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ga, gaa, gaw, I, 420, 9, 10; 421, 9, 10; 423, 6, 7; V, [216], 9, 10: gall.
ga, gaa, I, 146, 5; V, [166], 8; [221], 16; [227], 6; [247], 3; [278], 25: go. See gang, gae.
ga, gaa, IV, 513 a, 4; V, [221], 14; [242] a, 8; [268], 23: gave.
gab, n., I, 302, B 12: 422, 13: mouth.
gab, v., II, 149, 17: prate.
gab, n., I, 277 f.: joke, sportive brag.
gabber reel, I, 217, 8, 13: evidently a sprightly air. The root may be Icelandic gabb, mockery. Perhaps simply gabber, jabber.
gaberlunyie, V, [115] f., 6-10; [119], 8, 9: beggar’s wallet.
gad, gaud, I, 342, 33; 344, 32; 348, 13, 19; 356, 42; III, 505, 21: bar.
gad, gade, IV, 493 f., 13, 26: went.
gaddie, IV, 273, 1==gaudie: showy, dashing.
gae, gai, gay, ga, gaa, gee, gie, I, 69, 49, 62; 71, 39, 50; II, 304, 17; 468, 14; V, [166], 7; [278], 24: go. pret. gaed, gade, gad, gaid, gied, gid, ged, good, gude. p. p. gaen, gain, gane, gaed. pres. p. gain, gan, gaen, gane, gaun, gawen, etc. See gang.
gae, gang, go down, IV, 12, C 6, 7; 518, 2: be hanged.
gae, IV, 493 f., 23, 32: give.
gae, pret. of gie, I, 69, 55-58, 68; 71, 45-47; 75, 42; 108, 15: gave.
gae, gay, gey, adv., V, [266], 9: (gay) pretty, rather.
gaed, gade, gad, gaid, pret. of gae, go, I, 102, D 4; 103, E 3; 131, G 10; 439, 14, 15; II, 140, 17, 18; III, 453, 10; IV, 395, 6; 494, 26; V, [117], 11; [238], 27; [274] b, 6; [278], 24.
gaed, p. p., II, 70, 21; III, 473, 30: gone,
gaen, gain, gane, p. p. of gae, I, 70, 19; 108, 12; II, 468 f., 15, 18, 22; IV, 507, 2; V, [237], 5: gone.
gaen, gain, p. p. of gie, gae, give, I, 469, 23 (gaen the table, given a knock); III, 271, 13; V, [183], 34. So perhaps II, 212, 15; cf. gain, fifth word below.
gaeng. See gang.
gae-through-land, IV, 428, 13: vagrant.
gai. See gae.
gaid. See gaed.
gain. See gaen.
gain, gaine, gaing, gan, gaen, gane, gaun, gawn, gawen, pres. p. of gae, ga, go. gain, etc., I, 466, 15; II, 151, H 2, 4; IV, 257, 8; V, [247], 15; [256], 6. gan, etc., II, 144, 12; IV, 210, 3; 507, 2.
gain, II, 212, 15, ye’s gain as much at mine: will get, receive. (But will (have) given, dealt, is perhaps possible.)
gain (him at the law), IV, 286, 3: Icel. gegna, to proceed against?
gain, gane (Icel. gegna, to suit, be meet), II, 25, 8; 26, 11 (with ellipsis of will): serve, suffice. II, 369, 15: suit my case.
gaing. See gain, pres. p.
gair, pay meat and gair, V, [268], 27: gear, clothes an arms? or money (a variation of pay meat and fee)?
gair (of clothes). See gare.
gait, III, 266 b; 272, 5; IV, 265, A b 10: way, road. See gate.
galerie, V, [140], f. 1, 5: for gallaly, galley (doubtful form).
