Chapter XLII: Letter 74: , "dought."

_Draff-poke_; the beggar's bag, for carrying anything put in.
249.
--_Draff_; a useless thing; "draught," Matt. xv. 17. "Corruption
like a draff-poke at my heels" (Eliz. West).

_Draught_; plans drawn out and sketched. 14.

_Draw_; in the sense of "_remove_;" table drawn. 146.
In Lady Montague's Letters, "drawing-room, or _withdrawing_
room, as they now say."

_Draw by_; draw aside. 11.

_Draw-knot_; a slip-knot, easily loosened. 51.

_Dreary_; sad. 87.

_Drink over the board_; renounce.

_Drink-silver_; gift, or token of regard for kindness shown
or service done,
--a gift to servants. 119.
--_Drink-money_, 277; the same.

_Drouthy_; from "drought;" very dry. 256.

_Drumbled_; made muddy; troubled water. 153.

_Dry_; reserved, backward. 181, 182, 187, 206, etc.

_Dumps_; bad humour. 187.

_Dwine_; to pine away. 85, 169, etc.

_Dyke_; a wall. 194, 276, etc.

_Dyvour_; a debtor; sometimes a bankrupt
--Fr., "_Devoir_."

_Earnest_; the foretaste. 179.

_Ease-room_; a room for pleasure or repose. 5, 247, 311.

_Ebb_, Adj.; shallow, like tide going back. 94, 120, etc.
--_Ebbness._ 175.

_Edge by_; push aside. 225.

_Empawn_; lay down as pledge. 229, 268.

_Enact_; to decree. 291.

"_End_;" thrice on end. 324.
--Thrice in succession.

_Engyne_, or _ingyne_; Latin, _Ingenium_, disposition, ability,
policy. 84, 94.
--Power of mind. 64.

_Entire_; no division or half-heartedness. 119, 280.

_Errand_; business. 210, 250.--"Ride his errands," 249, go on
with his work.

_Evangel_; good news generally. 224.

_Even_; to put down one as capable of a thing; propose as fit
for a person, 70.
--The phrase, "_Be even with_;" have accounts settled, be
quits. 113, 114.

_Evil-worthy_; unworthy, ill-worth. 336.

_Expone_; explain the sense. 165.

_Eye_, Verb; to look for. 276.

_Eye-sweet_; pleasant to the eye. 213, 277.

_Fail_, or _feal_; turf. 194.

_Fain_; glad. "_Faintes_," most gladly.
"_Fain not twice_" is glad to remain settled; not caring
to rise after sitting down.
"Fain have taken effect," 16; desire to have carried through.

_Fair_; a market. 172.

_Fair_; Adj. in the phrase, "_fair fire_," is commonly in Scotland
"a fair lowe," _i.e._ all a flame together. 204.
--"_Fair fall you_," good betide. 337.

_Faird_, or _fard_; to paint (_q.d._ make _fair_), embellish,
disguise. 82, 83, 88, 191.

_Fair-outsided_. 88.
--Applied to the world that is fair only on the outside.

_Fall about_; search about. 21.
--"_Fall by_;" be lost. 252, 291.
--"_Fall to_;" engage in. 72, 288.
--"_Fall off_;" forsake. 246.

_Far_ "The _far end_," the final issue. 184.

_Fard_; paint, fine colouring. 82, 83.

_Farm-room_; a rented room, like a tenant's firm.

_Fash_ and _fashery_; trouble by importunity and about little
things. 145, 196, 249, etc.

_Fast_; firm. 74, 250.

_Feared_; alarmed, timid. 293.

_Feckless_; worthless, useless, pithless. 23, 24, etc.
--Baxter in his "Saints' Rest" uses it.

_Fenced_; guarded; also constituted; a law term, used of opening
a Court and proclaiming the authority by which the Court
was held and the object of it. 77, 82, 112, 146, 161.

_Fend_; provide for, take care of. 87, 114, 129, etc. So Maxton
on Ps. cxix. cxlv.

_Fetch_; to make for a place. 83, 106, 184, 240, 241, 284.

_Feu-duty_; yearly rent for ground on which a house is built. 254.

_Find_; to feel, or find out. 155, 169, 192, 334.

_Fire-flaught_; a flake of fire, a flash of lightning. 104.
--In Row's "Hist. of Scot.," "extraordinary thunder and
fire-flaught," p. 333.

_Flitting_; removing furniture and goods to another place.
250, 277. (It is A.S.)

_Flourish_; to blossom. 50.

_Flyte_; to scold or chide. 189.
--"Flyting free;" they have nothing to say against him. 181.

_Foot._ The phrase, "_hold the foot to it_," go on in the march.
249.

_Foot-mantle_; a riding habit reaching to the feet. 268.
--In a sermon on Zech. xi. 9, "Gold, silks, velvets, and
foot-mantles, and high horses."

_For_; notwithstanding. 307.

_Forcasten_; cast away, neglected. 167, 177, 285.

_Fore_; surplus; the perquisite given over and above; something
still remaining. 70, 80, 158.

_Foregainst_; opposite. 289.

_Forfeit_; declare to be forfeited. 206.

_Forlorn_; prodigal. 167, 228, 285.
--"The lost forlorn son" is the prodigal. (So in German.)

_Forthcoming_; ready to come forward and speak. 250.

_Four-hours_; the afternoon meal, taken four hours after the
forenoon's. 94, 110, 118, 285.

_Fourteen Prelates_; the number of Bishops in Scotland under
Charles II.

_Frame_; to fit or set (Judg. xii. 6; Hos. v. 4), set in a
proper position; turn out, or succeed. 32, 41, 187,
232, 254, 287.

_Fraught_; the same as _freight_. 84, 153, 195, 217.
--"Fraught-free;" no fare to pay. 265.

