Volume 5 / Part 3 — GLOSSARY (continued 5)

sorowe, sorrow, III, 61, 96; IV, 174, 6; 241 b; V, 28, 55: sorry, sorrowful, sad.

sorraye, II, 209, 9: sorrow.

sorrowful, III, 440, 12: sorry, pitiful.

sorte, III, 128, 97: set.

souce, V, 84, 7: the head, feet and ears of swine boiled and pickled.

soud, sude, should.

soudan, sowdan, souden, soldan, I, 54, 65; V, 195, 26; 197, 5.

Soudron, V, 192, 22: Southron.

Soudronie, V, 192, 33: Southronry.

sough, sound.

sould, should.

soum, soom, sume, II, 464, 2, 3; 474, J 5; V, 237, 9: swim.

soun, make bed saft and soun, IV, 279, 31, 32: smooth. lead the bridle soun, II, 105, 14: steadily, so as not to cause a jolt by jerking it.

sound, IV, 206, 10: safe and well. sailed it sound, II, 223, F 8: safe.

sound, a sound, III, 165, 88: a-swoon.

sound, IV, 172, 12, 14; 173, 7, 10, 11: in the sleep of death.

sounded, IV, 99, 3: should probably be rounded, whispered.

souner, I, 442, 10: sounder.

soup, I, 324, B 9: sup.

sour (reek), III, 433, C 6: sharp, bitter.

souter, soutter, III, 282 a; IV, 262, 16: shoe-maker.

south, I, 334, 9: sweet.

southen, southin, II, 358, 16, 28; IV, 482 b, 2, 3, 4; 483, 9, 17, 18: southern.

southering, IV, 48, b 18: soldering (corruption of, seething).

sowdan. See soudan.

sowe, III, 41 b, line 17: to be corrected to sowter, cobbler (?).

sowens, V, 108, B 10: flummery; “oat-meal sowr’d amongst water for some time, then boiled to a consistency, and eaten with milk or butter.” Herd.

sowt, III, 13, 8: sought, peered, scanned.

sowt, south.

soyt, III, 110, 23; 111, 31, 43; 112, 55; V, 79, 30: sooth.

spait, III, 473, 26; 479, 2: flood.

spak well in his mind, V, 260, 15: sounded well, suited his own thoughts.

spakes, I, 61, C c, 15: the bars of a bird-cage.

spald. See spaul.

spang, II, 394, 18: span.

spare, I, 302, A 10; 446, 10; 451, 11; III, 246, E 7: opening in a gown or petticoat.

sparks out o a weet, IV, 379, 15: rain-drops from a shower. “Spirks, spirkins, applied to drops of water in Scotland; sparks usually to fire.” W. Forbes.

sparred, III, 97, 20; 99, 61: shut.

spartled, v., II, 94, 6: sprang. spartling, II, 306, 15: kicking, struggling.

spartles, n., II, 94, 4: springs.

spaul, spauld, spald, spole, III, 473, 17; V, 105, A 3, B 6; 106, D 6, E 4; 107, 3: shoulder.

spayed, spied.

speal, I, 428, 17; 430, 6, 7: another form of scale, a wooden drinking vessel.

speals, spells, II, 410, 24; V, 236, 18: chips.

spear, v., IV, 85, 1: spare.

spear, speer, speir, spier, sper, ask. See spyrr.

speed, prosperity, help.

speel, v., II, 73, 25: climb.

speen, IV, 287, 19; 357, C 8, 9: spoon.

speer, inquire. See spyrr.

speere, V, 15, 20: “a hole in the wall of the house, through which the family received and answered the inquiries of strangers.” Ritson. This, I fear, may be conjectural. Speere, a screen (wall) between fire and door to keep off the wind is well known both in England and Scotland. But the Heir seems to be outside and could not look up at this speere.

speir, ask. See spyrr.

spelle, v., I, 329, 3: discourse.

spells, speals, II, 410, 24; V, 236, 18: chips.

spendyd, a spear, III, 309, 40: “spanned; hence, got ready, placed in rest.” Skeat.

sper, V, 78, 5: inquire. See spyrr.

spier-hawk, IV, 484, 1, 2: sparrow-hawk.

spin, spine, gar your blood, IV, 84, 3, 6; V, 253, D 1: spirt (as in Shakspere’s Henry V, iv, 2, spin in English eyes).

spird, II, 144, 12: spurred.

spite, I, 211, 27: spital.

spleen, v., III, 220, 5: regard with spleen, hatred.

spleene, n., III, 230, 70: animosity.

splent (splint), III, 473, 17: armor of overlapping plates.

splinders, II, 91, 26: splinters.

splits, II, 389, 10: strands.

sply, II, 252, 1: (perhaps miswritten) spy.

spole, III, 342, 63: (O. Fr. espaule) shoulder. See spaul.

sporne, v., III, 64, 161: kick.

spreckl(e)d, I, 159, 5; 160, 3: speckled.

sprente, III, 309, 32: sprang, spurted.

spring, IV, 265, 13: probably miswritten or corrupted for young, which we find in the next stanza.

spring, I, 129, 17; 130, 20; 132, 13; 135, O 18, P 18, 19; IV, 312, 4; 313, 7: quick tune.

spring (well both clear and spring), II, 198 a, last line: spring water, pure as a spring.

sprunks, fine, III, 221, 12: showily dressed women? (Cf. prank, prink, Dan., Swed., Germ., prunk.)

spulye, n., III, 458 b: spoil.

spulyie, spuilye, spuilzie, v., III, 463 a; IV, 53, 11; 84, 5, 8: despoil.

spunk-hole, V, 213, 3 (spunk = fire): a hollow in the floor, where the fire was made, fire-place.

spurn(e), n., III, 310, 65, 66: kick. The word, though protected by rhyme and by occurring twice, is suspicious. If spurn could be taken as clash, encounter, collision, it might stand, but such a sense is forced.

spurtle, V, 92, 11, 12: stick for stirring porridge.

spylle, I, 327, 20: mar, destroy.

spyrr, spire, spier, speir, speer, spear, sper (A. S. spyrian), I, 176, 17; 325, B 13; 349, G 9; 440, 10-15; III, 98, 41; 100, 64; V, 115, 4: ask, inquire. spear at, I, 151 a, 10; IV, 328, A b, after 3: inquire of. I, 349, G 7; II, 268, 12; 272, 9, 18; 379, 12; IV, 203, 9; 205, 15: ask, request.

squar, squer, squire.

square-wright, V, 124, 3: carpenter, joiner.

squeel, schele, schule, II, 175 f., 1, 6; 306, 19; IV, 327, 8.

squier, II, 59, 30: = swire, neck.

st, as sign of the future. I’st, II, 449, 62; III, 411, 1; 413, 36; thoust, ’st, I, 211, 29; 433, 8, 26; II, 44, 13; 442, 10; 449, 60, 61; III, 277, 4; 411, 4; 432, 7; 477, 7; V, 50, 33. shee’st, she’st, II, 442, 3; 447, 3. you’st, II, 451, 88; III, 104, 6; 412, 12. (All from English ballads.)

sta, pret. of steal, III, 464, 13, 14.

stack, I, 16, B 14: stalk.

stad, V, 248, 19: stood.

staen, stolen.

stage, at a, III, 98, 39: from a floor, story (?).

stage, III, 295, 3: stag.

staig, III, 301, A a, 3; IV, 26, 1: a young stallion.

staking, III, 138, 18: cutting into stakes (cleaving, 140, c 18; stacking, 140, d 18).

stale, stathle, I, 18, H 9; 19, 12: the foundation of a stack, the undermost layer of sheaves in a stack.

stale strang, V, 213, 5: urine long kept for a lye and smelling strong. (But stale may = urine as well as strang.)

stalle, in strete and stalle, III, 101, 89: station; from the contrast with street, we may infer the meaning to be, when in movement (on the road) and when stationary, or housed.

stamp o the melten goud, IV, 471, 37: an embossed plate.

stanch, III, 364 b: check.

stand (of milk, water), I, 344, 34: a barrel set on end.

stand, briddel-(bridell-)stand, V, 228, 12, 22: suit of clothes (bridal clothes).

stand, III, 453, A 14; IV, 515, 13: (of a court) sit. IV, 420, 9; V, 222, 34; 269, 1: take place.

stand, IV, 152, C 11; stand out, III, 439, 2: stickle, scruple.

stand na, nè, no(e), awe, I, 421, 5; III, 350, 53; IV, 505, 54; 506, 69: na may be a contraction of in na. na stand in awe, I, 419, 4; stand not in awe, III, 345, 53.

standen, p. p. of stand, III, 361, b, c 64.

stane, II, 467, 56: i. e. the (stone) wall.

stane-auld, III, 9 f., 11, 12, 20: very old (Germ. stein-alt).

stane-chucking, I, 441, E 1: throwing the stone, as in B 2.

stank, IV, 47, 12, 13: (O. Fr. estanc) ditch.

stap, n. and v., I, 298, 4; II, 88, 8, 9: step.

stap, stape, stop. II, 494, 1: stop, stay, reside. will stap to die, IV, 107, 7: shrink, hesitate.

stap, I, 439, 4, 5; 440, 5, 7; 504, 7; II, 294, 31, 32; 467, 41: stuff, cram.

stare, III, 128, 104: (eyes) protrude, or, are fixed, cannot move (?).

stare (of hair), V, 66, 19: stand up.

starf, pret., V, 297 b: died.

stark, I, 69, 39; III, 474, 37: strong. stark thief, III, 365 b==the English strong thief, one who uses violence. stark and stoor, II, 47, 5: in a moral sense, wanting in delicacy, rude, violent, or indecent. the wind up stark, IV, 378, 5; 380, 11: ellipsis of blew, came, before up.

starn, stern, I, 440, 18; IV, 455, 10: (Icel. stjarna), star.

start, I, 341, 5; 343, 5; 347, 3; 348, 2: spring, jump. III, 164 b, 49; 342, 64: recoil, flinch, recede. pret. start, stert, I, 108 b, 8; 286, 56; II, 454, 56; III, 32, 81; 64, 159; IV, 477, 16: sprang. See stert.

state of my lande, II, 446, 91; state of my father’s lands, 451, 98: landed estate.

stathle, stale, I, 17, 12: the foundation of a stack, the undermost layer of sheaves in a stack.

staw, II, 90, 23; 184, 13: stall.

staw, pret. of steal, II, 76, 25; 80 f., 9, 29; IV, 12, 13; 490, 30.

stawn, p. p. of steal, IV, 18, 19, 20.

stay, stey, IV, 262, 23: steep.

stead(e), steed(e). See stede.

steal, pret. sta, staw. p. p. stawn, stowen, stown, stoun. stealed, steald, IV, 20, 16; 166, 2, 3. stelld, III, 459, 7.

stean, Marie’s stean, II, 183, 19: a stone seat at the door of St. Mary’s Church.

stear, steer, III, 474, 33: stir, commotion.

steck. See steek.

stede, steed(e), stead(e), I, 334, 7; 411, 7, 16; II, 359, 19; III, 60, 81; 74, 376; 79, 133; V, 194, 71, 72; 197, 55; 199, 71, 72: place, dwelling-place. stand in stead, steed, steede, III, 344 f., 38, 44; 349, 38; IV, 505, 45: hold good, be kept, maintained, made good.

steed, I, 298, 4: stood.

steek, steck, steik, II, 336, P 2; IV, 188, 9; 279, 19, 27; 480, 4, 5; 514, 5: stick, shut, fasten. steekit (dor an window) to the gin, IV, 480, 5: to the fastening.

steek, steik, n., II, 364, 30; IV, 483, 20: stitch with the needle. III, 397, A b 5: stitch (of pain).

steeking, n., II, 361, 26: stitching.

steel, pret., I, 477, 4: stale, stole.

steer, steir, II, 21, 10, 11; 29, 13, 14: rudder.

steer, stear, II, 369, 12: disturbance.

steer, sture, I, 69, 39; 71, 31: strong, robust. (stor, big.)

steer, II, 161, 12; IV, 69, 15: disturb, meddle with (for harm).

steer, I, 251, A 13: stir, move.

steik, n., stitch. See steek.

steik, v., shut. See steek.

steir, n., rudder. See steer.

stell, steel.

stelld, pret. of steal, III, 459, 7.

stelld, IV, 110, 10: placed, planted.

stende, me stende, I, 243, 5: that people should stone.

step-minnie, II, 367 b: stepmother.

stern, starn, I, 326, 16: star.

sterne, III, 308, 30: stern (men).

stert, start, pret. of start, III, 66, 211: sallied. stert out of the dore, sterte (start) to an offycer, stert hym to a borde, III, 26, 81; 32, 81; 62, 120, 125: rushed. stert to foot, IV, 224, 14: sprang to their feet.

steuen, III, 94, 52: voice. vnsett steven, III, 93, 27: time not previously fixed.

stey, stay, IV, 185, 10; 264, 15: steep.

stiffe, I, 293 f., 2, 9, 11; II, 55, 67: unyielding, stanch.

still, had your still, IV, 85, 7; V, 247, 14: hold your peace.

stime, styme, I, 482, E; III, 163 f., 78, 91: glimpse, ray, particle of light.

