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’d, for ’t (it). bla’d wind, bla’d weet, II, 21, 6; doo’d, IV, 464, 16; born’d, deal’d, 465, 22, 37; 471, 41; lai’d, 520, 10; dee’d, V, [248], 12.
dabs, II, 167 b, F: pricks.
dada, dadda, II, 339, 16, 18; V, [112], B b 5: daddie.
daft (love), II, 410, 8: foolishly fond.
dag-durk, I, 55, 12: dagger.
daggie, IV, 258, 25: drizzling (dag, a slight rain).
daghter, dather, daughter.
daghterie, IV, 324, 1: a word of no meaning, the original being simply daughter: see V, [272] b, 1.
daigh, daighe, I, 302, A 10; II, 467, 42: dough.
dail, IV, 430, 5: (dool) the grief, the ill consequences.
daily, dayly, daily flower, I, 76, 9, 15, 18; II, 393, 2; IV, 19, 8: (Icelandic dælligr, Danish deilig) beautiful, charming.
daily dight, IV, 432, 6: beautifully adorned.
dairgie, II, 195, 41: refection given after a funeral.
dale, been at a, III, 161, 28, 30: dole (to mendicants), satirically.
dam, II, 192, 10: dame.
damasee, II, 327, 32: damson plum.
dame, addressed to an unmarried girl by her father, IV, 195, 7.
dandily, V, [106], E 5: over nice or dainty.
dandoo, III, 5, C 7, 8: dun doe?
dane, done, I, 68, 20, 24; 69, 45, 53; II, 81 f., 41, 56: done. dane him to, III, 273, 15, 27: betaken himself. See do.
dang, pret. of ding, I, 55, 12; 129, D 6; 130, F 5; 133, M 7, 10; II, 253, 19; 261, 9; IV, 305, 18: beat, struck, knocked, thrust, shoved. dang down, III, 460, 32. p. p., II, 282, 10: overpowered.
danger, do danger, III, 163, 67: exercise of the power of a superior? violence?
dank (moat), V, [295], 7: damp, wet.
danting, danton, IV, 287, 1 (burden); V, [267], 1 (burden): (Fr. dompter) sexual conquest.
danton, V, [248], 19: subdue, intimidate. See daunton.
daown, adv., V, [304], 8: down.
dapperpy, IV, 185, 11: diapered, of variegated cloth.
dather, dother, V, [257], 15: daughter.
datit, IV, 467, 15: dawtit, caressed.
dative of pronoun: III, 58, 37, 44; 60, 82; 61, 100; 65, 184; 75, 381, 391. after verbs of motion (dative of the subject): I, 244, 10, 13; 326, 1; III, 70, 281.
daunton, danton, I, 325, 6; III, 364 b: daunt, subdue, put down.
daut, dawt, IV, 104, O; 277, 4; 302, 2: fondle, caress, make much of, pet.
daw, v., II, 146, 7: dawn. p. p. dawen, II, 139, 7, 12.
dawdy, II, 308, 5: the unborn young of an animal.
dawt, daut, IV, 304, 3; V, [106], D 3: caress.
dawtie, V, [117] f., B 5, 9, 13; [173], 11: darling.
day, dey, die, dye, IV, 257, B 9; 259, 7, 17; 260, 7, 16; 262, 16; V, [265] a, 10: dairy-woman.
day, dayed, die, died.
dayly. See daily.
de, dee, dea, deei, die, == do: I, 165, N 8; 183, 24; II, 175 f., 1, 8. a dee, II, 110, 25: to do. dee’d, V, [248], 12: do it. p. p. deen. See dee.
dea, die.
dead, deed, deid, dede, died, n., I, 104, 14; 353, 13; 388, A 11; 465, 19; II, 385, 25; 505, 92; III, 387, 16, 10; IV, 36, 3; 505, 57: death.
dead. be dead, II, 58, 5, 7; III, 23, 25; 28, 120; 99, 50: die.
deak, V, [270], 7: deck.
dean, den, IV, 167, D 5, 6, 11: hollow where the ground slopes on both sides, valley.
dean, done.
dear, deare, dere, I, 411, 5; III, 164, b 67: injury.
