An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
Chapter 41 : BAIT, _s._ A boat. V. ~Bat~. _To_ BAYT, _v. a._ To give food to. _Barbour._ Isl. _beit-

BAIT, _s._ A boat.

V. ~Bat~.

_To_ BAYT, _v. a._ To give food to.

_Barbour._

Isl. _beit-a_, to drive cattle to pasture, _beit_ pasture.

_To_ BAYT, _v. n._ To feed.

_Gl. Sibb._

BAITTLE, _adj._ Denoting that sort of pasture, where the gra.s.s is short and close, Selkirks.

Isl. _beitinn_, fit for pasture.

BAIVEE, _s._ A species of whiting.

_Sibbald._

BAK, BACKE, BAKIE-BIRD, _s._ The bat or rearmouse, S.

_Douglas._

Su. G. _nattbacka_, id.

BAKE, _s._ A small cake, a biscuit, S.

_Burns._

BAKGARD, _s._ A rear-guard.

_Wallace._

BAKIE, _s._ The black-headed gull, Orkn.

BAKIE, _s._ The name given to one kind of peat, S.

_Ess. Highl. Soc._

E. _bake_, to knead.

BAKIE, _s._ A stake.

V. ~Baikie~.

BAKIN-LOTCH, _s._ A species of bread.

_Evergreen._

BAKSTER, BAXSTER, _s._ A baker, S.

_Burrow Lawes._

A. S. _baecestre_, a woman-baker.

BAL, BALL, the initial syllable of a great many names of places in Scotland.

Ir. Gael. _baile_, _ball_, a place or town; Su. G. Isl. _bol_, id.

domicilium, sedes, villa, from _bo_, _bo-a_, _bu-a_, to dwell, to inhabit.

BALAS, _s._ A sort of precious stone, said to be brought from _Bala.s.sia_ in India.

Fr. _balais_, b.a.s.t.a.r.d ruby.

BALAX, _s._ A hatchet, Aberd.

Isl. _bolyxe_, Su. G. _baalyxa_, a large axe.

BALBEIS, _s. pl._ Halfpence.

V. ~Babie~.

_Maitland Poems._

BALD, BAULD, _adj._

1. Bold, intrepid, S.

_Wyntown._