BAUCH, BAWCH, BAUGH, adj. awkward, stiff, jaded, disconsolate,
    timid.  Sat.  P. 12, 58; Dunbar Twa.  M.W. 143; Rolland, IV, 355;
    Johnnie Gibb, 127, 2.  O.N. bagr, awkward, clownish,
    inexperienced, unskilful. Bauchly, poorly, in Ramsay,
    II, 397.

BAYT, vb. to feed, graze.  Bruce, XIII, 589, 591; Lyndsay, 451,
    1984.  O.N. baeit, to feed, to graze, causative from bita,
    literally means to make to bite.  Norse bita, to graze,
    Sw. beta, M.E. beyten.  In many diall. in Norway the word
    means “to urge, to force.”  Cp. bait.

BECK, sb. a rivulet, a brook.  Jamieson.  O.N. bekkr, O. Sw.
    baekker, Norse bekk, O. Dan. baek.  Sw. baeck, a rivulet. 
    In place-names a test of Scand. settlements.

BEET, vb. to incite, inflame.  Burns, 4, 8.  Same as bait, incite,
    q.v.  Cp.  Cu. “to beet t’yubm, to supply sticks, etc. to the
    oven while heating” (Dickinson).

BIG, BEGG, sb. barley.  Fergusson, II, 102; Jamieson, Dumfries. 
    O.N. bygg, Dan. byg.  See Wall.  Cp.  Shetland big.

BEGRAVE, vb. to bury.  Douglas, II, 41, 25; IV, 25, 22; IV, 17, 8. 
    Dan. begrave, Norse begrava, O. Sw. begrava, begrafwa,
    to bury.  Possibly not a loanword.

BEIN, BENE, BEIN, adj. liberal, open-handed, also comfortable,
    pleasant.  Douglas, III, 260, 23; Fergusson, 108; Sat.  P. 12,
    43. Beine, hearty, in Philotus, II, is probably the same
    word.  O.N. baeinn.

BEIR, vb. to roar.  Douglas, II, 187, 1.  See bir, sb.

BIG, vb. to build, dwell, inhabit.  Dunbar T.M.W. 338; Dalr., I,
    26, 19; Sco. pro. 5.  O.N. byggia.  See Wall.  Sco. “to big wi’
    us,” to live with us, cp.  Norse ny-byddja, to colonize.

BIGGING, BYGINE, sb. a building.  O.N. bygging, a building,
    habitation.  Scand. diall. all have the form bygning, so
    O. Sw. bygning.  The word may be an independent Sco.
    formation just as erding, “burial,” from erde, “to bury”;
    layking, “a tournament,” from layke, “to sport”;
    casting, “a cast-off garment,” from cast; flytting,
    “movable goods,” from flyt, “to move”; hailsing,
    “a salute,” from hailse; and Eng. dwelling, “a house,”
    from vb. dwell.  Cp. however Shetland bogin.

BING, sb. a heap, a pile.  Douglass, II, 216, 8.  O.N. bingr,
    a heap, O. Sw. binge.  Norse bing more frequently a heap or
    quantity of grain in an enclosed space.  O. Dan. byng,
    bing.