Dear-Coft, II, 62, 18: Dear-Bought.
dearly, IV, 98, F 6: costly.
dearsome, III, 488 f., 38, 44: costly.
dear vow, interjection of surprise or commiseration.
deas, II, 189, 24: pew (stone seat at the door of the church. Chambers). Same word as dais. See dice.
deave, I, 389, C 3; IV, 69, 17: deafen.
debate, III, 314, 64: quarrel.
deceivin (tree), III, 396, N 3: corruption of savin (see 380 a).
decencey, V, [242] b, 8: corruption of bencite, benedicite.
deck-board, deck-buird, oer (over), V, [138], B 5, 6; [139], c 6, 7: overboard.
dede, V, [283], 8: death. See dead.
dee, deei, do. how can this dee, I, 453, 6: be allowed, borne; and so, perhaps, a’ this winna dee (wont do), II, 97, 14. a’ this winna dee, gif ony prayer can dee, II, 132, 16; 176, 10; it wad na do, IV, 509 b, 13; it widne deei, V, [227], 2: avail.
dee, deei, do. See de.
dee, deei, die.
deed, death. See dead.
deed, v., I, 164, K 6; 165, O 5: died.
deed, indeed. by my deed, III, 262, 12: on my word.
deed-thraw, III, 501, 10: death-throe.
deei, do, avail; die. See de, dee.
deemed, demed, III, 61, 95: judged. III, 356, 35: condemned.
deen, I, 16, C 18; II, 182 a; 409, 18, 19: done (with no sense in 19).
deerlye (dight), III, 340, 28, 36: expensively (ornamented). III, 356, 16, 31, 35: perhaps, with great cost to the sufferer, possibly, to his hurt; lovingly, out of love, would answer in the first two cases, but not in the third.
deft, III, 145, 3: neat, nice-looking.
degree, III, 323, 58; IV, 258, 20: rank, sort. served him in his ain degree, V, [191], 19; [193], 57: rendered him respect accordant with his rank. wee shall beare no degree, III, 333, 19: shall have no position, standing. (requite, thank, show) in euerye degree, V, [84] f., 9, 14, 27: to the full extent demanded by the occasion.
deid, I, 105, 26; 353, 13: death. See dead.
deighte, IV, 504, 29: dight, furnished, adorned, equipped.
delated, III, 449 a, b; IV, 63 b: accused.
dell, V, [79], 32: deal, bit, whit.
dell, II, 345, 29: we are apparently to understand that it was a dismal dell that brought James into the world (not in itself, but from the melancholy fact of his being born there). Possibly we may understand dell ==dule, affliction. But the piece is spurious, and we need not be nice.
delle, I, 327, 22: perhaps, dally, talk, disport; perhaps, deal.
demean, IV, 41, note *; 107, 3: treat, maltreat. (in 107, 3, treat as he deserves, damage, do harm to.)
demed. See deemed.
den, dean, IV, 166, B 8; 168, 5, 11; 169, 3, 9, G 2; 174 f., 2, 7; 306 f., 12, 20, 48; V, [119], D 2: small valley, glen, dingle.
den, dien, V, [260], 8, 14: done.
denay, deny, V, [110], 10; [260], 3, 4: refuse.
deol, V, [297] b: sorrow.
dep, gave him a dep unto the heart, III, 281, 14: perhaps dab, Old Eng. dabbe, stroke. But Dr Davidson suggests that the line was misheard, and that what was said was, a dep’oon (wound), which seems to me very likely.
depart, III, 139, 27: part company.
deputed, III, 414, 52: consigned, handed or delivered over (used of a fugitive carried back for trial).
dere, dear(e), III, 99, 59: injury.
dere-worthy, III, 58, 36, 37; 59, 60; 61, 111; 67, 219; 68, 250; 73, 346: precious, dear.
derf, derf blowes, III, 422, 73: powerful.
dernë, I, 327, 30; III, 57, 21: secret, hidden, privy, obscure.
descryvd, IV, 405, 50: described.
desse, I, 328, 45: dais, the elevated part of the hall, on which was the table for the chief personages.
deuylkyns, III, 79, 73: devilish sort of.
develling, come, I, 302, 5: moving like the devil, whether hieing, scouring, bouncing, or what not; or, possibly, O. Fr. devalant, descending; an equivalence to daundering, sauntering, has been suggested.
devyse, I, 327, 16: will, pleasure.
