Chapter XXVI: Part III: , p. 24, Part IV, p. xxxi, taken down from James Olver, (13)

At every stage of oral transmission we must suppose that some accidental variations from what was delivered would be introduced, and occasionally some wilful variations. Memory will fail at times; at times the listener will hear amiss, or will not understand, and a perversion of sense will ensue, or absolute nonsense,--nonsense which will be servilely repeated, and which repetition may make more gross. Dr Davidson informs me that one of his female relatives rendered ‘an echo shrill did make’ (in Chevy Chace, 10) ‘an achish yirl did make,’ and that he took ‘aching or frightened earl’ to be the meaning until he read the piece. Happy are we when we are sure of the nonsense; as when, in The Gypsy Laddie, ‘they cast their glamourie owre her’ is turned into ‘they called their grandmother over.’ “The combination of two words into one,” says Dr Davidson, “is not rare in Scotch, nor is the reverse process. For example, the word ‘hypochondriac’ is turned into ‘keepach and dreeach,’ and the two parts often used separately. ‘I’m unco keepach’ and ‘I’m unco dreeach’ are common expressions among old people. Imagine an etymologist, ignorant of the facts, trying to discover the etymology of ‘keepach’ or of ‘dreeach.’” Words of one or two syllables are long enough for the simple; a laboring man of my acquaintance calls rheumatism ‘the tism’: what are the other syllables to such, who understand no one of the three? Learned words do not occur in ballads; still an old native word will be in the same danger of metamorphosis. But, though unfamiliarity naturally ends in corruption, mishearing may have the like effect where the original phrase is in no way in fault; hence, perhaps, ‘with a bretther a degs ye’ll clear up my nags,’ ‘a tabean briben kame,’ ‘I’ll have that head of thine, to enter plea att my iollye,’ etc.

It must be borne in mind, however, that as to nonsense the burden of proof rests always upon the expositor. His personal inability to dispose of a reading is not conclusive; his convictions may be strong, but patience and caution are his part and self-restraint as to conjectures.

It is with a strong feeling of what ‘a kindly Scot’ signifies that I offer my thanks to many gentlemen who have favored me with comments on lists of words submitted to them. Especial acknowledgment is due to Dr Thomas Davidson, a native of Old Deer, who has made his home in the United States, and to Mr William Walker, of Aberdeen. Besides these, I have to mention with gratitude the Rev. Robert Lippe, Rev. Dr Walter Gregor, the late Dr William Alexander, Principal Sir W. D. Geddes, Dr James Mori, Messrs William Forbes, James Aiken, David Scott, W. Carnie, W. Cadenhead, and William Murison, all of Aberdeenshire; Dr James Burgess, Messrs J. Logie Robertson and William Macmath, of Edinburgh; Professor A. F. Murison, of London, and Dr Robert Wallace, M. P.; Professor James Cappen, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario; Rev. Professor J. Clarke Murray and Principal Dr W. M. Barbour, of Montreal; Rev. Dr Alexander McDonald, St Francis Xavier’s College, Antigonish, N. S.; Rev. Dr Waters, of Newark, N. J. For some difficult English words help has been given by Dr W. Hand Browne of Johns Hopkins University, Professor Manly of Brown University, and Professor Kittredge of Harvard College.

It will be observed that ballads in the Skene MS which were derived from the “Old Lady’s Collection” are not glossed, but the originals, which should be substituted for Skene’s more or less incorrect copies.

[References are usually to volume, page, and stanza.]

A

=a’=, =aa=, =aw=, all.

=a’==every. a’man, I, 68, 27; II, 71, 16; 75, 13; 193, 24; IV, 46, 5, 6; 235, 10; V, 169, 6; 221, 10; 224, 22; 237, 8; 239, 36; 260 b, 5. a’body, V, 273 a.

=a=, abridgment of _have_, I, 315, 11; III, 215, 10; 440, 13; 441, 26; V, 55, 26; 79, 33; 213, 10; 224, 28; 251, 36.

=a==he, III, 54, 3, 7.

=a==I, in the phrase _a wat_ (a wait, a wite, etc.), II, 159, 11, 16, 19; 160, 10-16, 19; III, 299, 9: I know, verily, assuredly. II, 230, 6: used by a mere trick, with hardly a meaning. a’s, V, 266, 9: I’s, I shall, will.

=a==of: III, 91, 2; 93, 36; 298, 59; 307, 10; 308, 12, 24; 309, 40 (a trusti tre?); 349, 37, 39; 464, 11; IV, 504, 27.

=a==on. a grefe, III, 69, 268. a blode (ablode), I, 244, 9; V, 288 b, v. 16. a row, III, 117, 24.

=a==one: I, 126, 4; 326, 7; 327, 24.

=a==ae, one single: V, 256 b, 2; 257, 6, 15; 278, 26. a warst, V, 215, 6. V, 239, 36: one and the same. =See ae.=

=a==to. abound, II, 109, 20: to go. a dee, 110, 25: to do. So, perhaps, _abee_.

=a be=, =abe=, =a bee=, =abee=, =a beene= (with _let_), I, 356, =D b= 4; II, 29, 5; 108, 5; 159, 25; 185, 27; III, 455, 4, 8; V, 229, 35: be. let abee with, IV, 96 f., =D= 9, 13. let abee of, IV, 97, =E= 4, 5; 98, 15; 99, 14, 15.

=abeen=, =abeene=, =aboon=, =abone=, etc., I, 315, 8; II, 468, 7; IV, 326, 16, 19: above. his hose abeen his sheen, V, 17, 35; 18, 14: his stockings ungartered, falling above, over his shoes.

=abide=, =abyde=, III, 67, 219; 73, 345; V, 82, 24, 40: stop, wait. III, 97, 8; 279, 13: withstand. _pret._ abode, III, 63, 143: waited. _p. p._ abiden, abyden, III, 57 f., 25, 30: awaited.

=able=, II, 51, 4: suitable.

=ablins=, =aiblins=, III, 467, =b= 2: perhaps.

=aboard=, V, 134, 16: alongside; and so 8, 20, 22, or, _laid us aboard_ may be _boarded us_.

=abode=, III, 335 a: waiting, delay.

=abode=, III, 430, 1, _burden_: endured.

=aboone=, =aboun=, =abown=. See =abune=.

=abound.= ill a bound, II, 109, 20: ill (prepared) to go.

=about=, been, V, 52, 77: been engaged.

=abowthe=, III, 112, 52: about.

=abune=, =aboone=, =aboon=, =abon=, =abone=, =abown=, =aboun=, =abeen=, II, 20, 8; 22, 16; 23, =D= 7, =E= 8; 24, =F= 10; 25, =G= 13; 27, 21; 28, 25; 29, 19; 30, 12; 145, 20: above (above them).

=abyde.= See =abide=.

=abyden.= See =abide=.

=abye=, III, 128, 84; V, 234 b, 3: pay, suffer consequences.

=Acaron=, III, 149, 32: being the oath of a Turk (36), this may be taken as _Alcoran_.

=acward=, =ackward stroke=, III, 110, 17; IV, 148, 43: described as a backhanded stroke. See =aukeward=.

=advance=, V, 147, 8: help on (?).

=aduenture=, III, 359, 90: hazard.

=aduise=, II, 436, 63: observe.

=ae==one, single: I, 310, 6; 467, 33; 478, 1; II, 77, 29; IV, 257, 10; 260, 10; 261, 9; 262, 24; 445, 1; 476, 3. ae best, I, 465, 13, 17; IV, 479, 13. ae first, I, 426, 7, 8; 494, 22. ae warst (a warst), V, 214 f., 1, 6. the ae ... the ither, III, 500 b, 7: the one ... the other.

=ae==mere, sole, ae licht o the moon, IV, 469, 4; 470, 35.

=ae==aye, always: I, 245, 7; II, 185, 40; 208, 12; IV, 247, =B= 11; 265, 13.

=aer=, I, 16, =C= 12: ear, plough.

