Volume 5 / Part 3 — GLOSSARY (continued 2)

cound, IV, 467, 13: count.

counsell, II, 246, C 9-11; III, 217, 53: secret. See councell.

counterfeit, p. p., V, 300, 10: counterfeited.

country-keeper, V, 196, 41: “one employed in a particular district to apprehend delinquents.” Jamieson.

coup, cupe, cup.

couped, koupd, coped, I, 469, 23; II, 313, 20; IV, 315, 14: overturned.

couper, cowper, IV, 259, 7; 260, 7: buyer and seller, dealer.

couple-root, I, 302, 13: rafter-end (the end resting on the wall).

courting, III, 146, 20: demonstration of affection, embracing.

courtnolls, V, 85, 14: courtiers.

courtrie, V, 191, 5; 198 b, after 52: belonging to a court, courtiers.

coush, cosh, IV, 483 b: quiet.

coustome, IV, 507, 78: duty (the king will remit).

cout, cowte, IV, 18, 20, 21; 21, 16: colt.

couth, II, 357, 2: sound, word, Jamieson (the sense required, but the suggested derivation from Icel. kviðr, A. S. cwide, is not easy).

couent, III, 60, 86; 357, 55: convent.

coving-tree, II, 193, H 4: meeting-tree. “A large tree in the front of an old Scottish mansion-house, where the laird met his visitors.” Similar to trysting-tree. Jamieson. In Roxburghshire, covin; in the north of England, covan, coban, and even capon. Denham Tracts, II, 226 ff.

cow, twig. See broom-cow, heather-cow, kow.

cow, coll (locks), II, 423, 4, 7: clip, (brume), III, 9, H 8: browse. (Norwegian kolla (Aasen), dock, take off the top.)

cowing, eating.

cowper. See couper.

cowte, colt. See cout.

coxcomb, III, 35, 19: pate.

crabby (crabbed), III, 488, 23: provoking.

crack, crak, II, 271, 18; 488, 6, 10; III, 161, 28; IV, 261, 3; V, 106, E 3: talk. III, 487, 6, 14, 16: brag. crackd (the Border-side), IV, 146, 4: defied, challenged. (In Scott’s printed copy, bragged, defied.)

crack, crak, a moment of time. in a crack, within a crack, IV, 314, 16; 315, 13; 317, E 6; V, 271, 13: instantly.

crack fingers, in grief or perplexity, II, 26, G 16. See knack.

crae, pret., V, 253 a, No 200, B a 8: crew.

crak. See crack.

cramoisie, cramasie, IV, 93, 8, 2, 3; 410, 17, 20; 472, 9: crimson.

crap, II, 261, 10; 286, 16: crop, top.

crap, pret. of creep, II, 323, 3; 330, H 3; 336, P 2; 337, 3.

crapotee, I, 326, 6: toad-stone, supposed to be generated in the head of toads; “in fact, a petrifaction of the teeth of extinct fishes.” Mätzner. Sometimes defined, smaragdus, emerald.

cravin, II, 335, N 2: asking for, demanding.

crawen, crawn, p. p. of craw, crow, II, 139 f., 7, 12, 22; 222, 17; IV, 473, 36.

cray, cry.

credence, III, 449 b: credit.

creed, n., IV, 262, 13, 14: blame.

creel, V, 122, 5, 11, 12; 123, 5, 11; 124, 4, 12: basket.

creep, pret. crap. See crap.

cries, n., II, 73, 22: calls, demands.

Cristiantë, Cristinty, Cristendie: Christendom.

croche, I, 413, 36: crouch.

croft, IV, 142 a: a piece of land adjoining a house.

crooden, croodin, croodlin, croudlin, I, 163 f., J 1, 2, etc.; 165, M 1, N 1, etc.; 166, K c 1: cooing.

cropped (knee), III, 280, 26: crooked (Icel. kroppinn).

cross, v., V, 306, 6 (correct V, 166, 7², in accordance with this reading): oppose. p. p., the sheriff was crost, III, 157, 30: balked.

croudlin. See crooden.

crouds, cruds, IV, 260, 5: curds.

crouse, crouselie, crously, II, 169, 9; III, 161, 28; IV, 261, 3; V, 17, 33: briskly, merrily, jubilantly. III, 493, 16: (perhaps) bumptiously. See crowse.

crow, craw, crow. ar the coc him crowe, I, 244, 18; V, 288 b, v. 33. p. p. crowen, crawen, crawn.

crowen, p. p. of crow, II, 138, 7.

crowner, I, 141 b: coroner.

crowse, III, 457, B 5: audacious. See crouse.

crowt, I, 273, 28: draw together, pucker up.

cruds, n., IV, 260, 7, 18, 19; 262, 30; 265, A b 1, 11: curds.

cry, crye, proclaim, proclamation. cry in, III, 320, A b 7: call in. cry on, upo, I, 127, 6; II, 150, 13; III, 318, 7; IV, 7, 24: call upon, summon. cryed out on Robyn Hode, III, 70, 296: cried out against, or, simply, cried out “R. H.”

cryance, II, 58 f., 18, 20, 21: cowardice, faintheartedness (disposition to succumb).

cud, V, 104 a: cudgel.

cuddy, IV, 69, 6: ass.

cuirt, pret., I, 439, C 11: covered.

cuist, cust, pret. of cast, II, 248, 1, 2; IV, 68, E 2; 182, G 5; 394, C 1; V, 116, 5. keist, kiest, I, 69, 46; 75, 36; 80, 4.

cuisten, p. p. of cast, I, 495, 11. See custan.

cum, V, 191, 8: become.

cum, pret. of come, III, 386, 22.

cumand, ptc., V, 192 f., 35, 49: coming.

cumber, V, 53, 104: oppress, torment. See cumre.

cumbruk, cambric.

cummers, V, 106, E 2: gossips (commères).

cumre, n., IV, 316, 19: cumber, trouble. See cumber.

cun thanke, III, 68, 242: am, feel, grateful.

cunnes. nones cunnes, I, 244, 11: of no kind. enes cunnes, I, 244, 12: of any kind.

cunning, V, 82, 21: craft (mystery, trade).

curch, curche, II, 131, 6; III, 472, 10: kerchief, woman’s head covering.

cure, III, 262, 7: pains. McNaughtoun’s cure, II, 386, 25: “McNaughtoun’s cure to ye is, Devil relieve ye.” Motherwell.

curn, III, 160, 19; IV, 85, 3: quantity, parcel, pack.

curst turne, III, 93, 34: malignant, spiteful, ferocious job, piece of work, feat.

curstlye, V, 53, 104: fiercely, savagely.

curtal (frier), III, 124 ff., 6, 7, 11, 13, etc.: (Lat. curtilarius) having charge of, attached to, the vegetable garden of a monastery. curtal dogs, 125, 34.

cust, pret. of cast, V, 116, 5. See cuist.

custan, p. p. of cast, III, 4, 2.

cut, V, 202 a: horse.

cut, V, 112, 7; 124, 6; 125, 5: bite, gnaw.

cutted (friar), III, 123, 3, 11, 13, 15, 17: short-frocked (but apparently a corruption of curtal, see III, 121 f.).

cutters, III, 228, 10: bravos, robbers.

cuttie, I, 72, 13; 74, 74: short.

cutties, II, 470, 49: spoons.

cweet, queet, II, 96, I 3: ankle.

cypress queen, as fair as a cypress queen, V, 164, 15: Cyprus, Cypris (Venus).

D

’d, for ’t (it). bla’d wind, bla’d weet, II, 21, 6; doo’d, IV, 464, 16; born’d, deal’d, 465, 22, 37; 471, 41; lai’d, 520, 10; dee’d, V, 248, 12.

dabs, II, 167 b, F: pricks.

dada, dadda, II, 339, 16, 18; V, 112, B b 5: daddie.

daft (love), II, 410, 8: foolishly fond.

dag-durk, I, 55, 12: dagger.

daggie, IV, 258, 25: drizzling (dag, a slight rain).

daghter, dather, daughter.

daghterie, IV, 324, 1: a word of no meaning, the original being simply daughter: see V, 272 b, 1.

daigh, daighe, I, 302, A 10; II, 467, 42: dough.

dail, IV, 430, 5: (dool) the grief, the ill consequences.

daily, dayly, daily flower, I, 76, 9, 15, 18; II, 393, 2; IV, 19, 8: (Icelandic dælligr, Danish deilig) beautiful, charming.

daily dight, IV, 432, 6: beautifully adorned.

dairgie, II, 195, 41: refection given after a funeral.

dale, been at a, III, 161, 28, 30: dole (to mendicants), satirically.

dam, II, 192, 10: dame.

damasee, II, 327, 32: damson plum.

dame, addressed to an unmarried girl by her father, IV, 195, 7.

dandily, V, 106, E 5: over nice or dainty.

dandoo, III, 5, C 7, 8: dun doe?

dane, done, I, 68, 20, 24; 69, 45, 53; II, 81 f., 41, 56: done. dane him to, III, 273, 15, 27: betaken himself. See do.

dang, pret. of ding, I, 55, 12; 129, D 6; 130, F 5; 133, M 7, 10; II, 253, 19; 261, 9; IV, 305, 18: beat, struck, knocked, thrust, shoved. dang down, III, 460, 32. p. p., II, 282, 10: overpowered.

danger, do danger, III, 163, 67: exercise of the power of a superior? violence?

dank (moat), V, 295, 7: damp, wet.

danting, danton, IV, 287, 1 (burden); V, 267, 1 (burden): (Fr. dompter) sexual conquest.

danton, V, 248, 19: subdue, intimidate. See daunton.

daown, adv., V, 304, 8: down.

dapperpy, IV, 185, 11: diapered, of variegated cloth.

dather, dother, V, 257, 15: daughter.

datit, IV, 467, 15: dawtit, caressed.

dative of pronoun: III, 58, 37, 44; 60, 82; 61, 100; 65, 184; 75, 381, 391. after verbs of motion (dative of the subject): I, 244, 10, 13; 326, 1; III, 70, 281.

daunton, danton, I, 325, 6; III, 364 b: daunt, subdue, put down.

daut, dawt, IV, 104, O; 277, 4; 302, 2: fondle, caress, make much of, pet.

daw, v., II, 146, 7: dawn. p. p. dawen, II, 139, 7, 12.

dawdy, II, 308, 5: the unborn young of an animal.

dawt, daut, IV, 304, 3; V, 106, D 3: caress.

dawtie, V, 117 f., B 5, 9, 13; 173, 11: darling.

day, dey, die, dye, IV, 257, B 9; 259, 7, 17; 260, 7, 16; 262, 16; V, 265 a, 10: dairy-woman.

day, dayed, die, died.

dayly. See daily.

de, dee, dea, deei, die, == do: I, 165, N 8; 183, 24; II, 175 f., 1, 8. a dee, II, 110, 25: to do. dee’d, V, 248, 12: do it. p. p. deen. See dee.

dea, die.

dead, deed, deid, dede, died, n., I, 104, 14; 353, 13; 388, A 11; 465, 19; II, 385, 25; 505, 92; III, 387, 16, 10; IV, 36, 3; 505, 57: death.

dead. be dead, II, 58, 5, 7; III, 23, 25; 28, 120; 99, 50: die.

deak, V, 270, 7: deck.

dean, den, IV, 167, D 5, 6, 11: hollow where the ground slopes on both sides, valley.

dean, done.

dear, deare, dere, I, 411, 5; III, 164, b 67: injury.

