Part 7
Probably of Scandinavian origin, as Sw. _bars_ is a kind of ship; and _berling_, a boat-staff, Seren. I am informed, however, that in Gael. the word is written _bhuirlin_.
_To_ BIRN, _v. a._ To burn.
V. ~Bryn~.
BIRN, BIRNE, _s._ A burnt mark; S.
_Acts Charles II._
_Skin and Birn_, a common phrase, denoting the whole of any thing, or of any number of persons or things; S. from A. S. _byrn_, burning.
_Acts Marie._
BIRN, _s._ A burden, S. B.
_Ross._
To _gie_ one's _birn a hitch_, to assist him in a strait, S. B.
_Poems Buchan Dial._
An abbreviation of A. S. _byrthen_, burden; if not from C. B. _biorn_, onus, _byrnia_, onerare; Davies.
BIRNIE, BYRNIE, _s._ A corslet, a brigandine.
_Douglas._
A. S. _byrn_, _byrna_, Isl. _bryn_, _brynia_, Sw. _bringa_, thorax, lorica, munimentum pectoris; probably from Isl. _bringa_, pectus.
BIRNS, _s. pl._ Roots, the stronger stems of burnt heath, which remain after the smaller twigs are consumed; S.
A. S. _byrn_, incendium.
_Pennycuik._
BIRR, _s._ Force.
V. ~Beir~.
_To_ BIRR, _v. n._ To make a whirring noise, especially in motion; the same with _birle_, S.
V. ~Beir~, _s._
_Douglas._
_To_ ~Birl~, _v. n._
1. To "make a noise like a cart driving over stones, or mill-stones at work." It denotes a constant drilling sound, S.
_Popular Ball._
2. Used improperly, to denote quick motion in walking, Loth.
_Birl_ seems to be a dimin. from the v. _Birr_, used in the same sense, formed by means of the letter _l_, a common note of diminution.
BIRS, BIRSE, BYRSS, BIRSSIS, _s._
1. A bristle, "a sow's _birse_," the bristle of a sow, S.
_Evergreen._
2. Metaph. for the beard.
_Knox._
3. Metaph. for the indication of rage or displeasure. "To set up one's _birss_," to put one in a rage. The _birse_ is also said to _rise_, when one's temper becomes warm, in allusion to animals fenced with bristles, that defend themselves, or express their rage in this way, S.
_Course of Conformitie._
A. S. _byrst_, Germ. _borst_, _burst_, Su. G. _borst_, id. Ihre derives it from _burr_, a thistle. Sw. _saettia up borsten_, to put one in a rage; _borsta sig_, to give one's self airs, E. to bristle up.
~Birssy~, _adj._
1. Having bristles, rough, S.
_Douglas._
2. Hot-tempered, easily irritated, S.
3. Keen, sharp; applied to the weather. "A _birssy_ day," a cold bleak day, S. B.
_To_ BIRSE, BIRZE, BRIZE, _v. a._
1. To bruise, S.
_Watson._
_Palice of Honour._
_Brise_ is common in O. E.
2. To push or drive; _to birse in_, to push in, S.
_Shirrefs._
A. S. _brys-an_, Belg. _brys-en_; Ir. _bris-im_; Fr. _bris-er_, id.
BIRSE, BRIZE, _s._ A bruise, S.
_To_ BIRSLE, BIRSTLE, BRISSLE, _v. a._
1. To burn slightly, to broil, to parch by means of fire; as, _to birsle pease_, S.
_Douglas._
2. To scorch; referring to the heat of the sun, S.
_Douglas._
3. To warm at a lively fire, S. A. Bor. _brusle_, id.
Su. G. _brasa_, a lively fire; whence Isl. _brys_, ardent heat, and _bryss-a_, to act with fervour, _ec breiske_, torreo, aduro; A. S. _brastl_, glowing, _brastlian_, to burn, to make a crackling noise.
BIRSLE, BRISSLE, _s._ A hasty toasting or scorching, S.
BIRTH, BYRTH, _s._ Size, bulk, burden.
V. ~Burding~.
_Douglas._
Isl. _byrd_, _byrth-ur_, _byrth-i_, Dan. _byrde_, Su. G. _boerd_, burden; whence _byrding_, navis oneraria. The origin is Isl. _ber-a_, Su. G. _baer-a_, A. S. _ber-an_, _byr-an_, portare.
