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s, se, as sign of the future tense. I’se, III, 488, 19; IV, 428, 18. thou’s,’se, IV, 3, 31; 12, C 6. he’s, hee’se, II, 442, 16; IV, 146, 6. we’s, I, 467, 29; IV, 181, D 14. ye’se, IV, 22, 18; 109, 7. yow’s, IV, 504, 36. they’s, IV, 486, 32. itt’s, II, 443, 22. heart’s, IV, 181, 17. Jocky Ha’s, III, 487, 6. thy dinner’s, III, 489, 41. (The s being the initial letter of sal, it would be better to write I s’, etc.) s attached to the verb, be’s, III, 160, 9. We even find shals, I, 481, 28.
-s (-is), of the genitive, omitted, III, 97 f., 8, 23, 28; 111, 39. moder son, III, 98, 24, 27, as in A. S.
’s, II, 375, 19: of his.
-s (-se), termination of the 2d pers. sing, of the pres. indic. thou was, I, 222, E 11; seese þou, I, 328, 38-42; þou commes, 44. thou’s welcome, III, 488, 24. shals thou, I, 481, 28. istow, 175 f., D 4, 10, 16. See I, 130, 5; 327, 20; 328 f., 56, 58; 341, 13; 411, 4; 413, 3; II, 54, 57; 148 f., 12, 20; 218, 8, 10, 16; III, 97, 11, 15; 99, 62; 110, 23. Etc., etc.
-s, -es, -ys, termination of pres. indic. plur. cods that sleeps, cheeks gars, bairns has, lies men, raches rynnys, fowles synges, I, 68, 29; 115, C 3; 130, F 11; 327, 16; 329, 59; 342, 40; 345, 39; II, 32, P 4. So, is, was, I, 68, 27; 69, 43; 255, 3-5; 342, 30; 344, 28; II, 71, 13, 14. Etc.
saa, pret., saw.
sabelline, I, 221, D 8, 9: sable.
sackless, sakeless, saikless, II, 145, 22, 23; 153, 19, 21; III, 437, 27; IV, 373, 9: innocent.
sad, III, 67, 215; 357, 40: steadfast, firm, stanch.
saep, v., III, 269, D 3: soap.
saerd, p. p., IV, 494, 33: served.
safe, II, 160, 4, 6, 7: save.
safeguard, V, [66], 11: riding-skirt.
safer, V, [283], 21: saffron.
safly, IV, 18, 10: softly.
saft (of sleep), III, 489, 11: lightly.
saikless. See sackless.
sain, I, 351, 36, 48: cross, bless. p. p. sained, I, 354, 26. ill sained, pret., I, 350, 25. well saint, p. p., III, 488, 37.
saint, III, 488, 37: blest. See sain.
saint, v., disappear. See sainted.
St Mary knot(t), III, 465, 26, 27: a triple knot (see 462, note *).
sainted, saunted, I, 331, C 8; 333 b, 8: disappeared.
saipy-sapples, I, 303, D 5 (the right reading): soap-suds in which clothes have been washed (probably meaning the strang of V, [213], 5).
sair, sore. I, 100, 9: lamentable.
sair, sare, saer, sere, I, 301, 2; II, 71, 15; 105, 9; 408, 1, 2; IV, 248, 10; V, [105], B 3, 11; [239], 34: serve.
sairly, IV, 358, 19: rhyme word; much is all the meaning.
sait, set.
sakeless. See sackless.
sale, V, [228], 19: sold.
sall, shall, pret. sould.
sally rod, III, 252, 12: sallow, willow.
salten, adj., IV, 452, 6; 475, 6: salt.
salued, III, 61, 102: greeted.
Saluter, III, 250, 3: corrupted from Sir Hugh (see other versions of the ballad).
same, alle in same, III 91 a: all, together. vppon the same, III, 361, b 33: again, after the same fashion (?).
san, sane, sayn, syne, V, [214] f., 4, 9; [221], 24; [242] a, 7; [257], 14: since.
sanchoþis, of his bryk, III, 13, 3: apparently the fork of the breeches, but the etymology is to me inexplicable.
sang, pret. of sing, to singe, II, 155, 37, 38.
sanna, shall not.
sarbit, II, 132, 33, 34: exclamation of sorrow.
sare, serve. See sair. sare a man a wear, I, 301, 2: serve, supply, a man (of) with his wear, clothing.
sark, I, 15, 8, 17; 16, B 8, 18, C 6, 18, etc.; 387 f., A 5, 8, 9; B 5, 6, 7: shirt, shift.
sarsenent, IV, 312, 8: sarcenet.
sassaray, II, 209, E 5: imitation of the sound of church-bells. See céserará.
sat, saut, I, 310, 4: salt.
sate, sit a gude sate, a silly sate, IV, 469, 8: occupy, be in, a good, pitiable, position.
sathe, I, 333, appendix 1, wrongly written (or read) for sagh (or something equivalent), saw. (th in this piece very frequent for gh.)
saugh, III, 459, 15; IV, 95, 2: willow.
saun faile, V, [297] b: assuredly.
saunted, sainted, I, 331, C 8; 335 b, 8: disappeared.
saut, sat, IV, 258, 26: salt.
saute, III, 327 b: assault, attack.
sauyour, see (saw) my sauyour, III, 97, 7: attended mass, or, took the sacrament.
saving tree, III, 398, D 4: corruption of savin tree.
saw, v., I, 427, 13, 15; 428, 11: sow.
sawe, p. p. of see, III, 59, 60.
sawe, speech.
sawten, v., 3 pl., III, 100, 63: assault, attack.
sawtrye, I, 328, 49: psaltery, a stringed instrument.
say, II, 87, 30: try.
say, saye, pret. of see, III, 111, 34; 309, 44; V, [79], 35; [80], 47.
sayn, san, sane, syne, V, [239], 34; [254], 9, 11, 13, 22; [257], 15: since, then.
sayne, I, 70, 19, strong participle of say. In, I yow sayne, III, 297, 46, an auxiliary, do or can, must be omitted, or else we must read saye, as in 32, 34, 62, 65.
scad, I, 102, 12: reflection (of the color of). In other texts, shade, shadow, I, 490, 21; 491, 20; 492, 12.
scaith, skaith, scath, n., III, 162, 52, 66: hurt.
scaith, skaith, v., III, 5, D 8; 6, 17: hurt.
scale, I, 429, 11: a drinking-vessel. (Icelandic skál, Danish skaal, a bowl for drinking.)
scale, III, 403 a: scatter, disperse. III, 393, 6: expel, drive away. scaling wide, III, 301, D 2: scattering, covering a good deal of ground.
scales, V, [211], 25, 31-34: discs worn as ornaments on the head.
scanct, I, 336 a, last line but one: shone, gleamed.
scarson, II, 434, 29: scarcely up to.
scart, I, 301, 5, 6; 303, D 2: scratch, scrape.
scath, scaith, n., I, 284, 18: harm.
scathe, awayte me scathe, III, 66, 202; wayte me skathe, wait me scath, III, 83, 202; 86, 202: lie in wait, seek an opportunity to do me harm.
scathe away, I, 348 f., 5, 8: expel, get rid of? See skaith, I, 397, 14.
scaur, Braidscaur, III, 5, D 2, 6: a bare and broken place on a steep hill; also, cliff, precipice. Broadspear, 6, 2, 5, is probably a corruption.
