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  • laigh, low.
  • lair, lore, doctrine.
  • lake, [120], reproach.
  • lauch, laugh.
  • lave, rest.
  • laverock, lark.
  • lawe, [149], custom.
  • lax, relief, release.
  • lea', leave.
  • leal, true.
  • lear'd, learned.
  • lee-lang, live-long.
  • leed, language.
  • leesome, pleasant, amiable.
  • leif, [250], live.
  • leir, learn.
  • lend ye till, [26], lean upon.
  • len, [308], lie concealed.
  • leuch, laughed.
  • leve, [147], remain.
  • lewche, laughed.
  • ley, lea.
  • lichtit, lighted.
  • lichtly, undervalue.
  • lie, lonely, sad.
  • liggit, lain.
  • lighters, blinders.
  • liltin, singing.
  • lirk, hollow (of a hill).
  • lodomy, laudanum.
  • long of, [211], on account of.
  • looing, loving.
  • loot, let.
  • lore, [149], doctrine.
  • loup, leap.
  • lourd, liefer, rather.
  • loutit, bowed.
  • lown, loon, worthless fellow.
  • lowse, loose.
  • lue, love;
  • lude, [246], loved.
  • maining, moaning, crying.
  • manchet, the finest kind of white bread.
  • mane, moan.
  • marrit, [246], marred, disordered.
  • marys, maids.
  • maugre, [247], ill-will, blame.
  • maun, must.
  • may, maid.
  • meen, moon;
  • meen-licht, moon-light.
  • menji, [81], many;
  • menyie, company of followers.
  • min, mother.
  • mot, may, might.
  • mouls, dust of the dead.
  • muckle, big, much.
  • mude, mood, mind.
  • murnit, mourned.
  • nae, not.
  • neirhand, nearly.
  • niest, next.
  • nocht, nought.
  • och, ochanie, interjections of grief.
  • odd, [281], old.
  • oo, one.
  • ower great, too familiar.
  • pall, rich cloth.
  • parand;
  • heir and parand, heir apparent.
  • pat, put.
  • perde, par dieu.
  • perfay, par foi.
  • pine, pain, grief.
  • pitten, put.
  • plow, as much land as can properly be tilled by one plough in a day.
  • prest, [204], ready.
  • previe, secret.
  • put down, [117], hung.
  • pyne, pain.
  • quhair, &c., where, &c.;
  • all quhair, every where.
  • quhill, [249], until.
  • raik on raw, [246], range or extend themselves in a row.
  • ramp, rude, wild, violent.
  • rantin', boisterously gay, rollicking.
  • rattons, rats.
  • recorde, witness.
  • red, advice, plan.
  • redding-comb, comb for redding, or combing out, the hair.
  • rede, reid, advise.
  • reivis, deprivest of.
  • remeve, [155], remove or trouble.
  • repreve, reprove.
  • rescous, rescue.
  • rew, take pity.
  • rigs, ridges.
  • roiss, rest.
  • rove, roof.
  • row, roll;
  • row'd, rolled.
  • royal bane, [12], the same as ruel bone, an unknown material often mentioned in romances.
  • rude, rood, cross.
  • rue, take pity;
  • ruthe, pity.
  • sanna, shall not.
  • sark, shirt.
  • scant, lessen.
  • scheel, school.
  • schent, shamed, disgraced.
  • see, protect.
  • sen, since.
  • sendall, a rich thin silk.
  • sets, [105], sits, fits.
  • shaw, thicket, wood.
  • shealin, [66], shed for sheep.
  • she'as, sheaths.
  • sheave, slice.
  • sheens, shines.
  • she'st, she shall.
  • shill, [59], shrill.
  • shun, soon.
  • sic, siccan, such.
  • sicht, sigh;
  • sichit, sighed.
  • sickerly, certainly.
  • silly, simple.
  • sith, since.
  • skill of their train, understand their training.
  • slap, [96], a breach in a wall or hedge.
  • speer'd, speir'd, asked.
  • spell;
  • drift can spell, [267], tell my meaning or story.
  • splene, on the, [156]?
  • spring, [65], youth, young.
  • sta', stole.
  • states, [169], people of high rank.
  • staw, stole.
  • staws, stalls.
  • steir, stir.
  • stey, steep.
  • stown, stolen.
  • streek'd, stroaked.
  • suspitious, "significant."—Ritson.
  • swither, waver.
  • syne, then.
  • tane, taken.
  • tapp'd, topped.
  • tent, heed.
  • Termagant, an imaginary false god of the heathen.
  • thair, there.
  • than, then.
  • thinking long, see thought lang.
  • thir, these.
  • this, thus.
  • thoo, those.
  • thought, [147], trouble.
  • thought lang, felt the time hang heavily, felt ennui.
  • thoust, thou wilt.
  • till, to, for;
  • [245], to;
  • till assail [248], to assail;
  • till haif, [249], to have.
  • tirled at the pin, trilled, or rattled, at the door-pin, or latch, to obtain entrance.
  • tocher, dowry.
  • tod, fox.
  • tomorne, to-morrow.
  • ton, one (after the).
  • tree, [3], [253], stick, pole, or perhaps, whipple-tree;
  • [276], staff.
  • trew, trow.
  • trinkling, trickling.
  • trow, believe.
  • twalt, twelfth.
  • twinn, part.
  • tyne, lose.
  • unco, strange, foreign.
  • upricht, [253], straightway?