Volume 5 / Part 3 — GLOSSARY (continued 3)

hall, either in archbord or in hall, he wold ouercome you, III, 340, 29: hull?

hall, hold. See hauld.

hall, IV, 514, 15, 16: perhaps written for hale; in any case meaning whole.

hallan, V, 99, 2: in cottages a wall between the fireplace and the door, to shelter from the air (extending only as far as is thought requisite for that purpose).

halld. See hauld.

hallë, V, 236, 23: hollo! or, perhaps, simply halle==hail.

halled, V, 270, 11: hailed, saluted.

halleen, V, 197, 9: holly. See hollen.

halling, come halling to the town, V, 277 f., 15, 25. See hailing.

hallow, haly, II, 175, 16; 239, 1: holy.

hallow, good hallow, II, 270, 10: a form of salutation; perhaps, God hallow, sanctify, cleanse us from sin! perhaps simply an elliptical Good saint! I have not met the phrase elsewhere, and it seems no longer to be familiar in Scotland.

Hallowday, I, 342, 25; 507, 1; III, 246, E 1: saints’ day, All Saints.

hallow seat, I, 367, 7: a saint’s place.

hals-bane, hass-bane, hause-bane, hase-bane, I, 394, 8: neck-bone.

halse, I, 327, 10: neck. See hause.

haly, haely, hallow, II, 104, 22; 175, 16; 179, 13; 239, 1; 417, 13; III, 262, 5: holy.

halycon, come halycon to the town, III, 434, E 3: in a rollicking, or a boisterous, turbulent way. North Eng. hallacking, making merry; Scottish hallach, hallokit, crazy.

halyde, hauled.

hame, bring hame, bear a child. See bring.

hame, home, came, IV, 405, 54; 420, 5: was born.

hame, gae hame, III, 398, A c after 3: that is, to the heaven where you belong. seek your lover hame, IV, 174, 11: go for and bring.

hame-gaun, I, 72 f., 11, 66: home-going (to go home),

hamesucken, IV, 244 b: invasion of a private house.

hand, att hand of, III, 278, 30: nearly, about; cf. Old Eng. nearhand. (stroke) behind his hand, II, 63, 24: seems to be intended for backhanded.

hand for hand, III, 465, 34; 466, 48: in a fair match? (hand to hand, 468, 48.)

hand, lokyde at his hand, III, 307, 10: probably, shading his eyes with his hand; possibly, looked aside. Cf. lookit aneath (below) the sun, III, 5, D 7; 6, 6; 8, 6.

hand, on the upper, II, 245, 29: side, uppermost (see II, 247, 32; 254, 22).

hand, out of, III, 440, 25: forthwith? (The line seems to be corrupted; without resource, unable to help themselves, hors de combat, would give an easier sense if allowable.) Should we read: as many as was, out of hand?

hand-write, III, 455, 8, 9, 11; V, 300, 10, 16, 19: handwriting.

hang, pret. of hing, to hang, I, 327, 23 (hange); 448, 5; 451, 9; II, 154, 11; 172, 34; IV, 465, 38.

hang down, III, 483, D 9: unintelligible to me, whether hang or gang. ding down? (drown my mare and thee, III, 492, 26; 493, 15.)

hanging well, III, 440, 17: draw-well of which the bucket is raised and lowered by a pole or beam turning on an upright post? By some understood as, a well near the place of execution.

hankit, I, 224, J 2, 8: tied tight.

hansell, haffe hansell for the mare, III, 111, 32: have a present, the more you buy? have the first purchase (which was thought lucky) for the larger part (of the ware)? (Doubtful.) III, 284, 10: reward. V, 112, B b 9: used in Galloway of a piece of bread given before breakfast (Jamieson); here apparently of a draught of ale given early in the morning.

hantle, II, 337, 11: a large number.

hap, happing, cover, coverlet: IV, 65, 7; 258 f., 5, 20.

hap, v., I, 15, 18; 299, 5; IV, 233, 2: cover, wrap.

hap, v., IV, 483 b, after 12: hop.

happer, hopper.

happing. See hap.

harbengers, III, 198, 2: harbingers, officers who preceded the king in a progress to provide accommodation for the court.

harl, harl her thro the lin, I, 303, D 4: drag. See haurld.

harme, III, 357, 50: sorrow.

harnessed (men), III, 62, 133: equipped.

harns, V, 201, note ‡: brains, harn-pan, brain-pan, skull.

harried, haryed, pret. and p. p., III, 295, 4, 6; 296, 12; IV, 6, 9, 14, etc.; V, 250, 9, 13: plundered. See herry.

harte of gre(e)ce, III, 27, 105; 124, 3, 4: a fat hart.

hartinge, IV, 504, 31: encouragement.

hart-roote, II, 241, 27: (Icel. hjarta-rœtr, pl., Old Eng. heorte rotes, heart-roots, -strings) term of affection.

has be, I, 86, 24: as if for future (see s, us, etc.); but shall in 7, 16, and sall in b.

hase, halls.

hase, hass, neck, throat. See hause.

hase-bane, hass-bane. See hause-bane.

hast, V, 78, 12: am in haste (as well as þow hast, hastest).

hastëly, hastilye, III, 74, 376; 75, 392; 405, 20: immediately, soon, promptly.

hat, pret. of hit, I, 299, 5; III, 350, 50.

hatches==deck: III, 335 b; IV, 505, 57. See haches.

hather, III, 424 b; 425 a: heather.

haud, had, hawd, haad, howd, I, 21 b, 3, 4; 74, 75; 341, 12; 354, 17; 421, 4, 8, 11; II, 70, 17; 74, D 7; 463, 24, 25; III, 491, 9; V, 296, 1, etc.; 304 b, 3: hold, keep. pret. had, II, 371, 7. p. p. hadden, I, 402, 6; hauden, II, 161, 7.

haud me unthought lang, IV, 260, 10: keep me without the time seeming long, interested, entertained.

haugh, low ground, properly on the border of a river: III, 9, G 10; 483, 5; IV, 3, 17; 77, 3; 273, C 7; V, 250, 20, 21.

hauld, hald, halld, hall, hold, III, 281, 1; 371, 33; 433, 1, 2; 434, 1, 2; 436, 1; IV, 513 b, 1, 2; V, 247, 1, 2: place of shelter, stronghold, quarters. See hold.

hauld, I, 359, 9, gang by the: walk by taking hold of things. gang by haulds, III, 162, 46.

hauping, II, 463, 16: hopping, hobbling.

haurld==harld, V, 99, C 5: dragged.

hause, hase, hass, halse, I, 149, H 1; 327, 10; II, 165, 22; 319, 3; 366, 38; III, 163, 75; V, 184, 44: neck, throat.

hause-bane, hase-bane, hass-bane, hals-bane, I, 394, 8; 395, B 3; II, 146, 14; 147, 15; IV, 165, 15; 447 b, after 13; 448 a, 2d stanza; V, 204 b: neck-bone.

have, ellipsis of. would been, I, 169, 7. I wad taen, I, 356, 54, 55. shuld I slain, II, 169, 7. ye widna kept, III, 390, 10. I woud not swum, III, 489, 42. I should, might, enjoyd, IV, 135, 23; 137, 32. he woud guarded me, IV, 148, 55. they taen, IV, 221, D 7. as muckle as wald bocht, IV, 386, 18. I seen’t, IV, 465, 31. euer I seene, V, 53, 105. seem[d] to worn, V, 55, 26. he’ll learned, V, 196, 53. had rather lost, V, 302, 17.

have==proceed, go. have in (to water), have over, III, 128, 76, 77.

have==provide or procure that a thing is done. hae me hame, II, 82, 54; hae me to the town, II, 122 f., 4, 28: take.

have in, had him in, II, 216, 8: had him in my possession (Germ. innehaben)?

have (on the skynne), III, 127, 60: get a blow.

haw, green haw sea, II, 28, 21; IV, 379, 10, 14; 380, 19: bluish. “azure; pale, wan;” Jamieson. (A. S. hæwen, glaucus, caeruleus. Old Eng. hawe, haa.) green raw sea, II, 30, 6, is a corruption; I have been lately informed that the singer ordinarily gave haw. In haw bayberry kame, IV, 471 f., 2, 4, there is again corruption; as in the same passage of other versions.

hawd. See haud.

hay, II, 160, 18: for hae, has.

hay, went forth to view the hay, IV, 233, 1; 238, 1: to see how the hay was coming on, as a way of taking the air.

hay, IV, 225, 15; V, 261 a, No 221, G 22; hays, 16: in Maidment’s text, lea, leas, probably right, hays making no reasonable sense.

haylle, III, 296, 23: whole, entire. See hale.

hayt, haȝt, I, 415 b; III, 109, 5; 111, 41; 113, 78: hath. See haet.

he, him, she, her, with proper names (almost always him, her): like Icelandic hann, hón (hún) (“so frequent in modern conversational usage that a person is scarcely ever named without the pronoun,” Vigfusson.) out and spak he Sweet Willie, II, 108, 19; 185, 33. sighing said he Love Robbie, 370, 8. up and raise he Sweet Willie, 108, 15. up and raise he the bridegroom, 108, 13. up and stands she Fair Annie, 189, 32. whare it is him Sir Colin, 61, 1; so 147, 16. out it speaks him Young Bondwell, I, 479, 41; so II, 418, 25; 419, 37, 53. sighing says him Brown Robyn, II, 371, 8, 9. leugh him Childe Vyet, 134, 21. out it spake her Dow Isbel, II, 97, 21; so 418, 34. out spoke her Lady Frendraught, IV, 44, 12. out waked her May Meggie, 188, 14. it was her May Catheren, II, 145, 25. sighan says her Susë Pay, V, 219, 17. Etc., etc. Cf. Chaucer in, he Iakke Straw, he Theodomar, he Pluto,==perhaps, ille; but not, him Arcite, Knight’s Tale, 352, 475.) with the objective case: as, sought her Lady Maisry, II, 114, 3, 4, 10; 154, 11, 24, 26, 27; 370, 18; etc. (Him, her, with verbs of motion may possibly be a relic of the old use of a dative, and such cases are not included.)

he, I, 242, 12; III, 13, 4, 8: they.

he, hee, III, 307, 4: high.

header, heather.

heal, healle, hail, I, 453, 9; II, 145, 26; 146, 9, 10; 154, 13, 14; 155, 37: conceal.

healy, hooly, adj., gentle.

healy, heely, hooly, slowly, gently: II, 94, 15; 110, 22, 23.

heans, hens.

heard, V, 253 f., No 203, D 2, 8: hired.

hearten, IV, 444, 32: encourage.

heathen (child), II, 246, 13: unbaptized.

heathennest, I, 284, 15: heathendom.

heather-cow(e), I, 302, A 9; 304, E 8, F 8; 305, 14; V, 173, 8; 174, C 2; 213, 8; heather-crow, I, 301, note *: tuft or twig of heather.

heather-knaps, V, 173, 8: heather hillocks, knolls.

hech and how, III, 392, 13: to utter these interjections of grief.

heckle, IV, 247, 12; 248, 17: hackle, flax-comb (board set with sharp steel spikes).

hecks, IV, 319, I, 5: racks.

hee. See he.

heely, II, 220, 21: slowly. See healy.

heer, heir, heire, I, 301, 3; 303, C 3; 304, E 2: the sixth part of a hank of yarn, 240 threads.

hegehen, I, 333, 3: eyen, eyes.

heght, IV, 179, A 1: promised.

heigh a ween, and Oh a ween! interjections of grief, II, 504, 27. a ween is probably I ween.

height, heihte, hight, hith, heiste, hette, I, 244, 10; IV, 503, 11, 14; V, 288, 18: was, is, called.

heir, heire. See heer.

heiste. See height.

hele==heal, conceal.

hell==whole, staunch, tight, V, 276, 14, 15. See hale.

hell, heel.

helt, IV, 457, 22: pret. of hile: hailed.

heme, III, 434, 27, 28: home.

hempten, V, 87, 11: hempen.

hend, hendë, heynd, hind, hindy, III, 57, 25: noble, gracious. lady hende, of the Virgin, III, 68, 251. hend soldan, II, 59, 36, 37: noble, of rank. III, 110, 27; V, 49, 12: friendly, kindly. I, 71, 41(?); 329, 57: fine-looking. III, 98, 41: civil. See hind.

hende, I, 71, 41 (gallant hende): hind, young fellow? The adjective, of noble rank, courteous, kindly, is less likely.

hent, III, 110, 14; 123, 8, 10: caught, took.

hepe, III, 66, 204: hip (as II, 273, 35), berry of the wild rose.

herbere, I, 327, 32: garden.

herkeneth, herkens, imperative plural, III, 81, 317; 109, 2.

herowed, herowed hell, III, 25, 63: harried, despoiled. See harried, herry.

herry, II, 261, 7; III, 473, 23; IV, 26, 2: harry, pillage, rob. See harried.

hersed, V, 156, 15: rehearsed, repeated praise of?

hership, IV, 41, note *: plundering.

he se. See -s as sign of future.

het, eat.

het, hot.

hethyne, I, 329, 58: hence.

hett, I, 271, 5: bid.

hette, I, 224, 10: is called. See height.

