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Leighton, Revised by Alexander

"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV."


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.


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