Volume 5 / Part 3 — GLOSSARY (continued 4)

moudie-hill. See moody-hill.

moue, I, 16, C 15: put up in ricks.

mought, V, 76, 28; 83, b 25, etc.: mote, may. III, 30, 98: might, were able.

moul, mouls, mool, mools, IV, 329, A b, after 16; 330, D d 20: mould, dust, ashes (of the dead). I, 184, 10; II, 233, 6; 429, 6; IV, 492, 6; V, 210, 10: earth of a grave. See meal, II, 230, 14, 15.

mould-hill. See moody-hill.

mould-warpe, III, 420, 20: mole.

mountnaunce, montenans, I, 327, 31; III, 64, 168: amount.

mouthe. See mothe.

mow, III, 149, 34: seems to be meant for mouth (lip). But perhaps we may understand grimace (for a tyrant to make faces at). See mou.

mow, mows, IV, 224, 22; 225, 20: jest.

moyen, IV, 42 a, note: means.

mucell. See muckle.

muck, IV, 323, 6: dung.

muck the byre, IV, 293, 9; 294, C 9, 10; 295, D 9; 297, 9: carry out dung from the cow-house.

muckle, mukle, mucell, meikle, IV, 398, 6; 494, 33: big. IV, 399, 40; V, 271, 13: much.

mudie, III, 434, 27, 28: bold. See mody.

muir, moor.

mullertd, IV, 86, 12: miller.

mun, maun, man, II, 59, 20; 314, 28; IV, 343, 6: must.

mune, moon.

munt, I, 304, E 2: come to, make out.

mure, V, 202 b: moor, heath (?).

muss, III, 4, 3, 4, 8: moss, bog. See moss.

myght, welcome myght thou be, III, 65, 177: Old Eng. 2d pers. pres. ind. == mayst.

myght neuer no tyme to sleepe, III, 77, 441: probably corrupt, and to be read, no tymë slepe; but the construction is not unknown.

myȝth, n., V, 283, 13: might, power.

myld, mylde. See mild.

myle, two myle way, III, 64, 168: the time it takes to go two miles.

myllan, III, 309, 31: Milan steel. See millaine.

mylner, milner, III, 81, 4; 97, 8: miller.

myn, III, 358, 72: say. See minge.

myneyeple, III, 308, 30: corruption of manople, a gauntlet protecting the hand and the whole forearm (?). Skeat.

myre. See mire.

myrke, mirk, mark, I, 327, 30: dark.

myrri, myrry. See mery.

myrthës can, III, 66, 210: knows pleasant stories.

mysaunter, III, 13, 10: mischance.

myster, III, 68, 244: need, occasion. See mister.

mystery, mysterie, III, 495, B b, after 7; IV, 517, 15: craft.

N

n, carried on from preceding word to following. noo nother, no noder, III, 81, 58; 100, 80: none other. a nother, nether, III, 80, 200; V, 247, 9: an other. a naughtless, noughtless, IV, 286, 12; 287, 5: an aughtless, good for nought. a noke, V, 81, 45: an oke. they nere, they nee, III, 112, 50; 204, b 31: theyn ere, thyn ee. my nane, I, 469, 29 (but nane should probably be name). So, his nawn, her nain (nen), yer nane, as if from hisn, hern, yern, I, 469, 28; III, 269, 1; IV, 132, 13; V, 224, 24. In, an oute-horne, III, 30, 87, n seems to have been carried back, from noute (see V, 297 a). n in nant, III, 35, 24, 31, is an arbitrary prosthesis.

na, nae, no, not: I, 68 f., 12, 22, 31, 44, 51; 107, 3, 8; 310, 9, 11, 13; V, 260, 16. Frequently united with the preceding verb. hadna, I, 343, 5, 18. winna, 354, 27. canno, 368 f., 35, 37, 39. coudna, 369, 51. wadna, 394, 9, 11. shanae, 394, B 1. woudna, 396, 23, 26. shoudna, 396, 27. didna, 397, 12. kensnae, 466, 13. wasnae, 467, 34, etc., etc.

naesaid, IV, 371, 7: refused.

nags, naggs, nogs, III, 480, 11; 481, 8; 484 a, 11: notches, nicks.

nain, own. See n.

nane, nen, yer nane, my nane, etc.: own. (n, originally, carried on from mine.) See n.

nane, neen, none. I, 16, 6; 309, 12; II, 108, 13; 129, 16; 425, 3: adverbially, not, not at all. See none.

nant, III, 35, 24, 31: aunt.

naow, V, 304, 5, 12, 14: now.

napkin (-ken, -kain), I, 395, 9, 14: neckerchief. II, 108, 3; 158 f., 5, 8; 160, 4, 7; 163, 4, 6: pocket handkerchief. pocket-napkin, IV, 468, 2.

nappy, V, 84, 13 (of ale): strong.

naps, naps of gold were bobbing bonnie, IV, 295, 8, 9: knobs, balls, mentioned as ornaments to gloves, II, 133, D 6, golden-knobbed gloves; 134, 8, 13, siller-knapped gloves.

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

nar = nor, with comparative, for than: III, 112 f., 57, 69; V, 78 f., 12, 18. See nor.

nas, I, 244, 15: ne was, was not.

naught, V, 102, A 13: naughtiness.

naughtless, a naughtless lord, IV, 287, 5; a noughtless heir, 286, 12: an aughtless, oughtless, good-for-naught, impotent.

naughty, V, 267, 13: good-for-naught.

naur, II, 62 a, 15: near, or nearer.

naw = na = no.

naw, IV, 442, 2: nay. V, 296, a: not.

nawn, own. See n.

naye, withowghten naye, III, 296, 18: undeniably, truly.

ne, III, 349, 46; V, 272 b, 5, 6; 273, 16: no. III, 62, 128: not.

ne, stand ye nè aw, III, 350, 53: misprint (in original); g, stand in no awe.

nean, V, 219, 27; 220, 1; 257, 11: none.

near, neare, ner, nere, I, 101, 19; II, 183, 30; 191, 37; III, 62, 119; 111, 46; V, 224, 28: nearer.

near, IV, 446, 14⁴; 447, 14⁴: corrupt, as the repetition from the second verse shows; while (till) my days are near (to an end) would be extremely forced, in any case.

near, neer, never.

near-hand, adj., IV, 197, 4, 5: near, short. adv., III, 161, 36; IV, 222, 8 (near-han): near, almost.

neast, neist, nist, nest, V, 117, A 7; 216 f., 1, 5, 7, 10, 18; 242 a, 10, 12: next.

neathing, nothing.

neave, III, 123, 16, 20: fist.

neb, I, 425, A 16: beak.

nee, III, 422, 67: nigh.

needle-tack, II, 217, 5: fastening or stitch with a needle.

neen, none. See nane.

neen nae, II, 318 b, 4: need na, need not.

neerice, nurse. See nourice.

neeze, V, 222 b, 26: sneeze, snort.

neigh, v., II, 54, 54, 55: nigh, approach.

neis, I, 302, B 8; IV, 247, B 12: nose.

neist, niest, I, 223, 9; 314, 5; 419 f., 1, 3, etc.: next.

nelle, V, 284, 22: ne will, will not.

nen, her nen, V, 224, 24: own. See nane.

ner, nere, III, 62, 119; 111, 46: nearer. See near.

nere, III, 113, 75: were [it] not.

nere, they nere, III, 112, 50: theyn ere, thine ear.

neshe, III, 445, 31: of delicate quality.

nest, next. See neast.

nettle-dyke, II, 463, 22: wall with nettles growing on it, or near it. Cf. II, 467, 40; 469, 42.

neuk, coat-neuk, II, 107, 4, 5: nook, corner.

new-fangle, I, 272, 9: fond of novelties, capricious, inconstant.

next, I, 412, 27; II, 45, 30, 34: nighest.

nextand, II, 94, 6. See -an.

neys, V, 80, 39: nice (ironically).

nicher, nicker, n. and v., III, 370, 10; IV, 18, 15; 19, 13; 20, 10; 21, 11: neigh.

nicht, the, to-night.

nicked him of naye, II, 52, 12; nickd them wi nae (nay), V, 182 f., 12, 30 (clearly borrowed from the above in Percy’s Reliques): refused with nay.

nicker. See nicher.

nick-nack, playd nick-nack on the wa, V, 123, 16; 124, B 14: to express the sound of successive collisions.

niddart, niddart ither wi lang braid-swords, II, 422, 49: thrust at. Jamieson, pressed hard upon. Correspondents from the North of Scotland say, notched, slashed.

nie, III, 473, 27: neigh.

nie, neigh, nigh.

niest, I, 15, B 3; 147, 5: next, nearest. come niest, IV, 485, 30: nigh to. See neist.

niffer, n. and v., I, 203, C 10, 15; IV, 406, 24: exchange.

night-coif, III, 514, 3; 515, 1; V, 225, 4: night-cap.

night-wake, IV, 453, 3, 4: night-watch, as of a dead body, perhaps a corruption of lyke-wake.

nimble, nimle, wrongly for thimble, thimber, I, 332, E 2, F 2, G 2.

nine, the, III, 392, 8: the nine justices of the supreme criminal court of Scotland. Kinloch, A. S. B., p. 259.

ning, V, 165 f., 4, 12: nine. nine, 111, 26, is changed from ninge. In the older stages of the language, remarks Dr. Murray (Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland, p. 125), ng was often written for Latin gn, and vestiges of this substitution of the nasal for the liquid n are still found in the spoken dialect.

nip, III, 160, 18, 19: bit.

nires, norice, nurse. See nourice.

nist, nest, neast, V, 216, 10; 242 a, 10, 12: next.

nit, III, 465, 20: knit, fasten.

nit, I, 450, 2-4: nut.

nit-broun, IV, 469, 7; 470, 23, 29, etc.: nut-brown.

no, I, 86, 13; 100, 10; 108, 6, 8; 135, P 8, 10; II, 218, 12; 222, 19; III, 465, 32: not.

noble, nobellys, III, 113, 81; 126, 39; 201, 29: a gold coin of the value of one third of a pound. (Fifteen score nobles is of course exactly an hundred pound.) == 20 groats, V, 76 f., 18, 19, etc.

nocked, III, 82, 132; 86, 132: notched.

noder, nother, III, 81, 58; 100, 80, no noder, noo nother=none other. See n.

nog. See nags.

noghte, not.

nolt, nout, V, 249, 4: neat, neat-cattle.

nom, III, 51 b, 13-15: take.

none, adv., II, 361, 24; V, 295, 1: not at all. See nane.

none of, none of my brother, II, 11, 3, 5, 7: not at all my brother.

noo, V, 307, 11: now.

noorice. See nourice.

nor, nar, after a comparative, I, 5, C 9-18; II, 134 f., 15, 29; 268, 21; 374, 13; 409, 19; IV, 166, 12; V, 184, 49: than. nor be, II, 97, 22: than to be (if liker means more likely). too gude nor ever woud make a lie, II, 372, 26: better than, too good, to make. I doubt not nor she be, II, 390, 23,=je ne doute pas qu’elle ne soit.

not, IV, 331 b, 8: misprint for out.

note, notte, V, 283, 9, 19: nut.

note, III, 512, E 6: corrupt (nut in F 7). Some impossibility is required.

noth, nothe, I, 334, 7, 8: not.

nother. See noder.

noughtless, naughtless, IV, 286, 12; 287, 5: a noughtless==an oughtless, good-for-nothing, impotent.

noumbles, nowmbles, noumbles of the dere, of a do, III, 58, 32; 64, 172: frequently defined entrails; Palsgrave, praecordia, the numbles, as the heart, the splene, the lunges, and lyver. At least a part of the noumbles are the two muscles of the interior of the thighs of a deer: venatores nombles vocant frustum carnis cervinae sectum inter femora (Ducange). See the elaborate directions for breaking or undoing deer in Juliana Barnes’s Boke of Huntynge, and in Madden, Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyȝt, vv. 1344-48 especially.

nourice, nourrice, noorice, nourry, nurice, nurische, nury, II, 322, 6, 13-17; 333, 5-7; III, 433, C 7; IV, 31, 7; 32, 3; 480, 5, 10, etc.: nurse.

nout, nolt, III, 460, 25, 36; IV, 246, 13; V, 116, 1: neat cattle.

noute-horne, a, III, 26, 87: horn of neat, ox, cow (wrongly substituted for, an oute-horne; see V, 297).

nouthe, I, 334, 5: not.

nouther, IV, 219, 8: neither.

now, V, 78 f., 5, 24, 25: new.

noy, I, 217, 7, 12: grief.

nul, nule, I, 244, 11, 13: will not.

nume, pret., III, 355, 4: took.

nurice. See nourice.

nurische, IV, 28 a, 29 a: nurse. See nourice.

nury. See nourice.

nyghtgales, I, 327, 33: nightingales.

nyll, II, 478, 4: will not.

