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race, of ginger, IV, 70, G 3: root.
race, II, 445, 70, 72; 450, 77, 79; III, 278, 24, 29: course in justing. fetched a race, II, 454 f., 54, 58: took a run (for impetus); so I, 176, 22.
race, castle-race, II, 75, 15; 81, 43: course in the castle-grounds, or contour of the castle (?).
rache, I, 327 f., 10, 16, 51: a scenting dog.
rack, III, 472, 3, 4: ford. “A very shallow ford, of considerable breadth: Teviotdale.” Jamieson.
rad, V, [192], 26: afraid.
rader, rather. V, [283], 7, 17: quicker.
rader, rider.
radly, III, 98, 24: quickly. See rathely.
rae, I, 350, 21; 352, 7: roe (referring to the wildness of Tam Lin).
raid, read, rede, pret. of ride.
raid, n., IV, 520, 3: simply ride, for hunting.
raik. See rake.
rair, I, 256, 4: roar.
rais, raise, rase, pret. of rise, I, 305, 5; 327, 13; 420, 18; 422, 18; 451, 12; II, 30, 5; 92, 21; 108, 13-15; IV, 215, A 6.
raiths, rathes, reaths (Gael. ràidh), II, 314, 30; V, [268], 21, 22: quarters of a year.
rake, raik, reek, II, 216 f., 5, 30; 483, 1; III, 125, 27; 162, 47; 180, 9: walk, move. raking on a rowe, III, 117, 24; 123, 16; 180, 11: advancing in a line; on a rowte, III, 180, 9: in a company.
ramp, rider, IV, 198, G 6: wild (of manners or habits). See rank.
ramp, I, 302, B 7: spring, bounce, whisk. ramped him, I, 215 a, 7:==ramped, bounded.
randy, I, 104 a, burden of d: probably unmeaning, though the sense “indelicate hoyden” would suit with stanza 2.
rane, lang rane, II, 82, C: yarn, tedious tale.
rang, wrong.
rank (A. S. ranc, strenuus, fortis, protervus), wild, bold (turbulent), strong, violent. rank river, IV, 200, 5; 442, 4. rank robber (who robs with violence, “strong thief”): II, 223, F 4; 233, F 3; 399, 6; 400, 4; 401, C 6; 404, 6. rank reiver, III, 472, 6; IV, 195, C 3; 472, 11. rank rider, IV, 196, 4; 204, 11: rude, boisterous; but II, 434, 24; 437, 75: of spirit and courage, sturdy (stout rider, IV, 197, 3, no reference to horsemanship). ramp rider, IV, 198, G 6. rank Highlands, II, 93, 2, 3: rude, wild. ranke (of horses), II, 444, 59: high-fed (or used adverbially).
rankit, pret. and p. p., V, [197], 10: drew, drawn, up in military order.
ranshakled, IV, 6, 4; V, [249], 4: ransacked.
rantan, ranten. See ranting.
ranted, IV, 153, E 4; V, [115], 1; was rantin, IV, 85, 39: of making noisy merriment.
ranting, n., IV, 284, 26; 287, 1; 288, 1: raking.
ranting, rantin, rantan, ranten, laird, laddie, III, 455, D 1, 13; IV, 351, 1, 3 ff.; 356 f., B 1, 3, 4; V, [274] b, 3-6: jovial, dissipated, wanton, rakish, “fast;” we have a rantin lassie, IV, 354, A b 1, 2.
rap, IV, 382, 14: knock, drive. pret. rapped, rappit, rappet, at, with ellipsis of the door, I, 105 a, 29; IV, 444, 16, 35; V, [173], 1; [306] b, 1.
rap, II, 426, 12; IV, 352, 7; V, [161], B 1, 5; [274] b, 7; [302], 14: (of tears) to fall in quick succession.
rape, rope.
rarely, IV, 58, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11; 358, 20, 21: rhyme-word (to which any one can assign all the sense it has). as adj., IV, 154, 7: rare.
rase, pret. of rise. See rais.
rash, n., IV, 75 a, b; 76, 1; 448 b, 5 (rash-bush); 524, 4, 7; V, [157], 12: rush.
rashin, V, [173], 7: rushen, of rush.
rassiecot, V, [107], 2: perhaps of no meaning, or, rush-coat.