Scere-thorsday, I, 243, 1: Maundy Thursday, Thursday before Easter. (Icelandic Skíri-þorsdagr.)
schane, pret., shone.
scharpper, compar., V, [283], 6, 16: sharper. V, [283], 8: emend to strenger.
schele, scheel, II, 164, 2; 335, N 5; IV, 328, A b, after 7: school. See schule.
schet, schette, pret. of schote, shoot, III, 13 f., 13, 15.
schill. See shill.
scho, II, 146, 19; IV, 418, 2: she.
schon, shon, shone, V, [79], 27: shoes. See sheen.
schoote his horsse away, froo, III, 297, 32, 33: discarded, sent off.
schrewde (arrow), III, 13, 6: accursed, pernicious, baneful.
schule, scheel, squeel, II, 175, 16; IV, 327 f., 2, 5; 329, D d 7: school.
schunte besides, beside, III, 361, b, c 38, 41: turn aside from.
schylde, imperat., V, [283], 14: shield, protect.
sckill, I, 295, 28: reason, judgment. See skill.
sclasps, twa lang sclasps between his eyes, IV, 489, 25: clasps. Span would answer were it not that there are but three sclasps between the shoulders. (In L 18, of the same ballad, II, 394, there are three women’s spang (span) between his brows.) If sclasps were taken in the sense of fathom, the space between the arms extended, this would suit the shoulders well enough, but the absurd disproportion in relation to the eyes would remain. Probably yard or ell has dropped out in 254. (yards three in L 18.)
sclavin, I, 190 a: pilgrim’s cloak.
scob(b), scope, scoup, II, 313, 26; 316, 10: gag.
scop, III, 138, 9: (scalp) pate, head.
scope, scoup, scob, II, 312, 29; V, [229], 33: gag.
score. See cor.
scorn, skorne, II, 105, 20; III, 113, 77: shame, humiliation, mortification. give the, this, a, scorn, III, 111, 12; 360, 23; 362, 35; 363, D 14; 367, 49; IV, 201, 23; 224, 24, 25; 254, 25; 357, B 6, 10; 358, 16; 465, 35, 36: put to shame, subject to humiliation (especially, by showing a preference as to marriage, or by slighting a woman). So, playd you the scorn, IV, 483, 25; get the scorn, II, 367, 47; IV, 221, 16; 222, 18, 19; 227, 16, 17; 228, 19; 230, 24.
scort, I, 334, 4: short.
scoup, n., V, [229], 33: gag. See scob, scope.
scoup, v., II, 70, 15: move hastily from one place to another, fly.
scouth, III, 161, 42: room, range.
scray, III, 116, 4, as to form suggests scrag, scrog; but the meaning required is, branches, branchage, or even spray.
scread, II, 425, A 6: shred, bit, piece.
screeded (or scrieded), pret., II, 212, 13: rent.
screeking, screehing, II, 485, 17: screeching.
screfë, screffë, shryvë, III, 111 ff., 27, 33, 38-42, etc.: sheriff.
screighed, IV, 174, 20: shrieked.
scrieded. See screeded.
scrime, IV, 10, 2; serime, 15, d 2: seem to be corrupt; possibly, crime; pursuing the crime for pursuing the criminal.
scrodeley, V, [79], 14: shrewdly, rudely, ungraciously.
scroggs, scrogs, III, 3, 12; 5, C 3; 7, E, F 11; 9, G 10, H 13; 10, I 5; IV, 496, 8: stunted bushes, or perhaps trees; underwood. “Scroggs, blackthorn.” Halliwell, from a MS. scrogg-bush, V, [10], 4 (high enough here to hang the pair on).
scroggy, scroggie, IV, 174, 10; 273, 14: covered with stunted bushes; “abounding in underwood,” Halliwell.
scug, to scug his deadly sin, II, 283, 22: shade, screen. (Icel. skyggja, overshadow; Dan. skygge, Swed. skugga, shade.) expiate, W. Scott.
scuttle-dishes, II, 467, 43: the larger dishes, in which things are served, in distinction from those out of which things are eaten (T. Davidson); platters.
se, sign of the future tense. See s.
se, pret. of see. See see.
sea-ground, I, 448, 11: bottom of the sea.
sea-maw, II, 363, 7; 365, 5; IV, 482 b, 6: gull.
seal, IV, 409, 5: (A. S. sǽl) happiness, blessing. gude seal that it sae spread, II, 420, 1: (happiness result from its spreading?) quod faustum sit!
seale, III, 412, 24: sail.
sear, sair, IV, 456 f., 15, 19: sore.
sear, V, [223], 8: sure.
sear, serve. See sair.
search her, IV, 446, 2: look her up, see about her, overhaul (should, perhaps, be seek, visit).
seat, V, [274] b, 1: sight.
seck, I, 15, 15: sack.
Second person of pret. indic. without termination, thou made, thou did, thou came, etc., I, 221, C 9; 222, E 10-17; 434, 27; II, 148 f., 12, 14, 20; 218, 16. So, thou will, schall, thou’ll, well thow, I, 130, 4; 221, C 10, 11; III, 110, 24; 112, 48.
securly, III, 98, 34: surely.
see (videre), pret. say, saye, sey, se, see, seed. pret. se, see, I, 283, 1; 295, 27; II, 46, 40; 245, 27; III, 24, 47; 27, 99; 97, 19. p. p. se, III, 27, 102.
see, save and se(e), II, 44, 6, 15; 52 f., 10, 18, 44; III, 65, 177; IV, 198, G 4; 455, 4: protect (tueri).
see, well mot ye fare and see, III, 266, 3: as here used, see well would have to mean, see prosperity; but apparently there is a confusion of well may you fare and God see you, protect you (as in, save and see). In B 3, p. 268, weel may ye save might mean, may God save you, but far better, in the next line, is not in concatenation, and we shall be obliged to understand weel as good fortune. The passage must be corrupted. well may you sit and see, lady, well may you sit and say, II, 290, 15: (corrupted) nonsense.
see, sigh and see, IV, 193, 14: apparently a doublet of sigh, as ne of neigh and nigh, he of high.
see, n., V, [283], 5, 15: sea.
seed, pret. of see, IV, 151, 6.
seek, seke, I, 75, 46; II, 146, 18, 20; 171, 16; III, 68, 255; V, [256] b, 14: search. I, 202, 16; 204, 11; V, [211], 19, 23: ask. socht, II, 30, 8: asked for. partic. seek and, seeking.
seek in, V, [180], 13, 15: ask admission.
seeke to, unto, III, 444, 5: resort to.
seel o downs, IV, 218, 12: chelidonium, celandine, mallow-wort.
seely, happy. seely court, I, 315, 12; 507 f., 2, 12: fairy court (as I, 346, 16; elfin court, 351, 30).
seen, I, 504, 7: sun.
seen, I, 183, 9, 15; II, 166, 20; 257, 30; IV, 135, 25: soon. seener, IV, 262, 31.
seen==syne, afterwards.
seene, I seene, V, [53], 105: ellipsis of have.
seep, II, 148, 10: ooze, leak.
seeth, III, 281, 7: sooth.
seke, III, 68, 255; 100, 76: search. See seek.
seke, to, III, 110, 14: at a loss.
seker, III, 67, 215: firm, resolute.
sekirlye, I, 327, 18: certainly, truly.
seld, IV, 2, 2: sold.
selerer, III, 61, 91, 93; 67, 233: the monk who has charge of the provisioning of a convent.
selke, V, [283], 21: silk.
selkie, silkie, II, 494 a: seal.
selle, I, 326, 6: saddle.
semblant, semblaunce, semblaunte, semblaunt, III, 57, 22; 79, 22; 82, 22; 85, 22: mein, look.
sembled, III, 160, 15: met. (b, asembled.)
sen, sent.
sen, II, 32, Q 2; 110, 2; 272, 10, 12: since.
send, sene, II, 360, 10; 365 f., (10), 17, 18: a thing sent. II, 109, 15: the messengers sent to fetch the bride.
send, pret., I, 204, D 3: sent.
sendered, IV, 229, 12, 16: sundered, parted.
senes, IV, 315, 2; 316, 25: sends, messages. See send.
sent, III, 75, 384: sendeth.
sent, sent I me, III, 76, 414: assent.
sentence past, IV, 514, 6: order given.
sere, serve. See sair.
serre, II, 59, 29: sair, sore? (MS. serrett).
serundad, surunded, V, [262], No 225, A 3; [263], 4: surrounded.
servit, II, 371, 5: (serviette) table-napkin.
seruyd him of bred and cloth, I, 241, 1: for would make an easier reading than of, which will have to be understood, on terms of (receiving food and clothing).
set, V, [80], 57: sitteth.
set, II, 168, 1; 282, 7; 463, 19, 25; III, 216, 29; IV, 135, 20; 204, 9; 331, 18: sit, become, suit. set a petticoat, IV, 331, 18: became (looked well in) the petticoat. See become.
set, p. p., III, 37, 61: fixed, determined. See set for, below.
set her brest (and swom), II, 459, 8: brought her breast to a level with the water. (Elsewhere, smoothed.)
set, set a mill, I, 134, O, 8: to stop the machinery by turning off the water from the wheel.
set, set the monke to-fore the brest, III, 67, 223: assailed, shot at.
set (sete, and wrongly sat) a dynt on, vppon, of, III, 309, 42, 45, 46: inflicted a blow, stroke.
set by, IV, 11, 15, 20: lay aside, cease, let be.
set for, IV, 229, 12, 16: set upon, bent upon.
set them up in temper wood, IV, 222, 20: corrupt. See note, 231, D 20.
sete, n., III, 63, 133: suit, dress.
sett, III, 340, 31: take aim.
settle by, IV, 219, 13: set you aside (?).
