Part 9
Fr. _bordel_, id., Su. G. A. S. _bord_, a house. The dimin. of this, Ihre says, was L. B. _bordell-um_, _bordil-e_, tuguriolum, cujus generis quum olim meretricum stabula essent.
BORDELLAR, _s._ A haunter of brothels.
_Bellenden._
BORE, _s._ A crevice.
V. ~Bor~.
BORE'S- (or BOAR'S) EARS, _s. pl._ The name given to the Auricula, S. B. Primula auricula, Linn.
A bear is called a _boar_, S., especially S. B.
BORE-TREE, _s._ Sambucus nigra.
V. ~Bourtree~.
BOREAU, _s._ An executioner.
V. ~Burio~.
BORGH, _s._ A surety.
V. ~Borch~.
BORN.
_Wallace._
_Born_ may have some affinity to Isl. _borgun_, Su. G. _borgen_, suretyship; q. one under contract or obligation.
BORROWING DAYS, the three last days of March, Old Stile, S.
_Complaynt S._
These days being generally stormy, our forefathers have endeavoured to account for this circumstance, by pretending that March _borrowed_ them from April, that he might extend his power so much longer. Those who are much addicted to superstition will neither borrow nor lend on any of these days; lest the articles borrowed should be employed for the purposes of witchcraft, against the lenders. Some of the vulgar imagine, that these days received their designation from the conduct of the Israelites in _borrowing_ the property of the Egyptians.
BOS, BOSS, BOIS, _adj._
1. Hollow, S.
_Douglas._
"A _boss_ sound," that which is emitted by a body that is hollow, S.
2. Empty. A shell, without a kernel, is said to be _boss_. The word is also used to denote the state of the stomach when it is empty, or after long abstinence, S.
_Morison._
3. In the same sense, it is metaph. applied to a weak or ignorant person. One is said to be "nae _boss_ man," who has a considerable share of understanding, S. B.
_Ramsay._
4. Poor, destitute of worldly substance, S. B.
Teut. _bosse_, umbo.
_Ross._
BOSS, BOCE, _s._ Any thing hollow.
_Burel._
_The boss of the side_, the hollow between the ribs and the haunch, S.
BOSS, BOISS, _s._
1. A small cask.
_Pitscottie._
2. It seems to denote a bottle, perhaps one of earthen ware; such as is now vulgarly called a _gray-beard_.
_Dunbar._
3. In pl. _bosses_, _boisses_, a term of contempt, conjoined with _auld_, and applied to persons of a despicable or worthless character.
_Knox._
From Fr. _boire_, to drink, whence _boisson_, drink, or _busse_, a cask for holding wines.
BOT, _conj._ But, often confounded with _but_, prep. signifying, without.
_Douglas._
A. S. _butan_, _buton_, are used precisely as S. _but_, without.
BOTAND, BUT-AND, _prep._ Besides.
_Percy._
BOTAND, _adv._
1. But if, except.
_Barbour._
2. Moreover, besides.
_Maitland Poems._
In the latter sense, it is from A. S. _butan_, praeter.
BOTCARD, s. A sort of artillery used in S. in the reign of Ja. V.
_Pitscottie._
The same instruments seem to be afterwards called _battars_, ib. Fr. _bastarde_, "a demie canon, or demie culverin; a smaller piece of any kind," Cotgr.
BOTE, BUTE, _s._
1. Help, advantage; E. _boot_, Doug.
2. Compensation, satisfaction; Acts Parl. pass.
A. S. _bote_, id. from _bet-an_, emendare, restaurare.
~Kin-bote~, compensation or "assithment for the slaughter of a kinsman;" Skene, Verb. Sign.
A. S. _cyn_, cognatio, and _bote_.
~Man-bot~, the compensation fixed by the law, for killing a man, according to the rank of the person. Ibid.
A. S. _man-bot_, id.
~Theift-bote~, compensation made to the king for theft.
_Reg. Maj._
BOTHE, BOOTH, BUITH, _s._ A shop made of boards; either fixed, or portable, S.