heuch, heugh, I, 312, 13; II, 503 f., 11, 15, 28; IV, 231, I 15: steep hill or bank, glen with steep overhanging sides.

heved, I, 243, 7; III, 70, 290 (?): head.

hewene, V, 283, 15: heaven.

hey, I, 438, B 1: interjection of pleasure, displeasure, pain, excitation. (Not the dance which is called the hay.)

heye, III, 482, 21: hie.

heyer, hyer, compar., V, 283, 5, 15: higher.

heynd, III, 110, 27: friendly, kindly. See hend, hind.

heyng, pret. of hang, V, 78, 4.

heyt war howte! III, 111, 28: heyt! is a well-known call to horses, as in Chaucer (get up!), and war-oute is a term used in driving, according to Halliwell’s Dictionary.

hi, I hi, III, 349, 46: have. I hinna, II, 469, 28: have not.

hich, high.

hide, II, 467, 44, 50: should probably be heed, as written by Motherwell.

hie, hye, n., I, 328, 37; II, 164, 9, 12; III, 99, 50: haste.

hie, she smiled hie, V, 51, 55: with a smile not confined to her mouth, but mounting higher.

hiean, II, 147, 2: hying.

hiesed, IV, 424, b 7, 8: hoised, lifted, dragged.

high-gate, V, 239, O 4: high-road.

highman, I, 203, C 16, 17. In a 16, the reading is hymen, which is in itself plausible, but not ballad-like. If highman is right, the meaning would seem to be, the chief man of the occasion, the bride-groom.

hight, III, 441, 30: is, was, called. See height.

hight, III, 309, 34: I promise. pret. heght, hight, III, 407, 17.

hile, v., IV, 456, 17: hail. pret. helt, 457, 22.

hill-gate, IV, 249, F 4: hill-road.

hilt, V, 76, 21: flayed.

him. him, hym come, I, 244, 10, 13, 17; up stod him, 15, 16: dative of subject after verb of motion. stert hym, III, 62, 120. wente hym, III, 62, 126. rade him, IV, 2, 5. ar the coc him crowe, I, 244, 18.

hin-chill, V, 278, 33. See hind-chiel.

hinchman, III, 320, A b 16: henchman, servant (man who stands at the hinch, haunch).

hind, hinde, hindy, hynde, adj., courteous, gracious, gentle, kindly: I, 430, 5, 9; II, 177 f., 20, 35; III, 310, 52; 358, 69. See hend.

hind, hynde, n. (A. S. hína, O. Eng. hine, servant), youth, chiel, callant, seems often to be used as an epithet==young (but this may possibly be hind==kindly courteous, etc., in some cases). Hynde Etin, I, 369 f., 3, 5, etc. (called Young Akin in A 367, 6, etc., Young Hastings the groom in C, 371, 3). Hind Henry, II, 305 f., 6, 18, etc.; Hynde Henry, II, 306 f., 6, 8, etc. hind-chiel, hin-chill, hynd-chiel, I, 367, 3; II, 83, after 38; IV, 432, 15; V, 278, 33. hind-greeme, I, 69, 51. hind-squire, I, 452, C 10; 453, 7; hynde squire, V, 25 f., 2, 13, 19, etc. hine-squar, V, 278, 29 (called young squar in 18). In all three, both parts signify young fellow.

hind, gane hind away, II, 248, 5==hyne away, far away.

hindy. See hind.

hing, II, 194, 22, 27; 239, 6; III, 299, 6; V, 226, 4: hang. pret. hang, hanget. p. p. hanged, hangit.

hingers, V, 40, 4: hangings.

hinna, I hinna will, II, 469, 28: I have not will, I wish it may not.

hinnie, hinny, honey, IV, 66, 15; 69, 15; 70, 12; 72, I 5: term of affection.

hinnie-mark, honey-mark, IV, 479, 7: mole? (cf. Germ. honigflecken, yellow spot.)

hinny-drap, II, 283, 5: mole?==hinnie-mark.

hire, a yearl’s hire, II, 191, 20: rent, revenue.

hirewoman, IV, 202, J 3: female servant. hired your han, IV, 240, 14, if right, must mean, she would have paid you to do it. Other copies, kissed.

hirn, I, 334, 9: corner.

hirpling, II, 474, 8; 476, 3: halting.

hisn, V, 293, 14: his.

hith, I, 334, 7: hight, am called. See height.

ho, who.

hochis, III, 306 b, note *: hocks.

hoe, IV, 19, 7: (as a singular of hose) stocking.

hoes, IV, 486, 7, 8: as plural of hoe (?).

hog, II, 258, 32; IV, 325, 6, 7; 328, 3, 4; 332, 13; 469, 10, 12: young sheep that has not yet lost a fleece.

hog-rubber, IV, 208 a: (seemingly) a fellow employed to rub down hogs, or fit for such business.

hoised, hoisd, hoist, I, 206 f., 9, 11; IV, 248, 2, 5; V, 132, 7, pret. of hoise, heave, lift, drag.

hoky-gren (burnt like), II, 145, A 27: hoakie, “a fire that has been covered up with cinders, when all the fuel has become red.” Jamieson. A branch or stem in such a fire? or good to make such a fire with? Scott has, hollins grene.

hold, holde, hauld, II, 216 f., 4, 27, 29; III, 358, 74; 430, 1; 435, 1: housing, quarters, place of shelter, lodging. thirty horsses in one hold, II, 444, 59: perhaps place of keeping (450, 64, in one close). See hauld.

hold, holde, v., III, 97, 11; 176, 5, 6: wager.

holde, III, 61, 93, 107: retain (legally).

hole-house, I, 305, 3; V, 213, 3: said in depreciation of an humble sort of house (hole of a house), as a divot-house, a turf-cottage. (Still in use. W. Walker.)

hollan, hollin, holland, linen.

Hollan, Hollans, boats, I, 467, 18, 22: Dutch boats. Dutch fishing-luggers are to be seen in great numbers on the Scottish coast in summer.

hollan, holland, of holly, hollan dyke, II, 195, 32: wall planted on the top with holly.

hollen, hollin, I, 294 f., 15, 27; II, 153, 29; V, 191 f., 3, 18: holly. (Perhaps hollin’s, V, 194, 2, should be hollins.)

hollie, V, 111, 16: (slowly) softly. See hooly.

hollin, holland.

holm, holme, houm, howm, III, 460, 38; 488 f., 31, 34, 41; IV, 522, 4, 10: low ground on a river-bank.

holpe, pret. of help, III, 342, 76. See hope.

holtes, III, 296, 14; 357, 53: woods.

holydame, by my, III, 209, 7: halidom. Originally halidom in oaths meant reliques of saints; my halidom seems to be used in the sense of sacred oath. (Printed holy dame in three copies, and very likely often so understood.)

hom, V, 304 b, 2, 4: home.

hom, III, 308, 26: them.

home, hame, came, IV, 405, 54; 420, 5; was born. See bring hame.

hondert, hondreth, hondrith, hundred.

honey, term of endearment. See hinny.

honey-mark, II, 282, 12: mole? See hinnie-mark, hinny-drap.

honey month, she has turned the honey month about, to see if he was coming, IV, 320, J 2: inexplicable.

hongyr, V, 283, 16: hunger.

honour’s gate, II, 163, 21: (honour, a manor, the mansion-house of a manor) an imposing gate, such as would be put at the principal entrance to a mansion-house. W. Macmath.

hooding. See huddin.

hook, IV, 19 f., C 3, 8: loop.

hook-tooth, I, 18, F 9: tooth of a sickle with serrated edge.

hooly, adj., II, 107, 9: slow, gentle.

hooly, hoolie, hollie, huly, adv., slowly, softly: I, 451, 12; II, 108, 10; 111, 10; III, 393, 14. See healy.

hope, houp, IV, 25, 4; 27, 12; 184, 2, 3: “a deep and pretty wide glen among hills.” Jamieson.

hope, pret., V, 103, A c 14: holp, helped. See holpe.

hope, I, 327, 12; 449, 17; II, 311, 6; V, 54, 3: expect, think.

hore, hoar, gray, grenë wode hore, holtes hore, III, 65, 176; 357, 53: gray as to trunks.

horne and lease, III, 360, 113. See Pegge, Archæologia, III, 1, 1775, “Of the horn as a charter or instrument of conveyance.” Professor Gross, of Harvard College, has favored me with the following case: “Pro quo officio [i. e. coroner and escheator of the Honor of Tutbury] nullas evidentias, carta vel alia scripta, proferre possit nisi tantum cornu venatorium.” The possession of this horn still conveys the right to hold the office. Cf. J. C. Cox, Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals, London, 1890, I, 73-79.

horse-brat, I, 302, B 10: horse-cloth (horse’s sheet, horse-sheet, of A 13, F 4).

hose, I, 285, 38: embrace, hug (halse, Scottish hawse).

hosen, hose, III, 65, 193: stockings (not breeches; see 196).

hosens, IV, 257, 3: stockings without feet.

hostage, III, 271, F 10; hostage-house, 4, 5, 8, 9: inn.

hosteler-ha, III, 270, E 3, 4, 5, 7: inn.

hostess-house (==hostage-house), IV, 175, N 4: inn.

hostler, III, 266 f., 4, 6, 9, 10; V, 153 f., A 3, 4, B 3-5; 156 b, B: innkeeper.

hostler-wife, IV, 508 1; V, 154, 3: woman keeping an inn.

houk, V, 218, 5: dig. Pret. and p. p. houked, houket, houkit, howket, etc., I, 184, 9; 220, A 2, B 4, C 4; 221 f., E 7, 17; III, 500 b, 8; IV, 451 a, 3, 5; V, 210, 9.

houl, III, 247, 5: hold.

houm, howm, holm, I, 394, 14; III, 370, 5; IV, 168, E 2, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12; 523, 3, 5: level low ground on a river-bank.

hound, IV, 19, 4; 20, 9: chase, drive.

houp, hope, IV, 2, 13: (A. S. hóp) sloping hollow between two hills.

hour, whore.

house, V, 273, No 237, 20: hose.

housen, II, 3, 10; 5 b, 2: house (sing.).

house-end, -en, I, 254, b 1, c 1: gable.

housle, houzle, II, 46, 46; III, 330, 13: give the sacrament.

houzle, III, 105, 22, 23: communion.

hove, hove hole, I, 304, F 2: a hole which one haunts or lives in.

hoved, III, 296, 20: hung about, tarried.

hoved on, III, 358, 69: moved on (hied, 362, 69).

hoves, V, 227, 4: hoofs.

how, how soon, III, 450 a: so soon as.

how, howe, n., III, 164, b 49; 316 a, last line; IV, 110, 10; 303, 7: hollow, sometimes, plain.

how, adj., IV, 476 a, 4: hollow.

how, III, 392, 11, 13 (as verb): exclamation of grief.

howbeit, III, 450 a: although.

howd, hold. See haud.

howded, V, 124, C 15: swung.

howk, howked, etc. See houk.

howm. See houm.

howre, V, 78, 5, 6; 79, 28, 33, 35; 80, 37: our.

howther o dirt, II, 184, 13: a mass of dirt.

howyn, own.

hoyse, hoise, II, 26, 8: hoist.

huddin, hooding (hud, hod, to hide), IV, 262, 30; 266, 15: covering, coverlet.

huddle, II, 246, B 7: (hide) cover, protect (Scot. hiddle, hide).

huggar, I, 303, D 5: stocking without a foot.

huggell, II, 244, 16: hug, or, perhaps, a variety of huddle.

huly, hooly, healy, II, 168, B 4; 169, 12; 216, 2; IV, 413, 18; 436, 8: slowly, softly.

humming, III, 136, 30: heady, strong, as causing a hum in the head.

hunder, hundre, hunner, huner, hundredth, hundred.

hunger, hungre, v., II, 382, 4; 386, 4; 387, 2; 391, 2: starve.

hunkers, V, 213, 9==clunkers, clots of dirt.

hunt’s ha, I, 298, 2: hunting-house or lodge.

husbande, husbonde, III, 57, 13; 295, 1: farmer, husbandman. III, 58, 46: economist, manager.

hussyfskap, husseyskep, V, 98, A 3, B 3: housewifery (she was making puddings). But perhaps, specifically, hussyskep, a sort of basket or bin of straw, formerly used, especially in ruder districts, for holding corn or meal. In like manner, a “platted hive of straw” is called a bee-skep. G. F. Graham’s Songs of Scotland, III, 181.

hy, hye, hyght, on, vpon, III, 296, 9; 297, 31, 47, 48; 359, 91: in a loud voice. on hy, hye, III, 309, 51; 297, 45: on high, up, erect. on hyght, III, 297, 34: on high.

hye, hie, n., I, 328, 37; III, 99, 50: haste.

hyer, heyer, compar., V, 283, 5, 15: higher.

hyf, V, 283, 4: if.

hyghte, I, 328, 36: promise, hyght, p. p., III, 297, 29: promised; III, 77, 442: vowed.

hym, wente hym, stert hym, III, 62, 120, 126: dative of subject after verb of motion. See him.

hyndberry, I, 177, A c: raspberry or brambleberry.

hynd-chiel. See hind.

hynde, n., III, 64, 164: fellow. hynde Henry, II, 306 f., 6, 8, etc.; hynde squire, V, 25 f., 2, 13, 19, etc. See hind, n.

hynde, adj., II, 177 f., 20, 35: gentle, or the like. See hind, adj.

hyne, II, 314, C 3: (up) behind.

hyne, II, 314, C 3: hence, away.

hypped, III, 77, 429: hopped.