settled, gun, III, 341, 44: levelled, adjusted.
sevent, II, 75, 7: seventh.
several, III, 224, 13: variously.
sey, pret. of see, V, [80], 41.
seyn, syen, syne, then, afterwards.
seyte, neys seyte, V, [80], 39: pretty sight!
sez I, V, [304], b, 4: say(s) I.
sha, shaw, V, [267], 10: show.
shack, shake, IV, 325, 9; 326, 7: shake straw so that the corn may fall out (?).
shade, shadow, scad, I, 101, 13; 490, 21; 491, 20; 492, 12: reflection (of the color of). We have, shaddoowes greene, in one copy of Adam Bell, see III, 32, 48.
shaft their arrows on the wa, IV, 3, 16: so in both copies, unintelligible; corrected by Scott to sharp.
shaftmont, shathmont, I, 330 f., A 2, B 2, C 2; 332, E 2: the measure from the top of the extended thumb to the extremity of the palm, six inches. (A. S. “ix. scæfta munda.” Lex. Ath.)
shake. See shack.
shals thou, I, 481, 28. See s as sign of the future tense.
shambo, II, 376, 26: shamoy, chamois.
shame, the, II, 70, 15; III, 464, 11; 466 f., 44, 52, 58: euphemism for the Devil. shame a ma, III, 490, 15, 27, 29: devil a bit.
shamefu reel, II, 110, 28: the first reel that is danced with the bride, her maiden, and two young men; called the Shame Spring or Reel, because the bride chooses the tune. Buchan.
shames death, II, 60, 41; III, 330, 14: death of shame, shameful death.
shamly, III, 80, 337: shamefully.
shane, pret. of sheen, shine, IV, 469 a, 11.
shank, IV, 37, A 6, B 8: the projecting point of a hill, joining it with the plain.
shapen, III, 79, 81, 85, 50: devised, ordained.
share, I, 388, B 7; IV, 416, 17: cutting, portion.
shathmont. See shaftmont.
shaw, shawe, I, 422, 3; III, 91, 1; 97, 1; V, [250], 25: wood, thicket. See wode shawe. In Teviotdale shawe is “a piece of ground which becomes suddenly flat at the bottom of a hill or steep bank.” Jamieson. So, perhaps, V, [250], 25.
shaw, sha, show.
shay, V, [110], 8, 9: shy.
she, III, 318, 4: spurious Highland dialect, representing he, they, and even Highlander, for which she, her, hernanesell have become a nickname. (The Gaelic having no word for the neuter it, the masc. e and fem. i do duty for the absent form. i in some Highland districts is largely used in speaking of sexless objects.)
sheaf, shefe, of arrows, III, 3, 5; 62, 131: bundle of twenty-four. Cf. II, 168, 5; III, 13, 9.
shealin, shiel, shielin, shielen, shieling, shield, IV, 258, 23; 259, 17; 260, 16; 262, 27, 29; 266, 17: herdsman’s hut.
shear, III, 307, 6, 8: several. (Scot. seir.)
sheave, shive, n., I, 470, 32; II, 358, 27; 367, 44; V, [16], 13, 14; [18], 3, 4; [219], 25: slice.
sheave, v., IV, 476, 7: slice.
sheave-wisps, V, [213], 5: wisps of straw from a sheaf, put by peasants into their shoes for more warmth.
shed, II, 116, 27; 118, 21: a piece of ground on which corn grows, so called as being separate from adjacent land.
shed by (hair), II, 129, 26, 27: parted, threw off from the face on both sides. shed back, II, 135, 39 (shook back, 135, 38).
shedd, pret. See sheede.
shee, shie, I, 68, 9, 12; III, 271, F 9; 384, 9: shoe.
sheed, V, [251], 36: sheet.
sheede, I, 273, 43, 44: shed, spill.
sheen, sheene, sheyne, I, 490, 7; II, 52, 5, 11; 372, A b 2; III, 24, 48; 91, 1; 97, 1: shining, bright, beautiful. (bright is also beautiful, I, 285, 25; 293, 2.) In, shawes been sheene, III, 91 and 97, 1; shadowes sheene, III, 24, 48, we must take sheene in the secondary sense, beautiful.
sheen, shene, I, 176, 2, 7, 12; II, 395, 17; IV, 380, 26; 416, 12; V, [306], 2, 3: shoes. See schon.
sheen, shene, v., III, 392, 9, 10: shine. pret. shane.
sheene, n., II, 183, 13: brightness, splendor (evidently a word of Percy’s here).
shefe. See sheaf.
shend, III, 27, 114; 63, 140; 123, 13: put to shame, injure, destroy.
shent(e), p. p., III, 27, 114: blamed. III, 75, 396; 123, 13: hurt, etc.
shete, shoot. shete a peny, III, 97, 10, 11: shoot for a penny-stake. pret. shet, III, 97, 12; shyt, III, 26, 83.
sheu, IV, 289, F 9: show.
sheugh, II, 238, 6; V, [108], B 1: trench, ditch, furrow.
shew, I, 299, a 13; II, 332, J 6: sew.
shewed, III, 450 b: represented.
sheyne. See sheen.
shie, shoe. See shee.
shiel, shielen, shieling, shield. See shealin.
shill, schill, I, 16, 1; 17, E 1; II, 254, 10; 382, 28; 383, 29; 386, 24; IV, 200, 2; 201, 1: shrill.
shimmerd, glittered.
shin’d, pret. of shine, IV, 240, 2.
shirife, shirrfe, shrife, sheriff. See screfe.
shirrs, shears.
shive, sheave, V, [219], 25: slice.
shock, v., IV, 106 b: collide, encounter.
shoder, V, [221], 10: shoulder.
shogged, III, 332, 14: moved away.
shon, schon, shone, shoon(e), shoun, I, 69, 52; 71, 42; 73, 64; 78, 39; III, 65, 193; V, [83], 55: shoes.
shook (sword over the plain), II, 393, K 14: the MS. has shook, not strook, but strook must at any rate be meant (cf. 380, A 32). See II, 378 a.
shooled, I, 184, 10; V, [210], 10: shovelled. See shule.
shoon(e), shoun, shoes. See shon.
shoon, shoun, soon.
shoot at sun and moon, III, 201, 21; to the sun or the moon, III, 203, 18: they wish to have no mark measured, are ready to take any distance.
shope, III, 59, 64: created.
shopen, shapen, III, 82, 50: devised, ordained.
short-bread, V, [262], 22: “a thick cake of fine flour and butter, to which caraways and orange-peel are frequently added.” Jamieson. (A sweet short-bread is still well known in Scotland.)
shorten her, I, 478, 14: while away the time for herself; cf. Germ, kürzen, kurzweilen. See shortsome.
shortlye and anone, III, 23, 10: speedily.
shortsome, adj., II, 371, 2: enlivening, cheering.
shortsome, v., II, 370, 13, 14: divert (while away the time, opposed to langsum). See shorten.
shot, o wheat, IV, 459, 2: field, patch.
shot, V, [76], 9; [127], 3: reckoning. trust me one shott, V, [15], 22.
shot, II, 256, K 2==schawit, looked at(?).
shot, p. p., IV, 458, 3: shod.
shot-window, II, 122, 5; 141, 10; 177, 24; 230, 9; 322, 7; 357, 8; 368, 3; 375, 22; 376, 37, 40; III, 23, 22; 105, 20; IV, 135, 19; 151, 6; 153, E 6; 154, 11; 428, 3; 493, 12; V, [248], 8. II, 141, a princess looks out at a shot-window; II, 368, a lady draws her shot-window in her bower, harps and sings; II, 376, a knight jumps to a shot-window to escape; III, 105, Robin Hood glides out of a shot-window; IV, 135, a queen looks oer her shot-window; IV, 493, a knight goes in at a shot-window.—“Windows called shots, or shutters of timber with a few inches of glass above them.” Wodrow’s History, II, 286. But the shot-window of recent times is one turning on a hinge, above, and extensible at various angles by means of a perforated bar fitting into a peg or tooth. Donaldson, Jamieson’s Dictionary, 1882, notes that in the west of Scotland a bow-window is called an out-shot window. A bow-window would be more convenient in some of the instances cited.
shott, V, [15], 22: reckoning (oddly used here as of an ale-house.) See shot.
shouir, shower, III, 385: throe, pang. See showr.
shoulder, looked over the left, III, 339, 7; 368, 11; 369, 13, etc.: apparently a gesture of vexation or of indignant perplexity. See the passages cited at V, [286] a.
shoun, shun, shoes. See shon.
