, or the state, real or supposed.
_Baillie._
2. It is used in relation to the quarrels of lovers, or grounds of offence give by either party, S.
_Morison._
3. It often denotes arrears, sums of money formerly due, but not paid, S.
_Wodrow._
BIGS, Barbour, xix. 392. Pink. ed. Leg. ~Lugis~.
BIKE, BYKE, BEIK, _s._
1. A building, an habitation, S.
_Gawan and Gol._
2. A nest or hive of bees, wasps, or ants, S.
_Douglas._
3. A building erected for the preservation of grain; Caithn.
_Pennant._
4. Metaph. an association or collective body; S.
_Lyndsay._
_To skail the byke_, metaph. to disperse an assembly of whatever kind; S.
Isl. _biik-ar_ denotes a hive, alvear; and Teut. _bie-bock_, _bie-buyck_, apiarium, alvearium, Kilian. The Isl. word is probably from Su. G. _bygg-a_, to build, part. pa. _bygdt_; q. something prepared or built. There seems to be no reason to doubt that the word, as used in sense 2, is the same with that denoting a habitation. For what is a _byke_ or _bee-bike_, but a building or habitation of bees?
BYK, Apparently, an errat. for _byt_, bite.
_Dunbar._
BYKAT, BEIKAT, _s._ A male salmon; so called, when come to a certain age, because of the _beak_ which grows in his under jaw; Ang.
BILBIE, _s._ Shelter, residence; Ang.
This, I apprehend, is a very ancient word. It may be either from Su.G. _byle_, habitaculum, and _by_, pagus, conjoined, as denoting residence in a village; or more simply, from _Bolby_, villa primaria; from _bol_, praedium, and _by_, a village. Thus _bolby_ would signify a village which has a _praedium_, or territory of its own, annexed to it.
BILEFT, _pret._ Remained, abode.
_Sir Tristrem._
A. S. _belif-an_, superesse, to remain; Alem. _bilib-en_, Franc, _biliu-en_, manere; Schilter.
BILGET, _adj._ Bulged, jutting out.
_Douglas._
Su. G. _bulg-ia_, to swell, whence Isl. _bylgia_, a billow. Or, Isl. _eg belge_, curvo; _belgia huopta_, inflare buccas.
_To_ BILL, _v. a._ To register, to record.
_Bp. Forbes._
BILLIE, BILLY, _s._
1. A companion, a comrade.
_Minstrelsy Border._
2. Fellow, used rather contemptuously, S. synon. _chield_, _chap_.
_Shirrefs._
3. As a term expressive of affection and familiarity; S.
_Ramsay._
4. A lover, one who is in suit of a woman.
_Evergreen._
Still used in this sense, S. B.
5. A brother, S.
_Minstrelsy Border._
6. Apparently used in allusion to brotherhood in arms, according to the ancient laws of chivalry.
_Minstrelsy Border._
7. A young man. In this sense it is often used in the pl. _The billies_, or, _the young billies_, S. B.
It is expl. "a stout man, a clever fellow," Gl. Shirr.
8. Sometimes it signifies a boy, S. B. as synon. with _callan_.
_Ross._
It is probably allied to Su. G. Germ. _billig_, Belg. _billik_, equalis; as denoting those that are on a footing as to age, rank, relation, affection, or employment.
BILLIT, _adj._ "Shod with iron," Rudd. _Billit ax_.
_Douglas._
This phrase is perhaps merely a circumlocution for the _bipennis_, or large ax.
V. ~Balax~.
BILTER, _s._ A child, Dumfr.; Isl. _pilter_, puellus.
BIN, _s._ A mountain, S. O.
_Galloway._
From Gael. _ben_, id., Lomond _bin_, being synon. with _Benlomond_.
BIND, BINDE, _s._
1. Dimension, size; especially with respect to circumference. A barrel of a certain _bind_, is one of certain dimensions, S.; hence _Barrell bind_.
_Acts Ja. III._
2. It is used more generally to denote size in any sense.
_Acts Marie._
3. Metaph. to denote ability. "Aboon my _bind_" beyond my power. This is often applied to pecuniary ability; S.
This use of the word is evidently borrowed from the idea of _binding_ a vessel with hoops.
BINDLE, _s._ The cord or rope that binds any thing, whether made of hemp or of straw; S.
Su. G. _bindel_, a headband, a fillet, from _bind-as_, to bind. Teut. _bindel_, ligamen.
BINDWOOD, _s._ The vulgar name for ivy, S.; Hedera helix, Linn.; pron. _binwud_.
Denominated, perhaps, from the strong hold that it takes of a wall, a rock, trees, &c. q. the _binding wood_. It is probably the same which is written _benwood_.
_Statist. Acc._
BING, _s._
1. A heap in general.
_Lyndsay._
2. A heap of grain, S.
_Douglas._
3. A pile of wood; immediately designed as a funeral pile.
_Douglas._
4. "A temporary inclosure or repository made of boards, twigs, or straw ropes, for containing grain or such like;" Gl. Sibb., where it is also written _binne_.
