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 grass 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 _Balassia_ in India.
Fr. _balais_, bastard 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._