I

(See also under J, Y.)

I, II, 59, 34; 160, 10-16; 264 f., 4, 18; III, 185 f., 3, 4, 15, 23; 203, 18; 287, 59; 356, 28: ay.

i, abridgment of in, passim.

i, abridgment of with: IV, 465, 23.

i-bouht, bought.

ickles of ice, III, 154 f 1: icicles.

i-dyght, y-dyght, III, 62, 131, 132: furnished, adjusted. III, 75, 392: made ready.

if, apparent ellipsis of, II, 62, 9, with honour that ye do return.

i-fedred, feathered.

i-flawe, III, 13, 6: flayed.

ile, oil. ’inted (anointed) bar with ashen ile, V, 305 a, 6: gave her a beating with an ashen cudgel.

ilk, ilke, same. of that ilk, III, 451, note *: having a title the same as the surname: as, Wemys of Wemys. in that ilke, I, 287, 72: in that same; III, 105, 14: at that same moment.

ilka, I, 107, 7; 302, A 9, 11, 12; 474, 40: each, either. ilka ane, ilkone, II, 185, 25; III, 97, 16: each one.

ilkone. See ilka.

ill, ell, ull, will.

ill-bukled, V, 276, 18: badly run down at the heel. See baucheld. (Unless ill be for old.)

ill-far’d, I, 342, 41: ill-favored.

ill-fardly, V, 115, 9: ill-favoredly, in an ugly way.

ill-wordie, V, 243, 15: unworthy.

im, am.

impale, V, 182, 5: make pale.

imy, I, 243, 7: in my.

in, IV, 464, 3; V, 277, 5, 9: an, and, if.

in o==in (in some part of?), III, 495 b, 23, 24; IV, 19, 3; 517, 19.

in one, II, 186, 1; 187, 8; 196 e 1, 7; into ane, 184, 5, 8, 11, 18: anon, or, at once==in a single answer. In, riddle both of us into ane, the intention was, perhaps, together, simultaneously; and so, all in one, III, 4, 7; both as one, II, 187, 2.

inbearing, II, 28, 15: obtrusive, over-officious, inter-meddling (with the object of thereby ingratiating oneself).

infeft with, in, I, 478, 5, 10; IV, 350, B b, 4, 5; V, 274, 6, 7; convey (land, money) to, put in possession of. inheft (o), IV, 349, B 4, 5: mistakenly for infeft.

in-fere, together. See fere.

ingle, III, 484 a, 36; V, 45 1: fire.

inheft, IV, 349, B 4, 5, for infeft b, to invest with a possession in fee.

inn, inne, III, 117, 11; 118, 8; 200, 6, 7; 212, 5: lodging.

i-nocked, III, 62, 132: nocked, notched.

inowe, III, 57, 13; 58, 43: enough.

instiled, III, 227, 3: styled, intitled.

’inted, V, 305 a, 6: anointed. See ile.

intil, intill, I, 68, 28; 69, 36; 302, A 11, IV, 171, 1: into, in.

into, I, 70, 20; 71, 29; 127, 5; 440, 13-15; IV, 263, 35: in. into his age, IV, 359, 12: at, of.

into ane, II, 184, 5, 8, 11, 18: anon, in a single answer, or simultaneously. See in one.

intoxicate, pret., II, 47, 8: intoxicated.

i-pyght, III, 63, 136: put.

ir, are.

irale (stane, as the rhyme shows the reading should be), I, 326, 9: an undetermined stone mentioned in romances.

ire, thro, II, 408, 17: seems to mean, as resenting the covering (not ballad-like). wi ire, II, 411, 10, is sufficiently incongruous.

irke with, V, 15, 14: tired, weary of.

is, III, 440, 11: has.

-is, -ys, termination of 3d pers. pres. indic., he stendis louys: III, 98, 22; 101, 88.

I’se, IV, 506, 68: I am.

istow, I, 175 f., 4, 10, 16: is thou, art thou.

it (==O. Eng. his), its. defile it nest, III, 445, 32.

ith, in the.

’ith, with.

ither, IV, 210 a; V, 306, 15: other. IV, 110, 9: one another.

I wat, a wat, I wot, I wad==surely: I, 107, 1; 471, 11; and very often. See a==I.

I wis, IV, 405, 1: probably to be taken as assuredly, since we have I wot in that sense in 7.

i-wis, i-wisse, i-wys, II, 46, 43; 265 f., 9, 26; III, 27, 104; 277, 17; 359, 84: surely, indeed. As to i-wis that, III, 277, 18, 19, it is to be remembered that a superfluous that is common in the Percy MS.

I wist, III, 187, 32: for iwis, indeed. Perhaps the Scottish I wat, surely, has influenced the form.

iyen, iyn, III, 57, 23, 28; 59, 58: eyen, eyes.

J

Jack, IV, 112, 4; 113, 5: insolent fellow.

iacke, III, 342, 64: (here) coat of mail, cf. 58, 59, 60. soldans iack, III, 422, 75. An ordinary soldier’s jack (III, 440, 18; 465 f., 33, 42, 49; IV, 147, 41) consisted of two folds of stout canvas, or some quilted material, with small pieces of metal enclosed. Fairholt. Old Robin, II, 241, 21, puts a silke cote on his backe was thirteen inches folde.

jail-house, V, 300, 16: jail.

jamp, pret. of jump, II, 121, 21: jumped.

iapis, III, 59, 63: japes, jests, waggery, trifling.

jauel, V, 81, 11: a term of abuse, good-for-nothing, idle fellow. Prompt. Parvulorum, gerro. “He called the fellow ribbalde, villaine, iauel, backbiter, sclaunderer, and the childe of perdition.” Utopia, Arber, p. 53.

jaw, jawe, I, 127, 10; 128, 8; II, 21, 8; 24, 11; 29, 10-12: wave.

jawing, jawing wave, II, 223, F 7; IV, 472, 16: surging.

jawing, n., IV, 462, 24: surging.

jee, I, 389, 7; IV, 476, 5: move, stir.

jelly (jolly), I, 69, 51; 298, 2; 452, 10; II, 403, 5; IV, 413, 20: handsome, pleasant, jovial. Jamieson: “upright, worthy, excellent in its kind.”

ietted, III, 199, 19; V, 86, 30: moved in state or with pride.

jimp, gimp, jump, adj., I, 330, 8; 333, 6; II, 216, 18, 20; 217, 1, 3; 221, 1, 3; 225, J 1; IV, 212, 1; 272, 2: slender, slim.

jimp, adv., II, 74, D 3: tightly, so as to make slender.

jo, II, 103, 5: sweetheart.

jobbing (of faces), III, 219, 14: billing (like doves).

jobbing at, I, 104 b, 10: jogging. The at is difficult. The old prefix means off, away, but is not separable.

Jock Sheep, John Sheephead, II, 480 a; IV, 290, 23: a man deficient in virility (?). V, 206 a, 9: simpleton, of one who has been stultified or outwitted.

iollye, III, 278, 32: should probably be iollytë. See enter plea.

joukd, V, 9, 12: bent forward. See juks.

jow (of bell), II, 277, A 8: stroke.

juks, V, 110, 5: bows, obeisances. See joukd.

jule, jewel.

jully-flowers, gilly-flowers.

jumbling, V, 102 B 13: mudding, fouling.

jumly, IV, 182, F 9: turbid.

jump, V, 267 b, 5: jimp, slender.

jumpted, IV, 519 a, 3: jumped.

justle, III, 280, 26: joust, tilt.

justler, III, 280, 31, 32: jouster, tilter.

justling, III, 279, 12, 14, 16: jousting.

K

kail, kale, colewort, made the baron like kail to a pot, IV, 86, 13: cut him up. broth made of greens, especially of coleworts: II, 467, 41; III, 300, 12; 388, 3; IV, 500, 13. See kell.

kaily lips, I, 302, A 10: covered with kail, and so repulsive.

kaim, kame, keem, comb.

kaivle, II, 298 f., 3, 19: lot. See kavil.

kale. See kail.

kame, keem, comb.

kamen, combing.

kane, I, 353, 15; 356, 56: tribute (originally a duty in the form of a part of the produce, paid by an occupant of land to his superior).

kauk, V, 116, 10: chalk.

kavil, kaivle, kevel, cavil, I, 71, 36, 38: lot.

kay, key, kine.

keach, V, 123, 17: perturbation, shaking up.

kean, v., V, 110, 4: ken.

kebars, I, 332, F 6; II, 227 a: rafters.

kebbuck, IV, 323, 5: cheese.

keckle-pin, burnt like keckle-pin, II, 155, 38: that is, I suppose, like heckle-pin, the sound of the k being carried on from like. Mr William Forbes, of Peterhead, suggests the following explanation: The pins used to hold the straw raips which hold down the thatch on cob or mud huts; being driven into the top of the walls close to the eaves, they are always dry and ready to burn. The mass of interlaced straw is called a hackle. Used all over East Aberdeenshire.

keeked, keekit, I, 303, D 1; 304, E 3: peeped.

keel, V, 116, 10: red chalk.

keem, kem, kemb, kame, comb.

keen, v., V, 238, 18; 278, 38: ken, know.

keen, armour, II, 62, 10: no sense except for arms of offense (as in Old Eng.).

keen (of tying), II, 162, D 3: strong or hard.

keen(e), II, 45, 26; 46, 39; V, 192 f., 27, 57: bold. spak sharp and keene, III, 394, K 3: cuttingly, poignantly.

keep, catch. See kep.

keep up, V, 114, 12: keep under custody, safe from the hands of others, lock up. See kept up.

keep(e) with, II, 411, 15; III, 36, 41: stay, live with.

keepit a bower, II, 407, 8: frequented, lived in.

keepit, IV, 215, A 2: heeded, observed.

keist, kiest, kest, kyst, pret. of cast, I, 69, 46; 241, 3.

kell, II, 264 f., 5, 12; 364, 30; V, 161, 7: a cap of network for women’s hair.

kell. lang kell, V, 110, 9, 10. See lang kell.

kelter, kelter-coat, V, 54, 20: made of kelt, black and white wool mixed and not dyed. Dillon, Fairholt’s Costume in England, where a kelter-coat is cited from a will. Kelt, cloth with the knap, generally of native black wool. Jamieson.

keltit, IV, 493, 5: kelted, tucked.

kem, kemb, comb.

kemp, kempe, kempy, I, 301, 1; 302, 6, B 1; 303, C 1, 9; 309, 3, 5; II, 53 f., 25, 31, 55; III, 447 a: champion, fighting-man (A. S. cempa). kemp o the ship, V, 151 f., F 2, 4, is no doubt a corruption.

kempery(e), II, 54 f., 54, 66, 68: company of fighting men (or, if adjective, fighting).

kempy. See kemp.

ken, I, 343, 42; 345, 41; 348, 21; III, 268, 4: know. III, 266, 4: to make known.

kene, cawte and kene, III, 296, 26: wise, shrewd, or, perhaps, brave.

kenna, know not.

kep, keep, cap, cape, catch, stop, intercept: II, 322, 21; 325, 21; 407, 13; 413, 6, 8; III, 125, 34; 245, 2; 246, E 2; 436, 5, 7; IV, 480 f., 17, 18, 19; V, 230, 10, 11. she keppit him (received him) on a penknife (as he leaned over to her), II, 147, 6. she keppit Lamkin, II, 335, M 7; V, 230 b, Y 10: encountered. he kepped the table, door, wi his knee, I, 476, J 5; 481, 42; II, 91, 26; 94, 18; 271, 17: took, struck. keppit, III, 246, D 2, is an obviously wrong reading, and should be kicked; cf. 243, 2; 245, 2; 246, E 2. kepd the stane wi her knee, II, 421, 29, is absurdly taken from other ballads (and from ball-playing). pret. kept, kepd, kepped, kepit, keppit. See cap.

kepe, I, 329, 2: care for, value. kepe I be, III, 100, 80: care I to be.

keping, IV, 313, 20: meeting. The meaning is that he went to meet (come should be came) the body which was lying at the gates. There was no procession towards him.

kepping, keeping.

kept up, IV, 287, 15: shut up. See keep up.

kerches, kerchiefs.

kest, keste, pret. of cast, III, 76 f., 421, 422. See keist.

kettrin, IV, 84, 8: cateran, Highland marauder. See caterans.

kevel, kevil, I, 74 f., 3, 36; 77, 4; 80, 4-6; II, 16, 2; 301, 1; IV, 394, C 1: lot. See kavil.

key, kye.

keys, rang the keys, IV, 430, 2: keys of her spinnet.

kickle, III, 230, 59 (the actual reading): not easily managed, unsteady, Scot, kittle. (But perhaps we should read kick, since a verb would be expected.)

kiest, keist, pret. of cast, I, 74, 2; 75, 36; 80, 4; 351, 44; IV, 32, 11.

kilt, IV, 257, 3: a skirt worn by Highlanders, reaching from the belly to the knees.