_Freeholding_; lands held for life. 203.

_Free-ward_; liberty. 269.

_Free-warders_; prisoners who have right to go free. 265.

_Frem_, A. S., "_fremd_;" hence written "_fremd_" or
"_fremmyt_;" strange, foreign, distant. 69, 165.

_Friend-sted_; to befriend. 188, 275.

_Frith_; strait; sea. 84.

_Fryst_, or _frist_; to postpone possession or action,--the
opposite of _tryst_. 176, 205, etc.
Give credit to. 105.
Put off a demand. 20.

_Fyle_; to defile, _find guilt_. 212.

_Gaddy_; fond of gadding about. 270.

_Gardies_, or _gardess_; arms. 18.--It is
the Gaelic word "_gairdean_," an arm. In Row's "Life of Blair"
(p. 154), "Mrs. Hamilton came up to Traquair, and fest-grip
his _gardie_."

_Gate_; road, way, manner of doing. 29, 38, etc.
--The phrase, "_start to the gate_," begin early, soon on the
road. 136, 148, 186, 294.

_Gawd_; trick, bad custom. 240.
--Used by Gawin Douglas and by Chaucer for a freak, and said to be
from Fr., "_gaudir_," to be merry.

_Gear_; goods, substance, money. 120.

_General_; not at all familiar. 205.
"In fair generals." 93.
Not coming to close quarters.

_Gifted_; bestowed as a favour. 353, 359.
--Often so used in his "Covenant of Life Opened." Make a
present of.

_Glaiked_, or _glaiket_; giddy, light. 284.

_Glance_; bright as glowing metal. So in his sermon on Zech.
xiii. 7. 287, 295.

_Glister_; glitter, shine bright. 51.
--See Luke ix. 21.

_Gloom_; frown, sullen look. Verb and Noun. 187, 266, etc.
--"The sad and glooming cross" ("Christ Dying").

_Goodman_, or _gudeman_; one who holds his house or lands from a
superior; unlike _laird_, who owns no superior but the king.
16, 18, etc.
--_Goodwife_. 34.--See Luke xii. 39.

_Good cheap_; very cheap, gratuitous.
But probably _cheap_ is here a Noun, "_chap_," equivalent to
"_bargain_." 104, 105, 121, 186, 215, 245, 249.
--"_Better cheap_." 216.
--See _Cheap_.

_Gone_; ruined, hopeless. 183.

_Gowk_; a simpleton.
--"_Gowket_," acting like a simpleton, or put in a foolish
position. 151, 232, 256.

_Grace_; to give favour and honour to a person, to adorn; sometimes
to get mercy. 12, 29, 133, 237, 275.

_Grammercy_; thanks. 249.
--French, "grand-merci."

_Green_; to long after. 85, 160, 213, 226, etc.

_Grip_; a grasp, firm hold, clasp. 22, 24, etc.
--"Grips," close quarters, fight. 294.

_Ground_; bottom. 85, 99, 203, 287.
Out at the ground. 287.
--"_Ground-stone_;" foundation-stone; from the very foundation.
74, 82, 248.
--"_Grounds_;" dregs of a cup. 251.

_Guide_; to manage or to make use of. 256, 275.

_Guise_; manner, way (French). 101, 164, 172.
--Bunyan, in his History of Badman: "One _guise_ for abroad,
another for home."

_Gutters_; pools of dirty water, marks made by the tears that
soil the face. 138, 194.

_Hable_; able. Fr., _habile_. 325.
--Rollock (Lect. li.), "hability and strength." Trappe on Rom.
vi. 22, "Our hability for obedience."

_Halfer_; an equal sharer. 200, 245, 249.
--Written "_halver_" also.

_Half-hungered_; left in a hungry state. 26.

_Half-marrow_; a married partner. 183, 270.

_Half-tiner_; half-loser. 182.

_Hall_; the "_hall-house_," or _ha-house_, the mansion-house. So
in sermon on John xx. 13, 285.
--_Hall-binks_; seats of honour.

_Handfast_; to join hands in betrothing, to affiance. 143, 173, 225.

_Handgrips_; grasping close. 87, 106.

_Handsel_; to use for the first time. 239.

_Handwrite_; written with one's own hand. 270.

_Hard._
--See _Heads_.

_Hardly_; with difficulty. 232.

_Haunt up_; be up frequently in his company. 84.
--Fullerton of Earlton, in his "Turtle Dove," speaks of Christ and
His saints; "with whom espoused now He _haunts_ in heavens
of bliss."

_Hause_; to clasp or close with. 69.
--Gawin Douglas uses it for "embrace;" from "hals," the neck or
throat.

_Have_; to "_have over_," to let alone, be done with. 87, 106.

_Head of Wit_; a wiseacre, one who affects to have much wisdom.
230, 234.
--"_Hard-heads_;" the name of a small coin. 270.
--Knox's "History," etc. See note in Letter 270.

_Heap-mete_; heaped up measure, full measure. 249.

_Hear_; to attend, to treat, serve. 195.

_Heartsome_; happy, cheerful. 32, 51, 167.
--"Clear, bright, and heartsome morning" (Sermon on Zech. xi. 9).
So heartful. 99.

_Heaven-name_; name he bears in heaven. 301.

_Hell-hot_; hot as hell. 357.

_Hereaway_; in this quarter. 50, 286, 336, etc. In this present
life, in this world.

_Herry_; cruelly spoil, or rob. 52.

_Hesp_; hank or hasp of yarn. 196.

_Hide_; the skin. 198.
--In "Christ Dying," he speaks of the skin or hide of the
visible hearers.

_Hing_; for hang. 104, 249.

_Ho_; cessation, to cause to stop. 167.

_Hold-draw_; struggle with. 137.

