Part 50 (2/2)

_To_ BAUCHLE, BAWCHYLL, BACHLE, (gutt.) BASHLE, _v. a._

1. To wrench, to distort, to put out of shape; as ”_to bauchle shoon_,”

to wear shoes in so slovenly a way as to let them fall down in the heels, S.

_Journ. London._

2. To treat contemptuously, to vilify.

_Wallace._

_Bashel_ may be allied to Fr. _bossel-er_, to bruise.

Isl. _backell_, luxatus, valgus, shambling, _biag-a_ violare, whence _biag-adr_ luxatus, membrorum valetudine violatus.

BAUCHLE, BACHEL, _s._

1. An old shoe, used as a slipper, S.

2. Whatsoever is treated with contempt or disrespect. _To mak a bauchle of_ any thing, to use it so frequently and familiarly, as to shew that one has no respect for it, S.

_Ferguson's Prov._

BAUGIE, _s._ An ornament; as, a ring, a bracelet.

_Douglas._

Teut. _bagge_ gemma; Isl. _baug-r_; Alem. _boug_, A. S. _beag_, Fr.

_bague_, Ital. _bagun_, annulus.

BAUK, BAWK, _s._

1. One of the cross-beams in the roof of a house, which support and unite the rafters, S.

2. The beam by which scales are suspended in a balance, S.

Teut. _balck waeghe_, a balance. We invert the term, making it _weigh-bauks_. Germ. _balk_, Belg. _balck_, Dan. _bielke_, a beam.

BAUK, BAWK, _s._ A strip of land left unploughed, two or three feet in breadth, S.

_Statist. Acc._

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