Chapter XXXI: Part III: , p. 24, Part IV, p. xxxi, taken down from James Olver, (18)

=main.= man o the main, is it to a man o the might, or till a man o the main, II, 403, 7, 8: main can have no sense distinct from might, and man of the might, man of the main, is simple verbiage. In =B= 4, =H= 6, we have, to a man of micht or a man of mean: man of mean cannot be wrenched into man of low degree, and we do not want that sense even if we could legitimately get it, for the antithesis is not between the man of micht and the man of mean degree, but between both these and the robber or robbers of the last half of the stanza. The stall copy, 405, 5, 6, having only grammar in mind, reads man (one) that’s mean, and but for rhyme might perhaps have gone so far as, a man of means. IV, 146, 21, reads, man o mine, to avoid the difficulty. See =mean=.

=main=, _n._, IV, 473, 39: moan. See =mane=.

=ma-i-ntn=, V, 303 a: maintain, support.

=mair=, IV, 21, 14: more, bigger.

=mairly=, IV, 59 f., =d= 2; =e= 2, =g= 2: a rhyme used for mair.

=maist=, II, 169, 7: almost.

=maistly=, I, 138 b, =d= 5: mostly, almost. See =mostly=.

=make=, =maik=, =maicke=, I, 127, 14; 128, 11: 129, =D= 8; 347, 23, 30; 348, 11, 17: mate, consort. I, 403, 12; II, 46, 1; IV, 344, 7; V, 184, 44: match, like; and so in, what is my lineage or what is my make, IV, 341, =D= 8.

=make=, III, 37, 67: for _made_, _p. p._

=making=, IV, 208, 3: doing, deportment.

=maks=, V, 307 b: makes.

=male=, III, 63, 134; 68, 247, 255: (O. Fr. male) trunk. male-hors, III, 74, 374.

=mall=, with the leaden mall, III, 357, 42: mallet, hammer (referring to the weight of his stroke).

=mallasin=, malison.

=man=, V, 191, 8, 12: vassal. V, 304 b, 3: husband.

=man=, =mane=, =maun=, =mun=, I, 16, =B= 8, 9, 12-16; 146, 5, 6; V, 197, 12; 219, 29; 220, 4; 248, 12, 13: must.

=mane=, =maen=, =main=(=e=), =meane=, =meen=, I, 72, 20; 448, =A= 1, 3; etc.: moan, complaint, lament; often nothing more than utterance, enunciation, as, I, 253, 1; 394, =A= 2; 395, =C= 4; III, 489, 1.

=mane=, _v._, I, 72, 23: moan. See =mean=.

=maney=, III, 109, 4: meny, followers. See =menë=.

=mang=, I, 108, 6: among.

=manhood=, =manhead=, =manheed=, men (man) o your, men to your, I, 108, 14; 109, 13; IV, 446 f., 14: a strange way of saying, if you are men (man) of true valor, willing to fight one by one. III, 422, 59: manly deed, exploit demanding courage.

=manie=, =mennie=, V, 270, 8: maunna, must not.

=mankie=, V, 173, 3: calamanco, a stuff made in the Low Countries.

=manratten=, =manrydden= (A. S. manrǽden), III, 359, 95; 362, 95: homage, vassalage.

=manrent=, IV, 34 b: homage, vassalage. See =manratten=.

=mansworn=, I, 394, 3; IV, 442, 10: perjured.

=marchandise=, III, 92, 22: dealing.

=march-man=, III, 296, 8: one who lives on the march, or border.

=March-parti=, =Marche-partes=, III, 310, 58, 67: Border-part, -parts, Border, Borders.

=marie=, III, 491, 14: mare.

=marie.= See =mary=.

=mark=, II, 62 b, 11; 132, 29; IV, 202, =K= 2: murky. the mark, II, 164, 3. See =mirk=.

=marke=, =merk=, I, 394 ff., =B= 1; =C= 2; III, 68, 243, 246; 69, 270: two thirds of a pound.

=marke hym=, III, 297, 44: commit himself by signing the cross.

=marries=, IV, 487, 25: maids. See =mary=.

=marrow=, I, 147, 5; 148, =G= 4; 149, =I= 4; IV, 165, 13; 168, 2; V, 41, 16: (of man or woman) mate, husband, wife. IV, 165, 8, 9; =B= 2; 166, 2, 3; 167, =D= 6; 169, 5, 6; 170, =G= 3; =H= 3: match, equal in rank, equal antagonist. bear ye marrow, 169, 4: should perhaps be, be your marrow, as in 170, =G= 3.

=mary=, =marie=, =marrie=, =marry=, II, 369, 13, 15, 19, 20; 370, 13, 14, 17; 371, 14, 15, 20, 21, etc.; 390, 25; 391, 19; IV, 487, 25; 489, 26: a queen’s lady, maid-of-honor (cf. III, 381 b; 385, 18; 386, 19; etc.), maid (like abigail).

=mary mild=, IV, 213, 13: marigold; cf. V, 259, 5.

=Mas= (James Melvine), III, 471 a: Magister, Mr. Mess James Murray, V, 196, 51: see =Mess=.

=masar=, =maser=, III, 65, 175; 83, 86, 175: a drinking-vessel, of wood, especially of knotty-grained maple, often mounted with bands or rings of precious metals. See Way’s note, Prompt. Parv., p. 328.

=mass=, in the frequent formula, when bells were rung and mass was sung and a’ men bound to bed, II, 70, 21, etc.: a domestic religious service at the end of the day. evening-mass, II, 168, =A= 4.

=mast=, =maste=, III, 296 f., 22, 31; V, 79, 22: mayst.

=master-man=, II, 16, 2: captain of a ship. V, 191, 19: chief.

=masteryes=, make, III, 92, 27: do feats of skill.

=mat=, =matt=, mat he (ye) dee! wae mat fa, mat(t) worth!==mot, in the sense of may: II, 27, 7, 10; 472, 25, 33; IV, 391, 6; 392, 9, 21; 428, 6; V, 166, 10; 306, 10. See =met=.

=maught=, =maugt=, might.

=maugre=, maugre in theyr teethe, III, 67, 225: in spite of.

=maun=, I, 16, =B= 8, 9, etc.; =C= 7-10, etc.; 17, =D= 5-7, etc.; 146, 5, 6; 183, 25, 26: must. 71, 39 in _pret._ sense. See =man=, =mun=.

=maunna=, I, 185, 25: must not. See =manie=.

=mavosie=, I, 465, 8: mavis, song-thrush.

=maw=, =sea-maw=, II, 360, 3; 363, 7; 365, 5; IV, 482, 6: sea-mew, gull.

=maw=, _v._, I, 427, 13, 15: mow.

=mawys=, I, 326, 2: mavis, song-thrush.

=may=, =mey=, I, 115, =B= 1, 3, etc.; 173 f., 6, 10; III, 93, 39; 286, 45; IV, 432, 9; 515, 2: maid.

=may=, _optative_, frequently put after the subject, as, Christ thy speed may bee! thou mayst sune be! I may be dead ere morn! III, 355 f., 5, 23; 359, 87; 370, 8, 11; IV, 365, 18.

=may be===is, like _can be_: II, 448, 33; 451, 100. might be==was, III, 452, 10. (So, possibly, might see, I, 434, 30.)

=may gold=, III, 497, 13: marigold.

=mayne=, strength.

=maystry=, mastery.

=me=, I, 243 f., 5, 15: men, French _on_.

=me=, _ethical dative_, sawe I me, etc., III, 65, 184; 68, 249; 75, 381; 79, 147; 80, 169.

=meal=, III, 163, 77: meal-bag.

=meal=, II, 230, 14, 15; 362, 36: mold, dust, earth. See =meel=.

=mean=, man of, I, 358, 30; II, 233, =F= 3; 400, 4, 5; 404, 6, 7; V, 36, =B= 8, 9: mere verbiage, I judge; _mean_ looks like an attempt to escape from _main_, which see. (man of mean, II, 233, =F= 3, not being joined with man of might, might be understood as, man of main, or violent man.)

