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

BLANDED BEAR, barley and common bear mixed, S.
Statist. Acc.

From Su. G. bland-a is formed blan-saed, meslin or mixed corn.

BLAND, s. A drink used in the Shetland Islands.
Brand.

Isl. blanda, cinnus, mixtura, pro potu, aqua mixto; Su. G. bland dicebatur mel aqua permixtum.

To BLANDER, v. a.
1. To babble, to diffuse any report, such especially as tends to injure the character of another, S.
2. Sometimes used to denote the want of regard to truth in narration; a thing very common with tattlers, S. B.

Perhaps from Isl. bland-a, Dan. bland-er, to mingle, as denoting the blending of truth with falsehood.

BLANDIT, part. pa. Flattered, soothed.
Dunbar.

Fr. blander, to soothe, Lat. blandiri.

To BLASH, n. a. To soak, to drench. "To blash one's stomach," to drink too copiously of any weak and diluting liquor; S.
V. [Plash].

Perhaps radically the same with plash, from Germ. platz-en.