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 THE DIALECT OF B Baan, the pronunciation of houn. In the sense of ready, going, or directed, is very common. * Wheer ar' ta baan 9* := Where are yoa going? * He^s nooan baan to get t* brass ' = He*s not about to get the money. Scott uses this word in his Lady of t?ie Lake, canto yL ver. 15 : Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array.' Again in the fSar more ancient ballad of Bobin Hood and Otiy of Oiebome^ first printed in 1765 : ' Busk'yee, bowne yee, my merry men all, And John shaU go with mee. This word is not the same as bound, obliged, for that is called bun. Baat, t. e. bout : very common for without This is the same as hut frequently fotmd in old writings, as in ^ lytell Oeste of Bobin Hoody first prmted 1489 : Disheryted shall he be ' (2 Fytte, ver. 6). Again : "* What doost thou here," sayd the Abbot, in both which cases it is used for without^ or more strictly for unkM, Also in that amusing ballad. The I^aird o' Drum, ver. 15 : ' The first time that I married a wife, She was far abune my degree ; She wadna hae walk'd thro' the yetts o* Drum, But the pearlin abune her bree, And I durstna gang in the room where she was. But my hat below my knee ! ' Babby (gl, babi), a baby ; also a picture or print in a book. For instance, boys at play, guessing whether there were an illustration on the next page, would say, * Bobby o'er the leaf? ' Again, one seeing a tutor teaching Euclid with diagrams, expressed his idea of the study by remarking, * It's babby lakin yon I ' See Laking. HaUiweU says bobs is used m the same sense. Backend, the autumn. They also sometimes say the hackend of the week, but the ' latter end ' is more common. Backset^ a prop, or anything to lean or fall back upon ; money laid up for a rainy day. Backside (pronounced backsawd), the premises in the back part of a house : a word of ancient usage in this sense. Occurs in Exod. iii. 1 : * And he led the flock to the bachide of the desert.' Backword. When one has accepted an engagement, and wishes to withdraw from it, he * sends backword,'
 * To hero boune for battle strife,
 * Bvt he come this ylk6 day
 * But thou haddest brought thy pay ?" ' (ver. 24)—