=mean=, =meane=, =meen=, _v._, I, 426, 5; V, 246, 4, 6: moan, lament. I, 388, =A= 7, 10: bemoan, lament the state of. not to mean, V, 160, 2: not to be pitied. mean, V, 160, 1, is doubtful, but the verb corresponding to moan is to be preferred. See =mane=, =menyd=.

=mean=, _n._, moan. See =meen=.

=meany=, III, 307, 3, 10: troop. See =menë=.

=meaten=, =meeten=, II, 434, 17; III, 33, 158: measured.

=meathe=, IV, 378, 9; 380, 17: landmark.

=meatrif=, III, 163, 87: abounding in food.

=meckle=, =meikle=, =muckle=, IV, 513, 6, 7: much.

=medder=, V, 221, 11: mother.

=medill-erthe=, I, 327, 27. See =middle-earth=.

=meed=, I, 68, 10, 14; II, 172, 33: mood, heart, state of feeling.

=meed=, warld’s meed, I, 108, 14; IV, 446 f., 14: seems to be corrupted from mate (make). Woreldes make is a familiar phrase in Old English, and not unfrequent in ballads.

=meel=, meel or mor, III, 281, 8, 10: mold, earth, ground; but perhaps an error for mede, mead. See =meal=.

=meen=, _v._, moan, lament. See =mean=, _v._

=meen=, =mean=, I, 427, 5; II, 124, 39; 417, 11; III, 389, 12, 13: lamentation. See =mane=.

=meen=, I, 222, 8; 315, 8; IV, 416, 10: moon.

=meet=, I, 148, =F= 10: (_causative_) pass, put, thrust in.

=meet=, =meete=, II, 46, 45: even, equal. II, 229, 13: scant, close, and so, perhaps, II, 436, 61.

=meeten=, =meaten=, II, 434, 17: measured, by measure. See =met=.

=meiht=, I, 243, 3: mayst.

=meikle=, =meickle=, =mickle=, =muckle=, I, 72, 24, 25; 86, 2, 3; 309 f., 2, 4; 330, =A= 3, =B= 3; IV, 514, 5: much, great.

=meisseine=, V, 132, 7: spanker, or perhaps, Fr. misaine, foresail.

=mell=, I, 299, 6; 304, 10; =F= 6; 305, 12; V, 108, =B= 6: mall, wooden hammer, beetle.

=mell=, IV, 177 b, =I= 7: mail.

=mell=, III, 172, 24: meddle.

=meller’s hoops=, I, 304, =F= 5: mill-casings, the circular wooden frames which surround mill-stones.

=melten= (goud), IV, 471, 37: molten.

=menë=, =menye=, =meany=, =menyie=, =meynë=, =maney=, =monie=, III, 72, 335: followers, band.

=menement=, V, 242, 9, 11, 13: amendment.

=menji=, menji feathers in her hat, V, 163, 13: many.

=mennie=, =manie=, V, 270, 8: maunna, must not.

=mensked=, I, 334, 11: honored, dignified.

=menyde= (of hir songe), I, 326, 2: moaned, uttered, delivered. See =mean=.

=menye=, =menyie=, household, retinue, people: III, 91 a; IV, 127, 4, 5. See =menë=.

=mere=, IV, 493, 21: more.

=meri.= See =mery=.

=merk=, =marke=, I, 394 f., =B= 1, =C= 2: two thirds of a pound.

=merk.= See =merkes=.

=merk=, _v._, mark, merked them one, III, 297, 47: took their aim at.

=merkes=, III, 75, 397: distances between the bounds.

=merke-soote=, I, 334, 4: mark-shot, distance between the marks (cf. III, 75, 397), from bow to target, bow-shot.

=merlion=, =merlyon=, II, 45, 21, 33: merlin, the smallest of British falcons.

=merrilye=, III, 329, 11: in good or valiant fashion. So, nearly, IV, 477, 8.

=merry= (men). See =mery=.

=merry Cock land=, III, 250, 1: corruption of the _merry Scotland_ of 249, =I=, =J=, 1; 251, =M=, 1; 252, =O=, 1.

=merrys=, I, 327, 22: mars, marrest.

=mery=, =meri=, =merry=, =merrie=, =myrri=, =myrry= (men), II, 386, 12; III, 66, 205; 71, 316; 73, 340; 97, 9; 114, 121, 131; 116, 2; 285 f., 30, 48; 309, 37; 330, 17; 430, 5; 431, 4; 432, 2; 433, 2; IV, 234, 39; V, 191, 4, 14: a standing phrase for followers, companions in arms.

=mese=, I, 328, 45: course (at table).

=mese=, III, 484 a, 16: mitigate.

=Mess=, an epithet said to be contemptuous for a priest or parish minister (as one who says, or said, mass), so Mess John, IV, 442, 10, 12; but there is no reason to suppose disrespect in V, 196, 51. See =Mas=.

=mestoret=, V, 80, 42: needed.

=met=, I, 324, 3; IV, 455, 4; V, 195, 9: mat, may. See =mat=.

=met=, _pret._ of mete, III, 60, 73: measured. _p. p._ met, mete, III, 60, 72; 203, 17; IV, 465, 23; 467, 13.

=methe=, meat.

=mett=, meet.

=met-yard=, III, 105, 27: measuring-rod.

=mey=, V, 161, 9: maid. See =may=.

=meynë=, III, 27, 96; 58, 31; 61, 95, 97; 76, 419: retinue, suite, household, company, body of people. See =menë=.

=meythe=, III, 112, 59: might.

=micht=, _v._, V, 299, 4: might.

=micht’ll=, might well.

=mickle=, great, much. See =meikle=.

=midder=, =mideer=, mother.

=middle-earth=, =medill-erthe=, I, 327, 27; II, 59, 25: (A.S. middangeard, middaneard), earth (conceived as being the middle of the universe; see miðgarðr in Vigfusson).

=middle stream=, III, 125, 19: middle of the stream.

=middle waist=, IV, 523, 6: middle of his waist.

=mid-larf=, crowing a, II, 230, 5, 8: corrupt (changed by Scott to merry midnight). Taking into account the young cock crew i the merry Linkem, II, 239, =B= 4, midlarf may stand for some locality (suggestion of Professor Kittredge).

=might be===was, III, 452, 10. See =may=, =can=.

=mild=, maidens mild, II, 312, 1; 314, =C= 1, =D= 1; 316, 1: meek, gentle, demure. So Mild Mary, II, 315, =E= 7; Mary(-ie) Mild, III, 395, =M= 1, 3; 396, =N= 1; 398 a, =c= 4; Mary Mile, III, 386, 5, 6, 8. Corrupted to Moil, IV, 507 b, =S= 2; Miles, IV, 511 a, 5. myld(e) Mary, of the Virgin, III, 97, 7, 17; 98, 35: lenient, compassionate. myld myȝth, V, 283, 13.

=milk-dey=, IV, 262, 26; 524, 6: dairy-woman.

=mill=, =mille=, IV, 503, 13; 505, 45; V, 221, 15, 16; 224, 25: mile.

=millaine=, I, 286, 42, 45: of Milan steel. See =myllan=.

=mill-capon=, II, 477 b, =D= 27: a poor person who asks charity at mills from those who have grain grinding, the alms usually given being a gowpen, or handful, of meal.

=millering=, II, 467, 42: waste meal, sweepings of a mill (dust [which] lyes in the mill, II, 470, 43).

=mill-town=, =mill-toun=, II, 471, 18; V, 238, 29: miller’s steading or place.

=miln=, I, 18, 11: mill.

=milner=, =mylner=, III, 85, 4; 360, 111: miller.

=min.= See =mind=.

=mind=, II, 216, 12, 15; 218, 13, 16: recollection. her mind she keeped, II, 72, 13: did not forget what she had promised. for changing o her min, 81, 32: seems to mean, lest she should change her mind; but the sense is not striking.

=mind.= mind o, on, I, 481, 26; IV, 194, 16, 9; 195, 15; 196, 17; 197, 17, etc.: remember. _pret._ mind, I, 183, 30. mind of, on, mind to, I, 470, 16; IV, 403 f., 14, 28; 437, 24: remind of. he mind’t him on, V, 18, 5: remembered.

