Part 81 (1/2)

_Ra; a secondary sense

_Douglas_

3 Curt, rough, uncivil

_Spalding_

4 Easily deceived

_Gl Surv Nairn_

O E _blade_, silly, frivolous; or in the same sense in whichspeak of a blunt reason or excuse Isl _blaad-ur_, _blauth-ur_, _blaud_, soft The word sees which are softened by nify what is fenifies, tibleith_, softness of_blood_, mollis, timidus

BLAIT-MOUIT, _adj_ Bashful, sheepish, q ashamed to open one's mouth

BLAITIE-bum, s Simpleton, stupid fellow

_Lyndsay_

If this be the genuine orthography, perhaps from Teut _blait_, vaniloquus; or rather, blait, sheepish, and _boenerally written _Batie-bum_, q v

BLAK _of the_ EIE, the apple of the eye, S

_R Bruce_

BLAN, _pret_ Caused to cease

_Gawan and Gol_

It is undoubtedly the pret of _blin_; A S _blan_, _blann_, cessavit

BLANCHART, _adj_ White

_Gawan and Gol_

Fr _blanc_, _blanche_, id The naiven to a kind of linen cloth the yarn of which has been twice bleached, before it was put into the loom; perhaps i _aardt_, nature

V ~Art~

BLANCIS, _s pl_ Ornaeant exhibited at Edinburgh, A 1590