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GLOSSARY.

THE ch and gh have always the guttural found. The found of the English diphthong oo, is commonly fpelled ou. The French u, a found which often occurs in the Scottish language, is marked oo, or ui. The a in genuine Scottish words, except when forming a diphthong, or followed by an e mute after a fingle confonant, founds generally like the broad English a in wall. The Scottish diphthong, ae, always, and ea, very often, found like the French e mafculine. The Scottish diphthong ey, founds like the Latin ei.

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Awa', away

A', ball

Bawf'nt, having a white ftripe down the face

Barket, barked

Barkin, barking

Baith, both

Bane, bone

Bainie, having large bones,

font

Bardie, diminutive of bard Bauld, bold; Bauldly, boldly

Barefit, barefooted

Batch, a crew, a gang

Batts, botts

Bade, endured, did ftay

Bang, an effort

Bairn, a child

Bairntime, a family of chil

dren, a brood Baudrons, a cat

Barmie, of, or like barm Bank, a cross beam; Bauk en', the end of a beam Bad, did bid

Baggie, the belly

Bafhfu', bafhful

Backlins comin,

back, returning

coming

Awn, the beard of barley, Be, to let be, to give over,

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Belyve, by and by

Beet, to add fuel to fire Beaftie, dimin. of beast Benlomond, a noted moun

tain in Dumbartonshire

Belly-fu', belly full

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Bleth'ren, talking idly
Blaud, a flat piece of any
thing; to flap
Blate, bafhful, fheepish

Bethankit, the grace after Bleezing, blazing

meat

Befa', to befall
Billie, a brother, a young

fellow

Big, to build; Biggit, builded

Biggin, building, a house Bicker, a kind of wooden difh, a fhort race Birkie, a clever fellow Bing, a heap of grain, potatoes, &c. Bill, a bull

Bizz, a bustle, to buzz Birring, the noife of partridges, &c. when they fpring

Bit, crifis, nick of time
Bien, wealthy, plentiful
Biel, or bield, fhelter
Blaftit, blafted

Blaftie, a fhrivelled dwarf,

a term of contempt Blink, a little while, a fmiling look; to look kindly, to fhine by fits Blinker, a term of contempt Blinkin, fmirking

Bluid, blood; Bluidy, bloody

Bleffin, bleffing Blusht, did blush Blype, a fhred, a large piece Bleatin, bleating Blue-gown, one of thofe beggars who get annually, on the King's birth-day, a blue cloke or gown with a badge

Bonie, or bony, handsome, beautiful

Bonilie, handfomely, beautifully

Bonnock, a kind of thick
cake of bread
Bother, to pother
Bodle, a fmall old coin
Boortrie, the fhrub elder,
planted much of old in
hedges of barn-yards, &c.
Boord, a board

Botch, an angry tumour
Booft, behoved, muft needs
Bow kail, cabbage
Bow't, bended, crooked
Bock, to vomit, to gush in-
termittently
Bocked, gufhed, vomited
Braw, fine, handfome

Brawly,

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