=aevery=, III, 465, 25: voracious, very hungry. (A. S. gífre.)

=afar=, =afore=, =affore=, I, 438, =A= 1; II, 21, 15, 16; 138, 8; III, 405, 15; IV, 128 f., 19, 21, 23, 24: before.

=aff=, I, 346, 12: oft.

=affronted=, II, 367, 45; IV, 242 b: put to shame, mortified. III, 152, 6: confronted, opposed.

=a-fit=, V, 115, 7: on foot.

=aft=, III, 491, 8; V, 299 b, 4: oft.

=after=, after the way, III, 99, 57: along, on. aftere brade waye, I, 333, 1: along, over. after me, III, 74, 367: according to me, my advice.

=against=, III, 344, 36: by way of preparation for the case.

=agast of him=, III, 99, 49: alarmed about him (the consequences to him).

=agaste=, V, 71, note †: terrified.

=agayn=(=e=), =ageyn=, III, 98, 29; 297, 46: against, =a-geyn= euyn, III, 13, 3: towards.

=agoe=, V, 83, 44: gone.

=agree=, IV, 147, 32: bring to agreement.

=a-ȝon=, comyn a-ȝon, III, 13, 4: came upon, encountered.

=ahind=, =ahint=, =ahin=, I, 299, 14; II, 105, 11; 315, 5; III, 480, 14; 481, 30; IV, 246, 6: behind. V, 17, 32: over and above.

=aiblins=, =ablins=, I, 439, 4: perhaps.

=aileth at.= See =at=.

=air=, in a drowsy air, IV, 20, 11: _air_ seems to mean _atmosphere_ simply; possibly _disposition_, _condition_.

=air=, =aire=, =ayre=, =by air=, =by ayre=, II, 106, 1; 270, 30; III, 162, 58; 164, =b= 58; V, 270, 7: early, betimes.

=airn=, =ern=, I, 342, 33; 348, 13, 19; 355, 42; III, 474, 39; 481, 35; 505, 21: iron.

=airt=, =art=, II, 23, =E= 5: quarter of the heavens, point of the compass, west-airt lands, II, 73, 30: western. rade the airt o, IV, 27, 31: in the direction of. a’airts o wind, II, 341, =Q=. been at that art, III, 163, 87.

=airted=, V, 99, =C= 4: laid their course.

=aith=, oath.

=a’kin=, =a’kin kind=, II, 114, 2: all kind, every.

=’al=, that ’al, IV, 17, 3: ’ull, wull, will.

=al=, al so mote I the, III, 68, 243: absolutely.

=al=, will.

=alaffe=, III, 34, 11: aloof.

=alane=, I, 347, 2. mine alane, I, 332, =E= 1, =F= 1. See =lane=.

=alang=, along.

=albergs=, II, 340 b: houses, dwells.

=alean=, alone.

=alee=, IV, 516 b, 3: on the lea, a-field, but for the purpose of keeping guard; cf. III, 487, =A= 15; 492, =D= 5; 495, =B b= 4.

=aleene=, I, 346, 4: alone.

=alelladay=, I, 220, =A= 1: exclamation of grief.

=algate=, IV, 93, note *: anyway.

=aliment=, IV, 91, a: provision for maintenance; here, apparently, alimony.

=alive=, I loved ye best ye were born alive, IV, 521, 19: corrupted; the sense appears in IV, 26, =A= 16, _I love best that’s born alive_, best of all living things.

=all.= all and, I, 56, 6, 7; III, 432, 16, 17; all as she stood, I, 117, 16; all in my hand, III, 186, 20; all by the roode, III, 188, 2; all by his side, V, 212 b, 8; all on, IV, 393, 5; 394, =B= 2, 5; 395 f., =B b= 2, 3, 5; V, 233 f., 2, 3, 5; all at her head, feet, V, 158, 9; all down, V, 293 b, 5; all oer, 302 b, 2.

=allacing=, IV, 18, 21: repeating of alace (alas).

=allther=, III, 57, 9; 70, 283, 284, representing the ancient genitive plural of _all_, allther moste, allther best: best of all, etc.

=along of=, III, 279, 8: owing to.

=alongst=, V, 267 a, 7, 8: along.

=alow=, III, 4, 1: below.

=alow=, =aloe=, George Aloe, V, 133.

=als=, =alsua=, I, 327, 27; IV, 366 =D= 5: =also=.

=also=, I, 328, 46: all so, just as.

=althocht=, III, 370, 19: although.

=amain(e)=, III, 345, 48; 350, 51: with vigor, strength, force. blew, sound, cald, amain, III, 181, 27; 341, 46; 343, 17; 344, 36: with strength, loudly. II, 385, 24; IV, 13, 2: in force, in numbers. I, 398, 4; III, 176 f., 11, 16; 209, 9: at once, quickly.

=amain=, V, 134, 7, 16: (Fr. amener) lower, strike.

=a-married=, IV, 236, 4: married.

=a-marvel=, II, 386, 12: marvel (Fr. émerveiller).

=amense=, III, 465, 23: amends. (Should be printed as one word, not _a mense_ as in the MS.)

=American leather=, I, 494, 14; III, 3, 13; 5, =C= 2: has been explained as morocco made from American horsehides, for which a patent was obtained c. 1799. See The Scots Magazine, 1799, LXI, 286. But the date of the text at III, 3, is 1780.

=amo=, V, 306 b, 14: among.

=among=, II, 451, 89: between.

=amoued=, II, 442, 9: excited, agitated.

=an=, II, 75, 20; V, 214 b, 4: one.

=-an=, =-ane=, =-and=, =-en=, etc., annexed to the definite form of the superlative of the adjective (preceded by _the_, _her_, etc.) or to numerals, or following separately, seems to be _an_=_one_. (The history of this usage has not been made out.) The firstan, nextan, firsten, nexten, _passim_ (_the seconden_ only at I, 507, 3); the firstand, I, 135, =O= 18; the nextand, II, 94, 6; her firsten, thirden, etc., II, 161, 9-12; her nexten, II, 164, 19; the firstin, the nextin, II, 380, 22; the first an, the niest an, I, 351, 45; the warst in, the best in, II, 98, 43, 44; the third ane, the fourth ane, etc., II, 71, 5, 6; 78, 8-11; the third one, fourth one, etc., II, 72, 5-7; the first ae, IV, 490, 20; the first y, III, 3, 15; the firsten ane, II, 370, 16. So, that samen, II, 475, 17.

=an=, I, 295, 30; 468, 6, 9; 480, 6, 7; II, 21, =B= 11: and, if.

=ance=, =anse=, I, 341, 9; 342, 23; 344, 21, 22; V, 9, 2, 4: once.

=anchor=, did on anchor rise so high, III, 344, 34 (=c=, =g=, have _ride_): the ship is in full sail; no apparent sense.

=ancient=, =ancyent=, III, 286, 40; 340, 37; 341, 46; 406, 30, 31, 39; 420, 20; 422, 65, 66: ensign.

=and=, _superfluous_ (as in “when that I was and a tiny little boy,” and two other songs in Shakspere), see II, 57 b; II, 58, 7, 8; 59, 22, 27; 60, 39; 87, 31; III, 145, 6; 277, 16; 419, 8; IV, 448 a, 1, 2. The same usage in German, Swedish, and especially Dutch ballads.

=and=, if.

=-and=, =-end=, termination of the present participle: whissland, singand, cumand, seekand, etc., I, 326-329; II, 268, 17; IV, 195 f., =D= 2, 7, 10, 14; V, 192 f., 35, 49.

=ane==a, I, 327, 11.

=ane==alone. me ane, I, 333, 1.

=ane=, II, 191, 37=en, end.

=aneath=, =aneth=, II, 185, 29; 191, 23; V, 224, 17: beneath. aneath the sun, III, 5, =D= 7: sheltering the eyes with the hand. So, below the sun, III, 6, 6; 8, 6.

