mpt: it means, too, a lively engaging girl.

_Blinkin'_, smirking, smiling with the eyes, looking lovingly.

_Blirt and blearie_, out-burst of grief, with wet eyes.

_Blue-gown_, one of those beggars who get annually, on the king's
birth-day, a blue cloak or gown with a badge.

_Bluid_, blood.

_Blype_, a shred, a large piece.

_Bobbit_, the obeisance made by a lady.

_Bock_, to vomit, to gush intermittently.

_Bocked_, gushed, vomited.

_Bodle_, a copper coin of the value of two pennies Scots.

_Bogie_, a small morass.

_Bonnie_, or _bonny_, handsome, beautiful.

_Bonnock_, a kind of thick cake of bread, a small jannock or loaf made
of oatmeal. See _Bannock._

_Boord_, a board.

_Bore_, a hole in the wall, a cranny.

_Boortree_, the shrub elder, planted much of old in hedges of barn-yards
and gardens.

_Boost_, behoved, must needs, wilfulness.

_Botch_, _blotch_, an angry tumour.

_Bousing_, drinking, making merry with liquor.

_Bowk_, body.

_Bow-kail_, cabbage.

_Bow-hought_, out-kneed, crooked at the knee joint.

_Bowt_, _bowlt_, bended, crooked.

_Brackens_, fern.

_Brae_, a declivity, a precipice, the slope of a hill.

_Braid_, broad.

_Braik_, an instrument for rough-dressing flax.

_Brainge_, to run rashly forward, to churn violently.

_Braing't_, "the horse braing't," plunged end fretted in the harness.

_Brak_, broke, became insolvent.

_Branks_, a kind of wooden curb for horses.

_Brankie_, gaudy.

_Brash_, a sudden illness.

_Brats_, coarse clothes, rags, &c.

_Brattle_, a short race, hurry, fury.

_Braw_, fine, handsome.

_Brawlys_, or _brawlie_, very well, finely, heartily, bravely.

_Braxies_, diseased sheep.

_Breastie_, diminutive of breast.

_Breastit_, did spring up or forward; the act of mounting a horse.

_Brechame_, a horse-collar.

_Breckens_, fern.

_Breef_, an invulnerable or irresistible spell.

_Breeks_, breeches.

_Brent_, bright, clear; "a brent brow," a brow high and smooth.

_Brewin'_, brewing, gathering.

_Bree_, juice, liquid.

_Brig_, a bridge.

_Brunstane_, brimstone.

_Brisket_, the breast, the bosom.

_Brither_, a brother.

_Brock_, a badger.

_Brogue_, a hum, a trick.

_Broo_, broth, liquid, water.

_Broose_, broth, a race at country weddings; he who first reaches the
bridegroom's house on returning from church wins the broose.

_Browst_, ale, as much malt liquo