Amang the horss men, that thar raid;
It would have been,
Amang the horsis men that thar raid.
In reading these poems, it must be observed, that, although is, the mark of the plural, is more generally to be viewed as a distinct syllable, this rule does not apply universally. Scottis, for example, is sometimes to be read Scott-is; at other times, when the rhythm requires an abbreviation, as if Scots. Even monosyllables are occasionally to be lengthened; as armes, denoting armour, must at times be pronounced armés. The same liberty seems to have been taken by Chaucer and other old English poets.
In the following Glossary, I do not pretend to explain all the words that may stumble a reader who is not well acquainted with our ancient language; for this would have almost required a volume. But I have not overlooked a single term that seemed to demand attention. For further elucidation, and for the explanation of some words that may have been overlooked here, I beg leave to refer to my Dictionary of the Scottish Language. It will greatly aid the reader of these works, if he recollect that many common words appear here under a disguised orthography, especially by the frequent use of w for v.
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GLOSSARY
TO
THE BRUCE AND WALLACE.
- A
- A, one.
- A, ah.
- Abad, abode, delay.
- Abandon, to subject; to let loose; to destroy.
- Abandonly, also at abandoun, at random.
- Abowyne, above.
- Ac, but; and.
- Acquart, athwart.
- Adew, done.
- Adheill, Athol.
- Afaynd, attempt.
- Afauld, upright; one.
- Affer, belong.
- Affer, condition; warlike preparation; shew.
- Affray, fear; terror.
- Aforgayn, opposite to.
- Agait, on the way.
- Agatis, uniformly.
- Agyt, aged.
- Air, ayr, before; early.
- Air, ayr, oar.
- Air, ayr, heir.
- Air, ayre, itinerant court of justice.
- Airt, quarter.
- Alais, alleys.
- All anys, together.
- Allayne, alone.
- Allenarly, only.
- Aller, entirely; altogether.
- Allgate, in all ways.
- All out, beyond comparison.
- Allryn, constantly progressive.
- All-weildand, all-governing.
- Als, as; also.
- Alsone, as soon.
- Alsua, also.
- Alswyth, forthwith.
- Alya, alliance.
- Alyand, keeping close together.
- Amang, among; at intervals.
- Ameysyt, mitigated; appeased.
- Amittyt, admitted.
- Ammonyss, admonish.
- Amowyt, moved with anger; excited.
- An, and, if.
- Ane, one; a, used as the article.
- Aneding, breathing.
- Anens, over-against.
- Anerly, only; alone.
- Angell-hede, the hooked or barbed head of an arrow.
- Ankyrs, anchors.
- Antecessour, ancestor, predecessor.
- Anys, once.
- Apayn, reluctantly; scarcely; in case; under pain.
- Apersé, an incomparable person.
- Apert, brisk; bold.
- In apert, evidently; openly.
- Apertly, briskly; boldly.
- Apon, apoun, upon.
- Apparaill, furniture for warfare.
- Apperand, apparent, appearing.
- Appleis, apples, satisfy, please.
- Ar, ere; before.
- Ar, are, formerly; early.
- Ar, oar.
- Arest, stop.
- Arettyt, accused.
- Argoune, censure; chide with.
- Arly, early.
- Armyne, armour.
- Arsoun, buttocks.
- Artailye, offensive weapons of any kind.
- Asperans, lofty; pompous.
- Aspre, sharp; aspresper, q. sharp spear.
- Aspyne, a boat.
- Ass, ask.
- Assailyie, attack; assail.
- Assembill, engage.
- Assenyhé, word of war.
- Assoilyeit, absolved.
- Assonyeit, acquitted.
- At, that.
- Athys, oaths.
- Atour, over; across; above.
- Atour, warlike preparation.
- Aucht, owned.
- Aukwart, athwart.
- Aunter, awntyr, hazard; adventure.
- Auter, awter, altar.
- Aw, awe, owe.
- Awail, awal, let fall; descend.
- Awail, awailye, avail; advantage; superiority.
- Awance, advance.
- Awaward, vanguard.
- Awblaster, cross-bow; cross-bow-man.
- Awenand, convenient.
- Awent, cool; ventilate.
- Awerty, cautious; experienced.
- Awin, awyne, own; proper.
- Awisé, prudent; considerate.
- Awisely, prudently.
- Ayk, oak.
- Aynd, breath.
- Ayndlesse, breathless.
- Ayr. V. Air.
- B
- Bade, baid, delay.
- Bail, bayle, flame; blaze.
- Baille, sweetheart.
- Bair, bar, boar.
- Bakgard, rearguard.
- Bald, bold.
- Ball, blaze. V. Bail.
- Ballingar, a kind of ship.
- Ballyoune, Baliol.
- Band, bond; obligation.
- Bandoune, bandown, command; orders.
- Bandounly, courageously.
- Baneour, standard-bearer.
- Baner-man, standard-bearer.
- Banyst, banished.
- Bar, boar.
- Bar, naked; bare.
- Barblyt, barbed.
- Bargane, fight; contend; battle; skirmish.
- Barmkyn, rampart of a castle.
- Barnage, barons.
- Barnat, native.
- Barne, same with Barnage.
- Barne, child.
- Barres, barrais, barrier; inclosure.
- Barrat, hostile intercourse.
- Bassynit, helmet.
- Bataill, battaill, battle array; battalion.
- Bate, boat.
- Bath, bathe, both.
- Battalit, embattled.
- Bauk, beam.
- Bauld, bold.
- Bawchillyt, treated contemptuously.
- Bawmyt, embalmed.
- Bayle, fire; bonefire.
- Bayne, ready; active.
- Baynly, readily; cheerfully.
- Bayt, give food to.
- Be, by; concerning.
- Be than, by that time.
- Bear on hand, relate; inform.
- Bearis befor, ancestors.
- Bedene, forthwith.
- Beforn, before.
- Beforouth, before; formerly.
- Begouth, began.
- Beild, supply; place of shelter.
- Beit, make better.
- Bekand, basking.
- Belewyt, delivered up.
- Beliff, by and by.
- Bellamy, friend; intimate.
- Bellis. Blyth as bellis?
- Benk, a bench.
- Bern, barn.
- Bern, baron.
- Bertane, Britain.
- Bertynit, bertnyt, struck; battered.
- Berys, bury.
- Berynes, interment.
- Beryt, roared.
- Best, beast.
- Best, struck; beaten.
- Best, shaken.
- Bestiall off tre, engine for besieging.
- Bet, bett, supplied.
- Betane, inclosed.
- Betech, commit; consign;
- pr. betaucht.
- Betrayss, betreyss, betray.
- Beyn, splendid; showy.
- Bid, wait;
- bidand, abiding.
- Big, byg, build.
- Blaw, blow; stroke.
- Blaw, brag; boast.
- Blawand, blowing.
- Blenkit, glanced; blinked.
- Blent, glanced; turned the eye quickly.
- Bless, blaze.
- Blyne, cease; desist.
- Blythis, gladdens.
- Bodward, message.
- Body, strength; bodily ability.
- Bodyn, prepared; matched.
- Boist, threatening.
- Bon, bane; injury.
- Bonalais, parting drink taken with a friend.
- Borch, surety; become surety for.
- Bot, but.
- Botand, but if; except.
- Boun, boune, bown, ready.
- Bounté, worth; goodness.
- Bourdand, jesting.
- Bourn, rivulet.
- Bow-draught, bow-shot.
- Bownyt, made ready.
- Bowrugie, burgesses.
- Boyis, fetters.
- Bra, side of a hill; acclivity.
