Volume 1 / Book 1 — APPENDIX. (continued 2)
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hegehen, eyes.
hegh, high; heghere, higher.
hem, them.
hende, handsome, gentle.
hent, took.
herbere, arbor, orchard.
herme, harm.
hethyn, 107, hence.
hett, bid.
heved, head.
hi, 275, I.
high-coll'd, high-cut.
hind, gentle.
hind, 180, stripling.
him lane, alone.
hingers, hangings.
hirn, corner.
hith, hight, is called.
hollen, holly.
hore, hoar, hoary.
hose, 238, clasp.
howkit, dug.
howm, holm; level, low ground on the bank of a stream.
hunt's-ha', hunting-lodge.
hye, in, in haste; 23, perhaps aloud.
hyghte, bid; was called.
hynde, youth, stripling, swain.
hyȝe, in, 20, in haste, of a sudden.
ic, I.
iknow, known.
ilka, each.
ilke, same.
inowȝe, enough.
intill, into, upon.
iralle, 99. Qu. rialle, royal?
jawes, 227, dashes;
jawp'd, 257, dashed, spattered.
jelly, jolly, pleasant.
jimp, slender, neat.
jolly, pretty, gay.
kaim, comb.
kane, rent.
karp, talk, relate stories.
kemb, comb.
ken, know.
keppit, caught, kept.
kevels, lots.
kiest, cast.
kilted, tucked.
kin', kind of.
kindly, 236, "good old"?
kirk, church.
kist, chest.
knave-bairn, male child.
knicht, knight.
laidley, loathly, loathsome.
laigh-coll'd, low-cut.
laith, loath.
lane, alone; joined with pronouns, as, my lane, his lane, her lane, their lane, myself alone, &c.
lang, to think, originally, to seem long, then to be weary, feel ennui.
lapande, lapping.
lappered, coagulated, clotted.
lat, latten, let.
lauchters, locks.
laverock, lark.
leal, loyal, chaste.
leccam, body.
lede, lead.
lee, lie.
leesome, pleasant, sweet.
lelfe, 22, leave?
lere, lore, doctrine; learn.
les, lesyng, lying, lie.
lesse and more, smaller and greater.
lett, lette, hinder, hinderance; delay;
withouten lette, for a certainty.
leuedys, ladies.
leuer, liefer, rather.
leuȝe, laughed.
leven, 111, lawn.
levin, lightning.
ley-land, lea-land, not ploughed.
licht, light.
lichted, lighted.
lift, air.
likes, dead bodies.
lingcam, 148, body, =leccam?
linger, longer.
link, walk briskly; arm in arm.
lire, face, countenance.
lith, 275, supple, limber.
lithe, listen.
lodlye, loathly.
loffe, love.
loof, hollow of the hand.
loot, bow.
loot, let.
loun, loon.
louted, bowed.
lown, lone.
lowȝhe, laughed, smiled.
luifsomely, lovingly.
luppen, leapt.
lygge, lay
lyggande, lying.
lyle, little.
lystnys, listen.
lyth, member, limb.
mae, more.
maen, moan.
maik, mate.
makane, making.
mane, moan.
mansworn, perjured.
marrow, mate.
maste, most, greatest.
maun, must.
maunna, may not.
mawys, mavis, singing thrush.
may, maid.
medill-erthe, earth, the upper-world.
mekill, great, large.
mell, mallet.
meloude, melody.
mensked, 276, honored.
menyde, moaned.
merks, marks.
merk-soot, 274, mark-shot, distance between bow-marks.—Finlay.
merrys, marrest.
mese, mess, meal.
micht, might.
middle-eard, the upper world, placed between the nether regions and the sky.
minded, remembered.
minion, fine, elegant.
mirk, dark.
mith, might.
mode, passion, energy.
mody, courageous.
mold, mould, earth, ground.
montenans, amount.
more, greater.
most, greatest.
moth, might.
mother-naked, naked as at one's birth.
mouthe, might.
Mungo, St., St. Kentigern.
my lane, alone.
mykel, much.
na, not;
namena, name not, &c.
nay, denial.
neist, next.
newfangle, 9, (trifling, inconstant), light, loose.
niest, next, nearest, close.
noth, nouth, not.
nouther, noyther, neither.
on, in.
on ane, anon.
one, on, in.
onie, any.
or, ere, before.
orfaré, 99, embroidery.
Oryence, Orient.
oure, over.
over one, 23, in a company, together? See Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary, in v. ouer ane.
owre, over, too.
owreturn, refrain.
pae, peacock.
paines, penance.
pall, rich cloth.
palmer, pilgrim.
papeioyes, popinjays.
parde, par dieu.
pautit, paw, beat with the foot.
pay, 237, pleasure, satisfaction.
paye, 104, content.
payetrelle, 99, (otherwise, patrel, poitrail, pectorale, &c.) a steel plate for the protection of a horse's chest.
payrelde, apparelled.
perdé, par dieu.
perelle, pearl.
pile, 260, down, sometimes tender leaves.
plas, 19, place, palace.
plyȝt, plight, promise.
poterner, 8, pouch, purse. Rightly corrected by Percy from poterver.