=minde=, ffor the maydens loue that I haue most minde, II, 58, 5: elliptical or corrupt. Comparing 59, 24 (where the MS. reads, wrongly, most meed) we see that _for_ is not to be taken with _minde_. We must understand _most in mind_ or _most mind to_ or _of_, or, possibly, _minde_ may be (from minnen, remember) _had in mind_.

=minge= (A. S. myndgian), III, 355, 6; 362, 72: utter. minged, II, 59, 21: didst name the name of, mention (or, perhaps, only bore in mind). myn, III, 358, 72.

=minikin=, V, 201 b: little, pretty little.

=minion=, I, 284, 12: dainty.

=minnie=, =minny=, II, 473, 16, 17; IV, 69, 16; 294, =C= 9, 10; V, 115, 9: mother. IV, 6, 15; V, 250, 14: dam.

=mint to=, II, 469, 31; IV, 493, 20; V, 28, 67; 238, 21: put out the hand towards, move towards. minted as, V, 9, 7: took a direction as if, made as if.

=mire=, =myre=, I, 428, 13, 14; 429, 7, 8; III, 475 b: swamp, bog. mire an moss, bog, an miery hole, IV, 22, 12; cf. 184, 5.

=mirk=, =myrke=, =mark=, I, 326, 16; IV, 517, 14: dark.

=Mirry-land toune=, III, 244, =B= 1: probably a corruption of the _merry Lincoln_ of =A= 16, 17; 246, =D= 1; 251, =L= 1.

=miscarry me=, IV, 267, 11: get me into trouble; fail, disappoint me (?).

=misgae=, misgave.

=misgiding=, V, 117, 15: ill treatment.

=misguide=, =misgiding=, V, 117, 15; 119, 15: ill treatment.

=miss=, _n._, IV, 317, =E= 5; 325, =C= 5, =D= 3: mistress, whore.

=miss=, _n._, II, 465, 4: wrong or injury.

=miss=(=e=), _v._, I, 210, 12: omit, fail. miss your Wanton slack, IV, 22, 10, 12: fail to keep him tightly reined (?).

=mis-sworn=, I, 395, =C= 5: mansworn, perjured.

=mister=, =myster=, III, 450 a; IV, 268, 26; 464, 15: need, requirement, an exigency. misters, III, 164, 90: sorts of.

=mistkane=, I, 105 a, 18, if not miswritten, seems to be simply a phonetic variation of mistane.

=mith=, =mithe=, _n._, I, 334, 6, 7, 11: might.

=mith=, =mithe=, _v._, II, 139, 10; IV, 493, 19: might. mith slain, II, 165, 23: might [have] slain.

=mode=, I, 328, 47: spirit.

=modther=, IV, 260, 3, 7: mother.

=mody=, =mudie=, I, 334, 10: proud, high-spirited.

=mold=, =molde=, mane of molde, I, 327, 20: earth. ouer the mold, into the Scottish mold, I, 433, 21, 23: land, country. I, 434, 37; II, 246, 7: ground.

=Moll Syms=, I, 126, 13; IV, 448, 7: a well-known dance tune of the sixteenth century.

=mome=, III, 352, 7: dolt.

=monand=, _n._, II, 87, 36: moaning.

=mone=, I, 326, 1: moan, lamentation, complaint. See =meen=.

=monie=, IV, 437, 2: menie, company, suite. See =menë=.

=montenans.= See =mountnaunce=.

=monty=, IV, 42 a, note §: staircase. (Fr. montée.)

=mood=, giue me, III, 105, 23: though _give me my God_ looks like a bold change, it is not improbable. We have, yeve me my savyour, in the Romaunt of the Rose, 6436, le cors nostre Seigneur, 12105, Michel. And again: For it was about Easter, at what times maidens gadded abrode, after they had taken their Maker, as they call it. Wilson, Arte of Logike, fol. 84 b. “In 1452 John Bulstone (of Norwich) bequeathed to the church of Hempstede ‘j pyxte, to putte owre lord god in.’” Academy, XL, 174. (These last two citations furnished by Prof. J. M. Manly.) Again, the Breton ballad, Ervoan Camus, Revue Celtique, II, 496, st. 6, has ‘she has received my God.’ (Dr F. N. Robinson.) See V, 297 a.

=moody-hill=, =moudie-hill=, =mould-hill=, IV, 148 f., 48; 150, =g=, =h= 48: mole-hill.

=mool=, =mools=. See =moul=.

=morn=, morrow. the morn, III, 480, 18; 482, 14; 488, 19; 489, 11; IV, 517, 18: to-morrow. the morn’s morning, IV, 373, 8.

=mornin’s gift=, =morning gift=, II, 132, 32; 135, 28: gift made the morning after marriage.

=mort=, III, 307, 8; IV, 26, 8: note on the horn to announce the death of deer.

=mose-water.= See =moss-water=.

=moss=, =muss=, =mose=, I, 78, 32; 99, 6; III, 4, 3, 48; 440, 10; IV, 443 f., 6, 19; 445, 8: bog.

=moss-water=, =mose-water=, II, 193, 21; 195, 33; V, 224, 19: water of a peat-bog.

=most=, I, 328, 50: greatest.

=mostly=, =maistly=, IV, 242 b: almost.

=mot=, I, 473, 5: must.

=mot=, =mote=, I, 333, 2; III, 7, 9; 68, 243; 75, 394; 113, 81; IV, 137, 29; V, 82, 25, 27; 83, 44, 50, 53; 283, 3: may.

=mote=, III, 68, 253: meeting.

=moten=, molten.

=mothe=, =mouthe=, I, 334, 4, 6: for meahte (mohte), might.

=mother-in-law=, II, 71, 11; 72 f., 14, 15: stepmother.

=mother-naked=, I, 344, 33: naked as in, or coming from, the womb.

=mothly=, III, 148, 27: motley.

=motion=, III, 216, 38: =proposal=.

=mou=, =moue=, =mow=, I, 302, =B= 8; III, 149, 34; IV, 277, 10; V, 115, 9; 268, 18; 269, 13: =mouth=.

=moudie-hill.= See =moody-hill=.

=moue=, I, 16, =C= 15: put up in ricks.

=mought=, V, 76, 28; 83, =b= 25, etc.: mote, may. III, 30, 98: might, were able.

=moul=, =mouls=, =mool=, =mools=, IV, 329, =A b=, after 16; 330, =D d= 20: mould, dust, ashes (of the dead). I, 184, 10; II, 233, 6; 429, 6; IV, 492, 6; V, 210, 10: earth of a grave. See meal, II, 230, 14, 15.

=mould-hill.= See =moody-hill=.

=mould-warpe=, III, 420, 20: mole.

=mountnaunce=, =montenans=, I, 327, 31; III, 64, 168: =amount=.

=mouthe.= See =mothe=.

=mow=, III, 149, 34: seems to be meant for mouth (lip). But perhaps we may understand grimace (for a tyrant to make faces at). See =mou=.

=mow=, =mows,= IV, 224, 22; 225, 20: jest.

=moyen=, IV, 42 a, note: =means=.

=mucell.= See =muckle=.

=muck=, IV, 323, 6: dung.

=muck the byre=, IV, 293, 9; 294, =C= 9, 10; 295, =D= 9; 297, 9: carry out dung from the cow-house.

=muckle=, =mukle=, =mucell=, =meikle=, IV, 398, 6; 494, 33: big. IV, 399, 40; V, 271, 13: much.

=mudie=, III, 434, 27, 28: bold. See =mody=.

=muir=, moor.

=mullertd=, IV, 86, 12: miller.

=mun=, =maun=, =man=, II, 59, 20; 314, 28; IV, 343, 6: must.

=mune=, moon.

=munt=, I, 304, =E= 2: come to, make out.

=mure=, V, 202 b: moor, heath (?).

=muss=, III, 4, 3, 4, 8: moss, bog. See =moss=.

=myght=, welcome myght thou be, III, 65, 177: Old Eng. _2d pers. pres. ind._ == mayst.