V. ~Lucken~.
_Douglas._
Hence the _Luckenbooths_ of Edinburgh, wooden shops, made for being _locked_ up. Teut. _boede_, _bode_, domuncula, casa, Kilian; Su. G. _bud_, taberna mercatorum, apotheca; Isl. _bud_, id.
BOTHIE, BOOTHIE, _s._ A cottage, often used to denote a place where labouring servants are lodged, S.
_Neill._
Su. G. _bod_, a house, a cottage; Gael. _bothag_, _bothan_, a cot.
_To_ BOTHER, BATHER, _v. a._ To teaze one by dwelling on the same subject, or by continued solicitation, S.
BOTHNE, BOTHENE, _s._
1. A park in which cattle are fed and inclosed.
_Skene._
2. A barony, lordship, or sheriffdom.
_Assis. Reg. Dav._
L. B. _bothena_, baronia, aut territorium.
BOTINYS, _s. pl._ Buskins; Gl. Sibb.
Fr. _botine_, cothurnus.
V. ~Boiting~.
BOTTLE-NOSE, _s._ A species of whale, S. Orkn.
_Statist. Acc._
BOTTOM-ROOM, _s._ The name vulgarly given to the space occupied by one sitter in a church, S.
BOTWAND, _s._ Perhaps, a rod of authority.
_Kennedy._
Germ. _bot_, power, and _wand_, a rod.
BOUCHT, BOUGHT, _s._ A curvature or bending of any kind, S. "The _bought_ of the arm," the bending of the arm at the elbow.
_Journ. Lond._
Where the sea forms a sort of bay, it is said to have a _bought_, S.
A. S. _bogeht_, arcuatus, crooked; _bug-an_, to bend. Germ. _bug_, sinus; _bucht_, curvatura littoris, Wachter.
_To_ BOUCHT, BOUGHT, _v. a._ To fold down, S.
Isl. _bukt-a_, Teut. _buck-en_, flectere, curvare.
BOUCHT, BOUGHT, BUCHT, BUGHT, _s._
1. A small pen, usually put up in the corner of the fold, into which it was customary to drive the ewes, when they were to be milked; also called _ewe-bucht_, S.
_Douglas._
2. A house in which sheep are inclosed, Lanerks.; an improper sense.
_Statist. Acc._
Teut. _bocht_, _bucht_, septum, septa, interseptum, sepimentum clausum.
_To_ BOUCHT, BOUGHT _v. a._ To inclose in a fold, S.; formed from the _s._
_Ross._
BOUCHT-KNOT, _s._ A running knot; one that can easily be loosed, in consequence of the cord being _doubled_, S.
BOUGARS, _s. pl._ Cross spars, forming part of the roof of a cottage, used instead of laths, on which wattling or twigs are placed, and above these _divots_, and then the straw or thatch, S.
_Chr. Kirk._
Lincolns. _bulkar_, a beam; Dan. _biaelke_, pl. _bielcker_, beams. Su. G. _bialke_, a small rafter, tigillum, in Westro-Goth. is written _bolkur_.
BOUK, BUIK, _s._
1. The trunk of the body, as distinguished from the head or extremity, S.
A _bouk of tauch_, all the tallow taken out of an ox or cow, S.
Germ. _bauch von talge_, id.
A _bouk-louse_, one that has been bred about the body.
Teut. _beuck_, truncus corporis.
2. The whole body of man, or carcase of a beast, S.
_Douglas._
3. The body, as contradistinguished from the soul.
_R. Bruce._
4. Size, stature, S. _bulk_; _Boukth_, bulk, Gl. Lancash.
_J. Nicol._
5. The greatest share, the principal part, S.
_Cleland._
_To_ BOUK, _v. n._ To bulk, S.
Hence,
BOUKIT, BOWKIT, _part. pa._
1. Large, bulky; S.
_Douglas._
2. _Boukit_ and _muckle-boukit_ are used in a peculiar sense; as denoting the appearance which a pregnant woman makes, after her shape begins to alter.
