An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 48

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 48

BARTANE, _s._ Great Britain.


_Bannatyne Poems._


BARTANYE, BERTANYE, _s._ Britanny.


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


BARTIZAN, BERTISENE, _s._ A battlement on the top of a house or castle, or around a spire, S.


_Statist. Acc._


O. Fr. _bretesche_, wooden towers used for defence, Ital.


_bertesca_.


BASE DANCE, A kind of dance, slow and formal in its motions.


_Complaynt S._


Fr. _ba.s.se danse_.


_To_ BASH, _v. a._ To beat to sherds, Loth. _Smash_ synon.


Su. G. _bas-a_, to strike.


BASH, _s._ A blow, S. A.


_To_ BASH _up_, _v. a._ To bow or bend the point of an iron instrument inwards, Loth.


BASING, Ba.s.sING, _s._ A bason; pl. _basingis_.


Fr. _ba.s.sin_, id.


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


Ba.s.s.


1. This term is used in S. for the inner bark of a tree.


2. A mat laid at a door for cleaning the feet; also, one used for packing bales, S.


Teut. _bast_, cortex.


Ba.s.sIE, _s._ A large wooden dish, used for carrying meal from the _girnal_ to the _bakeboard_, S. B.


_Ross._


Fr. _ba.s.sin_, a bason.


Ba.s.sIE, _s._ An old horse, Clydes. Loth.


V. ~Bawsand~.


Ba.s.sIL, _s._ A long cannon, or piece of ordnance.


_Pitscottie._


Abbrev. from Fr. _basilic_.


Ba.s.sIN, _adj._ Of or belonging to rushes.


_Douglas._


Teut. _biese_, juncus, scirpus; L. B. _ba.s.se_, a collar for cart-horses made of flags.


Ba.s.sNYT, _adj._ White-faced.


V. ~Bawsand~.


_Gl. Sibb._


BASTAILYIE, _s._ A bulwark, a blockhouse.


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


Fr. _bastille_, a fortress, a castle furnished with towers.


BASTILE, BASTEL, _s._ A fortress, princ.i.p.ally meant for securing prisoners, South of S.


V. preceding word.


_Statist. Acc._