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wa, wae, IV, 448 a, 3d st.: wo.
waaf, II, 72, 2: waif.
wad, n., II, 63, 23; 172, 31, 32: pledge, in security. I, 340, 2; 343, 2; II, 376, 39; III, 455, 10: forfeit.
wad. I wad, I, 130, F 14, 15, 20: I wot, in a weak sense, assuredly, truly. See a=I, and wat.
wad, wade, I, 71, 55, 56; 74, 76, 77; III, 465, 30; V, [299], 2: would. See wads.
wad, wade, v., IV, 18, 17; 185, 7; 384, 5; 385, 2, 7; 386, 2; V, [219], 23; [275] b, 6; [300], 14: wager. IV, 432, 4, 5: engage (to fight).
wadded, I, 272, 11: of woad color, blue.
wadded, V, [261], 6: wedded.
wadding, wadin, II, 131 f., 11, 16, 19, 20; IV, 470, 15-17: wedding.
wade, wad, pret. of wide, wade, II, 97, 12, 13; 283, 4; 461, 10; IV, 68, 6; 190, 27, 28; 438, 13; 455, 9.
waders, IV, 188, 20: miscopied by Skene for mideers, mothers.
wadin. See wadding.
wads, II, 133, D 4, 5, 6: wishes (wad, would, treated as a present tense).
wae, wa, I, 69, 48; 127, 28; 169, 3; 217, 3, 6; V, [306], 10: wo.
wae, adj., I, 367, 11; II, 70, 25; 89, 36; 129, 17: unhappy.
wael, IV, 443, 5: choice. See wale.
waely, IV, 59, d 3: a rhyme-word for wae, sad.
waesome, IV, 369 b: woful.
waft, I, 420, 15, 16; 422, 12, 13: weft, woof.
wafu, woful.
wainless, II, 72, 8: homeless (without a wane, habitation).
wair, II, 472, 24: bestow. See war.
wait, I wait, a wait, wate, IV, 128, 16, 17; 169, 3; 371, 2, 3, 5; 447, 6, 17; 470, 17; 510, W 2; 515, 12, 15; 517, 20: I wot, know, indeed. See wat, and a=I.
wait, IV, 456, 7:=wite, blame.
wait, wayte, III, 57, 18; 66, 209; 83, 202; 86, 202; 412, 21: watch, lie in wait, seek an opportunity, to do.
waith, steed, V, [176], 18: waif, stray, wandering.
waitmen, II, 424, 3: waiting-men (or possibly, wight men, strong men).
wake, II, 327, 2, 4, 5: aperture, way. (Icel. vök, aperture, especially one cut in ice, or remaining in water not completely frozen over; passage cut for ships in ice; Swed. vak, hole in ice; Dutch vak, empty space. “In Norfolk, when the ‘broads’ are mostly frozen over, the spaces of open water are called wakes.” Wedgwood.)
wake, I, 107, 5; IV, 446, 5; 447, 5: watch (people set to watch me), but the reading at I, 107; IV, 447, is probably wrong; cf. I, 108, B 4. See wane.
wake, IV, 141, 12: merry-making, sport.
wake, v., V, [277], 2: walk.
wake, III, 88, 340, is an original misprint.
waken, I, 433, 24: waking.
wakerife. See waukrife.
wald, walde, I, 334, 6: would.
wale, wael, walle, IV, 265, A b 10; 477, 19; V, [256] a, 2: choice.
wale, weil, wile, wyle, I, 428, 14; IV, 169, 5; 300, 12; 461, 19; V, [105], B 1: choose.
wale wight, I, 490, 13. See wall wight.
walker, I, 272, 14: fuller.
wall, I, 387, 2, 4; 440, 4, 6; V, [206] a, 3: well, spring. The water at St Johnston’s wall was fifty fathom deep, II, 21, 14: an alleged deep place in the Tay; cf. 24, 14, there’s a brig at the back o Sanct John’s toun, it’s fifty fadom deep.
wall, green wall sea, green wall wave, V, [275] b, 7, 8: apparently wave, despite tautology; cf. II, 22, 15, green-waved sea. (haw sea, IV, 379, 10; 380, 19. Prof. Murison informs me that when Mrs Murison sings the ballad mechanically, or without attention, she invariably sings haw.)
walle, V, [256] a, 2: wale, choice. See wale.
wallourt. See wallowt.
wallowd, II, 392, 10: rolled over (?).
wallowit, II, 361, 32: withered.
wallowt, IV, 127, 3: drooped, grew pallid. was wallourt, IV, 138, M: (misspelt) was pallid.
wall-wight, II, 123, 15; 403, 9; III, 10, 23; IV, 392, 11, 12; V, [37], 6; [41], 29, 32 (all from Buchan’s ballads): explained by Donaldson as waled wight, picked strong men. Donaldson cites weild wightman from Semple of Beltrees. See well wight, wale wight men, I, 490, 13.
wallwood, swine, II, 299, 16: wild-wood, compare II, 144, 3, wild-wood steer (unhallowed swine, II, 154, 10).
walting, IV, 312, 8: welting, edging.
waly, IV, 21, 13: fine large.
waly, wallie, wally, II, 363, 1, line 1; IV, 109 f., 5, 8; 293, A 1, 2, 7, 9 (oh and a waly); V, [195], 8; [197], 9, 10, 11: exclamation of admiration. O braw wallie, IV, 296, F 1: literally, O good, lucky! or, O good luck! but, as before, an exclamation of admiration.
