r />   bill, the bull.

  billie, fellow,rade, 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,pletely drunk.

  bizz, a flurry.

  bizz, buzz.

  bizzard, the buzzard.

  bizzie, busy.

  black-bonnet, the presbyterian elder.

  black-nebbit, black-beaked.

  blad, v. blaud.

  blae, blue, livid.

  blastet, blastit, blasted.

  blastie, a blasted (i.e., damned) creature; a little wretch.

  blate, modest, bashful.

  blather, bladder.

  blaud, a large quantity.

  blaud, to slap, pelt.

  blaw, blow.

  blaw, to brag.

  blawing, blowing.

  blawn, blown.

  bleer, to blear.

  bleer't, bleared.

  bleeze, blaze.

  blellum, a babbler; a railer; a blusterer.

  blether, blethers, nonsense.

  blether, to talk nonsense.

  bletherin', talking nonsense.

  blin', blind.

  blink, a glance, a moment.

  blink, to glance, to shine.

  blinkers, spies, oglers.

  blinkin, smirking, leering.

  blin't, blinded.

  blitter, the snipe.

  blue-gown, the livery of the licensed beggar.

  bluid, blood.<