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BOW [270] BOX Germ, id. from a bunch wile the bannocks for the buckly, Dan. bugelt, bugle, They weird ; A" or humph; and this from bug-en, to bend. V. BEUGLE- tramp their feckfu' jirkiu fu", BACKED. To sleek aneath the bowster. ' ' That duck was the first of the kind we had ever Tarras's Poems, p. 74. eeen and it of Aberd. 1538. ; many thought was the goose species, Bowster, Reg. only with short bmaly legs." Ann. of the Par. p. 131. BOWSTING, s. Apparently a pole to be BOWLIE, s. A designation given in derision used as a bow. V. STING. to one who is Dumfr. bow-legged, "Valit [i.e. picked] bowstingis, price of the scoir vi Ib. Scottis money." Aberd. Reg. A. 1551, V. 21. BOWLOCHS, s. pi. Ragweed, Senecio jacobaea, Wigtonshire. BOWSUNES, s. [Obedience.] Dr. And bowsunes, that as ye From Gael, buaghallan, id. Shaw ; bualan, Stew- wys Gayis, bettyre is than sacrifyis. art of Luss, ap. Lightfoot, p. 1132. Wynlown, Prol. i. 67. Als as scho wes borne BOWLS, s. pi. A name commonly given to nakyt Scho rade, as scho had beforne the of because with small heycht ; game taw, played And sa fulfillyt all byddyng and bowls made of marble, S.; hence also called And gat hyr wyll hyr yharnyng. Be resown of this bowsunes Marbles. Maid the Gud Quene cald scho wes. Ibid. viii. 6. 59. To BOWN, v. a. To make ready. V. BODN, Mr. Macpherson apprehends that in the first passage v. it signifies business, and that in the second it should be bousmnnes, as denoting obedience. But this is the true s. third estate ; the in in first it is to sacri- BOWRUGIE, Burgess meaning both ; as the opposed it in a Parliament or Convention. fice, refers to the language of Samuel to Saul ; "Be- hold, to obey is better than sacrifice." Fyve monethis thus Scotland stud in gud rest, Wyntown seems to write it from A.-S. A consell cryit, thaim thocht it wes the best, thus, propter euphoniam ; In Sanct Jhonstoun that it suld haldyn be, bocsumnesse. V. BOUSUM. Assemblit thar Clerk, Barown, and Bowrugie. " Wallace, viii. 4. MS. BOWT, s. Bowt of worsted," Aberd. Reg. A resemblance of the sound of Fr. bour- corrupted as much worsted as is wound upon a clew, geois. ourrugie is used collectively. while the clew is held in one position, S. BOWS, s. pi. The name commonly given in V. BOUT. former times, in S., to sugar-tongs. It is s. 1. A bolt, a in to be now BOWT, shaft; general. supposed obsolete, existing only *' A fool's bowt is soon shot." Ramsay's in the recollection of old people. S. Prov. p. 10. Denominated, most probably, from their bowing or And never a dairt bending quality. So pierced my heart As dois the bowt BOWS, s. pi. To take one throw the Bows, Quid I k luif me schot. to call one to a severe Aberd. reckoning, Ckron. S. P. i. 58. In allusion, perhaps to the punishment of the stocks; 2. A thunderbolt, S. Teut. boeye, compes, vinculum pedis. And for misluck, they just were on the height, when the bowt on them wad BOWS Lint. V. BOLL. Ay thinking light. of Bow, Ross's Helenore, p. 74. 3. An iron bar. BOW-SAW, s. A thin and very narrow saw, "Item ane uthir battirt at the hall mar- fixed in a frame, which is tightened by a lyand end, kit with the armes of montit on ane auld to the saw used for Scotland, cord keep from warping, axtre the said stok stok, quhelis, and ; with garnesit " cutting figured work. It has a semicircular over and nedder bandis of irne, and sex irne bowttis. Inventories, A. 1580, 300. handle, that the saw may bend freely, S. p. "Axes, eitch, drug-saw, bow-saw," &c. Depre- BOWTING CLAITH. V. BOUT-CLAITH. dations on the Clan Campbell, p. 52. V. DRUG-SAW. Teut. serrula arcuaria. boghe-saghe, To BOX, v. a. To wainscot, to pannel walls " with wood A' the rooms i' the house BOWSIE, adj. Crooked, S. Fr. bossu, id. ; as, are box'd" S. BOWSIE, s. A designation given in ridicule Denominated perhaps from the quadrangular form to one who is Dumfr. crooked, of the pamiels, as if they resembled a box, or from the idea of the walls being enclosed. BOWSIE, adj. Large, bushy. V. BOUZY. BOX-BED, s. 1. A bed, in which the want BOWSTAK, BOUSTER, BOWSTER s. The of roof, curtains, &c. is entirely supplied by bolster of a bed, S. wood. It is enclosed on all sides except in "Item twa stikkit mattis with ane bowstar, with front, where two are used as ane stikkit holland claith, and ane scheit of fustiane." sliding pannels S. Inventories, A. 1539, p. 46. doors, BOX [271] ];i; A "Their long course ended, by Norna drawing aside braa is cilium, the brow, whence auynabraa, the eye- a behind a or brow and brail an Su.