BUITING, _s._ Booty.

_Montgomerie._

Fr. _butin_, Ital. _butino_, id.

BUITS, _s. pl._ Matches for firelocks.

_Baillie"s Lett._

_To_ BUKK, _v. a._ To incite, to instigate.

_Evergreen._

Germ. _boch-en_, to strike, _bock-en_, to push with the horn; Su. G.

_bock_, a stroke; Isl. _buck-a_, calcitrare.

BUK-HID, BUK-HUD, _s._

V. ~Belly-blind~.

_Henrysone._

This seems to be an old name for some game, probably _Blind man"s Buff_.

BU-KOW, _s._ Any thing frightful; hence applied to a hobgoblin, S.

V. ~Bu~.

BULDRIE, _s._ Building, or mode of building.

_Burel._

BULYIEMENT, _s._ Habiliments; properly such as are meant for warfare.

V. ~Abulyiement~.

_Ross._

_Bulyiements_ is still used ludicrously for clothing, S.

_To_ BULL, _v. n._ To take the bull; a term used with respect to a cow.

Both the _v._ and _s._ are p.r.o.n. q. _bill_, S.

_Bill-siller_, S., is a.n.a.logous to Teut. _bolle-gheld_, merces pro admissura tauri.

_To_ BULLER, _v. n._

1. To emit such a sound as water does, when rushing violently into any cavity, or forced back again, S.

_Douglas._

Su. G. _bullr-a_, tumultuari, strepitum edere.

2. To make a noise with the throat, as one does when gargling it with any liquid, S. _guller_, synon.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

3. To make any rattling noise; as when stones are rolled downhill, or when a quant.i.ty of stones falls together, S. B.

4. To bellow, to roar as a bull or cow does, S.; also p.r.o.n. _bollar_, Ang.

Isl. _baul-a_, mugire, _baul_ mugitus.

5. It is used as _v. a._ to denote the _impetus_ or act productive of such a sound as is described above.

_Douglas._

~Buller~, ~Bulloure~, _s._

1. A loud gurgling noise, S.

_Douglas._

Hence, _the Bullers of Buchan_, the name given to an arch in a rock, on the coast of Aberdeenshire.

Su. G. _buller_, strepitus.

2. A bellowing noise; or a loud roar, S. B.

V. the _v._

BULLETSTANE, _s._ A round stone, S.

Isl. _bollut-ur_, round; _bollut_, convexity.

_To_ BULLIRAG, _v. a._ To rally in a contemptuous way, to abuse one in a hectoring manner, S.

Isl. _baul_, _bol_, maledictio, and _raegia_, deferre, to reproach.

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