Chapter VIII: Part 8

We are aye tae learn as lang as we live.

We are bound to be honest, and no to be rich.

We can live without our kin, but no without our neighbours.

We canna baith sup and blaw.

That is, we cannot do two things at once.

We can poind for debt, but no for unkindness.

We can shape their wylie-coat, but no their weird.

Literally, we can shape a person's article of clothing, but cannot
foretell his destiny.

Wedding and ill wintering tame baith man and beast.

Wee things fley cowards.

Weel begun is half done.

Weel is that weel does.

Weel kens the mouse when pussie's in.

"When the cat's away the mice will play."--_English._

"The farmer now comes ben the house,
Whilk o' their gabbin' makes a truce,
The lads and lassies a' grow douce,
And spare their din;
For true's the tale, 'Weel kens the mouse
When pussie's in!'"--_The Farmer's Ha'._

"Weel!" quo' Willie, when his ain wife dang him.

We presume that this was intended by Willie as an expression of
indifference at the punishment which was being administered to him.

Weel's him and wae's him that has a bishop in his kin.

"Because such may be advanced, and perhaps disappointed."--_Kelly._

Weel won corn should be housed ere the morn.

"'Won corn,' corn dried by exposure to the air."--_Jamieson._

Weel worth a' that gars the plough draw.

_Anglice_, Good luck to everything by which we earn money.

"We hounds slew the hare," quo' the messan.

Welcome's the best dish in the kitchen.

We'll bark oursels ere we buy dogs sae dear.

Addressed to persons who ask exorbitant prices for their wares:
meaning that sooner than agree to their terms, we will do without
the article altogether.

We'll bear wi' the stink when it brings in the clink.

We'll meet ere hills meet.

"Men may meet: but mountains never."--_English._

We'll ne'er big sandy bourochs thegither.

"This refers," says Jamieson, "to the custom of children building
houses in the sand for sport." The proverb means, after such an
occurrence we need never expect to be on terms of intimacy again.

We maun a' gang ae gate.

"'Ay--and is it even sae?' said Meg; 'and has the puir bairn been
sae soon removed frae this fashious world? Ay, ay, we maun a' gang
ae gate--crackit quart-stoups and geisen'd barrels--leaky quaighs
are we a', and canna keep in the liquor of life--Ohon, sirs!'"--_St
Ronan's Well._

We maun live by the living, and no by the dead.

We maun tak the crap as it grows.

We may ken your meaning by your mumping.

"To mump, to hint, to aim at."--_Jamieson._

"Ye may speak plainer, lass, gin ye incline,
As, by your mumping, I maist ken your mind."--_Shirref._

We ne'er ken the worth o' water till the well gae dry.

Were it no for hope the heart wad break.

Wersh parritch, neither gude to fry, boil, or sup cauld.

West wind north about never hauds lang out.

Wet your wizen or else it'll gizen.

Spoken to a person who is telling a story. It may be either meant
kindly or as a signification that the story is too "long-winded."

Wha burns rags will want a winding-sheet.

Wha can haud wha will awa?

Wha can help misluck?

"Wha can help sickness?" quo' the wife when she lay in the gutter.

Wha canna gie will little get.

Wha comes oftener, and brings you less?

Spoken jocularly by a person who is in the habit of visiting a
friend frequently.

Wha daur bell the cat?

In addition to the fabulous illustration of the mice and the cat,
this proverb has also an historical fact attached to it, which is
well known in Scotland. The Scottish nobles of the time of James the
Third proposed to meet at Stirling in a body, and take Spence, the
king's favourite, and hang him. At a preliminary consultation, Lord
Gray remarked, "It is well said, but wha will bell the cat?" The
Earl of Angus undertook the task--accomplished it--and till his
dying day was called Archibald Bell-the-cat.

Wha may woo without cost?

Wha never climbs never fa's.

What a'body says maun be true.

For "There's never much talk of a thing but there's some truth in
it."--_Italian._

What better is the house where the daw rises soon?

"Spoken often by mistresses to their maids when they have been early
up, and done little work."--_Kelly._

"Early up, and never the nearer."--_English._

What carlins hain, cats eat.

What fizzes in the mou' winna fill the wame.

What is pleasant to the palate may be very unsubstantial for the
stomach.

What maks you sae rumgunshach and me sae curcuddoch?

Literally, why are you so rude or unkind to me when I am so anxious
to please or be kind to you?

What may be done at ony time will be done at nae time.

What may be mayna be.

What puts that in your head that didna put the sturdy wi't?

"Spoken to them that speak foolishly, or tell a story that you
thought they had not known."--_Kelly._

What's gotten ower the deil's back is spent below his belly.

What's gude for sick John's gude for hail Janet.

What's in your wame's no in your testament.

An injunction to a person to eat more: if they eat what is before
them they will not leave it in their will.

What's like a dorty maiden when she's auld?

"'Dorty,' applied to a female who is saucy to her
suitors."--_Jamieson._

What's my case the day may be yours the morn.

What's nane o' my profit shall be nane o' my peril.

That is, I must decline to run any risk if I do not share the
profit.

"What's no i' the bag will be i' the broo," quo' the Hielandman when he dirked the haggis.

What's pleasure to you bodes ill to me.

An epitome of AEsop's "Boys and the Frogs."

What's waur than ill luck?

What's your horse the day, may be his mare the morn.

What's yours is mine, what's mine's my ain.

A maxim occasionally adopted by a selfish husband to enable him to
distinguish his own property from that of his wife.

What we first learn we best ken.

What will ye get frae an oily pat but stink?

What winna do by might do by slight.

What winna mak a pat may mak a pat lid.

What ye do when you're drunk ye may pay for when you're dry.

What ye gie shines aye, what ye get smells ill next day.

What ye want up and doun you hae hither-and-yont.

"'Hither-and-yont,' topsy turvy; in a disjointed
state."--_Jamieson._

If you have not the thing complete, you have everything necessary
for making it so.

What ye win at that ye may lick aff a het girdle.

The inference is that his prospect of success is very poor.

What your ee sees your heart greens for.

When ae door steeks anither opens.

As one door shuts another opens: as one opportunity is lost another
occurs.

When a ewie's drowned she's dead.

"Spoken when a thing is lost and past recovery."--_Kelly._

When a fool finds a horseshoe he thinks aye the like to do.

When a' fruits fail, welcome haws.

When a hundred sheep rin, how mony cloots clatter?

When a' men speak, nae man hears.

When ane winna, twa canna cast out.

When a's in, and the slap dit, rise herd and let the dog sit.

"'Slap dit,' gate shut. Jocosely spoken to herd boys after harvest,
as if there was no further use for them."--_Kelly._

When death lifts the curtain it's time to be startin'.