BOUKSUM, BOUKY, _adj._ Of the same sense with _Boukit_, S.
_Poems Buchan Dialect._
BOUKE, _s._ A solitude.
_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._
A. S. _buce_, secessus, "a solitary and secret place," Somner.
BOULDEN, _part. pa._ Swelled, inflated.
V. ~Boldin~.
BOULE, "Round," Rudd.
_Douglas._
Teut. _bol_, tumidus, turgidus; or _boghel_, _beughel_, curvatura semicircularis, from _bogh-en_, arcuare.
BOULENA, A sea cheer, signifying, Hale up the bowlings.
_Complaynt S._
BOULENE, _s._ The same with E. _Bowline_. A rope fastened to the middle part of the outside of a sail.
_Complaynt S._
Sw. _bog-lina_, id. from _bog_, flexus.
BOUN, BOUNE, BOWN, _adj._ Ready, prepared, S.
_Barbour._
_Bone_ is used in the same sense, O. E.
Su. G. _bo_, _bo-a_, to prepare, to make ready; Isl. _bu-a_, id. _Boen_ or _boin_ is the part. pa.
_To_ BOUN, BOWN, _v. a._
1. To make ready, to prepare.
_Wallace._
2. To go, to direct one's course to a certain place.
_Sir Egeir._
BOUND, BUND, _part. pa._ Pregnant.
_Douglas._
_To_ BOUNT, _v. n._ To spring, to bound.
Fr. _bond-ir_, id.
_Burel._
BOUNTÉ, _s._ Worth, goodness.
_Barbour._
Fr. _bonté_, id.
BOUNTETH, BOUNTITH, _s._
1. Something given as a reward for service or good offices.
_Watson's Coll._
2. It now generally signifies what is given to servants, in addition to their wages, S; _bounties_, S. B.
_Ramsay._
Gael. _bunntais_ seems merely a corr. of this word.
BOUR, BOURE, _s._ A chamber; sometimes a retired apartment, such as ladies were wont to possess in ancient times.
_Douglas._
A. S. _bur_, _bure_, conclave, an inner chamber, a parlour, a _bower_. Teut. _buer_, id. Dan. _buur_, conclave, Su. G. Isl. _bur_, habitaculum. Isl. _jungfrubur_, gynaeceum, ubi olim filiae familias habitabant; literally, the young lady's bower. Hence _bour-bourding_, jesting in a lady's chamber, Pink.
BOURACH, BOWROCK, _s._
1. An inclosure; applied to the little houses that children build for play, especially those made in the sand, S.
_Kelly._
"We'll never big sandy _bowrocks_ together."
_S. Prov. Kelly._
2. A crowd, a ring, a circle, S. B.
_Poems Buchan Dialect._
3. A confused heap of any kind, S. B. Such a quantity of body-clothes as is burdensome to the wearer, is called _a bourach of claise_; Ang.
_Statist. Acc._
4. A cluster, as of trees, S.
_Ferguson._
A. S. _beorh_, _burg_, an inclosure, a heap; Su. G. _borg_.
~Burrach'd~, ~Bourach'd~, _part. pa._ Inclosed, environed, S. B.
_Ross._
BOURACH, BORRACH, _s._ A band put round a cow's hinder legs at milking, S.
Gael. _buarach_.
BOURBEE, _s._ The spotted Whistle fish, S.
_Sibbald._
_To_ BOURD, _v. n._ To jest, to mock, S.
_Ramsay._
Fr. _bourd-er_, id. But this seems to be merely an abbrev. of _behourd-ir_, _bohord-er_, to just together with lances. _Bohord_, _behord_, is originally a Gothic word, as being used by old Northern writers.
BOURD, BOURE, _s._ A jest, a scoff, S.
_Kelly._
_Houlate._
BOURIE, _s._ A hole made in the earth by rabbits, or other animals that hide themselves there; E. a _Burrow_.
