Volume 6 / Book 8 — GLOSSARY.

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

ablins, perhaps.

aboon, abune, above.

abugge, aby, pay for.

adrenche, drown.

ae, one; first ae, first.

agynneth, begin.

ahint, behind.

airns, irons.

airt, quarter of the compass, direction.

alacing, saying alas.

alane, mine, alone by myself.

alast, latterly.

alles, all.

allinge, altogether.

alow, 245, below.

al so, at once.

amense, amends.

American leather, 244?

anew, enough.

an honde, 283, in hand.

anis, once.

aplyht, 273, a particle of confirmation, indeed, on my word, &c.

aquelleden, killed.

arewe, 269, rue, feel aggrieved by.

assoygne, 271, delay: (lines 66, 67, should probably be transposed.)

asteir, astir, moved, (his anger.)

avow, 261, consent, undertake.

avowerie, protection, support.

awin, own.

awsome, frightful.

ayeyn, against: 278, v. 103, a word seems to have dropped out. The sense is, there is no resisting the stars. Wright reads stare.

ayont, beyond, on one side of.

bangisters, violent and lawless people, those that have the upper hand, victors.

basnet, helmet.

batts, beating.

beet, 90, help.

ben, in.

bent, coarse grass;

open country, covered with the same.

benty, covered with the coarse grass called bent;

benty-line, 13?

beseen, weil, 132, well appointed.

bide, 273, pray to.

bigged, built.

biheveded, beheaded.

billie, comrade.

birk, birch.

birst, (burst) fray.

blan, stopped.

blink, 49, glanced.

blive, quickly.

bobaunce, vanity, presumption.

bode, bid.

borrow, rescue.

bot and, and also.

bote, 274, amends;

bote, no, not better off.

boun, ready, gone.

brae, hill-side.

braid, 245, qy. corrupt?

brain, gang, go mad.

brank, 124, prance, caper.

branks, a rude sort of bridle of rope and wood, used by country people.

braw, bra', brave, fine.

brayd on, 32, move on (rapidly).

breast, 249, voice.

breasting, springing forward.

brecham, collar of a working horse.

brede, o, ant o leynthe, in breadth and in length, far and wide.

breek, breeches;

70, breek-thigh, the side pocket of the breeches.

brie, brow.

broked cow, a cow that has black spots mixed with white in her face.

broken men, outlawed men.

browhead, forehead.

brugge, bridge.

brusten, burst.

bryd, bird.

bryttled, cut up.

bueth, be.

bufft coat, leather coat.

bund, bound.

burel, sackcloth.

burn, brook.

busk, make ready.

buss, bush.

bussing, 137, covering (stolen from the packs).

but, out;

236, but the floor, across the floor out of the room, or to the outer part of the house.

by (sometimes) besides.

byhet, promised.

byres, byris, barns, cowhouses.

bysoht, prepared for.

bytake, committed.

bythenche, bethink.

ca', call.

ca', 90, drive.

carle, churl, fellow.

carpit, talked, told stories.

ca's, calves.

cauler, cool.

cess, tax, black-mail.

cheventeyn, chieftain.

chot, wot, know,

chulle, shall.

claes, clothes.

clanked, gave a smart stroke.

cleugh, a rugged ascent.

closs, 191, area before the house, (close.)

coll, cool.

coman, command.

con, 269, began.

conquess, conquer.

continaunce, countenance.

corbie, crow.

corn-caugers, corn-carriers, or dealers.

cost, 135, loss, risk.

could, 102, began.

coune, began.

courtrie, band of courtiers.

couthe, knew.

cowte, colt.

coynte, quaint, cunning.

crabit, crabbed.

cracking, boasting.

crooks, the windings of a river, the space of ground closed in on one side by these windings.

crouse, brisk, bold.

cumber, to red the, quell the tumult.

cunnes, kinds.

curch, kerchief, coif.

cure, 214, care, pains.

curtel, 281, shirt, gown.

custan, cast.

dae, doe.

dandoo, 245, apparently should be dun doe.

dane, done, taken.

dang, beat.

daw, dawn.

de, (Fr.) God.

dede, dealt.

dee, die.

deid, death.

deme, adjudge.

destaunce, disturbance.

ding down, beat down.

dints, blows.

doddeth, 272, lop.

dool, grief.

dought, could, was able.

dour, hard.

douse, quiet, mild.

doussé-pers, (Fr. douze pairs) gallant knights.

douteth, feareth.

dow, can, are able;

downa, cannot.

down-come of Robin Hood, 242, as quick as R. H. would knock one down? or pay down?

dreigh, (tedious, long) high.

dreynte, drowned.

drie, bear, endure.

drifts, 100, droves.

drivand, driving.

drue, dry.

drunkily, merrily.

drury, treasure.

dub, pool, pond.