dey, die, dye, IV, 257, 9; 259, 7, 17; 260, 7; 262, 16: dairy-woman. See day.
deythe, dyth, III, 112, 59: dight, prepared.
di, die, II, 132, 24; V, [35], B 5: do. dinna, I, 146, 6, and passim: do not. See dinnë.
dice, IV, 416, 17==deis: pew in a church.
did, I, 104, 3, 4: used for should.
did (be wrought), II, 506 a: caused.
did him to. See do to.
did of. See do.
die, IV, 264, 5: dey, dairy-woman. See day.
die. See de.
die, do, din, dien, done.
died, IV, 386, 19: death. See dead.
died, IV, 407, 7, 8: dead.
dien. See den, die.
dight, dicht, dycht, deight, dyght, III, 57, 19: prepared. dedys that here be dyght, III, 72, 320: done. of grain, I, 16, B 16; IV, 242 a: winnow. dight shoon, V, [105], A 11: clean. had not men to dight my men, III, 300, 18; IV, 500, 19: serve, handle. she dighted her father’s wounds, I, 101, 8; 103, D 6: dressed. pinnace, hachebord deerlye dight, III, 340, 28, 36; IV, 504, 29: fitted out, dill (grief) to him was dight, II, 68, 4: ordained.
dight, adv., bird sang fu dight, II, 261, 10: readily, freely (strange use of the word). Cf. complete.
dild, God, III, 35, 31: God ild, yield, reward (d carried on from the subject).
dill, II, 58, 4, 11: dule, grief.
dimitted, III, 447 b: discharged, released.
din, dien, done.
din, I, 133, 10; II, 186, 16: dun.
dine, I, 127, 23; II, 94, 12; 194, 13, 17; 313, 17; III, 267, 18; V, [277] f., 18, 29: dinner, meal.
ding, II, 62 a, 17; 261, 8; IV, 97, F 2; 304, 16, 17: beat, knock. ding down, II, 240, 6; III, 5, D 2, 6; 6, 2, 5; 8, 5; 9, 2, 7: lay low, overthrow. pret. dang, dung. p. p. dung, dang. my ain wand dings me now, IV, 97, F 2: I am suffering the consequences of my own folly.
dink, I, 74, 72: neat, trim.
dinna, do not.
dinnë, V, [229] a, 35: do (you) not. V, [229] b, 6: (disne) does not. dinner==dinna, dinnë.
dinne, I, 272, 25: (noise) ado, trouble.
dint (of arrow), III, 345, 48; 350, 48: stroke, impact.
dirt, v., V, [304], 2, 3: soil.
dis, does.
Disaware, V, [49], 29; [51], 51, 62: O. E. aver (O. Fr. aver, avoir) seems to be the basis of the word, which would mean stripped of wealth, sans aver (avoir); a Galterius Sine Avero is noted by Ducange.
discared, III, 38, 85: revoked, withdrawn (apparently for discarded).
discharged, IV, 63 b: revoked.
discreene, II, 439, 2: descry, spy out, discover.
discreeue, II, 58, 3, should be disceuere, diskevere, discover, reveal.
disgrate, V, [269], 17: disgrace.
disgrate, III, 58, 48: unfortunate, out of fortune’s favor. (Ital. disgraziato.)
disna, does not.
distan, IV, 329 a, after 16: (distance) distinguish.
dittay, IV, 245 a: indictment.
dive, II, 132, 25: do.
diuel’s mouth. He could not finde a priuy place, for all lay in the diuel’s mouth, II, 483, 4: as the devil’s mouth is depicted wide open in painted windows, etc., Professor Skeat has suggested that meaning for the phrase.
do, it wad na do, IV, 509 b, 13: avail. See dee.
do. See doo.
do, doe, doe my thy hawkes, I, 211, 20: give, deliver.
do adowne, III, 67, 226; 69, 263: put down.
do away, III, 59, 63: have done with, stop.
do be, I, 184, 47: are.
do down. See do to.
do gladly, III, 58, 34; 61, 103; 67, 232: make yourself happy (==make glad chere, 67, 215).
do (doe) of, off, II, 138, 13; III, 78, 449; V, [49], 23-25: put off. pret. doft, II, 490 b.
do on, III, 23, 27; 76, 421: put on, don.
