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The Complete Works

Dozen, stupified, the effects of age, to dozen, to benumb.

Drab, a young female beggar; to spot, to stain.

Drap, a drop, to drop.

Drapping, dropping.

Draunting, drawling, speaking with a sectarian tone.

Dreep, to ooze, to drop.

Dreigh, tedious, long about it, lingering.

Dribble, drizzling, trickling.

Driddle, the motion of one who tries to dance but moves the middle only.

Drift, a drove, a flight of fowls, snow moved by the wind.

Droddum, the breech.

Drone, part of a bagpipe, the chanter.

Droop rumpl’t, that droops at the crupper.

Droukit, wet.

Drouth, thirst, drought.

Drucken, drunken.

Drumly, muddy.

Drummock or Drammock, meal and water mixed, raw.

Drunt, pet, sour humour.

Dub, a small pond, a hollow filled with rain water.

Duds, rags, clothes.

Duddie, ragged.

Dung-dang, worsted, pushed, stricken.

Dunted, throbbed, beaten.

Dush-dunsh, to push, or butt as a ram.

Dusht, overcome with superstitious fear, to drop down suddenly.

Dyvor, bankrupt, or about to become one.

E.

E’e, the eye.

Een, the eyes, the evening.

Eebree, the eyebrow.

Eenin’, the evening.

Eerie, frighted, haunted, dreading spirits.

Eild, old age.

Elbuck, the elbow.

Eldritch, ghastly, frightful, elvish.

En’, end.

Enbrugh, Edinburgh.

Eneugh, and aneuch, enough.

Especial, especially.

Ether-stone, stone formed by adders, an adder bead.

Ettle, to try, attempt, aim.

Eydent, diligent.

F.

Fa’, fall, lot, to fall, fate.

Fa’ that, to enjoy, to try, to inherit.

Faddom’t, fathomed, measured with the extended arms.

Faes, foes.

Faem, foam of the sea.

Faiket, forgiven or excused, abated, a demand.

Fainness, gladness, overcome with joy.

Fairin’, fairing, a present brought from a fair.

Fallow, fellow.

Fand, did find.

Farl, a cake of bread; third part of a cake.

Fash, trouble, care, to trouble, to care for.

Fasheous, troublesome.

Fasht, troubled.

Fasten e’en, Fasten’s even.

Faught, fight.

Faugh, a single furrow, out of lea, fallow.

Fauld, and Fald, a fold for sheep, to fold.

Faut, fault.

Fawsont, decent, seemly.

Feal, loyal, steadfast.

Fearfu’, fearful, frightful.

Fear’t, affrighted.

Feat, neat, spruce, clever.

Fecht, to fight.

Fechtin’, fighting.

Feck and fek, number, quantity.

Fecket, an under-waistcoat.

Feckfu’, large, brawny, stout.

Feckless, puny, weak, silly.

Feckly, mostly.

Feg, a fig.

Fegs, faith, an exclamation.

Feide, feud, enmity.

Fell, keen, biting; the flesh immediately under the skin; level moor.

Felly, relentless.

Fend, Fen, to make a shift, contrive to live.

Ferlie or ferley, to wonder, a wonder, a term of contempt.

Fetch, to pull by fits.

Fetch’t, pull’d intermittently.

Fey, strange; one marked for death, predestined.

Fidge, to fidget, fidgeting.

Fidgin-fain, tickled with pleasure.

Fient, fiend, a petty oath.

Fien ma care, the devil may care.

Fier, sound, healthy; a brother, a friend.

Fierrie, bustle, activity.

Fissle, to make a rustling noise, to fidget, bustle, fuss.

Fit, foot.

Fittie-lan, the nearer horse of the hindmost pair in the plough.

Fizz, to make a hissing noise, fuss, disturbance.

Flaffen, the motion of rags in the wind; of wings.

Flainen, flannel.

Flandrekins, foreign generals, soldiers of Flanders.

Flang, threw with violence.

Fleech, to supplicate in a flattering manner.

Fleechin, supplicating.

Fleesh, a fleece.

Fleg, a kick, a random blow, a fight.

Flether, to decoy by fair words.

Flethrin, flethers, flattering—smooth wheedling words.

Fley, to scare, to frighten.

Flichter, flichtering, to flutter as young nestlings do when their dam approaches.

Flinders, shreds, broken pieces.

Flingin-tree, a piece of timber hung by way of partition between two horses in a stable; a flail.

Flisk, flisky, to fret at the yoke.

Flisket, fretted.