rathely, I, 327, 13: quickly. See radly.
rathes, II, 314, 30. See raiths.
rau, row. See rawe.
raught, I, 434, 36: reached, delivered.
rauked, I, 69, 61: searched, rummaged. (Misprinted ranked.)
rave, reave, rive, pret. of rive, I, 439, 5; II, 294, 32; IV, 181, 15. See rive.
ravie (rave?), V, [111], 19: rive. raving, V, [254], 14, 18, 19: tearing.
raw, green raw sea, II, 30, 6: as of weather, wet and cold; but I am informed that the singer ordinarily gave haw, as II, 28, 21.
rawe, rewe, n., III, 71, 306: row.
rawstye by the roote, III, 94, 56: rusty, soiled, foul, (with blood) at the end (?).
ray, n. and v., III, 112, 60; 201, 17; 406, 29; V, [83], b 3: array. V, [192], 34: make ready, saddle.
ray, n., IV, 3, 22: track.
raye, III, 67, 230: striped cloth.
raysse, III, 295, 2: riding, raid.
reacheles on, III, 93, 38: reckless of, heedless about.
read, pret. of ride, IV, 457, 23; V, [166], 11; [228], 25.
read, I, 309, B 1; 310, B b: rehearse, tell.
read (of dreams), IV, 167, D 9, 10; 171, 11; 172, 12, etc.; 180, C 3; 190, 23; V, [221], 24; [224], 23; [257], 14: interpret, give an issue to.
read, reade, rede, red, redd, n., II, 53, 34, 35; 182, 4: advice. See rede.
read, reade, red, v., II, 52 f., 6, 34; III, 104, 2, 4; 105, 25: advise. read my rede, II, 186, 1: corrupted from riddle my riddle, 187, 2, 8. See riddle.
readilie, readylye, II, 23, E 7; 444, 43: (without difficulty or hesitation) certainly.
ready, V, [75], 6, 7; [81], 10: direct. readye, II, 58, 16: indubitable, certain.
reaf, reif, III, 458 b: plunder.
reak, smoke. See reek.
reaming, a suit o claise were o the apple reamin, IV, 176, 15: reaming==creaming, foaming, which of course gives little or no meaning. Apples were sometimes used to scent clothes.
rean, rin, run.
reap, V, [165] f., 6, 9:==ripe, search, rummage; see V, [306], 9.
reapen, p. p. of reap, II, 9, 26.
rear, rare.
reas, praise. See roos.
reas, ryse, III, 307, 5: rouse.
reast, reest, V, [256] b, 4: roost.
reaths. See raiths.
reave, IV, 26, 1: rob.
reave, rave, rive, pret. of rive, I, 442, 6; IV, 416, 18.
reavel(l)d, II, 140, 19, 20: ravelled, disordered (of hair).
reaver, rever, riever, IV, 85, 2: robber.
recher, compar., V, [283], 10, 20: richer.
reck, v., II, 340 b, 2d line: rock (perhaps miswritten).
recones, IV, 496 b: reckonings.
record, sma, III, 319, 22: note.
red, redd, rede, n., II, 182, 4; III, 112, 58: counsel. I, 22, B 1; 227 a, 5: talk, tale. See read.
red, redd, rede, reid, v., I, 329, 58; II, 59, 20; 62 a, 15; 182, 4, 6, 9, 10; 272, 6; IV, 495, 2; V, [191], 8: advise.
red, III, 163, 80: to rid, clear out. of hair, comb (see redding-kaim). red the question, II, 253, 18: clear up, settle.
red lan(d), I, 16, C 11; IV, 274, 6; V, [206] a, 5: cleared, ploughed.
red river comb, II, 216, 19, 21: corrupted, as are other versions in this passage.
redding-kaim, reeding-comb, III, 452, 8; IV, 515, 7: comb (for disentangling).
rede. See red.
rede, p. p., III, 298, 53: read, divined, discerned.
rede, pret. of ride, III, 63, 134 (reden, they rode); IV, 182, F 5. See read.
redly, III, 67, 223: quickly.
reeding-comb. See redding-kaim.
reef, I, 333, 5: roof.
reef-tree, I, 299, 5: roof-tree, beam in the angle of a roof.
