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  • dabs, pricks.
  • dang, [301], overcome;
  • [361], pushed.
  • dapperby, [189], dapper?
  • daut, fondle, caress.
  • daw, dawn.
  • dead, death.
  • dear-boucht, dear-bought.
  • deas, sometimes a pew in a church.
  • dee, die.
  • dee, do, avail.
  • deid, death.
  • deight, dight, decked.
  • den, valley.
  • depart, [124], part.
  • dight, [253], skilfully, readily?
  • dighted, dressed, wiped.
  • dine, dinner.
  • ding, strike.
  • dinna, do not.
  • disna, does not.
  • dool, sorrow.
  • dout, fear.
  • dowie, mournful, sad, gloomy.
  • downa, cannot.
  • dows, doves.
  • dreaded, doubted.
  • dree, suffer.
  • drew up with, [94], formed relations of love with.
  • drie, suffer.
  • drumly, troubled.
  • dule, grief, sorrow.
  • dune, done.
  • dwines, dwindles.
  • e'e, eye.
  • een, eye, eyes.
  • eneuch, enough.
  • ezer, azure.
  • fadge, clumsy woman.
  • faem, foam.
  • fare, go.
  • farrow-cow, a barren cow.
  • fee, property, wages.
  • fell, hill.
  • fell, strange.
  • ferra cow, farrow cow, a cow not with calf.
  • ffree, noble.
  • firstan, firstand, first.
  • fit, foot.
  • fitches, [329], flitches?
  • flang'd, flung.
  • fleed, flood.
  • foremost man, bridesman.
  • forlorn, lost.
  • fou, fow, full.
  • frush, brittle.
  • fur, furrow, a furrows length, furlong.
  • gaed, went.
  • gair, [354], gore, strip. See gare.
  • gang, go;
  • gangs, goes.
  • gar, make.
  • gare, [55], gore;
  • apparently, here, skirt. So, hung low down by his gair, [296], by the edge of his frock. The word seems also to be used vaguely in romances for clothing.
  • garl, gravel.
  • gate, way.
  • gear, goods, clothes.
  • gin, trick, wile.
  • gleed, a burning coal;
  • [97], blaze.
  • glent, gleam, glimmer.
  • gone, go.
  • gowd, gold;
  • gowden, golden.
  • gowk, fool.
  • gravat, cravat?
  • greaf, grave.
  • greet, cry, weep.
  • gris, a costly fur.
  • grit, big.
  • groom, man.
  • gross, heavy.
  • gryte, great, big.
  • Gude, God.
  • ha', hall.
  • had her, betook her.
  • hallow-days, holidays.
  • haly, holy.
  • happit, covered.
  • hass, neck.
  • haud, hold;
  • haud unthought lang, keep from ennui.
  • hause, neck.
  • head, behead.
  • healy, slowly, softly.
  • heght, promised.
  • her lane, herself alone.
  • herried, robbed.
  • hich, high.
  • hinny, honey.
  • hip, the berry which contains the stones or seeds of the dog-rose.
  • hooly, slowly, gently.
  • how, ho!
  • hows, hollows, dells.
  • howket, dug.
  • huggell, huddle, cuddle.
  • huly, slowly.
  • intill, into, in.
  • into, on.
  • iwis, certainly.
  • jaw, [233], wave.
  • jawing, dashing.
  • jimp, slender.
  • jo, sweetheart.
  • jollie, handsome.
  • jow, stroke in tolling.
  • kell, caul, a species of cap, or net-work, worn by women as a head-dress.
  • kembe, comb;
  • kembing, combing.
  • kenna, know not;
  • kentna, knew not.
  • kens, knows.
  • kerches, kerchiefs.
  • kilted, tucked up.
  • kin, kind;
  • a' kin, all kind.
  • kist, chest.
  • kitchey, kitchen.
  • know, knoll.
  • kye, cows.
  • kythe, become, manifest.
  • laigh, low.
  • lain, alone;
  • ye're your lain, you are alone;
  • hir lain, her alone.
  • lair, learning.
  • lane, alone;
  • the same in combination with the pronouns my, his, her, its, &c.
  • lap, leapt.
  • latten, let.
  • lauch, laugh.
  • laumer, [327], amber.
  • lave, rest.
  • lealest, truest, chastest.
  • lear, lore, lesson.
  • lease, leash.
  • lee, lonesome.
  • lee-lang, livelong.
  • lei, [132], lonesome.
  • len, lie.
  • lent, leaned.
  • let, stop, delay.
  • leuch, leugh, laughed.
  • lichtly, lightly.
  • lig, lie.
  • lighter, delivered.
  • limmers, strumpets.
  • linn, the pool under a cataract, cataract.
  • lith, joint.
  • lither, naughty, wicked.
  • looten, let.
  • loup, leap.
  • lourd, liefer, rather.
  • louted, bent.
  • louze, loosen.
  • lykewake, watching of a dead body.
  • mae, more.
  • maene, moan, lamentation.
  • maist, [58], maistly, almost.
  • make, mate.
  • mane, moan.
  • maries, maids.
  • marrow, mate.
  • mat, may.
  • maun, must.
  • maunna, may not.
  • may, maid.
  • meen, moan, lament.
  • message, messenger.
  • micht, might.
  • mind, remember.
  • mirk, murky.
  • mith, might.
  • Moll Syms, [359], a celebrated dance tune of the 16th century.
  • mools, the earth of the grave, the dust of the dead.
  • mot, may.
  • my lane, alone by myself.