Flitter, to vibrate like the wings of small birds.

Flittering, fluttering, vibrating, moving tremulously from place to place.

Flunkie, a servant in livery.

Flyte, flyting, scold: flyting, scolding.

Foor, hastened.

Foord, a ford.

Forbears, forefathers.

Forbye, besides.

Forfairn, distressed, worn out, jaded, forlorn, destitute.

Forgather, to meet, to encounter with.

Forgie, to forgive.

Forinawed, worn out.

Forjesket, jaded with fatigue.

Fou’, full, drunk.

Foughten, forfoughten, troubled, fatigued.

Foul-thief, the devil, the arch-fiend.

Fouth, plenty, enough, or more than enough.

Fow, a measure, a bushel: also a pitchfork.

Frae, from.

Freath, froth, the frothing of ale in the tankard.

Frien’, friend.

Frosty-calker, the heels and front of a horse-shoe, turned sharply up for riding on an icy road.

Fu’, full.

Fud, the scut or tail of the hare, coney, &c.

Fuff, to blow intermittently.

Fu-hant, full-handed; said of one well to live in the world.

Funnie, full of merriment.

Fur-ahin, the hindmost horse on the right hand when ploughing.

Furder, further, succeed.

Furm, a form, a bench.

Fusionless, spiritless, without sap or soul.

Fyke, trifling cares, to be in a fuss about trifles.

Fyte, to soil, to dirty.

Fylt, soiled, dirtied.

G.

Gab, the mouth, to speak boldly or pertly.

Gaberlunzie, wallet-man, or tinker.

Gae, to go; gaed, went; gane or gaen, gone; gaun, going.

Gaet or gate, way, manner, road.

Gairs, parts of a lady’s gown.

Gang, to go, to walk.

Gangrel, a wandering person.

Gar, to make, to force to; gar’t, forced to.

Garten, a garter.

Gash, wise, sagacious, talkative, to converse.

Gatty, failing in body.

Gaucy, jolly, large, plump.

Gaud and gad, a rod or goad.

Gaudsman, one who drives the horses at the plough.

Gaun, going.

Gaunted, yawned, longed.

Gawkie, a thoughtless person, and something weak.

Gaylies, gylie, pretty well.

Gear, riches, goods of any kind.

Geck, to toss the head in wantonness or scorn.

Ged, a pike.

Gentles, great folks.

Genty, elegant.

Geordie, George, a guinea, called Geordie from the head of King George.

Get and geat, a child, a young one.

Ghaist, ghaistis, a ghost.

Gie, to give; gied, gave; gien, given.

Giftie, diminutive of gift.

Giglets, laughing maidens.

Gillie, gillock, diminutive of gill.

Gilpey, a half-grown, half-informed boy or girl, a romping lad, a hoyden.

Gimmer, an ewe two years old, a contemptuous term for a woman.

Gin, if, against.

Gipsey, a young girl.

Girdle, a round iron plate on which oat-cake is fired.

Girn, to grin, to twist the features in rage, agony, &c.; grinning.

Gizz, a periwig, the face.

Glaikit, inattentive, foolish.

Glaive, a sword.

Glaizie, glittering, smooth, like glass.

Glaumed, grasped, snatched at eagerly.

Girran, a poutherie girran, a little vigorous animal; a horse rather old, but yet active when heated.

Gled, a hawk.

Gleg, sharp, ready.

Gley, a squint, to squint; a-gley, off at the side, wrong.

Gleyde, an old horse.

Glib-gabbit, that speaks smoothly and readily.

Glieb o’ lan’, a portion of ground. The ground belonging to a manse is called “the glieb,” or portion.

Glint, glintin’, to peep.

Glinted by, went brightly past.

Gloamin, the twilight.

Gloamin-shot, twilight musing; a shot in the twilight.

Glowr, to stare, to look; a stare, a look.

Glowran, amazed, looking suspiciously, gazing.

Glum, displeased.

Gor-cocks, the red-game, red-cock, or moor-cock.

Gowan, the flower of the daisy, dandelion, hawkweed, &c.

Gowany, covered with daisies.

Goavan, walking as if blind, or without an aim.

Gowd, gold.

Gowl, to howl.

Gowff, a fool; the game of golf, to strike, as the bat does the ball at golf.

Gowk, term of contempt, the cuckoo.

Grane or grain, a groan, to groan; graining, groaning.

Graip, a pronged instrument for cleaning cowhouses.

Graith, accoutrements, furniture, dress.

Grannie, grandmother.

Grape, to grope; grapet, groped.