shoun, soon.
shour, sure.
shourn, V, [225], 5: shoulders,
shouther, showther, shuder, I, 21 b, 3; 302, A 7; 303, 9; 331, D 2; 332, F 2; IV, 297, 10: shoulder.
showded, V, [124], C 15: swung.
shower. See showr.
shower o his best love, I, 476, J 4: share, or cut, of his best loaf.
showing-horne, II, 437, 78: shoeing-horn, a pun on the beggar’s horn, whether as a means of sponging liquor, or of helping one to take in drink.
showne, pret., III, 37, 84: showed.
showr, shower, shouir, I, 68, 32; II, 105, 3; III, 385, 5; 386, 7: throe, paroxysm of pain.
shradds, III, 91, 1: coppices (Halliwell, perhaps conjecturally). The equivalent shard, he says, is in Yorkshire an opening in a wood. (A. S. scréadian, cut, dock?)
shrewde, shrewed, a term of vituperation; originally, cursed. thou art a shrewed dettour, III, 61, 104; thou arte a shrewde hynde, III, 64, 164: perhaps ironical (devilish pretty). shrewde wyle, III, 65, 181: clever.
shroggs, III, 93, 28: rods, wands (serving for prickes, marks).
shryuë, III, 70, 287: sheriff. See screfe.
shuder, IV, 493, 8: shoulder. See shouther.
shule, v., IV, 207, 20: shovel. See shooled.
shun, shoun, shoes.
shun, III, 357, 41: better, shunte, as in the other texts, turn off, aside. Shunte is to be understood in 43, 45, 47.
shuped, I, 204, E 2: shipped. (The reading may be sheeped.)
shyt, pret., III, 26, 83: shot.
shyt, imperative, III, 71, 314: shut. p. p., III, 25, 53: shut.
si, so.
siccan, sic, sick, sicke, sicken, such, such a.
siccarlie, III, 492, 27: so as to make all safe. sickerlie, III, 491, 5: securely. III, 491, 12: so as to make certain, make sure of the effect.
siccer, sicker (siccer and honestly), III, 487, 9; IV, 31, B 6: securely, safely.
sich, sick, n., sigh: II, 139, 6; 168, 15; 230, C 1.
sich, sick, v., I, 451, 12; V, [164], D b 10: sigh. pret. sicht, I, 73, 66; III, 453, 2. sikt, II, 241, 8. siched, I, 72, 21. sight, IV, 503 f., 6, 21, 23. pres. p. sichand, sichan, sichin, II, 96, I 3, 4, 6; 471, 13; V, [41], 31; IV, 382, 6.
sichin, n., II, 286, C 10: sighing.
sicht, sight.
sicke, sicken, III, 367, 3; 441, 32; V, [194], 64 (sicken-like): such.
sicker. See siccer.
sickles of ice, ickles of ice, III, 152, 1; 154, f 1: icicles.
side, keeping her flocks on yon side, IV, 323, 1: ellipsis of hill, river, or the like.
side, adj., II, 122, H 7, 8; 407, 9; 409, 15; 466, 37, 38; 469, 38, 39; IV, 165, 15; 283, 12; 285, 4; V, [267], 4: long, and so, probably, IV, 130, 4; 134, 8. I, 80, 12, of stirrup too long, low for the foot (Icel. síðr, demissus). saddle a steed side, IV, 464, 18: wide. wear your boots sae side, I, 428, 8; 429, 5: of boots the tops of which lap a good way over, or perhaps of boots wide at the tops; I, 430, 2. See syde.
side be, mother-in-law side be, II, 71, 11: seems to mean, side by, by his side. Possibly, sud, should, be.
sighan, sighend, pres. p. of sigh.
sight, sikt, pret., IV, 503 f., 6, 21, 23: sighed. See sich, v.
signd, IV, 288, 10: that is, sind. Sind is to wash, rinse; here she has simply wet her lips.
signots, took out the gowd signots, IV, 53, 13: ornaments, whether seals or not, attached to the ears by “grips.” Three sygnets hang at a gold ring, IV, 37, 13; 38, 13, which is taken off in the latter place, and was, therefore, a finger-ring.
sike, syke, II, 238, 6; IV, 3, 28: ditch, trench (watercourse, marshy bottom with a stream in it. Jamieson.) IV, 470, 25: (perhaps) rivulet.
sikt, sighed.
sile, IV, 118, C 3: flow.
silkie, selkie (A. S. seolh), II, 494, 3, 4: seal.
siller-knapped (gloves), II, 134, 8, 13: ornamented with silver balls or tassels. (golden-knobbed, 133, D 6.)
silly. silly tin, silly twine, II, 224, 12, 17: simple, mean, of slight value. silly sisters, II, 311, 1: harmless, innocent? silly old man, silly old woman, etc., III, 5 f., 10, 11, 20; 6 f., 9, 10; 9, G 9; 180 f., 3, 8, 9, 19; 271, 8: of a “puir body,” palmer, beggar. V, [129], 1; 130, 1; 131, d 1, e 1-3: of a supposedly simple old man who turns out to be shrewd. V, [253] f., No 203, D 2, 8: (perhaps) spiritless, cowardly. sit a silly sate: see sit.
simmer, II, 261, 10; V, [299], 4; etc.: summer. simmer-dale, II, 261, 8, 9.
simple, III, 163, 72: poor, scant.
sin, III, 281, 7; IV, 260, 17: son.
sin, II, 494, 6; IV, 77, 3; 280, b 22: sun.
sin, sine, syne, I, 16, C 9; 17, 7; 204, E 3; II, 32, 3; 160, 4, 7; 161, 5, 7; III, 433, 11; 436, 9 (?): since (temporal and causal), then. II, 237, 6: when, as in Shakspere after verbs of remembering (Winter’s ale, v, i, 219, etc.). See syne, then.
sin-brunt, V, [224], 19: sun-burnt.
sinder, II, 164 f., 18, 19, 21: sunder.
sindle, II, 261, 8: seldom.
sindry, II, 344, 4: several. IV, 219, A 5: sundry (people).
sine, then, since. See sin and syne.
single, liverie, IV, 261, 5: dress of a plain or inferior man; IV, 334, 11, 12: dress of a private soldier. single man, sodger, soldier-lad, IV, 335, b, c, d 16; 337, f, g 15; 338, h after 15: private.
sinner, V, [254], 12: sooner.
sinsyne, synsyne, I, 227 b; III, 394, J 2; 396, N 2: since, afterwards.
sir, title of parson: III, 217, 49.
sit a sate, IV, 469, 8: maintain or enjoy a position. (You may live comfortably if you are well stocked with cattle, but only in a beggarly or pitiable way with nothing but beauty.) “You shall sit at an easier rent.” Scott’s Redgauntlet, Wandering Willie’s Tale. Falstaff sits at ten pounds a week (his expenses came to that), Merry Wives, I, 3.
sitt, p. p., III, 400, 5: seated.
sitten, sutten, p. p. of sit, II, 273, 37; III, 433, 4.
skail (blood), IV, 373, 13: spill.
skaith, skaeth, n., I, 370, 5; II, 292 f., 8, 18: III, 162, 66: harm. gien the skaeth, II, 364, 36; IV, 465, 35, 36: done a wrong, injury.
skaith, v., III, 371, 21: harm.
skaith frae, v., I, 397, 14: keep from. (A. S. scéadan, Germ. scheiden, O. Eng. shed, part, divide.) See scathe. A skaithie in Scottish is a fence or wall to keep off wind.
skeely, skilly, III, 26, 1: skilful, intelligent.
skeigh, III, 495 b, 23, 24: shy, skittish.
skelp, V, [106], E 6: drub.
skerry, rocky. skerry fell, I, 325, 10: rocky hill.
skerry, skerrie, II, 494: a rock or rocky islet in the sea.
skill, sckill, skylle, reason, discernment, knowledge. a baron of sckill, I, 295, 28: reasonable, of good judgment, etc. that’s but skill, I, 295, 44: reason, something right and proper. the skylle I sall þe telle wharefore, I, 328, 56: the reason why. can skill, little they can skill of their train, etc., II, 445, 62; 450, 67, 69: Icel. kunna skil, to know distinctions, have knowledge. could noe skill of the whisstill heare, IV, 506, 70: perception (that is, literally, could not hear whether there was a whistle or not). had no skill, IV, 213, 3: knew nothing of the matter, or, possibly, had no regard, felt no approbation.
skilly, skeely, II, 97, 21: intelligent, knowing, skilful.
skink, I, 190 a: pour out liquor.
skinkled, II, 183, 19: sparkled.