Dear-Coft, II, 62, 18: Dear-Bought.

dearly, IV, 98, F 6: costly.

dearsome, III, 488 f., 38, 44: costly.

dear vow, interjection of surprise or commiseration.

deas, II, 189, 24: pew (stone seat at the door of the church. Chambers). Same word as dais. See dice.

deave, I, 389, C 3; IV, 69, 17: deafen.

debate, III, 314, 64: quarrel.

deceivin (tree), III, 396, N 3: corruption of savin (see 380 a).

decencey, V, 242 b, 8: corruption of bencite, benedicite.

deck-board, deck-buird, oer (over), V, 138, B 5, 6; 139, c 6, 7: overboard.

dede, V, 283, 8: death. See dead.

dee, deei, do. how can this dee, I, 453, 6: be allowed, borne; and so, perhaps, a’ this winna dee (wont do), II, 97, 14. a’ this winna dee, gif ony prayer can dee, II, 132, 16; 176, 10; it wad na do, IV, 509 b, 13; it widne deei, V, 227, 2: avail.

dee, deei, do. See de.

dee, deei, die.

deed, death. See dead.

deed, v., I, 164, K 6; 165, O 5: died.

deed, indeed. by my deed, III, 262, 12: on my word.

deed-thraw, III, 501, 10: death-throe.

deei, do, avail; die. See de, dee.

deemed, demed, III, 61, 95: judged. III, 356, 35: condemned.

deen, I, 16, C 18; II, 182 a; 409, 18, 19: done (with no sense in 19).

deerlye (dight), III, 340, 28, 36: expensively (ornamented). III, 356, 16, 31, 35: perhaps, with great cost to the sufferer, possibly, to his hurt; lovingly, out of love, would answer in the first two cases, but not in the third.

deft, III, 145, 3: neat, nice-looking.

degree, III, 323, 58; IV, 258, 20: rank, sort. served him in his ain degree, V, 191, 19; 193, 57: rendered him respect accordant with his rank. wee shall beare no degree, III, 333, 19: shall have no position, standing. (requite, thank, show) in euerye degree, V, 84 f., 9, 14, 27: to the full extent demanded by the occasion.

deid, I, 105, 26; 353, 13: death. See dead.

deighte, IV, 504, 29: dight, furnished, adorned, equipped.

delated, III, 449 a, b; IV, 63 b: accused.

dell, V, 79, 32: deal, bit, whit.

dell, II, 345, 29: we are apparently to understand that it was a dismal dell that brought James into the world (not in itself, but from the melancholy fact of his being born there). Possibly we may understand dell ==dule, affliction. But the piece is spurious, and we need not be nice.

delle, I, 327, 22: perhaps, dally, talk, disport; perhaps, deal.

demean, IV, 41, note *; 107, 3: treat, maltreat. (in 107, 3, treat as he deserves, damage, do harm to.)

demed. See deemed.

den, dean, IV, 166, B 8; 168, 5, 11; 169, 3, 9, G 2; 174 f., 2, 7; 306 f., 12, 20, 48; V, 119, D 2: small valley, glen, dingle.

den, dien, V, 260, 8, 14: done.

denay, deny, V, 110, 10; 260, 3, 4: refuse.

deol, V, 297 b: sorrow.

dep, gave him a dep unto the heart, III, 281, 14: perhaps dab, Old Eng. dabbe, stroke. But Dr Davidson suggests that the line was misheard, and that what was said was, a dep’oon (wound), which seems to me very likely.

depart, III, 139, 27: part company.

deputed, III, 414, 52: consigned, handed or delivered over (used of a fugitive carried back for trial).

dere, dear(e), III, 99, 59: injury.

dere-worthy, III, 58, 36, 37; 59, 60; 61, 111; 67, 219; 68, 250; 73, 346: precious, dear.

derf, derf blowes, III, 422, 73: powerful.

dernë, I, 327, 30; III, 57, 21: secret, hidden, privy, obscure.

descryvd, IV, 405, 50: described.

desse, I, 328, 45: dais, the elevated part of the hall, on which was the table for the chief personages.

deuylkyns, III, 79, 73: devilish sort of.

develling, come, I, 302, 5: moving like the devil, whether hieing, scouring, bouncing, or what not; or, possibly, O. Fr. devalant, descending; an equivalence to daundering, sauntering, has been suggested.

devyse, I, 327, 16: will, pleasure.

dey, die, dye, IV, 257, 9; 259, 7, 17; 260, 7; 262, 16: dairy-woman. See day.

deythe, dyth, III, 112, 59: dight, prepared.

di, die, II, 132, 24; V, 35, B 5: do. dinna, I, 146, 6, and passim: do not. See dinnë.

dice, IV, 416, 17==deis: pew in a church.

did, I, 104, 3, 4: used for should.

did (be wrought), II, 506 a: caused.

did him to. See do to.

did of. See do.

die, IV, 264, 5: dey, dairy-woman. See day.

die. See de.

die, do, din, dien, done.

died, IV, 386, 19: death. See dead.

died, IV, 407, 7, 8: dead.

dien. See den, die.

dight, dicht, dycht, deight, dyght, III, 57, 19: prepared. dedys that here be dyght, III, 72, 320: done. of grain, I, 16, B 16; IV, 242 a: winnow. dight shoon, V, 105, A 11: clean. had not men to dight my men, III, 300, 18; IV, 500, 19: serve, handle. she dighted her father’s wounds, I, 101, 8; 103, D 6: dressed. pinnace, hachebord deerlye dight, III, 340, 28, 36; IV, 504, 29: fitted out, dill (grief) to him was dight, II, 68, 4: ordained.

dight, adv., bird sang fu dight, II, 261, 10: readily, freely (strange use of the word). Cf. complete.

dild, God, III, 35, 31: God ild, yield, reward (d carried on from the subject).

dill, II, 58, 4, 11: dule, grief.

dimitted, III, 447 b: discharged, released.

din, dien, done.

din, I, 133, 10; II, 186, 16: dun.

dine, I, 127, 23; II, 94, 12; 194, 13, 17; 313, 17; III, 267, 18; V, 277 f., 18, 29: dinner, meal.

ding, II, 62 a, 17; 261, 8; IV, 97, F 2; 304, 16, 17: beat, knock. ding down, II, 240, 6; III, 5, D 2, 6; 6, 2, 5; 8, 5; 9, 2, 7: lay low, overthrow. pret. dang, dung. p. p. dung, dang. my ain wand dings me now, IV, 97, F 2: I am suffering the consequences of my own folly.

dink, I, 74, 72: neat, trim.

dinna, do not.

dinnë, V, 229 a, 35: do (you) not. V, 229 b, 6: (disne) does not. dinner==dinna, dinnë.

dinne, I, 272, 25: (noise) ado, trouble.

dint (of arrow), III, 345, 48; 350, 48: stroke, impact.

dirt, v., V, 304, 2, 3: soil.

dis, does.

Disaware, V, 49, 29; 51, 51, 62: O. E. aver (O. Fr. aver, avoir) seems to be the basis of the word, which would mean stripped of wealth, sans aver (avoir); a Galterius Sine Avero is noted by Ducange.

discared, III, 38, 85: revoked, withdrawn (apparently for discarded).

discharged, IV, 63 b: revoked.

discreene, II, 439, 2: descry, spy out, discover.

discreeue, II, 58, 3, should be disceuere, diskevere, discover, reveal.

disgrate, V, 269, 17: disgrace.

disgrate, III, 58, 48: unfortunate, out of fortune’s favor. (Ital. disgraziato.)

disna, does not.

distan, IV, 329 a, after 16: (distance) distinguish.

dittay, IV, 245 a: indictment.

dive, II, 132, 25: do.

diuel’s mouth. He could not finde a priuy place, for all lay in the diuel’s mouth, II, 483, 4: as the devil’s mouth is depicted wide open in painted windows, etc., Professor Skeat has suggested that meaning for the phrase.

do, it wad na do, IV, 509 b, 13: avail. See dee.

do. See doo.

do, doe, doe my thy hawkes, I, 211, 20: give, deliver.

do adowne, III, 67, 226; 69, 263: put down.

do away, III, 59, 63: have done with, stop.

do be, I, 184, 47: are.

do down. See do to.

do gladly, III, 58, 34; 61, 103; 67, 232: make yourself happy (==make glad chere, 67, 215).

do (doe) of, off, II, 138, 13; III, 78, 449; V, 49, 23-25: put off. pret. doft, II, 490 b.

do on, III, 23, 27; 76, 421: put on, don.

do to, do till, with reflexive pronoun, I, 86, 30; 87 b; 115, B 3, 4; 182 f., 7, 11, 13, 17; 352, 32, 44; III, 72, 328: betake. So with up, down, V, 300, 5, 8.

do up. See do to, and dop.

doited, IV, 427, 10: stupid, doting.

doll, dolle, döl, dule, I, 217, 3; V, 111, 19, 21: grief.

domineer, in, wi, III, 268, 9; 270, 9; V, 242 b, 8: with haughtiness, superciliously. (Perhaps a corruption of III, 270, E 7, since the captain is said to be buke-learned in 268, 9.)

doo (ynnë gon), III, 91 a: cause, make.

doo, dou, dow, I, 163-165; 497, L 2; V, 40 f., 3, 9, 15, etc.: dove.

don, down.

done, how done you? III, 35, 31: old plural, how do you do?

done upon, V, 48, 6: put on.

doo’d, IV, 464, 16: do it.

dool, doll, dule, II, 175, 17; IV, 85, 42; V, 17, 31; 111, 19, 21: grief. See dail.

dool, dool and down, II, 271, 26: corruption of dale and down; cf. II, 175, 14; 273, 33; IV, 219, B 5: and elsewhere.

doon, II, 198 b, 2d line: a corruption, or possibly an Irish word, of which I can make nothing.

doon, youar begun yar doon, V, 304 b, 4.

doorcheeks, II, 99 b, 33: door-posts.

dop, III, 34 f., 6, 21: do up, open.

dorn, II, 300, 5: (sheets of) dornic, table-linen, ordinarily, from Dornick, the Dutch name for Tournay.

dorty, IV, 288, 10: pettish, peevish, saucy.

dother, IV, 327, 15; V, 110, 1; 237 f., 6, 7, 12, 22, etc.; 264, 7: daughter.

dottled, V, 94, A 3: in a state of dotage.

dou, dove. See doo, dow.

dou, dow (A. S. déah, dugon), III, 245, B 12; 247, 18; 370, 10, 13; IV, 472, 22: can (of physical ability). II, 78, 4; 104, 24; 105, 16; 168, 12; III, 386, 21; IV, 31, 9; 512, 12: (with negative) am unable from aversion, want of resolution, etc. dought (A. S. dohte, pret. of dugan), pret., I, 146, 20; II, 401, C 7; III, 465, 22; IV, 23, A c 18: was able, could. Subjunctive, I, 326, 18, 19 be at liberty); I, 330, B 3: should be able. dought, he neere dought good day, I, 434, 32: he never was good for anything a good day. But we should expect him: never a good day profited him.

double-horsed, III, 489, 42: with horse carrying double.

doubt, doute, dout, n. and v., I, 295, 35; 478 f., 19, 28; II, 52, 22; III, 57, 10; 76, 406; 125, 26; 188, 4: fear.

doubt, if tho[u], II, 449, 58: corrupt. A 53, without all doubt.

doubtit, III, 364 b: redoubted, held in awe. See doubt.

douce, I, 184, 1; V, 210 a, 1: staid and sober. violence douce, II, 271, 19: corrupt; read done?

douë, douey==dowie, V, 257, 7, 17: dreary, melancholy. V, 220 f., 6, 7, 9 (of bran): wretched.

doughetë, III, 308, 28: doughty man.

dought. See dou.

douk, duck, II, 151, H 6; 153, 16, 17, 19, 21: dive.

doukers, duckers, II, 151, H 6, 8: divers.

doulfou, II, 159, 23: doleful.

dounae. See dou.

doup (dish-doup), II, 463, 23: bottom.

dour(e), I, 117, 17: hard, severe. V, 295, 3: savage. knocks bauldly and dowr, II, 341, R after 3: hard, or pertinaciously.

dout, doute. See doubt.

dow, dou, doo, I, 163 f., J 1-6, etc.; II, 299, 22-24; 301, 14; V, 111, 18; 302, 17: dove.

dow, do.

dow, downa, v. See dou.

dowie, dowy, I, 56, B 11; II, 146, 19; 148, 21, 22; 189, 36, 37; IV, 33, 24; 165, 12; 166, C 4, 5, 6; etc.: sad, doleful, melancholy, wretched. See douë.

dowilie, I, 439, 11: sadly.

down, wi meikle dool and down, II, 271, 26: nonsense; corruption of, beheld baith dale and doun, F 33.

down-browed, scowling; I, 302, A 11.

downfall, downcome of Robin Hood, with the, III, 271, 10; 274, 30: knocked down in R. Hood’s fashion?

dowr. See doure.

doyn, III, 111, 39: done.

doyt, III, 109, 1: doth (plural).

draff, refuse, dirt.

drank, II, 30, 7: gave to drink, drenched.

drap, III, 281, 10, drap down: perhaps, drap[d] down; otherwise, should drop.

draps, drops.

draught, I, 432, 1: sketch, picture.

draw, drew her table, V, 304, 13: see explanation, 304 a.

draw, III, 6, 14, 15: move (cf. Germ. ziehen).

draw to, ti, till, draw to hose and sheen, II, 249, 15; 256, 9; IV, 464, 10: draw on. drew till him his hose, II, 189, 35. drew to him his sheen, II, 257, 30.

draw up wi, II, 114, 14: take up with, enter into intimacy, relations of love, with.

drawght that thowe dost drawe, IV, 503, 16: of the drawing of a bow. (So “Chaucer’s Dream,” v. 788, Morris.)

drawn, ere the horse was drawn and brought, IV, 346 b, I b 5: chosen.

drawn a stroke behind his hand, II, 63, 24: evidently means give a back-handed stroke, but the phrase sounds factitious.

dreaded, II, 169, 14: suspected.

dreads, IV, 32, C 7: suspicions.

dreamed, I was, I, 432, 1: dreamed, had a dream.

drede, n., III, 296, 8: doubt.

dreder, II, 403, 3, 4: dread, apprehension.

dre(e), dri, drie, drye, suffer, undergo, hold out, stand, be able. dree pine, II, 466, 35; 467, 45. doom, III, 391, 9. death, III, 391, 1. dill I drye, II, 58, 11. dreeing trying hour, I, 73, 47. as fast as they might dree, III, 286, 49: could do it; so, II, 149, 7; 255, 10; III, 106, 12; 267, 9; IV, 2, 6; 6, 13; V, 195, 13, 35; 196, 37. whylle the myghte dre, III, 298, 58; 309, 47: as long as they could hold out. draw carts, which horse were wont to drie, I, 465, 2: do, perform. drie to feel, III, 479, 5: be compelled, come to feel.

dreel, gie a, I, 403, 9: stir up, put into a flurry, make scud. (Old Dutch drillen, ultro citroque cursitare gyrosque agere, etc. Scottish dreel, to move quickly.)

dreigh, IV, 47, 4: seems to mean here, far to jump from.

dress, III, 336 b: redress.

dressen, v. the dressede into the countrey, V, 71, note †: betaken.

drew (her table). See draw.

dri. See dree.