- Brache, brachell, dog used for tracking.
- Bradit, drew out quickly.
- Braid, brayed.
- Braith, violent; severe;
- braithly, violently.
- Bran, brain.
- Brasaris, vambraces.
- Brassit, bound; tied.
- Brast, burst.
- Brawland, running into confusion.
- Breg, brig, bryg, bridge.
- Brewyt, put in writing.
- Brodyr, brother.
- Brokyll, fickle; inconstant.
- Browdyn, displayed; unfurled.
- Brukyt, enjoyed.
- Brundis, brwndys, sparks.
- Brusch, burst forth.
- Brycht, fair lady.
- Bryg, bridge.
- Brymly, fiercely; keenly.
- Brynt, burned.
- Bundyn, bound.
- Burd, board; table.
- Burdeous, Bourdeaux.
- Burdowys, those who fought with batons.
- Burdyn, of boards.
- Burdys, boards.
- Burgeans, buds.
- Burly, stately; strong.
- Busch, lay in ambush.
- Buschement, ambush.
- Busk, prepare; move rapidly.
- Bustuous, huge; powerful.
- But, without; besides.
- But, isle of Bute.
- Bute, advantage; boot.
- By, away from; against.
- Byggynge, building.
- Bykkyr, fight with rapid succession of strokes.
- Byrd, it behoved.
- Burdyngis, burdens.
- Byrk, birch-tree.
- Byrn, burn.
- Byrnys, corslets.
- C
- Caar, sledge; hurdle.
- Caflis, lots.
- Caiff, cave.
- Cair, return to a place; go.
- Call, drive; Scot. caw.
- Can, for gan, began.
- Cannell bayne, collar-bone.
- Cant, lively, merry.
- Capleyne, small helmet.
- Carge. To carge, in charge.
- Carll, strong man.
- Carnaill, putrid.
- Carping, talking; relation.
- Cass, chance.
- Catour, caterer; provider.
- Cauld, cold.
- Cawk, chalk.
- Cayme, comb.
- Ceis, cease; cest, ceased.
- Certes, certainly.
- Chaipe, escape.
- Chak, check.
- Chamyr, chalmer.
- Chapyt, escaped.
- Char, carriages.
- Char dout, murmur distrust.
- Charnaill bandis, rivetted hinges.
- Chass, case; condition.
- Chasty, chastise.
- Chemagé, chief mansion.
- Chemer, loose upper garment.
- Chesd, chose.
- Chewalry, men in arms; prowess.
- Chewalrous, brave; gallant.
- Chewyss, achieve; accomplish.
- Chewysans, provision; acquirement.
- Child, chyld, servant; page.
- Childer, children.
- Child-ill, pains of child-bearing.
- Chokkeis, jaws.
- Choss, choice.
- Chrystismes, Christmas.
- Clag, clog by adhesion.
- Clam, climbed.
- Cleket, tricker of an engine.
- Clemys, claims.
- Clemyt, emptied.
- Clep, clepe, call; name.
- Cleuch, precipice; rugged ascent.
- Cleue and law, higher and lower part.
- Clippys, grappling irons.
- Clyppyt, grappled.
- Come, arrival; advent.
- Conabill, attainable.
- Conand, connand, covenant; proffers.
- Conandly, skilfully.
- Condet, safe conduct.
- Conn, know.
- Conquace, conquest.
- Conquess, acquire by conquest.
- Conryet, disposed.
- Conseil, conceal.
- Contene, demean; contenyng, deportment.
- Contermyt, firmly set against.
- Conteyne, continue.
- Contré, country.
- Contrer, opposition; mischief.
- Conwoid, conveyed.
- Conwyne, cowyne, covyne, paction; condition.
- Cordyt, agreed; accorded.
- Cornykle, chronicle.
- Cost, side of the body.
- Cosyt, exchanged.
- Courche, covering for a woman’s head.
- Couth, could.
- Covyne, same with Conwyne.
- Cowardy, cowardice.
- Cowart, covert.
- Cowatyss, covetousness; ambition.
- Cower, recover; coweryng, recovery.
- Cowntir, encounter; division of an army engaged in battle.
- Cowntyr palyss, contrary to.
- Cowyne, covenant.
- Coynyc, corner.
- Crakys, ordnance.
- Crykes, angles.
- Cruell, keen in battle; undaunted; terrible.
- Crukis, windings of a river.
- Cuk, cook.
- Culter, coulter of a plough.
- Cummerit, encumbered.
- Cunsail, council.
- Cursour, stallion; charger.
- Cusyng, accusation.
- Cuwys, caves.
- D
- Dainté, regard; kindness.
- Dait, destiny.
- Dang, struck; dang to dede, killed with repeated blows.
- Danger, daunger, great exertion made by a pursuer. But daunger, without apprehension.
- Danger, perilous.
- Darn, secret.
- Daw, dawn. Doune of daw, dead.
- Dawch, daw, lazy.
- Dawing, dawyn, dawning.
- Debaid, delay.
- Dede, deid, death; dead.
- Dedeynyeit, disdained.
- Defaill, wax feeble.
- Defawtyt, forfeited.
- Degesteable, concocted.
- Deid. V. Dede.
- Deille, part, quantity.
- Deit, deid.
- Deliuer, light; agile. Deliuerly, nimbly.
- Demanyt, demeaned.
- Dempt, demyt, judged; doomed.
- Demyng, judging.
- Den, dam.
- Depertyt, divided.
- Der, dere, deir, hazard; adventure; injury.
- Deray, disorder; disturbance.
- Derenye, contest.
- Derf, derff, active; severe; cruel.
- Derffly, vigorously.
- Dess, long seat erected against a wall.
- Dew, dawned.
- Dewgar, a salutation.
- Dewilry, devilry; magic.
- Dewoydede, divided.
- Dewour, dewory, duty.
- Ding, drive; beat.
- Discourrour, scout.
- Disherys, disinherit.
- Dispend, expend; dispending, expenses.
- Dissaiff, insecurity.
- Dissembill, unclothed.
- Dissese, want of ease.
- Distrowblyne, disturbance.
- Diuiss, devise.
- Diwysit, divided.
- Do, avail.
- Dongyn, driven.
- Doren, dare.
- Dosnyt, stupified by a stroke.
- Douchty, mighty; powerful.
- Doungeoun, keep of a castle.
- Dounwith, downwards.
- Dour, stern.
- Doute, fear; apprehension.
- Dowtyt, feared.
- Draff, grains.
- Dragoun. Raiss dragoun, give up to military execution.
- Dre, drey, suffer; undergo.
- Drefyd, drove.
- Dreich, slow.
- Dreiching, drychyn, tarrying; delay.
- Dressyt, prepared.
- Drouery, illicit love.
- Dryw, drive.
- Duell, cease; rest; tarry.
- Duelt, left.
- Duelling, delay.
- Durwarth, durward, doorkeeper.
- Dusche, hard blow.
- Dycht, prepared; dressed in armour.
- Dyk, trench.
- Dykit, fenced with ditches or ramparts.
- Dyner, dinner.
- Dyng, honourable; worthy.
- Dynnit, resounded.
- Dynt, blow.
- Dyrk, dark.
- Dyschowyll, undressed.
- Dyt, endite.
- Dyttay, indictment.
- Dytytt, stopped; blocked up.
- E
- Effer, appearance.
- Effray, effraying, terror.
- Effrayitly, under affright.
- Eft, efter, eftir, after.
- Eftremess, a dessert.
- Eftsonys, in a short time.
- Eld, age.