kilt, kelt, tuck up: I, 341, 3, 17; 343 f., 3, 8, 16, 35; 369, 2; II, 92, 7; 461, 5; 462, 5; 471, 4. p. p. kilt, II, 423, 8; IV, 210, 7.

kin, a’kin kind, II, 114, 2: a’kin, all kind, equivalent to every. na kin thing, I, 394, 10.

kin, ken.

kind, kindly, II, 319, 7; III, 266 f., 1, 5, 21; 300, 26; IV, 501, 30: kindred, native. kindly cockward, I, 285, 24: natural, born, fool. kindly rest, V, 124, C 14: natural.

kine, what kine a man, IV, 504, 27: kind (of).

king’s felon, kynggis felon, kings ffelon, III, 98, 21; 180, 16: traitor, or rebel, to the king.

kinnen, III, 370, 4: coney, rabbit.

kintra, country.

kipeng, keeping.

kipple, I, 333, 5; IV, 432, 6: couple, rafter.

kipple-roots, I, 304, F 5: the ends of couples (rafters) that rest on the top of the wall. “In rude erections the couples were rough unhewn tree-stems, which were placed with their thickest, or root, ends on the walls, the smaller ends abutting at the ridge of the roof.” J. Aiken.

kirking, I, 371, 6, 12, 14: churching.

kirk-shot, IV, 359, 10: the fishings on the water where nets are shot, belonging to, or adjacent to, the kirk.

kirk-style, I, 441, 8-10; 498, 16, 24; IV, 183, 9, 11; 360, 16: the gate of the enclosure round a church, or, the stile in the church-yard wall.

kirk-toun, II, 219, 13: village in which is a parish church.

kirkyard, V, 299, 4: churchyard.

kirn, n. and v., V, 115, 6: churn.

kirtle, kirtell, kyrtell, part of a man’s dress, perhaps waistcoat: III, 65, 194; 71, 299. name given to a variety of articles of female attire, explained as jacket, corsage or waist, upper petticoat, a loose upper garment, tunic or short mantle, etc. dress of silk worn under a gown, over a petticoat, I, 433, 9. gown, petticoat and kirtle, III, 273, 14. kirtle and gown, III, 215, 10; IV, 432, 7, 8.

kist, chest, I, 15, A 3; B 3; 17, D 2; III, 189, 34; IV, 485, 19; V, 115, 5: coffin.

kithe, a, III, 93, 36: of kith, of the same country, region, people. kith, kyth, and kin, II, 216, 6, 8; 252, 29; III, 93, 36.

kitt, V, 240, 14: outfit, supply.

knabby, IV, 262, 23: knobby, rough.

knack fingers (in sign of grief): IV, 418, 7; 435, 13; knak, V, 227, 5 (passage corrupted); knick, III, 455, E 1; knock, II, 312 f., 5, 6, 7: crack the finger-joints. (Elsewhere, wring, II, 315, D 7; 319, 17; III, 477, 4.) ladies crackt their fingers, II, 26, G 16.

knapped, II, 134, 8, 13: knobbed, ornamented with balls or tassels. See naps. golden-knobbed, II, 133, D 6. (knob, sometimes a tassel to the cord of a mantle.)

knapscap, napskape, IV, 7, 35; V, 251, 31: head-piece.

knaue, III, 14, 16, 17; 60, 81; 94, 50; 127, 44 (play): servant. IV, 501, 37: person of servile or low rank.

knave-bairn, I, 350, 20; II, 418, 23: male child. knave-boy, V, 235 b, after 30.

kneene, III, 362, 87: knees.

knell, v., II, 189, 23: ring.

knet, pret. of knit, III, 431, 17; IV, 31, B 6: knitted, knotted.

knicking fingers, III, 455, E: making the finger-joints crack. See knack.

knight-bairn, V, 236 f., 21, 28, 29: male child.

knip-knap, V, 213, 6: a knock, tap. V, 124, C 15: to express the sound of cracking.

knobbed. See knapped.

knock. See knack.

knocking-stane, I, 304, 10: stone mortar.

knoe. See know.

knop, III, 138, 9: (knap), blow.

knoppis, knobs.

know(e), knoe, II, 308 b; III, 464, 5; 466, 38; IV, 171, 4; 193, 1; 195, 1; 201, 10; 205, 22: hillock.

knowe-tap, IV, 60, C b 6: top of a hill.

kod, kuod, quoth.

koors, I, 353, 15: turns.

koupd. See couped.

kouthe, II, 499 b: known.

kow, V, 157, 11, 12: twig. See cow.

ky, kye, kyne, III, 464, 6, 7; 465 f., 19, 62; IV, 7, 29-32; 84, 17, 18: cows.

kyrtell. See kirtle.

kyst, I, 241, 3: cast.

kyth (and kin), home, country, people. See kithe.

kythe, II, 168, 10: be manifest, appear, pret. kythed, I, 117, 10: appeared.

L

laa, law.

lachters, lauchters, IV, 166, 14: locks.

lack, lake, adj.=laigh, low, humble, in lack o luve, II, 376, 24, 27, 30. so lack a knight as bid her ride, II, 97, 10. thought his father lack to sair, II, 408, 1 (lake, V, 235 b, 1; cf. thought father’s service mean, II, 178, 2); V, 272 b, 8, 10: of mean position.

lack, lake, n. (think, hae, lack), reproach, discredit, IV, 15, 16; 518, 8. woman, lack o our kin, IV, 325, 13. had ye nae lack (reproach or fault), IV, 281, 3. what other ladies would think lack, II, 159, 22 (but here lack may=laigh, and mean beneath them, as in II, 97, 10). tooke a lake, III, 419, 2: incurred a reproach or blame? of his friends he had no lack, IV, 11, 18: corrupted from, of him his friends they had no lack (or the like). See lauch.

lad, in surgeon-lad, IV, 484, after 25: man. lad nor lown, IV, 304, 8, 9: should probably read, laird.

lad-bairn, II, 299, 12, 21; III, 392, 7; 395, L 1, 5; IV, 510, V 3: boy.

lad, pret. of lead, III, 75, 388.

lade, led, taken.

lader, V, 265 b, 20: leather.

laid, III, 35, 15: laid a plan. laid about, III, 329, 1: invested.

laid, laid her bye, V, 169, 6: lay down by her.

laidler, II, 503 f., 10, 11, etc.: corruptly for laidley (as in 7).

laidley, laily, laylë, layely, etc. (A. S., láðlíc), I, 312, 8, 13; 348, 14, 20; II, 503 f., 7, 32, 35; V, 214 f., 2, 3, 5, etc.: loathly, loathsome.

laigh, II, 188, 3; III, 384, 2; 397, A b 1; IV, 200, 9; 268, 21; V, 236, 11: low, mean. oer laigh, III, 480, 12: too low, too short. See lack.

laigh, leugh, n., III, 162, 49: low ground. III, 489, 10: lower part; so, leugh, 487, 6, 14, 16.

laily, laylë, layly, layelly, V, 214 f. See laidley.

lain, laine, layne, leane, lene, len (Icel. leyna), III, 332, 7; IV, 7 f., 30, 47; V, 250 f., 27, 40: conceal.

lain, alone. See lane.

laine, p. p., III, 401, 16: laid.

lair, lear (A. S., lár), II, 175, 16; 305, 15: instruction. unco lair, to learn, get: II, 118, 1; 119, 1; 174, 1; 178, 2; III, 385, 1; IV, 411, 1; unco lear, IV, 467, 1: strange lesson, applied to one who is to have an extraordinary experience; cf. English lair, IV, 466, 1. See lear.

lair, lear, II, 311, 1: lying-in.

laird, a landholder, under the degree of knight; the proprietor of a house, or of more houses than one. Jamieson.

lairy, IV, 22, 10: miry, boggy.

laith, loath. See leath.

lake, n., III, 419, 2; V, 235 b, 1; 272 b, 8, 10. See lack.

lake, I, 254, 8: pit, cavity. See laigh, n.

lake, V, 235 b, 1; 272, 8, 10=laigh, of mean position. See lack, adj.

lake-wake, leak-wake, lyke-wake, II, 311, 19: watching of a dead body.

lamar, lamer, lammer, II, 131, 6; 323, 24; IV, 203, 5; 204, 14: amber.

lambes woole, V, 85, 18: pulp of roasted apples mixed with ale.

lammas beds, II, 96, J 4, in virtue leave your: corrupt. See note, II, 100 b. Dr Davidson, correcting by sound, would read, never to leave. For lammas beds we may perhaps read, families. Cf. 87, B 1, that ye dinna leave your father’s house.

lammer, lamer, lamar, amber. See lamar.

land, V, 128, 29: country (opposed to town).

land-lieutenant, IV, 517, 17. lord lieutenant, III, 492 f., 7, 11, 17. lieutenant, III, 488, 32, 33, 35, 37. See next word.

land-serg(e)ant, III, 481, 33; 482, 27; IV, 2, 9, 14: officer of the gendarmerie of the Borders, called land-lieutenant, IV, 517, 17.

landart, V, 106, E 1; 111, 1: belonging to the country, rural.

landen, II, 29, 17: landing.

landen span, III, 511, 16, 18: corrupted from London band, or the like.

landsman, III, 489, 44: land owner.

lane, III, 357, 51: lane, as where poor men live? (Rhymed with aye, and perhaps corrupt. 361, C 51, lawne.)

lane, lain, leen, lean, lone, alane, alone, annexed to the dative or genitive of the personal pronoun (as in Old Eng. him ane, hire ane), my, mine, thy, our, your, her, his, him, its: I alone, by myself, etc. my lane, I, 79, 22. thy lane, IV, 197, 8. our lane, I, 72, 20. your lane, II, 69, 1. your lone, IV, 195, 16. her lane, lean, I, 350, 10; IV, 456, 1. his lane, lean, IV, 227, 6; 345, 5. him lane, leen, I, 368, 26, 28; II, 90, 18. their lane, I, 254, C 1. its lone, I, 132, J 4; II, 308, 3. its leen, IV, 418, 1. it lane, II, 82, J; 307, 22; III, 388, 5. me ane, I, 333, 1. by my lane, I, 330, B 1. mine alone, alane, I, 332, E 1, F 1; III, 489, 1. him alone, III, 159, 2; cf. IV, 464, 1.

lane, IV, 281, 2: misprint for bane.

lang, at lang, IV, 318, F 9: at length.

lang kell, V, 110, 9, 10: coleworts not cut up and mashed. “lang kail [a tall-growing cabbage?] became extinct about 60 years ago, giving place to finer-flavored varieties.” W. Forbes.

langin, she’s gane langin hame, IV, 198 a, 7: perhaps simply longing, languishing; lingering would be more appropriate if the interpretation were justifiable.

lang-sought, V, 35, B 5: been long (and fruitlessly) seeking for some object (if the reading is right), indicating a hopeless passion.

lap, grip her in his lap, II, 325, 18: (possibly) embrace, clutch.

lap, lappe, III, 59, 70; 65, 194; 353, 12; 430 f., 15, 17: wrap, roll.

lap, pret. of loup, leap, I, 330, A 5, 7, B 5; 331, C 5, 7; III, 270, 1; V, 228, 16. lap him, III, 266, 2: the old construction of dative of the subject after a verb of motion.

lappen, p. p. of loup, leap.

lapperin, III, 395, L 4; IV, 224, 23: clotting.

lappin, IV, 510, V 3: covering; probably corrupted from lapperin of L 4, clotting.

lard, leard, V, 36, B 8, 9: laird.

lass-bairn, lassie-bairn, I, 350, 20; II, 301, 10, 11; IV, 418, 5: girl.

lat, I, 310, 8; 351, 37: let.

lat down, III, 281, 2, 5, 6: give over, discontinue.

late, III, 164, b 51: let, hindrance.

late, pret. of let, allow, V, 256, 13.

latten, p. p. of let, II, 189, 26; IV, 493 f., 7, 28, 31 (left).

lau, low.

lauch, n., II, 20, 4; 385, 6; 390, 7; IV, 259, 9: laugh. IV, 327, 12: perhaps laughing-stock; but cf. lack, 325, 13, reproach.

lauch, lawhe, v., IV, 121, G 2; V, 80, 48: laugh. pret. laugh, laughe, leuch, leugh, luke, lough, low, lowe, lowhe, laucht, lought.

laucht, pret. of laugh, II, 106, 14.

lauchter, IV, 385, 6: laugh.

lauchters, I, 74, 68, 72; 79, 25: locks.

lauchty, V, 213 a, No 33, 10: the reading in Sharpe’s Ballad Book corresponding to tauchy, I, 302, A 10. In the copy of Sharpe used (a presentation copy), a line is drawn through the l, indicating, probably, the editor’s intention to emend to tauchty or tauchy.

laue, law.

laugh, laughe, pret. of laugh, II, 418, 34; 420, 59; III, 287, 59.

launde, lawnde, III, 27, 105; 33, 105: plain ground in a forest; “a small park within a forest, enclosed in order to take the deer more readily, or to produce fatter venison by confining them for a time.”

launsgay, III, 63, 134: a kind of lance, javelin (compound of lance and the Arabic zagaye).

lave, leve, II, 78, 11; III, 495 b, 23, 24; IV, 220, 3; 428, 6; 517, 20: rest, remainder.

