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Isl. _bua_, parare, and _mage_ socius, q. to make preparation for one's companions; or _bo_ villa, incola, and _mage_, the fellows.h.i.+p of a village or of its inhabitants.
b.u.mMIL, b.u.mMLE, BOMBELL, _s._ Expl. a drone, an idle fellow.
V. ~Batie-b.u.mmil~.
_Burns._
Teut. _bommele_, fucus.
_To_ b.u.mMIL, _v. a._ To bungle; also, as _v. n._ to blunder, S.
_Ramsay._
~b.u.mmeler~, ~b.u.mler~, _s._ A blundering fellow, S.
b.u.mP, _s._ A stroke. "He came _b.u.mp_ upon me," he came upon me with a stroke, S.
Isl. _bomps_, a stroke against any object, _bomp-a_, cita ruina ferri.
BUN, BUNN. _s._ A sweet cake or loaf, generally one of that kind which is used at the new year, baked with fruit and spiceries; sometimes for this reason called a _sweetie-scone_, S.
_Statist. Acc._
Ir. _bunna_, a cake.
BUN, _s._
1. The same as E. _b.u.m_.
_Lyndsay._
2. This word signifies the tail or brush of a hare, Border; being used in the same sense with _fud_.
_Watson's Coll._
Ir. _bon_, _bun_, the bottom of any thing; Dan. _bund_, id.; Gael.
_bun_, bottom, foundation.
BUN, _s._ A large cask placed in a cart, for the purpose of bringing water from a distance; Ang.
This may be radically the same with S. _boyn_, a was.h.i.+ngtub.
BUNE, BOON, _s._ The inner part of the stalk of flax, the core, that which is of no use, afterwards called _shaws_, Ang. _Been_, id. Morays.
BUNEWAND, _s._ The cow-parsnip, Heracleum sphondylium, is called _Bunwand_, S. B.
_Montgomerie._
This appears to be of the same meaning with _Bunwede_, q. v.
BUNG, _adj._ Tipsy, fuddled; a low word, S.
_Ramsay._
Q. Smelling of the _bung_.
BUNKER, BUNKART, _s._
1. A bench, or sort of low chest serving for a seat.
_Ramsay._
2. A seat in a window, which also serves for a chest, opening with a hinged lid, S.
_Sir J. Sinclair._
3. It seems to be the same word which is used to denote an earthen seat in the fields, Aberd.
_Law Case._
A. S. _benc_, Su. G. _baenck_, a bench; Isl. _buncke_, acervus, strues; a heap.
BUNKLE, _s._ A stranger. "The dog barks, because he kens you to be a _bunkle_." This word is used in some parts of Angus.
Perhaps originally a mendicant; from Isl. _bon_, mendicatio, and _karl_, vulgarly _kall_, h.o.m.o.
BUNNERTS, _s. pl._ Cow-parsnip, S. B. Heracleum sphondylium, Linn.
Perhaps Q. _biorn-oert_, which in Sw. would be, the bear's wort.
BUNTLING, _s._ Bantling, E., a bird, S.
BUNWEDE, _s._ Ragwort, an herb; Senecio jacobaea, Linn. S. _binweed_; synon. _weebow_.
_Houlate._
