Sc. [dim. of BURN sb.1 See -Y3.] A small burn; a brooklet.
1724. Ramsay, Tea-T. Misc. (1733), I. 100. By burnies sae clear We wander for pleasure.
1828. J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXIII. April, 412/1. And Nature often plants on a small scale, dropping down the stately birk so beautiful, among the sprinkled hazels, by the side of the little waterfall of the wimpling burnie.