O

O, brighter O shall, IV, 170, G 10: heard for rose. For rose (which the last letter of brighter, the o, and the first letter of shall make) cf. 167, 17; 169, 14; 175, M 11.

o = of. diel o there, III, 488, 26: devil (i. e. not a bit) of anything in that way (?) (devil be there, 489, 43).

o = on: I, 232, A 2; II, 375, 15, 16; III, 488 f., 23, 39, 45; IV, 84, 19.

ochanie, och how, IV, 103, 14; III, 392, 11: interjections of sorrow.

ocht, IV, 230, 1: aught.

ochree. See ohon.

of = on: I, 284, 14, 16; II, 59, 23; 452, 5; III, 105, 19; 309, 46 (on, 45, vppone, 42); 355, 8; 359, 89; 464, 2; IV, 503, 20. beate of mee, II, 54, 53 (?). In, put of the pot, put of the pan, II, 118, 8, of is perhaps simply an error of the scribe; we have, put on, 119, 5, 6. In, seruyd (q. v.) him of bred, I, 241, 1, for is required, and of, which would signify with, cannot stand.

officier, V, 155, D 2: officer.

oȝaines, I, 192 a: against, towards.

oger, I, 202, 1: auger.

ohon ochree, III, 390, 13: exclamation of sorrow.

okerer, III, 58, 46: usurer.

old, auld, old (auld) son, of babe just born, II, 95, 11, 12; 105, 7; 107, 4, 5, 6, 17: called young son, II, 104, 12, 15; 106, 8, 10, 18, and, at II, 95, immediately after, 13, 14. See auld son. old daughter, II, 382, 1; 387, 1; 388, 15: oldest. old sister, I, 175, D 8: one older than a second sister.

old, auld, in your fifteen year old, I, 115, 13; in fifteen years old, I, 116, 13: of age. See aull, auld.

on = of: III, 93, 38; 132, 3; 231, 84; 296, 20; 308, 13.

on = one: V, 78 f., 7, 26, 28; 80, 52. on for on, III, 308, 21.

on, wedded on, I, 146, 24; married on, I, 497, 22: on the strength of (to have as a dowry).

on ane, I, 334, 6: anon.

on fere, III, 98, 38: in company.

on o = on (on upon?): III, 349, 38 (calld on o); 488, 25, 27; IV, 470, 18; 517, 9. (cald of, IV, 503, 20.)

onbred, I, 415 b: incompletely grown.

one, I, 104, 6; II, 45, 28: a. of one, I, 104, 6² should have been retained (=on a).

one, on.

onë, ony, onie, II, 58, 3: any.

ones, onys, III, 98, 23: once.

onfowghten, III, 297, 41: unfought, without fighting.

onlouping, III, 449 b: mounting (of a horse).

onthought lang, I, 478 f., 13, 47: without wearying, entertained. See unthought lang, thinke lang.

ony, onie, onë, any.

oor, I, 133, M 6: hour.

or, I, 285, 33; 294, 10; 328, 35; 411, 17; II, 22, 13; 105, 8: before. or eir, II, 21, A 9: or or (doubling of before).

or, II, 166, 27: than.

order, ordre, III, 66, 197, 198: rule of an order.

ordered, II, 257, 9: taken order for, made arrangements for.

orders, III, 286, 44: prepares.

ordeyn, III, 72, 326: give order for, levy.

orghie, IV, 513, H 2⁴ (to be supplied): orgeis, a fish, large kind of ling. See V, 299 b, note on No 178.

orlange, II, 61, 8, 9, 12: perversion of eldrige.

orless, I, 141 b, S: emended to unless.

orpharë, I, 326, 9: orfevrie, goldsmith’s work.

osterne, III, 412, 27: austere. See austerne.

ostler, V, 155, C 4, D 2: innkeeper.

ostler-ha, III, 270, 6: ostler-house, hostelry, inn.

ostler-house, III, 268, 4, 6, 8; 269, 4-6: hostelry.

other, pl., III, 298, 66; 335 b.

ottraunce, at, III, 90 b: to the utterance, extremity, death.

ought, I, 294, 12: am under obligation. pret. and p. p. III, 228, 9; 431, 30: owed.

ould, IV, 456, 9; V, 199 b, 35: would.

our, owr, ower, over, too.

oure, prep., over. See ower.

ousen, owsen, owsn, II, 192, 6: oxen.

out, he slew out, II, 383, 25; beat out, III, 151, A 4, B 4: out and out. fight ye all out, IV, 173, 6: through, to the last.

out into, I, 115, B 2: from within.

out of hand, II, 321, 3; III, 440, 25: forthwith.

out the gate, way, IV, 470, 21; 477, 12: along the way.

outehorne, III, 26, 87 (the original and popular reading): here, a horn blown to call out citizens to the support of the civil authority. See Spelman’s Glossary, 1687, p. 441. Cf. V, 297 a.

outlyer, I, 175 f., D 3, 9, 15, 21: one who lives away from men, in the woods, banished man, outlaw.

out make I, 61, C c 5: make out.

outmet, p. p., III, 29, 158: measured out.

out-oer, -our(e), -ower, -owre, -over, I, 246, 13, 14; II, 256, K 1; III, 6, 19; 7, 17; 270, 13, 17: over, above. heirs out ower a’ my land, II, 176, C 8. leand himsel outowre a tree, III, 270, D 8. the flower out ower (owr) them a’, II, 256, L 1; III, 246, D 7. out oer her, IV, 224, 19, should perhaps be, out o’ her.

outrake, III, 413, 32: excursion, outing.

outside, outsyde, II, 444, 43; 449, 48: place apart, retired.

outspeckle, IV, 7, 30; V, 250, 27: laughing-stock.

outthro, IV, 445, 20: through to the opposite side.

outwood, III, 179, 8: wood outside (of a town?).

ouer all, III, 28, 141: everywhere.

ouer goddes forbode, forbott. See forbode.

ouer-by-gone, I, 326, 8: covered, set.

overthrew us, V, 134, 8: threw us over.

o-vour, II, 25, F 13: half owre, half way over.

ower, owre, oure, I, 16, C 17; 80, 1: over. ower (a window): over against.

ower, owr, our, over, too.

owerturn, owreturn, I, 332, E, F 7; III, 10, 21: refrain. See owerword.

owes, who, IV, 205, 27: owns, whose is (who owns==wha’s aucht).

owerword, owre-word, oerword, II, 254, 8, 9; 363, 14; IV, 7, 28; 482 f., 8, 11: refrain (word frequently repeated), call, cry. See owerturn.

owre, II, 20, 8: or, before.

owsn, owsen, ousen, I, 465, 2; II, 175, 7, 8; 176, 8, 9; 192, 6; 194, 10; IV, 12, C 8; 27, 20: oxen.

owthe, III, 112, 51: out.

owtlay, III, 99, 43: outlaw.

oxe-lig, ox-leg.

oxtere, IV, 506, 6: (A. S. óhsta) arm-pit.

oyes, II, 315, 11; V, 229, 37: grandsons.

oysyd thare trawale, III, 41 a: used, carried on their operations.

P

pa, paw.

pa. See palle.

Pa, III, 244, B 1: unintelligible and doubtless corrupt. Percy, who supposed that Mirryland toune might be corrupted from Milan, Germ. Mailand, understands Po, although, as he observes, the Adige, not the Po, runs through Milan.

pack, IV, 69, 12: familiar.

pad, V, 114, 1: (in canting language) highway.

pae, I, 333, 3: peacock.

pakets, V, 165, 6: pockets. (V, 306, 9, has pouches.)

pale (of a puncheon), II, 81, 45: tap, spigot.

pale, and the covring that these lovers had was the clouted cloak an pale, I, 305, 12: a derivation from Lat. pallium, coverlet, cloak, O. Fr. paile, palle, has been suggested, and as to meaning would suit; but if the word were popular it should be heard of elsewhere. Possibly an error for fale, turf, which is the bed-covering in F 6, p. 304; though the combination with cloak would be strange.

palle, pale, paule, pa, I, 68, 7; 333, 1; II, 139, 4; 256, L 4; 259, A a 3, b 3, C c 3; 483, 5: fine cloth.

pallions, III, 300, 15; IV, 500, 16: pavilions.

palmer, I, 232, 3-5, 12, B 1; 284, 8: pilgrim. III, 3, 10, 11; 4, 4, 5; 180, B 8; 186, 10, 11, 17; 189, A 8, B 3; IV, 445, 3, 4, 20; V, 16, 9, 17: tramp, vagabond, beggar.

pannells, V, 86, 29: riding-pads or cushions.

papeioyes, I, 328, 33: popinjays.

paramour, I, 68, 4; 70, 4: in A 4, the word, coming between bouted flour and baken bread, should signify something eatable; B has attempted to make easy sense by inserting the. Paramour as lover, lady-love, in the honest sense occurs II, 86, 19, 21; 412, 2; V, 182, 7. the love was like paramour, II, 407, 8: like amorous passion (?). Quite unintelligible in II, 409, 4, a red rose flower, was set about with white lilies, like to the paramour; again, 410, 2.

parand, heir and parand, II, 447, 2, 4: parand, in 4, might appear to be meant for apparent, but we have his parand and his heir, in 2. There is more ignorance of the meaning of words in the piece.

pardon, I, 411, 8: leave of absence.

part, God, Christ haue part(e) of the (me), III, 58, 39; 329, 8: perhaps, make me an object of his care (as prendre part en==take an interest in); or, take me for his, number me among the saved.

part, part the quick, II, 231, 9; parte our company, III, 71, 307: quit, part from.

partakers, III, 138, 7, 8: helpers.

parti, vppone a parti, III, 308, 19: aside. March-parti, III, 310, 58: Border-side. Marche-partes, III, 310, 67.

party, nane to party me, V, 127, 19: be of part with.

Pasch, Pasche, II, 146, 9; 147, 7: Easter.

pass for, III, 138, 15: care for.

passe vppon, V, 51, 67: pass, go, on.

passe, III, 73, 357: extent? In 84, 357, and 88, 357, the reading is, compasse.

passage, IV, 515, 1: occurrence, incident, adventure.

passilodion, V, 71 b; 72 a: a drinking-word.

passments, IV, 343, 4: laces, trimmings for dresses.

pat, pot.

pat, patt, paut, I, 396, 20; II, 123, 29: strike the ground with the feet, stamp. pat the ball, III, 251, L 1, 2: kick. patted wi her lips, II, 83 a: struck together, smacked (?).

pat, patt, pret. of pit, put, I, 107, 7; 465, 2, 3; V, 218, 2.

pat-fit, I, 302, B 8: pot-foot.

paughty, II, 364, 21: haughty, malapert.

pauky, V, 115, 1: sly.

pautit, I, 397, D 9, 11: patted, struck with the foot, stamped. See pat.

pavag, pauage, pawage, III, 109 f., 5, 11-13: Fr. pavage, road-tax. See Ducange, pavagium. (passage, III, 114 f., 130, 180, 181, etc.)

paw, a slight motion. neer played paw, III, 480, 14: never stirred again.

pay, n., I, 285, 32; III, 28, 128; 59, 66: satisfaction.

pay, paye, v., I, 328, 37; II, 478, 12: satisfy, please.

pay, III, 142, 36; 161, 26; V, 105, A 5, 6; 106, E 6: beat.

payetrelle, I, 326, 9: poitrail, part of the harness on the breast of a horse.

payrelde, parelde, I, 327, 16, 17: apparelled.

peak, pick.

peak, peck.

peak-staff, pike-staff.

pean-kniff, pen-knife.

pear, peare, V, 110 f., 2, 4, 6, etc.: poor.

pearled, apron, IV, 67, 12: bordered or trimmed with lace.

pearlin, pearlins, III, 9 f., 6, 14; IV, 448 a, 2d line: pearls.

pearling, pearlin, II, 323, 6; IV, 326, 16: lace.

pearting, parting, separation.

peat, I’se gar ye dance upon a peat, V, 104 b (a threat): on a (burning) peat, make it hot for you.

pecis, III, 65, 175: vessels (of silver), probably cups.

peed, IV, 316, 14: pu’d, pulled.

peel, I, 403, 9: pool.

peel, a tower, stronghold; climbing the peel seems inappropriate at IV, 6, 4; V, 249, 4, unless the meaning be that the peel was “ransakled” for valuables (since kye would not be kept in the peel).

peeped, V, 10, 3: spoke faintly, whined.

peerls, peerls many, IV, 134, 10: poor folk (Chaucer’s poraille). B 8, C 6, D 10, F 8, G 4, etc., poor folk many.

peers, pears.

peit, I, 22, 3: a peat carried to school as a contribution to the firing.

pellettes, III, 430, 12: bullets.

pendles, IV, 296, 8: pendants, ear-rings.

penned in, of windows, II, 330, G 3: fastened, perhaps pinned. See pin, v.

penny-brown, III, 281, 10: brown as a penny. penny-gray, III, 281, 8, at best would mean gray as a silver penny; but silver is called white money. It is just possible that the word is legitimate, and that, penny-brown being understood as very brown, penny-gray might come into use for very gray. Possibly penny-brown (gray) might mean dappled with brown (gray) spots.

penny-fee, -fie, I, 491, 10; IV, 444, 10: gift of a penny largess, pour-boire. (I, 490, 6, penny instead of penny-fee.) II, 469, 25, 26: simply, money.

peny, shete a peny, III, 97, 10: shoot for a penny, as 104, 6.

