Volume 5 / Part 3 — GLOSSARY

Notwithstanding every effort to make this glossary as complete as possible, there remain not a few words and phrases with which I can do nothing satisfactory. This is the case not only with ballads from recent tradition, but with some that were taken down in writing three hundred years ago or more.

At every stage of oral transmission we must suppose that some accidental variations from what was delivered would be introduced, and occasionally some wilful variations. Memory will fail at times; at times the listener will hear amiss, or will not understand, and a perversion of sense will ensue, or absolute nonsense,—nonsense which will be servilely repeated, and which repetition may make more gross. Dr Davidson informs me that one of his female relatives rendered ‘an echo shrill did make’ (in Chevy Chace, 10) ‘an achish yirl did make,’ and that he took ‘aching or frightened earl’ to be the meaning until he read the piece. Happy are we when we are sure of the nonsense; as when, in The Gypsy Laddie, ‘they cast their glamourie owre her’ is turned into ‘they called their grandmother over.’ “The combination of two words into one,” says Dr Davidson, “is not rare in Scotch, nor is the reverse process. For example, the word ‘hypochondriac’ is turned into ‘keepach and dreeach,’ and the two parts often used separately. ‘I’m unco keepach’ and ‘I’m unco dreeach’ are common expressions among old people. Imagine an etymologist, ignorant of the facts, trying to discover the etymology of ‘keepach’ or of ‘dreeach.’” Words of one or two syllables are long enough for the simple; a laboring man of my acquaintance calls rheumatism ‘the tism’: what are the other syllables to such, who understand no one of the three? Learned words do not occur in ballads; still an old native word will be in the same danger of metamorphosis. But, though unfamiliarity naturally ends in corruption, mishearing may have the like effect where the original phrase is in no way in fault; hence, perhaps, ‘with a bretther a degs ye’ll clear up my nags,’ ‘a tabean briben kame,’ ‘I’ll have that head of thine, to enter plea att my iollye,’ etc.

It must be borne in mind, however, that as to nonsense the burden of proof rests always upon the expositor. His personal inability to dispose of a reading is not conclusive; his convictions may be strong, but patience and caution are his part and self-restraint as to conjectures.

It is with a strong feeling of what ‘a kindly Scot’ signifies that I offer my thanks to many gentlemen who have favored me with comments on lists of words submitted to them. Especial acknowledgment is due to Dr Thomas Davidson, a native of Old Deer, who has made his home in the United States, and to Mr William Walker, of Aberdeen. Besides these, I have to mention with gratitude the Rev. Robert Lippe, Rev. Dr Walter Gregor, the late Dr William Alexander, Principal Sir W. D. Geddes, Dr James Mori, Messrs William Forbes, James Aiken, David Scott, W. Carnie, W. Cadenhead, and William Murison, all of Aberdeenshire; Dr James Burgess, Messrs J. Logie Robertson and William Macmath, of Edinburgh; Professor A. F. Murison, of London, and Dr Robert Wallace, M. P.; Professor James Cappen, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario; Rev. Professor J. Clarke Murray and Principal Dr W. M. Barbour, of Montreal; Rev. Dr Alexander McDonald, St Francis Xavier’s College, Antigonish, N. S.; Rev. Dr Waters, of Newark, N. J. For some difficult English words help has been given by Dr W. Hand Browne of Johns Hopkins University, Professor Manly of Brown University, and Professor Kittredge of Harvard College.

It will be observed that ballads in the Skene MS which were derived from the “Old Lady’s Collection” are not glossed, but the originals, which should be substituted for Skene’s more or less incorrect copies.

[References are usually to volume, page, and stanza.]

A

a’, aa, aw, all.

a’=every. a’man, I, 68, 27; II, 71, 16; 75, 13; 193, 24; IV, 46, 5, 6; 235, 10; V, 169, 6; 221, 10; 224, 22; 237, 8; 239, 36; 260 b, 5. a’body, V, 273 a.

a, abridgment of have, I, 315, 11; III, 215, 10; 440, 13; 441, 26; V, 55, 26; 79, 33; 213, 10; 224, 28; 251, 36.

a=he, III, 54, 3, 7.

a=I, in the phrase a wat (a wait, a wite, etc.), II, 159, 11, 16, 19; 160, 10-16, 19; III, 299, 9: I know, verily, assuredly. II, 230, 6: used by a mere trick, with hardly a meaning. a’s, V, 266, 9: I’s, I shall, will.

a=of: III, 91, 2; 93, 36; 298, 59; 307, 10; 308, 12, 24; 309, 40 (a trusti tre?); 349, 37, 39; 464, 11; IV, 504, 27.

a=on. a grefe, III, 69, 268. a blode (ablode), I, 244, 9; V, 288 b, v. 16. a row, III, 117, 24.

a=one: I, 126, 4; 326, 7; 327, 24.

a=ae, one single: V, 256 b, 2; 257, 6, 15; 278, 26. a warst, V, 215, 6. V, 239, 36: one and the same. See ae.

a=to. abound, II, 109, 20: to go. a dee, 110, 25: to do. So, perhaps, abee.

a be, abe, a bee, abee, a beene (with let), I, 356, D b 4; II, 29, 5; 108, 5; 159, 25; 185, 27; III, 455, 4, 8; V, 229, 35: be. let abee with, IV, 96 f., D 9, 13. let abee of, IV, 97, E 4, 5; 98, 15; 99, 14, 15.

abeen, abeene, aboon, abone, etc., I, 315, 8; II, 468, 7; IV, 326, 16, 19: above. his hose abeen his sheen, V, 17, 35; 18, 14: his stockings ungartered, falling above, over his shoes.

abide, abyde, III, 67, 219; 73, 345; V, 82, 24, 40: stop, wait. III, 97, 8; 279, 13: withstand. pret. abode, III, 63, 143: waited. p. p. abiden, abyden, III, 57 f., 25, 30: awaited.

able, II, 51, 4: suitable.

ablins, aiblins, III, 467, b 2: perhaps.

aboard, V, 134, 16: alongside; and so 8, 20, 22, or, laid us aboard may be boarded us.

abode, III, 335 a: waiting, delay.

abode, III, 430, 1, burden: endured.

aboone, aboun, abown. See abune.

abound. ill a bound, II, 109, 20: ill (prepared) to go.

about, been, V, 52, 77: been engaged.

abowthe, III, 112, 52: about.

abune, aboone, aboon, abon, abone, abown, aboun, abeen, II, 20, 8; 22, 16; 23, D 7, E 8; 24, F 10; 25, G 13; 27, 21; 28, 25; 29, 19; 30, 12; 145, 20: above (above them).

abyde. See abide.

abyden. See abide.

abye, III, 128, 84; V, 234 b, 3: pay, suffer consequences.

Acaron, III, 149, 32: being the oath of a Turk (36), this may be taken as Alcoran.

acward, ackward stroke, III, 110, 17; IV, 148, 43: described as a backhanded stroke. See aukeward.

advance, V, 147, 8: help on (?).

aduenture, III, 359, 90: hazard.

aduise, II, 436, 63: observe.

ae=one, single: I, 310, 6; 467, 33; 478, 1; II, 77, 29; IV, 257, 10; 260, 10; 261, 9; 262, 24; 445, 1; 476, 3. ae best, I, 465, 13, 17; IV, 479, 13. ae first, I, 426, 7, 8; 494, 22. ae warst (a warst), V, 214 f., 1, 6. the ae ... the ither, III, 500 b, 7: the one ... the other.

ae=mere, sole, ae licht o the moon, IV, 469, 4; 470, 35.

ae=aye, always: I, 245, 7; II, 185, 40; 208, 12; IV, 247, B 11; 265, 13.

aer, I, 16, C 12: ear, plough.

aevery, III, 465, 25: voracious, very hungry. (A. S. gífre.)

afar, afore, affore, I, 438, A 1; II, 21, 15, 16; 138, 8; III, 405, 15; IV, 128 f., 19, 21, 23, 24: before.

aff, I, 346, 12: oft.

affronted, II, 367, 45; IV, 242 b: put to shame, mortified. III, 152, 6: confronted, opposed.

a-fit, V, 115, 7: on foot.

aft, III, 491, 8; V, 299 b, 4: oft.

after, after the way, III, 99, 57: along, on. aftere brade waye, I, 333, 1: along, over. after me, III, 74, 367: according to me, my advice.

against, III, 344, 36: by way of preparation for the case.

agast of him, III, 99, 49: alarmed about him (the consequences to him).

agaste, V, 71, note †: terrified.

agayn(e), ageyn, III, 98, 29; 297, 46: against, a-geyn euyn, III, 13, 3: towards.

agoe, V, 83, 44: gone.

agree, IV, 147, 32: bring to agreement.

a-ȝon, comyn a-ȝon, III, 13, 4: came upon, encountered.

ahind, ahint, ahin, I, 299, 14; II, 105, 11; 315, 5; III, 480, 14; 481, 30; IV, 246, 6: behind. V, 17, 32: over and above.

aiblins, ablins, I, 439, 4: perhaps.

aileth at. See at.

air, in a drowsy air, IV, 20, 11: air seems to mean atmosphere simply; possibly disposition, condition.

air, aire, ayre, by air, by ayre, II, 106, 1; 270, 30; III, 162, 58; 164, b 58; V, 270, 7: early, betimes.

airn, ern, I, 342, 33; 348, 13, 19; 355, 42; III, 474, 39; 481, 35; 505, 21: iron.

airt, art, II, 23, E 5: quarter of the heavens, point of the compass, west-airt lands, II, 73, 30: western. rade the airt o, IV, 27, 31: in the direction of. a’airts o wind, II, 341, Q. been at that art, III, 163, 87.

airted, V, 99, C 4: laid their course.

aith, oath.

a’kin, a’kin kind, II, 114, 2: all kind, every.

’al, that ’al, IV, 17, 3: ’ull, wull, will.

al, al so mote I the, III, 68, 243: absolutely.

al, will.

alaffe, III, 34, 11: aloof.

alane, I, 347, 2. mine alane, I, 332, E 1, F 1. See lane.

alang, along.

albergs, II, 340 b: houses, dwells.

alean, alone.

alee, IV, 516 b, 3: on the lea, a-field, but for the purpose of keeping guard; cf. III, 487, A 15; 492, D 5; 495, B b 4.

aleene, I, 346, 4: alone.

alelladay, I, 220, A 1: exclamation of grief.

algate, IV, 93, note *: anyway.

aliment, IV, 91, a: provision for maintenance; here, apparently, alimony.

alive, I loved ye best ye were born alive, IV, 521, 19: corrupted; the sense appears in IV, 26, A 16, I love best that’s born alive, best of all living things.

all. all and, I, 56, 6, 7; III, 432, 16, 17; all as she stood, I, 117, 16; all in my hand, III, 186, 20; all by the roode, III, 188, 2; all by his side, V, 212 b, 8; all on, IV, 393, 5; 394, B 2, 5; 395 f., B b 2, 3, 5; V, 233 f., 2, 3, 5; all at her head, feet, V, 158, 9; all down, V, 293 b, 5; all oer, 302 b, 2.

allacing, IV, 18, 21: repeating of alace (alas).

allther, III, 57, 9; 70, 283, 284, representing the ancient genitive plural of all, allther moste, allther best: best of all, etc.

along of, III, 279, 8: owing to.

alongst, V, 267 a, 7, 8: along.

alow, III, 4, 1: below.

alow, aloe, George Aloe, V, 133.

als, alsua, I, 327, 27; IV, 366 D 5: also.

also, I, 328, 46: all so, just as.

althocht, III, 370, 19: although.

amain(e), III, 345, 48; 350, 51: with vigor, strength, force. blew, sound, cald, amain, III, 181, 27; 341, 46; 343, 17; 344, 36: with strength, loudly. II, 385, 24; IV, 13, 2: in force, in numbers. I, 398, 4; III, 176 f., 11, 16; 209, 9: at once, quickly.

amain, V, 134, 7, 16: (Fr. amener) lower, strike.

a-married, IV, 236, 4: married.

a-marvel, II, 386, 12: marvel (Fr. émerveiller).

amense, III, 465, 23: amends. (Should be printed as one word, not a mense as in the MS.)

American leather, I, 494, 14; III, 3, 13; 5, C 2: has been explained as morocco made from American horsehides, for which a patent was obtained c. 1799. See The Scots Magazine, 1799, LXI, 286. But the date of the text at III, 3, is 1780.

amo, V, 306 b, 14: among.

among, II, 451, 89: between.

amoued, II, 442, 9: excited, agitated.

an, II, 75, 20; V, 214 b, 4: one.

