Chapter I: Do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair (2)

_Crouse_, cheerful, courageous.

_Crously_, cheerfully, courageously.

_Crowdie_, a composition of oatmeal, boiled water and butter; sometimes
made from the broth of beef, mutton, &c. &c.

_Crowdie time_, breakfast time.

_Crowlin_, crawling, a deformed creeping thing.

_Crummie's nicks_, marks on the horns of a cow.

_Crummock_, _Crummet_, a cow with crooked horns.

_Crummock driddle_, walk slowly, leaning on a staff with a crooked head.

_Crump-crumpin_, hard and brittle, spoken of bread; frozen snow yielding
to the foot.

_Crunt_, a blow on the head with a cudgel.

_Cuddle_, to clasp and caress.

_Cummock_, a short staff, with a crooked head.

_Curch_, a covering for the head, a kerchief.

_Curchie_, a curtesy, female obeisance.

_Curler_, a player at a game on the ice, practised in Scotland, called
curling.

_Curlie_, curled, whose hair falls naturally in ringlets.

_Curling_, a well-known game on the ice.

_Curmurring_, murmuring, a slight rumbling noise.

_Curpin_, the crupper, the rump.

_Curple_, the rear.

_Cushat_, the dove, or wood-pigeon.

_Cutty_, short, a spoon broken in the middle.

_Cutty Stool_, or, _Creepie Chair_, the seat of shame, stool of repentance.

D.

_Daddie_, a father.

_Daffin_, merriment, foolishness.

_Daft_, merry, giddy, foolish; _Daft-buckie_, mad fish.

_Daimen_, rare, now and then; _Daimen icker_, an ear of corn occasionally.

_Dainty_, pleasant, good-humored, agreeable, rare.

_Dandered_, wandered.

_Darklins_, darkling, without light.

_Daud_, to thrash, to abuse; _Daudin-showers_, rain urged by wind.

_Daur_, to dare; _Daurt_, dared.

_Daurg_, or _Daurk_, a day's labour.

_Daur_, _daurna_, dare, dare not.

_Davoc_, diminutive of Davie, as Davie is of David.

_Dawd_, a large piece.

_Dawin_, dawning of the day.

_Dawtit_, _dawtet_, fondled, caressed.

_Dearies_, diminutive of dears, sweethearts.

_Dearthfu'_, dear, expensive.

_Deave_, to deafen.

_Deil-ma-care_, no matter for all that.

_Deleerit_, delirious.

_Descrive_, to describe, to perceive.

_Deuks_, ducks.

_Dight_, to wipe, to clean corn from chaff.

_Ding_, to worst, to push, to surpass, to excel.

_Dink_, neat, lady-like.

_Dinna_, do not.

_Dirl_, a slight tremulous stroke or pain, a tremulous motion.

_Distain_, stain.

_Dizzen_, a dozen.

_Dochter_, daughter.

_Doited_, stupefied, silly from age.

_Dolt_, stupefied, crazed; also a fool.

_Donsie_, unlucky, affectedly neat and trim, pettish.

_Doodle_, to dandle.

_Dool_, sorrow, to lament, to mourn.

_Doos_, doves, pigeons.

_Dorty_, saucy, nice.

_Douse_, or _douce_, sober, wise, prudent.

_Doucely_, soberly, prudently.

_Dought_, was or were able.

_Doup_, backside.

_Doup-skelper_, one that strikes the tail.

_Dour and din_, sullen and sallow

_Douser_, more prudent.

_Dow_, am or are able, can.

_Dowff_, pithless, wanting force.

_Dowie_, worn with grief, fatigue, &c., half asleep.

_Downa_, am or are not able, cannot.

_Doylt_, wearied, exhausted.

_Dozen_, stupified, the effects of age, to dozen, to benumb.

_Drab_, a young female beggar; to spot, to stain.

_Drap_, a drop, to drop.

_Drapping_, dropping.

_Draunting_, drawling, speaking with a sectarian tone.

_Dreep_, to ooze, to drop.

_Dreigh_, tedious, long about it, lingering.

_Dribble_, drizzling, trickling.

_Driddle_, the motion of one who tries to dance but moves the middle only.

_Drift_, a drove, a flight of fowls, snow moved by the wind.

_Droddum_, the breech.

_Drone_, part of a bagpipe, the chanter.

_Droop rumpl't_, that droops at the crupper.

_Droukit_, wet.

_Drouth_, thirst, drought.

_Drucken_, drunken.

_Drumly_, muddy.

_Drummock_ or _Drammock_, meal and water mixed, raw.

_Drunt_, pet, sour humour.

_Dub_, a small pond, a hollow filled with rain water.

_Duds_, rags, clothes.

_Duddie_, ragged.

_Dung-dang_, worsted, pushed, stricken.

_Dunted_, throbbed, beaten.

_Dush-dunsh_, to push, or butt as a ram.

_Dusht_, overcome with superstitious fear, to drop down suddenly.

_Dyvor_, bankrupt, or about to become one.

E.

_E'e_, the eye.

_Een_, the eyes, the evening.

_Eebree_, the eyebrow.

_Eenin'_, the evening.

_Eerie_, frighted, haunted, dreading spirits.

_Eild_, old age.

_Elbuck_, the elbow.

_Eldritch_, ghastly, frightful, elvish.

_En'_, end.

_Enbrugh_, Edinburgh.

_Eneugh_, and _aneuch_, enough.

_Especial_, especially.

_Ether-stone_, stone formed by adders, an adder bead.

_Ettle_, to try, attempt, aim.

_Eydent_, diligent.

F.

_Fa'_, fall, lot, to fall, fate.

_Fa' that_, to enjoy, to try, to inherit.

_Faddom't_, fathomed, measured with the extended arms.

_Faes_, foes.

_Faem_, foam of the sea.

_Faiket_, forgiven or excused, abated, a demand.

_Fainness_, gladness, overcome with joy.

_Fairin'_, fairing, a present brought from a fair.

_Fallow_, fellow.

_Fand_, did find.

_Farl_, a cake of bread; third part of a cake.

_Fash_, trouble, care, to trouble, to care for.

_Fasheous_, troublesome.

_Fasht_, troubled.

_Fasten e'en_, Fasten's even.

_Faught_, fight.

_Faugh_, a single furrow, out of lea, fallow.

_Fauld_, and _Fald_, a fold for sheep, to fold.

_Faut_, fault.

_Fawsont_, decent, seemly.

_Feal_, loyal, steadfast.

_Fearfu'_, fearful, frightful.

_Fear't_, affrighted.

_Feat_, neat, spruce, clever.

_Fecht_, to fight.

_Fechtin'_, fighting.

_Feck_ and _fek_, number, quantity.

_Fecket_, an under-waistcoat.

_Feckfu'_, large, brawny, stout.

_Feckless_, puny, weak, silly.

_Feckly_, mostly.

_Feg_, a fig.

_Fegs_, faith, an exclamation.

_Feide_, feud, enmity.

_Fell_, keen, biting; the flesh immediately under the skin; level moor.

_Felly_, relentless.

_Fend_, _Fen_, to make a shift, contrive to live.

_Ferlie_ or _ferley_, to wonder, a wonder, a term of contempt.

_Fetch_, to pull by fits.

_Fetch't_, pull'd intermittently.

_Fey_, strange; one marked for death, predestined.

_Fidge_, to fidget, fidgeting.

_Fidgin-fain_, tickled with pleasure.

_Fient_, fiend, a petty oath.

_Fien ma care_, the devil may care.

_Fier_, sound, healthy; a brother, a friend.

