An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 70

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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language



An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 70


_Dunbar._


In edit. 1508, it is _buthman_.


BYCHT.


V. ~Lycht~.


_Houlate._


BICK, _s._ A b.i.t.c.h; "the female of the canine kind," S.


A. S. _bicca_, _bicce_, id.; Isl. _bickia_, catella.


_To_ BICKER, BYKER, _v. a._ This _v_., as used in S., does not merely signify, "to fight, to skirmish, to fight off and on," as it is defined in E. dictionaries. It also denotes,


1. The constant motion of weapons of any kind, and the rapid succession of strokes, in a battle or broil.


_Wallace._


2. To fight by throwing stones; S.


3. To move quickly; S.


4. It expresses the noise occasioned by successive strokes, by throwing of stones, or by any rapid motion; S.


C. B. _bicre_, a battle; "Pers. _pykar_." id. Gl. Wynt.


BICKER, BIKERING, _s._


1. A fight carried on with stones; a term among schoolboys, S.


2. A contention, strife, S.


_Baillie._


BICKER, BIQUOUR, _s._ A bowl, or dish for containing liquor; properly, one made of wood; S.


_Evergreen._


Germ. _becher_; Isl. _baukur_, _bikare_; Sw. _bagare_; Dan.


_begere_; Gr. and L. B. e??a??, _baccarium_; Ital. _bicchiere_, patera, scyphus.


_To_ BID, _v. a._


1. To desire, to pray for.


_Henrysone._


This sense is common in O. E.


2. To care for, to value.


_Douglas._


From the same origin with ~Bedis~, q. v.


_To_ BIDE, BYDE, _v. a._


1. To await, to wait for.


_Kelly._


2. To suffer, to endure. "He _bides_ a great deal of pain;" S.


Westmorel, id.


_Ross._


An oblique sense of Moes. G. _beid-an_, A. S. _bid-an_, expectare.


_To_ BIDE _be_, _v. n._ To continue in one state, S.


BIDINGS, _s. pl._ Sufferings.


V. ~Bide~, _v._


BY-EAST, towards the east.


V. ~Be~, _prep._


BIERDLY, BIERLY, _adj._


_Popular Ball._


It is viewed as the same with _Burdly_, q. v. But to me it seems rather to signify, fit, proper, becoming, from Isl. _byr-iar_, _ber_, decet, oportet.


BIERLING, _s._ A galley, S. B.







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