- Eldaris, ancestors.
- Eldfader, grandfather.
- Elys, eels.
- Ellis, already; otherwise; else.
- Empriss, enterprise.
- Emys, uncles.
- Enbuschment, ambush.
- Enbuschyt, placed in ambush; also, ambuscade.
- Enchausyt, pursued.
- Enchesoun, reason; cause.
- Endenturis, instruments; deeds.
- Endfundeyng, perhaps asthma.
- Endlang, along.
- Enforcely, forcibly.
- Engaigne, indignation.
- Engrewand, vexing; annoying.
- Enkerly, encrely, inwardly.
- Enpress, enterprize.
- Enselyt, sealed.
- Ensenye, word of war.
- Ententely, attentively.
- Ententyve, earnest; intent.
- Entremellys, skirmishes.
- Er, before.
- Erd, earth.
- Erdyt, interred.
- Erewyn, Irvine.
- Erlys, earls.
- Ersche, Irish.
- Eschel, division of an army.
- Escheve, achieve.
- Eschew, achievement.
- Esful, producing ease.
- Etling, aim; design.
- Etlyt, aimed.
- Euirilkane, every one.
- Euirmar, evermore.
- Ewynly, equally.
- Eyme, uncle.
- Eyn, eyes.
- Eyth, easy.
- F
- Faboris, suburbs.
- Fader, fadyr, father.
- Fagaldis, faggots.
- Faillyt, wanted.
- Failyhé, fail.
- Fais, foes.
- Fallbrig, bridge used in a siege.
- Falset, falsehood.
- Falt, faut, faute, want.
- Famen, foes.
- Fand, found.
- Fang, capture.
- Fantiss, fancy.
- Far, expedition.
- Far, solemn preparation.
- Far, fair.
- Farand, appearing; weill farand, handsome.
- Faring, leading of an army.
- Farne, fared.
- Fassoun, fashion.
- Fastryngis-ewyn, Shrove-tide.
- Faw, fall.
- Fawely, few in number.
- Fay, faith; fidelity.
- Faynd, endeavour; make shift.
- Faynding, perhaps guile.
- Fayntice, dissembling.
- Fayr, solemn preparation.
- Fayr, proper, expedient.
- Fe, cattle; possessions in general; hereditary succession.
- Feble, become weak.
- Feblis, enfeeble, make weak.
- Fechtar, warrior.
- Fede, enmity.
- Feil, feill, fele, many.
- Feil, understand.
- Feit, hired.
- Felcouth, strange.
- Fell, cruell; fierce.
- Fell syis, often, many times.
- Felony, cruelty.
- Felloun, fierce; cruell; denoting excess.
- Fend, tempt.
- Fende, defend.
- Fenyeyng, feigning.
- Fer, preparation.
- Ferd, fourth; waxed, became.
- Ferdly, ferdely, fearfully.
- Fer, far.
- Fer, entire; sound.
- Fere, companion; pl. feris.
- Ferly, wonder. Ferlyfull, wonderful.
- Ferrar, farther.
- Ferraris. Barell ferraris, casks for carrying liquor.
- Feryt, became; waxed.
- Feryt, farrowed.
- Fest, confirm by promise or oath.
- Feuiryher, February.
- Fewte, fealty.
- Fewtir, rage, violent passion.
- Fey, on the verge of death.
- Fey, fief held of a superior.
- Feyrd, fourth.
- Fichyt, fixed.
- Flaikis, hurdles.
- Flatlynys, flat.
- Flaumyt, flamed.
- Flawmand, displaying.
- Flayt, remonstrated.
- Flearis, those who flee.
- Flechand, flattering.
- Flem, banish.
- Fleting, sailing.
- Flett, floated.
- Floryng, florins.
- Flote, fleet.
- Flothis, floods.
- Flouss, flood.
- Flyt, transport by water.
- Foison, abundance.
- Fold, ground.
- Fond, found, go.
- Forbeft, in great perturbation.
- Forby, past; beyond.
- Forbreist, van of an army.
- Ford, way.
- Fordyd, destroyed.
- Forfar, perish; forfayr, lost.
- Forfouchtyn, exhausted with fighting.
- Forly, ly with carnally.
- Forouch, forouth, before.
- Forowsein, foreseen.
- Forowt, foroutyn, without.
- Forray, ravage, pillage; ravaging, predatory excursion.
- Forreouris, foraging party.
- Forrydar, one who rides before.
- Forrown, exhausted with running.
- Fors. Off fors, of necessity.
- Forss, a current.
- Forst noct, gave no concern.
- Forsye, powerful; superl. forseast.
- For thi, therefore. Nocht for thi, nevertheless.
- Forthocht, repented of.
- Forthwart, precaution.
- Forthyr, furtherance.
- Fortrawaillyt, greatly fatigued.
- Forwondryt, greatly surprised.
- Fothyr, load.
- Fra, from; from the time that; seeing.
- Frawart, from; froward.
- Fraying, friction.
- Frayit, afraid.
- Fre, noble.
- Freit, strong man; frekys, pl.
- Freith, liberate.
- Frely, noble; beautiful woman.
- Frest, delay.
- Frewall, fickle.
- Frog, upper garment, frock.
- Frusch, break in pieces.
- Frustir, frustrated.
- Fud, matrix.
- Fullely, fully.
- Fulyt, played the fool.
- Fundyn, supplied.
- Fur, furrow.
- Fur, went; fared.
- Fute hate, straightway.
- Fwyngyt, foined; pushed.
- Fygowrd, figured.
- Fyffe, five.
- G
- Ga, go.
- Gabyt, mocked; gabbing, mockery.
- Gadryng, gathering; assembly.
- Gaf, gaff, gave.
- Gait, way. A gait, a little way.
- Galay, reel, stagger.
- Galay, ship, galley.
- Gamyn, game, mirth.
- Gan, began.
- Ganand, becoming.
- Gang, walk; proceed in discourse.
- Ganging, going.
- Ganye, arrow; iron gun.
- Gart, caused.
- Garth, inclosure.
- Gayne, again.
- Gaynest, nearest.
- Geddis, pikes, jacks.
- Gentilly, neatly, completely.
- Gentrice, genteel manners.
- Ger, warlike accoutrements.
- Ger, cause, make.
- Gerettis, watch towers.
- Gerit, provided with armour.
- Gestis, joists.
- Geyeler, jaylor.
- Giff, give; if.
- Glaidschip, gladness.
- Glakyt, foolish, rash.
- Glamrous, noisy.
- Gle, glew, game; fate of battle.
- Gleid, squint eyed.
- Gleid, strong or bright fire.
- Glisnyt, blinked.
- Gloss, dross; atoms.
- Gome, goym, a man.
- Gossop, gossip, sponsor.
- Gouernaill, government.
- Gowlis, gules in heraldry.
- Graith, prompt; not embarrassed; straight, direct; earnest.
- Graithly, readily.
- Granys, groans.
- Grathit, dressed in accoutrements.
- Graunt, great, grand.
- Grawyn, interred.
- Gre, degree.
- Grece, stair; grecis, steps.
- Greis, greaves.
- Greis, gray.
- Greit, great.
- Gret, cried, wept.
- Greting, gretyng, act of weeping.
- Gretumly, greatly.
- Grewing, grievance.
- Growyt, shuddered with terror.
- Gruchys, grudges; gruching, repining.
- Grypyt, griped.
- Gryth, quarter in battle.
- Grunye, promontory.
- Gud, substance; provisions.
- Gud, good; well-born.
- Guschet, armour for defending the arm-pit.