drie, n., III, 415, 22: an unauthorized word of Percy’s, to mean suffering.

drie, dri. See dree.

driep, drop.

drifts, IV, 2, 10: droves.

drive, IV, 6, 19; 7, 30, 32: drive off.

droonet, I, 133, 13: drowned.

droop, droop and drowsie (of blood), IV, 220, 13: droop might be the Old English drup, sad, piteous, but a word indicating the quality or condition of the blood would be expected (as in German trübe, thick, muddy). The nearest is drubly, turbid, muddy. Cf. wan and drousie, IV, 224, 23. her lothely lere is droupy and drowsy, Skelton, Elynour Rummynge, 15: downcast and drowsy. See drousie.

droped, III, 164, 88: drooped.

drouflye, III, 85, 22: sad. See drousli.

drousie, wan and drousie, IV, 224, 23. droop and drowsie, IV, 220, 13 (of blood): sluggish, perhaps slowly dripping. The combination occurs in Skelton’s Elynour Rummynge, 15, droupy and drowsy, with sense. See droop.

drousli, III, 82, 22, should be droufli (drouflye, or drouslye, 85, 22): (Old Eng. drof, droflie) sad.

drowryis, I, 415 b: love-tokens. See drury.

drowsie. See drousie.

drucken, II, 155, A b 3: drunken (and in A a 3, where there is a misprint).

druken, drucken, p. p., II, 285, 9; V, 99, 11, C 6; 155, C 2: drunk, imbibed.

drumlie, -ly (stream), IV, 185, 8, 14; (eye), IV, 368, 10; 369 b: perturbed, turbulent, turbid, gloomy.

drunken, p. p. of drink, II, 110, 24; 134, 26. drunken was==had drunken, IV, 46, 5, 6.

drunkilie, III, 490, 25: merrily (as being tipsy with pleasure?).

drury, IV, 58, A b 5: dowry. Drowry is used as synonymous with morning-gift in the Acts of James VI. Jamieson. See drowryis.

drussie, V, 257. 14: drowsy.

drye. See dree.

drywyng, driving.

dub, I, 164, J 3; III, 162, 49; IV, 470, 25, 26; V, 169, 9: pool.

dubby, IV, 257, A 6: dirty, having many small pools.

ducatdowns, dukedoons, IV, 128, 8; 139, I b 21: ducatoons. corrupted ridiculously, IV, 137, 2, to ducks.

duck, douk, II, 145, 18, 19, 22, 23: dive.

duckers, doukers, II, 145, 18: divers.

ducks. See ducatdowns.

duddie, I, 208, G 15: ragged.

duddies, dudes, V, 111, 24; 112, B 13; 113 b, 13: duds, poor clothes.

duȝty, III, 98, 32: doughty, valiant.

duke, IV, 295, D 5: dyke, wall.

dukedoons. See ducatdowns.

dulchach, dulget, I, 305, 1; V, 213, 1: bundle, always applied in Aberdeenshire to ill-shaped, untidy bundles of clothes carried on the person (also, bulshach).

dule, dool, I, 169, B 3; 442, E 15; II, 290, 8, 12; IV, 86, 20; 303, 14: grief.

dulget, I, 305, 1. See dulchach.

dumped, V, 227, 4: struck with the feet.

dumpes, III, 313, 50: in the modern sense, but not inelegant.

dune, I, 302, 2; IV, 326, 15: done.

dune out, V, 27, 28: worn out, used up.

dung, pret. of ding, beat, knock, strike, II, 132, 17. p. p., II, 62 a, 17; 392, J 9; 472, 20, 28; III, 161, 43; IV, 479, 4: beaten, worsted, overpowered, put down. IV, 183, 8: overwhelmed, disconsolate. dung over, V, 127, 22: knocked over, struck down. dung down, I, 345, 5: thrust down.

Dunny’s well, Dunny’s dyke, II, 189, 28: an impersonation, signifying that the washing and drying have been done in dark-colored water and on a dark-colored (dirty) wall.

dunts, III, 491, 13: dints, blows. See dynt.

dwine, IV, 303 f., 12, 21, 27; 304, 10: pine, waste.

dwrf, IV, 290, D c 5: dowf seems to be intended, lethargic, inert, impotent; rather than dwarf, as being puny or incomplete.

dyd him to, III, 72, 328: betook himself. See do to.

dyde adowne, III, 67, 226: put down.

dye, IV, 260, 16: dey, dairy-woman. See day.

dyght, III, 72, 320, dedes that here be dyght: prepared, concerted.

dyght (to the deth), III, 309, 40: done, brought.

dyghtande, III, 75, 388: making ready (but seems to be intended for a past participle).

dyke==wall, IV, 295, E 6; 296, F 6. castle-dyke, II, 410, 4. garden-dyke, II, 370, 5; 371, 5. fail dyke, I, 253, 2: turf wall. hollan dyke, II, 195, 32; nettle-dyke, II, 463, 22: wall on which hollies, nettles, are growing.

dyke, III, 441, 36: ditch.

dyne, garre me ones to dyne, III, 296, 24: give me my dinner, my fill, beat thoroughly. (Able to give the greatest prince in Christendome a mortall breakfast, if he had been the king’s enemie. Holinshed’s Chronicle, III, 512, ed. 1807-8. G. L. Kittredge.)

dynt(e), dint, III, 309, 42, 45, 46: stroke, hit, lunge, shot (of spear, arrow). See dunts.

dypper, V, 283, 5, 15: deeper.

dysheryte, III, 60 f., 87, 95: dispossessed.

dyspyse, II, 478, 6: cause to be despised.

dyth, deythe, I, 334, 7: dight, furnished or built.

E

E an O me, E an O an O me, V, 275 a, 9, 10: simple exclamations, having here the character of a refrain.

é, II, 217, 24: ae, only.

ea, V, 214 b, 3: to be dropped; remnant of a corrected reading.

eaen, V, 267, 4: even.

eaght, the, the eighth.

ealky, elky, eke a, ylk a, ilka, V, 220 f., 4, 5, 8: each (one).

ean, V, 165, 2: eyes. See ee.

ear, I, 395, 1; 480, 54: early.

ear, eer, ever.

eare, ere, ayre, heir.

eare, v., I, 15, 12: plough.

earn, V, 115, 6: curdle.

eartly, II, 494, 1: earthly.

eased, III, 61, 101 (of horses): cared for, attended to.

eased we, V, 239, 35: used (as in 33), familiar with.

easer, IV, 315, 14; V, 271, 14: maple (mazer). See ezar.

easterling (born), V, 54, 3, 4 (in A, 48, 3, 4, stranger borne). The boy learned too fast for a native. Easterling, a native of the Hanse towns, or of the East of Germany. Halliwell.

eathe, III, 408, 33: easy.

eather, V, 224, 25; 241, No 156, 6: other.

eay, eayn, V, 238, 18, 28; 248, 18: eye(s). See ee.

edder-flowe, IV, 450 a, 2: adder-morass.

ee, III, 4, 9; 11, K: eye. Pl. een, eeen, II, 158 f., 5, 8, 18; 160, 4, 7, 17. See ean, eay, eghne, eyen.

ee (of a cup), IV, 221, 9: may be eye, top, brim.

ee, the table ee, II, 409, 20 (Motherwell, table eye): seems to be nonsense; edge does not suit. b, the printed copy, has play.

ee (A. S. ege, O. Eng. eȝe, eie, etc.), IV, 3, 15: awe; an unsatisfying emendation of lee, lye (eie would be better; I have not found ee). The Campbell MS. has fee, meant, I suppose, for value.

ee-bree, III, 11, K; IV, 257, 5: eye-brow.

een, IV, 257, 13: one.

een, v., III, 495, 23, 24; IV, 517, 21: even, make of the same value.

eenin, IV, 169, F 1: evening.

eerie, eiry, I, 342, 24, 36; 355, 46; II, 466, 39; IV, 175, N 5; 368, G 8: dreary, gloomy, weird, exciting superstitious dread.

eft, eft agayne = eftsones, III, 83, 238; 87, 238.

eftsones, III, 68, 238: hereafter, another time.

eghne, I, 327, 23: eyn, eyes.

eh, IV, 512, 11: exclamation of grief.

eight, the eight, I, 55, 9; 56, B 10; C 5, 11: eighth.

eihte, I, 244, 11: possession, valuable thing.

eild, III, 162, 46: age.

ein, I, 134, 13: een, evening.

eiry. See eerie.

eisin, IV, 331 b, 2: serve.

eke, also. At I, 133, L 1, eke ... eke seems to be wrongly used for either ... or.

eke a, III, 298, 57: each (one). See ealky.

elbouthe, I, 334, 5: elbow (the th for g or ȝ).

eldelike, I, 334, 5: elderly.

eldern, eldren, eldrin, I, 350, 12, 13; II, 20, 2; 26, 2; 27, 2; 61, 2; IV, 485, 28: old.

eldrige, elridge (hill, king), II, 58 f., 14, 15, 23, 25-7, 36==Scottish elric, elvish. The eldrige king has something of the character of the ellor-gást family in Beówulf (spirits who belong outside of mankind), haunts a hill, is a pagan, no one that has coped with him has come off alive. The lady who attends him, however, seems in no way extra-human. elric hour, I, 140, N (Pinkerton): hour when elves, or bad spirits, are active. In Elrick’s hill, II, 62, 8, 10, etc., the adjective is improperly turned into a noun. See elrick.

element, I, 286, 44: air, sky.

elephant, III, 211, 2: a species of scabious is so called, according to Halliwell.

elfin, elphin, elphan, n. and adj., I, 15 ff.; 341, 15; IV, 456, 13: elf, elvish. I, 346, 15 (the Elfins); 350, 28; IV, 456 f., 14, 15, 19, 24: fairy-land.

Elfins, the, I, 346, 15: fairy-land. See elfin.

elfish, n., I, 343, 15: elf.

elflyn, of the elves.

Elizium, V, 158, 16: Elysian.

elky. See ealky.

ell, ill, ull, v., will.

ellish, III, 481, 9: ellis, ells. (h may well be dropped.)

elphan, elphin, n. and adj. See elfin.

elrick, elritch, adj., II, 63, 18; I, 357, 53: elvish. Elrick’s, 62 f., 8, 10, 16, 21: as a substantive. See eldrige.

embowered, pret., II, 503, 13: used as bower.

eme, III, 296, 26: uncle. emys, III, 98, 38: uncle’s.

-en, -n, -yn, sign of plural of verb, I, 244, 9; II, 5 b, 3; 54, 61; 445, 62; III, 13, 2, 3, 4, 8; 35, 31; 63, 134; 92, 11; 104, 7; 105, 9, 11; 277, 15; 284, 3, 8, 17; 285, 30, 32, 33; 286, 48, 49; 404, 3; 406, 28; etc.

end, en, end. hous(e)-end, -en, I, 254, variations of Twa Corbies, b, 1, c, 1; toun-end, V, 267 f., 10, 11, 24. on end, IV, 353, 18: to an end.

-end, termination of the present participle. sighend, I, 55 f., B 7, 9.

endres daye, þis, I, 326, 1: the other day.

eneuch, enew, I, 102, 5; III, 318, 6; 440, 10; IV, 117, 8; 384, 8: enough.

enlured, III, 36, 45: allured (which is the word in b).

enter plea att my iollye, III, 278, 32: unintelligible to me. iollye should probably be iollytë. The king will have the head to serve some inscrutable purpose when he is making merry.

enterprise, v., I, 411, 9; III, 230, 70: undertake.

entertain, III, 153, 18: take into service.

envye, III, 296 f., 12, 30: ill-will, hostility, spite.

ere, V, 300, 3: eer, ever.

ere, eare, ayre, n., heir.

ere, v., heir.

ere, II, 216, 19; 470, 44; IV, 242 a; 378, 6; 433, 31: till.

ere syne, II, 362, 34: ere then, before that.

erlis, I, 329, 60: should probably be ernis, eagle’s (herons, yrons in other texts).

erlish, I, 355, 49: elrish, elvish.

ermeline, ermine.

ern, IV, 490, 12: iron.

-ës, -is, -ys, -us, preserved in gen. sing., I, 69, 52; II, 25, 7; III, 40, n.; 98, 21, 35; 99, 47 f., 52; 100, 64 f.; 111, 33, 36, 42, etc. In the plural, I, 72, 15; III, 40, n.; 97, 2, 3, 20; 98, 25, 33, 37, 40-2; 100, 63, 82; 109, 1; 111, 29, 31-37, 45 f., etc.

esk, I, 355, 50: newt. See ask.

ettled, IV, 47, 2: purposed.

even cloth, I, 324, 16: smooth, with the nap well shorn.

even down, IV, 110, 10, 11: flat to the ground. V, 124, B 14: perpendicular. 225 b, No 78: straight down (of heavy rain).

even forward, I, 324, 3: straight forward.

even up, I, 305, 7: straight up.

evening-mass, II, 168, A, 4: a religious service at the end of the day (as in Romeo and Juliet, IV, 1).

euery syde, III, 75, 398: each side of.

euerych, euerichone, euerechone, euerilkon, everlke ane, I, 334, 5; III, 22, 4; 65, 174; 67, 230; 98, 30: each, each one.

evidents, IV, 40 b: title-deeds.

evyll, adv., III, 26, 93: ill. euyll go, III, 77, 429: ill walk.

ew-bught. See bucht.

ewer, IV, 19, 8: dug, udder.

exaltre, III, 90 b: axletree.

examine, II, 58, 15: put you to test.

exite, II, 125, B 22; excit, V, 223 a, No 65, B 22: amended to sight under the supposition that exit must be impossible.

exoner, IV, 307, 42: exonerate.

ey, I, 415 b: egg.

eye (cote with one eye), III, 360, 117: window?

eyen, eyne, I, 472, 29; III, 74, 359: eyes. See ee.

eylde het the, III, 112, 62: yield, requite thee for it.

eylyt, I, 241 f., 5, 7: aileth.

eyre, pl., III, 113, 70: years.

ezar, II, 271, 17; 273, 23: maple. See easer, masar.