reek, reak, reik, n., II, 191, 24; 193, 21; 195, 33; III, 433, C 6-8, D 12; 434, 15; 435, 14; IV, 514, 16, 20: smoke.
reek, v., I, 304, E 3; II, 30, L 2; V, [152], E b 1: rake, range, move, turn. See rake.
reekit, V, [108], B 7: smoked, smoky.
reel, reel went round, V, [155], C 2: revel, riot (of merry-makers)?
reem, II, 335, N 7: room.
reest, reast, IV, 189, 3, 4: roost.
reet, I, 367, 7; V, [213], 8: root.
reeve, V, [69] b: bailiff, steward. pl. reues.
refell, I, 110, 22: repel.
refer, message, II, 286, C 10: report, announce.
regulate, III, 509, 1, 7: corruption of, riddle it.
reid, v., V, [200] a, after 50: advise.
reif, reiff, III, 365 b; 471, note ‡; V, [198] b, after 52: robbery.
reign, II, 8, 1: for rhyme; range ? or rein, as 9, b 1.
reik, smoke. See reek.
reill, reel.
reiver, rever, riever, III, 472, 6; 473, 22: robber. See reaver.
rejoyfull, IV, 173, 7: rejoicing.
remeid, II, 367, 42; 371, 13; IV, 405, 49; 428, 7: remedy.
remorse, III, 209, 10; 231, 94: compassion.
remoued, II, 58, 4: agitated.
renisht, renisht them to ride of twoe good renisht steeds, II, 52, 8; 53, 42 (42 emended from, on tow good renish, in conformity with 8): should have some such meaning as accoutred, but a derivation is not to be made out. Qy. [ha]renisht, harnessed?
renown, spake wi renown, IV, 348, 11: force of authority (of prestige), or, with the air of a person of repute.
repair, II, 163, 18: resort to? fix upon? (probably nonsense for rhyme).
require, II, 427, 6: ask for. (Other texts, inquire.)
reset, IV, 281 a: harboring.
respect, in respect, III, 364 b: considering.
rest, pret. of rest, IV, 424, 12.
restore, IV, 425, 8: restore, because the morning-gift would revert to the father and be at his disposition, no son having been born.
retour, IV, 91, note †: return.
returned, III, 356, 33: turned away.
reuelle, I, 328, 51, 52: festivity.
rever, III, 458 b; IV, 472, 11: robber. See reaver.
reues, III, 68, 254: bailiffs. See reeve.
rewe, be rewe, II, 479, 15: in a row, one after another, each of the whole class. See rawe.
rewth, III, 28, 136: pity.
ribless kiln, I, 18, F 11: the ribs of a kiln for drying grain are the cross-beams, on which were laid the “stickles,” or short pieces of wood, to support a layer of straw (or hair-cloth, or bricks) on which the grain was placed. It would of course be impossible to dry grain on a ribless kiln.
rid, ried, red.
riddle, II, 184, 5, 8, 11, 18; 186, 1; 187, 2, 8; 196, e 1, 7: resolve. riddle my riddle, 187, 2, 8: resolve my dilemma. read my rede, 186, 1, is probably corrupted from riddle my riddle; cf. 187, 2, 8.
ried, ride.
rien, V, [161], 9; [162], B 6: riven.
riever, reiver, rever, IV, 84, 8; 195, C 3: robber. See reaver.
rig, rigg, riggin, ridge.
rig, rigg, of land, I, 19, 9; II, 152, 11; V, [164], 16; rig-length, III, 273, 23: a measure of land 600 feet by 15, containing 9000 square feet. Donaldson.
riggin, III, 459, 5: ridge.
right, III, 356, 19: right off, directly.
rigland, land under the plough, and so in rigs, ridges. rigland shire, II, 132, 32: a shire of such land (?).
rin, rine, rean, V, [221], 15: run.
ring, plural, II, 285, 16 f.: misprint in Scott?
ring (dancing), II, 104, 23; so, take me to the middel o the ring, V, [273], 12.
