_Braik_, an
instrument
for rough-dressing flax.
Robert Burns
_Bonnock_, a kind of thick cake of bread, a small jannock or loaf made
of oatmeal. See _Bannock. _
_Boord_, a board.
_Bore_, a hole in the wall, a cranny.
_Boortree_, the shrub elder, planted much of old in hedges of barn-yards
and gardens.
_Boost_, behoved, must needs, wilfulness.
_Botch_, _blotch_, an angry tumour.
_Bousing_, drinking, making merry with liquor.
_Bowk_, body.
_Bow-kail_, cabbage.
_Bow-hought_, out-kneed, crooked at the knee joint.
_Bowt_, _bowlt_, bended, crooked.
_Brackens_, fern.
_Brae_, a declivity, a precipice, the slope of a hill.
_Braid_, broad.
_Braik_, an instrument for rough-dressing flax.
_Brainge_, to run rashly forward, to churn violently.
_Braing't_, "the horse braing't," plunged end fretted in the harness.
_Brak_, broke, became insolvent.
_Branks_, a kind of wooden curb for horses.
_Brankie_, gaudy.
_Brash_, a sudden illness.
_Brats_, coarse clothes, rags, &c.
_Brattle_, a short race, hurry, fury.
_Braw_, fine, handsome.
_Brawlys_, or _brawlie_, very well, finely, heartily, bravely.
_Braxies_, diseased sheep.
_Breastie_, diminutive of breast.
_Breastit_, did spring up or forward; the act of mounting a horse.
_Brechame_, a horse-collar.
_Breckens_, fern.
