An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 97

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 97

BOTCARD, s. A sort of artillery used in S. in the reign of Ja. V.


_Pitscottie._


The same instruments seem to be afterwards called _battars_, ib.


Fr. _b.a.s.t.a.r.de_, "a demie canon, or demie culverin; a smaller piece of any kind," Cotgr.


BOTE, BUTE, _s._


1. Help, advantage; E. _boot_, Doug.


2. Compensation, satisfaction; Acts Parl. pa.s.s.


A. S. _bote_, id. from _bet-an_, emendare, restaurare.


~Kin-bote~, compensation or "a.s.sithment for the slaughter of a kinsman;"


Skene, Verb. Sign.


A. S. _cyn_, cognatio, and _bote_.


~Man-bot~, the compensation fixed by the law, for killing a man, according to the rank of the person. Ibid.


A. S. _man-bot_, id.


~Theift-bote~, compensation made to the king for theft.


_Reg. Maj._


BOTHE, BOOTH, BUITH, _s._ A shop made of boards; either fixed, or portable, S.


V. ~Lucken~.


_Douglas._


Hence the _Luckenbooths_ of Edinburgh, wooden shops, made for being _locked_ up. Teut. _boede_, _bode_, domuncula, casa, Kilian; Su. G.


_bud_, taberna mercatorum, apotheca; Isl. _bud_, id.


BOTHIE, BOOTHIE, _s._ A cottage, often used to denote a place where labouring servants are lodged, S.


_Neill._


Su. G. _bod_, a house, a cottage; Gael. _bothag_, _bothan_, a cot.


_To_ BOTHER, BATHER, _v. a._ To teaze one by dwelling on the same subject, or by continued solicitation, S.


BOTHNE, BOTHENE, _s._


1. A park in which cattle are fed and inclosed.


_Skene._


2. A barony, lordship, or sheriffdom.


_a.s.sis. Reg. Dav._


L. B. _bothena_, baronia, aut territorium.


BOTINYS, _s. pl._ Buskins; Gl. Sibb.


Fr. _botine_, cothurnus.


V. ~Boiting~.


BOTTLE-NOSE, _s._ A species of whale, S. Orkn.


_Statist. Acc._


BOTTOM-ROOM, _s._ The name vulgarly given to the s.p.a.ce occupied by one sitter in a church, S.


BOTWAND, _s._ Perhaps, a rod of authority.


_Kennedy._


Germ. _bot_, power, and _wand_, a rod.


BOUCHT, BOUGHT, _s._ A curvature or bending of any kind, S. "The _bought_ of the arm," the bending of the arm at the elbow.


_Journ. Lond._


Where the sea forms a sort of bay, it is said to have a _bought_, S.


A. S. _bogeht_, arcuatus, crooked; _bug-an_, to bend. Germ. _bug_, sinus; _bucht_, curvatura littoris, Wachter.


_To_ BOUCHT, BOUGHT, _v. a._ To fold down, S.


Isl. _bukt-a_, Teut. _buck-en_, flectere, curvare.