See pautonnière, pontonaria, and pantonarius, in Henschel's ed. of Ducange.
pou, pull.
prest, priest.
prieve, prove.
prink'd, prinn'd, adorned, drest up, made neat.
pristly, earnestly.
propine, gift.
raches, scenting hounds.
radde, quick, quickly.
rair, roar.
rashing, striking like a boar.
rathely, quickly.
raught, reached.
rauine, beasts of chase, prey.
redd, 22, explained.
rede, counsel.
reekit, 299, steamed.
reele bone, 99, an unknown material, of which saddles, especially, are in the romances said to be made; called variously, rewel-bone, (Cant. Tales, 13, 807,) rowel-bone, reuylle-bone, and (Young Bekie, vol. iv. 12) royal-bone.
reet, root.
reme, kingdom.
renninge, running.
repreve, reprove, deride.
rewe, take pity.
ridand, riding.
rived, 233, (arrived,) travelled.
rought, route, rowte, rout, band, company.
routh, plenty.
row, roll, wrap.
rown-tree, mountain-ash.
rudd, complexion.
rybybe, kind of fiddle.
ryn, run.
rysse, rise.
safe-guard, a riding-skirt.
saghe, saw.
saikless, guiltless.
sained, crossed, consecrated.
sall, shall.
same, 25, some, each.
sark, shirt.
sathe, sooth, truth.
saw, saying, tale.
sawtrye, psaltery.
scathe, damage.
schane, shone.
scho, she.
schone, shoes.
scort, short.
sculd, should.
seannachy, genealogist, bard, or story-teller.
seck, sack.
sekirlye, truly.
selle, saddle.
senne, since.
sere, sore.
seres, sires, sirs.
sey, 18, v. 29, saw.
share, 193, slip, strip.
shathmont, 126, [A. Sax. scæftmund,] a measure from the top of the extended thumb to the utmost part of the palm, six inches.
shee, 166, shoe.
sheede, spill.
sheeld-bones, blade-bones, shoulder-blades.
sheen, bright.
sheen, shoes.
sheep's-silver, mica.
shent, injured, abused; 48, shamed.
sheugh, furrow, ditch.
sic, such.
sichin', sighing.
sicken, such.
skaith, harm.
skaith, [qy. skail?] 136, save, keep innocent of.
skill, but a, only reasonable?
skinked, poured out.
sky sett in, 262, for sunset or evening.
skyll, reason, manner, matter.
slae, sloe.
slawe, slain.
slichting, slighting.
smert, quickly.
snell, quick, keen.
solace, solas, recreation, sport.
sooth, soth, truth; sothely, truly.
soth, 276, sweet.
soun, sound.
speed, 11, fare.
spier, ask.
spylle, destroy.
stappin', 148, stopping.
stark, strong.
start, started.
stefly, thickly.
stered, guided.
stern light, 112, light of stars.
stiffe, 29, strong, stout.
stinted, stopped.
store, big, strong.
stown, stolen.
stowre, strong, brave.
straiked, stroaked.
strak, struck.
stratlins, 183, straddlings?
streek, stretch.
sture, 155, big, strong.
stythe, stead, place.
suire, neck.
suld, should.
swick, blame.
swilled, 242, shook, as in rinsing.
swoghyne, 103, soughing.
swylke, such.
syde, long.
syen, since.
syke, rivulet, marshy bottom.
sykerly, sykerlyke, certainly, truly.
syne, then.
syth, times.
sythen, since.
tabull dormounte, 19, standing table, the fixed table at the end of the hall. (?)
tae, toe.
taiken, token.
tee, to.
teind, tithe.
tene, grief, sorrow, loss, harm.
tente, attention, heed; takis gude tente, give good attention to.
tett, 109, lock [of hair.]
thae, those.
than, then
thar, where.
thar, 275, it needs.
then, than.
think lang, to be weary, impatient.
thir, these, those.
tho, then.
thoghte, seemed.
thoth, thouch, thouth, though.
thought lang, seemed long; grew weary, felt ennui.
thouth, 274, seemed.
throw, short time, while.
thrubchandler, 237 ?
tide, time.
till, to.
tirled at the pin, trilled, or rattled, at the door-pin, or latch, to obtain admission.
tither, the other.
tod, fox.
toute, 22. See Chaucer.
touting, tooting.
travayle, labor.
traye, 104, suffering. [dree?]
