GLOSSARY.
[a]☞] Figures placed after words denote the pages in which they occur.
- aboon, aboun, abune, above;
- [151], above the surface of the water.
- ackward stroke, [84], [178], cross or back stroke.
- acton, a leather jacket worn under a coat of mail.
- ae, only.
- airts, quarters, points of the compass.
- an, one;
- an ae, one single.
- aneath, beneath.
- anes, once.
- asking, boon.
- aughts, owns.
- aukeward stroke, [178], [84], cross or back stroke.
- auld son, [102]. "Young Son and Auld Son are phrases used only to denote the comparative ages of children. The young son is perhaps the child now in the nurse's arms;
- the auld son, he who has just begun to walk without leading-strings."—Chambers.
- ava, of all;
- [287], at all.
- avowe, vow.
- ayont, beyond.
- baffled, disgraced.
- bairntime, brood of children.
- bale-fire, bonfire.
- band, agreement.
- bane-fire, bonfire.
- bedeene, [247], immediately? continuously?
- bedight, furnished.
- beforne, before.
- belive, soon.
- belly blind, [365], stone blind.
- ben, in.
- bent, a field where the coarse grass so named grows.
- big, build;
- biggit, built.
- bigly, spacious, commodious.
- billie, comrade, brother, a term of affection.
- binna, be not.
- birk, birch.
- birl, drink, pour out drink, ply with drink.
- blanne, stopped.
- blee, complexion.
- bleid, blood.
- blint, blinded.
- bookin, bo'kin, bodkin, small dagger.
- bookesman, clerk, secretary.
- bore, crevice, hole.
- borrow, ransom.
- bouer, chamber.
- boun, [334], go.
- boun, ready.
- bountith, bounties.
- boustouslie, threateningly.
- bout, bolt.
- bow, bole, two bushels.
- bower, chamber.
- bowne, ready.
- brae, hill-side.
- bragged, defied.
- braid letter, an open letter, or letter patent.
- brash, sickness.
- brast, burst.
- braw, brave, handsome.
- breast, [44], make a horse spring up or forward?
- brechan, tartan, plaid.
- brenne, burn.
- bricht, bright.
- brodinge, [176], pricking.
- bully, see billie.
- burd, lady.
- busk, dress, make ready;
- busk on, put on for dress;
- buskit, dressed.
- but and, and also.
- can, used as an auxiliary with the infinitive mood, to form an imperfect tense.
- caneel, cinnamon.
- cannie, handily, gently.
- caps, [301], bowls.
- carle, churl;
- carline, feminine of churl, old woman.
- carlish, churlish.
- châmer, chamber.
- chapp'd, rap, tapped.
- cheer, countenance.
- cheer, entertainment.
- chive, [290], mouthfull?
- cleiding, clothing.
- close, enclosure.
- coble, boat.
- coffer, coif, head-dress, cap?
- coft, bought.
- corbies, ravens.
- cosh, quiet.
- counsayl, secret.
- craps, tops.
- cryance, [177], apparently for recreance, cowardice.
- cuist cavels, cast lots.
- daigh, dough.
- darna, dares not.
- dawing, dawn;
- daws, dawns.
- decaye, [132], destruction.
- dee, die.
- deemed, adjudged.
- deid, death.
- den, hollow, small valley.
- descreeve, impart.
- dight, [174], prepared for.
- dill, dole, grief.
- dinge, strike.
- discreet, civil.
- disna, does not.
- dochter, daughter.
- dole, grief.
- doubte, dread.
- douk, dive.
- dounae, cannot.
- doup, bottom.
- dow, can;
- downa, cannot.
- dow, dove.
- dowie, sad.
- dree, drye, bear, suffer.
- dyne, dinner.
- eerie, [273], dreary, cheerless.
- eldern, old.
- Eldridge, [170], (Elriche, Elrick, &c.,) ghostly, spectral:
- [179], hill seems to be omitted.
- even ower, half over.
- fa', obtain as one's lot.
- faem, foam.
- fail-dyke, a wall built of sods.
- faine, glad;
- fainly, gladly.
- farden, [185], fared, appeared.
- fare, go.
- fecht, fight.
- fee, possessions, property.
- feres, comrades.
- fey fowk, [48], people doomed to die.
- ficht, fight.
- fin, [342]?
- fitt, strain.
- flatter'd, [156], fluttered, floated.
- forbears, ancestors.
- forbye, beyond, near.
- fou, full.
- frae, [353], from the time.
- free, noble.
- fremmit, foreign.
- fund, found.
- gae, gave.
- gae-through-land, vagabond.
- gane, suffice.
- gar, cause, make.
- gare, below her, below the [gore in the edge of the] skirt?
- gear, goods.
- gen, against.
- gerss, grass.
- gif, if.
- gin, if.
- gin, trick, snare;
- [221], the device (necessary to open the door).
- girds, hoops.
- glore, glory.
- God before, God help me!
- good-brother, [67], brother-in-law.
- gorgett, [246], a kerchief to cover the bosom.
- graith, caparisons;
- graith'd, caparisoned.
- gramarye, grammar, abstruse or magical learning.
- grat, cried, wept.
- greeting, weeping, crying.
- gresse, grass.
- grew, gray.
- grype, griffin.
- gude-mother, mother-in-law.
- gude-son, son-in-law.
- gurly, troubled, stormy.