Part 99 (2/2)

_Watson's Coll._

2. It now generally signifies what is given to servants, in addition to their wages, S; _bounties_, S. B.

_Ramsay._

Gael. _bunntais_ seems merely a corr. of this word.

BOUR, BOURE, _s._ A chamber; sometimes a retired apartment, such as ladies were wont to possess in ancient times.

_Douglas._

A. S. _bur_, _bure_, conclave, an inner chamber, a parlour, a _bower_. Teut. _buer_, id. Dan. _buur_, conclave, Su. G. Isl. _bur_, habitaculum. Isl. _jungfrubur_, gynaeceum, ubi olim filiae familias habitabant; literally, the young lady's bower. Hence _bour-bourding_, jesting in a lady's chamber, Pink.

BOURACH, BOWROCK, _s._

1. An inclosure; applied to the little houses that children build for play, especially those made in the sand, S.

_Kelly._

”We'll never big sandy _bowrocks_ together.”

_S. Prov. Kelly._

2. A crowd, a ring, a circle, S. B.

_Poems Buchan Dialect._

3. A confused heap of any kind, S. B. Such a quant.i.ty of body-clothes as is burdensome to the wearer, is called _a bourach of claise_; Ang.

_Statist. Acc._

4. A cl.u.s.ter, as of trees, S.

_Ferguson._

A. S. _beorh_, _burg_, an inclosure, a heap; Su. G. _borg_.

~Burrach'd~, ~Bourach'd~, _part. pa._ Inclosed, environed, S. B.

_Ross._

BOURACH, BORRACH, _s._ A band put round a cow's hinder legs at milking, S.

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