Chapter M

_Mae_, more.
_Maik_, or _make_, to match, equal.
_Mailen_, a farm.
_Main_, or _mane_, moan.
_Mair_, more.
_Maist_, most.
_Mansworn_, perjured.
_Mavis_, a thrush.
_Maun_, must. _Mauna_, must not, may not.
_Mawt_, malt.
_Mear_, mare.
_Meikle_, much, big, great, large.
_Mennin_, minnow.
_Merl_, the blackbird.
_Midding_, a dunghill.
_Milk-bowie_, milking-pail.
_Mint_, aim, endeavour, to attempt.
_Mirk_, dark.
_Misca_, to give names.
_Mither_, mother.
_Mittons_, woollen gloves.
_Mony_, many.
_Mools_, the earth of the grave.
_Motty_, full of motes.
_Mou_, or _mow_, mouth.
_Mows_, _nae mows_, no jest.
_Muck_, dung.
_Muckle_, see _Meikle_.

N.

_Na_, _nae_, no, not.
_Nathing_, _naething_, _naithing_, nothing.
_Nane_, none.
_Near-hand_, nearly, almost.
_Neist_, next.
_Newcal_, new calved (cows.)
_Newfangle_, fond of a new thing.
_Nibour_, neighbour.
_Nick_,--_auld Nick_, the devil.
_Nive_, the fist.
_Nocht_, nought, not.
_Nor_, than.
_Nowt_, cows, kine.
_Nowther_, neither.

O.

_Obeysant_, obedient.
_O'ercome_, surplus.
_O'erput_,--_ne'er o'erput it_, never get over it.
_Onstead_, the building on a farm, the farm-house.
_Ony_, any.
_Or_, sometimes used for ere, or before. _Or_ day, i. e., before
daybreak.
_Orp_, to weep with a convulsive pant.
_Owk_, week.
_Owrlay_, a cravat.
_Owsen_, oxen.
_Oxter_, the armpit.

P.

_Pat_, did put.
_Paughty_, proud, haughty.
_Pawky_, witty or sly in word or action, without any harm or bad
designs.
_Peets_, turf for fire.
_Pensy_, finical, foppish, conceited.
_Pit_, to put.
_Pith_, strength, might, force.
_Plaiding_, a coarse tweeled woollen cloth.
_Plet_, plaited.
_Plotcock_, the devil.
_Poinds your gear_, distrains your effects.
_Poke_, bag.
_Pople_, or _paple_, the bubbling, purling, or boiling up of water.
_Poortith_, poverty.
_Pou_, pull.
_Poutch_, a pocket.
_Pow_, the poll, the head.
_Prin_, a pin.
_Propine_, gift or present.
_Pu_, pull.
_Pund_, pound.
_Putt a stane_, throw a big stone.

Q.

_Quean_, a young woman.
_Quey_, a young cow.

R.

_Racket rent_, rack-rent.
_Rae_, a roe.
_Rair_, or _rare_, roar.
_Rashes_, rushes.
_Redd_, to rid, unravel; to separate folks that are fighting. It also
signifies clearing of any passage. "I am _redd_," I am apprehensive.
_Red up_, to put in order.
_Reek_, smoke.
_Reest_, to rust, or dry in the smoke.
_Rever_, a robber or pirate.
_Rife_, or _ryfe_, plenty.
_Rigs_ of corn, ridges.
_Rin_, run.
_Rock_, a distaff.
_Roose_, or _ruse_, to commend, extol.
_Roove_, to rivet.
_Roudes_, a wrinkled, ill-natured woman.
_Rousted_, rusted.
_Row_, roll.
_Rowan_, rolling.
_Rowt_, to roar, especially the lowing of bulls and cows.
_Rowth_, plenty.
_Ruck_, a rick or stack of hay or corn.
_Rumple_, the Rump parliament.

S.

