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A small stream. [Scot.]

A small brook. [Scot.] Burns.

A scholarship or charitable foundation in a university, as in scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies. "No woman of rank or fortune but would have a bursary in her gift." Southey.

aintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries. [Scot.]

d or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession. "The business of instruction." Prescott.

To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress. [Scot. & Old Eng.] Busk you, busk you, my bonny, bonny bride. Hamilton.

p the leg. The hunted red deer's undressed hide Their hairy buskins well supplied. Sir W. Scott.

The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room. [Scot.]

unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Shak. The perpetration of human butchery. Prescott.

A mark to be shot at; a target. Sir W. Scott. The groom his fellow groom at butts defies, And bends his bow, and levels with his eyes. Dryden.

A cow house. [N. of Eng.& Scot.]

A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength.

ch consultations are held. Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet. Prescott.

Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals. [Written also Cabeiri.] Liddell & Scott.

A curvet; a leap. See Capriole. The cabrioles which his charger exhibited. Sir W. Scott.

or maniacal affections. Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott.

ng men o'erwatched. Milton. The accents . . . were in passion's tenderest cadence. Sir W. Scott.

To carry, as a burden. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

Cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking; also, wanton. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger. [Written also cady.] Every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie. Macaulay.