Great, grit, intimate, familiar.

Gree, to agree; to bear the gree, to be decidedly victor; gree’t, agreed.

Green-graff, green grave,

Gruesome, loathsomely, grim.

Greet, to shed tears, to weep; greetin’, weeping.

Grey-neck-quill, a quill unfit for a pen.

Griens, longs, desires.

Grieves, stewards.

Grippit, seized.

Groanin-Maut, drink for the cummers at a lying-in.

Groat, to get the whistle of one’s groat; to play a losing game, to feel the consequences of one’s folly.

Groset, a gooseberry.

Grumph, a grunt, to grunt.

Grumphie, Grumphin, a sow; the snorting of an angry pig.

Grun’, ground.

Grunstone, a grindstone.

Gruntle, the phiz, the snout, a grunting noise.

Grunzie, a mouth which pokes out like that of a pig.

Grushie, thick, of thriving growth.

Gude, guid, guids, the Supreme Being, good, goods.

Gude auld-has-been, was once excellent.

Guid-mornin’, good-morrow.

Guid-e’en, good evening.

Guidfather and guidmother, father-in-law, and mother-in-law.

Guidman and guidwife, the master and mistress of the house; young guidman, a man newly married.

Gully or Gullie, a large knife.

Gulravage, joyous mischief.

Gumlie, muddy.

Gumption, discernment, knowledge, talent.

Gusty, gustfu’, tasteful.

Gut-scraper, a fiddler.

Gutcher, grandsire.

H.

Ha’, hall.

Ha’ Bible, the great Bible that lies in the hall.

Haddin’, house, home, dwelling-place, a possession.

Hae, to have, to accept.

Haen, had, (the participle of hae); haven.

Haet, fient haet, a petty oath of negation; nothing.

Haffet, the temple, the side of the head.

Hafflins, nearly half, partly, not fully grown.

Hag, a gulf in mosses and moors, moss-ground.

Haggis, a kind of pudding, boiled in the stomach of a cow, or sheep.

Hain, to spare, to save, to lay out at interest.

Hain’d, spared; hain’d gear, hoarded money.

Hairst, harvest

Haith, petty oath.

Haivers, nonsense, speaking without thought.

Hal’, or hald, an abiding place.

Hale, or haill, whole, tight, healthy.

Hallan, a particular partition-wall in a cottage, or more properly a seat of turf at the outside.

Hallowmass, Hallow-eve, 31st October.

Haly, holy; “haly-pool,” holy well with healing properties.

Hame, home.

Hammered, the noise of feet like the din of hammers.

Han’s breed, hand’s breadth.

Hanks, thread as it comes from the measuring reel, quantities, &c.

Hansel-throne, throne when first occupied by a king.

Hap, an outer garment, mantle, plaid, &c.; to wrap, to cover, to hap.

Harigals, heart, liver, and lights of an animal.

Hap-shackled, when a fore and hind foot of a ram are fastened together to prevent leaping he is said to be hap-shackled. A wife is called “the kirk’s hap-shackle.”

Happer, a hopper, the hopper of a mill.

Happing, hopping.

Hap-step-an’-loup, hop, step, and leap.

Harkit, hearkened.

Harn, very coarse linen.

Hash, a fellow who knows not how to act with propriety.

Hastit, hastened.

Haud, to hold.

Haughs, low-lying, rich land, valleys.

Haurl, to drag, to pull violently.

Haurlin, tearing off, pulling roughly.

Haver-meal, oatmeal.

Haveril, a half-witted person, half-witted, one who habitually talks in a foolish or incoherent manner.

Havins, good manners, decorum, good sense.

Hawkie, a cow, properly one with a white face.

Heapit, heaped.

Healsome healthful, wholesome.

Hearse, hoarse.

Heather, heath.

Hech, oh strange! an exclamation during heavy work.

Hecht, promised, to foretell something that is to be got or given, foretold, the thing foretold, offered.

Heckle, a board in which are fixed a number of sharp steel prongs upright for dressing hemp, flax, &c.

Hee balou, words used to soothe a child.

Heels-owre-gowdie, topsy-turvy, turned the bottom upwards.

Heeze, to elevate, to rise, to lift.

Hellim, the rudder or helm.

Herd, to tend flocks, one who tends flocks.

Herrin’, a herring.

Herry, to plunder; most properly to plunder birds’ nests.

Herryment, plundering, devastation.

Hersel-hirsel, a flock of sheep, also a herd of cattle of any sort.

Het, hot, heated.

