English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I

by Unknown

N.B. Figures placed after words denote the pages in which they occur.

• a, one.
• a', all.
• abee, abene, be.
• aboon, abune, above.
• aby, pay for.
• ae, only, sole.
• ae, aye, still,
• ahin, behind.
• airn, iron.
• ald, old.
• all and some, each and all.
• als, as.
• als, also.
• ance, anes, once.
• appone, upon.
• araye, order.
• arblast-bow, cross-bow.
• are, before.
• arena, are not.
• arighte, laid hold of.
• armorie, [237], band of armed men.
• asey, assay.
• ask, newt, a kind of lizard.
• askryede, described.
• asurd, azured, blue.
• at, [296], of.
• atteynt, seize.
• aught, owed.
• avanse, gain, succeed.
• avow, vow.
• awa, away.
• awenn, own.
• ay, a.
• ayont, beyond.

• ba', ball.
• backefysyke, [22].
• bade, prayed for.
• bade, abode, staid.
• bairnly, childlike.
• bald, bold.
• bale, blaze, fire.
• bale, harme, ruin, sorrow.
• ban', bound.
• bane, bone.
• bankers, [276], coverings for benches.
• bann, curse.
• barn, child, wight.
• beck, stream.
• bedone, [8], bedecked.
• begane, bedecked.
• begynne the bord, sit at the head of the table.
• ben, in.
• ben, prompt, ready.
• bent, plain, field, (from the coarse grass growing on open lands);
• bentis, bents, coarse grass.
• beryde, [98], cried, made a noise.
• bese, will or shall be.
• best man, bride's, [85], bridesman, (corresponding to the best maid, or bridesmaid).
• bestedde, circumstanced.
• bi, be.
• bierly, [148], proper, becoming, comfortable.
• bigg, build.
• bilive, quickly.
• Billy Blind, or Billy Blin, a Brownie, or domestic fairy.
• binkes, benches.
• bird, lady.
• birk, birch.
• birled, [211], poured out drink, or drunk.
• blae, livid.
• blee, color, complexion.
• blewe, [99], sounded a horn.
• blin, blyn, stop, cease.
• bogle, spectre, goblin.
• bone, boon.
• boome, [287]. Qy. goome, man?
• bord, table.
• borrow, stand surety for, ransom, rescue.
• bouir, chamber, dwelling.
• boun, boon.
• boun, ready;
• make ye boun, [289], boun, [187], go straightway.
• bourdes, jests.
• boure, bower, chamber.
• bouted, bolted.
• bown, ready, ready to go.
• bowrd, jest.
• brade, broad.
• brae, hill-side.
• brast, burst.
• brayd, started, turned.
• braw, brave, fine.
• bree, brow.
• brening, burning.
• brent, burnt.
• brether, [26], brethren.
• bricht, bright.
• brimes, water.
• britled, [15], brittened, [16], cut up, carved.
• brok, brook.
• broom-cow, bush of broom.
• brook, enjoy, preserve.
• brues, brows.
• brunt, burnt.
• bryste, burst.
• bue, [234], [235], fair?
• bugyle, horn.
• bunge, [239]?
• buntin, buntlin, blackbird; al. wood-lark.
• burd, maid, lady.
• burd-alane, alone.
• Burlow-beanie, [241], name of a fiend or spirit.
• burn, brook.
• busk, dress, make ready.
• but, [208], and;
• but and, and also.
• by and by, straightway.
• bydeene, [13], continuously, in numbers.
• byggis, builds.
• bygone, bedecked.
• byhouys, behoves.
• byleve, [98], remain.
• byrde, lady.
• byre, cow-house.
• byrnande, burning.
• byteche, commit.

• ca', call.
• can, (sometimes gan,) used as an auxiliary with an infinitive mood, to express the past tense of a verb.
• carknet, necklace.
• carline, female of churl, old woman.
• carlist, [37], churlish.
• carp, talk, tell stories.
• cast, planned.
• chalmer, chamber.
• channerin', fretting.
• chere, countenance.
• chese, choose.
• chess, jess, strap.
• chewys, choosest.
• chiel, child, young man.
• christendame, christendoun, christening.
• christentye, christendom.
• claes, clothes.
• clapping, fondling.
• clear, clere, fair, morally pure.
• cockward, cuckold.
• coft, bought.
• coiffer, [260], coif, head-dress, cap?
• cold, could, knew; used as an auxiliary with the infinitive to express a past tense; e.g. he cold fling, he flung.
• coleyne, Collen, Cologne steel.
• com'nye, [237], communing, discourse.
• compass, circle,
• compenabull, [21], sociable, admitting to participation.
• coost, coosten, cast.
• couth, could, knew, understood.
• covent, convent.
• cow-me-doo, [171], like curdoo, name for a dove, from its cooing.
• craftelike, craftily.
• crapoté, [99]. Qy. cramasee, crimson?
• cropoure, crupper.
• crowt, [12], curl up.
• crystiante, christendom.
• cure, [279], till.

