English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I - Unknown

jawes, [227], dashes;
jawp'd, [257], dashed, spattered.
jelly, jolly, pleasant.
jimp, slender, neat.
jolly, pretty, gay.

kaim, comb.
kane, rent.
karp, talk, relate stories.
kemb, comb.
ken, know.
keppit, caught, kept.
kevels, lots.
kiest, cast.
kilted, tucked.
kin', kind of.
kindly, [236], "good old"?
kirk, church.
kist, chest.
knave-bairn, male child.
knicht, knight.

laidley, loathly, loathsome.
laigh-coll'd, low-cut.
laith, loath.
lane, alone; joined with pronouns, as, my lane, his lane, her lane, their lane, myself alone, &c.
lang, to think, originally, to seem long, then to be weary, feel ennui.
lapande, lapping.
lappered, coagulated, clotted.
lat, latten, let.
lauchters, locks.
laverock, lark.
leal, loyal, chaste.
leccam, body.
lede, lead.
lee, lie.
leesome, pleasant, sweet.
lelfe, [22], leave?
lere, lore, doctrine; learn.
les, lesyng, lying, lie.
lesse and more, smaller and greater.
lett, lette, hinder, hinderance; delay;
withouten lette, for a certainty.
leuedys, ladies.
leuer, liefer, rather.
leuȝe, laughed.
leven, [111], lawn.
levin, lightning.
ley-land, lea-land, not ploughed.
licht, light.
lichted, lighted.
lift, air.
likes, dead bodies.
lingcam, [148], body, =leccam?
linger, longer.
link, walk briskly; arm in arm.
lire, face, countenance.
lith, [275], supple, limber.
lithe, listen.
lodlye, loathly.
loffe, love.
loof, hollow of the hand.
loot, bow.
loot, let.
loun, loon.
louted, bowed.
lown, lone.
lowȝhe, laughed, smiled.
luifsomely, lovingly.
luppen, leapt.
lygge, lay
lyggande, lying.
lyle, little.
lystnys, listen.
lyth, member, limb.

mae, more.
maen, moan.
maik, mate.
makane, making.
mane, moan.
mansworn, perjured.
marrow, mate.
maste, most, greatest.
maun, must.
maunna, may not.
mawys, mavis, singing thrush.
may, maid.
medill-erthe, earth, the upper-world.
mekill, great, large.
mell, mallet.
meloude, melody.
mensked, [276], honored.
menyde, moaned.
merks, marks.
merk-soot, [274], mark-shot, distance between bow-marks.—Finlay.
merrys, marrest.
mese, mess, meal.
micht, might.
middle-eard, the upper world, placed between the nether regions and the sky.
minded, remembered.
minion, fine, elegant.
mirk, dark.
mith, might.
mode, passion, energy.
mody, courageous.
mold, mould, earth, ground.
montenans, amount.
more, greater.
most, greatest.
moth, might.
mother-naked, naked as at one's birth.
mouthe, might.
Mungo, St., St. Kentigern.
my lane, alone.
mykel, much.

na, not;
namena, name not, &c.
nay, denial.
neist, next.
newfangle, [9], (trifling, inconstant), light, loose.
niest, next, nearest, close.
noth, nouth, not.
nouther, noyther, neither.

on, in.
on ane, anon.
one, on, in.
onie, any.
or, ere, before.
orfaré, [99], embroidery.
Oryence, Orient.
oure, over.
over one, [23], in a company, together? See Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary, in v. ouer ane.
owre, over, too.
owreturn, refrain.

pae, peacock.
paines, penance.
pall, rich cloth.
palmer, pilgrim.
papeioyes, popinjays.
parde, par dieu.
pautit, paw, beat with the foot.
pay, [237], pleasure, satisfaction.
paye, [104], content.
payetrelle, [99], (otherwise, patrel, poitrail, pectorale, &c.) a steel plate for the protection of a horse's chest.
payrelde, apparelled.
perdé, par dieu.
perelle, pearl.
pile, [260], down, sometimes tender leaves.
plas, [19], place, palace.
plyȝt, plight, promise.
poterner, [8], pouch, purse. Rightly corrected by Percy from poterver.
See pautonnière, pontonaria, and pantonarius, in Henschel's ed. of Ducange.
pou, pull.
prest, priest.
prieve, prove.
prink'd, prinn'd, adorned, drest up, made neat.
pristly, earnestly.
propine, gift.

