An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language - LightNovelsOnl.com
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_To_ BLIZZEN, _v. a._ Drought is said to be _blizzening_, when the wind parches and withers the fruits of the earth, S. B.
Su. G. _blas-a_, Germ. _blas-en_, A. S. _blaes-an_, to blow.
BLOB, BLAB, _s._ Any thing tumid or circular, S.
1. A small globe or bubble of any liquid.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
2. A blister, or that rising of the skin which is the effect of a blister or of a stroke, S.
_Gl. Complaynt._
3. A large gooseberry; so called from its globular form, or from the softness of its skin, S.
4. A blot, a spot; as "a _blab_ of ink," S. denominated perhaps from its circular form.
Radically the same word with _Bleib_, q. v.
BLOBBIT, _part. pa._ Blotted, blurred.
V. ~Blob~.
_Acts Ja. I._
_To_ BLOCK, _v. a._ To plan, to devise.
_Baillie._
Teut. _block-en_, a.s.siduum esse in studiis, in opere, in ergastulo; a sense evidently borrowed from a workman, who _blocks_ out his work roughly, before he begins to give it a proper form.
BLOIK, BLOK, BLOCK, _s._
1. A scheme, a contrivance; generally used in a bad sense.
_Douglas._
2. A bargain, an agreement.
_Acts Ja. VI._
BLOCKER, _s._ A term formerly used in S. to denote a broker; q. one who plans and accomplishes a bargain.
_Minsheu._
BLOISENT, _part. pa._ One is said to have a _bloisent face_, when it is red, swollen, or disfigured, whether by intemperance, or by being exposed to the weather; Ang.
This appears to be radically the same with E. _blowze_; "sun-burnt, high-coloured;" Johns. Teut. _blose_, rubor, purpurissum, redness, the colour of purple; _blos-en_, rubescere; _blosende w.a.n.ghen_, rubentes genae, purpled cheeks.
_To_ BLOME, BLUME, _v. n._ To s.h.i.+ne, to gleam.
_Barbour._
Su. G. _blomm-a_, to flourish; E. _bloom_, used metaph.: or perhaps from A. S. _be_, a common prefix, and _leom-an_ to s.h.i.+ne, as _gleam_ is from _geleom-an_, id.
BLONK, BLOUK, _s._ A steed, a horse,
_Gawan and Gol._
Alem. _planchaz_, equus pallidus, hodie _blank_; Schilter. Thus _blonk_ may have originally meant merely a _white_ horse, q. Fr. _blanc_ cheval.
BLONKS, _s. pl._
_King Hart._
If this does not denote horses, as above, it may mean _blocks_ of wood.
BLOUT, _adj._ Bare, naked.
V. ~Blait~.
_Douglas._
Su. G. Isl. _blott_, Belg. _bloot_, id. The tautological phrase _blott och bar_ is used in Sw.
BLOUT, _s._
1. The sudden breaking of a storm, S. _Bloutenin_, Clydesd.
2. "A _blout_ of foul weather," a sudden fall of rain, snow or hail, accompanied with wind, S.
3. A sudden eruption of a liquid substance, accompanied with noise, S.
Probably allied to Su. G. _bloet_, humidus; _bloeta waegar_, viae humidae.
BLUBBER, BLUBBIR, _s._ A bubble of air, S.