_Holding_; tenure. 284. So in sermon on Rev. xix.

_Hole_ (sometimes spelt "holl"); to make a hole, to pierce, dig
out. 103, 177, 196.
--"_Holey_," or "_holie_;" full of holes. 83, 196, 258.

_Homely_; familiar, at home with one. 59, 105, 130, etc.

_Home over_; homewards. 28, 205, 211, etc.

_Homeward_; in its own favour. 163.

_Honesty_; kindly dealing. 69-76.

_Hook_; sickle, reaping-hook. 16, 21, 224, etc.
"Mowers with the scythe and hook." Sermon at Kirkmabreck, 1630.

_Hope_; consider. 204, 295.

_Horning_; a legal demand for payment of a debt under threat of
imprisonment and being proclaimed rebels. It used to be
proclaimed by sound of horn in the market-place. 130.

_Horologue_; a watch. From the Greek.
--An old tower at Montrose bore the name of "The Horologue
Tower." 238, 289.
Rutherford in a sermon before the House of Lords speaks of
"Time's horologue, set agoing by God at the Creation."

_House_; "take up his house." 250.
Enter on housekeeping.

_Howbeit_; although.
--See our Version of the Bible.

_Huge_; vast, very great. 189, 288, etc.
--"I am _hugely_ pleased with your letter," says Waterland, in
a letter to T. Boston (App. to Life). In Forbes, on Rev.
xix., "huge matter of God's praise." In Rutherford's
Treatise on Prayer, "heaven is a huge thing," p. 97.
305.

_Hungredly_; on spare diet. 282.

_Hungry of heart_; heart-hungered. 203.

_If_; but that. 342.--_O if._ 206.

_Ill_; in the phrase, "_Ill to please_," difficult to please. 131.

_Ill-flitten_; misplaced. 106. _Q.d._ removed to a wrong place.

_Ill-friended_; without friends. 96.
--Zachary Boyd uses this word in "Last Battle," p. 410.

_Ill-learned_; taught evil. 276.

_Ill-ravelled_; sadly entangled. 196.

_Ill-waled_; ill-selected. 326.

_Ill-washen_; dirty. 227, etc.

_Improbation_; action to prove forgery, or that the person had no
right to what he claimed. 178.

_Incontinently_; immediately, as if unable to restrain himself. 241.

_Indent_ Its common English sense occurs in Letter 288, to set in
corresponding notches.
But also to sign a paper containing agreement to certain
articles. 173.
--Zachary Boyd's "Samson" has, "As I indented, so I'll undertake."

_Ingyne._ 64.
--See _Engyne_.

_Inhibit_; forbid.

_Instant_; earnest. 16.

_Instruct of_; instruct concerning. 225.

_Instruments, to take_; to take documents from the hand of the
proper party by way of attestation. 107, 110, 144, etc.

_Interdict_; forbid by positive injunction to do or use a thing
for a time, to enter on possession.

_Into_; for in. 336.
--Rollock (Lect. xlvii.): "When the Spirit is wrestling _into
us_."

_Intromit_; intermeddle, a law phrase; handle. 82, 105.

_In-under_; close under. 260.

_Irresponsal_; not able to pay, insolvent. 104, 204.

_Jealousy_; suspicion. So the Adjective. 74, 144, 148, 152, etc.

_Jouk_; to bend down, in order to escape a storm or a stroke; to
dissemble, compromise. 16, 181, 284.

_Kep_; intercept, catch when falling. 165.

_Kind_; nature. 276.
--"Man doth _his kind_ in committing evil," says Trappe on Gen.
vii. 21; that is, does what his nature leads to.

_Kindly_; what our kindred give us right to. 261. Also according
to nature; natural. 66, 98, 102, 254.
--In "Christ Dying" (p. 30) we find, "The life of Christ had
infirmities _kindly_ to it."

_Kingly._ 55, 61, 281, 363; and used by him on his deathbed.

_Kinless_; who have no kindred. 250.

_Knot_; difficulty to be solved. 312.
--Rollock (Lect. li.) speaks of "getting office with a knot"
--a difficulty accompanying it.

_Knottiness_; full of knots. 287.

_Lair_; a bog. 110. "To lair" is to stick in the mire.

_Laird._--See _Goodman_.

_Lap_; the loose part or fold of a garment. 78.

_Laureation_; obtaining or conferring academic honours. 274.

_Law-biding._ 106, 231, 299.--See _Bide_.

_Law-burrows_; giving a pledge not to injure.
--See _Burrows_. 61, 66, 163, 184, 275, etc.

_Lea_; an unploughed part of a field, where the grass grows. 75,
234.

_Lead._ In the phrase, "_Lead stones to a wall_;" convey them,
_q.d._ by leading the horse and cart. 24.

_Leal_; honest, genuine, loyal. 182, 225.

_Learn_; in the sense of "to teach." 175, 199, 222.--(German,
"_lehren_.")

_Leave_; dismissal from a situation. 277, 311.

_Leavings_; the overplus of the feast.

_Leck_; a leak. 130.
--In Row's "History" (398) we find, "The ship being _leck_."

_Leel-come_; what has been got in an honest way. 182.

_Lee-side_; sheltered side. 115.

_Leme_; earthen; our "_loam_." Lat., "_limus_." 182.
--In Row's "Hist." (260), "A leme pig" is an _earthen jug_.
Rutherford in a sermon on Dan. vi. 26 speaks of the
potter making a "leme vessel."

_Let_; to hinder.
--"_To let in_," to admit. To let on. 182. To seem to notice.

_Lift_; part of a load. 298.

_Lightly_, a Verb; to trifle with. 201, 260, 272. Knox and Rollock
use this word.

_Like_; same as _likely_; probable. 21, 267, 384.
--"_The like of_;" such as. 92, 158, 275, 284, 336.

