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Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.

road blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott.

To prod with a pointed instrument, as a lance; also, to broggle. [Scot. & Prov.] Sir W. Scott.

or unfeeling; to brazen. The lawer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead. Sir W. Scott. Bronzed skin disease. (Pathol.) See Addison's disease.

er brose, etc., according to the name of the liquid (beef broth, hot water, etc.) used. [Scot.]

To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood. Sir W. Scott.

rm important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping. [Scot.]

Same as Brun, a brook. [Scot.]

a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.…

mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent. A great brute farmer from Liddesdale. Sir W. Scott.

A lantern; also, the moon. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Hence, any riding horse. [Jocose] Sir W. Scott.

The beech tree. [Scot.] Buck mast, the mast or fruit of the beech tree. Johnson.

A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum. [Scot.] Deil's buckie, a perverse, refractory youngster. [Slang]

To join in marriage. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear. The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are, budded upon the peach; the plum and the peach are budded on each other. Farm. Dict.

blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff. When on his cheek a buffet fell. Sir W. Scott.

A bugle. One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott.

A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage.

Having a short and thick neck like that of a bull. Sir W. Scott.