An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
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Chapter 95 : A. S. _bufan_, _bufon_, above, and _most_.
BOOT, BUT, BOUD, BIT, BUD, BOOST, _v. imp._
A. S. _bufan_, _bufon_, above, and _most_.
BOOT, BUT, BOUD, BIT, BUD, BOOST, _v. imp._ Behoved, was under a necessity of, S.; _He boot to do_ such a thing; he could not avoid it.
_It bit to be_; it was necessary that this should take place.
_Ross. Burns._
_Bus_ and _bud_ occur in the same sense in Ywaine and Gawin. Most probably it is a corr. of _behoved_, Belg. _behoeft_.
BOOST, _s._ A box.
V. ~Buist~.
BOR, BOIR, BORE, _s._
1. A small hole or crevice; a place used for shelter, especially by smaller animals, S.
_Sir Tristrem._
2. An opening in the clouds, when the sky is thick and gloomy, or during rain, is called a _blue bore_, S. It is sometimes used metaph.
_Baillie._
Su. G. Germ. _bor_, terebra; Isl. _bora_, foramen; A. S. _bor-ian_, to pierce.
BORCH, BORGH, BOWRCH, BOROW, _s._ A surety. The term properly denotes a person who becomes bail for another, for whatever purpose.
_Wallace._
2. A pledge; any thing laid in p.a.w.n.
_Barbour._
The term occurs in both senses in O. E. A. S. _borg_, _borh_, fide-jussor; also, foenus; Germ. _burge_, a pledge. Su. G. _borgen_, suretys.h.i.+p. Ihre derives Su. G. and Isl. _borg-a_, to become surety, from _berg-a_, a periculo tueri, to protect from danger. The idea is certainly most natural: For what is suretys.h.i.+p, but warranting the _safety_ of any person or thing?
_To_ BORCH, _v. a._ To give a pledge or security for, to bail.
_Wallace._
_To_ BORROW, BORW, _v. a._
1. To give security for; applied to property.
_Wyntown._
2. To become surety for; applied to a person.
_Baron Courts._
Su. G. _borg-a_, id.
_To_ BORROW _one_, to urge one to drink, Ang.
When one _pledges_ another in company, he engages to drink after him; and in ancient times it was generally understood, that he who pledged another, was engaged to drink an equal quant.i.ty.
BORROWGANGE, s. A state of suretys.h.i.+p.
_Reg. Maj._
Su. G. _edgaang_, _laggaang_, are rendered by Ihre, actus jurandi, from _gaa_, ire; _borrowgange_ may thus be merely the act of _going_ or _entering_ as a surety.
BORD, _s._
1. A broad hem or welt, S.
2. The edge or border of a woman's cap, S.
Fr. _bord_, Belg. _boord_, a welt, a hem, or selvage; Isl. _bard_, _bord_, the extremity or margin.
BORDEL, _s._ A brothel, Dunbar.
Fr. _bordel_, id., Su. G. A. S. _bord_, a house. The dimin. of this, Ihre says, was L. B. _bordell-um_, _bordil-e_, tuguriolum, cujus generis quum olim meretric.u.m stabula essent.
BORDELLAR, _s._ A haunter of brothels.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
BORE, _s._ A crevice.
V. ~Bor~.
BORE'S- (or BOAR'S) EARS, _s. pl._ The name given to the Auricula, S. B.
Primula auricula, Linn.
A bear is called a _boar_, S., especially S. B.