_Fierrie_, bustle, activity.

_Fissle_, to make a rustling noise, to fidget, bustle, fuss.

_Fit_, foot.

_Fittie-lan_, the nearer horse of the hindmost pair in the plough.

_Fizz_, to make a hissing noise, fuss, disturbance.

_Flaffen_, the motion of rags in the wind; of wings.

_Flainen_, flannel.

_Flandrekins_, foreign generals, soldiers of Flanders.

_Flang_, threw with violence.

_Fleech_, to supplicate in a flattering manner.

_Fleechin_, supplicating.

_Fleesh_, a fleece.

_Fleg_, a kick, a random blow, a fight.

_Flether_, to decoy by fair words.

_Flethrin_, _flethers_, flattering--smooth wheedling words.

_Fley_, to scare, to frighten.

_Flichter_, _flichtering_, to flutter as young nestlings do when their
dam approaches.

_Flinders_, shreds, broken pieces.

_Flingin-tree_, a piece of timber hung by way of partition between
two horses in a stable; a flail.

_Flisk_, _flisky_, to fret at the yoke.

_Flisket_, fretted.

_Flitter_, to vibrate like the wings of small birds.

_Flittering_, fluttering, vibrating, moving tremulously from place to
place.

_Flunkie_, a servant in livery.

_Flyte_, _flyting_, scold: flyting, scolding.

_Foor_, hastened.

_Foord_, a ford.

_Forbears_, forefathers.

_Forbye_, besides.

_Forfairn_, distressed, worn out, jaded, forlorn, destitute.

_Forgather_, to meet, to encounter with.

_Forgie_, to forgive.

_Forinawed_, worn out.

_Forjesket_, jaded with fatigue.

_Fou'_, full, drunk.

_Foughten_, _forfoughten_, troubled, fatigued.

_Foul-thief_, the devil, the arch-fiend.

_Fouth_, plenty, enough, or more than enough.

_Fow_, a measure, a bushel: also a pitchfork.

_Frae_, from.

_Freath_, froth, the frothing of ale in the tankard.

_Frien'_, friend.

_Frosty-calker_, the heels and front of a horse-shoe, turned sharply up
for riding on an icy road.

_Fu'_, full.

_Fud_, the scut or tail of the hare, coney, &c.

_Fuff_, to blow intermittently.

_Fu-hant_, full-handed; said of one well to live in the world.

_Funnie_, full of merriment.

_Fur-ahin_, the hindmost horse on the right hand when ploughing.

_Furder_, further, succeed.

_Furm_, a form, a bench.

_Fusionless_, spiritless, without sap or soul.

_Fyke_, trifling cares, to be in a fuss about trifles.

_Fyte_, to soil, to dirty.

_Fylt_, soiled, dirtied.

G.

_Gab_, the mouth, to speak boldly or pertly.

_Gaberlunzie_, wallet-man, or tinker.

_Gae_, to go; _gaed_, went; _gane_ or _gaen_, gone; _gaun_, going.

_Gaet_ or _gate_, way, manner, road.

_Gairs_, parts of a lady's gown.

_Gang_, to go, to walk.

_Gangrel_, a wandering person.

_Gar_, to make, to force to; _gar't_, forced to.

_Garten_, a garter.

_Gash_, wise, sagacious, talkative, to converse.

_Gatty_, failing in body.

_Gaucy_, jolly, large, plump.

_Gaud_ and _gad_, a rod or goad.

_Gaudsman_, one who drives the horses at the plough.

_Gaun_, going.

_Gaunted_, yawned, longed.

_Gawkie_, a thoughtless person, and something weak.

_Gaylies_, _gylie_, pretty well.

_Gear_, riches, goods of any kind.

_Geck_, to toss the head in wantonness or scorn.

_Ged_, a pike.

_Gentles_, great folks.

_Genty_, elegant.

_Geordie_, George, a guinea, called Geordie from the head of King George.

_Get_ and _geat_, a child, a young one.

_Ghaist_, _ghaistis_, a ghost.

_Gie_, to give; _gied_, gave; _gien_, given.

_Giftie_, diminutive of gift.

_Giglets_, laughing maidens.

_Gillie_, _gillock_, diminutive of gill.

_Gilpey_, a half-grown, half-informed boy or girl, a romping lad, a hoyden.

_Gimmer_, an ewe two years old, a contemptuous term for a woman.

_Gin_, if, against.

_Gipsey_, a young girl.

_Girdle_, a round iron plate on which oat-cake is fired.

_Girn_, to grin, to twist the features in rage, agony, &c.; grinning.

_Gizz_, a periwig, the face.

_Glaikit_, inattentive, foolish.

_Glaive_, a sword.

_Glaizie_, glittering, smooth, like glass.

_Glaumed_, grasped, snatched at eagerly.

_Girran_, a poutherie girran, a little vigorous animal; a horse rather
old, but yet active when heated.

_Gled_, a hawk.

_Gleg_, sharp, ready.

_Gley_, a squint, to squint; _a-gley_, off at the side, wrong.

_Gleyde_, an old horse.

_Glib-gabbit_, that speaks smoothly and readily.

_Glieb o' lan'_, a portion of ground. The ground belonging to a manse is
called "the glieb," or portion.

_Glint_, _glintin'_, to peep.

_Glinted by_, went brightly past.

_Gloamin_, the twilight.

_Gloamin-shot_, twilight musing; a shot in the twilight.

_Glowr_, to stare, to look; a stare, a look.

_Glowran_, amazed, looking suspiciously, gazing.

_Glum_, displeased.

_Gor-cocks_, the red-game, red-cock, or moor-cock.

_Gowan_, the flower of the daisy, dandelion, hawkweed, &c.

_Gowany_, covered with daisies.

_Goavan_, walking as if blind, or without an aim.

_Gowd_, gold.

_Gowl_, to howl.

_Gowff_, a fool; the game of golf, to strike, as the bat does the ball
at golf.

_Gowk_, term of contempt, the cuckoo.

_Grane_ or _grain_, a groan, to groan; _graining_, groaning.

_Graip_, a pronged instrument for cleaning cowhouses.

_Graith_, accoutrements, furniture, dress.

_Grannie_, grandmother.

_Grape_, to grope; _grapet_, groped.

_Great_, _grit_, intimate, familiar.

_Gree_, to agree; _to bear the gree_, to be decidedly victor; _gree't_,
agreed.

_Green-graff_, green grave,

_Gruesome_, loathsomely, grim.

_Greet_, to shed tears, to weep; _greetin'_, weeping.

_Grey-neck-quill_, a quill unfit for a pen.

_Griens_, longs, desires.

_Grieves_, stewards.

_Grippit_, seized.

_Groanin-Maut_, drink for the cummers at a lying-in.

_Groat_, to get the whistle of one's groat; to play a losing game, to
feel the consequences of one's folly.

_Groset_, a gooseberry.

_Grumph_, a grunt, to grunt.

_Grumphie_, _Grumphin_, a sow; the snorting of an angry pig.

_Grun'_, ground.

_Grunstone_, a grindstone.

_Gruntle_, the phiz, the snout, a grunting noise.

_Grunzie_, a mouth which pokes out like that of a pig.

_Grushie_, thick, of thriving growth.

_Gude_, _guid_, _guids_, the Supreme Being, good, goods.

_Gude auld-has-been_, was once excellent.

_Guid-mornin'_, good-morrow.

_Guid-e'en_, good evening.

_Guidfather_ and _guidmother_, father-in-law, and mother-in-law.

_Guidman_ and _guidwife_, the master and mistress of the house;
_young guidman_, a man newly married.

