Birken-shaw, Birchen-wood-shaw, a small Brock, a badger wood. Birkie, a clever fellow Brogue, a hum; a trick Broo, broth; a trick Birring, the noise of partridges, &c. when they Broose, broth; a race at country weddings, spring Bit, crisis, nick of time, Bizz, a bustle, to buzz who shall first reach the bridegrooms's house on returning from church Browster-wives, ale-house wives Blastie, a shrivelled dwarf; a term of contempt Brugh, a burgh Blastit, blasted Blate, bashful, sheepish Blather, bladder Bladd, a flat piece of any thing; to slan Bleerit, bleared, sore with rheum Bleerit and blin', bleared and blind Blellum, an idle talking fellow Blink, a little while; a smiling look; to look Blue-gown, one of those beggars who get annually, on the king's birth-day, a blue cloak or gown, with a badge Bluid, blood Bluntie, a sniveller, a stupid person Blype, a shred, a large piece Bock, to vomit, to gush intermittently Bocked, gushed, vomited Bodle, a small gold coin Bogles, spirits, hobgoblins Bonnie or bonny, handsome, beautiful Bonnock, a kind of thick cake of bread, a small jannock, or loaf made of oat meal Boord, a board Boortree, the shrub elder; planted much of old in hedges of barn-yards, &c. Boost, behaved, must needs Bore, a hole in the wall Botch, an angry tumour Bruilzie, a broil, a combustion Brunt, did burn, burnt Brust, to burst; burst Buchan-bullers, the boiling of the sea among the rocks of Buchan Buckskin, an inhabitant of Virginia Bughtin-time, the time of collecting the sheep in the pens to be milked Buirdly, stout made; broad made Bum-clock, a humming beetle that flies in the Burn, water, a rivulet Buinewin, i. e. burn the wind, a blacksmith Burnie, diminutive of burn Buskie, bushy Buskit, dressed Busks, dresses Bussle, a bustle; to bustle But, bot, with; without But an' ben, the country kitchen and parlour Byre, a cow-stable; a sheep-pen C Bousing, drinking Bow-kail, cabbage Bowt, bended, crooked Brackens, fern Brae, a declivity ; a precipiece; the slope of a Caff, chaff hill Caird, a tinker Cairn, a loose heap of stones Calf-ward, a small enclosure for calves Caller, fresh; sound; refreshing Canie, or cannie, gentle, mild; dexterous Cantie, or canty, cheerful, merry Cape-stane, cope-stone; key-stone. Brawly, or brawlie, very well! finely; heartily Carl, an old man Carlin, a stout old woman Caudron, a cauldron Cauk an' keel, chalk and red clay Cove, a cave Cowe, to terrify; to keep under, to lop; frigh:; Cowp, to barter; to tumble over; a gang Cowrin', cowering Cozie, snug Cozily, snugly Crabbit, crabbed, fretful Crack, conversation; to converse Craft, or croft, a field near a house (in old Craiks, cries or calls incessantly; a bird Crank, the noise of an ungreased wheel Crap, a crop; to crop Craw, a crow of a cock; a rook Creel, a basket; to have one's wits in a creek, to be crazed; to be fascinated Creepie-stool, the same as cutty-stool Creeshie, greasy Crood, or croud, to coo as a dove Croon, a hollow and continued moan; to make a noise like the continued roar of a bull; to hum a tune Crooning, humming Crouchie, crook-backed Croose, cheerful; courageous Crousely, cheerfully; courageously Crowdie, a composition of oat-meal and boi.. ed water, sometimes from the broth of beef, mutton, &c. Crowdie-time, breakfast time Crowlin', crawling Crummock, a cow with crooked horns Crump, hard and brittle; spoken of bread Crunt, a blow on the head with a cudgel Cummock, a short staff with a crooked head Cockernony, a lock of hair tied upon a girl's Curler, a player at a game on the ice, practis head; a cap Coft, bought Cog, a wooden dish Coggie, diminutive of cog Coila, from Kyle, a district of Ayrshire; so called, saith tradition, from Coil, or Coilus, a Pictish monarch Collie, a general and sometimes a particular Collieshangie, quarrelling, an uproar Cood, the cud Coof, a blockhead; a ninny Cookit, appeared and disappeared by fits Coot, the ankle or foot Cootie, a wooden kitchen dish:-also, those fowls whose legs are clad with feathers are said to be cootie Corbies, a species of the crow Core, corps; party; clan Corn't, fed with oats tager Couthie, kind, ving ed in Scotland, called curling Curlie, curled, whose hair falls naturally in Curling, a well known game on the ice noise Curpin, the crupper Cushat, the dove, or wood-pigeon utty, short; a spoon broken in the middle (utty-stool, the stool of repentance DADDIE, a father D Daffin, merriment; foolishness Daimen, rare, now and then; daimen-icker, Cotter, the inhabitant of a cot-house, or cot- Daud, to thrash, to abuse Daur, to dare Daurt, dared Donsie, unlucky Faiket, unknown