- Gy, guide; gyit, guided.
- Gyf, if.
- Gyde, attire, weeds.
- Gyn, engine for war.
- Gynour, engineer.
- Gyrd, stroke, blow.
- Gyrdand, moving expeditiously.
- Gyrning, grinning.
- Gyrth, protection; sanctuary.
- H
- Haboundanlé, abundantly.
- Haboundyt, abounded.
- Haddyr, heath.
- Hagis, hedges.
- Haid, had.
- Haif, haiff, have.
- Halche, low-lying ground.
- Haill, whole.
- Haldyn, held.
- Half, side; quarter.
- Halfindall, the half.
- Hals, throat, neck.
- Haltyn, contemptuous.
- Haly, wholly.
- Halyst, saluted.
- Halyt, haled; drew up.
- Hamely, familiar; condescending.
- Hamillet, hamlet.
- Hand. Weill at hand, in good keeping.
- Hansel, earnest.
- Hamewarts, homeward.
- Hard, heard.
- Harlottis, scoundrels.
- Harnys, armour; brains.
- Harn-pan, the scull.
- Hartlye, cordial.
- Hartyt, encouraged.
- Hat, was called.
- Hat, keen.
- Hate, hot.
- Having, carriage, behaviour.
- Hauld, stronghold.
- Haylyst, embraced, saluted.
- He, high; heast, highest.
- He, dignify, exalt.
- Hecht, promise.
- Heithing, scorn; derision.
- Heildyne, covering.
- Heyld, give the preference.
- Heklyt, fastened with a hook.
- Hely, proud; proudly.
- Hely, loudly.
- Helyng, covering.
- Hendre, past.
- Hendermar, hindermost.
- Her, master; magistrate.
- Her, here; hear.
- Her, loss; injury.
- Herbery, military station.
- Herberyt, stationed.
- Herbriouris, a piquet.
- Herbryage, an inn.
- Herdis, refuse of flax.
- Herdoun, here below.
- Herd tell, learned by report.
- Hereft, hereafter.
- Herschip, act of plundering.
- Heryit, plundered, pillaged.
- Hetful, hot, fiery.
- Hewid, head.
- Hewit, hewed to pieces.
- Hewy, heavy.
- Hewyn, heaven.
- Hewyt, tinged.
- Hey, high.
- Hey-gate, highway.
- Heyle, health.
- Heylyt, covered.
- Hiddillis, hiding-places.
- Hidwyss, hideous.
- Hobeleris, light cavalry.
- Hobland, wavering.
- Hobynys, light horses.
- Holyns, holly trees.
- Hone, delay.
- Hoo, delay.
- Hop, sloping hollow between hills.
- Hostellar, innkeeper.
- Houss, a castle.
- How, hollow.
- How, a hoe.
- Howe, lodge, remain.
- How sa, although.
- Humely, humbly.
- Humest, uppermost.
- Hund, hound.
- Husband, farmer.
- Hy, haste.
- Hycht, trust; expect, promise.
- Hycht, engagement.
- Hyne, young man.
- Hynt, hyntyt, laid hold on.
- Hyrchoune, hedge-hog.
- I
- Ic, Ik, I.
- Ik, also.
- Ilka, ilk, each; every.
- Ilkan, every one.
- Ill, disease, malady.
- In, into.
- In, the tents of an army.
- Inbasset, embassy.
- Ineuch, enough.
- Infar, entertainment given on newly entering a house.
- Inlumyt, illuminate.
- Innouth, within.
- Innys, lodgings, house.
- Intill, into.
- Inwey, envy.
- Jorné, warlike expedition.
- Irk, tire, become weary.
- Irusly, angrily.
- Isch, issue, go forth.
- Jugisment, judgment.
- Junctly, juntly, compactly.
- Juperty, jeperty, warlike enterprise, implying danger.
- Justry, justice.
- K
- Ken, instruct; to be acquainted.
- Kepe, care, heed.
- Kepyt, met in a hostile way.
- Kers, kerss, flat ground on the bank of a river.
- Kerwyt, carved.
- Kest, cast; contrived.
- Knaw, know.
- Knave, a male; a male under age.
- Knyff, hanger or dagger.
- Kow-yet, cow-gate.
- Ky, cows.
- Kyn, kind.
- Kynrent, kindred.
- Kynrik, kingdom.
- Kyrk, church.
- Kyrkynfest, feast given when a woman first goes to church after childbirth.
- Kyrneill, interstice in a battlement.
- Kyth, shewed; appeared.
- L
- Ladys, loads.
- Laidmen, men bearing loads.
- Lak, taunt, scoff.
- Landbryst, breakers.
- Lansys, throws out; lansit, darted.
- Lap, leaped.
- Lappyt, environed in a hostile way.
- Lardner, larder.
- Larg, liberal; largly, liberally.
- Larges, liberty, free scope.
- Lat, suffer, permit; leave.
- Lat off, esteem, reckon.
- Late, mien, expression of the countenance.
- Lattyn, impediment.
- Laucht, took.
- Laucht, clothed.
- Lauchtane, of or belonging to cloth.
- Lave, law, layff, remainder.
- Law, low; low ground.
- Lawch, low.
- Lawit, brought down, humbled.
- Lawta, lawté, loyalty.
- Layndar, laundress.
- Lechis, physicians.
- Ledaill, Liddisdale.
- Lege-pousté, sovereign power.
- Leiching, recovery, cure.
- Leid, man, person; people.
- Leid, safe-conduct.
- Leiff, leave, permission.
- Leiff, live.
- Leit, pretended, made a shew as if.
- Lele, true. Lelyly, faithfully.
- Leman, mistress.
- Leme, splendour, brightness.
- Lentryne, the season of Lent; spring.
- Lenye, lean, lank.
- Lep, go rapidly.
- Leryt, learned.
- Less, lies. But less, in truth.
- Lest, tarried.
- Lesyng, lying.
- Lesyt, lost.
- Let, hinder; leave.
- Lete, pretended.
- Letles, without hindrance.
- Leveré, delivery; distribution.
- Leuir, rather.
- Levyt, left.
- Lewer, rather.
- Lewyng, sustenance.
- Lewyss, leaves of trees.
- Lewyt, allowed; left.
- Leyff, live; leave.
- Leynd, dwell; leyndyt, abode.
- Leysche, leash.
- Leyte, let, permitted.
- Libart, leopard.
- Licaym, dead body, corpse.
- Lik, the same with Licaym.
- Likand, pleasing, agreeable.
- Liking, pleasure, delight.
- Liklines, appearance.
- Lingand, going at a long pace.
- Loge, lodge, booth.
- Loklate, securing a lock.
- Lokmen, executioners.
- Lompnyt, laid with trees.
- Lorn, lorne, lost.
- Losyngeour, deceiver.
- Louch, cavity; lake.
- Louchsid, side of a lake.
- Loup, leap, spring.
- Lourdane, lazy scoundrel.
- Lovyt, praised.
- Low, flame.
- Lowe, love.
- Lowing, praising.
- Lowsyt, loosed.
- Lowtyt, made obeisance.
- Luff, praise, extol.
- Luffand, loving.
- Luff-burd, loof-board.
- Luflely, lovingly.
- Lugit, lodged.
- Luk, look.
- Lwnd, London.
- Lychtly, contemptuously.
- Lychtlyness, contempt.
- Lyflat, deceased; course of life.
- Lyft, firmament.
- Lykly, having a good appearance.
- Lymys, limbs.
- Lynt, flax.
- Lyppynyt, put confidence in.
