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

BARRAT, s.
1. Hostile intercourse, battle.
Wallace.
2. Contention, of whatever kind.
Dunbar.
3. Grief, vexation, trouble.
Gawan and Gol.

Su. G. Isl. baratta, praelium.

BARRATRIE, s. The crime of clergymen who went abroad to purchase benefices from the see of Rome for money.
Acts Ja. I.

L. B. baratria, from O. Fr. barat, deceit.

BARREL-FERRARIS.
V. [Ferraris].

BARREL-FEVERS, s. pl. A term used by the vulgar, to denote the disorder produced in the body by intemperate drinking, S.

BARRIE, s. A swaddling cloth of flannel, in which the legs of an infant are wrapped for defending them from the cold, S.

BARTANE, s. Great Britain.
Bannatyne Poems.

BARTANYE, BERTANYE, s. Britanny.
Bellenden.

BARTIZAN, BERTISENE, s. A battlement on the top of a house or castle, or around a spire, S.
Statist. Acc.