=anent=, I, 222, 8; II, 166, 21; 191, 24; 391, 20: over against, in the face of.

=anew=, I, 305, 1; III, 495, =B b= 3-5; IV, 249, 10; 271, =B= 4: enough, enow.

=angel(l)=, II, 444, 55; 449, 61; 453, 32; III, 156, 4; V, 101, 4: a gold coin, of value varying from 6s. 8d. to 10s.

=angerly=, III, 286, 55; 361, =b= 21: angrily.

=ankir=, III, 66, 198: recluse, hermit.

=another=, III, 138, 8, 12, 13: _corrupt, or verbiage_.

=anse=, IV, 518, 3: once.

=answere= your quarrel, I, 411, 18: be responsible for, take on me to settle, your difference.

=answery=, _v._, V, 283, 12: answer.

=ant=, I, 244; V, 288 b: and.

=antine= (Fr. antienne), IV, 439 =b=, 6: anthem.

=anunder=, I, 302, =A= 9: under.

=aout=, V, 304 b, 7: out.

=apayd=, euelle apayd, III, 322 a: ill satisfied, displeased.

=ape=, lead an ape in hell, penance for old maids: I, 232, 14.

=apparent=, III, 451, note *: heir apparent. (parand, II, 447, 2, 4.)

=applyed=, _p. p._, V, 51, 67: plied.

=appone=, I, 327, 14, 28: upon.

=apurn=, V, 304 b, 3: apron.

=ar=, I, 244, 18; III, 110, 18: or, before.

=arblast=, I, 311 a: cross-bow.

=archborde=, III, 340, 23, 29 (in 29, MS. charke-bord): may be a misspelling of _hachebord_, st. 36 (_hatch-bord_, p. 342, 70). Barton grappled the ship to his archborde, from which we should infer that the word meant the side of the ship, as _hatch-bord_ would naturally signify at p. 342, 70. But _archborde_ might of itself mean the stern of the ship, a timber at the stern being still so called, and German _hack-bord_ meaning the upper part of the stern of a ship. (It is singular that none of the difficult words _archborde_, _hachebord_, _hall_ (III, 340, 29) occur in the York copy, IV, 503, which, however, has difficulties of its own.)

=archery=, III, 309, 41: collected archers.

=arches=, II, 307, 29: aims, shoots.

=are=, I, 327, 23: before.

=armorie=, I, 285, 34, seems to be employed in the sense of _armament_, _men at arms_.

=armorye=, III, 286, 56: armor.

=arselins=, V, 124, 12: backwards.

=art=, =airt=, quarter of the heavens. been at that art, III, 163, 87: in that quarter, at that place. See =airt=.

=as=, _pron._, I, 477, 6, 7, 13, 15; II, 4, =D= 4; 452, 14; V, 206 a, 1; b, 6: that, who.

=as=, _conj._, I, 477, 5, 18, 19; II, 453, 28: that.

=as=, V, 218 b, =D= 1: was.

=as ever=, III, 281, 10: as long as.

=asay=, _p. p._, III, 112, 48: tried. [Read _asayed_?]

=asembled=, III, 164, =b= 15: met (encountered).

=ask=, I, 353, =H= 11; 355, 41; II, 504, 32: newt, lizard. (A. S. áðexe.) Cf. =ass=.

=askd=, my father he askd me an acre o land, I, 17, =D= 9: _askd_ seems to be an erroneous repetition from 8; _aucht_, owned, would be expected; or _left_, _gave_, as in =K=, =L=.

=asking=, =asken=, =askend=, =askent=, II, 91, =D= 27, 28; 92, 22-25; 192, 7, 14; 194, 23; 359, 7-10; V, 221 f., 27, 29, 30, 32; 223, 5, 7; 418, 8: boon, request.

=askryede=, I, 326, 4: described.

=ass=, I, 349, 11, 15: ask, newt.

=assoyled=, absolved.

=aste=, I, 217, 1: east.

=astoned=, =astonied=, V, 76, 24; 82, 35: astonished, amazed.

=asurd=, I, 334, 5: of azure; should probably be _asur_.

=at.= reade must rise at, II, 53, 34, 35; take councell at, III, 405, 17, 23; take leaue att, III, 357, 42: from. ask at, beg at, spear at, I, 497, =L= 5-8, =M= 2-5; III, 161, 32; 330, 15; IV, 331, 10: of, from. ails ye at, aileth thee at, II, 72, 3; 78, 7; 80, 3; IV, 95, 12; 96, 4; 99, =H= 7: with (what ail comes to you from me?). see at me, IV, 345, 8: in. come atte, IV, 507, 81: to, to the presence of. I was at thee, IV, 436, 1: (apud) with.

=at=, IV, 331 b, 8: out (?).

=at=, jobbing at, I, 104, =A b= 10: jogging off, away (?).

=at=, with ellipsis of _the door_, rappit at, clappit at, I, 105 a, 29; IV, 444, 16, 35; V, 173, 1; 306 b, 1.

=at=, =att=, _pron._ and _conj._, II, 472, 24; III, 488, 19; IV, 348, 1; 446, 6; 469 b, 10, 12; V, 79, 31; 118, =B= 12; 220 b, 5; 224, 28; 236, 11^4; 256, 8: that, (_it_, V, 236, 11^2, may be for this _at_.)

=a ta=, III, 464, 1: at all.

=athort=, I, 305, 3: across (upon). far athort, V, 164, =D b= 13: a long way.

=attempt=, III, 39, 110: tempt.

=attemptattis=, III, 451 b: enterprises.

=atteynt=, I, 328, 34: (here) lay hands on.

=attoure=, III, 458 b: outowr, over and above.

=atweel=, I, 22, 2, 3: I wot well, assuredly.

=atween=, I, 466, 11; II, 315, 6; V, 156, 11, 13: between. atween hands, II, 139, 6: meanwhile.

=atwyn=, V, 80, 57: from one another.

=aucht=, =aught=. wha’s aucht?=who is it owned (owns)? whose is (are)? I, 22, 4; 472, 1; II, 114, 11; 164, 8, 11; IV, 32, =C= 6; 194, 8; 199, 21; 202, 9; 203, 17. aught a bairn, II, 494, 4: had. where is the knight aught me for wedding, IV, 182, =F= 6: who was (is) under obligation to marry me? (This is my ransome I ought to him to pay, I, 294, 12.) It is not unlikely that _aucht_ in the phrase _wha’s aucht_ is present in sense. Indeed we have _aughts_, II, 336, =Q= 5. Cf. _who owes?_ whose is? IV, 205, 27.

=aught=, _v._, suld hae come and aught a bairn to me, II, 494, 4: had (a child by).

=aukeward=, =awkwarde= stroke, II, 59, 23; III, 93, 40: backhanded. See =acward=.

=auld son=, without regard to absolute age: I, 79, 58; 184, 8, 9; IV, 94, =A= 4; 97, =F= 4. So old sister for elder sister, eldest of three: I, 175, 8; auld dochter, II, 462, 33. auld son, of child just born and the only one, II, 105, 7; 107, 3-6, 17; IV, 206, 15. So at II, 95, 11, called young son immediately after. Of babe in the cradle, II, 325, 10. See =old=.

=aull=, =auld=, old. I, 359, 6, 9, in four nights auld: at the age of four days. II, 80, 9, in twall years auld.

=aussy pan=, I, 301, 6: ash pan.

=austerne=, I, 134, =N= 3: austere, harsh. See =osterne=.

=ava=, II, 189, 33; 323, 25; III, 7, 13, 14; IV, 257, 12; 300, 3: of all. II, 360, 10; V, 112, =B b= 7: at all.

=avayle=, II, 436, 70: put down, doff.

=avow=, IV, 240, 7: seems to be used as _consent_ rather than _own_, _confess_; but cf. IV, 56, =A= 8; V, 252 a.

=avowe=, _n._, III, 65, 180, 187, 190; 68, 240; 73, 346; 297, 44; 307, 1: vow.

