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

BOTE, BUTE, s.
1. Help, advantage; E. boot, Doug.
2. Compensation, satisfaction; Acts Parl. pass.

A. S. bote, id. from bet-an, emendare, restaurare.

Kin-bote, compensation or "assithment for the slaughter of a kinsman;" Skene, Verb. Sign.

A. S. cyn, cognatio, and bote.

Man-bot, the compensation fixed by the law, for killing a man, according to the rank of the person. Ibid.

A. S. man-bot, id.

Theift-bote, compensation made to the king for theft.

Reg. Maj.

BOTHE, BOOTH, BUITH, s. A shop made of boards; either fixed, or portable, S.
V. [Lucken].
Douglas.

Hence the Luckenbooths of Edinburgh, wooden shops, made for being locked up. Teut. boede, bode, domuncula, casa, Kilian; Su. G. bud, taberna mercatorum, apotheca; Isl. bud, id.