Stincher, IV, 69, 6: a river of Carrick, Ayrshire. (Misprinted stincher.)

stingy, IV, 316, 17: forbidding, cross.

stint, stinte, I, 334, 8; 411, 8, 17; 412, 28: stop.

stirred, III, 162, 49: should probably be stirted (shrank, flinched). The other text has, started.

stirt, stirred.

stock, I, 419, 2; 421, 2, 4, etc.; II, 467, 56: the outer side of a bed, opposite the wall (the bed, an enclosed box, being enterable at this side only).

stock, I, 402, 5: (term of disparagement) wanting in vitality, sensibility, youth, or what not.

stogg, IV, 480, 7, 8: stick, stab.

stoll yellow, IV, 453 a, b 13: corrupt; a has, gold that is yellow.

stomach will give him, II, 447, 17: disposition will incline him. II, 450, 69: courage.

stomached, well, III, 335 b: courageous.

stonde, I, 334, 8; III, 286, 55: while, time. See stound(e).

stonyt, I, 242, 11: stoneth, old plural of the imperative.

stood, V, 269, 1: took place. stood him upon, III, 228, 11: was incumbent on. See stand.

stoode, my need stoode, III, 412, 16: existed.

stook, I, 485, 10: put into shocks.

stoor, stark and stoor, II, 47, 5: (store, big) in a moral sense, rude, brutal.

store, I, 328, 50: big. See stoor.

store, buffets store, III, 145, 8: in plenty.

store, purse of gold and store, II, 461, 23: treasure (precious things laid up). carryd the store (of constancy), V, 158, 16: the totality.

stot, stott, IV, 12, B 4; 26, 1; 248, 19; 519, 6; 520, 6, 7: young ox.

stoun, III, 388, 8: (stoun, stound, North of England, to smart with pain, Scott. an acute intermittent pain) a painful attack.

stoun, p. p. of steal, III, 453, 10; V, 221, 24. See stowen.

stound(e), stonde, III, 25, 68; 284, 3; 298, 55; V, 83, 42: time, point, moment of time.

stoup, II, 344, 1; V, 91, 7, 8: pitcher, can, bucket (narrower at the top than at the bottom).

stour, stoure, stowre, II, 55, 67; III, 26, 89; 298, 58; 309, 47; 441, 27: tumult, brawl, fight. stour of thy hand, III, 280, 37: turbulence, destructiveness. III, 270, 16: disturbance, commotion.

stour, II, 195, notes, A; IV, 470, 20: dust.

stourished, III, 520 a: read flourished(?), blooming. (Cf. III, 373, 4.)

stout(e), II, 282 f., 4, 17 (audacious), 18; III, 339, 5; IV, 503, 5, 7: haughty, high-mettled, bold. III, 411, 8 (traitor): audacious, unflinching. V, 36 f., 9, 10: unabashed. I, 3, 3; IV, 197, 3: sturdy.

stowen, stown, p. p. of steal, I, 367, 14; II, 72, 23; 79, 38; IV, 133, H 6, 7; 241 a. See stoun.

stowre, n. See stour.

stowre, adj., I, 293, 2: (originally, big) strong.

stracht, straght, III, 521 b, 272, 15; V, 236, 9: straight.

strack, struck.

strae, stray, stro, II, 162, 8; 169, 19; 185, 36; 261, 15, etc.: straw.

straik, streak, streek, stroke. (a sword) oer (on) a strae (strow), II, 261, 15; V, 37, 8: pass it over a straw to give it an edge. See streak. straiked back hair, IV, 184, E 17: stroked. straik (streek) wi a (the) wan(d), II, 188, 8; IV, 46, 3; 480, 15: of a measure, to even at the top by passing a stick over.

straine, streen, the, V, 221, 24: evening of yesterday.

strait (a rope), IV, 398, 7, 25: straighten, stretch, tighten. pret., of stirrups, III, 492, 27.

strait, IV, 262, 23, strait and stay: another word for stay, stey, steep.

straith, strath, IV, 184 a: a valley through which a river runs.

straked, streaked. straked her trouth on a wand, II, 230, 9: a symbolical act, of gently rubbing or passing the fingers over a wand, by way of giving back a lover’s troth.

strand, I, 165, M 4; III, 460, 28; IV, 172, 15; 174, 16: stream. Sometimes hardly more than a rhyme-word. In, Scotland’s strands, strand, II, 289, 7; 294, 8, strand appears to be put for country, bounds; and for nothing more definite than way, road, in he gaed in the strand, etc., II, 177, 23; 289, B 2; III, 3, 5; IV, 210, 1. In, stript it to the stran, II, 390, 28, stran cannot mean more than plain (ground).

strang, V, 213, 5: urine kept for a lye, and smelling strong. See stale.

strang, strange.

strange, V, 76, 16: backward, diffident.

strated, V, 228, 15: stretched.

stratlins, I, 368, 23: straddlings, stridings.

straucht, straught, adj. and adv., I, 146, 14; 251, A 10; II, 461, 5; IV, 94, 9; 214, 1: straight.

straught, V, 199 a, after 61: stretched. See straucht.

stray. See strae.

streak, straik, of whetting a sword by passing it over a straw (cf. Germ. streichen, strike, smooth, whet). streakd it on a strow, V, 37, 8. straiked it oer a strae, II, 261, 15. See stroak, strike, strip, slate.

streak, streek, I, 299, 17: stretch.

streak by, I, 454, 12: to put off, put away.

stream-tail, IV, 185, 12: the lower end of a stream as opposed to the upper. Tail-race is the name given to the stream that carries away the water after it has passed the mill. J. Aiken.

streek, streak, I, 299, 17; II, 139, 7, 12; 345, 30; V, 174, 4; 209 b, 6: stretch. streeket, streekit, strickit, p. p., II, 189, 38; IV, 128, 17; 316, 25; 318, G 9; 319, H 7: stretched, laid out, as dead.

streekit. See straik, and streek.

streen, straine, the streen, I, 57, C 13; II, 30, 4; III, 396, N 1; IV, 47, 10, 18; V, 118, B 13; 221, 24; 257, 14: yestreen, yester-night.

strenger, compar., V, 283, 18 (and so we should read in 8 instead of scharpper): stronger.

strickit. See streek.

strike, of whetting a sword, etc., on a straw, or the ground. he ’s struck it (rappier) in the straw, II, 249, 18. struck it (brand) ower a strow, V, 226 b, 8; (dagger) 227, 21. struck it (bran) across the plain, II, 380, 32. See stroak, streak, strip, slate.

strinkled, III, 4, 10; 5, C 6: sprinkled.

strip, of whetting a sword by passing it across straw, a stone, the ground; replaced by stroak, streak, strike, slate, draw (cf. German streifen). has striped it throw the straw, II, 159, 15. he stript it to the stroe, II, 161, 13. he’s stripped it athwart the straw, II, 256, 12. he’s stripd it oer a stane, II, 396, 28. has stript it to the stran, II, 390, 28. he drew it through the strae, II, 185, 36; three times thro the strae, II, 162, 8. See stroak, etc.

stro, stroe, strow, strae, stray, II, 131, 16: straw.

stroak, stroke, of whetting a sword by passing it over a straw. stroakd it oer a stro, strae, stray, II, 131, 16; 166, 17; 169, 19; 305, 8, 21; 306, 14. See strip, streak, straik, strike, slate.

stroe, stro, strow, II, 161, 13: straw.

stroke. See stroak.

stroke, III, 180, 13: probably corrupt; read streke, stretch? (Scott. streik, streek).

stronge th(i)efe, strong thief, III, 13, 2; 67, 221; V, 77, 32; 83, 49: a thief using violence. See stark thief.

strook, pret. of strike, V, 135, b 18.

strow, stro, V, 37, 8; 226 b, 8; 227, 21: straw.

strucken, p. p. of strike, II, 48, 3; III, 487, 13.

stryke pantere, V, 72 b: a drinking formula, in response to fusty bandyas.

stubborn, IV, 168, 8; 169, 6, 15; 170, G 4, 11, H 3, 4, 10: seems to have its old meaning of truculent, fierce, rather than wilful, mulish. See note to H 3, 4, IV, 177.

stude, stede, I, 244, 15: place.

study, studie, studdy, II, 374, A 2, B 2; 375, 3: stithy, anvil.

sturdy, sturdy steel, II, 380, 15; 381, 10; 385, 4; 388, 13: stiff, rigid (stubborn, II, 393, 10).

sture, steer, I, 71, 31; 69, 39: strong, robust. (stor, big.)

sturt, II, 249, 4: trouble, anger.

stye, I, 310, 9, 11, 13: pen, den. III, 100, 76: a smaller thoroughfare, alley.

styme, I, 482, E. See stime.

styrande, III, 295, 3: stirring, dislodging. See note, 301.

stythe, I, 311, 9, 11: place.

suan, V, 277, 14: swain.

suar, III, 308, 27; 309, 42: sure, trusty.

succeed the fame, his fame, IV, 249, 9; 251, 10: corrupt for, exceed in fame, or the like. See note, IV, 254, E 9.

such an a, IV, 312, 12: such a.

sud, soud, suld, should.

suddled, thy suddled silks, that thou wears every day, etc., II, 186, 5, 6, 10, 11: soiled, or rumpled, creased.

suddling, suddling silks, III, 398, C 9: soiling, which one would not mind exposing to soiling. Perhaps we should read suddlit. See suddled.

suderen, V, 217, 17: southern.

suds, leave you in the suds, V, 114, 12: in difficulty, in a strait.

sugar-sops, defined in dictionaries as sugar-plums. Fletcher’s Monsieur Thomas, ii, 3, “Dandle her upon my knee, and give her sugar-sops.” By analogy, bits of bread or cake dipped in sugar juice.

sugh, II, 258, 34: sough, sound (of wind).

suit, V, 215, 11; 223 b, 1; 246 b, 2: sweet.

suith, III, 468, c 9: sooth.

sulle, sell.

sume, V, 221, 11, 12; 237, 10: swim. See soum.

sun-bruist, IV, 469, 9: should, perhaps, be sun-burnt, as in the following line.

sundry, II, 212, 17: asunder, apart.

sune, adj., V, 256, 12: sound.

sunks, IV, 262, 29: seats.

supply, IV, 154, 13: afford help. mak him some supply, V, 196, 39, cf. 43: succor, reinforcement.

surrount, IV, 245, 3: Skene’s spelling for the original serundad, surrounded.

suspitious, II, 448, 37, 38: worthy of Mrs. Malaprop, but not so easy to unriddle: in her mouth, auspicious; here the modern suggestive, significant, would suit.

suþþe, III, 514 b, 1st line: then.

sutor, I, 430, 2: shoemaker. See souter.

sutten, p. p. of sit, IV, 468, 6.

swack, IV, 415, 6: nimble.

swack, v., V, 305, 5: whack.

swads, swades, V, 134, 7; 135 b, 7: “swad in the North is a pescod-shell: thence used for an empty shallow-headed fellow.” Blount, in Halliwell. Also, a cant term for soldier.

swaft, swaffed, III, 511, 8, 11: swapped.

swair, swaird, laird o the Ochilberry swair, IV, 207, 27, 29; laird o Athole swaird, IV, 198, 14: sware, neck or slope of a hill. (swaird, a corruption of swair,=sward, grassland, is not likely.)

swak, III, 300, 21. See swap.

swap, swak, swords, with swords, III, 298, 50, 54; 299, 9; 300, 21 (swakked); 301, 30; 309, 31; 422, 73; IV, 487, 29; 500 f., 22, 35 (swakked); V, 240, 6, 9: smite.

swarmd, III, 347, g 45; IV, 505, 56, 59: climbed. (swarm, to climb a tree that has no side branches to help one.)

swarued, swerved, III, 341, 53, 56; 345, 45: climbed (=swarmd, IV, 505, 56, 59).

swat, pret. of swe(a)t, III, 299, 9; 300, 21; 301, 30; 309, 31. swett, III, 422, 73. swette, III, 298, 50, 54.

swathed, II, 305, 10: swaddled (as it were) in blood.

swatter, I, 135, P 11: flounder, splash.

sway, howsoeuer this geere will sway, III, 341, 47: whatever turn this business may take, however this affair may turn out.

swear, pret., swore.

sweauen, sweuen, II, 45, 18; III, 91, 4: dream.

sweer, II, 61, 4; IV, 229, 20: slow, reluctant. III, 160, 14: reluctant (to part with money).

swerers, quest of, III, 25, 69: jurors.

swerved, III, 347, d, e, f 45: climbed. See swarued.

swet, swett, swette, pret. of swe(a)t. See swat.

swetter, compar., V, 283, 9, 19: sweeter.

sweven, sweauen, II, 45, 18; III, 91, 4: dream.

sweythyli, V, 80, 45: swiftly.

swick, IV, 438, 12: blame.

swikele, I, 243, 4: deceptive, treacherous.

swilled, I, 287, 72: tossed about or shook, as in rinsing (but in this case to effect a mixture).

swimd, swimmed, pret. of swim, II, 16, 5; 24, F 9; IV, 129, 5; 130, D 9.

swinke, III, 171 f., 8, 26: labor.

swire, swyre, I, 295, 34; III, 91 a: neck. IV, 5, 2; 7, 27; V, 249, 2: “the declination of a mountain or hill, near the summit.” Jamieson.

swith, II, 55, 67; 248, 18: quickly.

swither, III, 268, 17; 272, 21: trepidation.

swittert, I, 129, 11: struggled, floundered, splashed (made spasmodic motions to keep herself up).

swoghynge, n., I, 327, 31: sounding.

swoom, V, 151, F 2: swim.

swoond, swound, n., I, 434, 29; II, 105, 19; III, 373, A 4: swoon.

swumd, p. p. of swim, III, 482, 25.

swylke, I, 327, 15: such.

swyre, swire, III, 91 a: neck.

syde, I, 333, 3: (of beard) long, hanging down. I, 426, 3: of a horn worn low. See side.