_Lippen_; to trust, entrust. 69, 182, 260.

_Lith_; a joint.
--"The shoulder-blade _out of lith_." Sermon, 1634. The A.S. word
for the joints of the body. 86, 167.

_Lone_; one's self, alone. 49, 162, 192, etc.

_Long._ "Think long;" to weary for. 14, 93, etc.

_Loof_; the palm of the hand.
--Gaelic, "_lambh_." 77, 122.

_Look by_; neglect, look aside. 23.

_Loun_; a rogue, worthless fellow; _q.d._ low one. 116, 160, 232,
241.

_Love-blinks_; love-glances.

_Low_; of low stature. 236.

_Lucks-head_; chance of winning, prospect of success. 178, 182.
Brown of Wamphray, p. 150, "Swan-Song."

_Lust_; to desire a thing. 226, 276.

_Lustred_; made to shine, 89, 117, 191.
--Noun, 75, 260, 289, 295, 297, 298. A fair, shining look.

_Mail_; rent, tax.
--"_Mail free_;" rent free. 29, 50, 284, 321.

_Mailing_; sometimes written "_mealing_;" a farm, for which rent
is paid. 29, 50.

_Make_; to mould, turn to use. 145.

_Make on_; to make up by putting the fuel in order. 32.

_Make up with._ 247. Become friends with.

_Man_, a Verb; "to man the house," act as the goodman of the
house, attending to visitors, etc. 142.

_March-boundary_; limit. 82, etc.
--"March-stones;" 278.
In his Treatise on Prayer, he calls Christ, as God-man, "the
common march-stone."

_Market-sweet_ (like "eye-sweet"); pleasing to the frequenters of
the market; suitable for sale, and so set up in open market.
213, 216, 237.

_Marrow_; a match, companion. 26, 133, 148, etc.
--"Marrowless" occurs, 180.
Unequalled; peerless.

_Mask_; to infuse. 287.

_Masterless_; owned of no one. 120.

_Mealing._
--See _Mailing_. 50.

_Mean_; to consider, reckon. 86, 250.
Noun; resource, 257.

_Meikle_; much. "Meikle world's good," as much as having a world's
good things. 165, 180, 225.

_Melancholious_; melancholy. 293.

_Mends_; reparation of a wrong. 14.
--"_To the mends_;" to boot, besides, add to that.

_Midses_; means, instrumentality. 190, 317.

_Mid-way_; courses. 190.--Half and half, undecided.

_Minch_; cut into small pieces. 127.

_Mind_; remember, take care to speak of. 333, 334, 342.

_Mint_; to attempt, intend at doing, essay. 29, 92, 188, etc.

_Mired_; plunged into mire, soiled. 174.

_Misbelief_; wrong belief. 112, 143.

_Miscall_; give wrong names to. 322, etc.

_Misconstruct_; misconstrue. 285.

_Miscount_; erroneous calculation. 133.

_Misken_; to misunderstand, overlook, to treat as if unknown. 89,
99, 102, 148, 181, etc.

_Misleard_; indiscreet, rude; _q.d. mislearned_. 112, 181.

_Mismannered_; unmannerly. 106.

_Misnurtured_; ill-disciplined, ill-trained. 181, 234.

_Missive_; a letter empowering the person to act. 142.

_Misted._
--See _Bemisted_. 118, 146.
Like one in a mist.

_Moderate_, a Verb; to rule over a meeting. 203.
--An ecclesiastical phrase from the Latin.

_Moneys_; price. 281.

_Moyen_; means; interest; influence. 59, 116, 119, etc.

_Muir-ground_; waste land covered with heath. 157, 298.

_Naughty_; vile, worthless. 77, 81, etc.
--Bunyan calls Badman, "a man left to himself, a _naughty_ man."

_Nay-say_; denial. 80, 231.
--In a sermon on Zech. xiii. 7: "Christ gave the devil three
nay-says."

_Near-hand_; near at hand. 29, 79, 191, etc.

_Need-force_; by sheer necessity; or, by hook or crook. 71, 179,
205, etc.
Under plea of necessity.

_Nether_; the lower; not high enough. 245.

_Newings_; novelties; _q.d. new things_. 29.

_Nice_; chary, capricious, ill to please. 81, 226.

_Nick_; mark, notch, point. 70, 249, etc.

_Niffer_; exchange, barter. 140, etc.

_Nigh-hand_; near. 183, 347.

_Night-glass_; hour-glass. 281.

_Non-entry_; money, or rents, due to the superior by an heir on
coming to his property; or the state of one who is heir,
but has not yet got the legal investiture. 222, 256.

_Nor_; than. 144, 307.

_Noughty_; useless, worthless, nothing in it. 175, 200, 225.
--Sibbs, "Others that are nought" (on 2 Cor. i. 4).

_Nurture_; discipline. 70, 98, 206.
--The Verb, to use discipline. 299.

_Odds_; difference. 294.
--Also _odd_; any leisure time.

_Of._ The use of the preposition "of" is common and peculiar to the
time in such phrases as "Dear of a drink of water;" at the
price of. 148.
--"Content of." 45.
--"Understood of." 51.
--Is it from the French

"de?" Old Chaucer sings: "And all the orient laugheth of delight"
(Knight's Tale).

_Off-fallings_; droppings, remnants, 70, 169, 285. John Livingstone
writes:
"Compared with Christ Himself, what is all this but the
_off-fallings_."

_Oh if._ 180, 204, etc.
--"_Oh if_," 152.
What would you say if.

_Oh that!_ in the sense of _Alas_! 189.
So "_Oh for_." 97.

_Old-dated_; antiquated, 320.

