An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 125

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 125

BUITING, _s._ Booty.


_Montgomerie._


Fr. _butin_, Ital. _butino_, id.


BUITS, _s. pl._ Matches for firelocks.


_Baillies Lett._


_To_ BUKK, _v. a._ To incite, to instigate.


_Evergreen._


Germ. _boch-en_, to strike, _bock-en_, to push with the horn; Su. G.


_bock_, a stroke; Isl. _buck-a_, calcitrare.


BUK-HID, BUK-HUD, _s._


V. ~Belly-blind~.


_Henrysone._


This seems to be an old name for some game, probably _Blind mans Buff_.


BU-KOW, _s._ Any thing frightful; hence applied to a hobgoblin, S.


V. ~Bu~.


BULDRIE, _s._ Building, or mode of building.


_Burel._


BULYIEMENT, _s._ Habiliments; properly such as are meant for warfare.


V. ~Abulyiement~.


_Ross._


_Bulyiements_ is still used ludicrously for clothing, S.


_To_ BULL, _v. n._ To take the bull; a term used with respect to a cow.


Both the _v._ and _s._ are p.r.o.n. q. _bill_, S.


_Bill-siller_, S., is a.n.a.logous to Teut. _bolle-gheld_, merces pro admissura tauri.


_To_ BULLER, _v. n._


1. To emit such a sound as water does, when rushing violently into any cavity, or forced back again, S.


_Douglas._


Su. G. _bullr-a_, tumultuari, strepitum edere.


2. To make a noise with the throat, as one does when gargling it with any liquid, S. _guller_, synon.


_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._


3. To make any rattling noise; as when stones are rolled downhill, or when a quant.i.ty of stones falls together, S. B.


4. To bellow, to roar as a bull or cow does, S.; also p.r.o.n. _bollar_, Ang.


Isl. _baul-a_, mugire, _baul_ mugitus.


5. It is used as _v. a._ to denote the _impetus_ or act productive of such a sound as is described above.


_Douglas._


~Buller~, ~Bulloure~, _s._


1. A loud gurgling noise, S.


_Douglas._


Hence, _the Bullers of Buchan_, the name given to an arch in a rock, on the coast of Aberdeenshire.


Su. G. _buller_, strepitus.


2. A bellowing noise; or a loud roar, S. B.


V. the _v._


BULLETSTANE, _s._ A round stone, S.


Isl. _bollut-ur_, round; _bollut_, convexity.


_To_ BULLIRAG, _v. a._ To rally in a contemptuous way, to abuse one in a hectoring manner, S.


Isl. _baul_, _bol_, maledictio, and _raegia_, deferre, to reproach.