When drink's in wit's out.

When folk's missed then they're moaned.

When friends meet hearts warm.

When gude cheer is lacking friends go a-packing.

When he dees of age ye may quake for fear.

When I did weel I heard it never; when I did ill I heard it ever.

"A reflection of servants upon hard and passionate masters, who are
liberal in their reproofs, but sparing in their
commendations."--_Kelly._

When ilka ane gets his ain the thief will get the widdie.

When lairds break carls get lands.

"When the tree falls every one gathers sticks."--_Danish._

When love cools fauts are seen.

When my head's doun my house is theiked.

"Spoken by those who are free from debts, concerns, or future
projects: as common tradesmen, day labourers, and servants, who work
their work and get their wages, and commonly are the happiest part
of mankind."--_Kelly._

When petticoats woo breeks come speed.

"Time to marry when the maid wooes the man; parallel to that
Cheshire proverb, 'It is time to yoke when the cart comes to the
caples,' _i.e._, horses."--_Ray._

When poverty comes in at the door love flies out at the window.

When pride's in the van, begging's in the rear.

When she doesna scold she shores.

That is, when she does not scold directly, she threatens to do it.

When the bag's fu' the drone gets up.

When the barn's fu' ye may thresh afore the door.

When the burn doesna babble, it's either ower toom or ower fu'.

When the cow's in the clout she soon runs out.

Meaning that when the cow has been sold and converted into money,
the proceeds soon come to an end, as "Ready money will
away."--_English._

When the craw flees her tail follows.

When the gudeman drinks to the gudewife a' wad be weel; when the gudewife drinks to the gudeman a's weel.

This will give English readers but a poor opinion of conjugal
courtesy in Scotland--that when a man drinks to the good health of
his wife, it is more from fear than from affection--more from a
desire that she should have things properly done when they are not
so.

When the gudeman's awa the board claith's tint; when the gudewife's awa the keys are tint.

Kelly prints this as two sayings, and says of them
respectively--_First_, "Because the commons will then be short."
_Second_, "For if she be not at home you'll get no drink."

When the heart's fu' o' lust the mou's fu' o' leasing.

When the heart's past hope the face is past shame.

When the hen gaes to the cock the birds may get a knock.

"Spoken when widows, who design a second marriage, prove harsh to
their children."--_Kelly._

When the heart's fu' the tongue canna speak.

When the horse is at the gallop the bridle's ower late.

When the man's fire and the wife's tow, the deil comes in and blaws't in lowe.

When the pat's fu' it'll boil ower.

When the pea's in bloom the mussel's toom.

Where the pig's broken let the sherds lie.

"A proverbial phrase, applied to death, as expressive of
indifference with respect to the place where the body may be
interred."--_Jamieson._

Where the scythe cuts, and the sock rives, hae done wi' fairies and bee-bykes.

"Meaning that the ploughing, or even the mowing, of the ground tends
to extirpate alike the earth-bee and the fairy. In various places,
the fairies are described as having been seen on some particular
occasion to gather together and take a formal farewell of the
district, when it had become, from agricultural changes, unfitted
for their residence."--_Robert Chambers._

When the tod preaches tak tent o' the lambs.

"When the fox preaches, take care of the geese."--_English._

When the tod wins to the wood he caresna how mony keek at his tail.

When the wame's fu' the banes wad be at rest.

When the wame's fu' the tongue wags.

"Wi' spirit bauld they work, I trow,
And mony a strange tale they tell now,
Of ilka thing that's braw or new,
They never fag;
Auld proverb says, 'When wames are fu'
The tongues maun wag.'"--_The Har'st Rig._

When the will's ready the feet's light.

When we want, friends are scant.

When wine sinks words soom.

When ye are poor, naebody kens ye; when ye are rich, a'body lends ye.

When ye are weel, haud yoursel sae.

When ye ca' the dog out o' your ain kail-yaird, dinna ca't into mine.

When ye can suit your shanks to my shoon ye may speak.

When you are placed in a position similar to mine you will be
competent to speak on the subject.

When ye christen the bairn ye should ken what to ca't.

When you're gaun and comin' the gate's no toom.

When you're ser'd a' the geese are watered.

When your hair's white, ye wad hae it lockering.

"'Locker,' curled. Spoken of one who is immoderate in his
desires."--_Jamieson._

When your neighbour's house is in danger tak tent o' your ain.

Where drums beat laws are dumb.

Where the buck's bound there he may bleat.

"Men must bear these hardships to which they are bound either by
force or compact."--_Kelly._

Where the deer's slain the blude will lie.

Where the head gaes the tail will follow.

Where there are gentles there are aye aff-fa'in's.

There is such abundance of good prepared, that something may be
reasonably expected for the poor. It may also be a delicate allusion
to the failings of the aristocracy.

Where there's muckle courtesy there's little kindness.

Where there's naething the king tines his right.

While ae gab's teething anither's growing teethless.

Whiles you, whiles me, sae gaes the bailierie.

"Spoken when persons and parties get authority by turns."--_Kelly._

White legs wad aye be rused.

Whitely things are aye tender.

White siller's wrought in black pitch.

Wi' an empty hand nae man can hawks lure.

"If you would have anything done for you, you must give something,
for people will not serve you for nothing."--_Kelly._

Wide lugs and a short tongue are best.

Wide will wear, but tight will tear.

Addressed to those who complain that a new article of dress is too
wide for them.

Wiles help weak folk.

Wilfu' waste maks woefu' want.

Will and wit strive wi' you.

Wink at sma' fauts, ye hae great anes yoursel.

Winter thunder bodes summer hunger.

Wipe wi' the water and wash wi' the towel.

Wiser men than you are caught by wiles.

Wishers and woulders are poor house hauders.

Wit bought maks wise folk.

Wit is worth a weel-turned leg.

Wives maun be had whether gude or bad.

Wives maun hae their wills while they live, for they mak nane when they dee.

Women and bairns layne what they ken na.

That is, conceal what they know not.

Women and wine, dice and deceit, mak wealth sma' and want great.

Women laugh when they can, and greet when they will.

Women's wark is never dune.

Wood in a wilderness, moss on a mountain, and wit in a poor man's pow, are little thought o'.

Woo sellers ken aye woo buyers.

"Roguish people know their own consorts."--_Kelly._

Wonder at your auld shoon when ye hae gotten your new.

A pert reply to persons who say they wonder how you could have done
so and so.

Words are but wind, but seein's believing.

Words gang wi' the wind, but dunts are out o' season.

Work legs and win legs, hain legs and tine legs.

Worth may be blamed, but ne'er be shamed.

Wrang count is nae payment.

Wrang has nae warrant.

Wyte your teeth if your tail be sma'.

