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GLOSSARY.

THE ch and gh have always the guttural sound. The sound of the English diphthong oo, is commonly spelled ou. The French u, a sound 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 single consonant, sounds generally like the broad English a in wall. The Scottish diphthong ae, always, and ea, very often, sound like the French e masculine. The Scottish diphthong ey, sounds like the Latin ei.

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Ʌ', all

Aback, away, aloof

Abeigh, at a shy distance

Aboon, above, up

Abread, abroad, in sight

Abreed, in breadth

Ae, one

Aff, off; Aff loof, unpremeditated

Afore, before

Aft, oft

Aften, often

Agley, off the right line, wrong

Aiblins, perhaps

Ain, own

Airl-penny, earnest-money
Airn, iron

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Aith, an oath
Aits, oats

Aiver, an old horse

Aizle, a hot cinder
Alake, alas

Alane, alone

Akwart, awkward

Amaist, almost

Amang, among
An', and, if
Ance, once

Ane, one, and

Anent, over against
Anither, another
Ase, ashes

Asklent, asquint, aslant

Asteer, abroad, stirring

Athart, athwart

Aught, possession; as, in a' my aught, in all my possession

Auld lang syne, older times, days of other years
Auld, old

Auldfarran, or auld farrant, sagacious, cunning, prudent

Ava, at all

Awa', away

Awfu', awful

Awn, the beard of barley, oats, &c.

Awnie, bearded

Ayont, beyond.

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Bainie, having large bones, stout
Bairn, a child

Bairntime, a family of children, a brood

Baith, both

Ban, to swear

Bane, bone

Bang, to beat, to strive

Bardie, diminutive of bard

Barefit, barefooted

Barmie, of, or like barm

Batch, a crew, a gang
Batts, botts

Baudrons, a cat

Bauld, bold

Bawk, bank

Baws'nt, having a white stripe down the face
Be, to let be, to give over, to cease

Bear, barley

Beastie, diminutive of beast

Beet, to add fuel to fire

Beld, bald

Belyve, by and by

Ben, into the spence or parlour

Benlomond, a noted mountain in Dumbartonshire

Bethankit, grace after meat

Beuk, a book

Bicker, a kind of wooden dish, a short race

Bie, or Bield, shelter

Bien, wealthy, plentiful

Big, to build

Biggin, building, a house

Biggit, built

Bill, a bull

Billie, a brother, a young fellow

Bing, a heap of grain, potatoes, &c.

Birk, birch

Birken-shaw, Birchen-wood-shaw, a small wood
Birkie, a clever fellow

Birring, the noise of partridges, &c. when they spring

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Bit, crisis, nick of time

Bizz, a bustle, to buzz

Blastie, a shrivelled dwarf, a term of contempt
Blastit, blasted

Blate, bashful, sheepish

Blather, bladder

Blaud, a flat piece of any thing; to slap

Blaw, to blow, to boast

Bleerit, bleared, sore with rheum

Bleert and blin, bleared and blind

Bleezing, blazing

Blellum, idle talking fellow

Blether, to talk idly, nonsense

Bleth'rin, talking idly

Blink, a little while, a smiling look, to look kindly, to shine by fits

Blinker, a term of contempt

Blinkin, smirkin

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, snivelling

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 jannack, or loaf made of oatmeal

Boord, a board

Boortree, the shrub elder; planted much of old in

hedges of barn yards, &c.

Boost, behoved, must needs

Bore, a hole in the wall
Botch, an angry tumour
Bouk, vomiting, gushing out
Bousing, drinking

Bow-kail, cabbage
Bowt, bended, crooked

Brachens, fern

Brae, a declivity, a precipice, the slope of a hill
Braid, broad

Bragin't, reel'd forward

Braik, a kind of harrow

Brainge, to run rashly forward

Brak, broke, made insolvent

Branks, a kind of wooden curb for horses

Brash, a sudden illness

Brats, coarse clothes, rags, &c.

Brattle, a short race, hurry, fury

Braw, fine, handsome

Brawlyt, or brawlie, very well, finely, heartily

Braxie, a morbid sheep

Breastie, diminutive of breast

Breastit, did spring up or forward

Breckan, fern

Breef, an invulnerable or irresistible spell

Breeks, breeches

Brent, smooth

Brewin, brewing

Brie, juice, liquid

Brig, a bridge

Brunstane, brimstone

Brisket, the breast, the bosom

Brither, a brother

Brock, a badger

Brogue, a hum, a trick

Broo, broth, liquid, water,

Broose, broth; a race at country weddings, who shall first reach the bridegroom's house on returning from church

Brugh, a burgh

Bruilzie, a broil, a combustion

Brunt, did burn, burnt

Brust, to burst, burst

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