do to, do till, with reflexive pronoun, I, 86, 30; 87 b; 115, B 3, 4; 182 f., 7, 11, 13, 17; 352, 32, 44; III, 72, 328: betake. So with up, down, V, [300], 5, 8.
do up. See do to, and dop.
doited, IV, 427, 10: stupid, doting.
doll, dolle, döl, dule, I, 217, 3; V, [111], 19, 21: grief.
domineer, in, wi, III, 268, 9; 270, 9; V, [242] b, 8: with haughtiness, superciliously. (Perhaps a corruption of III, 270, E 7, since the captain is said to be buke-learned in 268, 9.)
doo (ynnë gon), III, 91 a: cause, make.
doo, dou, dow, I, 163-165; 497, L 2; V, [40] f., 3, 9, 15, etc.: dove.
don, down.
done, how done you? III, 35, 31: old plural, how do you do?
done upon, V, [48], 6: put on.
doo’d, IV, 464, 16: do it.
dool, doll, dule, II, 175, 17; IV, 85, 42; V, [17], 31; [111], 19, 21: grief. See dail.
dool, dool and down, II, 271, 26: corruption of dale and down; cf. II, 175, 14; 273, 33; IV, 219, B 5: and elsewhere.
doon, II, 198 b, 2d line: a corruption, or possibly an Irish word, of which I can make nothing.
doon, youar begun yar doon, V, [304] b, 4.
doorcheeks, II, 99 b, 33: door-posts.
dop, III, 34 f., 6, 21: do up, open.
dorn, II, 300, 5: (sheets of) dornic, table-linen, ordinarily, from Dornick, the Dutch name for Tournay.
dorty, IV, 288, 10: pettish, peevish, saucy.
dother, IV, 327, 15; V, [110], 1; [237] f., 6, 7, 12, 22, etc.; [264], 7: daughter.
dottled, V, [94], A 3: in a state of dotage.
dou, dove. See doo, dow.
dou, dow (A. S. déah, dugon), III, 245, B 12; 247, 18; 370, 10, 13; IV, 472, 22: can (of physical ability). II, 78, 4; 104, 24; 105, 16; 168, 12; III, 386, 21; IV, 31, 9; 512, 12: (with negative) am unable from aversion, want of resolution, etc. dought (A. S. dohte, pret. of dugan), pret., I, 146, 20; II, 401, C 7; III, 465, 22; IV, 23, A c 18: was able, could. Subjunctive, I, 326, 18, 19 be at liberty); I, 330, B 3: should be able. dought, he neere dought good day, I, 434, 32: he never was good for anything a good day. But we should expect him: never a good day profited him.
double-horsed, III, 489, 42: with horse carrying double.
doubt, doute, dout, n. and v., I, 295, 35; 478 f., 19, 28; II, 52, 22; III, 57, 10; 76, 406; 125, 26; 188, 4: fear.
doubt, if tho, II, 449, 58: corrupt. A 53, without all doubt.
doubtit, III, 364 b: redoubted, held in awe. See doubt.
douce, I, 184, 1; V, [210] a, 1: staid and sober. violence douce, II, 271, 19: corrupt; read done?
douë, douey==dowie, V, [257], 7, 17: dreary, melancholy. V, [220] f., 6, 7, 9 (of bran): wretched.
doughetë, III, 308, 28: doughty man.
dought. See dou.
douk, duck, II, 151, H 6; 153, 16, 17, 19, 21: dive.
doukers, duckers, II, 151, H 6, 8: divers.
doulfou, II, 159, 23: doleful.
dounae. See dou.
doup (dish-doup), II, 463, 23: bottom.
dour(e), I, 117, 17: hard, severe. V, [295], 3: savage. knocks bauldly and dowr, II, 341, R after 3: hard, or pertinaciously.
dout, doute. See doubt.
dow, dou, doo, I, 163 f., J 1-6, etc.; II, 299, 22-24; 301, 14; V, [111], 18; [302], 17: dove.
dow, do.
dow, downa, v. See dou.
dowie, dowy, I, 56, B 11; II, 146, 19; 148, 21, 22; 189, 36, 37; IV, 33, 24; 165, 12; 166, C 4, 5, 6; etc.: sad, doleful, melancholy, wretched. See douë.
