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

Isl. flim, irrisio, carmen famosum. Hence flimt-a, diffamo, flimt, nugae infames, G. Andr. p. 74. Su. G. flimm-a, illudere.

BLEHAND, BLIHAND, adj.
Sir Trist.

"Blue, from bleah, Sax. caeruleus. Blehand brown. A bluish brown," Gl. The word is merely A. S. blae-hewen a little transformed. The idea seems, "a brownish colour, inclining to purple or violet."

BLEIB, s.
1. A pustule, a blister. "A burnt bleib," a blister caused by burning, S.

Bleb, a blister, A. Bor. Gl. Grose.

2. Bleibs, pl. An eruption to which children are subject, in which the spots appear larger than in the measles; Loth. Border.
V. [Blob].

BLEIRIE, adj. A term applied to weak liquor, which has little or no strength; as bleirie ale, Fife.

BLEIRING, part. pa. Bleiring Bats.
Polwart.

This seems to be the botts, a disease in horses. Bleiring may express the effect of pain in making the patient to cry out; Teut. blaer-en, boare, mugire.

BLEIRIS, s. pl. Something that prevents distinctness of vision.
Philotus.