binna, be not.

bint, V, [110], 12: bind, pay for.

bird (burd), I, 76, 50, 51; II, 314, 29, 30; C 10; 316, 12; IV, 422, 2, 5, 10: maid, lady. bird her lane, II, 313, 12, 19: maid by herself, solitary. II, 272, 5: child, boy.

birk. he was standing on the birk, II, 165, 13, seems to be nonsense. There is no birk to stand on unless the floor is birken, and nothing could be more inept than a reference to that matter.

birlin, II, 28, 1: drinking. See birl.

birl, berl, II, 28, 1; 92, 17; 219, 6; IV, 154, 9; 166, 1; 234, 35; 385, 1: drink. II, 152, J 3; 299, 16; 368, 7: ply with drink. birled in him, II, 144, 3, 4: poured into. Of dispensing both bread and wine: II, 191, 34, 35; V, [224], 26. birled wi them, IV, 438, 8: should apparently be birled them wi. ptc., birlin, II, 28, 1.

birnande, burning.

birtled, I, 273, 42: cut up.

bisette, I, 334, 8: devote (to the matter a space greater by two miles).

bit (used with a noun instead of a diminutive), wee bit banes, I, 225, L 7: bits of.