Galiard, III, 459 f., 1, 4, etc.: sobriquet of a freebooter of a gay (perhaps dissipated) character.
galla. See gallowe-tree.
gallage, V, [247], 20: gallows.
gallaly, galalie, V, [136] f., 1-3, etc.; [141], d 1: galley, prolonged for metrical convenience.
gallan, gellant, gillan, IV, 260, 4; 315 f., 1, 4-7, 18: gallant, gayly or finely dressed.
gallio, V, [141], 2, 3, etc.==galley O.
gallowe, sing. (like A. S. galga), a gallowe, III, 92, 18. Cf. next word.
gallows, the highest, I, 150, 13: one elevated above a triangular framework, for special offenders; der höchste Galgen; see Grimm’s Deutsches Wörterbuch, Galgen, column 1168 (?). Perhaps simply the highest that is to be had.
gallows-pin. See pin.
gallow-tree (A. S. galgtréow; O. Eng. galwetre), III, 24, 43; 180, 17; 358, 71; 368, 10. gallou-, gallage-, galla-tree, gallow-pine, V, [247], 17, 18, 20, 23, 24.
gam, game.
game, had god game, V, [80], 46, 47: sport, amusement.
gamene, I, 328, 52: game, sport.
gamon, II, 59, 25: gamen, amuse himself.
gan, gane. See gain, pres. p.
gan, gon, with infinitive: began, did.
gane, II, 26, 11: serve, suffice. See gain.
gane, p. p. of gae, go. See gaen.
gane, III, 281, 14: p. p. of gae, give. See gaen.
gane frae, IV, 378, 3: gone ahead of, left behind.
gang, gange, gaeng, gieng, I, 55, A 5; 57, 4; 68 f., 21, 37, 46; 75, 36, 39; 217, 16; II, 175, 13; 468 f., 13, 14, 38, 39; III, 75, 397; V, [16], 2, 5: go, walk. pret. yede, yeede, yeed, yed, ȝede, yode, yod, youd. p. p. gaen, gain, gane, gaed, gade, gad, gaid, gude, good. inf. also, gon, gone. p. p. ganged: III, 362, 102. See gae.
gang, gae, go down: IV, 11, 9, 12; 12, C 6, 7; 518, 2: like the Scottish be put down, be hanged.
gantrees, II, 369, 11; 370, 11: barrel-stands.
gar, gaur, I, 100, 8; 127, 15; 130, 8; 397, D 9, 11, 13; II, 115, 30, 31; 153, 16; 358, 17, 22-24: (Icel. göra) make do, cause. as auxiliary, gar lay, I, 5, D 1: do lay, lay. So II, 106, 11; 107, 19; 216, 3, 4.
garded, III, 117, 16: looked at.
gare, gair, gore, properly, a triangular piece of cloth inserted in a garment to give width at that part; in Old English often coat or gown. low down by his (her) gare is a frequently recurring expression which may be taken literally, down by that part of a garment where the gore would be==low by his knee, II, 197, 18. In, your ain hand sewed the gare (of a shirt), II, 379, 13; 389, 5; 395, 12 (following ain hand sewed the sleeve), gare in the limited sense seems hardly important enough, and perhaps is to be understood side: cf. rive it (sark) frae gore to gore, gair by gair, I, 439, 4; 440, 5, 7; 441, 6, 7; 442, 5, 6; II, 294, 31, 32. So also in, frae breast to gare, I, 438, B 4, probably, though the limited sense would answer. So, riven him frae gair to gair, IV, 416, 17; the brown bride pat her hand in att Annë’s left gare, V, [224], 20. penknife, sword, brand, down by (below) his (her) gare, I, 451, 9; II, 98, 40; 144, 6; 154, 11; 172, 34; IV, 465, 38. keys hung leugh down by her gair, IV, 465, 34. she hung’t (cup of wine) low down by her gare, II, 369, 10 (recklessly and absurdly; the cup is in her hand in the next stanza). In, frae my sark ye shear a gare, I, 388, A 8, 9, B 6, gare must be a strip large enough to make a bandage for the head.
gare, III, 98, 24: ready.
garl, II, 129, 18; V, [223] a, No 66, 18: gravel (suspicious word).
garlande, III, 93, 31; rose-garlonde, III, 75, 398: a circular wreath, apparently hung upon a wand or rod. In III, 93, 31, this can be nothing more than an extemporized circlet of twigs.
garlings, II, 366, 24: garlands.
garmarcie, garmercy, III, 33, 130; 81, 34: gramercy.
garned, the bride she garned round about, IV, 410, 23, is a misprint of Buchan’s for gazed, which stands in the original MS.