=avowë=, =avower=, III, 67, 232; 520 a, No 161: patron, protector.

=avoyd=, V, 53, 102: begone.

=aw=, all.

=await=, lie at await, III, 409, note *: in wait.

=awaite=, =awayte=, III, 72, 330; 84, 330; 88, 331: lie in wait for. awayte me scathe, III, 66, 202: lie in wait to do me harm.

=awende=, I, 244, 9: weened, imagined.

=awet=, III, 112, 64: know. Perhaps, await, descry.

=awkwarde= stroke, III, 93, 40: a backhanded stroke. See =aukeward=.

=awsom=, V, 193, 49: awful.

=ay=, I, 333, 1, 2, 3: a.

=ayenst=, III, 76, 420: against, towards, about.

=ayon=, =ayone=, =ayont=, I, 301, 1; 302, 1; 428, 20; II, 133, =D= 4, 6; IV, 412, 6: beyond. IV, 330 a, appendix, 1: and oddly of the man, as farther from the wall. III, 392, 20, 21: beyond, across. I, 220, =A= 2; IV, 8, 46: over against, in the face of.

=ayre=, =eare=, =ere=: heir.

B

=ba=, IV, 354, 1: a lullaby.

=baas=, balls.

=baba=, II, 339, 19: baby.

=bace=, V, 104 a=bash (Swed. basa): beat; _pret._ baist, III, 164, =b= 26(?). See =baist=.

=bacheeleere=, II, 58, 13: young knight devoted to the service of a lady.

=back-spald=, V, 106, =E= 4: hinder part of the shoulder.

=bad=, =bade=, V, 18, 9; 27, 41; 243, 11: ordered, offered. (A. S. beódan.)

=bad=, =bade=, =baed=, III, 267, 15: abode, stopped, waited for. II, 115, 22; III, 312, 28; V, 236, 17: remained, staid. (A. S. bídan.)

=badgers=, III, 477, 8: pedlars.

=baed=, II, 115, 22: abode, stopped. See =bad=.

=baffled=, II, 479: thwarted (perhaps, made a fool of). IV, 146 f., 11, 31: affronted, insulted, or disgraced.

=bail=, life in, III, 10, 19: in power, at disposal.

=bailie=, III, 385, 12: municipal officer, alderman. IV, 326, 12: bailiff, steward, manager of an estate. See =baylye=.

=bairn=, =barn=, =bern=, III, 437, 28, 36; 453, 17; IV, 309, 5; 310, 12: child.

=baist=, _pret._, III, 164, =b= 26: beat. baste, _p. p._, III, 165, 92: beaten. (Icel. beysta?) See =bace=.

=baked=, II, 403, 2: becked, curtsied, made obeisance.

=bale=, II, 45, 30, 44; 58, 11; 419, 51; 466, 34; III, 92, 11, 18; 99, 51: ill, trouble, mischief, harm, calamity, destruction. See =balys=.

=bale=, I, 355, 41: fire.

=bale-fire=, II, 118, 9; 119, 19; 155, 36; IV, 467, 12, 14: bonfire, large fire.

=ballants=, IV, 129, 30: ballads.

=ballup=, III, 181, 15 (ballock): front or flap of breeches.

=balow=, IV, 351, 1; 352, =C= 1: lullaby, sing a lullaby to.

=balys=, III, 310, 68: misfortunes, troubles. See =bale=.

=ban=, =band=, I, 69, 38; 73, 53; II, 376, 36; III, 491, 12: hinge.

=ban=, =bann=, _v._, I, 304, =E= 5; 305, 6; III, 104, 8; IV, 87, 14; V, 115, 7: curse.

=ban=, =band=, =bande=, =bond=, IV, 388, 7: band. IV, 388, 11: bond.

=ban=, I, 55, 12: bound (_pret._).

=band(e)=, III, 430, 8; 431, 7: bond, compact.

=band-dogs=, =bandoggs=, III, 123, 16; 125, 31; 126, =B b= 31; =c= 31: dogs that are kept chained (on account of their fierceness).

=banded=, IV, 388, 7: bound, secured with bands.

=bane=, I, 285, 33; III, 92, 7: destruction, death.

=bane.= saddle of the bane (MS. bone), I, 468, 13; bouer o bane, II, 185, 31: meaning probably the _royal bone_ of I, 466, 10. See =roelle bone=.

=bane-fire=, II, 146, 23; 331, 17: bonfire.

=bang=, II, 438, 4: may be any implement for banging; it is sometimes stick, here strap (_in_ should be _wi_).

=bang=, IV, 85, 5: emend to _hang_.

=bangisters=, IV, 37, 7; 38, 9: people violent and regardless of law.

=banis=, III, 78, 453: slayers, murderers.

=banished=, III, 401, 15: possibly with the meaning banned, but the ordinary sense does well enough.

=bank=, sea-bank, IV, 229, 3, 7: shore (?).

=bankers=, I, 334, 9: carpets, tapestries for benches.

=banket=, III, 446 b: banquet.

=banneret=, II, 395, =N= 1: banner-bearer (see =B= 1; =E= 1; =I= 1; =K= 1; =M= 1; =P= 1).

=barck=, =bark=, II, 239, 1: birk, birch.

=barelins=, II, 212, 12: barely.

=bargain=, III, 181, 13: brawl, fight.

=barker=, V, 78, 11; 80, 43, 49, etc.; 82, 20: tanner.

=barking=, I, 109, =C= 10: who uses bark, as a tanner.

=barm=, I, 243, 7: lap.

=barn-well= thrashing, II, 322, 8: the well has no sense, and has probably been caught from 9, at the far well washing. To be dropped.

=barn=, =barne=, II, 437, 85; IV, 141, 17; V, 114, 10; 267, 3: (A. S. bearn) child. III, 308, 14: (A. S. beorn) man, fighting man.

=baron=, I, 293, 2; 294 f., 5, 9, 23, 28: simply knight, and that, in all cases but the first, vaguely.

=barras=, oer the, IV, 372, 6: beyond the barriers (as 374, =A b=, after 5).

=barrine=, bairn.

=base-court=, III, 470 b: lower or outer court.

=bassonet=, =basnet=, =basnit=, III, 298, 51, 52; 308 f., 29, 32: a light helmet, shaped like a skull-cap.

=bat=, but.

=batit=, baited.

=batts=, blows, burden of, III, 465, 20: all the blows (beating) he can bear.

=baubee=, =bawbee=, III, 268, 6; 269, =D= 6; 270, 4, 5; V, 242 b, 5: halfpenny.

=baube=, II, 132, 30: babe.

=baucheld= sheen, IV, 380, 26: shoes down at the heels (ill-bukled, wrongly, V, 276, 18).

=bay=, by.

=bayberry kame=, IV, 471 f., 2, 4: a corrupt passage, yielding no sense (so of other readings here).

=bay dogs=, III, 126 f., =e=, =f= 31: dogs that bring to bay, or that bay (?).

=baylleful=, III, 298, 58: destructive, deadly.

=baylye=, III, 28, 140: bailiff, sheriff’s officer (to execute writs, etc.). III, 332, 15: chief magistrate, mayor. See =bailie=.

=bayne=, perdition.

=bayr=, V, 110, 13: =byre=, cowhouse.

=be===by. be to and al be on, I, 242, 11: by two[s] and all by one[s]. be, be that, III, 100, 73; 482, 26: by the time that. sey be, V, 79, 26: about. See =by=.

=be’s=, it be’s, III, 160, 9: shall be==it s’ be.

=be wi=, IV, 261, 23: tolerate, bear with.

=beager=, beggar.

=beagly=, V, 224, 10. See =bigly=.

=beam=, beam gold, II, 402, 10: for _beaming_? Probably corrupt.

=beame=, of the utuer beame, IV, 506, 59: utuer is perhaps utter, outer; but what outer beam would Horsley come to in climbing the mast? Probably corrupt. If we read, of (==on) the utter (outer) bane (bone), which rhymes, we have to explain the outer bone of the buttocke.