lauede ablode, I, 244, 9; V, 288, 16: swam in blood.

lav(e)rock, I, 201, 3; 202, 3; 205, F 4; IV, 266, 16: lark.

law, I, 209 a: faith, creed.

law, Castle-law, II, 149, 4, 7; Biddess-law, III, 460, 29: hill (A. S. hlǽw).

lawhe, V, 80, 48: laugh. pret. lowhe.

lawin(g), III, 472, 7; IV, 151 f., A 2-4, B 5, 9, 10, etc.; 157, 5, 6: tavern-reckoning.

lawing, V, 266, 8: lying (reclining).

lawnde. See launde.

lax, IV, 233, 18: relief.

lay, II, 59, 25: law, faith.

lay, II, 483, 1; IV, 203 f., 6, 7, 23; V, 260, 10, 11: land not under cultivation, grass, sward. lays, IV, 224, 23: fields, plains, ground.

lay, v., lie.

lay, I, 399 a, E 11: seems to be nonsense; probably we should read gray, as in No 248, IV, 389 f.

lay by, IV, 519, 5, 7, 11; 520, 5, 10 (lay’d==lay it): lay aside, let be, cease. lay bay, V, 275 b, 3: put aside or behind, outsail.

layelly, loathsome. See laidley.

laying, IV, 174, 1: lawing, reckoning.

lay-land, II, 59, 23: (Old Eng. leyland) lea land, untilled land; simply plain, ground.

laylë, loathsome. See laidley.

layn (withouten), III, 97, 17; 100, 81: lie (truly).

layne (Icel. leyna), IV, 7 f., 30, 47: conceal. See lain.

layne, v. (A. S. légnian), III, 297, 35, 40: lie.

layne, v., II, 87, 33: lean.

lazar, -er, II, 44-46, 4, 5, 9, 11, etc.: leper.

lea, lee, lie, loe, loi, loie, loy, loo, low, lue, v., I, 438, 10; II, 260, 4; 408, 23; 417, 2; 419, 52; V, 116, 2, 3; 117, 3; 220, 6; 221, 9; 242, 14; 260, 13; 272 b, 3, 7, 11; 277 f., 1, 4, 23, 31: love.

lea, lee, lie, mentiri.

lea, III, 457, A 2; IV, 100, 4; 102, L 6; 263, 2: leave. (so leave, IV, 94, 15, is to be sounded.)

lea, n. See lee.

lea, lee, lie lea, lie lee: IV, 26, 5; 350, B b after 2; 520, 2: untilled. lay lee, V, 189 b: lay waste.

leace, withouten leace, III, 27, 108, 115: falsehood.

lead, III, 460, 26: lead their horses?

lead, V, 36, 11; 117, 14; 221, 18; 268, 18: led.

lead, laid.

lead(e), I, 232, 9; V, 53, 103: vat, boiler.

leaf, loaf.

leaf, gae out under the leaf, IV, 379, 6: luff, loof, after part of a ship’s bow; or here, as opposed to lee, the weather side. See lowe.

leak, adj., V, 111, 20; 224, 26: like.

leak, v., V, 242, 15: like.

leak, II, 193, 28; V, 224, 26; 228, 28:==lyke, for lyke-wake, watching of a dead body.

leak-wake, V, 228, 13, 14, 23, 24: lyke-wake, watching of a dead body. See lake-wake, lyke-wake.

leal, leel, leil, liel, III, 464, 12: loyal, faithful, true. I, 70, 24; 73, 34, 45, 46; II, 73, 19; III, 437, 36; IV, 212, 1; 240, 13; 283, 11; 289, 11: virginal, chaste, expers viri; so, lealest, leelest, I, 220, A 3; 221, D 6. III, 464, 3; 465, 30: veracious. V, 115, 5: upright, honest. love me leel, I, 345, 9: faithfully.

lea-lang, I, 352, 7. See lee, adj.

leall, V, 248, 4: perhaps only faithful; but possibly lief, lee (dear), leman, the final l being caught from leman.

leam, leem, v., II, 410, 24: gleam.

lean, leen, his, him, IV, 345, I 5: lane, lone. See lane.

lean, leane, lene, len, v., II, 403, 8 (see len); III, 330, 19; 420 f., 30, 32, 34, 52; IV, 277, 15, 17; V, 36, B 8, 9: conceal. II, 164, 8, 11, 14: conceal, or lie. See lain, to conceal.

leap, pret. of leap, loup, V, 227, 17. See leepe.

lear, II, 176, C 1, 2: instruction. IV, 413, 2; 414, 1; 467, 1: learning. III, 473, 24: information. See lair.

lear, II, 313, 25: apparently meant for lair, bed; but rhymed with white, and the reading should undoubtedly be lyke, that is, lyke-wake, as in II, 117, 16.

leard, laird. See lard.

lease==leash, II, 265, 19: a thong or string (as if for bringing back the deer he should kill?). I, 211, 20: a leash (of hounds), pack. III, 216, 31: a leash (of bucks), three.

leasing(e), leasynge, lesynge, leesin, I, 412, 26; III, 28, 132, 134; 359, 86; IV, 465, 22: falsehood.

leath, laith, III, 162, 54; IV, 479, 4; V, 216, 6: loath.

leaugh, leugh, lewgh, leiugh, lieugh, III, 465 f., 33, 39, 42, 49; 487, 6, 14, 16 (see laigh): low.

leave, gie them a’ thier leave, I, 431, D 13, E 10: take leave of them all.

leave==leeve, dear, II, 414, 24. leaver, III, 362, 82.

leave (to weepe), IV, 140, 10: cease.

leave, live.

lede, III, 74, 368: leading, conduct.

ledës-man, lodesman, III, 74, 369; 88, 369: guide.

ledyt, I, 242, 11, old imperative plural: lead.

lee, lea, I, 100, 4; III, 171, 9; 174, 20: untilled ground, grass land, open plain, ground.

lee, lie lee, IV, 26, 5: untilled. lay lee, V, 189 b, lay waste.

lee, adj., the (this, a) lee-lang, lief-lang day, I, 100, 11, 12; 440, 3; II, 96, I 2: (Old Eng. the leevë longë day) livelong, from A. S. léof, used like German lieb in der liebe lange tag, die liebe lange nacht. So lee, le, lei, ley, licht o the moon, I, 389, 5; II, 188 f., 4, 14, 35; 195, 37; 233, F 1; 374, B 3; 413, 7, as in die liebe sonne, der liebe mond, regen, wind, and other formulas in great variety. (lee licht o the moon is replaced, II, 103 f., 10, 12; 106, 10, by hie light, ae light.)

lee, v., lie, mentiri.

lee, II, 256, K 5: live.

lee, v., love. See lea, love.

leech, IV, 426, 11: meant for leesh, and so spelt in another copy.

leed, lied (A. S. lǽden), I, 207, 18; 430, 5, 9; II, 366, 19; IV, 379, 14: talk.

leed (A. S. léod), III, 355, 3: man. pl. leeds, 6: people.

leed, laid.

leed, n., II, 366, 37: lead.

leedginge, II, 58, 7: leeching, doctoring.

leeft, pret., IV, 220, 1: lived.

leel, loyal, faithful, etc. love me leel, I, 345, 9: faithfully. See leal.

lee-lang. See lee.

leemin, II, 361, 33: gleaming.

leems, IV, 460 a, No 47: gleams; but langs, belongs, is the word required; cf. I, 430, 6.

leen, lean, her, your leen, him leen, IV, 291 b; 345, 9; V, 171, 2, 6: lone. See lane.

leepe, leap, pret. of leap, loup, II, 445, 76; V, 227, 17.

lees, leeze, me on thee, III, 495 a, after 7; IV, 517, 15: blessings on, commend me to. (lees me, originally leeve is me, dear is to me, my delight is.)

leese, III, 37, 75; 189, 4; 228, 17; 374, 3: lose.

leesin, IV, 465, 22: a lie. See leasing(e).

leesome, I, 182-3; IV, 432, 2; 455, 18; V, 178, 1: lovely, pleasing, leesome blew the wind, IV, 410, 10: pleasantly.

leeve, leve, leave, lefe, lieve, live, adj., II, 305, 13; 414, 24; V, 227, 13: lovely, dear, pleasant; comp. leifer, leuer, I, 328, 43; III, 24, 35; 189, A 9; 297, 42; 436 f., 10, 25; V, 83, 51. epithet of London, II, 265, 5, 12; 440, 14; III, 276, 1; 284, 6, 7; 330, 16; 406, 35; V, 227, 8. So, lovely London, III, 352, 1; 355, 7. lilly Londeen, IV, 485, 19. whether he were loth or lefe, III, 67, 225 (properly, him were): disagreeable or agreeable; here, unwilling or willing. For had lever see leuer.

leeve, III, 105, 15: believe.

leeve, III, 287, 62: grant.

leeze. See lees.

lefe, III, 28, 128: pleasing, agreeable. III, 67, 225: pleased. See leefe.

leffe (A. S. lǽfan), wolde not leffe beheynde, III, 112, 60: remain.

leg, V, 126 f., 1, 2, 5, etc.: highwayman.

legg, V, 275, 7: league.

leguays, lequays, V, 217, 12, 13: likewise.

lei, ley, lei light o the moon, II, 188 f., 4, 14, 35; 195, 37. See lee, adj.

leifer, leifar, III, 436 f., 10, 25; IV, 196, 13: rather. See leeve.

leil. See leal.

leiugh, low. See leaugh.

leman, lemman, Old Eng. leofman, beloved (of both sexes). I, 232, 6, 7; 314, 2-4, 6; II, 271, 18; 273, 24, 400, 6; IV, 151, B 1, 2; 154, 2, 3; V, 283, 3: lover, paramour. I, 72, 30, 32; 117, 8; 254, 10; II, 73, 27, 28; 81, 40; 289, B 2, 3; V, 248, 4; 283, 12: love, mistress, loose woman.

lemanless, III, 434, 28: without lovers.

lemanry, V, 25, 4: illicit love.

len, v., lean. See lend.

len, lene, III, 420 f., 30, 32, 34, 52; neither lee nor len, IV, 277, 15, 17: conceal. II, 164, 8, 11, 14: conceal, or lie. that cannot longer len, II, 403, 8: remain concealed (but the reading should probably be, I cannot). See lain, lean.

len, lene, III, 79, 40, 81; V, 283, 14: lend, give, grant.

lend, II, 229, 5, 8; III, 63 f., 153, 165; 82, 76; 85, 76; V, 49, 21: grant, give.

lend, n., II, 185, 38: loan.

lend, I, 207, 19, lend ye till your pike-staff: we should no doubt read len==lean. lent. I, 223, I 4: leaned.

lende, III, 75, 395: dwell.

lene, conceal. See len.

lenger, lengre, III, 61, 105; 73, 341; 78, 443: longer.

lenght, III, 478, 17: length.

length, this length, IV, 271, A 4: for so long.

lent, pret., I, 223, I 4: leaned.

lequays, likewise. See leguays.

lere (A. S. hléor), III, 57, 28: cheek, face.

lere, III, 57, 16; 77, 426: learn.

lese, leese, III, 59, 56: lose.

less (age), IV, 64 a: minor.

less o him, I, 332, G 1: smaller of him, than him.

lesse, III, 296, 25: false, falsehood.

lest, II, 81, 45 (reading in earlier MS. for rest): last.

lesynge, falsehood. See leasing(e).

let, lat (A. S. lǽtan), allow, leave. II, 54, 48; 265, 8, 15, 24; III, 58, 38: omit, fail. pret. late, loot, lute, lett. p. p. latten, letten, lotten, looten, loot (?).

let, lette (A. S. lettan), I, 334, 8; III, 110, 22, 23; 128, 75; 307, 2: hinder.

letten, p. p. of let, I, 87, 43; 452, 6: allowed, left.

letters, letturs, III, 99, 55 (the kyng did hit vnfold); III, 297, 36: letter.

leuch, luke, pret. of laugh, II, 30, K 1; 81, 33; 366, 23; IV, 272, 9.

leugh, n., lower part. See laugh.

leugh, pret. of laugh, I, 388, A 7; II, 134, 21; III, 69, 273; 467, 60; 490, 17.

leugh, leaugh, lewgh, etc., IV, 465, 34, 38; 484 f., 8, 10: low.

leutye, lewtë, III, 64, 154, 169: loyalty, faith.

leuve, I, 17, 14: palm of the hand. See loof.

leve, lave, m., II, 75, 20: rest.

leue, v., III, 61, 112; 79, 76: permit, grant.

levedys, I, 334, 9: ladies.

leven, I, 324, 13; 325, 12: lawn, glade, open ground in a forest. See launde.

leuer, leifer, pleasanter, preferable, rather. had leuer, III, 24, 35; 189, A 9; 297, 42; 436 f., 10, 25; V, 83, 51. See leeve.

lewde (lye), III, 171, 8: base, vile.

lewgh, low. See leaugh.

lewte. See leutye.

ley, lea, lee, III, 109, 4; for a’ his father’s leys, II, 333, 11; 334, M 4; riding the leys, IV, 137, 34: land not under cultivation, simply land, plain, field. lands and ley, V, 157, 2: arable land and pasture; a common phrase in Scots conveyancing, “all and whole the lands and leas.”