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

syne, sayn, san, sane, I, 17 f., F 2, 7; 127, 27; 347, 9; III, 437, 16, 20, 21, 24: then, afterwards. I, 204, E 3; V, 306 b, 1; III, 436, 9 (?): since.

synsyne, since. See sinsyne.

sypress, cypress, III, 148, 10; 150, b 10: crape (veil).

syre, IV, 21, 10: (sewer) drain, gutter.

syt, III, 70, 280: old contracted form of sitteth.

sythis, I, 327, 21: times.

T

tabean brirben (kame), II, 217, 2, 4: printed by Herd, Tabean birben. Jamieson conjectured for Tabean, ‘made at Tabia, Italy.’ Dr C. Mackay very properly remarks that Tabia was not known as a place of manufacture for combs. He suggests a Gaelic origin: taobh, a side, taobhan, sides; bior, a pin, point, prickle, the tooth of a comb; bean, a woman; whence taobhan bior bean, the side comb of a woman. Whether this is good Gaelic, I am myself unable to say; but it is a simple criticism that a woman’s hair is not combed with a side-comb. The passage is undoubtedly corrupt. In IV, 471, 2, we have, a haw bayberry kame, also corrupt; bayberry was heard for whatever tabean brirben stands for. One copy had birchen, IV, 471, note to 221.

table, take vp the, III, 29, 142: take away. the tables were laid on trestles and easily handled, removed, and, as we often see in ballads, kicked over. drew her table, V, 304, 13: see explanation at V, 304 a.

tack (of needlework), II, 30, L 1: attachment by stitching, needle-tack, II, 217, 5.

tack, took.

tacken, taiken, IV, 515, 12: token.

tae, II, 147, 4: too.

tae, the tae, ==ae, one. See tane.

taen, tane, tean, teyne, p. p., taken.

taiglet, taiglit, IV, 195, 4; 196, 9: tarried.

taiken, tacken, I, 396, 5, 6: token.

Tailliant, Talliant, II, 383, 22, 24, 25; 385, 23, 25, 26; 387, 17, 19, 20; 388, 16, 18, 19: Italian.

taipy-tapples, I, 303, D 5: misreading of saipy-sapples, which see.

tait. See tate.

take, V, 277, 2: talk.

take, III, 60, 72, 76; 62, 123; 65, 194; 73, 351; 110, 9: hand over, give. I, 465, 18; 472, 28; II, 108, 17; 271, 17; 273, 23; III, 110, 18; 472, 9; IV, 508, 5: deliver a blow, strike.

take on (lawing), IV, 175, N 4: run up (reckoning).

take road, take foot, II, 62 b, 14: make off.

take sworne, III, 340, 34; IV, 504, 34; V, 52, 73: take an oath of, put under oath.

take truce, II, 443, 39; 449, 44; III, 469 a: take trewes, pledges of good faith, for suspension of hostility. take peace, III, 278 f., 3, 6: perhaps formed upon take truce.

take up (the table), III, 29, 142: clear away (remove the boards). See table. take up (dogs), III, 125, 35, 36: stop, restrain, call off(?).

take with, III, 413, 47; IV, 334, 13: take up with, put up with, submit to.

takle, takyll, III, 70, 288; 75 f., 398, 404: arrow.

talbott, III, 333, 28: a species of hound.

talents.

II, 52, 17: talents probably refers to the weight or value of gold worn in massive ornaments (cf. a weight of goud hung at her chin, I, 472, 24). It is not likely that the lady wore coins.

talk, IV, 13, 12: should probably be lack, reproach, blame. The reading in A 18; D 5, is suspicious; lack, reproach, is in E 16.

talkitive, IV, 13, D 8: used for talkativeness.

Talliant. See Tailliant.

tamper ye at, keep ye up and, IV, 226, 13: seems to be corrupt, cf. 221, 17, keep ye up i temper guid. tamper may be meant for temper, in the sense of putting a machine into working order, try expedients to humor or manage you.

tane, the tane, the tither, tother, I, 253, 1; II, 104, 30; 132, 18; 190, 42; 212, 16. See tean, ton.

tane, taen, tean, teyne, p. p., taken. tane with me, IV, 98, 12: occupied, engrossed, captivated (seized or smitten with compassion for, love?) tane sworn (I am), V, 52, 73: of one who has taken an oath.

tangle, V, 259 a, 11: sea-weed.

taps, V, 173, 8: tops, tips (of heather).

Targalley, V, 141, c 1, 2: perhaps a corruption of Turk (Turkish) galley, cf. C, a, f, g.

targats, targits, III, 363, note *; 371, 26, 27: tassels.

targe, III, 75, 385: “Targe or chartyr. Carta.” Prompt. Parv. “quatre grosses blancs appellés targes.” Ducange, targa. (Corrected from tarpe.)

tarlottus, tynkerris in tarlottus, III, 41 b(?).

tarnd, V, 303 a: turned.

tarpe, III, 75, 385; 80, 385: emended to targe.

tasse, V, 37, 9: cup (tarse in MS.).

tate, tait, teet, tet, tette, I, 86, 15; 130, E 14; 323, 2; II, 189, 23; 191, 18; 194, 27; 389, 16; IV, 449, 15: lock (of hair, of mane).

tattles, tittles, I, 302, B 7: tits, bits.

taucher, toucher, tocher, dowry. See toucher.

tauchy, I, 302, 10: greasy.

taul, told.

taunt, bide to taunt, II, 272, 11: endure taunting(?).

tay, tie.

tayened, tayned, V, 228, 26, 27: (tined) lost, killed.

teacht, IV, 150, g 25, 30: taught.

teall, tale.

tean, IV, 456 f., 5, 24; 515, 12; V, 36, 11, 15: taken. See taen.

tean, the tean, the eather, V, 224, 27: the one, the other. See tane.

tear begane this spurn, III, 310, 65: see note, 307.

tee, IV, 446, 7:==tie, 447, 7. glove tee, V, 300, 10, 16, 19.

tee, ti, I, 300, 7, 9, 15; II, 30, 4: to, too.

teem, toom, II, 169, 13; IV, 182, F 5: empty.

teem, I, 444, G b 2: pour.

teemed, II, 435, 36: allowed.

teen, teene, tithe. See teind.

teene, tene, I, 328, 40; III, 24, 48; 37, 63; 60, 78; 62, 128; 66, 211; 72, 329; 230, 70; 412, 22; 443, 1: injury, wrath, vexation, annoyance, grief, trouble.

teenouslye, III, 366, 21: angrily,

teet. See tate.

teeth, I, 305, A 12: tooth.

teind, teein, tiend, tene, teen, I, 342, 24; 344, 23; 350, 28; 354, 32; 452, 3; III, 504 b, 9; IV, 456, 15; 458, 16: tithe.

teindings, IV, 455, 18: tithings.

tell, till, to.

tempeng, tempen, V, 165 f., 6, 9, 10: tempting.

temper, set them up in temper wood, IV, 222, 20: corrupted, as will appear from the conclusion of the other versions. Parts of two stanzas are mixed.

tene, v., III, 110, 13: do harm to.

tene, n. See teene.

tenements, V, 77, 38: holdings (whether of lands or houses does not appear here).

tenish, V, 245 a, 8: tennis.

tent, n., II, 139, 11; IV, 223, 3; 390, 4: heed.

tent, v., I, 74, 81; III, 478, 28: take care of, guard, watch.

tet, tette. See tate.

tew, V, 303 a: two.

teyne, IV, 504, 26: taken. See taen.

teytheyng, tythyng, V, 79, 25: tidings,

tha, then. See tho.

tha, V, 296 a: the.

thae, I, 369, 3; 427, 15; 447, 14; II, 190, 43; IV, 69, 12; 258, 27; 470, 28, 29: they, them, those, these.

thairbut, thairben, IV, 291, after 11: out there, in there.

thar, I, 334, 8: it is necessary (it is not necessary to hinder thee of thine errand).

that, II, 451, 93: till that.

that, imperative particle, anone that you tell me! III, 27, 118. no peny that I se! III, 58, 41; 68, 246. no ferther that thou gone! III, 67, 219.

that, superfluous, I, 273, 38; 284, 7; II, 58, 6; 433, 3; 434, 16, 18; 436, 59; 437, 89; 442, 18; 444, 41; III, 276, 1; 277, 18, 19; 341, 46, 54, 57; 413, 39; IV, 503, 8; V, 48, 6. (Very common in the Percy MS., where all the above, excepting one, occur.)

that, plur., that two lords, II, 130, 28, 29. See this.

that ... his==whose, IV, 330, Appendix, 2.

that was her own, II, 73, 20: that referring to roses and ribbons, or the bridal relation, or to both.

the, thé, I, 284 f., 9, 30; III, 307 f., 3, 8, 12, 25, 28; 419 f., 14, 33; 421, 45, 65; 477, 4; 479, 38; V, 263, 7, 9, 11, 12: they.

the, thé, I, 296, 50: thee.

the day, I, 356, 56; II, 32, Q 2; 248, 5; 285, 14: to-day.

the morn, II, 104, 18; III, 480, 18; 482, 14; 488, 19; V, 300, 17; 307, 7: to-morrow. the morn’s nicht, II, 208, C 9: to-morrow night.

the night, the nicht, I, 303, C 4; 304, E 4; III, 480, 18; 488, 19; V, 299 a, 1: to-night.

the streen, yestreen. See streen.

the, IV, 494, 29: to be corrected to she; they in the next line to mean the mill-people.

the, thee, then, thye, II, 164, 17; III, 67, 234; 78, 452; 113, 81; V, 76, 11; 79, 14; 82 f., 25, 27, etc.: thrive, prosper.

thee, III, 6, 20: for thou.

theek, I, 253, 4: thatch, pret. and p. p. theekit, theekd, IV, 76 f., 1, 2, 4; 458 b, 9: thatched, roofed.

theer, V, 296 a: there.

thegither, thegithar, thegether, III, 261, 3; V, 217 b, No 49, 1: together.

their. See thir.

then, v. See the.

there, the diel o there, III, 488, 26: seems to mean of that; but we have, devil be there in 43, as an equivalent phrase.

there, III, 504 a, 14; IV, 465, 25, 26; 485, 24; 510 a, 2: there is. III, 489, 9: there are (or, there is, Scottice).

there down, downwards, down.

theretoo, III, 64, 172: besides.

thes, III, 111, 34; 113, 76: thus. See this.

they, II, 434 f., 25, 38; 437, 78; 442 f., 19, 29: the (frequent in Percy MS.).

thick, spak thick, I, 343, 13: not articulating distinctly (from emotion).

thick, III, 35, 29: thilke, that.

thie, I, 19, 14: 330, B 2; 331, C 2, D 2: thigh.

thief, foul thief, V, 123, 14; 184, 44: devil.

thiggin, V, 117, 2: begging, levying supplies.

thimber, I, 330, A 2: (Icelandic þungbærr, heavy to bear?) heavy, massive. Not understood and changed to nimble, nimle, I, 332, F 2, G 2, umber, I, 331, C 2.

think, thynk, III, 27, 98; 58, 37, 44; 60, 82: seem. me thinke, me thynke, methink, III, 81, 37; 153, c 5; 158, d 17; 321 b; V, 82, 26, 41: methinketh, methinks. See thoghte, thouth.

think lang (A. S. lang thyncan, seem long), thouth me nouthe lange, I, 334, 5, 9: seemed not long, amused me, impressed me pleasantly. In Scottish, personal, with substitution of think for seem. think lang, I, 370, 4; V, 115, 2: find the time wearisome, suffer from ennui. I think lang, I, 368, 35, 37, 39; 506, 2: long for. I’ll never think lang, IV, 257, 10: shall never be discontented, she thought (thocht) lang, I, 478, 14; II, 76, 11; 78, 14: was weary with waiting. keep frae thinking lang, I, 467, 16, 20. keep him on-thought long, I, 478, 13. See unthought lang.

thir, their, I, 5, C 5; 329, 61; 482, C b 11; II, 78, 23, 24; 271, 21; III, 441, 34, 35; 464, 4; IV, 7, 30; 476, 4, 5; V, 115, 2; 195, 9, 10: these, those.

thirld in his ear, II, 208, 5: thrilled.

thirled at the pin, II, 121, 15: tirled, rattled.

this, pl., this bonny boys, II, 81, 37; this twa, II, 158 f., 1, 19. See that.

this, thes, thys, III, 73, 346; 111, 34; 113, 76; IV, 210, 4; V, 283, 2: thus.

tho, III, 28, 138; 34, 7, 11; 36, 44; 111, 30: then.

