↑ baw

t. [Fr. bas = low.] To hush, to lull. (Scotch.) "They grap it, they grip it, it greets and they grain;, They bed it, they baw it, they bind it, they brace it." Watson: Coll., iii. 21. ( Jamie son .) 1 bâw, in compos. [Probably from Goth. bag , O. Sw. bak = left.] Left; to the left hand, as bawburd larboard. ( Scotch .) * bâw, s. [Bow, s .] * bâw, * bâwe, interj . [Wedgwood considers this word formed by the expiration naturally had recourse to as a defence against a bad smell. In Welsh baw is dirt, filth, excrement.] An expre ion used to signify contempt and disgust. "Ye baw for bookes..."-Piers Plowman , p. 205. "Ye bawe , quath a brewere..."- Ibid . , p. 387. (S. in Boucher.)