-an, -ane, -and, -en, etc., annexed to the definite form of the superlative of the adjective (preceded by the, her, etc.) or to numerals, or following separately, seems to be an=one. (The history of this usage has not been made out.) The firstan, nextan, firsten, nexten, passim (the seconden only at I, 507, 3); the firstand, I, 135, O 18; the nextand, II, 94, 6; her firsten, thirden, etc., II, 161, 9-12; her nexten, II, 164, 19; the firstin, the nextin, II, 380, 22; the first an, the niest an, I, 351, 45; the warst in, the best in, II, 98, 43, 44; the third ane, the fourth ane, etc., II, 71, 5, 6; 78, 8-11; the third one, fourth one, etc., II, 72, 5-7; the first ae, IV, 490, 20; the first y, III, 3, 15; the firsten ane, II, 370, 16. So, that samen, II, 475, 17.

an, I, 295, 30; 468, 6, 9; 480, 6, 7; II, 21, B 11: and, if.

ance, anse, I, 341, 9; 342, 23; 344, 21, 22; V, 9, 2, 4: once.

anchor, did on anchor rise so high, III, 344, 34 (c, g, have ride): the ship is in full sail; no apparent sense.

ancient, ancyent, III, 286, 40; 340, 37; 341, 46; 406, 30, 31, 39; 420, 20; 422, 65, 66: ensign.

and, superfluous (as in “when that I was and a tiny little boy,” and two other songs in Shakspere), see II, 57 b; II, 58, 7, 8; 59, 22, 27; 60, 39; 87, 31; III, 145, 6; 277, 16; 419, 8; IV, 448 a, 1, 2. The same usage in German, Swedish, and especially Dutch ballads.

and, if.

-and, -end, termination of the present participle: whissland, singand, cumand, seekand, etc., I, 326-329; II, 268, 17; IV, 195 f., D 2, 7, 10, 14; V, 192 f., 35, 49.

ane=a, I, 327, 11.

ane=alone. me ane, I, 333, 1.

ane, II, 191, 37=en, end.

aneath, aneth, II, 185, 29; 191, 23; V, 224, 17: beneath. aneath the sun, III, 5, D 7: sheltering the eyes with the hand. So, below the sun, III, 6, 6; 8, 6.

anent, I, 222, 8; II, 166, 21; 191, 24; 391, 20: over against, in the face of.

anew, I, 305, 1; III, 495, B b 3-5; IV, 249, 10; 271, B 4: enough, enow.

angel(l), II, 444, 55; 449, 61; 453, 32; III, 156, 4; V, 101, 4: a gold coin, of value varying from 6s. 8d. to 10s.

angerly, III, 286, 55; 361, b 21: angrily.

ankir, III, 66, 198: recluse, hermit.

another, III, 138, 8, 12, 13: corrupt, or verbiage.

anse, IV, 518, 3: once.

answere your quarrel, I, 411, 18: be responsible for, take on me to settle, your difference.

answery, v., V, 283, 12: answer.

ant, I, 244; V, 288 b: and.

antine (Fr. antienne), IV, 439 b, 6: anthem.

anunder, I, 302, A 9: under.

aout, V, 304 b, 7: out.

apayd, euelle apayd, III, 322 a: ill satisfied, displeased.

ape, lead an ape in hell, penance for old maids: I, 232, 14.

apparent, III, 451, note *: heir apparent. (parand, II, 447, 2, 4.)

applyed, p. p., V, 51, 67: plied.

appone, I, 327, 14, 28: upon.

apurn, V, 304 b, 3: apron.

ar, I, 244, 18; III, 110, 18: or, before.

arblast, I, 311 a: cross-bow.

archborde, III, 340, 23, 29 (in 29, MS. charke-bord): may be a misspelling of hachebord, st. 36 (hatch-bord, p. 342, 70). Barton grappled the ship to his archborde, from which we should infer that the word meant the side of the ship, as hatch-bord would naturally signify at p. 342, 70. But archborde might of itself mean the stern of the ship, a timber at the stern being still so called, and German hack-bord meaning the upper part of the stern of a ship. (It is singular that none of the difficult words archborde, hachebord, hall (III, 340, 29) occur in the York copy, IV, 503, which, however, has difficulties of its own.)

archery, III, 309, 41: collected archers.

arches, II, 307, 29: aims, shoots.

are, I, 327, 23: before.

armorie, I, 285, 34, seems to be employed in the sense of armament, men at arms.

armorye, III, 286, 56: armor.

arselins, V, 124, 12: backwards.

art, airt, quarter of the heavens. been at that art, III, 163, 87: in that quarter, at that place. See airt.

as, pron., I, 477, 6, 7, 13, 15; II, 4, D 4; 452, 14; V, 206 a, 1; b, 6: that, who.

as, conj., I, 477, 5, 18, 19; II, 453, 28: that.

as, V, 218 b, D 1: was.

as ever, III, 281, 10: as long as.

asay, p. p., III, 112, 48: tried. [Read asayed?]

asembled, III, 164, b 15: met (encountered).

ask, I, 353, H 11; 355, 41; II, 504, 32: newt, lizard. (A. S. áðexe.) Cf. ass.

askd, my father he askd me an acre o land, I, 17, D 9: askd seems to be an erroneous repetition from 8; aucht, owned, would be expected; or left, gave, as in K, L.

asking, asken, askend, askent, II, 91, D 27, 28; 92, 22-25; 192, 7, 14; 194, 23; 359, 7-10; V, 221 f., 27, 29, 30, 32; 223, 5, 7; 418, 8: boon, request.

askryede, I, 326, 4: described.

ass, I, 349, 11, 15: ask, newt.

assoyled, absolved.

aste, I, 217, 1: east.

astoned, astonied, V, 76, 24; 82, 35: astonished, amazed.

asurd, I, 334, 5: of azure; should probably be asur.

at. reade must rise at, II, 53, 34, 35; take councell at, III, 405, 17, 23; take leaue att, III, 357, 42: from. ask at, beg at, spear at, I, 497, L 5-8, M 2-5; III, 161, 32; 330, 15; IV, 331, 10: of, from. ails ye at, aileth thee at, II, 72, 3; 78, 7; 80, 3; IV, 95, 12; 96, 4; 99, H 7: with (what ail comes to you from me?). see at me, IV, 345, 8: in. come atte, IV, 507, 81: to, to the presence of. I was at thee, IV, 436, 1: (apud) with.

at, IV, 331 b, 8: out (?).

at, jobbing at, I, 104, A b 10: jogging off, away (?).

at, with ellipsis of the door, rappit at, clappit at, I, 105 a, 29; IV, 444, 16, 35; V, 173, 1; 306 b, 1.

at, att, pron. and conj., II, 472, 24; III, 488, 19; IV, 348, 1; 446, 6; 469 b, 10, 12; V, 79, 31; 118, B 12; 220 b, 5; 224, 28; 236, 11⁴; 256, 8: that, (it, V, 236, 11², may be for this at.)

a ta, III, 464, 1: at all.

athort, I, 305, 3: across (upon). far athort, V, 164, D b 13: a long way.

attempt, III, 39, 110: tempt.

attemptattis, III, 451 b: enterprises.

atteynt, I, 328, 34: (here) lay hands on.

attoure, III, 458 b: outowr, over and above.

atweel, I, 22, 2, 3: I wot well, assuredly.

atween, I, 466, 11; II, 315, 6; V, 156, 11, 13: between. atween hands, II, 139, 6: meanwhile.

atwyn, V, 80, 57: from one another.

aucht, aught. wha’s aucht?=who is it owned (owns)? whose is (are)? I, 22, 4; 472, 1; II, 114, 11; 164, 8, 11; IV, 32, C 6; 194, 8; 199, 21; 202, 9; 203, 17. aught a bairn, II, 494, 4: had. where is the knight aught me for wedding, IV, 182, F 6: who was (is) under obligation to marry me? (This is my ransome I ought to him to pay, I, 294, 12.) It is not unlikely that aucht in the phrase wha’s aucht is present in sense. Indeed we have aughts, II, 336, Q 5. Cf. who owes? whose is? IV, 205, 27.

aught, v., suld hae come and aught a bairn to me, II, 494, 4: had (a child by).

aukeward, awkwarde stroke, II, 59, 23; III, 93, 40: backhanded. See acward.

auld son, without regard to absolute age: I, 79, 58; 184, 8, 9; IV, 94, A 4; 97, F 4. So old sister for elder sister, eldest of three: I, 175, 8; auld dochter, II, 462, 33. auld son, of child just born and the only one, II, 105, 7; 107, 3-6, 17; IV, 206, 15. So at II, 95, 11, called young son immediately after. Of babe in the cradle, II, 325, 10. See old.

aull, auld, old. I, 359, 6, 9, in four nights auld: at the age of four days. II, 80, 9, in twall years auld.

aussy pan, I, 301, 6: ash pan.

austerne, I, 134, N 3: austere, harsh. See osterne.

ava, II, 189, 33; 323, 25; III, 7, 13, 14; IV, 257, 12; 300, 3: of all. II, 360, 10; V, 112, B b 7: at all.

avayle, II, 436, 70: put down, doff.

avow, IV, 240, 7: seems to be used as consent rather than own, confess; but cf. IV, 56, A 8; V, 252 a.

avowe, n., III, 65, 180, 187, 190; 68, 240; 73, 346; 297, 44; 307, 1: vow.

avowë, avower, III, 67, 232; 520 a, No 161: patron, protector.

avoyd, V, 53, 102: begone.

aw, all.

await, lie at await, III, 409, note *: in wait.

awaite, awayte, III, 72, 330; 84, 330; 88, 331: lie in wait for. awayte me scathe, III, 66, 202: lie in wait to do me harm.

awende, I, 244, 9: weened, imagined.

awet, III, 112, 64: know. Perhaps, await, descry.

awkwarde stroke, III, 93, 40: a backhanded stroke. See aukeward.

awsom, V, 193, 49: awful.

ay, I, 333, 1, 2, 3: a.

ayenst, III, 76, 420: against, towards, about.

ayon, ayone, ayont, I, 301, 1; 302, 1; 428, 20; II, 133, D 4, 6; IV, 412, 6: beyond. IV, 330 a, appendix, 1: and oddly of the man, as farther from the wall. III, 392, 20, 21: beyond, across. I, 220, A 2; IV, 8, 46: over against, in the face of.

ayre, eare, ere: heir.

B

ba, IV, 354, 1: a lullaby.

baas, balls.

baba, II, 339, 19: baby.

bace, V, 104 a=bash (Swed. basa): beat; pret. baist, III, 164, b 26(?). See baist.

bacheeleere, II, 58, 13: young knight devoted to the service of a lady.

back-spald, V, 106, E 4: hinder part of the shoulder.

bad, bade, V, 18, 9; 27, 41; 243, 11: ordered, offered. (A. S. beódan.)

bad, bade, baed, III, 267, 15: abode, stopped, waited for. II, 115, 22; III, 312, 28; V, 236, 17: remained, staid. (A. S. bídan.)

badgers, III, 477, 8: pedlars.

baed, II, 115, 22: abode, stopped. See bad.

baffled, II, 479: thwarted (perhaps, made a fool of). IV, 146 f., 11, 31: affronted, insulted, or disgraced.

bail, life in, III, 10, 19: in power, at disposal.

bailie, III, 385, 12: municipal officer, alderman. IV, 326, 12: bailiff, steward, manager of an estate. See baylye.

bairn, barn, bern, III, 437, 28, 36; 453, 17; IV, 309, 5; 310, 12: child.

baist, pret., III, 164, b 26: beat. baste, p. p., III, 165, 92: beaten. (Icel. beysta?) See bace.

baked, II, 403, 2: becked, curtsied, made obeisance.

bale, II, 45, 30, 44; 58, 11; 419, 51; 466, 34; III, 92, 11, 18; 99, 51: ill, trouble, mischief, harm, calamity, destruction. See balys.

bale, I, 355, 41: fire.

bale-fire, II, 118, 9; 119, 19; 155, 36; IV, 467, 12, 14: bonfire, large fire.

ballants, IV, 129, 30: ballads.

ballup, III, 181, 15 (ballock): front or flap of breeches.

balow, IV, 351, 1; 352, C 1: lullaby, sing a lullaby to.

balys, III, 310, 68: misfortunes, troubles. See bale.

ban, band, I, 69, 38; 73, 53; II, 376, 36; III, 491, 12: hinge.

ban, bann, v., I, 304, E 5; 305, 6; III, 104, 8; IV, 87, 14; V, 115, 7: curse.

ban, band, bande, bond, IV, 388, 7: band. IV, 388, 11: bond.

ban, I, 55, 12: bound (pret.).

band(e), III, 430, 8; 431, 7: bond, compact.

band-dogs, bandoggs, III, 123, 16; 125, 31; 126, B b 31; c 31: dogs that are kept chained (on account of their fierceness).

banded, IV, 388, 7: bound, secured with bands.

bane, I, 285, 33; III, 92, 7: destruction, death.

bane. saddle of the bane (MS. bone), I, 468, 13; bouer o bane, II, 185, 31: meaning probably the royal bone of I, 466, 10. See roelle bone.

bane-fire, II, 146, 23; 331, 17: bonfire.

bang, II, 438, 4: may be any implement for banging; it is sometimes stick, here strap (in should be wi).

bang, IV, 85, 5: emend to hang.

bangisters, IV, 37, 7; 38, 9: people violent and regardless of law.