garrett, III, 332, 16: watch-tower, look-out.
gars, garse, IV, 221, 11; 467, 7: grass.
gartan, garten, gartin, IV, 169, 10; 170, H 6; 175, M 8; 176, N 14, P 2; 490, 12: garter. (Gael. gairtein.)
garthes, girths.
gast, guest.
gate, gait, get, I, 225, 8; II, 311 f., 2, 15, 21; 402, 10; III, 92, 11; 477 f., 11, 15 (ford); 480, 24; IV, 3, 21; V, [99], C 4: way, road. water-gate, V, [250], 12: round by the water. in this gate, II, 73, 26: in such a way or condition. to the gate (get) has gain, IV, 493, 5; V, [237], 5: has gone away. tuke the gate, II, 30, 7; IV, 392, 9: started, departed.
gaucy, IV, 271, B 1; V, [152], 3: lusty, jolly.
gaud. See gad.
gaudie, gaudy, gawdie, IV, 273, 12, 13, of speech: with a stately or pompous air. 274, D 19; 297, 13: showy, conspicuous. 274, E 1: dashing. gaudy locks, 285, 10, 19: bright-colored. 356, B 1: ostentatious.
gaule, I, 272, 11: of the color of gall; or gules, red.
gaun, gawn, gawen, I, 22, A 1, B 1; III, 473, 21-24; 479, 8; IV, 261, 8; 511 a, 6; 513 a, 3: going.
gaunt, IV, 20, 12: yawn.
gaur, gar, I, 73, 36; IV, 226, 11: make.
gavellock, gavlock, III, 470 b; 493, 10: iron lever.
gavil-post, II, 227 a: gable-post.
gaw. See ga.
gawdie. See gaudie.
gawen, gawn. See ga, and gaun.
gay. See gae.
gay, gae, gey, adv., II, 184, 16; IV, 271, 9; 329, c 20; V, [266], 9: pretty, rather.
gaze, IV, 313, 10: gauze.
ge, ye.
ge, give. See gie.
gear, geare, geere, geir, gier, I, 411, 5; II, 182, 5; 184, 9; 185, 38; III, 440, 12; 459, 3; IV, 6 f., 5, 19, 29; 469, 10; V, [170], 3, 4: goods, property, often cattle. silken gear, I, 145, 22: clothes. III, 440, 7, 18, 19; 446 b: fighting equipments. the less gear and the mair, III, 8, 23: smaller game and greater. pay meat an gair, V, [268], 27: clothes and arms? or money? III, 341, 47; 404, 1; IV, 505, 51; 506, 66: business, affair.
geat. See get.
gecks, gien the, II, 105 f., 20, 21: made a fool of. Geck in German, the northern languages and English, fool; in Scottish, according to Jamieson, “sign of derision, gibe, cheat.” See gowk.
gee, give. See gie.
gee, gie, IV, 508, 2; V, [238], 22: go. pret. gied, gid, ged. See gae.
geere. See gear.
geet, IV, 494, 37: get, progeny, child.
geid, pret. of gie, give, II, 277, A 8. See gied.
gein, p. p. of gie, IV, 316, 18.
geir. See gear.
gell, V, [221], 20 (unnecessarily changed to kell): congeal, freeze. (Aberdonian.)
gellant, gallant. See gallan.
gen, V, [247], 10: given.
gen, gen Pasche, II, 146, 9: against, for, Easter.
general, with the, III, 176, 2: people in general (in public).
genty, I, 421, 10: elegant of form or dress, but here refers to gentleness of disposition.
gep, gip, III, 138, 11; 140, d 11==gup, go up, get up (properly, a call to a horse). marry gep, interjection of contempt==marry, come up.
gereamarsey, III, 111, 37: gramercy.
gerss, I, 450, 5; II, 248, 9, 15; 464, 8, 10: grass.
get, IV, 493, 5: gate, road (to the get he’s gane, has gone away). See gate.
get, gett, geat, II, 470, 56-8; V, [238], 13, 24: progeny, brat.
getterne, I, 328, 49: a stringed instrument.
geve, give. See gie.
gey, adv. gey sad, II, 184, 15, 16: pretty, rather. See gay.