_Monroe._
From the same origin with ~Bourach~.
BOURTREE, BORETREE, BOUNTREE, _s._ Common elder, a tree; Sambucus nigra, Linn.; A. Bor. _Burtree_.
_Lightfoot._
It seems to have received its name from its being hollow within, and thence easily _bored_ by thrusting out the pulp.
BOUSHTY, _s._ Expl. "bed." Aberd.
_Shirrefs._
The same with _Buisty_, q. v.
BOUSTOUR, BOWSTOWRE, _s._ A military engine, anciently used for battering walls.
_Wyntown._
Su. G. _byssa_, _bossa_, signifies a mortar, an engine for throwing bombs; Bombarda, Ihre; formerly _byssor_; from _byssa_, theca, a box, or case; because in these tubes, as in cases, bullets are lodged.
BOUSUM, BOWSOM, _adj._
1. Pliant, tractable.
_Palice Honour._
A. S. _bocsum_, _buhsum_, obediens, tractabilis, from _bug-an_, Belg. _buyg-en_, flectere.
2. "Blythe, merry," Rudd.
_To_ BOUT, BOWT, _v. n._ To spring, to leap, S. "_bouted up_," Rudd. vo. _up-boltit_.
_Lyndsay._
Teut. _botten_, _op-bott-en_, to rebound, resilire.
BOUT, _s._ A sudden jerk in entering or leaving an apartment; a hasty entrance or departure; the act of coming upon one by surprise; S.
BOUTGATE, _s._
1. A circuitous road, a way which is not direct, S. from _about_, and _gait_ way.
_Ross._
2. A circumvention, a deceitful course, S.
_R. Bruce._
3. An ambiguity, or an equivocation, in discourse.
_Bp. Forbes._
BOW, _s._ A boll; a dry measure, S.
_Monroe._
BOW, BOLL, LINTBOW, _s._ The globule which contains the seed of flax. _Bow_ is the pron. S.
_Polwart._
Germ. _boll_, id. oculus et gemma plantae, caliculus ex quo flos erumpit; Wachter.
BOW, BOWE, _s._
1. The herd in general; whether inclosed in a fold or not.
_Douglas._
2. A fold for cows, S.
_Bannatyne Poems._
Su. G. _bo_, _bu_, either the herd or the flock; armenta, pecora, grex; Dan. _boe_, a shed, booth or stall.
BOW, _s._
1. An arch, a gateway, S.
_Knox._
2. The arch of a bridge, S.
_Muses Threnodie._
Teut. _boghe_, id. arcus, concameratio; from _bogh-en_, flectere; A. S. _bog-a_, "an arch of a bridge or other building;" Somner.
BOW, _s._ As applied to a house.
V. ~Boo~.
BOWAND, _adj._ Crooked.
_Douglas._
A. S. _bugend_, id.
BOWAT, _s._ A hand-lanthern.
V. ~Bowet~.
BOWBARD, _s._ A dastard, a person destitute of spirit.
_Douglas._
Teut. _boeverje_, nequitia. Or, shall we rather view it as originally the same with _Bumbart_, q. v.?
BOWBERT, _adj._ Lazy, inactive.
_Douglas._
BOWDEN, _part. pa._ Swollen.
V. ~Boldin~.
BOWELHIVE, _s._ An inflammation of the bowels, to which children are subject, S.
V. ~Hive~, _v._
_Pennecuik._
BOWES ~and~ BILLES, A phrase used by the English, in former times, for giving an alarm in their camp or military quarters.
_Knox._
BOWET, BOWAT, _s._ A hand-lanthern, S. _Bowit_, A. Bor.
_Abp. Hamiltoun._
Perhaps from Fr. _bougette_, a little coffer; if not allied to _bougie_, a small wax-candle.
BOWGER, _s._ The puffin, or coulter-neb, a bird; _alca arctica_, Linn.
_Martin._
BOWGLE, _s._ A wild ox, a buffalo.
