Chapter III: Part 3

“Loved I Love’s counterfeit?
My doubts, begotten of the long night’s heat,
Dislimn the woodland till my triumph shows
As the flawed shadow of a frustrate rose.”

[9] _The General Strike (May 1926)._

[10] God-bearers.

[11] The All-Man or Pan-Human.

[12] Hermann Melville.

[13] Dostoevski.

[14] Quoted from Robert Buchanan.

[15] Dostoevski.

[16] Wicksteed’s translation of Dante’s Italian (Paradiso, canto xxxiii. 85-90) is as follows: “Within its depths I saw ingathered, bound by love in one volume, the scattered leaves of all the universe; substance and accidents and their relations, as though together fused, after such fashion that what I tell of is one simple flame.”

GLOSSARY.

_Abaw_—abash, appal.

_Abies_—except.

_Abordage_—the act of getting on board.

_Aft’rins_—the remainder, off-scourings.

_Agley_—off the right line, wrong.

_Ahint_—behind.

_Aiblins_—perhaps.

_Aidle_—foul slop.

_Aiker_—motion, or break, made in water by fish swimming rapidly.

_Airgh_—lack, or what anything requires to bring it up to the level.

_Airts_—directions.

_Alist_—_to come alist_; to recover from faintness or decay.

_Aroint_—clear away.

_Arrears_—goes backward.

_Atour_—out from.

_Aucht-fit_—eight-foot.

_Aumrie_—cupboard.

_Awn_ (_to_)—to own.

_Avizandum_—to defer decision.

_Back-hauf_ (_to be worn to_)—practically worn out.

_Backlands_—Glasgow slum tenements.

_Baggit_—enceinte.

_Bairn-time_—a woman’s breeding-time.

_Barkin’ and fleein’_—on the verge of ruin.

_Barley bree_—whisky.

_Barrowsteel_ (_to tak’ my_)—to co-operate.

_Ba’s_—balls.

_Bauch_—sorry.

_Bawaw_—an oblique look of contempt or scorn.

_Beanswaup_—the hull of a bean, anything of no value.

_Beddiness_—silly importunacy.

_Beeks_—shows.

_Belly-thraw_—colic.

_Belth_—sudden swirl.

_Ben_ (_to gang_)—to go in.

_Benmaist_—inmost.

_Biel_—shelter.

_Bien_—complacent.

_Blash_—sudden onset.

_Blate_—bashful.

_Blebs_—drops.

_Blethers_—nonsense.

_Blinnin’ stew_—storm through which impossible to see.

_Blinterin’_—gleaming.

_Blottie O_—a school game.

_Bluffert_—squall.

_Bobby_—policeman.

“_Bood to_”—must.

_Boss_ (_of body_)—front.

_Bratts_—scum.

_Braw_—handsome.

_Breenge_—burst.

_Brough_—ring (round moon).

_Buddies_—folks.

_Buff nor stye_—one thing or another.

_Buik_—trunk (of body).

_Bursten kirn_—difficult harvest.

_Buss_—bush.

_Cairn_—pile.

_Camsteerie_—perverse, unmanageable.

_Cappilow_ (_to_)—outdistance.

_Carline_—old woman, witch.

_Cavaburd_—dense snowstorm.

_Chafts_—chops.

_Cheatrie_—deceit, fraud.

_Chitterin’_—trembling violently, shivering.

_Chowed_—chewed.

_Chowl_ (_to_)—twist, distort.

_Chuns_—sprouts or germs.

_Claft_—shrunken.

_Claith_—cloth.

_Claught_ (_to_)—to grab at.

_Cleg_—gad-fly.

_Cleiks_—the merest adumbration.

_Clints_—cliffs.

_Clyre_—tumour, gland.

_Clytach_—balderdash.

_Cod_—pillow.

_Come-doon_—degradation.

_Connached_—abused, spoiled.

_Coom_—comb.

_Coonter_—counter.

_Corbaudie comes in_—that is the obstacle.

_Cordage_—tackling of a ship.

_Corneigh_—enough (_lit._ cœur ennuyé, internally disquieted).

_Cottons_—cottar houses.

_Coupin’_—overturning, emptying.

_Courage-bag_—scrotum.

_Couthie_—comfortable.

_Coutribat_—struggle.

_Cree_ (_legs wi’_)—not safe to meddle with.

_Creel_—in a state of mental excitement or confusion or physical
agony.

_Crockats up_—on (one’s) dignity.

_Cross-brath’d_—braided.

_Cross-tap_—mizzen-mast.

_Crottle_—crumble away.

_Cuckold_—hoodwinked, diddled.

_Cude_—barrel.

_Cull_—testicle.

_Cullage_—genitals.

_Dander_—temper.

_Datchie_—sly, secret.

_Daunton_—overawe.

_Deef_—deaf, unimpressionable.

_Deemless_—countless.

_Derf_—taciturn, cruel.

_Dern_—hide.

_Ding_—bang down.

_Doited_—mad.

