An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

BAIRNHEID, BARNEHEID, s.
1. The state of childhood.
Inventories.
2. Childishness.
Dunbar.

BAYRNIS-BED, s. The matrix.
Complaynt S.

BAIRNLY, adj. Childish, S.

Sw. barnslig, puerilis.

BAIRNLINESS, s. Childishness, S.

BAIRN-TYME, BARNE-TEME, s. Brood of children, S.
Houlate.

A. S. bearn-team, liberorum sobolis procreatio.

BAIRNS-PART of Gear, that part of a father's personal estate to which his children are entitled to succeed, and of which he cannot deprive them by any testament, or other gratuitous deed to take effect after his death, S.
Stair.

BAIRNS-PLAY, s. The sport of children, S.
Rutherford.

BAIRNS-WOMAN, s. A dry nurse, S.