Chapter C: B. chwaer-u, to be active; chwar-eu, to sport; chwareuad,

_chwuareuaeth_, sport, merriment; _chwarth_, a laugh; Arm. _choar-i_, jouer.

~Quierty~, ~Querty~, _adj._

1. Lively, possessing a flow of animal spirits, S.

2. Active, Ayrs., Dumfr.

QUESTES, _s. pl._ Noise of hounds.

_Sir Gawan._

Fr. _quest-er_, to open as a dog.

QUETHING.

V. ~Queinth~.

_Douglas._

QUH, expressing a strong guttural sound, S.

QUHA, QUHAY, _pron._ Who; _quhays_, whose, S.

_Douglas._

QUHAYE, _s._ Whey.

_Flot quhaye_, a delicate sort of curd which floats at the top of whey when boiled, S.

_Complaynt S._

A. S. _hweg_, Belg. _weye_, _huy_.

QUHAYNG, WHANG, _s._

1. A thong, S.

A. S. _thwang_.

_Bellenden._

_Ay at the whittle and the quhang_, S. Prov. Still in a broil; Sw. _tweng_, id.

2. A thick slice of any thing eatable, S.

_Burns._

To ~Quhang~, ~Whang~, _v. a._

1. To flog, S.

2. To lash in discourse.

_Burns._

3. To cut in large slices, S.

QUHAIP, QUHAUP, WHAAP, _s._ A curlew, S.

_Acts Marie._

~Quhaip~, ~Quhaup~, _s._ A goblin supposed to go about under the eaves of houses after night fall, having a long beak, Ayrs.

QUHAM, _s._

1. A dale among hills, S.

2. A marshy hollow, Loth.

Isl. _hwamm-r_, convallicula seu semivallis; _hwome_, vorago.

QUHARE, _adv._ Where.

_S. P. Repr._

~Quhairintil~, _adv._ Wherein.

_R. Bruce._

QUHA-SAY, _s._ A sham, a pretence.

_Leg. St Androis._

Corr. perh. from Lat. _quasi_, as if.

QUHATKYN, QUHATEN. What kind of; S. _whattin_.

V. ~Kin~.

_Barbour._

QUHATSUMEUIR, _adj._ Whatsoever.

_Crosraguel._

_To_ QUHAUK, _v. a._ To beat, S. E.

QUHAUP, _s._ A curlew.

V. ~Quhaip~.

QUHAUP, WHAAP. _There's a whaap in the raip_, S. Prov. There is something wrong.

_Kelly._

QUHAUP, _s._ A pod in the earliest state, S.

_To_ ~Whaup~, or to be ~Whauped~, _v. n._ To assume the form of pods, S. B.

_To_ ~Quhaup~, _v. a._ To shell peas, S. B.

_To_ QUHAWCH, _v. n._

V. ~Quaik~.

QUHAWE, _s._ A marsh, a quagmire.

C. B. _chwi_, a whirl; _chwiawg_, full of whirls.

_Wyntown._

QUHEYNE, QUHENE, QUHOYNE, QUHONE, _adj._ Few, S.

_Barbour._

~Quhene~, S. _wheen_, _s._ A small quantity.

A. S. _hwaene_, _hwene_, aliquantum, paulo.

_To_ QUHEMLE, WHOMMEL, _v. a._ To turn upside down, S. _whummil_.

_Bellenden._

Su. G. _hwiml-a_, vertigine laborare.

QUHETHIR, THE QUHETHYR, _conj._ However.

_Barbour._

A. S. _hwaethere_, tamen, attamen.

_To_ QUHETHIR, _v. n._

V. ~Quiddir~.

_To_ QUHEW, _v. n._ To whiz, to whistle.

C. B. _chwaw-iaw_, to blow.

_Burel._

~Quhew~, _s._

1. The sound produced by the motion of any body through the air with velocity; S. B. _few._

_Douglas._

2. A disease which proved extremely fatal in Scotland, A. 1420; occasioned, as would appear from the description, by the unnatural temperature of the weather.

_Fordun._

C. B. _chwa_, _chwaw_, a blast, a gust.

V. ~Quhich~.

QUHY, _s._ A cause, a reason.

_K. Quair._

_To_ QUHICH, QUHIGH, QUHIHHER, (gutt.) _v. n._ To move through the air with a whizzing sound, S. B.

_Minstrelsy Bord._

A. S. _hweoth_, _hwith_, flatus, aura lenis.

_To_ QUHID, WHUD, _v. n._

1. To whisk, to move nimbly, S.

_Ramsay._

2. To fib, to equivocate, S.