=bean=, bone.

=bear=, I, 149, 6: move on, proceed.

=bear=, bier.

=bear=, beer.

=bear=, IV, 324, =C= 1: barley.

=bear-seed=, IV, 323, 6: barley; bear-seed time seems to refer to barley-harvest.

=beare mercy=, as the lawes will thee beare, V, 53, 98: have for (as in, bear malice, etc.).

=beare=, _pret._, II, 266, 30: bare.

=beared=, buried.

=bearing arrow=, III, 29, 150; 202, 33; 341, 53: “an arrow that carries well,” Percy; “an arrow made to carry especially straight,” Nares; but on the first occasion a broad arrow is used when “an arrow that carries well” (straight) is equally, or even more, necessary, and on the third a bearing and a broad arrow are used indifferently, III, 29, 153, 159; 341, 56. Perhaps a very long arrow, such as required to be carried in the hand. “Longe arrowes like standarts with socetts of stell for my Lord’s foutemen to bere in their hands, when they ryn with my Lorde” are noted as _berrying_ arrows in the preparations for the Earl of Northumberland’s expedition to Terouenne, 5 Henry VIII. Dillon’s Fairholt’s Costume in England, II, 8, 1885. Mr C. J. Longman, himself an archer, remarking that a bearing arrow is used for a range of 20 score paces, III, 29, 148, 150, and a broad arrow for 6 score, 153, suggests that a bearing arrow was probably what is now called a flight-arrow,--a thin, light arrow with a tapering point for long shooting.

=bearly=, V, 219, 17: buirdly.

=beat=, IV, 379, 15: boot, recompense.

=became=, II, 422, 2: came.

=became his courtisie=, III, 464, 18: that is, his courtesy became him (as in Shakspere’s “youth becomes the livery that it wears”). See =become=.

=because=, III, 29, 157: in order that.

=beck=, made a beck on her knee, II, 359, 7, 9: curtsy.

=becke= (A. S. bec), I, 334, 8: stream, brook.

=become= them well, IV, 147, 22: look well in them (i.e., they became him well); so III, 464, 18; cf. set, IV, 331, 18. place, part, does well become me, IV, 152, =D= 2; 153, 1: suit. See =became=.

=becomed=, _pret._ of become, IV, 505, 53.

=bed=, I, 272, 9: offered. See =bede=.

=bed-head=, I, 184, 44, 46: the top of the box or case of a Scottish bed. I, 116, =C= 5: should be bed-stock, as the rhyme shows.

=bed-stock=, I, 115, 3; IV, 94, 7; V, 208, 4: the outer side of a bed, that farther from the wall.

=bede=, _v._, II, 499 b: offer. See =bed=.

=bedone=, I, 271, 2; II, 183, 20: worked, ornamented.

=bedyls=, III, 28, 140: under-bailiffs, summoners.

=bee-ba=, II, 330, 11, 12: sounds to lull a child.

=beeds.= that beeds, I, 69, 67: string of beads.

=beek=, =biek=, IV, 69, 22; 77, 3, =c= 3: bask.

=beenits=, IV, 381, 12: bayonets.

=beere=, II, 445, 73: bare, bore.

=beerly= (bride), II, 132, 24: large and well made; stately. See =bierly=. beerly, burly cheer, I, 298, 4; 300, 4: great, huge.

=beet=, =bete=, =beik=, III, 495 a; IV, 517, 15: better, help. Of fire, II, 120, 16, 17; IV, 467, 13: kindle, keep up. _p. p._ bett, II, 44, 14. See =bete=.

=beet=, II, 475, 7; III, 281, 2: behooved.

=beet=, _v._, _inf._, II, 151, =H= 2: boot, furnish with boots. _pret._ bet, 4.

=beets=, _n. pl._, IV, 187, 10: boots.

=beette=, III, 298, 54: _pret._ of beat.

=befa=, IV, 357, =C= 4: may befall (he does not care what name he gets). IV, 357 f., 6, 8, 12, 14: belong to, suit.

=befalle=, I, 241, 2: may it befall!

=before=, taen your God before, II, 62 b, 15, representing ‘minged not Christ before,’ II, 59, 21: an artificial-sounding expression, which may mean, previously taken God for your helper.

=beforne=, II, 58, 15; III, 13, 12, 14: before. II, 58, 15, before (morning).

=beft=, III, 161, 26: beat. 164, 92: beaten.

=begane=, =bigane=, IV, 366, =D= 4: overlaid, covered.

=begeck=, =begack=, give a, III, 162, 63; 164, =b= 63: play a trick on, make a fool of. (A. S. geác, cuckoo, simpleton.)

=begoud=, =begood=, =begud=, I, 473, 11; II, 99, =B b= 9; IV, 167, =C= 10; 194, =B= 5; 195, 14; 201, 21; 203, 15; 224, 13: began.

=beguile=, _p. p._, III, 36, 41: beguiled.

=begule=, beguile.

=behad=, II, 160, 3: behold.

=behear=, II, 240 f., 7, 9; III, 93, 46; 131, 3: hear, beheard him, III, 421, 58: heard.

=beheld=, II, 61, 12: tarried.

=behestë=, III, 90 b: promise.

=behind his hand=, a stroke behind his hand, II, 63, 24: seems==backhanded stroke.

=behote=, III, 71, 315; _pres._, promise, thou behotë, III, 71, 297: didst promise.

=beik=, =beet=, =bete=, on, II, 121, 20: put on fuel.

=being=, II, 410, 26: means of living.

=belinger=, IV, 74, =G b= 3: corruption or misprint for (best?) ginger.

=beliue=, =belyfe=, =b(e)lyue=, III, 4, 18; 28, 125; 29, 144; 35, 18; 84, 87, 300; 94, 53; 117, 13: soon, immediately.

=bell=, silken, III, 261, =D= 7: conical canopy? corrupted from beild, shelter (screen)? Aytoun, with great probability, conjectures pall. Cf. =A= 10; =E= 10; =F= 14, which support the emendation.

=Bell= (Archie), III, 491, 3, 7: billie (comrade, brother), as in =D=, III, 492, 2.

=belle=, bere the, I, 328, 42; II, 58, 1; V, 202 b: stand foremost, take the lead.

=bell-groat=, I, 251, =A= 3, 5. Same as next word.

=belling-great=, I, 252, 3, 5: groat for ringing bell.

=belly-=, =billie-blind=. See =Billie Blin=.

=below the sun=, lookit below the sun, II, 78, 15; III, 6, 6; in below the sun, 8, 6. See =aneath the sun=.

=belted plaids=, IV, 84, 11; 85, 3; 87, 2; V, 253, No 203, =D= 2: “properly twelve yards of tartan cloth worn round the waist, obliquely across the breast and left shoulder, and partly depending backwards, ut in bello gestatur.”

=belyfe=, straightway. See =beliue=.

=belyue.= See =beliue=.

=bemean=, V, 163, 4: bemoan, compassionate.

=ben.= Good ben be here, III, 267, 10: God’s (or good) benison? Probably corrupt.

=ben= (shoes o, sheen o), IV, 378, 7; 380, 14: bend, bend-leather, strong ox-leather, thickened by tanning.

=ben=, I, 56 f., =C= 2, 14; III, 267, 20; 268, 17; 270, 16; 272, 20; 274, 33: towards the inner apartment of the house, or parlor, in, within. come farer ben, I, 369, 51; he was ben, II, 313, 16; he wood her butt, he wood her ben, I, 56, 2. V, 216, =B a= 7; 219, 10; 242 b, 8.

=ben=, royal ben, I, 478 f., 12, 46: (emended from _bend_) bone. See =roelle-bone=.

=benbow=, III, 54, 6; 104, 5; 132, 5; bend bow, III, 7, 4; 8, 25; 11, 6; bende bowe, III, 309, 44; bent bow, III, 8 =G= 2; 106, 16, 17: bow, simply, the bow being in actual use only in III, 11, 54, 104 (?), 106, 16, 309.