_Dunbar._
Lat. _bucul-us_, a young ox. Hence _bugle-horn_.
BOWIE, _s._
1. A small barrel or cask, open at one end; S.
_Ferguson._
2. It denotes a small tub for washing, S.
3. It also sometimes signifies a milk pail, S.
_Ramsay._
Fr. _buie_, a water-pot or pitcher; Cotgr.
Hence,
BOWIEFU', _s._ The fill of a small tub, S.
_J. Nicol._
BOW-KAIL, _s._ Cabbage, S. so called from the circular form of this plant. For the same reason its Belg. name is _buys-kool_.
_Burns._
~Bow-stock~, _s._ The same. "A bastard may be as good as a _bow-stock_, by a time;" S. Prov.
_Kelly._
BOWLAND, _part. adj._ Hooked, crooked.
_Douglas._
Teut. _boghel-en_, arcuare. _Bowland_ is just the part. pr. _boghelend_, contr.
BOWLIE, BOOLIE, _adj._ Crooked, deformed; _Boolie-backit_, humpbacked; sometimes applied to one whose shoulders are very round, S.
V. ~Beugle-backed~.
Germ. _bucklig_, Dan. _bugelt_, id. from _bugle_, a bunch or hump; and this from _bug-en_, to bend; Dan. _boeyel_, crookedness, _boeyelig_, flexible.
_To_ BOWN, _v. a._ To make ready.
V. ~Boun~, _v._
BOWRUGIE, _s._ Burgess; the third estate in a Parliament or Convention; in resemblance of Fr. _bourgeois_.
_Wallace._
BOWSIE, _adj._ Crooked, S.
Fr. _bossu_, id.
BOWSUNES, _s._ Obedience.
_Wyntown._
A. S. _bocsumnesse_, obedientia.
BOWT, _s._
1. A bolt, a shaft; in general.
_Chron. S. Poet._
2. A thunderbolt, S.
_Ross._
_To_ BOX, _v. a._ To wainscot, to cover with boards, S.
BOXING, s. Wainscotting; Sir J. Sinclair, p. 170., S.
BRA, BRAE, BRAY, _s._
1. The side of a hill, an acclivity, S.
_Barbour._
2. The bank of a river, S. _Breea_, A. Bor. id.
3. A hill, S.
_Ross._
4. Conjoined with a name, it denotes the upper part of a country; as "_Bra-mar, Bra-Cat, the Braes of Angus;_" S.
_Sir J. Sinclair._
_To gae down the brae_, metaph. to be in a declining state, in whatever sense; to have the losing side, S.
C. B. _bre_, a mountain, pl. _breon_, _bryn_; Gael. _bre_, _bri_, _brigh_, a hill. Isl. _braa_, cilium, the brow; whence _augnabraa_, the eye-brow; and _bratt_ signifies steep, having an ascent.
_To_ BRA, _v. n._
1. To bray.
2. To make a loud and disagreeable noise.
_Douglas._
BRAAL, _s._ A fragment. "There's nae a _braal_ to the fore," There is not a fragment remaining, Ang.
BRABBLACH, _s._ The refuse of any thing; as of corn, meat, &c. Fife.
Gael. _prabal_, id.
BRACE, _s._ A chimney-piece, a mantle-piece, S.
BRACHELL, _s._ A dog; properly, one employed to discover or pursue game by the scent.
_Wallace._
Alem. _brak_; Germ. _brack_, id. canis venaticus, forte investigator; O. Fr. _brachez_. Verel. expl. Isl. _rakke_ canis, deriving it from _racka_, _frakka_, cursitare.
BRACHEN, (gutt.) BRAIKIN, BRECKEN, _s._ The female fern, Polypodium filix foemina, Linn.
_Burns._
In Smoland in Sweden, the female fern is called _braeken_; Sw. _stotbraakin_, id. _In_ is a termination in Gothic, denoting the female gender.
ROYAL BRACHENS, _s. pl._ The flowering fern, S. Osmunda regalis, Linn.