Heugh, a crag, a ravine; coal-heugh, a coal-pit, lowin heugh, a blazing pit.

Hilch, hilchin’, to halt, halting.

Hiney, honey.

Hing, to hang.

Hirple, to walk crazily, to walk lamely, to creep.

Histie, dry, chapt, barren.

Hitcht, a loop, made a knot.

Hizzie, huzzy, a young girl.

Hoddin, the motion of a husbandman riding on a cart-horse, humble.

Hoddin-gray, woollen cloth of a coarse quality, made by mingling one black fleece with a dozen white ones.

Hoggie, a two-year-old sheep.

Hog-score, a distance line in curling drawn across the rink. When a stone fails to cross it, a cry is raised of “A hog, a hog!” and it is removed.

Hog-shouther, a kind of horse-play by justling with the shoulder; to justle.

Hoodie-craw, a blood crow, corbie.

Hool, outer skin or case, a nutshell, a pea-husk.

Hoolie, slowly, leisurely.

Hoord, a hoard, to hoard.

Hoordit, hoarded.

Horn, a spoon made of horn.

Hornie, one of the many names of the devil.

Host, or hoast, to cough.

Hostin, coughing.

Hotch’d, turned topsy-turvy, blended, ruined, moved.

Houghmagandie, loose behaviour.

Howlet, an owl.

Housie, diminutive of house.

Hove, hoved, to heave, to swell.

Howdie, a midwife.

Howe, hollow, a hollow or dell.

Howebackit, sunk in the back, spoken of a horse.

Howff, a house of resort.

Howk, to dig.

Howkit, digged.

Howkin’, digging deep.

Hoy, hoy’t, to urge, urged.

Hoyse, a pull upwards. “Hoyse a creel,” to raise a basket; hence “hoisting creels.”

Hoyte, to amble crazily.

Hughoc, diminutive of Hughie, as Hughie is of Hugh.

Hums and hankers, mumbles and seeks to do what he cannot perform.

Hunkers, kneeling and falling back on the hams.

Hurcheon, a hedgehog.

Hurdies, the loins, the crupper.

Hushion, a cushion, also a stocking wanting the foot.

Huchyalled, to move with a hilch.

I.

Icker, an ear of corn.

Ieroe, a great grandchild.

Ilk, or ilka, each, every.

Ill-deedie, mischievous.

Ill-willie, ill-natured, malicious, niggardly.

Ingine, genius, ingenuity.

Ingle, fire, fire-place.

Ingle-low, light from the fire, flame from the hearth.

I rede ye, I advise ye, I warn ye.

I’se, I shall or will.

Ither, other, one another.

J.

Jad, jade; also a familiar term among country folks for a giddy young girl.

Jauk, to dally, to trifle.

Jaukin’, trifling, dallying.

Jauner, talking, and not always to the purpose.

Jaup, a jerk of water; to jerk, as agitated water.

Jaw, coarse raillery, to pour out, to shut, to jerk as water.

Jillet, a jilt, a giddy girl.

Jimp, to jump, slender in the waist, handsome.

Jink, to dodge, to turn a corner; a sudden turning, a corner.

Jink an’ diddle, moving to music, motion of a fiddler’s elbow. Starting here and there with a tremulous movement.

Jinker, that turns quickly, a gay sprightly girl.

Jinkin’, dodging, the quick motion of the bow on the fiddle.

Jirt, a jerk, the emission of water, to squirt.

Jocteleg, a kind of knife.

Jouk, to stoop, to bow the head, to conceal.

Jow, to jow, a verb, which includes both the swinging motion and pealing sound of a large bell; also the undulation of water.

Jundie, to justle, a push with the elbow.

K.

Kae, a daw.

Kail, colewort, a kind of broth.

Kailrunt, the stem of colewort.

Kain, fowls, &c., paid as rent by a farmer.

Kebars, rafters.

Kebbuck, a cheese.

Keckle, joyous cry; to cackle as a hen.

Keek, a keek, to peep.

Kelpies, a sort of mischievous water-spirit, said to haunt fords and ferries at night, especially in storms.

Ken, to know; ken’d or ken’t, knew.

Kennin, a small matter.

Ket-Ketty, matted, a fleece of wool.

Kiaught, carking, anxiety, to be in a flutter.

Kilt, to truss up the clothes.

Kimmer, a young girl, a gossip.

Kin’, kindred.

Kin’, kind.

King’s-hood, a certain part of the entrails of an ox.

Kintra, kintrie, country.

Kirn, the harvest supper, a churn.