_Gully_ or _Gullie_, a large knife.

_Gulravage_, joyous mischief.

_Gumlie_, muddy.

_Gumption_, discernment, knowledge, talent.

_Gusty_, _gustfu'_, tasteful.

_Gut-scraper_, a fiddler.

_Gutcher_, grandsire.

H.

_Ha'_, hall.

_Ha' Bible_, the great Bible that lies in the hall.

_Haddin'_, house, home, dwelling-place, a possession.

_Hae_, to have, to accept.

_Haen_, had, (the participle of hae); haven.

_Haet_, _fient haet_, a petty oath of negation; nothing.

_Haffet_, the temple, the side of the head.

_Hafflins_, nearly half, partly, not fully grown.

_Hag_, a gulf in mosses and moors, moss-ground.

_Haggis_, a kind of pudding, boiled in the stomach of a cow, or sheep.

_Hain_, to spare, to save, to lay out at interest.

_Hain'd_, spared; _hain'd gear_, hoarded money.

_Hairst_, harvest

_Haith_, petty oath.

_Haivers_, nonsense, speaking without thought.

_Hal'_, or _hald_, an abiding place.

_Hale_, or _haill_, whole, tight, healthy.

_Hallan_, a particular partition-wall in a cottage, or more properly a
seat of turf at the outside.

_Hallowmass_, Hallow-eve, 31st October.

_Haly_, holy; "haly-pool," holy well with healing properties.

_Hame_, home.

_Hammered_, the noise of feet like the din of hammers.

_Han's breed_, hand's breadth.

_Hanks_, thread as it comes from the measuring reel, quantities, &c.

_Hansel-throne_, throne when first occupied by a king.

_Hap_, an outer garment, mantle, plaid, &c.; to wrap, to cover, to hap.

_Harigals_, heart, liver, and lights of an animal.

_Hap-shackled_, when a fore and hind foot of a ram are fastened together
to prevent leaping he is said to be hap-shackled. A wife
is called "the kirk's hap-shackle."

_Happer_, a hopper, the hopper of a mill.

_Happing_, hopping.

_Hap-step-an'-loup_, hop, step, and leap.

_Harkit_, hearkened.

_Harn_, very coarse linen.

_Hash_, a fellow who knows not how to act with propriety.

_Hastit_, hastened.

_Haud_, to hold.

_Haughs_, low-lying, rich land, valleys.

_Haurl_, to drag, to pull violently.

_Haurlin_, tearing off, pulling roughly.

_Haver-meal_, oatmeal.

_Haveril_, a half-witted person, half-witted, one who habitually talks
in a foolish or incoherent manner.

_Havins_, good manners, decorum, good sense.

_Hawkie_, a cow, properly one with a white face.

_Heapit_, heaped.

_Healsome_ healthful, wholesome.

_Hearse_, hoarse.

_Heather_, heath.

_Hech_, oh strange! an exclamation during heavy work.

_Hecht_, promised, to foretell something that is to be got or given,
foretold, the thing foretold, offered.

_Heckle_, a board in which are fixed a number of sharp steel prongs
upright for dressing hemp, flax, &c.

_Hee balou_, words used to soothe a child.

_Heels-owre-gowdie_, topsy-turvy, turned the bottom upwards.

_Heeze_, to elevate, to rise, to lift.

_Hellim_, the rudder or helm.

_Herd_, to tend flocks, one who tends flocks.

_Herrin'_, a herring.

_Herry_, to plunder; most properly to plunder birds' nests.

_Herryment_, plundering, devastation.

_Hersel-hirsel_, a flock of sheep, also a herd of cattle of any sort.

_Het_, hot, heated.

_Heugh_, a crag, a ravine; _coal-heugh_, a coal-pit, _lowin heugh_,
a blazing pit.

_Hilch_, _hilchin'_, to halt, halting.

_Hiney_, honey.

_Hing_, to hang.

_Hirple_, to walk crazily, to walk lamely, to creep.

_Histie_, dry, chapt, barren.

_Hitcht_, a loop, made a knot.

_Hizzie_, huzzy, a young girl.

_Hoddin_, the motion of a husbandman riding on a cart-horse, humble.

_Hoddin-gray_, woollen cloth of a coarse quality, made by mingling one
black fleece with a dozen white ones.

_Hoggie_, a two-year-old sheep.

_Hog-score_, a distance line in curling drawn across the rink. When a
stone fails to cross it, a cry is raised of "A hog, a hog!"
and it is removed.

_Hog-shouther_, a kind of horse-play by justling with the shoulder; to
justle.

_Hoodie-craw_, a blood crow, corbie.

_Hool_, outer skin or case, a nutshell, a pea-husk.

_Hoolie_, slowly, leisurely.

_Hoord_, a hoard, to hoard.

_Hoordit_, hoarded.

_Horn_, a spoon made of horn.

_Hornie_, one of the many names of the devil.

_Host_, or _hoast_, to cough.

_Hostin_, coughing.

_Hotch'd_, turned topsy-turvy, blended, ruined, moved.

_Houghmagandie_, loose behaviour.

_Howlet_, an owl.

_Housie_, diminutive of house.

_Hove, hoved_, to heave, to swell.

_Howdie_, a midwife.

_Howe_, hollow, a hollow or dell.

_Howebackit_, sunk in the back, spoken of a horse.

_Howff_, a house of resort.

_Howk_, to dig.

_Howkit_, digged.

_Howkin'_, digging deep.

_Hoy, hoy't_, to urge, urged.

_Hoyse_, a pull upwards. "Hoyse a creel," to raise a basket; hence
"hoisting creels."

_Hoyte_, to amble crazily.

_Hughoc_, diminutive of Hughie, as Hughie is of Hugh.

_Hums and hankers_, mumbles and seeks to do what he cannot perform.

_Hunkers_, kneeling and falling back on the hams.

_Hurcheon_, a hedgehog.

_Hurdies_, the loins, the crupper.

_Hushion_, a cushion, also a stocking wanting the foot.

_Huchyalled_, to move with a hilch.

I.

_Icker_, an ear of corn.

_Ieroe_, a great grandchild.

_Ilk_, or _ilka_, each, every.

_Ill-deedie_, mischievous.

_Ill-willie_, ill-natured, malicious, niggardly.

_Ingine_, genius, ingenuity.

_Ingle_, fire, fire-place.

_Ingle-low_, light from the fire, flame from the hearth.

_I rede ye_, I advise ye, I warn ye.

_I'se_, I shall or will.

_Ither_, other, one another.

J.

_Jad_, jade; also a familiar term among country folks for a giddy young
girl.

_Jauk_, to dally, to trifle.

_Jaukin'_, trifling, dallying.

_Jauner_, talking, and not always to the purpose.

_Jaup_, a jerk of water; to jerk, as agitated water.

_Jaw_, coarse raillery, to pour out, to shut, to jerk as water.

_Jillet_, a jilt, a giddy girl.

_Jimp_, to jump, slender in the waist, handsome.

_Jink_, to dodge, to turn a corner; a sudden turning, a corner.

_Jink an' diddle_, moving to music, motion of a fiddler's elbow.
Starting here and there with a tremulous movement.

_Jinker_, that turns quickly, a gay sprightly girl.

_Jinkin'_, dodging, the quick motion of the bow on the fiddle.

_Jirt_, a jerk, the emission of water, to squirt.

_Jocteleg_, a kind of knife.

_Jouk_, to stoop, to bow the head, to conceal.

_Jow_, to _jow_, a verb, which includes both the swinging motion and
pealing sound of a large bell; also the undulation of
water.

