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

To BAR, v. n. To bar from bourdes, apparently to avoid jesting.
Bannatyne Poems.

Fr. barr-er, to keep at a distance.

BARBAR, BARBOUR, adj. Barbarous, savage.

Fr. barbare, id.

Kennedy.

BARBER, s. What is excellent in its kind, a low term, S.

Su. G. baer-a, illustrare.

BARBLES, s. pl. A species of disease.
Polwart.

Fr. barbes, a white excrescence which grows under the tongue of a calf.

BARBLYT, part. pa. Barbed.
Barbour.