BALD, BAULD, _adj._ bold; intrepid.
BALDERDASH, _s._ foolish noisy nonsense.
BALK, BURRAL, _s._ an elevated ridge, raised by a plough.
BALLANT, _s._ a ballad; a song.
BALOW, BALOO, _s._ a lullaby; a term used by nurses when
lulling children.
_To_ BAN, BANN, _v. a._ to curse.
BANNIN, _pr. pa_. swearing.
BANDKYN, _s._ a species of cloth, the warp of which is
thread of gold and the woof silk, and adorned with figures.
BANDSTER, BANSTER, _s._ one who binds sheaves after the
reapers in the harvest field.
BANE, _s._ a bone.
BANE-FYER, _s._ a bonfire.
_To_ BANG, _v. a_. to change place with impetuosity--
as, _to bang up_, to start to our feet suddenly.
BANNOCK, _s._ a cake of barley or pease meal baked on a
girdle.
BANNOCK-FLUKE, _s._ a turbot.
BAP, _s._ a thick cake, baked in an oven, with yeast in it,
and made of flour, oat meal, or barley meal, and sometimes a
mixture of two of them.
BARE, _adj._ lean; meagre; naked; uncovered.
_To_ BARKEN, _v. n_. to become hard; to clot.
BARLA-BREIKIS, BURLEY-BRAKS, _s._ a game played in a
corn-yard, running round the stacks.
BARLEY, _s._ a term used by children in games, when a
truce, or a cessation for the time, is demanded.
BARNE. See BAIRN.
BASSIE, _s._ an old horse.
BASTOUN, _s.
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