- Lyr, flesh, as distinguished from the bones.
- Lysnyt, listened.
- Lywyt, lived.
- M
- Ma, more in number.
- Ma, may; make.
- Macht, matched.
- Magre, ill-will; in spite of.
- Mailyeis, coats of mail.
- Maist, most.
- Maister, maistry, dominion; service; resistance.
- Maistryss, appearance of dominion; service; art; ability.
- Maisterfull, arduous.
- Maistress, mistress.
- Mait, overpowered with drink.
- Mak mayne, make exertion.
- Makaris, poets.
- Malice, bodily disease.
- Malvyté, vice, wickedness.
- Malwaris, mowers.
- Man, vassal.
- Maner, kind, sort.
- Maner, manor house.
- Manerlik, discreetly.
- Mangery, feast.
- Mank, maim, mutilate.
- Manland, mainland.
- Manrent, manredyn, homage.
- Mar, more.
- Mar, hinderance.
- Mar, mayor, or chief magistrate.
- Marcheand, bordering on.
- Mare, longer.
- Mar furth, furthermore.
- Marrais, marsh, morass.
- Marschal, steward.
- Martyr, hew down.
- Martyrdom, slaughter.
- Matelent, rage, fury.
- Maucht, might, strength.
- Maundment, order, mandate.
- May, more.
- Mayne, might, power.
- Mayne, moan.
- Mayr, mayor.
- Mayss, makes.
- Meill off, treat of.
- Mekil, much.
- Mellé, contest; battle.
- Mellyne, mixture.
- Mellyt, mixed, blended.
- Menand, lamenting; menys, means.
- Menausyt, menaced.
- Mene of, or on, reflect.
- Mengye, mengné, followers of a chieftain; troops in general.
- Menovnys, minnows.
- Mensk, manliness; honour.
- Menskly, decently; respectfully.
- Menyng, pity, compassion.
- Mer, put into confusion.
- Merrys, mars.
- Mess, mass.
- Message, ambassadors.
- Mete, meet.
- Mete hamys, manors, messuages.
- Mikill, much.
- Mistry, strait.
- Mobles, moveables; goods.
- Mocht, might.
- Mody, bold; spirited.
- Modyr, mother.
- Mole, promontory.
- Mone, moon.
- Mone, take notice of.
- Monestingis, admonitions.
- Mon, must.
- Mony, many.
- Monteyle, mount.
- Monyss, admonish.
- More, a heath.
- Mortfundyit, cold as death.
- Moss, marshy place.
- Mounth, the Grampian ridge.
- Mow, heap.
- Mowence, motion, or dependence.
- Multiplé, number; quantity.
- Mur, gentle; mild.
- Muryt, walled.
- Mut, meet; mute, meeting.
- Mute, treat of; complain.
- Myddyn, dunghill.
- Mydlike, moderate, ordinary.
- Mydwart, middle ward of an army.
- Myrk, dark; myrkness, darkness.
- Mysel, myselwyn, myself.
- Mysfall, miscarry.
- Mysfar, mischance.
- Myss, fault, error.
- Myster, craft, art.
- Myster, want, necessity; necessary.
- Mysterit, had need of.
- Mystraistit, mistrusted.
- Mistrowing, suspecting; distrust.
- N
- Na, no, not; neither; nor; none; than.
- Nakyn, no kind of.
- Nanys, purpose.
- Nathing, nothing.
- Nawyn, shipping, navy.
- Ne, not.
- Nedwayis, of necessity.
- Neide, o neide, of necessity.
- Neist, next.
- Nerhand, near.
- Neth, below.
- Nethring, depression.
- Neuo, nevo, nephew.
- Newlingis, newly, recently.
- Newth, beneath.
- Newys, newffys, fists.
- Neych, approach.
- Noblay, nobility; intrepidity.
- Nocht, not; nothing. Nocht for thi, nevertheless.
- Nome, taken.
- None, noon.
- Noryss, nurse.
- Noryst, nourished.
- Nothir, neither.
- Nounys, nuns.
- Noy, annoyance.
- Nyceté, folly; simplicity.
- Nygramansour, necromancer.
- Nyt, denied.
- O
- O, grandson.
- Obeysant, obedient.
- Odyr, other.
- Oftsyss, often.
- Ogart, pride; arrogance.
- Omast, uppermost.
- Onane, forthwith, anon.
- Or, ere, before; rather than; lest.
- Ost, host.
- Ostyng, encampment.
- Ostrye, an inn.
- Otherane, either.
- Our, over; above.
- Ourhand, upper hand.
- Ourhyede, overtook.
- Ourlord, superior.
- Ourman, arbiter.
- Ournowne, afternoon.
- Our rad, too hasty.
- Ourtane, overtaken.
- Ourthourth, athwart.
- Out, issue; go forth.
- Outcome, egress.
- Out our, over; across.
- Outreyng, extremity.
- Owe, above.
- Owtakyn, owtane, except.
- Owting, expedition.
- Owtouth, outwith; outwards; out from.
- Owyr mar, more upperward.
- Oyss, use; manner of life.
- P
- Page, boy.
- Pailyownys, pavilions.
- Pantener, rascally.
- Pape, Pope.
- Par, impair; decrease; fail.
- Party, part; degree.
- Pasch-ewyn, evening before Christmas.
- Patron, pattern.
- Pawmer, palm-tree.
- Pay, satisfy.
- Pay, payment; drubbing.
- Pele, fort, place of strength.
- Pennon, a small banner.
- Pennystane cast, distance to which a stone quoit may be thrown.
- Penselys, small streamers borne in battle.
- Per, appear.
- Peral, peril.
- Peralous, perilous.
- Perfay, indeed, verily.
- Perquer, exactly, accurately.
- Perys, peers.
- Pesabylly, peaceably.
- Pess. The pess, covering for the thigh.
- Peth, steep and narrow way.
- Pettail, pittall, rabble attending an army.
- Pichtis, force, strength.
- Pissand, powerful.
- Pithones, witch.
- Playne. In playne, clearly.
- Plenyeit, complained.
- Plenyss, supply, furnish.
- Poille, pole.
- Pollis, paws.
- Ponyeand, piercing, pungent.
- Porturat, portrayed.
- Pottis, small holes.
- Pouerall, poweraill, rabble.
- Poutstaff, pole used in fishing with a small net.
- Powed, pulled.
- Powsté, power.
- Poynye, skirmish.
- Prayit, made a prey of.
- Preiff, find by examination.
- Prent, deep impression.
- Preyne, pin; thing of no value.
- Prese, press.
- Prewé, privy.
- Prikyt, spurred, rode quickly.
- Prissyt, praised.
- Prochand, approaching.
- Pryse, value.
- Pulaile, poultry.
- Pullaine greis, greaves worn in war.
- Pundelayn?
- Punye, small body of men.
- Punyeid, punyeit, pierced; pricked.
- Punyoun, side, party.
- Pur, poor.
- Purches, procure.
- Purd, impoverished.
- Pyk, pitch.
- Pykkis, picks.
- Q
- Quentiss, elegant device.
- Quer, choir.
- Quharthrouch, through which.
- Quhat kyn, what kind of.
- Quhen, quheyne, quhayne, few.
- Quhethirand, whizzing.
- Quhethyr. The quhethyr, however.
- Quhile, some time, formerly.
- Quhill, untill.
- Quhilum, at times.
- Quhonnar, fewer.
- Quhytyss, fine woollen coats.
- Quouk, quaked.
- Quyt, requite.
- Quytcleme, renounce all claim to.
- R
- Rabutyt, repulsed.