duere, dear.

dule, sorrow.

dunt, dint, stroke.

dyhte, 282, dispose of.

e'en, 93, even, put in comparison.

een, eyes.

elshin, shoemaker's awl.

ene, 270, even.

enew, enough.

er, before.

ettled, designed.

everuche, every;

everuchon, every one.

falla, fellow.

fand, found.

fang, catch.

fankit, entangled, obstructed;

here, so fixed that it could not be drawn.

fared, went.

fasten, 276, plight.

fay, faith.

fear't, frightened.

fecht, fight.

fee, income, property, wages.

feid, feud.

feir, 222, sound, unhurt.

feiries, comrades.

fell, high pasture land.

fend, defence.

feren, comrades.

ferly, wonder.

fet, foot.

fie, predestined.

fiend, 9, i. e. the devil a thing.

fit, foot.

flain, arrows.

flatlies, flat.

fley, fright.

flinders, fragments.

flo, flay.

fon, 274, foes.

fonge, take up.

forbode, over God's, (on God's prohibition), God forbid.

forehammer, the large hammer which strikes before the small one, sledge-hammer.

foreward, covenant.

forfaulted, forfeited.

forfend, forbid.

forfoughen (i. e. forfoughten) tired out.

forst, frost.

fot-lome, foot-lame.

fou, full (of drink).

four-half, on, in quarters.

foursithe, four times.

fow, 219, full?

frae hand, forthwith.

freits, omens.

frith, wood.

furs, furrows.

fyn, end.

gar, make, let.

garste, 282, (should probably be gast) frighten away.

gaun, going.

gavelocks, (javelins) iron crows.

gear, goods, property;

16, spoil.

ged, went.

geir, same as gear.

genzie, engine of war.

gifted, 31, given away.

gilt, gold.

gin, if.

gin, trick.

gleed, red-hot coal, a glowing bar of iron.

gloamin', twilight.

gomen, 282, game, mockery.

goud, gold.

goule, (Fr.) throat.

graith, armor.

graith, make ready;

graithed, armed.

grat, wept.

green, yearn, long.

greeting, weeping.

gripet, seized.

grom, groom, man.

grome, 279, sorrow.

gryming, sprinkling.

guided, 172, treated.

gynne, trap.

had, haud, hold.

haif, have.

hail, 133, (vigorous, and so) boisterous?

halewen, saints.

halt, 276, 282, profits?

halve, side.

haly, holy.

happers, hoppers.

hardilyche, boldly.

harpit, harped.

harried, plundered.

hastifliche, hastily.

haud, hold, keep.

he, 282, they.

head, 117, assemblage.

heckle, a hatchel, flax-comb.

hem, them.

hende, hendy, gentle.

hente, caught.

herry, harry, spoil.

he's, he shall.

het, head.

het, hot.

heugh, a ragged steep, sometimes, a glen with steep overhanging sides.

heved, head.

hi, they.

hie, high.

hirst, a barren hill.

hold, 276, faithful.

hope, houp, a sloping hollow between two hills.

hostage house, 233, inn.

how, pull.

howm, a plain on a river side.

hue, they;

huem, them;

huere, their.

hulles, hills.

ibore, born.

ich, I.

ichulle, I shall.

ilka, every.

intill, in.

is, his.

I'se, I will.

jack, a short coat plated with small pieces of iron.

jeopardy, 223, adventure.

jimp, slender.

jugge, 271, condemn.

keekit, peeped.

kend, known.

kettrin, cateran, thieving.

keverest, 273, recoverest.

kilted, tucked.

kinnen, rabbits.

kirns, churns.

Kirsty, Christy.

knapscap, head-piece.

know, knoll.

knulled, 272, pushed, beaten (with the knuckles).

kunnes, kinds.

kyne-yerde, king's wand or sceptre.

kyneriche, kingdom.

laht, caught.

laigh, low.

langsome, tedious.

lap, wrap up.

lave, rest.

law, low.

lawing, scot, reckoning.

lay, lea.

layne, conceal.

leal, leel, loyal, true, chaste.

lear, lore.

leauté, loyalty.

lede, people.

lee, waste, lonely.

lee-lang, live-long.

lee, shelter, peace;

set at little lee, 101, left little peace? "left scarcely any means of shelter." Jamieson.

leeze me on, 90, I take pleasure or comfort in.

lerrum, (Fr.) leave.

les, lying.

let, 278, ceased.

leugh, laughed.

levedy, lady.

libbe, live.

lidder, lazy.

lidder fat, fat from laziness;

(qu. same as leeper fat?)

lightly, make light of, treat with contempt.

limmer, rascal, scoundrelly.