thoe, III, 285, 33: they (possibly, then).

thoghte, I, 328, 50: (probably) seemed. See think.

thole, thoule, I, 508, 8; II, 46, 2; 124, 38; 314, 10; IV, 17, 2; 21, 16; 278, 12; V, 229, 32: bear, suffer (IV, 17, 2: like dree, be capable of.)

thorn, II, 27, I 6: dialectic variation of forn, J 6, partic. of fare: fill yourselves with good fare.

thornd, II, 110, 24: fared.

thoth, thouth, I, 334, 7, 8: though.

thother, the, III, 111, 43: tother, other.

thou, though.

thou is, thou’s, III, 483, 31; 488, 24.

thou sitts, thou rydes, III, 479, 35.

thou will, thou made, thou was, thou took, etc., 2 pers. sing. without termination: I, 221, C 9-11, 222 E 11-17; 223, 12, 16.

thought lang, I, 370, 4; 478, 14, etc. See think lang.

thoule, II, 159, 20: suffer, put up with. See thole.

thouth, I, 334, 5, 8, 9: seemed. See think.

thouth, I, 334, 8: though. See thoth.

thowt, n., V, 283, 20: thought.

thra, thrae, IV, 128, 1; 220, 2; 369 b; 446, 8; 465, 34; 470, 20; 479, 3; 518, 10; V, 197, 3, 13: dialectic variety of fra, frae, from.

thrae, I, 170, 6: through.

thrall, III, 480, 15: bondage.

thrang, V, 115, 2: intimate, familiar.

thrashes, threshes, IV, 77, b 4: thrushes, rushes.

thrashin oer his songs (of blackbird), I, 133, M 3, 5: repeating, or practising.

thrast, pret., III, 98, 25: pressed.

thrave, I, 21, 10: twenty-four sheaves of corn, two shocks.

thraw, II, 146, 14; 147, 15; 149, 14; 283, 16; IV, 479, 8: twist, contort. pret. threw. p. p. thrawen, thrawin, thrawn, IV, 348, 6, 7; 349, b 3; 350, B b, after 5; V, 273, No 239, 3.

thrawin, I, 465, 12: thrown.

thrawn, twisted. See thraw.

thrawn, IV, 465, 20: ill-humoredly.

threefold oer a tree, III, 267, 9: with a double curve, over a stick.

threesome, II, 270, 30: three together.

threshes, thrashes, IV, 258 f., 5, 20: rushes.

threty, thirty.

threw, pret. of thraw, I, 102, 18; 492, 18; II, 111, 21; 183, 30; 185, 40; 208, 12; 286, 16; V, 262, 24: twisted, intertwined. III, 180, 10, Robin he lope, Robin he threw: may be, threw himself about, or twisted twirled, showing his suppleness.

thrien, I, 244, 18: thrice.

thrild vpon, thirled at, a pinn, II, 121, 15; 138, 10, 16: tirled, rattled. See pin.

thrill, II, 291, 27: pierce, penetrate.

thristle-cock, I, 427, 8; thristle-throat, I, 429, 8: throstle, thrush.

throch, II, 30, 6; 256, 12: through.

throly, III, 98, 25: strenuously, doggedly.

thronge, III, 25, 56: pressed, made his way.

throw, intrans., fyer out of his eyen did throw, I, 211, 23: dart, shoot.

throwardlie, III, 365 a: frowardly, crossly, ill-temperedly.

throwe, III, 78, 448: space of time.

thrown, IV, 249, F 3: corrupted from this road; cf. A 6; B 7; C 9; D 6.

þrumme, III, 13, 9: the extremity of a weaver’s warp, from six to nine inches long, serving to hold arrows. Cf. II, 168, 5, four-and-twenty arrows laced in a whang.

thrusty, IV, 172, 4: trusty? (rusted, 173, K 4.)

thurst, IV, 60 b, 6: thrust.

thryfte, euyll thryfte, III, 67, 220: ill thriving, ill speed, bad luck.

thu, V, 283, 13: thou.

thye, thigh.

thye, II, 241, 14: thrive. See the.

thys, V, 283, 2: thus. See this.

ti, I, 299, 13: to; too.

ticht. See tight.

tide, tyde, III, 299, C 1; 432, 15; 473, 11; V, 83, 49: time. into the tide, V, 160, 2; by the tide, 163, 4; 164, 1: at the time, now.

tidive, tidive hour, II, 257, 15: timely, early? (the hour may be early morning).

tiend, tithe. See teind.

tier, V, 151, F 1, should be, tree.

tift, II, 183, 17: puff, whiff.

tight, ticht, V, 151, E 3; 161, 2: (of a man) well built. V, 258, 4: (of a maid) neatly shaped, jimp.

till, n., II, 409, 12: toil.

till, till see, II, 191, 22; till and frae, II, 71, 15: to. At III, 338 b, it is said that in A 66, till may mean while. Here Jamieson was followed: but there appears to be only one case to cite, in a single MS. of Barbour’s Brus, where others read quhil. The remark must be withdrawn, though while might be offered as an emendation, since it is, for obvious reasons, far more probable than till.

till, v., II, 54, 57: entice.

timmer, timber, wooden.

timouslie, IV, 53, 1: early.

tine, tyne, tayen, I, 16, C 14; II, 70, 30; 313, 21; 336, O 8, 9; III, 75, 398; lose. I, 324, B 7; IV, 454, 3; 455, 11; 458, 5: to be lost, perish. I, 115, 11: cause to perish. pret. and p. p. tint, IV, 18, 20; 127, 14; 165, 15; V, 99 C 4: lost.

tinye, n., a little tinye, V, 51, 69: bit.

tip, tippet (of horse’s mane), IV, 410, 18, 21; 413, 13:==tate, lock.

tirl at the pin, trill, rattle, at that part of the door-fastening which lifts the latch. See pin.

tit, V, 125, 9: quick pull.

tithyngus, III, 98, 40-42: tidings.

tittles and tattles, I, 302, B 7: tits, bits.

to, III, 110, 14, 16: two.

to, till.

tobreke, subj., I, 243, 6: break, burst (apart), p. p. to-broke, broken up.

tocher, toucher, tougher, taucher, n. See toucher.

to-clouted (gowne), III, 179 a: with patches set to it.

tod, I, 355, 44; IV, 193, 11; 194, 4; 196, 9; 196, 13, etc.: fox.

toe from home, boune, IV, 504, 24: to a place away from? (perhaps corrupt).

to-hande, III, 110, 14: two-hand, two-handed.

tolbooth, tolbuith, tollbooth, III, 482, 18; 489 f., 9, 10, 15: prison, jail. That in Edinburgh, III, 385, 12; 386, 12; 389, 14; IV, 508 b, 8; 509, 9 (Towbooth).

tolde, III, 59, 67-69; 68, 247: counted.

to-morne, I, 328, 57: to-morrow.

ton, tone, the, III, 296 f., 12, 30: the one. tone, tother, II, 53, 27, 32. the tone, the tother, II, 51, 2. See tane.

tooke, III, 405, 14: put. See take.

tooken vpon one part, III, 404, 3: engaged, enlisted, on the same side.

toom, teem, I, 72, 17; II, 124, 38; IV, 143, B 1, 3, C 6; 180, 8; V, 196, 53; 251, 30, 32; 256, 8: empty.

toomly, IV, 181, 11: empty.

toorin, I, 500, R 1-4: cooing. (Imitative, cf. Scott. curr, curroo, Germ, gurren.)

too-too, to-towe, III, 217, b, c, 41: a strong too.

top, IV, 288, E 3: should be toss, toast.

topcastle, III, 340 f., 32, 58; 344 f., 28, 46; IV, 504 f., 32, 58 (topcasaille)==top. See topps.

topps, III, 419, 15; IV, 506, 61: “Among seamen tops are taken for those round frames of board that lye upon the cross-trees, near the heads of the masts, where they get up to furle or loose the topsails.” Phillips. A noble ship at III, 419, 15, has five tops.

tor (of saddle), IV, 410, 21: pommel.

tor, tore, II, 323, 11; 334, M 2; IV, 480, 8: projection or knob at the corner of old-fashioned cradles (as also, ornamental balls surmounting the backs of chairs).

torne, III, 112, 56: turn, bout.

tortyll-tre, III, 112, 56: corruptly for trystell-tre.

toss, IV, 288, E 3: toast (as a beauty). (misprinted top.)

to t’, III, 439, 4: to the.

to-towe, III, 430, 1: too-too, a strong too.

toucher, tougher, taucher, n., IV, 283 f., 10, 22, 23; 285, 12, 13; 286, 11; 287, 4; 487, 30; 489, 29; V, 267, 12, 13: tocher, dowry.

toucher, v., IV, 284, 23: pay a dowry to.

touchered, V, 224, 11: dowered.

toun, town, IV, 200, 19; 201, 11; 202, K 5; 203, 13; V, 228, 27: a farmer’s steading or place (or, a small collection of houses). V, 267, 7: perhaps simply house.

toun-head, V, 267, 11: centre or principal part of the town.

tour, lyin in a tour, IV, 87, 20: continuous route.

tout, I, 274, 18: backside.

touting, blowing.

tow, III, 396, N 8; 449 b; V, 125, 9: rope.

tow, III, 434, 17, 18; 435, 12: let down by a rope. V, 123, 15, 16: draw up and let down.

towbooth. See tolbooth.

toweld, II, 194, 22: twilled (?).

town. See toun.

tows, went to the, IV, 380, 8: tows==touts, drinking-bouts, fell to drinking (in contrast to Allan, who went to pray. Tows cannot be ropes; they had not gone aboard the ship).

trace, II, 479, 16: track, path, way.

trachled, V, 169, 9: tired out.

trade, II, 454, 37: should be train, as in 445, 62; 450, 67.

train, IV, 107, 1, 13, 15: company.

train(e), II, 445, 62; 450, 67: training.

traitorye, III, 411, 2: treachery.

tralled, V, 274, 10: trailed (had rather have married A. and have trailed).

trance, II, 468 f., 18, 22; V, 268, 7: passage in a house.

tranckled, I, 284, 10: travelled. (Dutch trantelen, tranten, tarde progredi; morari. Hexham, to go lazily, at a soft pace.)

trap, a doublet of trip. trip for trap, II, 328, 17: tripping.

trapand, p. p., (of horse) IV, 44, 4: treacherously dealt with.

trappin, IV, 342, 12: tape.

trattles, II, 152, 5: tattles.

travisse, II, 92, 20: (a frame for confining cavalry horses) horse’s stall.

trawale, III, 41 a: travail, operations.

tray, tree (A. S. trega), injury, suffering, grief, vexation. tene and traye, I, 328, 40; tray and tene, III, 66, 218: grief and vexation, tree and teene, III, 412, 22: grief and injury. (tregan and téonan, Genesis, 2274.)

tray, try.

tread, tred, pret. of tread, II, 160, 5, 6; 165, 9; 171, 10, 12; IV, 468, 3, 4. p. p., IV, 128, 19.

treasonie, II, 344, 14: treason.

tree, tre, I, 343, 42; 345, 40; II, 218, 19; III, 23, 26; 309, 44: wood. I, 465, 2; 473, 4: pole, shaft of a cart. I, 341, 21; 344, 20; III, 25, 59; 29, 154; 63, 147; 97, 4: the cross. III, 160, 22, 25; 161, 42; 162, 55, 62; 163, 78; 267, 9; 268, 8; 270, D 8; 271, F 10: staff, straight piece of rough wood. crooked tree, III, 160, 18: bow. trenchen tree, III, 164, 91: truncheon, cudgel, staff. of (a) myghttë tre, III, 308 f., 27, 42: of strong wood. a trusti tree, III, 309, 40: perhaps shaft; but the a is likely to be of, as Professor Skeat suggests, and the meaning, of trusty wood (cf. 44, bowe made off trusti tree). horse of tree, III, 478, 13: bridge, or, at least, tree-trunk.

tree, III, 412, 22. See tray.

trenchen tree, III, 164, 91: truncheon, cudgel, staff.

trew, true, II, 384, 20, 21; III, 474, 45: trow, believe.

trews, trues, IV, 157, 18, 19; 267, 7; 272, 3; V, 165, 1; 267 a, 6; 306, 1: trousers.

treyffe, III, 113, 81: thrive.

triest, trist. See tryst.

trinkle, I, 497, 15; II, 197, 17; 209, D 7; 290, 25; 326, 11; 411, B 17; IV, 236, 5; 409, 6; 487, 27: trickle.

trip for trap, came down the stair, in, 328, 17: tripping, trip-trap (trap, a doublet of trip).

tristil-tre, III, 98, 37. See trystell-tre.

troule, V, 84, 13: go round (of a bowl of ale).

trow, trew, true, believe, suppose. I trow, I, 104, c 13: assuredly.

trowt, trowet, III, 110, 23, 26: troth.

truce, my petticoat, IV, 288, E 2: put in a trouss, tuck or fold, to shorten.

true, days of, III, 352 a: (singular of truce, trews, pledges of good faith) truce.

true, IV, 486 f., 5, 21; 491, 5: trow. See trew.

true-love, lover, betrothed lover (often not to be distinguished from true love), passim.

trues, trousers. See trews.

truff, II, 144 f., 14, 24: turf.

