_Ba'_, ball. _Badrans_, a cat. _Bairns_, children. _Bair_, bear, boar. _Baith_, both. _To ban_, to curse. _Banefire_, bonfire. _Bannocks_, a sort of unleavened bread, thicker than cakes, and round. _Barlickhood_, a fit of drunken angry passion. _Bassend_, see _Bawsy_. _Baugh_, sorry, indifferent. _Bauk_, balk. _Bauld_, bold. _Bawk_, a rafter, joist; likewise, the space between cornfields; to frustrate. _Bawsy_, bawsand-fac'd, is a cow, or horse, with a white face. _Be_, by. _Bedeen_, immediately, in haste. _Begunk_, a trick, a cheat. _Beik_, to bask. _Beild_, or _beil_, a shelter. _Bein_, or _been_, wealthy, comfortable. A _been_ house, a warm well-furnished one. _Ben_, the inner room of a house. _Come farer ben_, be better received. _Bend_, a pull of liquor. _Bend the bicker_, quaff out the cup. _Bent_, a coarse kind of grass growing on hilly ground; the open field, the plain. _To the bent_, fled out of reach. _Betooch-us-to_, Heaven preserve us. _Beuk_, baked. _Bicker_, a wooden dish. _Bide_, to await. _Bigonet_, a linen cap or coif. _Billy_, brother, a young man. _Birks_, birch-trees. _Birky_,--_auld birky_, old boy. _Birn_, a burnt mark. _Birns_, the stalks of burnt heath. _Black-sole_, a confidant in courtship. _Blae_, black and blue, the colour of the skin when bruised. _Blaeberry_, bilberry. _Blashy_, plashy, deluging. _Blate_, bashful. _Blaw_, blow; to boast. _Bleech_, to blanch or whiten. _Bleer_, to bedim with tears. _Bleez_, blaze. _Blob_, a drop. _Bob_, to move up and down as in dancing. _Bobbit bands_, tasselled bands (worn about the neck). _Bode_, to proffer. _Bonny_, beautiful. _Bouk_, bulk. _Bourd_, jest or dally. _Bowt_, bolt. _Brae_, the side of a hill, a steep bank. _Braid_, broad. _Brankan_, prancing, a capering. _Brattle_, to advance rapidly, making a noise with the feet. _Brats_, aprons of coarse linen. _Braw_, brave; fine in apparel. _Breaks_, becomes bankrupt. _Brecken_, fern. _Briss_, to press. _Brock_, a badger. _Broe_, broth. _Brown cow_, a ludicrous expression for ale or beer, as opposed to milk. _Bught_, the little fold where the ewes are inclosed at milking-time. _Bumbazed_, confused; made to stare and look like an idiot. _Burn_, or _burnie_, a brook. _Busk_, to deck, dress. _Bustine_, fustian (cloth.) _But_, often used for _without_; as "_but_ feed or favour." _But a flaw_, without a lie. _But_,--_fetch but_, bring into the outer apartment, or that used as a kitchen. _By and attour_, over and above. _By_,--_flings by_, throws aside. _Byre_, or _byar_, a cow-house. C.