_Once_; one time or other, sooner or later. 62, 112, 143, 152,
170, 217, 255, 270, 330.
Knox uses it often thus. Also, once for all; altogether.

_Once-errand_; on the sole business. 210, 301.

_Opposites_; opponents. 231.

_Or._
--See _Then_.

_Order_; take order is an old English phrase for "take measures."
18.

_Ordinarily_; usually. 144.

_Other_; ought else. 68, 77.
--_Others_; each other. 82.

_Out_, a Noun; laying out, exhibiting for sale. 277.

_Outcast_; a contention, quarrel. 239, 274, 275.
--In a sermon on Zech. xiii. 7 he says: "After a sore _outcast_,
there is greater love betwixt Christ and His people than
before."

_Outfield_; waste land, covered with heath. 256, 261.

_Outgate_; way of escape, outlet. "Make home over us, go homeward."

_Over_; in the phrase "_over-little_," too little. 257.

_Overmist_; rise over like a mist. 189.

_Over-watered_; plated over. 299.

_Oyess_; the French _Oyez_; the crier's "Hearken." The Verb, to
denounce one by public proclamation. 249.

_Paces_ (from French "_peser_," to weigh, and old English "to
paise"); the weights of a clock. He uses the same figure
in a sermon on Song v. 1. 189, 197, 199, 292.

_Packald_; burdens, things packed up. 198.

_Packs_, or _paiks_; a severe blow. "_Paiks_ the man," the man
soundly beaten. 138.

_Pact._ 230.

_Paiks._
--See _Packs_.

_Painful_; taking pains, laborious. 188.
--See _Baxter_, etc.

_Paintry_; painting. 83.

_Panged_; quite full, crammed; "_Pang-full_." 225.

_Pantry_, a Verb; to lock up in the cupboard. 110.

_Pasch_; Passover, or Easter. 51. (Acts xii. 4; πασχα.)

_Pass from_; used of a summons; not enforce it.

_Passments_; strips of lace sewed on dress by way of ornament. 42,
75, 275.

_Pawn_; pledge. "_Pawn-clay_;" a thing of dust, and that is only
partly ours. 77, 130, 139.

_Perqueer_; the French _par cœur_; by heart, perfectly. 204.

_Pertinacy_; same as pertinacity.

_Pickle_; small grain. 22, 186, 197.

_Piece-withered_; withered patches. 254.

_Pinning_; a small stone to fill up a crevice. 211, 239. In a sermon
on Zech. xi. 19 he says: "Would they give Christ no room?
Might they not have made Him _a pinning_?" R. Blair's "Life"
(p. 115). "Weak _pinnings_ are very useful in building a wall;
and so are _graces_, though they are not the foundation."

_Playmaker_; director of the play. 70.

_Plea_; a quarrel between parties. 240, etc.

_Plenishing_; furniture, possessions. 4, 133, 258. The Verb, fill.
247, 250, 326.

_Ply_; a fold or turn. Verb; to ply, applied to a ship. 95, 105,
152.

_Poind_; to distrain, make seizure of goods. 160. "Drive the
poind" is to drive away the cattle thus seized.

_Point_; to fill up crevices in a wall with lime and little
stones. 299.

_Port_; gate. 241, 336, 339.
--"He went out at the ports, bearing His cross." Sermon on
Heb. xii.

_Pose_; a hoard, store. 206.
--In a sermon by Rutherford, we find
the "_miser's hoard_" called "the wretch's pose."

_Prevent_; anticipate. 297. Be first in acting.

_Prig_; to chaffer or higgle about a thing. 21, 81.

_Proctor-fee._ 285. A fee to the procurator, one who manages a
cause, paid when the suit is ended.

_Professor_; in the sense of confessing or professing the faith.
105, 284, 292, 304.

_Propine_; Noun and Verb; hold out a gift, to present. 37, 88,
130, 165. Used as a Noun, 29.

_Put_; to "put" as a ram, push, help.
--"_Put by_;" to put away from, cause to pass by. 111.
--"_Put it down_;" make it more easily swallowed. 62.
--"_Put off_;" spend time. 162. Also, put aside as finished. 190.
--"_Put to_;" apply; also to shut. 97, 275.
--"_Put upon_;" urge, to set on one in the way of importunity.
7, 12.
--To cause difficulty. 319.
--"_Put up_;" push up. 29.

_Quarrelous_; fault-finding, provoking to quarrels. 184, 189, 239.
--He writes it "_querulous_" in his "Christ Dying," p. 179:
"Querulous love-motions against the reality of Christ's
love."

_Quick_; alive. 61, 265.

_Quit_; to set one free from. 224, 268.

_Ragged_; torn and incomplete. 151.

_Ravel_; disorderly twisting of threads. 196.

_Reckon_; consider of importance. 230, 233.

_Red_, Adj., in the phrase, "_red hunger_," intensive. 213.
--"_Red war_," and "_red wet_," means soaked in wet.

_Redd up_; to clear up, settle. 34, 38, 48, 136, etc.

_Refreshful_; full of refreshment. 333.

_Registrate_; to register, to protest. 85, 249.
--See _note_.

_Repair_; make amends to. 312.

_Resemble_; to represent. 3.

_Respective_; to each individual. 136.
--Is this Sibbs' meaning, "Every saint has something lovely and
respective in him" (on 2 Cor. i. 1)? But, also, Sibbs
uses it for _respectful_: "Dependency is always very
respective." And so Ferguson on Col. iii. 22: "Servants
respective to their masters."
--See _Disrespective_. Letters 321, 360.

_Responsal_; solvent, able to pay. 231.

_Rest_; in the Latin sense, "_remains_." 244.

_Reverence_; _q.d._ rendering homage, power. 30, 43, 233, 298.
--"_I will not be in your reverence_" was a phrase for, "I will
not submit to your dictation."

