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Spaul, a limb.

Spairge, to clash, to soil, as with mire.

Spates, sudden floods.

Spaviet, having the spavin.

Speat, a sweeping torrent after rain or thaw.

Speel, to climb.

Spence, the parlour of a farmhouse or cottage.

Spier, to ask, to inquire; spiert, inquired.

Spinnin-graith, wheel and roke and lint.

Splatter, to splutter, a splutter.

Spleughan, a tobacco-pouch.

Splore, a frolic, noise, riot.

Sprachled, scrambled.

Sprattle, to scramble.

Spreckled, spotted, speckled.

Spring, a quick air in music, a Scottish reel.

Sprit, spret, a tough-rooted plant something like rushes, jointed-leaved rush.

Sprittie, full of spirits.

Spunk, fire, mettle, wit, spark.

Spunkie, mettlesome, fiery; will o’ the wisp, or ignis fatuus; the devil.

Spurtle, a stick used in making oatmeal pudding or porridge, a notable Scottish dish.

Squad, a crew or party, a squadron.

Squatter, to flutter in water, as a wild-duck, &c.

Squattle, to sprawl in the act of hiding.

Squeel, a scream, a screech, to scream.

Stacher, to stagger.

Stack, a rick of corn, hay, peats.

Staggie, a stag.

Staig, a two year-old horse.

Stalwart, stately, strong.

Stang, sting, stung.

Stan’t, to stand; stan’t, did stand.

Stane, stone.

Stank, did stink, a pool of standing water, slow-moving water.

Stap, stop, stave.

Stark, stout, potent.

Startle, to run as cattle stung by the gadfly.

Staukin, stalking, walking disdainfully, walking without an aim.

Staumrel, a blockhead, half-witted.

Staw, did steal, to surfeit.

Stech, to cram the belly.

Stechin, cramming.

Steek, to shut, a stitch.

Steer, to molest, to stir.

Steeve, firm, compacted.

Stell, a still.

Sten, to rear as a horse, to leap suddenly.

Stravagin, wandering without an aim.

Stents, tribute, dues of any kind.

Stey, steep; styest, steepest.

Stibble, stubble; stubble-rig, the reaper in harvest who takes the lead.

Stick-an’-stow, totally, altogether.

Stilt-stilts, a crutch; to limp, to halt; poles for crossing a river.

Stimpart, the eighth part of a Winchester bushel.

Stirk, a cow or bullock a year old.

Stock, a plant of colewort, cabbages.

Stockin’, stocking; throwing the stockin’, when the bride and bridegroom are put into bed, the former throws a stocking at random among the company, and the person whom it falls on is the next that will be married.

Stook, stooked, a shock of corn, made into shocks.

Stot, a young bull or ox.

Stound, sudden pang of the heart.

Stoup, or stowp, a kind of high narrow jug or dish with a handle for holding liquids.

Stowre, dust, more particularly dust in motion; stowrie, dusty.

Stownlins, by stealth.

Stown, stolen.

Stoyte, the walking of a drunken man.

Straek, did strike.

Strae, straw; to die a fair strae death, to die in bed.

Straik, to stroke; straiket, stroked.

Strappen, tall, handsome, vigorous.

Strath, low alluvial land, a holm.

Straught, straight.

Streek, stretched, to stretch.

Striddle, to straddle.

Stroan, to spout, to piss.

Stroup, the spout.

Studdie, the anvil.

Stumpie, diminutive of stump; a grub pen.

Strunt, spirituous liquor of any kind; to walk sturdily, to be affronted.

Stuff, corn or pulse of any kind.

Sturt, trouble; to molest.

Startin, frighted.

Styme, a glimmer.

Sucker, sugar.

Sud, should.

Sugh, the continued rushing noise of wind or water.

Sumph, a pluckless fellow, with little heart or soul.

Suthron, Southern, an old name of the English.

Swaird, sword.

Swall’d, swelled.

Swank, stately, jolly.

Swankie, or swanker, a tight strapping young fellow or girl.

Swap, an exchange, to barter.

Swarfed, swooned.

Swat, did sweat.

Swatch, a sample.

Swats, drink, good ale, new ale or wort.

Sweer, lazy, averse; dead-sweer, extremely averse.

Swoor, swore, did swear.

Swinge, beat, to whip.

Swinke, to labour hard.

Swirlie, knaggy, full of knots.

Swirl, a curve, an eddying blast or pool, a knot in the wood.

Swith, get away.

Swither, to hesitate in choice, an irresolute wavering in choice.

Syebow, a thick-necked onion.

Syne, since, ago, then.

T.

Tackets, broad-headed nails for the heels of shoes.

Tae, a toe, three-taed, having three prongs.

Tak, to take; takin, taking.

Tangle, a sea-weed used as salad.

Tap, the top.

Tapetless, heedless, foolish.

Targe, targe them tightly, cross-question them severely.

Tarrow, to murmur at one’s allowance.