trust, II, 307, 34; 379, 4; IV, 494, 37; V, 38, 5: trow, believe, suppose (of the things one would rather not believe).

truste, III, 66, 207: trusty.

trusty tree, III, 92, 8; 116 f., 2, 21; 200, 37; V, 75, 4: an obvious corruption of trystill-tree, a tree appointed for a meeting or assemblage. (Trusty also in later copies of Adam Bell and the Gest for trysty, trystell, which see.)

trusyd, III, 13, 9: trussed, bound up.

tryst, tryste, n., I, 394, A 1; 395, 1; IV, 2, 4, 6: appointment to meet. IV, 413, 7; 414, 3, 4: appointment for wedding. I, 326, 18: market.

tryst, tri(e)st, v., I, 314, 1; II, 270, 3; 272, 4; IV, 201, 8; V, 171, 4: engage, induce, entice, to come, go with. II, 294, 13; IV, 194, 6; 198, 8; 200, 19; 201, 11; 202, K 5: prepare a way for coming, cause to come.

tryst, n. or v., IV, 154, 5: appoint a place, or, appointment of a place.

trystell-tree, trysty-tre, trystyll-tre, tristil-tre, III, 69 f., 274, 286; 71, 298; 75, 387; 76, 412: a tree serving for a meeting-place (of Robin Hood’s band). (In later texts, trusty.)

trysty tre, III, 26 f., 95, 98; 27, 102: tree fixed upon for rendezvous (trusty, trustie in later copies).

tu, V, 303 a: to.

tua, the tua part, V, 254 b, 4: two thirds. But twa part, V, 276, 20, seems to mean second part, half, which we have at IV, 120 F 7; 381, 16; that is, it is more likely that an equal share should be offered.

tul, III, 440, 25; til, to. tul a, III, 440, 13: to have.

turn, IV, 477, 14; turning o the tune, II, 249, 11; o the note, 250, 13; IV, 477, 13: refrain (owreturn, I, 332, E, F 7; owreword, II, 254, 8, 9). turnin o the bell, IV, 314, 19.

turn the wind wi thee, IV, 379, 6:==take the wine (i.e. wind) fra thee, V, 275, 5. (The meaning is clear, but whether turn is in actual use in the required sense I have not ascertained.)

turning. See turn.

tust, IV, 224, 20: tost.

twa, two. twa part, see tua.

twafald(-fold), oer a tree, staff, II, 461, 19; III, 268, 8: bent double over a stick. twafald ower his steed, III, 8, 18: doubled, head hanging on one side, feet on the other. See twofold.

twain, v., part. See twin.

twal, twelve.

twalmon, twalmont, twelvemonth.

twalt, twelt, twelfth.

twan, pret. of twine, I, 256, 2.

twatling, dishes, V, 86, 36: unmeaning, nonsensical, of no account.

twaw, two.

twig, IV, 31, B 6: twitch, pull.

twin, twine, twyne, twin me o my make, twin babe of life, I, 129, 8; 174, 18; 175, D 6, 12; 177, 17; 220, B 3; 222, 7; II, 218, 16; IV, 179, A 2: deprive. twine a mantle, I, 453, 3; twine me, IV, 154, 5: part with. twin(n) with, I, 175, 4, 5, 10, 11; II, 232, 7, 10, 12; twin(e) me and my make, etc., I, 127, 14; 128, 11; 350, 15; II, 159, 12, 13 (twain); V, 178, 1: separate. gar twa loves twin (twain), etc., I, 56, B 9; II, 63, 23; 230, B 3, 6: part, intrans.

twine, coarse linen, duck, crash. for towel, IV, 460, No 47, 1, 2; shift (contrasted with holland), II, 224, 17. II, 27, 19, 20: canvas. I, 221, C 9; 504, 4: coarse stuff of some kind. Lincoln twine, III, 5, D 5; 8, 12; IV, 496, 10, is doubtless the Lincoln green of other versions, and so simply texture. III, 192, 10: yarn, ropes o silken twine, IV, 472, 10: twist, shoes of small corded twine, V, 301 b, 3.

twinkle, II, 409, 17; 425, A 7: trinkle, trickle.

twinn, v. See twin.

twinn, part in twinn, I, 432, 3: in twain, in two.

twirld, at the pin, IV, 390, b 4: tirled, rattled.

twofold oer a staff, threefold oer a tree, III, 267, 9; the body being bent double over the staff, the whole presentation is, with the staff (tree) threefold. Corruptly, III, 188, 6, two foote on a staffe, the third vpon a tree. See also twa-fald.

tydand, II, 433, 9: tidings.

tyde. See tide.

tyndes, III, 65, 186: (A. S. tind) tynes, antlers.

tyne, I, 17, 11:==tynd, harrow-tooth (harrow-pin, I, 19, 10).

tyne, v., to lose, to perish. See tine.

tyte, his backe did from his belly tyte, III, 277, 17: quickly. A verb of the sense fall away may have dropped out after did, and is at any rate to be understood, unless tyte had that sense. A Scottish tyte, to totter, fall (tyte oer, fall over), is noted by Jamieson.

tythance, tythand(e)s, tythyng, III, 361, b, c 1; c 14, 49; 362, 93; V, 78, 5: tidings.

U

ugsome, II, 47, 15: exciting disgust or abhorrence. (Icel. uggr, fear.)

ull, I ull, V, 267, 5: will.

umber, I, 331, C 2: seems to be the same as thimber (I, 330, A 2): massive.

unbeen, my barn’s unbeen, IV, 143, A 4: not thoroughly closed in or made tight? (been, well-provided, warm, dry and snug. A bein cask, watertight, Jamieson.) a house is beind when thoroughly dried.

vnbethought him, I, 214, A 17 (printed um-); II, 240, 5; V, 15, 16: bethought himself of.

unbigged, IV, 143, A 4: unbuilt.

unco, adj., A. S. uncúð (uncouth, III, 245, 11). unco man, IV, 235, 11: unknown, strange, unco land, ground, I, 182, 1, 3; 324, 4; IV, 410, 10, 11. unco squire, V, 26 f., 25, 36: stranger, unco woman, I, 78, 26: unfriendly. unco lair (lear), II, 118, 1; 119, 1; 174, 1; 178, 2; III, 385, 1; IV, 411, 1; 467, 1: extraordinary.

unco, adv., I, 370, 5: unusually, very.

uncouth, vnkowth, vnkuth, vnketh, I, 344, 25; III, 245, 11: (A. S. uncúð) unknown, strange. See unco.

vnder, Grenwich, III, 358, 78: perhaps, below, further down the Thames.

vnder hand, shott it vnder hand, III, 199, 29; 202, 33; shot under his hand, III, 204, 26: Dr Furnivall and Mr C. J. Longman suggest, putting the bow horizontally, in which case you shoot with the arrow under the left hand, instead of beside it, as in shooting with the bow vertical. Ascham speaks of an underhand shaft, but without defining it: “The underhande [shafte] must have a small breste, to go cleane awaye oute of the bowe; the forehande muste have a bigge breste, to bere the great myght of the bowe.” Toxophilus, 1545, ed. Arber, p. 126. And again, as cited by Dr W. Hand Browne, of Johns Hopkins University: “Men doubt yet, in looking at the mark, what way is best, above or beneth hys hand”; “a byg brested shafte for hym that shoteth under hande, bycause it will hobble.” Upon which Dr Browne remarks, “As he is here speaking only of taking aim, under-hand shooting would seem to be done when the archer raised his bow high, and looked at the mark under the arrow-hand.”

under night, I, 100, 1: in the night.

vndergoe, II, 59, 33: undertake.

undertaking, be your, IV, 152, 6; 153, D 7: will undertake, manage for you.

vnfaine, III, 355, 14: not glad.

unfriends, III, 470 b: enemies.

vngoodly, III, 322 a: unhandsome.

vnhappie, V, 82, 29: ill-conditioned, having bad tricks.

unhappy, IV, 64 a: mischievous.

unhappy, V, 86, 32: unlucky (as speaking inopportunely). (The on of horson occasioned the omission of un-.)

unkensome, III, 495 B b 7: not to be known.

unkent, IV, 435, 12: unknown.

vnketh, vnkouth, vnkuth, III, 56, 6; 57, 18; 66, 209; 79, 6, 18; 82, 6, 18; 85, 6: uncouth, unknown, stranger.

vnmackley, II, 59, 30: misshapen. (Scott. makly, well proportioned, mackerly, Northumberland, shapely. Halliwell.)

vnneth, unneath, III, 73, 358; 171, 17: with difficulty, scarcely.

vnready, V, 81, 10: indirect, or, attended with difficulties.

unright(e), I, 294, 7; III, 339, 5; IV, 503, 5: wrong.

unruly, IV, 383, 1: should probably be unseally, as in IV, 378, 1.

unseally, IV, 378, 1: unlucky.

vnsett, III, 358, 71: surrounded, invested. (A. S. ymbsettan.)

unshemly, V, 215, 14: unseemly.

unthought, unthocht, onthought lang, haud, keep, I, 478, 13; 482, C b 16, 20; II, 139, 3; III, 492, 5; IV, 260, 10: keep from thinking long, wearying, from ennui. See think lang.

vnthrift, V, 81, 16: spendthrift.

until, untill, I, 221, D 3, 4; III, 488, 35, 36: unto, to.

unto, IV, 170, 11; 467, 11; V, 262, 19: into, in.

vnto the same, I, 284, 12: after the same fashion.

vntyll, gates shut them vntyll, III, 25, 52: to, against.

vnwieldie, V, 82, 29: unmanageable.

vowsed, uowsed, V, 79, 14: used, practised.

vp chaunce, III, 57, 18; 66, 209: on, for, the chance.

up stark, IV, 378, 5; 380, 11: (came, blew) up strong, as still common, with the like ellipsis, V, 51, 68; 56, 45.

upgive, V, 193, 59: avow, acknowledge, own up.

vpon, vppon, I, 271, 2; 433, 15, 16: on. stay upon, wait upon, III, 450 b: for.

upper hand, II, 245, 29: upper tier, above.

upricht, I, 473, 3: right out.

upstart, II, 54, 56: sprang up.

us, I us gar, V, 267, 12: shall, will. See s, sign of future.

used, V, 85, 23: frequented. used him in her company, IV, 98, F 6: accustomed him to.

vtter, III, 361, b, c 52: outer.

utuer, IV, 506, 59. See beame.

V

vain, streams proud and vain, IV, 204, 8: repetition of proud in the sense of fierce, etc.

valiant (of ladies), V, 119, 1: of worth, estimation.

value (of an hour), IV, 514, 15, 16: amount.

value, va(l)low, v., II, 162, E 2: think important, make ado about, stick. vallow not the feed, IV, 36, 3: value, care not for the feud which will ensue; cf. B 3.

vance, spak wi a vance, IV, 465, 30: seems to be meant for vaunt. It is hardly probable that the plural of the old Scottish and English avant, vaunt (with avants) can be intended.

vanitie, IV, 300, 2, is nonsense.

vawward, III, 284, 14; vanward, III, 285, 21, 34; 333, 27: vanguard, van.

veiwe, vew, vewe, III, 92, 15: yew.

velvaret, IV, 369, 1: meant for velvet; not velveret.

venie (?), III, 219 b, note: vein.

venison, II, 59, 38: hunting (prerogative of).

vension, III, 196, d 4: venison.

vepan, weapon.

verament, III, 308, 26; 333, 26: truly.

vessell, pl., III, 65, 175, 179, 191: vessels.

vew, your vew, V, 86, 40: sight of you.

vew, vewe, veiwe, III, 92, 15; 105, 27; 362, 78: yew. (The v is not for u. The word is pronounced vewe in Cheshire.)

vild, V, 53, 102: vile.

virgus, I, 420, 13: verjuice, a kind of vinegar (green juice).

virr, I, 183, 16: vigor.

virtue, in virtue leave your lammas beds, II, 96, J 4: corrupt. Cf. B 1. Dr Davidson suggests, never tae leave your lammie’s, lambkin’s beds (lammie’s, innocent).

vo, vou, woe.

vogie, IV, 176, 11: vain, merry; no longer have you cause for self-gratulation, to be demonstratively joyful.

vones, I, 334, 6: dwellest.

voss. a voss o, IV, 224, 8, 12: comparing G 8, 10, 21, K 22, the voice of, this last seems to be meant. Otherwise, a corruption of, it was a (cf. A 11; C 15; D 17; E 19; H 11).

votes, IV, 114, C 2: for voters? probably a corruption.

vou’s me, V, 271, 16, 17, wo is me!

vouch it safe, III, 75, 381: grant, bestow (safe corrected from halfe).

voued, pret., V, 268, 17: viewed.

vour. o vour, II, 25, F 13: half owre, as in C 18.

vow, wow, IV, 133 f., 12, 15; 136, 21; V, 118, C 11: exclamation of surprise, emphasis, or admiration.

voyded, III, 26, 79: made off.

vue, v., V, 265, 17: view.

vyld, wild.

vytouten nay, I, 334, 4: without, beyond, denial.

