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

BUISTY, s. A bed, Aberd.
Gl. Shirr. used perhaps for a small one, q. a little box.
V. [Booshty].

BUITH, s. A shop.
V. [Bothe].

BUITING, s. Booty.
Montgomerie.

Fr. butin, Ital. butino, id.

BUITS, s. pl. Matches for firelocks.
Baillie's Lett.

To BUKK, v. a. To incite, to instigate.
Evergreen.

Germ. boch-en, to strike, bock-en, to push with the horn; Su. G. bock, a stroke; Isl. buck-a, calcitrare.

BUK-HID, BUK-HUD, s.
V. [Belly-blind].
Henrysone.

This seems to be an old name for some game, probably Blind man's Buff.

BU-KOW, s. Any thing frightful; hence applied to a hobgoblin, S.
V. [Bu].