waly, wally, II, 363, 1, line 3; IV, 92, 1, 3; 94, 1; 95, 1, etc.: interjection of lamentation (probably A. S. wá lá!). the wally o’t, IV, 290, D b 1: sorrow, pity of it! waly’s my love! V, [208], 1, 2, etc.
wamb(e), wame, II, 130, 2; 183, 24; 189, 27; 195, 33; III, 437, 23: womb. See weam.
wan, one.
wan, dark-colored, pallid, colorless, white. II, 92, 3, 4, 9; 97, 11; 144, 13; 147, 10; 150, 14: dark-colored. II, 74, E 6; 79, 28; 185, 33; 187, 16; 399, 2: pallid. wan water (as contrasted with wine), II, 70, 17; 74, D 7; 75, 10; 92, 4; 96, J 7, 8: colorless. far got ye that water that washes ye so wan, II, 191, 23: white (ye wad never be so white, 24).
wan, wane, pret. of win, I, 73, 53; II, 21, 4; 123, 22; III, 474, 32; IV, 180, 7. he wan free, V, [300], 11: got free.
wan, p. p. of win, IV, 385, 26.
wand, II, 146, 13; 147, 14; 150, E 9; 151, G 4: of (willow) twigs, staff made of the wand, II, 118, 22 (very nearly verbiage): made of a rod.
wane, I, 334, 7; III, 63, 148: habitation. in my bower there is a wane, IV, 446, 5: wane, says Jamieson, denotes not only a dwelling (Old Eng. wone), but “different apartments in the same habitation;” if so, in my house there is a room, is the sense here. wan, in the wake there is a wan, IV, 447, 5: should at least be, in the wane there is a wake, as the rhyme shows, and as we have at 446, 5. In, at the wake there is a wane, I, 107, 5, wane was meant by Scott to be understood as a collection of people (wheen). See wake.
wane, III, 309, 36: “quantity, multitude; a single arrow out of a vast quantity.” Skeat (quantity as in Chaucer’s wone, see wheen). This is to me quite unsatisfactory, but I have no better interpretation to offer. Wain, in the sense of a vehicle for a missile, ballista, catapult, would be what is wanted, but I have not succeeded in finding a case.
wanhappy, IV, 386, 1: unlucky.
wanna, did not win, go.
wannelld, III, 488, 38: was unsteady, staggered. (A. S. wancol, North Eng. wankle, unstable, Germ. wankeln.)
wannle, IV, 491, 32: agile, vigorous, strong.
wanny, II, 261, 8, 9: small wand, rod.
want, IV, 196, 3; 268, 17, 22; 357, B 7; 358, 17: do without, dispense with. sae soon as we’ve wanted him, IV, 359, 12: had to do without. III, 513 b, 2, pret.: wanted.
wanton, III, 452, 1; 453, 1: free and easy, frolicsome. (rantin, 455, 1.) Cf. Wanton Brown (a horse), IV, 17, 1, etc.
wantonlie, -ly, III, 488, 27; 490, 14: gaily, merrily. rode, lap, wantonly, IV, 146 f., 8, 38: in easy, spirited style.
wap, horse will gie his head a wap, I, 182 f., 8, 14: throw, toss.
wap, n., coost a wap on horse’s nose, IV, 21, 9: noose.
wap, v., wrap, lap. wap cloth into ship’s side, II, 27, 19: stuff. roun ship’s side, 20: wrap. wap halter oer horse’s nose, IV, 17, 4: lap, twine, perhaps throw.
wap, v., throw. wappin corn and hay oer to horse, IV, 21, 18: throwing. wappit wings, II, 139 f., 7, 12, 22: beat, flapped.
war, ware. be war, ware, a, of, on, I, 273, 37; II, 46, 37; III, 66, 213; 109, 4; 296, 20; 307, 10: be aware, have a sight of. was war wher, III, 98, 39.
war, waur, I, 388, A 10; 420, 12, 13; 466, 22; II, 417, 6, 9; V, [193], 48: worse.
war, waur, I, 132, I 1; 149, I 1; 331, B 8: were.
war, ware, wair, I, 431, 3; 478, 7; II, 418, 22; 472, 24; V, [142], 11: expend, bestow. ware my dame’s cauf’s skin on thee, IV, 7, 31; V, [250], 29: apply, use, my wife’s (mother’s) whip.
waran, warran, warrand, warraner, warrant, III, 430, 15; 435, F 7; 436, 5, 7: sponsor for, security. III, 405, 7; IV, 310, 4 (cf. warn): safeguard.
ward, warde, III, 404 b; 470 b: defence. III, 72, 332, 337; 449 a; IV, 11, 18: prison, confinement. enter himself in ward, III, 447 b: voluntarily go into confinement.
ward, IV, 446, 1: corrupt. See weird.
warde, II, 273, 25; 340 b, line 8: forewarn, advise.
warden, I, 161, 4; V, [209] a, 4: guardian, tutor.
warden, IV, 317, F 3, 4: facing, edging (cf. the walting, welting, of 312, A 8).
warden pies, III, 216, 35: made of large pears called wardens.
wardle, I, 127, 14; V, [214] f., 1, 6: world. wardle’s make, see warld.
ware, V, [169], 11: sea-weed, alga marina (used for manure).
ware, V, [306], 2, 3: were.
ware, pret., V, [221], 20: wore.
ware. See war.
warison, waryson, III, 100, 74; 297, 43: reward.
warld, world. warld’s make, I, 129, 8; 348, 17; 351 f., 40, 54; 353, H 12; wardle’s make, I, 127, 14; warldly, worldly, make, mate, I, 344, 30; II, 118, 6, 7; world’s make, I, 128, 11; 348, 11; wordlye make, II, 86, 18, 20: world’s, earthly, mate, consort. world’s mait, I, 508, 9.