=bend=, III, 145, 5: where the way turned (?).

=bend=, III, 362, 71: _pret._ of bend. So II, 125, =G= 6: _pret._ of bend (should not have been changed to bent, p. 122).

=bended=, IV, 78, 1: bounded.

=benjed=, II, 403, 2; beenged, bynged, made humble obeisance, cringed.

=bent the way=, IV, 442, 13: took her course over.

=bent=, sword bent in the middle clear, middle brown, IV, 12, 11, 12: nonsense, or close upon nonsense.

=bent=, I, 3, 1; 5, =D= 1: a coarse, reedy grass.

=bent=, =bents=, II, 58, 16, 18; 62, 11; 172, 24, 25, 27, 35, 43; III, 295, 5; 296, 20; 297, 40; 307, 5, 8; 308, 26; 312, 28; IV, 86, 3: field, fields covered with bent grass.

=benty ground=, atween the brown and benty ground, IV, 27, 12: between heather and bent ground.

=benty line=, III, 7, 5: line of bent grass.

=ber=, _pret._ of bear.

=berafrynd=, V, 71 b: a drinking word, in response to passilodion.

=bere=, V, 264 a, 2: bigg, a sort of coarser barley (_Hordeum hexastichum_, not _H. vulgare_ or _distichum_).

=berl=, V, 224, 26: birl, dispense.

=bern=, =barn=, =bairn=, IV, 456, 7-9, 12; V, 247, 11: (A. S. bearn) child.

=berne=, III, 295, 5: (A. S. beorn, fighting man, brave, etc.) man.

=berry=, brown berry comb, II, 224, 1: the material of this comb is elsewhere said to be haw bayberry; all the passages describing it are corrupt.

=beryde=, I, 326, 2: made a bere, noise.

=bescro=, III, 110, 26; V, 80, 49: beshrew, curse.

=bese=, I, 329, 58: shalt be.

=beside=, =besids=, III, 357, 38, 41, 43, 45-7: aside from, away from.

=beside=, in addition to, four and thirty stripes comen beside the rood, II, 59, 29: referring to the scourging before the crucifixion.

=besom=, hid herself in the besom of the broom, I, 398, 9: besom seems to be twigs (as _scopae_ is both twigs and broom). Wedgwood cites from a Dutch dictionary of 1654, brem-bessen, broom-twigs, scopae spartiae.

=bespeak=: _pret._ bespa(c)ke, III, 420, 26, 30, 35; 430, 9; 431, 19, 23; bespoke, V, 149, 8-11; bespake him, I, 286, 52-5; III, 419 f., 6, 13, 22, 24: spake.

=bespeek=, IV, 498, 1, 3, 9: speak with.

=bespoke=, V, 149, 10, well-bespoke: well-spoken.

=bestand=, III, 105, 23: help, avail.

=bested=, =bestead=, circumstanced. ferre and frembde bested, III, 63, 138: in the position of one from a distance and a stranger. hard bestead, III, 161, 36.

=bestial=, IV, 41, note *: all the animals of a farm.

=best man=, IV, 342, 4: principal servant.

=bet=, II, 151, =H= 4: booted.

=betaken=, II, 59, 38: made over.

=bete=, =beet=, III, 310, 68: better, second, relieve. See =beet=.

=beth=, =both=, III, 59, 53, 54; 79, 54: be, old plural.

=bether=, V, 283, 8: better.

=Bethine=, II, 4, 12, for rhyme: if meant for anything, Bethany is meant, however inappropriate.

=betide=, II, 411 a, last line but two: nearest that ever fall to one, an unlikely phrase. Motherwell reads whateer betide.

=betide=, I, 503 b, 4, what news do ye betide? i.e. what do you (does your coming) signify? or, as at I, 205, =F= 10 (doth thee betide), what news has befallen you, come to your knowledge?

=betide=, boots of the tangle (sea-weed) that nothing can betide, V, 259 a, 11: should read to the effect, That’s brought in by the tide.

=betook=, I, 126, 6: took (simply).

=bets=, _pl._, V, 257, 10: boots.

=bett=, II, 44, 14, _pret._ of bete, beet: kindled.

=better.= she stood, and better she stood (printed bitter), I, 492, 5; they rode, and better they rode, I, 102, 10; 492, 10, 14; he rade and better rade, II, 209, =D= 5: longer, farther still. better swam, V, 140, =e= 7. better be, I, 128, 13: still more.

=beuk=, book.

=bewch=, III, 91 b: bough.

=bewrailed=, V, 55, 38: berailed.

=bewray=, V, 86, 35: reveal.

=beyt=, V, 79, 25: beeth, be.

=bickering=, IV, 7, 34: (hail) pattering.

=bide=, =byde=, I, 430, 4, 5, 8, 9; II, 177, 14; 289, =A= 2; 313, 14; III, 465, 30; V, 108, =B= 8: stay. _p. p._ bidden, IV, 262 f., 32, 33; 524, 9. bide (a doulfou day), II, 159, 23: await, look for. bide anither bode, III, 268, 12; 270, 12: wait for another offer. I never bade a better bode, III, 267, 15. your wedding to bide, III, 387, 11: await. bide it whoso may, IV, 433, 21: await the result? (obscure passage). bide frae me, V, 236, 16: stay away. In: she bade the bride gae in, II, 195, 30, it is not likely that a rival would bid a bride; interpret rather, she waited for the bride to go.

=bidene=, =bydene=, =bydeene=, I, 105 a, 20: immediately (or, all together). I, 273, 34: successively, one after another. III, 65, 185: together. III, 73, 350: simultaneously, or _en masse_.

=biek=, =beek=, IV, 77, 3: bask. See =beek=.

=bier=, III, 161, 32; V, 161, 1; 162, =D= 1: cry, lamentation.

=bierly=, =beerly= (bride), I, 467, 29; II, 75, 19; 132, 24; the same as buirdly bride, II, 82, 51: portly, stately (large and well made). See =buirdly=.

=big=, =bigg=, I, 15, 13; 17, 16; 108, 1; II, 330, 1; 331, 1; 332, 1: build. _pret._ and _p. p._ biggit, bigget, IV, 202, =K= 5; 203, 13. _pret._ bug, IV, 199, 17. _p. p._ buggin, bugn, IV, 445, 1; 446, 1. build a stack for corn, I, 17, 12; 428, 11; V, 206 a, 8.

=bigane=, I, 334, 5: covered, wrought.

=biggeall=, beguile.

=bigging=, =biggin=, II, 115, 23, 24; 117, 10, 11; 123, 25, 26; 255, 11, 12; 257, 19, 20; IV, 128, 2-4: building, house, “properly of a large size, as opposed to a cottage.”

=bigly= (Icelandic, byggiligr, habitable), commodious, pleasant to live in, I, 68, 32; 107, 1, 3; II, 98, 30-32, 35, 36; 172 f., 40, 42, 45; 294, 4, 5; 370, 6; 417, 3; 419, 45: frequent epithet of bower. II, 358, 26, of a bier: handsomely wrought.

=bile=, _v._, V, 305 a, 6: boil.

=bill=, V, 15, 16, 18: a paper. bills, IV, 422, 45, 46: (the necessary legal) papers. sworne into my bill, III, 411, 5: sworn in writing.

=bill=, I, 302, =B= 12; 303, 10; IV, 331 b, 2: bull.

=billaments=,I, 433, 17: habiliments, of head-gear.

=billie=, =billy=, comrade, brother; “a term expressive of affection and familiarity:” I, 448, =A= 2, 4; III, 464, 2, 5, 6, 19; 467, 56; 489, 11; V, 128, 29. born billy, III, 495 b, 23, 24. See =bully=.

=Billie Blin=, =Bellie Blind=, I, 73, 35, 44; 86, 29; 466 f., 14, 23; II, 464, 15, 16; 470, 60-63; 472, 31; V, 239, 39: see I, 67; V, 285 b.