_Donnert_—dazed, stupefied.

_Dottlin’_—maundering.

_Doup_—backside.

_Dour_—intractable.

_Dowf_—hollow, gloomy, inert.

_Dowless_—imponderable.

_Dowse_—quench.

_Dozent_—stupid.

_Drobs_—falls like hail.

_Drookit_—soaked.

_Drumlie_—troubled, discoloured.

_Dumb-deid_—midnight.

_Dwamin’_—overpowering.

_Dwinin’_—dwindling.

_Eel-ark_—breeding ground for eels.

_Eemis_—ill-poised.

_Een_—eyes.

_Eident_—busy.

_Eisenin’_—lustful.

_Elbuck_—elbow.

_Ettle_—aspire.

_Faburdun_—faux bourdon.

_Fair_—completely.

_Fanerels_—accessories.

_Fank o’ tows_—coil of ropes.

_Fankles_—becomes clumsy.

_Fantice_—whimsicality.

_Farles_—filaments of ash.

_Fash_—trouble.

_Feck_—majority.

_Fecklessly_—impotently.

_Ferlies_—wonders.

_Fey_—fated.

_Fidge_—move.

_Figuration_—harmony.

_File_—defile.

_Flauchter_—flutters.

_Flaught_—abased.

_Flech_—flea.

_Fleg_—frighten.

_Flet_—flit.

_Forfochen_—completely tired out.

_Forgether_—meet.

_Fork-in-the-wa’_—means of diverting share of labour pains to husband.

_Fou’_—drunk.

_Foudrie_—lightning.

_Fousome_—disgusting.

_Fratt_—fretwork.

_Fraucht_—cargo.

_Freaths_—plumes of foam or froth.

_Fremt_—friendless, isolated.

_Foziest_—most stupid.

_Fullyery_—(_lit._) foliage.

_Gaadies_—bloomers, howlers, gaffes.

_Gaff_—hook for fish.

_Galliard_—rapid dance.

_Gallus_—reckless.

_Gammons_—feet.

_Gangrel_—wanderer.

_Ganien_—rodomontade.

_Gantin’_—yawning.

_Gantrees_—planks for putting barrel on.

_Gausty_—ghastly, ascetic.

_Gaw_ (_to have a_)—to have a catch upon.

_Gealed_—congealed.

_Geg_—trick, deception.

_Gell_—_on the gell_, on the go.

_Gemmell_—double harmony.

_Get_—bastard.

_Gey_—very.

_Geylies_—very much.

_Gill-ha’_—pub of all weathers, hostelry of life.

_Gird_—hoop.

_Glaur_—mud.

_Gleg_—eager.

_Gleids_—sparks.

_Glisk_—gleam, glance.

_Glit_—slime.

_Gloffs_—darknesses appearing denser than other parts of atmosphere.

_Glower_—gaze at.

_Goam_—gaze stupidly at.

_Gorded_—frosted.

_Goustrous_—frightful.

_Gowk-storm_—storm of short duration (sub-sense of foolish fuss).

_Gowls_—hollows, opposite of gloffs.

_Gree_ (_to bear off_)—carry off the palm.

_Grieshuckle_—embers.

_Grue_—revulsion.

_Grugous_—ugly.

_Gruntle_—pig’s nose.

_Gurly_—savage.

_Guts_—bowels.

_Gy_—spectacle.

_Haggis_—_unknown_.

_Hain_—preserve.

_Hair_ (_kaimed to lift_)—on the go.

_Hairst_—harvest.

_Happit_—covered.

_Harns_—brains.

_Harth_—lean.

_Hauflins_—adolescent boys.

_Haw_—hollow.

_Heich-skeich_—irresponsible.

_Hod’n_—hidden.

_Howd_—shorn down.

_Howe_—hollow.

_How-dumb-deid_—midnight.

_Howff_—public-house.

_Hwll_—ululation.

_Ilka_—every.

_Ingangs_—intestines.

_Ingles_—hearths.

_Inklins_—intuitions.

_Jag_—prick.

_Jalouse_—guess.

_Jaup_—splash.

_Jizzen_—child-bed, _lit._ in the straw.

_Jouk_—dodge.

_Kaa_—drive.

_Kaim_—comb.

_Keethins_—circles betraying fish’s movements.

_Kelter_—waggle.

_Keltie_—bumper.

_Kilted_ (_in a tippit_)—hung in a noose.

_Kink_ (_to_)—bend or twist.

_Kirk or mill_ (_to mak’ a_)—to do the best one can.

_Kist_—chest, breast.

_Kittle_ (_adj._)—ticklish.

_Kittle_ (_to_)—tickle.

_Knool_—pin or peg.

_Kyths_—appears, shows.

_Larochs_—foundations.

_Lave_—rest.

_Lear_—learning.

_Leed_—strain.

_Liddenin’_—going backwards and forwards.

_Lift_—sky.

_Little-bodies_—fairies.

_Lochan_—little loch.

