GLOSSARY
Ablach—insignificant person.
Aivrins—cloudberry.
Ajee—to one side.
Antrin—occasional.
Arles—earnest given in striking a bargain.
Asklent—askance.
Awat—I wot.
Awin'—owing.
Baillie—alderman; baillie (water)—bailiff; baillie (in the byre)—cattle-man.
Ballants—ballads.
Bane—bone.
Banster—one who binds the sheaves.
Barkit—encrusted with dirt.
Bauldrins—cat.
Bawd—hare.
Beet to—had to.
Beets—boots.
Begood—began.
Bents—hilly ground on which coarse grass grows.
Besom shaft—broom handle.
Bield—shelter.
Biggin'—building.
Bike—hive.
Birk—birch.
Birlin'—whirring.
Birn—burden.
Birr—whirr.
Birse—bristles.
Birselt, birslin'—scorched, scorching.
Bishop—to beat down earth or stones.
Blate—bashful.
Bluffert—blast of wind.
Bonnet-laird—yeoman.
Bool—bowl, marble.
Boss—hollow.
Bothy—cottage where farm servants are lodged.
Bourtree—elder.
Braxy—sheep that has died a natural death.
Break—hollow in a hill.
Breet—brute.
Brochan—oatmeal boiled thicker than gruel.
Brulzie—brawl.
"Buchan"—Buchan's "Domestic Medicine."
Buirdly—stalwart.
But-an'-ben—cottage divided into two apartments.
Byous—exceedingly, out of the common.
Cadger—hawker.
Caird—travelling tinker.
Cairtin'—playing cards.
Caller—cool, refreshing.
Cannas—-canvas.
Canny—safe, prudent, judicious.
Cantrip—mischievous trick.
Carlie—little old man.
Cauldrife—causing the sensation of cold.
Caup—turned wooden bowl.
Cauper—maker of caups, wood-turner.
Caur—calves.
Causey—causeway.
Caw—to drive.
Chappin'—knocking.
Chappit—struck (the clock "chappit"); chappit kail—mashed or bruised colewort.
Chaumers—chambers.
Clachan—hamlet.
Claik—gossip.
Clash—gossip.
Clawed the caup—cleaned the dish. As a punishment the person last to get up in the morning had to clean the common bowl.
Cleadin'—clothing.
Cleekit shalt—pony suffering from string-halt.
Clinkin'—mending by rivetting.
Clockin'—brooding.
Clorty—dirty, sticky.
Closs—enclosure, passage.
Cloutie—small cloth.
Clouts—mends, patches.
Cogue—wooden milking pail.
Connached—abused, wasted, destroyed.
Coof—coward.
Core—company, corps.
Corp—corpse.
Coup—to exchange.
Couthy—affable, kindly.
Covin-tree—trysting-tree, large tree in front of the mansion house where visitors were received.
Cowe—twig of a shrub or bush.
Cowshus—cautious.
Cowt—colt.
Crack—to chat.
Craft—small farm.
Craggins—jars.
Creel—basket.
Creepie—low stool.
Creesh—fat, grease.
Crouse—brisk, lively, bold.
Crowdy—meal and water mixed cold.
Cruisie—ancient oil lamp.
Cuisy—cast, threw.
Cuitikins—gaiters.
Cushie doo—wood pigeon.
Dambrod—draught board.
Daundrin'—strolling.
Daw—dawn.
Dibble—to plant in a small hole.
Dicht—to clean, to wipe up.
Ding—to overcome, to excel.
Dirl—tingle.
Dirlin'—vibrating.
Displenish—to disfurnish, sale of furniture of any sort.
Divot—turf.
Doddit—without horns.
Doit—a small copper coin.
Dool—woe.
Dozin—in a benumbed state.
Dreep—drip, empty to the last drop.
Dregie—refreshment given at a funeral.
Drift—driving or driven snow.
Drooth—drought, thirst.
Dryster—man who dries the grain before grinding.
Dubs, dubby—mud, muddy.
Dunt—bang, sound caused by the fall of a hard body.
Dwinin'—pining.
Easin'—eaves.
Eident—diligent.
Eild—old age.
Elbuck—elbow.
Ell-wan'—yardstick.
Elshin—shoemaker's awl.
Ettlin'—aiming.
Excamb—to exchange one piece of ground for another.
Fa'—fall, fate (black be his fa').
Fae—from.
Faes—foes.
Faugh—fallow land, "Farmers faugh gars lairds lauch"—old Scottish proverb.
Fauld—fold.
Faured—favoured.
Feal dyke—wall built of sods.
Fell—kill, deadly.
Ferlie—oddity, wonder.
Fiars—prices of grain legally fixed for the year.
Fient, fient haet—not a bit, the Devil a bit.
Fiersday—Thursday.
Firehoose—dwelling house.
Firry—resinous.
Fittit—footed.
Flaffin'—flapping.
Flan—gust of wind.
Flate—scolded.
Fleech—flatter.
Fleems—fleam, lancet.
Fleerish, flint and—flint and steel.
Fleg—frighten.
Fleyed—frightened.
Flyte—scold.
Forenicht—interval between twilight and bedtime.
Forfochen—exhausted.
Fou—stone crop, saxifrage.
Fremt—strange, foreign.
Fret—superstition.
Futt'rat—weasel.
Fyou—few.
Gaberlunzie—beggar.
Gale—gable.
Galshochs—kickshaws.
Gangrel—wanderer.
Gantin'—yawning.
Gean—cherry.
Gey, gey often—considerably, pretty often.
Girn—snare.
Girnal—meal chest.
Girse—grass.
Gizzened—parched.
Glammoch—eager grasp.
Glaur—mire.
Gled, gleed—kite.
Goupin'—staring.
Graith—accoutrements, harness.
Grat, greetin'—cried, crying.
Grauvit—cravat.
Grease—disease affecting horses' legs.
Greybeard—earthenware bottle.
Grieve—farm overseer.
Grippy—stingy.
Grumlie—grumbling.
Guff—smell.
"Gweed words"—prayers.
Hacks—chaps, the effect of severe cold.
Hag—lesser branches of trees.
Hained—saved, not wasted.
Halflin—half-grown man.
Hame-drauchted—selfish, greedy.
Hamewith—homewards.
Hanks—skeins.
Hantle—much.
Happit—covered.
Harlin'—rough casting.
Harns—brains.
Harp (a mason's)—wire screen for cleaning sand or gravel.
Hauddin'—holding, house.
Haugh—alluvial ground beside a river.
Hauld—stronghold.
Heeze—heave.
Hine awa'—far away.
Hingin'—hanging.
Hint o' Hairst—end of harvest.
Hoast—cough.
Hod—hid.
Hodden grey—cloth the natural colour of the wool.
Horn-en'—best room in a two-roomed cottage.
Houkin'—digging.
Hoven—swollen, blown out.
Howe—hollow, valley.
Hummel—without horns.
Hunker—to squat down.
Income—ailment the cause of which is unknown.