An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 83
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 83
Lat. _blater-are_, Teut. _blater-en_, stulte loqui.
BLAUCHT, _adj._ Pale, livid.
_Palace of Hon._
A. S. _blac_, _blaec_; Su. G. _blek_, Isl. _bleik-r_, E. _bleak_, pallidus. A. S. _blac-ian_, Su. G. _blek-na_, to wax pale.
BLAVING, BLAUING, _s._ Blowing.
_Gawan and Gol._
A. S. _blawan byman_, buccina canere.
BLAW, _s._ A blow, a stroke.
_Wallace._
Teut. _blaew-en_, caedere. _Blaw_ is used in this sense. Gl.
Westmorel.
_To_ BLAW, _v._ Used both as _a._ and _n._
1. To blow; in a literal sense referring to the wind. S.
_Douglas._
A. S. _blaw-an_, flare.
2. To breathe, S.
_Abp. Hamiltoun._
3. To publish, to make known. S.
_Burel._
E. _blow_ is used in the same sense.
4. To brag, to boast, S. _Blast_, synon.
_Barbour._
_Douglas._
Germ. _blaw_, falsus, mendax, dolosus. Teut. _blas-en_, flare et nimiis vanisque laudibus rem efferre, ac inani flatu infarcire.
5. To magnify in narration, especially from a principle of ostentation, S.
6. To flatter, to coax.
_Baillie._
S. Prov. "Ye first burn me, and then _blaw_ me."
7. To _blaw_ in ones _lug_, to cajole or flatter a person, so as to be able to guide him at will, S.
_Nicol Burne._
_To blow in the ear_, id. O. E.
Su. G. _blaas-a_, to instil evil counsel. Teut. _oor-blaesen_, not only signifies, in aurem mussare, sive mussitare, obgannire in aurem; but is rendered, blandiri.
8. To huff a man at draughts. _I blaw_, or _blow you_, I take this man, S.
Su. G. _blaas-a_, to blow, is used in this very sense. _Blaasa bort en bricka i damspel_, Seren.
9. To _blaw appin_ locks or bolts, and to loose fetters, by means of a magical power ascribed to the breath, S.
_Satans Invisible World._
10. _To blaw out_ on one, to reproach him.
_Wallace._
BLAW, _s._
1. A blast, a gust, S. Rudd.
_Gawan and Gol._
2. The sound emitted by a wind instrument.
3. A falsehood, a lie told from ostentation. _He tells greit blaws_, S.
B.
_Ramsay._
BLAW, _s._ A pull, a draught; a cant term, used among topers, S.
_Ferguson._