Volume 4 / Part 2 — GLOSSARY.
Reading edition
☞ Figures placed after words denote the pages in which they occur.
a', all.
abee, be.
abeen, aboif, above.
ae, one.
aglets, tags to laces.
airy, ery, fearful, inspiring dread.
among, 144, from time to time.
and, if.
anew, enough.
anewche, enough.
angel, a gold coin, varying in value from about six shillings and eight pence to ten shillings.—Halliwell's Dict.
apaid, satisfied.
as who sayeth, so to speak.
at, that.
attour, over, across.
auld son, a relative term for a boy older than the youngest.
ava, of all.
ayont, beyond.
baill, sorrow.
balow, a word used in lulling children.
ban, band.
banning, cursing.
bed-stock, the side of the bed further from the wall.
begoud, began.
beked, 305, made warm?
belinger, 283 ?
bemean, 86, disparage.
ben, in.
benjed, 305, received hospitably, made preparations for his comfort?
besyd, 247, astray.
be that, by that.
bewray, discord.
bier, cry.
bierdly, stately.
bigged, biggit, built.
Billy Blin, a benignant household fairy, like the Lubber Fiend.
binna, be not.
birk, birch.
birling, drinking.
blae, blue.
blaewort, blue bottle, witch bells.
blee, complexion.
blin'd, blinded.
bone, 247, bane.
boon, above.
borrow, ransom, rescue.
bot dreid, 246, without doubt.
boud, 297 ?
bought, a pen in the corner of a fold, into which the ewes are driven to be milked.
bower, chamber, dwelling.
brae, hill-side.
braken, female fern.
braw, brave, fine, handsome.
brawn, 93, calf of the leg.
brayd attour the bent, 248, strode across the grass or field.
brent, 308, high, straight.
bride-ale, a wedding festival so called from the brides selling ale on the wedding day, in return for which she received a large price by way of present.
bruik, enjoy.
brynies, cuirasses.
bug, built.
burd, lady.
burn, brook.
busk, dress, adorn, make ready.
but, out.
but and, but also.
bute [boot], help.
ca', called.
caddie, errand-boy.
cairis, cares.
camovine, camomile.
can, know.
chap, rap.
certaine, in, certainly.
close, enclosure, an enclosed field.
coffer, coif, a woman's head-dress?
coft, bought.
cog, milking-pail.
confound, destroy.
corss, cross.
cowt, colt.
cowth, cowd, 248, could, used as an auxiliary to form the preterit tense.
crack, merry talk.
cramasie, crimson.
cruds, curds.
cute, ancle.
cuvating, coveting.
daurna, dare not.
daut, fondle.
dead, death.
dearly, dear.
dee, die.
dee, do.
deed, death.
deill, 250, deal;
247, dally?
deir, 246, frighten.
dele, 144, particle, bit.
departe, 147, separate;
departing, 249, dividing.
dern, secret.
dey, dairy woman.
dill, assuage, soothe.
dings, beats.
disparage, 157, cause to match unequally.
distan, distinguish.
distrayne, distress.
d'on, do on, don.
dought, dread.
dre, suffer.
dreder, dread.
dreed, suffered.
drest, 247, placed;
in dule I am so drest, I am so plunged in sorrow.
drie, bear, endure.
dule, sorrow.
dyke, wall.
echeon, each one.
een, eyes.
een, one.
enew, enough.
eik, increase.
fa', 300 ?
fair, go.
fa's [fa as], I have my lot as.
fauld-dyke, wall of the fold.
fawn, fallen.
fee, money, possessions.
feir, 246, appearance, demeanor.
fie, cattle of any kind, sheep.
firth, an enclosed wood, a field within a wood.
fit, foot.
forbears, ancestors.
forbye, on one side.
fou, full.
fra, 247, from the time that.
fre, free, noble.
fy, 260, haste!
gait, way.
gaits, goats.
gar, cause, make.
gare, below her, below the gore in the edge of her skirt? or below her dress merely?
gaucy, 76, burly, strong.
gear, goods.
girse, grass.
glamer, glamour, a charm exercised on the eye.
