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BUNEWAND, _s._ The cow-parsnip, Heracleum sphondylium, is called _Bunwand_, S. B.

_Montgomerie._

This appears to be of the same meaning with _Bunwede_, q. v.

BUNG, _adj._ Tipsy, fuddled; a low word, S.

_Ramsay._

Q. Smelling of the _bung_.

BUNKER, BUNKART, _s._

1. A bench, or sort of low chest serving for a seat.

_Ramsay._

2. A seat in a window, which also serves for a chest, opening with a hinged lid, S.

_Sir J. Sinclair._

3. It seems to be the same word which is used to denote an earthen seat in the fields, Aberd.

_Law Case._

A. S. _benc_, Su. G. _baenck_, a bench; Isl. _buncke_, acervus, strues; a heap.

BUNKLE, _s._ A stranger. ”The dog barks, because he kens you to be a _bunkle_.” This word is used in some parts of Angus.

Perhaps originally a mendicant; from Isl. _bon_, mendicatio, and _karl_, vulgarly _kall_, h.o.m.o.

BUNNERTS, _s. pl._ Cow-parsnip, S. B. Heracleum sphondylium, Linn.

Perhaps Q. _biorn-oert_, which in Sw. would be, the bear's wort.

BUNTLING, _s._ Bantling, E., a bird, S.

BUNWEDE, _s._ Ragwort, an herb; Senecio jacobaea, Linn. S. _binweed_; synon. _weebow_.

_Houlate._

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