Ye breed o' auld maids, ye look high.

Ye breed o' gude maut, ye're lang o' comin'.

Ye breed o' Lady Mary, when you're gude ye're ower gude.

"A drunken man begg'd Lady Mary to help him on his horse, and having
made many attempts to no purpose, he always reiterated the same
petition; at length he jumped quite over. 'O, Lady Mary,' said he,
'when thou art good, thou art ower good.'"--_Kelly._

Ye breed o' our laird; ye'll no do right, and ye'll tak nae wrang.

Ye breed o' Saughton swine, ye're neb's never oot o' an ill turn.

Ye breed o' the baxters, ye loe your neighbour's browst better than your ain batch.

Ye breed o' the chapman, ye're aye to handsel.

"Spoken to those who ask us hansel (that is, the first bit in the
morning, the first money for their parcels of wares, or the like).
Taken from pedlars who, coming into a house, will say, 'Give us
hansel.'"--_Kelly._

Ye breed o' the chapman, ye're never oot o' your gate.

Spoken to those who do business wherever they go.

Ye breed o' the craw's tail, ye grow backwards.

Ye breed o' the gowk, ye hae ne'er a rhyme but ane.

Or you are always talking on one subject.

Ye breed o' the gudeman's mither, ye're aye in the gate.

Ye breed o' the herd's wife, ye busk at e'en.

Ye breed o' the miller's dochter, that speir'd what tree groats grew on.

"Spoken when saucy fellows, bred of mean parentage, pretend
ignorance of what they were bred with."--_Kelly._

Ye breed o' the tod's bairns, if ane be gude, they're a' gude.

Ye breed o' the tod, ye grow grey before ye grow gude.

Ye breed o' the witches, ye can do nae gude to yoursel.

Ye breed o' water-kail and cock-lairds, ye need muckle service.

Used by servants whose employers are troublesome.

Ye ca' hardest at the nail that drives fastest.

Meaning that a person pretends to work much harder than is really
required.

Ye cangle about uncoft kids.

Literally, quarrel about unbought goods.

Ye canna do but ye ower-do.

Ye canna fare weel but ye cry roast-meat.

"Bolt thy fine meal, and eat good paste without report or trumpet
blast. They that are thirsty drink silently."--_French._

Ye canna gather berries aff a whinbush.

Ye canna get leave to thrive for thrang.

Literally, you are so busy that you have no time to get rich.

Ye canna mak a silk purse out o' a sow's lug.

Ye canna preach oot o' your ain pu'pit.

Applied to persons who are diffident in the house of a stranger, or
who are backward in describing an article out of their usual way of
business.

Ye canna put an auld head upon young shouthers.

Ye canna see the wood for trees.

On a par with the man who went to London, but could not see the town
for houses!

Ye come o' the house o' Harletillem.

"To 'harle,' to draw to one's-self by gripping or violent
means."--_Jamieson._

Ye come o' the M'Taks, but no o' the M'Gies.

That is, you take all you can get, but take care to give nothing.

Ye come to the gait's house to thig woo.

Or, you come for a thing which I have not to give. "You beg of him
who is ready to steal."--_English._

Ye crack crousely wi' your bannet on.

A hint to a person that his conduct is too familiar.

Ye cut before the point.

Ye cut lang whangs aff ither folk's leather.

Spoken to persons who are very liberal with things which do not
belong to them.

Ye daur weel but ye downa.

Or try to do well, but cannot.

Ye didna draw sae weel when my mear was in the mire.

You did not assist me so much as I now assist you.

Ye didna lick your lips since ye leed last.

Ye drive the plough before the owsen.

Ye fand it where the Hielandman fand the tangs.

That was, in their proper place, at the fireside. A proverbial
manner of saying that a thing has been stolen, in reply to those who
say they found it.

Ye fike it awa, like auld wives baking.

"'To fike,' to dally about a business; to lose time by
procrastination while appearing to be busy."--_Jamieson._

Ye gae far about seeking the nearest.

Ye gang round by Lanark for fear Linton dogs bite you.

Ye gae gude counsel, but he's a fool that taks 't.

Ye glower like a cat oot o' a whinbush.

Ye got ower muckle o' your ain will, and ye're the waur o't.

Ye had aye a gude whittle at your belt.

Ye hae a conscience like Coldingham common.

"Coldingham moor, or common, was an undivided waste of above 6000
acres. The saying is applied to persons of lax principles, who can
accommodate their consciences to all circumstances."--_G.
Henderson._

Ye hae a lang nose, and yet ye're cut lugget.

In appearance you have an advantage in one way, but not in another.

Ye hae a ready mou' for a ripe cherry.

Ye hae a saw for a' sairs.

Ye hae a streak o' carl hemp in you.

Figuratively this means that a person possesses firmness, or
strength of mind.

Ye hae aye a foot oot o' the langle.

Ye hae as muckle pride as wad ser' a score o' clergy.

Ye hae baith your meat and your mense.

Applied to a person who has invited another to dine with him, but
who has refused, or failed to make his appearance; meaning that you
have both the meat he would have eaten, and the honour of having
invited him.

Ye hae been gotten gathering nits, ye speak in clusters.

Ye hae been lang on little eird.

Ye hae to be pitied and prayed for, either to end ye or mend ye.

Ye hae been smelling the bung.

That is, you have been tippling.

Ye hae brought the pack to the pins.

"You have dwindled away your stock."--_Kelly._

Ye hae ca'd your pigs to an ill market.

Ye hae come aff at the loupin-on-stane.

"'Loupin-on-stane,' a stone, or several stones, raised one above
another, like a flight of steps, for assisting one to get on
horseback. Metaphysically, to leave off any business in the same
state as when it was begun; also, to terminate a dispute without the
slightest change of mind in either party."--_Jamieson._

Ye have fasted lang, and worried on a midge.

Ye hae come in time to tine a darg.

To "tine a darg," is to lose a day's work: you have arrived too
late.

Ye hae found a mear's nest, and laugh at the eggs.

Ye hae gien the wolf the wedders to keep.

"You have entrusted a thing to one who will lose it, spoil it, or
use it himself."--_Kelly._

Ye hae got a stipend--get a kirk when ye like.

Ye hae got baith the skaith and the scorn.

Ye hae gotten a ravelled hesp to redd.

That is, you have a very difficult matter to arrange.

"Ance let a hizzy get you in the girn,
Ere ye get loose, ye'll redd a ravell'd pirn."--_Allan Ramsay._

Ye hae gotten the chapman's drouth.

"From the severe exercise of a pedlar who travels on foot, _the
chapman's drouth_ is a proverbial phrase for hunger."--_Jamieson._

Ye hae grown proud since ye quatted the begging.