F

f, in Northern Scotch, often for wh; as, fa, faa, who; fan, when; far, faer, where.

fa, IV, 260, 6; 261, 6: who.

fa, V, 118, B 10: fault.

fa, my lady cannot fa sic servants, I, 116, 11: have such fall to her, put up with. fa frae her, II, 133, D 1: break off, give up.

fa, fae, IV, 256, 5; 337, f 2, 3, 7: from.

faa, V, 275 a, 8: who.

face, with a, III, 180, 12: with effrontery, boldness.

fache, fetch.

fact, III, 229, 32; IV, 11, 11: offence, crime.

fadge. fat fadge, II, 182, 8: “a lusty and clumsy woman.” Jamieson. “fadgy, corpulent, unwieldy. fudge, a little, fat person. North.” Halliwell. “fodge, a fat person; evidently the same with fadge.” Jamieson. A dirty drab is the phrase corresponding to fat fadge, II, 194, 10 (fusom fag, IV, 469, I 10, 12). See fag, fug.

fadther, IV, 260, 7: father.

fae, fay, fey, fee, fie, I, 245, 6; III, 481 f., 30, 24; 489, 39; 490, 24; 492, 26; IV, 430, 2: (A. S. fǽge) destined to die.

fae, II, 184, 19; 196, 9: foe.

fae, IV, 165 f., 2, 10; 337 f, 2, 3, 7: frae, from. See fa.

faein, faen, fawn, fallen.

faem, fame, I, 68, 1; 70, 1; 86, 1; II, 24, 12; 25, G 14: foam, sea.

faer, IV, 262, 15; 378 f., 6, 19: where.

fag, I, 304, F 2, 3; IV, 469, I 10, 12: a dirty drab. Cf. fusome fug, described as a dirty drab, B 3-6; dirty slut, C 4; dirty bitch, E 4; filthy foul flag, G 4. See fadge, fug.

faikine, III, 199, 24: faith.

fail, feall, fell, I, 304, F 6: turf.

fail-dyke, I, 253, 2: turf-wall.

fails, II, 365 f., 2, 3, 23: falls, befalls.

fain(e), fayn(e), II, 444, 48, 57; 453, 28; III, 100, 66; 298, 50; 309, 32: glad, pleased, eager. IV, 211, 13; V, 115, 2: fond. for faine, III, 479, 40: for glad, for gladness.

fainly, joyfully, blithely.

fair, V, 26 f., 13, 39: far.

fairlie, farlie, ferlie, I, 324, 11; 325, B 9: wonder. gars me fairlie, IV, 357, 2: causes me astonishment.

fairly (fields), IV, 57, D 1: fair, looking well.

fait, faitt, fett, V, 224, 18, 19; 274, 10; 278, 29: white.

faith and troth, to be, IV, 147, 34: to be in the relation of men who have taken the engagement of mutual fidelity, sworn-brethren.

fald, fall, fauld, n., V, 105, A 3; 248, 21: fold.

fall, III, 76, 406: suit, become. well falls me, V, 25, 5: my luck is good.

fall, V, 206 b, 8: pret. of fall, unless there is ellipsis of did.

falling, III, 470 a: sunset.

fallow’s deed, I, 448, 7-10: deed of a bad fellow seems unlikely. felloun’s? farlie, strange?

falsh, IV, 442, 1, 10, 12: false.

falyf, III, 13, 4: fallow.

fame, faem, I, 68, 1; 86, 1: foam, sea.

fa’n, IV, 6, 7; V, 249, 7: fallen.

fan, fand, found.

fan, IV, 262, 19; V, 110, 4; 116, 1; 184, 49: when.

fancy, fell in her, V, 272 b, 2: fell in love with her. faen deap in my fancy, 273, 12.

fand, found.

fang, III, 160, 5: fastening. (164, b 5, whang.) Perhaps North Scotch for whang.

fankit, IV, 27, 28: entangled, obstructed.

far, III, 513 b, 1-4: fair.

far, fare, faur, I, 165, N 1; II, 191, 23; 335, N 3-5; V, 224, 17, 18; 227, 8; 248, 22: where.

fare, go, I, 170, 4; II, 222, 21; III, 22, 6; 98, 24; 340, 23, 24; 421, 43; V, 183, 22, 32. I fare you well, II, 207, A 1: I bid you fare well. pret. foor. p. p. forn.

fare, go on, comport oneself: III, 188, 6; 357, 59.

fare, n., III, 160, 11, 20: going on, procedure. III, 76, 403: (in the modern sense) fortune, experience.

fared, favored, well-fared, well-(weel-)fard, weel-fart, well-(weel-)faird, weil-faurit, weill-(weel-)faurd, well-fard, II, 268, 21; 317, B a 21; 408, 26; 462, 7, 8; IV, 220, 8, 1, 4; 223, 3; 274, 2; 434, 2, 3; V, 16, 1; 154, 10; 163, 12; 177, 14: well-favored, handsome.

farei, farie, Farie (MS. farie), V, 165 f., 6, 9, 10: should be emended to Fyvie. See V, 305 f.

farer, I, 369, 51; V, 91 f., 4, 8, 12, etc.; 208, 9: further.

ffarley, adj., ffarley thinge, III, 92, 9: strange.

farlies, farleys, ferlies, I, 325, B 9; IV, 147, 26: wonders, novelties. See fairlie.

far sought, was, V, 161, 6: required long to reach.

fart, weel-fart, IV, 223, 3: fared, favored. See fared.

fas, fase, III, 299, 6; V, 248, 5: false.

fa’s, IV, 399, 46: fall, 1st per. sing. pres.

fash, IV, 493, 21, 23; V, 238, 22: meddle, make trouble, or, perhaps, trouble yourself. fashed himself, IV, 69, 18, 19: got himself into trouble by meddling.

fashes, II, 238, 4: troubles (emendation for fishes; possibly we should read freshes).

fast, fast they bad, III, 26, 90: strenuously. stare, look, III, 62, 122; V, 82, 35: intently. weep, II, 240, 3: copiously. fast unto, III, 131, 6: close down to.

Fastness, IV, 103, 15: originally meant for faustness, falseness.

fat, fatt, III, 281, 4; IV, 260, 2; 357, C 5, 7, 9, etc.; V, 111, 18; 214 b, 5: what.

fate they coud na fa, II, 130 1: from it (fae it, frae it) they could not desist.

fatten a, V, 221, 22; 247, 2: what, what sort of.

faue, V, 260, 7: fie!

fauld-dyke, IV, 199, 11: fold-wall,

faun, fallen.

faur, V, 124, 2: where. See far.

faurit, faurd. See fared.

fause, false.

fause fa thee, III, 435, F 5: may treachery befall thee, be thy lot!

fave, V, 275 b, 8: five.

fawe, IV, 505, 54: fall.

fawn, IV, 277, 13: fallen.

fay, adj. See fae.

fay, III, 74, 362; 110, 13; V, 85, 16: faith.

ffayne, III, 297 f., 48, 50: glad. III, 100, 66: fond of, pleased with. See fain.

fe, feea, wage, etc. See fee.

feall, feale, fail, fell, IV, 262, 29: turf.

Feansell, feanser, V, 55, 30: emended to le and fell.

fear, II, 470, 51: frighten (us from dancing).

fearder, feardest. See feart.

feare, in, V, 15, 18: together. See fere.

fearsome, II, 394, 18: fearful.

feart, feert, III, 262 f., 11, 13, 15, 17; IV, 456, 15; 498, 12, 14, 16: frightened. fearder, III, 267, 13: more frightened. feardest, III, 162, 55: most frightened.

feather, IV, 512 b, 2, 9: father.

feathern, IV, 482 f., 4, 9, 13: feathers.

fecht, feght, v., II, 319, 16; 391, 16, 17; III, 370, 15; IV, 224, 14, 15: fight. See ficht.

feckless, I, 429, 28 (dress): weak, feeble, effectless, miserable, silly. (here==inefficacious, of no account.)

fedred, ifedred fre, III, 69, 275; 70, 288: feathered liberally, handsomely.

fee (A. S. feoh), I, 327, 16 (wylde fee): animals. I, 58, 2; 434, 31; II, 25, 7; 172 f., 40, 42, 45; 442, 8; 447, 8; III, 94, 51; IV, 18, 17: wealth, possessions, property, having. I, 182, 2; II, 31, N 4; 114, 17; 123, 15; 379, 1; 403, 9; III, 433, 12; 435, F 6; 436, 14; IV, 514, 21: pay, wages. II, 117, 5, 6; III, 163, 72; 299, 5: reward. I, 328, 57: tribute. gentylman of clothynge and of fee, III, 30, 165: entitled to a regular stipend. knights fee, III, 94, 51: land of the value of £20 per annum (under Edward I., II.). See foster of the fe, III, 28, 140. penny-fee(-fie), I, 491, 10; IV, 444, 10: gift.

fee, v., I, 211, 3, 4: hire. (gae fee, go hire yourself.) See feet, pret.

fee, fey, doomed. See fae.

feed, feid, III, 436, 2; 464, 2; 468, c 2; IV, 2, 9; 36, 3; 37 f., 3, 10: feud.

feed, fode, food, I, 309, B 1: child, man.

feed about your fire, II, 184, 13: the sense eat seems unlikely. Possibly, to move about, to sit or move restlessly (like feik).

feed, pret. of feed, V, 236, 18: fed.

feel, fiel, II, 175, 1; 176, C 3; IV, 262, 29: fool.

feel daft, II, 410, 8: foolishly fond.

feel==fell: very.

feere, fere, feire, feer, mate, consort (fere): I, 295, 43; II, 58, 2. V, 15, 13: fellow (contemptuously). See feires.

feert. See feart.

feet, pret., IV, 355 b, D: hired. See fee.

feeties, V, 209 b, 4: feet.

feght, fight. See fecht.

feid: feud. See feed.

feires, feiries, I, 295, 43; IV, 2 f., 7, 20, 22: comrades, consorts. See feere.

felaushyp, III, 67, 229: abstract for concrete, our fellows.

felischepe, fellowship.

fell, fail, feale, feall, IV, 266, E 29: turf.

fell, III, 300, 9; IV, 500, 10: skin, hide.

fell, III, 439 f., 4, 8, 11; IV, 455, 15; V, 55, 30: high land, fit only for pastures, a wild hill. fells, III, 299 f., C 3, 6; IV, 26, 6; 500, 3: chain of hills.

fell (yard), I, 287, 63: severe, cutting. (spice), III, 388, 3: hot, biting. IV, 258, 20: strange, prodigious. fell thing to see, II, 132, 27: strange. freezes fell, IV, 93, 7; 105, 7; 514, 17: sharply, severely.

fell, v., II, 419, 46: kill.

fell, feel, I, 478, 14; II, 344, 15; V, 183, 20: very.

fellen, p. p. of fell, III, 483, 7: felled (a tree).

fells, befalls. well fells me, IV, 437, 25: good for me!

felon (the kynggis), III, 98, 21, 22: traitor, rebel.

felt, III, 146, 14: should be emended delt.

fences, cock shall crow fences three, II, 8, 10, 11: evidently bouts, coups; but I have not found this usage elsewhere.

fend, fende, V, 283, 2; 284, 22: fiend.

fend, v., III, 300, 12; IV, 500, 13: provision.

fend, III, 440, 12: defence.

ffend. that ffend I Godys fforbod, III, 113, 72: seems to be a double expression for deprecation,—I inhibit, protest, God forbid (see forbode). “I fende to Goddes forbode it should be so: a Dieu ne playse qu’aynsi il aduiengne. Palsgrave, p. 548, col. 1.” Hales and Furnivall, Percy MS., III, 554.

fende, III, 61, 106; 117, 8: defend.

fer dayes, III, 57, 16: far on in the day.

ferd, III, 99, 52: fear.

fere, fere love, IV, 219, B 3, 5: fair. (fair love, V, 260, E 5.)

fere, feere, II, 58, 2; III, 22, 5: mate, consort.

fere, in, on, III, 57, 27; 59, 61; 67, 231; 77, 423; 98, 38: in company, together. See feare.

fferli, I, 334, 7: fairly, civilly.

ferlicke, I, 334, 8: strange. See ferly.

ferly, ferlie, ferley, farlie, I, 325, C 1, 10; 329, 4; 333, 2; 424, d 11; III, 440, 20; IV, 455, 1, 13; 524, 10; V, 244, 8, 12: marvel, wonder, news.

ferly, adj., ferly strife, III, 97, 13: strange, extraordinary. See ffarley.

ferra-cow, farrow-cow, I, 224, I 9, 11; II, 261, 8: a cow not producing a calf for the current year.

fesh, fess, III, 319, 15; IV, 94, 14; 257, 1, 2: fetch.

fet. See fett.

