Volume 7 / Book 7 — GLOSSARY.

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

a, of.

abien, aboun, above.

aboyding, abiding.

accompany, 308, keep the company of.

ae, one.

affected, enamored.

all and sum, all and several, one and all.

allangst, 182, along.

ancyents, 63, ensigns.

anent, over against.

aneughe, enough.

aras, arrows.

arminge-sword, a two-handed sword.

austerne, 99, austere.

avowe, vow.

awin, own.

bade, abode.

bald, bold.

bale, sorrow;

ballys bete, 42, better, amend, our evils.

bandoun, command, orders.

banket, banquet.

barne, (A. Sax. beorn,) chief, man.

basnites, bassonetts, helmets.

battellis, 225, divisions of the army, or, the armies.

be, by, at, by the time that.

bearing arrow, 65, "an arrow that carries well:" Percy, who also suggests birring, i.e. whirring, whizzing.

See Boucher's Glossary.

bed, 224, 229, abode, remained.

bedeen, 265, in numbers, one after another?

beild, shelter;

224, position of safety.

ben, in.

bende-bow, bent bow.

bended, 182, bounded?

bent, coarse grass, ground on which this grass grows, field.

berne (A. Sax. beorn), chief, man.

ber, bare.

beth, 98, is.

be-west, to the west of.

biggingis, buildings.

bille, see sworne.

billie, comrade.

bla', blow.

blaithe, blithe.

blan, blane, ceased, stopped.

blate, silly, stupid.

bleid, blood.

bodward, 182, message.

borrowe, security, hostage, ransom;

borowed, 18, ransomed.

bouk, body, carcase.

bowne, bowyn, ready, prepared;

235, going;

bound, bowynd, 19, 5, 6, made ready, went.

brace, 260, same as breeze, hurry?

bracken, braken, fern.

brae, side of a hill.

braid, broad.

bra'ly, bravely.

branken, branking, prancing, capering.

braveries, displays.

braw, brave, handsome.

bread, 59, breadth;

bred, broad.

breeks, breeches.

brent, burned.

brim, fierce.

bronde, brand, sword.

brook, enjoy;

186, take (possession of).

brose, 261, pottage.

brouine, brown, brewed.

broust, brewage.

bruch, brugh, burgh, city.

bryttlynge, cutting up (of game.)

buft, buffeted, beat.

burd-alone, alone.

burn, brook.

but, without, 221;

but bed, before we sleep.

butter-box, 154, "Dutchmen." Ritson.

byckarte, 30, moved quickly, rattling their weapons.

byddys, abides.

byears, biers.

byll, halbert, battle-axe.

ca', call;

265, drive, beat.

caliver, 116, large pistol, or blunderbuss.

can, could, used as auxiliaries to form the past tenses.

canty, merry.

carefull, anxious.

carpe, tell, discourse.

cast, propose, intend.

cawte, cautious.

chafts, chaps.

chess, chace.

chessit, chased.

cheverons, gloves.

christiantè, Christendom.

claw, scratch, fight.

clinkum clankum, a phrase for smart blows.

cogue, wooden pail.

cold bee, 100, was;

see can.

collayne, Cologne, i. e. steel, or manufacture:

see i. 357.

cor, core, corps.

corpes, 287, living body.

cors, curse.

corynoch, lamentation for the dead.

cowde dye, 16, did die;

see can.

crouse, 169, brisk, brave.

crowdie, gruel, porridge.

cryand, crying.

daft, mad.

dandering, an epithet expressing the noise of drums, like tantara, p. 124.

de, die;

deid, dead, death.

decay, destruction, death.

dee, do.

deemedst, doomedst.

demean, punish, put down.

deputed, 103, used of a fugitive carried back for trial.

diel, devil.

dight, dicht;

61, furnished;

37, 189, to deth, "done," wounded;

22, dispose of, handle, encounter.

ding, pr. dung, strike, knock, beat, overcome.

dinne, noise.

discord, quarrel.