ghesting, I, 284, 17, 18: guesting, lodging.
gie, go. See gae.
gie, gi, ge, gee, gae, geve, give. gie, I, 71, 55, 56; 74, 76, 77; 206, 26, 30; 207, 30. gi, I, 68 f., 26, 69, 70; IV, 493, 21. ge, gee, IV, 222, 19; 493, 15; V, [228], 10; [248], 4, 5, 21, 22. pret. gae, ga, gaa, gaed, geed, geid, gied. p. p. gin, gine, geen, gein, gien, gen, gane, gaen. geve on (like take)==strike, III, 127, 53. gien, II, 232, 13: struck.
gied, gid, ged, pret. of gae, gie, go, I, 74, 3; 80, 5; 310, 10, 12, 14; II, 75, 11; 357, 7; III, 434, 27.
gied, geed, geid, pret. of gie, give, I, 79 f., 24, 28; 439, 3; II, 408 f., 3, 4; IV, 512 b, 8.
gien, gine, gin, gein, geen, gen, p. p. of gie, give: I, 100, 25; 467, 25; IV, 316, 18; 509 a, 13; 510, 16; 513, 12; V, [215], 13; [219], 23; [224], 20; [229], 30; [247], 10; [306] b, 3. V, [219], 23: given (a blow) to.
gieng, II, 61, 3: gang, go.
gier. See gear.
gif, giff==if, I, 70, 16; II, 21 B 10; 28, 3; III, 285, 22.
giff-gaff, I, 21 b, 14: give and take, tit for tat.
gile, III, 482 11: jail.
gill, a steep, narrow glen.
gillan, V, [272] b, 1: gallant. See gallan.
Gilliecrankie, be a, IV, 268, 22: a Gilliecrankie woman, live in Gillecrankie (see 20), be a Highlander. g reads, hae a Killycrankie, that is, a domestic battle, or row.
gillore, III, 136, 34: galore, in plenty.
gilt, III, 370, 10: money.
gimp, I, 387, 1; II, 220, 1, 3: jimp, slender.
gin, gine, ginne, V, [125], 9: a contrivance. specially, the apparatus for fastening a door, I, 107, 4; II, 241, 23; III, 492, 6; IV, 445 f., 3, 4; 446, b 3, 4; door and window, IV, 480, 4, 5. chappit (knocked) at the gin, I, 465, 11; IV, 445 f., 3, 4. lift the gin (that is the lever for raising the latch), II, 158, 4; 165, 4, 7, altered to pin. II, 158, 4, in the margin of the MS., and pin stands in 7 of the same piece. Otherwise, chin.
gin, I, 108, B 3, like the gin: corrupt, compare A 4.
gin, II, 23, E 8; 271, 34; 286, 3; IV, 412, 11; 485, 15; V, [243], 17: (of time) against, towards. II, 313, 14; IV, 138, M 1; 166, C 6; 392, 12: by the time that.
gin, conj., I, 5, C 8; 68, 21, 22; 70, 15; 72, 24; 310, 4, 5; 466, 4, 5; 468, 5, 8; 478, 4, 5, 8-10: if.
gin, gine, given.
gine, ginne, n. See gin.
gip. See gep.
gird, III, 35, 19: blow, stroke.
girded out, guirded, V, [76], 23; [82], 37: cracked, let.
girdle, I, 403, 12: griddle.
girds, II, 70, 27; IV, 481, 6: hoops.
girn, I, 344, 31: (of a hound) snarl. IV, 69, 18: (of men hanged) grin.
girth was the gold-twist to be, III, 490, 16, see 486 b. girth should probably be graith, but admitting this, the sense is not clear, and further corruption may be suspected. We may understand, perhaps, that after the rescue the mare was to have a caparison of gilded chains. Or we may read, her graith was used the gold-twist to be.
gitter, V, [243], 16: gutter.
giue, II, 442, 7, 10:==gif, if.
gives, II, 448, 26: misgives.
gladdynge, III, 70, 297: gladdening (cheering in later texts).
glaive, glaue, IV, 491, 11; V, [235], 32: sword. See glaue.
