Volume 8 / Part 5 — GLOSSARY.
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aboon, above.
abye, pay a penalty for, suffer.
ae, one.
a-fit, afoot.
ahin, ahint, behind, besides.
airn, iron.
anceane, ancient, aged.
ane, 148?
aneath, beneath.
angel, a coin worth from 6s. 8d. to 10s.
aninder, under.
anis, once.
aquoy, coy, averse.
a-rowe, in a row.
assy-pan, 140, ash-pan.
astonyd, confounded.
athir, either.
atweel, well, very well.
atween, between.
avow, vow.
aw, all.
ayont, beyond, on the other side of.
ban'd, execrated.
bandoun, 150, captivity.
barker, tanner, from the bark used in his business.
barrow-hogge, 47, a gelded hog.
battes, cudgels, or blows.
bauld, 117, bold, self-complacent.
bayarde, bay-horse, horse in general: "blind Bayard" was a proverb.
be, by.
bede, 105, put forward, offer.
behuvit, behoved, must.
beik, 117, warm.
ben, bend, in.
bent, coarse grass, field.
berry, 287, corrupt?
besene, wel, appearing well, well dressed, &c.
bet, beat.
bet, better.
beth, both.
betrasit, betrayed.
beur, bore.
big, 279, cultivate.
bigly, spacious, commodious.
bill, bull.
bill, halbert.
birk, birch.
birled, poured out drink, drank.
blanne, stopped.
bledoch, buttermilk.
blink, smile;
blinkit, 95, looked kindly.
bolles, bowls.
borrow, borrowit, ransom, ransomed.
bot and, but also.
boud, 264, behoved, must needs.
bouks, bodies.
bour, bower, chamber, dwelling.
bowne, ready.
brast, burst.
brat, cloth.
bra', braw, brave, handsome;
braw wallie, fair fortune, exclamation of pleasure or admiration.
brayn-pannes, skulls.
bred, breed.
bree, soup, broth.
brenning, burning;
brenyng drake, fire-drake, fiery dragon.
brest, burst.
bricht, the, 149, the fair one.
brode-hen, 105, brood-hen, sitting-hen?
brodit, pierced.
brok, bruik, bruke, have possession of, enjoy, keep.
bruchty, spotted, or streaked with dirt;
brucket yowe, 140, speckled ewe.
brunt, burnt.
bur, bore.
burne, brook.
buskit, dressed.
but and ben, out and in.
ca'd, called;
16, driven.
cadgily, merrily.
can, could, used as auxiliaries to form the perfect and pluperfect tenses.
cannilie, softly.
cantels, pieces.
canty, merry.
capull, horse.
carle, fellow.
carpe, to talk, discourse, tell stories.
casey, causeway.
caud, called.
cauk, chalk.
chappit, tapped, knocked.
cheape, bargain.
chefe, cheveron, upper part of the escutcheon.
chiel, young man, servant.
childer-gamme, children's game.
choice, choose.
Christendye, Christendom.
claise, clothes.
clead, clad.
cleikit, caught.
cleir, bright.
clenkyng, clinking.
coffer, head-dress, cap.
coft, bought, redeemed.
cokeney, 115, "seems to be a diminutive for cook," says Percy. The word more probably denotes some kind of lean or common meat. See Wright's note.
cold, could.
comyn, come.
con, see can.
confound, destroy.
coost, 110, region, direction.
could of courtesie, knew what was good manners.
cors, body.
couple, rafter.
courtnalls, a disrespectful (?) name for courtiers.
cow, twig.
cowth ring, 148, had reigned;
see can.
crap, crop, yield.
crech, creek, crutch.
creppid, crept.
crook (my knee), make lame. They say in the North, "the horse crooks," i. e. goes lame. Percy.
crouse, brisk, merry.
cummerit, vexed, bothered.
cund hir thank, gave her thanks.
cunnand, covenant, engagement.
curtass, courteous.
daigh, dough.
dang, knocked.
dawing, dawning.
de, dee, die;
deed, died.
denay, refuse.
dent, blow.
deport, 274, array.
deray, ruin, confusion.
descryed, described, related.
develling, 142, sauntering.
dicht, 150, circumstanced:
dicht to deid, 151, done or put to death.