fetchie, III, 520 b (note to II, 272, 22): tricky, practising fetches? Cf. wylie, st. 21.

fetcht a race, II, 454 f., 54, 58: took a swift preliminary run.

fett, I, 432, 5: fetch, pret. fet, fette, III, 31, 14; 63, 145; 64, 172; 298, 67.

fett, V, 224, 18: white.

ffettle, III, 92 ff., 15, 37, 56: make ready.

feud, II, 279 a, 16: contest of feeling?

feughten, p. p. of fecht, ficht, fight, I, 109, 15.

feume, IV, 473, 44: foam.

fey, I, 245, 6; IV, 44, 4; 430, 2: destined to death. See fae.

ffeyt, faith.

feyther, V, 296 a: father.

ficht, fecht, feght, v., IV, 84 f., 16, 26, 27, etc.: fight. pret. focht, foucht. p. p. foughten, feughten.

fie. See fee.

fie, doomed. See fae.

fiel, feel, II, 176, C 3: fool.

fieldert, V, 126, 1: fieldward, away (from where they were).

fiend thing, IV, 23, A c 18: devil of a thing.

fift, II, 75, 6: fifth.

file, v., I, 135, 4: defile.

file, IV, 494, 33: while, till.

fileshap, V, 260, 16: fellowship.

fill, full.

fill, I, 403, 10: follow, pursue.

filtt, p. p., III, 490, 20: filed.

fin, find.

fin, craig and fin, II, 28, 27: whin, whin-stone, synonymous with greenstone, but applied to any hard rock.

finikin, III, 174, 18: fine, handsomely dressed.

fire-beams, IV, 96, 3: should be fire-boams (bombs), as at 99, G 8, H 6.

fire-boams, bombs. See fire-beams.

firlot, IV, 46, 3; 379, 13: the fourth part of a fou, which is a dry measure varying from two to six Winchester bushels (a Winchester bushel being of a slightly less capacity than the present imperial bushel).

firmaty, V, 114, 3: frumenty; in old cookery, wheat pottage, with flesh in it; hulled wheat boiled in milk and seasoned with cinnamon, sugar, etc.

fit, fitt, fyt, fytte, II, 54, 60: song. I, 329, 62; III, 25, 51; 27, 97; 308, 24: division of a song. (A. S. fitt.)

fit, I, 131, G 4, 5; 164, J 6; 302, A 7; 472, 28; 491, 26; IV, 119, 6: foot, feet.

fit, III, 142, 32; V, 240, 5: ready.

fitches (of deer), II, 132, 19: flitches, sides.

fite (bread), V, 220, 6: (probably) wheat. See white bread.

fitt, III, 465, 21: it is better to read sitt, as in Caw’s text.

fitted, IV, 18, 9: footed.

fitted, II, 485, 18, 31; V, 103 a: suitably treated or served. V, 132, 2: ready, disposed.

fittie, IV, 450 a, 4: foot.

fivesome, III, 472, 3: five together.

flaff, IV, 470, 20: flap, fan.

flag, I, 305, 3, 4; V, 213, 3, 4: corruption of fag, drab, slut. See fag.

flain in, IV, 224, 23: correct to fla or flai (flew) in?

flamboy, V, 298, 7: flambeau, torch.

flat, II, 258, 45, 46: highest and lowest layer of a grave.

flatte, IV, 504, 32: positively determined on.

flattered, flottered (on the faem), II, 25 G 14; 27, 22: flitted, floated (O. Eng. floteren, Germ. flattern).

flattering (toung), II, 144, 8: fluttering, waggling. flattering tongue that flutters, II, 154, 21.

flaugh, flaw, pret. of fly, I, 286, 56; 397, E 8; II, 314, 9.

flaw, tell me without a flaw, V, 41, 28: lie.

flay, frighten. See fley.

flay (A. S. fléon), fly. pret. flaw, flaugh.

fleachy, II, 470, 53: infested with fleas.

flear, fleer, I, 454, 11; IV, 392, 7; 410, 26: floor.

flee, v., V, 304 b, 4: flay. pret. fleed.

flee, not a, IV, 53, 12: not a whit (fly, for a small thing). I count him lighter than a flee, etc., III, 480, 23; 482, 19; 488, 26 (flea); 490, 15. left him not a flee, IV, 53, 12.

fleechin, I, 424, d 11; II, 32, Q 2: wheedling, cajoling.

fleed, pret., V, 304 b, 4: flayed.

fleed, flied, V, 257, 7, 17: frightened. See fleg.

fleed, IV, 348, 14; 349, 9: flood.

fleer, I, 69, 39; 298, 4; 452, 14: floor. See flear.

fleet, flute.

fleg, fley, flay (A. S. flégan, Old Eng. fleyen), V, 253 b, No 203, 3: frighten.

flesse, V, 283, 18: flesh.

flex, V, 283, 11, 21: flax.

fley, flay, III, 457, A 2; 474, 36: frighten. pret. fleed, flied. See fleg.

flight, I, 21, note *: dispute and scold.

flink, care a flink, V, 259, 3: care a whit.

flirry, I, 424, d 10: blossom.

flo, flon(e) (A. S. flá, flán), I, 327, 10; III, 13, 5, 15: arrow.

flotterd. See flattered.

flourishd, I, 398, 13: adorned.

flow, IV, 79, 14: moss with a spring in it, morass.

flower, I, 352, 3, 4: get flowers for, or deck with flowers.

flutters, II, 154, 21: waggles,

flyte, flight, III, 414 b: dispute, debate, scold (here Percy’s word, replacing flout and mock).

forward, V, 283, 4: compact.

focht, pret. of fecht, ficht, fight, IV, 167, C 10. p. p. feughten, foughten.

fode. See feed.

folde, pret., III, 76, 407: folded.

folle, foal.

folye, I, 327, 17: a very unlikely word (unless we may understand it to have the meaning of Old Fr. foler, errer çà et là). Another text has balye (Fr. baillie), which gives a good sense, under thine own control, in thine own custody. (folye, in 17, may be caught from 18.)

fone, II, 196 b, 2, 8: foes.

fond, fond to see him sleep, II, 269, 26: doted, was foolishly happy? (But probably corrupt: cf. fondly seen thee sleep, 271, 30.)

food, III, 287, 61: man. See feed.

ffooder, II, 46, 41: (cf. Ger. fuder, cart-load, the largest or one of the largest measures for corn, liquids, and other things), here, tun, as is clear from auger, 41.

foonshief, V, 206 a, 8: foundation, bottom sheaf of a stack.

foor, V, 99, C 4: fared, went.

foote, goe two foote, III, 188, 6: corrupt for fold; cf. 267, 9.

for, ffor. ye (yes), for God, nay, for God, III, 61, 105, 107; 69, 259, 267, 269, 271; 76, 413, 414: by.

for, II, 124, 38: before.

for, IV, 21, 6; 438, 9; V, 16 f., 2, 5, 29: where.

for when but would be expected, II, 58, 11, 13; 59, 22 (see II, 57 b). for and, V, 76, 25; 144, 9.

for no, I, 183, 25; II, 256, K 3: phrase of refusal, obscurely elliptical, after the manner of why, no; or corruptly for fye, no (cf. II, 158, 2).

forbears, I, 206, 2; II, 63, 19: forefathers.

forbode, forbott, ouer Goddes, III, 29, 162; 123, 18; V, 199 a, 64: God forbid, against God’s prohibition; so A. S. ofer cinges bebod, against the king’s order; ofer dryhtnes word, against the word of the Lord, etc. Elliptically, God’s forbod, as III, 37, 79; 180, 16. III, 113, 72: see ffend.

forbye, forebye, I, 402, 1; II, 154, 8, 9; IV, 224, 17; 433, 16: near by. I, 86, 33; II, 70, 22: apart, aside. IV, 203, 2: further.

forbye, forebye, forby, I, 305, 1; IV, 203, 2; V, 17, 32; 213 a, 1: besides.

force, no, III, 57, 13; 67, 227: no matter.

forces. for (thro, V, 306, 8) a’ her father’s forces, V, 166, 11: in spite of all her father could do?

fordoo, destroy.

fore, first fore love, II, 191, 22, 25, 28, 29: earlier.

forebye. See forbye.

fforefend, III, 340, 26; 407, 5: avert, forbid.

forehammer, I, 21 b, 12; III, 474, 34: sledge-hammer, the large hammer, which strikes before the smaller.

foremost man, 1, 146, 12; IV, 412, 19: apparently the bridegroom’s “best man.”

forenent, fornent, I, 221 f., E 7, 17; 504, 7; IV, 77, 3; 288, F 2; 451 a, 3, 5: over against, in the face of.

foresteed, V, 237, 28: protection, protector.

foret, I, 244, 10: forth.

forfaulted, V, 194, 68, 73: forfeited.

forfouchald, IV, 4 b, 28: very much tired. (Scottish wauchle, forwauchld, forfaughlit.)

forfoughen, IV, 3, 28: tired out with fighting.

forgone, forgo.

foriete, forgotten.

forked, I, 492, 7; IV, 445, p. 100, B 7: of blood from a wound, issued in divided jets.

forl, V, 116, 2; 117, 3: whorl, fly of a spinning-rock.

for-lee, she’ll come in att your formast an gee out att yer forlee, IV, 377, 5; V, 275 b, 5: she’ll cross your bows and sail round you, coming out at your fore-lee or lee-bow.

forlorn, I, 450, 8; II, 114, 15, 16; III, 124, 13; 212, 16: lost. has him forlorn, II, 147, 17: causatively. II, 123, 13; V, 41, 23: destroyed, killed. I, 183, 42; III, 145, 9; V, 210 b, 2: destitute, deserted.

forn, p. p. of fare, II, 29, 6, 9. be weel forn: see that ye have fared well, eat and drink heartily.

fornents, forenent, fornent, II, 197 a, 15: opposite to, directly against.

forren, foreign.

forsake, forsake a ring, I, 192 a: let go, part with. forsake that I haue promised, III, 29, 156: withdraw from. forsake this sorowe, III, 73, 341: decline to have to do with this sad matter. II, 454, 52: decline as adversary in a combat. III, 360, 106: refuse an appointment. IV, 172, 1; 173, K 2: refuse suitors. III, 149, 33; IV, 181, 2: give up, renounce.

forth, find forth, III, 148, 17; choose forth, III, 440, 9: out. thou maye well fforth for to pay mee, II, 444, 58; thou mayst well forth, thou shalt pay me, 449, 63; (b, mayst forthwith): go on, or, make out?

fforthi, I, 329, 60: therefore.

forth withall, III, 127, 16 (play): forthwith.

forthynketh, III, 28, 137: repenteth.

fortune be my chance, III, 308, 21==my hap it were, 311, 16.

forward, III, 284, 11: van.

forward, V, 283, 4: compact.

foster of the fe, III, 28, 140: “A person who had for some service to the crown a perpetual right of hunting in a forest on paying to the crown a certain rent for the same.” Halliwell.

fot, I, 141 b, 10: fetched.

fothe, III, 112, 51: foot.

fou, II, 25, 8; 26, 11: a firlot, which see.

fou, V, 270, 9: how.

fou, fow, full. fou drunken, II, 144, 4.

foucht, pret., II, 391, 21: fought. IV, 200, 1: toiled. p. p. foughten, II, 418, 32; III, 277, 22; 281, 14; 333, 30.

fouie, IV, 20, 10: well off, “possessing a comfortable independence.” Jamieson.

fouled, a bill was fouled against him, III, 463 a: (equivalent to) found; he was indicted as guilty.

foumart, IV, 389 b: polecat.

found, III, 23, 15: provided for.

foure-eard foole, II, 483, 7: as denoting a double ass?

fousome, fusom(e), I, 302, B 3, 5, 6; 304, 2, 3: (fulsome) disgustingly filthy.

fow, fou, II, 273, 35; III, 490, 13; IV, 168, D 14, 15: full.

fowd, V, 304 b: sheep-fold.

fowk, I, 245, 6: folk.

frae, fray, from. be frae, IV, 433, 21: remain away from.

fraine, v., I, 334, 6, 7, 10: question.

frame, IV, 78, 4: succeed. sae weel we frame: we are doing, or beginning so well.

frank, of horses kept in a close, you keep them all both frank and free, II, 450, 64: apparently, fat. Free is a much abused word, and the only apt meaning here would be, liberally treated. In A 444, 59, you keepe them ranke and royallye.

ffrankely, II, 440, 13: freely.

free, n., I, 334, 8: (complimentary term for man) noble, etc.

free, adj., is used in a great variety of senses, and is often indefinite and hardly more than a rhyme word: bounteous, gracious, of noble birth or rank, independent, unrestricted, exempt, spirited, valorous, beautiful, precious, excellent in any way. The danger will be in assigning too positive a meaning to the word. of Mary, III, 420 f., 29, 44. lady, ladies free, I, 324, A 8; 328, 52; 464, 5; V, 87, 39; 279 a. a true-love free, IV, 461, 22. God make you safe and free (your own master?), I, 427, 2; II, 177, 28; 421, 22. castles free, I, 465, 6; 474, 21. lands sae free, I, 474, 25. tocher free, II, 380, 33; 383, 26; 385, 27. Clymme of the Clowgh so fre, Little John so free, III, 26, 96; 154, 2. freyke fulle fre, III, 308, 30. of courage free, V, 86, 31. chrystall free, II, 52, 17. gold soe free, V, 49, 23. gowd and jewels free, I, 474, 23. silver free, II, 69, 9; 445, 64; 450, 70. money ffeyre and ffre, III, 113, 82. metal free, III, 300, 7; 368 f., 12, 14; IV, 372, 7; (nonsense in IV, 404, 29). staff of oke so free, III, 138, 15. Less definite are the following: Couentrye faire and free, Derby Hills so free, Cannongate-side so free, III, 284, 17; 323, 10; 386, 10; seas so free, IV, 498, 6; water soe free, V, 51, 68; forest frie, V, 191 f., 8, 12, 23, 28, 34; learning my lesson free, I, 438, B 7; chariot, coach, free, I, 475, 44; IV, 410, 29; 462, 35. horses kept free, II, 450, 64: liberally. going free, IV, 289, 7: not under control, running off. free of grace, V, 20, 24: void of grace, cf. 43.

