An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 82

_To_ BLASH, _n. a._ To soak, to drench. "To _blash_ one's stomach," to drink too copiously of any weak and diluting liquor; S.

V. ~Plash~.

Perhaps radically the same with _plash_, from Germ. _platz-en_.

BLASH, _s._ A heavy fall of rain; S.

BLASHY, _adj._ Deluging, sweeping away by inundation; S.

_Ramsay._

_Blashy_, "thin, poor; Northumb."

BLASNIT, _adj._ Perhaps, bare, bald, without hair.

_Bannatyne Poems._

Germ. _bloss_, bare, _bloss-en_, to make bare; or rather, Teut.

_bles_, calvus, whence _blesse_, frons capillo nuda.

BLASOWNE, _s._

1. Dress over the armour, on which the armorial bearings were blazoned.

_Wyntown._

2. The badge of office worn by a king's messenger on his arm, S.

_Erskine._

Germ. _blaesse_ denotes a sign in general. Thence _blazon_, a term marking that sign, in heraldry, which is peculiar to each family. The origin seems to be Su. G. _blaesse_.

V. ~Bawsand~.

_To_ BLAST, _v. n._

1. To pant, to breathe hard, S. B.

_Ross._

2. To smoke tobacco, S. B.

3. To blow with a wind instrument.

_Gawan and Gol._

4. To boast, to speak in an ostentatious manner. S.

Su. G _blaas-a_, inspirare, Germ. _blas-en_, flare. Isl. _blast-ur_, halitus, flatus.

Hence,

BLAST, _s._ A brag, a vain boast, S.

_Z. Boyd._

BLASTER, _s._ A boaster; also, one who speaks extravagantly in narration, S.

BLASTIE, _s._ "A shrivelled dwarf; a term of contempt," S. q. what is _blasted_.

_Burns._

_To_ BLAST, v. a. To blow up with gunpowder.

_Statist. Acc._

BLASTER. One who is employed to blow up stones with gunpowder; S.

_Pennant._

BLATE, _adj._ Bashful.

V. ~Blait~.

_To_ BLATHER, _v. n._ To talk nonsensically.

BLATHER, _s._

V. ~Blether~.

BLATTER, _s._ A rattling noise; S.

_Ramsay._