disjune, breakfast.
dizt, (dight), dressed.
do, dow, you down, take yourself down.
dole, dool, grief.
donned, 105, dun.
douse, blow.
doute, fear.
dow, dove.
down-browit, scowling.
doz troz, dough trough.
drake, dragon.
drowryis, love-gifts.
dryt, dirt.
ducadoons, ducats. (?)
dulfully, dolefully, sadly.
dun feather and gray, by, 88, by a carrier pigeon.
dungin down, beat down, overcame.
duzty, doughty;
duztynesse, doughtiness.
dyke, ditch or wall.
earn, 100, curdle.
ee, ene, eye, eyes.
eftir syne, afterwards.
eneuch, enough.
ey, egg.
fa', fall, befall.
fain, glad, pleased, enamored.
fairheid, beauty.
fald, 148, fold, embrace.
falle, fell.
fancy, love.
fand, found.
fang, grasp (and carry off).
fannes, 111, winnowing fans.
fare, go.
fauld, fold.
fay, faith.
fecht, fight.
feckless, 282, poor, miserable.
fee, property.
feind fall, the devil take.
fel, 102, 111, many. (?)
fell, hide.
fere, mate.
ferly, wonder, miracle;
wonderfully.
fet, fetched.
ffor, 105, from, against.
firm, 199, first? Qy. corrupt?
firstae, first one, first.
fitted, 195, disposed?
flatred, flattened, broken?
fleechin, wheedling.
fleet, flute.
flirry, blossom.
fold, 148, ground, world.
fole, full.
fond, foolish.
forbye, over and above.
forfend, forbid.
forfozt, worn out with fighting.
forrow, before.
fow, full.
fowkyn, crepitus ventris. Percy.
fre, free, noble.
freke, man, fellow.
fullily, foully.
fusome, fulsome.
ga, go.
ga', gall.
gaberlunzie, a wallet;
gaberlunzie-man, a man that carries a wallet, beggar.
gabs, mouths.
gadlyngs, idle lads.
gait, path, way.
gane, gone.
gappe, 106, entrance of the lists.
gar, cause, make.
gaun, going.
gear, geere, property.
gedurt, gathered.
gife, gin, if.
gip, 153, like gup, get up, be off, &c.
gled, kite.
gloamin', twilight.
gloom, frown.
goud, gold.
gowt, 108, v. 109, MS. Harl., should perhaps be, "yf I have," &c.
grate, scratch.
gravat, cravat.
graythid, made ready.
gre, 105, prize.
greave, manager of a farm.
grit, great.
gudefather, father-in-law.
gurde, struck.
gyand, gyane, giant.
had, hold.
hairt, heart.
hard, heard.
harnis, brains.
harnys, 110, horns.
harwos, harrows.
haud, hold, keep.
he, high, noble.
heck, hatch, small-door.
heid, head.
hellis-cruk, 148, a crook by which vessels are hung over the fire.
hend, 152, gentle;
Aytoun reads, "hain'd," spared, saved.
hent, took.
het, heated.
hicher, higher.
hight, promised.
hilt, taken.
hindir, 148, hundred.
hiphalt, lame in the hip.
hireman chiel, man-servant.
hit, it.
holt, grove;
sometimes, hill.
horse-brat, horse-cloth.
husband, husbandman.
hussy, housewife;
husyskep, housekeeping.
hynt, took.
hyzt, promised.
ifere, together.
ilka, each.
ill-fardly, ill-favoredly, uglily.
ill-willy, ill-natured.
in-fere, together.
ingle, fire.
intil, in.
i-wiss, surely, for a certainty;
sometimes seems to be ignorantly employed for I wot, I know.
jetted, 41, went proudly.
jimp, slender.
jumlit, 119, stirred rapidly, used of the motion of churning.
kaily, cabbage-like.
kall, drive.
kavis, calves.
keel, red ochre.
keming-stock, back of a chimney grate.
kest, cast.
kexis, dried stalks of hemlock.
kid, displayed.
kill, kiln.
kind, nature.
kirn, churn.
kists, chests.
kned, kneed.
know, knoll.
ky, cows.
kynde, nature, habit;
comyn of kynde, 107, come of a good strain?