_Loppert_—coagulated.

_Lourd_—heavy, over-charged, cloudy.

_Lowe_—flame.

_Lowse_—free, loosen.

_Lozen_—window.

_Lugs_—ears.

_Maikless_—matchless.

_Mapamound_—map of the world.

_Marrow_ (_winsome_)—a creditable limb.

_Mells_—mixes.

_Mirlygoes_—dazzle.

_Mocage_—banter, irony, contempt.

_Mochiness_—closeness.

_Moniplies_—intestines.

_Moosewob_—spider’s web.

_Muckle_—big.

_Muckle Toon_ (_p. 17_)—Langholm in Dumfriesshire.

_Mum_—silent.

_Munkie_—rope with noose at end.

_Munks_—swings away.

_Mutchkin_—liquor measure, half-bottle.

_Nae mowse_—perilous.

_Natheless_—nevertheless.

_Natter_—rant.

_Neist_—next.

_Nesh_—full of awareness.

_Nocht_—nothing.

_Oorie_—weird.

_Ootby_—outside.

_Ootcuissen_—outcast.

_Ootrie_—_outré_.

_Orra_—not up to much.

_Peepy-show_—cinema.

_Peerie_—spinning-top.

_Penny wheep_—small ale.

_Pickle_—small quantity.

_Pirn_—reel.

_Plumm_—deep pool.

_Pokiness_—congestion.

_Prick-sang_—compositions.

_Quean_—lass, woman.

_Quenry_—reminiscences of dealings with women.

_Raff_ (_of rain_)—a few streaks of rain.

_Ragments_—odds and ends.

_Ramel_—branches.

_Ratt-rime_—incantations for killing rats.

_Rax_—strain.

_Recoll_—reminiscences.

_Reishlin’_—rustling.

_Reistit_—dried.

_Ripe_—search.

_Rippit_—rumpus.

_Ripples_—diarrhœa.

_Rit_—scrape.

_Rived_—torn.

_Rooky_—misty.

_Root-hewn_—awkward.

_Rouk_—smoke, mist.

_Row’d_—rolled, wrapped up.

_Rowin’_—rolling.

_Rumple-fyke_—itch in anus.

_Runkled_—wrinkled.

_Samyn_—deck of ship.

_Sclatrie_—obscenities.

_Scount_—small example.

_Scouth_—scope.

_Scunner_ (_to_)—disgust.

_Scunnersome_—repulsive.

_Seilfu’_—blissful.

_Sentrices_—scaffolding.

_Ser’_—serve.

_Shasloch_—loose straw, litter.

_Sheckle_—wrist.

_Sibness_—relationship.

_Siccar_ (_to mak’_)—to make certain.

_Sinnen_—sinew.

_Shoon_—shoes.

_Skime_—gleam.

_Skinklan’_—shining, twinkling.

_Skirl-i’-the-pan_—fried oatmeal.

_Slorp_—lap up, slobber over.

_Slounge_—sharp fall.

_Sonsy_—contented.

_Spalin’_—burning away.

_Spiel_—climb.

_Spier_—ask.

_Splairgin’_—spluttering.

_Stang_—paroxysm.

_Sta’-tree_—pole for tethering cattle to.

_Steekin’_—shutting.

_Stegh_—glut.

_Stented_—appointed.

_Stertle-a-stobie_—exhalations.

_Stour_—dust.

_Stramash_—rumpus.

_Stramulyert_—panic-stricken.

_Strawns_—strings or chains.

_Swack_—active, supple.

_Swaw_—ripple.

_Swippert_—lively.

_Swith wi’ virr_—vehement.

_Swither_—hesitate.

_Syne_—thereafter.

_Taigled_—entangled.

_Tapsalteerie_—topsy-turvy.

_Thieveless_—impotent.

_Thorter-ills_—paralytic seizures.

_Thow_—thaw.

_Thowless_—impotent.

_Thrang_—busy.

_Thring_—shrug.

_Toom (to)_—empty.

_Toories_—pom-poms.

_Twaesome_—the two of them.

_Tyauve_ (_to_)—struggle.

_Ugsome_—ugly, horrid.

_Ullage_—deficiency in contents of barrel.

_Unco_—very.

_Unkennable_—unknowledgable.

_Vennel_—lane, narrow street.

_Vieve_—vivid.

_Wab_—web.

_Wae_—woeful.

_Waesome_—woeful.

_Waesucks_—alas.

_Wanchancy_—unfortunate.

_Waun’ert_—confused.

_Waur_—worse.

_Weird_—fate.

_Weirdless_—worthless.

_Wheengin’_—complaining.

_Wheesht_—hush.

_Whummle_—overturn.

_Widdifow_—perverse.

_Windlestrae_—straw.

_Wizened_—shrunk.

_Worm-i’-the-cheek_—toothache.

_Wuppit_—winding, wound round.

_Yabblin’_—gabbling.

_Yank_—throw.

_Ygdrasil_—(Celtic) Tree of Life.

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