- Race, dashed.
- Racunnyss, recognize.
- Rad, afraid. Raddour, radness, fear.
- Radoun, return.
- Ragment, deed, convention.
- Raid, rode.
- Raiss, rase, strong current in the sea.
- Raith, early.
- Rakyt, went swiftly.
- Raleiff, rally.
- Ramayn, the rest.
- Ramede, remedy.
- Rampand, raging.
- Ramuff, remove.
- Randoun, swift motion.
- Rang, rank.
- Range, van of an army.
- Rangale, rabble.
- Ransoune, ransom.
- Rapys, ropes.
- Rar, roar.
- Rass, dashed, threw down violently.
- Raung, range.
- Raw, row, rank.
- Rawess, rewess, to put on the sacerdotal dress.
- Ray, array; military arrangement.
- Real, royal.
- Rebaldaill, mob, rabble.
- Rebaldie, gross conversation.
- Rebet, made a renewed attack.
- Rebouris. At rebouris, contrary to the right way.
- Reboytyt, rebuked; taunted.
- Red, separate; rescue; overpower.
- Red, clearance.
- Rede, fierce, furious.
- Rede, voice.
- Rede, speak at large.
- Redles, in a confused state.
- Redy, make ready.
- Refeckit, repaired, renovated.
- Reff, spoil, plunder.
- Reid, red.
- Reide, counsel.
- Reiffar, reffayr, reyffar, robber.
- Reist, support of a warlike instrument.
- Rek, reik, smoke.
- Releifit, relewid, re-assembled.
- Relyit, rallied.
- Remord, have remorse for; disburden the conscience.
- Rengye, reins.
- Renkis, ranges, roams.
- Renommé, renommé, renown.
- Renyit, forsworn.
- Repende, dispersed.
- Rerd, noise, clamour.
- Rerit, fell back.
- Rerward, rear.
- Resavit, received.
- Resett, act of harbouring; he who gives harbour.
- Rescours, rescue.
- Resourss, rose again.
- Reth, fierce, unruly.
- Reueré, robbery.
- Reuersyt, struck from behind.
- Reuk, atmosphere.
- Rew, repent; have compassion for.
- Rewar, robber.
- Rewell, haughty.
- Rewellyt, revealed.
- Rewess. V. Rawess.
- Rewid, rewyd, reaved, bereaved.
- Rewmour, tumult, clamour.
- Rewmyd, roared, bellowed.
- Rewth, pity.
- Rewyn, torn, riven.
- Rewyss, streets.
- Reyff, rob.
- Reyss, coarse grass in marshes, or on the sea-shore.
- Richt now, just now.
- Richtwys, righteous; legitimate.
- Rid, severe, sharp.
- Rod, road.
- Roid, rude, severe; large.
- Romanys, a genuine history.
- Romble, blow, stroke.
- Rone, a bush; brushwood.
- Rok, distaff.
- Rouch, rough.
- Roucht, reached; cared.
- Rouschede, rushed.
- Routand, assembling.
- Rout, severe blow.
- Rowaris, moveable wooden bolts, rollers.
- Rowaté, royalty.
- Rowlyngis, shoes of untanned leather.
- Rowme, large, spacious.
- Rowtyt, snored.
- Roy, king.
- Rud, red.
- Ruff, roof.
- Ruflyt, annoyed.
- Ruryk, rural, rustic.
- Ruschyt, drove, driven back.
- Ruthyr, rudder.
- Ruys, streets.
- Rybaldaill, low dissipation.
- Ryg-bayne, back-bone.
- Ryk, ryke, rich; kingly.
- Ryk, kingdom.
- Ryotyt, ravaged.
- Ryve, rob.
- S
- Sa, so.
- Sad, grave; wise; firm, steady.
- Sadly, steadily, compactly.
- Saffer, sapphire.
- Sailye, assault.
- Sakles, guiltless.
- Salss, sauce.
- Salt, assault.
- Salust, saluted.
- Samyn, sammyn, the same; together.
- Sane, sayn, bless, save.
- Sanyt, made the sign of the cross.
- Sarde, vexed, galled.
- Sariely, sarraly, artfully.
- Sark, shirt.
- Sary, sorry.
- Sat, became, was beseeming.
- Saucht, reconciled.
- Saw, discourse, address.
- Sawchnyng, state of quietness.
- Sawerand, savouring.
- Sawffly, safely.
- Sawt, assault.
- Sawth, saveth.
- Sawyn, sown.
- Sawyt, saved.
- Sax, six; saxté, sixty.
- Say yow, tell you.
- Sayn, saying.
- Sayn, save.
- Saynd, message; messenger.
- Sayr, sore; violent; oppressive.
- Sayr, sorely, as causing pain.
- Scail. V. Skail.
- Scansyte, seeming, characterized.
- Schald, shallow.
- Schapis, endeavours.
- Schapyn, qualified.
- Schar, cut, carved.
- Schaw, small wood, grove.
- Schawyt, shewed.
- Sched, broke; parted.
- Schent, put to shame.
- Scher, cut, did shear.
- Scheyff, escape.
- Scheyne, beautiful.
- Schiltrum, host ranged in a round form.
- Schipfair, navigation.
- Schir, sir.
- Scho, she.
- Schonkand, gushing.
- Schonkit, shaken.
- Schor, steep, abrupt; rugged.
- Schor, threatening.
- Schot, launched forth.
- Schoyne, shoes.
- Schraiff, made confession to a priest.
- Schuip, attempted.
- Schuldrys, shoulders.
- Schyr, clear.
- Schyreffys, sheriffs.
- Scottis se, Frith of Forth.
- Scounryt, shrunk back from fear.
- Scowmar, pirate.
- Scrip, a mock.
- Scroggy, bushy, thorny.
- Scry, cry.
- Scrymyn, skirmishing.
- Scrymmage, a skirmish.
- Scudleris, scullions.
- Scumfit, discomfited.
- Scurrour, skurriour, a scout.
- Se, see; sea.
- Sedeyn, sudden.
- Sedull, schedule.
- Sege, seat; rank; soldier.
- Seildyn, seldom.
- Seir, several.
- Seker, certain as to effect.
- Sekkis, sacks.
- Self, selff, same.
- Sellis, cells.
- Selwyn, same.
- Sely, poor, wretched.
- Semblay, semlay, semle, meeting; act of assembling; hostile rencontre.
- Sembled, assembled.
- Semly, handsome.
- Sen, since. Sen syne, since that time.
- Senon, sinew.
- Sent, scent.
- Senyhé, senye, badge worn in battle.
- Senyhory, lordship.
- Ser, several.
- Serd, served.
- Serwis, deservest.
- Sessoun, season.
- Sesyt, ceased.
- Set, although.
- Setis, gins, snares.
- Sey, trial, attempt.
- Sey, sea.
- Seyle, happiness.
- Seyne, see; also, sinew.
- Sib, related by blood.
- Sibman, kinsman.
- Sic, such.
- Sikerly, surely.
- Sitfully, sorrowfully.
- Sittis, grieves.
- Siyss, assize.
- Skail, scail, scattered party.
- Skalyt, parted from each other; was diffused.
- Skamyll, bench, form.
- Skath, harm.
- Skew and reskew, take and retake.
- Skey off, fly, remove quickly.
- Sklandyr, slander.
- Skowurand, shuddering.
- Skyll, cause, reason.
- Slaid, valley.
- Slak, opening in the higher part of a hill, a sort of pass.
- Slalk, slake, quench.
- Sle, sley, skilful; ingenious; an artful person.