glamer, glamour, glamourie, glaumry, IV, 65, 2; 66, 2; 67, 2; 68, D 2, E 2; 70, F 2, etc.; 367, 8; V, [301], No 200: a charm deluding the eye. IV, 310, 14: glitter, gleam.
glance, III, 394, K 6; 397, 5; IV, 508 a, 8: shine.
glaned, IV, 406, 14: (giant, from glent) glanced, shone.
glar, I, 494, 18: mire.
glashet, I, 434, 36: (O. French, glacer, glachier) darted, flashed.
glasse, III, 340, 32; 344, 30, 31; 349, 31; IV, 504, 36: lantern, ship-light.
glaue, glaive, III, 105, 20: (in this place) a cutting weapon fixed to the end of a pole. See glaive.
glaumry. See glamer.
glazen, of glass.
gleat (Icelandic glit), I, 100, 28: glitter.
glede, gleed(e), I, 285, 28; 287, 67; 342, 34; III, 308, 14; IV, 379, 14; V, [184], 42: glowing coal. II, 115, 29; 140, 18; V, [27], 46: fire. See glyde.
glee (==glue), I, 68, 9, 12: glove.
gleid, gley(e)d, IV, 56, B 3; 58, 3, 4, 9, 10; 135, 23, 24: squint-eyed.
glen, set her on the glen, IV, 284, 25; take her to the glen, 286, 29; set her to the glen, 287, 18: because, the roadways running usually through glens, this amounts to a public exposure.
glent, I, 105 a, 28: glitter, glancing. wi a glent, II, 119, 19; IV, 467, 14: in a flash, a moment (otherwise, in a glent).
glent, III, 307, 6: glanced, went (perhaps, darted).
gley(e)d. See gleid.
glided, I, 333, 3: glittered, glinted.
glintin, IV, 450 b, 6: gleaming, flashing.
glister, IV, 510, 5: shine.
gloamin, III, 319, 23: twilight, evening.
gloe, III, 455, 8, 9, 11: glove. See glee.
gloom, IV, 94, 9: frown, morose look.
gloom, I, 302, A 11, B 9; 303, C 6; IV, 337, g before 20: frown, look sullen.
glore, II, 319, 13: glory.
glove, cut my glove, etc., II, 105, 18: lovers were wont to cut a glove and each take a part. S. W. will take in his hand the half of his glove which represents Janet and dance for two. T. Davidson, played at the glove, III, 448, 5: some game for braw gallants, unexplained; possibly, spearing a glove when riding rapidly.
glove tee. See tee.
glowd, glowde, II, 454 f., 54, 58: glided.
glowred, IV, 429, a 15: stared.
glue, II, 147, 12: glove. See glee, gloe.
glyde, II, 375, 19: spark. See glede.
go, goe, goo, gone, III, 64, 160; 71, 302; 77, 429; 105, 22; 432, 19: walk. go boun away, IV, 224, 15, 16: go, depart. go down, IV, 13, 2, 3; 14, 2: be hanged (cf. gae down). goe vppon his death, V, [53], 99: pass upon the question of.
gockies, II, 470, 48: deep wooden dishes.
god, godde, III, 113, 72, 78, 80: property, goods.
God, omitted, O save and you may see, III, 181, 19; 184, 16.
God, II, 46, 51; III, 29, 146; 59, 62, 63; 61, 92; 68, 240; 75, 391; 101, 90; 105, 23 (mood, wrongly for my God?); 359, 103; 444, 16, 17: the second person in the Trinity.
God a marsey, God amercy, God have mercy, III, 111, 39; 138, 22; 149, 41; 445, 30; V, [76], 10; [77], 39; [80], 51, 53; [81], 13; [83], 55: gramercy (not Dieu merci, thank God, which meaning, unlikely in all, is impossible in most of the cases).
God beffore, V, [79], 19: before God (attestation). Cf. for God. But perhaps God before (and God before) is always to be distinguished from before God, and to be understood as, God my guide or helper; which sense seems to be required in Shakspere’s Henry V, I, II, 307, III, VI, 165; Percy MS., Hales & Furnivall, III, 30, v. 304, 528, v. 57. [So, and God to-forn, in Chaucer, Troilus, I, 1049; II, 431. Cf. also King Edw. and the Shepherd, Hartshorne, Ancient Metrical Tales, p. 47; Peniworth of Witte, Englische Studien, VII, 116, v. 287; Weddynge of Syr Gawen, v. 640, Madden, p. 2983; etc.]
