Poems and Songs of Robert Burns eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 836 pages of information about Poems and Songs of Robert Burns.
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Poems and Songs of Robert Burns eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 836 pages of information about Poems and Songs of Robert Burns.

     Ba’, a ball. 
     Backet, bucket, box. 
     Backit, backed. 
     Backlins-comin, coming back. 
     Back-yett, gate at the back. 
     Bade, endured. 
     Bade, asked. 
     Baggie, stomach. 
     Baig’nets, bayonets. 
     Baillie, magistrate of a Scots burgh. 
     Bainie, bony. 
     Bairn, child. 
     Bairntime, brood. 
     Baith, both. 
     Bakes, biscuits. 
     Ballats, ballads. 
     Balou, lullaby. 
     Ban, swear. 
     Ban’, band (of the Presbyterian clergyman). 
     Bane, bone. 
     Bang, an effort; a blow; a large number. 
     Bang, to thump. 
     Banie, v. bainie. 
     Bannet, bonnet. 
     Bannock, bonnock, a thick oatmeal cake. 
     Bardie, dim. of bard. 
     Barefit, barefooted. 
     Barket, barked. 
     Barley-brie, or bree, barley-brew-ale or whiskey. 
     Barm, yeast. 
     Barmie, yeasty. 
     Barn-yard, stackyard. 
     Bartie, the Devil. 
     Bashing, abashing. 
     Batch, a number. 
     Batts, the botts; the colic. 
     Bauckie-bird, the bat. 
     Baudrons, Baudrans, the cat. 
     Bauk, cross-beam. 
     Bauk, v. bawk. 
     Bauk-en’, beam-end. 
     Bauld, bold. 
     Bauldest, boldest. 
     Bauldly, boldly. 
     Baumy, balmy. 
     Bawbee, a half-penny. 
     Bawdrons, v. baudrons. 
     Bawk, a field path. 
     Baws’nt, white-streaked. 
     Bear, barley. 
     Beas’, beasts, vermin. 
     Beastie, dim. of beast. 
     Beck, a curtsy. 
     Beet, feed, kindle. 
     Beild, v. biel. 
     Belang, belong. 
     Beld, bald. 
     Bellum, assault. 
     Bellys, bellows. 
     Belyve, by and by. 
     Ben, a parlor (i.e., the inner apartment); into the parlor. 
     Benmost, inmost. 
     Be-north, to the northward of. 
     Be-south, to the southward of. 
     Bethankit, grace after meat. 
     Beuk, a book:  devil’s pictur’d beuks-playing-cards. 
     Bicker, a wooden cup. 
     Bicker, a short run. 
     Bicker, to flow swiftly and with a slight noise. 
     Bickerin, noisy contention. 
     Bickering, hurrying. 
     Bid, to ask, to wish, to offer. 
     Bide, abide, endure. 
     Biel, bield, a shelter; a sheltered spot. 
     Biel, comfortable. 
     Bien, comfortable. 
     Bien, bienly, comfortably. 
     Big, to build. 
     Biggin, building. 
     Bike, v. byke. 
     Bill, the bull. 
     Billie, fellow, comrade, brother. 
     Bings, heaps. 
     Birdie, dim. of bird; also maidens. 
     Birk, the birch. 
     Birken, birchen. 
     Birkie, a fellow. 
     Birr, force, vigor. 
     Birring, whirring. 
     Birses, bristles. 
     Birth, berth. 
     Bit, small (e.g., bit lassie). 
     Bit, nick of time. 
     Bitch-fou, completely

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