Dan. _bing_, Sw. _binge_, Isl. _bing-r_, cumulus.
_To_ BYNGE, _v. n._ To cringe.
V. ~Beenge~.
_To_ BINK, _v. a._ To press down, so as to deprive any thing of its proper shape. It is principally used as to shoes, when, by careless wearing, they are allowed to fall down in the heels; S.
O. Teut. _bangh-en_, premere, in angustum cogere. Sw. _bank-a_, to beat seems allied; q. to beat down.
BINK, _s._
1. A bench, a seat; S. B.
_Priests of Peblis._
2. A wooden frame, fixed to the wall of a house, for holding plates, bowls, spoons, &c. Ang. It is also called a _Plate-rack_; S.
_Colvil._
BINK, _s._ A bank, an acclivity, S. B.
_Evergreen._
Wachter observes that Germ. _bank_, Su. G. _baenk_, denote any kind of eminence.
~V. Benk~.
BINWEED.
V. ~Bunwede~.
BYPTICIT, _part. pa._ Dipped or dyed.
Lat. _baptizo_.
_Houlate._
BIR, BIRR, _s._ Force.
I find that Isl. _byr_, expl. ventus ferens, is deduced from _ber-a_, ferre; Gl. Edd. Saem.
V. ~Beir~.
BIRD, BEIRD, BRID, BURD, _s._
1. A lady, a damsel.
_Gawan and Gol._
As _bridde_ is the word used by Chaucer for bird, it is merely the A. S. term for pullus, pullulus. _Bird_, as applied to a damsel, appears to be the common term used in a metaph. sense.
2. Used, also metaph., to denote the young of quadrupeds, particularly of the fox.
V. ~Tod's Birds~.
BYRD, _v. imp._ It behoved, it became.
_Barbour._
A. S. _byreth_, pertinet. This imp. v. may have been formed from _byr-an_, _ber-an_, to carry, or may be viewed as nearly allied to it. Hence _bireth_, gestavit; Germ. _berd_, _ge-baerd_, id., _sich berd-en_, gestum facere. Su. G. _boer-a_, debere, pret. _borde_, anciently _boerjade_.
BIRDING, _s._ Burden, load.
V. ~Birth, Byrth~.
_Douglas._
A. S. _byrthen_, Dan. _byrde_, id.
BIRD-MOUTH'D, _adj._ Mealy-mouth'd, S.
_Ramsay._
BYRE, _s._ Cowhouse, S. _Byer_, id. Cumb.
_Gawan and Gol._
Perhaps allied to Franc. _buer_, a cottage; _byre_, Su. G. _byr_, a village; Germ. _bauer_, habitaculum, cavea; from Su. G. _bo_, _bu-a_, to dwell. Or from Isl. _bu_, a cow; Gael. _bo_, id.
BIRK, _s._ Birch, a tree; S. Betula alba, Linn.
_Douglas._
A. S. _birc_, Isl. _biorki_, Teut. _berck_, id.
_To_ BIRK, _v. n._ To give a tart answer, to converse in a sharp and cutting way; S.
A. S. _birc-an_, _beorc-an_, to bark, q. of a snarling humour.
Hence,
BIRKIE, _adj._ Tart, in speech, S.
BIRKY, _s._
1. A lively young fellow; a person of mettle; S.
_Poems Buchan Dial._
2. _Auld Birky_, "In conversation, analogous to _Old Boy_," Gl. Shirr.
_Ramsay._
Allied perhaps to Isl. _berk-ia_, jactare, to boast; or _biarg-a_, opitulari, q. one able to give assistance.
BIRKIN, BIRKEN, _adj._ Of, or belonging to birch; S.
_Gawan and Gol._
A. S. _beorcen_, id.
_To_ BIRL, BIRLE, _v. a._
1. This word primarily signifies the act of pouring out, or furnishing drink for guests, or of parting it among them.
_Douglas._
2. To ply with drink.
_Minst. Border._
3. To drink plentifully, S.
_Douglas._
4. To club money for the purpose of procuring drink. "I'll _birle_ my bawbie," I will contribute my share of the expence; S.
_Ramsay._
In Isl. it is used in the first sense; _byrl-a_, infundere, miscere potum. In A. S. it occurs in sense third, _biril-ian_, _birl-ian_, haurire. Hence _byrle_, a butler. Isl. _byrlar_, id. _Birle_, O. E. has the same signification.
_To_ BIRL, _v. n._
V. ~Birr~, _v._
BIRLAW-COURT, also BIRLEY-COURT.
V. ~Burlaw~.
BIRLEY-OATS, BARLEY-OATS, _s. pl._ A species of oats, S.
_Statist. Acc._
It seems to have received its name from its supposed resemblance to _barley_.
BIRLIE, _s._ A loaf of bread; S. B.
BIRLIN, _s._ A small vessel used in the Western Islands.
_Martin._