Lincome, Lincoln;

Lincum twine, Lincoln manufacture.

ling, heath.

loan, a piece of ground near a farm house where the cows are milked.

loot, let.

lordswyk, traitor to his lord.

lore, loren, lost.

loup, leap, waterfall.

louped, loupen, leapt.

lourd, liefer, rather.

low, flame.

lowne, loon.

luid, loved.

lyan, lain.

lyart, hoary.

lyke-wake, watching of a dead body.

lyves man, 271, living man.

ma, shame a, 93, devil a bit.

mae, more.

maill, rent.

mane, moan.

maries, maids.

marrows, equals.

maun, must.

may, maid.

me, they (Fr. on).

mear, mare.

mene, moan.

mergh, marrow.

mest, most.

minnie, mother.

mirk, dark.

modi, bold.

mot, may.

mounde, 270, might?

mowe, may.

mowes, jests.

mudie, bold.

muss, moss.

naggs, notches.

nede, 280, he had not.

neist, next.

nes, was not.

neuk, 224, corner?

nicher, nicker, neigh.

nie, neigh.

niest, next.

nogs, stakes.

noisome, 139, annoying, vexatious.

nolden, would not.

nome, name.

nome, nomen, took.

nones, no.

notour, 267, notorious.

noud, nout, nought, not.

nowt, cattle.

nule, will not.

nythe, 275, wickedness.

oht, oath.

onde, 275, malice, envy.

other, or.

ou, you.

ouir, our.

our, oure, over.

outspeckle, laughing-stock.

ower-word, burden.

owsen, oxen.

palliones, tents.

paw, neer play'd, 84, did not stir hand or foot.

peel, 106, the stronghold, where the cattle were kept.

pellettes, balls.

peruenke, periwinkle.

pestelets, pistols, fire-arms.

pleugh, plough.

plumet, 75, pommel.

poer, power.

pouraille, common people.

pris, 276, praise.

prude, pride.

prye, pray.

pure, poor.

putfalle, pitfall.

pyne, pain.

questry, jury.

quey, young cow.

quhavir, whoever.

quhilk, which.

rack, a shallow ford, extending to a considerable breadth before it narrows into a full stream. Jamieson.

rad, 27, afraid.

rae, roe.

raid, foray, predatory incursion, fight.

rank'd, 25, i. e. looked finely, formed in ranks.

ranshackled, ransacked.

rantin', gay, jovial.

rathere, 274, sooner, beforehand.

raxed, stretched.

ray, 102, path or track.

reaving, robbing.

redd, rede, advise, advice.

reek, smoke.

reif, bailiff.

reif, robbery;

reiver, robber.

reil, reel.

remuy, remove.

res, 276, (Ang. Sax. raes,) incursions, exploits?

retheres hude, bullock's hide.

rig, 119, ridge.

rigging, ridge, top.

rin, run.

rok, distaff.

roof-tree, the beam which forms the angle of the roof.

rouncyn, horse.

routing, bellowing.

row, roll.

row-footed, 63, rough-footed?

rudds, reddens.

rude, rood.

Rumary, 249?

rybaus, ribalds, villains.

saft, 65, light.

saht, 276, at one, reconciled.

sark, shirt, shift.

saugh, willow.

sawe, speech.

schaw, wood.

scroggs, stunted trees.

see, protect.

see, 277, seat, throne.

seen, soon.

seld, sold.

selkethe, strange.

serime, 248, corrupt: qy. betime?

seth the, after.

served, 25, behaved to.

shame a ma, 93, devil a bit.

sheen, shoes.

sheil, shepherd's hut.

shome, shame.

shonde, disgrace.

shonkes, shanks.

sic, sicken, such.

skaithd, injured.

skeigh, sky.

slack, a shallow dell, morass.

slae, 119, sloe.

sleuth-dog, blood-hound.

slogan, the gathering word peculiar to a family or clan, a war-cry.

sloken, slake.

slough-hounds, blood-hounds.

slowen, slew.

smoldereth, smothereth.

snear, snort.

so, as.

solas, amusement.

sonde, godes, God's sending.

sote, soot.

soth, soht, truth.

Soudron, Southerner, English.

sould, suld, should.

sowie, sow (Lat. vinea, pluteus), a shed or pent-house under cover of which the walls of a besieged town were assailed.

soy, silk.

spaits, floods, torrents.

spauld, shoulder.

spene, 272, cost.

spier, ask.

spin, run.

splent, armor.

springald, a military engine for discharging heavy missiles at the walls of a beleaguered town.

spuilye, spulzie, despoil.

star, see ayeyn.

starkest, strongest.

staun, stolen.

steads, places.

stear, stir.

stont, stands.

stots, bullocks.

stounde, time.

stour, turmoil, affray.

straught, stretched.

streynthe, strength.

strick, strict.

strinkled, sprinkled.