Perce, V, 298 a: Persia.

perelle, I, 326, 8: pearl.

perfyte, II, 72, 4; 75, 6; 78, 8: perfectly.

pestilett, III, 430, 11: pistolet.

petty toes, I, 133, L 9: pettitoes, feet (as in Winter’s Tale, IV, 4), or a play upon words, little toes.

phat, III, 318, 8: what.

philabeg, IV, 234, 21; 271, 8; V, 266, 8: kilt, skirt worn by Highlanders, reaching from belly to knee.

pibrochs, IV, 298, G b 14: bagpipe airs; seems here to be meant for the pipes.

pick, pick a mill, I, 211, B 3, 4: sharpen the surface of a mill-stone when worn smooth by friction. picked a stane, II, 323, 1: dressed with a pick.

pick, pickle, I, 16, C 14; IV, 481, 5; V, 206 a, 6: a grain.

pick, n., IV, 2, 12: pitch.

pick, pict, v., 380, 20: pitch (pict, II, 28, 23, may be a misspelling).

picke, III, 358, 77: pitch (throw).

pickle, a grain. See pick.

pickle, II, 147, 12, 14; 476, 16, 17: pick, collect.

picklory, III, 132, 4: name of a cloth.

pickman, pikeman.

pict, v., II, 28, 23: pitch (probably a misspelling).

pig, I, 305, 5; IV, 206, 9: an earthen vessel, earthen pitcher.

pig-staves, V, 213 a, 1: pike-staves.

pile, o corn, I, 18, H 7: a grain.

pile, pile o the gravil green, gray, I, 350, 18, 19; pile that grows on gravel green, IV, 456, 11, 12: a fibre or blade of some velvety moss which grows on stones. See gravil.

pilk, II, 473, 16: pick, collect. See pickle.

pilleurichie. See pitleurachie.

pin, pinn, an implement for raising the fastening of a door. tirled the pin, IV, 390, 4; 415, 5. tirled at the pin, I, 470, 23; II, 141, 8; 164, 3; 471, 8; 474, I 3, etc. tirled on the pin, II, 461, 11. thirled at the pin, II, 121, 15. thrild upon a pinn, II, 138, 10, 16. twirld at the pin, IV, 390, b 4. lifted, lifted up the pin, II, 104, 14; IV, 391, 3; 415, 6. “The pin was always inside, hung by a latch, or leather point, the end of which was drawn through a small hole in the door to the outside. During the day-time, the pin was attached to a bar or sneck in such a way that when the latch was pulled the door was free to open. But at night the pin was disconnected from the door-fastening and hung loose, so that when the latch was pulled the pin rattled.” W. Forbes. (See tirled.) knocked at the pin, II, 387, 10; 468, 15; upon a pin, III, 105, 12; rappit at the pin, I, 472, 17; chapped at the pin, I, 481, 29, are probably corrupted from knocked, etc., at the ring (and so, tinkled at the pin, II, 253, 3); if not, the meaning must be, knocked at the door at the place of the latch. that so priuilye knowes the pinn, I, 433, 25, implies that there was some secret connected with the pin (like, knew not the gin, IV, 446 b, 3), which it is difficult to conceive in an arrangement so simple as that described above; but it is probable that complications were employed by the cautious. See gin.

pin, gallows-pin, gallou-pine, I, 146, 25; 150, 17; III,

388, 18; V, 247, 18; hanged them out-oer a pin, III, 268, 18; hang you on a pin before my door, V, 26, 15: the projecting, or horizontal beam of the gallows? Any projection upon which a rope could be fastened.

pin, v., pin my windows in, V, 295, 5, 6: fasten. See penned.

pindee, II, 326, 2, of windows, pinned-ee for rhyme, or, possibly, for in, as penned in, II, 330, G 3.

pinder, pindar, pinner, III, 131 ff., A 1-5, etc.; B 1-3; II, 484, C 6, 7; 491 a, 5, b, 5: pounder.

pine, pyne, I, 464, 8; 470, 15, 32; 474 f., 36, 41; IV, 430 f., 4, 23; V, 219, 25: suffering, pain. Goddës, Creystys, pyne, III, 75, 391; V, 79, 18: suffering, distress, passion.

pine, I, 453, 3: (pind, poind) distrain, seize.

piner-pig, III, 385, 7: an earthen vessel for keeping money.

pingo, pingo white, IV, 213, 12: pinkie (?).

Pinnatree, The Gold, V, 141 b: name of a ship.

pinner. See pinder.

pint, point.

Pirie, in Pirie’s chair you’ll sit, the lowest seat o hell: I, 429, 30, 31. For the derivation Sir W. D. Geddes suggests as possible le pire, which would be in the way of the Scottish “ill chiel.” Professor Cappen writes: “Familiar name in doggerel lines recited by boys in their games. One boy stood back against the wall, another bent towards him with his head on the pit of the other’s stomach; a third sat upon the back of the second. The boy whose head was bent down had to guess how many fingers the rider held up. The first asked the question in doggerel rhyme in which Pirie, or Pirie’s chair, or hell, was the doom threatened for a wrong answer. I remember Pirie (pron. Peerie) distinctly in connection with the doom. Pirie’s chair probably indicates the uncomfortable position of the second boy (or fourth, for there may have been a fourth who crouched uncomfortably on the ground below the boy bending), whose head or neck was confined in some way and squeezed after a wrong answer.”

pistol-pece, III, 432, 9: pistol.

pit, I, 86, 31; 467, 17; V, 219, 10: put. pit mee down, II, 131, 4: be my death. pit back, IV, 510, W 3: stop the growth or development of. pret. pat. p. p. pitten, putten.

pith, hammer o the, II, 374, B 2: sounds like nonsense. The smith’s anvil being of gold and his bellows-cords of silk, his hammer should be of some precious material. To say his hammer was wielded with force would be out of keeping, and very flat at best.

pitleurachie, pilleurichie, III, 320, A a 20, b 20: hubbub, discord. See lierachie.

pit-mirk, III, 495 a, after 7; IV, 517, 14: dark as a pit.

pitten, p. p. of pit, put, I, 463 f., 2, 14.

place, in place, V, 84 f., 10, 25: presence. in place, III, 422, 76: (means only) there.

plaet, pret., IV, 465, 40: plaited.

plaiden, IV, 257, 3, 5: coarse woollen cloth diagonally woven.

plain fields, IV, 432 f., 2, 10, 17, 21: open fields.

plainsht, III, 360, 121: plenisht, filled.

plainstanes, IV, 152, 5: pavement.

plaow, n., V, 304, 5, 12: plough.

plat, I, 101, 19; II, 285, 20, pret. of plet: plaited, interfolded.

plate-jack, IV, 147, 22: a defensive upper garment laid with plates.

platen, I, 243 f., 8, 11: plates, pieces.

play-feres, III, 244, 2, 6; 245, 4, 5: play-fellows.

plea, I, 169, 7; II, 282, 2: quarrel.

plea, enter plea att my iollye, III, 278, 32. See enter.

plead, III, 277, 10, 12: contend.

pleasure, drink his, V, 307 a, 4: drink as much as he wishes.

plee, III, 165, 72: plea (your offer to give up your money is but a slight ground for a plea to be spared? or a slight argument to enforce the justification previously attempted?).

pleuch, pleugh, n., II, 190, 9; 194, 10: plough. IV, 196, 19; 197, 19: (of land) plough, which see.

plewed, feathers plewed with gold, II, 435, 49: not understood.

plight I lay, IV, 433, 21: the pledge I did lay? condition in which I should lie? (Very obscurely expressed stanza.)

plight, pret., II, 52, 24; 364, 24; V, 50, 45: plighted.

plooky, II, 47, 14: pimpled.

plough, pleugh, pleuch, plow, IV, 194, 18, 11; 195, 18; 196, 19; 197, 19; etc. (of land): as much land as one plough will till in a year.

plucke, fyght a plucke, III, 128, 85: (blow, stroke) a bout.

plucke-buffet, they shote, III, 77, 424: at taking and giving a buffet for missing. (This supposes pluck==take, get; it may be the noun pluck, blow.)

plummet, of swords, III, 466, 40: pommel.

pock, III, 160, 5, 16; 163, 68, 74, 83: bag.

pocket-napkin, IV, 468, 2: pocket-handkerchief.

poind, pret., poinded, p. p., II, 429 b, 3; IV, 80 b; IV, 492 a, 3: distrained.

poll, lighter than the poll, IV, 434, 1 (not recognized as Scottish by any of my correspondents): boll, lint-bow, the seed-pod of flax? Not probable.

poorly, IV, 444, 35: feebly. V, 10, 3; 266 b, 2: faint-heartedly.

portioner, IV, 81 a: possessor of a part of a property originally divided among co-heirs. Jamieson.

portly, III, 280, 24: of imposing appearance.

pot, II, 144 f., 14, 24; 153, 22; 154 f., 17, 31, 34, 35; 474, J 6; IV, 181, 13; 189 f., 7, 22, 28: deep place or pool in a river.

potewer, I, 271, 6: read potener, French pautonnière, pouch, purse. “pawtenere, cassidile.” Prompt. Parv. “Marsupium, a pawtenere, a powche.... Cassidile est pera aucupis, vel mercipium, vel sacculus, a pautenier or a pouche. Cassidile dicitur pera ... crumena, etc. cremena, a pautener.” (Way’s note.)

pottinger, IV, 509 b, 13: apothecary.

pottle, V, 86, 35: a measure of two quarts.

pow, II, 476, 16: head.

powd, III, 268, 7: pulled.

powder, IV, 514, 17: dust (?).

power, above (loved), II, 286, 2: beyond (ordinary) capacity or intensity.

powther, powder.

prah, v., V, 303 a: pray.

praise, III, 204, 29: prize.

praise, V, 115, 5:==God.

praisin, III, 455, D 1: if the line is genuine, all the meaning praisin can have will be, the laudation of the queen for her generous behavior.

pran, V, 220 f., 6, 7, 9: bran.

prece, prese, prees, III, 24, 36; 67, 218: press, crowd. III, 62, 116: thick of a conflict.

pree, I, 81 a: taste. See prey.

preen, n., I, 430, 13: pin.

preen, v., I, 147, 13; III, 436, 3; V, 105, B 7: pin. See prin.

prees, prese. See prece.

preke, n., III, 112, 52. See pricke.

preke, v. See prekyd.

preker, V, 79, 13: rider.

prekyd, prycked, V, 78, 6; 80, 40: spurred, rode fast. the hors prekyd, 80, 42: ran, scampered, sped.

prese. See prece.

present, III, 199, 19: represent, act as representatives of.

presentting, wine, IV, 37, 16: holding out the cup or glass towards the person saluted.

presently, III, 400 a (7): at present.

president, III, 231, 82: precedent.

press, V, 111, 22: closet.

prest, the made them prest, III, 111, 45: ready. berdys sang preste, III, 112, 63: freely, con amore. III, 171, 10: in haste.

prestly, III, 27, 113: quickly.

pretend, I, 110, 18; V, 57, 66: purpose, design.

prevayle, III, 313, 55: avail.

prey, II, 490 b, 12-14: (prie, pree) taste.

price, III, 358, 63: estimation.

prick them to the gin, IV, 480, 4: pin to the fastening.

prick(e), pry(c)ke, preke, rod or wand, used as a mark in shooting==pricke-wand: 111, 93, 28, 30; 202, 34. he cleffed the preke on three, III, 112, 52. ‘have at the pryke!’ ‘and Y cleue the styke,’ III, 90 b. a mark or butt generally, III, 29, 145. slise, cleue the wand==cleffe the preke, III, 70, 292; 75, 401.

pricked, pret., II, 266, 28: stuck.

pricke-wande, III, 93, 31: a rod set up for a mark.

prickt, p. p., I, 345, C 1: prinkt, deckt.

priefe, V, 81, 14: prove, experience, enjoy.

pril, V, 73 a: a drinking word, to which the response must be wril.

prime, pryme, I, 254, 9: the first canonical hour.

prin, n. and v., I, 345, C 1; 431, 10; II, 109, 17, 19; III, 388, 17; IV, 189, 4, 6; V, 105, B 7 (preened): pin.

prinkling, II, 386, 20: seems to be used (perhaps an error) for trinkling, trickling.

prittle, I, 59, 15: a doublet of prattle.

priving, V, 115, 8: tasting.

process, III, 164, 90: occurrences, story of occurrences.

propine, I, 79, 24: present, gift. in thy propine, I, 227 b: to be had by thee as a gift.

propose, n., V, 207 b, No 5: proposal.

proselya, the reef was o the proseyla, I, 333, 5: in other copies the roof is of beaten gold, the floor of cristal a’. The roof here might be of proseyl a’, if that would help, but I know no more of proseyl than of proseyla. The nearest I can come to cristal is, porcelain.

prossed, proceed.

proue, II, 446, 81: try? Poor sense and no rhyme. The MS. reading is perhaps praie, which is, however, not preferable. Pross is a northern word for talk (Halliwell), and the corresponding verb would suit here.

prowed, proud.