=myght neuer no tyme to sleepe=, III, 77, 441: probably corrupt, and to be read, no tymë slepe; but the construction is not unknown.

=myȝth=, _n._, V, 283, 13: might, power.

=myld=, =mylde=. See =mild=.

=myle=, two myle way, III, 64, 168: the time it takes to go two miles.

=myllan=, III, 309, 31: Milan steel. See =millaine=.

=mylner=, =milner,= III, 81, 4; 97, 8: =miller=.

=myn=, III, 358, 72: say. See =minge=.

=myneyeple=, III, 308, 30: corruption of manople, a gauntlet protecting the hand and the whole forearm (?). Skeat.

=myre.= See =mire=.

=myrke=, =mirk=, =mark=, I, 327, 30: dark.

=myrri=, =myrry=. See =mery=.

=myrthës= can, III, 66, 210: knows pleasant stories.

=mysaunter=, III, 13, 10: =mischance=.

=myster=, III, 68, 244: need, occasion. See =mister=.

=mystery=, =mysterie=, III, 495, =B b=, after 7; IV, 517, 15: craft.

N

=n=, carried on from preceding word to following. noo nother, no noder, III, 81, 58; 100, 80: none other. a nother, nether, III, 80, 200; V, 247, 9: an other. a naughtless, noughtless, IV, 286, 12; 287, 5: an aughtless, good for nought. a noke, V, 81, 45: an oke. they nere, they nee, III, 112, 50; 204, =b= 31: theyn ere, thyn ee. my nane, I, 469, 29 (but nane should probably be name). So, his nawn, her nain (nen), yer nane, as if from hisn, hern, yern, I, 469, 28; III, 269, 1; IV, 132, 13; V, 224, 24. In, an oute-horne, III, 30, 87, n seems to have been carried back, from noute (see V, 297 a). n in nant, III, 35, 24, 31, is an arbitrary prosthesis.

=na=, =nae=, no, not: I, 68 f., 12, 22, 31, 44, 51; 107, 3, 8; 310, 9, 11, 13; V, 260, 16. Frequently united with the preceding verb. hadna, I, 343, 5, 18. winna, 354, 27. canno, 368 f., 35, 37, 39. coudna, 369, 51. wadna, 394, 9, 11. shanae, 394, =B= 1. woudna, 396, 23, 26. shoudna, 396, 27. didna, 397, 12. kensnae, 466, 13. wasnae, 467, 34, etc., etc.

=naesaid=, IV, 371, 7: =refused=.

=nags=, =naggs=, =nogs=, III, 480, 11; 481, 8; 484 a, 11: notches, nicks.

=nain=, own. See =n=.

=nane=, =nen=, yer nane, my nane, etc.: own. (n, originally, carried on from mine.) See =n=.

=nane=, =neen=, none. I, 16, 6; 309, 12; II, 108, 13; 129, 16; 425, 3: adverbially, not, not at all. See =none=.

=nant=, III, 35, 24, 31: aunt.

=naow=, V, 304, 5, 12, 14: now.

=napkin (-ken, -kain)=, I, 395, 9, 14: neckerchief. II, 108, 3; 158 f., 5, 8; 160, 4, 7; 163, 4, 6: pocket handkerchief. pocket-napkin, IV, 468, 2.

=nappy=, V, 84, 13 (of ale): strong.

=naps=, naps of gold were bobbing bonnie, IV, 295, 8, 9: knobs, balls, mentioned as ornaments to gloves, II, 133, =D= 6, golden-knobbed gloves; 134, 8, 13, siller-knapped gloves.

=napskape=, =knapscap=, IV, 7, 35; V, 251, 31: head-piece.

=nar= = nor, with comparative, for _than_: III, 112 f., 57, 69; V, 78 f., 12, 18. See =nor=.

=nas=, I, 244, 15: ne was, was not.

=naught=, V, 102, =A= 13: naughtiness.

=naughtless=, a naughtless lord, IV, 287, 5; a noughtless heir, 286, 12: an aughtless, oughtless, good-for-naught, impotent.

=naughty=, V, 267, 13: good-for-naught.

=naur=, II, 62 a, 15: near, or nearer.

=naw= = na = no.

=naw=, IV, 442, 2: nay. V, 296, a: not.

=nawn=, own. See =n=.

=naye=, withowghten naye, III, 296, 18: undeniably, truly.

=ne=, III, 349, 46; V, 272 b, 5, 6; 273, 16: no. III, 62, 128: not.

=ne=, stand ye nè aw, III, 350, 53: misprint (in original); =g=, stand in no awe.

=nean=, V, 219, 27; 220, 1; 257, 11: none.

=near=, =neare=, =ner=, =nere=, I, 101, 19; II, 183, 30; 191, 37; III, 62, 119; 111, 46; V, 224, 28: nearer.

=near=, IV, 446, 14^4; 447, 14^4: corrupt, as the repetition from the second verse shows; _while_ (till) _my days are near_ (to an end) would be extremely forced, in any case.

=near=, =neer=, never.

=near-hand=, _adj._, IV, 197, 4, 5: near, short. _adv._, III, 161, 36; IV, 222, 8 (near-han): near, almost.

=neast=, =neist=, =nist=, =nest=, V, 117, =A= 7; 216 f., 1, 5, 7, 10, 18; 242 a, 10, 12: next.

=neathing=, nothing.

=neave=, III, 123, 16, 20: fist.

=neb=, I, 425, =A= 16: beak.

=nee=, III, 422, 67: nigh.

=needle-tack=, II, 217, 5: fastening or stitch with a needle.

=neen=, none. See =nane=.

=neen nae=, II, 318 b, 4: need na, need not.

=neerice=, nurse. See =nourice=.

=neeze=, V, 222 b, 26: sneeze, snort.

=neigh=, _v._, II, 54, 54, 55: nigh, approach.

=neis=, I, 302, =B= 8; IV, 247, =B= 12: nose.

=neist=, =niest=, I, 223, 9; 314, 5; 419 f., 1, 3, etc.: next.

=nelle=, V, 284, 22: ne will, will not.

=nen=, her nen, V, 224, 24: own. See =nane=.

=ner=, =nere=, III, 62, 119; 111, 46: nearer. See =near=.

=nere=, III, 113, 75: were [it] not.

=nere=, they nere, III, 112, 50: theyn ere, thine ear.

=neshe=, III, 445, 31: of delicate quality.

=nest=, next. See =neast=.

=nettle-dyke=, II, 463, 22: wall with nettles growing on it, or near it. Cf. II, 467, 40; 469, 42.

=neuk=, coat-neuk, II, 107, 4, 5: nook, corner.

=new-fangle=, I, 272, 9: fond of novelties, capricious, inconstant.

=next=, I, 412, 27; II, 45, 30, 34: nighest.

=nextand=, II, 94, 6. See =-an=.

=neys=, V, 80, 39: nice (ironically).

=nicher=, =nicker=, _n._ and _v._, III, 370, 10; IV, 18, 15; 19, 13; 20, 10; 21, 11: neigh.

=nicht=, the, to-night.

=nicked him of naye=, II, 52, 12; nickd them wi nae (nay), V, 182 f., 12, 30 (clearly borrowed from the above in Percy’s Reliques): refused with nay.

=nicker.= See =nicher=.

=nick-nack=, playd nick-nack on the wa, V, 123, 16; 124, =B= 14: to express the sound of successive collisions.

=niddart=, niddart ither wi lang braid-swords, II, 422, 49: thrust at. Jamieson, pressed hard upon. Correspondents from the North of Scotland say, notched, slashed.

=nie=, III, 473, 27: neigh.

=nie=, =neigh=, nigh.

=niest=, I, 15, =B= 3; 147, 5: next, nearest. come niest, IV, 485, 30: nigh to. See =neist=.

=niffer=, _n._ and _v._, I, 203, =C= 10, 15; IV, 406, 24: exchange.

=night-coif=, III, 514, 3; 515, 1; V, 225, 4: night-cap.

=night-wake=, IV, 453, 3, 4: night-watch, as of a dead body, perhaps a corruption of _lyke-wake_.

