An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 80

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 80

BLADE, _s._ The leaf of a tree, S.


A. S. _blaed_, _bled_; Su. G. Isl. Belg. _blad_, Germ. _blat_, Alem. _plat_, id.; perhaps the part. pa. of A. S. _blew-an_, _blow-an_, florere, to bud, to burgeon; _blaewed_, q. what is _blowed_, or shot forth; just as Franc. _bluat_, flos, is from _bly-en_, florere.


BLADOCH, BLEDOCH, BLADDA, s. b.u.t.ter-milk, S. B.


_Bannatyne Poems._


Ir. _bladhach_, Gael. _blath-ach_, id. C. B. _blith_, milk in general.


BLADRY, _s._ Expl. "trumpery."


_Kelly._


It may be either the same with _Bladarie_, or _Blaidry_, q. v.


BLAE, BLAY, _s._ The rough parts of wood left in consequence of boring or sawing, S. B.


Germ. _bleh_, thin leaves or plates; lamina, bracteola; Wachter.


BLAES, _s. pl._ Apparently, lamina of stone, S.


_Law Case._


BLAE, _adj._ Livid.


V. ~Bla~.


BLAE-BERRY, _s._ The Billberry; Vaccinium myrtillus, Linn.


_Ramsay._


Sw. _bla-baer_, vaccinium, Seren. Isl. _blaber_, myrtilli; G. Andr.


_To_ BLAFLUM, _v. a._ To beguile, S.


V. ~Bleflum~.


_Ramsay._


BLAIDRY, _s._ Nonsense.


V. ~Blether~, _v._


BLAIDS, _s. pl._


_Watsons Coll._


A. S. _blaedr_, Su. G. _blaedot_, and Germ. _blater_, denote a pimple, or swelling with many reddish pimples that eat and spread. A.


S. _blaecth_, leprosy.


BLAIN, _s._ A mark left by a wound, the discolouring of the skin after a sore, S.


_Rutherford._


A. S. _blegene_, Belg. _bleyne_, pustula. But our term is more closely allied to Isl. _blina_, which is not only rendered _pustula_, but also, _caesio ex verbere_; G. Andr. Germ. _blae-en_, to swell.


BLAIN, _s._ A blank, a vacancy.


_A blain in a field_, a place where the grain has not sprung, Loth.


Probably a metaph. use of the preceding word.


BLAIR, _s._ That part of flax which is afterwards used in manufacture, properly after it has been steeped, and laid out for being dried; for it is subsequently called _lint_, S. This in E. is denominated _harle_.


Sw. _blaer_, hards of flax; but rather from Isl. _blaer_, aura, because it is thus exposed to the drought.


_To_ BLAIR, _v. n._ To become dry by exposure to the drought, Ang.


BLAIRIN, _s._ The ground appropriated for drying flax, Ang.


This term also denotes the ground on which peats are laid out to be dried, ibid.


BLAIRAND, _part. pr._ Roaring, crying. Teut. _blaer-en_, mugire, Gl.


Sibb.


BLAIT, _adj._ Naked, bare.


_Pr. of Peblis._


BLAIT, BLATE, _adj._


1. Bashful, sheepish, S.