_Lightfoot._
BRACKS, _s._ A disease of sheep.
V. ~Braxy~.
BRAD, _part. pa._ Roasted.
V. next word.
_To_ BRADE, _v. a._ To roast.
_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._
A. S. _braed-an_, id. _braedde_, assatus.
_To_ BRADE, BRAID, _v. n._
1. To move quickly, to take long steps in rapid succession.
_Douglas._
2. To spring, to start.
_Gawan and Gol._
3. To break out, to issue with violence.
_Douglas._
4. To draw out quickly; used actively, especially with respect to the unsheathing or brandishing of a sword, or other weapon of this kind.
_Wallace._
Isl. _braad-a_, accelerare. _At bregd-a sverde_, gladium evaginare vel stringere. A. S. _braed-an_, exerere, stringere.
BRADE, BRAIDE, _s._ A start, a spring, a quick motion of the body.
_Dunbar._
Isl. _bregd_, versura.
_To_ BRADE, BRAID, _v. a._ To attack, to assault; Rudd.
Isl. _bregd-a manne nidur_, sternere virum.
BRAID, s. Assault, aim to strike.
_Douglas._
It is used in a similar sense, O. E. Isl. _bregd_, nisus, an attempt, an exertion.
BRADE, _adj._; S.
V. ~Braid~.
_To_ BRADE, BRAID, _v. a._ To turn round.
_Gawan and Gol._
Isl. _bregd-a_, vertere.
_To_ BRADE, BRAID, BREDE, BREED, _v. n._
1. To resemble, to be like in manners; especially as denoting that similarity which characterises the same stock or family; with the prep. _of_.
_Ferguson's S. Prov._
2. To appear, to be manifest.
_Dunbar._
Isl. _bregd-a_, _bregth-a_, Su. G. _braa_, denote the resemblance of children, in dispositions, to their progenitors. _Bregdur barni til aettar_, progenitoribus suis quisque fere similis est.
_To_ BRADE, BRAID _up_, _v. a._ "To _braid up_ the head," to toss it as a high-mettled horse does, or to carry it high.
_Dunbar._
A. S. _bred-an_, Belg. _breyd-en_, to extend.
_To_ BRAG, _v. a._
1. To reproach, to upbraid.
_Ruddiman._
2. To defy, S. B.
_Morison._
Su. G. _brigd-a_, exprobrare; Isl. _bregd-a_, opprobrare.
BRAGING, _s._ Boasting.
_Gawan and Gol._
BRAGWORT, _s._ Expl. "Mead, a beverage made from the dregs of honey." Gl. Sibb.
_Braggot_, Gl. Lancash. C. B. _bragod_, id.
_To_ BRAID _up the burde_; marked as used by James I.
BRAID, BRADE, _adj._
1. Broad, S.
_Ritson._
2. Plain, intelligible.
_Douglas._
Moes. G. Isl. _braid_, A. S. _bred_, latus.
BRAID, BRADE, _adv._ Widely.
_Douglas._
BRAID-BAND, BROAD-BAND, _s._
1. Corn laid out, in the harvest field, on the band, but not bound, is said to be _lying in braid-band_, S.
2. _To be laid in broad-band_, metaph. to be fully exposed.
_Z. Boyd._
_To_ BRAIK, _v. n._ To reach.
V. ~Braking~.
_Lyndsay._
BRAIK, s. A threat.
_Douglas._
Isl. _brak-a_, strepo.
BRAIK, BREAK, _s._ An instrument used in dressing hemp or flax, for loosening it from the core, S.
_Watson's Coll._
Teut. _braecke_, id. malleus stuparius, vulgo linifrangibula.
BRAIK, _s._ An internal mortification; a disease among sheep, Ang.
V. ~Braxy~.
Su. G. _braeck_, a defect of any kind.
BRAIKIT, _adj._ Speckled, S.
Ir. _breac_, _brek_, id.
BRAYMEN, _s. pl._ The name given to those who inhabit the southern declivity of the Grampian hills, S.