_Reversion_; the right held by some one to the future possession
of an estate. 148.

_Rid_ (see _Redd_); annihilate. Participle, put away. 133.

_Ridable_; can be crossed on horseback. 160.

_Rifle_; same as _ruffle_. 158.

_Rift_; a rent, crack. 241, 284.
--Verb, to vomit, or come back with violent retching. 72.
--_Rifty_; broken, full of rents. 120.

_Right_, Verb; to put right. 196.

_Rights_; title-deeds. 77.

_Rink_; the ring, or race-course. 122, 276, 286.

_Ripe_; to examine and search carefully. Connected with "rip up."
203.

_Rive_; rend, tear; break up. 16, 50, 72, etc.

_Rooftree_; the beam that runs across the roof, and supports the
rafters. 270.

_Room_; place. 22, etc.

_Round_; whisper or sing in the ear. (German, _raunen_.) 293.

_Roup_; set up to sale by action. 37, 131, 199, etc.

_Rovers_; "at rovers," at random. 182.

_Roving_; wandering through excitement of mind, raving. 161.

_Rub_; trouble. 323.

_Rue_; to repent, be sorry, 115.
--"_Rue upon_;" take pity. 21, 69, 186, etc.

_Run by_; run past. 226.

_Rush_; to push forward with violence. 270.
--See _note_.

_Sad_; settled, solid, real. 62, 75, 99, 163, 191, 203.
--It is from old English "_set_," settled down. Wickliffe's Bible,
Rom. xv. 1: "We that are _sadder_ men" (stronger).
Pilkington on Neh. iv.: "A good builder digs down to the
_sad_ earth."

_Salt_; bitter, unpleasant, sarcastic. 115.
--In his "Christ Dying," p. 690, he says: "A violent death hath
a _salter_ bite."

_Sanded_; driven on the sands. 217.

_Scad_; the red tinge of a burn. "_Scadded_ and burnt in the
furnace" (Rutherford's "Cov. of Life," p. 69). The tinge
given by reflected light. 291. It is connected with
"_scald_."

_Scaur_, or _scar_; to boggle, take fright. 70, 119, 183, etc.

_School-heads_; worldly wise. 337.

_Second_, Noun and Verb; one who helps.
--Often used by Lord Kenmure in "Last Speeches." 2, 91, 247.

_Seen-in_; experienced in a matter. 86.

_Set_; it becomes, 260; disposed, 120.
--"_Set to_;" engage, set about. 110, 145, 179, 235.

_Set-rent_; full rent.

_Shake_; to push aside, push out.

_Shell_ of a balance; the scale. 268.

_Short_; in temper hasty, rash. 153.
--"_Shortly_;" forthwith. 249.
--"_Short-dated_;" lasting only a short time. 196.

_Shute_; sometimes written _shoot_; to push in, shove back. 20, 29,
158, 163.
--"Satan shutes in his teeth," occurs in Rutherford's "Christ
Dying."

_Sib_; nearly related to. 106, 212, 245, etc.
--"We behoved to be as _sib_ as brethren." Sermon.

_Sicht_, or _sight_, a Verb; to examine narrowly, _q.d._ by close
sight. 12. It occurs in Row's "History" often.

_Sicker_; strong. 107.

_Silly_; poor, frail, pitiful. 27, 184.

_Silver_, or _siller_; money. 254.

_Sing_; in the phrase, "_Sing_ dumb," be reduced to silence. 128.

_Singly_; with a single mind. 83.

_Sink_; a common sewer. 272, 276.

_Sit with_; to endure in patient silence. 52, 63. Submit to. 43.
Treat with carelessness.

_Skaill_; disperse, scatter. 160, 190, 241, etc.

_Skaith_; harm. 285.

_Skaur._
--See _Scaur_.

_Skink_; formally renounce, or bid farewell to. 85, 88.
--In A.S., the Verb is "to give drink;" in German, "_schenken_,"
to give. It is _q.d._ take leave by giving a present, or
by drinking a farewell.

_Slot_; a moveable bolt; bar. 29, 47, 48.

_Sned_; to prune, lop off, make tidy. 298.

_Solacious_; full of cheer, or comfort. 105.

_Soldiers-stately_; in Letter 63. It might have been noticed that
old editions make this one word equivalent to "a spirit
becoming a soldier;" like Milton's "timely-happy spirits."
Joseph Alleine's "Life" has, "holy-taking rhetoric." Others
point thus, "Your soldier's stately spirit." So,
"_heavenly-wise_." 191.

_Some._ 64, 214. For somewhat.

_Sometimes_; properly "_some-time_;" on former days, once on a
time. 28, etc.
--In our Version of the Bible, Eph. ii. 3; 1 Pet. iii. 20.

_Soon-saddled_; hasty in temper. 189.
--Little time taken to get on the saddle.

_Soul-couper_; a jobber in souls. 330.
--See _Coup_.

_Souple_; same as _supple_. 132.

_Spaits._
--See _Speat_.

_Sparing_; niggardly. 222.

_Spark_; to squirt out. 163.

_Sparkle_; to spark out, scatter sparks. 263.
--Chaucer speaks of the shepherd seeking his "_sparkeland sheep_,"
i.e. scattered.

_Speat_, or _spait_; a flood, overflowing stream. 37, 248, 285.
(Gaelic, "_speid_"), a river-flood.

_Speed_; to "come speed" is to succeed.

_Speir_, or _speer_; ask questions at.
--"_Speer out_," search out by questions. 180.

_Spelk_; to truss, support by splinters. 107, 128. (Saxon word.)

_Spill_; spoil, mar, or injure. 22, 310, etc.
--So Ps. lxiii. 9, in Rous' version; a child spoiled by
indulgence.

_Spring_; a tune, sprightly air. 181, 182, 214.