W

wa, wae, IV, 448 a, 3^d st.: wo.

waaf, II, 72, 2: waif.

wad, n., II, 63, 23; 172, 31, 32: pledge, in security. I, 340, 2; 343, 2; II, 376, 39; III, 455, 10: forfeit.

wad. I wad, I, 130, F 14, 15, 20: I wot, in a weak sense, assuredly, truly. See a=I, and wat.

wad, wade, I, 71, 55, 56; 74, 76, 77; III, 465, 30; V, 299, 2: would. See wads.

wad, wade, v., IV, 18, 17; 185, 7; 384, 5; 385, 2, 7; 386, 2; V, 219, 23; 275 b, 6; 300, 14: wager. IV, 432, 4, 5: engage (to fight).

wadded, I, 272, 11: of woad color, blue.

wadded, V, 261, 6: wedded.

wadding, wadin, II, 131 f., 11, 16, 19, 20; IV, 470, 15-17: wedding.

wade, wad, pret. of wide, wade, II, 97, 12, 13; 283, 4; 461, 10; IV, 68, 6; 190, 27, 28; 438, 13; 455, 9.

waders, IV, 188, 20: miscopied by Skene for mideers, mothers.

wadin. See wadding.

wads, II, 133, D 4, 5, 6: wishes (wad, would, treated as a present tense).

wae, wa, I, 69, 48; 127, 28; 169, 3; 217, 3, 6; V, 306, 10: wo.

wae, adj., I, 367, 11; II, 70, 25; 89, 36; 129, 17: unhappy.

wael, IV, 443, 5: choice. See wale.

waely, IV, 59, d 3: a rhyme-word for wae, sad.

waesome, IV, 369 b: woful.

waft, I, 420, 15, 16; 422, 12, 13: weft, woof.

wafu, woful.

wainless, II, 72, 8: homeless (without a wane, habitation).

wair, II, 472, 24: bestow. See war.

wait, I wait, a wait, wate, IV, 128, 16, 17; 169, 3; 371, 2, 3, 5; 447, 6, 17; 470, 17; 510, W 2; 515, 12, 15; 517, 20: I wot, know, indeed. See wat, and a=I.

wait, IV, 456, 7:=wite, blame.

wait, wayte, III, 57, 18; 66, 209; 83, 202; 86, 202; 412, 21: watch, lie in wait, seek an opportunity, to do.

waith, steed, V, 176, 18: waif, stray, wandering.

waitmen, II, 424, 3: waiting-men (or possibly, wight men, strong men).

wake, II, 327, 2, 4, 5: aperture, way. (Icel. vök, aperture, especially one cut in ice, or remaining in water not completely frozen over; passage cut for ships in ice; Swed. vak, hole in ice; Dutch vak, empty space. “In Norfolk, when the ‘broads’ are mostly frozen over, the spaces of open water are called wakes.” Wedgwood.)

wake, I, 107, 5; IV, 446, 5; 447, 5: watch (people set to watch me), but the reading at I, 107; IV, 447, is probably wrong; cf. I, 108, B 4. See wane.

wake, IV, 141, 12: merry-making, sport.

wake, v., V, 277, 2: walk.

wake, III, 88, 340, is an original misprint.

waken, I, 433, 24: waking.

wakerife. See waukrife.

wald, walde, I, 334, 6: would.

wale, wael, walle, IV, 265, A b 10; 477, 19; V, 256 a, 2: choice.

wale, weil, wile, wyle, I, 428, 14; IV, 169, 5; 300, 12; 461, 19; V, 105, B 1: choose.

wale wight, I, 490, 13. See wall wight.

walker, I, 272, 14: fuller.

wall, I, 387, 2, 4; 440, 4, 6; V, 206 a, 3: well, spring. The water at St Johnston’s wall was fifty fathom deep, II, 21, 14: an alleged deep place in the Tay; cf. 24, 14, there’s a brig at the back o Sanct John’s toun, it’s fifty fadom deep.

wall, green wall sea, green wall wave, V, 275 b, 7, 8: apparently wave, despite tautology; cf. II, 22, 15, green-waved sea. (haw sea, IV, 379, 10; 380, 19. Prof. Murison informs me that when Mrs Murison sings the ballad mechanically, or without attention, she invariably sings haw.)

walle, V, 256 a, 2: wale, choice. See wale.

wallourt. See wallowt.

wallowd, II, 392, 10: rolled over (?).

wallowit, II, 361, 32: withered.

wallowt, IV, 127, 3: drooped, grew pallid. was wallourt, IV, 138, M: (misspelt) was pallid.

wall-wight, II, 123, 15; 403, 9; III, 10, 23; IV, 392, 11, 12; V, 37, 6; 41, 29, 32 (all from Buchan’s ballads): explained by Donaldson as waled wight, picked strong men. Donaldson cites weild wightman from Semple of Beltrees. See well wight, wale wight men, I, 490, 13.

wallwood, swine, II, 299, 16: wild-wood, compare II, 144, 3, wild-wood steer (unhallowed swine, II, 154, 10).

walting, IV, 312, 8: welting, edging.

waly, IV, 21, 13: fine large.

waly, wallie, wally, II, 363, 1, line 1; IV, 109 f., 5, 8; 293, A 1, 2, 7, 9 (oh and a waly); V, 195, 8; 197, 9, 10, 11: exclamation of admiration. O braw wallie, IV, 296, F 1: literally, O good, lucky! or, O good luck! but, as before, an exclamation of admiration.

waly, wally, II, 363, 1, line 3; IV, 92, 1, 3; 94, 1; 95, 1, etc.: interjection of lamentation (probably A. S. wá lá!). the wally o’t, IV, 290, D b 1: sorrow, pity of it! waly’s my love! V, 208, 1, 2, etc.

wamb(e), wame, II, 130, 2; 183, 24; 189, 27; 195, 33; III, 437, 23: womb. See weam.

wan, one.

wan, dark-colored, pallid, colorless, white. II, 92, 3, 4, 9; 97, 11; 144, 13; 147, 10; 150, 14: dark-colored. II, 74, E 6; 79, 28; 185, 33; 187, 16; 399, 2: pallid. wan water (as contrasted with wine), II, 70, 17; 74, D 7; 75, 10; 92, 4; 96, J 7, 8: colorless. far got ye that water that washes ye so wan, II, 191, 23: white (ye wad never be so white, 24).

wan, wane, pret. of win, I, 73, 53; II, 21, 4; 123, 22; III, 474, 32; IV, 180, 7. he wan free, V, 300, 11: got free.

wan, p. p. of win, IV, 385, 26.

wand, II, 146, 13; 147, 14; 150, E 9; 151, G 4: of (willow) twigs, staff made of the wand, II, 118, 22 (very nearly verbiage): made of a rod.

wane, I, 334, 7; III, 63, 148: habitation. in my bower there is a wane, IV, 446, 5: wane, says Jamieson, denotes not only a dwelling (Old Eng. wone), but “different apartments in the same habitation;” if so, in my house there is a room, is the sense here. wan, in the wake there is a wan, IV, 447, 5: should at least be, in the wane there is a wake, as the rhyme shows, and as we have at 446, 5. In, at the wake there is a wane, I, 107, 5, wane was meant by Scott to be understood as a collection of people (wheen). See wake.

wane, III, 309, 36: “quantity, multitude; a single arrow out of a vast quantity.” Skeat (quantity as in Chaucer’s wone, see wheen). This is to me quite unsatisfactory, but I have no better interpretation to offer. Wain, in the sense of a vehicle for a missile, ballista, catapult, would be what is wanted, but I have not succeeded in finding a case.

wanhappy, IV, 386, 1: unlucky.

wanna, did not win, go.

wannelld, III, 488, 38: was unsteady, staggered. (A. S. wancol, North Eng. wankle, unstable, Germ. wankeln.)

wannle, IV, 491, 32: agile, vigorous, strong.

wanny, II, 261, 8, 9: small wand, rod.

want, IV, 196, 3; 268, 17, 22; 357, B 7; 358, 17: do without, dispense with. sae soon as we’ve wanted him, IV, 359, 12: had to do without. III, 513 b, 2, pret.: wanted.

wanton, III, 452, 1; 453, 1: free and easy, frolicsome. (rantin, 455, 1.) Cf. Wanton Brown (a horse), IV, 17, 1, etc.

wantonlie, -ly, III, 488, 27; 490, 14: gaily, merrily. rode, lap, wantonly, IV, 146 f., 8, 38: in easy, spirited style.

wap, horse will gie his head a wap, I, 182 f., 8, 14: throw, toss.

wap, n., coost a wap on horse’s nose, IV, 21, 9: noose.

wap, v., wrap, lap. wap cloth into ship’s side, II, 27, 19: stuff. roun ship’s side, 20: wrap. wap halter oer horse’s nose, IV, 17, 4: lap, twine, perhaps throw.

wap, v., throw. wappin corn and hay oer to horse, IV, 21, 18: throwing. wappit wings, II, 139 f., 7, 12, 22: beat, flapped.

war, ware. be war, ware, a, of, on, I, 273, 37; II, 46, 37; III, 66, 213; 109, 4; 296, 20; 307, 10: be aware, have a sight of. was war wher, III, 98, 39.

war, waur, I, 388, A 10; 420, 12, 13; 466, 22; II, 417, 6, 9; V, 193, 48: worse.

war, waur, I, 132, I 1; 149, I 1; 331, B 8: were.

war, ware, wair, I, 431, 3; 478, 7; II, 418, 22; 472, 24; V, 142, 11: expend, bestow. ware my dame’s cauf’s skin on thee, IV, 7, 31; V, 250, 29: apply, use, my wife’s (mother’s) whip.

waran, warran, warrand, warraner, warrant, III, 430, 15; 435, F 7; 436, 5, 7: sponsor for, security. III, 405, 7; IV, 310, 4 (cf. warn): safeguard.

ward, warde, III, 404 b; 470 b: defence. III, 72, 332, 337; 449 a; IV, 11, 18: prison, confinement. enter himself in ward, III, 447 b: voluntarily go into confinement.

ward, IV, 446, 1: corrupt. See weird.

warde, II, 273, 25; 340 b, line 8: forewarn, advise.

warden, I, 161, 4; V, 209 a, 4: guardian, tutor.

warden, IV, 317, F 3, 4: facing, edging (cf. the walting, welting, of 312, A 8).

warden pies, III, 216, 35: made of large pears called wardens.

wardle, I, 127, 14; V, 214 f., 1, 6: world. wardle’s make, see warld.

ware, V, 169, 11: sea-weed, alga marina (used for manure).

ware, V, 306, 2, 3: were.

ware, pret., V, 221, 20: wore.

ware. See war.

warison, waryson, III, 100, 74; 297, 43: reward.

warld, world. warld’s make, I, 129, 8; 348, 17; 351 f., 40, 54; 353, H 12; wardle’s make, I, 127, 14; warldly, worldly, make, mate, I, 344, 30; II, 118, 6, 7; world’s make, I, 128, 11; 348, 11; wordlye make, II, 86, 18, 20: world’s, earthly, mate, consort. world’s mait, I, 508, 9.

warldly. See warld.

warlock, II, 220, 11, 12; 223 f., 8, 14; IV, 472 f., 24, 25: wizard.

warn, IV, 309, 2, 6: surety, safeguard. Cf. warran, IV, 310, 4, and see waran.

warn, p. p., IV, 445 b, 2, No 8: warnd (as 446, b 2).

warp, v., I, 312, 8; II, 503, 7: curl, twist.

warran, warrand. See waran.

warraner. See waran.

warsle, n., I, 438, A 1: wrestle.

warsle, warsel, v., I, 438, A 2; 439, 2; 440, 3; 441, 1-3: wrestle. warsled, I, 56, 14: wrestled, struggled, bestirred herself.

warslin, a-warslin, I, 440, 1, 2: a-wrestling.

warwolf, I, 311, 15, 16: werewolf, man-wolf, man transformed into a wolf.

waryson. See warison.

wa’s, ways.

was. See wash.

wash. pres. was, I, 494, 7; III, 111, 41. pret. weesh, wish, wush. p. p. washen (I, 304, E 5; II, 111, 10; V, 102, B 15), wushen, which see.

wast, west.

waste, I, 349, F 9: seems to be nonsense (ride expected).

wat, wate, wait, watt, weet, wet, wit, wite, wyte, wis, wot, know. I wat, wate, a wat, a wite, etc., frequently nothing more than assuredly, indeed: II, 159, 11, 13, 15, 16, 19, 23; 160, 10-16, 18, 19; 161, 12, 13, 17; III, 199, 23; 464 f., 10, 15, 34; 466, 43; IV, 175, M 7; 359, 4, 5, 7, etc.; 470, 17; V, 300, 2. pret. wist. p. p. wist, west.

wat, pret. of weet, weit, to wet, I, 17, D 6; II, 21, 12, 13; 23 f., D 7, F 10, etc.; IV, 424, 5. p. p., I, 55, B 7; II, 23, E 8.

wate, knew. See wat, wait.

wate, pret. of wite, blame, II, 273, 25.

water, water-side, IV, 7, 25; V, 250, 24, 25: “the banks of a river, in the mountainous districts of Scotland the only inhabitable parts.” Scott.

water-cherry, II, 186, 18: perhaps a species of cherry used as a cosmetic.

water-gate, IV, 510, 6; V, 250, 12: street leading to the water, way along the water.

water-kelpy, IV, 185, 10: water-sprite.

