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BATWARD, _s._ A boatman; literally, a boat-keeper.
_Wyntown._
Isl. _bat_, cymba, and _vard_, vigil, Swed. _ward_, custodia.
BAVARD, _adj._ Worn out, in a state of bankruptcy.
_Baiver_ and _baiver-like_, are used in S. to signify shabby in dress and appearance.
V. ~Bevar~.
_Baillie._
Fr. _bavard_, _baveur_, a driveller; also, a babbler.
BAUBLE, _s._ A short stick, with a head carved at the end of it like a _poupee_, or _doll_, carried by the fools of former times.
_Lord Hailes._
Fr. _babiole_, a toy, a gewgaw.
BAUCH, BAUGH, BAACH, (gutt.) _adj._
1. Ungrateful to the taste. In this sense _waugh_ is now used, S.
_Polwart._
2. Not good, insufficient in whatever respect, S. as "a _baugh_ tradesman," one who is far from excelling in his profession.
_Ramsay._
_Bauch-shod_, a term applied to a horse, when his shoes are much worn, S.
3. Indifferent, sorry, not respectable, S.
_Ramsay._
4. Not slippery. In this sense ice is said to be _bauch_, when there has been a partial thaw. The opposite is _slid_ or _gleg_, S.
Isl. _bag-ur_, reluctans, renuens; _bage_, jactura, noc.u.mentum (offals); _baga_, bardum et insulsum carmen.
BAUCHLY, _adv._ Sorrily, indifferently, S.
_Ramsay._
BAUCHNESS, _s._ Want, defect of any kind, S.
_To_ BAUCHLE, BAWCHYLL, BACHLE, (gutt.) BASHLE, _v. a._
1. To wrench, to distort, to put out of shape; as "_to bauchle shoon_,"
to wear shoes in so slovenly a way as to let them fall down in the heels, S.
_Journ. London._
2. To treat contemptuously, to vilify.
_Wallace._
_Bashel_ may be allied to Fr. _bossel-er_, to bruise.
Isl. _backell_, luxatus, valgus, shambling, _biag-a_ violare, whence _biag-adr_ luxatus, membrorum valetudine violatus.
BAUCHLE, BACHEL, _s._
1. An old shoe, used as a slipper, S.
2. Whatsoever is treated with contempt or disrespect. _To mak a bauchle of_ any thing, to use it so frequently and familiarly, as to shew that one has no respect for it, S.
_Ferguson's Prov._
BAUGIE, _s._ An ornament; as, a ring, a bracelet.
_Douglas._
Teut. _bagge_ gemma; Isl. _baug-r_; Alem. _boug_, A. S. _beag_, Fr.
_bague_, Ital. _bagun_, annulus.
BAUK, BAWK, _s._
1. One of the cross-beams in the roof of a house, which support and unite the rafters, S.
2. The beam by which scales are suspended in a balance, S.
Teut. _balck waeghe_, a balance. We invert the term, making it _weigh-bauks_. Germ. _balk_, Belg. _balck_, Dan. _bielke_, a beam.
BAUK, BAWK, _s._ A strip of land left unploughed, two or three feet in breadth, S.
_Statist. Acc._