Applied satirically to persons who pass their acquaintance in a
proud manner.

Ye hae gude manners, but ye dinna bear them about wi' you.

Ye hae little need o' the Campsie wife's prayer, "That she might aye be able to think enough o' hersel'."

A reflection upon conceited or selfish people.

Ye hae mind o' yer meat though ye hae little o't.

Ye hae missed that, as ye did your mither's blessing.

Ye hae nae mair need for't than a cart has for a third wheel.

Ye hae nae mair sense than a sooking turkey.

"I ken I hae a gude deal o' the cuddy in me, when I'm straikit
against the hair; and my mother used to say, I had mair than eneuch
o' the sookin' turkey in me!"--_The Disruption._

Ye hae ower foul feet tae come sae far ben.

Spoken jocularly to persons who, when they go to visit a friend,
ask, "Will they come in?"

Ye hae ower muckle loose leather about yer chafts.

"Spoken to them that say the thing they should not."--_Kelly._

Ye hae put a toom spune in my mouth.

A country farmer complained of having been fed with a "toom spune,"
when he had listened to the exhortations of a very poor preacher.

Ye hae run lang on little ground.

Ye hae sew'd that seam wi' a het needle and a burning thread.

Spoken facetiously when an article of clothing, which has been
hurriedly mended, gives way soon.

Ye hae sitten your time, as mony a gude hen has done.

Ye hae skill o' man and beast and dogs that tak the sturdy.

Addressed satirically to persons who pretend to be very wise by
those who do not admit their pretensions.

Ye hae stayed lang, and brought little wi' ye.

Ye hae ta'en the measure o' his foot.

Ye hae ta'en't upon you, as the wife did the dancin'.

Ye hae the best end o' the string.

Or the best of the argument.

Ye hae the wrang sow by the lug.

Ye hae tied a knot wi' your tongue you winna loose wi' your teeth.

Ye hae tint the tongue o' the trump.

"That is, you have lost the main thing."--_Kelly._

Ye hae tint yer ain stamach an' found a tyke's.

Applied to those who, when very hungry, eat a great deal.

Ye hae wrought a yoken and loosed in time.

You have wrought a day's work in proper time.

Ye ken naething but milk and bread when it's mool'd into ye.

Or you know or care about nothing but your meat.

Ye kenna what may cool your kail yet.

Ye live beside ill neebors.

"Spoken when people commend themselves, for if they deserved
commendation, their neighbours would commend them."--_Kelly._

Ye'll beguile nane but them that lippen to ye.

Ye'll be hang'd and I'll be harried.

Ye'll break your neck as sune as your fast in this house.

Ye'll dee without amends o't.

Ye'll cool and come to yoursel, like MacGibbon's crowdy when he set it oot at the window-bole.

Ye'll dee like a trooper's horse--wi' your shoon on.

Ye'll do onything but work and rin errands.

Ye'll follow him lang or he'll let five shillings fa'.

Ye'll gang a grey gate yet.

"You will take a bad, evil, or improper course, or meet an evil
destiny."--_Jamieson._

Ye'll gar him claw a sair haffit.

"'Haffit,' the side of the head."--_Jamieson._

Metaphorically, you will do something to injure or annoy him.

Ye'll gar me seek the needle where I didna stick it.

"That is, send me a-begging. Spoken to thriftless wives and spending
children."--_Kelly._

Ye'll gather nae gowd aff windlestraes.

Ye'll get as muckle for ae wish this year as for twa fernyear.

"Fern" signifies the preceding year. The proverb means that wishing
begets nothing.

Ye'll get nae mair o' the cat but the skin.

Ye'll get waur bodes ere Beltane.

Addressed to a person who refuses the price offered for an article,
meaning that, as worse offers will be made, the seller will be sorry
he did not accept the present one.

Ye'll get your gear again, and they'll get the widdie that stole't.

Ye'll get your head in your hands and your lugs to play wi'.

Ye'll get your kail through the reek.

"The fact is, everybody about the house kens o' the muirburn that
the mistress rais'd on you yestreen, for takin' up wi' Miss
Migummery. Ye see when your auntie's in an ill key, she gars folk
hear that's no hearknin'; an' ye ken yoursel', if she didna gie you
your kail through the reek, Maister James."--_The Disruption._

Ye'll hae the half o' the gate and a' the glaur.

Spoken facetiously when we make a friend take the outside of the
footpath.

Ye'll hang a' but the head yet.

Ye'll let naething tine for want o' seeking.

Yellow's forsaken, and green's forsworn, but blue and red ought to be worn.

In allusion to the superstitious notions formerly held regarding
these colours.

Ye'll ne'er be auld wi' sae muckle honesty.

Ye'll ne'er cast saut on his tail.

Ye'll ne'er craw in my cavie.

This means that such a person will never be welcomed in my house.

Ye'll ne'er grow howbackit bearing your friends.

From this we can infer that the person addressed does not allow
himself to be troubled by his friends.

Ye'll ne'er harry yersel wi' your ain hands.

Ye'll ne'er mak a mark in your testament by that bargain.

That is, you will lose money by that transaction.

Ye'll ne'er rowte in my tether.

Of similar meaning to "Ye'll ne'er craw in my cavie."

Ye'll neither dance nor haud the candle.

Ye'll neither dee for your wit nor be drowned for a warlock.

A saying used to signify that a person is neither very wise nor very
clever.

Ye'll no dee as lang as he's your deemster.

Ye'll no let it be for want o' craving.

Ye'll no mend a broken nest by dabbing at it.

Ye'll play a sma' game before you stand out.

Ye'll see the gowk in your sleep.

"When you awake in the morning you will see matters
differently."--_Jamieson._

Ye'll sit till ye sweat and work till ye freeze.

Ye'll tak mair in your mou' than your cheeks will haud.

Ye'll worry in the band like M'Ewen's calf.

"In plain English, you'll be hanged."--_Kelly._

Ye loe a' ye see, like Rab Roole when he's ree.

Addressed to covetous, greedy persons. When Rab Roole was "ree," he
was crazy with drink.

Ye look as bauld as a blackfaced wedder.

Ye look as if butter wadna melt in your mou', but cheese will no choke ye.

"I am beginning to think ye are but a queer ane--ye look as if
butter wadna melt in your mouth, but I sall warrant cheese no choke
ye.--But I'll thank ye to gang your ways into the parlour, for I'm
no like to get muckle mair out o' ye."--_St Ronan's Well._

Ye look as if ye had eaten your bedstrae.

"Ye look like a rinner," quo' the deil to the lobster.

"Spoken to those who are very unlikely to do what they pretend
to."--_Kelly._

Ye look like Let-me-be.

That is, very quiet and inoffensive.