Dool, sorrow; to sing dool, to lament, to Fairin', a fairing; a present mourn Doos, doves Dorty, saucy, nice Douce, or douse, sober, wise, prudent Doup-skelper, one that strikes the tail Doure, stout, durable; sullen, stubborn Dow, am or are able, can Dowff, pithless, wanting force Fallow, fellow Fand, did find Farl, a cake of oaten bread, &c. Fash, trouble, care; to trouble, to care for Fasteren-e'en, Fasten's Even Faute, want, lack Dowie, worn with grief, fatigue, &c. half a- Fearfu', frightful Downa, am or are not able, cannot sleep Drap, a drop; to drop wet, &c. Feart, frighted Feat, neat, spruce Fecht, to fight Fechtin', fighting Feck, many, plenty Draigle, to soil by trailing, to draggle among Fecket, an under waistcoat with sleeves Drapping, dropping. Draunting, drawling; of a slow enunciation Dreep, to ooze, to drop Dreigh, tedious, long about it Dribble, drizzling; slaver Drift, a drove Droddum, the breech Drone, part of a bagpipe Droop-rumpl't, that droops at the crupper Drouth, thirst, drought Drummock, meal and water mixed in a raw Fidge, to fidget state Droukit, wet Drounting, drawling Drucken, drunken Drumly, muddy GAB, the mouth; to speak boldly, or pertly Gaberlunzie, an old man Gadsman, a ploughboy, the boy that drives the horses in the plough Gae, to go; gaed, went; gaen, or gane, gone; gaun, going Gaet, or gate, way, manner; road Gawky, half. witted, foolish, romping Glaizie, glittering; smooth like glass Glaum'd, aimed, snatched Gleg, sharp, ready Glen, a dale, a deep valley Gley, a squint; to squint; a-gley, off at a side, wrong Glib-gabbet, smooth and ready in speech Glowr, to stare, to look; a stare, a look Glunsh, a frown, a sour look Goavan, looking round with a strange, inquir ing gaze; staring stupidly Gowan, the flower of the wild daisy, hawkweed, &c. Gowany, daisied, abounding with daisies Gowff, the game of golf; to strike as the bat does the ball at golf' Gowff'd, struck Gowk, a cuckoo; a term of contempt Grane, or grain, a groan; to groan Graip, a pronged instrument used for cleaning stables Graith, accoutrements, furniture, dress, gear Grat, wept, shed tears Gairs, triangular pieces of cloth sewed on the Great, intimate, familiar bottom of a gown, &c. Gang, to go, to walk Gar, to make, to force to Gar't, forced to Garten, a garter Gree, to agree; to bear the gree, to be decidedly victor Gree't, agreed Greet, to shed tears, to weep Greetin', crying, weeping Gash, wise, sagacious; talkative; to converse Grippet, catched, seized Gashin', conversing Gear, riches; goods of any kind Ged, a pike Gentles, great folks, gentry Groat, to get the whistle of one's groat, to play a losing game Grousome, loathsomely grim Grozet, a gooseberry Geck, to toss the head in wantonness or scorn Grumph, a grunt; to grunt Genty, elegantly formed, neat Geordie, a guinea Hirple, to walk crazily, to creep Ha'-Bible, the great bible that lies in the Hirsel, so many cattle as one person can attend HA', hall Hae, to have hall Haen, had, the participle Hastie, dry; chapped; barren Hitch, a loop, a knot Hizzie, a hussy, a young girl Haet, fint haet, a petty oath of negation; no- Hoddin, the motion of a sage countryman rid thing Haffet, the temple, the side of the head Hafflins, nearly half, partly Hag, a scar, or gulf in mosses, and moors Haggis, a kind of pudding boiled in the stomach of a cow or sheep Hain, to spare, to save Hain'd, spared Hairst, harvest Haith, a petty oath ing on a cart-horse; humble Hog-score, a kind of distance-line, in curbing, drawn across the rink Hog-shouther, a kind of horse-play, by justling with the shoulder; to justle Hool, outer skin or case, a nut-shell; a peas- Hoolie, slowly, leisurely Haivers, nonsense, speaking without thought Hoordit, hoarded Han', or haun', hand Horn, a spoon made of horn Hornie, one of the many names of the devil Hotch'd, turn'd topsyturvy; blended, mixed Housie, diminutive of house Hap, an outer garment, mantle, plaid, &c. to Hoved, heaved, swelled Hash, a fellow that neither knows how to dress Howkit, digged Haughs, low lying, rich lands; valleys Haurl, to drag; to peel Haurlin, peeling Haverel, a half witted person; half witted Havins, good manners, decorum, good sense Healsome, healthful, wholesome Hearse, hoarse Hear't, hear it Heather, heath Hech! oh! strange! Hecht, promised; to foretell something that is to be got or given; foretold; the thing foretold; offered Howkin, digging Howlet, an owl Hoy, to urge Hoy't, urged Hoyse, to pull upwards I', in I Icker, an ear of corn Ill-willie, ill-natured, malicious, niggardly Heckle, a board, in which are fixed a number|Ingine, genius, ingenuity |