Kirsen, to christen, to baptize.

Kist, a shop-counter.

Kitchen, anything that eats with bread, to serve for soup, gravy.

Kittle, to tickle, ticklish.

Kittling, a young cat. The ace of diamonds is called among rustics the kittlin’s e’e.

Knaggie, like knags, or points of rocks.

Knappin-hammer, a hammer for breaking stones; knap, to strike or break.

Knurlin, crooked but strong, knotty.

Knowe, a small, round hillock, a knoll.

Kuittle, to cuddle; kuitlin, cuddling, fondling.

Kye, cows.

Kyle, a district in Ayrshire.

Kyte, the belly.

Kythe, to discover, to show one’s self.

L.

Labour, thrash.

Laddie, diminutive of lad.

Laggen, the angle between the side and the bottom of a wooden dish.

Laigh, low.

Lairing, lairie, wading, and sinking in snow, mud &c., miry.

Laith, loath, impure.

Laithfu‘, bashful, sheepish, abstemious.

Lallans, Scottish dialect, Lowlands.

Lambie, diminutive of lamb.

Lammas moon, harvest-moon.

Lampit, kind of shell-fish, a limpet.

Lan‘, land, estate.

Lan’-afore, foremost horse in the plough.

Lan’-ahin, hindmost horse in the plough.

Lane, lone; my lane, thy tune, &c., myself alone.

Lanely, lonely.

Lang, long; to think lang, to long, to weary.

Lap, did leap.

Late and air, late and early.

Lave, the rest, the remainder, the others.

Laverock, the lark.

Lawlan’, lowland.

Lay my dead, attribute my death.

Leal, loyal, true, faithful.

Lear, learning, lore.

Lee-lang, live-long.

Leesome luve, happy, gladsome love.

Leeze me, a phrase of congratulatory endearment; I am happy in thee or proud of thee.

Leister, a three-pronged and barbed dart for striking fish.

Leugh, did laugh.

Leuk, a look, to look.

Libbet, castrated.

Lick, licket, beat, thrashen.

Lift, sky, firmament.

Lightly, sneeringly, to sneer at, to undervalue.

Lilt, a ballad, a tune, to sing.

Limmer, a kept mistress, a strumpet.

Limp’t, limped, hobbled.

Link, to trip along; linkin, tripping along.

Linn, a waterfall, a cascade.

Lint, flax; lint i’ the bell, flax in flower.

Lint-white, a linnet, flaxen.

Loan, the place of milking.

Loaning, lane.

Loof, the palm of the hand.

Loot, did let.

Looves, the plural of loof.

Losh man! rustic exclamation modified from Lord man.

Loun, a follow, a ragamuffin, a woman of easy virtue.

Loup, leap, startled with pain.

Louper-like, lan-louper, a stranger of a suspected character.

Lowe, a flame.

Lowin‘, flaming; lowin-drouth, burning desire for drink.

Lowrie, abbreviation of Lawrence.

Lowse, to loose.

Lowsed, unbound, loosed.

Lug, the ear.

Lug of the law, at the judgment-seat.

Lugget, having a handle.

Luggie, a small wooden dish with a handle.

Lum, the chimney; lum-head, chimney-top.

Lunch, a large piece of cheese, flesh, &c.

Lunt, a column of smoke, to smoke, to walk quickly.

Lyart, of a mixed colour, gray.

M.

Mae, and mair, more.

Maggot’s-meat, food for the worms.

Mahoun, Satan.

Mailen, a farm.

Maist, most, almost.

Maistly, mostly, for the greater part.

Mak‘, to make; makin‘, making.

Mally, Molly, Mary.

Mang, among.

Manse, the house of the parish minister is called “the Manse.”

Manteele, a mantle.

Mark, marks. This and several other nouns which in English require an s to form the plural, are in Scotch, like the words sheep, deer, the same in both numbers.

Mark, merk, a Scottish coin, value thirteen shillings and four-pence.

Marled, party-coloured.

Mar’s year, the year 1715. Called Mar’s year from the rebellion of Erskine, Earl of Mar.

Martial chuck, the soldier’s camp-comrade, female companion.

Mashlum, mixed corn.

Mask, to mash, as malt, &c., to infuse.

Maskin-pot, teapot.

Maukin, a hare.

Maun, mauna, must, must not.

Maut, malt.

Mavis, the thrush.

Maw, to mow.

Mawin, mowing; maun, mowed; maw’d, mowed.

Mawn, a small basket, without a handle.

Meere, a mare.

Melancholious, mournful.