God’s peny, V, [14], 5; [15], 27: an earnest-penny, to bind a bargain.
Godzounds, V, [93], 4, 8, 12, etc.: God’s wounds.
gogled, III, 179, 7: joggled, waggled.
golden-knobbed (gloves), II, 133, 6: ornamented with golden balls or tassels. (siller-knapped, 134, 8, 13.)
golett of þe hode, III, 99, 49: throat, part covering the throat.
gon, gone, infin. of go, III, 24, 45; 35, 32; 66, 204; 67, 223; 71, 316; 74, 363; 77, 435; 111, 28.
gon, gon gae, I, 333, 3: did go.
gone, subj. of gon, go, III, 67, 219.
good, gude, pret. of go, III, 464, 4; V, [153], 1.
Good, V, [199] b, 20: God.
Good-ben, III, 267, A 10. If ben is to stand, it must be benison abridged. Good benison be here, quoth he, makes a satisfactory line. Compare B 9, D 9.
good-brother, IV, 168, 9: brother-in-law.
good b’w’ye, III, 134, 6: God be wi you, good-bye.
goodman, III, 274, 33, 35; V, [91], 1, 5, etc.; [98], 2, 3: master of a house.
good-mother, IV, 412, 19: mother-in-law.
good-son, IV, 283, 10: son-in-law.
goodwife, III, 274, 33, 35; V, [91], 2, 6, etc.; [98], 1, 2: mistress of a house, housewife.
goold, V, [296] a: gold.
gorgett, III, 422, 75: defense for the neck, here a part of a jack.
gorgett, II, 45, 32: a neckerchief. (“Nearly==wimple in Edward I.’s time; in 15th century, neckerchief.”)
gorney, journey.
goud==gan, did, IV, 20, 12, 13. (Cf. begoud==began.)
goud, gowd, n. and adj., I, 127, 12; 135, 9-12; 351, 35; 429, 28: gold.
gouden, gowden, I, 127, 21, 22; 145, 23: golden.
goudie, goudy, V, [110], 7; [267] b, 10; [268], 19: golden, yellow (locks).
goun-teall. See gown-tail.
goupen, I, 356, D b after 23: hollow of the hand.
gouernor, I, 286, 40: director, guardian.
gowans, I, 55, A 1: daisies.
gowany, I, 315, 12: covered with daisies.
gowd. See goud.
gowk, II, 111, 12: (cuckoo), fool. gien me the gowk, made a fool of me. See gecks.
gown of green, gien her a, II, 472, 2: defloured. got on the, I, 350, 11: strangely used for to be with child; properly, she got a gown of green eight months before: it can hardly mean, put on a green gown, literally, as at I, 358, 40.
gown-tail, gooun-teall, II, 31, M 4; 472, 19; V, [235], 4: lower part of the skirt of a gown.
goy, joy.
graid, great.
graie dogs, III, 7, 1: Scottish hunting dogs, deer dogs, rough greyhounds.
grain, sitt in a graine, I, 210, 5: fork of a tree. III, 267, 21; 269, 14; V, [243], 17: branch of a tree.
graith, n., IV, 86, 8: equipment (horse and arms).
graith, v., V, [192], 34; [198] b, 34: make ready. p. p. graithed, IV, 2, 5; 27, 26: equipped in defensive armor. golden graithed behin, II, 191, 18; gowden-graithd before and siller-shod behind, II, 343, 4; shod wi silver afore an gold graithed behind, II, 194, 16, 20: properly, harnessed, but as the horse is silver-shod before and gold behind, 183, 16; 185, 23; V, [224], 14, shod seems to be meant here. So in the patched-up ballad IV, 410, 18. The horse silver-shod before and gold-shod behind is a commonplace; see II, 266, 1; 267, 1.
graithing (gowd), IV, 410, 18: harness or caparison, behind horse. But see graith, v.
