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English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV
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  • baill, sorrow.
  • balow, a word used in lulling children.
  • ban, band.
  • banning, cursing.
  • bed-stock, the side of the bed further from the wall.
  • begoud, began.
  • beked, [305], made warm?
  • belinger, [283] ?
  • bemean, [86], disparage.
  • ben, in.
  • benjed, [305], received hospitably, made preparations for his comfort?
  • besyd, [247], astray.
  • be that, by that.
  • bewray, discord.
  • bier, cry.
  • bierdly, stately.
  • bigged, biggit, built.
  • Billy Blin, a benignant household fairy, like the Lubber Fiend.
  • binna, be not.
  • birk, birch.
  • birling, drinking.
  • blae, blue.
  • blaewort, blue bottle, witch bells.
  • blee, complexion.
  • blin'd, blinded.
  • bone, [247], bane.
  • boon, above.
  • borrow, ransom, rescue.
  • bot dreid, [246], without doubt.
  • boud, [297] ?
  • bought, a pen in the corner of a fold, into which the ewes are driven to be milked.
  • bower, chamber, dwelling.
  • brae, hill-side.
  • braken, female fern.
  • braw, brave, fine, handsome.
  • brawn, [93], calf of the leg.
  • brayd attour the bent, [248], strode across the grass or field.
  • brent, [308], high, straight.
  • bride-ale, a wedding festival so called from the brides selling ale on the wedding day, in return for which she received a large price by way of present.
  • bruik, enjoy.
  • brynies, cuirasses.
  • bug, built.
  • burd, lady.
  • burn, brook.
  • busk, dress, adorn, make ready.
  • but, out.
  • but and, but also.
  • bute [boot], help.
  • ca', called.
  • caddie, errand-boy.
  • cairis, cares.
  • camovine, camomile.
  • can, know.
  • chap, rap.
  • certaine, in, certainly.
  • close, enclosure, an enclosed field.
  • coffer, coif, a woman's head-dress?
  • coft, bought.
  • cog, milking-pail.
  • confound, destroy.
  • corss, cross.
  • cowt, colt.
  • cowth, cowd, [248], could, used as an auxiliary to form the preterit tense.
  • crack, merry talk.
  • cramasie, crimson.
  • cruds, curds.
  • cute, ancle.
  • cuvating, coveting.
  • daurna, dare not.
  • daut, fondle.
  • dead, death.
  • dearly, dear.
  • dee, die.
  • dee, do.
  • deed, death.
  • deill, [250], deal;
  • [247], dally?
  • deir, [246], frighten.
  • dele, [144], particle, bit.
  • departe, [147], separate;
  • departing, [249], dividing.
  • dern, secret.
  • dey, dairy woman.
  • dill, assuage, soothe.
  • dings, beats.
  • disparage, [157], cause to match unequally.
  • distan, distinguish.
  • distrayne, distress.
  • d'on, do on, don.
  • dought, dread.
  • dre, suffer.
  • dreder, dread.
  • dreed, suffered.
  • drest, [247], placed;
  • in dule I am so drest, I am so plunged in sorrow.
  • drie, bear, endure.
  • dule, sorrow.
  • dyke, wall.
  • echeon, each one.
  • een, eyes.
  • een, one.
  • enew, enough.
  • eik, increase.
  • fa', [300] ?
  • fair, go.
  • fa's [fa as], I have my lot as.
  • fauld-dyke, wall of the fold.
  • fawn, fallen.
  • fee, money, possessions.
  • feir, [246], appearance, demeanor.
  • fie, cattle of any kind, sheep.
  • firth, an enclosed wood, a field within a wood.
  • fit, foot.
  • forbears, ancestors.
  • forbye, on one side.
  • fou, full.
  • fra, [247], from the time that.
  • fre, free, noble.
  • fy, [260], haste!
  • gait, way.
  • gaits, goats.
  • gar, cause, make.
  • gare, below her, below the gore in the edge of her skirt? or below her dress merely?
  • gaucy, [76], burly, strong.
  • gear, goods.
  • girse, grass.
  • glamer, glamour, a charm exercised on the eye.
  • God before, God guide you!
  • haill, healthy;
  • [247], whole.
  • haik up, [83], carry off by force, Jamieson. (?)
  • hald, hold, heep.
  • hap, covering;
  • happed, covered.
  • hard, heard.
  • hardely, assuredly.
  • haud, hold;
  • haud unthocht lang, keep from growing weary.
  • her, their.
  • heill, hele, health.
  • hes, hast.
  • het, hot.
  • hich, high.
  • hie, on, aloud.
  • hinna, have not.
  • hinny, darling.
  • his alane, alone by himself.
  • Hollans boats, 13. Qy. holly-boats?
  • holland, holly.
  • hooding o' grey, [66], hodden-grey, cloth with the natural color of the wool.
  • holtis hair, [250], uplands bleak.
  • howp, hope.
  • huche, crag, steep bank.
  • I dern with the bot gif I daill, [247];
  • unless I secretly dally with thee?
  • I'st, I shall.
  • ilke, each;
  • this ilka, this same.
  • intill, [83], upon.
  • intent, [248], thought, mind.
  • in worth, [205], gladly, contentedly.
  • janglour, prater.
  • jimp, slender.
  • kail-blade, leaf of colewort.
  • kail-yardie, kitchen garden.
  • kebbuck, cheese.
  • keep, heed.
  • keipand, keeping.
  • kenna, know not.
  • kep, catch.
  • kilt, kilted, tucked up.
  • kintra, country.
  • knicking, [110], wringing, so as to make snap.
  • knowe, knoll.
  • kye, cows.