=belly-blind=, II, 464, 15, 16: may mean here nothing more than an innocent warlock or wizard.

=billy-pot=, I, 164, =L= 6: pot with a semicircular handle (bail)?

=binë=, be not: V, 238, 18.

=binge=, IV, 462, 30: bend.

=binkes=, I, 334, 9: benches.

=binna=, be not.

=bint=, V, 110, 12: bind, pay for.

=bird= (=burd=), I, 76, 50, 51; II, 314, 29, 30; =C= 10; 316, 12; IV, 422, 2, 5, 10: maid, lady. bird her lane, II, 313, 12, 19: maid by herself, solitary. II, 272, 5: child, boy.

=birk.= he was standing on the birk, II, 165, 13, seems to be nonsense. There is no birk to stand on unless the floor is birken, and nothing could be more inept than a reference to that matter.

=birlin=, II, 28, 1: drinking. See =birl=.

=birl=, =berl=, II, 28, 1; 92, 17; 219, 6; IV, 154, 9; 166, 1; 234, 35; 385, 1: drink. II, 152, =J= 3; 299, 16; 368, 7: ply with drink. birled in him, II, 144, 3, 4: poured into. Of dispensing both bread and wine: II, 191, 34, 35; V, 224, 26. birled wi them, IV, 438, 8: should apparently be birled them wi. _ptc._, birlin, II, 28, 1.

=birnande=, burning.

=birtled=, I, 273, 42: cut up.

=bisette=, I, 334, 8: devote (to the matter a space greater by two miles).

=bit= (used with a noun instead of a diminutive), wee bit banes, I, 225, =L= 7: bits of.

=bit=, but. bit an(d), II, 30, 4; 132, 26: and also.

=bitaihte=, I, 244, 11: committed to.

=bitten=, V, 130, 13: taken in, cheated.

=bla=, III, 350, 53, 54: blow.

=blabring=, V, 247, 9: babbling. See =blobberin=.

=bla’d=, II, 21, 6: bla it, blow it.

=blaewort=, IV, 212, 6: corn bluebottle, round-leaved bell-flower, bluebell of Scotland.

=blaise=, =blaisse=, IV, 503, 19; 505, 49: display, show forth, display itself.

=blan=, =blane=, =blanne=, II, 53, 29; 140, 23; 265, 9; III, 309, 41; 405, 13; 406, 38; 466, 40: _pret._ of blin, stop, cease.

=blast=, V, 82, 39: puff, breathe hard.

=blate=, II, 260, 2; III, 160, 10; 163, 85: dumfoundered, abashed, silly. spake blate, II, 470, 47, 50: bashfully, diffidently.

=blavers=, V, 213, 14: corn bluebottle (blaewort).

=blaw=, I, 15, =B= 2; 16 =C= 2: blow. _pret._ blow, III, 112, 65. _p. p._ blawin, I, 17, =D= 1; blawn, I, 15, =B= 1; 16, =C= 1, 2. _pres. p._ blawn (blawing), II, 114, 20.

=blee=, I, 272, 13, 20, 24; 293, 1; II, 364, 26; 442, 1, 2: color, complexion.

=bleed=, blood.

=bleed=, I, 441, 5, 7, _pret._ of bleed: bled.

=bleeze=, III, 457, =B= 4: blaze.

=blewe=, I, 326, 7: blew on a horn (see st. 10).

=blin=, blind.

=blin=, =blyn=, =blinne=, II, 138, 3; V, 14 f., 2, 20: (belin) cease, stop. _pret._ blan. See =blan=.

=blind=, =blint=, II, 345, 26; 382, 6; IV, 265, _A b_ 8; 486, 10: blinded.

=blink=, _n._, IV, 136, 17; 360, 15; 384, 3, 4; look, glance. IV, 390, 7, of the moon: gleam. IV, 389 b: (of time) moment.

=blink=, to look: II, 433, 6; IV, 127, 14; 351, 7; 353, 18; 416, 2; V, 53, 107; 54, 3; 154, =A= 11: glance, emit, throw a glance. III, 371, 27; IV, 256 f., 1, 10: shine, glitter. blinkin ee, IV, 194, (4,) 5; 201, 25; 203, 5; 211, 9: shining, twinkling. wha is this that blinks in Willie’s ee? II, 189, 25: sends brightness into, whose brightness is reflected from. nor ever did he blink his ee (at the gallows), IV, 12, =B= 8: wink, shut, blench, his look was steadfast. cam blinkin on an ee, II, 475, 17: winking as if blind, playing the blind.

=blint=, II, 17 b; IV, 515, 12: blinded. See =blind=.

=bliss=: bless.

=blobberin=, II, 256, 13: perhaps, blubbering, crying; perhaps==blabring. V, 247, 9: babbling.

=block=, II, 216, 16: exchange. IV, 148, 54: bargain; lost the better block, had the worse in a bargain or dealing.

=blood=, =blude=, II, 114, 16; 123, 13: man (disrespectfully), fellow.

=blow=, _pret._, blew.

=blowe=, II, 478, 8: blossom.

=blowe= (wynde), II, 478, 12: give vent to.

=blowe= (boste), III, 59, 59: give breath to, utter.

=blude=, =bluid=, blood. See =blood=.

=bluid is gude=, IV, 433, 21: good to dream of.

=bluntest=, III, 492, 25: stupidest.

=blutter=, III, 161, 43: dirty.

=blyue=, =belyfe=, =beliue=, III, 29, 144; 71, 300; 74, 371: quickly, immediately.

=boad=, _n._, V, 243, 11: offer.

=boams=, fire-boams (not beams), IV, 96, =D= 3: bombs.

=board-floor=, II, 160, 5, 6: should probably be bower-floor, as in 159, 6, 9; 161, 6, 8.

=bocht=: bought.

=bocking=, III, 161, 33: vomiting, belching.

=boddom=, bottom.

=bode=, _n._, offer: III, 267, 15; 268, 12; 270, 12; 272, 14.

=bodë=, _p. p._, III, 67, 222: bidden, invited.

=bodes=, wild fowl bodes on hill, II, 410, 7: announces day. Cf. II, 230, 5, the wild fule boded day.

=bode-words=, III, 4, 19: messages.

=body=:faith, faikine, of my body, III, 180, 17; 199, 24; 216, 33; 296, 16; 472, 7; truth of my body, III, 180, =B=, 7; 181, 15, 16, 21; IV, 7, 31: either by my personal faith, or, by my body. faith in my body, III, 411, 6.

=body-clothes=; IV, 152, 7: clothes of my body.

=bold=, =bauld= (of fire), II, 116, 18; 117, 12; 119, 5, 6; 123, 18, 27: sharp, brisk.

=boldly= (understand), IV, 146, 19: freely, confidently, fully (_verbiage_).

=bokin=, bodkin.

=bolts=, IV, 409, 1: rods, bars (to make a petticoat stand out).

=bon=, =bone=, =boune=, on the way, going. See =boun=.

=bone=, boon.

=bone=, sadle of the bone, V, 219, 13. See =bane=, =roelle-bone=.

=bonins=, by, V, 253 a, 4: in plenty (Gypsy cant).

=bonnetie=, V, 306, 2, 3: _dimin._ of bonnet.

=booting=, III, 159, 1: making of boot or booty.

=boot=, _v._, IV, 501, 26: matter. See =bote=.

=bord=, =borde=, =bowrd=, V, 78, 1; 80, 48, 49: jest, sport, amusement, comic tale.

=bord=, II, 450, 80; 451, 84: should perhaps be _bore_, as in 445, 77. Still, carried him out of the saddle by the impact of the spear which bored him through is not unlikely, and we have, p. 454, 55, out of his saddle bore him he did.

=borden=, _adj._, IV, 506, 73: of plank; borden tree, wooden plank.

=born alive=, ye were, IV, 521, 19; =A=, IV, 26, 16, has ‘That I love best that’s born alive,’ i.e. of all that are born. The ye should be y^t, that, and probably was so meant.