banis, III, 78, 453: slayers, murderers.

banished, III, 401, 15: possibly with the meaning banned, but the ordinary sense does well enough.

bank, sea-bank, IV, 229, 3, 7: shore (?).

bankers, I, 334, 9: carpets, tapestries for benches.

banket, III, 446 b: banquet.

banneret, II, 395, N 1: banner-bearer (see B 1; E 1; I 1; K 1; M 1; P 1).

barck, bark, II, 239, 1: birk, birch.

barelins, II, 212, 12: barely.

bargain, III, 181, 13: brawl, fight.

barker, V, 78, 11; 80, 43, 49, etc.; 82, 20: tanner.

barking, I, 109, C 10: who uses bark, as a tanner.

barm, I, 243, 7: lap.

barn-well thrashing, II, 322, 8: the well has no sense, and has probably been caught from 9, at the far well washing. To be dropped.

barn, barne, II, 437, 85; IV, 141, 17; V, 114, 10; 267, 3: (A. S. bearn) child. III, 308, 14: (A. S. beorn) man, fighting man.

baron, I, 293, 2; 294 f., 5, 9, 23, 28: simply knight, and that, in all cases but the first, vaguely.

barras, oer the, IV, 372, 6: beyond the barriers (as 374, A b, after 5).

barrine, bairn.

base-court, III, 470 b: lower or outer court.

bassonet, basnet, basnit, III, 298, 51, 52; 308 f., 29, 32: a light helmet, shaped like a skull-cap.

bat, but.

batit, baited.

batts, blows, burden of, III, 465, 20: all the blows (beating) he can bear.

baubee, bawbee, III, 268, 6; 269, D 6; 270, 4, 5; V, 242 b, 5: halfpenny.

baube, II, 132, 30: babe.

baucheld sheen, IV, 380, 26: shoes down at the heels (ill-bukled, wrongly, V, 276, 18).

bay, by.

bayberry kame, IV, 471 f., 2, 4: a corrupt passage, yielding no sense (so of other readings here).

bay dogs, III, 126 f., e, f 31: dogs that bring to bay, or that bay (?).

baylleful, III, 298, 58: destructive, deadly.

baylye, III, 28, 140: bailiff, sheriff’s officer (to execute writs, etc.). III, 332, 15: chief magistrate, mayor. See bailie.

bayne, perdition.

bayr, V, 110, 13: byre, cowhouse.

be==by. be to and al be on, I, 242, 11: by two[s] and all by one[s]. be, be that, III, 100, 73; 482, 26: by the time that. sey be, V, 79, 26: about. See by.

be’s, it be’s, III, 160, 9: shall be==it s’ be.

be wi, IV, 261, 23: tolerate, bear with.

beager, beggar.

beagly, V, 224, 10. See bigly.

beam, beam gold, II, 402, 10: for beaming? Probably corrupt.

beame, of the utuer beame, IV, 506, 59: utuer is perhaps utter, outer; but what outer beam would Horsley come to in climbing the mast? Probably corrupt. If we read, of (==on) the utter (outer) bane (bone), which rhymes, we have to explain the outer bone of the buttocke.

bean, bone.

bear, I, 149, 6: move on, proceed.

bear, bier.

bear, beer.

bear, IV, 324, C 1: barley.

bear-seed, IV, 323, 6: barley; bear-seed time seems to refer to barley-harvest.

beare mercy, as the lawes will thee beare, V, 53, 98: have for (as in, bear malice, etc.).

beare, pret., II, 266, 30: bare.

beared, buried.

bearing arrow, III, 29, 150; 202, 33; 341, 53: “an arrow that carries well,” Percy; “an arrow made to carry especially straight,” Nares; but on the first occasion a broad arrow is used when “an arrow that carries well” (straight) is equally, or even more, necessary, and on the third a bearing and a broad arrow are used indifferently, III, 29, 153, 159; 341, 56. Perhaps a very long arrow, such as required to be carried in the hand. “Longe arrowes like standarts with socetts of stell for my Lord’s foutemen to bere in their hands, when they ryn with my Lorde” are noted as berrying arrows in the preparations for the Earl of Northumberland’s expedition to Terouenne, 5 Henry VIII. Dillon’s Fairholt’s Costume in England, II, 8, 1885. Mr C. J. Longman, himself an archer, remarking that a bearing arrow is used for a range of 20 score paces, III, 29, 148, 150, and a broad arrow for 6 score, 153, suggests that a bearing arrow was probably what is now called a flight-arrow,—a thin, light arrow with a tapering point for long shooting.

bearly, V, 219, 17: buirdly.

beat, IV, 379, 15: boot, recompense.

became, II, 422, 2: came.

became his courtisie, III, 464, 18: that is, his courtesy became him (as in Shakspere’s “youth becomes the livery that it wears”). See become.

because, III, 29, 157: in order that.

beck, made a beck on her knee, II, 359, 7, 9: curtsy.

becke (A. S. bec), I, 334, 8: stream, brook.

become them well, IV, 147, 22: look well in them (i.e., they became him well); so III, 464, 18; cf. set, IV, 331, 18. place, part, does well become me, IV, 152, D 2; 153, 1: suit. See became.

becomed, pret. of become, IV, 505, 53.

bed, I, 272, 9: offered. See bede.

bed-head, I, 184, 44, 46: the top of the box or case of a Scottish bed. I, 116, C 5: should be bed-stock, as the rhyme shows.

bed-stock, I, 115, 3; IV, 94, 7; V, 208, 4: the outer side of a bed, that farther from the wall.

bede, v., II, 499 b: offer. See bed.

bedone, I, 271, 2; II, 183, 20: worked, ornamented.

bedyls, III, 28, 140: under-bailiffs, summoners.

bee-ba, II, 330, 11, 12: sounds to lull a child.

beeds. that beeds, I, 69, 67: string of beads.

beek, biek, IV, 69, 22; 77, 3, c 3: bask.

beenits, IV, 381, 12: bayonets.

beere, II, 445, 73: bare, bore.

beerly (bride), II, 132, 24: large and well made; stately. See bierly. beerly, burly cheer, I, 298, 4; 300, 4: great, huge.

beet, bete, beik, III, 495 a; IV, 517, 15: better, help. Of fire, II, 120, 16, 17; IV, 467, 13: kindle, keep up. p. p. bett, II, 44, 14. See bete.

beet, II, 475, 7; III, 281, 2: behooved.

beet, v., inf., II, 151, H 2: boot, furnish with boots. pret. bet, 4.

beets, n. pl., IV, 187, 10: boots.

beette, III, 298, 54: pret. of beat.

befa, IV, 357, C 4: may befall (he does not care what name he gets). IV, 357 f., 6, 8, 12, 14: belong to, suit.

befalle, I, 241, 2: may it befall!

before, taen your God before, II, 62 b, 15, representing ‘minged not Christ before,’ II, 59, 21: an artificial-sounding expression, which may mean, previously taken God for your helper.

beforne, II, 58, 15; III, 13, 12, 14: before. II, 58, 15, before (morning).

beft, III, 161, 26: beat. 164, 92: beaten.

begane, bigane, IV, 366, D 4: overlaid, covered.

begeck, begack, give a, III, 162, 63; 164, b 63: play a trick on, make a fool of. (A. S. geác, cuckoo, simpleton.)

begoud, begood, begud, I, 473, 11; II, 99, B b 9; IV, 167, C 10; 194, B 5; 195, 14; 201, 21; 203, 15; 224, 13: began.

beguile, p. p., III, 36, 41: beguiled.

begule, beguile.

behad, II, 160, 3: behold.

behear, II, 240 f., 7, 9; III, 93, 46; 131, 3: hear, beheard him, III, 421, 58: heard.

beheld, II, 61, 12: tarried.

behestë, III, 90 b: promise.

behind his hand, a stroke behind his hand, II, 63, 24: seems==backhanded stroke.

behote, III, 71, 315; pres., promise, thou behotë, III, 71, 297: didst promise.

beik, beet, bete, on, II, 121, 20: put on fuel.

being, II, 410, 26: means of living.

belinger, IV, 74, G b 3: corruption or misprint for (best?) ginger.

beliue, belyfe, b(e)lyue, III, 4, 18; 28, 125; 29, 144; 35, 18; 84, 87, 300; 94, 53; 117, 13: soon, immediately.

bell, silken, III, 261, D 7: conical canopy? corrupted from beild, shelter (screen)? Aytoun, with great probability, conjectures pall. Cf. A 10; E 10; F 14, which support the emendation.

Bell (Archie), III, 491, 3, 7: billie (comrade, brother), as in D, III, 492, 2.

belle, bere the, I, 328, 42; II, 58, 1; V, 202 b: stand foremost, take the lead.

bell-groat, I, 251, A 3, 5. Same as next word.

belling-great, I, 252, 3, 5: groat for ringing bell.

belly-, billie-blind. See Billie Blin.

below the sun, lookit below the sun, II, 78, 15; III, 6, 6; in below the sun, 8, 6. See aneath the sun.

belted plaids, IV, 84, 11; 85, 3; 87, 2; V, 253, No 203, D 2: “properly twelve yards of tartan cloth worn round the waist, obliquely across the breast and left shoulder, and partly depending backwards, ut in bello gestatur.”

belyfe, straightway. See beliue.

belyue. See beliue.

bemean, V, 163, 4: bemoan, compassionate.

ben. Good ben be here, III, 267, 10: God’s (or good) benison? Probably corrupt.

ben (shoes o, sheen o), IV, 378, 7; 380, 14: bend, bend-leather, strong ox-leather, thickened by tanning.

ben, I, 56 f., C 2, 14; III, 267, 20; 268, 17; 270, 16; 272, 20; 274, 33: towards the inner apartment of the house, or parlor, in, within. come farer ben, I, 369, 51; he was ben, II, 313, 16; he wood her butt, he wood her ben, I, 56, 2. V, 216, B a 7; 219, 10; 242 b, 8.

ben, royal ben, I, 478 f., 12, 46: (emended from bend) bone. See roelle-bone.

benbow, III, 54, 6; 104, 5; 132, 5; bend bow, III, 7, 4; 8, 25; 11, 6; bende bowe, III, 309, 44; bent bow, III, 8 G 2; 106, 16, 17: bow, simply, the bow being in actual use only in III, 11, 54, 104 (?), 106, 16, 309.

bend, III, 145, 5: where the way turned (?).

bend, III, 362, 71: pret. of bend. So II, 125, G 6: pret. of bend (should not have been changed to bent, p. 122).

bended, IV, 78, 1: bounded.

benjed, II, 403, 2; beenged, bynged, made humble obeisance, cringed.

bent the way, IV, 442, 13: took her course over.

bent, sword bent in the middle clear, middle brown, IV, 12, 11, 12: nonsense, or close upon nonsense.

bent, I, 3, 1; 5, D 1: a coarse, reedy grass.

bent, bents, II, 58, 16, 18; 62, 11; 172, 24, 25, 27, 35, 43; III, 295, 5; 296, 20; 297, 40; 307, 5, 8; 308, 26; 312, 28; IV, 86, 3: field, fields covered with bent grass.

benty ground, atween the brown and benty ground, IV, 27, 12: between heather and bent ground.

benty line, III, 7, 5: line of bent grass.

ber, pret. of bear.

berafrynd, V, 71 b: a drinking word, in response to passilodion.

bere, V, 264 a, 2: bigg, a sort of coarser barley (Hordeum hexastichum, not H. vulgare or distichum).

berl, V, 224, 26: birl, dispense.

bern, barn, bairn, IV, 456, 7-9, 12; V, 247, 11: (A. S. bearn) child.

berne, III, 295, 5: (A. S. beorn, fighting man, brave, etc.) man.

berry, brown berry comb, II, 224, 1: the material of this comb is elsewhere said to be haw bayberry; all the passages describing it are corrupt.

beryde, I, 326, 2: made a bere, noise.

bescro, III, 110, 26; V, 80, 49: beshrew, curse.

bese, I, 329, 58: shalt be.

beside, besids, III, 357, 38, 41, 43, 45-7: aside from, away from.

beside, in addition to, four and thirty stripes comen beside the rood, II, 59, 29: referring to the scourging before the crucifixion.

besom, hid herself in the besom of the broom, I, 398, 9: besom seems to be twigs (as scopae is both twigs and broom). Wedgwood cites from a Dutch dictionary of 1654, brem-bessen, broom-twigs, scopae spartiae.

bespeak: pret. bespa(c)ke, III, 420, 26, 30, 35; 430, 9; 431, 19, 23; bespoke, V, 149, 8-11; bespake him, I, 286, 52-5; III, 419 f., 6, 13, 22, 24: spake.

bespeek, IV, 498, 1, 3, 9: speak with.

bespoke, V, 149, 10, well-bespoke: well-spoken.

bestand, III, 105, 23: help, avail.

bested, bestead, circumstanced. ferre and frembde bested, III, 63, 138: in the position of one from a distance and a stranger. hard bestead, III, 161, 36.

bestial, IV, 41, note *: all the animals of a farm.

best man, IV, 342, 4: principal servant.

bet, II, 151, H 4: booted.

betaken, II, 59, 38: made over.

bete, beet, III, 310, 68: better, second, relieve. See beet.

beth, both, III, 59, 53, 54; 79, 54: be, old plural.

bether, V, 283, 8: better.