raches, scenting hounds.
radde, quick, quickly.
rair, roar.
rashing, striking like a boar.
rathely, quickly.
raught, reached.
rauine, beasts of chase, prey.
redd, [22], explained.
rede, counsel.
reekit, [299], steamed.
reele bone, [99], an unknown material, of which saddles, especially, are in the romances said to be made; called variously, rewel-bone, (Cant. Tales, 13, 807,) rowel-bone, reuylle-bone, and (Young Bekie, vol. iv. 12) royal-bone.
reet, root.
reme, kingdom.
renninge, running.
repreve, reprove, deride.
rewe, take pity.
ridand, riding.
rived, [233], (arrived,) travelled.
rought, route, rowte, rout, band, company.
routh, plenty.
row, roll, wrap.
rown-tree, mountain-ash.
rudd, complexion.
rybybe, kind of fiddle.
ryn, run.
rysse, rise.

safe-guard, a riding-skirt.
saghe, saw.
saikless, guiltless.
sained, crossed, consecrated.
sall, shall.
same, [25], some, each.
sark, shirt.
sathe, sooth, truth.
saw, saying, tale.
sawtrye, psaltery.
scathe, damage.
schane, shone.
scho, she.
schone, shoes.
scort, short.
sculd, should.
seannachy, genealogist, bard, or story-teller.
seck, sack.
sekirlye, truly.
selle, saddle.
senne, since.
sere, sore.
seres, sires, sirs.
sey, [18], v. 29, saw.
share, [193], slip, strip.
shathmont, [126], [A. Sax.
scæftmund,] a measure from the top of the extended thumb to the utmost part of the palm, six inches.
shee, [166], shoe.
sheede, spill.
sheeld-bones, blade-bones, shoulder-blades.
sheen, bright.
sheen, shoes.
sheep's-silver, mica.
shent, injured, abused; [48], shamed.
sheugh, furrow, ditch.
sic, such.
sichin', sighing.
sicken, such.
skaith, harm.
skaith, [qy. skail?] [136], save, keep innocent of.
skill, but a, only reasonable?
skinked, poured out.
sky sett in, [262], for sunset or evening.
skyll, reason, manner, matter.
slae, sloe.
slawe, slain.
slichting, slighting.
smert, quickly.
snell, quick, keen.
solace, solas, recreation, sport.
sooth, soth, truth; sothely, truly.
soth, [276], sweet.
soun, sound.
speed, [11], fare.
spier, ask.
spylle, destroy.
stappin', [148], stopping.
stark, strong.
start, started.
stefly, thickly.
stered, guided.
stern light, [112], light of stars.
stiffe, [29], strong, stout.
stinted, stopped.
store, big, strong.
stown, stolen.
stowre, strong, brave.
straiked, stroaked.
strak, struck.
stratlins, [183], straddlings?
streek, stretch.
sture, [155], big, strong.
stythe, stead, place.
suire, neck.
suld, should.
swick, blame.
swilled, [242], shook, as in rinsing.
swoghyne, [103], soughing.
swylke, such.
syde, long.
syen, since.
syke, rivulet, marshy bottom.
sykerly, sykerlyke, certainly, truly.
syne, then.
syth, times.
sythen, since.

tabull dormounte, [19], standing table, the fixed table at the end of the hall. (?)
tae, toe.
taiken, token.
tee, to.
teind, tithe.
tene, grief, sorrow, loss, harm.
tente, attention, heed; takis gude tente, give good attention to.
tett, [109], lock [of hair.]
thae, those.
than, then
thar, where.
thar, [275], it needs.
then, than.
think lang, to be weary, impatient.
thir, these, those.
tho, then.
thoghte, seemed.
thoth, thouch, thouth, though.
thought lang, seemed long; grew weary, felt ennui.
thouth, [274], seemed.
throw, short time, while.
thrubchandler, [237] ?
tide, time.
till, to.
tirled at the pin, trilled, or rattled, at the door-pin, or latch, to obtain admission.
tither, the other.
tod, fox.
toute, [22]. See Chaucer.
touting, tooting.
travayle, labor.
traye, [104], suffering. [dree?]
tree, wood, staff.
trew, trow.
tryst, appointment, assignation.
twal, twelve.
twan, twined.
twine, part, deprive of.
tyde, time.
tyte, promptly, quick.