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

To BUIGE, v. n. To bow, to creenge.
Maitland Poems.

A. S. bug-an, to bend.

BUIK, s. The body.
V. [Bouk].

BUIK, BUKE, pret. Baked.
Dunbar.

A. S. boc, coxit, from bac-an.

BUIK, BUK, BUKE, s. A book, S.
Dunbar.

Germ. buch, Alem. bouch, Belg. boek, A. S. boc, Moes. G. Isl. Su. G. bok, id. It has been generally supposed, that the Northern nations give this name to a book, from the materials of which it was first made, bok signifying a beech-tree.

Buik-lare, s. Learning, the knowledge acquired by means of a regular education, S.

Buik-lear'd, Book-lear'd, adj. Book-learned, S.
A. Nicol.

Isl. boklaerd-ur, id.