_D. Buchanan._
BRAIN, _s._ Voice. "A braw _brain_," "a strong _brain_," a powerful voice, Ang.
_To_ BRAINDGE, _v. n._ "To run rashly forward," S. O.
_Burns._
Shall we view this as an oblique sense of Belg. _brins-en_, to neigh?
BRAYNE, BRANE, _adj._ Mad, furious.
_Douglas._
A. S. _brinn-an_, to burn, _bren_, _bryne_, fervor; whence _bryne-adl_, a fever; Su. G. _braanad_, fervor, ardor.
~Brayn-wod~, ~Brane-wod~, _adj._ Mad, in a state of insanity.
_Wyntown._
V. ~Brayne~ and ~Wod~.
BRAIRD, _s._ The first sprouting of grain.
V. ~Breer~.
_To_ BRAIS, _v. a._ To embrace.
_Dunbar._
Fr. _bras_, the arm, whence embrace, q. _in arms_.
BRAIS, _s. pl._ Snares, gins.
_Douglas._
A. S. _braegd_, figmentum, _braegden_, fraud; _gebraegdas_, crafts, frauds, subtile contrivances; Isl. Su. G. _bragd_, fraus.
BRAISE, BRAZE, _s._ The Roach, a fish, S.
_Ure._
Sw. _brazen_, cyprinus brama, bream; Teut. _braessem_, id. cyprinus latus.
BRAITH, _adj._ Violent, severe.
_Wallace._
Isl. Su. G. _braede_, ira, animi fervor.
BRAITHFUL, BREITHFUL, _adj._ Sharp, violent.
_Douglas._
BRAITHLIE, _adj._ The same with ~Braithful~; or perhaps in the sense of struggling.
_Douglas._
Su. G. _bryt-a_, _brott-as_, Isl. _briot-a_, luctare.
BRAITHLY, _adv._ Violently, with great force.
_Wallace._
_To_ BRAK, _v. n._ To break, S. B.
_Ross._
A. S. _brac-an_, id. Isl. _eg braaka_, frango.
BRAKE, _s._ A large and heavy kind of harrow, chiefly used for breaking in rough ground, S.
_To_ BRAK, _v. n._ To express great sorrow on any account. One says, "I'm like to _brak_," S. B.
This is probably allied to Isl. _braek_, _brek_, wailing.
BRAK, BRAKE, _adj._ Somewhat salt, brackish.
_Douglas._
Belg. _brack_, salsus.
BRAKING, _s._ Puking, reaching, S. B.
_Ross._
Teut, _braeck-en_, to vomit, _braecke_, nausea.
BRALD, _part. pa._ Decked, dressed.
_Maitland Poems._
Fr. _brell-er_, to glitter.
BRANDED, _part. pa._ Bordered, having a margin.
_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._
Germ. _braun_, Isl. _brun_, limbus.
BRANDED, BRANNIT, _adj._ Having a reddish-brown colour, as if singed by fire.
_A branded cow_ is one that is almost entirely brown, S.
Germ. _braun_, id.
_Minstrelsy Bord._
BRANDEN, _part. pa._ Grilled.
V. ~Brid~.
BRANDNEW, BRENTNEW, a phrase equivalent to _spick and span_, quite new, S.
_Ross._
Teut. _brand new_, id., from _brand_, incendium, ustio.
BRANDER, BRANDRETH, _s._ A gridiron.
_Wyntown._
S. _brander_, A. S. _brandred_, "a brand-iron;" Dan. _brandrith_; Teut. _brand-roede_, _brander_, fulcrum focarium.
_To_ BRANDER, _v. a._ To broil on a grid-iron, to grill, S.
_Sir J. Sinclair._
BRANDRETH.
V. ~Brander~.
BRANDUR, _s._ A border.
V. ~Branded~.
BRANE, _s._ Bran, the husks of corn ground.
_Dunbar._
BRANEWOD, _s._ Wood for burning.