BIRTH, _s._ A current in the sea, caused by a furious tide, but taking a different course from it, Orkn. Caithn.
_Statist. Acc._
Isl. _byrdia_, currere, festinare, Verel.; as apparently signifying a strong _current_.
BY-RUNIS, _s. pl._ Arrears.
_Skene._
This is formed like ~By-ganes~, q. v.
BYRUNNING, _part. pr._ Waved.
_Douglas._
Moes. G. _birinn-an_, percurrere.
BISHOPRY, _s._ Episcopacy, government by diocesan bishops.
_Apologet. Relation._
A. S. _biscoprice_, episcopatus.
BISHOP'S FOOT. It is said, _The Bishop's foot has been in the broth_, when they are singed, S.
This phrase seems to have had its origin in times of Popery, when the clergy had such extensive influence, that hardly any thing could be done without their interference. A similar phrase is used A. Bor. "_The bishop has set his foot in it_, a saying in the North, used for milk that is burnt-to in boiling."
BISKET, _s._ Breast.
V. ~Brisket~.
BISM, BYSYME, BISNE, BISINE, _s._ _Abyss_, gulf.
_Douglas._
Fr. _abysme_, Gr. αβυσσος.
BISMAR, BYSMER, _s._ A steelyard, or instrument for weighing resembling it; sometimes _bissimar_, S. B., Orkn.
V. ~Pundlar~.
_Barry._
Isl. _bismari_, _besmar_, libra, trutina minor; Leg. West Goth. _bismare_, Su. G. _besman_; Teut. _bosemer_, id. stater; Kilian. G. Andr. derives this word from Isl. _bes_, a part of a pound weight.
BISMARE, BISMERE, _s._
1. A bawd.
_Douglas._
2. A lewd woman, in general.
_Douglas._
"F. ab A. S. _bismer_, contumelia, aut _bismerian_, illudere, dehonorare, polluere," Rudd.
BISMER, _s._ The name given to a species of stickle-back, Orkn.
_Barry._
BISMING, BYISMING, BYISNING, BYSENING, BYSYNT, _adj._ Horrible, monstrous.
V. ~Byssym~.
_Douglas._
BYSPRENT, _part. pa._ Besprinkled, overspread.
_Douglas._
Belg. _besprengh-en_, to sprinkle.
BISSARTE, BISSETTE, _s._ A buzzard, a kind of hawk.
_Acts Ja. II._
Germ. _busert_, Fr. _bussart_, id.
_To_ BYSSE, BIZZ, _v. n._ To make a hissing noise, as hot iron plunged into water, S.
_Douglas._
Belg. _bies-en_, to hiss like serpents.
BISSE, BIZZ, _s._ A hissing noise, S.
_Ferguson._
BYSSYM, BYSYM, BESUM, BYSN, BISSOME, BUSSOME, BYSNING, _s._
1. A monster.
_Houlate._
2. A prodigy, something portentous of calamity.
_Knox._
3. _Bysim_ is still used as a term highly expressive of contempt for a woman of an unworthy character, S.
V. ~Bisming~.
Mr Macpherson, vo. _Bysynt_, mentions A. S. _bysmorfull_, horrendus. Isl. _bysmarfull_ has the same sense; _bysna_, to portend; _bysn_, a prodigy, grande quod ac ingens, G. Andr.
BISTAYD, BISTODE, _pret._ Perhaps, surrounded.
_Sir Tristrem._
A. S. _bestod_, circumdedit, from _bestand-an_, Teut. _besteen_, circumsistere, circumdare.
BYSTOUR, BOYSTURE, _s._ A term of contempt; the precise meaning of which seems to be lost.
_Polwart._
Several similar terms occur, as Fr. _bistorié_, crooked, _boister_, to limp; _bustarin_, a great lubber.
BIT, _s._ A vulgar term used for food, S.
_Bit and baid_, meat and clothing, S. B.
_Ross._
Although _baid_ be understood of clothing, I suspect that it, as well as _bit_, originally signified food, from A. S. _bead_, a table.
BYT, _s._ The pain occasioned by a wound.
_Douglas._
A. S. _byt_, morsus, metaph. used.
BYTESCHEIP, _s._ A contemptuous term, meant as a play on the title of _Bishop_.
_Semple._
BITTILL, _s._ A beetle, a heavy mallet, especially one used for beating clothes.
_Houlate._
_To_ BYWAUE, _v. a._ To cover, to hide, to cloak.
