BIGGING, BYGINE, _sb._ a building. O.N. _bygging_, a building, habitation. Scand. diall. all have the form _bygning_, so O. Sw. _bygning_. The word may be an independent Sco. formation just as _erding_, "burial," from _erde_, "to bury"; _layking_, "a tournament," from _layke_, "to sport"; _casting_, "a cast-off garment," from _cast_; _flytting_, "movable goods," from _flyt_, "to move"; _hailsing_, "a salute," from _hailse_; and Eng. _dwelling_, "a house," from vb. _dwell_. Cp. however Shetland _bogin_. BING, _sb._ a heap, a pile. Douglass, II, 216, 8. O.N. _bingr_, a heap, O. Sw. _binge_. Norse _bing_ more frequently a heap or quantity of grain in an enclosed space. O. Dan. _byng_, _bing_. BIR, BIRR, BEIR, _sb._ clamor, noise, also rush. S.S. 38; Lyndsay, 538, 4280. O.N. _byrr_, a fair wind. O. Sw. _byr_. Cp. Cu. _bur_ and Shetland "a pirr o' wind," a gust. Also pronounced _bur_, _bor_. BIRRING, _pr. p._ flapping (of wings). Mansie Wauch, 159, 33. See _bir_. BLA, BLAE (blē), _adj._ blue, livid. Douglas, III, 130, 30; Irving, 468. O.N. _blá_, blue, Norse _blaa, blau_, Sw. _blå_, Dan. _blaa_. Not from O.E. _blēo_. BLABBER, _vb._ to chatter, speak nonsense. Dunbar F., 112. O.N. _blabbra_, lisp, speak indistinctly, Dan. _blabbre_ id., Dan. dial. _blabre_, to talk of others more than is proper. M.E. _blaber_, cp. Cu. _blab_, to tell a secret. American dial. _blab_, to inform on one, to tattle. There is a Gael. _blabaran_, sb. a stutterer, which is undoubtedly borrowed from the O.N. The meaning indicates that. BLAIK, _vb._ to cleanse, to polish. Johnnie Gibb, 9, 6. O.N. _blæikja_, to bleach, O. Sw. _blekia_, Sw. dial. _bleika_. All these are causative verbs like the Sco. The inchoative corresponding to them is _blæikna_ in O.N., N.N., _blekna_ in O. Sw., _blegne_ in Dan. See _blayknit_. Cp. Shetland _bleg_, sb. a white spot. BLAYKNIT, _pp._ bleached. Douglas, III, 78, 15. O.N. _blæikna_, to become pale, O. Sw. _blekna_, Norse _blæikna_ id. O.N. _blæikr_, pale. Cp. Cu. _blake_, pale, and _bleakken_ with _i_-fracture. O.E. _blāc, blæcan_. BLECK, _vb._ put to shame. Johnnie Gibb, 59, 34, 256, 13. O.N. _blekkja_, to impose upon, _blekkiliga_, delusively, _blekking_, delusion, fraud; a little doubtful. BLETHER, BLEDDER, _vb._ to chatter, prate. O.N. _blaðra_, to talk indistinctly, _blaðr_, sb. nonsense. Norse _bladra_, to stammer, to prate, Sw. dial. _bladdra_, Dan. dial. _bladre_, to bleet. Cp. Norse _bladdra_, to act foolishly. BLATHER, _sb._ nonsense. Burns 32, 2, 4 and 4, 2, 4. O.N. _blaðr_, nonsense. Probably the Sco. word used substantively. BLOME, _sb._ blossom. Bruce, V, 10; Dunbar, I, 12. Same as Eng. _bloom_ from O.N. _blómi_.