=nimble=, =nimle=, wrongly for thimble, thimber, I, 332, =E= 2, =F= 2, =G= 2.

=nine=, the, III, 392, 8: the nine justices of the supreme criminal court of Scotland. Kinloch, A. S. B., p. 259.

=ning=, V, 165 f., 4, 12: nine. nine, 111, 26, is changed from ninge. In the older stages of the language, remarks Dr. Murray (Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland, p. 125), ng was often written for Latin gn, and vestiges of this substitution of the nasal for the liquid n are still found in the spoken dialect.

=nip=, III, 160, 18, 19: bit.

=nires=, =norice=, nurse. See =nourice=.

=nist=, =nest=, =neast=, V, 216, 10; 242 a, 10, 12: next.

=nit=, III, 465, 20: knit, fasten.

=nit=, I, 450, 2-4: nut.

=nit-broun=, IV, 469, 7; 470, 23, 29, etc.: nut-brown.

=no=, I, 86, 13; 100, 10; 108, 6, 8; 135, =P= 8, 10; II, 218, 12; 222, 19; III, 465, 32: not.

=noble=, =nobellys=, III, 113, 81; 126, 39; 201, 29: a gold coin of the value of one third of a pound. (Fifteen score nobles is of course exactly an hundred pound.) == 20 groats, V, 76 f., 18, 19, etc.

=nocked=, III, 82, 132; 86, 132: notched.

=noder=, =nother=, III, 81, 58; 100, 80, no noder, noo nother=none other. See =n=.

=nog.= See =nags=.

=noghte=, not.

=nolt=, =nout=, V, 249, 4: neat, neat-cattle.

=nom=, III, 51 b, 13-15: take.

=none=, _adv._, II, 361, 24; V, 295, 1: not at all. See =nane=.

=none of=, none of my brother, II, 11, 3, 5, 7: not at all my brother.

=noo=, V, 307, 11: now.

=noorice.= See nourice.

=nor=, =nar=, after a comparative, I, 5, =C= 9-18; II, 134 f., 15, 29; 268, 21; 374, 13; 409, 19; IV, 166, 12; V, 184, 49: than. nor be, II, 97, 22: than to be (if liker means more likely). too gude nor ever woud make a lie, II, 372, 26: better than, too good, to make. I doubt not nor she be, II, 390, 23,=je ne doute pas qu’elle ne soit.

=not=, IV, 331 b, 8: misprint for _out_.

=note=, =notte=, V, 283, 9, 19: nut.

=note=, III, 512, =E= 6: corrupt (_nut_ in =F= 7). Some impossibility is required.

=noth=, =nothe=, I, 334, 7, 8: not.

=nother.= See =noder=.

=noughtless=, =naughtless=, IV, 286, 12; 287, 5: a noughtless==an oughtless, good-for-nothing, impotent.

=noumbles=, =nowmbles=, noumbles of the dere, of a do, III, 58, 32; 64, 172: frequently defined entrails; Palsgrave, praecordia, the numbles, as the heart, the splene, the lunges, and lyver. At least a part of the noumbles are the two muscles of the interior of the thighs of a deer: venatores nombles vocant frustum carnis cervinae sectum inter femora (Ducange). See the elaborate directions for breaking or undoing deer in Juliana Barnes’s Boke of Huntynge, and in Madden, Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyȝt, vv. 1344-48 especially.

=nourice=, =nourrice=, =noorice=, =nourry=, =nurice=, =nurische=, =nury=, II, 322, 6, 13-17; 333, 5-7; III, 433, =C= 7; IV, 31, 7; 32, 3; 480, 5, 10, etc.: nurse.

=nout=, =nolt=, III, 460, 25, 36; IV, 246, 13; V, 116, 1: neat cattle.

=noute-horne=, a, III, 26, 87: horn of neat, ox, cow (wrongly substituted for, an oute-horne; see V, 297).

=nouthe=, I, 334, 5: not.

=nouther=, IV, 219, 8: neither.

=now=, V, 78 f., 5, 24, 25: new.

=noy=, I, 217, 7, 12: grief.

=nul=, =nule=, I, 244, 11, 13: will not.

=nume=, _pret._, III, 355, 4: took.

=nurice.= See =nourice=.

=nurische=, IV, 28 a, 29 a: nurse. See =nourice=.

=nury.= See =nourice=.

=nyghtgales=, I, 327, 33: nightingales.

=nyll=, II, 478, 4: will not.

O

=O=, brighter O shall, IV, 170, =G= 10: heard for _rose_. For _rose_ (which the last letter of _brighter_, the _o_, and the first letter of _shall_ make) cf. 167, 17; 169, 14; 175, =M= 11.

=o= = of. diel o there, III, 488, 26: devil (i. e. not a bit) of anything in that way (?) (devil be there, 489, 43).

=o= = on: I, 232, =A= 2; II, 375, 15, 16; III, 488 f., 23, 39, 45; IV, 84, 19.

=ochanie=, =och how=, IV, 103, 14; III, 392, 11: interjections of sorrow.

=ocht=, IV, 230, 1: aught.

=ochree.= See =ohon=.

=of= = on: I, 284, 14, 16; II, 59, 23; 452, 5; III, 105, 19; 309, 46 (on, 45, vppone, 42); 355, 8; 359, 89; 464, 2; IV, 503, 20. beate of mee, II, 54, 53 (?). In, put of the pot, put of the pan, II, 118, 8, _of_ is perhaps simply an error of the scribe; we have, put on, 119, 5, 6. In, seruyd (q. v.) hi_m_ of bred, I, 241, 1, _for_ is required, and _of_, which would signify _with_, cannot stand.

=officier=, V, 155, D 2: officer.

=oȝaines=, I, 192 a: against, towards.

=oger=, I, 202, 1: auger.

=ohon ochree=, III, 390, 13: exclamation of sorrow.

=okerer=, III, 58, 46: usurer.

=old=, =auld=, old (auld) son, of babe just born, II, 95, 11, 12; 105, 7; 107, 4, 5, 6, 17: called young son, II, 104, 12, 15; 106, 8, 10, 18, and, at II, 95, immediately after, 13, 14. See =auld son=. old daughter, II, 382, 1; 387, 1; 388, 15: oldest. old sister, I, 175, =D= 8: one older than a second sister.

=old=, =auld=, in your fifteen year old, I, 115, 13; in fifteen years old, I, 116, 13: of age. See =aull=, =auld=.

=on= = of: III, 93, 38; 132, 3; 231, 84; 296, 20; 308, 13.

=on= = one: V, 78 f., 7, 26, 28; 80, 52. on for on, III, 308, 21.

=on=, wedded on, I, 146, 24; married on, I, 497, 22: on the strength of (to have as a dowry).

=on ane=, I, 334, 6: anon.

=on fere=, III, 98, 38: in company.

=on o= = on (on upon?): III, 349, 38 (calld on o); 488, 25, 27; IV, 470, 18; 517, 9. (cald of, IV, 503, 20.)

=onbred=, I, 415 b: incompletely grown.

=one=, I, 104, 6; II, 45, 28: a. of one, I, 104, 6^2 should have been retained (=on a).

=one=, on.

=onë=, =ony=, =onie=, II, 58, 3: any.

=ones=, =onys=, III, 98, 23: once.

=onfowghten=, III, 297, 41: unfought, without fighting.

=onlouping=, III, 449 b: mounting (of a horse).

=onthought lang=, I, 478 f., 13, 47: without wearying, entertained. See =unthought lang=, =thinke lang=.

=ony=, =onie=, =onë=, any.

=oor=, I, 133, =M= 6: hour.

=or=, I, 285, 33; 294, 10; 328, 35; 411, 17; II, 22, 13; 105, 8: before. or eir, II, 21, =A= 9: or or (doubling of before).

=or=, II, 166, 27: than.

=order=, =ordre=, III, 66, 197, 198: rule of an order.

=ordered=, II, 257, 9: taken order for, made arrangements for.

=orders=, III, 286, 44: prepares.

=ordeyn=, III, 72, 326: give order for, levy.

=orghie=, IV, 513, H 2^4 (to be supplied): orgeis, a fish, large kind of ling. See V, 299 b, note on No 178.