warldly. See warld.
warlock, II, 220, 11, 12; 223 f., 8, 14; IV, 472 f., 24, 25: wizard.
warn, IV, 309, 2, 6: surety, safeguard. Cf. warran, IV, 310, 4, and see waran.
warn, p. p., IV, 445 b, 2, No 8: warnd (as 446, b 2).
warp, v., I, 312, 8; II, 503, 7: curl, twist.
warran, warrand. See waran.
warraner. See waran.
warsle, n., I, 438, A 1: wrestle.
warsle, warsel, v., I, 438, A 2; 439, 2; 440, 3; 441, 1-3: wrestle. warsled, I, 56, 14: wrestled, struggled, bestirred herself.
warslin, a-warslin, I, 440, 1, 2: a-wrestling.
warwolf, I, 311, 15, 16: werewolf, man-wolf, man transformed into a wolf.
waryson. See warison.
wa’s, ways.
was. See wash.
wash. pres. was, I, 494, 7; III, 111, 41. pret. weesh, wish, wush. p. p. washen (I, 304, E 5; II, 111, 10; V, [102], B 15), wushen, which see.
wast, west.
waste, I, 349, F 9: seems to be nonsense (ride expected).
wat, wate, wait, watt, weet, wet, wit, wite, wyte, wis, wot, know. I wat, wate, a wat, a wite, etc., frequently nothing more than assuredly, indeed: II, 159, 11, 13, 15, 16, 19, 23; 160, 10-16, 18, 19; 161, 12, 13, 17; III, 199, 23; 464 f., 10, 15, 34; 466, 43; IV, 175, M 7; 359, 4, 5, 7, etc.; 470, 17; V, [300], 2. pret. wist. p. p. wist, west.
wat, pret. of weet, weit, to wet, I, 17, D 6; II, 21, 12, 13; 23 f., D 7, F 10, etc.; IV, 424, 5. p. p., I, 55, B 7; II, 23, E 8.
wate, knew. See wat, wait.
wate, pret. of wite, blame, II, 273, 25.
water, water-side, IV, 7, 25; V, [250], 24, 25: “the banks of a river, in the mountainous districts of Scotland the only inhabitable parts.” Scott.
water-cherry, II, 186, 18: perhaps a species of cherry used as a cosmetic.
water-gate, IV, 510, 6; V, [250], 12: street leading to the water, way along the water.
water-kelpy, IV, 185, 10: water-sprite.
water-side. See water.
water-sluice. bored nine holes in her water-sluice, V, [142], f 5, should mean in the gate or valve of some vent for water; bored a watery sluice, or aperture for water, g 6, is a more rational reading.
water-stoups, V, [91], 7, 8: water-buckets or pitchers.
wather, wither, wuther, V, [107], 3, 5: wether.
watt, III, 199, 23: know. See wat.
waught, I, 299, 14: draught.
wauk, walk.
wauk, II, 139, 5, 13: watch, be awake.
wauken, II, 139, 11, 13: waken. pret. waukenit, II, 79, 38: awoke.
wauken(e)d at, II, 162, 12: tried to waken; perhaps, chid, expostulated with.
waukrife, wakerife, IV, 389 b: watchful, wakeful.
waur, war, I, 5, 13, 18; 422, 17; 475, 44; 476, J 6; II, 421, 26; IV, 26, 4, 5: worse.
waur, I, 147, C 1; II, 61, 9; IV, 417, 5, 10: were.
wavers wi the wind, II, 266, B 1: is as restless, changeable (?).
wawis, IV, 196, 19: walls.
way, I, 4, A 13, 16; B 8, 9; 5, D 4, 9; V, [283], 7, 17: the Milky Way.
way. would I way or would I wight, I, 77, 13; 78, 42: nonsense. See weight. Motherwell conjectures, would I away, or would I wait. See wee.
waylawaye, alas.
ways, IV, 196, 15: in a direction.
wayte, wait, III, 57, 18; 66, 209; 83, 202; 86, 202; 412, 21: look out for; watch, lie in wait, seek an opportunity, to do. pret. wayted, III, 72, 331: lay in wait for.
waythmen, III, 41 a: hunters. See wight-men.
we, V, [302] a, 13: with.
we an E an O me, we an E an O an O me, V, [275] a, 9, 10: these words have been treated as interjections. It is possible that they are corrupted from something like, were a’ foald in a yeir to me, III, 370, 9; cf. II, 465, 9.
wea, see your body wea, V, [226] b, 7:=wae, suffering? (strange expression, see II, 305, 7, you red and blue.)
wead, would.
weal, III, 310, 60: “clench so as to leave marks, mark with wales”(?). “Perhaps read wringe and wayle.” Skeat.
weame, IV, 505, 56: belly. See wamb(e), weme.
wean, II, 136 a, 16; III, 253, R; 397, A b 2: wee an, little one, child.
wear. sare a man a wear, I, 301, 2: sair, supply, a man, of, with, his wear, clothing.
wear, pret., V, [221], 21: wore.