water-side. See water.

water-sluice. bored nine holes in her water-sluice, V, 142, f 5, should mean in the gate or valve of some vent for water; bored a watery sluice, or aperture for water, g 6, is a more rational reading.

water-stoups, V, 91, 7, 8: water-buckets or pitchers.

wather, wither, wuther, V, 107, 3, 5: wether.

watt, III, 199, 23: know. See wat.

waught, I, 299, 14: draught.

wauk, walk.

wauk, II, 139, 5, 13: watch, be awake.

wauken, II, 139, 11, 13: waken. pret. waukenit, II, 79, 38: awoke.

wauken(e)d at, II, 162, 12: tried to waken; perhaps, chid, expostulated with.

waukrife, wakerife, IV, 389 b: watchful, wakeful.

waur, war, I, 5, 13, 18; 422, 17; 475, 44; 476, J 6; II, 421, 26; IV, 26, 4, 5: worse.

waur, I, 147, C 1; II, 61, 9; IV, 417, 5, 10: were.

wavers wi the wind, II, 266, B 1: is as restless, changeable (?).

wawis, IV, 196, 19: walls.

way, I, 4, A 13, 16; B 8, 9; 5, D 4, 9; V, 283, 7, 17: the Milky Way.

way. would I way or would I wight, I, 77, 13; 78, 42: nonsense. See weight. Motherwell conjectures, would I away, or would I wait. See wee.

waylawaye, alas.

ways, IV, 196, 15: in a direction.

wayte, wait, III, 57, 18; 66, 209; 83, 202; 86, 202; 412, 21: look out for; watch, lie in wait, seek an opportunity, to do. pret. wayted, III, 72, 331: lay in wait for.

waythmen, III, 41 a: hunters. See wight-men.

we, V, 302 a, 13: with.

we an E an O me, we an E an O an O me, V, 275 a, 9, 10: these words have been treated as interjections. It is possible that they are corrupted from something like, were a’ foald in a yeir to me, III, 370, 9; cf. II, 465, 9.

wea, see your body wea, V, 226 b, 7:=wae, suffering? (strange expression, see II, 305, 7, you red and blue.)

wead, would.

weal, III, 310, 60: “clench so as to leave marks, mark with wales”(?). “Perhaps read wringe and wayle.” Skeat.

weame, IV, 505, 56: belly. See wamb(e), weme.

wean, II, 136 a, 16; III, 253, R; 397, A b 2: wee an, little one, child.

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

wear, pret., V, 221, 21: wore.

Wearie, I, 55 f., 3, 4, 6, etc.: the Devil.

wearied, wearit. See wearyd.

wearifu, V, 115, 7: tiresome, vexatious, cursed.

wearin’s wa, I, 333, 6: wearing his way, growing less and less, slowly vanishing.

weary fa, IV, 389 b: a curse befall.

weary, wearie, I, 310, 16; II, 131 f., 11, 16; 231, 1; III, 319, 24; IV, 56, A 3, B 3; 57, C 3, 6; 133, G 6; V, 16, 1, 2, 5, 8; 192, 25: sad, unhappy, distressed. IV, 44, 6; 290, B c 5; 359, 6; 480, 3: vexatious, hateful, horrid, cursed.

weary, weary high hat, III, 184, 13: monstrously, deucedly.

wearyd, wearied, wearit, III, 261 f., 8, 10; IV, 128, 5; 132, 8: troubled, afflicted.

wearyin for me in, V, 155, 6: longing to have me indoors.

weate, III, 341, 47: corrupt. Possibly, I weate, wit, know.

weather, IV, 213, 17, 18: storm of rain or snow.

wed, wedd(e), wad, III, 66, 214; 71, 298; 110, 7, 8, 12, 13; 356, 34: pledge, fine, forfeit (ley a wed, 110, 7, 8,=leffe, leave a wed, 12, 13). sette to wedde, III, 59, 54: put in pledge.

wed, v., I, 481, 42: wager. See wad.

wed, proudest wed, III, 4, 5: proudest dressed (from wede)

wede, weed, II, 28, 28; III, 61, 97; 74, 368, 371; IV, 212, 2, 7; 213, 10, 15; V, 306, 13: clothing, garment.

wee, I, 163, J 1, 2, etc.; 164, K 1, 2, etc.: little. I, 203, 5; IV, 412, 15; 413, 18; 421, 25: short time.

wee. would I wee or would I way, I, 77, 12; 78, 41: would I (stay) wi (him) or (go) away, is all the meaning this can have. Motherwell conjectures, would I wait or would I away. See way.

weed. See wede.

weel, well. See well.

weel. the weel gae wi his body, IV, 129, 21, 23-25: prosperity.

weel, well. weel fa! good luck befall, I, 388, B 5. for my weel, II, 461, 8; 466, 24: well, advantage (461, 9, for my better). Euphemism for God: weel met thee save! I, 324, 3 (MS. thou); well met ye (you) save! IV, 455, 4; V, 195, 9; well (weel, weill) may ye (you) save! IV, 195, 13; 198 f., G 4, 21. So III, 268, 3¹, originally; the far better in the line following, is nonsense.

weel, weil, IV, 517, 19: a pot, deep place, or whirlpool in a river.

weel that was her own, II, 73, 20: seems to mean that the roses and ribbons were indeed hers by right.

weel-busked, hat, IV, 199, 9: handsomely adorned.

weel-fared, weel-fart, weil-faurit, etc.: well-favored. See fared.

weel-worst, V, 214 a, 1: very worst.

ween, II, 132, 21: whimper, whine, lament.

ween, heigh a ween and oh a ween (where a may be I), II, 504, 27: exclamation of distress.

weep, n., V, 241 a, 4, 5: weeping, tears.

weer, I, 72 f., 6, 61: weird, fortune.

weer, war. See weir.

weesh, pret. of wash, V, 213, 6.

weet, II, 293, 13: know.

weet, n., III, 160, 6; IV, 379, 15: rain, shower of rain.

weet, weit, v., III, 401, 7: wet.

weetie, weety, IV, 197, 9, 17; 258, 25: rainy.

weighed more, II, 455, 57: made more account.

weight, IV, 224, 23: wight, strong.

weight, was he weel or was he weight, I, 80, 9: nonsense; weight would be wight, strong, etc., which has no pertinency. The same of, would I way or would I wight, 77, 13. See way.

weil, weel, IV, 182, G 8: a pot, deep place, or whirlpool in a river. weil-head, II, 153, 17: vortex of a whirlpool.

weil, wile, V, 10, 2: wale, choose. See wale.

weil=well, very. See well.

weir, weer, were, III, 480, 9; 491, 6; IV, 432, 14; V, 183, 21: war.

weir, bot weir, I, 140 N: without doubt. (Pinkerton.)

weir-window, wire-window, IV, 44, 10; 46, 11, 7: seems to be a window grated with iron bars.

weird, wierd, weer, n., I, 69, 42, 47; 71, 37; 72 f., 6, 61; 77, 6; 309, B 1; 482, E: fate, fortune, destiny.

weird, v., I, 311, 3: destine.

weird, I, 107, 1: the reading at this place is compounded from, weird her a grit sin, IV, 445, 1, and ward her in a great sin, IV, 446, 1; the reading of IV, 445, would mean, destined, put her in the way of, a great sin; ward in of the other text does not give an easy sense, and ward is perhaps a corruption of weird.

weirdless, III, 391, H 3: unlucky.

weit, I, 140, N (Pinkerton): know.

welde, III, 112, 52: would.

well, euphemism for God. See weel.

well, III, 112, 48: will.

well, the well o wine gaed in, IV, 428, 16: perhaps wale, choice, the best; but since the wine was poisoned, this must be meant ironically.

well, weel, weil, very, right. well good, II, 46, 43; III, 132, 5; 478 f., 15, 34; V, 49, 11: very good. weil gaucy, V, 152, 3. well warst, V, 180, 14, 16; 214 a, 1: very worst. well faire mayde, II, 439, 3, 8, should perhaps be well-fared.

well and wellsome, II, 159, 16: should probably be wae and waesome (sad and woful).

well o Spa, IV, 286, 6: a spring to the west of Aberdeen.

well or wae, was he well or was he wae, I, 80, 8: whether he liked or disliked. (The passage is variously corrupted, and the original reading probably nowhere preserved.)

well-a-woo, III, 77, 438: a variety of well-a-way. (A. S. wá-lá-wá.)

well-bespoke, V, 149, 9-11: well spoken.

well-strand, I, 165, M 4; IV, 172, 15; 174, 16: stream from a spring.

well-wight, III, 3 f., 12, 16, 21; 487, 5, 7; IV, 165, 7; 222, 9 (wiel-wight); 428, 4: very strong, sturdy, stalwart; but, sometimes, brave, see III, 4, 16. See wall-wight.

welt, pret. of wield, III, 74, 366: disposed of.

welth(e), III, 77, 436: either, simply, his money, or, more probably, his well-being, his palmy days; so III, 287, 65. III, 295, 5, 6; 296, 15, (rich) booty.

weme (of ring), III, 412, 21: belly, hollow. See weame.

wen, III, 200, 3: win, get, go. V, 256, 7: pret. of win.

wend, III, 38, 104: gone (gone, b).

wend, went, V, 80, 42; 81, 14: weened.

wenion, with a, III, 138, 11: wanion, a curse, bad luck (waniand, waning (of the moon). Skeat).

wenking, winking.

went. See wend.

were, I, 334, 11: war. See weir.

were, vulgar English, he were, II, 4, 2; 8, 8.

werne, II, 139, 23: were.

werre, I, 327, 20: worse.

werryed, I, 273, 37: worried.

werschepyd, III, 109, 3: showed respect to.

west, p. p., III, 113, 70: wist.

west-airt lands, II, 73, 30: western. See airt.

westlan, westlin, westryn, II, 258, 34; III, 431, 20; 435, E 7; IV, 240, 18: western.

wet, wete, III, 63, 141; 70, 287; 112, 50: know.

wether, I, 210, 14; III, 430, 2; 432, 19 (perhaps=whether): whither.

wex, weks, n., V, 283, 11, 21: wax.

weynde, III, 297, 41: wend, go.

wha, who.

wha’s (whae’s) aught. See aucht.

whall, white as whall, II, 478, 7: that is, whale’s bone.

whang, I, 19, 11; II, 168, A 5: thong. In II, 217, 1, 3, lace his middle with a whang, the reading should no doubt be band as in other versions.

whang (of cheese), V, 115, 8: slice.

whar, whaur, I, 164, K 1, 3, L 1, 5: where.

whas, whose.

what an a, whaten a, whatna, whattna, whatten, I, 169, B 4; 203, C 18; 441, 19; II, 195, 34; III, 433, 2; 434, 2; 453, 12, 13; V, 162, C 2: what sort? what (in particular)? what a! So, what for a? V, 160, 3; what like a ? V, 163, 5; 164, E b 2.

wheder, III, 57, 11: whither.

wheen, a wheen blackguards, IV, 67, 5, 6: number, pack, etc.

whether, II, 455, 62; III, 92, 26: which of the two.

whether, whither.

whew, whue, whute, III, 440, 10: whistle.

whidderand, whithering, V, 191, 16: (of arrows) whizzing, moving with a whiz.

whight. See wight.

whikety whack, V, 304, 9: whick-whack (whick, doublet of whack).

while, the other, I, 414, 18: the remaining time, henceforth (?).

while, I, 232, A 2: for a while.

while, whyll(e), II, 223, F 1, 2; III, 201, 23, 31; 298, 50, 54; 309, 47: till.

whiles, I, 115, B 1; C 1; 131, G 9; 256, 2; II, 470, 59: at times.

whiles, whilest, whileste, whilste, whyllys, the whyles, III, 87, 278; 107 b, 7; 357, 38, 45; 358, 83; 361, b, c 38, 43, c 41: while.

whilk, IV, 373, 10; 476, 1: which.

whin, whun, win, fun, II, 116, 10, 18; 117, 4, 12; 360, 5, 7: furze.

whirpled, V, 106, E 5: evidently whipped, stripped (but I have not found the word elsewhere).

whistling (of ladies moving), II, 386, 19: whisking.

white bookes, III, 357, 58: clear of oppressive charges.

white bread, II, 88, 15, 16, 22, 23; wheat bread, as in 89, 4; 92, 5, 6 (white meal is contrasted with corn and oats, II, 88, 17, 18). So 96, J 5, 6; fite bread, whit bread, V, 220 f., 6, 7, 9.

white-fish, II, 129, 8; IV, 436, 10, 18, 19; V, 122, 1; 124, 1; 274, 10 (fait fish): haddock, cod, ling, etc., as distinguished from gray-fish, coal-fish; in Banff, as opposed to salmon, trout, herring.

white-fisher, IV, 436, 18, 19: one who fishes for haddock, cod, etc. (as distinguished from salmon).

white-land, IV, 213, 14: wheat-land.

white meal and gray, II, 261, 12; IV, 494, 29; V, 238, 29: oat-meal as distinguished from barley-meal (oat-meal and grey, II, 462, 30). But white meal, II, 88, 17, 18, being contrasted with corn (oats), must there be wheat.