_Douglas._
A. S. _bewoef-an_, Moes. G. _biwaib-jan_, id.
_To_ BIZZ, _v. n._ To hiss. V. ~Bysse~.
_To_ BIZZ, BIZZ _about_, _v. n._ To be in constant motion, to bustle, S.
Su. G. _bes-a_, a term applied to beasts which, when beset with wasps, drive hither and thither; Teut. _bies-en_, _bys-en_, furente ac violento impetu agitari, Kilian.
BLA, BLAE, _adj._ Livid; a term frequently used to denote the appearance of the skin when discoloured by a severe stroke or contusion, S.
_Douglas._
Su. G. _blaa_, Isl. _bla-r_, Germ. _blaw_, Belg. _blauw_, Franc. _plauu_, lividus, glaucus.
_To_ BLABBER, BLABER, BLEBER, _v. n._ To babble, to speak indistinctly.
_R. Bruce._
Teut. _blabber-en_, confuse et inepte garrire, Jun. vo. _Blab_.
Hence,
BLABERING, _s._ Babbling.
_Douglas._
BLACKAVICED, _adj._ Dark of the complexion, S. from _black_ and Fr. _vis_, the visage.
_Ramsay._
BLACK-BOYDS, _s. pl._ The name given to the fruit of the bramble, West of S.
BLACK-BURNING, _adj._ Used in reference to shame, when it is so great as to produce deep blushing, or to crimson the countenance, S.
_Ramsay._
Su. G. Isl. _blygd_, shame, blushing; _blygd-a_, to blush; q. the burning of blushes.
BLACK-COCK, _s._ The Heath-cock, black Game, S. Tetrao tetrix, Linn. V. Penn. Zool. p. 266. Tetrao seu Urogallus minor.--Gallus palustris Scoticus, Gesn. Nostratibus, the _Black cock_. Sibb. Scot. p. 16.
V. ~Capercailye~.
BLACK FISH, fish when they have recently spawned.
V. ~Reid Fische~.
BLACK-FISHING, _s._ Fishing for salmon, under night, by means of torches, S.
V. ~Leister~.
_Statist. Acc._
BLACK-FOOT, _s._ A sort of matchmaker; one who goes between a lover and his mistress, endeavouring to bring the fair one to compliance, S. pronounced _black-fit_; synon. _Mush_, q. v.
BLACK-HEAD, _s._ The Powit-gull, Shetl.
_Neill._
BLACK-MAIL.
V. ~Mail~.
BLACK PUDDING.
V. ~Mart~.
BLACK SPAUL, a disease of cattle, S.
_Essays Highl. Soc._
BLAD, BLAUD, _s._ A large piece of any thing, a considerable portion, S. expl. "a flat piece of any thing," Gl. Burns.
_Polwort._
"A _blad_ of bread," is a large flat piece. "I gat a _great blad_ of Virgil by heart;" I committed to memory a great many verses from Virgil.
To _ding in blads_, to drive in pieces.
_Melville's MS._
This word, as perhaps originally applied to food, may be from A. S. _blaed_, fruit of any kind; _blaed_, _bled_, also denoted _pot-herbs_; Ir. _bladh_, a part; _bladh-am_, I break.
_Blads and dawds_, is still the designation given to large leaves of greens boiled whole, in a sort of broth, Aberd. Loth.
BLAD, _s._ A person who is of a soft constitution; whose strength is not in proportion to his size or looks; often applied to a young person, who has become suddenly tall, but is of a relaxed habit, S. B.
Allied, perhaps, to A. S. _blaed_, as denoting, either the boughs or leaves of trees, or growing corn; as both often shoot out so rapidly as to give the idea of weakness; or, to Germ. _blode_, the original sense of which is, weak, feeble.
BLAD, _s._ A portfolio, S. B.
As the E. word is comp. of Fr. _porter_, to carry, and _feuille_, a leaf; the S. term has a similar origin, being evidently from Su. G. _blad_, A. S. _blaed_, folium.
_To_ BLAD.
1. Used impers. "Its _bladdin on o' weet_," the rain is driving on; a phrase that denotes intermitting showers accompanied with squalls, S.
2. To abuse, to maltreat in whatever way. Aberd. Corn is said to be _bladdit_, when overthrown by wind.
3. To slap, to strike; to drive by striking, or with violence, S. _Dad_, synon.
_Evergreen._
Germ. _blodern_ is used in the first sense. _Es blodert_, it storms and snows; also, _blat-en_, to blow. Isl. _blaegt-a_ indeed signifies, to be moved by the wind, motari aura; O. Fr. _plaud-er_, to bang, to maul.