Bethine, II, 4, 12, for rhyme: if meant for anything, Bethany is meant, however inappropriate.

betide, II, 411 a, last line but two: nearest that ever fall to one, an unlikely phrase. Motherwell reads whateer betide.

betide, I, 503 b, 4, what news do ye betide? i.e. what do you (does your coming) signify? or, as at I, 205, F 10 (doth thee betide), what news has befallen you, come to your knowledge?

betide, boots of the tangle (sea-weed) that nothing can betide, V, 259 a, 11: should read to the effect, That’s brought in by the tide.

betook, I, 126, 6: took (simply).

bets, pl., V, 257, 10: boots.

bett, II, 44, 14, pret. of bete, beet: kindled.

better. she stood, and better she stood (printed bitter), I, 492, 5; they rode, and better they rode, I, 102, 10; 492, 10, 14; he rade and better rade, II, 209, D 5: longer, farther still. better swam, V, 140, e 7. better be, I, 128, 13: still more.

beuk, book.

bewch, III, 91 b: bough.

bewrailed, V, 55, 38: berailed.

bewray, V, 86, 35: reveal.

beyt, V, 79, 25: beeth, be.

bickering, IV, 7, 34: (hail) pattering.

bide, byde, I, 430, 4, 5, 8, 9; II, 177, 14; 289, A 2; 313, 14; III, 465, 30; V, 108, B 8: stay. p. p. bidden, IV, 262 f., 32, 33; 524, 9. bide (a doulfou day), II, 159, 23: await, look for. bide anither bode, III, 268, 12; 270, 12: wait for another offer. I never bade a better bode, III, 267, 15. your wedding to bide, III, 387, 11: await. bide it whoso may, IV, 433, 21: await the result? (obscure passage). bide frae me, V, 236, 16: stay away. In: she bade the bride gae in, II, 195, 30, it is not likely that a rival would bid a bride; interpret rather, she waited for the bride to go.

bidene, bydene, bydeene, I, 105 a, 20: immediately (or, all together). I, 273, 34: successively, one after another. III, 65, 185: together. III, 73, 350: simultaneously, or en masse.

biek, beek, IV, 77, 3: bask. See beek.

bier, III, 161, 32; V, 161, 1; 162, D 1: cry, lamentation.

bierly, beerly (bride), I, 467, 29; II, 75, 19; 132, 24; the same as buirdly bride, II, 82, 51: portly, stately (large and well made). See buirdly.

big, bigg, I, 15, 13; 17, 16; 108, 1; II, 330, 1; 331, 1; 332, 1: build. pret. and p. p. biggit, bigget, IV, 202, K 5; 203, 13. pret. bug, IV, 199, 17. p. p. buggin, bugn, IV, 445, 1; 446, 1. build a stack for corn, I, 17, 12; 428, 11; V, 206 a, 8.

bigane, I, 334, 5: covered, wrought.

biggeall, beguile.

bigging, biggin, II, 115, 23, 24; 117, 10, 11; 123, 25, 26; 255, 11, 12; 257, 19, 20; IV, 128, 2-4: building, house, “properly of a large size, as opposed to a cottage.”

bigly (Icelandic, byggiligr, habitable), commodious, pleasant to live in, I, 68, 32; 107, 1, 3; II, 98, 30-32, 35, 36; 172 f., 40, 42, 45; 294, 4, 5; 370, 6; 417, 3; 419, 45: frequent epithet of bower. II, 358, 26, of a bier: handsomely wrought.

bile, v., V, 305 a, 6: boil.

bill, V, 15, 16, 18: a paper. bills, IV, 422, 45, 46: (the necessary legal) papers. sworne into my bill, III, 411, 5: sworn in writing.

bill, I, 302, B 12; 303, 10; IV, 331 b, 2: bull.

billaments,I, 433, 17: habiliments, of head-gear.

billie, billy, comrade, brother; “a term expressive of affection and familiarity:” I, 448, A 2, 4; III, 464, 2, 5, 6, 19; 467, 56; 489, 11; V, 128, 29. born billy, III, 495 b, 23, 24. See bully.

Billie Blin, Bellie Blind, I, 73, 35, 44; 86, 29; 466 f., 14, 23; II, 464, 15, 16; 470, 60-63; 472, 31; V, 239, 39: see I, 67; V, 285 b.

belly-blind, II, 464, 15, 16: may mean here nothing more than an innocent warlock or wizard.

billy-pot, I, 164, L 6: pot with a semicircular handle (bail)?

binë, be not: V, 238, 18.

binge, IV, 462, 30: bend.

binkes, I, 334, 9: benches.

binna, be not.

bint, V, 110, 12: bind, pay for.

bird (burd), I, 76, 50, 51; II, 314, 29, 30; C 10; 316, 12; IV, 422, 2, 5, 10: maid, lady. bird her lane, II, 313, 12, 19: maid by herself, solitary. II, 272, 5: child, boy.

birk. he was standing on the birk, II, 165, 13, seems to be nonsense. There is no birk to stand on unless the floor is birken, and nothing could be more inept than a reference to that matter.

birlin, II, 28, 1: drinking. See birl.

birl, berl, II, 28, 1; 92, 17; 219, 6; IV, 154, 9; 166, 1; 234, 35; 385, 1: drink. II, 152, J 3; 299, 16; 368, 7: ply with drink. birled in him, II, 144, 3, 4: poured into. Of dispensing both bread and wine: II, 191, 34, 35; V, 224, 26. birled wi them, IV, 438, 8: should apparently be birled them wi. ptc., birlin, II, 28, 1.

birnande, burning.

birtled, I, 273, 42: cut up.

bisette, I, 334, 8: devote (to the matter a space greater by two miles).

bit (used with a noun instead of a diminutive), wee bit banes, I, 225, L 7: bits of.

bit, but. bit an(d), II, 30, 4; 132, 26: and also.

bitaihte, I, 244, 11: committed to.

bitten, V, 130, 13: taken in, cheated.

bla, III, 350, 53, 54: blow.

blabring, V, 247, 9: babbling. See blobberin.

bla’d, II, 21, 6: bla it, blow it.

blaewort, IV, 212, 6: corn bluebottle, round-leaved bell-flower, bluebell of Scotland.

blaise, blaisse, IV, 503, 19; 505, 49: display, show forth, display itself.

blan, blane, blanne, II, 53, 29; 140, 23; 265, 9; III, 309, 41; 405, 13; 406, 38; 466, 40: pret. of blin, stop, cease.

blast, V, 82, 39: puff, breathe hard.

blate, II, 260, 2; III, 160, 10; 163, 85: dumfoundered, abashed, silly. spake blate, II, 470, 47, 50: bashfully, diffidently.

blavers, V, 213, 14: corn bluebottle (blaewort).

blaw, I, 15, B 2; 16 C 2: blow. pret. blow, III, 112, 65. p. p. blawin, I, 17, D 1; blawn, I, 15, B 1; 16, C 1, 2. pres. p. blawn (blawing), II, 114, 20.

blee, I, 272, 13, 20, 24; 293, 1; II, 364, 26; 442, 1, 2: color, complexion.

bleed, blood.

bleed, I, 441, 5, 7, pret. of bleed: bled.

bleeze, III, 457, B 4: blaze.

blewe, I, 326, 7: blew on a horn (see st. 10).

blin, blind.

blin, blyn, blinne, II, 138, 3; V, 14 f., 2, 20: (belin) cease, stop. pret. blan. See blan.

blind, blint, II, 345, 26; 382, 6; IV, 265, A b 8; 486, 10: blinded.

blink, n., IV, 136, 17; 360, 15; 384, 3, 4; look, glance. IV, 390, 7, of the moon: gleam. IV, 389 b: (of time) moment.

blink, to look: II, 433, 6; IV, 127, 14; 351, 7; 353, 18; 416, 2; V, 53, 107; 54, 3; 154, A 11: glance, emit, throw a glance. III, 371, 27; IV, 256 f., 1, 10: shine, glitter. blinkin ee, IV, 194, (4,) 5; 201, 25; 203, 5; 211, 9: shining, twinkling. wha is this that blinks in Willie’s ee? II, 189, 25: sends brightness into, whose brightness is reflected from. nor ever did he blink his ee (at the gallows), IV, 12, B 8: wink, shut, blench, his look was steadfast. cam blinkin on an ee, II, 475, 17: winking as if blind, playing the blind.

blint, II, 17 b; IV, 515, 12: blinded. See blind.

bliss: bless.

blobberin, II, 256, 13: perhaps, blubbering, crying; perhaps==blabring. V, 247, 9: babbling.

block, II, 216, 16: exchange. IV, 148, 54: bargain; lost the better block, had the worse in a bargain or dealing.

blood, blude, II, 114, 16; 123, 13: man (disrespectfully), fellow.

blow, pret., blew.

blowe, II, 478, 8: blossom.

blowe (wynde), II, 478, 12: give vent to.

blowe (boste), III, 59, 59: give breath to, utter.

blude, bluid, blood. See blood.

bluid is gude, IV, 433, 21: good to dream of.

bluntest, III, 492, 25: stupidest.

blutter, III, 161, 43: dirty.

blyue, belyfe, beliue, III, 29, 144; 71, 300; 74, 371: quickly, immediately.

boad, n., V, 243, 11: offer.

boams, fire-boams (not beams), IV, 96, D 3: bombs.

board-floor, II, 160, 5, 6: should probably be bower-floor, as in 159, 6, 9; 161, 6, 8.

bocht: bought.

bocking, III, 161, 33: vomiting, belching.

boddom, bottom.

bode, n., offer: III, 267, 15; 268, 12; 270, 12; 272, 14.

bodë, p. p., III, 67, 222: bidden, invited.

bodes, wild fowl bodes on hill, II, 410, 7: announces day. Cf. II, 230, 5, the wild fule boded day.

bode-words, III, 4, 19: messages.

body:faith, faikine, of my body, III, 180, 17; 199, 24; 216, 33; 296, 16; 472, 7; truth of my body, III, 180, B, 7; 181, 15, 16, 21; IV, 7, 31: either by my personal faith, or, by my body. faith in my body, III, 411, 6.

body-clothes; IV, 152, 7: clothes of my body.

bold, bauld (of fire), II, 116, 18; 117, 12; 119, 5, 6; 123, 18, 27: sharp, brisk.

boldly (understand), IV, 146, 19: freely, confidently, fully (verbiage).

bokin, bodkin.

bolts, IV, 409, 1: rods, bars (to make a petticoat stand out).

bon, bone, boune, on the way, going. See boun.

bone, boon.

bone, sadle of the bone, V, 219, 13. See bane, roelle-bone.

bonins, by, V, 253 a, 4: in plenty (Gypsy cant).

bonnetie, V, 306, 2, 3: dimin. of bonnet.

booting, III, 159, 1: making of boot or booty.

boot, v., IV, 501, 26: matter. See bote.

bord, borde, bowrd, V, 78, 1; 80, 48, 49: jest, sport, amusement, comic tale.

bord, II, 450, 80; 451, 84: should perhaps be bore, as in 445, 77. Still, carried him out of the saddle by the impact of the spear which bored him through is not unlikely, and we have, p. 454, 55, out of his saddle bore him he did.

borden, adj., IV, 506, 73: of plank; borden tree, wooden plank.

born alive, ye were, IV, 521, 19; A, IV, 26, 16, has ‘That I love best that’s born alive,’ i.e. of all that are born. The ye should be y^t, that, and probably was so meant.

borough-town, borrow’s toun, borrous-toun, etc. See borrows-town, burrow-town.

borowe, borrow, n. III, 59, 62-64, 66; 68, 237, 250: security. III, 405, 9: sponsor, vindicator.

borowe, borrow, v., I, 309, A 3; II, 177, 27; III, 25, 50; 298, 69; 329, 6; IV, 33, 15-18, 20, 21: set free, deliver, ransom.

borowehode, III, 68, 239: securityship.

borrows-town, borrous-toun, IV, 229, 1; V, 117, A 6, 7; 126, 1: borough-town, borough, corporate town. See borough (burrow)-town.

boskyd, III, 112, 60: busked, made ready. See busk.

bot, but. bot and: see but and.

bot, without. See but.

bot, II, 94, 3: behoved.

bote, boote, boot, II, 45, 30, 34; III, 27, 104; 94, 55; 187, 33: help, use, advantage, (boot, v., IV, 501, 26: matter.)

both, beth, III, 59, 53, 54; 79, 54: be (old plural).

bottle (of hay), V, 114, 4: bundle.

bottle. be my bottle, V, 170, 1: hold my own, bear my full part, in drinking? Corrupt?

bottys, butts.

boud, V, 176, 17: behoved, were obliged.