Prudents, I, 471, 2, 4: black people of the Holy Land.

pruel, made her heart to pruel, II, 376, 32: to ache or shiver with fear. (Dr Davidson.) To preel in Aberdeenshire is to cool. (Principal Barbour.)

pryce, III, 63, 137: prize.

prycke, n. See pricke.

prycked, as faste as he myght ronne, III, 296, 21: sped; and so V, 80, 42. See prekyd.

pryckynge, III, 67, 229: spurring, riding briskly, should probably be rakynge; the yeomen are on foot. Cf. III, 123, 12; 180, 9, 11.

pryke, n. See pricke.

pryme, prime, III, 23, 9; 25, 72: the first canonical hour, first hour of the day.

pryse, I, 327, 16, 17: value, most(e) of pryse==most richly.

pu, pow, pull.

pudding-pricks, III, 160, 19: wooden skewers to fasten the end of a gut containing a pudding.

puggish, II, 427, 6: in a later copy, ragged. Mr Ebsworth suggests the meaning, tramper’s. (puggard, thief; pugging, thieving.)

purchase, III, 203, 20: booty, prize.

purchast, p. p., III, 36, 48: acquired (perhaps, stolen).

pure, poor.

pusin, n. and v., poison.

puss-pay, V, 110, 9, 10: hare or rabbit pie (still in use: W. Walker).

put down. See putten down.

put on (intransitively), II, 92, 21; 255, 22; 278, 7; IV, 190, 25: dressed. put on him, II, 162, 12: jogged, pushed.

putten, putn, p. p. of put, I, 446, 10; 469, 3; III, 433, 3.

putten, put down, II, 178, 39; III, 393, 15; IV, 14, 11; 66, A 10; 70, 13: hanged. IV, 32, 12: put to death by violence.

putting-stane, II, 421, 28: as the stone is thrown, there is no propriety in the hitting and kepping (catching) in 29.

pyet, pyot, magpie: II, 93, 6; 148 f., 11, 13, 15, 17.

pyght, III, 296, 19: pitched (fixed in the ground the pole of).

pygrall, III, 410 b, note: paltry.

pylled, hatte, III, 179 a: (bald) that has lost the nap.

pyne, Goddes, Creystys, pyne, III, 75, 391; V, 79, 18: passion. See pine.

pyot. See pyet.

Q

quaich, V, 264 a, 3: cup or bowl (Irish cuach).

quarrelld, p. p., I, 367 f., 12, 20: quarrelled with, found fault with.

quarry, IV, 26, 6: of living game, in the modern way (in an adulterated ballad). See querry.

quarterer, IV, 152, B 9, 10: lodger.

queed, II, 423, A 1: gueed, good is required; queed could mean only ill.

queen, quean, queyne, quen, quien, I, 69, 38, 39; 302, A 11; 303, C 6: woman. II, 141, 11; V, 272, 8, 10: concubine.

queer, quir, IV, 465, 39; V, 224, 27: choir.

queet, quit, cweet, IV, 190, 26; II, 96, I 3: ankle.

quen. See queen.

quequer, III, 112, 51: quiver.

quere, III, 250, K 7: inquire.

querry, quyrry, III, 307, 8; 311, 11: quarry, dead game. See quarry.

quest, III, 25, 69; IV, 11, 12: inquest.

questry-men, another, IV, 11, 13: men constituting a quest, inquest; but another raises a doubt whether we should not read quest of, as in 12 (ry being caught from jury, above).

queyt, III, 112, 59: quit, requite. See quite.

quien. See queen.

quiles, II, 488, 1, 2: coils, colls, cocks.

quill, IV, 213, 11: quill, the small round fold of a ruff, seems to be put for the quilled ruff; otherwise, kell, cap (or coul, night-cap, not likely).

quinë-stane, qunie-stane, V, 248, 10, 11: (quoin, coin) corner-stone.

quir, queer, V, 224, 27: choir.

quirn, I, 17, 15: hand-mill.

quit, II, 283, 3: ankle. See queet.

quite, III, 333, 28: requite. See queyt, quyte.

quite, III, 431, 28: free, clear, unpunished.

qunie-stane. See quinë-stane.

quoif, coif, II, 279, 1: cap.

qustens, V, 217, a 15: questions.

quyrry, III, 307, 8: quarry, the slaughtered game. See querry.

quyte þe, III, 100, 77: acquit thyself, square the account. The other text has, quit me.

R

race, of ginger, IV, 70, G 3: root.

race, II, 445, 70, 72; 450, 77, 79; III, 278, 24, 29: course in justing. fetched a race, II, 454 f., 54, 58: took a run (for impetus); so I, 176, 22.

race, castle-race, II, 75, 15; 81, 43: course in the castle-grounds, or contour of the castle (?).

rache, I, 327 f., 10, 16, 51: a scenting dog.

rack, III, 472, 3, 4: ford. “A very shallow ford, of considerable breadth: Teviotdale.” Jamieson.

rad, V, 192, 26: afraid.

rader, rather. V, 283, 7, 17: quicker.

rader, rider.

radly, III, 98, 24: quickly. See rathely.

rae, I, 350, 21; 352, 7: roe (referring to the wildness of Tam Lin).

raid, read, rede, pret. of ride.

raid, n., IV, 520, 3: simply ride, for hunting.

raik. See rake.

rair, I, 256, 4: roar.

rais, raise, rase, pret. of rise, I, 305, 5; 327, 13; 420, 18; 422, 18; 451, 12; II, 30, 5; 92, 21; 108, 13-15; IV, 215, A 6.

raiths, rathes, reaths (Gael. ràidh), II, 314, 30; V, 268, 21, 22: quarters of a year.

rake, raik, reek, II, 216 f., 5, 30; 483, 1; III, 125, 27; 162, 47; 180, 9: walk, move. raking on a rowe, III, 117, 24; 123, 16; 180, 11: advancing in a line; on a rowte, III, 180, 9: in a company.

ramp, rider, IV, 198, G 6: wild (of manners or habits). See rank.

ramp, I, 302, B 7: spring, bounce, whisk. ramped him, I, 215 a, 7:==ramped, bounded.

randy, I, 104 a, burden of d: probably unmeaning, though the sense “indelicate hoyden” would suit with stanza 2.

rane, lang rane, II, 82, C: yarn, tedious tale.

rang, wrong.

rank (A. S. ranc, strenuus, fortis, protervus), wild, bold (turbulent), strong, violent. rank river, IV, 200, 5; 442, 4. rank robber (who robs with violence, “strong thief”): II, 223, F 4; 233, F 3; 399, 6; 400, 4; 401, C 6; 404, 6. rank reiver, III, 472, 6; IV, 195, C 3; 472, 11. rank rider, IV, 196, 4; 204, 11: rude, boisterous; but II, 434, 24; 437, 75: of spirit and courage, sturdy (stout rider, IV, 197, 3, no reference to horsemanship). ramp rider, IV, 198, G 6. rank Highlands, II, 93, 2, 3: rude, wild. ranke (of horses), II, 444, 59: high-fed (or used adverbially).

rankit, pret. and p. p., V, 197, 10: drew, drawn, up in military order.

ranshakled, IV, 6, 4; V, 249, 4: ransacked.

rantan, ranten. See ranting.

ranted, IV, 153, E 4; V, 115, 1; was rantin, IV, 85, 39: of making noisy merriment.

ranting, n., IV, 284, 26; 287, 1; 288, 1: raking.

ranting, rantin, rantan, ranten, laird, laddie, III, 455, D 1, 13; IV, 351, 1, 3 ff.; 356 f., B 1, 3, 4; V, 274 b, 3-6: jovial, dissipated, wanton, rakish, “fast;” we have a rantin lassie, IV, 354, A b 1, 2.

rap, IV, 382, 14: knock, drive. pret. rapped, rappit, rappet, at, with ellipsis of the door, I, 105 a, 29; IV, 444, 16, 35; V, 173, 1; 306 b, 1.

rap, II, 426, 12; IV, 352, 7; V, 161, B 1, 5; 274 b, 7; 302, 14: (of tears) to fall in quick succession.

rape, rope.

rarely, IV, 58, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11; 358, 20, 21: rhyme-word (to which any one can assign all the sense it has). as adj., IV, 154, 7: rare.

rase, pret. of rise. See rais.

rash, n., IV, 75 a, b; 76, 1; 448 b, 5 (rash-bush); 524, 4, 7; V, 157, 12: rush.

rashin, V, 173, 7: rushen, of rush.

rassiecot, V, 107, 2: perhaps of no meaning, or, rush-coat.

rathely, I, 327, 13: quickly. See radly.

rathes, II, 314, 30. See raiths.

rau, row. See rawe.

raught, I, 434, 36: reached, delivered.

rauked, I, 69, 61: searched, rummaged. (Misprinted ranked.)

rave, reave, rive, pret. of rive, I, 439, 5; II, 294, 32; IV, 181, 15. See rive.

ravie (rave?), V, 111, 19: rive. raving, V, 254, 14, 18, 19: tearing.

raw, green raw sea, II, 30, 6: as of weather, wet and cold; but I am informed that the singer ordinarily gave haw, as II, 28, 21.

rawe, rewe, n., III, 71, 306: row.

rawstye by the roote, III, 94, 56: rusty, soiled, foul, (with blood) at the end (?).

ray, n. and v., III, 112, 60; 201, 17; 406, 29; V, 83, b 3: array. V, 192, 34: make ready, saddle.

ray, n., IV, 3, 22: track.

raye, III, 67, 230: striped cloth.

raysse, III, 295, 2: riding, raid.

reacheles on, III, 93, 38: reckless of, heedless about.

read, pret. of ride, IV, 457, 23; V, 166, 11; 228, 25.

read, I, 309, B 1; 310, B b: rehearse, tell.

read (of dreams), IV, 167, D 9, 10; 171, 11; 172, 12, etc.; 180, C 3; 190, 23; V, 221, 24; 224, 23; 257, 14: interpret, give an issue to.

read, reade, rede, red, redd, n., II, 53, 34, 35; 182, 4: advice. See rede.

read, reade, red, v., II, 52 f., 6, 34; III, 104, 2, 4; 105, 25: advise. read my rede, II, 186, 1: corrupted from riddle my riddle, 187, 2, 8. See riddle.

readilie, readylye, II, 23, E 7; 444, 43: (without difficulty or hesitation) certainly.

ready, V, 75, 6, 7; 81, 10: direct. readye, II, 58, 16: indubitable, certain.

reaf, reif, III, 458 b: plunder.

reak, smoke. See reek.

reaming, a suit o claise were o the apple reamin, IV, 176, 15: reaming==creaming, foaming, which of course gives little or no meaning. Apples were sometimes used to scent clothes.

rean, rin, run.

reap, V, 165 f., 6, 9:==ripe, search, rummage; see V, 306, 9.

reapen, p. p. of reap, II, 9, 26.

rear, rare.

reas, praise. See roos.

reas, ryse, III, 307, 5: rouse.

reast, reest, V, 256 b, 4: roost.

reaths. See raiths.

reave, IV, 26, 1: rob.

reave, rave, rive, pret. of rive, I, 442, 6; IV, 416, 18.

reavel(l)d, II, 140, 19, 20: ravelled, disordered (of hair).

reaver, rever, riever, IV, 85, 2: robber.

recher, compar., V, 283, 10, 20: richer.

reck, v., II, 340 b, 2d line: rock (perhaps miswritten).

recones, IV, 496 b: reckonings.

record, sma, III, 319, 22: note.

red, redd, rede, n., II, 182, 4; III, 112, 58: counsel. I, 22, B 1; 227 a, 5: talk, tale. See read.

red, redd, rede, reid, v., I, 329, 58; II, 59, 20; 62 a, 15; 182, 4, 6, 9, 10; 272, 6; IV, 495, 2; V, 191, 8: advise.

red, III, 163, 80: to rid, clear out. of hair, comb (see redding-kaim). red the question, II, 253, 18: clear up, settle.

red lan(d), I, 16, C 11; IV, 274, 6; V, 206 a, 5: cleared, ploughed.

red river comb, II, 216, 19, 21: corrupted, as are other versions in this passage.

redding-kaim, reeding-comb, III, 452, 8; IV, 515, 7: comb (for disentangling).

rede. See red.

rede, p. p., III, 298, 53: read, divined, discerned.

rede, pret. of ride, III, 63, 134 (reden, they rode); IV, 182, F 5. See read.

redly, III, 67, 223: quickly.

reeding-comb. See redding-kaim.

reef, I, 333, 5: roof.

reef-tree, I, 299, 5: roof-tree, beam in the angle of a roof.

reek, reak, reik, n., II, 191, 24; 193, 21; 195, 33; III, 433, C 6-8, D 12; 434, 15; 435, 14; IV, 514, 16, 20: smoke.