Wearie, I, 55 f., 3, 4, 6, etc.: the Devil.
wearied, wearit. See wearyd.
wearifu, V, [115], 7: tiresome, vexatious, cursed.
wearin’s wa, I, 333, 6: wearing his way, growing less and less, slowly vanishing.
weary fa, IV, 389 b: a curse befall.
weary, wearie, I, 310, 16; II, 131 f., 11, 16; 231, 1; III, 319, 24; IV, 56, A 3, B 3; 57, C 3, 6; 133, G 6; V, [16], 1, 2, 5, 8; 192, 25: sad, unhappy, distressed. IV, 44, 6; 290, B c 5; 359, 6; 480, 3: vexatious, hateful, horrid, cursed.
weary, weary high hat, III, 184, 13: monstrously, deucedly.
wearyd, wearied, wearit, III, 261 f., 8, 10; IV, 128, 5; 132, 8: troubled, afflicted.
wearyin for me in, V, [155], 6: longing to have me indoors.
weate, III, 341, 47: corrupt. Possibly, I weate, wit, know.
weather, IV, 213, 17, 18: storm of rain or snow.
wed, wedd(e), wad, III, 66, 214; 71, 298; 110, 7, 8, 12, 13; 356, 34: pledge, fine, forfeit (ley a wed, 110, 7, 8,=leffe, leave a wed, 12, 13). sette to wedde, III, 59, 54: put in pledge.
wed, v., I, 481, 42: wager. See wad.
wed, proudest wed, III, 4, 5: proudest dressed (from wede)
wede, weed, II, 28, 28; III, 61, 97; 74, 368, 371; IV, 212, 2, 7; 213, 10, 15; V, [306], 13: clothing, garment.
wee, I, 163, J 1, 2, etc.; 164, K 1, 2, etc.: little. I, 203, 5; IV, 412, 15; 413, 18; 421, 25: short time.
wee. would I wee or would I way, I, 77, 12; 78, 41: would I (stay) wi (him) or (go) away, is all the meaning this can have. Motherwell conjectures, would I wait or would I away. See way.
weed. See wede.
weel, well. See well.
weel. the weel gae wi his body, IV, 129, 21, 23-25: prosperity.
weel, well. weel fa! good luck befall, I, 388, B 5. for my weel, II, 461, 8; 466, 24: well, advantage (461, 9, for my better). Euphemism for God: weel met thee save! I, 324, 3 (MS. thou); well met ye (you) save! IV, 455, 4; V, [195], 9; well (weel, weill) may ye (you) save! IV, 195, 13; 198 f., G 4, 21. So III, 268, 31, originally; the far better in the line following, is nonsense.
weel, weil, IV, 517, 19: a pot, deep place, or whirlpool in a river.
weel that was her own, II, 73, 20: seems to mean that the roses and ribbons were indeed hers by right.
weel-busked, hat, IV, 199, 9: handsomely adorned.
weel-fared, weel-fart, weil-faurit, etc.: well-favored. See fared.
weel-worst, V, [214] a, 1: very worst.
ween, II, 132, 21: whimper, whine, lament.
ween, heigh a ween and oh a ween (where a may be I), II, 504, 27: exclamation of distress.
weep, n., V, [241] a, 4, 5: weeping, tears.
weer, I, 72 f., 6, 61: weird, fortune.
weer, war. See weir.
weesh, pret. of wash, V, [213], 6.
weet, II, 293, 13: know.
weet, n., III, 160, 6; IV, 379, 15: rain, shower of rain.
weet, weit, v., III, 401, 7: wet.
weetie, weety, IV, 197, 9, 17; 258, 25: rainy.
weighed more, II, 455, 57: made more account.
weight, IV, 224, 23: wight, strong.
weight, was he weel or was he weight, I, 80, 9: nonsense; weight would be wight, strong, etc., which has no pertinency. The same of, would I way or would I wight, 77, 13. See way.
weil, weel, IV, 182, G 8: a pot, deep place, or whirlpool in a river. weil-head, II, 153, 17: vortex of a whirlpool.
weil, wile, V, [10], 2: wale, choose. See wale.
weil=well, very. See well.
weir, weer, were, III, 480, 9; 491, 6; IV, 432, 14; V, [183], 21: war.
weir, bot weir, I, 140 N: without doubt. (Pinkerton.)
weir-window, wire-window, IV, 44, 10; 46, 11, 7: seems to be a window grated with iron bars.
weird, wierd, weer, n., I, 69, 42, 47; 71, 37; 72 f., 6, 61; 77, 6; 309, B 1; 482, E: fate, fortune, destiny.
weird, v., I, 311, 3: destine.
weird, I, 107, 1: the reading at this place is compounded from, weird her a grit sin, IV, 445, 1, and ward her in a great sin, IV, 446, 1; the reading of IV, 445, would mean, destined, put her in the way of, a great sin; ward in of the other text does not give an easy sense, and ward is perhaps a corruption of weird.
weirdless, III, 391, H 3: unlucky.
weit, I, 140, N (Pinkerton): know.
welde, III, 112, 52: would.
well, euphemism for God. See weel.
well, III, 112, 48: will.
well, the well o wine gaed in, IV, 428, 16: perhaps wale, choice, the best; but since the wine was poisoned, this must be meant ironically.
well, weel, weil, very, right. well good, II, 46, 43; III, 132, 5; 478 f., 15, 34; V, [49], 11: very good. weil gaucy, V, [152], 3. well warst, V, [180], 14, 16; 214 a, 1: very worst. well faire mayde, II, 439, 3, 8, should perhaps be well-fared.
well and wellsome, II, 159, 16: should probably be wae and waesome (sad and woful).
well o Spa, IV, 286, 6: a spring to the west of Aberdeen.
well or wae, was he well or was he wae, I, 80, 8: whether he liked or disliked. (The passage is variously corrupted, and the original reading probably nowhere preserved.)
well-a-woo, III, 77, 438: a variety of well-a-way. (A. S. wá-lá-wá.)