BLAD, _s._ A squall; always including the idea of rain, S. A heavy fall of rain is called "a _blad_ of weet," S. B.
~Bladdy~, _adj._ Inconstant, unsettled; applied to the weather. "A _bladdy_ day," is one alternately fair and foul.
BLAD, _s._ A dirty spot on the cheek, S. perhaps q. the effect of a blow, Gael. _blad_, however, is synon.
BLADARIE, _s._ Perhaps, vain glory.
_R. Bruce._
Teut. _blaeterije_, jactantia, vaniloquentia.
BLADDERAND, BLADDRAND.
V. ~Blether~.
BLADE, _s._ The leaf of a tree, S.
A. S. _blaed_, _bled_; Su. G. Isl. Belg. _blad_, Germ. _blat_, Alem. _plat_, id.; perhaps the part. pa. of A. S. _blew-an_, _blow-an_, florere, to bud, to burgeon; _blaewed_, q. what is _blowed_, or shot forth; just as Franc. _bluat_, flos, is from _bly-en_, florere.
BLADOCH, BLEDOCH, BLADDA, s. Butter-milk, S. B.
_Bannatyne Poems._
Ir. _bladhach_, Gael. _blath-ach_, id. C. B. _blith_, milk in general.
BLADRY, _s._ Expl. "trumpery."
_Kelly._
It may be either the same with _Bladarie_, or _Blaidry_, q. v.
BLAE, BLAY, _s._ The rough parts of wood left in consequence of boring or sawing, S. B.
Germ. _bleh_, thin leaves or plates; lamina, bracteola; Wachter.
BLAES, _s. pl._ Apparently, lamina of stone, S.
_Law Case._
BLAE, _adj._ Livid.
V. ~Bla~.
BLAE-BERRY, _s._ The Billberry; Vaccinium myrtillus, Linn.
_Ramsay._
Sw. _bla-baer_, vaccinium, Seren. Isl. _blaber_, myrtilli; G. Andr.
_To_ BLAFLUM, _v. a._ To beguile, S.
V. ~Bleflum~.
_Ramsay._
BLAIDRY, _s._ Nonsense.
V. ~Blether~, _v._
BLAIDS, _s. pl._
_Watson's Coll._
A. S. _blaedr_, Su. G. _blaedot_, and Germ. _blater_, denote a pimple, or swelling with many reddish pimples that eat and spread. A. S. _blaecth_, leprosy.
BLAIN, _s._ A mark left by a wound, the discolouring of the skin after a sore, S.
_Rutherford._
A. S. _blegene_, Belg. _bleyne_, pustula. But our term is more closely allied to Isl. _blina_, which is not only rendered _pustula_, but also, _caesio ex verbere_; G. Andr. Germ. _blae-en_, to swell.
BLAIN, _s._ A blank, a vacancy.
_A blain in a field_, a place where the grain has not sprung, Loth.
Probably a metaph. use of the preceding word.
BLAIR, _s._ That part of flax which is afterwards used in manufacture, properly after it has been steeped, and laid out for being dried; for it is subsequently called _lint_, S. This in E. is denominated _harle_.
Sw. _blaer_, hards of flax; but rather from Isl. _blaer_, aura, because it is thus exposed to the drought.
_To_ BLAIR, _v. n._ To become dry by exposure to the drought, Ang.
BLAIRIN, _s._ The ground appropriated for drying flax, Ang.
This term also denotes the ground on which peats are laid out to be dried, ibid.
BLAIRAND, _part. pr._ Roaring, crying. Teut. _blaer-en_, mugire, Gl. Sibb.
BLAIT, _adj._ Naked, bare.
_Pr. of Peblis._
BLAIT, BLATE, _adj._
1. Bashful, sheepish, S.
_Ramsay._
2. Blunt, unfeeling; a secondary sense.
_Douglas._
3. Curt, rough, uncivil.
_Spalding._
4. Easily deceived.
_Gl. Surv. Nairn._
O. E. _blade_, silly, frivolous; or in the same sense in which we now speak of a blunt reason or excuse. Isl. _blaad-ur_, _blauth-ur_, _blaud_, soft. The word seems to be primarily applied to things which are softened by moisture. Mollis, limosus, maceratus. Hence used to signify what is feminine; as opposed to _huat-ar_, masculine. It also signifies, timid. _Bleyde_, softness, fear, shame; _hugbleith_, softness of mind; Germ. Su. G. _blode_, Belg. _blood_, mollis, timidus.