reek, v., I, 304, E 3; II, 30, L 2; V, 152, E b 1: rake, range, move, turn. See rake.

reekit, V, 108, B 7: smoked, smoky.

reel, reel went round, V, 155, C 2: revel, riot (of merry-makers)?

reem, II, 335, N 7: room.

reest, reast, IV, 189, 3, 4: roost.

reet, I, 367, 7; V, 213, 8: root.

reeve, V, 69 b: bailiff, steward. pl. reues.

refell, I, 110, 22: repel.

refer, message, II, 286, C 10: report, announce.

regulate, III, 509, 1, 7: corruption of, riddle it.

reid, v., V, 200 a, after 50: advise.

reif, reiff, III, 365 b; 471, note ‡; V, 198 b, after 52: robbery.

reign, II, 8, 1: for rhyme; range ? or rein, as 9, b 1.

reik, smoke. See reek.

reill, reel.

reiver, rever, riever, III, 472, 6; 473, 22: robber. See reaver.

rejoyfull, IV, 173, 7: rejoicing.

remeid, II, 367, 42; 371, 13; IV, 405, 49; 428, 7: remedy.

remorse, III, 209, 10; 231, 94: compassion.

remoued, II, 58, 4: agitated.

renisht, renisht them to ride of twoe good renisht steeds, II, 52, 8; 53, 42 (42 emended from, on tow good renish, in conformity with 8): should have some such meaning as accoutred, but a derivation is not to be made out. Qy. [ha]renisht, harnessed?

renown, spake wi renown, IV, 348, 11: force of authority (of prestige), or, with the air of a person of repute.

repair, II, 163, 18: resort to? fix upon? (probably nonsense for rhyme).

require, II, 427, 6: ask for. (Other texts, inquire.)

reset, IV, 281 a: harboring.

respect, in respect, III, 364 b: considering.

rest, pret. of rest, IV, 424, 12.

restore, IV, 425, 8: restore, because the morning-gift would revert to the father and be at his disposition, no son having been born.

retour, IV, 91, note †: return.

returned, III, 356, 33: turned away.

reuelle, I, 328, 51, 52: festivity.

rever, III, 458 b; IV, 472, 11: robber. See reaver.

reues, III, 68, 254: bailiffs. See reeve.

rewe, be rewe, II, 479, 15: in a row, one after another, each of the whole class. See rawe.

rewth, III, 28, 136: pity.

ribless kiln, I, 18, F 11: the ribs of a kiln for drying grain are the cross-beams, on which were laid the “stickles,” or short pieces of wood, to support a layer of straw (or hair-cloth, or bricks) on which the grain was placed. It would of course be impossible to dry grain on a ribless kiln.

rid, ried, red.

riddle, II, 184, 5, 8, 11, 18; 186, 1; 187, 2, 8; 196, e 1, 7: resolve. riddle my riddle, 187, 2, 8: resolve my dilemma. read my rede, 186, 1, is probably corrupted from riddle my riddle; cf. 187, 2, 8.

ried, ride.

rien, V, 161, 9; 162, B 6: riven.

riever, reiver, rever, IV, 84, 8; 195, C 3: robber. See reaver.

rig, rigg, riggin, ridge.

rig, rigg, of land, I, 19, 9; II, 152, 11; V, 164, 16; rig-length, III, 273, 23: a measure of land 600 feet by 15, containing 9000 square feet. Donaldson.

riggin, III, 459, 5: ridge.

right, III, 356, 19: right off, directly.

rigland, land under the plough, and so in rigs, ridges. rigland shire, II, 132, 32: a shire of such land (?).

rin, rine, rean, V, 221, 15: run.

ring, plural, II, 285, 16 f.: misprint in Scott?

ring (dancing), II, 104, 23; so, take me to the middel o the ring, V, 273, 12.

ring, knocked at the, with the, ring, II, 187, 12; 201, 2; 459, 10; III, 106, 4; 250, 11. rappit wi a, II, 462, 10. rapped on the, V, 293 b, 10. pulled at a, II, 490, D b 9. tinkled at the, II, 196 b, 4; 251, 4; 266, 7; 267, 9; 393, 11; 475, K 6: the hammer of a doorknocker. But, perhaps, in the case of tinkling, the ring may have been gently drawn up and down or struck against the projecting bow or rod of a door-handle (often wound with a spiral), an operation which, when vigorously performed, is described as risping or rasping.

ring (game), to ride at the ring, III, 448, A 3: to attempt, while at full gallop, to carry off, on the point of a rod, a ring suspended on a cross-beam resting on two upright posts. Jamieson.

ring and the ba, IV, 257, 4; 354, A b 1, 2: a game in which a ring was thrown up, and a ball was to be thrown through before the ring fell. Dr. W. Gregor. The rantin lassie plays at this, IV, 354.

ringle-tree, V, 112, B b 11: probably the huge block of wood used for scutching flax and mangling clothes. An old game-keeper tells me that he has heard the word and so understands it. When not in use for beating flax, the beetle and tree-block were used by the women to mangle their clothes after washing. W. Walker.

ripe, reap, rype, III, 160, 16; 163, 83, 84; V, 306, 9: search, rummage, clear or clean out, rifle.

rise, III, 332, 2: branch.

rise==raise: III, 513 b, 4. pret. rose, 514 a, 5. See ryse.

rise, pret. of rise, III, 369, 17.

rise, did on anchor rise so high, III, 344, 34: said of a ship in full sail; no apparent sense. (ride in B c, g, 347, 34; upon an anchor rose so high in h, 349, 34.)

rispen, fine rispen kame, II, 225, J 2: keen, sharp, risping, rasping? or, p. p., filed? (This passage is variously corrupted in different versions.)

ritted, II, 295, B b 4, 22: stuck, stabbed.

rive, rave, reave, pret. of rive, tear, V, 256, 13. p. p. II, 465, 4, 6, 8.

rive up, I, 303, 7: plough up, tear up.

riued, I, 284, 9: arrived, travelled.

river, III, 364 b: robber. See reaver.

river-comb, red, II, 216, A 19: is river a corruption of ivory? In B 2, 4, it is a tabean brirben kame. H 1, brown berry comb. J 2, fine rispen kame: fine-filed (?). All seem to be badly corrupted.

rook, roke, IV, 84, 14; 85, 4; 86, 6; 87, 4; V, 254 a, 4: distaff.

rocked, rocket, roked, II, 191, 24; 195, 33: smoked.

rod, III, 8, 21: a bier was extemporized by taking rods from bushes for spakes, spokes, or bars.

roddins, II, 408, 19, 20; 409 f., 21, 23: berries of mountain ash. (But the berries are said to grow on yonder thorn, 409, 21.)

rode, rood.

roelle-bone, I, 326; 6. royal bone, I, 466 f., 10, 33; royal ben, I, 478 f., 12, 46: interpreted variously, without satisfaction. See rewel-boon, Professor Skeat’s note to Chaucer’s Sir Thopas, v. 2068. Hertzberg suggests Reval bone, mammoth tooth, fossil ivory, imported into western Europe via Reval, Chaucer Nachlese, in Jahrbuch für Rom. und Engl. Litteratur, VIII, 164 f.; and Prof. Skeat (with a different derivation), ivory of the walrus, citing Godefroy, “rochal, ivoire de morse.”

roke, III, 298, 51: reek, vapor.

roke, V, 254 a, 4: rock, distaff. See rock.

roked, rocket, rocked, II, 191, 24; 193, 21; 195, 33; V, 224, 19: smoked.

rom, V, 304 b, 2: room.

rood, III, 93, 28: rod (a measure).

rood, four and thirty stripes comen beside the rood, II, 59, 29: referring to the scourging of Jesus (?).

room ye roun, II, 89, 29: move round so as to make room.

roome, III, 36, 44: companye (the reading in b).

roos, rous, reas, v., IV, 69, 21; 378, 2; 379, 2; 384, 2; V, 275, 2: to praise, laud, boast.

roose, n., IV, 503, 19: rose.

roosing, rosin, rousing, n., IV, 378, 1; 379, 1; 383, 1; V, 275, 1: praising, boasting, bragging.

root, I, 304, F 5: the end of a rafter, resting on a wall. ring of an auld tree-root, I, 304, F 4: hoops are sometimes made of tree-roots, which are very tough; the point here is the size of the fingers which such a ring would fit.

root of his sword, III, 268, 11: a blunder; see note, III, 275.

rose-garlonde, III, 75, 398: a “garland” appears to have been attached to the yerdes (397), and every shot outside of the garland was accounted a failure. The garland as the limit of allowable shots is mentioned at 93, 31. This must have been an extemporized ring of twigs in the latter case, and was so, perhaps, in the other, for it is likely that the term would become conventional, and mean, as Mr C. J. Longman suggests, nothing more than a disk with circular rings, such as survive to this day in archery targets.

rosin, V, 275, 11: boasting. See roosing.

rosses, roses.

rottens, rottons, I, 466, 8; V, 124, 6: rats.

roudes, II, 284, 4: haggard (subst., an old wrinkled woman).

roun, rown, round, III, 199, 28; 356, 19: whisper.

rounin(g), n., V, 256, 10: whispering.

round, so it went round, IV, 146, 7: so much it came to (?).

round tables, II, 343, 1: a game.

roundlie, I, 104, 6: at a good pace.

rous, roos, reas, IV, 379, 2; V, 275, 2: boast of.

rousing, n., boasting. See roosing.

rout, n., III, 160, 22: blow.

rout, n., IV, 113, 3; 114, D 1: row, brawl, disturbance.

rout, v., II, 318 a; IV, 378, 5; 380, 11: roar. IV, 6, 15; V, 250, 14: bellow.

route, rowte, rowght, III, 23, 22; 26, 88; 180, 9; 207, 33: company, band, crowd. In III, 297, 33: perhaps mêlée, affray.

routh, I, 298, 1: plenty.

row, rough.

row, rowe, I, 71, 61; 80, 33; 441, 6, 8; II, 443, 35; 448, 39; IV, 267, 9; 269 b, 9: roll. pret. and p. p. rowed, rowd, rowit, rowt, I, 441, 7, 9; IV, 274, 15; V, 106, D 7: rolled, wound.

rowan, rowon, rown, tree, II, 504, 18: mountain-ash.

rowe, on a, III, 67, 229; 117, 24: in a line, file.

row-footed, III, 473, 25: rough-footed.

rowght, III, 297, 33: company. ryall in rowghte, kingly among men. See route.

rowght, wrought.

rown, I, 312, 17, 22: rowan, mountain-ash. See rowan.

rown, roun, round, III, 356, 19: whisper.

rowt, pret., V, 106, D 7: rolled. See row.

rowte. See route.

rowynde, III, 297, 33: round.

royal bone, royal ben. See roelle-bone.

royaltye, III, 411, 5: splendid display, or the like.

rub-chadler, rub-chandler, I, 285 f., 31, 43: rubbish-barrel. See I, 279.

rudd, n., I, 272, 13, 20, 24: (redness) complexion, face.

rudd, v., IV, 28, 34: redden.

rudely, III, 162, 49: sturdily.

rue, III, 220, 6: cause to rue.

rugge, I, 243, 2: back.

rule, III, 98, 32: going on, taking on, noisy bewailing.

run, IV, 289, F 6: issue, outcome (said to be slang).

run, red runs i the rain, II, 304, 4: gives no sense, and so of Scott’s reading at this place, the red sun’s on the rain. It will be observed that the day has not dawned.

run a reel, II, 108, 17: gone through, danced.

rung, I, 202, A 12; III, 161, 43; IV, 444, 20: staff, pike-staff.

rung (of the noise of a cannon), n., IV, 52, 14: ring; appears to have been altered, for rhyme, from ring, which is in two other copies.

rusty, V, 151, E 6: surly.

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

ryght, straight, directly, ryȝth, V, 283, 14: aright.

rynde, be rynde and rent, III, 297, 42: flayed., (rynde should perhaps be riven.)

rype, v. See ripe.

ryse, III, 22, 2; 23, 20: rouse. See rise.

rysse, I, 328, 39: probably rising ground, elevation (compare mountayne, playne, delle, hill, in 38, 40-42: not twig, brushwood).

rysyt, I, 242, 11: riseth (old imperat. pl.), rise.

S

s, se, as sign of the future tense. I’se, III, 488, 19; IV, 428, 18. thou’s,’se, IV, 3, 31; 12, C 6. he’s, hee’se, II, 442, 16; IV, 146, 6. we’s, I, 467, 29; IV, 181, D 14. ye’se, IV, 22, 18; 109, 7. yow’s, IV, 504, 36. they’s, IV, 486, 32. itt’s, II, 443, 22. heart’s, IV, 181, 17. Jocky Ha’s, III, 487, 6. thy dinner’s, III, 489, 41. (The s being the initial letter of sal, it would be better to write I s’, etc.) s attached to the verb, be’s, III, 160, 9. We even find shals, I, 481, 28.

-s (-is), of the genitive, omitted, III, 97 f., 8, 23, 28; 111, 39. moder son, III, 98, 24, 27, as in A. S.