_Jundie_, to justle, a push with the elbow.

K.

_Kae_, a daw.

_Kail_, colewort, a kind of broth.

_Kailrunt_, the stem of colewort.

_Kain_, fowls, &c., paid as rent by a farmer.

_Kebars_, rafters.

_Kebbuck_, a cheese.

_Keckle_, joyous cry; to cackle as a hen.

_Keek_, a keek, to peep.

_Kelpies_, a sort of mischievous water-spirit, said to haunt fords and
ferries at night, especially in storms.

_Ken_, to know; _ken'd_ or _ken't_, knew.

_Kennin_, a small matter.

_Ket-Ketty_, matted, a fleece of wool.

_Kiaught_, carking, anxiety, to be in a flutter.

_Kilt_, to truss up the clothes.

_Kimmer_, a young girl, a gossip.

_Kin'_, kindred.

_Kin'_, kind.

_King's-hood_, a certain part of the entrails of an ox.

_Kintra_, _kintrie_, country.

_Kirn_, the harvest supper, a churn.

_Kirsen_, to christen, to baptize.

_Kist_, a shop-counter.

_Kitchen_, anything that eats with bread, to serve for soup, gravy.

_Kittle_, to tickle, ticklish.

_Kittling_, a young cat. The ace of diamonds is called among rustics
the kittlin's e'e.

_Knaggie_, like knags, or points of rocks.

_Knappin-hammer_, a hammer for breaking stones; _knap_, to strike or break.

_Knurlin_, crooked but strong, knotty.

_Knowe_, a small, round hillock, a knoll.

_Kuittle_, to cuddle; _kuitlin_, cuddling, fondling.

_Kye_, cows.

_Kyle_, a district in Ayrshire.

_Kyte_, the belly.

_Kythe_, to discover, to show one's self.

L.

_Labour_, thrash.

_Laddie_, diminutive of lad.

_Laggen_, the angle between the side and the bottom of a wooden dish.

_Laigh_, low.

_Lairing, lairie_, wading, and sinking in snow, mud &c., miry.

_Laith_, loath, impure.

_Laithfu_', bashful, sheepish, abstemious.

_Lallans_, Scottish dialect, Lowlands.

_Lambie_, diminutive of lamb.

_Lammas moon_, harvest-moon.

_Lampit_, kind of shell-fish, a limpet.

_Lan_', land, estate.

_Lan'-afore_, foremost horse in the plough.

_Lan'-ahin_, hindmost horse in the plough.

_Lane_, lone; _my lane, thy tune, &c._, myself alone.

_Lanely_, lonely.

_Lang_, long; to _think lang_, to long, to weary.

_Lap_, did leap.

_Late and air_, late and early.

_Lave_, the rest, the remainder, the others.

_Laverock_, the lark.

_Lawlan'_, lowland.

_Lay my dead_, attribute my death.

_Leal_, loyal, true, faithful.

_Lear_, learning, lore.

_Lee-lang_, live-long.

_Leesome luve_, happy, gladsome love.

_Leeze me_, a phrase of congratulatory endearment; I am happy in thee or
proud of thee.

_Leister_, a three-pronged and barbed dart for striking fish.

_Leugh_, did laugh.

_Leuk_, a look, to look.

_Libbet_, castrated.

_Lick, licket_, beat, thrashen.

_Lift_, sky, firmament.

_Lightly_, sneeringly, to sneer at, to undervalue.

_Lilt_, a ballad, a tune, to sing.

_Limmer_, a kept mistress, a strumpet.

_Limp't_, limped, hobbled.

_Link_, to trip along; _linkin_, tripping along.

_Linn_, a waterfall, a cascade.

_Lint_, flax; _lint i' the bell_, flax in flower.

_Lint-white_, a linnet, flaxen.

_Loan_, the place of milking.

_Loaning_, lane.

_Loof_, the palm of the hand.

_Loot_, did let.

_Looves_, the plural of loof.

_Losh man_! rustic exclamation modified from Lord man.

_Loun_, a follow, a ragamuffin, a woman of easy virtue.

_Loup_, leap, startled with pain.

_Louper-like_, lan-louper, a stranger of a suspected character.

_Lowe_, a flame.

_Lowin_', flaming; _lowin-drouth_, burning desire for drink.

_Lowrie_, abbreviation of Lawrence.

_Lowse_, to loose.

_Lowsed_, unbound, loosed.

_Lug_, the ear.

_Lug of the law_, at the judgment-seat.

_Lugget_, having a handle.

_Luggie_, a small wooden dish with a handle.

_Lum_, the chimney; _lum-head_, chimney-top.

_Lunch_, a large piece of cheese, flesh, &c.

_Lunt_, a column of smoke, to smoke, to walk quickly.

_Lyart_, of a mixed colour, gray.

M.

_Mae_, and _mair_, more.

_Maggot's-meat_, food for the worms.

_Mahoun_, Satan.

_Mailen_, a farm.

_Maist_, most, almost.

_Maistly_, mostly, for the greater part.

_Mak_', to make; _makin_', making.

_Mally_, Molly, Mary.

_Mang_, among.

_Manse_, the house of the parish minister is called "the Manse."

_Manteele_, a mantle.

_Mark_, marks. This and several other nouns which in English require
an _s_ to form the plural, are in Scotch, like the words sheep,
deer, the same in both numbers.

_Mark, merk_, a Scottish coin, value thirteen shillings and four-pence.

_Marled_, party-coloured.

_Mar's year_, the year 1715. Called Mar's year from the rebellion of
Erskine, Earl of Mar.

_Martial chuck,_ the soldier's camp-comrade, female companion.

_Mashlum_, mixed corn.

_Mask_, to mash, as malt, &c., to infuse.

_Maskin-pot_, teapot.

_Maukin_, a hare.

_Maun, mauna_, must, must not.

_Maut_, malt.

_Mavis_, the thrush.

_Maw_, to mow.

_Mawin_, mowing; _maun_, mowed; _maw'd_, mowed.

_Mawn_, a small basket, without a handle.

_Meere_, a mare.

_Melancholious_, mournful.

_Melder_, a load of corn, &c., sent to the mill to be ground.

_Mell_, to be intimate, to meddle, also a mallet for pounding barley in
a stone trough.

_Melvie_, to soil with meal.

_Men_', to mend.

_Mense_, good manners, decorum.

_Menseless_, ill-bred, impudent.

_Merle_, the blackbird.

_Messin_, a small dog.

_Middin_, a dunghill.

_Middin-creels_, dung-baskets, panniers in which horses carry manure.

_Midden-hole_, a gutter at the bottom of a dunghill.

_Milkin-shiel_ a place where cows or ewes are brought to be milked.

_Mim_, prim, affectedly meek.

_Mim-mou'd_, gentle-mouthed.

_Min_', to remember.

_Minawae_, minuet.

_Mind't_, mind it, resolved, intending, remembered.

_Minnie_, mother, dam.

_Mirk_, dark.

_Misca_', to abuse, to call names; _misca'd_, abused.

_Mischanter_, accident.

_Misleard_, mischievous, unmannerly.

_Misteuk_, mistook.

_Mither,_ mother.

_Mixtie-maxtie_, confusedly mixed, mish-mash.

_Moistify_, _moistified_, to moisten, to soak; moistened, soaked.

_Mons-Meg,_ a large piece of ordnance, to be seen at the Castle of
Edinburgh, composed of iron bars welded together and then
hooped.

_Mools_, earth.

_Mony_, or _monie_, many.

_Moop,_ to nibble as a sheep.

