ping.
BLOB, BLAB, _s._ 1. anything circular and turned; 2. a
blister.
BLOBBIT, _part. pa._ bloated; blurred; blotched.
BLUBBER, _s._ a bubble of air.
_To_ BLUBBER, _v. a._ to cry, to weep.
BLUE-GOWN, _s._ a pensioner. Formerly all pensioners
received a blue gown on the king's birthday.
BLUID, _s._ blood.
BLUIDY, _adj._ bloody; bloodthirsty; covered with gore.
BLUITER, BLUTTER, _v. n._ to make a rumbling noise.
BLUNTIE, _s._ a stupid fellow; a sniveller.
BOAL, BOLE, _s._ a small aperture or press in a house for
the reception of small articles; a small opening in a wall for
the admission of light or air.
BOB, _s._ a curtsey.
_To_ BOCK, _v. a._ to make a noise with the throat, as
persons will frequently do before vomiting.
BOD, BODDY, _s._ a person of diminutive stature.
BODDUM, _s._ bottom.
BODE, BOD, _s._ an offer made prior to a bargain; a
proffer.
BODEN, BUDDEN, _v_. offered; proffered.
BODLE, _s._ an old copper coin of the value of two pennies
Scots, or third part of a penny English.
BOGILL, BOGLE, _s._ 1. a hobgoblin; a spectre; 2. a
scarecrow; any made-up imitation of a spectre.
BOMBILL, BUMBILL, _s._ buzzing noise.
BOMBILL-BEE, _s._ a drone.
BONIE, BONYE, BONNY, _adj._ beautiful; having a fine
countenance.
BONIEST, _adj._ the most beautiful.
BOOL, _s._ an ironical name, as applied to an old man.
BOONMOST, _adj._ uppermost.
BOORDLEY, _s._ strong; large; broad; having a manly
appearance.
BORDEL, _s._ a brothel.
BOS, BOSS, BOIS, _adj._ hollow.
BOT, BUT, _conj_. but; without anything.
BOTHE, BOOTHE, _s._ a shop made of boards.
BOTHIE, _s. pl._ a cottage; such a one as is occupied
generally for the use of servants.
BOTTINGS, BUITINGS, _s._ half boots, or leathern
spatterdashes.
BOUCHT, BOUGHT, BUCHT, _s._ a small pen used for milking
ewes.
_To_ BOUCHT, BUCHT, _v. a._ to enclose.
BOUK, BUIK, _s._ the trunk of the body; bulk.
BOUKIT, _adj._ bulky, large. _No muckle boukit_, not
of much size or dimensions.
BOUN, _adj._ prepared; ready.
BOUR, _s._ the private chamber of a lady in ancient times.
BOURTREE, BOUNTREE, _s._ common elder-tree.
BOW, _s._ a boll; eight pecks.
BOW, _s._ the arch of a bridge; a gateway; a crooked path.
BOWIE, _s._ a small cask or barrel; a milk pail.
BOWSIE, _adj._ crooked; applied to a crooked person, who is
called a _bowsie_.
BRACE, _s._ the chimney-piece.
BRACKEN, BRAIKEN, BROCKEN, _s._ th
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