sklate, II, 293, 15: slate.
skomfishes, III, 433, C 4, 7: stifles (discomfits).
skorne, III, 113, 77: disgrace, humiliation. See scorn.
sky-setting, I, 351, 31: sunset.
skylle. See skill.
skyred, IV, 413, 12, 14: startled, blenched, shrank back.
slack, II, 116, 20; 117, 14; 313, 23; III, 181, 29; 281, 12; 363, note †; IV, 7, 27; 184, 2, 3; 467, 11; V, [250], 25; [262], 19. 1.) a gap or narrow pass between two hills. 2.) low ground, a morass. It is often not possible to determine which is intended. In III, 281, 12, the meaning is morass. Plain ground will suit III, 181, 29. Such terms vary according to locality and time. Cf. slap.
slacke (woe), V, [83], 44: lessen, mitigate.
slade, III, 92, 12: “a valley, ravine, plain.” Halliwell. Cf. slack, slap.
slae, I, 450, 2: sloe.
slap, II, 120, 14; III, 185, 24, 25; V, [228], 26: a narrow pass between two hills (==slack). In III, 185, 24, 25, there is a contrast with glen, the word replacing the slack of III, 181, 29; perhaps, plain ground. IV, 300, 12: a breach in a dyke or wall.
slate, slait, of whetting a sword by passing it over a straw or the ground (Icel. sletta, to slap, or slétta, to level, smooth). has slaited on the strae, II, 273, 30. slate it on the plain, IV, 491, 11. slait it on the plain, V, [235], 32. See strip, stroak, streak, straik, strike.
slawe, p. p. of slay, III, 14, 16, 17; 71, 306. y-slaw, III, 28, 140.
slee, sly.
sleste, slist, III, 70, 292; 79, 146: sliced, split.
slet, pret. of slit, III, 63, 146.
slichting, slighting.
slight, III, 473, 13: demolish. we’ll fecht them, we’ll slight them, IV, 85, 5: make light of (?).
slipe, sleep.
slist, III, 70, 292: sliced, split.
slo, sloe, sloo, slon, I, 210, 9; III, 77, 438; 97, 8; 110, 19: slay. pret. sloughe, III, 308, 25. p. p. slo, slowe, slone, II, 479, 17; III, 35, 22; 77, 428. slawe, y-slaw.
slocken, sloken, IV, 386, 16: quench.
slode, pret. of slide, II, 59, 22: split.
sloe, sloo, I, 210, 9; III, 77, 438: slay. pret. sloughe. p. p. slowe, slone. See slo.
slogan, III, 474, 32: war-cry, gathering word of a clan. Jamieson.
sloken, slocken, III, 473, 14: quench (fire), p. p., IV, 60 b, after 10 (with ellipsis of have).
slough-hounds, IV, 3, 15: sleuth-hounds, blood-hounds (slooth, b, 4, 15).
sloughe, pret. of slo, slay, III, 308, 25.
slowe, p. p. of slo, slay, II, 479, 17.
sma, small. of linen, I, 428, 18; 419, 3; II, 128, 5; 130, 4; 133, D 3; 134, 7; 269, 15; III, 7, E 12: of fine texture. of the blast of a horn, II, 258, 31; small, V, [83], 48: shrill, keen. of wine, I will drain it sma, IV, 476, 8: should mean, strain it fine, or, pour out in a thin stream, run it off gently; the intention seems to be, give but a small quantity.
smeek, IV, 385, 25: smoke.
smiddie, IV, 470, 18: smithy. In smiddy-bour, II, 186, 12, bour for room or workshop is strange.
smirkling, smirkling smile, IV, 117, 3: suppressed.
smit, II, 149, 2: noise, clash.
smithered, III, 268, 17: smothered.
smoldereth, III, 431, 19: smothereth.
smooth, II, 233, 14; V, [167], A 7: pass lightly over. smooth the breast for swimming, see breast.
smore, V, [37], 6: smother.
smotley, V, [79], 15: pleasantly.
snack, IV, 415, 6: quick.
snags, III, 483, 7: protruding remnants of branches hewn off.
sned, II, 274, C 19; 462, 26: cut, lop. (misprinted sued, II, 462.)
sneed, V, [165], 4, 5: snood, fillet for a maiden’s hair.
sneer, IV, 18, 15; 19, 13: snort.
sneeters, V, [213], 10:==snotters, gatherings of snot.
snell, of weather, wind, frost, I, 342, 23; 344, 22; III, 435, 1; IV, 213, 17; 214, 4; V, [99], 2: sharp, keen. of a blast of a horn, III, 195, 7: keen, shrill. of talk, III, 492, 31: sharp, caustic.
snoded, tied with a snood.
snood, V, [306], 4, 5: a fillet with which a maiden’s hair was bound up. See sneed.
snotters, V, [213], 10: gatherings of snot. See sneeters.
soberly, III, 487, 17: quietly, making no noise.
socht, sought, pret., I, 147, 11, 12; II, 30, 8; III, 466, 46: asked for.
sodde, pret., V, [53], 103: seethed, boiled.
solace, I, 328, 53: pleasure. solaces, III, 287, 65: merry-makings, diversions.
soldan, II, 59, 35-37: sultan, any pagan king; hence, giant. See soudan.
Soldanie, Soudonie, V, [199] b, 33; 200 b, 33: Sultan’s people.
solde, I, 326, 4: should.
some, with singular, some clean white sheet, V, [294], 7.
somers, III, 67, 216, 224; 74, 374: sumpter-horses, pack-horses.
sone, at once.
sone so, I, 243, 8: as soon as.
sonsie, II, 370, 16: plump.
soom, soum, sume, swoom, II, 29, 19; III, 394, K 4; IV, 493, 9; 511 b, 4; V, [138], B 6: swim.
soon, III, 440, 13: early. soon at morn, IV, 446, 2: early in the morning.
soone, II, 446, 92: swoon.
sore, as, they mighten a had, III, 441, 26: on whatever hard terms.
sorn, IV, 464, 14: sworn.
sorners, IV, 41, note *; 81 b: sojourners, properly those who take free quarters (such may be expected to make free generally with the property of those upon whom they impose themselves); “forcible intruders, people quartering themselves on tenants, etc., masterful beggars.”
sorowe, sorrow, III, 61, 96; IV, 174, 6; 241 b; V, [28], 55: sorry, sorrowful, sad.
sorraye, II, 209, 9: sorrow.
sorrowful, III, 440, 12: sorry, pitiful.
sorte, III, 128, 97: set.
souce, V, [84], 7: the head, feet and ears of swine boiled and pickled.
soud, sude, should.
soudan, sowdan, souden, soldan, I, 54, 65; V, [195], 26; [197], 5.
Soudron, V, [192], 22: Southron.
Soudronie, V, [192], 33: Southronry.
sough, sound.
sould, should.
soum, soom, sume, II, 464, 2, 3; 474, J 5; V, [237], 9: swim.
soun, make bed saft and soun, IV, 279, 31, 32: smooth. lead the bridle soun, II, 105, 14: steadily, so as not to cause a jolt by jerking it.
sound, IV, 206, 10: safe and well. sailed it sound, II, 223, F 8: safe.
sound, a sound, III, 165, 88: a-swoon.
sound, IV, 172, 12, 14; 173, 7, 10, 11: in the sleep of death.
sounded, IV, 99, 3: should probably be rounded, whispered.
souner, I, 442, 10: sounder.
soup, I, 324, B 9: sup.
sour (reek), III, 433, C 6: sharp, bitter.
souter, soutter, III, 282 a; IV, 262, 16: shoe-maker.
south, I, 334, 9: sweet.
southen, southin, II, 358, 16, 28; IV, 482 b, 2, 3, 4; 483, 9, 17, 18: southern.
southering, IV, 48, b 18: soldering (corruption of, seething).
sowdan. See soudan.
sowe, III, 41 b, line 17: to be corrected to sowter, cobbler (?).
sowens, V, [108], B 10: flummery; “oat-meal sowr’d amongst water for some time, then boiled to a consistency, and eaten with milk or butter.” Herd.
sowt, III, 13, 8: sought, peered, scanned.
sowt, south.
soyt, III, 110, 23; 111, 31, 43; 112, 55; V, [79], 30: sooth.
spait, III, 473, 26; 479, 2: flood.
spak well in his mind, V, [260], 15: sounded well, suited his own thoughts.
spakes, I, 61, C c, 15: the bars of a bird-cage.
spald. See spaul.
spang, II, 394, 18: span.
