Part 51 (2/2)

BAWD, _s_. A hare, Aberd.

_Poems Buchan Dial._

A. S. Ir. and Gael, _miol_ denotes a beast of whatever kind, _miol bhuide_, or _boide_, is a hare; also _patas_.

BAWD-BREE, _s._ Hare-soup, Aberd.

BAWDEKYN, _s._ Cloth of gold.

Fr. _baldachin_, _baldaquin_, _baudequin_, L. B. _baldachinum_, tissue de fil d'or.

_To_ BAWME, _v. a._

1. To embalm.

Fr. _em-baum-er_.

_Wyntown._

2. To cherish, to warm.

_Douglas._

BAWSAND, Ba.s.sAND, BAWSINT, _adj._

1. Having a white spot on the forehead or face; a term applied to a horse, cow, &c., S.

_Douglas._

2. It seems to be used as equivalent to brindled or streaked, S. A.

_Minstrelsy Bord._

Hence, it would seem, _ba.s.sie_, an old horse, S.

Fr. _balzan_, _balsan_, a horse that has a white mark on the feet; deduced from Ital. _balzano_, and this from Lat. _bal-ius_, a horse that has a white mark either on the forehead or feet. Germ. _blaesse_, Su. G. _blaes_, a white mark on the forehead of a horse. Hence perhaps E. _blazon_, and _blaze_.

BAWSY-BROWN, _s._ A hobgoblin; viewed as the same with Robin Goodfellow of England, and _Brownie_ of S.

_Bannatyne Poems._

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