Sc. form of BUSK v.1 To attire, dress, dress up, deck, adorn; to dress (a fishing hook).
(In Hawick, before the annual Common-riding, the ancient ‘color’ or town’s standard is ceremoniously bussed for the occasion with ribbons, etc.)
c. 1570. Leg. Bp. St. Andrews, in Scot. Poems 16th C., II. 331. A cowe [i.e., scarecrow] bust in a biscops place.
1805. A. Scott, Poems (1811), 18 (Jam.). Wi’ fly-buss’d hook, an’ fishing rod.
1818. Edin. Mag., 327 (Jam.). I’ll buss my hair wi’ the gowden brume.
1882. Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, IX. No. 3. 562. Only the feathers to ‘buss flies.’