bouerie, II, 232, 1: diminutive of bower, chamber.

bought==bucht, IV, 198, 1; 199, 17, 23: fold, pen.

bouk, buik, buke, II, 149, 14; IV, 127, 14; 484 a: trunk, body.

boun, bowne, bune, bound, bownd, bowynd, v., make ready, go. buske yee, bowne yee, III, 91, 5; 431, 25: make ready. boun, bound, I, 369, 44; IV, 183, 2; V, 256, 5: go. make ye boun, I, 75, 18: go. must bound home, V, 9, 4. get up and bound your way, II, 405, 9: go, come. bownd away, III, 161, 30; bowynd hym to ryde, III, 295, 1; bounded for to ride, II, 118, 7: set out, went. bound him to his brand, III, 160, 23: went, betook himself. was boon, boun, bound, II, 298, 5; IV, 432, 2; V, 256 a, 4: going, on the way. how she is bune, II, 191, 30: going on. go boun away, IV, 224, 15, 16 (tautology): go, depart.

boun, bon, bowne, bowen, bowyn, bun, adj. (búinn, p. p. of Icelandic búa, to make ready): bound, ready. made him boun, III, 163, 76. to batell were not bowyn, III, 295, 4. make ye bowne, I, 75, 18, 22; III, 296, 28. bun to bed, bon to rest, II, 191, 26; V, 35, B 3. made him boun, bound, III, 163, 76; V, 81, 2: equipped himself. your friends beene bowne, I, 210, 14: ready to come. ready boun (tautology), IV, 432, 5. See boun, v.

boun, V, 300, 6: boon.

bounties, V, 231, 14: presents, in addition to wages.

bountieth, V, 9, 12: bounty, alms.

bourde, v., III, 179 b: jest.

bourden, III, 179 b: staff.

bourn, III, 470 a: brook.

boustouslie, bousterously, boustresslie, boustrouslie: I, 108, 13; IV, 446, 13; 447, 13; 465, 19, 35: boisterously, roughly.

bout, II, 27, 18: bolt.

bouted, I, 68, 4; 70, 4: bolted.

bow, bough.

bow, lintseed bow, I, 305, 14: the boll or pod containing the seeds of flax.

bow, II, 28, 16: boll, a dry measure; of salt, two bushels; “for wheat and beans, four Winchester bushels; for oats, etc., six bushels.” Scottish, four firlots (see firlot). bow o bere, V, 264 a: boll of barley.

bower, chamber: I, 65, A 1; 68, 25, 32; 73, 47; etc., etc. bouerie, II, 232, 1: diminutive of the same.

bower, house, home: I, 56, 3; 79, 3; 80, 1; 107, 1; etc., etc. Often indistinguishable from the above.

bower-head, II, 76, 11: top of the house. (Unless the reading should be tower-head; cf. II, 74, D 5; 78, I 14, but we have an upmost ha, highest room, II, 72, C 14.)

bower-yett, house-gate.

bowie, V, 306, 15: a kind of tub.

bown, V, 273, No 239, 4: bowed, bent.

bowne, bownd, bowyn. See boun.

bowrd, I, 264: comic tale. See bord.

bows (o London), I, 131, H 1: arches of a bridge? windings of the river?

box, V, 19, 18: a compartment partitioned off in a drinking-room.

boyt, III, 109, 3: both.

bra, braw, I, 128, 19; V, 268, 25; 272, 3, 7, 11: brave, fine, handsome. See braw.

bracken, braken, brachan, breckin, breaken, breckan, brecken, breachan, IV, 257, B 7; 268, 21; 269, d 19, f 19; 272, 11, 3; 501, 28, 31, 37; V, 244, 16, 19, 20; 265 b, 19: fern, brake.

brae, bra, bray, hillside, hill: I, 324, 14; IV, 92, 1; 264, 15; 274, 8; 448 a, 3d st. braes o Yarrow, IV, 164 f., 1-9, B 3-5: the equivalent word is sometimes, banks, pp. 168, 169, 170, 178; otherwise houms, p. 168, but downs, p. 166 f., and the topography seems to indicate hills. “Conjoined with a name, it denotes the upper part of a country, as the Braes of Angus.” Jamieson.

brae, river-bank: III, 484 a, 32; burn-brae, IV, 275, C b 8. Cholar foord brae-head, III, 482, 21?

brae, brow: III, 4, 17.

braid, IV, 399, 28: breadth. See breed. Adj., broad.

braid (broad) letter, II, 20, 3; 25, 3; 26, 3; 27, 3; 251, 2; 393, 4; IV, 118, C 1; 119, D 1; 120, 1; 373, 2; 382, 3: either a letter on a broad sheet or a long letter. The king’s letter, II, 21, 3; 23, E 3; 24, 3, is lang, and at 22, 3, is large. A braid letter has been interpreted to be an open one, a patent, but in almost every case here cited the letter is said to be sealed. The letter at II, 251, 2, is private and confidential, written by a lady. Private folk write broad letters, IV, 320, 1; 339, 13; 342, 17; 343, 7; a lady again, II, 382, 5; 395, 18; IV, 233, 20; 342, 6; 343, 2.

brain, II, 124, 39; 130, 28; 131, 20; 133, 9; 169, 25; 407, 10; III, 274, 33: mad.

brake, break, V, 166, 8; 306, 7: cause to break off, correct, cure.

braken, III, 299, 12, 14; 300, 25, 26: fern. See bracken.

braken, I, 350, 17: p. p. of break.

bramly, III, 9, 13: brambly, thorny.

branded (bull), III, 459, 7: of a reddish brown color.

brank, n., III, 440, 10: caper, prance, gallop.

branken, branking, III, 299, 4; 301, D 1: galloping.

branks, III, 480, 9: a sort of bridle; a halter with two pieces of wood, instead of a leathern strap or a cord, over the nose, the whole resembling a muzzle.

brash, sickness: II, 364, 20; IV, 483, 16.

brast, I, 370, 14, 18; V, 76, 26; 80, 45; 82, 40: burst, broke, broken.

brauches, I, 271, 2: brooches. But perhaps branches, the clothes embroidered with rings and sprigs.

braw, I, 491, 1, 2, etc.; II, 80, 3-7: comely. I, 127, 21; 467, 29; II, 23, E 5: fine, handsome, finely dressed. I, 184, 11; V, 210, 11: (of a meeting) pleasant. See bra and braws. braw wallie, IV, 296, F 1: exclamation of admiration.

brawn, IV, 212, 5: calf of the leg.

braws, IV, 269, f, 19: fine things, finery.

bray, brae, hillside, hill.

brayd on, V, 198 b, after 52: move on, fall on.

brayde, breyde, at a brayde, III, 26, 91; of a, III, 32, 91: in a moment, of a sudden.

breachan. See bracken.

bread, breed, bred, III, 339, 13, 16; 341, 42: breadth.

bread, broad.

breaden, I, 433, 9: braided (here, perhaps, woven).

break, brake, V, 166, 8; 306, 7: cause to break off, correct, cure.

break, till five minutes break, II, 325, 19, 20: expire.

breaken. See bracken.

breast. smoothd his breist and swam, II, 248, 9, 15: made it even, level with the water. set her, his brest and swom, II, 459, 8; V, 137, 5, 9. bent his breast and swam, V, 138, C 3, 5; 141 b, 6, 9; 142 a, 4. lay on his brest and swumme, II, 247, 14.

breast, in a, IV, 11, 12, 13: in one voice (all at once, p. 13, 4). in a breast, Scottish, sometimes=abreast, side by side.

breast, v., II, 299, 22, breast a steed: mount, by bringing the breast to it.

breast-mills, II, 403, 15: mills operated by a breast-wheel.

breastplate, II, 380, 15; 383, 14; 385, 4, etc.; IV, 486, 6, etc.: some part of a woman’s attire, said here to be of steel instead of gold. Possibly a stomacher. “Curet, breastplate, or stomager.” Huloet, 1552. “Torace, also a placket, a stomacher, or brest plate for the body.” Florio. At II, 381, 10, we have bracelets, which would be a plausible emendation for breastplate, did not the latter occur quite a dozen times.

breast-wine, II, 338, T 7: milk (Irish ballad).

breathed, II, 47, unto, 21, on, 22: does not seem to be the right word. Possibly breved, gave information to (but the word is antique for the text, and on in 22 would not suit).

brecham, III, 480, 9: 492, 4; brechen, III, 491, 6: a straw collar for a horse, also a pack-saddle made of straw, so more probably here, carts not being used.

brechan, brichan, IV, 157, 7, 12, 14, 18, 19: (Gael. breacan) plaid.

brechen. See brecham.

breckan, -en, -in. See bracken.

bred, brede, V, 283, 8, 18: bread.

bred, bread, breed, III, 347, c 44, g 38: breadth.

brede, I, 242, 7: to have the whims attributed to breeding women? (Not satisfactory, as not being sufficiently simple. Prof. Kittredge has suggested to me gynnyst to wede, to go mad; which seems to me quite worth considering. The rhyme with the same sound in a different sense, is entirely allowable.)

bree, brie, I, 129, 14; 341, 3, 8, 17; 417, 13; III, 11, K; V, 191 f., 3, 18, 31: brow, eyebrow.

bree, broth. See broo.

breed, bread, bred, braid, III, 349, 38; IV, 503, 13, 16; 505, 45: breadth.

breek-thigh, III, 464, 15: thigh of his breeches.

breeme, III, 285, 19: fierce.

breist. See breast.

bren, brene, brenne, brin, II, 45, 24; 59, 32; III, 24, 29, 35; 361, b, c, 28: burn. p. p. brent, II, 44, 3, 14; 46, 47.

brent (brow), II, 191, 25; IV, 272, 2; 387, 1: high and straight. Also, smooth, unwrinkled.

brents, I, 74, 76, 78: door-posts, or doors. (Icelandic brandar, postes, Egilsson; ships’ beaks used as ornaments over the chief door of dwellings, Vigfusson.)

brest. See breast.

brest, burst.

brether, brothers, brethren, I, 104, 10; III, 478, 15. bretheren, III, 26, 74; 478, 14. brethern, bretherne, II, 73, 17; 160, 3, 9; III, 57, 27; 67, 217. brothren, III, 29, 148. brethen, III, 22, 4, 6; 23, 10; V, 135 b, 19.

bretther o degs, with a b. of d. ye’ll clear up my nags, IV, 312, 3 (the reading may be bretlher ... clean): corrupt. “brathay an degs would mean with old cloth and torn rags: brathay (obsolete) worn out brats or clothes.” W. Forbes.

breyde, n., with a breyde, III, 110, 20: with a rush, in haste.

breyde, v., III, 110, 9: rushed, bounded.

bride-steel, brid-stell, bride-stool, bride-styl, IV, 181, 7, 8; 182, F 2, 3; 183, 2; V, 256 a, 4, 5: seat in church where the bridegroom and bride sat before the beginning of the service.

brie, brow. See bree.

brig, brigue, I, 118, D 2; II, 24, 14; 177, 13, 15; 272, 13: bridge.

bright, bryghte, I, 285, 25; 293, 2; 296, 51, 56; 327, 12, 21: sheen, beautiful.

brim, II, 274, 3: sea. In, fa oure the brim, IV, 419, 16, 26, the brim of a precipice may be meant.

brin, II, 146, 23; V, 223 a, No 68, A 22: burn.

bring hame, I, 76, 53; 367, 9; II, 97, 24; 425, 9, 10; V, 41, 17: give birth to. brought King James hame, II, 345, 29: brought into the world, (come hame, be born, see hame.)

brirben, II, 217, 2, 4. tabean brirben (printed by Herd birben) is corrupt. A copy mentioned by Finlay had birchen; see IV, 471, 221.

brither, II, 163, 7, 11, 16; 164, 17; 165, 3; V, 123, 4; 299, 4: brother.