_Moorlan_, of or belonging to moors.

_Morn_, the next day, to-morrow.

_Mou_, the mouth.

_Moudiwort_, a mole.

_Mousie_, diminutive of mouse.

_Muckle_, or _mickle_, great, big, much.

_Muses-stank_, muses-rill, a stank, slow-flowing water.

_Musie_, diminutive of muse.

_Muslin-kail_, broth, composed simply of water, shelled barley, and
greens; thin poor broth.

_Mutchkin_, an English pint.

_Mysel_, myself.

N.

_Na_', no, not, nor.

_Nae_, or _na_, no, not any.

_Naething_, or _naithing_, nothing.

_Naig_, a horse, a nag.

_Nane_, none.

_Nappy_, ale, to be tipsy.

_Negleckit_, neglected.

_Neebor_, a neighbour.

_Neuk_, nook.

_Neist_, next.

_Nieve, neif_, the fist

_Nievefu'_, handful.

_Niffer_, an exchange, to barter.

_Niger_, a negro.

_Nine-tailed cat_, a hangman's whip.

_Nit_, a nut.

_Norland_, of or belonging to the north.

_Notic't_, noticed.

_Nowte_, black cattle.

O.

_O'_, of.

_O'ergang_, overbearingness, to treat with indignity, literally to tread.

_O'erlay_, an upper cravat.

_Ony_, or _onie_, any.

_Or_, is often used for ere, before.

_Orra-duddies_, superfluous rags, old clothes.

_O't_, of it.

_Ourie_, drooping, shivering.

_Oursel, oursels_, ourselves.

_Outlers_, outliers; cattle unhoused.

_Ower, owre_, over.

_Owre-hip_, striking with a forehammer by bringing it with a swing over
the hip.

_Owsen_, oxen.

_Oxtered_, carried or supported under the arm.

P.

_Pack_, intimate, familiar: twelve stone of wool.

_Paidle, paidlen_, to walk with difficulty, as if in water.

_Painch_, paunch.

_Paitrick_, partridge.

_Pang_, to cram.

_Parle_, courtship.

_Parishen_, parish.

_Parritch_, oatmeal pudding, a well-known Scotch drink.

_Pat_, did put, a pot.

_Pattle_, or _pettle_, a small spades to clean the plough.

_Paughty_, proud, haughty.

_Pauky_, cunning, sly.

_Pay't_, paid, beat.

_Peat-reek_, the smoke of burning turf, a bitter exhalation, whisky.

_Pech_, to fetch the breath shortly, as in an asthma.

_Pechan_, the crop, the stomach.

_Pechin_, respiring with difficulty.

_Pennie_, riches.

_Pet_, a domesticated sheep, &c., a favourite.

_Pettle_, to cherish.

_Philabeg_, the kilt.

_Phraise_, fair speeches, flattery, to flatter.

_Phraisin_, flattering.

_Pibroch_, a martial air.

_Pickle_, a small quantity, one grain of corn.

_Pigmy-scraper_, little fiddler; a term of contempt for a bad player.

_Pint-stomp_, a two-quart measure.

_Pine_, pain, uneasiness.

_Pingle_, a small pan for warming children's sops.

_Plack_, an old Scotch coin, the third part of an English penny.

_Plackless_, pennyless, without money.

_Plaidie_, diminutive of plaid.

_Platie_, diminutive of plate.

_Plew_, or _pleugh_, a plough.

_Pliskie_, a trick.

_Plumrose_, primrose.

_Pock_, a meal-bag.

_Poind_, to seize on cattle, or take the goods as the laws of Scotland
allow, for rent, &c.

_Poorteth_, poverty.

_Posie_, a nosegay, a garland.

_Pou, pou'd_, to pull, pulled.

_Pouk_, to pluck.

_Poussie_, a hare or cat.

_Pouse_, to pluck with the hand.

_Pout_, a polt, a chick.

_Pou't_, did pull.

_Poutherey_, fiery, active.

_Pouthery_, like powder.

_Pow_, the head, the skull.

_Pownie_, a little horse, a pony.

_Powther_, or _pouther_, gunpowder.

_Preclair_, supereminent.

_Preen_, a pin.

_Prent_, printing, print.

_Prie_, to taste; _prie'd_, tasted.

_Prief_, proof.

_Prig_, to cheapen, to dispute; _priggin_, cheapening.

_Primsie_, demure, precise.

_Propone_, to lay down, to propose.

_Pund, pund o' tow_, pound, pound weight of the refuse of flax.

_Pyet_, a magpie.

_Pyle, a pyle, o' caff_, a single grain of chaff.

_Pystle_, epistle.

Q.

_Quat_, quit

_Quak_, the cry of a duck.

_Quech_, a drinking-cup made of wood with two handles.

_Quey_, a cow from one to two years old, a heifer.

_Quines_, queans.

_Quakin_, quaking.

R.

_Ragweed_, herb-ragwort.

_Raible_, to rattle, nonsense.

_Rair_, to roar.

_Raize_, to madden, to inflame.

_Ramfeezled_, fatigued, overpowered.

_Rampin'_, raging.

_Ramstam_, thoughtless, forward.

_Randie_, a scolding sturdy beggar, a shrew.

_Rantin_', joyous.

_Raploch_, properly a coarse cloth, but used for coarse.

_Rarely_, excellently, very well.

_Rash_, a rush; _rash-buss_, a bush of rushes.

_Ratton_, a rat.

_Raucle_, rash, stout, fearless, reckless.

_Raught_, reached.

_Raw_, a row.

_Rax_, to stretch.

_Ream_, cream, to cream.

_Reamin'_, brimful, frothing.

_Reave_, take by force.

_Rebute_, to repulse, rebuke.

_Reck_, to heed.

_Rede_, counsel, to counsel, to discourse.

_Red-peats_, burning turfs.

_Red-wat-shod_, walking in blood over the shoe-tops.

_Red-wud_, stark mad.

_Ree_, half drunk, fuddled; _a ree yaud_, a wild horse.

_Reek_, smoke.

_Reekin'_, smoking.

_Reekit_, smoked, smoky.

_Reestit_, stood restive; stunted, withered.

_Remead_, remedy.

_Requite_, requited.

_Restricked_, restricted.

_Rew_, to smile, look affectionately, tenderly.

_Rickles_, shocks of corn, stooks.

_Riddle_, instrument for purifying corn.

_Rief-randies_, men who take the property of others, accompanied by
violence and rude words.

_Rig_, a ridge.

_Rin_, to run, to melt; _rinnin'_, running.

_Rink_, the course of the stones, a term in curling on ice.

_Rip_, a handful of unthreshed corn.

_Ripples_, pains in the back and loins, sounds which usher in death.

_Ripplin-kame_, instrument for dressing flax.

_Riskit_, a noise like the tearing of roots.

_Rockin'_, a denomination for a friendly visit. In former times young
women met with their distaffs during the winter evenings, to
sing, and spin, and be merry; these were called "rockings."

_Roke_, distaff.

_Rood_, stands likewise for the plural, roods.

_Roon_, a shred, the selvage of woollen cloth.

_Roose_, to praise, to commend.

_Roun'_, round, in the circle of neighbourhood.

_Roupet_, hoarse, as with a cold.

_Row_, to roll, to rap, to roll as water.

_Row't_, rolled, wrapped.

_Rowte_, to low, to bellow.

_Rowth_, plenty.

_Rowtin'_, lowing.

_Rozet_, rosin.

_Rumble-gumption_, rough commonsense.

_Run-deils_, downright devils.

_Rung_, a cudgel.

