airn-time_, a family of children, a brood.

_Baith_, both.

_Ballets_, _Ballants_, ballads.

_Ban_, to swear.

_Bane_, bone.

_Bang_, to beat, to strive, to excel.

_Bannock_, flat, round, soft cake.

_Bardie_, diminutive of bard.

_Barefit_, barefooted.

_Barley-bree_, barley-broo, blood of barley, malt liquor.

_Barmie_, of, or like barm, yeasty.

_Batch_, a crew, a gang.

_Batts_, botts.

_Bauckie-bird_, the bat.

_Baudrons_, a cat.

_Bauld_, bold.

_Baws'nt_, having a white stripe down the face.

_Be_, to let be, to give over, to cease.

_Beets_, boots.

_Bear_, barley.

_Bearded-bear_, barley with its bristly head.

_Beastie_, diminutive of beast.

_Beet_, _beek_, to add fuel to a fire, to bask.

_Beld_, bald.

_Belyve_, by and by, presently, quickly.

_Ben_, into the spence or parlour.

_Benmost-bore_, the remotest hole, the innermost recess.

_Bethankit_, grace after meat.

_Beuk_, a book.

_Bicker_, a kind of wooden dish, a short rapid race.

_Bickering_, careering, hurrying with quarrelsome intent.

_Birnie_, birnie ground is where thick heath has been burnt, leaving
the birns, or unconsumed stalks, standing up sharp and stubley.

_Bie_, or _bield_, shelter, a sheltered place, the sunny nook of a wood.

_Bien_, wealthy, plentiful.

_Big_, to build.

_Biggin_, building, a house.

_Biggit_, built.

_Bill_, a bull.

_Billie_, a brother, a young fellow, a companion.

_Bing_, a heap of grain, potatoes, &c.

_Birdie-cocks_, young cocks, still belonging to the brood.

_Birk_, birch.

_Birkie_, a clever, a forward conceited fellow.

_Birring_, the noise of partridges when they rise.

_Birses_, bristles.

_Bit_, crisis, nick of time, place.

_Bizz_, a bustle, to buzz.

_Black's the grun'_, as black as the ground.

_Blastie_, a shrivelled dwarf, a term of contempt, full of mischief.

_Blastit_, blasted.

_Blate_, bashful, sheepish.

_Blather_, bladder.

_Blaud_, a flat piece of anything, to slap.

_Blaudin-shower_, a heavy driving rain; a blauding signifies a beating.

_Blaw_, to blow, to boast; "blaw i' my lug," to flatter.

_Bleerit_, bedimmed, eyes hurt with weeping.

_Bleer my een_, dim my eyes.

_Bleezing_, _bleeze_, blazing, flame.

_Blellum_, idle talking fellow.

_Blether_, to talk idly.

_Bleth'rin_, talking idly.

_Blink_, a little while, a smiling look, to look kindly, to shine by fits.

_Blinker_, a term of conte