BLAIT-MOUIT, _adj._ Bashful, sheepish, q. ashamed to open one's mouth.
BLAITIE-BUM, s. Simpleton, stupid fellow.
_Lyndsay._
If this be the genuine orthography, perhaps from Teut. _blait_, vaniloquus; or rather, blait, sheepish, and _bomme_, tympanum. But it is generally written _Batie-bum_, q. v.
BLAK _of the_ EIE, the apple of the eye, S.
_R. Bruce._
BLAN, _pret._ Caused to cease.
_Gawan and Gol._
It is undoubtedly the pret. of _blin_; A. S. _blan_, _blann_, cessavit.
BLANCHART, _adj._ White.
_Gawan and Gol._
Fr. _blanc_, _blanche_, id. The name _blanchards_ is given to a kind of linen cloth the yarn of which has been twice bleached, before it was put into the loom; perhaps immediately from Teut. _blancke_, id. and _aerd_, Belg. _aardt_, nature.
V. ~Art~.
BLANCIS, _s. pl._ Ornaments worn by those who represented Moors, in the Pageant exhibited at Edinburgh, A. 1590.
_Watson's Coll._
If not allied to Fr. _blanc_, white, it may be a cognate of Germ. Su. G. _blaess_, Isl. _bles_, signum album in fronte equi; whence E. _blason_, S. _Bawsand_, q. v.
BLAND, _s._ Some honourable piece of dress worn by knights and men of rank.
_Maitland Poems._
_Blanda_, according to Bullet, is a robe adorned with purple, a robe worn by grandees. Su. G. _blyant_, _bliant_, a kind of precious garment among the ancients, which seems to have been of silk.
_To_ BLAND, _v. a._ To mix, to blend.
_Douglas._
Su. G. Isl. _bland-a_, to mix.
BLANDED BEAR, barley and common bear mixed, S.
_Statist. Acc._
From Su. G. _bland-a_ is formed _blan-saed_, meslin or mixed corn.
BLAND, _s._ A drink used in the Shetland Islands.
_Brand._
Isl. _blanda_, cinnus, mixtura, pro potu, aqua mixto; Su. G. _bland_ dicebatur mel aqua permixtum.
_To_ BLANDER, _v. a._
1. To babble, to diffuse any report, such especially as tends to injure the character of another, S.
2. Sometimes used to denote the want of regard to truth in narration; a thing very common with tattlers, S. B.
Perhaps from Isl. _bland-a_, Dan. _bland-er_, to mingle, as denoting the blending of truth with falsehood.
BLANDIT, _part. pa._ Flattered, soothed.
_Dunbar._
Fr. _blander_, to soothe, Lat. _blandiri_.
_To_ BLASH, _n. a._ To soak, to drench. "To _blash_ one's stomach," to drink too copiously of any weak and diluting liquor; S.
V. ~Plash~.
Perhaps radically the same with _plash_, from Germ. _platz-en_.
BLASH, _s._ A heavy fall of rain; S.
BLASHY, _adj._ Deluging, sweeping away by inundation; S.
_Ramsay._
_Blashy_, "thin, poor; Northumb."
BLASNIT, _adj._ Perhaps, bare, bald, without hair.
_Bannatyne Poems._
Germ. _bloss_, bare, _bloss-en_, to make bare; or rather, Teut. _bles_, calvus, whence _blesse_, frons capillo nuda.
BLASOWNE, _s._
1. Dress over the armour, on which the armorial bearings were blazoned.
_Wyntown._
2. The badge of office worn by a king's messenger on his arm, S.
_Erskine._
Germ. _blaesse_ denotes a sign in general. Thence _blazon_, a term marking that sign, in heraldry, which is peculiar to each family. The origin seems to be Su. G. _blaesse_.
V. ~Bawsand~.
_To_ BLAST, _v. n._
1. To pant, to breathe hard, S. B.
_Ross._
2. To smoke tobacco, S. B.
3. To blow with a wind instrument.
_Gawan and Gol._
4. To boast, to speak in an ostentatious manner. S.
Su. G _blaas-a_, inspirare, Germ. _blas-en_, flare. Isl. _blast-ur_, halitus, flatus.