grammarye, grammeree, V, [294] b, 2: grammar, learning. II, 53, 36, 41; 54, 55; 55, 68: magic. Gramery==grammar, learning, occurs three times in the Towneley Mysteries, but strangely enough seems not to have been heard of in the sense of magic till we come to Percy’s Reliques. Percy suggests that the word is probably a corruption of the French grimoire, a conjuring book. Grimoire, however, does not appear until the 16th century and was preceded by gramoire (Littré). Gramaire in the 13th-15th centuries has the sense of magic: see the history of grimoire in Littré. Godefroi interprets gramaire savant, magicien.
grandmother over, IV, 70, G 2: corruption of, glamer, oer her.
grange-house, III, 360, 116: farm-house.
grat, II, 70, 25; 323, 26, 27; IV, 7, 35; V, [156], 11, 13, pret. of greet, weep.
gravat, II, 283, 21; V, [240], 14: cravat.
graveld green, II, 158, 1: a green with gravel walks? Probably corrupt: in yonder green, B, garden green G.
gravil, I, 350, 18, 19 (pile o the gravil): expounded by Donaldson, Supplement to Jamieson, p. 304, as “the plant graymill or gromwell, of the genus Lithospermum, anciently used in the cure of gravel, hence its name. Said to be used also in producing abortion.” I fear this is somewhat conjectural or even arbitrary. The pile seems to be simply some downy plant (velvety moss) which grows on stones; indeed we are expressly told this, IV, 456, 9, 12: ‘a flower, it grows on gravel greay,’ ‘the pile that grows on gravel green.’ (We have gravel green and gravel grey in the ordinary sense again, I, 347, 1.)
greaf, grave.
greahondes, grehoundis, greyhounds.
great, I, 252, 3, 5: groat.
great, IV, 373, 15; V, [176], 16: intimate, high in favor.
grece, harte of, III, 27, 105: a fat hart.
gree, III, 61, 108 (made the gree): paid my dues. (make gre in Old English, to discharge obligation; Old Fr. gre, gret, from gratum.)
gree, from them take the gree, IV, 248, 16: prize, superiority. (Lat. gradus.)
greecy (ghost), II, 390, 27: frightful (grisly).
greeme, I, 69, 51: (groom) young fellow. See grome.
greet, greit, I, 186, B 3; 359, 1, 2; 448 f., B 1, 5; II, 77, 30; III, 384, 4; 387, 6; 391, 5; V, [36], C 3: weep, cry. pret. grat.
greete, III, 105, 26: grit, gravel, sand.
greeter, V, [183], 17: weeper.
greeting, weeping.
grefe, III, 69, 268; 83, 268: 87, 268: offence, displeasure. a-grefe, III, 69, 268: in displeasure.
grehoundis, greyhounds.
greit, greet, weep, cry.
grenner, compar., V, [283], 9, 19: greener.
gret, pret. of greet, address, III, 111, 40.
grett wurdes, III, 297, 31: high, haughty words.
grevis, III, 307, 6: groves. See grief.
grew, grow.
grew, V, [113] b, 7: greyhound. See next word.
grew hound, grew(e)hund, I, 328, 47; II, 70, 24; 79, 37: Dr. J. A. H. Murray says Greek hound; “still called in Scotland a grewe, which was the older Scotch for Greek.” Grew==Greek is well known in Middle English, and greyhound (Icelandic greyhundr) may have been changed to grewhound under its influence.
grey (meal), oat-meal and grey, II, 462, 30: barley-(bere-)meal, as distinguished from oat-meal (==white meal).
grief, V, [151], F 1: grove. (tier should be tree.) See grevis.
grien, III, 397, Q 2: yearn, long.
griesly, grisly, grizly, I, 298, 4: 300 a; V, [234] b, 31: frightful.
grievd, pret., III, 162, 58: injured.
grimlie, grimly, II, 45, 19, 31; 199 a; 201, 7: grim, terrible.
grind, II, 216 f., 4, 27, 29: an apparent corruption for graith, graithed, accoutre, adorn. Cf. II, 191, 18; 194, 16, and many other places.
grinding, I, 130, 1; 134, O 1: this word of the refrain may be suggested by the mill.
grips, IV, 53, 13: clutches, fastenings. See signots.
grisel, grissell, III, 369, 20, 23: gray horse.