ring, knocked at the, with the, ring, II, 187, 12; 201, 2; 459, 10; III, 106, 4; 250, 11. rappit wi a, II, 462, 10. rapped on the, V, [293] b, 10. pulled at a, II, 490, D b 9. tinkled at the, II, 196 b, 4; 251, 4; 266, 7; 267, 9; 393, 11; 475, K 6: the hammer of a doorknocker. But, perhaps, in the case of tinkling, the ring may have been gently drawn up and down or struck against the projecting bow or rod of a door-handle (often wound with a spiral), an operation which, when vigorously performed, is described as risping or rasping.
ring (game), to ride at the ring, III, 448, A 3: to attempt, while at full gallop, to carry off, on the point of a rod, a ring suspended on a cross-beam resting on two upright posts. Jamieson.
ring and the ba, IV, 257, 4; 354, A b 1, 2: a game in which a ring was thrown up, and a ball was to be thrown through before the ring fell. Dr. W. Gregor. The rantin lassie plays at this, IV, 354.
ringle-tree, V, [112], B b 11: probably the huge block of wood used for scutching flax and mangling clothes. An old game-keeper tells me that he has heard the word and so understands it. When not in use for beating flax, the beetle and tree-block were used by the women to mangle their clothes after washing. W. Walker.
ripe, reap, rype, III, 160, 16; 163, 83, 84; V, [306], 9: search, rummage, clear or clean out, rifle.
rise, III, 332, 2: branch.
rise==raise: III, 513 b, 4. pret. rose, 514 a, 5. See ryse.
rise, pret. of rise, III, 369, 17.
rise, did on anchor rise so high, III, 344, 34: said of a ship in full sail; no apparent sense. (ride in B c, g, 347, 34; upon an anchor rose so high in h, 349, 34.)
rispen, fine rispen kame, II, 225, J 2: keen, sharp, risping, rasping? or, p. p., filed? (This passage is variously corrupted in different versions.)
ritted, II, 295, B b 4, 22: stuck, stabbed.
rive, rave, reave, pret. of rive, tear, V, [256], 13. p. p. II, 465, 4, 6, 8.
rive up, I, 303, 7: plough up, tear up.
riued, I, 284, 9: arrived, travelled.
river, III, 364 b: robber. See reaver.
river-comb, red, II, 216, A 19: is river a corruption of ivory? In B 2, 4, it is a tabean brirben kame. H 1, brown berry comb. J 2, fine rispen kame: fine-filed (?). All seem to be badly corrupted.
rook, roke, IV, 84, 14; 85, 4; 86, 6; 87, 4; V, [254] a, 4: distaff.
rocked, rocket, roked, II, 191, 24; 195, 33: smoked.
rod, III, 8, 21: a bier was extemporized by taking rods from bushes for spakes, spokes, or bars.
roddins, II, 408, 19, 20; 409 f., 21, 23: berries of mountain ash. (But the berries are said to grow on yonder thorn, 409, 21.)
rode, rood.
roelle-bone, I, 326; 6. royal bone, I, 466 f., 10, 33; royal ben, I, 478 f., 12, 46: interpreted variously, without satisfaction. See rewel-boon, Professor Skeat’s note to Chaucer’s Sir Thopas, v. 2068. Hertzberg suggests Reval bone, mammoth tooth, fossil ivory, imported into western Europe via Reval, Chaucer Nachlese, in Jahrbuch für Rom. und Engl. Litteratur, VIII, 164 f.; and Prof. Skeat (with a different derivation), ivory of the walrus, citing Godefroy, “rochal, ivoire de morse.”
roke, III, 298, 51: reek, vapor.
roke, V, [254] a, 4: rock, distaff. See rock.
roked, rocket, rocked, II, 191, 24; 193, 21; 195, 33; V, [224], 19: smoked.
rom, V, [304] b, 2: room.
rood, III, 93, 28: rod (a measure).
rood, four and thirty stripes comen beside the rood, II, 59, 29: referring to the scourging of Jesus (?).
room ye roun, II, 89, 29: move round so as to make room.
roome, III, 36, 44: companye (the reading in b).
roos, rous, reas, v., IV, 69, 21; 378, 2; 379, 2; 384, 2; V, [275], 2: to praise, laud, boast.
roose, n., IV, 503, 19: rose.
roosing, rosin, rousing, n., IV, 378, 1; 379, 1; 383, 1; V, [275], 1: praising, boasting, bragging.