well-bespoke, V, [149], 9-11: well spoken.
well-strand, I, 165, M 4; IV, 172, 15; 174, 16: stream from a spring.
well-wight, III, 3 f., 12, 16, 21; 487, 5, 7; IV, 165, 7; 222, 9 (wiel-wight); 428, 4: very strong, sturdy, stalwart; but, sometimes, brave, see III, 4, 16. See wall-wight.
welt, pret. of wield, III, 74, 366: disposed of.
welth(e), III, 77, 436: either, simply, his money, or, more probably, his well-being, his palmy days; so III, 287, 65. III, 295, 5, 6; 296, 15, (rich) booty.
weme (of ring), III, 412, 21: belly, hollow. See weame.
wen, III, 200, 3: win, get, go. V, [256], 7: pret. of win.
wend, III, 38, 104: gone (gone, b).
wend, went, V, [80], 42; [81], 14: weened.
wenion, with a, III, 138, 11: wanion, a curse, bad luck (waniand, waning (of the moon). Skeat).
wenking, winking.
went. See wend.
were, I, 334, 11: war. See weir.
were, vulgar English, he were, II, 4, 2; 8, 8.
werne, II, 139, 23: were.
werre, I, 327, 20: worse.
werryed, I, 273, 37: worried.
werschepyd, III, 109, 3: showed respect to.
west, p. p., III, 113, 70: wist.
west-airt lands, II, 73, 30: western. See airt.
westlan, westlin, westryn, II, 258, 34; III, 431, 20; 435, E 7; IV, 240, 18: western.
wet, wete, III, 63, 141; 70, 287; 112, 50: know.
wether, I, 210, 14; III, 430, 2; 432, 19 (perhaps=whether): whither.
wex, weks, n., V, [283], 11, 21: wax.
weynde, III, 297, 41: wend, go.
wha, who.
wha’s (whae’s) aught. See aucht.
whall, white as whall, II, 478, 7: that is, whale’s bone.
whang, I, 19, 11; II, 168, A 5: thong. In II, 217, 1, 3, lace his middle with a whang, the reading should no doubt be band as in other versions.
whang (of cheese), V, [115], 8: slice.
whar, whaur, I, 164, K 1, 3, L 1, 5: where.
whas, whose.
what an a, whaten a, whatna, whattna, whatten, I, 169, B 4; 203, C 18; 441, 19; II, 195, 34; III, 433, 2; 434, 2; 453, 12, 13; V, [162], C 2: what sort? what (in particular)? what a! So, what for a? V, [160], 3; what like a ? V, [163], 5; [164], E b 2.
wheder, III, 57, 11: whither.
wheen, a wheen blackguards, IV, 67, 5, 6: number, pack, etc.
whether, II, 455, 62; III, 92, 26: which of the two.
whether, whither.
whew, whue, whute, III, 440, 10: whistle.
whidderand, whithering, V, [191], 16: (of arrows) whizzing, moving with a whiz.
whight. See wight.
whikety whack, V, [304], 9: whick-whack (whick, doublet of whack).
while, the other, I, 414, 18: the remaining time, henceforth (?).
while, I, 232, A 2: for a while.
while, whyll(e), II, 223, F 1, 2; III, 201, 23, 31; 298, 50, 54; 309, 47: till.
whiles, I, 115, B 1; C 1; 131, G 9; 256, 2; II, 470, 59: at times.
whiles, whilest, whileste, whilste, whyllys, the whyles, III, 87, 278; 107 b, 7; 357, 38, 45; 358, 83; 361, b, c 38, 43, c 41: while.
whilk, IV, 373, 10; 476, 1: which.
whin, whun, win, fun, II, 116, 10, 18; 117, 4, 12; 360, 5, 7: furze.
whirpled, V, [106], E 5: evidently whipped, stripped (but I have not found the word elsewhere).
whistling (of ladies moving), II, 386, 19: whisking.
white bookes, III, 357, 58: clear of oppressive charges.
white bread, II, 88, 15, 16, 22, 23; wheat bread, as in 89, 4; 92, 5, 6 (white meal is contrasted with corn and oats, II, 88, 17, 18). So 96, J 5, 6; fite bread, whit bread, V, [220] f., 6, 7, 9.
white-fish, II, 129, 8; IV, 436, 10, 18, 19; V, [122], 1; [124], 1; [274], 10 (fait fish): haddock, cod, ling, etc., as distinguished from gray-fish, coal-fish; in Banff, as opposed to salmon, trout, herring.
white-fisher, IV, 436, 18, 19: one who fishes for haddock, cod, etc. (as distinguished from salmon).
white-land, IV, 213, 14: wheat-land.
white meal and gray, II, 261, 12; IV, 494, 29; V, [238], 29: oat-meal as distinguished from barley-meal (oat-meal and grey, II, 462, 30). But white meal, II, 88, 17, 18, being contrasted with corn (oats), must there be wheat.
white money, monie, I, 464, 7; 471, 11, 12; 473, 12; II, 352 f., E 5, 7; 473, 7, 8, 14; 475, 13, 14; 476, 10, 13; III, 389, 17, 18, 20, 22: silver.
white rigs, IV, 131, 14: of grain (to distinguish from crops which remain green).
whithering, whidderand, V, [191], 16; [199] b, 16: whizzing.
who would, III, 163, 87: if one would.
whorle, V, [116], 10; [118], 4; [119], 7; [120], 5: the fly of a spinning-rock.
whue. See whute.
whummil, I, 255, 2: wimble, gimlet.
whun, fun, III, 5, D 7; 6, 12: whin, furze. See whin.