=orlange=, II, 61, 8, 9, 12: perversion of eldrige.

=orless=, I, 141 b, =S=: emended to unless.

=orpharë=, I, 326, 9: orfevrie, goldsmith’s work.

=osterne=, III, 412, 27: austere. See =austerne=.

=ostler=, V, 155, =C= 4, =D= 2: innkeeper.

=ostler-ha=, III, 270, 6: ostler-house, hostelry, inn.

=ostler-house=, III, 268, 4, 6, 8; 269, 4-6: hostelry.

=other=, _pl._, III, 298, 66; 335 b.

=ottraunce=, at, III, 90 b: to the utterance, extremity, death.

=ought=, I, 294, 12: am under obligation. _pret._ and _p. p._ III, 228, 9; 431, 30: owed.

=ould=, IV, 456, 9; V, 199 b, 35: would.

=our=, =owr=, =ower=, over, too.

=oure=, _prep._, over. See =ower=.

=ousen=, =owsen=, =owsn=, II, 192, 6: oxen.

=out=, he slew out, II, 383, 25; beat out, III, 151, =A= 4, =B= 4: out and out. fight ye all out, IV, 173, 6: through, to the last.

=out into=, I, 115, =B= 2: from within.

=out of hand=, II, 321, 3; III, 440, 25: forthwith.

=out the gate=, =way=, IV, 470, 21; 477, 12: along the way.

=outehorne=, III, 26, 87 (the original and popular reading): here, a horn blown to call out citizens to the support of the civil authority. See Spelman’s Glossary, 1687, p. 441. Cf. V, 297 a.

=outlyer=, I, 175 f., =D= 3, 9, 15, 21: one who lives away from men, in the woods, banished man, outlaw.

=out make= I, 61, =C c= 5: make out.

=outmet=, _p. p._, III, 29, 158: measured out.

=out-oer=, =-our=(=e=), =-ower=, =-owre=, =-over=, I, 246, 13, 14; II, 256, =K= 1; III, 6, 19; 7, 17; 270, 13, 17: over, above. heirs out ower a’ my land, II, 176, =C= 8. leand himsel outowre a tree, III, 270, =D= 8. the flower out ower (owr) them a’, II, 256, =L= 1; III, 246, =D= 7. out oer her, IV, 224, 19, should perhaps be, out o’ her.

=outrake=, III, 413, 32: excursion, outing.

=outside=, =outsyde=, II, 444, 43; 449, 48: place apart, retired.

=outspeckle=, IV, 7, 30; V, 250, 27: laughing-stock.

=outthro=, IV, 445, 20: through to the opposite side.

=outwood=, III, 179, 8: wood outside (of a town?).

=ouer all=, III, 28, 141: everywhere.

=ouer goddes forbode=, =forbott=. See =forbode=.

=ouer-by-gone=, I, 326, 8: covered, set.

=overthrew us=, V, 134, 8: threw us over.

=o-vour=, II, 25, =F= 13: half owre, half way over.

=ower=, =owre=, =oure=, I, 16, =C= 17; 80, 1: over. ower (a window): over against.

=ower=, =owr=, our, over, too.

=owerturn=, =owreturn=, I, 332, =E=, =F= 7; III, 10, 21: refrain. See =owerword=.

=owes=, who, IV, 205, 27: owns, whose is (who owns==wha’s aucht).

=owerword=, =owre-word=, =oerword=, II, 254, 8, 9; 363, 14; IV, 7, 28; 482 f., 8, 11: refrain (word frequently repeated), call, cry. See =owerturn=.

=owre=, II, 20, 8: or, before.

=owsn=, =owsen=, =ousen=, I, 465, 2; II, 175, 7, 8; 176, 8, 9; 192, 6; 194, 10; IV, 12, =C= 8; 27, 20: oxen.

=owthe=, III, 112, 51: out.

=owtlay=, III, 99, 43: outlaw.

=oxe-lig=, ox-leg.

=oxtere=, IV, 506, 6: (A. S. óhsta) arm-pit.

=oyes=, II, 315, 11; V, 229, 37: grandsons.

=oysyd thare trawale=, III, 41 a: used, carried on their operations.

P

=pa=, paw.

=pa.= See =palle=.

=Pa=, III, 244, =B= 1: unintelligible and doubtless corrupt. Percy, who supposed that Mirryland toune might be corrupted from Milan, Germ. Mailand, understands Po, although, as he observes, the Adige, not the Po, runs through Milan.

=pack=, IV, 69, 12: familiar.

=pad=, V, 114, 1: (in canting language) highway.

=pae=, I, 333, 3: peacock.

=pakets=, V, 165, 6: pockets. (V, 306, 9, has _pouches_.)

=pale= (of a puncheon), II, 81, 45: tap, spigot.

=pale=, and the covring that these lovers had was the clouted cloak an pale, I, 305, 12: a derivation from Lat. pallium, coverlet, cloak, O. Fr. paile, palle, has been suggested, and as to meaning would suit; but if the word were popular it should be heard of elsewhere. Possibly an error for fale, turf, which is the bed-covering in =F= 6, p. 304; though the combination with cloak would be strange.

=palle=, =pale=, =paule=, =pa=, I, 68, 7; 333, 1; II, 139, 4; 256, =L= 4; 259, =A a= 3, =b= 3, =C c= 3; 483, 5: fine cloth.

=pallions=, III, 300, 15; IV, 500, 16: pavilions.

=palmer=, I, 232, 3-5, 12, =B= 1; 284, 8: pilgrim. III, 3, 10, 11; 4, 4, 5; 180, =B= 8; 186, 10, 11, 17; 189, =A= 8, =B= 3; IV, 445, 3, 4, 20; V, 16, 9, 17: tramp, vagabond, beggar.

=pannells=, V, 86, 29: riding-pads or cushions.

=papeioyes=, I, 328, 33: popinjays.

=paramour=, I, 68, 4; 70, 4: in =A= 4, the word, coming between bouted flour and baken bread, should signify something eatable; =B= has attempted to make easy sense by inserting the. Paramour as lover, lady-love, in the honest sense occurs II, 86, 19, 21; 412, 2; V, 182, 7. the love was like paramour, II, 407, 8: like amorous passion (?). Quite unintelligible in II, 409, 4, a red rose flower, was set about with white lilies, like to the paramour; again, 410, 2.

=parand=, =heir and parand=, II, 447, 2, 4: parand, in 4, might appear to be meant for apparent, but we have his parand and his heir, in 2. There is more ignorance of the meaning of words in the piece.

=pardon=, I, 411, 8: leave of absence.

=part=, God, Christ haue part(e) of the (me), III, 58, 39; 329, 8: perhaps, make me an object of his care (as prendre part en==take an interest in); or, take me for his, number me among the saved.

=part=, part the quick, II, 231, 9; parte our company, III, 71, 307: quit, part from.

=partakers=, III, 138, 7, 8: helpers.

=parti=, vppone a parti, III, 308, 19: aside. March-parti, III, 310, 58: Border-side. Marche-partes, III, 310, 67.

=party=, nane to party me, V, 127, 19: be of part with.

=Pasch=, =Pasche=, II, 146, 9; 147, 7: Easter.

=pass for=, III, 138, 15: care for.

=passe vppon=, V, 51, 67: pass, go, on.

=passe=, III, 73, 357: extent? In 84, 357, and 88, 357, the reading is, compasse.

=passage=, IV, 515, 1: occurrence, incident, adventure.

=passilodion=, V, 71 b; 72 a: a drinking-word.

=passments=, IV, 343, 4: laces, trimmings for dresses.

=pat=, pot.

=pat=, =patt=, =paut=, I, 396, 20; II, 123, 29: strike the ground with the feet, stamp. pat the ball, III, 251, =L= 1, 2: kick. patted wi her lips, II, 83 a: struck together, smacked (?).

=pat=, =patt=, _pret._ of pit, put, I, 107, 7; 465, 2, 3; V, 218, 2.

=pat-fit=, I, 302, =B= 8: pot-foot.

=paughty=, II, 364, 21: haughty, malapert.

