Volume 3 / Book 4 — GLOSSARY.

☞ Figures placed after words denote the pages in which they occur.

aboon, aboun, abune, above;

151, above the surface of the water.

ackward stroke, 84, 178, cross or back stroke.

acton, a leather jacket worn under a coat of mail.

ae, only.

airts, quarters, points of the compass.

an, one;

an ae, one single.

aneath, beneath.

anes, once.

asking, boon.

aughts, owns.

aukeward stroke, 178, 84, cross or back stroke.

auld son, 102. "Young Son and Auld Son are phrases used only to denote the comparative ages of children. The young son is perhaps the child now in the nurse's arms;

the auld son, he who has just begun to walk without leading-strings."—Chambers.

ava, of all;

287, at all.

avowe, vow.

ayont, beyond.

baffled, disgraced.

bairntime, brood of children.

bale-fire, bonfire.

band, agreement.

bane-fire, bonfire.

bedeene, 247, immediately? continuously?

bedight, furnished.

beforne, before.

belive, soon.

belly blind, 365, stone blind.

ben, in.

bent, a field where the coarse grass so named grows.

big, build;

biggit, built.

bigly, spacious, commodious.

billie, comrade, brother, a term of affection.

binna, be not.

birk, birch.

birl, drink, pour out drink, ply with drink.

blanne, stopped.

blee, complexion.

bleid, blood.

blint, blinded.

bookin, bo'kin, bodkin, small dagger.

bookesman, clerk, secretary.

bore, crevice, hole.

borrow, ransom.

bouer, chamber.

boun, 334, go.

boun, ready.

bountith, bounties.

boustouslie, threateningly.

bout, bolt.

bow, bole, two bushels.

bower, chamber.

bowne, ready.

brae, hill-side.

bragged, defied.

braid letter, an open letter, or letter patent.

brash, sickness.

brast, burst.

braw, brave, handsome.

breast, 44, make a horse spring up or forward?

brechan, tartan, plaid.

brenne, burn.

bricht, bright.

brodinge, 176, pricking.

bully, see billie.

burd, lady.

busk, dress, make ready;

busk on, put on for dress;

buskit, dressed.

but and, and also.

can, used as an auxiliary with the infinitive mood, to form an imperfect tense.

caneel, cinnamon.

cannie, handily, gently.

caps, 301, bowls.

carle, churl;

carline, feminine of churl, old woman.

carlish, churlish.

châmer, chamber.

chapp'd, rap, tapped.

cheer, countenance.

cheer, entertainment.

chive, 290, mouthfull?

cleiding, clothing.

close, enclosure.

coble, boat.

coffer, coif, head-dress, cap?

coft, bought.

corbies, ravens.

cosh, quiet.

counsayl, secret.

craps, tops.

cryance, 177, apparently for recreance, cowardice.

cuist cavels, cast lots.

daigh, dough.

darna, dares not.

dawing, dawn;

daws, dawns.

decaye, 132, destruction.

dee, die.

deemed, adjudged.

deid, death.

den, hollow, small valley.

descreeve, impart.

dight, 174, prepared for.

dill, dole, grief.

dinge, strike.

discreet, civil.

disna, does not.

dochter, daughter.

dole, grief.

doubte, dread.

douk, dive.

dounae, cannot.

doup, bottom.

dow, can;

downa, cannot.

dow, dove.

dowie, sad.

dree, drye, bear, suffer.

dyne, dinner.

eerie, 273, dreary, cheerless.

eldern, old.

Eldridge, 170, (Elriche, Elrick, &c.,) ghostly, spectral:

179, hill seems to be omitted.

even ower, half over.

fa', obtain as one's lot.

faem, foam.

fail-dyke, a wall built of sods.

faine, glad;

fainly, gladly.

farden, 185, fared, appeared.

fare, go.

fecht, fight.

fee, possessions, property.

feres, comrades.

fey fowk, 48, people doomed to die.

ficht, fight.

fin, 342?

fitt, strain.

flatter'd, 156, fluttered, floated.

forbears, ancestors.

forbye, beyond, near.

fou, full.

frae, 353, from the time.

free, noble.

fremmit, foreign.

fund, found.

gae, gave.

gae-through-land, vagabond.

gane, suffice.

gar, cause, make.

gare, below her, below the [gore in the edge of the] skirt?

gear, goods.

gen, against.

gerss, grass.

gif, if.

gin, if.

gin, trick, snare;

221, the device (necessary to open the door).

girds, hoops.

glore, glory.