_Runt_, the stem of colewort or cabbage.

_Runkled_, wrinkled.

_Ruth_, a woman's name, the book so called, sorrow.

_Ryke_, reach.

S.

_Sae_, so.

_Saft_, soft.

_Sair_, to serve, a sore; _sairie_, sorrowful.

_Sairly_, sorely.

_Sair't_, served.

_Sark_, a shirt.

_Sarkit_, provided in shirts.

_Saugh_, willow.

_Saugh-woodies_, withies, made of willows, now supplanted by ropes
and chains.

_Saul_, soul.

_Saumont_, salmon.

_Saunt, sauntet_, saint; to varnish.

_Saut_, salt.

_Saw_, to sow.

_Sawin'_, sowing.

_Sax_, six.

_Scaud_, to scald.

_Scauld_, to scold.

_Scaur_, apt to be scared; a precipitous bank of earth which the stream
has washed red.

_Scawl_, scold.

_Scone_, a kind of bread.

_Sconner_, a loathing, to loath.

_Scraich_ and _Scriegh_, to scream, as a hen or partridge.

_Screed_, to tear, a rent; _screeding_, tearing.

_Scrieve, scrieven,_ to glide softly, gleesomely along.

_Scrimp_, to scant.

_Scrimpet_, scant, scanty.

_Scroggie_, covered with underwood, bushy.

_Sculdudrey_, fornication.

_Seizin'_, seizing.

_Sel_, self; _a body's sel'_, one's self alone.

_Sell't_, did sell.

_Sen'_, to send.

_Servan'_, servant.

_Settlin'_, settling; _to get a settlin'_, to be frightened into quietness.

_Sets, sets off_, goes away.

_Shachlet-feet_, ill-shaped.

_Shair'd_, a shred, a shard.

_Shangan_, a stick cleft at one end for pulling the tail of a dog, &c.,
by way of mischief, or to frighten him away.

_Shank-it_, walk it; _shanks_, legs.

_Shaul_, shallow.

_Shaver_, a humorous wag, a barber.

_Shavie_, to do an ill turn.

_Shaw_, to show; a small wood in a hollow place.

_Sheep-shank, to think one's self nae sheep-shank_, to be conceited.

_Sherra-muir_, Sheriff-Muir, the famous battle of, 1715.

_Sheugh_, a ditch, a trench, a sluice.

_Shiel, shealing_, a shepherd's cottage.

_Shill_, shrill.

_Shog_, a shock, a push off at one side.

_Shoo_, ill to please, ill to fit.

_Shool_, a shovel.

_Shoon_, shoes.

_Shore_, to offer, to threaten.

_Shor'd_, half offered and threatened.

_Shouther_, the shoulder.

_Shot_, one traverse of the shuttle from side to side of the web.

_Sic_, such.

_Sicker_, sure, steady.

_Sidelins_, sideling, slanting.

_Silken-snood_, a fillet of silk, a token of virginity.

_Siller_, silver, money, white.

_Sin_, a son.

_Sinsyne_, since then.

_Skaith_, to damage, to injure, injury.

_Skeigh_, proud, nice, saucy, mettled.

_Skeigh_, shy, maiden coyness.

_Skellum_, to strike, to slap; to walk with a smart tripping step, a
smart stroke.

_Skelpi-limmer_, a technical term in female scolding.

_Skelpin, skelpit_, striking, walking rapidly, literally striking the
ground.

_Skinklin_, thin, gauzy, scaltery.

_Skirling_, shrieking, crying.

_Skirl_, to cry, to shriek shrilly.

_Skirl't_, shrieked.

_Sklent_, slant, to run aslant, to deviate from truth.

_Sklented_, ran, or hit, in an oblique direction.

_Skouth_, vent, free action.

_Skreigh_, a scream, to scream, the first cry uttered by a child.

_Skyte_, a worthless fellow, to slide rapidly off.

_Skyrin_, party-coloured, the checks of the tartan.

_Slae_, sloe.

_Slade_, did slide.

_Slap_, a gate, a breach in a fence.

_Slaw_, slow.

_Slee, sleest_, sly, slyest.

_Sleekit_, sleek, sly.

_Sliddery_, slippery.

_Slip-shod_, smooth shod.

_Sloken_, quench, slake.

_Slype_, to fall over, as a wet furrow from the plough.

_Slypet-o'er_, fell over with a slow reluctant motion.

_Sma'_, small.

_Smeddum_, dust, powder, mettle, sense, sagacity.

_Smiddy_, smithy.

_Smirking_, good-natured, winking.

_Smoor, smoored_, to smother, smothered.

_Smoutie_, smutty, obscene; _smoutie phiz_, sooty aspect.

_Smytrie_, a numerous collection of small individuals.

_Snapper_, mistake.

_Snash_, abuse, Billingsgate, impertinence.

_Snaw_, snow, to snow.

_Snaw-broo_, melted snow.

_Snawie_, snowy.

_Snap_, to lop, to cut off.

_Sned-besoms_, to cut brooms.

_Sneeshin_, snuff.

_Sneeshin-mill_, a snuff-box.

_Snell_ and _snelly_, bitter, biting; _snellest_, bitterest.

_Snick-drawing_, trick, contriving.

_Snick_, the latchet of a door.

_Snirt, snirtle_, concealed laughter, to breathe the nostrils in a
displeased manner.

_Snool_, one whose spirit is broken with oppressive slavery; to submit
tamely, to sneak.

_Snoove_, to go smoothly and constantly, to sneak.

_Snowk, snowkit_, to scent or snuff as a dog, scented, snuffed.

_Sodger_, a soldier.

_Sonsie_, having sweet engaging looks, lucky, jolly.

_Soom_, to swim.

_Souk_, to suck, to drink long and enduringly.

_Souple_, flexible, swift.

_Soupled_, suppled.

_Souther_, to solder.

_Souter_, a shoemaker.

_Sowens_, the fine flour remaining among the seeds, of oatmeal made
into an agreeable pudding.

_Sowp_, a spoonful, a small quantity of anything liquid.

_Sowth_, to try over a tune with a low whistle.

_Spae_, to prophesy, to divine.

_Spails_, chips, splinters.

_Spaul_, a limb.

_Spairge_, to clash, to soil, as with mire.

_Spates_, sudden floods.

_Spaviet_, having the spavin.

_Speat_, a sweeping torrent after rain or thaw.

_Speel_, to climb.

_Spence_, the parlour of a farmhouse or cottage.

_Spier_, to ask, to inquire; _spiert_, inquired.

_Spinnin-graith_, wheel and roke and lint.

_Splatter_, to splutter, a splutter.

_Spleughan_, a tobacco-pouch.

_Splore_, a frolic, noise, riot.

_Sprachled_, scrambled.

_Sprattle_, to scramble.

_Spreckled_, spotted, speckled.

_Spring_, a quick air in music, a Scottish reel.

_Sprit, spret_, a tough-rooted plant something like rushes, jointed-leaved
rush.

_Sprittie_, full of spirits.

_Spunk_, fire, mettle, wit, spark.

_Spunkie_, mettlesome, fiery; will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus; the devil.

_Spurtle_, a stick used in making oatmeal pudding or porridge, a notable
Scottish dish.

_Squad_, a crew or party, a squadron.

_Squatter_, to flutter in water, as a wild-duck, &c.

_Squattle_, to sprawl in the act of hiding.

_Squeel_, a scream, a screech, to scream.

_Stacher_, to stagger.

_Stack_, a rick of corn, hay, peats.

_Staggie_, a stag.