Ye look liker a deil than a bishop.

Ye look liker a thief than a horse.

Yelping curs will raise mastiffs.

Ye maun be auld ere ye pay sic a gude wad.

Literally, you will be very old ere you can perform such a promise;
proverbially, of course, that you look upon that promise as of no
value.

Ye maun hae't baith simmered and wintered.

"'To simmer and winter,' to spend much time in forming a plan; to
ponder; to ruminate."--_Jamieson._

It also means, to trifle, to dilly-dally, to go round about a
subject.

"'His heart was amaist broken.' 'It maun be unco brittle,' said
Claud, with a hem. 'But what's the need o' this summering and
wintering anent it? Tell us what has happened.'"--_The Entail._

Ye maun redd your ain ravelled clue.

That is, you must extricate yourself from your difficulties without
assistance.

Ye maun spoil or ye spin.

Ye maun tak the will for the deed.

Ye maunna throw awa the cog, tho' Crummie fling't.

Ye may be godly, but ye'll ne'er be cleanly.

Ye may be greedy, but ye're no greening.

Ye may dight yer neb and flee up.

An expression of indifference, addressed to a person whose opinion
we consider of no value.

Ye may be heard where ye're no seen.

Ye may dance at the end o' a raip yet without teaching.

Ye may drive the deil into a wife, but ye'll ne'er ding him oot o' her.

Ye may end him, but ye'll ne'er mend him.

Ye may gang farther and fare waur.

Ye may gape lang enough ere a bird flee into your mou'.

Ye may live and no pree the tangs.

Ye may tak a drink out o' the burn when ye canna tak a bite out o' the brae.

Ye may tine the faither looking for the son.

Ye may wash aff dirt, but never dun hide.

Ye mete my peas wi' your ain peck.

Ye needna mak a causey tale o't.

That is, I have told you so-and-so, but do not speak of it--do not
publish it.

Ye ne'er see green cheese but your een reels.

Meaning that the person spoken to is very covetous of everything he
sees.

Ye rave unrocked, I wish your head was knocked.

"Spoken to them that speak unreasonable things, as if they
raved."--_Kelly._

Ye're a' blawin' like a burstin' haggis.

Ye're a day after the fair.

Ye're a deil and nae cow, like the man's bull.

"Ye're a fine sword," quo' the fool to the wheat braird.

Ye're a foot behint the foremost.

Ye're a' grease, but I'm only grushie.

Ye're a gude seeker but an ill finder.

Ye're a' made o' butter, an' sew'd wi' soor milk.

Ye're a maiden marrowless.

Satirically applied to conceited maidens who hold high opinions of
themselves, that they are unequalled.

Ye're a man amang geese when the gander's awa.

Ye're ane o' Cow-Meek's breed, ye'll stand without a bonoch.

Ye're ane o' snaw-ba's bairn time.

"That is, such as health and prosperity make worse, or who
insensibly go behind in the world."--_Kelly._

Ye're ane o' the tender Gordons--you daurna be hang'd for ga' in your neck.

Ye're an honest man, and I'm your uncle--that's twa big lees.

Ye're a' out o't and into strae.

That is, you are quite mistaken about the matter.

Ye're a queer fish no to hae fins.

Ye're as braw as Bink's wife,--like the sun on shairney water.

Ye're as daft as ye're days auld.

Ye're as fu' o' maggots as the bride o' Preston, wha stopt half way as she gaed to the kirk.

"We have not been able to learn who the bride o' Preston really was;
but we have frequently heard the saying applied to young women, who
are capricious and changeable.

"'The bride took a maggot, it was but a maggot,
She wadna gang by the West Mains to be married.'"--_G. Henderson._

Ye're as fu' o' mischief as an egg's fu' o' meat.

Ye're as lang tuning your pipes as anither wad play a spring.

Ye're as mim as a May puddock.

Ye're as sma' as the twitter o' a twined rash.

Ye're as souple sark alane as some are mither naked.

Ye're as stiff as a stappit saster.

"'Stappit saster,' a crammed pudding."--_Jamieson._

Ye're a widdiefu' gin hanging time.

Ye're aye in a hurry, and aye behint.

Ye're best when ye're sleeping.

Ye're black aboot the mou' for want o' kissing.

"A jest upon a young maid when she has a spot about her mouth, as if
it was for want of being kissed."--_Kelly._

Ye're bonny enough to them that loe ye, and ower bonny to them that loe ye and canna get ye.

"Spoken as a comfort to people of an ordinary beauty."--_Kelly._

Ye're busy to clear yoursel when naebody files you.

Ye're buttoned up the back like Achmahoy's dog.

Ye're but young cocks--your craw's roupy.

Ye're cawking the claith ere the wab be in the loom.

Or plucking your geese before they are caught.

Ye're come o' blude, and sae's a pudding.

A taunt upon those who boast of their gentle blood.

Ye're Davy-do-little and gude for naething.

Ye're either ower het or ower cauld, like the miller o' Marshach mill.

Ye're feared for the day ye never saw.

"You are afraid of far-enough."--_English._

Ye're fit for coorse country wark--ye're rather strong than handsome.

Ye're gude to be sent for sorrow.

Ye're gude to fetch the deil a priest.

The two last sayings are applied to persons who take a long time to
do anything about which they are sent.

Ye're like a bad liver--the last day there's aye maist to do wi' ye.

Ye're like a hen on a het girdle.

Ye're like an ill shilling--ye'll come back again.

Jocularly addressed to a person who is about to go away.

Ye're like a singed cat--better than ye're bonny.

Ye're like a Lauderdale bawbee, as bad as bad can be.

"The obnoxious Duke of Lauderdale, who was at the head of affairs in
Scotland's 'persecuting times,' had, it appears, a principal hand in
some detested coinage. The _bawbee_, or halfpenny so issued, soon
became base money, and these Lauderdale bawbees were branded with a
bad name."--_G. Henderson._

Ye're like a rotten nit--no worth cracking for the kernel.

Ye're like Macfarlane's geese--ye hae mair mind o' your play than your meat.

"Macfarlane (of that ilk) had a house and garden upon the island of
Inch-Tavoe. Here James VI. was on one occasion regaled by the
chieftain. His majesty had been previously much amused by the geese
pursuing each other on the loch. But when one, which had been
brought to table, was found to be tough and ill fed, James observed,
'That Macfarlane's geese liked their play better than their
meat,'--a proverb which has been current ever since."--_Note to The
Monastery._

Ye're like a sow--ye'll neither lead nor drive.

Ye're like Brackley's tup--ye follow the lave.

Ye're like laird Moodie's greyhounds--unco hungry like about the pouch lids.

Ye're like me, and I'm nae sma' drink.