=pauky=, V, 115, 1: sly.

=pautit=, I, 397, =D= 9, 11: patted, struck with the foot, stamped. See =pat=.

=pavag=, =pauage=, =pawage=, III, 109 f., 5, 11-13: Fr. pavage, road-tax. See =Ducange=, =pavagium=. (passage, III, 114 f., 130, 180, 181, etc.)

=paw=, a slight motion. neer played paw, III, 480, 14: never stirred again.

=pay=, _n._, I, 285, 32; III, 28, 128; 59, 66: satisfaction.

=pay=, =paye=, _v._, I, 328, 37; II, 478, 12: satisfy, please.

=pay=, III, 142, 36; 161, 26; V, 105, =A= 5, 6; 106, =E= 6: beat.

=payetrelle=, I, 326, 9: poitrail, part of the harness on the breast of a horse.

=payrelde=, =parelde=, I, 327, 16, 17: apparelled.

=peak=, pick.

=peak=, peck.

=peak-staff=, pike-staff.

=pean-kniff=, pen-knife.

=pear=, =peare=, V, 110 f., 2, 4, 6, etc.: poor.

=pearled=, apron, IV, 67, 12: bordered or trimmed with lace.

=pearlin=, =pearlins=, III, 9 f., 6, 14; IV, 448 a, 2d line: pearls.

=pearling=, =pearlin=, II, 323, 6; IV, 326, 16: lace.

=pearting=, parting, separation.

=peat=, I’se gar ye dance upon a peat, V, 104 b (a threat): on a (burning) peat, make it hot for you.

=pecis=, III, 65, 175: vessels (of silver), probably cups.

=peed=, IV, 316, 14: pu’d, pulled.

=peel=, I, 403, 9: pool.

=peel=, a tower, stronghold; climbing the peel seems inappropriate at IV, 6, 4; V, 249, 4, unless the meaning be that the peel was “ransakled” for valuables (since kye would not be kept in the peel).

=peeped=, V, 10, 3: spoke faintly, whined.

=peerls=, peerls many, IV, 134, 10: poor folk (Chaucer’s poraille). =B= 8, =C= 6, =D= 10, =F= 8, =G= 4, etc., poor folk many.

=peers=, pears.

=peit=, I, 22, 3: a peat carried to school as a contribution to the firing.

=pellettes=, III, 430, 12: bullets.

=pendles=, IV, 296, 8: pendants, ear-rings.

=penned in=, of windows, II, 330, =G= 3: fastened, perhaps pinned. See =pin=, _v._

=penny-brown=, III, 281, 10: brown as a penny. penny-gray, III, 281, 8, at best would mean gray as a silver penny; but silver is called white money. It is just possible that the word is legitimate, and that, penny-brown being understood as very brown, penny-gray might come into use for very gray. Possibly penny-brown (gray) might mean dappled with brown (gray) spots.

=penny-fee=, =-fie=, I, 491, 10; IV, 444, 10: gift of a penny largess, pour-boire. (I, 490, 6, penny instead of penny-fee.) II, 469, 25, 26: simply, money.

=peny=, shete a peny, III, 97, 10: shoot for a penny, as 104, 6.

=Perce=, V, 298 a: Persia.

=perelle=, I, 326, 8: pearl.

=perfyte=, II, 72, 4; 75, 6; 78, 8: perfectly.

=pestilett=, III, 430, 11: pistolet.

=petty toes=, I, 133, =L= 9: pettitoes, feet (as in Winter’s Tale, IV, 4), or a play upon words, little toes.

=phat=, III, 318, 8: what.

=philabeg=, IV, 234, 21; 271, 8; V, 266, 8: kilt, skirt worn by Highlanders, reaching from belly to knee.

=pibrochs=, IV, 298, =G b= 14: bagpipe airs; seems here to be meant for the pipes.

=pick=, pick a mill, I, 211, =B= 3, 4: sharpen the surface of a mill-stone when worn smooth by friction. picked a stane, II, 323, 1: dressed with a pick.

=pick=, =pickle=, I, 16, =C= 14; IV, 481, 5; V, 206 a, 6: a grain.

=pick=, _n._, IV, 2, 12: pitch.

=pick=, =pict=, _v._, 380, 20: pitch (pict, II, 28, 23, may be a misspelling).

=picke=, III, 358, 77: pitch (throw).

=pickle=, a grain. See =pick=.

=pickle=, II, 147, 12, 14; 476, 16, 17: pick, collect.

=picklory=, III, 132, 4: name of a cloth.

=pickman=, pikeman.

=pict=, _v._, II, 28, 23: pitch (probably a misspelling).

=pig=, I, 305, 5; IV, 206, 9: an earthen vessel, earthen pitcher.

=pig-staves=, V, 213 a, 1: pike-staves.

=pile=, o corn, I, 18, =H= 7: a grain.

=pile=, pile o the gravil green, gray, I, 350, 18, 19; pile that grows on gravel green, IV, 456, 11, 12: a fibre or blade of some velvety moss which grows on stones. See =gravil=.

=pilk=, II, 473, 16: pick, collect. See =pickle=.

=pilleurichie.= See =pitleurachie=.

=pin=, =pinn=, an implement for raising the fastening of a door. tirled the pin, IV, 390, 4; 415, 5. tirled at the pin, I, 470, 23; II, 141, 8; 164, 3; 471, 8; 474, =I= 3, etc. tirled on the pin, II, 461, 11. thirled at the pin, II, 121, 15. thrild upon a pinn, II, 138, 10, 16. twirld at the pin, IV, 390, =b= 4. lifted, lifted up the pin, II, 104, 14; IV, 391, 3; 415, 6. “The pin was always inside, hung by a latch, or leather point, the end of which was drawn through a small hole in the door to the outside. During the day-time, the pin was attached to a bar or sneck in such a way that when the latch was pulled the door was free to open. But at night the pin was disconnected from the door-fastening and hung loose, so that when the latch was pulled the pin rattled.” W. Forbes. (See =tirled=.) knocked at the pin, II, 387, 10; 468, 15; upon a pin, III, 105, 12; rappit at the pin, I, 472, 17; chapped at the pin, I, 481, 29, are probably corrupted from knocked, etc., at the ring (and so, tinkled at the pin, II, 253, 3); if not, the meaning must be, knocked at the door at the place of the latch. that so priuilye knowes the pinn, I, 433, 25, implies that there was some secret connected with the pin (like, knew not the gin, IV, 446 b, 3), which it is difficult to conceive in an arrangement so simple as that described above; but it is probable that complications were employed by the cautious. See =gin=.

=pin=, =gallows-pin=, =gallou-pine=, I, 146, 25; 150, 17; III, 388, 18; V, 247, 18; hanged them out-oer a pin, III, 268, 18; hang you on a pin before my door, V, 26, 15: the projecting, or horizontal beam of the gallows? Any projection upon which a rope could be fastened.

=pin=, _v._, pin my windows in, V, 295, 5, 6: fasten. See =penned=.

=pindee=, II, 326, 2, of windows, pinned-ee for rhyme, or, possibly, for _in_, as penned in, II, 330, =G= 3.

=pinder=, =pindar=, =pinner=, III, 131 ff., =A= 1-5, etc.; =B= 1-3; II, 484, =C= 6, 7; 491 a, 5, b, 5: pounder.

=pine=, =pyne=, I, 464, 8; 470, 15, 32; 474 f., 36, 41; IV, 430 f., 4, 23; V, 219, 25: suffering, pain. Goddës, Creystys, pyne, III, 75, 391; V, 79, 18: suffering, distress, passion.

=pine=, I, 453, 3: (pind, poind) distrain, seize.

=piner-pig=, III, 385, 7: an earthen vessel for keeping money.

=pingo=, pingo white, IV, 213, 12: pinkie (?).

=Pinnatree, The Gold=, V, 141 b: name of a ship.

=pinner.= See =pinder=.

=pint=, point.