Melder, a load of corn, &c., sent to the mill to be ground.

Mell, to be intimate, to meddle, also a mallet for pounding barley in a stone trough.

Melvie, to soil with meal.

Men‘, to mend.

Mense, good manners, decorum.

Menseless, ill-bred, impudent.

Merle, the blackbird.

Messin, a small dog.

Middin, a dunghill.

Middin-creels, dung-baskets, panniers in which horses carry manure.

Midden-hole, a gutter at the bottom of a dunghill.

Milkin-shiel a place where cows or ewes are brought to be milked.

Mim, prim, affectedly meek.

Mim-mou’d, gentle-mouthed.

Min‘, to remember.

Minawae, minuet.

Mind’t, mind it, resolved, intending, remembered.

Minnie, mother, dam.

Mirk, dark.

Misca‘, to abuse, to call names; misca’d, abused.

Mischanter, accident.

Misleard, mischievous, unmannerly.

Misteuk, mistook.

Mither, mother.

Mixtie-maxtie, confusedly mixed, mish-mash.

Moistify, moistified, to moisten, to soak; moistened, soaked.

Mons-Meg, a large piece of ordnance, to be seen at the Castle of Edinburgh, composed of iron bars welded together and then hooped.

Mools, earth.

Mony, or monie, many.

Moop, to nibble as a sheep.

Moorlan, of or belonging to moors.

Morn, the next day, to-morrow.

Mou, the mouth.

Moudiwort, a mole.

Mousie, diminutive of mouse.

Muckle, or mickle, great, big, much.

Muses-stank, muses-rill, a stank, slow-flowing water.

Musie, diminutive of muse.

Muslin-kail, broth, composed simply of water, shelled barley, and greens; thin poor broth.

Mutchkin, an English pint.

Mysel, myself.

N.

Na‘, no, not, nor.

Nae, or na, no, not any.

Naething, or naithing, nothing.

Naig, a horse, a nag.

Nane, none.

Nappy, ale, to be tipsy.

Negleckit, neglected.

Neebor, a neighbour.

Neuk, nook.

Neist, next.

Nieve, neif, the fist

Nievefu’, handful.

Niffer, an exchange, to barter.

Niger, a negro.

Nine-tailed cat, a hangman’s whip.

Nit, a nut.

Norland, of or belonging to the north.

Notic’t, noticed.

Nowte, black cattle.

O.

O’, of.

O’ergang, overbearingness, to treat with indignity, literally to tread.

O’erlay, an upper cravat.

Ony, or onie, any.

Or, is often used for ere, before.

Orra-duddies, superfluous rags, old clothes.

O’t, of it.

Ourie, drooping, shivering.

Oursel, oursels, ourselves.

Outlers, outliers; cattle unhoused.

Ower, owre, over.

Owre-hip, striking with a forehammer by bringing it with a swing over the hip.

Owsen, oxen.

Oxtered, carried or supported under the arm.

P.

Pack, intimate, familiar: twelve stone of wool.

Paidle, paidlen, to walk with difficulty, as if in water.

Painch, paunch.

Paitrick, partridge.

Pang, to cram.

Parle, courtship.

Parishen, parish.

Parritch, oatmeal pudding, a well-known Scotch drink.

Pat, did put, a pot.

Pattle, or pettle, a small spades to clean the plough.

Paughty, proud, haughty.

Pauky, cunning, sly.

Pay’t, paid, beat.

Peat-reek, the smoke of burning turf, a bitter exhalation, whisky.

Pech, to fetch the breath shortly, as in an asthma.

Pechan, the crop, the stomach.

Pechin, respiring with difficulty.

Pennie, riches.

Pet, a domesticated sheep, &c., a favourite.

Pettle, to cherish.

Philabeg, the kilt.

Phraise, fair speeches, flattery, to flatter.

Phraisin, flattering.

Pibroch, a martial air.

Pickle, a small quantity, one grain of corn.

Pigmy-scraper, little fiddler; a term of contempt for a bad player.

Pint-stomp, a two-quart measure.

Pine, pain, uneasiness.

Pingle, a small pan for warming children’s sops.

Plack, an old Scotch coin, the third part of an English penny.

Plackless, pennyless, without money.

Plaidie, diminutive of plaid.

Platie, diminutive of plate.

Plew, or pleugh, a plough.

Pliskie, a trick.

Plumrose, primrose.

Pock, a meal-bag.

Poind, to seize on cattle, or take the goods as the laws of Scotland allow, for rent, &c.

Poorteth, poverty.