free, adv., arowes ifedred fre, III, 69, 275; 70, 288: in handsome style. ring she brake so free, I, 470, 26: generously (cf. II, 450, 64).

freely, adj., freely feed, I, 309, B 1: of noble birth, or beautiful.

freely (naked), I, 508, 10: entirely.

freits, III, 434, 23: superstitious notions concerning omens.

freke, freck, freake, freyke, III, 298, 58; 308, 30; 309, 32, 47: bold man, man. (A. S. freca.)

frem, foreign.

frembde, adv., frembde bested, III, 63, 138: in the position of a stranger (other readings, frend, friend).

frese, frese your, our, bowes of ewe, III, 67, 215; 80, 215: seems to be corrupt. The interpretation in Donaldson’s Supplement to Jamieson, where “to frese a bow” (cited as if a phrase in full use) is said to mean unbend, slack, would be entirely inappropriate here, since three men are to make a desperate attack on two hundred and fifty (bende your bowes, st. 218). f, g have, bend we, the required sense. Chese will not do; they have but one bow each. leese==loose is possible, or dress, or even, free.

frichtit, frighted.

frienged, fringed, gray, III, 481, 7; IV, 2, 5: referring to mane and fetlocks, or perhaps to long fetlocks only.

frightened the boar will, I, 214, 3: afraid, etc.

frith, frythe, firthe, V, 191 f., 14, 24: enclosed land, wood.

froom, V, 296 a: from.

froth-mill, I, 305, 13: “wauk-mill, or fulling-mill, from the froth of the soap.” But the expression seems not to have been heard of, and froth-mill is more probably corrupt for frozen mill. See next word.

frozen mill, V, 213, 10: mill of which the lade, or canal conveying the water, is frozen.

frush, IV, 185, 13: brittle.

frythe, I, 329, 3: enclosed land, preserve, deer-park, wood. See frith.

fue, few.

fug, I, 302, 3, 5: slut, filthy woman. See fag, flag.

fuird, II, 471, 6: ford

fule, fowl.

full, IV, 356, B 1: proud.

fun, fune, V, 215, 15; 248, 9: whun, whin, furze.

fundid, I, 334, 8: went. (A. S. fundian.)

fur, II, 188, 12; III, 474, 41: furrow.

fusom, fusome, fousome, I, 302, B 3, 5, 6; 304, F 2, 3; IV, 469, 10, 12: offensive, disgusting (fulsome).

fusty bandyas, V, 72 b: a drinking-formula.

fute, whute, v., III, 123, 15: whistle.

fynde, III, 308, 24: Professor Skeat would read fyne, end.

fynly, III, 70, 284: goodly.

fyt, fytt, fytte. See fit.

G

ga, gaa, gaw, I, 420, 9, 10; 421, 9, 10; 423, 6, 7; V, 216, 9, 10: gall.

ga, gaa, I, 146, 5; V, 166, 8; 221, 16; 227, 6; 247, 3; 278, 25: go. See gang, gae.

ga, gaa, IV, 513 a, 4; V, 221, 14; 242 a, 8; 268, 23: gave.

gab, n., I, 302, B 12: 422, 13: mouth.

gab, v., II, 149, 17: prate.

gab, n., I, 277 f.: joke, sportive brag.

gabber reel, I, 217, 8, 13: evidently a sprightly air. The root may be Icelandic gabb, mockery. Perhaps simply gabber, jabber.

gaberlunyie, V, 115 f., 6-10; 119, 8, 9: beggar’s wallet.

gad, gaud, I, 342, 33; 344, 32; 348, 13, 19; 356, 42; III, 505, 21: bar.

gad, gade, IV, 493 f., 13, 26: went.

gaddie, IV, 273, 1==gaudie: showy, dashing.

gae, gai, gay, ga, gaa, gee, gie, I, 69, 49, 62; 71, 39, 50; II, 304, 17; 468, 14; V, 166, 7; 278, 24: go. pret. gaed, gade, gad, gaid, gied, gid, ged, good, gude. p. p. gaen, gain, gane, gaed. pres. p. gain, gan, gaen, gane, gaun, gawen, etc. See gang.

gae, gang, go down, IV, 12, C 6, 7; 518, 2: be hanged.

gae, IV, 493 f., 23, 32: give.

gae, pret. of gie, I, 69, 55-58, 68; 71, 45-47; 75, 42; 108, 15: gave.

gae, gay, gey, adv., V, 266, 9: (gay) pretty, rather.

gaed, gade, gad, gaid, pret. of gae, go, I, 102, D 4; 103, E 3; 131, G 10; 439, 14, 15; II, 140, 17, 18; III, 453, 10; IV, 395, 6; 494, 26; V, 117, 11; 238, 27; 274 b, 6; 278, 24.

gaed, p. p., II, 70, 21; III, 473, 30: gone,

gaen, gain, gane, p. p. of gae, I, 70, 19; 108, 12; II, 468 f., 15, 18, 22; IV, 507, 2; V, 237, 5: gone.

gaen, gain, p. p. of gie, gae, give, I, 469, 23 (gaen the table, given a knock); III, 271, 13; V, 183, 34. So perhaps II, 212, 15; cf. gain, fifth word below.

gaeng. See gang.

gae-through-land, IV, 428, 13: vagrant.

gai. See gae.

gaid. See gaed.

gain. See gaen.

gain, gaine, gaing, gan, gaen, gane, gaun, gawn, gawen, pres. p. of gae, ga, go. gain, etc., I, 466, 15; II, 151, H 2, 4; IV, 257, 8; V, 247, 15; 256, 6. gan, etc., II, 144, 12; IV, 210, 3; 507, 2.

gain, II, 212, 15, ye’s gain as much at mine: will get, receive. (But will (have) given, dealt, is perhaps possible.)

gain (him at the law), IV, 286, 3: Icel. gegna, to proceed against?

gain, gane (Icel. gegna, to suit, be meet), II, 25, 8; 26, 11 (with ellipsis of will): serve, suffice. II, 369, 15: suit my case.

gaing. See gain, pres. p.

gair, pay meat and gair, V, 268, 27: gear, clothes an arms? or money (a variation of pay meat and fee)?

gair (of clothes). See gare.

gait, III, 266 b; 272, 5; IV, 265, A b 10: way, road. See gate.

galerie, V, 140, f. 1, 5: for gallaly, galley (doubtful form).

Galiard, III, 459 f., 1, 4, etc.: sobriquet of a freebooter of a gay (perhaps dissipated) character.

galla. See gallowe-tree.

gallage, V, 247, 20: gallows.

gallaly, galalie, V, 136 f., 1-3, etc.; 141, d 1: galley, prolonged for metrical convenience.

gallan, gellant, gillan, IV, 260, 4; 315 f., 1, 4-7, 18: gallant, gayly or finely dressed.

gallio, V, 141, 2, 3, etc.==galley O.

gallowe, sing. (like A. S. galga), a gallowe, III, 92, 18. Cf. next word.

gallows, the highest, I, 150, 13: one elevated above a triangular framework, for special offenders; der höchste Galgen; see Grimm’s Deutsches Wörterbuch, Galgen, column 1168 (?). Perhaps simply the highest that is to be had.

gallows-pin. See pin.

gallow-tree (A. S. galgtréow; O. Eng. galwetre), III, 24, 43; 180, 17; 358, 71; 368, 10. gallou-, gallage-, galla-tree, gallow-pine, V, 247, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24.

gam, game.

game, had god game, V, 80, 46, 47: sport, amusement.

gamene, I, 328, 52: game, sport.

gamon, II, 59, 25: gamen, amuse himself.

gan, gane. See gain, pres. p.

gan, gon, with infinitive: began, did.

gane, II, 26, 11: serve, suffice. See gain.

gane, p. p. of gae, go. See gaen.

gane, III, 281, 14: p. p. of gae, give. See gaen.

gane frae, IV, 378, 3: gone ahead of, left behind.

gang, gange, gaeng, gieng, I, 55, A 5; 57, 4; 68 f., 21, 37, 46; 75, 36, 39; 217, 16; II, 175, 13; 468 f., 13, 14, 38, 39; III, 75, 397; V, 16, 2, 5: go, walk. pret. yede, yeede, yeed, yed, ȝede, yode, yod, youd. p. p. gaen, gain, gane, gaed, gade, gad, gaid, gude, good. inf. also, gon, gone. p. p. ganged: III, 362, 102. See gae.

gang, gae, go down: IV, 11, 9, 12; 12, C 6, 7; 518, 2: like the Scottish be put down, be hanged.

gantrees, II, 369, 11; 370, 11: barrel-stands.

gar, gaur, I, 100, 8; 127, 15; 130, 8; 397, D 9, 11, 13; II, 115, 30, 31; 153, 16; 358, 17, 22-24: (Icel. göra) make do, cause. as auxiliary, gar lay, I, 5, D 1: do lay, lay. So II, 106, 11; 107, 19; 216, 3, 4.

garded, III, 117, 16: looked at.

gare, gair, gore, properly, a triangular piece of cloth inserted in a garment to give width at that part; in Old English often coat or gown. low down by his (her) gare is a frequently recurring expression which may be taken literally, down by that part of a garment where the gore would be==low by his knee, II, 197, 18. In, your ain hand sewed the gare (of a shirt), II, 379, 13; 389, 5; 395, 12 (following ain hand sewed the sleeve), gare in the limited sense seems hardly important enough, and perhaps is to be understood side: cf. rive it (sark) frae gore to gore, gair by gair, I, 439, 4; 440, 5, 7; 441, 6, 7; 442, 5, 6; II, 294, 31, 32. So also in, frae breast to gare, I, 438, B 4, probably, though the limited sense would answer. So, riven him frae gair to gair, IV, 416, 17; the brown bride pat her hand in att Annë’s left gare, V, 224, 20. penknife, sword, brand, down by (below) his (her) gare, I, 451, 9; II, 98, 40; 144, 6; 154, 11; 172, 34; IV, 465, 38. keys hung leugh down by her gair, IV, 465, 34. she hung’t (cup of wine) low down by her gare, II, 369, 10 (recklessly and absurdly; the cup is in her hand in the next stanza). In, frae my sark ye shear a gare, I, 388, A 8, 9, B 6, gare must be a strip large enough to make a bandage for the head.

gare, III, 98, 24: ready.

garl, II, 129, 18; V, 223 a, No 66, 18: gravel (suspicious word).

garlande, III, 93, 31; rose-garlonde, III, 75, 398: a circular wreath, apparently hung upon a wand or rod. In III, 93, 31, this can be nothing more than an extemporized circlet of twigs.

garlings, II, 366, 24: garlands.

garmarcie, garmercy, III, 33, 130; 81, 34: gramercy.

garned, the bride she garned round about, IV, 410, 23, is a misprint of Buchan’s for gazed, which stands in the original MS.

garrett, III, 332, 16: watch-tower, look-out.

gars, garse, IV, 221, 11; 467, 7: grass.

gartan, garten, gartin, IV, 169, 10; 170, H 6; 175, M 8; 176, N 14, P 2; 490, 12: garter. (Gael. gairtein.)

garthes, girths.

gast, guest.

gate, gait, get, I, 225, 8; II, 311 f., 2, 15, 21; 402, 10; III, 92, 11; 477 f., 11, 15 (ford); 480, 24; IV, 3, 21; V, 99, C 4: way, road. water-gate, V, 250, 12: round by the water. in this gate, II, 73, 26: in such a way or condition. to the gate (get) has gain, IV, 493, 5; V, 237, 5: has gone away. tuke the gate, II, 30, 7; IV, 392, 9: started, departed.

gaucy, IV, 271, B 1; V, 152, 3: lusty, jolly.

gaud. See gad.

gaudie, gaudy, gawdie, IV, 273, 12, 13, of speech: with a stately or pompous air. 274, D 19; 297, 13: showy, conspicuous. 274, E 1: dashing. gaudy locks, 285, 10, 19: bright-colored. 356, B 1: ostentatious.

gaule, I, 272, 11: of the color of gall; or gules, red.

gaun, gawn, gawen, I, 22, A 1, B 1; III, 473, 21-24; 479, 8; IV, 261, 8; 511 a, 6; 513 a, 3: going.

gaunt, IV, 20, 12: yawn.

gaur, gar, I, 73, 36; IV, 226, 11: make.

gavellock, gavlock, III, 470 b; 493, 10: iron lever.

gavil-post, II, 227 a: gable-post.

gaw. See ga.

gawdie. See gaudie.

gawen, gawn. See ga, and gaun.

gay. See gae.

