An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language - LightNovelsOnl.com
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_Ritson._
2. A roll, a small loaf of wheaten bread, of an oblong form, S.
BAR, _s._ The grain in E. called barley; _bar-meal_, barley-meal; _bar-bread_, _bar-bannock_, &c. S. B.
Moes. G. _bar_, hordeum.
BAR, _s._ A boar.
V. ~Bair~.
_To_ BAR, _v. n._ To bar from bourdes, apparently to avoid jesting.
_Bannatyne Poems._
Fr. _barr-er_, to keep at a distance.
BARBAR, BARBOUR, _adj._ Barbarous, savage.
Fr. _barbare_, id.
_Kennedy._
BARBER, _s._ What is excellent in its kind, a low term, S.
Su. G. _baer-a_, ill.u.s.trare.
BARBLES, _s. pl._ A species of disease.
_Polwart._
Fr. _barbes_, a white excrescence which grows under the tongue of a calf.
BARBLYT, _part. pa._ Barbed.
_Barbour._
Fr. _barbele_, id.
_To_ BARBULYIE, _v. a._ To disorder, to trouble, Perths.
_Montgomery._
Fr. _barbouille_, confusedly jumbled.
BARDACH, BARDY, _adj._
1. Stout, fearless, determined, S. B.
_Ross._
2. Irascible, contentious, and at the same time uncivil and pertinacious in managing a dispute, S.
_R. Galloway._
Isl. _barda_, pugnax, _bardagi_, Su. G. _bardaga_, praelium.
BARDILY, _adv._
1. Boldly, with intrepidity, S.
2. Pertly, S.
BARDIE, _s._ A gelded cat, Ang.
BARDIS, _s. pl._ Trappings.
_Douglas._
Goth. _bard_, a pole-ax.
BARDYNGIS, _s. pl._ Trappings of horses.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
BARDISH, _adj._ Rude, insolent in language.
_Baillie._
From _bard_, S. _baird_, a minstrel.
BARE, _adj._ Lean, meagre, S.