root, I, 304, F 5: the end of a rafter, resting on a wall. ring of an auld tree-root, I, 304, F 4: hoops are sometimes made of tree-roots, which are very tough; the point here is the size of the fingers which such a ring would fit.
root of his sword, III, 268, 11: a blunder; see note, III, 275.
rose-garlonde, III, 75, 398: a “garland” appears to have been attached to the yerdes (397), and every shot outside of the garland was accounted a failure. The garland as the limit of allowable shots is mentioned at 93, 31. This must have been an extemporized ring of twigs in the latter case, and was so, perhaps, in the other, for it is likely that the term would become conventional, and mean, as Mr C. J. Longman suggests, nothing more than a disk with circular rings, such as survive to this day in archery targets.
rosin, V, [275], 11: boasting. See roosing.
rosses, roses.
rottens, rottons, I, 466, 8; V, [124], 6: rats.
roudes, II, 284, 4: haggard (subst., an old wrinkled woman).
roun, rown, round, III, 199, 28; 356, 19: whisper.
rounin(g), n., V, [256], 10: whispering.
round, so it went round, IV, 146, 7: so much it came to (?).
round tables, II, 343, 1: a game.
roundlie, I, 104, 6: at a good pace.
rous, roos, reas, IV, 379, 2; V, [275], 2: boast of.
rousing, n., boasting. See roosing.
rout, n., III, 160, 22: blow.
rout, n., IV, 113, 3; 114, D 1: row, brawl, disturbance.
rout, v., II, 318 a; IV, 378, 5; 380, 11: roar. IV, 6, 15; V, [250], 14: bellow.
route, rowte, rowght, III, 23, 22; 26, 88; 180, 9; 207, 33: company, band, crowd. In III, 297, 33: perhaps mêlée, affray.
routh, I, 298, 1: plenty.
row, rough.
row, rowe, I, 71, 61; 80, 33; 441, 6, 8; II, 443, 35; 448, 39; IV, 267, 9; 269 b, 9: roll. pret. and p. p. rowed, rowd, rowit, rowt, I, 441, 7, 9; IV, 274, 15; V, [106], D 7: rolled, wound.
rowan, rowon, rown, tree, II, 504, 18: mountain-ash.
rowe, on a, III, 67, 229; 117, 24: in a line, file.
row-footed, III, 473, 25: rough-footed.
rowght, III, 297, 33: company. ryall in rowghte, kingly among men. See route.
rowght, wrought.
rown, I, 312, 17, 22: rowan, mountain-ash. See rowan.
rown, roun, round, III, 356, 19: whisper.
rowt, pret., V, [106], D 7: rolled. See row.
rowte. See route.
rowynde, III, 297, 33: round.
royal bone, royal ben. See roelle-bone.
royaltye, III, 411, 5: splendid display, or the like.
rub-chadler, rub-chandler, I, 285 f., 31, 43: rubbish-barrel. See I, 279.
rudd, n., I, 272, 13, 20, 24: (redness) complexion, face.
rudd, v., IV, 28, 34: redden.
rudely, III, 162, 49: sturdily.
rue, III, 220, 6: cause to rue.
rugge, I, 243, 2: back.
rule, III, 98, 32: going on, taking on, noisy bewailing.
run, IV, 289, F 6: issue, outcome (said to be slang).
run, red runs i the rain, II, 304, 4: gives no sense, and so of Scott’s reading at this place, the red sun’s on the rain. It will be observed that the day has not dawned.
run a reel, II, 108, 17: gone through, danced.
rung, I, 202, A 12; III, 161, 43; IV, 444, 20: staff, pike-staff.
rung (of the noise of a cannon), n., IV, 52, 14: ring; appears to have been altered, for rhyme, from ring, which is in two other copies.
rusty, V, [151], E 6: surly.
rybybe, I, 328, 49: a stringed instrument.
ryght, straight, directly, ryȝth, V, [283], 14: aright.
rynde, be rynde and rent, III, 297, 42: flayed., (rynde should perhaps be riven.)
rype, v. See ripe.
ryse, III, 22, 2; 23, 20: rouse. See rise.
rysse, I, 328, 39: probably rising ground, elevation (compare mountayne, playne, delle, hill, in 38, 40-42: not twig, brushwood).
rysyt, I, 242, 11: riseth (old imperat. pl.), rise.