God before, God guide you!
haill, healthy;
247, whole.
haik up, 83, carry off by force, Jamieson. (?)
hald, hold, heep.
hap, covering;
happed, covered.
hard, heard.
hardely, assuredly.
haud, hold;
haud unthocht lang, keep from growing weary.
her, their.
heill, hele, health.
hes, hast.
het, hot.
hich, high.
hie, on, aloud.
hinna, have not.
hinny, darling.
his alane, alone by himself.
Hollans boats, 13. Qy. holly-boats?
holland, holly.
hooding o' grey, 66, hodden-grey, cloth with the natural color of the wool.
holtis hair, 250, uplands bleak.
howp, hope.
huche, crag, steep bank.
I dern with the bot gif I daill, 247;
unless I secretly dally with thee?
I'st, I shall.
ilke, each;
this ilka, this same.
intill, 83, upon.
intent, 248, thought, mind.
in worth, 205, gladly, contentedly.
janglour, prater.
jimp, slender.
kail-blade, leaf of colewort.
kail-yardie, kitchen garden.
kebbuck, cheese.
keep, heed.
keipand, keeping.
kenna, know not.
kep, catch.
kilt, kilted, tucked up.
kintra, country.
knicking, 110, wringing, so as to make snap.
knowe, knoll.
kye, cows.
laigh, low.
lair, lore, doctrine.
lake, 120, reproach.
lauch, laugh.
lave, rest.
laverock, lark.
lawe, 149, custom.
lax, relief, release.
lea', leave.
leal, true.
lear'd, learned.
lee-lang, live-long.
leed, language.
leesome, pleasant, amiable.
leif, 250, live.
leir, learn.
lend ye till, 26, lean upon.
len, 308, lie concealed.
leuch, laughed.
leve, 147, remain.
lewche, laughed.
ley, lea.
lichtit, lighted.
lichtly, undervalue.
lie, lonely, sad.
liggit, lain.
lighters, blinders.
liltin, singing.
lirk, hollow (of a hill).
lodomy, laudanum.
long of, 211, on account of.
looing, loving.
loot, let.
lore, 149, doctrine.
loup, leap.
lourd, liefer, rather.
loutit, bowed.
lown, loon, worthless fellow.
lowse, loose.
lue, love;
lude, 246, loved.
maining, moaning, crying.
manchet, the finest kind of white bread.
mane, moan.
marrit, 246, marred, disordered.
marys, maids.
maugre, 247, ill-will, blame.
maun, must.
may, maid.
meen, moon;
meen-licht, moon-light.
menji, 81, many;
menyie, company of followers.
min, mother.
mot, may, might.
mouls, dust of the dead.
muckle, big, much.
mude, mood, mind.
murnit, mourned.
nae, not.
neirhand, nearly.
niest, next.
nocht, nought.
och, ochanie, interjections of grief.
odd, 281, old.
oo, one.
ower great, too familiar.
pall, rich cloth.
parand;
heir and parand, heir apparent.
pat, put.
perde, par dieu.
perfay, par foi.
pine, pain, grief.
pitten, put.
plow, as much land as can properly be tilled by one plough in a day.
prest, 204, ready.
previe, secret.
put down, 117, hung.
pyne, pain.
quhair, &c., where, &c.;
all quhair, every where.
quhill, 249, until.
raik on raw, 246, range or extend themselves in a row.
ramp, rude, wild, violent.
rantin', boisterously gay, rollicking.
rattons, rats.
recorde, witness.
red, advice, plan.
redding-comb, comb for redding, or combing out, the hair.
rede, reid, advise.
reivis, deprivest of.
remeve, 155, remove or trouble.
repreve, reprove.
rescous, rescue.
rew, take pity.
rigs, ridges.
roiss, rest.
rove, roof.
row, roll;
row'd, rolled.
royal bane, 12, the same as ruel bone, an unknown material often mentioned in romances.
rude, rood, cross.
rue, take pity;
ruthe, pity.
sanna, shall not.
sark, shirt.
scant, lessen.
scheel, school.
schent, shamed, disgraced.
see, protect.
sen, since.
sendall, a rich thin silk.
sets, 105, sits, fits.
shaw, thicket, wood.
shealin, 66, shed for sheep.
she'as, sheaths.
sheave, slice.