tree, wood, staff.
trew, trow.
tryst, appointment, assignation.
twal, twelve.
twan, twined.
twine, part, deprive of.
tyde, time.
tyte, promptly, quick.
unco, strangely, very.
vanes, flags.
venerye, hunting.
vent, went.
verament, truly.
villanye, vilony, disgrace.
vntill, unto.
vones, (wones,) dwellest.
vytouten, without.
wa', wall.
wace, wax.
wad, pledge.
wad, 212, waded.
wadded, 9, woad-colored, blue.
wadna, would not.
wae, waefu', waesome, sorrowful, sad.
waif, straying.
wald, would.
walker, 10, fuller.
wall-wight men, 176, picked (waled) strong men, warriors: see vol. vi., p. 220, v. 15.
wan afore, 255, came before.
wane, dwelling.
war, where.
ware of, to be, to perceive.
warld's maike, 264, companion for life.
warluck, a wizard, a man in league with the devil.
warsled, wrestled, struggled.
warwolf, werwolf, manwolf.
wat, wet.
waught, draught.
wauking, walking.
waylawaye, alas.
wee, little.
weiest, 254, [Jamieson,] saddest, darkest.
weird, fate.
weird, destine.
wend, weened.
wer, were, war.
wern, refuse.
werre, worse.
werryed, worried.
wesch, wash.
wete, weten, knowing.
whareto, wherefore.
wharfrae, whence.
whereas, where.
wi, with.
wicht, strong, nimble,
wide, 199, wade.
widershins, the contrary way, the way contrary to the course of the sun.
wide-whare, widely, far and near.
wierd, fate.
wight, strong, active, nimble.
wilder'd, carried astray.
win, go to, attain; win up, get up.
win, rescue.
wind blows in your glove, 67 ?
winna, will not.
wistna, knew not.
wit, know, knowledge.
wittering, information.
witti, intelligible.
wodewale, woodpecker.
woe, sad.
won, dwell.
wonige, 275, [adj. qy. woning?] dwelling.
wood, mad.
worth, 276, become, be the result.
worthy, I were, 26, it would become me.
wow, exclamation of astonishment or grief.
wpe, up.
wrebbe, 98; wrebbe and wrye, turn and twist?
wrought, 240, for raught, reached.
wrucked up, 240, thrown up.
wrye, 98, wrebbe and wrye, turn and twist?
wud, wood.
wull, 253, wandering in ignorance of one's course, lost in error, bewildered.
wylos, willow.
wyndouten, without.
wyne-berye, grape.
wysse, wise.
wyt, with.
wyte, 136, blame.
wyth, 276, wight, agile.
wytouten, without.
yard, staff.
yat, that.
yate, gate.
y-born, born.
y-doon, done.
ychon, each one.
yeen, 274, against, towards.
ye'se, ye shall, will.
yestreen, yesterday.
yett, gate
ylk, each.
yod, went.
yone, yon.
yyng, young.
zede, went.
zonge, young. &c.
ȝe, ye.
ȝede, went.
ȝit, yet. &c.
Transcriber's Notes
page 47 (line 148) added missing close quotation mark:
Nor keepe me lingering here in paine."
page 221 (lines 73, 74) moved close quotation mark:
"Pray, sir, did you not send for me, By such a messenger?" said she:
page 221 (line 80) deleted extraneous open quotation mark:
"Go in," said he, "and go to bed; I'll see the horse well littered."
page 248: added missing open quotation mark ("Go on yet a little farther," said the hen-wife, "till thou come to a round green hill ...")
page 250 (line 33) added missing single quotation mark:
"'And sit thou down; and wae, O wae That ever thou was born;
page 259 (lines 47, 48) added missing open quotation mark:
"Our king's dochter, she gaes wi' bairn, And we'll get a' the wyte."
page 263 (line 150) added missing closing single quotation mark:
The Queen o' Elfin she'll cry out, 'True Tam-a-Line's awa'.'
page 276 added missing closing quotation mark:
For him that mensked man wyt mith, Wat sal worth of this were?" &c.
page 288: the line numbering in Lord Dingwall is in error, but has been retained as per the original.
page 295 (line 40) added missing open quotation mark:
"O tak me out," May Marg'ret cried, "O tak me hame to thee;
Page 304, line 5: suspected typo "σγουρα" should read "σγουρά".
Page 304, line 13: suspected typo "βάνει" should read "βάζει" according to Fauriel's text (one source of this poem referred to in the introduction).
Page 305, line 15: suspected typo "σάν" should read "σὰν"
Page 305, line 22: changed "Αν" to "Ἂν"
Page 306, line 59: suspected typo "θιὸ" should read "θεὸ".
Page 306, line 59: changed "ἀγιοὺς" to "ἁγιοὺς".