68 BEAST— BOAR 



Am fear bhitheas trocairc.ich ri anam cha bhi e mi-throcair- 

 each ri 'bhriiid (ri beothach or ri 'bheothach). 



He wlio is merciful to his soul will not be unmerciful to 

 a beast (his beast or brute) — Carmichael. 

 Is mor am beothach nach tiochd a muigli. 



It's a big beast that there isn't room for outside. This 

 applies to ** big " people. 

 Mionach a bheathaich a's maoile air adhaircean a bheathaich 

 a's bioraiche. 



The entrails of the blunter (hornless) beast on the horns 

 of the sharper one. 



BEAVER.— (Old Ir.) Abacc ; Beabhar, beathadach, beathod- 

 ach ; cuobhar, cu-odhar ; Dobhar-chu, dobhran-donn, doborci, 

 dobhran leas-leathann ; dubhaci leas-leathann. 



Beuer, bever, broadtail ; Castor ; Gleb. The British beaver 

 is erroneously called the water rat or vole, it feeds on plants, shoots, 

 bark of trees, etc. 



BITCH (see Dog). 



BLOODHOUND (see Dog). 



BOAR (see also Pig).— (Old Ir.) Antrellach ; Callach, collach, 

 cuUach ; Fiaclach-coille, fiadh-chuUach, fithean (muc-firionn) ; 

 Muc, muc-cullach (Ir-)^ muc-diosarnach, muc-disgearnach- 

 dearg ; (wild) Near ; Og-chullach ; Tore, torc-nimh, triath. 



Baru ; Cingular ; (castrated) Giller, gilt ; Harkie, (three yrs.) 

 hoggaster, hoglin ; Libbert-sow; Purrs (Man, Shet.); (wild) Sang- 

 leir, sanglere, singlare, singlere ; Wilrone. The etymology of 

 "tore" is just an t-orc, the pig, "Near," an fliear, the one, akin to 

 triath, a chief. 



From the days of Diarmad, the reputed ancestor of the 

 Campbells, the boar has had a somewhat prominent place given 

 to it in song and tale, that family and the MacKinnons, etc., even 

 boast or display as their crest the head and tusks of this unsightly 

 hound-ripper. One slain by Malcolm MacGregor, eighth chief of 

 Clan Alpine, in defence of David I. of Scotland, is said to be the 

 origin of that clan's crest and motto. 



The death of Diarmad, it has often been told, was caused by 

 his foot being })ierced by the spines or bristles of the wild boar he 

 slew in Ben Gulban, some allege in Sligo, Ireland, others elsewhere 

 in Scotland, but the real reason was his having hunted and slain such 

 an animal at all. The boar was the soui, or at least contained the 

 soul, of Diarmad's own foster-brother, unjustly slain by Diarmad's 

 father, transformed into a boar of the wildest kind by the power 



