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BRAID, BRADE, _adj._ wide; broad.
BRANDNEW. See BRENTNEW.
BRANDER, _s._ a gridiron.
_To_ BRANDER, _v. n._ to broil.
BRANG, _part. pa._ brought.
BRANKS, _s._ a swelling in the glands of the neck.
BRAT, _s._ a coa.r.s.e ap.r.o.n.
BRATCHET, BRATCHART, _s._ an opprobrious term, equivalent to _whelp_.
BRAW, BRA, _adj._ fine; gaily-dressed.
BRAWLY, BRAVELY, _adv._ very well.
BRAWS, _s._ fine clothes; a person's best suit.
BRAXY, BRACKS, _s._ a disease in sheep.
BREADBERRY, _s._ pap, used as food for children.
BREAK (_of a hill_,) _s._ a hollow cleft in a hill.
BRECHAME, BRECHEM, _s._ the collar of a horse.
BREE, BRIE, BREW, BROO, _s._ broth; soup.
BRE, BREE, _s._ the eyebrow.
BREEKS, BREIKS, _s._ breeches.
BREER, BREARD, _s._ the first blades of grain which appear above ground.
_To_ BREER, _v. n._ to germinate.
BREID, _s._ breadth.
BRENT, _adj._ high; straight; upright.
BRENTNEW, quite new.
BRIG, BREG, BRYG, _s._ a bridge.
_To_ BRIZE, BIRSE, _v. a._ to bruise; to drive or push.
BROCHAN, _s._ oatmeal boiled to a consistence thicker than gruel.
BROCK, _s._ a badger.
BROCKED, BROCKET, _adj._ streaked and spotted, as a _brockit cow_.
BROCKLIE, _adj._ brittle.
BROD, _s._ a flat piece of wood; a board.
_To_ BROG, _v. a._ to pierce.
BROGUE, _s._ a coa.r.s.e kind of shoe made of horse leather with the hair on, used by Highlanders.
BROK, _s._ refuse; fragments.
BROO, _s._ broth.
BROONIE, _s._ a spirit supposed to haunt farm-houses, and which, if treated well, performed the duties of the servants while they were sleeping.
BROSE, _s._ a kind of food made by pouring hot water on oatmeal, and mixing them together. _Kail-brose_ is made by subst.i.tuting broth for water.
BROWST, _s._ the quant.i.ty of malt liquor brewed at one time.
BRUGH, BURGH, _s._ a borough; a circular encampment; the hazy circle round the moon.
BRUSE, BROOSE, BRUISE, _v. a._ _To ride the bruise_, to run a race on horseback at country weddings. Metaphorically-- to contend; to strive.
_To_ BRUSH, _v. a._ to rush forth with speed.
BU, BOO, _s._ a sound often made use of to excite terror in children. _Bu-man,_ the devil, or a goblin; an imaginary evil being; a phrase used to keep children in subjection.
BUBBLY, _adj._ snotty.
BUBBLYJOCK, _s._ a turkey-c.o.c.k.
BUCHT, _s._ a fold; a bending; the fold of a ribbon.
BUCKIE, BUCKY, _s._ any spiral sh.e.l.l.
BUCKIE-INGRAM, _s._ the soldier-crab, _Cancer bernardus_, which always inhabits the sh.e.l.ls of other animals.
_To_ BUCKLE, _v. a._ to join together, as in marriage.
BUCKLE-THE-BEGGARS, _s._ a person who marries others in a clandestine manner.
BUCKTOOTH, _s._ a tooth jutting out from the others.
BUFF, _s._ a stroke; nonsense.