doghtie, doughty.

door, 154? dorlach, which Jamieson says is a short-sword, means a wallet.

douted, redoubtable, feared.

doutsum, doubtful.

drede, doubt.

dre, drye, endure, bear;

drie, 98, as noun, suffering.

dulesum, doleful.

dunted, beat.

durk, dirk.

dyne, garre, 10, give one his fill of fighting.

dyne, 228, valley.

dynte, blow, stroke.

eathe, easy.

ee, eye.

edicang, aide-de-camp.

eme, uncle.

endlongis, along.

enewch, enough.

ensenzie, enzie, ensign.

envye (to do), ill-will, injury.

ewill, 229; qy, eve, or vigil?

fa', fall;

162, share, portion.

fach, fetch.

fallows, fellows, equals.

fare, go.

fay, 219, on the verge of death, doomed.

fayne, glad.

feale, fail.

fearit, feared.

fecht, fight.

fee, property, reward.

feck, maist, greatest part.

feid, feud, enmity.

feingit, feigned.

feirdness, cowardice.

fell, hide.

fells, hills, also, moors.

fend, keep, support.

fett, fetched.

fiery-fairy, confusion and consternation.

filabeg, kilt, or short petticoat, worn by Highlanders instead of breeches.

firstin, first.

fit, song, division of a song, story.

flegs, frights.

flinders, fragments.

flyte, scold, remonstrate;

95, rally.

forder, further.

forefend, forbid.

forgatherit, met together.

forwarde, van.

fou, full.

fourugh, see furich.

frame, 133, succeed.

freck, freke, freyke (A. S. one who is bold) warrior, man.

fun', found.

furich, furichinish, Gaelic;

fuirich means wait, stop;

fearach is an old Irish warcry. "Fy, furich, Whigs, awa'!" was a Jacobite pipe air, says Chambers.

free, frie, noble;

20, of metal, precious (?)

gade, went.

galliards, quick and lively dances.

gare, gore.

See Glossary to vol. 2.

garre, make;

gart, garde, made.

gate, way.

geed, went.

geere, 64, business, affair.

gettyng, 9, plunder.

gled, gladden.

glede, live coal.

glent, glanced, passed swiftly.

gloamin', dusk, night-fall.

glove, 121; to claim a glove worn as a lady's favor, was a form of challenge,—which is perhaps the reference here.

graif, grave.

graithed, grathed, prepared, dressed, armed;

183, laid, or laid out.

gree, bear the, bore the palm.

gresse, grass.

grevis, groves, bushes.

grite, weep.

grysely, dreadfully.

guide, good.

habershoune, coat of mail.

hach-borde, 60, 63, 68, (MS. has in one place, "archborde,") seems to be used for the side of the ship.

hached, inlaid or gilded.

hagbutis, a kind of muskets.

halched, greeted.

hale, whole.

hard, heard.

harneis, armor.

haryed, plundered.

haws, low grounds on the border of a river.

haylde, hauled.

haylle, 10, healthy.

he, high.

heal, hail.

heidit, beheaded.

heidin, beheading.

hernainsell, see note p. 154.

hich, high.

hight, promise, be called.

hinde, gentle.

hing, hang.

his, has.

Hogan Dutch, 155?

holtes, 8, woods.

hoved, 9, hovered, hung about, tarried.

howe, hollow, valley.

husbonds, husbandmen.

hye, hyght, (on,) on high, aloud.

hyght, promised.

ilk, ilkay, each.

into, in.

is, has.

i-wis, certainly.

jack, a coat of mail, a leather jacket.

jouk, avoid a blow by bending the body forward.

kain, 180, rent paid in kind;

here, paid the kain is suffered sorely.

kaithe, appear, come.

ken, know;

kenna, know not.

kindly, 23, native born.

kith, acquaintance.

kittle flaws, variable winds, i.e. not to be depended on for courage.

knop, knob.

knowe, knoll.

lair, 239, place where they were lying.

lang, long.

lap, leapt.

