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kail, kale, colewort, made the baron like kail to a pot, IV, 86, 13: cut him up. broth made of greens, especially of coleworts: II, 467, 41; III, 300, 12; 388, 3; IV, 500, 13. See kell.
kaily lips, I, 302, A 10: covered with kail, and so repulsive.
kaim, kame, keem, comb.
kaivle, II, 298 f., 3, 19: lot. See kavil.
kale. See kail.
kame, keem, comb.
kamen, combing.
kane, I, 353, 15; 356, 56: tribute (originally a duty in the form of a part of the produce, paid by an occupant of land to his superior).
kauk, V, [116], 10: chalk.
kavil, kaivle, kevel, cavil, I, 71, 36, 38: lot.
kay, key, kine.
keach, V, [123], 17: perturbation, shaking up.
kean, v., V, [110], 4: ken.
kebars, I, 332, F 6; II, 227 a: rafters.
kebbuck, IV, 323, 5: cheese.
keckle-pin, burnt like keckle-pin, II, 155, 38: that is, I suppose, like heckle-pin, the sound of the k being carried on from like. Mr William Forbes, of Peterhead, suggests the following explanation: The pins used to hold the straw raips which hold down the thatch on cob or mud huts; being driven into the top of the walls close to the eaves, they are always dry and ready to burn. The mass of interlaced straw is called a hackle. Used all over East Aberdeenshire.
keeked, keekit, I, 303, D 1; 304, E 3: peeped.
keel, V, [116], 10: red chalk.
keem, kem, kemb, kame, comb.
keen, v., V, [238], 18; [278], 38: ken, know.
keen, armour, II, 62, 10: no sense except for arms of offense (as in Old Eng.).
keen (of tying), II, 162, D 3: strong or hard.
keen(e), II, 45, 26; 46, 39; V, [192] f., 27, 57: bold. spak sharp and keene, III, 394, K 3: cuttingly, poignantly.
keep, catch. See kep.
keep up, V, [114], 12: keep under custody, safe from the hands of others, lock up. See kept up.
keep(e) with, II, 411, 15; III, 36, 41: stay, live with.
keepit a bower, II, 407, 8: frequented, lived in.
keepit, IV, 215, A 2: heeded, observed.
keist, kiest, kest, kyst, pret. of cast, I, 69, 46; 241, 3.
kell, II, 264 f., 5, 12; 364, 30; V, [161], 7: a cap of network for women’s hair.
kell. lang kell, V, [110], 9, 10. See lang kell.
kelter, kelter-coat, V, [54], 20: made of kelt, black and white wool mixed and not dyed. Dillon, Fairholt’s Costume in England, where a kelter-coat is cited from a will. Kelt, cloth with the knap, generally of native black wool. Jamieson.
keltit, IV, 493, 5: kelted, tucked.
kem, kemb, comb.
kemp, kempe, kempy, I, 301, 1; 302, 6, B 1; 303, C 1, 9; 309, 3, 5; II, 53 f., 25, 31, 55; III, 447 a: champion, fighting-man (A. S. cempa). kemp o the ship, V, [151] f., F 2, 4, is no doubt a corruption.
kempery(e), II, 54 f., 54, 66, 68: company of fighting men (or, if adjective, fighting).
kempy. See kemp.
ken, I, 343, 42; 345, 41; 348, 21; III, 268, 4: know. III, 266, 4: to make known.
kene, cawte and kene, III, 296, 26: wise, shrewd, or, perhaps, brave.
kenna, know not.
kep, keep, cap, cape, catch, stop, intercept: II, 322, 21; 325, 21; 407, 13; 413, 6, 8; III, 125, 34; 245, 2; 246, E 2; 436, 5, 7; IV, 480 f., 17, 18, 19; V, [230], 10, 11. she keppit him (received him) on a penknife (as he leaned over to her), II, 147, 6. she keppit Lamkin, II, 335, M 7; V, [230] b, Y 10: encountered. he kepped the table, door, wi his knee, I, 476, J 5; 481, 42; II, 91, 26; 94, 18; 271, 17: took, struck. keppit, III, 246, D 2, is an obviously wrong reading, and should be kicked; cf. 243, 2; 245, 2; 246, E 2. kepd the stane wi her knee, II, 421, 29, is absurdly taken from other ballads (and from ball-playing). pret. kept, kepd, kepped, kepit, keppit. See cap.
kepe, I, 329, 2: care for, value. kepe I be, III, 100, 80: care I to be.
keping, IV, 313, 20: meeting. The meaning is that he went to meet (come should be came) the body which was lying at the gates. There was no procession towards him.
kepping, keeping.
kept up, IV, 287, 15: shut up. See keep up.
kerches, kerchiefs.
kest, keste, pret. of cast, III, 76 f., 421, 422. See keist.
kettrin, IV, 84, 8: cateran, Highland marauder. See caterans.
kevel, kevil, I, 74 f., 3, 36; 77, 4; 80, 4-6; II, 16, 2; 301, 1; IV, 394, C 1: lot. See kavil.
key, kye.
keys, rang the keys, IV, 430, 2: keys of her spinnet.
kickle, III, 230, 59 (the actual reading): not easily managed, unsteady, Scot, kittle. (But perhaps we should read kick, since a verb would be expected.)