- Slely, in an artful manner.
- Sleuch, slew.
- Slew fyre, struck fire.
- Sleuth, track. Sleuth hund, dog that follows the track.
- Slewyt, slipped.
- Slik, slime.
- Slink, mire, ditch, slough.
- Slop, compact body.
- Sloppys, gaps, breaches.
- Snell, keen, severe.
- Snuk, small promontory, cape.
- Soberyt, composed, kept under.
- Sodanly, suddenly.
- Sodiourys, soldiers.
- Soiournyng, delaying.
- Solacious, cheerful.
- Sold, money in general.
- Somer, summer.
- Somoun, summon.
- Sone, soon; sun.
- Sonkyn, sunk.
- Sonounday, Sunday.
- Sonyeit, was anxious.
- Sonyhe, care, concern.
- Sop, a slight meal; a crowd.
- Sophammis, sophisms.
- Sordid, defiled.
- Sothly, truly.
- Sotheroun, English.
- Souch, deserted.
- Soucht, assailed with arms.
- Soudly, soiled, dirty.
- Souerance, assurance; safe conduct.
- Souerty, surety.
- Soupe, sup.
- Sournome, surname.
- Sow, a military engine.
- Sow, pierce, gall.
- Sowing, effect of piercing.
- Sowerit, assured.
- Sowme, load carried by a horse.
- Sowmir, sumpter-horse.
- Soyme, rope which fastens hay on a wain.
- Sparit, fastened up.
- Spayn, grasp. Spaynyt, grasped.
- Specialté, peculiar regard.
- Speidfull, expedient.
- Spek, speech, discourse.
- Sper, spear.
- Sperit, spyryt, searched out.
- Speryng, information in consequence of inquiry.
- Spill, defile, deflower.
- Splendris, splinters.
- Spoyn, spoon.
- Sprent, darted forward.
- Spryngald, ancient warlike engine; the materials thrown from it.
- Spurgyt, spread itself.
- Spyryt. V. Sperit.
- Stad, situated.
- Staff suerd, sword for thrusting.
- Staill, stale, body of armed men stationed in a particular place, especially as lying in ambush; any division of an army; compact body of armed men.
- Stalle, stole.
- Stalwart, strong.
- Stalwartly, bravely.
- Stanssour, iron bar for a window.
- Stapell, stable, firm.
- Stark, sterk, strong; strengthen.
- Staw, stole.
- Stay, steep.
- Sted, station.
- Stedys, horses, steeds.
- Steild, placed.
- Steing, a pole.
- Stekyt, stabbed, stopped.
- Stellyt, placed, set.
- Stent, aperture for a bar.
- Stentit, stretched.
- Ster, steer; helm; government.
- Stern, star.
- Stert, sprung.
- Sterue, die, perish.
- Stew, vapour.
- Stewyn, judgment, doom.
- Stewyn, voice, sound.
- Stole, stool, seat.
- Stoney, astonish.
- Stot, stop.
- Stound, blow.
- Stour, battle; perilous situation.
- Stoutlynys, stoutly.
- Straik, engagement in battle.
- Strak, straight.
- Strakys, strokes.
- Strand, gutter.
- Straucht, straight; stretched.
- Strenthis, places of strength.
- Strenthly, by main strength.
- Strenyéit, constrained.
- Strestely, perhaps for trestely, faithfully.
- Stuff, supply with men, in warfare; men placed in a garrison for its defence.
- Stuart, steward.
- Stuffyt, lost wind, became stifled.
- Stunay, astonish.
- Sture, hardy, robust.
- Sturting, trouble, vexation.
- Stynt, delay.
- Styth, steady; strong.
- Sua, swa, sway, so.
- Suerd, sword.
- Suet, life. Tynt the suet, lost the life.
- Suffer, delay, put off; patient in bearing injurious treatment.
- Sukudry, presumption.
- Suld, should.
- Sumdell, in some degree; respecting quantity or number.
- Sumer, sumpter-horse.
- Suppowall, support.
- Suppriss, oppression.
- Suthfast, true.
- Suthfastness, truth.
- Swa. V. Sua.
- Swagat, so, in such way.
- Swak, hard blow; throw.
- Swakit, cast forcibly.
- Swanys, swains.
- Swappyt, drew; threw with violence; struck; rolled or huddled together.
- Swar, a snare.
- Swarff, stupor, insensibility.
- Swate, sweat.
- Swelt, died.
- Swilk, such.
- Swing, stroke.
- Swome, swim.
- Swycht, perhaps for wycht, powerful.
- Swyth, quickly.
- Sympill, symple, low-born; not possessing strength.
- Sympylly, poorly, meanly.
- Syne, afterwards; next in order.
- Syng, sign.
- Synglar, unarmed.
- Syr, sir.
- Syss, assize.
- Syth, times. Fele syth, often.
- Sythyn, afterwards.
- Syvewarin, first magistrate of a town.
- T
- Ta, take.
- Ta, one, after the.
- Ta and fra, to and fro.
- Tach, arrest.
- Taile, flatter one’s self.
- Taile, tax; covenant; entail.
- Tais, takes.
- Taist, grope.
- Tak in hand, make prisoner.
- Tak on hand, affect state; undertake.
- Takynnyng, intimation by sign.
- Talent, desire, purpose.
- Tane, taken.
- Taucht, gave, committed.
- Taysyt, poised, adjusted.
- Tene, teyne, anger; sorrow.
- Tent, care, attention.
- Ter, tar.
- Terand, tyrant.
- Terlyst, grated.
- Teyne, mad with rage. V. Tene.
- Tha, these.
- Thak-burd, thatch-board, roof.
- Than, then, at that time.
- Thar, there.
- Thar befor, before that time.
- Tharby, there about.
- Thar our, on the other side.
- Tharout, without.
- Thay, these.
- The, thigh.
- Thewtill, large knife.
- Thing, affairs of state; meeting.
- Thir, these.
- Thirldome, thraldom.
- Thocht, thoucht, although.
- Thoill, suffer; tholyt, suffered.
- Thortour, thuortour, cross.
- Thowis, dost address in the singular number.
- Thowlesnes, inactivity, torpor.
- Thra, brave; obstinate; eagerness.
- Thrang, straits.
- Thraw, short space of time.
- Thre, three.
- Threll, slave.
- Thresum, three together.
- Thret, threatened.
- Thretty, thirty.
- Threw, struck.
- Thrid, third.
- Thrillage, bondage.
- Thring, press on, or forward.
- Thropell, windpipe.
- Throuch, faith, credit.
- Throuch, thoroughly, entirely.
- Thrusande, falling with a crash.
- Thruschyt, did cleave with a crashing noise.
- Thryll, slave.
- Thurch, perhaps, force.
- Thurst, could.
- Thyggyt, begged.
- Thyne, thence.
- Tid, proper time, season.
- Til, till, to.
- Till, while, during the time that.
- Tillgyddre, together.
- Tillit, allured, enticed.
- To, too, also.
- Ton, town. Of ton, out of town.
- Torn but, retaliation.
- Tothir, tothyr, other; another.
- Towboth, prison.
- Townnys, large casks, tuns.
- Traist, trusty; confident; safe.
- Traist, appointed meeting.
- Traistly, securely.
- Traistyt, trusted.
- Tranont, tranoynt, tranownt, tranent, trawent, march suddenly in a clandestine manner; march quickly, in general.
- Tranowintyn, stratagem of war.
- Trast, trest, a beam.
- Trawaill, labour.
- Tray, trouble, vexation.
- Trayn, draw; entice.