layne, deceive;

13, break word.

leaguer, camp.

leath, loath.

leeve, dear, pleasant;

lever, rather.

lesse, 10, lying.

let, prevent.

lift, air.

lifting, stealing.

liges, lieges.

liklie, handsome, promising.

lilye, 23, lilly, 179, covered with lilies?

lilting, singing cheerfully.

linking, walking quickly.

list, please.

lithe, list.

liverance, 95, "money for delivering up." Percy.

logeying, lodging.

lope, leapt.

lucetts, 14, luces, pikes.

lurdane, a heavy, stupid fellow.

luves, palms, hands.

maker, makys, mates.

march-man, warden of the Marches.

march-perti, 40, the Border parts or region.

marke hym to the Trenité, 13, commit himself to God by making the sign of the

cross? marked, 14, fixed their eyes on, took aim at?

maugre, spite.

may, maid.

meany, company.

merchand, marching.

mickle, great.

mind, remember.

miss, 264, evil, fault, trouble.

moe, moo, more, greater.

mome, fool.

mort, death (of the deer.)

mowes, mowis, (mouths,) joke.

muir, moor.

mykel, great.

myllàn, 36, Milan, i. e. steel or manufacture.

myne-allaine, alone by myself.

myneyeple, 35, maniple (i. e. many folds), a name for a close dress with sleeves worn under the armor.

nare, nor.

naye, denial.

near, nearer.

neist ae, next.

nixtin, next.

northen, be, to the north of.

oh'on a ri, Gaelic, oh, my heart! oh' rig in di, 155?

one, on.

ones, once.

outrake, 100, riding out, excursion.

oware, hour.

owermaskit, overcast.

paiks, 154, drubbing.

palione, 222, pallion, pavilion, tent.

pall, a rich cloth.

parti, part.

paw, pa', 158, swift motion;

one's part in a performance, 154;

of the contortions of a person hanged, 162;

of the movement of weapons, 163.

peart, pert.

perseiued, pursued.

philibeg, kilt, or short petticoat, worn by Highlanders instead of breeches.

Pitlarichie, 319?

pleadis, prayers.

polititious, politic, ingenious.

pompous, 278, proud, magnificent.

pra, 173, brave, fine.

presumand, presuming.

prycked, rode.

pyght, pitched.

quaint, acquaint.

quat, quit.

quhat, &c. what, &c.

quhill, while, until.

quhois, whose.

quite, quit.

quyrry, quarry, slaughtered game.

quyt, paid, repaid.

race, 184, course.

raid, a predatory incursion.

rais, rose.

raking, 242, running, scouring along.

rave, bereave.

raw, row, rank;

upo' the raw, in rank of battle.

rax, reach, stretch;

265, beat?

rear, ride the, 233, ride behind, have the worse.

recks, 23, matters.

rede, advise;

15, guessed.

red, rode.

Reidswire, see vol. vi. p. 131.

remeid, remedy.

rent, rend.

rewyth, regrets.

riggings, 154, backs?

rinnes, runs.

rise on anchor, 206?

roke, reek, steam.

rout, company, crowd.

rowght, rout, strife.

rowynde, round.

rung, cudgel;

canon's, figuratively, for shot?

ryall, royal.

ryght, 7, straight.

rynde, 13, flayed? rinde, to destroy, Halliwell's Dict.

saw, saying, statement.

say, saw.

say, assay.

sayne, say.

scale, 262, 178, scatter, spread.

schapped, 15, apparently should be "swapped;"

see post.

schoote, 12, shot, let go.

sen, since.

sene, 189, skilled, experienced.

shear, 30, 31, quickly, at once. (?) Halliwell.

she, used of Highlanders in general.

siccan, such.

sinsyne, since.

sith, since.

skelps, blows.

silver wand, 100?

slaydis, 228;

the passage is corrupt.

slicht, slight.

sloughe, slew.

smirkling, smirking, smiling.

smored, smothered.

snell, 269, sharp, loud.