Hence,
BLAST, _s._ A brag, a vain boast, S.
_Z. Boyd._
BLASTER, _s._ A boaster; also, one who speaks extravagantly in narration, S.
BLASTIE, _s._ "A shrivelled dwarf; a term of contempt," S. q. what is _blasted_.
_Burns._
_To_ BLAST, v. a. To blow up with gunpowder.
_Statist. Acc._
BLASTER. One who is employed to blow up stones with gunpowder; S.
_Pennant._
BLATE, _adj._ Bashful.
V. ~Blait~.
_To_ BLATHER, _v. n._ To talk nonsensically.
BLATHER, _s._
V. ~Blether~.
BLATTER, _s._ A rattling noise; S.
_Ramsay._
Lat. _blater-are_, Teut. _blater-en_, stultè loqui.
BLAUCHT, _adj._ Pale, livid.
_Palace of Hon._
A. S. _blac_, _blaec_; Su. G. _blek_, Isl. _bleik-r_, E. _bleak_, pallidus. A. S. _blac-ian_, Su. G. _blek-na_, to wax pale.
BLAVING, BLAUING, _s._ Blowing.
_Gawan and Gol._
A. S. _blawan byman_, buccina canere.
BLAW, _s._ A blow, a stroke.
_Wallace._
Teut. _blaew-en_, caedere. _Blaw_ is used in this sense. Gl. Westmorel.
_To_ BLAW, _v._ Used both as _a._ and _n._
1. To blow; in a literal sense referring to the wind. S.
_Douglas._
A. S. _blaw-an_, flare.
2. To breathe, S.
_Abp. Hamiltoun._
3. To publish, to make known. S.
_Burel._
E. _blow_ is used in the same sense.
4. To brag, to boast, S. _Blast_, synon.
_Barbour._
_Douglas._
Germ. _blaw_, falsus, mendax, dolosus. Teut. _blas-en_, flare et nimiis vanisque laudibus rem efferre, ac inani flatu infarcire.
5. To magnify in narration, especially from a principle of ostentation, S.
6. To flatter, to coax.
_Baillie._
S. Prov. "Ye first burn me, and then _blaw_ me."
7. To _blaw_ in one's _lug_, to cajole or flatter a person, so as to be able to guide him at will, S.
_Nicol Burne._
_To blow in the ear_, id. O. E.
Su. G. _blaas-a_, to instil evil counsel. Teut. _oor-blaesen_, not only signifies, in aurem mussare, sive mussitare, obgannire in aurem; but is rendered, blandiri.
8. To huff a man at draughts. _I blaw_, or _blow you_, I take this man, S.
Su. G. _blaas-a_, to blow, is used in this very sense. _Blaasa bort en bricka i damspel_, Seren.
9. To _blaw appin_ locks or bolts, and to loose fetters, by means of a magical power ascribed to the breath, S.
_Satan's Invisible World._
10. _To blaw out_ on one, to reproach him.
_Wallace._
BLAW, _s._
1. A blast, a gust, S. Rudd.
_Gawan and Gol._
2. The sound emitted by a wind instrument.
3. A falsehood, a lie told from ostentation. _He tells greit blaws_, S. B.
_Ramsay._
BLAW, _s._ A pull, a draught; a cant term, used among topers, S.
_Ferguson._
BLAWN COD, a split cod, half-dried, Ang.; so denominated, perhaps, because exposed for some time to the _wind_.
BLAWORT, _s._ The Blue bottle; Centaurea cyanus, Linn., S. _Witch-bells_, also _Thumbles_, S. B.
_Neill._
From _bla_, livid, q. v. and _wort_, an herb.
BLAZE, _s._ The name given to allum ore, S.
BLE, BLIE, _s._ Complexion, colour.
_Gawan and Gol._
This word is common in O. E. A. S. _bleoh_, _blio_, color.
_To_ BLEACH _down_, or _along_, _v. n._ To fall flat to the ground. _Bleach_ is also used to denote a fall of this description, Loth.
Perhaps from Isl. _blak-a_, verberare; as denoting the effect of a violent blow.
BLEACH, _s._ A blow, S. B.
_Gl. Shirr._
_Poems Buchan Dialect._
_To_ BLEAD, _v. a._ Apparently, to train, or to lead on to the chace.
