Meanings of blate in English

I like you little over-blate, Gilian, but I like you less over-bold.

Come, come, I was not blate, was I?

He's 'no blate,' as they used to say in Scotland, and made himself quite at home to-night.

Here, this way, lads-dinnabe blate!

By my faith, ye're no blate!

Being told of Wilson's violence to Rotha, he only said, It's an old saying, 'A blate cat makes a proud mouse.

Blate and laithfu', shy and sheepish.

"Blate!" he repeated, "I would not have thought that was my failing.

"Our South African friend is very blate," he said in his boisterous way.

"That's not so blate, John Hielan'man!" said she again to herself.

"A blate and fearsome sort of a fellow, you know."

'Hout, na, ye needna be blate about that; their house is muckle eneugh, and decking time's aye canty time.'

The mining process can also cause erosion and run-off that can fill nearby rivers with sediment, reducing oxygen levels for fish and plants, Thomas-Blate said.

'Haith, sir, ye're no blate (BASHFUL)!

"Blate grazes- Imeangreat blazes!"

"Faith, you're not so blate as I thought you!" she said, setting aside the last of her affected shy simplicity.