snood, a band with which a young woman ties up her hair.

sould, should.

souters, cobblers.

spear, speir, ask.

spendyd, 96, probably the same as spanned, grasped.

splenderis, splinters.

spole, shoulder.

spuente, 36, spirited, sprung out.

spurne, kick; 42, retaliation?

stain, outdo, excel.

stalwurthlye, stoutly, boldly.

stane'd, stationed.

stank, 154, pool.

stead, 65, place, post.

stell'd, placed.

stent, stop.

stounde, time.

stour, stowre, (turmoil of) fight.

straiks, strokes.

stynttyde, stopped.

styrande, 6, see note: according to Percy's reading, driving the deer from their retreats;

but adopting Motherwell's, prancing, spirited.

suar, 35, 38, sure, trusty.

suthe, true.

swakked, 23, swapped, swapte, 15, 24, 36, struck, smote.

swat, sweat.

sweirand, swearing.

sworne into my bille, 95, "I have delivered a promise in writing, confirmed by an oath." Percy.

syne, since, then, afterward.

tackes, takes.

tald, 227, tall?

talent, 310, seems to be used for property in general.

tear, 42, possibly the same as dere, injury.

teene, tene, injury.

tenne, taken.

tent, heed.

the, thee, they.

thi, the.

thir, these, those.

thought long, found the time drag.

thrang, throng.

thraw, twist.

thrysse, thrice.

thuds, 169, sound of blows, noises, strokes.

tinkler, played the, 161, played the coward.

tint, lost.

tockin, token.

ton, tone, the, the one.

tooke, 39; supply an omitted word, as "rest."

toom, empty.

top-castle, 62, a kind of turret built round the mast-head.

topsail, to cast, a kind of salute.

tre-trip for hay, 131; tray-trip was a game at dice.

tree, 226, spear-shaft? cudgel?

trews, 155, Highland pantaloons, consisting of breeches and stockings in one piece;

here used for Highlanders.

trone, 143, pillory.

trows, 156, see trews.

touk, tuick, beat.

tyll, to.

tyne, lose.

uds-doyns, an oath.

uncouth, unknown.

uttermost, outmost.

valziant, valiant.

verament, truly.

vow, 169, exclamation of admiration or surprise.

vowit, vowed.

wae, sad, sorry.

wald, would.

waly, interjection of lamentation.

wane, 36?

war, worse;

verb, to worst, overcome.

war, aware.

ward, word.

waryson, reward.

wast, west.

wat, know.

weal, 41 (of hands), to wring?

weale, 64, qy, well? or good luck! The word is probably corrupted.

weapon-shaw, inspection of arms, military review.

wed, would.

wede, 72, shorn?

weir, war.

well, 226, qy. mell, meddle or fight with.

weme, 98, belly, hollow.

wend, go.

whigging, moving fast, marching briskly.

whilk, which.

whyll, 15, till.

wid, would.

wight, 102, strong, quick.

win, go, get.

win (hay), make, get in.

winna, will not.

wis, 214, wish.

woned unto the dead, 222, qy. vowed? devoted themselves to death?

wood, mad, furious.

worried, 270, choked at.

worthe, woe, woe be to.

wouche, injury.

wraithe, wroth.

writhe, twisted.

wyld, 30, seems to be used absolutely for deer.

wynn, (hay), make, get in.

ychone, each one.

yebent, bent.

yee, eye.

ye-feth, i-faith.

yender, yonder.

yerlle, earl.

yerly, early.

ye'se, ye shall.

yestreen, yesterday.

yill, ale.

yth' in the.

zield, yield.

zit, yet.

Transcriber's Notes

Page 39, line 101: changed "strenght" to "strength" (Many hade no strength for to stande,)

Page 108: line note anchor moved from line 67 to line 68.

Page 157, line 11: changed "orher" to "order" (Lord Roxburgh was there, in order to share)

Page 191, line 9-12: changed indentation of this verse to be consistent with the rest of the ballad.