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Bardachd Ghaidhlig.
ascartach I'm, m., tow, coarse
lint.
asgaill, 3047, arm-pit; achlais ;
usually asgall, m. ; from Lat.
axilla.
ath, 2917, flinch, refuse, hesitate ;
athadh, 3481, refusal, sparing ;
ath-, back.
athsgeul, m., 6264, an old tale ;
twice-told tale ; ath and sgeul.
bac, m., a bend; 2831, bac-
cruachain, haunch ; 3136, bac
na h-easgaid, the bend of the
hough or back of the knee.
bad, m., a spot, 1813, 4570, a
clump of trees ; 74, 148, 739, a
cluster, close body; diminu¬
tive, 1717, badan ; not in Ir.
bddhun, m., 4081, a bulwark,
fortress; literally, cow-fort; bd
and dim.
baganta, 3054, neat, tight.
baideal, m., (1) 5870, a battlement,
tower ; (2) 3799, a standard ;
Eng. battle, battlement.
bdidse, m., 1889, a musician’s (or
poet’s) fee ; duais ; from Eng.
wage.
bailc, f., 2763, a plump of rain, a
flood.
bdir, m., 2698, (1) a path,
especially a path opened
through snow ; (2) a goal; (3) a
game, the game of war.
bdireach, f., 4767, the lowing of
cattle ; based on bd, cows ; cf.
cnapraich, cneadraich.
bdirlinn, f., 5026, a billow, rolling
balg, m., a bag ; 5285, a quiver ;
Ir. bolg; cognate with Eng.
belly.
balg-shaighead, m., 6426, 6562 a
balgshuileach, 3298, full-eyed.
1. ball, m., (1) 822, limb, member;
(2) 67, parts of the rigging,
rope; 5823, b.-tarruing, hal¬
yard; (3) 1430, 1868, a spot; air
ball, on the spot, at once.
2. ball, m., 1878, a ball ; Eng.
ballach, 6654, spotted ; breac ; cf.
Domhnall Ballach ; from ball
(3).
ball-beirte, m., 4837, piece of
tackle, or rigging.
ballbhreac, 719, spotted and
speckled.
ball-coise, m„ 6551, a football.
banaltra, f., 4916, a nurse ; now in
Sc. G. banaltrum.
bannal, m., 41, 3782, a company of
women; from ban, composi¬
tional form of bean, and dal, a
tryst, meeting.
baoghal, m., 5429, danger ; 0. Ir.
bdigul, bdegul.
bar, 2689, m., the bar of a court;
an uchd barra no binne ’s i
t’fhirinn a sheasadh—D.M. 70.
barant, m., 5829, surety, reliance ;
earbsa ; from Eng. warrant,
barbaireachd, f., 6344, seems to
mean ‘ barb-work.”
bdrcaideach, 6377, flowing, run¬
ning in torrents ; bare,
bdrr, m., 4890, a crest.
barrach, m., 5195, top branches,
brushwood, especially birch,
a common substitute for a
door ; Am bothan beag dliith.
Gun dimadh ach barrach air,
O. 52 ; ann am buthan beag
barraich, ib. 124 ; am biithaig
bharraich, ib. 248. Compare
sgathach fhraoich, R.G. 3, in
the door of a school in Colonsay.
barrachd, f., 1068, superiority,
excellence.
barradh, m., 5826, act of rivet-
ting ; bdrr, top.
barrag, f., 1775, scum ; bdrr, top.
barran, m., 1582, a hedge or top-
fence ; coping ; bdrr, top.
barrasach, 3774, supassing, beau¬
teous ; bdrr.
barrdhias (barradhias), f., 5275,