_Chr. Kirk._
A. S. _bryne_ incendium, and _wude_, wood.
BRANG, _pret._ Brought, S.
_J. Nicol._
_To_ BRANGLE, _v. n._
1. To shake, to vibrate.
_Douglas._
2. To menace, to make a threatening appearance.
_Douglas._
3. To shake, applied to the mind; to confound, to throw into disorder; used actively.
_Godscroft._
Fr. _branl-er_, to shake; Su. G. _brang-as_, cum labore perrumpere velle.
BRANGILL, _s._ A kind of dance.
_Douglas._
Fr. _branle_, "a brawle, or daunce, wherein many men and women move all together;" Cotgr.
BRANIT, _part. pa._ Brawned; a term formed from E. _brawn_, the fleshy or musculous part of the body.
_Dunbar._
_To_ BRANK, _v. a._
1. To bridle, to restrain.
_Godly Sangs._
2. _v. n._ To raise and toss the head, as spurning the bridle; applied to horses.
_Douglas._
3. To bridle up one's self.
_Maitland Poems._
4. To prance, to caper.
_Ramsay._
Teut. _brank-en_ and _proncken_, both signify, ostentare se, dare se spectandum; Germ. _prang-en_, id.; Su. G. _prunk-a_, superbire. Wachter gives _prang-en_, as also signifying, premere, coarctare.
BRANKEN, _part. pr._ Gay, lively, S. A.
_J. Nicol._
BRANKS, _s. pl._
1. A sort of bridle, often used by country people in riding. Instead of leather, it has on each side a piece of wood joined to a halter, to which a bit is sometimes added; but more frequently a kind of wooden noose resembling a muzzle, S.
_Montrose's Mem._
Within these few years, an iron bit was preserved in the steeple of Forfar, formerly used, in that very place, for torturing the unhappy creatures who were accused of witchcraft. It was called _The Witch's Branks_.
Gael. _brancas_, a halter. But our word seems originally the same with Teut. _pranghe_, _muyl-pranghe_, postomis, pastomis, confibula; instrumentum quod naribus equorum imponitur; Kilian.
2. _Branks_, I suspect, is sometimes used in S. as synon. with _jugs_ or pillory.
_Howie._
BRANKS, _s. pl._ A swelling in the chops, S. A. from the compression of the parts, as the chops of a horse are compressed by the _branks_ which he wears; the _buffets_, S. B.
BRANNOCK, _s._ The Samlet, or small fish generally known in S. by the name of _Par. Branlin_, Yorks.
BRASAND, _part. pr._ Embracing.
Fr. _bras_, the arm.
_Douglas._
_To_ BRASE, BRASS, _v. a._ To bind, to tie.
_Wallace._
Fr. _embrass-er_, to bind.
BRASERIS, BRASARIS, _s. pl._ Vambraces, armour for the arms.
_Wallace._
Fr. _brassar_, _brassard_, _brassart_, id.; brachiale ferreum; from _bras_, the arm, Lat. _brach-ium_.
_To_ BRASH, _v. a._ To assault, to attack.
V. ~Bresche~.
_Sir W. More._
Teut. _broes-en_, tempestuosum et furentem ventum spirare; or from A. S. _beraes-an_, impetuose proruere, irruere.
BRASH, BRASHE, _s._ An effort, an attack, an assault; as E. _brush_ is used.
_Muses Thren._
BRASHY, BRAUSHIE, _adj._ Stormy, S.
_J. Nicol._
BRASH, _s._ A transient attack of sickness; a bodily indisposition of whatever kind, S. _Quhither_, synon. S. B.
_Burns._
The disorder to which children are often subject after being weaned, is called the _speaning-brash_. We also speak of "a _brash_ of the teeth." This, perhaps, is merely a different sense of the s. as explained above. Isl. _breisk_, however, signifies infirm, _breiskleike_, weakness, G. Andr.
BRASHY, _adj._ Delicate in constitution, subject to frequent ailments, S.
_To_ BRAST, _v. n._ To burst.
_Douglas._