’s, II, 375, 19: of his.

-s (-se), termination of the 2d pers. sing, of the pres. indic. thou was, I, 222, E 11; seese þou, I, 328, 38-42; þou commes, 44. thou’s welcome, III, 488, 24. shals thou, I, 481, 28. istow, 175 f., D 4, 10, 16. See I, 130, 5; 327, 20; 328 f., 56, 58; 341, 13; 411, 4; 413, 3; II, 54, 57; 148 f., 12, 20; 218, 8, 10, 16; III, 97, 11, 15; 99, 62; 110, 23. Etc., etc.

-s, -es, -ys, termination of pres. indic. plur. cods that sleeps, cheeks gars, bairns has, lies men, raches rynnys, fowles synges, I, 68, 29; 115, C 3; 130, F 11; 327, 16; 329, 59; 342, 40; 345, 39; II, 32, P 4. So, is, was, I, 68, 27; 69, 43; 255, 3-5; 342, 30; 344, 28; II, 71, 13, 14. Etc.

saa, pret., saw.

sabelline, I, 221, D 8, 9: sable.

sackless, sakeless, saikless, II, 145, 22, 23; 153, 19, 21; III, 437, 27; IV, 373, 9: innocent.

sad, III, 67, 215; 357, 40: steadfast, firm, stanch.

saep, v., III, 269, D 3: soap.

saerd, p. p., IV, 494, 33: served.

safe, II, 160, 4, 6, 7: save.

safeguard, V, 66, 11: riding-skirt.

safer, V, 283, 21: saffron.

safly, IV, 18, 10: softly.

saft (of sleep), III, 489, 11: lightly.

saikless. See sackless.

sain, I, 351, 36, 48: cross, bless. p. p. sained, I, 354, 26. ill sained, pret., I, 350, 25. well saint, p. p., III, 488, 37.

saint, III, 488, 37: blest. See sain.

saint, v., disappear. See sainted.

St Mary knot(t), III, 465, 26, 27: a triple knot (see 462, note *).

sainted, saunted, I, 331, C 8; 333 b, 8: disappeared.

saipy-sapples, I, 303, D 5 (the right reading): soap-suds in which clothes have been washed (probably meaning the strang of V, 213, 5).

sair, sore. I, 100, 9: lamentable.

sair, sare, saer, sere, I, 301, 2; II, 71, 15; 105, 9; 408, 1, 2; IV, 248, 10; V, 105, B 3, 11; 239, 34: serve.

sairly, IV, 358, 19: rhyme word; much is all the meaning.

sait, set.

sakeless. See sackless.

sale, V, 228, 19: sold.

sall, shall, pret. sould.

sally rod, III, 252, 12: sallow, willow.

salten, adj., IV, 452, 6; 475, 6: salt.

salued, III, 61, 102: greeted.

Saluter, III, 250, 3: corrupted from Sir Hugh (see other versions of the ballad).

same, alle in same, III 91 a: all, together. vppon the same, III, 361, b 33: again, after the same fashion (?).

san, sane, sayn, syne, V, 214 f., 4, 9; 221, 24; 242 a, 7; 257, 14: since.

sanchoþis, of his bryk, III, 13, 3: apparently the fork of the breeches, but the etymology is to me inexplicable.

sang, pret. of sing, to singe, II, 155, 37, 38.

sanna, shall not.

sarbit, II, 132, 33, 34: exclamation of sorrow.

sare, serve. See sair. sare a man a wear, I, 301, 2: serve, supply, a man (of) with his wear, clothing.

sark, I, 15, 8, 17; 16, B 8, 18, C 6, 18, etc.; 387 f., A 5, 8, 9; B 5, 6, 7: shirt, shift.

sarsenent, IV, 312, 8: sarcenet.

sassaray, II, 209, E 5: imitation of the sound of church-bells. See céserará.

sat, saut, I, 310, 4: salt.

sate, sit a gude sate, a silly sate, IV, 469, 8: occupy, be in, a good, pitiable, position.

sathe, I, 333, appendix 1, wrongly written (or read) for sagh (or something equivalent), saw. (th in this piece very frequent for gh.)

saugh, III, 459, 15; IV, 95, 2: willow.

saun faile, V, 297 b: assuredly.

saunted, sainted, I, 331, C 8; 335 b, 8: disappeared.

saut, sat, IV, 258, 26: salt.

saute, III, 327 b: assault, attack.

sauyour, see (saw) my sauyour, III, 97, 7: attended mass, or, took the sacrament.

saving tree, III, 398, D 4: corruption of savin tree.

saw, v., I, 427, 13, 15; 428, 11: sow.

sawe, p. p. of see, III, 59, 60.

sawe, speech.

sawten, v., 3 pl., III, 100, 63: assault, attack.

sawtrye, I, 328, 49: psaltery, a stringed instrument.

say, II, 87, 30: try.

say, saye, pret. of see, III, 111, 34; 309, 44; V, 79, 35; 80, 47.

sayn, san, sane, syne, V, 239, 34; 254, 9, 11, 13, 22; 257, 15: since, then.

sayne, I, 70, 19, strong participle of say. In, I yow sayne, III, 297, 46, an auxiliary, do or can, must be omitted, or else we must read saye, as in 32, 34, 62, 65.

scad, I, 102, 12: reflection (of the color of). In other texts, shade, shadow, I, 490, 21; 491, 20; 492, 12.

scaith, skaith, scath, n., III, 162, 52, 66: hurt.

scaith, skaith, v., III, 5, D 8; 6, 17: hurt.

scale, I, 429, 11: a drinking-vessel. (Icelandic skál, Danish skaal, a bowl for drinking.)

scale, III, 403 a: scatter, disperse. III, 393, 6: expel, drive away. scaling wide, III, 301, D 2: scattering, covering a good deal of ground.

scales, V, 211, 25, 31-34: discs worn as ornaments on the head.

scanct, I, 336 a, last line but one: shone, gleamed.

scarson, II, 434, 29: scarcely up to.

scart, I, 301, 5, 6; 303, D 2: scratch, scrape.

scath, scaith, n., I, 284, 18: harm.

scathe, awayte me scathe, III, 66, 202; wayte me skathe, wait me scath, III, 83, 202; 86, 202: lie in wait, seek an opportunity to do me harm.

scathe away, I, 348 f., 5, 8: expel, get rid of? See skaith, I, 397, 14.

scaur, Braidscaur, III, 5, D 2, 6: a bare and broken place on a steep hill; also, cliff, precipice. Broadspear, 6, 2, 5, is probably a corruption.

Scere-thorsday, I, 243, 1: Maundy Thursday, Thursday before Easter. (Icelandic Skíri-þorsdagr.)

schane, pret., shone.

scharpper, compar., V, 283, 6, 16: sharper. V, 283, 8: emend to strenger.

schele, scheel, II, 164, 2; 335, N 5; IV, 328, A b, after 7: school. See schule.

schet, schette, pret. of schote, shoot, III, 13 f., 13, 15.

schill. See shill.

scho, II, 146, 19; IV, 418, 2: she.

schon, shon, shone, V, 79, 27: shoes. See sheen.

schoote his horsse away, froo, III, 297, 32, 33: discarded, sent off.

schrewde (arrow), III, 13, 6: accursed, pernicious, baneful.

schule, scheel, squeel, II, 175, 16; IV, 327 f., 2, 5; 329, D d 7: school.

schunte besides, beside, III, 361, b, c 38, 41: turn aside from.

schylde, imperat., V, 283, 14: shield, protect.

sckill, I, 295, 28: reason, judgment. See skill.

sclasps, twa lang sclasps between his eyes, IV, 489, 25: clasps. Span would answer were it not that there are but three sclasps between the shoulders. (In L 18, of the same ballad, II, 394, there are three women’s spang (span) between his brows.) If sclasps were taken in the sense of fathom, the space between the arms extended, this would suit the shoulders well enough, but the absurd disproportion in relation to the eyes would remain. Probably yard or ell has dropped out in 25⁴. (yards three in L 18.)

sclavin, I, 190 a: pilgrim’s cloak.

scob(b), scope, scoup, II, 313, 26; 316, 10: gag.

scop, III, 138, 9: (scalp) pate, head.

scope, scoup, scob, II, 312, 29; V, 229, 33: gag.

score. See cor.

scorn, skorne, II, 105, 20; III, 113, 77: shame, humiliation, mortification. give the, this, a, scorn, III, 111, 12; 360, 23; 362, 35; 363, D 14; 367, 49; IV, 201, 23; 224, 24, 25; 254, 25; 357, B 6, 10; 358, 16; 465, 35, 36: put to shame, subject to humiliation (especially, by showing a preference as to marriage, or by slighting a woman). So, playd you the scorn, IV, 483, 25; get the scorn, II, 367, 47; IV, 221, 16; 222, 18, 19; 227, 16, 17; 228, 19; 230, 24.

scort, I, 334, 4: short.

scoup, n., V, 229, 33: gag. See scob, scope.

scoup, v., II, 70, 15: move hastily from one place to another, fly.

scouth, III, 161, 42: room, range.

scray, III, 116, 4, as to form suggests scrag, scrog; but the meaning required is, branches, branchage, or even spray.

scread, II, 425, A 6: shred, bit, piece.

screeded (or scrieded), pret., II, 212, 13: rent.

screeking, screehing, II, 485, 17: screeching.

screfë, screffë, shryvë, III, 111 ff., 27, 33, 38-42, etc.: sheriff.

screighed, IV, 174, 20: shrieked.

scrieded. See screeded.

scrime, IV, 10, 2; serime, 15, d 2: seem to be corrupt; possibly, crime; pursuing the crime for pursuing the criminal.

scrodeley, V, 79, 14: shrewdly, rudely, ungraciously.

scroggs, scrogs, III, 3, 12; 5, C 3; 7, E, F 11; 9, G 10, H 13; 10, I 5; IV, 496, 8: stunted bushes, or perhaps trees; underwood. “Scroggs, blackthorn.” Halliwell, from a MS. scrogg-bush, V, 10, 4 (high enough here to hang the pair on).

scroggy, scroggie, IV, 174, 10; 273, 14: covered with stunted bushes; “abounding in underwood,” Halliwell.

scug, to scug his deadly sin, II, 283, 22: shade, screen. (Icel. skyggja, overshadow; Dan. skygge, Swed. skugga, shade.) expiate, W. Scott.

scuttle-dishes, II, 467, 43: the larger dishes, in which things are served, in distinction from those out of which things are eaten (T. Davidson); platters.

se, sign of the future tense. See s.

se, pret. of see. See see.

sea-ground, I, 448, 11: bottom of the sea.

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

seal, IV, 409, 5: (A. S. sǽl) happiness, blessing. gude seal that it sae spread, II, 420, 1: (happiness result from its spreading?) quod faustum sit!

seale, III, 412, 24: sail.

sear, sair, IV, 456 f., 15, 19: sore.

sear, V, 223, 8: sure.

sear, serve. See sair.

search her, IV, 446, 2: look her up, see about her, overhaul (should, perhaps, be seek, visit).

seat, V, 274 b, 1: sight.

seck, I, 15, 15: sack.