- sliding pannel, which, opening wooden, ; signifies steep, having ascent; box-bed, as it is called in Scotland, admitted them into G. brattur, bryn, vertex montis, praecipitium, id quod aut aliis eminet an ancient, but very mean apartment." The Pirate, ceteris superstat, prae ; also, margo Isl. sese tollere in iii. 249. amnix, Ihre ; bruna, altum, breclca, clivua. 2. It is also used to denote a bed of another It may be viewed as a proof of this affinity, that form, resembling a scrutoir or chest of brow is used both in S. and . in a sense nearly allied to lirn: as an or the of it as drawers, in which the canvas and bed- , denoting eminence, edge ; if both acknowledged braa, cilium, as their root. clothes are folded the S. up during day, ; Twa mile she ran afore she bridle drew, called also a lureau-bed. This is the more And syne she lean'd her down upon a brow. Boss's 58. common use of the term. Helenore, p. BRAE-FACK, s. The front or slope of a hill, S. BOX-DRAIN, . A drain in which the " If a kill be built to a brae-face, or the side of a stones are set so that there be carefully may rock, it can have but three vents." Maxwell's Sel. a regular opening for the water, Forfars. Trans, p. 194. 1 ' From the abundance of in this great flag-stones BRAE-HAG, s. The projecting part of the bank box-drains are often below to county, paved prevent of a the which has moles from choaking them with earth. They are built river, beyond vacancy up with square stones at the sides, and covered with been caused by the force of the stream, above." Surv. Forfars. flags Agr. generally hollow underneath, Roxb. that has been broken BOXING, Wainscotting ; Sir J. Sinclair, p. V. HAG, moss ground up. 170, S. BRAE-HAULD, *. The hollow projecting part of the bank of a river Roxb. the same BRA', adj. Fine, &c. V. BRAW. ; ; with Brae-hag. BRA, BRAE, BRAY, . 1. The side of a hill, Dan. "a a a an S. hold, decline, steepness, declivity," acclivity, Wolff. Su.-G. haell-a, Isl. hall-a, inclinare. Landft Thai abaid till that he was declivis est haellet, regio ; whence E. heel, as "the ship in ane narow Entryt place heels," navis procumbit in latus. Alem. h? Id-en, hatd- Betwix a louchsid ana a bra. en, whence haldo, praeceps. Isl. hall-r, proclivitas; also Barbour, iii. 109. MS. as an adj. proclivis, inclmatus. All the brayis of that buyrne buir brenchis above. Houlate, i. 2. MS. BRAE-HEAD, s. The summit of a hill, S. " 2. The bank of a river, S. All the boys of Gamock assembled at the brae-head, which commands an extensive view of the Kilmarnock Endlang the wattyr than yeid he On athyr syd a gret quantity, road." Ayrs. Legatees, p. 282. And saw the brayis hey standaud, s. The wattyr how throw slik rynnand. BRAE-LAIRD, BRAES-LAIRD, A proprietor vi. 77. MS. Harbour, of land on the southern declivity of the the brink or bank of a brook or river i.e. "Breea, ; S. the brow. North." Gl. Grose. Grampians, "In Mitchell's Opera, called the Highland Fair, a 3. A hill, S. Brae Laird is introduced as the natural and hereditary of a chieftain." Note from Sir W. S. Twa men I saw ayont yon brae, enemy Highland She trembling said, I wiss them muckle wae. BRAEMAN, s. One "who inhabits the southern Jtoss's Helenore, p. 60. side of the S. 4. Conjoined with a name, it denotes ''the Grampian hills, Humanity strongly invites you to know of a as is observed Gl. upper part country," The worm-wasted Braemans fate, laid in yon grave, or rather the of O'er which the tall ferns of the wilderness wave. Wynt.; hilly part it, also, Train's Mountain a as " Muse, p. 70. hilly country ; Bra-mar, Bra-Catt, the Braes of Angus ;" S. BRAESHOT, s. 1. A quantity of earth that Brae is also used in a has fallen from a Lanarks. more extensive sense, signi- steep, a extent of fying large hilly country ; as, the Braes of 2. of to and the Braes Sir J. A large sum money which one unex- Mar, of Athol," Sinclair, p. 193. " To down the to be in a becomes heir He's gae brae, metaph. declining pectedly ; gotten an state, in whatever sense to have the ; losing side, S.