_Staig_, a two year-old horse.

_Stalwart_, stately, strong.

_Stang_, sting, stung.

_Stan't_, to stand; _stan't_, did stand.

_Stane_, stone.

_Stank_, did stink, a pool of standing water, slow-moving water.

_Stap_, stop, stave.

_Stark_, stout, potent.

_Startle_, to run as cattle stung by the gadfly.

_Staukin_, stalking, walking disdainfully, walking without an aim.

_Staumrel_, a blockhead, half-witted.

_Staw_, did steal, to surfeit.

_Stech_, to cram the belly.

_Stechin_, cramming.

_Steek_, to shut, a stitch.

_Steer_, to molest, to stir.

_Steeve_, firm, compacted.

_Stell_, a still.

_Sten_, to rear as a horse, to leap suddenly.

_Stravagin_, wandering without an aim.

_Stents_, tribute, dues of any kind.

_Stey_, steep; _styest_, steepest.

_Stibble_, stubble; _stubble-rig_, the reaper in harvest who takes
the lead.

_Stick-an'-stow_, totally, altogether.

_Stilt-stilts_, a crutch; to limp, to halt; poles for crossing a river.

_Stimpart_, the eighth part of a Winchester bushel.

_Stirk_, a cow or bullock a year old.

_Stock_, a plant of colewort, cabbages.

_Stockin'_, stocking; _throwing the stockin'_, when the bride and
bridegroom are put into bed, the former throws a stocking
at random among the company, and the person whom it falls
on is the next that will be married.

_Stook, stooked_, a shock of corn, made into shocks.

_Stot_, a young bull or ox.

_Stound_, sudden pang of the heart.

_Stoup_, or _stowp_, a kind of high narrow jug or dish with a handle
for holding liquids.

_Stowre_, dust, more particularly dust in motion; _stowrie_, dusty.

_Stownlins_, by stealth.

_Stown_, stolen.

_Stoyte_, the walking of a drunken man.

_Straek_, did strike.

_Strae_, straw; _to die a fair strae death_, to die in bed.

_Straik_, to stroke; _straiket_, stroked.

_Strappen_, tall, handsome, vigorous.

_Strath_, low alluvial land, a holm.

_Straught_, straight.

_Streek_, stretched, to stretch.

_Striddle_, to straddle.

_Stroan_, to spout, to piss.

_Stroup_, the spout.

_Studdie_, the anvil.

_Stumpie_, diminutive of stump; a grub pen.

_Strunt_, spirituous liquor of any kind; to walk sturdily, to be affronted.

_Stuff_, corn or pulse of any kind.

_Sturt_, trouble; to molest.

_Startin_, frighted.

_Styme_, a glimmer.

_Sucker_, sugar.

_Sud_, should.

_Sugh_, the continued rushing noise of wind or water.

_Sumph_, a pluckless fellow, with little heart or soul.

_Suthron_, Southern, an old name of the English.

_Swaird_, sword.

_Swall'd_, swelled.

_Swank_, stately, jolly.

_Swankie_, or _swanker_, a tight strapping young fellow or girl.

_Swap_, an exchange, to barter.

_Swarfed_, swooned.

_Swat_, did sweat.

_Swatch_, a sample.

_Swats_, drink, good ale, new ale or wort.

_Sweer_, lazy, averse; _dead-sweer_, extremely averse.

_Swoor_, swore, did swear.

_Swinge_, beat, to whip.

_Swinke_, to labour hard.

_Swirlie_, knaggy, full of knots.

_Swirl_, a curve, an eddying blast or pool, a knot in the wood.

_Swith_, get away.

_Swither_, to hesitate in choice, an irresolute wavering in choice.

_Syebow_, a thick-necked onion.

_Syne_, since, ago, then.

T.

_Tackets_, broad-headed nails for the heels of shoes.

_Tae_, a toe, _three-taed_, having three prongs.

_Tak_, to take; _takin_, taking.

_Tangle_, a sea-weed used as salad.

_Tap_, the top.

_Tapetless_, heedless, foolish.

_Targe, targe them tightly_, cross-question them severely.

_Tarrow_, to murmur at one's allowance.

_Tarry-breeks_, a sailor.

_Tassie_, a small measure for liquor.

_Tauld_, or _tald_, told.

_Taupie_, a foolish, thoughtless young person.

_Tauted_, or _tautie_, matted together (spoken of hair and wool).

_Tawie_, that allows itself peaceably to be handled (spoken of a cow,
horse, &c.)

_Teat_, a small quantity.

_Teethless bawtie_, toothless cur.

_Teethless gab_, a mouth wanting the teeth, an expression of scorn.

_Ten-hours-bite_, a slight feed to the horse while in the yoke in the
forenoon.

_Tent_, a field pulpit, heed, caution; to take heed.

_Tentie_, heedful, cautious.

_Tentless_, heedless, careless.

_Teugh_, tough.

_Thack_, thatch; _thack an' rape_, clothing and necessaries.

_Thae_, these.

_Thairms_, small guts, fiddle-strings.

_Thankit_, thanked.

_Theekit_, thatched.

_Thegither_, together.

_Themsel'_, themselves.

_Thick_, intimate, familiar.

_Thigger_, crowding, make a noise; a seeker of alms.

_Thir_, these.

_Thirl_, to thrill.

_Thirled_, thrilled, vibrated.

_Thole_, to suffer, to endure.

_Thowe_, a thaw, to thaw.

_Thowless_, slack, lazy.

_Thrang_, throng, busy, a crowd.

_Thrapple_, throat, windpipe.

_Thraw_, to sprain, to twist, to contradict.

_Thrawin'_, twisting, &c.

_Thrawn_, sprained, twisted, contradicted, contradiction.

_Threap_, to maintain by dint of assertion.

_Threshin'_, threshing; _threshin'-tree_, a flail.

_Threteen_, thirteen.

_Thristle_, thistle.

_Through_, to go on with, to make out.

_Throuther_, pell-mell, confusedly (through-ither).

_Thrum_, sound of a spinning-wheel in motion, the thread remaining at the
end of a web.

_Thud_, to make a loud intermittent noise.

_Thummart_, foumart, polecat

_Thumpit_, thumped.

_Thysel'_, thyself.

_Till't_, to it.

_Timmer_, timber.

_Tine_, to lose; _tint_, lost.

_Tinkler_, a tinker.

_Tip_, a ram.

_Tippence_, twopence, money.

_Tirl_, to make a slight noise, to uncover.

_Tirlin'_, _tirlet_, uncovering.

_Tither_, the other.

_Tittle_, to whisper, to prate idly.

_Tittlin_, whispering.

_Tocher_, marriage portion; _tocher bands_, marriage bonds.

_Tod_, a fox. _"Tod i' the fauld,"_ fox in the fold.

_Toddle_, to totter, like the walk of a child; _todlen-dow_, toddling dove.

_Too-fa'_, "Too fa' o' the nicht," when twilight darkens into night; a
building added, a lean-to.

_Toom_, empty.

_Toomed_, emptied.

_Toop_, a ram.

_Toss_, a toast.

_Tosie_, warm and ruddy with warmth, good-looking, intoxicating.

_Toun_, a hamlet, a farmhouse.

_Tout_, the blast of a horn or trumpet, to blow a horn or trumpet.

_Touzles_, _touzling_, romping, ruffling the clothes.

_Tow_, a rope.

_Towmond_, a twelvemonth.

_Towzie_, rough, shaggy.

_Toy_, a very old fashion of female head-dress.

_Toyte_, to totter like old age.

_Trams_, _barrow-trams_, the handles of a barrow.

