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

BORROWGANGE, s. A state of suretyship.
Reg. Maj.

Su. G. edgaang, laggaang, are rendered by Ihre, actus jurandi, from gaa, ire; borrowgange may thus be merely the act of going or entering as a surety.

BORD, s.
1. A broad hem or welt, S.
2. The edge or border of a woman's cap, S.

Fr. bord, Belg. boord, a welt, a hem, or selvage; Isl. bard, bord, the extremity or margin.

BORDEL, s. A brothel, Dunbar.

Fr. bordel, id., Su. G. A. S. bord, a house. The dimin. of this, Ihre says, was L. B. bordell-um, bordil-e, tuguriolum, cujus generis quum olim meretricum stabula essent.

BORDELLAR, s. A haunter of brothels.
Bellenden.

BORE, s. A crevice.
V. [Bor].

BORE'S- (or BOAR'S) EARS, s. pl. The name given to the Auricula, S. B. Primula auricula, Linn.

A bear is called a boar, S., especially S. B.