Brittaine, Litle, I, 285, 24, 33, 37.

brittled, bryttled, brittened, I, 328, 51; III, 7, 7: cut up.

broad (brode) arrow, brod arwe (aro), III, 13, 9; 29, 153, 159; 106, 16; 307, 5; 341, 56; “catapulta.” Prompt. Parv. The Catholicon explains catapulta to be “sagitta cum ferro bipenni, quam sagittam barbatam vocant.” Way. Cotgrave: “Rallion. An arrow with a forked, or barbed head; a broad arrow.” broode-headed arrowe, IV, 505, 56; 506, 64; broode-arrowe-head, 506, 59.

broad letter. See braid letter.

broad-mouthd axe, IV, 123, 14: broad axe.

broad sow, V, 91, 3: a sow that has a litter (brod=breed).

brockit, brookit, bruckit, I, 303, 8; 304, E 8, F 8; V, 213, 8: streaked or speckled in the face, streaked with dirt. See broked, bruchty.

brodinge, II, 58, 14: shooting up, sprouting. (Old Eng. brodden.)

brogues, IV, 70, G 4; 72, I 7; 269 a, d 20; V, 265, No 227, 20; 301, No 200: coarse light shoes of horse-hide, worn especially by Highlanders.

broke, brook, III, 69 f., 271, 274, 279; 310, 62: enjoy.

broked cow, III, 459, 7: a cow that has black spots or streaks mixed with white in her face. See brockit.

broken, IV, 356, 12: bankrupt, ruined.

broken men, III, 473, 19, 24; IV, 41, note *: men under sentence of outlawry, or who lived as vagabonds and public depredators, or were separated from their clans in consequence of crimes. Jamieson.

broo, brue, bree, brie, II, 30, 11: brow.

broo, brue, bree, I, 160, C 2, D 3; 161, E 3; IV, 449, 2, 3: broth. I, 499, 4; V, 98, 9, 10: water in which something has been boiled.

brook, broke, bruik, II, 189, 33, 34; 420, 7; III, 212, 8; IV, 435, 14: enjoy.

broom-cow, I, 394, 5: twig of broom.

brose-cap, II, 463, 25: pottage-, porridge-bowl.

brot, p. p., V, 296, 2, 3, etc.: brought.

brothered, IV, 373, 17: broidered? (He is to have a change of clothes every month, and those embroidered?)

brough, V, 128, 29, 30: borough, town.

brought hame. See bring hame.

broun, brown, IV, 169, F 2; G 1 (browns, brouns, in the MSS.). Might be thought a corruption of brand, but brand occurs in each case immediately after. Brown for brown blade would be extraordinary.

browen, III, 9, 4: brewed, (brown corrected from earlier MS.)

browȝt, browt, browthe, brought.

brown ground, IV, 27, 12: brown with heather.

brown sword, I, 70, 22; 294, 24; III, 71, 305. Brún as an epithet of sword in Anglo-Saxon has been interpreted literally, as denoting that the weapon was wholly or in part of bronze; also as gleaming, which may at first seem forced. Gleaming is the meaning given to brown sword by Mätzner, who cites three cases from romances. We have bright brown sword, II, 139, 22; 241, 24; 266, 26, 27; and, blades both browne and bright, III, 93, 36. The late Mr. Edward Bangs, remarking upon these passages, suggests that the blades may have been artificially browned with acid and then polished, as gun-barrels still are, and he refers to P. Lacombe’s description of the magnificent sword of Charles V, Armes et Armures, p. 221: “la lame est d’acier bruni presque noir.” We have browne tempered blade, III, 35, 13, meaning, probably, a blade tempered to that color.

browt, browthe, brought.

browst, V, 306, 12: brewage.

bruchty, brucket, brockit, I, 301 f., A 5, 9; V, 213 a, No 33, 5: spotted or streaked with dirt; of a sheep, streaked or speckled in the face. See brockit.

brue, V, 209 a: broo, broth, soup.

brue, I, 334, 3: brow.

bruik, II, 422, 2; IV, 385, 27; V, 179, 12, 13: enjoy, possess. See brook.

brune, III, 9, H 8: error for brume (which is the reading in an earlier MS.).

brung, pret., p. p. of bring, IV, 191, B, after 7; 466, 11.

brunt, IV, 211, 2; 392, 17; 468, 17: burnt.

brusted, brusten, II, 186, 15; IV, 2, 6: burst.

bryde, II, 442, 3; 478, 1: young woman.

bryk, III, 13, 13: breeches, hose.

bryn, I, 136, R 4: should probably be brim, as in R, b, c. brin, brow, from the Icelandic, is unlikely.

bryng yow on your way, III, 99, 45: take, accompany.

bryste, I, 327, 12: burst.

brytlyng, bryttlynge, III, 307, 8; 308, 13: (breaking) cutting up. See brittled.

bucht, bught, bought, n., IV, 193, 1, 2, 5; 194, 6, 9; 195 f., 1, 3, 4; 198 f., 1, 3, 6; etc.: a small pen, usually put up in the corner of the field, into which it was customary to drive the ewes when they were to be milked. Jamieson.

bucht, bught, v., IV, 200, 1, 18; 201, 10; 205, 22: go into the bucht, or pen. pret. buchted, IV, 201, 24: drove into the pen; p. p., 201, 11: built a pen for (cf. 198, 8; 200, 19).

buckle, crisp, curl (of hair). Curling Buckle, IV, 357, C 6, 7: one with hair crisped or curled.

buckled up our lap, II, 473, 17: fastened up apron or gown so as to make a bag for carrying away meal.

bucklings, V, 183, 21: encounters?

bud, I, 72 f., 7, 62: behooved. See buse.

bug, IV, 199, 17, pret. of big: built.

bugge, I, 243, 1: buy.

buggin, bugn, p. p. of big, IV, 445 b, 1; 446 b, 1: built.

buik, bouk, IV, 485, 12, 14: body.

buik, buke, IV, 411, 2; V, 122, 9: book.

buik, II, 71, 10: pret. of bake (A. S. bóc).

builded, pret., III, 123, 4; sheltered, hid. (A. S. byldan, Scot, bield.)

buird, V, 138, 11, 12, 14: board.

buirdly, buirlie (bride), II, 82, 51; 130, 8: portly, stately, large and well made. buirdlie men, II, 315, E 6. See bierly.

buke, II, 165, 14: bouk, body. The verse is suspicious; more sense could be had by reading Maist fair, etc., and making the line the beginning of the speech of the fourth brother. See bouk, buik.

buke, buik, book.

bukeld, V, 276, 18. See baucheld.

buld, build, built.

bull-baits, I, 103, E 4: represents strokes, blows (cf. other versions), and must have some such sense. Possibly a corruption of buffets, though I see not how. A compounding of Old English bollen, to strike, and of beat would be unlikely. Bull-baits, for violent assaults, no doubt seemed good enough to the reciter.

bully, billy, IV, 146 f., 5, 12, 18-21, etc.: brother, fellow, mate. See billie.

bullyship, IV, 147, 29, 33: comradeship.

bun, II, 191, 26; IV, 45, 6: boun(d), ready to go.

bun, V, 267 a, 9: bound, tied up.

bune (how she is), II, 191, 30: going on, faring.

burd, bird, I, 69 f., 70, 72; 71, 57; II, 282, 6; III, 393, 14; 394, K 3; IV, 418, 2, 3, 5, etc.; 420, 2, 4, 5, etc.; 424, 1, 2, 4; V, 228 f., 12, 22, 34, 35: damsel, maid, lady; V, 229, 32: perhaps offspring.

burd-alone, he lay burd-alone, I, 298, 2: solitary, by himself; cf. maid alone, II, 149, 2.

Burd Alone, II, 95, 1, 3, 4, 5: desolate, forlorn one; corruption of Burd Helen, 96, J 2: cf. bird her lane.

bure, I, 108, 8: bore (pret.).

Burgesse (?), IV, 503, 4; 504, 24: Bordeaux. Should probably be Burdesse.

burgh, IV, 53, 15-17: town.

burken, II, 133, 8: birken, birchen.

Burlow-beanie, I, 287, 60, 65, 70, 74: =Billy Blin, which see (I, 67).

burly, I, 300, 4. See beerly.

burn, bourn, I, 438, A 3, 4; III, 440, 16; 460, 27: brook.

burn-brae, IV, 76, 1: hillside with a brook at the bottom.

burnyssht, III, 63, 136: shining, made bright.

burrow-town, burrows-town, IV, 288, E 3; 299, d 13: properly, chartered town, corporate town; perhaps nothing more than a town of some size, larger than a village. See borrows-town.

bursen, IV, 4 b 6: burst, bursen day, IV, 481, 20: overpoweringly fatiguing.

buse, þe buse agayne, I, 328, 54: it behoves thee (other texts, thou most). pret. (personal) bot, II, 94, 3; beet, III, 281, 2; bud, boud, I, 73, 62; V, 176, 17.

busk, buss (Icel. búask, old reflexive of búa, make ready, from the participle of which comes boun, so that busk and boun are of the same origin and equivalent). 1. make ready, buske you, III, 73, 340. busk and boune, II, 24, 5; III, 434, 22. buske yee, bowne yee, III, 91, 5. the[y] buske them bowne, he buskes him bowne, III, 285, 26, 38. they busked and made them bowne, III, 284, 2. 2. dress, deck. busk and mak yow braw, II, 23, E 5. busk the bride, II, 104, 16, 18; 105, 10, 11; 106, 11. p. p. busket, III, 433, 3. weel-busked hat, IV, 199, 9: decorated. buskit wi rings, V, 203 a. busk on you the flowers, II, 465, 3: put on as ornaments. buskit fire wi leaves, II, 411, 10: set about. busk your ship roon (with feather beds), IV, 381, 8, cf. 10: wrap, sheathe. 3. betake oneself, go. I wol me buske ouer the salte see: III, 59, 56. See buskit.

buske, III, 97, 12: bush.

busker, III, 252, 16: corrupt; testament in other copies.

buskit, -et, III, 433, 3: dressed, buskit his bow in her hair, I, 131, 15: furnished, strung. See busk.

buss, I, 130, 16; II, 133, 8; III, 3, 6;5, D 7; 6, 6: bush.

buss, IV, 510, 4; 513 a, 1: busk, make ready, dress. See busk.

busshement, III, 71, 301: ambuscade.

busting, n., V, 301 b, 3: padding or the like used to improve the figure.

but, prep., without: I, 16, 6; 420, 9, 10; 430, 3; III, 161, 30; IV, 41 b; 326, 16; 329, A, b after 12.

but, III, 267, 20; 268, 17; 270, 16; 272, 20; 274, 33: towards the outer apartment or kitchen, without, out. gae butt the house and bid her come ben, V, 115, 6. he wood her butt, he wood her ben, I, 56 f., C 2, 14; cf. V, 219, 10. but it speaks, V, 306, 6: out speaks.

but, if ye be a maiden but, I, 72, 25: corrupt; read, binna maiden yet?

but and, bot and, but an, bat an==and also: I, 18, F 7; 69, 49; 72, 5; 345, C 8, 9, 10; 464, 8; 474, 36; IV, 418, 5; V, 246 b, 4, 6, 8.

but nor hed, II, 191, 27: but and had not.

but than==but and, IV, 465, 23.

by (cf. also be), II, 56 a; 433, 2; III, 22, 2; 91, 2; IV, 420, 2, 4; 422, 2: about, concerning (as, by a knight I say my song). V, 272 b, 3, 7, 11; 277, 4; 278, 20 (spelled bay), 31: in comparison with, on comparing (by 272 b, 3⁴, should perhaps be but; cf. 11⁴). kend thy freind by thy foe, III, 420, 18: in distinction from. by than, III, 77, 435: by the time that. by weeke, spend forty pounds by weeke, II, 442, 7: distributively, a week. So, by yere, III, 61, 92. he maun do them by, V, 169, 12: do without. no far by, V, 123, 10: not far off. called young Brichen by, I, 465, 5: called on, to. ca’d by Andrew Lammie, IV, 302, 1: called by the name of.

by and bye, the keys hang at that lady by and bye, I, 471, 4: one next to the other (?).

by and by, IV, 196 f., 1, 14: nigh.

by and by, I, 287 f., 60, 71, 75, 77; V, 122, 1; 123, 1: directly, immediately.

by== aby, pay for, atone for: III, 97, 15.

byckarte, pret. of bicker, III, 307, 5: (fought) attacked (the deer).

byd, must, am under necessity.

byddys, III, 308, 26: abides.

byde, III, 297, 37: wait. p. p. byddin, V, 202 a: staid. pret. byde, there was naething byde him wi, IV, 428, 11: nothing which did remain.

bydene. See bidene.

bye fell, III, 440, 8: a rocky hill or piece of high land lying off or aside of the way.

bye-yett, IV, 21, 10: side-gate (subsidiary, not principal).

bygane, gone by.

byggande, ptc., I, 327, 33: building.

byrde, I, 327, 22: woman (wife or maid). See burd.

byre, II, 182, 8; 184, 13; 188, 13; IV, 293, 9; 297, 9: cow-house.

bystode, hard bystode, III, 98, 33: hard pressed.

bytecke, commit to: I, 327, 29.

