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V. ~Capercailye~.
BLACK FISH, fish when they have recently sp.a.w.ned.
V. ~Reid Fische~.
BLACK-FIs.h.i.+NG, _s._ Fis.h.i.+ng for salmon, under night, by means of torches, S.
V. ~Leister~.
_Statist. Acc._
BLACK-FOOT, _s._ A sort of matchmaker; one who goes between a lover and his mistress, endeavouring to bring the fair one to compliance, S.
p.r.o.nounced _black-fit_; synon. _Mush_, q. v.
BLACK-HEAD, _s._ The Powit-gull, Shetl.
_Neill._
BLACK-MAIL.
V. ~Mail~.
BLACK PUDDING.
V. ~Mart~.
BLACK SPAUL, a disease of cattle, S.
_Essays Highl. Soc._
BLAD, BLAUD, _s._ A large piece of any thing, a considerable portion, S.
expl. "a flat piece of any thing," Gl. Burns.
_Polwort._
"A _blad_ of bread," is a large flat piece. "I gat a _great blad_ of Virgil by heart;" I committed to memory a great many verses from Virgil.
To _ding in blads_, to drive in pieces.
_Melville's MS._
This word, as perhaps originally applied to food, may be from A. S.
_blaed_, fruit of any kind; _blaed_, _bled_, also denoted _pot-herbs_; Ir. _bladh_, a part; _bladh-am_, I break.
_Blads and dawds_, is still the designation given to large leaves of greens boiled whole, in a sort of broth, Aberd. Loth.
BLAD, _s._ A person who is of a soft const.i.tution; whose strength is not in proportion to his size or looks; often applied to a young person, who has become suddenly tall, but is of a relaxed habit, S. B.
Allied, perhaps, to A. S. _blaed_, as denoting, either the boughs or leaves of trees, or growing corn; as both often shoot out so rapidly as to give the idea of weakness; or, to Germ. _blode_, the original sense of which is, weak, feeble.
BLAD, _s._ A portfolio, S. B.
As the E. word is comp. of Fr. _porter_, to carry, and _feuille_, a leaf; the S. term has a similar origin, being evidently from Su. G.
_blad_, A. S. _blaed_, folium.
_To_ BLAD.
1. Used impers. "Its _bladdin on o' weet_," the rain is driving on; a phrase that denotes intermitting showers accompanied with squalls, S.
2. To abuse, to maltreat in whatever way. Aberd. Corn is said to be _bladdit_, when overthrown by wind.
3. To slap, to strike; to drive by striking, or with violence, S. _Dad_, synon.
_Evergreen._
Germ. _blodern_ is used in the first sense. _Es blodert_, it storms and snows; also, _blat-en_, to blow. Isl. _blaegt-a_ indeed signifies, to be moved by the wind, motari aura; O. Fr. _plaud-er_, to bang, to maul.
BLAD, _s._ A squall; always including the idea of rain, S. A heavy fall of rain is called "a _blad_ of weet," S. B.
~Bladdy~, _adj._ Inconstant, unsettled; applied to the weather. "A _bladdy_ day," is one alternately fair and foul.
BLAD, _s._ A dirty spot on the cheek, S. perhaps q. the effect of a blow, Gael. _blad_, however, is synon.
BLADARIE, _s._ Perhaps, vain glory.
_R. Bruce._
Teut. _blaeterije_, jactantia, vaniloquentia.
BLADDERAND, BLADDRAND.
V. ~Blether~.
