“Round the sylvan fairy nooks Feathery _breckans_ fringe the rocks.” _Tannahill._ Gloomy Winter. Brant, C, steep. “Old Man! Old Man! your sides are _brant_.” The Old Man. Brat, S and C, apron; (used frequently for clothing in general.) “To get them _brats_, then, ye maun toil an’ spin.” _Ramsay._ The Gentle Shepherd. “To see her whol’d stockings, her _brat_, an’ her gown.” _Anderson._ Our Sukey. Braw, S, fine, handsomely attired. “Upon the banks o’ flowing Clyde The lasses busk them _braw_.” _Burns._ Of a’ the Airts. Break, C, a joke, a bit of fun. “Joe Tyson teem’t a pint o’ yall doon Danny Towson’ back. Wasn’t that a _break_?”—Heard at Dean. Buirdly, S, stout, strongly made. “They say ill ale has been the deid O’ monie a _buirdly_ loon.” _Ferguson._ Leith Races. Burn, S, a brook. “Beside that brig, out owre that _burn_, Where water bickereth bright and sheen.” Ballad—Thomas the Rhymer. Burnewin, S, a blacksmith (burn the wind). “An’ _burnewin_ comes on like death At every chaup.” _Burns._ Scotch Drink. But, S, the outer apartment of a house. “The auld wife cried _but_ the house, ‘Jenny, come ben!’” Song—The Yellow Hair’d Laddie. But, S, without (probably from _be out_). “Beauty _but_ bounty’s but bauch.”—Proverb. But and, Old S, also, likewise. “Adieu madame, my mother dear, _But and_ my sisters three.” Ballad—Lord Maxwell’s Good Night. Byspel, C, a mischievous person. “It’s a fair _byspel_ ’at is’t. It breaks o’ ’at cūms iv it geàt.” C. Cabbish-skrunt, C; Kail-runt, S, the stalk of a cabbage. “_Cabbish-skrunt_ pultess is grand for biles.” Said by a rustic Doctor. Canny, C, (Connie in Furness, etc.) nice, attractive, pleasant. “God speed ye weel! a _cannier_ pair Ne’er kneel’d afore a priest.” _Miss Blamire._ The Sailor Lad. Canny, S, gentle, careful. “Be _cannie_ wi’ the cream.“—A common legend on tea-ware. Canty, S, happy, cheerful. ”_Canty_ war we ower yere kail, Toddy jugs an’ draps o’ ale.” _Hogg._ The Laird o’ Lamington. Carle, S, a vulgar man. “Auld gudeman ye’re a drucken _carle_, a drucken _carle_.” _Sir A. Boswell._ Song. Carlin, S, a coarse old woman; feminine of Carle.