BAKSTER, BAXSTER, _s._ a baker. BALD, BAULD, _adj._ bold; intrepid. BALDERDASH, _s._ foolish noisy nonsense. BALK, BURRAL, _s._ an elevated ridge, raised by a plough. BALLANT, _s._ a ballad; a song. BALOW, BALOO, _s._ a lullaby; a term used by nurses when lulling children. _To_ BAN, BANN, _v. a._ to curse. BANNIN, _pr. pa_. swearing. BANDKYN, _s._ a species of cloth, the warp of which is thread of gold and the woof silk, and adorned with figures. BANDSTER, BANSTER, _s._ one who binds sheaves after the reapers in the harvest field. BANE, _s._ a bone. BANE-FYER, _s._ a bonfire. _To_ BANG, _v. a_. to change place with impetuosity-- as, _to bang up_, to start to our feet suddenly. BANNOCK, _s._ a cake of barley or pease meal baked on a girdle. BANNOCK-FLUKE, _s._ a turbot. BAP, _s._ a thick cake, baked in an oven, with yeast in it, and made of flour, oat meal, or barley meal, and sometimes a mixture of two of them. BARE, _adj._ lean; meagre; naked; uncovered. _To_ BARKEN, _v. n_. to become hard; to clot. BARLA-BREIKIS, BURLEY-BRAKS, _s._ a game played in a corn-yard, running round the stacks. BARLEY, _s._ a term used by children in games, when a truce, or a cessation for the time, is demanded. BARNE. See BAIRN. BASSIE, _s._ an old horse. BASTOUN, _s._ a heavy staff; a baton. BAITH, _adj._ both. BATIE, BAWTIE, _s._ a name applied to dogs, generally large ones, without reference to sex. BATS, _s. pl._ the bots, a disease in horses. _To_ BATTER, _v. a_. to paste. BAUCHLE, BACHEL, _s._ an old shoe. BAUGH, _adj._ ungrateful to the taste. BAUK, BAWK, _s._ a cross beam in the roof of a house. BAUK, BAWK, _s._ a strip of land, two or three feet wide, left unploughed. BAUSY, _adj._ strong; big. _To_ BAW, _v. a_. to hush; to lull in the manner of nursing a child. BAW, _s._ a ball. BAWBEE, a halfpenny. BAWDEKYN, _s._ cloth of gold. BAXTER, _s._ a baker. BEAR, BERE, _s._ barley. _To_ BECK, _v_. to curtsey. BEDRAL, _s._ a person who is bedrid. BEGRUTTEN, _part. pa._ having the face disfigured with weeping. BEIK, BIKE, _s._ a hive of bees. BEIK, BEKE, BEEK, _v. a_. to bask, as in the sun. BEILD, BIELD, _s._ shelter; refuge. BEIN, BANE, _s._ bone. BIRR, _s._ noise; cry; force. BEKE, BEIK, BEEK, _v. a._ to bask. BELD, _adj._ bald; without hair on the head. BELE, _s._ a fire; a blaze. BELYVE, _adv._ by and by. _To_ BELL THE CAT, to contend with a person of superior rank; to withstand him, either by actions or words, especially the former. BELLY-THRA, _s._ the colic. _To_ BELT, _v. a._ to gird; to flog; to scourge. BEN, _adv._ towards the inner apartments of a house. A room is generally called _ben_, and the kitchen _but_. BEN-END, _s. the ben-end of a house_, the inner end of it. BEN, BIN, _s._ a mountain. BENE, BIEN, _adj._ wealthy; having abundance. BENK, BINK, _s._ a bench; a seat. BENORTH, _prep._ to the northward of. BENSHIE, BENSHI, _s._ a fairy's wife.