_Statist. Acc._
Alem. _blait-en_, _beleit-en_, comitari, conducere.
BLEAR, _s._ Something that obscures the sight.
V. ~Bleiris~.
_Ross._
_To_ BLECK, BLEK, _v. a._
1. To blacken, literally, S.
_Polwart._
2. To injure one's character.
_Bannatyne Poems._
3. To cause moral pollution.
_Abp. Hamiltoun._
A. S. _blaec-an_, denigrare. Isl. _blek_, liquor tinctorius.
_To_ BLECK, _v. a._ To puzzle, to reduce to a nonplus, in an examination or disputation, S.
Germ. _black-en_, _plack-en_, vexare, exagitare.
_To_ BLEEZE, _v. n._
1. To become a little sour. Milk is said to _bleeze_, or to be _bleezed_, when it is turned, but not congealed, S.; _blink_, synon.
From Germ. _blaes-en_, to blow; or, _blitz-en_, fulgurare; heat, especially when accompanied by lightning, more generally producing this effect.
2. The part. _bleezed_ signifies the state of one on whom intoxicating liquor begins to operate, S. It especially denotes the change produced in the expression of the countenance; as, _He looked bleezed-like_.
BLED, _part. pa._ Perhaps, sprung.
_Gawan and Gol._
BLEFLUM, BLEPHUM, _s._ A sham, an illusion, what has no reality in it, S.
V. ~Blaflum~, _v._
_Rutherford._
Isl. _flim_, irrisio, carmen famosum. Hence _flimt-a_, diffamo, _flimt_, nugae infames, G. Andr. p. 74. Su. G. _flimm-a_, illudere.
BLEHAND, BLIHAND, _adj._
_Sir Trist._
"_Blue_, from _bleah_, Sax. _caeruleus_. Blehand brown. A bluish brown," Gl. The word is merely A. S. _blae-hewen_ a little transformed. The idea seems, "a brownish colour, inclining to purple or violet."
BLEIB, _s._
1. A pustule, a blister. "A burnt _bleib_," a blister caused by burning, S.
_Bleb_, a blister, A. Bor. Gl. Grose.
2. _Bleibs_, _pl._ An eruption to which children are subject, in which the spots appear larger than in the measles; Loth. Border.
V. ~Blob~.
BLEIRIE, _adj._ A term applied to weak liquor, which has little or no strength; as _bleirie ale_, Fife.
BLEIRING, _part. pa._ _Bleiring Bats_.
_Polwart._
This seems to be the _botts_, a disease in horses. _Bleiring_ may express the effect of pain in making the patient to cry out; Teut. _blaer-en_, boare, mugire.
BLEIRIS, _s. pl._ Something that prevents distinctness of vision.
_Philotus._
This is the same with _blear_, _s._ only used in the _pl._ Ihre mentions E. _blear-eyed_, as allied to Su. G. _blir-a_, _plir-a_, oculis semiclausis videre.
BLEIS, BLES, BLESS, BLEISE, _s._
1. Blaze, bright flame, S. B.
_Barbour._
2. A torch, S.
_Douglas._
A. S. _blaese_, fax, taeda, a torch, any thing that makes a blaze, Su. G. _bloss_, id. Somn.
3. A signal made by fire, S.
BLEIS, _s._ The name given to a river-fish.
_Sibbald._
This seems to be what in E. is called _Bleak_, Cyprinus alburnus, Linn.
BLELLUM, _s._ An idle talking fellow, Ayrs.
_Burns._
_To_ BLEME, _v. n._ To bloom, to blossom.
_Bannatyne Poems._
BLEMIS, _s. pl._ Blossoms, flowers.
_Houlate._
Belg. _bloem_, Isl. _bloma_, Alem. _bluom_, flos, flosculus. Teut. _bloem-en_, florere.
_To_ BLENK, BLINK, _v. n._
1. To open the eyes, as one does from a slumber, S.
_Barbour._
2. To throw a glance on one, especially as expressive of regard, S.
_Ross._
3. To look with a favourable eye; used metaph. in allusion to the shining of the sun, after it has been covered with a cloud.
V. ~Blink~, _v._
_Baillie._
Belg. _blenck-en_, _blinck-en_, Su. G. _blaenk-a_, to shine, to glance, to flash as lightning.
BLENK, BLINK, _s._
1. A beam, a ray.
_Douglas._
2. "A glimpse of light," S. Sir J. Sinclair's Observ. p. 113.