Though boundless oceans roll'd between, But bitter, bitter are the tears Of her who slighted love bewails; Even conscious virtue cannot cure The hours once ting'd in transport's dye; No cold approach, no alter'd mien, He made me blest-and broke my heart! The tears I shed must ever fall. THE ch and gh have always the guttural sound. The sound of the English diphthong oo, is commonly spelled ou. The French u, a sound which often occurs in the Scottish language, is marked oo, or ui. The a in genuine Scottish words, except when forming a diphthong, or followed by an e mute after a single consonant, sounds generally like the broad English a in wall. The Scottish diphthong ae, always, and ea, very often, sound like the French e masculine. The Scottish diphthong ey, sounds like the Latin ei. spring. Bit, crisis, nick of time. Blate, bashful, sheepish. Blaud, a flat piece of anything; to slap. Blaw, to blow, to boast. Bleerit, bleared, sore with rheum. Bleert and blin, bleared and blind. Bleezing, blazing. Blellum, idle talking fellow. Blether, to talk idly, non sense. Bleth'rin, talking idly. Blink, a little while, a smiling look, to look kindly; to shine by fits. Blinker, a term of contempt. Blinkin, smirkin. Blue-gown, one of those beggars who get annually, on the king's birth-day, a blue cloak or gown, with a badge. Bluid, blood. Bluntie, snivelling. Blype, a shred, a large piece. Bock, to vomit, to gush intermittently. Bocked, gushed, vomited. Bodle, a small gold coin. Bogles, spirits, hobgoblins. Bonnie, or bonny, handsome, beautiful. Bonnock, a kind of thick cake of bread, a small jannack, or loaf made of oatmeal. Boord, a board. Brae, a declivity, a precipice, the slope of a hill. Braid, broad. Bragin't, reel'd forward. Braik, a kind of harrow. Brainge, to run rashly forward. Brak, broke, made insolvent. Branks, a kind of wooden curb for horses. Brash, a sudden illness. Brats, coarse clothes, rags, &c. Brattle, a short race, hurry, fury. Braw, fine, handsome. forward. Breckan, fern. Breef, an invulnerable or Brunstane, brimstone. Brisket, the breast, the bosom. at Brither, a brother. Brock, a badger. Brogue, a hum, a trick. Broo, broth, liquid, water. Broose, broth; a race country weddings, who shall first reach the bridegroom's house on returning from church. Brugh, a burgh. Bruilzie, a broil, a combustion. Brunt, did burn, burnt. Buchan-bullers, the boiling Bughtin-time, the time of collecting the sheep in the pens to be milked.'" Buirdly, stout-made, broadmade. Bum-clock, a humming beetle that flies in the summer evenings. Bumming, humming as bees. Bummle, to blunder. Bummler, a blunderer. Bunker, a window-seat. Burdies, diminutive of birds. Bure, did bare. Burn, water, a rivulet. Burnewin, i.e. burn the wind, a blacksmith. Burnie, dimin. of burn. Buskit, dressed. Busks, dresses. Bussle, a bustle, to bustle. But an' ben, the country tracted. Byke, a bee-hive. Byre, a cow-stable, a sheeppen. CA', to call, to name, to drive. Ca't, or ca'd, called, driven, calved. Cadger, a carrier. Cadie, or caddie, a person, a Cairn, a loose heap of stones. Caller, fresh, sound, refreshing. Canie, or cannie, gentle, mild, dexterous. Cannilie,dexterously.gently. Cantie, or canty, cheerful, merry. Cantraip, a charm, a spell. Cap-stane, cope-stone, keystone. Careerin, cheerfully. Chanter, a part of a bagpipe. Chap, a person, a fellow, a blow. Chaup, a stroke, a blow. Chockin, choking. Chow, to chew; cheek for chow, side by side. Chuffie, fat-faced. Clachan, a small village Claithing, clothing. Clash, an idle tale, the story of the day. Clatter, to tell little idle stories; an idle story. Claught, snatched at, laid hold of. Claut, to clean, to scrape. |