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Mr Macpherson, vo. _Bysynt_, mentions A. S. _bysmorfull_, horrendus.
Isl. _bysmarfull_ has the same sense; _bysna_, to portend; _bysn_, a prodigy, grande quod ac ingens, G. Andr.
BISTAYD, BISTODE, _pret._ Perhaps, surrounded.
_Sir Tristrem._
A. S. _bestod_, circ.u.mdedit, from _bestand-an_, Teut. _besteen_, circ.u.msistere, circ.u.mdare.
BYSTOUR, BOYSTURE, _s._ A term of contempt; the precise meaning of which seems to be lost.
_Polwart._
Several similar terms occur, as Fr. _bistorie_, crooked, _boister_, to limp; _bustarin_, a great lubber.
BIT, _s._ A vulgar term used for food, S.
_Bit and baid_, meat and clothing, S. B.
_Ross._
Although _baid_ be understood of clothing, I suspect that it, as well as _bit_, originally signified food, from A. S. _bead_, a table.
BYT, _s._ The pain occasioned by a wound.
_Douglas._
A. S. _byt_, morsus, metaph. used.
BYTESCHEIP, _s._ A contemptuous term, meant as a play on the t.i.tle of _Bishop_.
_Semple._
BITTILL, _s._ A beetle, a heavy mallet, especially one used for beating clothes.
_Houlate._
_To_ BYWAUE, _v. a._ To cover, to hide, to cloak.
_Douglas._
A. S. _bewoef-an_, Moes. G. _biwaib-jan_, id.
_To_ BIZZ, _v. n._ To hiss. V. ~Bysse~.
_To_ BIZZ, BIZZ _about_, _v. n._ To be in constant motion, to bustle, S.
Su. G. _bes-a_, a term applied to beasts which, when beset with wasps, drive hither and thither; Teut. _bies-en_, _bys-en_, furente ac violento impetu agitari, Kilian.
BLA, BLAE, _adj._ Livid; a term frequently used to denote the appearance of the skin when discoloured by a severe stroke or contusion, S.
_Douglas._
Su. G. _blaa_, Isl. _bla-r_, Germ. _blaw_, Belg. _blauw_, Franc.
_plauu_, lividus, glaucus.
_To_ BLABBER, BLABER, BLEBER, _v. n._ To babble, to speak indistinctly.
_R. Bruce._
Teut. _blabber-en_, confuse et inepte garrire, Jun. vo. _Blab_.
Hence,
BLABERING, _s._ Babbling.
_Douglas._
BLACKAVICED, _adj._ Dark of the complexion, S. from _black_ and Fr.
_vis_, the visage.
_Ramsay._
BLACK-BOYDS, _s. pl._ The name given to the fruit of the bramble, West of S.
BLACK-BURNING, _adj._ Used in reference to shame, when it is so great as to produce deep blus.h.i.+ng, or to crimson the countenance, S.
_Ramsay._
Su. G. Isl. _blygd_, shame, blus.h.i.+ng; _blygd-a_, to blush; q. the burning of blushes.
BLACK-c.o.c.k, _s._ The Heath-c.o.c.k, black Game, S. Tetrao tetrix, Linn. V.
Penn. Zool. p. 266. Tetrao seu Urogallus minor.--Gallus pal.u.s.tris Scoticus, Gesn. Nostratibus, the _Black c.o.c.k_. Sibb. Scot. p. 16.