spare, I, 302, A 10; 446, 10; 451, 11; III, 246, E 7: opening in a gown or petticoat.
sparks out o a weet, IV, 379, 15: rain-drops from a shower. “Spirks, spirkins, applied to drops of water in Scotland; sparks usually to fire.” W. Forbes.
sparred, III, 97, 20; 99, 61: shut.
spartled, v., II, 94, 6: sprang. spartling, II, 306, 15: kicking, struggling.
spartles, n., II, 94, 4: springs.
spaul, spauld, spald, spole, III, 473, 17; V, [105], A 3, B 6; [106], D 6, E 4; [107], 3: shoulder.
spayed, spied.
speal, I, 428, 17; 430, 6, 7: another form of scale, a wooden drinking vessel.
speals, spells, II, 410, 24; V, [236], 18: chips.
spear, v., IV, 85, 1: spare.
spear, speer, speir, spier, sper, ask. See spyrr.
speed, prosperity, help.
speel, v., II, 73, 25: climb.
speen, IV, 287, 19; 357, C 8, 9: spoon.
speer, inquire. See spyrr.
speere, V, [15], 20: “a hole in the wall of the house, through which the family received and answered the inquiries of strangers.” Ritson. This, I fear, may be conjectural. Speere, a screen (wall) between fire and door to keep off the wind is well known both in England and Scotland. But the Heir seems to be outside and could not look up at this speere.
speir, ask. See spyrr.
spelle, v., I, 329, 3: discourse.
spells, speals, II, 410, 24; V, [236], 18: chips.
spendyd, a spear, III, 309, 40: “spanned; hence, got ready, placed in rest.” Skeat.
sper, V, [78], 5: inquire. See spyrr.
spier-hawk, IV, 484, 1, 2: sparrow-hawk.
spin, spine, gar your blood, IV, 84, 3, 6; V, [253], D 1: spirt (as in Shakspere’s Henry V, iv, 2, spin in English eyes).
spird, II, 144, 12: spurred.
spite, I, 211, 27: spital.
spleen, v., III, 220, 5: regard with spleen, hatred.
spleene, n., III, 230, 70: animosity.
splent (splint), III, 473, 17: armor of overlapping plates.
splinders, II, 91, 26: splinters.
splits, II, 389, 10: strands.
sply, II, 252, 1: (perhaps miswritten) spy.
spole, III, 342, 63: (O. Fr. espaule) shoulder. See spaul.
sporne, v., III, 64, 161: kick.
spreckl(e)d, I, 159, 5; 160, 3: speckled.
sprente, III, 309, 32: sprang, spurted.
spring, IV, 265, 13: probably miswritten or corrupted for young, which we find in the next stanza.
spring, I, 129, 17; 130, 20; 132, 13; 135, O 18, P 18, 19; IV, 312, 4; 313, 7: quick tune.
spring (well both clear and spring), II, 198 a, last line: spring water, pure as a spring.
sprunks, fine, III, 221, 12: showily dressed women? (Cf. prank, prink, Dan., Swed., Germ., prunk.)
spulye, n., III, 458 b: spoil.
spulyie, spuilye, spuilzie, v., III, 463 a; IV, 53, 11; 84, 5, 8: despoil.
spunk-hole, V, [213], 3 (spunk = fire): a hollow in the floor, where the fire was made, fire-place.
spurn(e), n., III, 310, 65, 66: kick. The word, though protected by rhyme and by occurring twice, is suspicious. If spurn could be taken as clash, encounter, collision, it might stand, but such a sense is forced.
spurtle, V, [92], 11, 12: stick for stirring porridge.
spylle, I, 327, 20: mar, destroy.
spyrr, spire, spier, speir, speer, spear, sper (A. S. spyrian), I, 176, 17; 325, B 13; 349, G 9; 440, 10-15; III, 98, 41; 100, 64; V, [115], 4: ask, inquire. spear at, I, 151 a, 10; IV, 328, A b, after 3: inquire of. I, 349, G 7; II, 268, 12; 272, 9, 18; 379, 12; IV, 203, 9; 205, 15: ask, request.
squar, squer, squire.
square-wright, V, [124], 3: carpenter, joiner.
squeel, schele, schule, II, 175 f., 1, 6; 306, 19; IV, 327, 8.
squier, II, 59, 30: = swire, neck.
st, as sign of the future. I’st, II, 449, 62; III, 411, 1; 413, 36; thoust, ’st, I, 211, 29; 433, 8, 26; II, 44, 13; 442, 10; 449, 60, 61; III, 277, 4; 411, 4; 432, 7; 477, 7; V, [50], 33. shee’st, she’st, II, 442, 3; 447, 3. you’st, II, 451, 88; III, 104, 6; 412, 12. (All from English ballads.)
sta, pret. of steal, III, 464, 13, 14.
stack, I, 16, B 14: stalk.
stad, V, [248], 19: stood.
staen, stolen.
stage, at a, III, 98, 39: from a floor, story (?).
stage, III, 295, 3: stag.
staig, III, 301, A a, 3; IV, 26, 1: a young stallion.
staking, III, 138, 18: cutting into stakes (cleaving, 140, c 18; stacking, 140, d 18).
stale, stathle, I, 18, H 9; 19, 12: the foundation of a stack, the undermost layer of sheaves in a stack.
stale strang, V, [213], 5: urine long kept for a lye and smelling strong. (But stale may = urine as well as strang.)
stalle, in strete and stalle, III, 101, 89: station; from the contrast with street, we may infer the meaning to be, when in movement (on the road) and when stationary, or housed.
stamp o the melten goud, IV, 471, 37: an embossed plate.
stanch, III, 364 b: check.
stand (of milk, water), I, 344, 34: a barrel set on end.
stand, briddel-(bridell-)stand, V, [228], 12, 22: suit of clothes (bridal clothes).
stand, III, 453, A 14; IV, 515, 13: (of a court) sit. IV, 420, 9; V, [222], 34; [269], 1: take place.
stand, IV, 152, C 11; stand out, III, 439, 2: stickle, scruple.
stand na, nè, no(e), awe, I, 421, 5; III, 350, 53; IV, 505, 54; 506, 69: na may be a contraction of in na. na stand in awe, I, 419, 4; stand not in awe, III, 345, 53.
standen, p. p. of stand, III, 361, b, c 64.
stane, II, 467, 56: i. e. the (stone) wall.
stane-auld, III, 9 f., 11, 12, 20: very old (Germ. stein-alt).
stane-chucking, I, 441, E 1: throwing the stone, as in B 2.
stank, IV, 47, 12, 13: (O. Fr. estanc) ditch.
stap, n. and v., I, 298, 4; II, 88, 8, 9: step.
stap, stape, stop. II, 494, 1: stop, stay, reside. will stap to die, IV, 107, 7: shrink, hesitate.
stap, I, 439, 4, 5; 440, 5, 7; 504, 7; II, 294, 31, 32; 467, 41: stuff, cram.
stare, III, 128, 104: (eyes) protrude, or, are fixed, cannot move (?).
stare (of hair), V, [66], 19: stand up.
starf, pret., V, [297] b: died.
stark, I, 69, 39; III, 474, 37: strong. stark thief, III, 365 b==the English strong thief, one who uses violence. stark and stoor, II, 47, 5: in a moral sense, wanting in delicacy, rude, violent, or indecent. the wind up stark, IV, 378, 5; 380, 11: ellipsis of blew, came, before up.
starn, stern, I, 440, 18; IV, 455, 10: (Icel. stjarna), star.
start, I, 341, 5; 343, 5; 347, 3; 348, 2: spring, jump. III, 164 b, 49; 342, 64: recoil, flinch, recede. pret. start, stert, I, 108 b, 8; 286, 56; II, 454, 56; III, 32, 81; 64, 159; IV, 477, 16: sprang. See stert.
state of my lande, II, 446, 91; state of my father’s lands, 451, 98: landed estate.
stathle, stale, I, 17, 12: the foundation of a stack, the undermost layer of sheaves in a stack.
staw, II, 90, 23; 184, 13: stall.
staw, pret. of steal, II, 76, 25; 80 f., 9, 29; IV, 12, 13; 490, 30.
stawn, p. p. of steal, IV, 18, 19, 20.
stay, stey, IV, 262, 23: steep.
stead(e), steed(e). See stede.
steal, pret. sta, staw. p. p. stawn, stowen, stown, stoun. stealed, steald, IV, 20, 16; 166, 2, 3. stelld, III, 459, 7.
stean, Marie’s stean, II, 183, 19: a stone seat at the door of St. Mary’s Church.
stear, steer, III, 474, 33: stir, commotion.