Strivelyn, Sterling.

stude, place.

sturt, 138, trouble, disturbance.

suereth, swear.

sugge, say.

suithe, very.

sunne, sin.

sweynes, 272, swains, men in general below the rank of knights.

swithe, very.

swither, doubt, consternation.

swyers, squires.

swykedom, treachery.

swythe, very.

syke, ditch.

syne, then.

tackles, arrows.

tald, told.

targats, 49, tassels.

te, to.

temed, 276, tamed.

thae, these.

thah, though.

the, thrive.

then, than.

thenche, think.

theynes, thanes.

thir, these;

thir's, these are.

this, these.

tho, then.

thole, bear, endure.

thonkes, his, 283, willingly, gladly, by his good will.

thrawin, 219, distorted, wrinkled.

thunche, 273, seem.

til, to;

til't, to it.

tint, lost.

to-drawe, to-drowe, drawn.

to-dryven, 270, break to pieces.

token, 277, gave to.

tome, tame.

toom, empty.

tour, 192, course or road.

tow, 158, throw.

tprot, interjection of contempt.

trayne, stratagem.

tree, staff.

trepan'd, 180, foully dealt with.

trew, trust.

tryst, meeting.

tu-brugge, draw-bridge.

tul, to.

twa-fald, 15, two-fold, i. e. with his body hanging down both sides.

twa-some, couple.

twined, parted.

uch, each.

unkensome, not to be recognized.

unthought lang, hold, keep from growing weary.

upgive, 34, acknowledge.

villiche, vilely.

vor, for.

Vrenshe, French.

vyhte, fighting.

vylté, disgrace.

wad, would.

wad, 225, wager, forfeit.

Waleis, Wallace.

wally fa', 262, ill luck befall.

wan, pale, dark, black.

wan, reached.

wap, tie round.

waran, guaranty.

ware, 111, lay out, use.

ware, 272, (Ang. S. were, capitis æstimatio) ransom, life-money.

wark, work.

warrand, protection.

wat, know.

wat, wet.

waur, worse.

way, to the, 262, away?

wear, guard.

webbes, weavers.

wed, 247, qy. corrupt?

weht, what.

weel-fared, well-favored.

weil, 92, eddy.

weir, war.

wel the felle, 273, will fall from thy head?

wende, weened.

wes, was.

wesleyn, western.

wether, whither.

weylaway, well-a-day!

whang, thong.

whidderan, whizzing.

whet, what.

whew, whistle.

whosé, any one whatever.

wicker, 119, switch.

widdifu, one who deserves to fill a widdie or halter, gallows bird, ruffian.

wight, strong, quick;

wightmen (Ang. Sax. wigman) fighting men, brave fellows;

waled wightmen, 220, picked warriors.

win, get.

winna, will not.

winsomely, handsomely.

wit, knowledge.

wod, waded.

wombe, belly.

won, 120, misprint for win?

wons, dwells.

wood, mad.

worries, strangles.

Wudspurs, Madspur, Hotspur.

wyht, wight.

wysloker, more wisely.

wyte, know.

wyte, 282, wait, watch (?)

y, in.

yate, gate.

ybate, 280?

y-be, been.

y-brend, burnt.

y-caht, caught.

y-core, chosen.

y-cud, known.

y-demed, judged.

y-dyht, 278, arranged.

yeate, gate.

yef, if.

yeme, govern.

yere, to, 276, this year.

yestreen, yesterday.

yett, gate.

y-herde, heard.

y-knawe, recognize.

y-laht, caught, taken.

y-nemned, named.

yongeth, goeth.

y-suore, sworn.

y-tuht, drawn.

yynge, young.

zour, &c., your, &c.

Transcriber's Notes

Page iv: added "Book VIII." to the Table of Contents.

Page 87 and note on page 88: changed "169" to "129" (129. The land-sergeant (mentioned also in Hobbie Noble) ...)

Page 93 (note to line 70): changed "ross" to "across" ( ... chains drawn across the chest of a war-horse ...)

Page 129 (note to line 66): changed "East-gath" to "East-gate" (The family of Emerson of East-gate, a fief, ...)

Page 139 (note to line 24): added missing closing quotation mark (All bravely fought that day."—S.)

Page 148: changed "opprobious" to "opprobrious" ( ... gave Car some very opprobrious language ...)

Page 189: added missing closing quotation mark ( ... the accused party was soon restored to society.")

Page 214 (line 34): added missing closing quotation mark ("And ye shall pardoned be:")

Page 253 (line 54): changed "Jonne[a] rounde" to "Jonne [a]rounde" (And so besett poore Jonne [a]rounde,)

Page 260 (first line of chorus): changed "Re" to "Be" (Be content, be content,)

Page 260 suspected typo "fortunately" should perhaps be read "unfortunately" ( ... the circumstances which have given rise to it were fortunately too common ...)