Posie, a nosegay, a garland.

Pou, pou’d, to pull, pulled.

Pouk, to pluck.

Poussie, a hare or cat.

Pouse, to pluck with the hand.

Pout, a polt, a chick.

Pou’t, did pull.

Poutherey, fiery, active.

Pouthery, like powder.

Pow, the head, the skull.

Pownie, a little horse, a pony.

Powther, or pouther, gunpowder.

Preclair, supereminent.

Preen, a pin.

Prent, printing, print.

Prie, to taste; prie’d, tasted.

Prief, proof.

Prig, to cheapen, to dispute; priggin, cheapening.

Primsie, demure, precise.

Propone, to lay down, to propose.

Pund, pund o’ tow, pound, pound weight of the refuse of flax.

Pyet, a magpie.

Pyle, a pyle, o’ caff, a single grain of chaff.

Pystle, epistle.

Q.

Quat, quit

Quak, the cry of a duck.

Quech, a drinking-cup made of wood with two handles.

Quey, a cow from one to two years old, a heifer.

Quines, queans.

Quakin, quaking.

R.

Ragweed, herb-ragwort.

Raible, to rattle, nonsense.

Rair, to roar.

Raize, to madden, to inflame.

Ramfeezled, fatigued, overpowered.

Rampin’, raging.

Ramstam, thoughtless, forward.

Randie, a scolding sturdy beggar, a shrew.

Rantin‘, joyous.

Raploch, properly a coarse cloth, but used for coarse.

Rarely, excellently, very well.

Rash, a rush; rash-buss, a bush of rushes.

Ratton, a rat.

Raucle, rash, stout, fearless, reckless.

Raught, reached.

Raw, a row.

Rax, to stretch.

Ream, cream, to cream.

Reamin’, brimful, frothing.

Reave, take by force.

Rebute, to repulse, rebuke.

Reck, to heed.

Rede, counsel, to counsel, to discourse.

Red-peats, burning turfs.

Red-wat-shod, walking in blood over the shoe-tops.

Red-wud, stark mad.

Ree, half drunk, fuddled; a ree yaud, a wild horse.

Reek, smoke.

Reekin’, smoking.

Reekit, smoked, smoky.

Reestit, stood restive; stunted, withered.

Remead, remedy.

Requite, requited.

Restricked, restricted.

Rew, to smile, look affectionately, tenderly.

Rickles, shocks of corn, stooks.

Riddle, instrument for purifying corn.

Rief-randies, men who take the property of others, accompanied by violence and rude words.

Rig, a ridge.

Rin, to run, to melt; rinnin’, running.

Rink, the course of the stones, a term in curling on ice.

Rip, a handful of unthreshed corn.

Ripples, pains in the back and loins, sounds which usher in death.

Ripplin-kame, instrument for dressing flax.

Riskit, a noise like the tearing of roots.

Rockin’, a denomination for a friendly visit. In former times young women met with their distaffs during the winter evenings, to sing, and spin, and be merry; these were called “rockings.”

Roke, distaff.

Rood, stands likewise for the plural, roods.

Roon, a shred, the selvage of woollen cloth.

Roose, to praise, to commend.

Roun’, round, in the circle of neighbourhood.

Roupet, hoarse, as with a cold.

Row, to roll, to rap, to roll as water.

Row’t, rolled, wrapped.

Rowte, to low, to bellow.

Rowth, plenty.

Rowtin’, lowing.

Rozet, rosin.

Rumble-gumption, rough commonsense.

Run-deils, downright devils.

Rung, a cudgel.

Runt, the stem of colewort or cabbage.

Runkled, wrinkled.

Ruth, a woman’s name, the book so called, sorrow.

Ryke, reach.

S.

Sae, so.

Saft, soft.

Sair, to serve, a sore; sairie, sorrowful.

Sairly, sorely.

Sair’t, served.

Sark, a shirt.

Sarkit, provided in shirts.

Saugh, willow.

Saugh-woodies, withies, made of willows, now supplanted by ropes and chains.

Saul, soul.

Saumont, salmon.

Saunt, sauntet, saint; to varnish.

Saut, salt.

Saw, to sow.

Sawin’, sowing.

Sax, six.

Scaud, to scald.

Scauld, to scold.

Scaur, apt to be scared; a precipitous bank of earth which the stream has washed red.

Scawl, scold.

Scone, a kind of bread.

Sconner, a loathing, to loath.

Scraich and Scriegh, to scream, as a hen or partridge.

Screed, to tear, a rent; screeding, tearing.