Ye're like Piper Bennet's bitch--ye lick till ye burst.

Ye're like the cooper o' Fogo, ye drive aff better girs than ye ca' on.

"Said of those who attempt to reform anything, but who, instead of
that, make matters worse."--_G. Henderson._

Ye're like the corbie messenger--ye come wi' neither alms nor answer.

"He send furth Corbie Messingeir,
Into the air to espy
Gif he saw ony mountains dry.
Sum sayis the Rauin did furth remane,
And com nocht to the ark agane."--_Sir David Lyndsay._

Ye're like the cow-couper o' Swinton, ye'll no slocken.

Ye're like the dead folk o' Earlstoun--no to lippen to.

"This is founded on a popular story, kept up as a joke against the
worthy people of Earlstoun. It is said that an inhabitant of this
village, going home with too much liquor, stumbled into the
churchyard, where he soon fell asleep. Wakening to a glimmering
consciousness after a few hours, he felt his way across the graves;
but taking every hollow interval for an open receptacle for the
dead, he was heard by some neighbour saying to himself, 'Up and
away! Eh, this ane up an away too! Was there ever the like o' that?
I trow the dead folk o' Earlstoun's no to lippen to!'"--_Robert
Chambers._

Ye're like the dog o' Dodha', baith double an' twa-faced.

Ye're like the dogs o' Dunraggit--ye winna bark unless ye hae your hinder end to the wa'.

Spoken to persons who will not complain or "make a noise" about a
thing, unless they are guaranteed against any consequences that may
ensue.

Ye're like the Kilbarchan calves--like best to drink wi' the wisp in your mou'.

Ye're like the lambs--ye do naething but sook and wag your tail.

Ye're like the man that sought his horse, and him on its back.

Ye're like the miller's dog--ye lick your lips ere the pock be opened.

"Spoken to covetous people who are eagerly expecting a thing, and
ready to receive it before it be proffered."--_Kelly._

Ye're like the minister o' Balie, preaching for selie.

Ye're like the swine's bairns--the aulder ye grow ye're aye the thiefer like.

Ye're like Towy's hawks--ye eat ane anither.

"I was ance gain to speir what was the matter, but I saw a curn o'
camla-like fallows wi' them, an' I thought they were a' fremit to
me, an' sae they might eat ither as Towy's hawks did, for onything
that I cared."--_Journal from London._

Ye're looking ower the nest, like the young craws.

Ye're minnie's milk is no out o' your nose yet.

Ye're mista'en o' the stuff; it's half silk.

"Jocosely spoken to them that undervalue a person or thing, which we
think indeed not very valuable, yet better than they repute
it."--_Kelly._

Ye're nae chicken for a' ye're cheepin.

Ye're never pleased, fu' nor fasting.

Ye're new come ower--your heart's nipping.

Ye're no light where you lean a'.

Ye're no worth ca'ing out o' a kail-yaird.

Ye're o' sae mony minds, ye'll never be married.

Ye're out and in, like a dog at a fair.

Ye're ower auld farrant to be fley'd wi' bogles.

Ye're ower het and ower fu', sib to some o' the laird's tenants.

Ye're queer folk no to be Falkland folk.

Falkland, in Fife, was formerly a Royal residence; and the court
manners, contrasted with those of the surrounding country, gave rise
to the saying.

Ye ride sae near the rump, ye'll let nane loup on ahint you.

Ye rin for the spurtle when the pat's boiling ower.

That is, take precautions when it is too late.

Ye're sae keen o' clockin', ye'll dee on the eggs.

"Spoken to those who are fond of any new place, condition, business,
or employment."--_Kelly._

Ye're sair fashed hauding naething thegither.

Ye're sair stressed wi' stringing the milsey.

"A proverb addressed to those who make much ado about nothing, or
complain of the weight of that work which deserves not to be
mentioned. It refers to the cloth through which the milk is
strained, being taken off the wooden frame, wrung out, and tied on
again."--_Jamieson._

Ye're seeking the thing that's no tint.

Ye're sick, but no sair handled.

Ye're the weight o' Jock's cog, brose and a'.

Ye're there yet, and your belt hale.

"Spoken when people say, 'They will go to such a place, and there do
thrive and prosper,' &c., which we think unlikely."--_Kelly._

Ye're thrifty and thro' thriving, when your head gangs doun your bottom's rising.

Ye're unco gude, and ye'll grow fair.

Ye're up in the buckle, like John Barr's cat.

Ye're very foresighted, like Forsyth's cat.

Ye're weel awa if ye bide, an' we're weel quat.

Ye're welcome, but ye'll no win ben.

Ye rin awa wi' the harrows.

"To run on with a great flow of language, assuming what ought to be
proved, or totally disregarding what has been said on the opposite
side."--_Jamieson._

Ye seek grace wi' a graceless face.

Ye ser'd me as the wife did the cat--coost me into the kirn, and syne harl'd me out again.

That is, you have placed me in a good position merely to take me
from it again.

Ye'se get your brose out o' the lee side o' the pot.

A promise of the best that the pot contains.

Ye shanna be niffered but for a better.

Ye shanna want as lang as I hae, but look weel to your ain.

Ye shape shune by your ain shauchled feet.

You judge of others by yourself.

Ye shine like a white gir about a shairney cog.

Ye shine like the sunny side o' a shairney wecht.

"A ridicule upon people when they appear fine."--_Kelly._

Ye sit like craws in the mist.

That is, in the dark.

Ye sleep like a dog in a mill.

That is, with one eye open.

Ye sleep like a dog when the wife's baking.

Ye soon weary o' doin' weel.

Ye tak a bite out o' your ain buttock.

Ye tak but a foal's share o' the harrow.

Ye tak the first word o' flyting.

"'Wheelie, I'll be as plain as I'm pleasant--mind you're no to
expect me to dance with you.' 'It's verra weel o' you, Miss Mary,'
replied Andrew pawkily, 'to tak the first word o' flyting; but ye
should first ken whether ye're come up to my mark or no.'"--_Sir
Andrew Wylie._

Ye tak mair in your gab than your cheeks can haud.

Ye wad be a gude Borrowstone sow--ye smell weel.

"Spoken when people pretend to find the smell of something that we
would conceal."--_Kelly._

Ye wad be a gude piper's bitch--ye smell out the weddings.

Ye wad clatter a cat to death.

"'Clatter,' to prattle, to act as a tell-tale."--_Jamieson._

Ye wad gar me trow my head's cowed, though there's no shears come near't.

That is, you would make me believe a thing which I know to be quite
false.

Ye wad mak a gude wife, ye haud the grip ye get.

Ye wad mak muckle o' me if I was yours.

Ye wad marry a midden for the muck.