dowilie, I, 439, 11: sadly.
down, wi meikle dool and down, II, 271, 26: nonsense; corruption of, beheld baith dale and doun, F 33.
down-browed, scowling; I, 302, A 11.
downfall, downcome of Robin Hood, with the, III, 271, 10; 274, 30: knocked down in R. Hood’s fashion?
dowr. See doure.
doyn, III, 111, 39: done.
doyt, III, 109, 1: doth (plural).
draff, refuse, dirt.
drank, II, 30, 7: gave to drink, drenched.
drap, III, 281, 10, drap down: perhaps, drap[d] down; otherwise, should drop.
draps, drops.
draught, I, 432, 1: sketch, picture.
draw, drew her table, V, [304], 13: see explanation, [304] a.
draw, III, 6, 14, 15: move (cf. Germ. ziehen).
draw to, ti, till, draw to hose and sheen, II, 249, 15; 256, 9; IV, 464, 10: draw on. drew till him his hose, II, 189, 35. drew to him his sheen, II, 257, 30.
draw up wi, II, 114, 14: take up with, enter into intimacy, relations of love, with.
drawght that thowe dost drawe, IV, 503, 16: of the drawing of a bow. (So “Chaucer’s Dream,” v. 788, Morris.)
drawn, ere the horse was drawn and brought, IV, 346 b, I b 5: chosen.
drawn a stroke behind his hand, II, 63, 24: evidently means give a back-handed stroke, but the phrase sounds factitious.
dreaded, II, 169, 14: suspected.
dreads, IV, 32, C 7: suspicions.
dreamed, I was, I, 432, 1: dreamed, had a dream.
drede, n., III, 296, 8: doubt.
dreder, II, 403, 3, 4: dread, apprehension.
dre(e), dri, drie, drye, suffer, undergo, hold out, stand, be able. dree pine, II, 466, 35; 467, 45. doom, III, 391, 9. death, III, 391, 1. dill I drye, II, 58, 11. dreeing trying hour, I, 73, 47. as fast as they might dree, III, 286, 49: could do it; so, II, 149, 7; 255, 10; III, 106, 12; 267, 9; IV, 2, 6; 6, 13; V, [195], 13, 35; [196], 37. whylle the myghte dre, III, 298, 58; 309, 47: as long as they could hold out. draw carts, which horse were wont to drie, I, 465, 2: do, perform. drie to feel, III, 479, 5: be compelled, come to feel.
dreel, gie a, I, 403, 9: stir up, put into a flurry, make scud. (Old Dutch drillen, ultro citroque cursitare gyrosque agere, etc. Scottish dreel, to move quickly.)
dreigh, IV, 47, 4: seems to mean here, far to jump from.
dress, III, 336 b: redress.
dressen, v. the dressede into the countrey, V, [71], note †: betaken.
drew (her table). See draw.
dri. See dree.
drie, n., III, 415, 22: an unauthorized word of Percy’s, to mean suffering.
drie, dri. See dree.
driep, drop.
drifts, IV, 2, 10: droves.
drive, IV, 6, 19; 7, 30, 32: drive off.
droonet, I, 133, 13: drowned.
droop, droop and drowsie (of blood), IV, 220, 13: droop might be the Old English drup, sad, piteous, but a word indicating the quality or condition of the blood would be expected (as in German trübe, thick, muddy). The nearest is drubly, turbid, muddy. Cf. wan and drousie, IV, 224, 23. her lothely lere is droupy and drowsy, Skelton, Elynour Rummynge, 15: downcast and drowsy. See drousie.
droped, III, 164, 88: drooped.
drouflye, III, 85, 22: sad. See drousli.
drousie, wan and drousie, IV, 224, 23. droop and drowsie, IV, 220, 13 (of blood): sluggish, perhaps slowly dripping. The combination occurs in Skelton’s Elynour Rummynge, 15, droupy and drowsy, with sense. See droop.
drousli, III, 82, 22, should be droufli (drouflye, or drouslye, 85, 22): (Old Eng. drof, droflie) sad.
drowryis, I, 415 b: love-tokens. See drury.
drowsie. See drousie.
drucken, II, 155, A b 3: drunken (and in A a 3, where there is a misprint).
druken, drucken, p. p., II, 285, 9; V, [99], 11, C 6; [155], C 2: drunk, imbibed.
