English and Scottish Ballads, Volume III - Unknown - Page №261
English and Scottish Ballads, Volume III
Unknown
Страница - 260Страница - 262
  • ha', hall.
  • had, hold, keep.
  • had, taken.
  • hained, enclosed, surrounded with a hedge.
  • half-fou, half bushel.
  • hantle, much, great deal.
  • happ'd, covered.
  • hart-rote, [39], a term of endearment, sweet-heart.
  • haud, hold.
  • haugh, low flat ground by a river-side.
  • hauping, limping.
  • hause, neck.
  • have owre, [151], half over.
  • haw, azure.
  • hawberke, cuirass, coat of mail.
  • heading-hill, beheading hill.
  • heal, conceal.
  • heal, health.
  • hech, a forcible expiration of breath, as in striking a heavy blow.
  • heiding-hill, the beheading hill.
  • hend, gentle.
  • het, hot.
  • hewberke, cuirass, coat of mail.
  • hichts, heights.
  • hight, promised.
  • hind-chiel, young stripling.
  • hinging, hanging.
  • hollin, holly.
  • hooly, slowly, softly.
  • houl', hold.
  • houms, flat grounds near water.
  • houzle, give the sacrament.
  • ilka, each.
  • inbearing, forth-putting.
  • iwis, iwysse, certainly, truly.
  • jack, [81], a coat of mail.
  • jagged, pierced.
  • jess, a leather strap for a hawk's leg, by which it was fastened to the leash.
  • jooked, bowed, made obeisance.
  • kail, broth.
  • kame, comb.
  • keckle-pin, [300], should be heckle-pin, the tooth of a heckle or flax-comb.
  • kell, a dress of net-work for a woman's head.
  • kempes, soldiers;
  • kemperye man, [169], soldier-man.
  • kepped, keppit, intercepted received when falling.
  • kevils, lots.
  • kiest, cast.
  • kilted, tucked up.
  • kipples, rafters.
  • kirkin, churching.
  • kirk-shot, see shot.
  • knet, knitted.
  • knicht, knight.
  • knot, [274], tie up.
  • knowe, knoll.
  • lack, [85], loss.
  • laigh, low.
  • lake, [58], hollow place, grave?
  • lamer, amber.
  • lane, your lane, &c., alone.
  • lap, leapt;
  • [154], sprang.
  • lauch, laugh.
  • lauchters, laughters.
  • lave, rest.
  • lawing, reckoning.
  • laye, [180], law.
  • lay gowd, embroider in gold.
  • lay-land, lea-land, unploughed, green sward.
  • leafu', lawful.
  • leal, loyal, true.
  • leech, leash.
  • leesome, pleasant, lovely.
  • lemin, gleaming.
  • lere, countenance.
  • lethal, deadly.
  • licht, light.
  • lieve, dear.
  • lift, air.
  • lift, carry off.
  • lig, lie.
  • lighter, delivered.
  • limmer, mean, scoundrel, wretch.
  • linkin', riding briskly.
  • linn, the pool beneath a cataract.
  • lither, lazy, wicked.
  • lodlye, loathly.
  • loon, clown, rascal, low fellow.
  • loot, let.
  • louted, bowed, bent.
  • make, mate.
  • mane, moan, lament.
  • mannot, may not.
  • maries, maids.
  • mark, murky.
  • marrow, mate, husband;
  • [67], antagonist, match.
  • mat, might.
  • mavis, thrush.
  • maw, mew.
  • may, maid.
  • meen, moon.
  • mell, [70], milt, spleen.
  • micht, might.
  • mill-capon, a poor person who asks charity at mills from those who have grain grinding.
  • millering, [273], dust of the mill.
  • min', mind.
  • min', minnie, mother, love, dear.
  • minged, [178], named, mentioned.
  • mintet, [335], took the direction or course.
  • mirk, dark.
  • monand, moaning.
  • moodie hill, [84], mole-hill.
  • morning-gift, the gift made a wife by her husband, the morning after marriage.
  • mun, must.
  • nee, nigh.
  • nicked of naye, [162], denied;
  • should be with naye.
  • niest, next.
  • nurice, nurse.
  • o'erword, refrain.
  • ohon, an exclamation of sorrow, alas.
  • onbethought, [35], thought upon.
  • or, before.
  • out o'hand, at once.
  • owre, [151], or, ere.
  • oys, grandsons.
  • Pa, [144]. Qy. Is this a contraction of pall, and is pall, an alley or mall in which games of ball are played?
  • pall, a kind of rich cloth.
  • Pasche, Easter.
  • pat, put.
  • paughty, insolent.
  • pearlings, thread laces.
  • pict, pitch.
  • pike, pick.
  • pin, summit;
  • gallows pin, top of the gallows?
  • pine, sorrow.
  • pitten, put.
  • plat, interwove.
  • play-feres, play-fellows.
  • plight, pledge.
  • plooky, pimpled.
  • poin'd, seized.
  • poke, bag.
  • pot, a deep place scooped in a rock or river-bed by the eddies.
  • pou, pull.
  • prestlye, quickly.
  • pricked, rode smartly.
  • prime, six o'clock.
  • prude, [31], proud?
  • put down, putten down, executed, killed.
  • quair, choir.
  • quha, who.
  • quick, alive.