Assoilzied, acquitted.
A-thort, along, across, about.
Auld Nick, a familiar name for the Devil.
Aught, possession.
B
Babee, a copper coin of the value of a halfpenny sterling, also applied to the English coin. The word is derived from the French bas-piece, base money; though many believed it had its original in the fact that during the minority of James VI. coins with the effigy of the ‘baby’ king were issued.
Badrons, a cat.
Baggity, greedy.
Baist, great.
Balk, bauk, crossbeam in roof of a house; hen-bauk, the beam where the fowls roosted, generally above the doorway.