Second person of pret. indic. without termination, thou made, thou did, thou came, etc., I, 221, C 9; 222, E 10-17; 434, 27; II, 148 f., 12, 14, 20; 218, 16. So, thou will, schall, thou’ll, well thow, I, 130, 4; 221, C 10, 11; III, 110, 24; 112, 48.

securly, III, 98, 34: surely.

see (videre), pret. say, saye, sey, se, see, seed. pret. se, see, I, 283, 1; 295, 27; II, 46, 40; 245, 27; III, 24, 47; 27, 99; 97, 19. p. p. se, III, 27, 102.

see, save and se(e), II, 44, 6, 15; 52 f., 10, 18, 44; III, 65, 177; IV, 198, G 4; 455, 4: protect (tueri).

see, well mot ye fare and see, III, 266, 3: as here used, see well would have to mean, see prosperity; but apparently there is a confusion of well may you fare and God see you, protect you (as in, save and see). In B 3, p. 268, weel may ye save might mean, may God save you, but far better, in the next line, is not in concatenation, and we shall be obliged to understand weel as good fortune. The passage must be corrupted. well may you sit and see, lady, well may you sit and say, II, 290, 15: (corrupted) nonsense.

see, sigh and see, IV, 193, 14: apparently a doublet of sigh, as ne of neigh and nigh, he of high.

see, n., V, 283, 5, 15: sea.

seed, pret. of see, IV, 151, 6.

seek, seke, I, 75, 46; II, 146, 18, 20; 171, 16; III, 68, 255; V, 256 b, 14: search. I, 202, 16; 204, 11; V, 211, 19, 23: ask. socht, II, 30, 8: asked for. partic. seek and, seeking.

seek in, V, 180, 13, 15: ask admission.

seeke to, unto, III, 444, 5: resort to.

seel o downs, IV, 218, 12: chelidonium, celandine, mallow-wort.

seely, happy. seely court, I, 315, 12; 507 f., 2, 12: fairy court (as I, 346, 16; elfin court, 351, 30).

seen, I, 504, 7: sun.

seen, I, 183, 9, 15; II, 166, 20; 257, 30; IV, 135, 25: soon. seener, IV, 262, 31.

seen==syne, afterwards.

seene, I seene, V, 53, 105: ellipsis of have.

seep, II, 148, 10: ooze, leak.

seeth, III, 281, 7: sooth.

seke, III, 68, 255; 100, 76: search. See seek.

seke, to, III, 110, 14: at a loss.

seker, III, 67, 215: firm, resolute.

sekirlye, I, 327, 18: certainly, truly.

seld, IV, 2, 2: sold.

selerer, III, 61, 91, 93; 67, 233: the monk who has charge of the provisioning of a convent.

selke, V, 283, 21: silk.

selkie, silkie, II, 494 a: seal.

selle, I, 326, 6: saddle.

semblant, semblaunce, semblaunte, semblaunt, III, 57, 22; 79, 22; 82, 22; 85, 22: mein, look.

sembled, III, 160, 15: met. (b, asembled.)

sen, sent.

sen, II, 32, Q 2; 110, 2; 272, 10, 12: since.

send, sene, II, 360, 10; 365 f., (10), 17, 18: a thing sent. II, 109, 15: the messengers sent to fetch the bride.

send, pret., I, 204, D 3: sent.

sendered, IV, 229, 12, 16: sundered, parted.

senes, IV, 315, 2; 316, 25: sends, messages. See send.

sent, III, 75, 384: sendeth.

sent, sent I me, III, 76, 414: assent.

sentence past, IV, 514, 6: order given.

sere, serve. See sair.

serre, II, 59, 29: sair, sore? (MS. serrett).

serundad, surunded, V, 262, No 225, A 3; 263, 4: surrounded.

servit, II, 371, 5: (serviette) table-napkin.

seruyd him of bred and cloth, I, 241, 1: for would make an easier reading than of, which will have to be understood, on terms of (receiving food and clothing).

set, V, 80, 57: sitteth.

set, II, 168, 1; 282, 7; 463, 19, 25; III, 216, 29; IV, 135, 20; 204, 9; 331, 18: sit, become, suit. set a petticoat, IV, 331, 18: became (looked well in) the petticoat. See become.

set, p. p., III, 37, 61: fixed, determined. See set for, below.

set her brest (and swom), II, 459, 8: brought her breast to a level with the water. (Elsewhere, smoothed.)

set, set a mill, I, 134, O, 8: to stop the machinery by turning off the water from the wheel.

set, set the monke to-fore the brest, III, 67, 223: assailed, shot at.

set (sete, and wrongly sat) a dynt on, vppon, of, III, 309, 42, 45, 46: inflicted a blow, stroke.

set by, IV, 11, 15, 20: lay aside, cease, let be.

set for, IV, 229, 12, 16: set upon, bent upon.

set them up in temper wood, IV, 222, 20: corrupt. See note, 231, D 20.

sete, n., III, 63, 133: suit, dress.

sett, III, 340, 31: take aim.

settle by, IV, 219, 13: set you aside (?).

settled, gun, III, 341, 44: levelled, adjusted.

sevent, II, 75, 7: seventh.

several, III, 224, 13: variously.

sey, pret. of see, V, 80, 41.

seyn, syen, syne, then, afterwards.

seyte, neys seyte, V, 80, 39: pretty sight!

sez I, V, 304, b, 4: say(s) I.

sha, shaw, V, 267, 10: show.

shack, shake, IV, 325, 9; 326, 7: shake straw so that the corn may fall out (?).

shade, shadow, scad, I, 101, 13; 490, 21; 491, 20; 492, 12: reflection (of the color of). We have, shaddoowes greene, in one copy of Adam Bell, see III, 32, 48.

shaft their arrows on the wa, IV, 3, 16: so in both copies, unintelligible; corrected by Scott to sharp.

shaftmont, shathmont, I, 330 f., A 2, B 2, C 2; 332, E 2: the measure from the top of the extended thumb to the extremity of the palm, six inches. (A. S. “ix. scæfta munda.” Lex. Ath.)

shake. See shack.

shals thou, I, 481, 28. See s as sign of the future tense.

shambo, II, 376, 26: shamoy, chamois.

shame, the, II, 70, 15; III, 464, 11; 466 f., 44, 52, 58: euphemism for the Devil. shame a ma, III, 490, 15, 27, 29: devil a bit.

shamefu reel, II, 110, 28: the first reel that is danced with the bride, her maiden, and two young men; called the Shame Spring or Reel, because the bride chooses the tune. Buchan.

shames death, II, 60, 41; III, 330, 14: death of shame, shameful death.

shamly, III, 80, 337: shamefully.

shane, pret. of sheen, shine, IV, 469 a, 11.

shank, IV, 37, A 6, B 8: the projecting point of a hill, joining it with the plain.

shapen, III, 79, 81, 85, 50: devised, ordained.

share, I, 388, B 7; IV, 416, 17: cutting, portion.

shathmont. See shaftmont.

shaw, shawe, I, 422, 3; III, 91, 1; 97, 1; V, 250, 25: wood, thicket. See wode shawe. In Teviotdale shawe is “a piece of ground which becomes suddenly flat at the bottom of a hill or steep bank.” Jamieson. So, perhaps, V, 250, 25.

shaw, sha, show.

shay, V, 110, 8, 9: shy.

she, III, 318, 4: spurious Highland dialect, representing he, they, and even Highlander, for which she, her, hernanesell have become a nickname. (The Gaelic having no word for the neuter it, the masc. e and fem. i do duty for the absent form. i in some Highland districts is largely used in speaking of sexless objects.)

sheaf, shefe, of arrows, III, 3, 5; 62, 131: bundle of twenty-four. Cf. II, 168, 5; III, 13, 9.

shealin, shiel, shielin, shielen, shieling, shield, IV, 258, 23; 259, 17; 260, 16; 262, 27, 29; 266, 17: herdsman’s hut.

shear, III, 307, 6, 8: several. (Scot. seir.)

sheave, shive, n., I, 470, 32; II, 358, 27; 367, 44; V, 16, 13, 14; 18, 3, 4; 219, 25: slice.

sheave, v., IV, 476, 7: slice.

sheave-wisps, V, 213, 5: wisps of straw from a sheaf, put by peasants into their shoes for more warmth.

shed, II, 116, 27; 118, 21: a piece of ground on which corn grows, so called as being separate from adjacent land.

shed by (hair), II, 129, 26, 27: parted, threw off from the face on both sides. shed back, II, 135, 39 (shook back, 135, 38).

shedd, pret. See sheede.

shee, shie, I, 68, 9, 12; III, 271, F 9; 384, 9: shoe.

sheed, V, 251, 36: sheet.

sheede, I, 273, 43, 44: shed, spill.

sheen, sheene, sheyne, I, 490, 7; II, 52, 5, 11; 372, A b 2; III, 24, 48; 91, 1; 97, 1: shining, bright, beautiful. (bright is also beautiful, I, 285, 25; 293, 2.) In, shawes been sheene, III, 91 and 97, 1; shadowes sheene, III, 24, 48, we must take sheene in the secondary sense, beautiful.

sheen, shene, I, 176, 2, 7, 12; II, 395, 17; IV, 380, 26; 416, 12; V, 306, 2, 3: shoes. See schon.

sheen, shene, v., III, 392, 9, 10: shine. pret. shane.

sheene, n., II, 183, 13: brightness, splendor (evidently a word of Percy’s here).

shefe. See sheaf.

shend, III, 27, 114; 63, 140; 123, 13: put to shame, injure, destroy.

shent(e), p. p., III, 27, 114: blamed. III, 75, 396; 123, 13: hurt, etc.

shete, shoot. shete a peny, III, 97, 10, 11: shoot for a penny-stake. pret. shet, III, 97, 12; shyt, III, 26, 83.

sheu, IV, 289, F 9: show.

sheugh, II, 238, 6; V, 108, B 1: trench, ditch, furrow.

shew, I, 299, a 13; II, 332, J 6: sew.

shewed, III, 450 b: represented.

sheyne. See sheen.

shie, shoe. See shee.

shiel, shielen, shieling, shield. See shealin.

shill, schill, I, 16, 1; 17, E 1; II, 254, 10; 382, 28; 383, 29; 386, 24; IV, 200, 2; 201, 1: shrill.

shimmerd, glittered.

shin’d, pret. of shine, IV, 240, 2.

shirife, shirrfe, shrife, sheriff. See screfe.

shirrs, shears.

shive, sheave, V, 219, 25: slice.

shock, v., IV, 106 b: collide, encounter.

shoder, V, 221, 10: shoulder.

shogged, III, 332, 14: moved away.

shon, schon, shone, shoon(e), shoun, I, 69, 52; 71, 42; 73, 64; 78, 39; III, 65, 193; V, 83, 55: shoes.

shook (sword over the plain), II, 393, K 14: the MS. has shook, not strook, but strook must at any rate be meant (cf. 380, A 32). See II, 378 a.

shooled, I, 184, 10; V, 210, 10: shovelled. See shule.

shoon(e), shoun, shoes. See shon.

shoon, shoun, soon.

shoot at sun and moon, III, 201, 21; to the sun or the moon, III, 203, 18: they wish to have no mark measured, are ready to take any distance.

shope, III, 59, 64: created.

shopen, shapen, III, 82, 50: devised, ordained.

short-bread, V, 262, 22: “a thick cake of fine flour and butter, to which caraways and orange-peel are frequently added.” Jamieson. (A sweet short-bread is still well known in Scotland.)

shorten her, I, 478, 14: while away the time for herself; cf. Germ, kürzen, kurzweilen. See shortsome.

shortlye and anone, III, 23, 10: speedily.

shortsome, adj., II, 371, 2: enlivening, cheering.

shortsome, v., II, 370, 13, 14: divert (while away the time, opposed to langsum). See shorten.

shot, o wheat, IV, 459, 2: field, patch.

shot, V, 76, 9; 127, 3: reckoning. trust me one shott, V, 15, 22.

shot, II, 256, K 2==schawit, looked at(?).

shot, p. p., IV, 458, 3: shod.

shot-window, II, 122, 5; 141, 10; 177, 24; 230, 9; 322, 7; 357, 8; 368, 3; 375, 22; 376, 37, 40; III, 23, 22; 105, 20; IV, 135, 19; 151, 6; 153, E 6; 154, 11; 428, 3; 493, 12; V, 248, 8. II, 141, a princess looks out at a shot-window; II, 368, a lady draws her shot-window in her bower, harps and sings; II, 376, a knight jumps to a shot-window to escape; III, 105, Robin Hood glides out of a shot-window; IV, 135, a queen looks oer her shot-window; IV, 493, a knight goes in at a shot-window.—“Windows called shots, or shutters of timber with a few inches of glass above them.” Wodrow’s History, II, 286. But the shot-window of recent times is one turning on a hinge, above, and extensible at various angles by means of a perforated bar fitting into a peg or tooth. Donaldson, Jamieson’s Dictionary, 1882, notes that in the west of Scotland a bow-window is called an out-shot window. A bow-window would be more convenient in some of the instances cited.

shott, V, 15, 22: reckoning (oddly used here as of an ale-house.) See shot.

shouir, shower, III, 385: throe, pang. See showr.

shoulder, looked over the left, III, 339, 7; 368, 11; 369, 13, etc.: apparently a gesture of vexation or of indignant perplexity. See the passages cited at V, 286 a.

shoun, shun, shoes. See shon.

shoun, soon.

shour, sure.

shourn, V, 225, 5: shoulders,

shouther, showther, shuder, I, 21 b, 3; 302, A 7; 303, 9; 331, D 2; 332, F 2; IV, 297, 10: shoulder.

showded, V, 124, C 15: swung.

shower. See showr.

shower o his best love, I, 476, J 4: share, or cut, of his best loaf.

showing-horne, II, 437, 78: shoeing-horn, a pun on the beggar’s horn, whether as a means of sponging liquor, or of helping one to take in drink.

showne, pret., III, 37, 84: showed.

showr, shower, shouir, I, 68, 32; II, 105, 3; III, 385, 5; 386, 7: throe, paroxysm of pain.

shradds, III, 91, 1: coppices (Halliwell, perhaps conjecturally). The equivalent shard, he says, is in Yorkshire an opening in a wood. (A. S. scréadian, cut, dock?)

shrewde, shrewed, a term of vituperation; originally, cursed. thou art a shrewed dettour, III, 61, 104; thou arte a shrewde hynde, III, 64, 164: perhaps ironical (devilish pretty). shrewde wyle, III, 65, 181: clever.

shroggs, III, 93, 28: rods, wands (serving for prickes, marks).

shryuë, III, 70, 287: sheriff. See screfe.

shuder, IV, 493, 8: shoulder. See shouther.

shule, v., IV, 207, 20: shovel. See shooled.

shun, shoun, shoes.

shun, III, 357, 41: better, shunte, as in the other texts, turn off, aside. Shunte is to be understood in 43, 45, 47.