_Sae_, so.
_Saebiens_, seeing it is, since.
_Saft_, soft.
_Sair_, or _sare_, sore.
_Sakeless_, or _saikless_, guiltless, innocent, free.
_Sald_, sold.
_Sall_, shall; like _soud_ for should.
_Samen_, same.
_Sang_, song.
_Sark_, a shirt.
_Saugh_, a willow or sallow tree.
_Saul_, soul.
_Saw_, an old saying, or proverbial expression.
_Sawn_, sown.
_Sax_, six.
_Scad_, or _scawd_, scald.
_Scart_, to scratch.
_Scrimp_, narrow, straitened, little.
_Sell_, self.
_Sey_, to try.
_Shaw_, a wood or forest.
_To Shaw_, to show.
_Shellycoat_, a goblin, a spirit who resides in the waters.
_Sheveling-gabit_, having a distorted mouth.
_Shoon_, shoes.
_Shore_, to threaten.
_Sic_, such.
_Siccan_, such kind of.
_Siller_, silver.
_Simmer_, summer.
_Sindle_, or _sinle_, seldom.
_Singand_, singing.
_Sinsyne_, since that time; lang _sinsyne_, long ago.
_Skair_, share.
_Skaith_, hurt, damage, loss.
_Skelf_, shelf.
_Skelp_, to run; to flog the buttocks.
_Skiff_, to move smoothly along.
_Slaw_, slow.
_Sled_, sledge, sleigh.
_Slee_, sly.
_Slid_, smooth, cunning, slippery; as, "he's a _slid_ loun."
_Sma_, small.
_Smoor_, to smother.
_Snaw_, snow.
_Snood_, the band for tying up a woman's hair.
_Snool_, to dispirit by chiding, hard labour, and the like; also, a
pitiful grovelling slave.
_Sonsy_, happy, fortunate, lucky; sometimes used for large and lusty;
plump, thriving.
_Sorn_, to spunge, or hang on others for maintenance.
_Sough_, the sound of wind among trees, or of one sleeping.
_Spae_, to foretell or divine. _Spaemen_ prophets, augurs.
_Spain_, to wean from the breast.
_Spait_, or _spate_, a torrent, flood, or inundation.
_Speer_, to ask, inquire.
_Spill_, to spoil, abuse.
_Spraings_, stripes of different colours.
_Spring_, a tune on a musical instrument.
_Sta_, stall.
_Stane_, stone; a weight of 16 lbs.
_Stang_, did sting, to sting.
_Stap_, stop.
_Starns_, the stars.
_Staw_, stole.
_Steek_, to shut, close.
_Stegh_, to cram.
_Stend_, or _sten_, to move with a hasty long pace; to spring.
_Stent_, to stretch or extend; to limit or stint.
_Stock-and-horn_, a shepherd's pipe, made by inserting a reed pierced
like a flute into a cow's horn; the mouth-piece is like that of a
hautboy.
_Stown_, stolen.
_Strae_, straw.
_Strak_, struck.
_Strapan_, clever, tall, handsome.
_Sung_, singed.
_Swat_, did sweat.
_Swith_, quickly.
_Syne_, afterwards, then; since.

T.

_Taid_, a toad.
_Tald_, told.
_Tane_, taken.
_Tarrow_, to refuse what we love, from a cross humour.
_Tass_, a little dram-cup.
_Tate_, a small lock of hair, or any little quantity of wool, cotton,
&c.
_Taz_, a whip or scourge.
_Tent_, to attend, to take care of; to observe, to remark.
_Thack_, thatch.
_Thae_, those.
_Than_, then.
_Thievless_, wanting propriety, unmeaning.
_Thirle_, to thrill.
_Thole_, to endure, suffer.
_Thow_, thaw.
_Thrang_, throng.
_Thrawart_, froward, cross, crabbed.
_Thrawin_, stern and cross-grained.
_Thrawn-gabet_, wry-mouthed.
_Tift_, good order. _In tift_, in the mood.
_Till_, to. _Till't_, to it.
_Timmer_,--_turn the timmer_, put round the cup.
_Tine_, or _tyne_, to lose. _Tint_, lost.
_Titty_, sister.
_Tocher_, portion, dowry.
_Tocher_,--_but tocher-good_, without dowry.
_Tod_, a fox.
_Tod Lawrie_, a fox.
_Tooly_, to fight; to scramble; to romp.
_Toom_, empty, applied to a barrel, purse, house, &c.; also, to empty.
_Tot_, a fondling name given to a child.
_Touse_, _tousle_, or _towzle_, to rumple, to handle roughly.
_Towin'd_, tamed.
_Towmond_, a year or twelvemonth.
_Towzle_, to handle roughly.
_Trig_, neat, handsome.
_Triste_, or _tryst_, appointment.
_Tron_, an instrument erected in every burgh in Scotland, for the
weighing of wool and other heavy wares.
_Trow_, to believe.
_Tulzie_, a quarrel or broil.
_Twa three_, two or three.
_Twitch_, touch.
_Tyke_, a dog of one of the larger and common breeds.

U.

_Uneith_, not easy.
_Unfother'd_, not foddered.
_Unko_, or _unco_, unknown, strange; very.
_Unsonsy_, unlucky, ugly.