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O, brighter O shall, IV, 170, G 10: heard for rose. For rose (which the last letter of brighter, the o, and the first letter of shall make) cf. 167, 17; 169, 14; 175, M 11.

o = of. diel o there, III, 488, 26: devil (i. e. not a bit) of anything in that way (?) (devil be there, 489, 43).

o = on: I, 232, A 2; II, 375, 15, 16; III, 488 f., 23, 39, 45; IV, 84, 19.

ochanie, och how, IV, 103, 14; III, 392, 11: interjections of sorrow.

ocht, IV, 230, 1: aught.

ochree. See ohon.

of = on: I, 284, 14, 16; II, 59, 23; 452, 5; III, 105, 19; 309, 46 (on, 45, vppone, 42); 355, 8; 359, 89; 464, 2; IV, 503, 20. beate of mee, II, 54, 53 (?). In, put of the pot, put of the pan, II, 118, 8, of is perhaps simply an error of the scribe; we have, put on, 119, 5, 6. In, seruyd (q. v.) him of bred, I, 241, 1, for is required, and of, which would signify with, cannot stand.

officier, V, [155], D 2: officer.

oȝaines, I, 192 a: against, towards.

oger, I, 202, 1: auger.

ohon ochree, III, 390, 13: exclamation of sorrow.

okerer, III, 58, 46: usurer.

old, auld, old (auld) son, of babe just born, II, 95, 11, 12; 105, 7; 107, 4, 5, 6, 17: called young son, II, 104, 12, 15; 106, 8, 10, 18, and, at II, 95, immediately after, 13, 14. See auld son. old daughter, II, 382, 1; 387, 1; 388, 15: oldest. old sister, I, 175, D 8: one older than a second sister.

old, auld, in your fifteen year old, I, 115, 13; in fifteen years old, I, 116, 13: of age. See aull, auld.

on = of: III, 93, 38; 132, 3; 231, 84; 296, 20; 308, 13.

on = one: V, [78] f., 7, 26, 28; [80], 52. on for on, III, 308, 21.

on, wedded on, I, 146, 24; married on, I, 497, 22: on the strength of (to have as a dowry).

on ane, I, 334, 6: anon.

on fere, III, 98, 38: in company.

on o = on (on upon?): III, 349, 38 (calld on o); 488, 25, 27; IV, 470, 18; 517, 9. (cald of, IV, 503, 20.)

onbred, I, 415 b: incompletely grown.

one, I, 104, 6; II, 45, 28: a. of one, I, 104, 62 should have been retained (=on a).

one, on.

onë, ony, onie, II, 58, 3: any.

ones, onys, III, 98, 23: once.

onfowghten, III, 297, 41: unfought, without fighting.

onlouping, III, 449 b: mounting (of a horse).

onthought lang, I, 478 f., 13, 47: without wearying, entertained. See unthought lang, thinke lang.

ony, onie, onë, any.

oor, I, 133, M 6: hour.

or, I, 285, 33; 294, 10; 328, 35; 411, 17; II, 22, 13; 105, 8: before. or eir, II, 21, A 9: or or (doubling of before).

or, II, 166, 27: than.

order, ordre, III, 66, 197, 198: rule of an order.

ordered, II, 257, 9: taken order for, made arrangements for.

orders, III, 286, 44: prepares.

ordeyn, III, 72, 326: give order for, levy.

orghie, IV, 513, H 24 (to be supplied): orgeis, a fish, large kind of ling. See V, [299] b, note on No 178.

orlange, II, 61, 8, 9, 12: perversion of eldrige.

orless, I, 141 b, S: emended to unless.

orpharë, I, 326, 9: orfevrie, goldsmith’s work.

osterne, III, 412, 27: austere. See austerne.

ostler, V, [155], C 4, D 2: innkeeper.

ostler-ha, III, 270, 6: ostler-house, hostelry, inn.

ostler-house, III, 268, 4, 6, 8; 269, 4-6: hostelry.

other, pl., III, 298, 66; 335 b.

ottraunce, at, III, 90 b: to the utterance, extremity, death.

ought, I, 294, 12: am under obligation. pret. and p. p. III, 228, 9; 431, 30: owed.

ould, IV, 456, 9; V, [199] b, 35: would.

our, owr, ower, over, too.

oure, prep., over. See ower.

ousen, owsen, owsn, II, 192, 6: oxen.

out, he slew out, II, 383, 25; beat out, III, 151, A 4, B 4: out and out. fight ye all out, IV, 173, 6: through, to the last.

out into, I, 115, B 2: from within.

out of hand, II, 321, 3; III, 440, 25: forthwith.

out the gate, way, IV, 470, 21; 477, 12: along the way.

outehorne, III, 26, 87 (the original and popular reading): here, a horn blown to call out citizens to the support of the civil authority. See Spelman’s Glossary, 1687, p. 441. Cf. V, [297] a.

outlyer, I, 175 f., D 3, 9, 15, 21: one who lives away from men, in the woods, banished man, outlaw.

out make I, 61, C c 5: make out.

outmet, p. p., III, 29, 158: measured out.

out-oer, -our(e), -ower, -owre, -over, I, 246, 13, 14; II, 256, K 1; III, 6, 19; 7, 17; 270, 13, 17: over, above. heirs out ower a’ my land, II, 176, C 8. leand himsel outowre a tree, III, 270, D 8. the flower out ower (owr) them a’, II, 256, L 1; III, 246, D 7. out oer her, IV, 224, 19, should perhaps be, out o’ her.

outrake, III, 413, 32: excursion, outing.

outside, outsyde, II, 444, 43; 449, 48: place apart, retired.

outspeckle, IV, 7, 30; V, [250], 27: laughing-stock.

outthro, IV, 445, 20: through to the opposite side.

outwood, III, 179, 8: wood outside (of a town?).

ouer all, III, 28, 141: everywhere.

ouer goddes forbode, forbott. See forbode.

ouer-by-gone, I, 326, 8: covered, set.

overthrew us, V, [134], 8: threw us over.

o-vour, II, 25, F 13: half owre, half way over.

ower, owre, oure, I, 16, C 17; 80, 1: over. ower (a window): over against.

ower, owr, our, over, too.

owerturn, owreturn, I, 332, E, F 7; III, 10, 21: refrain. See owerword.

owes, who, IV, 205, 27: owns, whose is (who owns==wha’s aucht).

owerword, owre-word, oerword, II, 254, 8, 9; 363, 14; IV, 7, 28; 482 f., 8, 11: refrain (word frequently repeated), call, cry. See owerturn.

owre, II, 20, 8: or, before.

owsn, owsen, ousen, I, 465, 2; II, 175, 7, 8; 176, 8, 9; 192, 6; 194, 10; IV, 12, C 8; 27, 20: oxen.

owthe, III, 112, 51: out.

owtlay, III, 99, 43: outlaw.

oxe-lig, ox-leg.

oxtere, IV, 506, 6: (A. S. óhsta) arm-pit.

oyes, II, 315, 11; V, [229], 37: grandsons.

oysyd thare trawale, III, 41 a: used, carried on their operations.