grisly, II, 397, A 30: terrible. See griesly.
grit, grite, gryte, IV, 312, 9; 445, b 1: great.
grit oats, IV, 20, 14: great, or improved oats as distinguished from the sma corn or oats of the early part of the century.
grith, III, 101, 86, 87: (peace) remission of hostility, “charter of peace.” neither grith nor grace, 358, 65.
grizly, IV, 398, 21: frightful. See griesly.
grome, groom, greem, I, 75, 40; 77, 20; 342, 40; 345, 38; 355, 52; 371, 3; III, 56, 4; 67, 224: man, young fellow.
gross, II, 267, 13; 268, 18: big, burly.
ground, the grounds o my pouches, V, [306], 9: bottoms (V, [165], 6 has, the boddoms of my pakets).
ground-wa-stane, III, 433, 12, 13: foundation-stone. (A. S. grundweall, fundamentum.)
growende, ground.
grumly (A. S. gramlíc, gromlíc), (of the sea) II, 22, 10: furious. (of a seal) II, 494, 2: fierce-looking. (Jamieson: muddy, turbid.)
grun, ground.
gryming, IV, 6, 7; V, [249], 7: sprinkling, thin covering.
grype, II, 45, 19, 31: griffon (also vulture).
grysely, III, 298, 60: frightfully.
gryte, great: I, 127, 22. See grit.
gude, gued==God, II, 94, 17; V, [221], 24.
gude, guid, gueed, good.
gude, good, pret. of go, III, 464, 4; V, [153], 1.
gude father, gude faythir, I, 301, 1; 302, 1; 303, C 1: father-in-law.
gudemother, II, 284, 10: mother-in-law.
gude neighbours, I, 352, 8: euphemism for fairies.
gudeson, guidson, II, 463, 20; IV, 309, 3; 310, 6: stepson, son-in-law. wrongly used of an own son, II, 219, 9.
gued, gueed(e), I, 68, 10, 14; V, [221], 24: good.
gued, God. See gude.
guid, good.
guide, gyde, n., I, 101, 9; 102, 7; IV, 174, 19; 425, 5: one who has charge, etc., custodian. I shal be þe munkis gyde: III, 98, 35: take charge of him. death is her guide, II, 191, 29: has her in hand. this sword shall be thy guide, V, [49], 28: shall settle thy case. IV, 309, 2: escort, convoy.
guide, v., I, 481, 44; II, 152, I 2; III, 459, 21: treat, use.
guiding, gude, I, 303, C 3: thrifty management.
guidson. See gudeson.
guildery, guildery maids, V, [301] b, 5: guildry is Scottish for guild, but this makes small sense here.
guilt, all of guilt, II, 46, 43: of gilding or gilt metal, all begilt.
guirded, V, [77], a b 23. See girded.
gull, III, 217, 44: a fool.
gunies, guineas.
gurious, II, 380, 31: (same as gruous, grugous) grim, grisly (or, ugly).
gurly, (sea) II, 26, 14; IV, 366, 7: grim, surly, growling. gurrl(e)y fellow, IV, 489, 24, 25: gruff, surly.
gutter-hole, I, 164, K 3: the place where filth from the kitchen is thrown.
gyde, be þe munkis, III, 98, 35: take charge of the monk. See guide.
gyff, gif, if.
gyll, II, 478, 4: opprobrious term for woman, here referring to levity.
gyrde, pret., III, 66, 211: girt.
gyst, III, 13, 10: gettest.
ȝare, III, 98, 24: ready. See yare.
ȝates, ȝatis, III, 99, 61, 62: gates. See yate.
ȝe, V, [283], 1: ye.
ȝe, III, 97, 6: yea.
ȝede, III, 99, 60: went. See yede.
ȝelpe, III, 14, 16, 17: brag.
ȝeluer, compar., V, [283], 11, 21: yellower.
ȝeman, ȝoman, III, 99, 58; 100, 74; 101, 86, 87: yeoman.
ȝete, III, 100, 82: ate.
ȝeue, III, 13, 12, 14: give. ȝouyn, 14: given.
ȝone, I, 327, 11, 12; 328, 38-44; III, 13, 1: yon.
ȝowe, I, 328, 53: you.