- raw, row.
- reade, advise.
- reave, deprive.
- removde, [174], stirred up, excited.
- renish, renisht, [161], [167]?
- rievers, marauders, robbers.
- rigg, ridge.
- rive, riven.
- roode, cross.
- room, [217], make room.
- roudes, haggard.
- round tables, a game much played in the 15th & 16th century.
- row, roll;
- rowd, rolled.
- sackless, guiltless.
- sald, sold.
- sark, shirt, shift.
- sat, fitted.
- saye, [211], essay, try.
- scale, scatter, disperse.
- scath, injury.
- scoup, [194], go or fly.
- scuttle dishes, [273], wooden platters.
- sea-maw, sea-mew.
- see, (save and see,) protect
- sell, good;
- sell gude, right good.
- sen, [280], sent.
- sen, since.
- send, message.
- shanna, shall not.
- shaw'd, showed.
- sheen, bright.
- shent, disgraced, injured.
- shope, [39], shaped, assumed.
- shot, plot of land;
- also, a place where fishermen let out their nets.
- shot-window, a projected, over-hanging window.[8]
- sicker, sickerly, sure, surely.
- side, long.
- sindry, [301], peculiar.
- skeely, skilful.
- skink, serve drink.
- slode, slid, split.
- sloe, slay;
- slone, slain.
- smit, a clashing noise.
- soum, swim.
- spare, the opening in a woman's gown.
- spille, destroy, perish
- sta', stall.
- staf, stuff.
- stark and stoor, [254], strong, and big;
- here we may say, rough and rude.
- staw, stole.
- steek, stitch, thread;
- steeking, stitching.
- steeked, fastened.
- step-minnie, step-mother.
- sterte, started.
- stickit, [139], cut the throat.
- stock, the forepart of a bed.
- stoups, flagons.
- stour, stower, [171], fight, disturbance.
- stown, stolen.
- streekit, stretched, struck down.
- stythe, [43], sty.
- suld, should.
- swaird, sword.
- sweven, dream.
- swith, quickly.
- syne, then, afterwards;
- ere syne, before now.
- tee, too.
- tein, suffering, grief.
- thae, these.
- theek, theekit, thatch, thatched.
- think lang, feel weary, ennuyé.
- thir, these.
- thocht lang, grew weary, felt ennui.
- thole, endure.
- thorn, [339], (and thorn'd, ii. 335,) refreshed with food?
- thouch, though.
- thought lang, grew weary, felt ennui.
- thoust, thou shouldst.
- thraw, twist.
- till, [170], entice.
- till, to.
- tine, [175], lose;
- tint, lost.
- tint, [183], [227], apparently misused by Percy, for tine, lose.
- tippit, lock (of hair).
- tirled at the pin, trilled, or rattled, at the door-latch.
- tolbooth, prison.
- tone, the one, (after the.)
- toom, empty.
- trattles, prattles, tattles.
- trysted, made an appointment with.
- twig, twitch.
- twine, part.
- tyne, lose.
- ugsome, disgusting, loathsome.
- unco, strange.
- unmacklye, [187], unshapely.
- wad, wager.
- wad, would.
- wae, sad.
- wake, watch.
- wale, choose.
- wallowed, [290], withered.
- waly, alas.
- wan, dark, black, gloomy.
- wand, wicker.
- wane, [221], a number of people.
- wantonly, [82], nimbly.
- wap, wrap.
- warlock, wizard.
- wat, know.
- wat, wet.
- wauked, watched.
- waur, worse.
- weary, causing trouble, sad.
- wed-bed, marriage-bed.
- weets, knows.
- weil-heid, the vortex of a whirlpool.
- weill-faur'd, well-favored.
- weir, war.
- weird, [220], made liable to, exposed to;
- [308], apparently, foretell that it is important.
- weirdless, unlucky.
- well-wight men, picked strong men.
- westlin, westward.
- whareto, wherefore.
- whin, furze.
- wicht, wight.
- wicker, twist, from being too tightly drawn.
- wight, strong, active.
- wightlye, bravely, quickly.
- wightsmen, [325], husbandmen?
- win, come, reach;
- win near, come near;
- win up, get up.
- winsome, gay, comely.
- win hay, dry or make.
- wit, information.
- wite, blame.
- wode, mad.
- woe, sad.
- won up, [218], get up;
- should be win up.
- wrocht, wrought.
- wush, washed.
- wyde, wade.
- wyte, [317], blame.
- wyte, know.
- yate, gate.
- yeard-fast, fixed in the earth.
- yestreen, yesterday.
- yett, gate.
- ying, young.
- young son, [105], see auld son.
- y-rode, rode.
- y-were, were.
- zechins, sequins.
- zoung, young.
- Zule, Yule, Christmas.
[8] It "meant a certain species of aperture, generally circular, which used to be common in the stair-cases of old wooden houses in Scotland, and some specimens of which are yet to be seen in the Old Town of Edinburgh. It was calculated to save glass in those parts of the house where light was required, but where there was no necessity for the exclusion of the air."—Chambers.
Not always certainly, since persons are sometimes said to be lying at the shot window.