kiest, keist, pret. of cast, I, 74, 2; 75, 36; 80, 4; 351, 44; IV, 32, 11.
kilt, IV, 257, 3: a skirt worn by Highlanders, reaching from the belly to the knees.
kilt, kelt, tuck up: I, 341, 3, 17; 343 f., 3, 8, 16, 35; 369, 2; II, 92, 7; 461, 5; 462, 5; 471, 4. p. p. kilt, II, 423, 8; IV, 210, 7.
kin, a’kin kind, II, 114, 2: a’kin, all kind, equivalent to every. na kin thing, I, 394, 10.
kin, ken.
kind, kindly, II, 319, 7; III, 266 f., 1, 5, 21; 300, 26; IV, 501, 30: kindred, native. kindly cockward, I, 285, 24: natural, born, fool. kindly rest, V, [124], C 14: natural.
kine, what kine a man, IV, 504, 27: kind (of).
king’s felon, kynggis felon, kings ffelon, III, 98, 21; 180, 16: traitor, or rebel, to the king.
kinnen, III, 370, 4: coney, rabbit.
kintra, country.
kipeng, keeping.
kipple, I, 333, 5; IV, 432, 6: couple, rafter.
kipple-roots, I, 304, F 5: the ends of couples (rafters) that rest on the top of the wall. “In rude erections the couples were rough unhewn tree-stems, which were placed with their thickest, or root, ends on the walls, the smaller ends abutting at the ridge of the roof.” J. Aiken.
kirking, I, 371, 6, 12, 14: churching.
kirk-shot, IV, 359, 10: the fishings on the water where nets are shot, belonging to, or adjacent to, the kirk.
kirk-style, I, 441, 8-10; 498, 16, 24; IV, 183, 9, 11; 360, 16: the gate of the enclosure round a church, or, the stile in the church-yard wall.
kirk-toun, II, 219, 13: village in which is a parish church.
kirkyard, V, [299], 4: churchyard.
kirn, n. and v., V, [115], 6: churn.
kirtle, kirtell, kyrtell, part of a man’s dress, perhaps waistcoat: III, 65, 194; 71, 299. name given to a variety of articles of female attire, explained as jacket, corsage or waist, upper petticoat, a loose upper garment, tunic or short mantle, etc. dress of silk worn under a gown, over a petticoat, I, 433, 9. gown, petticoat and kirtle, III, 273, 14. kirtle and gown, III, 215, 10; IV, 432, 7, 8.
kist, chest, I, 15, A 3; B 3; 17, D 2; III, 189, 34; IV, 485, 19; V, [115], 5: coffin.
kithe, a, III, 93, 36: of kith, of the same country, region, people. kith, kyth, and kin, II, 216, 6, 8; 252, 29; III, 93, 36.
kitt, V, [240], 14: outfit, supply.
knabby, IV, 262, 23: knobby, rough.
knack fingers (in sign of grief): IV, 418, 7; 435, 13; knak, V, [227], 5 (passage corrupted); knick, III, 455, E 1; knock, II, 312 f., 5, 6, 7: crack the finger-joints. (Elsewhere, wring, II, 315, D 7; 319, 17; III, 477, 4.) ladies crackt their fingers, II, 26, G 16.
knapped, II, 134, 8, 13: knobbed, ornamented with balls or tassels. See naps. golden-knobbed, II, 133, D 6. (knob, sometimes a tassel to the cord of a mantle.)
knapscap, napskape, IV, 7, 35; V, [251], 31: head-piece.
knaue, III, 14, 16, 17; 60, 81; 94, 50; 127, 44 (play): servant. IV, 501, 37: person of servile or low rank.
knave-bairn, I, 350, 20; II, 418, 23: male child. knave-boy, V, [235] b, after 30.
kneene, III, 362, 87: knees.
knell, v., II, 189, 23: ring.
knet, pret. of knit, III, 431, 17; IV, 31, B 6: knitted, knotted.
knicking fingers, III, 455, E: making the finger-joints crack. See knack.
knight-bairn, V, [236] f., 21, 28, 29: male child.
knip-knap, V, [213], 6: a knock, tap. V, [124], C 15: to express the sound of cracking.
knobbed. See knapped.
knock. See knack.
knocking-stane, I, 304, 10: stone mortar.
knoe. See know.
knop, III, 138, 9: (knap), blow.
knoppis, knobs.
know(e), knoe, II, 308 b; III, 464, 5; 466, 38; IV, 171, 4; 193, 1; 195, 1; 201, 10; 205, 22: hillock.
knowe-tap, IV, 60, C b 6: top of a hill.
kod, kuod, quoth.
koors, I, 353, 15: turns.
koupd. See couped.
kouthe, II, 499 b: known.
kow, V, [157], 11, 12: twig. See cow.
ky, kye, kyne, III, 464, 6, 7; 465 f., 19, 62; IV, 7, 29-32; 84, 17, 18: cows.
kyrtell. See kirtle.
kyst, I, 241, 3: cast.
kyth (and kin), home, country, people. See kithe.
kythe, II, 168, 10: be manifest, appear, pret. kythed, I, 117, 10: appeared.