=Pirie=, in Pirie’s chair you’ll sit, the lowest seat o hell: I, 429, 30, 31. For the derivation Sir W. D. Geddes suggests as possible le pire, which would be in the way of the Scottish “ill chiel.” Professor Cappen writes: “Familiar name in doggerel lines recited by boys in their games. One boy stood back against the wall, another bent towards him with his head on the pit of the other’s stomach; a third sat upon the back of the second. The boy whose head was bent down had to guess how many fingers the rider held up. The first asked the question in doggerel rhyme in which Pirie, or Pirie’s chair, or hell, was the doom threatened for a wrong answer. I remember Pirie (pron. Peerie) distinctly in connection with the doom. Pirie’s chair probably indicates the uncomfortable position of the second boy (or fourth, for there may have been a fourth who crouched uncomfortably on the ground below the boy bending), whose head or neck was confined in some way and squeezed after a wrong answer.”

=pistol-pece=, III, 432, 9: pistol.

=pit=, I, 86, 31; 467, 17; V, 219, 10: put. pit mee down, II, 131, 4: be my death. pit back, IV, 510, =W= 3: stop the growth or development of. _pret._ pat. _p. p._ pitten, putten.

=pith=, hammer o the, II, 374, =B= 2: sounds like nonsense. The smith’s anvil being of gold and his bellows-cords of silk, his hammer should be of some precious material. To say his hammer was wielded with force would be out of keeping, and very flat at best.

=pitleurachie=, =pilleurichie=, III, 320, =A a= 20, =b= 20: hubbub, discord. See =lierachie=.

=pit-mirk=, III, 495 a, after 7; IV, 517, 14: dark as a pit.

=pitten=, _p. p._ of pit, put, I, 463 f., 2, 14.

=place=, in place, V, 84 f., 10, 25: presence. in place, III, 422, 76: (means only) there.

=plaet=, _pret._, IV, 465, 40: plaited.

=plaiden=, IV, 257, 3, 5: coarse woollen cloth diagonally woven.

=plain fields=, IV, 432 f., 2, 10, 17, 21: open fields.

=plainsht=, III, 360, 121: plenisht, filled.

=plainstanes=, IV, 152, 5: pavement.

=plaow=, _n._, V, 304, 5, 12: plough.

=plat=, I, 101, 19; II, 285, 20, _pret._ of plet: plaited, interfolded.

=plate-jack=, IV, 147, 22: a defensive upper garment laid with plates.

=platen=, I, 243 f., 8, 11: plates, pieces.

=play-feres=, III, 244, 2, 6; 245, 4, 5: play-fellows.

=plea=, I, 169, 7; II, 282, 2: quarrel.

=plea=, enter plea att my iollye, III, 278, 32. See =enter=.

=plead=, III, 277, 10, 12: contend.

=pleasure=, drink his, V, 307 a, 4: drink as much as he wishes.

=plee=, III, 165, 72: plea (your offer to give up your money is but a slight ground for a plea to be spared? or a slight argument to enforce the justification previously attempted?).

=pleuch=, =pleugh=, _n._, II, 190, 9; 194, 10: plough. IV, 196, 19; 197, 19: (of land) plough, which see.

=plewed=, feathers plewed with gold, II, 435, 49: not understood.

=plight= I lay, IV, 433, 21: the pledge I did lay? condition in which I should lie? (Very obscurely expressed stanza.)

=plight=, _pret._, II, 52, 24; 364, 24; V, 50, 45: plighted.

=plooky=, II, 47, 14: pimpled.

=plough=, =pleugh=, =pleuch=, =plow=, IV, 194, 18, 11; 195, 18; 196, 19; 197, 19; etc. (of land): as much land as one plough will till in a year.

=plucke=, fyght a plucke, III, 128, 85: (blow, stroke) a bout.

=plucke-buffet=, they shote, III, 77, 424: at taking and giving a buffet for missing. (This supposes pluck==take, get; it may be the noun pluck, blow.)

=plummet=, of swords, III, 466, 40: pommel.

=pock=, III, 160, 5, 16; 163, 68, 74, 83: bag.

=pocket-napkin=, IV, 468, 2: pocket-handkerchief.

=poind=, _pret._, =poinded=, _p. p._, II, 429 b, 3; IV, 80 b; IV, 492 a, 3: distrained.

=poll=, lighter than the poll, IV, 434, 1 (not recognized as Scottish by any of my correspondents): boll, lint-bow, the seed-pod of flax? Not probable.

=poorly=, IV, 444, 35: feebly. V, 10, 3; 266 b, 2: faint-heartedly.

=portioner=, IV, 81 a: possessor of a part of a property originally divided among co-heirs. Jamieson.

=portly=, III, 280, 24: of imposing appearance.

=pot=, II, 144 f., 14, 24; 153, 22; 154 f., 17, 31, 34, 35; 474, =J= 6; IV, 181, 13; 189 f., 7, 22, 28: deep place or pool in a river.

=potewer=, I, 271, 6: read potener, French pautonnière, pouch, purse. “pawtenere, cassidile.” Prompt. Parv. “Marsupium, a pawtenere, a powche.... Cassidile est pera aucupis, vel mercipium, vel sacculus, a pautenier or a pouche. Cassidile dicitur pera ... crumena, etc. cremena, a pautener.” (Way’s note.)

=pottinger=, IV, 509 b, 13: apothecary.

=pottle=, V, 86, 35: a measure of two quarts.

=pow=, II, 476, 16: head.

=powd=, III, 268, 7: pulled.

=powder=, IV, 514, 17: dust (?).

=power=, above (loved), II, 286, 2: beyond (ordinary) capacity or intensity.

=powther=, powder.

=prah=, _v._, V, 303 a: pray.

=praise=, III, 204, 29: prize.

=praise=, V, 115, 5:==God.

=praisin=, III, 455, =D= 1: if the line is genuine, all the meaning praisin can have will be, the laudation of the queen for her generous behavior.

=pran=, V, 220 f., 6, 7, 9: bran.

=prece=, =prese=, =prees=, III, 24, 36; 67, 218: press, crowd. III, 62, 116: thick of a conflict.

=pree=, I, 81 a: taste. See =prey=.

=preen=, _n._, I, 430, 13: pin.

=preen=, _v._, I, 147, 13; III, 436, 3; V, 105, =B= 7: pin. See =prin=.

=prees=, =prese=. See =prece=.

=preke=, _n._, III, 112, 52. See =pricke=.

=preke=, _v._ See =prekyd=.

=preker=, V, 79, 13: rider.

=prekyd=, =prycked=, V, 78, 6; 80, 40: spurred, rode fast. the hors prekyd, 80, 42: ran, scampered, sped.

=prese.= See =prece=.

=present=, III, 199, 19: represent, act as representatives of.

=presentting=, wine, IV, 37, 16: holding out the cup or glass towards the person saluted.

=presently=, III, 400 a (7): at present.

=president=, III, 231, 82: precedent.

=press=, V, 111, 22: closet.

=prest=, the made them prest, III, 111, 45: ready. berdys sang preste, III, 112, 63: freely, con amore. III, 171, 10: in haste.

=prestly=, III, 27, 113: quickly.

=pretend=, I, 110, 18; V, 57, 66: purpose, design.

=prevayle=, III, 313, 55: avail.

=prey=, II, 490 b, 12-14: (prie, pree) taste.

=price=, III, 358, 63: estimation.

=prick= them to the gin, IV, 480, 4: pin to the fastening.

=prick=(=e=), =pry=(=c=)=ke=, =preke=, rod or wand, used as a mark in shooting==pricke-wand: 111, 93, 28, 30; 202, 34. he cleffed the preke on three, III, 112, 52. ‘have at the pryke!’ ‘and Y cleue the styke,’ III, 90 b. a mark or butt generally, III, 29, 145. slise, cleue the wand==cleffe the preke, III, 70, 292; 75, 401.

=pricked=, _pret._, II, 266, 28: stuck.

=pricke-wande=, III, 93, 31: a rod set up for a mark.

=prickt=, _p. p._, I, 345, =C= 1: prinkt, deckt.

=priefe=, V, 81, 14: prove, experience, enjoy.

=pril=, V, 73 a: a drinking word, to which the response must be wril.

=prime=, =pryme=, I, 254, 9: the first canonical hour.