ley-land, I, 15, 11; 16, B 11: land lying lea, not under cultivation. See lay-land.

ley licht. See lei, lee.

leyngger, V, 80, 37: longer.

leyt, V, 80, 37: lighted.

leythe, III, 112, 62: light.

liag, V, 237, 5: leg.

libertie, lying at, II, 464, 11: possessed in one’s own right, unencumbered.

liberty, lybertye, place of, II, 443, 39; 449, 44, 52: where one can fight without fear of interruption?

liberty-wife, II, 291, 2: mistress.

licence, V, 155, C 3, make their licence free: pay the licence of an inn-keeper.

licht, I, 146, 19, 20: alight. lichted, lichtit, II, 92, 16; IV, 195, D 2; 337 b, g after 20.

lichter, I, 21 b, 8; II, 105, 10: delivered. See lighter.

lichtlie, lichtly, lightly, IV, 94, 3; 98, 8; 100, 7; 337 a, g 16: make light of, treat, or speak of, with disrespect.

lick, II, 470, 45: gratuity (of meal from the miller).

lick, III, 163, 87: take for one’s self; cf. II, 470, 45.

lidder, lither, III, 464, 1: lazy. as adv., 467, b 1: excessively. (A. S. lýðre, bad.)

lie, ly, lye, I, 103, 10; III, 123, 5; 432, 17; V, 191, 5: reside, live.

lie, lee, lea, love. See lea.

lie, III, 301, E: lea.

lie, thou lie, IV, 197, 17: for thou liest, ye lie.

lied (A. S. lǽden), I, 430, 5, 9: language, talk. See leed.

lied, pret., V, 220, 6: loved.

lief-lang. See lee-lang, under lee.

liel, I, 70, 24: chaste. See leal.

lien, p. p., II, 135, 32: lain. she’s nouther pin’d nor lien, IV, 484, after 25: has not been lying bed-rid, does not look like one who has long been confined to bed.

lierachie, III, 319, 20: hubbub. “leerach==the bottom of a dung-pit after the dung has been removed, but left in a filthy state. The word is used to signify anything in a disordered state. Hence, confusion, hubbub.” Rev. Walter Gregor.

lieugh, low. See leaugh.

lieve, II, 345, 34: dear. See leeve.

life, leaf.

life, man of life, II, 244, 10: man alive (Chaucer’s lives man).

lift, I, 370, 16; 440, 18; II, 26, 14: air, sky.

lift, V, 82, 37: lifted.

lig, ligg, ligge, lygge, imperat., I, 328, 36; II, 437, 72; 439, 4, 7; IV, 396, 6; inf., III, 212, 17: lay.

lig, ligge, lygge, I, 328, 38-41; II, 244, 6, 7: lie.

light, pret., II, 46, 38; 54, 49; V, 53, 93: lighted, alighted. See lyght.

light, III, 156, 1: corruption of lith, listen.

lighter, of a bairn, I, 86 f., 7, 8, 16, 17, 24, 25, 43; II, 98, 35; 108, 12; 109, 11; 115, 23; 117, 10, 11; 118, 13; 123, 25, 26: delivered. (Icel. verða léttari, Old Eng. to lighten.) lighter a dochter, II, 132, 15: ellipsis of of. See lichter.

lightly, lightlie, lyghtly(e), III, 23 ff., 11, 41, 45, 61, V, 82, 36: quickly. III, 35, 35: easily. V, 84, 3: for slight reason.

lightly, lichtlie, -ly, III, 472, 10; IV, 351, 2, 9: treat with disrespect. IV, 92, 2: slight (in love). IV, 94, 3; 98, 8; 100, 7; 103, M 1; IV, 337 a, g 16: speak disparagingly of.

like, liken, like to be dead (dee), II, 58, 7; 372, 24; III, 386, 7; 392, 6; 394, J 4; 395, M 2 (cf. L 2): in a condition, in a fair way, or likely. liker, II, 97, 22: more likely (?). See lyken.

like, III, 355, 13; 358, 60, 80; 360, 109, 111: please. III, 400 a, (7): be pleased, satisfied.

likesome, II, 433, 5, 6, 8; 440, 23; 442, 4; 446, 89: pleasing, lovely.

lilt, I, 187 b; IV, 266, 16: to sing cheerfully. lilted, IV, 95, 3: sang, chanted.

lily, lilly, lilye, lillie, liley, lillie, lea, lee, lie, I, 325, B 11; III, 299, 8, 11; 300, 25; 301, 32, E; 435, 2; IV, 454, 6; 455, 14; 458, 7; V, 244, 16, 19; lillie leven, I, 324, 13; 325, C 12; lilly bank, brae, IV, 220, 13, 14: explained as “overspread with lilies or flowers,” but clearly from A. S. léoflíc, Old Eng. lefly, etc., lovely, charming. So, lilly feet (i. e. leely), I, 130, E 13; lily leesome thing, IV, 432, 2. We have lilly Londeen, IV, 485, 19==the frequent leeve London, lovely London. See leeve, lee-lang.

limmer (French limier, a kind of hound), a term of opprobrium, or simply of dislike. II, 322, 6; III, 466, 47: wretch (m. or f.), rascal. limmer thieves, 439 f., 4, 20; 441, 34. limmer loon, IV, 146, 15, 17. of a woman, II, 219, 9: jade.

lin. See linn.

Lin, Linn, Linne, Line, Lyne, a stock ballad-locality (like Linkum): I, 78, 38; 466, 5; 478 f., 5, 10, 16, 34; II, 240, 2; 290, 19; IV, 379, 18; 381, 12; 382, 15; V, 14, 1 ff.; 182 f., 2, 11, 29; 219, 6; thro Linkum and thro Lin, II, 124, 37.

lin, III, 105, 11; 174, 15: stop.

lin’d, III, 164, 91: beat.

ling, lyng, III, 3, 6; 7, 5; 99, 53: a species of rush, or thin long grass, bent grass, Scotland; in England, heath, furze.

lingcan, I, 299, 5: lichame, body.

linger, I, 334, 8: longer.

Linkem. See Linkum.

linkin, linken, IV, 332 b; V, 124, 4; 240, 1: tripping, walking with a light step. on a horse, II, 285, 11. linking ladie, IV, 355 b: light of movement. key gaed linking in, V, 18, b 23: passing in quickly, slipping in.

linkit his armour oer a tree, III, 270, E 7, comparing A 9; B 8; D 8, and observing the crooked carle in E 8, seems likely to be corrupt, and perhaps we should read leaned his arm out-oer. Otherwise, hung his armor, etc.

Linkum, an indefinite ballad-locality. not a bell in merry Linkum, II, 106, 21, 22. thro Linkum and thro Lin, II, 124, 37. cock crew i the merry Linkem, II, 239, B 4. a the squires in merry Linkum, IV, 432, 1.

linn, lin, lynn(e), water-course, torrent, river, pool in a river (A. S. hlynna, torrens): I, 303, D 4; II, 147, 9; 153, 24; III, 274, 1. of a mill-stream, I, 129, D 6. o’er the linne, II, 282 f., 9, 17, 18; IV, 479, 10 (==in the lynn, IV, 479, 5); II, 283, 8, 9: over the bank into.

Linnen, II, 225, D 3: Lunnon, London.

linsey, linsey-woolsey.

lint, IV, 433, 32: linen, linen mutch or cap.

lippen on me, II, 94, 10: depend. to God, III, 269, 12; to good==God, V, 243, 15: trust.

lirk, IV, 198, 2: crease, hollow.

lish, leash.

list, n., III, 137, 2; 181, 16: inclination.

list, v., III, 171, 9; 179, 4; 311, 19: desire, be disposed. pret. list, III, 171, 11. impersonal, me list, III, 97, 9. See lyste.

lith, lyth, I, 135, O 15, 17; 345, C 4; II, 412, 1; 413, 8: member, joint.

lith, I, 334, 7: light.

lith, lithe, lythe (Icel. hlýða), I, 334, 10; III, 22, 5; 198, 1; 411, 1: hearken.

lither, II, 54, 51; 138 f., 9, 13, 22, 23: bad. See lidder.

Litle Brittaine, I, 284 f., 4, 24, 33, 37: generally understood as French Brittany, but it is inexplicable that Arthur should be reigning there. Perhaps Litle means no more in this piece than in Litle England, II, 440, 20, 22; III, 278, 34; 285, 27; Litle London, III, 285, 22; Litle Durham, III, 285 f., 29, 39, 40. All these places, it will be observed, are in the Percy MS.

live, leave.

live, V, 227, 13: dear.

live best, IV, 146, 2: are the best of those living.

lively, I, 184, 47: alive.

liuer, adj., III, 180, 10: deliver, agile.

liuerance, III, 411, 8: payment for delivering.

livery-man, I, 419, 1; 421, 1: servant.

liues, II, 59, 25: ’lieves, believes.

liuor, III, 411 f., 8, 9, 10, 14: deliver, hand over, surrender.

load, III, 267, 10: loaded (with liquor).

loaden, p. p. of load, IV, 395, A b 5.

loan, lone, a common, any free or uncultivated spot where children can play or people meet, even the free spaces about a house: II, 62 a, 14, 16; 140, 1; V, 118, 2. (loan-head, IV, 285, 11, is toun-head in the original.)

locked, lockit, in a glove, II, 461, 21; 464, 6; 477, D 17: fastened.

lockerin, comes lockerin to your hand, IV, 213, 14; lockren, V, 258 b, 7: curling, closing as if to embrace.

loddy, IV, 70 f., G 4, 5, etc.: laddy.

lodder, loder, V, 283, 6, 16: louder.

lodesman. See ledesman.

lodging-maill, III, 474, 38: rent for lodging.

lodly, I, 285 f., 31, 43, 56; II, 44, 12: loathly, disgusting.

lodomy, IV, 398 f., 9, 34: laudanum.

loe, loie, loy, lou, v., I, 438, 10; V, 221, 9; 260, 13; 272 b, 3, 7, 11; 277, 1, 4: love. See lea.

loffe, n. and v., V, 79, 26, 28: love.

logie, IV, 175, N 11: lodge.

loie, loy, love. See loe.

lome, II, 44, 12: lame man.

lone, n., II, 333, 1; 489, 17. See loan.

long, tall. Long Lankyn, Long Iamie, II, 328, 1, etc.; III, 358, 63, 65, etc.

long of, II, 436, 53; III, 98, 22: owing to, the fault of.

loo, love, II, 408, 23. pret. lood, II, 417, 2; 419, 52. See lea.

lood, loud.

loof, looff, lufe, luve, leuve, I, 15, 15; 16, B 16, C 16; 17, 14; 18, F 9; 19, 14; III, 374, 8: palm of the hand. (Icel. lófi.)

looke, IV, 503, 12: look up.

loon. See loun.

loord. See lourd.

loose, V, 300, No 191: lose.

loot, bend. See lout.

loot, pret. of let, I, 68, 7; 204, 19: allowed.

loot, p. p. (?) of let, I, 351, 49; III, 436, 13; IV, 33, 26: allowed, allowed to, come.

looten, p. p. of let, II, 168, 8: allowed (to come). See lotten.

lope, pret. of loup, II, 59, 30; 434 f., 28, 47; 436, 58; III, 479, 39.

lord nor loun, III, 301, 32: man of high or low rank. In II, 159, 26, lord is a wrong reading; rogue nor loun, or the like, is required, as in 160, 20.

lordane, lurden, III, 25, 61: dolt, clodpoll, etc.

lore, lorne, III, 59, 51; V, 79, 32: lost.

loset, III, 94, 52: loosed, delivered.

loss, V, 200 a, 65; 262, No 223, 10; 277, 6: lose.

lotten, p. p. of let, I, 87, 38: allowed. See looten.

loudly, III, 440, 12: loud.

lough, loughe, pret. of laugh, II, 54, 58; 444, 48; V, 254 b, 2. See leuch, leugh.

lought, pret. of laugh, III, 82, 74; V, 51, 55.

loukynge, V, 283, 17: expectation, hope deferred.

loun, lown, lowne, loon, IV, 501, 36, 37: a person of low rank. laird or (nor) loun (lown), I, 69, 40, 41; 71, 32; III, 435, F 8; IV, 514, 12. lord nor (or) loun (lowne), III, 301, 32; 430, 13; 435, E 5; 436, 6, 8. IV, 11, 2; 519, H 2, I 2: rogue. often a mere term of general disparagement (as in, English loun): (of a man) II, 118, 3, 4; 140, 25; V, 171, 4; (woman) I, 100, 30; 491, G 24, H 22. fellow, without disparagement, IV, 258, 21. naughty girl, II, 419, 37. mistress, concubine, whore, II, 181 b; IV, 14, 13; 330 a, 3; 332 b; 469, 3; 519, 9; 520, 13. See lown.

loup, I, 102, D 3; II, 464, 1; IV, 44 f., 14, 15, 17, 23; 47, 4, 5: leap. pret. lap, leap, leepe, lope, loup, louped. p. p. loupen, luppen. loupin, V, 213, 3, has been explained as a form of leeping, heating (warming herself over the coal; cf. cowering oer a coal, I, 304, 2). We have, however, whisking ore the coal, I, 302, 4; reeking (==raiking) oer the coal, 304 E 3; and across agrees better with leaping than with heating.