God before, God help me!

good-brother, 67, brother-in-law.

gorgett, 246, a kerchief to cover the bosom.

graith, caparisons;

graith'd, caparisoned.

gramarye, grammar, abstruse or magical learning.

grat, cried, wept.

greeting, weeping, crying.

gresse, grass.

grew, gray.

grype, griffin.

gude-mother, mother-in-law.

gude-son, son-in-law.

gurly, troubled, stormy.

ha', hall.

had, hold, keep.

had, taken.

hained, enclosed, surrounded with a hedge.

half-fou, half bushel.

hantle, much, great deal.

happ'd, covered.

hart-rote, 39, a term of endearment, sweet-heart.

haud, hold.

haugh, low flat ground by a river-side.

hauping, limping.

hause, neck.

have owre, 151, half over.

haw, azure.

hawberke, cuirass, coat of mail.

heading-hill, beheading hill.

heal, conceal.

heal, health.

hech, a forcible expiration of breath, as in striking a heavy blow.

heiding-hill, the beheading hill.

hend, gentle.

het, hot.

hewberke, cuirass, coat of mail.

hichts, heights.

hight, promised.

hind-chiel, young stripling.

hinging, hanging.

hollin, holly.

hooly, slowly, softly.

houl', hold.

houms, flat grounds near water.

houzle, give the sacrament.

ilka, each.

inbearing, forth-putting.

iwis, iwysse, certainly, truly.

jack, 81, a coat of mail.

jagged, pierced.

jess, a leather strap for a hawk's leg, by which it was fastened to the leash.

jooked, bowed, made obeisance.

kail, broth.

kame, comb.

keckle-pin, 300, should be heckle-pin, the tooth of a heckle or flax-comb.

kell, a dress of net-work for a woman's head.

kempes, soldiers;

kemperye man, 169, soldier-man.

kepped, keppit, intercepted received when falling.

kevils, lots.

kiest, cast.

kilted, tucked up.

kipples, rafters.

kirkin, churching.

kirk-shot, see shot.

knet, knitted.

knicht, knight.

knot, 274, tie up.

knowe, knoll.

lack, 85, loss.

laigh, low.

lake, 58, hollow place, grave?

lamer, amber.

lane, your lane, &c., alone.

lap, leapt;

154, sprang.

lauch, laugh.

lauchters, laughters.

lave, rest.

lawing, reckoning.

laye, 180, law.

lay gowd, embroider in gold.

lay-land, lea-land, unploughed, green sward.

leafu', lawful.

leal, loyal, true.

leech, leash.

leesome, pleasant, lovely.

lemin, gleaming.

lere, countenance.

lethal, deadly.

licht, light.

lieve, dear.

lift, air.

lift, carry off.

lig, lie.

lighter, delivered.

limmer, mean, scoundrel, wretch.

linkin', riding briskly.

linn, the pool beneath a cataract.

lither, lazy, wicked.

lodlye, loathly.

loon, clown, rascal, low fellow.

loot, let.

louted, bowed, bent.

make, mate.

mane, moan, lament.

mannot, may not.

maries, maids.

mark, murky.

marrow, mate, husband;

67, antagonist, match.

mat, might.

mavis, thrush.

maw, mew.

may, maid.

meen, moon.

mell, 70, milt, spleen.

micht, might.

mill-capon, a poor person who asks charity at mills from those who have grain grinding.

millering, 273, dust of the mill.

min', mind.

min', minnie, mother, love, dear.

minged, 178, named, mentioned.

mintet, 335, took the direction or course.

mirk, dark.

monand, moaning.

moodie hill, 84, mole-hill.

morning-gift, the gift made a wife by her husband, the morning after marriage.

mun, must.

nee, nigh.

nicked of naye, 162, denied;

should be with naye.

niest, next.

nurice, nurse.

o'erword, refrain.

ohon, an exclamation of sorrow, alas.

onbethought, 35, thought upon.

or, before.

out o'hand, at once.

owre, 151, or, ere.

oys, grandsons.

Pa, 144. Qy. Is this a contraction of pall, and is pall, an alley or mall in which games of ball are played?

pall, a kind of rich cloth.

Pasche, Easter.

pat, put.

paughty, insolent.

pearlings, thread laces.

pict, pitch.

pike, pick.

pin, summit;

gallows pin, top of the gallows?

pine, sorrow.

pitten, put.

plat, interwove.

play-feres, play-fellows.

plight, pledge.

plooky, pimpled.

poin'd, seized.

poke, bag.

pot, a deep place scooped in a rock or river-bed by the eddies.

pou, pull.

prestlye, quickly.

pricked, rode smartly.

prime, six o'clock.

prude, 31, proud?

put down, putten down, executed, killed.

quair, choir.

quha, who.

quick, alive.

raw, row.

reade, advise.

reave, deprive.

removde, 174, stirred up, excited.

renish, renisht, 161, 167?

rievers, marauders, robbers.

rigg, ridge.

rive, riven.

roode, cross.

room, 217, make room.

roudes, haggard.

round tables, a game much played in the 15th & 16th century.

row, roll;

rowd, rolled.

sackless, guiltless.

sald, sold.

sark, shirt, shift.

sat, fitted.

saye, 211, essay, try.

scale, scatter, disperse.

scath, injury.

scoup, 194, go or fly.

scuttle dishes, 273, wooden platters.

sea-maw, sea-mew.

see, (save and see,) protect

sell, good;

sell gude, right good.