whunnie, IV, 69, 22: covered with whins, furze.
whute, fute, whue, whew, n. and v., III, 125, 29-31: whistle. 126 B, b 29-31, whues.
why, V, [264], 5: whey.
whyles, the whyles, III, 70, 278: while. See whiles.
whyll(e), till. See while.
whyllys, III, 309, 37: while. See whiles.
wiald, wield.
wicht. See wight.
wicker, wigger, III, 125, 20; 126 f., b, d-f: willow. (Wycker, osier. Palsgrave. Swed. and Dan. dialects, vikker, vægger, willow. Skeat.)
wicker, IV, 31, 6: twist.
wid, IV, 456, 15: would.
wide, I, 55 f., B 4, 6, 8; II, 88, 5; 94, 3; 96, I 5; IV, 424, 11: wade. (Spelt wade, but rhymed with -ide, II, 462, 7; 465, 19; III, 493, 14.) pres. p. widen, IV, 68, 6. pret. wade, wad. p. p. wooden.
widifu, widdifu, widifau, widdefu, IV, 84, 7, 10, 11, 13; 85, 3; V, [253] f., No 203, D 2, 8: one qualified to fill a widdie or halter.
widna, widne, would not.
wiel-wight, IV, 222, 9: bold, stanch. See well-wight.
wierd. See weird.
wigger. See wicker.
wight, wyght, wicht, whight, I, 330 f., A 3, B 3, C 3; 333, 4; II, 409, 16; III, 63, 152; 414, 49: strong; but also, denoting bodily activity, brisk, as III, 117, 20; III, 63, 148, of John, who has shot well. III, 27, 97; 65, 195; 75, 389; 78, 448, Adam Bell, Clim, and William, and Robin Hood’s men are wight young men. III, 91 f., 6, 8, Guy of Gisborne is a wight yeoman: sturdy. See well-wight. wighty, III, 94, 48, has perhaps caught the y from the word following. See wighty.
wightdom, III, 488, 26: weight.
wightlye, II, 58, 10: with vigor, or briskness.
wight-men, II, 433, 7: waith-men, hunters. (Icel. veiði-maðr, Germ. weidmann.) See waythmen.
wightsmen, IV, 432, 1: wechtsmen, winnowers. wecht is “an instrument for winnowing corn, made of sheep’s skin, in the form of a sieve, but without holes.”
wighty, III, 32, 45, 50; 94, 48; 362, 70:==wight, strong. See wight.
wil, IV, 472 f., 24, 25: wild, perhaps vile.
wild, I, 334, 6: would.
wild-fire, III, 281, 12: ignis fatuus. (slack here is marsh.)
wild-wood swine, steer, drunk as, II, 144, 3, 4; 368, 7: a popular comparison like, drunk as a dog.
wile, vile.
wilfull, III, 92, 24, wilfull of my way: (Scottish will, Icel. villr) astray, lost; and of my morning tyde may be that he does not know the hour, or, he has lost his time as well as his road. See will.
wile, wyle, weil, wale, I, 428, 13; 429, 7, 8; II, 344, 12; IV, 287, 14; V, [127], 20, 21; [157], 9: choose.
will, pret. wald, walde, wad, wade, wild, wid, wud.
will, would, ellipsis of. as muckle guid canvas as wrap the ship a’roun, II, 28, 22. there’s nane come, win, II, 89, 34; 99 b, 34. So, II, 26, 11; 375, 23; IV, 131, 13; 379, 11; 380, 7; 381, 8, 10; 382, 13; V, [177], 9; [184], 38; [276], 14.
will, V, [16], 10, 15, 20: bewildered, at a loss what to do. will of his way, V, [70] b: lost, astray. See wilfull.
willinglye, I, 272, 22: at will, freely.
williwa, IV, 19, C 6: wellaway, interjection of (affected) reluctance.
willy, willow.
wilsome, IV, 235, 3: erratic, intricate.
win, I, 72, 22, 23: whin, furze, gorse. See whin.
win, wynne, won, wonne, hay, III, 295, 1; 299, B 1, C 1; V, [243], 1: dry by airing.
win, wine, wynne, wen, won, make your way, arrive. III, 71, 314; IV, 314, 15: get, go. IV, 189, 2, 4, 6: arrive, get there. win down, I, 481, 39. win frie, III, 453, 11. lat me win in, II, 148, 25: get in. win up, I, 368 f., 34, 36, 44, 47: get up. win on, I, 388, A 7: go on, keep on. win through, I, 21 b, 4: transitively, allow, cause, to pass through. win to, I, 466, 13; V, [262], 17: get to, arrive at. pret. wan. p. p. wone, wan, win, wine, wen.
win, p. p. of win, I, 101, 15; IV, 189, 15; 220, 3; 446, 17; 467, 8, 9.
win your love aff me, II, 207, B 2: detach your love from me.
wine, p. p. of win, V, [276], 22.
winder, I, 430, 1: wonder, wondrous. See wonder.
windie, II, 362, 3: window.
windling sheet, III, 245, B 13: winding-sheet.
winking, II, 463, 16: with eye closed as if blind.
winn, in your barn, IV, 323, 6: do harvest work generally, dry corn, etc., by exposing to the air. (unless meant for winna, winnow.)
winna, IV, 326, 7: winnow.
winna, winnë, will not.
winten, V, [248], 7: (wanting) without.
winter, wynter, III, 58, 47; 64, 162; 285, 20: year(s).
wir, I, 217, 9: our.
wire-window. See weir-window.
wis, I, 217, 9: us.
wis, you wis, IV, 233, 13: know.