loup, pret. of loup, II, 461, 5.

loupen, louped, p. p. of loup, III, 465, 27; IV, 462, 36.

lourd, loord, pret. and p. p. of lour==prefer, verb made from lever, rather. I had lourd, IV, 199, 18. I wad lourd have, IV, 7, 43. loord a had, V, 251, 36. I rather lourd it had been, II, 275 b.

lout, loot, I, 56, B 12; 351, 36, 48; II, 401, C 5: bow, bend, lean. pret. louted, looted. louted in, I, 331, D 5: bent our heads to enter? louted twafauld, threefauld, V, 242 b, 7: bent double, treble, p. p. louted, lootit, louten.

louten, p. p. of lout, II, 168, 9: bent.

love, I, 476, J 4: loaf.

love-clapped, II, 165, 10; 169, 8; 171, 13; 370, 8; 371, 8; IV, 392, 8; V, 277, 8: embraced lovingly, caressed.

loverd, I, 243 f., 1, 6, 17: lord.

louesome, III, 431, 30: lovely.

lov(e)ly, louelie, epithet of London: III, 199, 19; 310, 61; 352, 1; 355, 7. See leeve.

low, lowe, I, 211, 35; III, 93, 46: hill.

low, lowe, III, 435, F 5, 10; 436 f., 13, 20, 24, 34; IV, 47, 5; 514, 8: flame.

low, lowe, pret. of laugh, III, 110, 16; 112, 53; V, 78, 4. See lowhe.

lowe, doggs bite soe, III, 342, 66: a phrase for, take mean advantages.

lowe, bye lerbord or by lowe, IV, 504, 30: loof, luff, the after part of a ship’s bow (Falconer, Marine Dictionary); or perhaps the weather side. See leaf.

lowhe, low, lowe, pret. of laugh, V, 80, 44, 46-48.

lown, IV, 304, 8, 9: must mean here a young man in a low social position, since there can be no question of her kissing a disreputable fellow. There is no proper contrast with lad, and probably we should read, laird nor lown (see loun).

lowse, loose, free.

loyed, V, 221, 9: loved.

lucettes, III, 297, 46: luces, pikes.

Luckenbooths, V, 162, C 7: a range of buildings which formerly stood in the thoroughfare of the High Street in Edinburgh, parallel to Saint Giles Church.

lue, loe, loo, lou, loie, lea, lee, lie, v., love. See lea.

lufe, luve, leuve, loof, I, 16, C 16; 17, 14; 19, 14; III, 374, 8: palm of the hand.

lugs, I, 302, A 10; IV, 53, 11; 296, 8; V, 102, B 15; 103 b, 15: ears.

luid, III, 370, 19: loved.

luke, pret. of laugh, V, 238, 28.

lum, V, 125, 3, 9: chimney.

luppen, p. p. of loup, leap, I, 55, A 3, B 3; IV, 444, 26; 470, 30; 518, 8.

lurden, lordan, III, 35, 18: dolt, clodpoll.

luscan, a sturdy beggar (and thievish), III, 519 a.

lust, V, 213 a, 1: a bundle. (last, a measure, as twelve dozen hides or skins, etc.?)

lust, III, 56, 6; 85 and 89, 446; 332, 13: inclination, disposition. thy lustës to full fyll, III, 90 b: wishes. att his owne lust, III, 332, 13: pleasure.

lute, pret. of lett, IV, 345, 8: allowed. V, 248, 15: let down.

luve, palm of the hand. See loof.

ly, lye, IV, 261, 24; V, 168 f., 1, 2, 3, etc.: live, dwell. pret. lyed.

lyand, lying.

lyart, IV, 7, 36: grizzled, gray.

lybertye, apoint a place of, II, 443, 39; 449, 44, 52: a place where the two can fight freely, without risk of interruption?

lye. See ly.

lyed, II, 266, 28: lay, lived. See ly.

lygge, ligge, I, 328, 38-41: lie. See lig.

lygge, lay. See lig.

lyghte, lyght, I, 327, 21; III, 297, 33: alighted. See light.

lyghtly(e). See lightly.

lyke, I, 327, 22; III, 28, 121; 64, 165; 76, 417: please.

lyke, I, 506, 3, 8, 9; II, 295, 8; IV, 236, 30: lyke-wake, watching of a dead body. In II, 117, 16: simply, death-scene.

lyke-wake, I, 251, B 4, 5, 7; II, 282, 14; III, 495 b, 21; IV, 516 f., 1, 7, 18: watch of a dead body. dead lyke-wake, I, 251, B 4, 5: wake for your death. See lyke, leak, leak-(lake-)wake.

lyken, participle, IV, 511 b, X 6: about, at the point. See like, liken.

lynde, lyne, III, 75, 398; 91, 2; 92, 22; 93, 33; 97, 10; 98, 23; 100, 76, 78: linden, tree.

lyne. See lynde.

lyne. See lin.

lyng, III, 99, 53: heath. See ling.

lyon, III, 344, 33; 349, 33: the royal standard (quite out of place here).

lyste, me lyste, III, 78, 446: it would please me, I should like. See list.

lyth, lyth, lithe (Icel. hlýða), III, 56, 1; 63, 144, 70, 282; 71, 317: hearken.

lyth, member. See lith.

lyuer, III, 362, 82: leever, rather.

lyueray, III, 59, 70: present of clothes. III, 64, 161: purveyance of drink.

M

ma, III, 490, 15, 27, 29: bit, whit.

Mable, booke of, III, 422, 61: some book of predictions, like Thomas Rymer’s.

made, a lie, I, 478, 25: told.

made, men, III, 406, 37: raised. made a bow o bere, V, 264 a, 2: contributed.

mae, III, 301, E; 349, 46; IV, 490, 27: more.

maen, mane, meen, n., II, 107, 2: moan.

magger of, in the, III, 307, 1: in spite of, maugre.

maick, make, mate.

maid, may, used loosely of a young wife: II, 300, 6, 8; 307, 33; V, 227, 7. So κόρη, παρθένος, in Homer, of a young wife, and puella of married woman often.

maid of a place, as, maid of the Cowdenknows, IV, 200, 12, 13; 202, J 2, 3; 203, 8; 205, 14: the eldest daughter of the tenant or proprietor, who is generally called by the name of his farm.

maid alone, II, 149, 2: solitary, like burd-alone, I, 298, 2 (which, however, is there used of a man).

maiden, IV, 30 a: an instrument for beheading, resembling the guillotine.

maigled, IV, 41, note *: mangled.

maik. See make.

mail, rent. lodging-maill, III, 474, 38.

main. man o the main, is it to a man o the might, or till a man o the main, II, 403, 7, 8: main can have no sense distinct from might, and man of the might, man of the main, is simple verbiage. In B 4, H 6, we have, to a man of micht or a man of mean: man of mean cannot be wrenched into man of low degree, and we do not want that sense even if we could legitimately get it, for the antithesis is not between the man of micht and the man of mean degree, but between both these and the robber or robbers of the last half of the stanza. The stall copy, 405, 5, 6, having only grammar in mind, reads man (one) that’s mean, and but for rhyme might perhaps have gone so far as, a man of means. IV, 146, 21, reads, man o mine, to avoid the difficulty. See mean.

main, n., IV, 473, 39: moan. See mane.

ma-i-ntn, V, 303 a: maintain, support.

mair, IV, 21, 14: more, bigger.

mairly, IV, 59 f., d 2; e 2, g 2: a rhyme used for mair.

maist, II, 169, 7: almost.

maistly, I, 138 b, d 5: mostly, almost. See mostly.

make, maik, maicke, I, 127, 14; 128, 11: 129, D 8; 347, 23, 30; 348, 11, 17: mate, consort. I, 403, 12; II, 46, 1; IV, 344, 7; V, 184, 44: match, like; and so in, what is my lineage or what is my make, IV, 341, D 8.

make, III, 37, 67: for made, p. p.

making, IV, 208, 3: doing, deportment.

maks, V, 307 b: makes.

male, III, 63, 134; 68, 247, 255: (O. Fr. male) trunk. male-hors, III, 74, 374.

mall, with the leaden mall, III, 357, 42: mallet, hammer (referring to the weight of his stroke).

mallasin, malison.

man, V, 191, 8, 12: vassal. V, 304 b, 3: husband.

man, mane, maun, mun, I, 16, B 8, 9, 12-16; 146, 5, 6; V, 197, 12; 219, 29; 220, 4; 248, 12, 13: must.

mane, maen, main(e), meane, meen, I, 72, 20; 448, A 1, 3; etc.: moan, complaint, lament; often nothing more than utterance, enunciation, as, I, 253, 1; 394, A 2; 395, C 4; III, 489, 1.

mane, v., I, 72, 23: moan. See mean.

maney, III, 109, 4: meny, followers. See menë.

mang, I, 108, 6: among.

manhood, manhead, manheed, men (man) o your, men to your, I, 108, 14; 109, 13; IV, 446 f., 14: a strange way of saying, if you are men (man) of true valor, willing to fight one by one. III, 422, 59: manly deed, exploit demanding courage.

manie, mennie, V, 270, 8: maunna, must not.

mankie, V, 173, 3: calamanco, a stuff made in the Low Countries.

manratten, manrydden (A. S. manrǽden), III, 359, 95; 362, 95: homage, vassalage.

manrent, IV, 34 b: homage, vassalage. See manratten.

mansworn, I, 394, 3; IV, 442, 10: perjured.

marchandise, III, 92, 22: dealing.

march-man, III, 296, 8: one who lives on the march, or border.

March-parti, Marche-partes, III, 310, 58, 67: Border-part, -parts, Border, Borders.

marie, III, 491, 14: mare.

marie. See mary.

mark, II, 62 b, 11; 132, 29; IV, 202, K 2: murky. the mark, II, 164, 3. See mirk.

marke, merk, I, 394 ff., B 1; C 2; III, 68, 243, 246; 69, 270: two thirds of a pound.

marke hym, III, 297, 44: commit himself by signing the cross.

marries, IV, 487, 25: maids. See mary.

marrow, I, 147, 5; 148, G 4; 149, I 4; IV, 165, 13; 168, 2; V, 41, 16: (of man or woman) mate, husband, wife. IV, 165, 8, 9; B 2; 166, 2, 3; 167, D 6; 169, 5, 6; 170, G 3; H 3: match, equal in rank, equal antagonist. bear ye marrow, 169, 4: should perhaps be, be your marrow, as in 170, G 3.

mary, marie, marrie, marry, II, 369, 13, 15, 19, 20; 370, 13, 14, 17; 371, 14, 15, 20, 21, etc.; 390, 25; 391, 19; IV, 487, 25; 489, 26: a queen’s lady, maid-of-honor (cf. III, 381 b; 385, 18; 386, 19; etc.), maid (like abigail).

mary mild, IV, 213, 13: marigold; cf. V, 259, 5.

Mas (James Melvine), III, 471 a: Magister, Mr. Mess James Murray, V, 196, 51: see Mess.

masar, maser, III, 65, 175; 83, 86, 175: a drinking-vessel, of wood, especially of knotty-grained maple, often mounted with bands or rings of precious metals. See Way’s note, Prompt. Parv., p. 328.

mass, in the frequent formula, when bells were rung and mass was sung and a’ men bound to bed, II, 70, 21, etc.: a domestic religious service at the end of the day. evening-mass, II, 168, A 4.

mast, maste, III, 296 f., 22, 31; V, 79, 22: mayst.

master-man, II, 16, 2: captain of a ship. V, 191, 19: chief.

masteryes, make, III, 92, 27: do feats of skill.

mat, matt, mat he (ye) dee! wae mat fa, mat(t) worth!==mot, in the sense of may: II, 27, 7, 10; 472, 25, 33; IV, 391, 6; 392, 9, 21; 428, 6; V, 166, 10; 306, 10. See met.

maught, maugt, might.

maugre, maugre in theyr teethe, III, 67, 225: in spite of.

maun, I, 16, B 8, 9, etc.; C 7-10, etc.; 17, D 5-7, etc.; 146, 5, 6; 183, 25, 26: must. 71, 39 in pret. sense. See man, mun.

maunna, I, 185, 25: must not. See manie.

mavosie, I, 465, 8: mavis, song-thrush.

maw, sea-maw, II, 360, 3; 363, 7; 365, 5; IV, 482, 6: sea-mew, gull.

maw, v., I, 427, 13, 15: mow.

mawys, I, 326, 2: mavis, song-thrush.

may, mey, I, 115, B 1, 3, etc.; 173 f., 6, 10; III, 93, 39; 286, 45; IV, 432, 9; 515, 2: maid.

may, optative, frequently put after the subject, as, Christ thy speed may bee! thou mayst sune be! I may be dead ere morn! III, 355 f., 5, 23; 359, 87; 370, 8, 11; IV, 365, 18.

may be==is, like can be: II, 448, 33; 451, 100. might be==was, III, 452, 10. (So, possibly, might see, I, 434, 30.)

may gold, III, 497, 13: marigold.

mayne, strength.

maystry, mastery.

me, I, 243 f., 5, 15: men, French on.