Ye wad steal the pocks frae an auld wife, and syne speir where she got them.

Ye was bred about the mill, ye hae mooped a' your manners.

"Spoken to inferiors when they show themselves rude in their speech
or behaviour."--_Kelly._

Ye was ne'er born at that time o' the year.

"Spoken to them that expect such a place, station, or condition
which we think above their birth."--_Kelly._

Ye was put out o' the oven for nipping the pies.

With the same meaning, we once heard a vulgar little boy say to
another, that he was "Put out of the workhouse for eating the number
off his plate!"

Ye was sae hungry ye couldna stay the grace.

Ye watna what's behint your hand.

Ye watna what wife's ladle may cog your kail.

Ye watna where a blessing may light.

Ye winna craw trade.

That is, you will never admit that trade is good.

Ye winna put out the fire wi' tow.

Ye work by Macfarlane's lantern.

"The clan of MacFarlane, occupying the fastnesses of the western
side of Loch Lomond, were great depredators on the Low Countries,
and as their excursions were made usually by night, the moon was
proverbially called their lantern."--_Note to Waverley._

Ye yirr and yowl--ye bark, but daurna bite.

Young cowtes will canter.

"Meg, on her part, though she often called them 'drunken
neer-do-weels, and thoroughbred High Street blackguards,' allowed no
other person to speak ill of them in her hearing. 'They were daft
callants,' she said, 'and that was all--when the drink was in, the
wit was out; ye could not put an auld head upon young shouthers; a
young cowt will canter, be it up hill or down--and what for no?' was
her uniform conclusion."--_St Ronan's Well._

Young ducks may be auld geese.

"A man at five may be a fool at fifteen."

Young folk may dee, auld folk maun dee.

Young saints, auld sinners.

"'I hae played wi' him mysel at Glennaquoich, and sae has Vich Ian
Vohr, often of a Sunday afternoon.' 'Lord forgie ye, Ensign
MacCombich,' said the alarmed Presbyterian; 'I'm sure the colonel
wad never do the like o' that.' 'Hout! hout! Mrs Flockhart,' replied
the Ensign, 'we're young blude, ye ken; and young saints, auld
deils.'"--_Waverley._

Your bread's baked, you may hing up your girdle.

Your een's greedier than your guts.

This is applied to persons who leave a "rough" plate--who, having
asked for a dish, are unable to finish it.

Your een's no marrows.

Your een's your merchant.

Your fortune's coming wi' the blind carrier.

"Deed, Mr Stimperton, I'm no sae daft. Whaur wad the profit o' that
be, I wonder? I trow, the principal and interest wad come back to
me wi' the blind carrier. Set my nevo up wi' my hard won siller,
truly!"--_The Disruption._

Your head canna get up but your stamach follows.

Your mind's aye chasing mice.

Your mou's beguiled your hands.

Your purse was steekit when that was paid for.

A polite manner of intimating that the article in question has not
been paid.

Your tongue is nae scandal.

Your tongue rins aye before your wit.

Your tongue wags like a lamb's tail.

Your thrift's as gude as the profit o' a yeld hen.

"Your will's law," quo' the tailor to the clockin' hen, when she pick'd oot his twa een, and cam for his nose.

Your wit will ne'er worry you.

Yule is young on Yule even, and auld on Saint Steven.

GLOSSARY.

GLOSSARY.

_A'_, all.

_A-be_, to let alone.

_A'body_, every person.

_Aboon_, _abune_, above.

_Aboot_, about.

_Adreich_, askant.

_Ae_, one.

_Aff_, off.

_Afore_, before.

_Aft_, oft, frequently.

_Aften_, often.

_Agley_, aside, askant.

_Ahint_, behind.

_Aiblins_, perhaps.

_Ail_, injury, hurt.

_Ain_, own.

_Air_, soon, early.

_Airn_, iron.

_Airt_, art, direction.

_Aith_, an oath.

_Aiver_, a cart-horse, an old horse.

_Ajee_, to one side, askant.

_Alane_, alone.

_Amaist_, almost.

_Amang_, among.

_An_, if.

_An'_, and.

_Ance_, once.

_Aneath_, beneath.

_Anither_, another

_Aqual_, equal.

_A'thing_, everything.

_Atweel_, very well, just so.

_Atween_, between.

_Aucht_, to own, possession.

_Auld_, old.

_Auld-farrant_, sagacious, shrewd, "old-fashioned."

_Aumrie_, a cupboard.

_Auncient_, ancient.

_Ava_, at all.

_Awa_, away, out of sight.

_Awfu'_, awful.

_Awmous_, alms.

_Ayont_, beyond.

_Ba'_, ball, the game of ball.

_Backfriend_, one who supports another.

_Baillierie_, the magistracy.

_Bairn_, a child.

_Baith_, both.

_Baken_, baked.

_Bane_, a bone.

_Bann_, to knock, to malign.

_Bannet_, a bonnet.

_Bannock_, home-baked flour cakes, or "_scones_."

_Bardy-loon_, mischievous or impertinent fellow.

_Barefit_, barefooted.

_Barlikhood_, obstinacy, ill-nature.

_Batch_, a baking.

_Bauch_, insipid, tasteless, useless.

_Bauchle_, an old shoe.

_Baudrons_, a cat.

_Bauk_, to baulk, to disappoint.

_Bauld_, bold, courageous.

_Bawbee_, a halfpenny.

_Bawty_, a dog.

_Baxters_, bakers.

_Bear_, barley.

_Beck_, to bow, to curtsy.

_Bedral_, a beadle, church-officer.

_Beetle_, a heavy wooden mallet.

_Behint_, behind.

_Beild_, a shelter, protection, a house.

_Bein_, in comfortable circumstances, well-to-do.

_Beit_, to renew.

_Beltane_, the first of May, O. S.

_Belyve_, immediately, by-and-by.

_Ben_, inwards.

_Bend-leather_, thick leather, such as is used for soles of boots.

_Besom_, a broom, a brush.

_Bicker_, a small wooden dish or basin.

_Bide_, to stay, to endure.

_Big_, to build.

_Biggin_, a small house, a building.

_Bink_, a bench, a seat.

_Birk_, birch.

_Birn_, a burden.

_Bit_, a piece.

_Blad_, a blow or slap; cast or throw.

_Blate_, bashful, shy.

_Blattran_, rattling.

_Blaw_, to blow, to flatter.

_Bleer-ee'd_, bedimmed with tears, weak-sighted.

_Bleeze_, a blaze, to blaze.

_Bletheration_, nonsense, foolish language.

_Blirt_, to gush forth.

_Blude_, blood.

_Board-claith_, a table-cloth.

_Bode_, an offer, a portent.

