English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II

by Unknown

• niest, next.
• nourice, nurse.

• oer, ower, over, too.
• ohon, alas.
• owsen, oxen.
• Owsenford, Oxford.

• pa', pall, rich cloth.
• Parish, Paris.
• part, [151], separate from.
• pat, pot.
• pearlin' gear, pearl ornaments.
• pin, door-latch.
• plat, plaited.
• plea, quarrel.
• pot, a pool, or deep place, in a river.
• prin, pin.
• propine, gift.
• putten down, hung.

• queet, quit, ancle.
• quhair, quhat, quhy, &c., where, what, why, &c.

• rair'd, roared.
• rave, tore off.
• reavel'd, tangled.
• rede, advice, advise;
• 263, story.
• reest, roost.
• renown, [Buchan,] [169], haughtiness?
• rigland shire, [331]?
• rin, run.
• ritted, routed, struck.
• riv't, tear it.
• row, roll.
• row'd, rolled.

• sabelline, sable.
• sanna, shall not.
• sarbit, an exclamation of sorrow.
• sark, shirt.
• saugh, willow.
• scheet, school.
• schill, shrill.
• scug, expiate.
• see, (save and,) protect.
• seen, sen, then, since.
• send, [334], the messengers sent for the bride at a wedding.
• sets, suits.
• shed by, [77], parted, put back.
• sheen, shine.
• sheen, shoes.
• sheet, shoot.
• sheuch, furrow, ditch.
• shimmerd, shone.
• shot-window, a projected window.
• sic, such.
• sich, sigh.
• sindle, seldom.
• sinsyne, since.
• skinkled, sparkled.
• slack, a gap or pass between two hills.
• slait, passed across, whetted.
• slap, a narrow pass between two hills.
• smore, smother.
• snood, a fillet or ribbon for the hair.
• socht, sought.
• sorray, sorrow.
• soum, sowm, swim.
• spakes, spokes, bars.
• speer, speir, ask.
• spreckl'd, speckled.
• stap, stuff.
• stean, stone.
• steek'd, fastened.
• stey, steep.
• stint, stop.
• stock, the forepart of a bed.
• stout, [300], haughty.
• strae, stray, straw.
• straiked, streaked, stroked, drew.
• streek, stretch;
• streekit, stretched;
• streikit, laid out.
• striped, thrust.
• suld, should.
• syke, marshy bottom.
• syne, then, afterwards.

• tane, one, [after the.]
• tasse, cup.
• tate, lock (of hair).
• tee, too.
• teem, empty.
• teen, sorrow, suffering.
• tent, heed.
• thae, these.
• the, thrive.
• thegither, together.
• thir, tho, these, those.
• thorn'd, [335], eaten?
• thought lang, felt ennui.
• thouth, thought, seemed.
• thraw, [302], writhe, twist;
• thrawen, crooked.
• thresel-cock, throstle, thrush.
• threw, [130], throve.
• thrild upon a pinn. See tirled below.
• tift, puff (of wind).
• till, to, on.
• tirled at the pin, trilled or rattled, at the door-latch, to obtain entrance.
• tither, other.
• tocher, dowry.
• toomly, empty.
• tow, rope.
• triest, tryst, make an assignation.
• true, trow.
• twain, part.
• twal, twelve.
• twin, part;
• twinn'd, deprived, parted.

• unco, unknown, strange.

• virr, strength.
• vow, interjection of surprise.

• wad, would.
• wadded, wagered, staked.
• wadding, wedding.
• wae, waeful', sad, sorrowful.
• waked, watched.
• walde, would.
• wale, choice.
• wambe, wame, womb.
• wan, reached.
• wand, wandie, bough, wand, stick.
• wan na in, got not in.
• wap, throw.
• wappit, beat, fluttered.
• warde, [35], advise, forewarn.
• wark, work.
• warlock, wizzard.
• warstan, worst.
• warstled, wrestled.
• wat, know.
• water-kelpy, a malicious spirit thought to haunt fords and ferries, especially in storms, and to swell the waters beyond their ordinary limit, for the destruction of luckless travellers.
• wavers, [40], wanders.
• wa'-wight, [383], waled, picked, strong-men or warriors. See vol. vi. 220, v. 15.
• wean, child.
• wee, little.
• weed, dress.
• weir-horse, war-horse.
• werne, were.
• wha is aught, who is it owns.
• whang, thong.
• whaten, what.
• wicht, strong, agile.
• widdershins, the contrary way, round about.
• wide, wade.
• wight, strong, agile.
• win, arrive, reach, come, get.
• winna, will not.
• winsome, charming, attractive.
• woe, sad.
• won up, got up.
• wood, mad;
• wood-wroth, mad with anger.
• worth, be;
• wae worth you sorrow come upon you.
• wow, alas.
• wraith, wroth.
• wrongous, wrong.
• wull, will.
• wyte, punish, blame.