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Name	Term description
Name B. or bach.	Term description Bachelor
Name Back draucht	Term description The distinctive gasping sound made by whooping cough sufferers.
Name Backgang	Term description Relapse
Name Backjar	Term description A relapse or setback
Name Bad blood	Term description Syphilis
Name Bailer/bailie/baille/baillie	Term description Magistrate in a Scottish town or burgh
Name Bailie-clerk	Term description One who documents the business of the bailies in a town
Name Bailie-depute	Term description One acting as deputy to a town magistrate
Name Bailiff/Balif	Term description 1. The protector of fishing rights on a river; 2. Town magistrate
Name Bairn's pairt of gear	Term description Children's legal share of their father's moveable property on his death; also called the legitim.
Name Bait-wright	Term description Boatbuilder
Name Baker	Term description One who bakes bread, cakes or pastries
Name Bakester	Term description One who bakes bread, cakes or pastries
Name Banker	Term description One owning or running a financial house
Name Banksman	Term description A person in charge of miner's cages at the pithead
Name Barber-chirurgeon	Term description One who shaves others, later also cutting hair, extracting teeth and carrying out rough surgery
Name Barber/barbour	Term description One who shaves others, later also cutting hair, extracting teeth and carrying out rough surgery
Name Barboner	Term description Weaver
Name Bargeman	Term description A manager of a barge
Name Barker	Term description Tanner
Name Barnman	Term description Thresher
Name Baron	Term description Senior official in the Exchequer
Name Baron bailie/baron-bailze	Term description A magistrate appointed by a lord superior in a burgh of barony
Name Baron of HM Exchequer	Term description Senior official in the Exchequer
Name Baron-officer	Term description One employed to uphold the law in a barony

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