histle, spear-thistle.

  busk, to dress; to garb; to dress up; to adorn.

  buss, a bush.

  bussle, bustle.

  but, without.

  but, butt, in the kitchen (i.e., the outer apartment).

  by, past, aside.

  by, beside.

  by himsel, beside himself.

  bye attour (i.e., by and attour), beside and at a distance.

  byke, a bees' nest; a hive; a swarm; a crowd.

  byre, a cow-house.

  ca', call, knock, drive.

  cadger, a hawker (especially of fish).

  cadie, caddie, a fellow.

  caff, chaff.

  caird, a tinker.

  calf-ward, grazing plot for calves (i.e., churchyard).

  callan, callant, a stripling.

  caller, cool, refreshing.

  callet, a trull.

  cam, came.

  canie, cannie, gentle, tractable, quiet, prudent, careful.

  cankrie, crabbed.

  canna, can not.

  canniest, quietest.

  cannilie, cannily, quietly, prudently, cautiously.

  cantie, cheerful, lively, jolly, merry.

  cantraip, magic, witching.

  cants, merry stories, canters or sprees or merry doings.

  cape-stanc, copestone.

  capon-castrate.

  care na by, do not care.

  carl, carle, a man, an old man.

  carl-hemp, male-hemp.

  carlie, a manikin.

  carlin, carline a middle-aged, or old, woman; a beldam, a witch.

  carmagnole, a violent jacobin.

  cartes, playing-cards.

  cartie, dim. of cart.

  catch-the-plack, the hunt for money.

  caudron, a caldron.

  cauf, calf.