gay, gae, gey, adv., II, 184, 16; IV, 271, 9; 329, c 20; V, 266, 9: pretty, rather.

gaze, IV, 313, 10: gauze.

ge, ye.

ge, give. See gie.

gear, geare, geere, geir, gier, I, 411, 5; II, 182, 5; 184, 9; 185, 38; III, 440, 12; 459, 3; IV, 6 f., 5, 19, 29; 469, 10; V, 170, 3, 4: goods, property, often cattle. silken gear, I, 145, 22: clothes. III, 440, 7, 18, 19; 446 b: fighting equipments. the less gear and the mair, III, 8, 23: smaller game and greater. pay meat an gair, V, 268, 27: clothes and arms? or money? III, 341, 47; 404, 1; IV, 505, 51; 506, 66: business, affair.

geat. See get.

gecks, gien the, II, 105 f., 20, 21: made a fool of. Geck in German, the northern languages and English, fool; in Scottish, according to Jamieson, “sign of derision, gibe, cheat.” See gowk.

gee, give. See gie.

gee, gie, IV, 508, 2; V, 238, 22: go. pret. gied, gid, ged. See gae.

geere. See gear.

geet, IV, 494, 37: get, progeny, child.

geid, pret. of gie, give, II, 277, A 8. See gied.

gein, p. p. of gie, IV, 316, 18.

geir. See gear.

gell, V, 221, 20 (unnecessarily changed to kell): congeal, freeze. (Aberdonian.)

gellant, gallant. See gallan.

gen, V, 247, 10: given.

gen, gen Pasche, II, 146, 9: against, for, Easter.

general, with the, III, 176, 2: people in general (in public).

genty, I, 421, 10: elegant of form or dress, but here refers to gentleness of disposition.

gep, gip, III, 138, 11; 140, d 11==gup, go up, get up (properly, a call to a horse). marry gep, interjection of contempt==marry, come up.

gereamarsey, III, 111, 37: gramercy.

gerss, I, 450, 5; II, 248, 9, 15; 464, 8, 10: grass.

get, IV, 493, 5: gate, road (to the get he’s gane, has gone away). See gate.

get, gett, geat, II, 470, 56-8; V, 238, 13, 24: progeny, brat.

getterne, I, 328, 49: a stringed instrument.

geve, give. See gie.

gey, adv. gey sad, II, 184, 15, 16: pretty, rather. See gay.

ghesting, I, 284, 17, 18: guesting, lodging.

gie, go. See gae.

gie, gi, ge, gee, gae, geve, give. gie, I, 71, 55, 56; 74, 76, 77; 206, 26, 30; 207, 30. gi, I, 68 f., 26, 69, 70; IV, 493, 21. ge, gee, IV, 222, 19; 493, 15; V, 228, 10; 248, 4, 5, 21, 22. pret. gae, ga, gaa, gaed, geed, geid, gied. p. p. gin, gine, geen, gein, gien, gen, gane, gaen. geve on (like take)==strike, III, 127, 53. gien, II, 232, 13: struck.

gied, gid, ged, pret. of gae, gie, go, I, 74, 3; 80, 5; 310, 10, 12, 14; II, 75, 11; 357, 7; III, 434, 27.

gied, geed, geid, pret. of gie, give, I, 79 f., 24, 28; 439, 3; II, 408 f., 3, 4; IV, 512 b, 8.

gien, gine, gin, gein, geen, gen, p. p. of gie, give: I, 100, 25; 467, 25; IV, 316, 18; 509 a, 13; 510, 16; 513, 12; V, 215, 13; 219, 23; 224, 20; 229, 30; 247, 10; 306 b, 3. V, 219, 23: given (a blow) to.

gieng, II, 61, 3: gang, go.

gier. See gear.

gif, giff==if, I, 70, 16; II, 21 B 10; 28, 3; III, 285, 22.

giff-gaff, I, 21 b, 14: give and take, tit for tat.

gile, III, 482 11: jail.

gill, a steep, narrow glen.

gillan, V, 272 b, 1: gallant. See gallan.

Gilliecrankie, be a, IV, 268, 22: a Gilliecrankie woman, live in Gillecrankie (see 20), be a Highlander. g reads, hae a Killycrankie, that is, a domestic battle, or row.

gillore, III, 136, 34: galore, in plenty.

gilt, III, 370, 10: money.

gimp, I, 387, 1; II, 220, 1, 3: jimp, slender.

gin, gine, ginne, V, 125, 9: a contrivance. specially, the apparatus for fastening a door, I, 107, 4; II, 241, 23; III, 492, 6; IV, 445 f., 3, 4; 446, b 3, 4; door and window, IV, 480, 4, 5. chappit (knocked) at the gin, I, 465, 11; IV, 445 f., 3, 4. lift the gin (that is the lever for raising the latch), II, 158, 4; 165, 4, 7, altered to pin. II, 158, 4, in the margin of the MS., and pin stands in 7 of the same piece. Otherwise, chin.

gin, I, 108, B 3, like the gin: corrupt, compare A 4.

gin, II, 23, E 8; 271, 34; 286, 3; IV, 412, 11; 485, 15; V, 243, 17: (of time) against, towards. II, 313, 14; IV, 138, M 1; 166, C 6; 392, 12: by the time that.

gin, conj., I, 5, C 8; 68, 21, 22; 70, 15; 72, 24; 310, 4, 5; 466, 4, 5; 468, 5, 8; 478, 4, 5, 8-10: if.

gin, gine, given.

gine, ginne, n. See gin.

gip. See gep.

gird, III, 35, 19: blow, stroke.

girded out, guirded, V, 76, 23; 82, 37: cracked, let.

girdle, I, 403, 12: griddle.

girds, II, 70, 27; IV, 481, 6: hoops.

girn, I, 344, 31: (of a hound) snarl. IV, 69, 18: (of men hanged) grin.

girth was the gold-twist to be, III, 490, 16, see 486 b. girth should probably be graith, but admitting this, the sense is not clear, and further corruption may be suspected. We may understand, perhaps, that after the rescue the mare was to have a caparison of gilded chains. Or we may read, her graith was used the gold-twist to be.

gitter, V, 243, 16: gutter.

giue, II, 442, 7, 10:==gif, if.

gives, II, 448, 26: misgives.

gladdynge, III, 70, 297: gladdening (cheering in later texts).

glaive, glaue, IV, 491, 11; V, 235, 32: sword. See glaue.

glamer, glamour, glamourie, glaumry, IV, 65, 2; 66, 2; 67, 2; 68, D 2, E 2; 70, F 2, etc.; 367, 8; V, 301, No 200: a charm deluding the eye. IV, 310, 14: glitter, gleam.

glance, III, 394, K 6; 397, 5; IV, 508 a, 8: shine.

glaned, IV, 406, 14: (giant, from glent) glanced, shone.

glar, I, 494, 18: mire.

glashet, I, 434, 36: (O. French, glacer, glachier) darted, flashed.

glasse, III, 340, 32; 344, 30, 31; 349, 31; IV, 504, 36: lantern, ship-light.

glaue, glaive, III, 105, 20: (in this place) a cutting weapon fixed to the end of a pole. See glaive.

glaumry. See glamer.

glazen, of glass.

gleat (Icelandic glit), I, 100, 28: glitter.

glede, gleed(e), I, 285, 28; 287, 67; 342, 34; III, 308, 14; IV, 379, 14; V, 184, 42: glowing coal. II, 115, 29; 140, 18; V, 27, 46: fire. See glyde.

glee (==glue), I, 68, 9, 12: glove.

gleid, gley(e)d, IV, 56, B 3; 58, 3, 4, 9, 10; 135, 23, 24: squint-eyed.

glen, set her on the glen, IV, 284, 25; take her to the glen, 286, 29; set her to the glen, 287, 18: because, the roadways running usually through glens, this amounts to a public exposure.

glent, I, 105 a, 28: glitter, glancing. wi a glent, II, 119, 19; IV, 467, 14: in a flash, a moment (otherwise, in a glent).

glent, III, 307, 6: glanced, went (perhaps, darted).

gley(e)d. See gleid.

glided, I, 333, 3: glittered, glinted.

glintin, IV, 450 b, 6: gleaming, flashing.

glister, IV, 510, 5: shine.

gloamin, III, 319, 23: twilight, evening.

gloe, III, 455, 8, 9, 11: glove. See glee.

gloom, IV, 94, 9: frown, morose look.

gloom, I, 302, A 11, B 9; 303, C 6; IV, 337, g before 20: frown, look sullen.

glore, II, 319, 13: glory.

glove, cut my glove, etc., II, 105, 18: lovers were wont to cut a glove and each take a part. S. W. will take in his hand the half of his glove which represents Janet and dance for two. T. Davidson, played at the glove, III, 448, 5: some game for braw gallants, unexplained; possibly, spearing a glove when riding rapidly.

glove tee. See tee.

glowd, glowde, II, 454 f., 54, 58: glided.

glowred, IV, 429, a 15: stared.

glue, II, 147, 12: glove. See glee, gloe.

glyde, II, 375, 19: spark. See glede.

go, goe, goo, gone, III, 64, 160; 71, 302; 77, 429; 105, 22; 432, 19: walk. go boun away, IV, 224, 15, 16: go, depart. go down, IV, 13, 2, 3; 14, 2: be hanged (cf. gae down). goe vppon his death, V, 53, 99: pass upon the question of.

gockies, II, 470, 48: deep wooden dishes.

god, godde, III, 113, 72, 78, 80: property, goods.

God, omitted, O save and you may see, III, 181, 19; 184, 16.

God, II, 46, 51; III, 29, 146; 59, 62, 63; 61, 92; 68, 240; 75, 391; 101, 90; 105, 23 (mood, wrongly for my God?); 359, 103; 444, 16, 17: the second person in the Trinity.

God a marsey, God amercy, God have mercy, III, 111, 39; 138, 22; 149, 41; 445, 30; V, 76, 10; 77, 39; 80, 51, 53; 81, 13; 83, 55: gramercy (not Dieu merci, thank God, which meaning, unlikely in all, is impossible in most of the cases).

God beffore, V, 79, 19: before God (attestation). Cf. for God. But perhaps God before (and God before) is always to be distinguished from before God, and to be understood as, God my guide or helper; which sense seems to be required in Shakspere’s Henry V, I, II, 307, III, VI, 165; Percy MS., Hales & Furnivall, III, 30, v. 304, 528, v. 57. [So, and God to-forn, in Chaucer, Troilus, I, 1049; II, 431. Cf. also King Edw. and the Shepherd, Hartshorne, Ancient Metrical Tales, p. 47; Peniworth of Witte, Englische Studien, VII, 116, v. 287; Weddynge of Syr Gawen, v. 640, Madden, p. 298³; etc.]

God’s peny, V, 14, 5; 15, 27: an earnest-penny, to bind a bargain.

Godzounds, V, 93, 4, 8, 12, etc.: God’s wounds.

gogled, III, 179, 7: joggled, waggled.

golden-knobbed (gloves), II, 133, 6: ornamented with golden balls or tassels. (siller-knapped, 134, 8, 13.)

golett of þe hode, III, 99, 49: throat, part covering the throat.

gon, gone, infin. of go, III, 24, 45; 35, 32; 66, 204; 67, 223; 71, 316; 74, 363; 77, 435; 111, 28.

gon, gon gae, I, 333, 3: did go.

gone, subj. of gon, go, III, 67, 219.

good, gude, pret. of go, III, 464, 4; V, 153, 1.

Good, V, 199 b, 20: God.

