AYNDING, sb. breathing, deriv.  See aynd.

AYNDLESS, adj. breathless.  Bruce, X, 609.  See aynd.

BAIT, vb. to incite.  Dunbar, 21127.  O.N. baeita, O. Ic. beita. 
    See B-S.

BAITH, BATH (b[-e]th), pron. both.  M.E. b[-o]þe, b[-a]þe, Cu.
    beatth, Eng. both, O.N. b[-a]ethir, O. Dan. b[-a]ethe. 
    Skeat.

BAITTENIN, pr. p. thriving.  Jamieson.  O.N. batna, Eng. batten. 
    See Skeat, and Kluge and Lutz.

BAITTLE (b[-e]tl), sb. a pasture, a lea which has thick sward of
    grass.  Jamieson, Dumfries.  O.N. baeita, “to feed,” baeiti,
    pasturage.  Cp.  Norse fjellbaeite, a mountain pasture.

BAN, vb. to swear, curse.  Dunbar, 13, 47; Rolland, II, 680.  O.N.
    banna, to swear, to curse, banna, a curse, Norse banna,
    to swear, banning, swearing, W. Sw. dial. baenn id., Dan.
    bande, to swear, to wish one bad luck, O.S. banna id. 
    M. Du. bannen means to excommunicate.  This is the L.G.
    meaning.  The Sco. usage is distinctly Scand.  It is also a
    Northern word in Eng. diall.  Cp.  Shetland to ban, to swear.

BANG, vb. to beat.  Sat.  P. 39, 150.  O.N. banga, O. Sw. banka,
    Norse, banke, to beat, to strike.  Cp.  Shetland bonga, in
    “open de door dat’s a bonga,” somebody is knocking, literally
    “it knocks” Norse det banka. Bang is very frequently used
    in the sense of rushing off, cp.  Dalrymple’s translation of
    Leslie, I, 324, 7.

BANGSTER, sb. a wrangler.  Sat.  P. 44, 257.  Evidently Norse bang
    + Eng. suffix ster.  See bang vb.  Cp. camstarrie, where
    the second syllable corresponds to that in Germ.
    halsstarrig.

BARK, vb. to tan, to harden.  Dunbar F. 202 and 239.  Ramsay, I,
    164, “barkit lether,” tanned leather.  O.N. barka, to tan,
    Norse barka, to tan, to harden, M.E. barkin.  General
    Scand. both sb. and vb.  In the sense “to tan” especially
    W. Scand., cp.  Sw. barka, to take the bark off.  O. Sw.
    barka, however, has the meaning “to tan.”

BARKNIT, adj. clotted, hardened.  Douglas, II, 84, 15. pp. of vb.
    barken, to tan.  See above.

BASK, adj. dry, withering (of wind).  Jamieson, Dumfries.  Dan.
    barsk, hard, cold, en barsk Vinter, a cold winter.  Cp. 
    Sco. “a bask daw,” a windy day.  M.L.G. barsch and basch do
    not agree in meaning with the Sco. word; besides the sk is
    Scand.  For loss of r before sk cp. hask from harsk.