An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
Chapter 80 : BLADE, _s._ The leaf of a tree, S. A. S. _blaed_, _bled_; Su. G. Isl. Belg. _blad_, Ger

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._

_Watson's 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.