_Transmugrified_, transmigrated, metamorphosed.

_Trashtrie_, trash, rubbish.

_Trickie_, full of tricks.

_Trig_, spruce, neat.

_Trimly_, cleverly, excellently, in a seemly manner.

_Trinle_, _trintle_, the wheel of a barrow, to roll.

_Trinklin_, trickling.

_Troggers_, _troggin'_, wandering merchants, goods to truck or dispose of.

_Trow_, to believe, to trust to.

_Trowth_, truth, a petty oath.

_Trysts_, appointments, love meetings, cattle shows.

_Tumbler-wheels_, wheels of a kind of low cart.

_Tug_, raw hide, of which in old time plough-traces were frequently made.

_Tug_ or _tow_, either in leather or rope.

_Tulzie_, a quarrel, to quarrel, to fight.

_Twa_, two; _twa-fald_, twofold.

_Twa-three_, a few.

_Twad_, it would.

_Twal_, twelve; _twalpennie worth_, a small quantity, a pennyworth.
--N.B. One penny English is 12d. Scotch.

_Twa faul_, twofold.

_Twin_, to part.

_Twistle_, twisting, the art of making a rope.

_Tyke_, a dog.

_Tysday_, Tuesday.

U.

_Unback'd filly_, a young mare hitherto unsaddled.

_Unco_, strange, uncouth, very, very great, prodigious.

_Uncos_, news.

_Unfauld_, unfold.

_Unkenn'd_, unknown.

_Unsicker_, uncertain, wavering, insecure.

_Unskaithed_, undamaged, unhurt.

_Upo'_, upon.

V.

_Vap'rin_, vapouring.

_Vauntie_, joyous, delight which cannot contain itself.

_Vera_, very.

_Virl_, a ring round a column, &c.

_Vogie_, vain.

W.

_Wa'_, wall; _wa's_, walls.

_Wabster_, a weaver.

_Wad_, would, to bet, a bet, a pledge.

_Wadna_, would not.

_Wadset_, land on which money is lent, a mortgage.

_Wae_, woe; _waefu'_, sorrowful, wailing.

_Waefu'-woodie_, hangman's rope.

_Waesucks! Wae's me!_, Alas! O the pity!

_Wa' flower_, wall-flower.

_Waft_, woof; the cross thread that goes from the shuttle through the web.

_Waifs an' crocks_, stray sheep and old ewes past breeding.

_Wair_, to lay out, to expend.

_Wale_, choice, to choose.

_Wal'd_, chose, chosen.

_Walie_, ample, large, jolly, also an exclamation of distress.

_Wame_, the belly.

_Wamefu'_, a bellyful.

_Wanchansie_, unlucky.

_Wanrest_, _wanrestfu'_, restless, unrestful.

_Wark_, work.

_Wark-lume_, a tool to work with.

_Warld's-worm_, a miser.

_Warle_, or _warld_, world.

_Warlock_, a wizard; _warlock-knowe_, a knoll where warlocks once held
tryste.

_Warly_, worldly, eager in amassing wealth.

_Warran'_, a warrant, to warrant.

_Warsle_, wrestle.

_Warsl'd_, or _warst'led_, wrestled.

_Wastrie_, prodigality.

_Wat_, wet; _I wat_--_I wot_--I know.

_Wat_, a man's upper dress; a sort of mantle.

_Water-brose_, brose made of meal and water simply, without the addition
of milk, butter, &c.

_Wattle_, a twig, a wand.

_Wauble_, to swing, to reel.

_Waukin_, waking, watching.

_Waukit_, thickened as fullers do cloth.

_Waukrife_, not apt to sleep.

_Waur_, worse, to worst.

_Waur't_, worsted.

_Wean_, a child.

_Weary-widdle_, toilsome contest of life.

_Weason_, weasand, windpipe.

_Weaven' the stocking_, to knit stockings.

_Weeder-clips_, instrument for removing weeds.

_Wee_, little; _wee things_, little ones, _wee bits_, a small matter.

_Weel_, well; _weelfare_, welfare.

_Weet_, rain, wetness; to wet.

_We'se_, we shall.

_Wha_, who.

_Whaizle_, to wheeze.

_Whalpit_, whelped.

_Whang_, a leathorn thing, a piece of cheese, bread, &c.

_Whare_, where; _whare'er_, wherever.

_Wheep_, to fly nimbly, to jerk, penny-wheep, small-beer.

_Whase_, _wha's_, whose--who is.

_What reck_, nevertheless.

_Whid_, the motion of a hare running but not frightened.--a lie.

_Whidden_, running as a hare or coney.

_Whigmeleeries_, whims, fancies, crotchets.

_Whilk_, which.

_Whingin'_, crying, complaining, fretting.

_Whirligigums_, useless ornaments, trifling appendages.

_Whissle_, a whistle, to whistle.

_Whisht_, silence; _to hold one's whisht_, to be silent.

_Whisk_, _whisket_, to sweep, to lash.

_Whiskin' beard_, a beard like the whiskers of a cat.

_Whiskit_, lashed, the motion of a horse's tail removing flies.

_Whitter_, a hearty draught of liquor.

_Whittle_, a knife.

_Whunstane_, a whinstone.

_Wi'_, with.

_Wick_, to strike a stone in an oblique direction, a term in curling.

_Widdifu_, twisted like a withy, one who merits hanging.

_Wiel_, a small whirlpool.

_Wifie-wifikie_, a diminutive or endearing name for wife.

_Wight_, stout, enduring.

_Willyart-glower_, a bewildered dismayed stare.

_Wimple-womplet_, to meander, meandered, to enfold.

_Wimplin_, waving, meandering.

_Win_', to wind, to winnow.

_Winnin'-thread_, putting thread into hanks.

_Win't_, winded as a bottom of yarn.

_Win_', wind.

_Win_, live.

_Winna_, will not.

_Winnock_, a window.

_Winsome_, hearty, vaunted, gay.

_Wintle_, a staggering motion, to stagger, to reel.

_Wiss_, to wish.

_Withouten_, without.

_Wizened_, hide-bound, dried, shrunk.

_Winze_, a curse or imprecation.

_Wonner_, a wonder, a contemptuous appellation.

_Woo_', wool.

_Woo_, to court, to make love to.

_Widdie_, a rope, more properly one of withs or willows.

_Woer-bobs_, the garter knitted below the knee with a couple of loops.

_Wordy_, worthy.

_Worset_, worsted.

_Wrack_, to tease, to vex.

_Wud_, wild, mad; _wud-mad_, distracted.

_Wumble_, a wimble.

_Wraith_, a spirit, a ghost, an apparition exactly like a living person,
whose appearance is said to forbode the person's approaching
death; also wrath.

_Wrang_, wrong, to wrong.

_Wreeth_, a drifted heap of snow.

_Wyliecoat_, a flannel vest.

_Wyte_, blame, to blame.

Y.

_Ye_, this pronoun is frequently used for thou.

_Yearns_, longs much.

_Yealings_, born in the same year, coevals.

_Year_, is used both for singular and plural, years.

_Yell_, barren, that gives no milk.

_Yerk_, to lash, to jerk.

_Yerket_, jerked, lashed.

_Yestreen_, yesternight.

_Yett_, a gate.

_Yeuk's_, itches.

_Yill_, ale.

_Yird, yirded_, earth, earthed, buried.

_Yokin_', yoking.

_Yont_, ayont, beyond.

_Yirr_, lively.

_Yowe_, an ewe.

_Yowie_, diminutive of _yowe._

_Yule_, Christmas.

THE END.