• dag-durk, dagger, dirk.
• damasee, damson.
• dang, beat, struck.
• dasse, dais, raised platform.
• daunton, daunt.
• decay, destruction.
• dee, die.
• dee, do.
• deid, death.
• dele, dell, part.
• delle, [101]. dally.
• dere, harm.
• derne, secret.
• des, dese, dais, elevated platform.
• devyse, direction.
• deynteous, dainty.
• dight, [225], placed, involved.
• dight (corn), winnow.
• dinne, [12], trouble, circumstance.
• distans, [23], dissension, strife.
• done, do.
• doo, dove.
• doubt, dout, fear.
• dought, could, might; [112], may, am able.
• dow, could.
• dowie, mournful, doleful.
• dree, suffer.
• drest, arranged.
• drumlie, troubled, gloomy.
• dryssynge, dressing.
• dule, sorrow, trouble.
• dullfull, doleful.
• dyght, dygzht, adorned, arrayed, dressed.

• ear, soon, early.
• eerie, eiry, fearful, producing superstitious dread.
• eghne, eyes.
• eglis, eagle's.
• elde, eldren, old.
• Elfin, [262], Elf-land.
• elritch, elvish.
• endres-daye, [98], past day? other day? See Halliwell's Dictionary.
• "Of my fortune, how it ferde,
• This endir day, as y forth ferde."
• erdelik, [275], earthly. (Finlay, "clidelik.")
• erlish, elvish.
• esk, newt.
• etin (Danish jette), giant.
• even cloth, [113], fine cloth?
• everlk, every.
• everychon, every one.

• faem, foam.
• faine, desire.
• faine, glad.
• fairest, forest.
• fand, found.
• fare, go.
• farer, further.
• fawte, want.
• fayrse, fierce.
• feat, neat, dexterous, nimble.
• fee, [100], animals, deer; [107], rent, tribute.
• feed, same as food, fud, creature, man, woman, or child.
• feires, companions, mates.
• fele, many.
• fell, hill, moor.
• ferli, [275], fairly?
• ferlie, ferly, wonder.
• ferlich, wondrous.
• fernie, covered with fern.
• fet, fette, fetched.
• fethill, fiddle.
• fforthi, therefore.
• fifthen, fifth.
• fil, fell.
• first ane, first.
• firth, (frith,) wood.
• fize, [274], five.
• flang, flung.
• flaugh, flew.
• flaw, [175], lie.
• fleer, floor.
• fley'd, frightened.
• flone, arrow.
• fode, creature, child.
• fond, try, make trial.
• fonde, found.
• forbye, aside.
• fordoo, destroy.
• foremost man, [158], (like best man), bridesman.
• forowttyn, without.
• forteynd, happened.
• forther, further.
• forthi, therefore.
• fowles, birds.
• fraine, question.
• free, [275], lord, [253], lady.
• free, freely, noble, lovely.
• frem, strange.
• freyry, fraternity.
• frowte, fruit.
• fu', full.
• fundyd, [275], went.
• fytt, canto, division of a song.

• gad, bar.
• gae, gave.
• gae, go, going.
• gait, nae, no way, no where.
• galid, [276], sang?
• gangande, going.
• gar, make, cause.
• gare, [193], strip.
• garthes, girths.
• gate, [225], way.
• gesing, [276], guessing; or, desire, A. Sax. gitsung?
• getterne, giitern, kind of harp.
• ghesting, lodging, hospitable reception.
• gied, went.
• gien, given.
• gin, giue, if.
• gleed, a burning coal.
• glided, [274]. Qy. gilded?
• glint, gleam.
• gon, begun, performed.
• gon, went.
• goud, gold.
• goupen, the hollow of the hand contracted to receive anything.
• gowan, flower.
• gowd, gold.
• gowden, golden.
• gown of green, got on the, [259], was with child.
• gravil, [260]?
• gree, favor, prize.
• green'd, longed.
• greet, weep.
• grew, gray.
• groom, man, young man.
• gule, red.
• gurlie, stormy, surly.
  
• gyne, device.

• ha', hall.
• had, hold, keep.
• hailsed, saluted.
• halch, salute, embrace.
• hallow, hollow.
• Hallowe'en, [120], the eve of All-Saints' day, supposed to
• be peculiarly favorable for intercourse with the invisible world, all fairies, witches, and ghosts being then abroad.
  
• hals, halse, neck;
• halsed, greeted.
• haly, holy.
• hame, home.
• hap, cover.
• harde, heard.
• harns, brains;
• harn-pan, skull.
• hate, hat.
• hat, hit.
• hand, hold.
• haved, had.
• heal, conceal.
• heathennest, heathynesse, [234], heathendom.
• hegehen, eyes.
• hegh, high; heghere, higher.
• hem, them.
• hende, handsome, gentle.
• hent, took.
• herbere, arbor, orchard.
• herme, harm.
• hethyn, [107], hence.
• hett, bid.
• heved, head.
• hi, [275], I.
• high-coll'd, high-cut.
• hind, gentle.
• hind, [180], stripling.
• him lane, alone.
• hingers, hangings.
• hirn, corner.
• hith, hight, is called.
• hollen, holly.
• hore, hoar, hoary.
• hose, [238], clasp.
• howkit, dug.
• howm, holm; level, low ground on the bank of a stream.
• hunt's-ha', hunting-lodge.
• hye, in, in haste; [23], perhaps aloud.
• hyghte, bid; was called.
• hynde, youth, stripling, swain.
• hyȝe, in, [20], in haste, of a sudden.

• ic, I.
• iknow, known.
• ilka, each.
• ilke, same.
• inowȝe, enough.
• intill, into, upon.
• iralle, [99]. Qu. rialle, royal?