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ca, caw, call==drive, strike. ca a nail, I, 403, 13; III, 495, B b, after 7. ca a pin, IV, 381, 9, 11. ca in the stake, II, 123, 14, 27. caw shoon on a steed, IV, 470, 18. ca up a gallows, II, 253, 8. ca’d holes, V, 141 b, 8. ca hogs, II, 258, 32. ca the mare, IV, 17 f., 5, 13. ca horse, IV, 109, 1. call sheep, II, 255, 17. caw ky, IV, 193, 13; 194, 17. ca the pleugh, V, 105, A 10. waft (emend from wraft) was neer ca’d throw, I, 424 a, 12, 13; 425, 12, 13. ca’d the table wi her foot, II, 313, 20. ca’d out the sheriff’s een, IV, 392, 19.

ca’d by, ca’d by Andrew Lammie, IV, 302, 1: called by the name of.

caddie. See cadie.

cadger, cauger, an itinerant huckster. corn-caugers, III, 479, 8 (== corn-buyers, 491, 6; corn-dealers, 492, 4).

cadgily, V, 115, 1: merrily.

cadie, caddie, IV, 351, 4, 5; 353, 6, 7, 9, 10, etc.: a young fellow who does errands, or any inferior kind of work.

caft, IV, 330 a, appendix, 2: calved.

cairdman, II, 474, 9, 10: tinker, beggar.

cald, III, 455, 10: could.

cale, call, calle, V, 221, 20; 228, 19; 247, 1 (MS. calld); 248, 21; 257, 15: cold.

call, a call opon, V, 221, 14, 19: a call out, (simply) call.

call, v., III, 62, 113; 111, 38: address.

calland, II, 267, 9: lad.

called their grandmother over, IV, 70, G 2: corrupted from cast their glamour oer her.

caller, cauler, IV, 484, after 23; 485, 19: (of air), fresh.

cam, pret. of come: III, 61, 91; 69, 259.

came home, hame, of child-birth, IV, 405, 54; 420, 5. See bring hame.

cammer, II, 131, 6: (conjecture for cannell) cambric (Scottish cammeraige, camroche).

camovine, IV, 212, 4; 213, 12: camomile.

campioun, II, 386, 18: champion.

campy, I, 304, 1: having the quality or make of a champion, or (name) champion (like kempy).

camric, cambric.

can, II, 445, 62; 450, 67; III, 66, 210; 67, 227; 162, 55: knows.

can, inf., will never can steer ye, IV, 69, 15.

can, cann, an auxiliary of the present tense, can bee==is: II, 442, 14; 443, 30; 444, 51; 446, 93. Cf. do be (are), I, 184, 47. (may be, II, 448, 33; 451, 100; might be, III, 452, 10, show a misunderstanding of this.) auxiliary of the past tense,==did: II, 446, 81, 84; III, 65, 184; 67, 223; 298, 56. (Probably a corruption of gan.) cold, colde, could, cowde,==did: I, 294, 23, 24; III, 298, 56, 59; 440, 10; IV, 3, 19; V, 278, 37. cold be, II, 443, 34; III, 413, 34: were, was. cold see, III, 413, 32: saw, have seen. (An extension of the use of can==gan.)

cankerdly, III, 160, 13; 267, 10: crossly.

cankred, III, 189, A 9: ill-humored, complaining, crabbed (Scottish canker, to fret), with reference to the behavior in 6. But as John shows no crooked temper to the palmers, possibly cankred is to be taken literally as crooked (see B 10), having in mind Icel. kengr, a crook of metal, English kink, etc.

cannas, cannis, canies, V, 239, 35; 276, 14, 15: canvas, coarse cloth.

cannel, II, 147, 3, 4: candle.

canny, adj., IV, 303, 16; 304, 4: gentle. IV, 305, 25: cautious. IV, 306, 17: clever, expert. V, 121 a: wily. IV, 132, G 4: canny (Cannygate) seems to be for jingle, but may be a term of general commendation.

canny, cannie, cannilie, adv., IV, 154, 4; 304, 14; 306, 29: cautiously. IV, 133, 3, 4; 306, 18; 354, 2, 3: attentively. I, 245 f., 11-14: carefully, expertly. I, 245, 8, 9: expertly, or gently. II, 161, 18: slowly, or softly.

cantie, canty, IV, 261, 3; 317, F 6; V, 115, 2: merry.

cap, caup, II, 344, 1: cup.

cap, cape, V, 230 a, 10, 11: catch, pret., p. p. caped, II, 317, B b 20; V, 219, 23; 271, 14: struck. See kep.

cape, V, 79, 32: cloak.

capull-hyde, III, 92, 7; 93, 44; 94, 48: horse-hide.

care, car, cart.

care, v., II, 370, 16: mind, object.

care-bed, II, 58, 4; 433, 3; 434, 28; 435, 47; 436 f., 58, 79 (of a hopeless lover): almost, or quite, sick-bed; (of a mother) III, 3, 2; so, bed of care, V, 227, 11. “care-bed lair, a disconsolate situation; a sick-bed.” Jamieson.

carefull, III, 57, 28; 343, 18: full of care, sorrowful.

carket, carknet, I, 69, 56; 71, 46: necklace.

carl, carle, carel, carril, cerl, II, 466 f., 35, 36, 45, 46; III, 189, B 10, 11; IV, 493 f., 7, 11, 30; V, 237, 6, 7; 238, 12, 13, etc.: fellow, man of low condition, peasant.

carlin, carline, old woman, V, 26, 24; of a gentleman’s mother, I, 71, 31; of a wealthy woman, II, 238, 1, 2, low-born woman, peasant woman: II, 467, 40, 47; 469 f., 42, 51, 56-58; V, 26, 24.

carlish, churlish, uncivilized.

carrlis, careless.

carnal, II, 8, 1, 2, 4: (cornicula, corneille) crow.

carp, carpe, III, 127, play, 31; 310, 58: talk. In, harp and (or) carp, I, 324, 5; 325, 5; 329, 2; IV, 18, 9, 10; 19, B 5, 6, 12; 20 f., C 7, D 7, 8; 21, E 8; 23, A c 22; 454 b; 455, 8, carp seems to mean tell tales, probably sing or chant tales (ballads) to the harp. See I, 329, 2, 3.

carping, III, 13, 1; IV, 21, 17: talk, tale.

carry, IV, 247, C 11; 253, 15: pass, allow to pass, make effective, hold good.

case, in case that, I, 351, 38; II, 103, 1, 8; 171, 22; IV, 205, 17: against the chance that, lest.

case, cassed, V, 274, 4, 5: cause, caused.

casey, cassie, IV, 354, 4; V, 16, 2, 3, 5, 6: causeway.

cast, n., III, 68, 248: venture. (Possibly cost, outlay.)

cast: pret., coost, koost, cust, cuist, keist, kiest, kyst, kest. p. p. casten, castin, coosten, custan, cuisten.

cast, III, 308, 17: project, intend. cast on sleepe, III, 401, 10: thrown into a sleep, fallen asleep.

cast, pret., III, 344, 34: struck, (upcast, III, 349, 34.)

casten, castin, p. p. of cast, I, 245, 7; 463, 3; II, 115, 29; V, 300, 2; 306, 14.

cat o clay, III, 11, L: a roll of straw and clay wrought together, used in building mud walls. Perhaps only a bit of clay.

caterans, V, 253 b, 1: robbers, Highland or Irish irregular soldiers. (Gaelic ceatharnach, soldier.)

cauger. See cadger.

caul, kell, IV, 483, 20: a woman’s cap.

cauler, IV, 26, 6; 485, 19: cool, fresh. See caller.

caup, II, 472, 27: cup. See cap.

cause, in that cause to flee, II, 421, 34: exigency (such exigency that you had to flee).

caution, III, 447 b; 451, note *: surety.

cavil, kavil, kaivle, kevel (Dutch kavel), I, 69, 46, 48: lot.

caw, cawd. See ca’.

cawte, III, 296, 26: wary.

ceppet, kepit, II, 410, 6; 407, 13: received, caught, when falling. See cap, cape.

cerl. See carl.

cerstyn, III, 111, 44: Christian.

certyl, III, 14, 15: kirtle (man’s garment).

césererá, sassaray, II, 207, A 5; 209, E 5: intended for an imitation of the sound of bells.

chaffare, III, 111, 33; 113, 68; V, 79, 21, 25: ware, merchandise.

chaffe, III, 34, 11: chuff, clown, loon, simpleton.

chaft-blade, III, 269, 9; V, 243, 12: jaw-bone.

chafts, III, 267, 16: chaps, jaws.

chalmer, chamer, chaumer, chamber.

chamber thy words, II, 435, 45: restrain, suppress, be chary of.

changehouse, IV, 153, E 3: tavern, ale-house.

channerin, II, 239, 11: fretting, petulant.

chap, knock, rap, tap: I, 107, 3, 4; 465, 11; 481, 29; II, 140, 15; 177, 14, 16; 272, 14; 313, 14; IV, 445 f., 3, 4; V, 228, 16; 306 b, 1: of the striking of the hour, II, 371, 7.

chaperine, III, 514, 10, would make some sense as chapel, but the form is unaccountable except as a popular diminutive.

chare, III, 250, J 7, 8: turn.

charge, IV, 457, 1, must be understood as charge not, forbid.

charter (simply): III, 358, 82. See next word.

chartre of peace, III, 27, 108: grant of pardon, paper condoning past offences.

chase, III, 26, 74: follow up, hunt down, chase the wine, III, 169, 24: follow, keep up, like follow strong drink. (But a rhyme-end.)

chaunler-chaftit, I, 303, 6: having chafts (chops) like a chandler (candlestick, lantern), lantern-jawed, with a long, thin face.

chaunter, I, 438, B 6: usually, tube of the bagpipe, which would not be expected here. A book of chants would suit. Cf. Sir Hugh, III, 247, 20; 248, 14; 249, H 7, I 5, etc.

chays, hunting-ground.

che, I, 415 b: she.

chear, II, 193, 27: sounds expressing a state of feeling (here sad). IV, 18, 19: referring to the evening’s entertainment, or, simply doing and saying. See chere.

chear well to, III, 160, 11: have good cheer at.

check, tether’s check, V, 213, 10: spike of a tether.

cheel, IV, 69, 12: child, fellow.

cheepe, better cheepe, V, 15, 26: (price) cheaper.

cheeped, IV, 516, 15: chipped, broken.

cheik, II, 336, P 2, close to the cheik and chin: cheik is door-post, chin often=gin, the contrivance for fastening, but gin would not come in well here, and it is likely that chin is meaningless, coming in because of its frequent association with cheek (kissed her cheek and chin, etc.), see door-cheik.

chelvellrye, IV, 503, 1: corrupt. Read, chevauchie, excursion on horseback? (would a progress ride, III, 343, 2.)

chepe, cheepe, n., bargain. better chepe, III, 69, 259: more cheaply. gret chepe! III, 111, 34: great bargain!

chepe, v., III, 110, 26; 111, 33: cheapen, bargain for, or buy.

chere, cheer, cheir, chier, chear. carefull, sorry chere, III, 57, 28; 68, 239: face, countenance. I, 109, 14; 117, 6; 330, B 7; II, 189, 37; III, 441, 37; IV, 20, 15: of state of mind, bearing, or behavior. III, 66, 197; 67, 215; 75, 394; IV, 18, 19: entertainment, merry-making. here is a symple chere, III, 59, 61. made gode chere, III, 100, 67: repast.

cherish, v., I, 76, 19; IV, 96, C 11; 437, 25: cheer.

cherry, V, 264, 4: sherry.

chess, I, 86, 15: jess, strap; properly, leather strap for a hawk’s leg (explained by R. Jamieson, hawk’s bell).

chess, IV, 457, L 8, dancin in a chess: chace? forest? Probably corrupt, since A 10, B 10, I, 341, 343, have playing at the chess.

chess, chiss of farie, V, 165 f., 6, 9, 10: corrupt; read, cheese o Fyvie (see V, 305 f.).

chest, kist, IV, 342, 12: coffin.

cheue, v., III, 73, 349: end. See chewys.

cheverons, III, 374, 8: gloves.

chewys, I, 327, 20: endest, comest off. (French chevir.) See cheue.

cheys, III, 112, 48: choose.

child, chiel, chil, cheel, child, young fellow: I, 72, 8; 367, 3; IV, 69, 12; 432, 15; V, 278, 33. as an appellation, II, 85 f., 1, 2, 6, etc.; 128 f., 1, 5, 8, etc.; 264 f., 1, 7, etc.; V, 157, 1, 6, etc. auld chiel, V, 125, 6, 8: devil, pl. chylderin, III, 13, 2, 3.

childer, III, 478, 24; IV, 99, 11: children.

chill, V, 287, 16: child.

chimly, II, 71, 9; IV, 481, 22; V, 122, 5: chimney.

chin, chappit at the chin, II, 140, 15, 24; stecked doors close to the chin, II, 336, P 2: gin, that is, pin. See gin, pin.

chine, IV, 188, 18: chin.

chip-hole, I, 305, 3: a hole chipped or cracked, a chink.

chiss, chess, V, 165 f., 6, 9, 10: cheese. See V, 305 f.

chive, II, 362, 34=schive, slice.

chiven, play the, III, 145, 8: “run away precipitately,” Nares; chiven, chivin=chub, or any shy fish. chivie=fearful.

choice, choise, II, 463, 17; 469, 34; 473, 12; V, 269, 15: choose.

choised, chosen.

choose, chose, I, 103, 7; 329, 2; IV, 211, notes, 6: choice.

choosed, p. p., III, 440, 23.

chossen, p. p., chosen.

christendom, christendame, christendoun, -doom, I, 341, 21; 344, 20; 346, 11; 350, 24; 369, 48; 370, 15, 19: christening (as in Old English).

christentie, cristendie, I, 286, 46; II, 53, 41; V, 192, 22, 33; 194, 65: Christendom.

