Braik, a kind of harrow an instrument used in husbandry. Brainge, to run rashly forward. Brak, broke, made insolvent. Branks, a kind of wood en curb for horses. Brash, a sudden illness. Brats, coarse clothes, rags, &c. Brattle, a short race, Breef, an invulnerable Brewin, brewing, Brie, juice, liquid. Broo, broth, liquid, wa ter. Broose, a kind of pottage made by pouring boiling water or broth on oat-meal, which is stirred while the water is poured; a race at country weddings, who shall first reach the bride-groom's house on returning from church, so called, perhaps, from brose being allotted to the vic tor. Brownie, a spirit, supposed, till lately, to haunt old houses, particularly those attached to farms, and sometimes to do the drudgery of the servants during the night. Brugh, a burgh. Bruilzie, a broil, a combustion. Brunt, did burn, burnt. Brust, to burst, burst. Buchan-bullers, the boiling of the sea among the rocks on the coast of Buchan. Bucksin, an inhabitant, of Virginia. Bught, a pen. Bughtin-time, the time of collecting the sheep in the pens to be milked. Buirdly, stout made, broad made. Bum-clock, a humming beetle that flies in the summer evenings. Bumming, humming as bees. Bummle, to blunder; a C. Ca', to call, to name, to drive. Ca't, or Ca'd, called, dri- stones. Calf-ward, a small enclosure for calves. Callan, a boy. Caller, fresh, sound, refreshing. Canie, or Cannie, gentle, mild, dexterous. Cannilie, dexterously, gently. Cantie, or Canty, cheerful, merry. Cantraip,a charm,a spel!. Caprin, capering, skipping merrily. Cap-stane, cope-stone, key-stone. Careerin, cheerfully. Carl, an old man. Carl-hemp, the largest stalk of hemp, firmness of mind. Carlin, a stout old wo man. Cartes, cards. Caup, a wooden drinking-vessel. Cavie, a coup or pen for Chanter, a part of a bag- Chaup, a stroke, a blow. Cheekit, cheeked. Cheep, a chirp; to chirp. Chiel, or Cheel, a young fellow. Chimla,or Chimlie, a firegrate, a fire-place. Chimla-lug, the fire-side. Chittering, shivering, trembling. Chockin, choking. Chow, to chew; cheek for chow, side by side. Chuffie, fat-faced, Cluchan, a small village about a church, a hamlet. Claise, or Claes, clothes. Claith, cloth. Claithing, clothing. Claivers, nonsense, not speaking sense. Clap, clapper of a mill. Clorcif, wrote. 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; Clock, to hatch; a beetle. Clootie, an old name for ་ Clout, to beat, to strike; a blow, a cuff. Cluds, clouds. Clunk, to guggle in the manner of a bottle when it is emptying. Coaxin, wheedling, flattery. Coble, a fishing boat. Cockernony, a lock of hair tied upon a girl's head; a cap. Cockie, dimin. of cock. Coft, bought. Cog, a wooden dish. Coggie, dimin. of cog.. Coila, from Kyle, a district of Ayrshire; so called from Coil or Coilus, a Pictish monarch. Collie, a general, and sometimes a particular name for country curs. Collieshangie, quarrelling. Commaun, command. Cood, the cud. Coofa, a blockhead, a ninny. Cookit, appeared and disappeared by fits. Caoser, a horse kept for mares, Coost, did cast. Coot, the ancle, or foot. Cootie, a wooden kitchen dish; fowls whose legs are clad with feathers, are said to be cootie. Corbies, a species of the crow. Core, corps, party, clan. Corn't, fed with oats. Cotter, the inhabitant of a cot-house, or cottage. Couthie, kind, loving. Cove, a cave. Cowe, to terrify, to keep under, to lop; a fright, a branch of furze, broom, &c. Cowp, to barter, to tumble over; a gang. Cowpit, tumbled. Cowrin, cowering, stooping. Cowt, a colt, a young horse. Cozie, snug. Coziely, snugly. Crabbit, crabbed, fretful, sour. Crack, to converse; conversation. Crackin, conversing. Craft, or Croft, in old husbandry, a field near a house. Craigie, dimin. of crag, the throat, the neck. Craiks, birds, incessant calls, or cries. Crambo-clink, or Crambo-jingle, rhymes,doggrel verses. Crank, the noise of an ungreased wheel. Crankous, fretful, cap tious. Cranreuch, the hoar frost Crap, or crop; the produce of land; to crop. Craw, a crow, of a cock, a rook. Creel, a kind of osier basket; to have one's wits in a creel, to be crazed, to be fascinated. Creeshie, greasy. Crooks, old ewes that have given over bearing. Cronie, or Crony, an intimate acquaintance. Crood, or Croud, to coo as a dove. Croon, a hollow, continued moan; to make a noise like the continued roar of a bull; to hum a tune. Crooning, humming. Crouchie, crook-backed. Crouse, cheerful, courageous. Crousely, cheerfully,courageously. Crowdie, a composition of oat-meal and boiled water, sometimes from the broth of beef, mutton, &c. Crowdie-time, breakfast time. Croulin, crawling, creeping. Crummock, a cow with crooked horns. Crump, hard and brittle; spoken of bread. Crunt, a blow on the head with a cudgel. Cuif, a blockhead, a ninny. Cummock, a short staff with a crooked head. Curchie, a curtesy. Curler, a player at a game on the ice, practised in Scotland, called curling: Curlie, curled; and whose hair falls naturally in ringlets. Curling, a well known game on the ice. Curmurring, murmuring, a slight rumbling noise. Curpin, the crupper. Cushat, the dove, or wood-pigeon. Cutty, short, a spoon broken in the middle, a light woman. Cutty-stool, the stool e |