sheens, shines.
she'st, she shall.
shill, 59, shrill.
shun, soon.
sic, siccan, such.
sicht, sigh;
sichit, sighed.
sickerly, certainly.
silly, simple.
sith, since.
skill of their train, understand their training.
slap, 96, a breach in a wall or hedge.
speer'd, speir'd, asked.
spell;
drift can spell, 267, tell my meaning or story.
splene, on the, 156?
spring, 65, youth, young.
sta', stole.
states, 169, people of high rank.
staw, stole.
staws, stalls.
steir, stir.
stey, steep.
stown, stolen.
streek'd, stroaked.
suspitious, "significant."—Ritson.
swither, waver.
syne, then.
tane, taken.
tapp'd, topped.
tent, heed.
Termagant, an imaginary false god of the heathen.
thair, there.
than, then.
thinking long, see thought lang.
thir, these.
this, thus.
thoo, those.
thought, 147, trouble.
thought lang, felt the time hang heavily, felt ennui.
thoust, thou wilt.
till, to, for;
245, to;
till assail 248, to assail;
till haif, 249, to have.
tirled at the pin, trilled, or rattled, at the door-pin, or latch, to obtain entrance.
tocher, dowry.
tod, fox.
tomorne, to-morrow.
ton, one (after the).
tree, 3, 253, stick, pole, or perhaps, whipple-tree;
276, staff.
trew, trow.
trinkling, trickling.
trow, believe.
twalt, twelfth.
twinn, part.
tyne, lose.
unco, strange, foreign.
upricht, 253, straightway?
wae, sad.
waged, staked.
wait, wot, know.
waith, wandering.
wald, would.
wale, choice.
wall-wight, 306, picked (waled) strong men, or warriors.
waly, an interjection of lamentation.
wanrufe, 246, disquietude.
wan up, got up.
wat, wot, know.
waur, worse.
wee, 269, short time.
weed, clothes.
weel, well.
weel-busket, well trimmed.
weel-far'd, weel-faurd, well-favored.
wend, 280, weened.
werry, 248, weary, sorrowful.
whae's aught, who is it owns.
whingers, "a short hanger, used as a knife at meals and as a sword in broils."
wight, strong or nimble.
win, get, go;
win to, attain or get to;
win up, get up.
win, to make the harvest.
winna, will not.
winsome, pleasant.
wisna, know not.
worldling, 230, pet?
wow, exclamation of admiration, or surprise.
wreuch, wretched.
yede, went.
yef, if.
ye'se, ye shall.
yestreen, yesterday.
yett, gate.
ying, young.
your lane, alone by yourself.
ze, ye.
Transcriber's Notes
Irregular and inconsistent spellings have been retained as in the original. Typographical errors such as wrongly placed line numbers and punctuation have been corrected without comment. Where substantive changes have been made these are listed as follows:
Page 90, line 14: added missing apostrophe (In simmer, 'mid the flowers?)
Page 93, line 34: added missing end quotation mark (And the cauld rain on your breist.")
Page 177, line 26: added missing open quotation mark ("O come to your bed, my dearie; ...)
Page 120, line 41: added missing open quotation mark ("But wha will bake my bridal bread, ...)
Page 160, line 40: added missing (or uninked) comma ("She is dead, sir, long agoe.")
Page 168, line 12: changed period to comma (Against the brave wedding of pretty Bessee.)
Page 191, final paragraph: added closing quotation mark ( ... to no other shrine than that of Venus.[A]")
Page 192, second paragraph: open quotation mark moved to start of paragraph ("As I went to Walsingham is quoted in Nashe's Have with you to Saffron-Walden, ...)
Note that the corrections to punctuation on pages 191 and 192 are consistent with interpreting the three paragraphs as attributed to "Chappell".
Page 224, line 206: added missing open quotation mark ("Upon thy wife and children,)
Page 227, line 145: deleted erroneous opening quotation mark (So they hae gane before the king,)
Page 278, line 178: added missing period ("To seal her tocher wi' thee.")
Page 316, line 128: changed "be" to "he" (For the young Lord Arundel he shall be.")
Page 332, line 110: changed "merehants" to "merchants" (Beare me a letter to the English merchants there,)