An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language - LightNovelsOnl.com
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2. Irascible, S.
_Douglas._
3. Pungent to the taste, or keenly affecting the organ of smelling, S.
4. Keen, biting; expressive of the state of the atmosphere, S.
_Davidson._
5. Certain, a.s.sured.
_Henrysone._
6. Used obliquely, bright; as "a _bald_ moon."
_Kelly._
A. S. _bald_, _beald_, Su. G. Alem. Germ. _bald_, audax.
_To_ BALD, _v. a._ To embolden.
_Douglas._
BALDERRY, _s._ Female-handed orchis, a plant, S.
_Lightfoot._
BALK and BURRAL, a ridge raised very high by the plough, and a barren s.p.a.ce of nearly the same extent, alternately, S. B.
V. ~Bauk~, _s._
_Statist. Acc._
BALDERDASH, _s._ Foolish and noisy talk, S. Isl. _bulldur_, stultorum balbuties.
BALEN, _adj._ Made of skin.
V. ~Pauis~.
_Douglas._
Isl. Su. G. _baelg_, Germ. _balg_, a skin.
BALYE, _s._ A s.p.a.ce on the outside of the ditch of a fortification, commonly surrounded by strong palisades.
_Spotswood._
Fr. _bayle_, a barricado, L. B. _ball-ium_.
BALLANT-BODDICE, _s._ Boddice made of leather, anciently worn by ladies in Scotland, S. B.
V. ~Balen~.
BALLINGAR, BALLINGERE, _s._ A kind of s.h.i.+p.
Fr. _ballinjier_.
_Wallace._
BALOW, _s._
1. A lullaby, S.
_Ritson._
2. A term used by a nurse, when lulling her child.
_Old Song._
Fr. _bas, la le loup_, "be still, the wolf is coming."
BAMULLO, BOMULLOCH, To _gar_ one _lauch_, _sing_ or _dance Bamullo_, to make _one_ change one's mirth into sorrow, Ang. Perths.
C. B. _bw_ terror, Gael. _mula_, _mullach_, gloomy brows, q. "the spectre with the dark eye-brows."
BANCHIS, _s. pl._ Deeds of settlement.
Ital. _banco_, a bank.
_Dunbar._
BANCOURIS, _s. pl._ Coverings for stools or benches.
Teut. _banckwerc_, tapestry; Fr. _banquier_, a bench-cloth.
_To_ BAN, BANN, _v. n._ Often applied in S., although improperly, to those irreverent exclamations which many use in conversation, as distinguished from cursing.