chrystall, II, 52, 17: rock-crystal, a variety of quartz.

church-style, IV, 412, 14: the gate of the enclosure round a church.

churlish, I, 102, 2: of vulgar derivation.

chylderin. See child.

cirsned, p. p., V, 224, 19: christened.

clade, clead, cleed, clad.

claes, claise, I, 488, 17; II, 90, 25; IV, 18, 16; 262, 22; V, 118, 6, 7, 14: clothes.

claiding, cleadin, etc., IV, 424, 12: clothing.

claith, II, 131, 8: garment.

clam, pret. of climb, II, 166, 35; V, 249, 4.

clap, in a clap, IV, 41 b: moment.

clap, II, 269, 25; IV, 278, 4; 303, 18; 403, 12; 414, 25, 14; V, 125, 4; 277, 7: pat, fondle, embrace.

clappit at, V, 173, 1: knocked at (with ellipsis of the door).

clarry, claret.

clatter, IV, 21, 14: to be loquacious.

clead, cleed, cleid, clied, I, 220, B 6; 224, J 6, 7; 225, L 2, 4; 504 b, 2; IV, 451 a, 2; V, 211 b, 4: clothe. pret. cled, IV, 492 a, 1. p. p. clead, IV, 456, 1.

cleadin, cleeding, cleiding, clieden, cliding, n., II, 92, 7; 108, 6; 183, 19; 273, 24; IV, 445, 12; 457, 2, 7; 515, 4: clothing. one of thy cleeding, II, 271, 18: dresses.

cleare, III, 307, 5; IV, 166, C 7; 477, 21; 506, 22: bright.

cleathe, I, 222, F 11, 12; V, 128, 27, 28: clothe.

clecked, clekit, pret., p. p., I, 254 a; II, 261, 7: hatched.

cleek, n. and v., I, 494, 13; V, 106 E 4; 122, 5: hook.

clef, pret. of cleave, III, 13 f., 5, 15.

cleffe, III, 109, 6; 112, 52: cleave.

cleiding, clieden, clothing. See cleadin.

clekit, clecked, I, 254 a: hatched.

cleugh, clough, III, 22, 1; IV, 6, 13; 7, 26; V, 182, 1; 250, 12: a hollow between steep banks, narrow glen or valley, high rocky bank.

cleynt, pret., V, 80, 43: clung.

clied. See clead.

clift, I, 137, A c 6: cliff.

clifting, IV, 179, 4: clift, cleft, fissure.

cliitt, III, 179, 5: read clutt, clouted, patched.

cling, V, 154, 15: shrink.

clintin, IV, 179, B 1: crevice, fissure,==clifting, A 4.

cloathe, III, 93, 43; 174, 24: garment.

clock, IV, 3, 20, 22: limper, hobbler (Fr. clocher, Picard cloquer).

clocken-hen, V, 92, 15, 16: sitting hen.

clod, got the clod that winna cling, V, 154, 15: the loaf of bread (?) that will not shrink (but will rise?), referring to the impending increase of her size.

cloks, II, 166, 36: beetles.

Clootie, I, 5, 18: a name for the Devil, from cloot, the half-hoof of a cloven-footed beast.

close, closs, enclosure, yard, and, before a house, court-yard: I, 145, 15; 146, 10, 19, 21; 147, 14; 148, G 10; 149, I 7; V, 173, 1; 279, No 257, 11; 306 b, 2. castle-yard: IV, 84, 22; 86, C 10; 87, 7; 89, 10. lady standing in the close pinning her gown, III, 436, 3. close parler, III, 431, 22: securely enclosed, or fastened? 23, you are in close: one (not trustworthy) transcript has to chose, which would make easier sense. Saint Evron’s closs, I, 146, 19, 21: cloister?

closely, III, 470 a: covertly, without attracting observation.

closs. See close.

cloth and fee, III, 433, 7: clothing and wage. holde with cloth and fee, III, 61, 107: retained by presents of clothes and money.

clot-, clout-lether, V, 79, 27: mending-leather.

cloudy, II, 31, N 1, cloudy stone: (A. S. clúdig) rocky. (Read, cloud and stone==reef and rock?)

clout, n., V, 116, 10: patch. See clouts.

clout-leather, clouting-leather, V, 77, 39; b 39; 83, 55: leather for mending, patching.

clouts, II, 463, 24; 470, 54: pieces of cloth for bed-coverings, or sheets (linsey clouts, canvas clouts). II, 470, 53: duds, clothes. See clout.

clouty, I, 206, 35; 207, 33; V, 110, 2; 116, 4, 5: patched.

clud, IV, 174, 12, clud o night: cloud.

clunkers, clunkerts, I, 305, 13; V, 213, 9: clots of dirt.

clutt, III, 179, 5: clouted (given wrongly cliitt).

clyffe, III, 91 a (play): rive, sunder, be split.

co, V, 250, 17, 19: quo, quoth.

coad, II, 132, 27. See cod.

coardie, V, 244, 7: cowardice.

coat-neuk, II, 107, 3, 5: corner of his coat.

coate-armor, III, 284, 11, 13: surcoat or tabard, embroidered with armorial bearings, worn over the armor as a personal distinction, and for identification, the face being concealed.

coble, IV, 128, 7; 359, 2, 5, etc.: boat (yawl, flat-bottomed boat).

cock, II, 472, 20, 28; V, 269, 14: knots, or other arrangements, of ribbon for the hair. (French coque.)

cockward, I, 285, 24, 26: old cock, fool (French coquard).

cod, coad, I, 68, 29; II, 132, 27; 270, 27: pillow.

coffer, trunk or box, for clothes and valuables: I, 69, 60; 71, 49; II, 375 f., 23, 26, 29; IV, 258, 19. In a commonplace with mantle: I, 350, 16; III, 244, 11; IV, 385, 26; V, 175, 2; absurdly introduced in the first two instances; ridiculously corrupted, I, 348 f., F 1, 3, 13; II, 475, 5.

coft, I, 356, 56; 394, 9; 397, D 8, 10, 12; III, 11, 6; V, 118, 9; 162, C 7; 163, 13: bought.

cog, coug, II, 30, 6; IV, 378 f., 2, 3, 20; 379 f., 2, 4, 17-19; V, 275, 2, 3, 9: boat, vessel.

cog, cogie, II, 273 a; IV, 199, 15; 200, 17; 206, 9; V, 273 a: milk-pail.

coif, quoif, II, 280, B 3; III, 514 b, 3; 515 a, 1, 4: cap.

coil (of hay), II, 233, 7: cock.

coilyear, V, 70 b: collier, charcoal-burner.

cold, could, coud, understood. cold of wisdome, of curtesye, I, 271, 1, 3. cold of his curtesie, I, 286, 49; V, 132, 3. cold, could, coud his curtesye, II, 433, 10; 435, 35; III, 75, 385; V, 132, 3.

cold, could, coud, did. See can.

cole, III, 74, 372; 76, 421: cowl, monk’s hood, also frock, which last is intended here, for the king wears a broad hat and puts on a green garment when he casts off his cowl.

coled (high coled). See colld.

coll, v. See cow.

coll, cold.

collaine, collayne, collen, swords of, III, 298, 50: of Cologne steel. collaine, collen brand, I, 286, 42, 43, 45.

colld, coled, cut, shaped, fashioned. high-colld hose, I, 69, 52; 71, 42. high coled stockings, I, 72, 9: made to go to the knee or above (perhaps in contradistinction to short hose, worn by common people). high-coled shoon, I, 73, 64. laigh-colld shoon, I, 69, 52; 71, 42; 72, 9: low-cut shoes. high-colld hat, IV, 204, 12: hat peaked before and behind.

colleen, II, 497 f., 4, 13, 16: (Ir. and Sc. Gaelic cailin, diminutive of caile, simple country maid) girl.

collen, of Cologne. See collaine.

com, come, pret. of come, I, 244, 10, 13; 328, 46.

comand, V, 80, 56: commanded. (Read, comanded?)

comd, pret. of come, III, 430, 6; 467, 61. p. p., I, 324, 4; III, 464, 3, 7.

come, pret. cam, com, come, coom, comd. pret. pl. come. ptc. pres. coomin. p. p. comen, commen, coom, comd.

come, pret. pl. of come, III, 216, 34.

come by (life), IV, 515, 7: get, obtain, gain.

comen, commen, p. p. of come, II, 52, 19; 54, 46; III, 35, 32.

comentye, comyntie, III, 361, b, c 58: commonalty.

comfort, p. p. of comfort, II, 370, 22.

commant, p. p. of command, III, 9, 1.

commaunded theym agayne, III, 77, 430: come has perhaps dropped out; later editions, them to come.

compare, made him no compare, V, 260, No 221, 1: made no comparison (of others) with him.

compass, I, 346 f., 17, 25; 351, 32, 44: circle.

compear, compeir, III, 364 b; IV, 81 b; 164 a: appear.

comt, count.

complete, sang sae sweet and sae complete, V, 301, No 200: excellently, skilfully.

compted, III, 77, 437: emendation for commytted of 80 and 81, 437. (85, 88, commended for.)

comunye, I, 285, 31: communing.

comyn-bell, III, 100, 73: town bell, a clerc the commun belle rong. Robert of Gloucester, p. 541, Hearne.

condescend upon, IV, 41 b, note §: particularize.

conduction, III, 403 a: direction, charge.

cone, liftet up the cone, IV, 484, a, last stanza: apparently the face-cloth, which may have been gathered into a conical form the better to fit the face. J. Aiken.

conferred, III, 336, note †: made the subject of conference.

conform, IV, 63 b: conformably.

confound, II, 443, 38; 449, 44: be the destruction of.

conquess, V, 191 f., 9, 13, 23, 35: conquer.

convay. See convoy.

convë, V, 117, 13; 268, 27, 28: convoy, escort.

convened, III, 409 a, note: agreed.

convenient, IV, 78, 4: suitable.

convention, made a, III, 364 a: had a meeting.

convey. See convoy.

convoy, convay, n., I, 252, 16; IV, 37, 15; 38, 15; 267, 14: escort. IV, 453, 6: of attendance upon the dead.

convoy, convey, v., II, 27, 4: convey. IV, 267, 3, 10; 269 f., f 2, 3, g 3; 317, 7; 318, 12; V, 119, 12: escort, accompany part of the way homeward, or on a journey, see a friend off, a young woman home.

coom, p. p., V, 296 a: come.

coomin, ptc., V, 296 a: coming.

coops, IV, 461, 4: carts (tip-carts).

coost, koost, pret. of cast, I, 73, 59; 102, 18; IV, 477, 6; V, 173, 3, 4. I, 74, 70; 78, 48: threw things about. p. p. coosten, I, 77, 5; 324, B 6; 371, 3.

coot, queet, IV, 212, 5: ankle.

cop, coppe, I, 244, 9; III, 123, 6: head.

coped, overset. See couped.

cor, Corehead, Corhead, V, 192, 37; 195 f., 35 (MS., Carhead); 196, 52: (Gaelic coire, cauldron, dell) corrie, a hollow in a hill. Jamieson. Penman’s Core, 193, 51, 55, 58, described as a hollow on the top of a high ridge of hills, might possibly be Penman score (score, a deep, narrow, ragged indentation on the side of a hill, South of Scotland. Jamieson). poor man’s core, V, 196, 52, corruption.

corbie, I, 253, 1; 254, b 1, c 1; III, 473, 23: raven.

cordain, cordan, cordevine, II, 435, 50; IV, 312, 7; 317, F 3: Cordovan leather.

cordin, shoon laced with cordin, IV, 435, 8: cording, cord (and not with whangs of leather).

cordiuant, adj., V, 49, 23: of Spanish, Cordovan leather.

cored, II, 217 f., 5, 10: covered.

coresed (hors), III, 61, 100: bodied (?) (later texts, corese, corse).

corn, II, 88, 17, 18, etc.: in Scotland, unground oats. (Here distinguished from white meal, which is usually oat-meal.)

corn-caugers, III, 479, 8: cadgers, hucksters, in corn.

corp, II, 218, 25; 229, 11: a vulgar singular of a supposed plural; corps, II, 217, 30; these corps, 31; cf. IV, 483, 23; 484 a, after 31. corpes, III, 231, 97, may be corpse.

cors, curse.

corse, corss, I, 117, 7; 351, 31, 32, 44; IV, 53, 8; 512 a, 9; V, 161, 4: cross.

corser, III, 68, 256: should probably be forser==coffer (text g has coffer).

cosh, coush, II, 363, 13: quiet (snug).

cote a pye, coate a pie, cote of pie, III, 65, 194; 80, 194; 86, 194: corruption of courtepi, short cloak or gown. (Dutch kort, short, and pij, coat of warm woolen stuff.)

cots, coats, III, 481, 2, 6: petticoats.

couchd, V, 9, 12: lay, leaned.

coug, cog, V, 275 b, 2, 3, 9: boat.

could, did. See can.

couls, V, 228, 19: cools, chills.

councell, counsell, II, 58, 3; III, 58, 45; V, 62, 78: secret.