kyrne, churn;
kyrnd, churned.
laigher, lower.
laith, loath;
laithliest, loathsomest.
laitis, lusty, pleasant manners.
lambs-wool, a beverage made of ale and roasted apples.
lane, her, alone by herself.
lauchty, 141, pale, white?
lawing, scot, tavern-reckoning.
leal, honest.
lear'd, learned.
led, 151, (of laws) carried out. (?)
lenth, length.
lese, lose.
let, desist, omit.
leuch, laughed.
lever, rather.
leys, leas.
lightlye, without good reason.
likame, body.
lintseed bow, the globule which contains the seed of flax.
lizt, light.
lone, in the, 119, "an opening between fields of corn, for driving the cattle homeward, or milking cows."
losel, worthless fellow.
lout, let.
louz, lowe, laughed.
low, flame.
lowte, bow;
lowtit, bent.
lugs, ears.
lyarde, gray horse, horse in general.
lyt, little, a little while.
mane, moan.
maries, maid-servants.
maun, must.
mavis, song-thrush.
may, maid.
meen, moan.
meisseine, 195, mizzen-sail.
mekle, much.
menzie, many, retinue.
merk, dark, sad.
micht, might.
micull, great.
minny, mother.
moe, more.
mone, man.
mot, mought, may.
mou, mow, mouth.
muckle, much.
muir, moor.
myskaryd, 104, miscarried, disadvantageously disposed of.
nappy (of ale), strong.
native, 162, true-born.
neb, nose, beak.
nedis hase spedde, succeeded in what he wanted.
neis, nose.
neist, next.
nolles, heads.
nones, nonce.
nourice, nurse.
nozt, nought.
ohon, alas.
on loft, 112, aloft, i. e. standing up, or on horseback.
onys, once.
other, 110, or?
our, ower, over, too;
our all quhair, 148, everywhere.
ourtuk, overtook.
pairt, part.
palmer, pilgrim, vagabond.
panis, pains.
pannell, panele, 41, 108, a rustic saddle, a pad, without frame or bow.
paramour, 148, passionately.
partake, 212, impart, assign.
pass, care.
pat-fit, pot-foot.
pawky, sly.
pechmyn, parchment.
peit, 269, whip.
pele, long-handled baker's shovel.
pendles, ear-rings.
Pirie's chair, 282?
ploo-mell, plow-mell, "a small wooden hammer occasionally fixed to the plough." Percy.
ploom, plum.
pluch, plough.
pollis, polls.
porcupig, porcupine.
poudurt, powdered.
prayse-folk, 114?
prees, press, crowd.
prest, ready, eager.
priefe, prove.
priving, proof.
progeny, 158, descent.
quert, 150, high spirits, hilarity.
quha, &c. who, &c.
quhill, till.
ra, roe.
ramped, rampit, rushed violently, pranced about in bad humor.
rant, make merry, riot.
rarely, 229, dear.
raton, rat.
rauzt, reft, took away.
reade, advice.
record, 247, avowal;
draw to record, take to witness.
red, 119, to part (them).
reet, 141, root.
refe, steward, bailiff.
remorse, 164, tenderness of feeling.
renning, running.
reve, take from.
richt, right.
ridand, riding.
ring, 148, reign.
rok, distaff.
roose, 87, boast of, commend.
root, 268, rout, i. e. stretch, or tramp?
rost, thu carpis of cold, 110, (proverb), thou speakest to no purpose?
round claith and small, 118?
rout, blow.
rowte, crowd.
rowe, a-, upon a row, in a row.
ruell bones, see Gloss. to vol. i.
ruggut, pulled violently.
rung, cudgel, staff.
ryschys, rushes.
ryzt, right.
sa, so.
sair, suit, satisfy.
sark, shirt.
say, essay.
scart, scratch.
scho, she.
schondir, in, asunder.
se'en, seven.
sen, since.
sen, send, grant.
senvye, mustard-seed.
serk, shirt.
set, suit.
sevensum, seven.
sheave, slice.
shent, 66, shamed.
shott-window, projecting window.
shouthers, shoulders.
shriefe, sheriff.
shurtyng, 103, sport, pastime.
sic, siccan, such.