Tarry-breeks, a sailor.

Tassie, a small measure for liquor.

Tauld, or tald, told.

Taupie, a foolish, thoughtless young person.

Tauted, or tautie, matted together (spoken of hair and wool).

Tawie, that allows itself peaceably to be handled (spoken of a cow, horse, &c.)

Teat, a small quantity.

Teethless bawtie, toothless cur.

Teethless gab, a mouth wanting the teeth, an expression of scorn.

Ten-hours-bite, a slight feed to the horse while in the yoke in the forenoon.

Tent, a field pulpit, heed, caution; to take heed.

Tentie, heedful, cautious.

Tentless, heedless, careless.

Teugh, tough.

Thack, thatch; thack an’ rape, clothing and necessaries.

Thae, these.

Thairms, small guts, fiddle-strings.

Thankit, thanked.

Theekit, thatched.

Thegither, together.

Themsel’, themselves.

Thick, intimate, familiar.

Thigger, crowding, make a noise; a seeker of alms.

Thir, these.

Thirl, to thrill.

Thirled, thrilled, vibrated.

Thole, to suffer, to endure.

Thowe, a thaw, to thaw.

Thowless, slack, lazy.

Thrang, throng, busy, a crowd.

Thrapple, throat, windpipe.

Thraw, to sprain, to twist, to contradict.

Thrawin’, twisting, &c.

Thrawn, sprained, twisted, contradicted, contradiction.

Threap, to maintain by dint of assertion.

Threshin’, threshing; threshin’-tree, a flail.

Threteen, thirteen.

Thristle, thistle.

Through, to go on with, to make out.

Throuther, pell-mell, confusedly (through-ither).

Thrum, sound of a spinning-wheel in motion, the thread remaining at the end of a web.

Thud, to make a loud intermittent noise.

Thummart, foumart, polecat

Thumpit, thumped.

Thysel’, thyself.

Till’t, to it.

Timmer, timber.

Tine, to lose; tint, lost.

Tinkler, a tinker.

Tip, a ram.

Tippence, twopence, money.

Tirl, to make a slight noise, to uncover.

Tirlin’, tirlet, uncovering.

Tither, the other.

Tittle, to whisper, to prate idly.

Tittlin, whispering.

Tocher, marriage portion; tocher bands, marriage bonds.

Tod, a fox. “Tod i’ the fauld,” fox in the fold.

Toddle, to totter, like the walk of a child; todlen-dow, toddling dove.

Too-fa’, “Too fa’ o’ the nicht,” when twilight darkens into night; a building added, a lean-to.

Toom, empty.

Toomed, emptied.

Toop, a ram.

Toss, a toast.

Tosie, warm and ruddy with warmth, good-looking, intoxicating.

Toun, a hamlet, a farmhouse.

Tout, the blast of a horn or trumpet, to blow a horn or trumpet.

Touzles, touzling, romping, ruffling the clothes.

Tow, a rope.

Towmond, a twelvemonth.

Towzie, rough, shaggy.

Toy, a very old fashion of female head-dress.

Toyte, to totter like old age.

Trams, barrow-trams, the handles of a barrow.

Transmugrified, transmigrated, metamorphosed.

Trashtrie, trash, rubbish.

Trickie, full of tricks.

Trig, spruce, neat.

Trimly, cleverly, excellently, in a seemly manner.

Trinle, trintle, the wheel of a barrow, to roll.

Trinklin, trickling.

Troggers, troggin’, wandering merchants, goods to truck or dispose of.

Trow, to believe, to trust to.

Trowth, truth, a petty oath.

Trysts, appointments, love meetings, cattle shows.

Tumbler-wheels, wheels of a kind of low cart.

Tug, raw hide, of which in old time plough-traces were frequently made.

Tug or tow, either in leather or rope.

Tulzie, a quarrel, to quarrel, to fight.

Twa, two; twa-fald, twofold.

Twa-three, a few.

Twad, it would.

Twal, twelve; twalpennie worth, a small quantity, a pennyworth.—N.B. One penny English is 12d. Scotch.

Twa faul, twofold.

Twin, to part.

Twistle, twisting, the art of making a rope.

Tyke, a dog.

Tysday, Tuesday.

U.

Unback’d filly, a young mare hitherto unsaddled.

Unco, strange, uncouth, very, very great, prodigious.

Uncos, news.

Unfauld, unfold.

Unkenn’d, unknown.

Unsicker, uncertain, wavering, insecure.

Unskaithed, undamaged, unhurt.

Upo’, upon.

V.

Vap’rin, vapouring.

Vauntie, joyous, delight which cannot contain itself.

Vera, very.

Virl, a ring round a column, &c.

Vogie, vain.

W.

Wa’, wall; wa’s, walls.

Wabster, a weaver.

Wad, would, to bet, a bet, a pledge.

Wadna, would not.

Wadset, land on which money is lent, a mortgage.

Wae, woe; waefu’, sorrowful, wailing.

