Part 81 (2/2)

_Watson's Coll_

If not allied to Fr _blanc_, white, it nate of Gernum album in fronte equi; whence E

_blason_, S _Bawsand_, q v

BLAND, _s_ Sohts and men of rank

_Maitland Poe to Bullet, is a robe adorned with purple, a robe worn by grandees Su G _blyant_, _bliant_, a kind of precious gar the ancients, which seems to have been of silk

_To_ BLAND, _v a_ To las_

Su G Isl _bland-a_, to mix

BLANDED BEAR, barley and common bear mixed, S

_Statist Acc_

From Su G _bland-a_ is formed _blan-saed_, meslin or mixed corn

BLAND, _s_ A drink used in the Shetland Islands

_Brand_

Isl _blanda_, cinnus, mixtura, pro potu, aqua mixto; Su G _bland_ dicebatur mel aqua permixtum

_To_ BLANDER, _v a_

1 To babble, to diffuse any report, such especially as tends to injure the character of another, S

2 Soard to truth in narration; a thing very common with tattlers, S B

Perhaps fro the blending of truth with falsehood

BLANDIT, _part pa_ Flattered, soothed

_Dunbar_

Fr _blander_, to soothe, Lat _blandiri_