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

BLOISENT, part. pa. One is said to have a bloisent face, when it is red, swollen, or disfigured, whether by intemperance, or by being exposed to the weather; Ang.

This appears to be radically the same with E. blowze; "sun-burnt, high-coloured;" Johns. Teut. blose, rubor, purpurissum, redness, the colour of purple; blos-en, rubescere; blosende wanghen, rubentes genae, purpled cheeks.

To BLOME, BLUME, v. n. To shine, to gleam.
Barbour.

Su. G. blomm-a, to flourish; E. bloom, used metaph.: or perhaps from A. S. be, a common prefix, and leom-an to shine, as gleam is from geleom-an, id.

BLONK, BLOUK, s. A steed, a horse,
Gawan and Gol.

Alem. planchaz, equus pallidus, hodie blank; Schilter. Thus blonk may have originally meant merely a white horse, q. Fr. blanc cheval.

BLONKS, s. pl.
King Hart.

If this does not denote horses, as above, it may mean blocks of wood.

BLOUT, adj. Bare, naked.
V. [Blait].
Douglas.

Su. G. Isl. blott, Belg. bloot, id. The tautological phrase blott och bar is used in Sw.