Waefu’-woodie, hangman’s rope.

Waesucks! Wae’s me!, Alas! O the pity!

Wa’ flower, wall-flower.

Waft, woof; the cross thread that goes from the shuttle through the web.

Waifs an’ crocks, stray sheep and old ewes past breeding.

Wair, to lay out, to expend.

Wale, choice, to choose.

Wal’d, chose, chosen.

Walie, ample, large, jolly, also an exclamation of distress.

Wame, the belly.

Wamefu’, a bellyful.

Wanchansie, unlucky.

Wanrest, wanrestfu’, restless, unrestful.

Wark, work.

Wark-lume, a tool to work with.

Warld’s-worm, a miser.

Warle, or warld, world.

Warlock, a wizard; warlock-knowe, a knoll where warlocks once held tryste.

Warly, worldly, eager in amassing wealth.

Warran’, a warrant, to warrant.

Warsle, wrestle.

Warsl’d, or warst’led, wrestled.

Wastrie, prodigality.

Wat, wet; I wat—I wot—I know.

Wat, a man’s upper dress; a sort of mantle.

Water-brose, brose made of meal and water simply, without the addition of milk, butter, &c.

Wattle, a twig, a wand.

Wauble, to swing, to reel.

Waukin, waking, watching.

Waukit, thickened as fullers do cloth.

Waukrife, not apt to sleep.

Waur, worse, to worst.

Waur’t, worsted.

Wean, a child.

Weary-widdle, toilsome contest of life.

Weason, weasand, windpipe.

Weaven’ the stocking, to knit stockings.

Weeder-clips, instrument for removing weeds.

Wee, little; wee things, little ones, wee bits, a small matter.

Weel, well; weelfare, welfare.

Weet, rain, wetness; to wet.

We’se, we shall.

Wha, who.

Whaizle, to wheeze.

Whalpit, whelped.

Whang, a leathorn thing, a piece of cheese, bread, &c.

Whare, where; whare’er, wherever.

Wheep, to fly nimbly, to jerk, penny-wheep, small-beer.

Whase, wha’s, whose—who is.

What reck, nevertheless.

Whid, the motion of a hare running but not frightened.—a lie.

Whidden, running as a hare or coney.

Whigmeleeries, whims, fancies, crotchets.

Whilk, which.

Whingin’, crying, complaining, fretting.

Whirligigums, useless ornaments, trifling appendages.

Whissle, a whistle, to whistle.

Whisht, silence; to hold one’s whisht, to be silent.

Whisk, whisket, to sweep, to lash.

Whiskin’ beard, a beard like the whiskers of a cat.

Whiskit, lashed, the motion of a horse’s tail removing flies.

Whitter, a hearty draught of liquor.

Whittle, a knife.

Whunstane, a whinstone.

Wi’, with.

Wick, to strike a stone in an oblique direction, a term in curling.

Widdifu, twisted like a withy, one who merits hanging.

Wiel, a small whirlpool.

Wifie-wifikie, a diminutive or endearing name for wife.

Wight, stout, enduring.

Willyart-glower, a bewildered dismayed stare.

Wimple-womplet, to meander, meandered, to enfold.

Wimplin, waving, meandering.

Win‘, to wind, to winnow.

Winnin’-thread, putting thread into hanks.

Win’t, winded as a bottom of yarn.

Win‘, wind.

Win, live.

Winna, will not.

Winnock, a window.

Winsome, hearty, vaunted, gay.

Wintle, a staggering motion, to stagger, to reel.

Wiss, to wish.

Withouten, without.

Wizened, hide-bound, dried, shrunk.

Winze, a curse or imprecation.

Wonner, a wonder, a contemptuous appellation.

Woo‘, wool.

Woo, to court, to make love to.

Widdie, a rope, more properly one of withs or willows.

Woer-bobs, the garter knitted below the knee with a couple of loops.

Wordy, worthy.

Worset, worsted.

Wrack, to tease, to vex.

Wud, wild, mad; wud-mad, distracted.

Wumble, a wimble.

Wraith, a spirit, a ghost, an apparition exactly like a living person, whose appearance is said to forbode the person’s approaching death; also wrath.

Wrang, wrong, to wrong.

Wreeth, a drifted heap of snow.

Wyliecoat, a flannel vest.

Wyte, blame, to blame.

Y.

Ye, this pronoun is frequently used for thou.

Yearns, longs much.

Yealings, born in the same year, coevals.

Year, is used both for singular and plural, years.

Yell, barren, that gives no milk.

Yerk, to lash, to jerk.

Yerket, jerked, lashed.

Yestreen, yesternight.

Yett, a gate.

Yeuk’s, itches.

Yill, ale.

Yird, yirded, earth, earthed, buried.

Yokin‘, yoking.

Yont, ayont, beyond.

Yirr, lively.

Yowe, an ewe.

Yowie, diminutive of yowe.

Yule, Christmas.

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