BUSK, _vb._ to prepare, dress, adorn, ornament. O.N. _búask_ from _búa sik_, to make ready, to ornament. See Wall. Exhibits W. Scand. reflexive ending _sk_. The Gael. _busgainnich_, to dress, to adorn, is a loanword from O.N. BUSKIE, _adj._ fond of dress, Jamieson, _busk_ sb. dress, decoration. See _busk_ vb. BUITH (ū), _sb._ booth, shop. Winyet, 1, 23, 2. O.N. _búð_, shop, O. Dan. _both, bodh_. O. Sw. _boð_, Norse _bud_, Sw. _bod_, Dan. dial. _bod_. M.E. _bōþe_, cp. M.L.G. _bode_. BYNG, _vb._ to heap up. Douglas, III, 144, 5. See _bing_ sb. BYRD, _vb._ impers., it behoved. Bruce, VI, 316. O.N. _byrja_, to behove, beseem, pret. _burði_, Norse _byrja_ id., pret. _burde_, O. Dan. _böræ_, Sw. _böra_. BYSNING, _adj._ strange, monstrous, terrible, Douglas, I, 29, 7; I, 37, 5; II, 70, 17. M.E. _biseninge_, ill-boding, monstrous, from O.N. _býsna_, to portend, Norse _bisna_, to marvel over. BYSNING, _sb._ a strange person, an unusually unfortunate person. Douglas, I, 2544; I, 339. O.N. _býsna_, to portend, _býsn_, a strange and portentous thing. Norse _bysn_, a prodigy, _bysning_, curiosity. See the adj. Cp. Shetland _sóni-bosni_, O.N. _sjonar-býsn_, a marvel. CADYE, _adj._ wanton. Lyndsay, LXXXVII, 2567. Also written _cady_, _caidgy_, _caigie_; sometimes means "sportive, cheerful." Dan. _kaad_, merry, lusty, lustful. So Sw. _kåt_, O.N. _katr_, merry, cheerful, Norse _kaat_. Cp. Philotus 5, "the carle caiges," where the same word is used as a vb. to wanton, be wanton. CALLER, _adj._ cool. Fergusson, 73. Very common in modern Sco. diall. O.N. _kaldr_, Norse _kall_, cold. Seems to be a case of the Norse inflexional _r_ not disappearing in Sco. CANGLER, a wrangler. Ramsay, II, 482. Norse _kengla_, _kæingla_, _kjæingla_, to quarrel. A Sco. vb. _cangle_, to quarrel, also exists. Cp. O.N. _kangin-yrði_, jeering words, Yorkshire _caingy_, cross, ill-tempered. CAPPIT, _vb. pret._ strove. Douglas, II, 154, 21. O.N. _kapp_, contest, zeal, _deila kappi við_, strive with. Norse _kapp_ id. _kappa_, reflexive, to race. Dan. _kamp_, O.E. _camp_, _cempam_. The Sco. word exhibits W. Scand. assimilation of _mp_ to _pp_, the form _kapp_, however, also existed in O. Sw. and exists in N.Dan. In Cu. a _capper_ is one who excels. This is probably the same word. See, however, E.D. CAREING (kēr), _pr. p._ driving, from _care_, _caire_, to drive. Douglas, III, 166, 10; Wallace, IX, 1240. O.N. _köyra_, O. Ic. _keyra_, Norse _køyra_, to drive, ride, O. Ic. _keyrsla_, a driving, Norse _kjørsel_, id. Cp. Shetland _care_, id. Monophthongation in O. Sw. _köra_, Dan. _köre_.