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

BLASH, s. A heavy fall of rain; S.

BLASHY, adj. Deluging, sweeping away by inundation; S.
Ramsay.

Blashy, "thin, poor; Northumb."

BLASNIT, adj. Perhaps, bare, bald, without hair.
Bannatyne Poems.

Germ. bloss, bare, bloss-en, to make bare; or rather, Teut. bles, calvus, whence blesse, frons capillo nuda.

BLASOWNE, s.
1. Dress over the armour, on which the armorial bearings were blazoned.
Wyntown.
2. The badge of office worn by a king's messenger on his arm, S.
Erskine.

Germ. blaesse denotes a sign in general. Thence blazon, a term marking that sign, in heraldry, which is peculiar to each family. The origin seems to be Su. G. blaesse.

V. [Bawsand].

To BLAST, v. n.
1. To pant, to breathe hard, S. B.
Ross.
2. To smoke tobacco, S. B.
3. To blow with a wind instrument.
Gawan and Gol.
4. To boast, to speak in an ostentatious manner. S.

Su. G blaas-a, inspirare, Germ. blas-en, flare. Isl. blast-ur, halitus, flatus.