_Spunk_; a spark. 215.

_Stalks._ In Letter 17, "to keep the stalks," is the reading
of some old editions; but in another Letter, 194, "keep
the stakes." If the former, the sense is, "to get only
the withered stalks to keep," Song ii. 14 specially; if
the latter, "get what they deposited."

_Stand upon_; require the help of. 81.

_Standing drink._ 177.--Like the stirrup-cup handed to a friend
as he stood at the door.

_Startle_; ran up and down in excitement, as cattle do in hot
weather; act extravagantly. 69, 75, 182, 258.

_Starts._ "At starts;" fitfully. 7, 293.
--"_Start to the gate._"
--See _Gate_.

_State_; the mode of putting or stating a question. 214, 245,
278, 333, 359.
--"_Stated_;" set down. 359.

_Sted_; a place, a foundation for a house, a site. 18. So used
by Gawin Douglas.
--"_Stedable_," _q.d._ able to furnish a foundation; available,
serviceable. 170, 252.

_Stent_; to fix at a certain rate, and no more. 249. In Fullerton's
"Turtle Dove:" "He stented twice on the horologue."

_Still_; always, ever. 87, 108, 133, 285. In our metre version of
the Psalms it occurs, _e.g._ Ps. ciii. 9, "Keep His anger
still."

_Stob_; a stake sharpened at the end. 240.

_Stock of cards_; a pack of. 194.

_Stoop_; to make a stoop is to bow low. 287.

_Stop-hole_; anything to fill up a hole. 239.

_Stot_; a rebound. 249.
--"_To keep stots_;" keep pace with, to rebound regularly. 236.

_Stound_; a stroke that suddenly over-powers and produces
faintness. 167.

_Stoup_; a stake, post, prop. 84, 196.

_Suit_; urge a suit, woo, solicit. 19, 26, 37, 355, etc.

_Sundry_; separate. 247.
--"_Sunder_," part from, the Verb. 264.

_Sure_; surely. 359, etc.

_Suspension_; an act in law, suspending final execution of a
sentence. 230.

_Swatter_; to move, or toss about, as a duck in the water. 178.
--R. Blair (see "Life" by Row) uses it in a poem,--

"Out of the dreary vale of tears
My soul hath _swattered_ out."

Rollock (Lect. xxxviii.): "He swatters and swims."

_Swear one's self bare_; swear that you have given up everything.
285.

_Sweer_; lazy, reluctant. 178, 230, 285.

_Tack_; stitch, hold, tie. 275.
Also, possession by lease. 284.

_Tailzie_; a Scotch law term for entail or charter of entail. 32.

_Take up house_; enter on housekeeping. 250.
--_I take myself_. 98.
--_I retract my word._

_Taken up with_; occupied with. 185.

_Taking_; that is, attractive. 305. South's sermons has it.

_Tarrow_; to be pettish at, reluctant. 23, 118.

_Tell_; count up. 85, 167, 241, 249, 265.
--"_Telling_;" something to mark down. 209.

_Testificate_; certificate, testimony to character. 149.

_That_; often for "so;" _e.g. that_ much. 41, 59, 85, 293.

_Then_; in that case. 24, 39, 220, 238, 241.
--"_Or then_;" if that be not so, otherwise. 43, 46, 72, 323.

_Thereanent_; regarding this. 110.

_Thereaway_; to or in that quarter. 133.

_Therefor_; on account of this. 34.
--See _note_.

_Thick_; a crowd or throng. 209, 225, 251.
--Adjective; very familiar with one. 94, 128.

_Thieves'-hole_; a prison. 178.

_Thin._ 223.
--_Thin-skinned_; soft. 256.

_Think long._ 16, 207, 133, 151, etc.
--See _Long_.
--It is still common to write, "I think long after you."

_Threap_; to assert vehemently, over and over. 85.

_Thring_; to push in by force. 147, 226, 282.

_Throng_; the multitude and the busy part. 206.
--_Thronging_; crowding in. 180, 206.

_Through other_; one thing blended with the other, promiscuously.
226, etc.

_Tig_; dally, toy with. 48.
--Also a civil sort of begging, when a new-married person brought
his cart to the house of friends, that they might put in
something to his store.

_Timeous_; early, seasonable, opportune. 180, 212, 275.
--So Knox uses it; and our metre version of Psalms, cxix. 148.

_Tine_; to lose. 182, 226, etc.

_To_; used for "in comparison of," in the phrase, "little to." 361.

_Tocher_; a marriage dowry. "Tocher-good." 265, 285.

_Toom_; quite empty; nothing in it. 138, 178, 188, etc.

_Topic-maxim_; a maxim for general use. 259, 260.

_Tops_; to be "on one's tops," to assault or oppose. 231.
--"To tope" is to oppose. "He has continued all his days _on tops
with_ God, and will not make peace with Him." Durham
Sermon 54, Isa. liii.

_Totch_; a push. 183.
--See _note_.

_Touches_; to "keep touches," 121, an English phrase for the exact
performance of an engagement.

_Towe_; rope made of tow, a hauser. 196.

_Train_; to draw, entice. 30.
--It is French, _trâiner_.

_Trance_; passage. Latin, _transitus_. 26.

_Tree_; for the _wood_ of a tree. 225.
--As in sermon on Rev. xix.

_Trindle_; same as _trundle_. 107.

_Truant_; pretended, like boys' pretences for play. 181.

_Tryst_; to appoint a meeting at a certain place and time. Noun
and Verb. 176, etc.

_Turnpike_; stair that winds. 300.

_Tutor_; to discipline. 282.

_Twin_; to separate. 82.
--It is _q.d._ to make into two.

_Unco_; uncommon, strange. Same originally as _uncouth_, and so
written very often.
--Noun; _Unconess_; 179.