sicht, sight.
side, long.
sith, sithence, since.
six-mennys song, song for six voices.
skomfet, discomfit.
skumd, skimmed.
slatred, broken, cracked.
slee, sly.
smeek, smoke.
sonde, sending.
sooth, truth, troth.
sorrow, devil a bit.
sort, style;
company, swarm (of bees).
sot, 247, fool.
sould, should.
sowkit, sucked.
spait, flood, freshet.
spare, 141, opening in a gown or petticoat.
speal, 280, chip or shaving. The sense?
speer, ask for.
speere, 67, "an aperture in the wall, shot-window." Aytoun. (?)
spence, expense.
spright, sprite, spirit.
spyre, a post or pillar, supporting a shelf on which victuals are put. See Gloss. to Jamieson's Pop. Ball.
stark, stiff, strong.
sted, stede, place.
steer, stir.
stert, started.
stock, the forepart of a bed further from the wall.
stollin, stolen.
stondis, stands.
stottis, oxen.
stound, time.
stoure, 119, hurry.
stown, stolen.
strae, straw.
strene, this, 120, yesternight.
stripe, 199, measure.
swa, so.
swear, oath.
swete, 103, qy. sweté, sweaty?
swippyng, striking fast, as in threshing.
swipylles, 112; "a swepyl is that staff of the flail with which the corn is beaten out, vulgarly a supple," Percy: swingle.
swynkers, laborers.
syde, long.
syne, then.
tald, told.
tee, too.
teene, sorrow, suffering.
tent, 58, "a kind of Alicant, a general name for Spanish wines, except white." Halliwell.
tha, then.
than, then.
thannes, thence.
thee, thrive.
then, than.
think lang, suffer from ennui.
thir, these.
tho, then.
thouz, though.
thrang, close.
thristing, thirsting.
thristlecock, throstle, thrush.
thrustand, thrusting, pressing.
tide, time.
tint, lost.
tittles and tattles, "clots of dirt such as hang on a cow's tail."
to-brast, burst in pieces.
to-claterde, 111, beaten in (with noise)?
to-flaterde, 111, broken to pieces?
tokynyng, 107, token, sign.
tolbooth, prison.
tone, taken.
trestly, truly, confidently.
trippande, tripping.
tryst, an appointment to meet;
to make such an appointment.
tuggut, tugged.
twatling, 43, small, piddling.
twine, part (from).
unhappy, 42, ill-conditioned.
unlusum, unlovely, revolting;
was his likame dicht, 150, unlovely was the condition into which his body was brought.
up, upon;
upon lofte, on high.
verrey, very, true.
vow, exclamation of admiration.
wa', wall.
wad, would.
wad, wager.
waft, weft, woof.
wale, choose.
wallow't, became pale.
wame, belly, stomach.
wan, 91, come, got.
war, worse.
ware, aware.
waryd, cursed.
wat, know.
wearifu', causing pain or trouble.
wede, dress.
weel-faurd, well-favored, fair.
weet, know.
weir, war.
weir, 149, were.
weloo, interjection of grief.
we'se, we shall or will.
wha's aucht, who is it owns?
whang, slice.
whereas, where that, where.
white moneye, silver.
whoard, hoard, keep.
whorles and spindles, 101, "instruments used in Scotland for spinning instead of spinning-wheels." Percy.
wicht, wight, creature.
wiel, wield.
wight, quick.
will, uncertain how to proceed, distracted.
win, go.
winna, will not.
winsome, gay, comely, pleasant.
withouttin, without.
witted, 195, endowed with wit?
wo, woo, sad.
wobs, webs.
woir, worse.
wood, frantic.
wow, woe.
wow, vow;
exclamation of admiration.
woweir, wooer, suitor.
wraik, wreck.
wrest and wrang, 113, writhed and twisted.
wryth away, put aside.
wynne, joy.
wynnit, dwelt.
wyspys, wisps.
wyte, blame.
wyte, for wot, know.
yates, gates.
ycha, every.
yeersel, yourself.
yeid, went.
ye'se, you shall or will.
yestreen, yesterday.
yetts, gates.
ying, young.
yirne, curdle.
ze, ye.
zede, went.
zet, yet.
zong, young.