sen, 280, sent.

sen, since.

send, message.

shanna, shall not.

shaw'd, showed.

sheen, bright.

shent, disgraced, injured.

shope, 39, shaped, assumed.

shot, plot of land;

also, a place where fishermen let out their nets.

shot-window, a projected, over-hanging window.[8]

sicker, sickerly, sure, surely.

side, long.

sindry, 301, peculiar.

skeely, skilful.

skink, serve drink.

slode, slid, split.

sloe, slay;

slone, slain.

smit, a clashing noise.

soum, swim.

spare, the opening in a woman's gown.

spille, destroy, perish

sta', stall.

staf, stuff.

stark and stoor, 254, strong, and big;

here we may say, rough and rude.

staw, stole.

steek, stitch, thread;

steeking, stitching.

steeked, fastened.

step-minnie, step-mother.

sterte, started.

stickit, 139, cut the throat.

stock, the forepart of a bed.

stoups, flagons.

stour, stower, 171, fight, disturbance.

stown, stolen.

streekit, stretched, struck down.

stythe, 43, sty.

suld, should.

swaird, sword.

sweven, dream.

swith, quickly.

syne, then, afterwards;

ere syne, before now.

tee, too.

tein, suffering, grief.

thae, these.

theek, theekit, thatch, thatched.

think lang, feel weary, ennuyé.

thir, these.

thocht lang, grew weary, felt ennui.

thole, endure.

thorn, 339, (and thorn'd, ii. 335,) refreshed with food?

thouch, though.

thought lang, grew weary, felt ennui.

thoust, thou shouldst.

thraw, twist.

till, 170, entice.

till, to.

tine, 175, lose;

tint, lost.

tint, 183, 227, apparently misused by Percy, for tine, lose.

tippit, lock (of hair).

tirled at the pin, trilled, or rattled, at the door-latch.

tolbooth, prison.

tone, the one, (after the.)

toom, empty.

trattles, prattles, tattles.

trysted, made an appointment with.

twig, twitch.

twine, part.

tyne, lose.

ugsome, disgusting, loathsome.

unco, strange.

unmacklye, 187, unshapely.

wad, wager.

wad, would.

wae, sad.

wake, watch.

wale, choose.

wallowed, 290, withered.

waly, alas.

wan, dark, black, gloomy.

wand, wicker.

wane, 221, a number of people.

wantonly, 82, nimbly.

wap, wrap.

warlock, wizard.

wat, know.

wat, wet.

wauked, watched.

waur, worse.

weary, causing trouble, sad.

wed-bed, marriage-bed.

weets, knows.

weil-heid, the vortex of a whirlpool.

weill-faur'd, well-favored.

weir, war.

weird, 220, made liable to, exposed to;

308, apparently, foretell that it is important.

weirdless, unlucky.

well-wight men, picked strong men.

westlin, westward.

whareto, wherefore.

whin, furze.

wicht, wight.

wicker, twist, from being too tightly drawn.

wight, strong, active.

wightlye, bravely, quickly.

wightsmen, 325, husbandmen?

win, come, reach;

win near, come near;

win up, get up.

winsome, gay, comely.

win hay, dry or make.

wit, information.

wite, blame.

wode, mad.

woe, sad.

won up, 218, get up;

should be win up.

wrocht, wrought.

wush, washed.

wyde, wade.

wyte, 317, blame.

wyte, know.

yate, gate.

yeard-fast, fixed in the earth.

yestreen, yesterday.

yett, gate.

ying, young.

young son, 105, see auld son.

y-rode, rode.

y-were, were.

zechins, sequins.

zoung, young.

Zule, Yule, Christmas.

Transcriber's Notes

Page iii: changed "Kinlock" to "Kinloch" (27 b. Laird of Wariestoun, [Kinloch])

Page v: changed "Malcom" to "Malcolm" (King Malcolm and Sir Colvin)

Page 29; line 62: changed "this" to "thir" (Till thir twa craps drew near;)

Page 207; line 34: deleted closing quotation mark (Yet let me go with thee:)

Page 219; linenote: changed line reference from "62, 63" to "61, 62"

Page 226; line 34: changed "countrayc" to "countraye" (Sir John of the north countraye)

Page 245; line 48: added closing quotation mark (And there shalt thou hang on hye.")

Page 294; line 16: added closing quotation mark (And candles burning bright.")

Page 303; lines 53, 54: added missing quotation marks ("What ails the king at me," he said, "What ails the king at me?")

Page 303; line 57: added opening quotation mark ("Liars will lie on sell gude men,)

Page 317: changed "Wier" to "Weir" (Weir was brought up, at midnight, from the cellar)

Page 336; line 32: changed closing single quote to double quote (I will bate you for stayin' so long.")

Page 345; line 71: changed "taavelled" to "travelled" (He scarcely travelled frae the town)

Page 359; line 52: removed opening single quote (My good lord's broken bands.')

Page 397; line 60: changed closing single quote to double (This day has robbed me;")