_Undercote_, or _undercoat_; fester _under the skin_ (_coat_ is
"_cutis,_" skin). 66, 82, 151, 284.
--Calderwood in his "History" uses this word, v. 658.

_Under-tools_; lesser tools. 311.

_Under-water_; bilge-water. 82, 86, 203, 284.

_Unfriend_; less than friendly. 178.

_Unheartsome_; sad. 277.

_Unlaw_; transgress the law; also, to fine for transgressing the
law. 201.

_Unrid_, or _unred_. 133.
--It is _q.d. unred-up_; the boundaries not fixed.
--In A.S., _unrid_ is "disorderly."

_Upsun_; the sun above the horizon.

_Uptaking_; as a Noun, apprehension, 56, 275;
as an Adjective, exhilarating, or exalting, 210.

_Vaccane_, or _vacanse_; vacation, holidays. 84.

_Vively_; in a lively manner, to the life. 4.

_Voyage_; journey. 226.
--The French "voyage," from _via_.

_Wad-fee_; the sum paid in hiring, as a pledge of the person
being engaged.
--_Wad_ is a pledge.
--See Wed.

_Wadset_; to pledge in mortgage, alienate by reversion. 79, 191,
201, 206, etc.
--Noun, the money paid in hiring as a pledge of engagement. 182.

_Wager_; something hazarded. 220.
A pledge. 170.

_Wair'd_, or _wared_.
--See _Ware_.

_Wale_; to choose (Noun and Verb), select out of other articles.
39, 192, etc.

_Walkings_; weights of a clock. 199.
--Possibly the _waggings_ of the pendulum, though some say it is
the striking of the hour that "_waukens up_." It is
connected with _motions_. 292, 342.

_Wandhand_; the hand that holds the rod, or whip, as the hand that
guided the horse was the working hand. 186.

_Want_; to be destitute of. 95.

_Ward_; guard. 254.

_Ware_; to expend, use. 37, 104, 201, 228, etc.

_Warmly_; heart-warming. 227.

_Washen_; washed or whitened, with fair appearance. 167.

_Waster_, Adj.; prodigal, wasteful. 226.

_Watch-glass_; hour-glass. 276.

_Watered_; plated over. 206, 280.
--"The watering will go off and leave nothing but dross" is a
sentence in a sermon on Zech. xiii. 7.

_Wed_; a pledge or fee. Written also _wad_.
--Our "wedding" is a derivative, signifying the security or
pledge given by the parties.

_Weight_, or _wecht_; to put on a weight or burden, depress. 115,
159.
In one of his sermons he says, "Death did not weight the martyrs.
"--"_To bear weight_," 249, is to stand the weighing.

_Well_; a Noun for _weal_, welfare. 72, 202.
--"_Well is me_;" it is good for me. 120, 222, 250, 257, etc.
--"_Wellcome_;" come in an honest way. 162, 182.

_Well-wared_; well laid out. 104.
--Well deserved. 203.

_Wersh_; saltless, insipid. 182.

_While_, or _whill_; till. 12, 24, 44, etc.

_Whiles_; at times. 102, 182.

_White_; the _white_ is the mark aimed at, the bull's eye. 194.

_Whiten._ 287. Like a stick from which the bark is stript.

_Whitsunday_; term day. 21.

"_Who but he?_" a non-such. 23.
--See _note_.

_Why but?_ why object although? 295.

_Win_; reach, attain to. 21, 30.
--"_Win away_;" to escape from. 6.

_Wind in_; get your way into. 297.

_Windlestrae_ or _windlestraw_; from _Windel_, to hoist about.
Used in plaiting. A withered stalk of dog's-tail grass;
metaphorically, a mere trifle. 63, 190, 192, 212.
--In the "Life" of Pringle of Greenknow, a place is mentioned
called "The Windlestraw Law." So Durham on Job, p. 285.

_Wit_; to know. Noun; wisdom, intelligence. 184, 282.
--"_Wit's head_;" a wiseacre. 232, 235, 239, 249, 258.

_Wo_, an Adjective; sorrowful. 116, 178, 196.
--Generally written "wae" by Scotch writers.

_Wombful_; bellyful. 225.

_Won goods_; goods already got and secured. 128.

_Work on_; it causes care. 230.

_Wrack_; ruin, wreck. 284.

_Wring_; squeeze out water; as Judges vi. 30. 300.

_Writ_; a writing in law. 59, 285, 359.
--"_In write_;" by written paper. 359.

_Yoke_; yoke for work; set to, press in. 94, 119, 181, 202.
--Noun, _yoking_, a setting to, contest, onset. 117. "He yoked
to the Jews early" (sermon on Heb. xii. 1). So Durham on
Isa. liii. 8.

_Yonder_; far off in the distance. 245.
--"The yonder end."

[532] Apothecary in Edinburgh. See Livingstone's "Charact."

[533] In a sermon at Kirkcudbright on Rev. xix. 11, he introduces
the courtiers saying to Daniel, "What need ye _make all the
fields ado_ with your prayers?"

NOTE.

There are some words, such as "_Ease-rooms_" and "_Heaven-name_," that seem to be Rutherford's own coining. But these are very few. On the other hand, there is in these Letters what was a characteristic of the style of the times, viz. the use of _synonymous words_, side by side. Thus we have "niffer and exchange;" "feast and banquet;" "unco and strange;" "I dow not, I cannot;" "pledge and pawn;" "wale and choose;" and many more. So Knox speaks of "let and hindrance;" "gauge and pledge." Zachary Boyd speaks of "reekie smoke;" "kindly and natural;" "bag and baggage." In a Number of the "Athenæum," March 1873, no less than twenty instances of this sort, in "Hamlet" alone, are given from Shakespeare.