shuped, I, 204, E 2: shipped. (The reading may be sheeped.)

shyt, pret., III, 26, 83: shot.

shyt, imperative, III, 71, 314: shut. p. p., III, 25, 53: shut.

si, so.

siccan, sic, sick, sicke, sicken, such, such a.

siccarlie, III, 492, 27: so as to make all safe. sickerlie, III, 491, 5: securely. III, 491, 12: so as to make certain, make sure of the effect.

siccer, sicker (siccer and honestly), III, 487, 9; IV, 31, B 6: securely, safely.

sich, sick, n., sigh: II, 139, 6; 168, 15; 230, C 1.

sich, sick, v., I, 451, 12; V, 164, D b 10: sigh. pret. sicht, I, 73, 66; III, 453, 2. sikt, II, 241, 8. siched, I, 72, 21. sight, IV, 503 f., 6, 21, 23. pres. p. sichand, sichan, sichin, II, 96, I 3, 4, 6; 471, 13; V, 41, 31; IV, 382, 6.

sichin, n., II, 286, C 10: sighing.

sicht, sight.

sicke, sicken, III, 367, 3; 441, 32; V, 194, 64 (sicken-like): such.

sicker. See siccer.

sickles of ice, ickles of ice, III, 152, 1; 154, f 1: icicles.

side, keeping her flocks on yon side, IV, 323, 1: ellipsis of hill, river, or the like.

side, adj., II, 122, H 7, 8; 407, 9; 409, 15; 466, 37, 38; 469, 38, 39; IV, 165, 15; 283, 12; 285, 4; V, 267, 4: long, and so, probably, IV, 130, 4; 134, 8. I, 80, 12, of stirrup too long, low for the foot (Icel. síðr, demissus). saddle a steed side, IV, 464, 18: wide. wear your boots sae side, I, 428, 8; 429, 5: of boots the tops of which lap a good way over, or perhaps of boots wide at the tops; I, 430, 2. See syde.

side be, mother-in-law side be, II, 71, 11: seems to mean, side by, by his side. Possibly, sud, should, be.

sighan, sighend, pres. p. of sigh.

sight, sikt, pret., IV, 503 f., 6, 21, 23: sighed. See sich, v.

signd, IV, 288, 10: that is, sind. Sind is to wash, rinse; here she has simply wet her lips.

signots, took out the gowd signots, IV, 53, 13: ornaments, whether seals or not, attached to the ears by “grips.” Three sygnets hang at a gold ring, IV, 37, 13; 38, 13, which is taken off in the latter place, and was, therefore, a finger-ring.

sike, syke, II, 238, 6; IV, 3, 28: ditch, trench (watercourse, marshy bottom with a stream in it. Jamieson.) IV, 470, 25: (perhaps) rivulet.

sikt, sighed.

sile, IV, 118, C 3: flow.

silkie, selkie (A. S. seolh), II, 494, 3, 4: seal.

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

silly. silly tin, silly twine, II, 224, 12, 17: simple, mean, of slight value. silly sisters, II, 311, 1: harmless, innocent? silly old man, silly old woman, etc., III, 5 f., 10, 11, 20; 6 f., 9, 10; 9, G 9; 180 f., 3, 8, 9, 19; 271, 8: of a “puir body,” palmer, beggar. V, 129, 1; 130, 1; 131, d 1, e 1-3: of a supposedly simple old man who turns out to be shrewd. V, 253 f., No 203, D 2, 8: (perhaps) spiritless, cowardly. sit a silly sate: see sit.

simmer, II, 261, 10; V, 299, 4; etc.: summer. simmer-dale, II, 261, 8, 9.

simple, III, 163, 72: poor, scant.

sin, III, 281, 7; IV, 260, 17: son.

sin, II, 494, 6; IV, 77, 3; 280, b 22: sun.

sin, sine, syne, I, 16, C 9; 17, 7; 204, E 3; II, 32, 3; 160, 4, 7; 161, 5, 7; III, 433, 11; 436, 9 (?): since (temporal and causal), then. II, 237, 6: when, as in Shakspere after verbs of remembering (Winter’s ale, v, i, 219, etc.). See syne, then.

sin-brunt, V, 224, 19: sun-burnt.

sinder, II, 164 f., 18, 19, 21: sunder.

sindle, II, 261, 8: seldom.

sindry, II, 344, 4: several. IV, 219, A 5: sundry (people).

sine, then, since. See sin and syne.

single, liverie, IV, 261, 5: dress of a plain or inferior man; IV, 334, 11, 12: dress of a private soldier. single man, sodger, soldier-lad, IV, 335, b, c, d 16; 337, f, g 15; 338, h after 15: private.

sinner, V, 254, 12: sooner.

sinsyne, synsyne, I, 227 b; III, 394, J 2; 396, N 2: since, afterwards.

sir, title of parson: III, 217, 49.

sit a sate, IV, 469, 8: maintain or enjoy a position. (You may live comfortably if you are well stocked with cattle, but only in a beggarly or pitiable way with nothing but beauty.) “You shall sit at an easier rent.” Scott’s Redgauntlet, Wandering Willie’s Tale. Falstaff sits at ten pounds a week (his expenses came to that), Merry Wives, I, 3.

sitt, p. p., III, 400, 5: seated.

sitten, sutten, p. p. of sit, II, 273, 37; III, 433, 4.

skail (blood), IV, 373, 13: spill.

skaith, skaeth, n., I, 370, 5; II, 292 f., 8, 18: III, 162, 66: harm. gien the skaeth, II, 364, 36; IV, 465, 35, 36: done a wrong, injury.

skaith, v., III, 371, 21: harm.

skaith frae, v., I, 397, 14: keep from. (A. S. scéadan, Germ. scheiden, O. Eng. shed, part, divide.) See scathe. A skaithie in Scottish is a fence or wall to keep off wind.

skeely, skilly, III, 26, 1: skilful, intelligent.

skeigh, III, 495 b, 23, 24: shy, skittish.

skelp, V, 106, E 6: drub.

skerry, rocky. skerry fell, I, 325, 10: rocky hill.

skerry, skerrie, II, 494: a rock or rocky islet in the sea.

skill, sckill, skylle, reason, discernment, knowledge. a baron of sckill, I, 295, 28: reasonable, of good judgment, etc. that’s but skill, I, 295, 44: reason, something right and proper. the skylle I sall þe telle wharefore, I, 328, 56: the reason why. can skill, little they can skill of their train, etc., II, 445, 62; 450, 67, 69: Icel. kunna skil, to know distinctions, have knowledge. could noe skill of the whisstill heare, IV, 506, 70: perception (that is, literally, could not hear whether there was a whistle or not). had no skill, IV, 213, 3: knew nothing of the matter, or, possibly, had no regard, felt no approbation.

skilly, skeely, II, 97, 21: intelligent, knowing, skilful.

skink, I, 190 a: pour out liquor.

skinkled, II, 183, 19: sparkled.

sklate, II, 293, 15: slate.

skomfishes, III, 433, C 4, 7: stifles (discomfits).

skorne, III, 113, 77: disgrace, humiliation. See scorn.

sky-setting, I, 351, 31: sunset.

skylle. See skill.

skyred, IV, 413, 12, 14: startled, blenched, shrank back.

slack, II, 116, 20; 117, 14; 313, 23; III, 181, 29; 281, 12; 363, note †; IV, 7, 27; 184, 2, 3; 467, 11; V, 250, 25; 262, 19. 1.) a gap or narrow pass between two hills. 2.) low ground, a morass. It is often not possible to determine which is intended. In III, 281, 12, the meaning is morass. Plain ground will suit III, 181, 29. Such terms vary according to locality and time. Cf. slap.

slacke (woe), V, 83, 44: lessen, mitigate.

slade, III, 92, 12: “a valley, ravine, plain.” Halliwell. Cf. slack, slap.

slae, I, 450, 2: sloe.

slap, II, 120, 14; III, 185, 24, 25; V, 228, 26: a narrow pass between two hills (==slack). In III, 185, 24, 25, there is a contrast with glen, the word replacing the slack of III, 181, 29; perhaps, plain ground. IV, 300, 12: a breach in a dyke or wall.

slate, slait, of whetting a sword by passing it over a straw or the ground (Icel. sletta, to slap, or slétta, to level, smooth). has slaited on the strae, II, 273, 30. slate it on the plain, IV, 491, 11. slait it on the plain, V, 235, 32. See strip, stroak, streak, straik, strike.

slawe, p. p. of slay, III, 14, 16, 17; 71, 306. y-slaw, III, 28, 140.

slee, sly.

sleste, slist, III, 70, 292; 79, 146: sliced, split.

slet, pret. of slit, III, 63, 146.

slichting, slighting.

slight, III, 473, 13: demolish. we’ll fecht them, we’ll slight them, IV, 85, 5: make light of (?).

slipe, sleep.

slist, III, 70, 292: sliced, split.

slo, sloe, sloo, slon, I, 210, 9; III, 77, 438; 97, 8; 110, 19: slay. pret. sloughe, III, 308, 25. p. p. slo, slowe, slone, II, 479, 17; III, 35, 22; 77, 428. slawe, y-slaw.

slocken, sloken, IV, 386, 16: quench.

slode, pret. of slide, II, 59, 22: split.

sloe, sloo, I, 210, 9; III, 77, 438: slay. pret. sloughe. p. p. slowe, slone. See slo.

slogan, III, 474, 32: war-cry, gathering word of a clan. Jamieson.

sloken, slocken, III, 473, 14: quench (fire), p. p., IV, 60 b, after 10 (with ellipsis of have).

slough-hounds, IV, 3, 15: sleuth-hounds, blood-hounds (slooth, b, 4, 15).

sloughe, pret. of slo, slay, III, 308, 25.

slowe, p. p. of slo, slay, II, 479, 17.

sma, small. of linen, I, 428, 18; 419, 3; II, 128, 5; 130, 4; 133, D 3; 134, 7; 269, 15; III, 7, E 12: of fine texture. of the blast of a horn, II, 258, 31; small, V, 83, 48: shrill, keen. of wine, I will drain it sma, IV, 476, 8: should mean, strain it fine, or, pour out in a thin stream, run it off gently; the intention seems to be, give but a small quantity.

smeek, IV, 385, 25: smoke.

smiddie, IV, 470, 18: smithy. In smiddy-bour, II, 186, 12, bour for room or workshop is strange.

smirkling, smirkling smile, IV, 117, 3: suppressed.

smit, II, 149, 2: noise, clash.

smithered, III, 268, 17: smothered.

smoldereth, III, 431, 19: smothereth.

smooth, II, 233, 14; V, 167, A 7: pass lightly over. smooth the breast for swimming, see breast.

smore, V, 37, 6: smother.

smotley, V, 79, 15: pleasantly.

snack, IV, 415, 6: quick.

snags, III, 483, 7: protruding remnants of branches hewn off.

sned, II, 274, C 19; 462, 26: cut, lop. (misprinted sued, II, 462.)

sneed, V, 165, 4, 5: snood, fillet for a maiden’s hair.

sneer, IV, 18, 15; 19, 13: snort.

sneeters, V, 213, 10:==snotters, gatherings of snot.

snell, of weather, wind, frost, I, 342, 23; 344, 22; III, 435, 1; IV, 213, 17; 214, 4; V, 99, 2: sharp, keen. of a blast of a horn, III, 195, 7: keen, shrill. of talk, III, 492, 31: sharp, caustic.

snoded, tied with a snood.

snood, V, 306, 4, 5: a fillet with which a maiden’s hair was bound up. See sneed.

snotters, V, 213, 10: gatherings of snot. See sneeters.

soberly, III, 487, 17: quietly, making no noise.

socht, sought, pret., I, 147, 11, 12; II, 30, 8; III, 466, 46: asked for.

sodde, pret., V, 53, 103: seethed, boiled.

solace, I, 328, 53: pleasure. solaces, III, 287, 65: merry-makings, diversions.

soldan, II, 59, 35-37: sultan, any pagan king; hence, giant. See soudan.

Soldanie, Soudonie, V, 199 b, 33; 200 b, 33: Sultan’s people.

solde, I, 326, 4: should.

some, with singular, some clean white sheet, V, 294, 7.

somers, III, 67, 216, 224; 74, 374: sumpter-horses, pack-horses.

sone, at once.

sone so, I, 243, 8: as soon as.

sonsie, II, 370, 16: plump.

soom, soum, sume, swoom, II, 29, 19; III, 394, K 4; IV, 493, 9; 511 b, 4; V, 138, B 6: swim.

soon, III, 440, 13: early. soon at morn, IV, 446, 2: early in the morning.

soone, II, 446, 92: swoon.

sore, as, they mighten a had, III, 441, 26: on whatever hard terms.

sorn, IV, 464, 14: sworn.

sorners, IV, 41, note *; 81 b: sojourners, properly those who take free quarters (such may be expected to make free generally with the property of those upon whom they impose themselves); “forcible intruders, people quartering themselves on tenants, etc., masterful beggars.”