Brief, writ. 
     Brier, briar. 
     Brig, bridge. 
     Brisket, breast. 
     Brither, brother. 
     Brock, a badger. 
     Brogue, a trick. 
     Broo, soup, broth, water; liquid in which anything is cooked. 
     Brooses, wedding races from the church to the home of the bride. 
     Brose, a thick mixture of meal and warm water; also a synonym for
       porridge. 
     Browster wives, ale wives. 
     Brugh, a burgh. 
     Brulzie, brulyie, a brawl. 
     Brunstane, brimstone. 
     Brunt, burned. 
     Brust, burst. 
     Buckie, dim. of buck; a smart younker. 
     Buckle, a curl. 
     Buckskin, Virginian:  the buckskin kye, negroes. 
     Budget, tinker’s bag of tools. 
     Buff, to bang, to thump. 
     Bughtin, folding. 
     Buirdly, stalwart. 
     Bum, the buttocks. 
     Bum, to hum. 
     Bum-clock, beetle, cockchafer, Junebug. 
     Bummle, a drone, a useless fellow. 
     Bunker, a seat. 
     Bunters, harlots. 
     Burdies, dim. of bird or burd (a lady); maidens. 
     Bure, bore. 
     Burn, a rivulet. 
     Burnewin, the blacksmith (i.e., burn the wind). 
     Burnie, dim. of burn, a rivulet. 
     Burr-thistle, spear-thistle. 
     Busk, to dress; to garb; to dress up; to adorn. 
     Buss, a bush. 
     Bussle, bustle. 
     But, without. 
     But, butt, in the kitchen (i.e., the outer apartment). 
     By, past, aside. 
     By, beside. 
     By himsel, beside himself. 
     Bye attour (i.e., by and attour), beside and at a distance. 
     Byke, a bees’ nest; a hive; a swarm; a crowd. 
     Byre, a cow-house.

     Ca’, call, knock, drive. 
     Cadger, a hawker (especially of fish). 
     Cadie, caddie, a fellow. 
     Caff, chaff. 
     Caird, a tinker. 
     Calf-ward, grazing plot for calves (i.e., churchyard). 
     Callan, callant, a stripling. 
     Caller, cool, refreshing. 
     Callet, a trull. 
     Cam, came. 
     Canie, cannie, gentle, tractable, quiet, prudent, careful. 
     Cankrie, crabbed. 
     Canna, can not. 
     Canniest, quietest. 
     Cannilie, cannily, quietly, prudently, cautiously. 
     Cantie, cheerful, lively, jolly, merry. 
     Cantraip, magic, witching. 
     Cants, merry stories, canters or sprees or merry doings. 
     Cape-stanc, copestone. 
     Capon-castrate. 
     Care na by, do not care. 
     Carl, carle, a man, an old man. 
     Carl-hemp, male-hemp. 
     Carlie, a manikin. 
     Carlin, carline a middle-aged, or old, woman; a beldam, a witch. 
     Carmagnole, a violent Jacobin. 
     Cartes, playing-cards. 
     Cartie, dim. of cart. 
     Catch-the-plack, the hunt for money. 
     Caudron, a caldron. 
     Cauf, calf. 
     Cauf-leather, calf-leather.