drumlie, -ly (stream), IV, 185, 8, 14; (eye), IV, 368, 10; 369 b: perturbed, turbulent, turbid, gloomy.
drunken, p. p. of drink, II, 110, 24; 134, 26. drunken was==had drunken, IV, 46, 5, 6.
drunkilie, III, 490, 25: merrily (as being tipsy with pleasure?).
drury, IV, 58, A b 5: dowry. Drowry is used as synonymous with morning-gift in the Acts of James VI. Jamieson. See drowryis.
drussie, V, [257]. 14: drowsy.
drye. See dree.
drywyng, driving.
dub, I, 164, J 3; III, 162, 49; IV, 470, 25, 26; V, [169], 9: pool.
dubby, IV, 257, A 6: dirty, having many small pools.
ducatdowns, dukedoons, IV, 128, 8; 139, I b 21: ducatoons. corrupted ridiculously, IV, 137, 2, to ducks.
duck, douk, II, 145, 18, 19, 22, 23: dive.
duckers, doukers, II, 145, 18: divers.
ducks. See ducatdowns.
duddie, I, 208, G 15: ragged.
duddies, dudes, V, [111], 24; 112, B 13; 113 b, 13: duds, poor clothes.
duȝty, III, 98, 32: doughty, valiant.
duke, IV, 295, D 5: dyke, wall.
dukedoons. See ducatdowns.
dulchach, dulget, I, 305, 1; V, [213], 1: bundle, always applied in Aberdeenshire to ill-shaped, untidy bundles of clothes carried on the person (also, bulshach).
dule, dool, I, 169, B 3; 442, E 15; II, 290, 8, 12; IV, 86, 20; 303, 14: grief.
dulget, I, 305, 1. See dulchach.
dumped, V, [227], 4: struck with the feet.
dumpes, III, 313, 50: in the modern sense, but not inelegant.
dune, I, 302, 2; IV, 326, 15: done.
dune out, V, [27], 28: worn out, used up.
dung, pret. of ding, beat, knock, strike, II, 132, 17. p. p., II, 62 a, 17; 392, J 9; 472, 20, 28; III, 161, 43; IV, 479, 4: beaten, worsted, overpowered, put down. IV, 183, 8: overwhelmed, disconsolate. dung over, V, [127], 22: knocked over, struck down. dung down, I, 345, 5: thrust down.
Dunny’s well, Dunny’s dyke, II, 189, 28: an impersonation, signifying that the washing and drying have been done in dark-colored water and on a dark-colored (dirty) wall.
dunts, III, 491, 13: dints, blows. See dynt.
dwine, IV, 303 f., 12, 21, 27; 304, 10: pine, waste.
dwrf, IV, 290, D c 5: dowf seems to be intended, lethargic, inert, impotent; rather than dwarf, as being puny or incomplete.
dyd him to, III, 72, 328: betook himself. See do to.
dyde adowne, III, 67, 226: put down.
dye, IV, 260, 16: dey, dairy-woman. See day.
dyght, III, 72, 320, dedes that here be dyght: prepared, concerted.
dyght (to the deth), III, 309, 40: done, brought.
dyghtande, III, 75, 388: making ready (but seems to be intended for a past participle).
dyke==wall, IV, 295, E 6; 296, F 6. castle-dyke, II, 410, 4. garden-dyke, II, 370, 5; 371, 5. fail dyke, I, 253, 2: turf wall. hollan dyke, II, 195, 32; nettle-dyke, II, 463, 22: wall on which hollies, nettles, are growing.
dyke, III, 441, 36: ditch.
dyne, garre me ones to dyne, III, 296, 24: give me my dinner, my fill, beat thoroughly. (Able to give the greatest prince in Christendome a mortall breakfast, if he had been the king’s enemie. Holinshed’s Chronicle, III, 512, ed. 1807-8. G. L. Kittredge.)
dynt(e), dint, III, 309, 42, 45, 46: stroke, hit, lunge, shot (of spear, arrow). See dunts.
dypper, V, [283], 5, 15: deeper.
dysheryte, III, 60 f., 87, 95: dispossessed.
dyspyse, II, 478, 6: cause to be despised.
dyth, deythe, I, 334, 7: dight, furnished or built.