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

"Blythest, most merry," Gl. Perhaps it rather refers to colour; q. the palest.

To BLIZZEN, v. a. Drought is said to be blizzening, when the wind parches and withers the fruits of the earth, S. B.

Su. G. blas-a, Germ. blas-en, A. S. blaes-an, to blow.

BLOB, BLAB, s. Any thing tumid or circular, S.
1. A small globe or bubble of any liquid.
Bellenden.
2. A blister, or that rising of the skin which is the effect of a blister or of a stroke, S.
Gl. Complaynt.
3. A large gooseberry; so called from its globular form, or from the softness of its skin, S.
4. A blot, a spot; as "a blab of ink," S. denominated perhaps from its circular form.

Radically the same word with [Bleib], q. v.

BLOBBIT, part. pa. Blotted, blurred.
V. [Blob].
Acts Ja. I.

To BLOCK, v. a. To plan, to devise.
Baillie.

Teut. block-en, assiduum esse in studiis, in opere, in ergastulo; a sense evidently borrowed from a workman, who blocks out his work roughly, before he begins to give it a proper form.

BLOIK, BLOK, BLOCK, s.
1. A scheme, a contrivance; generally used in a bad sense.
Douglas.
2. A bargain, an agreement.
Acts Ja. VI.

BLOCKER, s. A term formerly used in S. to denote a broker; q. one who plans and accomplishes a bargain.
Minsheu.