BOWNE, _vb._ to swell. Irving, 230. O.N. _bolgna_ to swell, Norse _bolna_, Dan. _bolne_. Shows characteristic Sco. change of _l_ to _w_. In _boudin_, Irving, 467, an excrescent _d_ has developed before the _l_ became _u_ (_w_). Wallace, VI, 756, _bolnyt_, swelled. So in Wyntoun, IX, 17, 5. _Boldnit_ with excrescent _d_ occurs in Douglas, II, 84, 16. BRA, BRAE, BRAY (brē), a slope, declivity. O.N. _brá_, see Bradley's Stratmann. Cp. _Jöstedalsbrä_ in Western Norway. BRAID (brēd), _sb._ a sudden movement, an assault (Small). Douglas, III, 251, 2. O.N. _bragð_, a sudden motion, a quick movement, tricks or sleights in wrestling. O. Sw. _braghþ_, a sudden motion. Norse, Sw. _bragd_, manner of execution, exploit. The fundamental idea in the Sco. and the O. Nh. word is sudden movement. The O.E. _brægd_ meant deceit, fraud. BRAITH, _adj._ hasty, violent. Wallace, X, 242. O.N. _bráðr_, sudden, hasty, O. Dan. _braadh_, Norse _braad_. Cp. _braahast_ (E. Norse), great hurry, O. Sw. _brader_, _brodher_, hasty, violent, Orm. _bra_, angry. _Brothfall_ (Orm), a fit, _broth_ (Eng. dial.), in Skeat's list. _Braithful_, violent, sharp. BRAITHLY, _adv._ violently, suddenly. O.N. _bráðliga_, hastily. Cp. E. Norse _braaleg_ adj., and M. Dan. _bradelig_. O.N. _bráðorðr_ means "hasty of speech." BROKIT, BRUKIT, _adj._ streaked, spotted. Burns, 569. O. Sw. _brokoter_, Norse _brokut_, Dan. _broget_, variegated, striped. Cp. _dannebrog_, the Danish flag. Same as Cu. _breukt_. Probably the same with Shetland _brogi_, in "a brogi sky," cloudy. May possibly be Eng. Exists in M.L.G. BROD, _sb._ a sharp point. Wyntoun, VI, 14, 70. O.N. _broddr_, Norse, Sw. _brodd_, Orm. _brodd_. (See Brate.) BROD, _vb._ to prick, spur on, incite. C.S. 123; Douglas, III, 3, 20; Dunbar T.M.W. 330. O.N. _brodda_, to prick, to urge. Dan. _brodde_ means "to equip with points," a vb. later developed out of the sb. BRONT, _sb._ force, rush, shock. Douglas, I, 90, 20; II, 161, 28. "At the first bront we swept by." See Skeat _brunt_. BUD, _sb._ a bribe, an offer. Lyndsay, 436, 1616; Dunbar T.M.W. 142. O.N. _bod_, an offer, Norse _bod_, Sw. _bud_, Dan. dial. _bud_, an offer at an auction. Cp. O.E. _friðbote_, a peace- offering, O.N. _frið_ + _boð_. BUGHT, _sb._ a corner or stall where cows are milked. Ramsay, II, 539. O.N. _bugt_, a bowing, a bight, Norse _bugt_, Dan. _bugt_. BULLER, _vb._ to trickle, bubble. Winyet, II, 62. O.N. _buldra_, Norse _bulrdra_. See E.D.D. cp. Sw. _bullra_, to make an indistinct noise. O. Fr. _bulder_, L.G. _bullern_ (see Koolman), Germ. _poltern_ all have more the idea of loud noise, clamor, as the Norse word sometimes has. Lyndsay, 226, 95, uses the word in this sense. It may be genuine Eng.