=borough-town=, =borrow’s toun=, =borrous-toun=, etc. See =borrows-town=, =burrow-town=.

=borowe=, =borrow=, _n._ III, 59, 62-64, 66; 68, 237, 250: security. III, 405, 9: sponsor, vindicator.

=borowe=, =borrow=, _v._, I, 309, =A= 3; II, 177, 27; III, 25, 50; 298, 69; 329, 6; IV, 33, 15-18, 20, 21: set free, deliver, ransom.

=borowehode=, III, 68, 239: securityship.

=borrows-town=, =borrous-toun=, IV, 229, 1; V, 117, =A= 6, 7; 126, 1: borough-town, borough, corporate town. See =borough= (=burrow=)=-town=.

=boskyd=, III, 112, 60: busked, made ready. See =busk=.

=bot=, but. bot and: see =but and=.

=bot=, without. See =but=.

=bot=, II, 94, 3: behoved.

=bote=, =boote=, =boot=, II, 45, 30, 34; III, 27, 104; 94, 55; 187, 33: help, use, advantage, (boot, _v._, IV, 501, 26: matter.)

=both=, =beth=, III, 59, 53, 54; 79, 54: be (old plural).

=bottle= (of hay), V, 114, 4: bundle.

=bottle.= be my bottle, V, 170, 1: hold my own, bear my full part, in drinking? Corrupt?

=bottys=, butts.

=boud=, V, 176, 17: behoved, were obliged.

=bouerie=, II, 232, 1: diminutive of bower, chamber.

=bought===bucht, IV, 198, 1; 199, 17, 23: fold, pen.

=bouk=, =buik=, =buke=, II, 149, 14; IV, 127, 14; 484 a: trunk, body.

=boun=, =bowne=, =bune=, =bound=, =bownd=, =bowynd=, _v._, make ready, go. buske yee, bowne yee, III, 91, 5; 431, 25: make ready. boun, bound, I, 369, 44; IV, 183, 2; V, 256, 5: go. make ye boun, I, 75, 18: go. must bound home, V, 9, 4. get up and bound your way, II, 405, 9: go, come. bownd away, III, 161, 30; bowynd hym to ryde, III, 295, 1; bounded for to ride, II, 118, 7: set out, went. bound him to his brand, III, 160, 23: went, betook himself. was boon, boun, bound, II, 298, 5; IV, 432, 2; V, 256 a, 4: going, on the way. how she is bune, II, 191, 30: going on. go boun away, IV, 224, 15, 16 (tautology): go, depart.

=boun=, =bon=, =bowne=, =bowen=, =bowyn=, =bun=, _adj._ (búinn, _p. p._ of Icelandic búa, to make ready): bound, ready. made him boun, III, 163, 76. to batell were not bowyn, III, 295, 4. make ye bowne, I, 75, 18, 22; III, 296, 28. bun to bed, bon to rest, II, 191, 26; V, 35, =B= 3. made him boun, bound, III, 163, 76; V, 81, 2: equipped himself. your friends beene bowne, I, 210, 14: ready to come. ready boun (tautology), IV, 432, 5. See =boun=, _v_.

=boun=, V, 300, 6: boon.

=bounties=, V, 231, 14: presents, in addition to wages.

=bountieth=, V, 9, 12: bounty, alms.

=bourde=, _v._, III, 179 b: jest.

=bourden=, III, 179 b: staff.

=bourn=, III, 470 a: brook.

=boustouslie=, =bousterously=, =boustresslie=, =boustrouslie=: I, 108, 13; IV, 446, 13; 447, 13; 465, 19, 35: boisterously, roughly.

=bout=, II, 27, 18: bolt.

=bouted=, I, 68, 4; 70, 4: bolted.

=bow=, bough.

=bow=, lintseed bow, I, 305, 14: the boll or pod containing the seeds of flax.

=bow=, II, 28, 16: boll, a dry measure; of salt, two bushels; “for wheat and beans, four Winchester bushels; for oats, etc., six bushels.” Scottish, four firlots (see firlot). bow o bere, V, 264 a: boll of barley.

=bower=, chamber: I, 65, =A= 1; 68, 25, 32; 73, 47; etc., etc. bouerie, II, 232, 1: diminutive of the same.

=bower=, house, home: I, 56, 3; 79, 3; 80, 1; 107, 1; etc., etc. Often indistinguishable from the above.

=bower-head=, II, 76, 11: top of the house. (Unless the reading should be tower-head; cf. II, 74, =D= 5; 78, =I= 14, but we have an upmost ha, highest room, II, 72, =C= 14.)

=bower-yett=, house-gate.

=bowie=, V, 306, 15: a kind of tub.

=bown=, V, 273, No 239, 4: bowed, bent.

=bowne=, =bownd=, =bowyn=. See =boun=.

=bowrd=, I, 264: comic tale. See =bord=.

=bows= (o London), I, 131, =H= 1: arches of a bridge? windings of the river?

=box=, V, 19, 18: a compartment partitioned off in a drinking-room.

=boyt=, III, 109, 3: both.

=bra=, =braw=, I, 128, 19; V, 268, 25; 272, 3, 7, 11: brave, fine, handsome. See =braw=.

=bracken=, =braken=, =brachan=, =breckin=, =breaken=, =breckan=, =brecken=, =breachan=, IV, 257, =B= 7; 268, 21; 269, =d= 19, =f= 19; 272, 11, 3; 501, 28, 31, 37; V, 244, 16, 19, 20; 265 b, 19: fern, brake.

=brae=, =bra=, =bray=, hillside, hill: I, 324, 14; IV, 92, 1; 264, 15; 274, 8; 448 =a=, 3d st. braes o Yarrow, IV, 164 f., 1-9, =B= 3-5: the equivalent word is sometimes, banks, pp. 168, 169, 170, 178; otherwise houms, p. 168, but downs, p. 166 f., and the topography seems to indicate hills. “Conjoined with a name, it denotes the upper part of a country, as the Braes of Angus.” Jamieson.

=brae=, river-bank: III, 484 =a=, 32; burn-brae, IV, 275, =C b= 8. Cholar foord brae-head, III, 482, 21?

=brae=, brow: III, 4, 17.

=braid=, IV, 399, 28: breadth. See =breed=. _Adj._, broad.

=braid= (broad) =letter=, II, 20, 3; 25, 3; 26, 3; 27, 3; 251, 2; 393, 4; IV, 118, =C= 1; 119, =D= 1; 120, 1; 373, 2; 382, 3: either a letter on a broad sheet or a long letter. The king’s letter, II, 21, 3; 23, =E= 3; 24, 3, is lang, and at 22, 3, is large. A braid letter has been interpreted to be an open one, a patent, but in almost every case here cited the letter is said to be sealed. The letter at II, 251, 2, is private and confidential, written by a lady. Private folk write broad letters, IV, 320, 1; 339, 13; 342, 17; 343, 7; a lady again, II, 382, 5; 395, 18; IV, 233, 20; 342, 6; 343, 2.

=brain=, II, 124, 39; 130, 28; 131, 20; 133, 9; 169, 25; 407, 10; III, 274, 33: mad.

=brake=, =break=, V, 166, 8; 306, 7: cause to break off, correct, cure.

=braken=, III, 299, 12, 14; 300, 25, 26: fern. See =bracken=.

=braken=, I, 350, 17: _p. p._ of break.

=bramly=, III, 9, 13: brambly, thorny.

=branded= (bull), III, 459, 7: of a reddish brown color.

=brank=, _n._, III, 440, 10: caper, prance, gallop.

=branken=, =branking=, III, 299, 4; 301, =D= 1: galloping.

=branks=, III, 480, 9: a sort of bridle; a halter with two pieces of wood, instead of a leathern strap or a cord, over the nose, the whole resembling a muzzle.

=brash=, sickness: II, 364, 20; IV, 483, 16.