Volume 6 / Part 2 — GLOSSARY.
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Ahin', behind.
Auld-farrant, sagacious, cunning.
Baudrons, a cat.
Beltane, the 1st of May.
Bield, shelter.
Bink, a bank of earth.
Birk, birch.
Blae, blue.
Blaud, a flat piece of anything, to slap.
Blinket, looked kindly.
Bonnie, beautiful.
Burnie, a small rivulet.
Byke, a bee-hive.
Cannily, gently, dexterously.
Cauldrife, coldish.
Chanter, the drone of a bagpipe.
Cleugh, a cliff.
Clutch, seize.
Coble, a fishing-boat.
Couthilie, kindly.
Crack, to converse.
Cuiff, a blockhead.
Daffin', diversion.
Dautit, fondled, caressed.
Dighted, wiped.
Doited, very stupid.
Donnart, stupified.
Dow, wither.
Dowie, sad, worn with grief.
Dree, suffer, endure.
Dreich, tedious.
Dunt, a knock.
Eerie, dreading things supernatural.
Fashious, troublesome.
Fause, false.
Ferlies, wonders.
Flate, scolded.
Flow, a small quantity.
Gar, compel.
Gauds, trinkets.
Gawkie, a thoughtless person.
Gif, if.
Gilphie, a half-grown person, a romping lad.
Glaiks, foolish talk.
Gowd, gold.
Gree, agree.
Greet, weep.
Haddin, a farmer's stock.
Haffit-links, a necklace.
Haflins, nearly half, partly.
Haps, outer garments.
Haud, hold.
Hinnied, honied.
Hodden, a coarse kind of cloth.
Hummel, humble.
Kame, comb.
Ken, know.
Kilt, to truss up the clothes.
Kye, cattle.
Laigh, low.
Leal, loyal, true.
Lear, learning.
Lick, wipe, beat.
Lift, the sky.
Litheless, listless.
Loonie, a little fellow.
Loupin', leaping.
Losh, an exclamation of surprise.
Lowne, warm.
Maen, moan, complain.
Mailin, a tax, a rent.
Maw, to mow, the stomach.
Meikle, much.
Mim, prim.
Mirk, dark.
Muter, multure, ground corn.
Neivefu', a handful.
Newfangled, newfashioned.
Nit, a nut.
Owre, over.
Pow, the head.
Pree, to taste, to kiss.
Puirtith, poverty.
Racket, stretched.
Scaur, to scare, a wound.
Scoured, burnished, ran.
Scunner'd, disgusted.
Shiel, a temporary cottage or hut.
Siccan, such.
Siching, sighing.
Skailt, emptied, scattered.
Souch, the sighing of the wind, the breathing of a tune.
Speer'd, inquired.
Steer, stir.
Syne, then, since.
Tauld, told.
Tentie, heedful, cautious.
Tentin', leading.
Tint, lost.
Trantlooms, odds and ends.
Wauken, awaken.
Waukrife, watchful, sleepless.
Waunert, wandered.
Wean, a child.
Wee, little.
Weel-faur'd, well-favoured.
Weir, war, to herd.
Whusslit, whistled.
Wooster-trystes, wool-markets.
Yird, earth, soil.
END OF VOL. III.
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FOOTNOTES:
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