wis, III, 319, 20, 24; V, [206] a, No 2, 4: was.
wish, pret. of wash, V, [36], 14.
wiss, n., I, 420, 12; II, 194, 8: wish.
wiss, wis, v., I, 22, 6, 8; 217, 3; III, 453, 3; IV, 168, E 15; 169, 12; 461, 8, 9: wish. pret. wist, II, 423, A 1; III, 434, 20; V, [248], 18.
wiss, I wiss, III, 223, 10: perhaps for I wot (not i-wiss). wist, III, 187, 32; 222, 34: know. (I wist, 187, 32==assuredly.)
wist, pret. of wiss, wish. See wiss.
wiste, wist, pret. of wat, etc., I, 243, 6; 334, 6; 368, 23; 413, 37. p. p. west, III, 113, 70.
wit, witt, n., III, 393, 22, 23; 419, 8, 12; IV, 509 a, 11; 512, 16, 17: knowledge, information.
wit, wite, wyte, I, 334, 6; II, 307, 34; III, 67, 230; 385, 15, 16; 396, M 8; IV, 98, 2; 221, 5; 508, 10, 11; 513, 6, 7; V, [81], 7; [82], 23: know. p. p. wit, IV, 98, 2.
wite, I wite, II, 160, 18; IV, 260, 12; 277, 5: I know-indeed. See wat, wyte.
wite, wyte, witt, n., I, 350, 12; II, 145, 25; 146, 8; 312, 30; IV, 33, 28; 127, 1; 207, 21; V, [171], 5; 247, 11: blame.
wite, wyte, v., I, 397, 13; II, 271, 19; 273, 25; III, 357, 53: blame. pret. wate, II, 273, 25.
with, I, 334, 7: wit, know (orthography doubtful).
with, wyth, III, 297, 42; 358, 75; 434, 23: by.
with that, II, 478, 5; III, 76, 414; V, [298] a: on condition that.
wither, wather, V, [105], B 7, 8: wether.
witherlands, witherlins, IV, 378, 5; 380, 11: (-lins, -lingis as in Scottish backlingis, backlins, English sidelins, sidelong; -lands a corruption of -lins) in a contrary, unwished-for, direction.
withershins, II, 318 a, 2: (M. H. Germ, widersinnes) in the wrong direction, in a direction contrary to the usual, or the desired (contrary to the course of the sun, often, but not necessarily here).
within me, lept, III, 127, Play 12: inside of my guard (?).
withouten, withowghten, I, 425, f 9, 10; III, 272, 6; 296, 18: without. See wythowtten.
witt, knowledge. See wit.
witt, n., blame, V, [247], 11. See wite.
witted, V, [132], 2: minded.
witter, I, 399, A b 8:-wittering, information.
wittering, I, 394, 8: information, indication.
witty, III, 131, 3: corruption of wight, wighty.
wo, woo, woe, II, 59, 33; 86, 16; 139, 20; III, 23, 23; 27, 101; 70, 297; 97, 19: sad, unhappy. a woe ses me, II, 504, 27: exclamation of distress; perhaps corruption of, woe is.
wobs, I, 305 a, A 3: webs (of cloth).
wod, wode, mad. See wood.
wode, III, 54, 3: went.
wode, V, [283], 9, 19: wood.
wode-shawe. grene-wode shawe, greenwood shaw, III, 57, 14; 70, 284; IV, 427, 1: thicket of the wood. (wood-shaw is of rather frequent occurrence and Halliwell cites, under the shawe of the wood, Morte d’Arthur, I, 374).
wodewale, woodwele, woodweele, I, 326, 2; III, 91, 2: wood-lark (?).
woe. See wo.
wol, v., V, [283], 1, etc.: will.
wolt, v., V, [283], 4: wilt.
wolwarde, III, 77, 442: with skin against wool, that is wearing a woolen fleece directly against the skin.
won, wone, one.
won, I, 18, I 1; 174, 1; 246, 1; 299, 6, 17; II, 419, 44, 51; III, 71, 315; IV, 19, C 5; 26, 15: dwell.
won, wonne, win, hay, III, 293 a; IV, 432, 1; 499, 1: dry by airing.
won, win, I, 464, 15; 506, 7; II, 89, 32; 140, 22; 172, 24; 256, K 2; 407, 12; IV, 242 a; 259, 21, 23: get, go, come, arrive. II, 316, 3, 7; IV, 115, D 9: gain, earn. (spelt one, IV, 284, 23; corrected to win.) p. p. wone, V, [276], 20. See wun.
wonder, III, 411, 2: bewilderment? disaster?
wonder, V, [283], 1: wondrous. See winder.
wone, III, 98, 25: number, plenty.
wone, withowtyn, withowt wone, V, [78] f., 9, 23: fail.
wonige, I, 334, 7: dwelling. Qy. wonninge?
wonynge, wonning, III, 63, 148; 86, 148: dwelling.
woo, wool.
woo. See wo.
wood, woode, wode, wod, wud, I, 242, 7; 244, 9; 328, 51; 348, 12, 18; II, 183, 26; 242, 30; 245, 27; V, [80], 42: mad.
woodcock(e), III, 199, 27; 201, 31: tropically, fool (from the bird’s reputation for folly). (A proverb, perhaps.)
wooden, p. p. of wide, wade, I, 324, B 6.
woodweele, wodewale, III, 91, 2 (MS. woodweete): woodwale, woodlark? (generally explained as woodpecker; sometimes as thrush, red-breast).
woon, won, v., III, 146, 16: dwell.
woone, III, 358, 77: domicile.
