Ballad—Hynde Etin.
Bowk, S and C, to retch.
“For aye ye sup the brose at e’en
Ye bowk at in the morn, lassie.”
Song—Ye ha’e lain wrang, lassie.
Brae, S, bank of a stream, brow.
“’Neath the brae the burnie jooks.”
Tannahill. Gloomy Winter.
Brackin’, C; Breckan, S, the common fern (Pteris Aquilina).
A lady near Hawkshead having bought a small fern plant at a flower show, a neighbour exclaimed, “Three and sixpence for a lile brackin! I’d ha’ browte her a leeàd o’ them for’t!”