steck. See steek.
stede, steed(e), stead(e), I, 334, 7; 411, 7, 16; II, 359, 19; III, 60, 81; 74, 376; 79, 133; V, [194], 71, 72; [197], 55; [199], 71, 72: place, dwelling-place. stand in stead, steed, steede, III, 344 f., 38, 44; 349, 38; IV, 505, 45: hold good, be kept, maintained, made good.
steed, I, 298, 4: stood.
steek, steck, steik, II, 336, P 2; IV, 188, 9; 279, 19, 27; 480, 4, 5; 514, 5: stick, shut, fasten. steekit (dor an window) to the gin, IV, 480, 5: to the fastening.
steek, steik, n., II, 364, 30; IV, 483, 20: stitch with the needle. III, 397, A b 5: stitch (of pain).
steeking, n., II, 361, 26: stitching.
steel, pret., I, 477, 4: stale, stole.
steer, steir, II, 21, 10, 11; 29, 13, 14: rudder.
steer, stear, II, 369, 12: disturbance.
steer, sture, I, 69, 39; 71, 31: strong, robust. (stor, big.)
steer, II, 161, 12; IV, 69, 15: disturb, meddle with (for harm).
steer, I, 251, A 13: stir, move.
steik, n., stitch. See steek.
steik, v., shut. See steek.
steir, n., rudder. See steer.
stell, steel.
stelld, pret. of steal, III, 459, 7.
stelld, IV, 110, 10: placed, planted.
stende, me stende, I, 243, 5: that people should stone.
step-minnie, II, 367 b: stepmother.
stern, starn, I, 326, 16: star.
sterne, III, 308, 30: stern (men).
stert, start, pret. of start, III, 66, 211: sallied. stert out of the dore, sterte (start) to an offycer, stert hym to a borde, III, 26, 81; 32, 81; 62, 120, 125: rushed. stert to foot, IV, 224, 14: sprang to their feet.
steuen, III, 94, 52: voice. vnsett steven, III, 93, 27: time not previously fixed.
stey, stay, IV, 185, 10; 264, 15: steep.
stiffe, I, 293 f., 2, 9, 11; II, 55, 67: unyielding, stanch.
still, had your still, IV, 85, 7; V, [247], 14: hold your peace.
stime, styme, I, 482, E; III, 163 f., 78, 91: glimpse, ray, particle of light.
Stincher, IV, 69, 6: a river of Carrick, Ayrshire. (Misprinted stincher.)
stingy, IV, 316, 17: forbidding, cross.
stint, stinte, I, 334, 8; 411, 8, 17; 412, 28: stop.
stirred, III, 162, 49: should probably be stirted (shrank, flinched). The other text has, started.
stirt, stirred.
stock, I, 419, 2; 421, 2, 4, etc.; II, 467, 56: the outer side of a bed, opposite the wall (the bed, an enclosed box, being enterable at this side only).
stock, I, 402, 5: (term of disparagement) wanting in vitality, sensibility, youth, or what not.
stogg, IV, 480, 7, 8: stick, stab.
stoll yellow, IV, 453 a, b 13: corrupt; a has, gold that is yellow.
stomach will give him, II, 447, 17: disposition will incline him. II, 450, 69: courage.
stomached, well, III, 335 b: courageous.
stonde, I, 334, 8; III, 286, 55: while, time. See stound(e).
stonyt, I, 242, 11: stoneth, old plural of the imperative.
stood, V, [269], 1: took place. stood him upon, III, 228, 11: was incumbent on. See stand.
stoode, my need stoode, III, 412, 16: existed.
stook, I, 485, 10: put into shocks.
stoor, stark and stoor, II, 47, 5: (store, big) in a moral sense, rude, brutal.
store, I, 328, 50: big. See stoor.
store, buffets store, III, 145, 8: in plenty.
store, purse of gold and store, II, 461, 23: treasure (precious things laid up). carryd the store (of constancy), V, [158], 16: the totality.
stot, stott, IV, 12, B 4; 26, 1; 248, 19; 519, 6; 520, 6, 7: young ox.
stoun, III, 388, 8: (stoun, stound, North of England, to smart with pain, Scott. an acute intermittent pain) a painful attack.
stoun, p. p. of steal, III, 453, 10; V, [221], 24. See stowen.
stound(e), stonde, III, 25, 68; 284, 3; 298, 55; V, [83], 42: time, point, moment of time.
stoup, II, 344, 1; V, [91], 7, 8: pitcher, can, bucket (narrower at the top than at the bottom).
stour, stoure, stowre, II, 55, 67; III, 26, 89; 298, 58; 309, 47; 441, 27: tumult, brawl, fight. stour of thy hand, III, 280, 37: turbulence, destructiveness. III, 270, 16: disturbance, commotion.
stour, II, 195, notes, A; IV, 470, 20: dust.
stourished, III, 520 a: read flourished(?), blooming. (Cf. III, 373, 4.)
stout(e), II, 282 f., 4, 17 (audacious), 18; III, 339, 5; IV, 503, 5, 7: haughty, high-mettled, bold. III, 411, 8 (traitor): audacious, unflinching. V, [36] f., 9, 10: unabashed. I, 3, 3; IV, 197, 3: sturdy.
stowen, stown, p. p. of steal, I, 367, 14; II, 72, 23; 79, 38; IV, 133, H 6, 7; 241 a. See stoun.
stowre, n. See stour.
stowre, adj., I, 293, 2: (originally, big) strong.
stracht, straght, III, 521 b, 272, 15; V, [236], 9: straight.
strack, struck.
strae, stray, stro, II, 162, 8; 169, 19; 185, 36; 261, 15, etc.: straw.
straik, streak, streek, stroke. (a sword) oer (on) a strae (strow), II, 261, 15; V, [37], 8: pass it over a straw to give it an edge. See streak. straiked back hair, IV, 184, E 17: stroked. straik (streek) wi a (the) wan(d), II, 188, 8; IV, 46, 3; 480, 15: of a measure, to even at the top by passing a stick over.
straine, streen, the, V, [221], 24: evening of yesterday.
strait (a rope), IV, 398, 7, 25: straighten, stretch, tighten. pret., of stirrups, III, 492, 27.
strait, IV, 262, 23, strait and stay: another word for stay, stey, steep.
straith, strath, IV, 184 a: a valley through which a river runs.
straked, streaked. straked her trouth on a wand, II, 230, 9: a symbolical act, of gently rubbing or passing the fingers over a wand, by way of giving back a lover’s troth.
strand, I, 165, M 4; III, 460, 28; IV, 172, 15; 174, 16: stream. Sometimes hardly more than a rhyme-word. In, Scotland’s strands, strand, II, 289, 7; 294, 8, strand appears to be put for country, bounds; and for nothing more definite than way, road, in he gaed in the strand, etc., II, 177, 23; 289, B 2; III, 3, 5; IV, 210, 1. In, stript it to the stran, II, 390, 28, stran cannot mean more than plain (ground).
strang, V, [213], 5: urine kept for a lye, and smelling strong. See stale.
strang, strange.
strange, V, [76], 16: backward, diffident.
strated, V, [228], 15: stretched.
stratlins, I, 368, 23: straddlings, stridings.
straucht, straught, adj. and adv., I, 146, 14; 251, A 10; II, 461, 5; IV, 94, 9; 214, 1: straight.
straught, V, [199] a, after 61: stretched. See straucht.
stray. See strae.
streak, straik, of whetting a sword by passing it over a straw (cf. Germ. streichen, strike, smooth, whet). streakd it on a strow, V, [37], 8. straiked it oer a strae, II, 261, 15. See stroak, strike, strip, slate.
streak, streek, I, 299, 17: stretch.
streak by, I, 454, 12: to put off, put away.
stream-tail, IV, 185, 12: the lower end of a stream as opposed to the upper. Tail-race is the name given to the stream that carries away the water after it has passed the mill. J. Aiken.
streek, streak, I, 299, 17; II, 139, 7, 12; 345, 30; V, [174], 4; [209] b, 6: stretch. streeket, streekit, strickit, p. p., II, 189, 38; IV, 128, 17; 316, 25; 318, G 9; 319, H 7: stretched, laid out, as dead.
streekit. See straik, and streek.
streen, straine, the streen, I, 57, C 13; II, 30, 4; III, 396, N 1; IV, 47, 10, 18; V, [118], B 13; [221], 24; [257], 14: yestreen, yester-night.
strenger, compar., V, [283], 18 (and so we should read in 8 instead of scharpper): stronger.
strickit. See streek.
