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

BLAIRAND, part. pr. Roaring, crying.

Teut. blaer-en, mugire, Gl. Sibb.

BLAIT, adj. Naked, bare.
Pr. of Peblis.

BLAIT, BLATE, adj.
1. Bashful, sheepish, S.
Ramsay.
2. Blunt, unfeeling; a secondary sense.
Douglas.
3. Curt, rough, uncivil.
Spalding.
4. Easily deceived.
Gl. Surv. Nairn.

O. E. blade, silly, frivolous; or in the same sense in which we now speak of a blunt reason or excuse. Isl. blaad-ur, blauth-ur, blaud, soft. The word seems to be primarily applied to things which are softened by moisture. Mollis, limosus, maceratus. Hence used to signify what is feminine; as opposed to huat-ar, masculine. It also signifies, timid. Bleyde, softness, fear, shame; hugbleith, softness of mind; Germ. Su. G. blode, Belg. blood, mollis, timidus.

BLAIT-MOUIT, adj. Bashful, sheepish, q. ashamed to open one's mouth.

BLAITIE-BUM, s. Simpleton, stupid fellow.
Lyndsay.

If this be the genuine orthography, perhaps from Teut. blait, vaniloquus; or rather, blait, sheepish, and bomme, tympanum. But it is generally written [Batie-bum], q. v.

BLAK of the EIE, the apple of the eye, S.
R. Bruce.

BLAN, pret. Caused to cease.
Gawan and Gol.