Good-ben, III, 267, A 10. If ben is to stand, it must be benison abridged. Good benison be here, quoth he, makes a satisfactory line. Compare B 9, D 9.

good-brother, IV, 168, 9: brother-in-law.

good b’w’ye, III, 134, 6: God be wi you, good-bye.

goodman, III, 274, 33, 35; V, 91, 1, 5, etc.; 98, 2, 3: master of a house.

good-mother, IV, 412, 19: mother-in-law.

good-son, IV, 283, 10: son-in-law.

goodwife, III, 274, 33, 35; V, 91, 2, 6, etc.; 98, 1, 2: mistress of a house, housewife.

goold, V, 296 a: gold.

gorgett, III, 422, 75: defense for the neck, here a part of a jack.

gorgett, II, 45, 32: a neckerchief. (“Nearly==wimple in Edward I.’s time; in 15th century, neckerchief.”)

gorney, journey.

goud==gan, did, IV, 20, 12, 13. (Cf. begoud==began.)

goud, gowd, n. and adj., I, 127, 12; 135, 9-12; 351, 35; 429, 28: gold.

gouden, gowden, I, 127, 21, 22; 145, 23: golden.

goudie, goudy, V, 110, 7; 267 b, 10; 268, 19: golden, yellow (locks).

goun-teall. See gown-tail.

goupen, I, 356, D b after 23: hollow of the hand.

gouernor, I, 286, 40: director, guardian.

gowans, I, 55, A 1: daisies.

gowany, I, 315, 12: covered with daisies.

gowd. See goud.

gowk, II, 111, 12: (cuckoo), fool. gien me the gowk, made a fool of me. See gecks.

gown of green, gien her a, II, 472, 2: defloured. got on the, I, 350, 11: strangely used for to be with child; properly, she got a gown of green eight months before: it can hardly mean, put on a green gown, literally, as at I, 358, 40.

gown-tail, gooun-teall, II, 31, M 4; 472, 19; V, 235, 4: lower part of the skirt of a gown.

goy, joy.

graid, great.

graie dogs, III, 7, 1: Scottish hunting dogs, deer dogs, rough greyhounds.

grain, sitt in a graine, I, 210, 5: fork of a tree. III, 267, 21; 269, 14; V, 243, 17: branch of a tree.

graith, n., IV, 86, 8: equipment (horse and arms).

graith, v., V, 192, 34; 198 b, 34: make ready. p. p. graithed, IV, 2, 5; 27, 26: equipped in defensive armor. golden graithed behin, II, 191, 18; gowden-graithd before and siller-shod behind, II, 343, 4; shod wi silver afore an gold graithed behind, II, 194, 16, 20: properly, harnessed, but as the horse is silver-shod before and gold behind, 183, 16; 185, 23; V, 224, 14, shod seems to be meant here. So in the patched-up ballad IV, 410, 18. The horse silver-shod before and gold-shod behind is a commonplace; see II, 266, 1; 267, 1.

graithing (gowd), IV, 410, 18: harness or caparison, behind horse. But see graith, v.

grammarye, grammeree, V, 294 b, 2: grammar, learning. II, 53, 36, 41; 54, 55; 55, 68: magic. Gramery==grammar, learning, occurs three times in the Towneley Mysteries, but strangely enough seems not to have been heard of in the sense of magic till we come to Percy’s Reliques. Percy suggests that the word is probably a corruption of the French grimoire, a conjuring book. Grimoire, however, does not appear until the 16th century and was preceded by gramoire (Littré). Gramaire in the 13th-15th centuries has the sense of magic: see the history of grimoire in Littré. Godefroi interprets gramaire savant, magicien.

grandmother over, IV, 70, G 2: corruption of, glamer, oer her.

grange-house, III, 360, 116: farm-house.

grat, II, 70, 25; 323, 26, 27; IV, 7, 35; V, 156, 11, 13, pret. of greet, weep.

gravat, II, 283, 21; V, 240, 14: cravat.

graveld green, II, 158, 1: a green with gravel walks? Probably corrupt: in yonder green, B, garden green G.

gravil, I, 350, 18, 19 (pile o the gravil): expounded by Donaldson, Supplement to Jamieson, p. 304, as “the plant graymill or gromwell, of the genus Lithospermum, anciently used in the cure of gravel, hence its name. Said to be used also in producing abortion.” I fear this is somewhat conjectural or even arbitrary. The pile seems to be simply some downy plant (velvety moss) which grows on stones; indeed we are expressly told this, IV, 456, 9, 12: ‘a flower, it grows on gravel greay,’ ‘the pile that grows on gravel green.’ (We have gravel green and gravel grey in the ordinary sense again, I, 347, 1.)

greaf, grave.

greahondes, grehoundis, greyhounds.

great, I, 252, 3, 5: groat.

great, IV, 373, 15; V, 176, 16: intimate, high in favor.

grece, harte of, III, 27, 105: a fat hart.

gree, III, 61, 108 (made the gree): paid my dues. (make gre in Old English, to discharge obligation; Old Fr. gre, gret, from gratum.)

gree, from them take the gree, IV, 248, 16: prize, superiority. (Lat. gradus.)

greecy (ghost), II, 390, 27: frightful (grisly).

greeme, I, 69, 51: (groom) young fellow. See grome.

greet, greit, I, 186, B 3; 359, 1, 2; 448 f., B 1, 5; II, 77, 30; III, 384, 4; 387, 6; 391, 5; V, 36, C 3: weep, cry. pret. grat.

greete, III, 105, 26: grit, gravel, sand.

greeter, V, 183, 17: weeper.

greeting, weeping.

grefe, III, 69, 268; 83, 268: 87, 268: offence, displeasure. a-grefe, III, 69, 268: in displeasure.

grehoundis, greyhounds.

greit, greet, weep, cry.

grenner, compar., V, 283, 9, 19: greener.

gret, pret. of greet, address, III, 111, 40.

grett wurdes, III, 297, 31: high, haughty words.

grevis, III, 307, 6: groves. See grief.

grew, grow.

grew, V, 113 b, 7: greyhound. See next word.

grew hound, grew(e)hund, I, 328, 47; II, 70, 24; 79, 37: Dr. J. A. H. Murray says Greek hound; “still called in Scotland a grewe, which was the older Scotch for Greek.” Grew==Greek is well known in Middle English, and greyhound (Icelandic greyhundr) may have been changed to grewhound under its influence.

grey (meal), oat-meal and grey, II, 462, 30: barley-(bere-)meal, as distinguished from oat-meal (==white meal).

grief, V, 151, F 1: grove. (tier should be tree.) See grevis.

grien, III, 397, Q 2: yearn, long.

griesly, grisly, grizly, I, 298, 4: 300 a; V, 234 b, 31: frightful.

grievd, pret., III, 162, 58: injured.

grimlie, grimly, II, 45, 19, 31; 199 a; 201, 7: grim, terrible.

grind, II, 216 f., 4, 27, 29: an apparent corruption for graith, graithed, accoutre, adorn. Cf. II, 191, 18; 194, 16, and many other places.

grinding, I, 130, 1; 134, O 1: this word of the refrain may be suggested by the mill.

grips, IV, 53, 13: clutches, fastenings. See signots.

grisel, grissell, III, 369, 20, 23: gray horse.

grisly, II, 397, A 30: terrible. See griesly.

grit, grite, gryte, IV, 312, 9; 445, b 1: great.

grit oats, IV, 20, 14: great, or improved oats as distinguished from the sma corn or oats of the early part of the century.

grith, III, 101, 86, 87: (peace) remission of hostility, “charter of peace.” neither grith nor grace, 358, 65.

grizly, IV, 398, 21: frightful. See griesly.

grome, groom, greem, I, 75, 40; 77, 20; 342, 40; 345, 38; 355, 52; 371, 3; III, 56, 4; 67, 224: man, young fellow.

gross, II, 267, 13; 268, 18: big, burly.

ground, the grounds o my pouches, V, 306, 9: bottoms (V, 165, 6 has, the boddoms of my pakets).

ground-wa-stane, III, 433, 12, 13: foundation-stone. (A. S. grundweall, fundamentum.)

growende, ground.

grumly (A. S. gramlíc, gromlíc), (of the sea) II, 22, 10: furious. (of a seal) II, 494, 2: fierce-looking. (Jamieson: muddy, turbid.)

grun, ground.

gryming, IV, 6, 7; V, 249, 7: sprinkling, thin covering.

grype, II, 45, 19, 31: griffon (also vulture).

grysely, III, 298, 60: frightfully.

gryte, great: I, 127, 22. See grit.

gude, gued==God, II, 94, 17; V, 221, 24.

gude, guid, gueed, good.

gude, good, pret. of go, III, 464, 4; V, 153, 1.

gude father, gude faythir, I, 301, 1; 302, 1; 303, C 1: father-in-law.

gudemother, II, 284, 10: mother-in-law.

gude neighbours, I, 352, 8: euphemism for fairies.

gudeson, guidson, II, 463, 20; IV, 309, 3; 310, 6: stepson, son-in-law. wrongly used of an own son, II, 219, 9.

gued, gueed(e), I, 68, 10, 14; V, 221, 24: good.

gued, God. See gude.

guid, good.

guide, gyde, n., I, 101, 9; 102, 7; IV, 174, 19; 425, 5: one who has charge, etc., custodian. I shal be þe munkis gyde: III, 98, 35: take charge of him. death is her guide, II, 191, 29: has her in hand. this sword shall be thy guide, V, 49, 28: shall settle thy case. IV, 309, 2: escort, convoy.

guide, v., I, 481, 44; II, 152, I 2; III, 459, 21: treat, use.

guiding, gude, I, 303, C 3: thrifty management.

guidson. See gudeson.

guildery, guildery maids, V, 301 b, 5: guildry is Scottish for guild, but this makes small sense here.

guilt, all of guilt, II, 46, 43: of gilding or gilt metal, all begilt.

guirded, V, 77, a b 23. See girded.

gull, III, 217, 44: a fool.

gunies, guineas.

gurious, II, 380, 31: (same as gruous, grugous) grim, grisly (or, ugly).

gurly, (sea) II, 26, 14; IV, 366, 7: grim, surly, growling. gurrl(e)y fellow, IV, 489, 24, 25: gruff, surly.

gutter-hole, I, 164, K 3: the place where filth from the kitchen is thrown.

gyde, be þe munkis, III, 98, 35: take charge of the monk. See guide.

gyff, gif, if.

gyll, II, 478, 4: opprobrious term for woman, here referring to levity.

gyrde, pret., III, 66, 211: girt.

gyst, III, 13, 10: gettest.

ȝare, III, 98, 24: ready. See yare.

ȝates, ȝatis, III, 99, 61, 62: gates. See yate.

ȝe, V, 283, 1: ye.

ȝe, III, 97, 6: yea.

ȝede, III, 99, 60: went. See yede.

ȝelpe, III, 14, 16, 17: brag.

ȝeluer, compar., V, 283, 11, 21: yellower.

ȝeman, ȝoman, III, 99, 58; 100, 74; 101, 86, 87: yeoman.

ȝete, III, 100, 82: ate.

ȝeue, III, 13, 12, 14: give. ȝouyn, 14: given.

ȝone, I, 327, 11, 12; 328, 38-44; III, 13, 1: yon.

ȝowe, I, 328, 53: you.

H

ha, hae, hay, I, 299, 7, 9, 11; 330, A 6, B 6; 331, C 3, 6; D 6; 332, F 5; II, 74, E 6; 145, 27; V, 215, 9; 219, 20, 21; 221, 16, 22: have. See haed, haet.

ha, hall, I, 101, 14; 133, M 1; II, 371, 8; 387, 13; IV, 84, 5; V, 209 a, the last 2: house, manor-house. hall, IV, 513 b, 1, 2; V, 247, 1, 2, must be hold, as in other versions; but in IV, 514, 15, 16, would be house, unless an error for hale, whole.

haad, v., II, 338, R 11: hold. See hand.

hachebord, hatchbord, III, 340, 36; 342, 70: would most naturally be interpreted gunwale, or side of the ship, and so archborde, 340, 23. But in 36 Sir Andrew lies at the hache-bord (which is hached with gold), and stern would be a better meaning for hachebord in that place, the high stern of the old ship being a conspicuous place for a captain to lie. See archborde. Barton lies a larborde in the York copy, IV, 504, 38, which is quite loose.

hached, the hache-bord is hached with gold, III, 340, 36: gilt (possibly inlaid).

haches, hatches, III, 341, 54, 57: deck, properly a frame of crossbars laid over an opening in a ship’s deck. (Skeat.)

had, ellipsis of, V, 274, 10, [had] rather [have] wedded, and [have] tralled, I [had] rader.

had, haad==hold. See haud.

hadden, p. p., I, 402, 4, 6: held.

hadno, had not.

hads, hads slaine, III, 358, 61: the s in hads is perhaps caught from slaine. Other readings are had, hadeste.

hae, have. See ha.

hae, II, 97, 18: correct to has; cf. drees, 17.

haed, II, 110, 33: had.

haely. See haly.

haet, hayt, haȝt, I, 415 b; III, 109, 5; 110, 20; 111, 41; 113, 78: hath.

hafe-gate. See half-gate.

hagg-worm, II, 503: a monstrous snake.

haghty, V, 219, 21: haughty.

ha-house, manor-house.

haik ye up, IV, 219, 13: keep you in suspense (from hake, a frame on which fish are hung to be dried?), or, haik, to drag up and down to little purpose (Jamieson), “bear in hand,” delude with false hopes?

hail, III, 163, 77: whole, wholly. See hale.

hail, II, 151, H 1; 256, K 5: conceal. See heal.

hailing (Old Eng. halen==Germ. ziehen, draw, move), denoting rapid motion, driving, rushing. wind come hailing, II, 22, 9. ship come hailing, IV, 402, 15, 25. went hailing to the door, hailing ben the floor, hailing through the closs, IV, 422 f, 11, 15, 18; V, 279 a, No 257, 11. Of tears and blood falling fast, tears came hailing down, II, 407, 14; drops o blude came hailing to the groun, II, 418, 31. See halling.

hailing at the ba’, II, 269, 8: playing foot-ball. Hail the ba is specifically drive the ball to or beyond goal.

haill. See hale.

hailsed, I, 333, 2: greeted.

hain, II, 92, 17, strong participle of have (haven), wald hain==would (have) had.

haind grass, II, 465, 7 (spared, preserved): grass kept from cutting or pasturing.

hair, hire.

haisling, IV, 46, B 9, come haisling to the town; cf. hailing, proceeding. (Perhaps miswritten; Hill Burton’s hand is not always careful.)

halch, halch vpon, I, 294, 18, 20; III, 419 f., 7, 37: salute, bestow a salutation on.

hald. See hauld, hold.

hale, haill, hail, haylle, hell, II, 28, 23; 80, 15; III, 296, 23; IV, 379, 11; 380, 20; 381, 8; 382, 13; V, 276, 14, 15: whole, in sound condition. III, 163, 77; 299, 3: wholly.

Haleigh, as he was walking the Haleigh throw, I, 76, E 6: ha-lee, the lea of the hall?

halfendell, III, 75, 382: the half part.

half-gate, hafe-gate, II, 313, 14, 16: half-way.

halke, III, 74, 366: corner, hiding-place.

hall, house, manor-house. See ha.