strike, of whetting a sword, etc., on a straw, or the ground. he ’s struck it (rappier) in the straw, II, 249, 18. struck it (brand) ower a strow, V, [226] b, 8; (dagger) [227], 21. struck it (bran) across the plain, II, 380, 32. See stroak, streak, strip, slate.
strinkled, III, 4, 10; 5, C 6: sprinkled.
strip, of whetting a sword by passing it across straw, a stone, the ground; replaced by stroak, streak, strike, slate, draw (cf. German streifen). has striped it throw the straw, II, 159, 15. he stript it to the stroe, II, 161, 13. he’s stripped it athwart the straw, II, 256, 12. he’s stripd it oer a stane, II, 396, 28. has stript it to the stran, II, 390, 28. he drew it through the strae, II, 185, 36; three times thro the strae, II, 162, 8. See stroak, etc.
stro, stroe, strow, strae, stray, II, 131, 16: straw.
stroak, stroke, of whetting a sword by passing it over a straw. stroakd it oer a stro, strae, stray, II, 131, 16; 166, 17; 169, 19; 305, 8, 21; 306, 14. See strip, streak, straik, strike, slate.
stroe, stro, strow, II, 161, 13: straw.
stroke. See stroak.
stroke, III, 180, 13: probably corrupt; read streke, stretch? (Scott. streik, streek).
stronge th(i)efe, strong thief, III, 13, 2; 67, 221; V, [77], 32; [83], 49: a thief using violence. See stark thief.
strook, pret. of strike, V, [135], b 18.
strow, stro, V, [37], 8; [226] b, 8; [227], 21: straw.
strucken, p. p. of strike, II, 48, 3; III, 487, 13.
stryke pantere, V, [72] b: a drinking formula, in response to fusty bandyas.
stubborn, IV, 168, 8; 169, 6, 15; 170, G 4, 11, H 3, 4, 10: seems to have its old meaning of truculent, fierce, rather than wilful, mulish. See note to H 3, 4, IV, 177.
stude, stede, I, 244, 15: place.
study, studie, studdy, II, 374, A 2, B 2; 375, 3: stithy, anvil.
sturdy, sturdy steel, II, 380, 15; 381, 10; 385, 4; 388, 13: stiff, rigid (stubborn, II, 393, 10).
sture, steer, I, 71, 31; 69, 39: strong, robust. (stor, big.)
sturt, II, 249, 4: trouble, anger.
stye, I, 310, 9, 11, 13: pen, den. III, 100, 76: a smaller thoroughfare, alley.
styme, I, 482, E. See stime.
styrande, III, 295, 3: stirring, dislodging. See note, 301.
stythe, I, 311, 9, 11: place.
suan, V, [277], 14: swain.
suar, III, 308, 27; 309, 42: sure, trusty.
succeed the fame, his fame, IV, 249, 9; 251, 10: corrupt for, exceed in fame, or the like. See note, IV, 254, E 9.
such an a, IV, 312, 12: such a.
sud, soud, suld, should.
suddled, thy suddled silks, that thou wears every day, etc., II, 186, 5, 6, 10, 11: soiled, or rumpled, creased.
suddling, suddling silks, III, 398, C 9: soiling, which one would not mind exposing to soiling. Perhaps we should read suddlit. See suddled.
suderen, V, [217], 17: southern.
suds, leave you in the suds, V, [114], 12: in difficulty, in a strait.
sugar-sops, defined in dictionaries as sugar-plums. Fletcher’s Monsieur Thomas, ii, 3, “Dandle her upon my knee, and give her sugar-sops.” By analogy, bits of bread or cake dipped in sugar juice.
sugh, II, 258, 34: sough, sound (of wind).
suit, V, [215], 11; [223] b, 1; [246] b, 2: sweet.
suith, III, 468, c 9: sooth.
sulle, sell.
sume, V, [221], 11, 12; [237], 10: swim. See soum.
sun-bruist, IV, 469, 9: should, perhaps, be sun-burnt, as in the following line.
sundry, II, 212, 17: asunder, apart.
sune, adj., V, [256], 12: sound.
sunks, IV, 262, 29: seats.
supply, IV, 154, 13: afford help. mak him some supply, V, [196], 39, cf. 43: succor, reinforcement.
surrount, IV, 245, 3: Skene’s spelling for the original serundad, surrounded.
suspitious, II, 448, 37, 38: worthy of Mrs. Malaprop, but not so easy to unriddle: in her mouth, auspicious; here the modern suggestive, significant, would suit.
suþþe, III, 514 b, 1st line: then.
sutor, I, 430, 2: shoemaker. See souter.
sutten, p. p. of sit, IV, 468, 6.
swack, IV, 415, 6: nimble.
swack, v., V, [305], 5: whack.
swads, swades, V, [134], 7; [135] b, 7: “swad in the North is a pescod-shell: thence used for an empty shallow-headed fellow.” Blount, in Halliwell. Also, a cant term for soldier.
swaft, swaffed, III, 511, 8, 11: swapped.
swair, swaird, laird o the Ochilberry swair, IV, 207, 27, 29; laird o Athole swaird, IV, 198, 14: sware, neck or slope of a hill. (swaird, a corruption of swair,=sward, grassland, is not likely.)
swak, III, 300, 21. See swap.
swap, swak, swords, with swords, III, 298, 50, 54; 299, 9; 300, 21 (swakked); 301, 30; 309, 31; 422, 73; IV, 487, 29; 500 f., 22, 35 (swakked); V, [240], 6, 9: smite.
swarmd, III, 347, g 45; IV, 505, 56, 59: climbed. (swarm, to climb a tree that has no side branches to help one.)
swarued, swerved, III, 341, 53, 56; 345, 45: climbed (=swarmd, IV, 505, 56, 59).
swat, pret. of swe(a)t, III, 299, 9; 300, 21; 301, 30; 309, 31. swett, III, 422, 73. swette, III, 298, 50, 54.
swathed, II, 305, 10: swaddled (as it were) in blood.
swatter, I, 135, P 11: flounder, splash.
sway, howsoeuer this geere will sway, III, 341, 47: whatever turn this business may take, however this affair may turn out.
swear, pret., swore.
sweauen, sweuen, II, 45, 18; III, 91, 4: dream.
sweer, II, 61, 4; IV, 229, 20: slow, reluctant. III, 160, 14: reluctant (to part with money).
swerers, quest of, III, 25, 69: jurors.
swerved, III, 347, d, e, f 45: climbed. See swarued.
swet, swett, swette, pret. of swe(a)t. See swat.
swetter, compar., V, [283], 9, 19: sweeter.
sweven, sweauen, II, 45, 18; III, 91, 4: dream.
sweythyli, V, [80], 45: swiftly.
swick, IV, 438, 12: blame.
swikele, I, 243, 4: deceptive, treacherous.
swilled, I, 287, 72: tossed about or shook, as in rinsing (but in this case to effect a mixture).
swimd, swimmed, pret. of swim, II, 16, 5; 24, F 9; IV, 129, 5; 130, D 9.
swinke, III, 171 f., 8, 26: labor.
swire, swyre, I, 295, 34; III, 91 a: neck. IV, 5, 2; 7, 27; V, [249], 2: “the declination of a mountain or hill, near the summit.” Jamieson.
swith, II, 55, 67; 248, 18: quickly.
swither, III, 268, 17; 272, 21: trepidation.
swittert, I, 129, 11: struggled, floundered, splashed (made spasmodic motions to keep herself up).
swoghynge, n., I, 327, 31: sounding.
swoom, V, [151], F 2: swim.
swoond, swound, n., I, 434, 29; II, 105, 19; III, 373, A 4: swoon.
swumd, p. p. of swim, III, 482, 25.
swylke, I, 327, 15: such.
swyre, swire, III, 91 a: neck.
syde, I, 333, 3: (of beard) long, hanging down. I, 426, 3: of a horn worn low. See side.
syke, sike, II, 238, 6; IV, 3, 28: ditch, trench. IV, 470, 25: perhaps, rivulet. (water-course, marshy bottom with a stream in it. Jamieson.)
syne, sayn, san, sane, I, 17 f., F 2, 7; 127, 27; 347, 9; III, 437, 16, 20, 21, 24: then, afterwards. I, 204, E 3; V, [306] b, 1; III, 436, 9 (?): since.
synsyne, since. See sinsyne.
sypress, cypress, III, 148, 10; 150, b 10: crape (veil).
syre, IV, 21, 10: (sewer) drain, gutter.
syt, III, 70, 280: old contracted form of sitteth.
sythis, I, 327, 21: times.