Scrieve, scrieven, to glide softly, gleesomely along.

Scrimp, to scant.

Scrimpet, scant, scanty.

Scroggie, covered with underwood, bushy.

Sculdudrey, fornication.

Seizin’, seizing.

Sel, self; a body’s sel’, one’s self alone.

Sell’t, did sell.

Sen’, to send.

Servan’, servant.

Settlin’, settling; to get a settlin’, to be frightened into quietness.

Sets, sets off, goes away.

Shachlet-feet, ill-shaped.

Shair’d, a shred, a shard.

Shangan, a stick cleft at one end for pulling the tail of a dog, &c., by way of mischief, or to frighten him away.

Shank-it, walk it; shanks, legs.

Shaul, shallow.

Shaver, a humorous wag, a barber.

Shavie, to do an ill turn.

Shaw, to show; a small wood in a hollow place.

Sheep-shank, to think one’s self nae sheep-shank, to be conceited.

Sherra-muir, Sheriff-Muir, the famous battle of, 1715.

Sheugh, a ditch, a trench, a sluice.

Shiel, shealing, a shepherd’s cottage.

Shill, shrill.

Shog, a shock, a push off at one side.

Shoo, ill to please, ill to fit.

Shool, a shovel.

Shoon, shoes.

Shore, to offer, to threaten.

Shor’d, half offered and threatened.

Shouther, the shoulder.

Shot, one traverse of the shuttle from side to side of the web.

Sic, such.

Sicker, sure, steady.

Sidelins, sideling, slanting.

Silken-snood, a fillet of silk, a token of virginity.

Siller, silver, money, white.

Sin, a son.

Sinsyne, since then.

Skaith, to damage, to injure, injury.

Skeigh, proud, nice, saucy, mettled.

Skeigh, shy, maiden coyness.

Skellum, to strike, to slap; to walk with a smart tripping step, a smart stroke.

Skelpi-limmer, a technical term in female scolding.

Skelpin, skelpit, striking, walking rapidly, literally striking the ground.

Skinklin, thin, gauzy, scaltery.

Skirling, shrieking, crying.

Skirl, to cry, to shriek shrilly.

Skirl’t, shrieked.

Sklent, slant, to run aslant, to deviate from truth.

Sklented, ran, or hit, in an oblique direction.

Skouth, vent, free action.

Skreigh, a scream, to scream, the first cry uttered by a child.

Skyte, a worthless fellow, to slide rapidly off.

Skyrin, party-coloured, the checks of the tartan.

Slae, sloe.

Slade, did slide.

Slap, a gate, a breach in a fence.

Slaw, slow.

Slee, sleest, sly, slyest.

Sleekit, sleek, sly.

Sliddery, slippery.

Slip-shod, smooth shod.

Sloken, quench, slake.

Slype, to fall over, as a wet furrow from the plough.

Slypet-o’er, fell over with a slow reluctant motion.

Sma’, small.

Smeddum, dust, powder, mettle, sense, sagacity.

Smiddy, smithy.

Smirking, good-natured, winking.

Smoor, smoored, to smother, smothered.

Smoutie, smutty, obscene; smoutie phiz, sooty aspect.

Smytrie, a numerous collection of small individuals.

Snapper, mistake.

Snash, abuse, Billingsgate, impertinence.

Snaw, snow, to snow.

Snaw-broo, melted snow.

Snawie, snowy.

Snap, to lop, to cut off.

Sned-besoms, to cut brooms.

Sneeshin, snuff.

Sneeshin-mill, a snuff-box.

Snell and snelly, bitter, biting; snellest, bitterest.

Snick-drawing, trick, contriving.

Snick, the latchet of a door.

Snirt, snirtle, concealed laughter, to breathe the nostrils in a displeased manner.

Snool, one whose spirit is broken with oppressive slavery; to submit tamely, to sneak.

Snoove, to go smoothly and constantly, to sneak.

Snowk, snowkit, to scent or snuff as a dog, scented, snuffed.

Sodger, a soldier.

Sonsie, having sweet engaging looks, lucky, jolly.

Soom, to swim.

Souk, to suck, to drink long and enduringly.

Souple, flexible, swift.

Soupled, suppled.

Souther, to solder.

Souter, a shoemaker.

Sowens, the fine flour remaining among the seeds, of oatmeal made into an agreeable pudding.

Sowp, a spoonful, a small quantity of anything liquid.

Sowth, to try over a tune with a low whistle.

Spae, to prophesy, to divine.

Spails, chips, splinters.