me, ethical dative, sawe I me, etc., III, 65, 184; 68, 249; 75, 381; 79, 147; 80, 169.

meal, III, 163, 77: meal-bag.

meal, II, 230, 14, 15; 362, 36: mold, dust, earth. See meel.

mean, man of, I, 358, 30; II, 233, F 3; 400, 4, 5; 404, 6, 7; V, 36, B 8, 9: mere verbiage, I judge; mean looks like an attempt to escape from main, which see. (man of mean, II, 233, F 3, not being joined with man of might, might be understood as, man of main, or violent man.)

mean, meane, meen, v., I, 426, 5; V, 246, 4, 6: moan, lament. I, 388, A 7, 10: bemoan, lament the state of. not to mean, V, 160, 2: not to be pitied. mean, V, 160, 1, is doubtful, but the verb corresponding to moan is to be preferred. See mane, menyd.

mean, n., moan. See meen.

meany, III, 307, 3, 10: troop. See menë.

meaten, meeten, II, 434, 17; III, 33, 158: measured.

meathe, IV, 378, 9; 380, 17: landmark.

meatrif, III, 163, 87: abounding in food.

meckle, meikle, muckle, IV, 513, 6, 7: much.

medder, V, 221, 11: mother.

medill-erthe, I, 327, 27. See middle-earth.

meed, I, 68, 10, 14; II, 172, 33: mood, heart, state of feeling.

meed, warld’s meed, I, 108, 14; IV, 446 f., 14: seems to be corrupted from mate (make). Woreldes make is a familiar phrase in Old English, and not unfrequent in ballads.

meel, meel or mor, III, 281, 8, 10: mold, earth, ground; but perhaps an error for mede, mead. See meal.

meen, v., moan, lament. See mean, v.

meen, mean, I, 427, 5; II, 124, 39; 417, 11; III, 389, 12, 13: lamentation. See mane.

meen, I, 222, 8; 315, 8; IV, 416, 10: moon.

meet, I, 148, F 10: (causative) pass, put, thrust in.

meet, meete, II, 46, 45: even, equal. II, 229, 13: scant, close, and so, perhaps, II, 436, 61.

meeten, meaten, II, 434, 17: measured, by measure. See met.

meiht, I, 243, 3: mayst.

meikle, meickle, mickle, muckle, I, 72, 24, 25; 86, 2, 3; 309 f., 2, 4; 330, A 3, B 3; IV, 514, 5: much, great.

meisseine, V, 132, 7: spanker, or perhaps, Fr. misaine, foresail.

mell, I, 299, 6; 304, 10; F 6; 305, 12; V, 108, B 6: mall, wooden hammer, beetle.

mell, IV, 177 b, I 7: mail.

mell, III, 172, 24: meddle.

meller’s hoops, I, 304, F 5: mill-casings, the circular wooden frames which surround mill-stones.

melten (goud), IV, 471, 37: molten.

menë, menye, meany, menyie, meynë, maney, monie, III, 72, 335: followers, band.

menement, V, 242, 9, 11, 13: amendment.

menji, menji feathers in her hat, V, 163, 13: many.

mennie, manie, V, 270, 8: maunna, must not.

mensked, I, 334, 11: honored, dignified.

menyde (of hir songe), I, 326, 2: moaned, uttered, delivered. See mean.

menye, menyie, household, retinue, people: III, 91 a; IV, 127, 4, 5. See menë.

mere, IV, 493, 21: more.

meri. See mery.

merk, marke, I, 394 f., B 1, C 2: two thirds of a pound.

merk. See merkes.

merk, v., mark, merked them one, III, 297, 47: took their aim at.

merkes, III, 75, 397: distances between the bounds.

merke-soote, I, 334, 4: mark-shot, distance between the marks (cf. III, 75, 397), from bow to target, bow-shot.

merlion, merlyon, II, 45, 21, 33: merlin, the smallest of British falcons.

merrilye, III, 329, 11: in good or valiant fashion. So, nearly, IV, 477, 8.

merry (men). See mery.

merry Cock land, III, 250, 1: corruption of the merry Scotland of 249, I, J, 1; 251, M, 1; 252, O, 1.

merrys, I, 327, 22: mars, marrest.

mery, meri, merry, merrie, myrri, myrry (men), II, 386, 12; III, 66, 205; 71, 316; 73, 340; 97, 9; 114, 121, 131; 116, 2; 285 f., 30, 48; 309, 37; 330, 17; 430, 5; 431, 4; 432, 2; 433, 2; IV, 234, 39; V, 191, 4, 14: a standing phrase for followers, companions in arms.

mese, I, 328, 45: course (at table).

mese, III, 484 a, 16: mitigate.

Mess, an epithet said to be contemptuous for a priest or parish minister (as one who says, or said, mass), so Mess John, IV, 442, 10, 12; but there is no reason to suppose disrespect in V, 196, 51. See Mas.

mestoret, V, 80, 42: needed.

met, I, 324, 3; IV, 455, 4; V, 195, 9: mat, may. See mat.

met, pret. of mete, III, 60, 73: measured. p. p. met, mete, III, 60, 72; 203, 17; IV, 465, 23; 467, 13.

methe, meat.

mett, meet.

met-yard, III, 105, 27: measuring-rod.

mey, V, 161, 9: maid. See may.

meynë, III, 27, 96; 58, 31; 61, 95, 97; 76, 419: retinue, suite, household, company, body of people. See menë.

meythe, III, 112, 59: might.

micht, v., V, 299, 4: might.

micht’ll, might well.

mickle, great, much. See meikle.

midder, mideer, mother.

middle-earth, medill-erthe, I, 327, 27; II, 59, 25: (A.S. middangeard, middaneard), earth (conceived as being the middle of the universe; see miðgarðr in Vigfusson).

middle stream, III, 125, 19: middle of the stream.

middle waist, IV, 523, 6: middle of his waist.

mid-larf, crowing a, II, 230, 5, 8: corrupt (changed by Scott to merry midnight). Taking into account the young cock crew i the merry Linkem, II, 239, B 4, midlarf may stand for some locality (suggestion of Professor Kittredge).

might be==was, III, 452, 10. See may, can.

mild, maidens mild, II, 312, 1; 314, C 1, D 1; 316, 1: meek, gentle, demure. So Mild Mary, II, 315, E 7; Mary(-ie) Mild, III, 395, M 1, 3; 396, N 1; 398 a, c 4; Mary Mile, III, 386, 5, 6, 8. Corrupted to Moil, IV, 507 b, S 2; Miles, IV, 511 a, 5. myld(e) Mary, of the Virgin, III, 97, 7, 17; 98, 35: lenient, compassionate. myld myȝth, V, 283, 13.

milk-dey, IV, 262, 26; 524, 6: dairy-woman.

mill, mille, IV, 503, 13; 505, 45; V, 221, 15, 16; 224, 25: mile.

millaine, I, 286, 42, 45: of Milan steel. See myllan.

mill-capon, II, 477 b, D 27: a poor person who asks charity at mills from those who have grain grinding, the alms usually given being a gowpen, or handful, of meal.

millering, II, 467, 42: waste meal, sweepings of a mill (dust [which] lyes in the mill, II, 470, 43).

mill-town, mill-toun, II, 471, 18; V, 238, 29: miller’s steading or place.

miln, I, 18, 11: mill.

milner, mylner, III, 85, 4; 360, 111: miller.

min. See mind.

mind, II, 216, 12, 15; 218, 13, 16: recollection. her mind she keeped, II, 72, 13: did not forget what she had promised. for changing o her min, 81, 32: seems to mean, lest she should change her mind; but the sense is not striking.

mind. mind o, on, I, 481, 26; IV, 194, 16, 9; 195, 15; 196, 17; 197, 17, etc.: remember. pret. mind, I, 183, 30. mind of, on, mind to, I, 470, 16; IV, 403 f., 14, 28; 437, 24: remind of. he mind’t him on, V, 18, 5: remembered.

minde, ffor the maydens loue that I haue most minde, II, 58, 5: elliptical or corrupt. Comparing 59, 24 (where the MS. reads, wrongly, most meed) we see that for is not to be taken with minde. We must understand most in mind or most mind to or of, or, possibly, minde may be (from minnen, remember) had in mind.

minge (A. S. myndgian), III, 355, 6; 362, 72: utter. minged, II, 59, 21: didst name the name of, mention (or, perhaps, only bore in mind). myn, III, 358, 72.

minikin, V, 201 b: little, pretty little.

minion, I, 284, 12: dainty.

minnie, minny, II, 473, 16, 17; IV, 69, 16; 294, C 9, 10; V, 115, 9: mother. IV, 6, 15; V, 250, 14: dam.

mint to, II, 469, 31; IV, 493, 20; V, 28, 67; 238, 21: put out the hand towards, move towards. minted as, V, 9, 7: took a direction as if, made as if.

mire, myre, I, 428, 13, 14; 429, 7, 8; III, 475 b: swamp, bog. mire an moss, bog, an miery hole, IV, 22, 12; cf. 184, 5.

mirk, myrke, mark, I, 326, 16; IV, 517, 14: dark.

Mirry-land toune, III, 244, B 1: probably a corruption of the merry Lincoln of A 16, 17; 246, D 1; 251, L 1.

miscarry me, IV, 267, 11: get me into trouble; fail, disappoint me (?).

misgae, misgave.

misgiding, V, 117, 15: ill treatment.

misguide, misgiding, V, 117, 15; 119, 15: ill treatment.

miss, n., IV, 317, E 5; 325, C 5, D 3: mistress, whore.

miss, n., II, 465, 4: wrong or injury.

miss(e), v., I, 210, 12: omit, fail. miss your Wanton slack, IV, 22, 10, 12: fail to keep him tightly reined (?).

mis-sworn, I, 395, C 5: mansworn, perjured.

mister, myster, III, 450 a; IV, 268, 26; 464, 15: need, requirement, an exigency. misters, III, 164, 90: sorts of.

mistkane, I, 105 a, 18, if not miswritten, seems to be simply a phonetic variation of mistane.

mith, mithe, n., I, 334, 6, 7, 11: might.

mith, mithe, v., II, 139, 10; IV, 493, 19: might. mith slain, II, 165, 23: might [have] slain.

mode, I, 328, 47: spirit.

modther, IV, 260, 3, 7: mother.

mody, mudie, I, 334, 10: proud, high-spirited.

mold, molde, mane of molde, I, 327, 20: earth. ouer the mold, into the Scottish mold, I, 433, 21, 23: land, country. I, 434, 37; II, 246, 7: ground.

Moll Syms, I, 126, 13; IV, 448, 7: a well-known dance tune of the sixteenth century.

mome, III, 352, 7: dolt.

monand, n., II, 87, 36: moaning.

mone, I, 326, 1: moan, lamentation, complaint. See meen.

monie, IV, 437, 2: menie, company, suite. See menë.

montenans. See mountnaunce.

monty, IV, 42 a, note §: staircase. (Fr. montée.)

mood, giue me, III, 105, 23: though give me my God looks like a bold change, it is not improbable. We have, yeve me my savyour, in the Romaunt of the Rose, 6436, le cors nostre Seigneur, 12105, Michel. And again: For it was about Easter, at what times maidens gadded abrode, after they had taken their Maker, as they call it. Wilson, Arte of Logike, fol. 84 b. “In 1452 John Bulstone (of Norwich) bequeathed to the church of Hempstede ‘j pyxte, to putte owre lord god in.’” Academy, XL, 174. (These last two citations furnished by Prof. J. M. Manly.) Again, the Breton ballad, Ervoan Camus, Revue Celtique, II, 496, st. 6, has ‘she has received my God.’ (Dr F. N. Robinson.) See V, 297 a.

moody-hill, moudie-hill, mould-hill, IV, 148 f., 48; 150, g, h 48: mole-hill.

mool, mools. See moul.

morn, morrow. the morn, III, 480, 18; 482, 14; 488, 19; 489, 11; IV, 517, 18: to-morrow. the morn’s morning, IV, 373, 8.

mornin’s gift, morning gift, II, 132, 32; 135, 28: gift made the morning after marriage.

mort, III, 307, 8; IV, 26, 8: note on the horn to announce the death of deer.

mose-water. See moss-water.

moss, muss, mose, I, 78, 32; 99, 6; III, 4, 3, 48; 440, 10; IV, 443 f., 6, 19; 445, 8: bog.

moss-water, mose-water, II, 193, 21; 195, 33; V, 224, 19: water of a peat-bog.

most, I, 328, 50: greatest.

mostly, maistly, IV, 242 b: almost.

mot, I, 473, 5: must.

mot, mote, I, 333, 2; III, 7, 9; 68, 243; 75, 394; 113, 81; IV, 137, 29; V, 82, 25, 27; 83, 44, 50, 53; 283, 3: may.

mote, III, 68, 253: meeting.

moten, molten.

mothe, mouthe, I, 334, 4, 6: for meahte (mohte), might.

mother-in-law, II, 71, 11; 72 f., 14, 15: stepmother.

mother-naked, I, 344, 33: naked as in, or coming from, the womb.

mothly, III, 148, 27: motley.

motion, III, 216, 38: proposal.

mou, moue, mow, I, 302, B 8; III, 149, 34; IV, 277, 10; V, 115, 9; 268, 18; 269, 13: mouth.