_Bodle_, an ancient Scottish coin, value one-sixth of the English penny.

_Bogle_, bugbear, an object of terror.

_Bonnie_, _bonny_, pretty, beautiful, handsome, good-looking.

_Bonoch_, a cake or _bannock_.

_Bore_, a hole.

_Bouk_, bulk, compass.

_Bourd_, a jest, to jest.

_Bourdna_, do not jest.

_Bowrock_, cluster, heap, clump.

_Brachens_, ferns.

_Brae_, side of a hill, an inclined road.

_Braid_, broad.

_Braird_, blade of grass.

_Brak_, broke, did break.

_Brat_, a coarse apron.

_Brattle_, a rattle.

_Braw_, _brawly_, finely, gaily dressed.

_Bree_, broth.

_Breed_, to resemble, to take after.

_Breeks_, breeches, trousers.

_Brig_, bridge.

_Brither_, brother.

_Brod_, goad to drive oxen.

_Brogue_, bradawl.

_Broke_, kitchen refuse, pigs meat.

_Broo_, the fluid part of soup, juice.

_Broose_, a race at a country wedding.

_Brose_, a dish of oatmeal and boiling water.

_Browst_, a brewing.

_Browster_, a brewer.

_Brunt_, burned.

_Bubbly-jock_, a turkey-cock.

_Buirdly_, strongly made, stout.

_Bum_, to buzz like a bee.

_Bummer_, a bee.

_Burn_, a running stream, a brook.

_Bursten_, bursting.

_Buskit_, dressed, bedecked.

_But-and-ben_, two adjoining apartments.

_But_, without.

_Buz_, talk, ado, noise.

_By_, over, past.

_By-gane_, what has passed.

_Byre_, cowhouse.

_Ca'_, to call, to name, to drive.

_Caber_, a rafter.

_Cadger_, a pedlar, gipsy, beggar.

_Cairn_, a heap of stones.

_Callant_, a boy, a youth.

_Cam'_, did come.

_Cangle_, quarrel, differ.

_Cankered_, fretful, ill-natured.

_Canna_, cannot.

_Canty_, happy, cheerful.

_Carl_, _carle_, old man.

_Carlin_, old woman.

_Castock_, the core of a cabbage.

_Cauff_, chaff.

_Cauld_, cold.

_Causey_, the causeway.

_Cawk_, chalk

_Ceevil_, civil.

_Chafts_, the chops.

_Chancy_, lucky, fortunate.

_Chanter_, the drone of a bagpipe.

_Chapman_, a pedlar.

_Chappin_, a quart measure.

_Chapping-sticks_, dangerous tools or weapons.

_Cheatery_, fraud, deceit.

_Cheep_, to chirp, to squeak.

_Cheil_, a fellow, a person, a young man.

_Chow_, to chew.

_Chuck_, to toss, to play marbles.

_Chuckie-stanes_, pebbles, such as are used for garden walks.

_Claes_, clothes.

_Claith_, cloth.

_Clarty_, dirty, bespattered with mud.

_Claver_, to gossip, to talk foolishly.

_Claw_, to scratch.

_Cleaving_, a cleft.

_Cleck_, to hatch.

_Cled_, clad.

_Cled-like_, well clad.

_Cleed_, to clothe.

_Clink_, money, a blow, to throw down.

_Clips_, tongs for lifting or hanging up a pot.

_Clishmaclaver_, idle talk.

_Clockin'_, clucking of hens.

_Cloot_, a hoof.

_Clout_, a patch, a rag, a slap with the hand.

_Clue_, a ball of worsted.

_Clung_, empty, collapsed, drawn together.

_Cock-laird_, a small landed proprietor who farms his own ground.

_Cod_, a pillow.

_Coft_, bought.

_Cog_, a wooden dish.

_Come-speed_, to succeed.

_Coof_, a simpleton, a stupid person.

_Coorse_, coarse.

_Coost_, to cast, to throw.

_Coostin_, thrown, cast off.

_Corbie_, a raven.

_Corn_, to feed a horse.

_Cowed_, frightened, coerced.

_Cowp_, fall, overturn.

_Cowte_, a colt, young horse.

_Crab_, to be angry, peevish.

_Crabbit_, angry, ill-natured.

_Crack_, a chat, a familiar conversation, to chat.

_Crans_, iron rods for supporting the pot while on the fire.

_Crap_, crop.

_Crappie_, the craw or crop of a fowl.

_Craw_, a crow.

_Craw_, to crow, exult, boast.

_Creel_, a basket carried on the back.

_Creesh_, grease, oil.

_Creeshy_, greasy, oily.

_Croon_, to hum a tune, to moan.

_Crouse_, courageous, lively.

_Crowdy_, gruel, thin _brose_, _q. v._

_Crummie_, the cow.

_Crunsh_, to break with the teeth.

_Cuddy_, a donkey.

_Cumbersome_, troublesome.

_Cunzie_, property, money.

_Curcuddoch_, fond, familiar, warm in attentions.

_Curly_, curled.

_Cursour_, a stallion, a war-horse.

_Cutty_, a short spoon, a short clay pipe.

_Cutty-stool_, a small stool.

_Dab_, _dabble_, to peck.

_Dad_, a violent knock, a dash with the hand.

_Dae_, to do.

_Daffin'_, sport, folly in general.

_Daft_, foolish, merry, idiotical.

_Daigh_, dough.

_Daidle_, to dilly-dally, to do a thing in a slow, sluggish manner.

_Dang_, did _ding_, _q. v._

_Darg_, a day's work.

_Darn_, to mend stockings, to conceal.

_Daur_, to dare.

_Daurna_, dare not.

_Dautie_, a pet, fondling.

_Daw_, a drab, slattern.

_Dead-lift_, an emergency.

_Dead-sweer_, very unwilling, extremely averse to exertion.

_Deave_, to deafen with noise.

_Dee_, to die.

_Deem_, to judge, condemn.

_Deil_, _deevil_, devil.

_Dight_, to wipe, rub, to make ready.

_Ding_, to push, knock over, to surpass, excel.

_Dink_, to dress neatly, neat, trim.

_Dinna_, do not.

_Dint_, opportunity, chance.

_Dirk_, a Highland dagger, to stab with a dagger.

_Dirl_, a sharp stroke, the tremulation caused by a stroke.

_Dish-clout_, dish-towel, washing-cloth.

_Disna_, does not.

_Dit_, to close, to stop a hole.

_Divot_, a turf.

_Dizzen_, dozen.

_Dochter_, daughter.

_Dock_, to cut the hair, to shorten.

_Docken_, the dock herb.

_Doited_, stupid.

_Dolour_, sorrow, grief.

_Donnart_, stupid, dull.

_Donsy_, unlucky.