- Tre, tree, wood.
- Trew, trewis, truce.
- Trewage, tribute.
- Trewaill, labour.
- Trewbut, tribute.
- Tronsoun, truncheon.
- Troplys, troops.
- Trow, believe; curse.
- Trowentyn. V. Tranont.
- Trump, march, trudge.
- Tryst, appointed place of meeting.
- Turngreys, winding stair.
- Turss, carry off hastily. Turss furth, bring out what has been kept in store.
- Tutilling, blowing of a horn.
- Twa, two.
- Twal, twelve.
- Twyn. In twyn, asunder.
- Twyne, separate.
- Twyst, twig, small branch.
- Tymmeris, crests for helmets.
- Tyne, lose. Tynt, lost. Tynsaill, loss.
- Tyrandry, tyranny.
- Tyre, hat of, tiara.
- Tyt, soon, quickly.
- Tyt, snatch. Tytt, snatched.
- Tyttar, sooner, rather.
- V
- Ver, spring.
- Ulispit, wlispit, lisped.
- Veyle, well.
- Umbeset, beset on all sides.
- Umbethoucht, considered attentively.
- Umbeweround, environed.
- Umquhile, at times; now, as contrasted with then; formerly.
- Uncorduall, incongruous.
- Undercast, revolve.
- Unlaw, a fine.
- Unraboytyt, not repulsed.
- Unrest, trouble.
- Unsele, mischance.
- Unsowerable, unsufferable.
- Up blinkit, glanced up.
- Upgang, ascent, acclivity.
- Upwith, uphill.
- Ure, chance.
- Urned, pained, tortured.
- Utouth, outwards.
- Unwemmyt, not scarred.
W, as a vowel.- Wness, with difficulty, hardly.
- Wrandly, without intermission; or, with much contention.
- Wtast, octaves.
- Wtelawys, outlaws.
W, consonant.- Wa, way, wo; sorrowful. Comp. wäer; superl. wayest. Waworth, wo befal.
- Wageouris, mercenary soldiers.
- Waik, watch.
- Waile, waill, avail; advantage.
- Waill, waille, valley.
- Wailland, choosing.
- Wailye, avail.
- Waine, vain.
- Wait, waite, wot.
- Waith, danger.
- Waith, the spoil taken in hunting or fishing. Waithyng, the act of thus taking.
- Wala, walé, waley, valley.
- Walageouss, walegeous, lecherous.
- Wald, would; government.
- Wale, choice, best part.
- Walk, watch.
- Walopyt, gallopped.
- Wan, dark-coloured, gloomy.
- Wan away, escaped.
- Wan our, got over, crossed.
- Wan up, was able to ascend.
- Wanbayn, cheek-bone.
- Wandyst, recoiled from fear.
- Wane, manner, fashion.
- Wane, opinion, estimation.
- Wane, habitation; pl. wanys.
- Wanys, jaws.
- Wapynnys, weapons.
- War, were; aware; worse.
- War, waste, squander.
- War, wore, did wear.
- War him, befal him.
- Warand, place of shelter.
- Ward, guard.
- Wardan, guardian, governor.
- Warne, refuse; warnyt, refused.
- Warnstor, store for a garrison.
- Warnyst, supplied with provision.
- Warpyt, threw.
- Warrayand, warring.
- Warrer, more aware.
- Waryit, cursed.
- Warysoun, reward.
- Wassalage, wasselage, great achievement; valour.
- Wat, know.
- Wated, waited.
- Wauld, government. In wauld, under sway.
- Wawand, waving.
- Waward, vanguard.
- Wawys, waves.
- Way, sorry.
- Wayn, plenty, abundance.
- Waywart, a waywart, in a direction from.
- Wayndit, cared.
- Wayne. In wayne, in vain.
- Wayne, plenty, abundance.
- Wed, pledge.
- Weddyr, wedder, weather.
- Wedeis, withes, twigs.
- Wei, wey, little.
- Weid, waxed furious.
- Weild, weld, manage; enter on possession of an estate.
- Weill, many.
- Welany, damage, disgrace.
- Weltre, roll.
- Wem, stain.
- Wemmyt, scarred, disfigured.
- Wencusyt, vanquished.
- Wend, imagined, weened.
- Weng, avenge.
- Went, to go.
- Wenys, thinkest.
- Wepit, wiped.
- Wer, war; worse; defend.
- Wer, spring.
- Wer, doubt. But wer, undoubtedly.
- Werdis, fates.
- Werk, work.
- Wernage, provision laid up in a garrison.
- Werray, make war upon.
- Werray, very; werray ded, truly dead.
- Werrament, truth.
- Werthar, more worthy.
- Weryté, verity.
- Wesand, windpipe.
- Wesar, wyser, visor.
- Wesche, wash.
- Weschel, vessels.
- Wesely, cautiously.
- Westland, western.
- Wesie, examine narrowly.
- Weyne, doubt.
- Weyt, wet.
- Wiage, wyage, military expedition.
- Wicht, wycht, strong; valiant.
- Wictailyt, victualled.
- Will, willis, use, custom.
- Will, bewildered. Will of reide, destitute of counsel. Will off wane, at a loss for a habitation.
- Willfully, willingly.
- Wincust, vanquished.
- Withletting, obstruction.
- Withsay, gainsay.
- Withset, beset.
- With that, thereupon.
- Withthi, wherefore; provided.
- Wittaill, grain; provisions.
- Wittand, knowing.
- Wittryng, wyttring, information.
- Woce, voice.
- Wod, wood, furious, mad; wild, not domesticated.
- Woid, divide.
- Wok, walked.
- Wonnyn, dried by exposure to the air.
- Wonnyng, habitation.
- Wonnyt, dwelt.
- Wor, guarded, defended.
- Wordis, behoves, becomes.
- Worschippis, valorous deeds.
- Worth, wax, become; worthit, became. Worthit to weide, became furious. It worthit, it was necessary.
- Worthyhed, valorous conduct.
- Woud, wood; mad.
- Wouk, week; watched.
- Woun away, got off, escaped.
- Wowyn, woven.
- Woyd, void. Woydyt, emptied.
- Wraithly, furiously.
- Wrang, wrong.
- Wrangwis, not proper; unjust.
- Wrethyt, was filled with indignation; or, writhed.
- Wrokyn, avenged.
- Wrychtis, carpenters.
- Wycht. V. Wicht.
- Wyn, dry by exposure to the air.
- Wyn to, reach. Wyn to gidder, effect a conjunction.
- Wynland, whirling.
- Wys, wyss, wise, prudent.
- Wysk, quick motion.
- Wyt, shun, evite.
- Wyttrely, according to good information.
- Wytt, blamed.
- Y
- Ya, yea, yes.
- Yarne, eagerly, diligently.
- Yauld, yielded.
- Ydill, idle.
- Yeit, yet.
- Yede, went.
- Yemsell, keeping; guardianship.
- Yemyt, kept, took care of.
- Yerdit, interred.
- Yett, gate, door.
- Yharn, eagerly to desire.
- Yhemar, keeper. V. Yemyt.
- Yhis, yes.
- Yhude, went.
- Yhule-ewyn, Christmas-eve.
- Yit, yet.
- Yiwyn, even.
- Ymage, homage.
- Yneuch, enough.
- Ynom, took.
- Yoldyn, yielded, surrendered.
- Youde, went.
- Yowtheid, stage of youth.
- Yrage, Irish.
- Ythanly, without interruption.
- Ythen, busy; steady, uniform.
- Yuman, farmer’s servant.
- Yumenry, armed peasantry.
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