white money, monie, I, 464, 7; 471, 11, 12; 473, 12; II, 352 f., E 5, 7; 473, 7, 8, 14; 475, 13, 14; 476, 10, 13; III, 389, 17, 18, 20, 22: silver.

white rigs, IV, 131, 14: of grain (to distinguish from crops which remain green).

whithering, whidderand, V, 191, 16; 199 b, 16: whizzing.

who would, III, 163, 87: if one would.

whorle, V, 116, 10; 118, 4; 119, 7; 120, 5: the fly of a spinning-rock.

whue. See whute.

whummil, I, 255, 2: wimble, gimlet.

whun, fun, III, 5, D 7; 6, 12: whin, furze. See whin.

whunnie, IV, 69, 22: covered with whins, furze.

whute, fute, whue, whew, n. and v., III, 125, 29-31: whistle. 126 B, b 29-31, whues.

why, V, 264, 5: whey.

whyles, the whyles, III, 70, 278: while. See whiles.

whyll(e), till. See while.

whyllys, III, 309, 37: while. See whiles.

wiald, wield.

wicht. See wight.

wicker, wigger, III, 125, 20; 126 f., b, d-f: willow. (Wycker, osier. Palsgrave. Swed. and Dan. dialects, vikker, vægger, willow. Skeat.)

wicker, IV, 31, 6: twist.

wid, IV, 456, 15: would.

wide, I, 55 f., B 4, 6, 8; II, 88, 5; 94, 3; 96, I 5; IV, 424, 11: wade. (Spelt wade, but rhymed with -ide, II, 462, 7; 465, 19; III, 493, 14.) pres. p. widen, IV, 68, 6. pret. wade, wad. p. p. wooden.

widifu, widdifu, widifau, widdefu, IV, 84, 7, 10, 11, 13; 85, 3; V, 253 f., No 203, D 2, 8: one qualified to fill a widdie or halter.

widna, widne, would not.

wiel-wight, IV, 222, 9: bold, stanch. See well-wight.

wierd. See weird.

wigger. See wicker.

wight, wyght, wicht, whight, I, 330 f., A 3, B 3, C 3; 333, 4; II, 409, 16; III, 63, 152; 414, 49: strong; but also, denoting bodily activity, brisk, as III, 117, 20; III, 63, 148, of John, who has shot well. III, 27, 97; 65, 195; 75, 389; 78, 448, Adam Bell, Clim, and William, and Robin Hood’s men are wight young men. III, 91 f., 6, 8, Guy of Gisborne is a wight yeoman: sturdy. See well-wight. wighty, III, 94, 48, has perhaps caught the y from the word following. See wighty.

wightdom, III, 488, 26: weight.

wightlye, II, 58, 10: with vigor, or briskness.

wight-men, II, 433, 7: waith-men, hunters. (Icel. veiði-maðr, Germ. weidmann.) See waythmen.

wightsmen, IV, 432, 1: wechtsmen, winnowers. wecht is “an instrument for winnowing corn, made of sheep’s skin, in the form of a sieve, but without holes.”

wighty, III, 32, 45, 50; 94, 48; 362, 70:==wight, strong. See wight.

wil, IV, 472 f., 24, 25: wild, perhaps vile.

wild, I, 334, 6: would.

wild-fire, III, 281, 12: ignis fatuus. (slack here is marsh.)

wild-wood swine, steer, drunk as, II, 144, 3, 4; 368, 7: a popular comparison like, drunk as a dog.

wile, vile.

wilfull, III, 92, 24, wilfull of my way: (Scottish will, Icel. villr) astray, lost; and of my morning tyde may be that he does not know the hour, or, he has lost his time as well as his road. See will.

wile, wyle, weil, wale, I, 428, 13; 429, 7, 8; II, 344, 12; IV, 287, 14; V, 127, 20, 21; 157, 9: choose.

will, pret. wald, walde, wad, wade, wild, wid, wud.

will, would, ellipsis of. as muckle guid canvas as wrap the ship a’roun, II, 28, 22. there’s nane come, win, II, 89, 34; 99 b, 34. So, II, 26, 11; 375, 23; IV, 131, 13; 379, 11; 380, 7; 381, 8, 10; 382, 13; V, 177, 9; 184, 38; 276, 14.

will, V, 16, 10, 15, 20: bewildered, at a loss what to do. will of his way, V, 70 b: lost, astray. See wilfull.

willinglye, I, 272, 22: at will, freely.

williwa, IV, 19, C 6: wellaway, interjection of (affected) reluctance.

willy, willow.

wilsome, IV, 235, 3: erratic, intricate.

win, I, 72, 22, 23: whin, furze, gorse. See whin.

win, wynne, won, wonne, hay, III, 295, 1; 299, B 1, C 1; V, 243, 1: dry by airing.

win, wine, wynne, wen, won, make your way, arrive. III, 71, 314; IV, 314, 15: get, go. IV, 189, 2, 4, 6: arrive, get there. win down, I, 481, 39. win frie, III, 453, 11. lat me win in, II, 148, 25: get in. win up, I, 368 f., 34, 36, 44, 47: get up. win on, I, 388, A 7: go on, keep on. win through, I, 21 b, 4: transitively, allow, cause, to pass through. win to, I, 466, 13; V, 262, 17: get to, arrive at. pret. wan. p. p. wone, wan, win, wine, wen.

win, p. p. of win, I, 101, 15; IV, 189, 15; 220, 3; 446, 17; 467, 8, 9.

win your love aff me, II, 207, B 2: detach your love from me.

wine, p. p. of win, V, 276, 22.

winder, I, 430, 1: wonder, wondrous. See wonder.

windie, II, 362, 3: window.

windling sheet, III, 245, B 13: winding-sheet.

winking, II, 463, 16: with eye closed as if blind.

winn, in your barn, IV, 323, 6: do harvest work generally, dry corn, etc., by exposing to the air. (unless meant for winna, winnow.)

winna, IV, 326, 7: winnow.

winna, winnë, will not.

winten, V, 248, 7: (wanting) without.

winter, wynter, III, 58, 47; 64, 162; 285, 20: year(s).

wir, I, 217, 9: our.

wire-window. See weir-window.

wis, I, 217, 9: us.

wis, you wis, IV, 233, 13: know.

wis, III, 319, 20, 24; V, 206 a, No 2, 4: was.

wish, pret. of wash, V, 36, 14.

wiss, n., I, 420, 12; II, 194, 8: wish.

wiss, wis, v., I, 22, 6, 8; 217, 3; III, 453, 3; IV, 168, E 15; 169, 12; 461, 8, 9: wish. pret. wist, II, 423, A 1; III, 434, 20; V, 248, 18.

wiss, I wiss, III, 223, 10: perhaps for I wot (not i-wiss). wist, III, 187, 32; 222, 34: know. (I wist, 187, 32==assuredly.)

wist, pret. of wiss, wish. See wiss.

wiste, wist, pret. of wat, etc., I, 243, 6; 334, 6; 368, 23; 413, 37. p. p. west, III, 113, 70.

wit, witt, n., III, 393, 22, 23; 419, 8, 12; IV, 509 a, 11; 512, 16, 17: knowledge, information.

wit, wite, wyte, I, 334, 6; II, 307, 34; III, 67, 230; 385, 15, 16; 396, M 8; IV, 98, 2; 221, 5; 508, 10, 11; 513, 6, 7; V, 81, 7; 82, 23: know. p. p. wit, IV, 98, 2.

wite, I wite, II, 160, 18; IV, 260, 12; 277, 5: I know-indeed. See wat, wyte.

wite, wyte, witt, n., I, 350, 12; II, 145, 25; 146, 8; 312, 30; IV, 33, 28; 127, 1; 207, 21; V, 171, 5; 247, 11: blame.

wite, wyte, v., I, 397, 13; II, 271, 19; 273, 25; III, 357, 53: blame. pret. wate, II, 273, 25.

with, I, 334, 7: wit, know (orthography doubtful).

with, wyth, III, 297, 42; 358, 75; 434, 23: by.

with that, II, 478, 5; III, 76, 414; V, 298 a: on condition that.

wither, wather, V, 105, B 7, 8: wether.

witherlands, witherlins, IV, 378, 5; 380, 11: (-lins, -lingis as in Scottish backlingis, backlins, English sidelins, sidelong; -lands a corruption of -lins) in a contrary, unwished-for, direction.

withershins, II, 318 a, 2: (M. H. Germ, widersinnes) in the wrong direction, in a direction contrary to the usual, or the desired (contrary to the course of the sun, often, but not necessarily here).

within me, lept, III, 127, Play 12: inside of my guard (?).

withouten, withowghten, I, 425, f 9, 10; III, 272, 6; 296, 18: without. See wythowtten.

witt, knowledge. See wit.

witt, n., blame, V, 247, 11. See wite.

witted, V, 132, 2: minded.

witter, I, 399, A b 8:-wittering, information.

wittering, I, 394, 8: information, indication.

witty, III, 131, 3: corruption of wight, wighty.

wo, woo, woe, II, 59, 33; 86, 16; 139, 20; III, 23, 23; 27, 101; 70, 297; 97, 19: sad, unhappy. a woe ses me, II, 504, 27: exclamation of distress; perhaps corruption of, woe is.

wobs, I, 305 a, A 3: webs (of cloth).

wod, wode, mad. See wood.

wode, III, 54, 3: went.

wode, V, 283, 9, 19: wood.

wode-shawe. grene-wode shawe, greenwood shaw, III, 57, 14; 70, 284; IV, 427, 1: thicket of the wood. (wood-shaw is of rather frequent occurrence and Halliwell cites, under the shawe of the wood, Morte d’Arthur, I, 374).

wodewale, woodwele, woodweele, I, 326, 2; III, 91, 2: wood-lark (?).

woe. See wo.

wol, v., V, 283, 1, etc.: will.

wolt, v., V, 283, 4: wilt.

wolwarde, III, 77, 442: with skin against wool, that is wearing a woolen fleece directly against the skin.

won, wone, one.

won, I, 18, I 1; 174, 1; 246, 1; 299, 6, 17; II, 419, 44, 51; III, 71, 315; IV, 19, C 5; 26, 15: dwell.

won, wonne, win, hay, III, 293 a; IV, 432, 1; 499, 1: dry by airing.

won, win, I, 464, 15; 506, 7; II, 89, 32; 140, 22; 172, 24; 256, K 2; 407, 12; IV, 242 a; 259, 21, 23: get, go, come, arrive. II, 316, 3, 7; IV, 115, D 9: gain, earn. (spelt one, IV, 284, 23; corrected to win.) p. p. wone, V, 276, 20. See wun.

wonder, III, 411, 2: bewilderment? disaster?

wonder, V, 283, 1: wondrous. See winder.

wone, III, 98, 25: number, plenty.

wone, withowtyn, withowt wone, V, 78 f., 9, 23: fail.

wonige, I, 334, 7: dwelling. Qy. wonninge?

wonynge, wonning, III, 63, 148; 86, 148: dwelling.

woo, wool.

woo. See wo.

wood, woode, wode, wod, wud, I, 242, 7; 244, 9; 328, 51; 348, 12, 18; II, 183, 26; 242, 30; 245, 27; V, 80, 42: mad.

woodcock(e), III, 199, 27; 201, 31: tropically, fool (from the bird’s reputation for folly). (A proverb, perhaps.)

wooden, p. p. of wide, wade, I, 324, B 6.

woodweele, wodewale, III, 91, 2 (MS. woodweete): woodwale, woodlark? (generally explained as woodpecker; sometimes as thrush, red-breast).

woon, won, v., III, 146, 16: dwell.

woone, III, 358, 77: domicile.

woot, V, 82, 26, 41: wolt, wilt.

word, att a, I, 411, 9: in short.

wordie, III, 269, 12: worthy.

wordlye make, II, 86, 18, 20: earthly mate, consort. See warld.

wordy, IV, 135, 16: worthily.

worrie, worry, v., (of smoke, flame) III, 434, 15; 435, 14; 437, 24; IV, 514, 20: choke.

worselaid, V, 217, H 2: wrestled.

worset, worset lace, III, 11, J 1: worsted; lace must be meant for web; it cannot mean cord, and seems quite out of place.

worth, wat sal worth of, I, 334, 11: come, come to pass. wo the worth, worth the! III, 65, 189; 70, 296; 400, 1: come, be, to thee. woe worth you, wae worth ye, II, 245, 27; V, 247, 10; 248, 11. wae mat worth, IV, 236, 28; 428, 6; V, 166, 10; 306, 10: may wo come to.

wou, I, 244, 13: how.

wouche, III, 308, 26: (A. S. wóh, Scott, wouch) evil, harm.

would, ellipsis of, II, 375, 23; IV, 131, 13; V, 177, 9; 184, 38; etc. See will.

wound, pret., II, 148, 4; IV, 15, 19; 392, 19: wounded.

wow, I, 101, 20; 299, 8, 10, 12; II, 260 f., 1, 11, 14: exclamation of distress. IV, 65, 1; V, 272 a, 9: exclamation of admiration, sorrowful surprise. II, 282 2; IV, 271, A 3, 4, 7, 9; V, 197, 6: of confirmation, (vow!). See vow.

wrack, ruin.

wrack, V, 122, 11: mischief! devil!

wraft, I, 424, b 12, 13: waft (woof) misspelt.