woot, V, [82], 26, 41: wolt, wilt.
word, att a, I, 411, 9: in short.
wordie, III, 269, 12: worthy.
wordlye make, II, 86, 18, 20: earthly mate, consort. See warld.
wordy, IV, 135, 16: worthily.
worrie, worry, v., (of smoke, flame) III, 434, 15; 435, 14; 437, 24; IV, 514, 20: choke.
worselaid, V, [217], H 2: wrestled.
worset, worset lace, III, 11, J 1: worsted; lace must be meant for web; it cannot mean cord, and seems quite out of place.
worth, wat sal worth of, I, 334, 11: come, come to pass. wo the worth, worth the! III, 65, 189; 70, 296; 400, 1: come, be, to thee. woe worth you, wae worth ye, II, 245, 27; V, [247], 10; [248], 11. wae mat worth, IV, 236, 28; 428, 6; V, [166], 10; [306], 10: may wo come to.
wou, I, 244, 13: how.
wouche, III, 308, 26: (A. S. wóh, Scott, wouch) evil, harm.
would, ellipsis of, II, 375, 23; IV, 131, 13; V, [177], 9; [184], 38; etc. See will.
wound, pret., II, 148, 4; IV, 15, 19; 392, 19: wounded.
wow, I, 101, 20; 299, 8, 10, 12; II, 260 f., 1, 11, 14: exclamation of distress. IV, 65, 1; V, [272] a, 9: exclamation of admiration, sorrowful surprise. II, 282 2; IV, 271, A 3, 4, 7, 9; V, [197], 6: of confirmation, (vow!). See vow.
wrack, ruin.
wrack, V, [122], 11: mischief! devil!
wraft, I, 424, b 12, 13: waft (woof) misspelt.
wraikit, III, 427, note ‡: wrecked, destroyed.
wraith, wroth.
wraith, I, 134, N 15; III, 505, 12: apparition.
wreck, sea-wreck, IV, 442, 7: whatever is thrown up by the sea.
wreke, p. p., I, 243, 6: avenged.
wril, V, [73] a: a drinking-word, in response to pril.
wrist, III, 179, 4; 181, 16; 188, 3: ankle, instep. (Icel. rist, instep, ristar-liðr, instep-joint; Germ, rist, instep or wrist; fotwerst, fotwriust, hondriust, Richthofen, Altfriesisches Wörterbuch.)
writer, writter, IV, 131, 18; 135, 25: scrivener. IV, 180, D 2, 3; 181, 3; V, [256] a, 2, 3: attorney (?).
writhe of, III, 413, 34: (pret. of writhe, twist) twisted off.
writs (things written), papers.
writter. See writer.
wrobbe, I, 326, 4: wrabbe, warble? or Scottish wrable, warble, wriggle? J. A. H. Murray.
wrocht, wrought.
wrocken, wroken, p. p., III, 91, 3: avenged.
wrongeous, II, 129, 25: unjust.
wrought, p. p., II, 46, 40: rought, recked.
wrought, pret., I, 286, 51: raught, reached.
wrthe, I, 243, 5: worthy.
wruched, I, 286, 47: thrown up (ruck, a heap, to gather in heaps); perhaps, thrown ashore as wrack (Icelandic rek, originally vrek, reki, originally vreki, a thing drifted ashore).
wrye, I, 326, 4: twist.
wud, II, 249, 19: mad. See wood.
wud, I, 78, 53: would.
wuddie, IV, 69, 18: widdie, withy, a rope of willow-twigs.
wuman, V, [304] b, 1, 2: woman.
wun, n., II, 315, E 6: wind.
wun, v., II, 190, 4, 10: win, gain. See won.
wundouten nay, I, 334, 9: without, beyond contradiction, truly.
wus, V, [304] b, 1: was.
wush, pret. of wash, III, 386, 20; IV, 166, C 7. p. p. wushen, I, 490, 22.
wuther, V, [304] b, 3, 4: wether.
wyght, adj., strong, sturdy, active. See wight.
wyȝth, n., V, [283], 14: wight.
wyld, III, 307, 6: (like Germ. wild) deer; or, perhaps, an adjective with noun to be supplied, of which there are several cases in the ballad.
wyle, choose. See wile.
wyled, they wyled the bonny lassie by, IV, 205, 26: the meaning cannot be that they (a troop of gentlemen) enticed the lassie aside. Mr. Forbes suggests, very plausibly, wyled (waled, took) their way past the lassie.
wyliecot, V, [107], 2: under-vest.
wynd, alley, lane.
wynke, III, 77, 441: shut the eyes.
wynne, III, 296, 22: joy, pleasure.
wynne, v. See win.
wynter, winter, III, 58, 47; 64, 162; 285, 20: year(s).
wyse in, V, [156], B after 16: show the way in (?), let in.
wystly, III, 76, 410: observingly, thoughtfully.
wyte, I wyte, I, 332, G 3; II, 376, 25; IV, 32 f., 6, 17, 19, 27; 136, 13; 278, 21; 410, 25; V, [299] b, 1, 300, 14, 17, 18: (I know) indeed, assuredly. II, 307, 34: I know, simply. See wit, wyte.
wyte, n. and v., blame. See wite.
wyth, with, III, 297, 42; 358, 75; 434, 23: by.
wythe, I, 334, 11: wight, strong. (Orthography questionable.)
wythowtten, drede, III, 296, 8: without, beyond doubt. withowghten naye, 296, 18: beyond denial. wythowghten (withouten) stryffe (strife), 295, 2; 299, B 2: beyond contestation. See withouten.