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276 *Awn, 20, Eng. ear of corn, Go. ah-s, ah-ana, chaff—"the little sharp thing," Lat. acus, a needle
 * Awsome, 98
 * Azjin, 211, C. Du.; cf. eysell (Hamlet)


 * Baas, 207, C. Du., Amer.–Eng. boss. N. E. D. says, supposed cog. with Ger. Base, female cousin, baas, master, both arising out of dialect child-words for father (badar) in various familiar senses
 * Baasht plooms, 110, bruised, perh. N., but possibly onomatop.
 * Bab, 114, to close, Ayr.
 * Bachelor's buttons, 121
 * Back o' beyont, 168
 * Bad, 56, Go. pret, bidjan, to pray; cf. to bid one's beads or prayers, from Go. bida, a prayer or bead
 * Baikie, in coo-baikie, 131, 147, piece of wood fastening cows in stall
 * †Bain, 156, 230, bainne (Gael.), milk, MacB. Ir. banne, a drop, Sl. banja, a bath, Eng. bath. N. E. D. says bath not conn. with bain, but is Ger. bähen, cog. fovere, orig. idea=heat; no Gael. conn.
 * Bairn, bairnie, bairnlie, 2, 19, 24, 32, 56, 66, 69, barn-ilo, Go. from bear, "We're aw Joahn Tamson's bairns," O. E. beam, Go. "Thata barn, Jesu"
 * Bairseag, 151 (Gael.), a scold, N. berj-a, to strike, cog. birr, birrle
 * Baitr-aba, 22, 30, 87, Go. bitterly
 * Balm, 121, balsam (flower)
 * Bands, 75, necktie of a beneficed or "placed" clergyman.—Not in Jam.
 * Bandster, 177, Fi.
 * Banewort, 177
 * Bannock, 150, 183, Gael, bannach; bunnock, 107, Lat. panicium, panis, bread
 * Banst-s, 24, Go. a barn, O.E. *bos, O. N. bás-s, E. boosy, M. E. bosig, a cow-stall, O. T. *banso-z, Ger. Banse
 * Baps and beer, 129, 177, baps, a thick cake, generally with yeast in it
 * Barefit broth, 156, made with a little butter or dripping, but without meat
 * Bare-gorp, 181 (Cu.), a nestling bird. See gorbet
 * Barley-break, 155
 * Barley me that, 173, Cu., syn. of chaps me
 * Barrin-oot, 186
 * †Bauch, 12, 86, 129, dulled, as ice after thaw, synon. wauch; perhaps O. N. bagr, awkward, N. Eng. baff. "not Go. bauths, deaf."—N. E. D.; weak, pithless, bauths. Go. deaf; ch sometimes interchanges with th; Go. bauths not under bauch in N. E. D., but cf. sense in Go. banth wairthan, 12, to become worthless
 * Bauchles, 208
 * Bauckie, 18, 154, bawki-bird, bak, baukie—


 * Baudrons, 68, 135, pussy—

Gael. beadrach, a playful girl; beadradh, a fondling
 * Bauks, 131, 140, 151, dividing ridges between fields, left in grass; com. Teut. O. N. bjalki, a beam; also a weigh-beam—


 * Bauld, balths, 14, Go. bold, Ger. bald, quickly
 * Bawsent, 223
 * Be, bi, 52, 62, Ger. bei, E. by
 * Bead, beadsman, 56, Go. bidjan, to pray
 * Beaked, 122, basked; bekand, 62, may be only a form of bask, which again is a variant of bath.—N. E. D. Beck, to bathe, Roxb.—Jam. Beek, beik—


 * Beal, 139 (suppurate), var. of boil, Ic. bola, a blain, Du. buil, Ger. Beule, Go. uf-bauljan, to puff up