English and Scottish Ballads, Volume VI

by Unknown

GLOSSARY.

☞ Figures placed after words denote the pages in which they occur.

• ablins, perhaps.
• aboon, abune, above.
• abugge, aby, pay for.
• adrenche, drown.
• ae, one; first ae, first.
• agynneth, begin.
• ahint, behind.
• airns, irons.
• airt, quarter of the compass, direction.
• alacing, saying alas.
• alane, mine, alone by myself.
• alast, latterly.
• alles, all.
• allinge, altogether.
• alow, [245], below.
• al so, at once.
• amense, amends.
• American leather, [244]?
• anew, enough.
• an honde, [283], in hand.
• anis, once.
• aplyht, [273], a particle of confirmation, indeed, on my word, &c.
• aquelleden, killed.
• arewe, [269], rue, feel aggrieved by.
• assoygne, [271], delay: (lines [66], [67], should probably be transposed.)
• asteir, astir, moved, (his anger.)
• avow, [261], consent, undertake.
• avowerie, protection, support.
• awin, own.
• awsome, frightful.
• ayeyn, against: [278], v. 103, a word seems to have dropped out. The sense is, there is no resisting the stars. Wright reads stare.
• ayont, beyond, on one side of.

• bangisters, violent and lawless people, those that have the upper hand, victors.
• basnet, helmet.
• batts, beating.
• beet, [90], help.
• ben, in.
• bent, coarse grass;
• open country, covered with the same.
• benty, covered with the coarse grass called bent;
• benty-line, [13]?
• beseen, weil, [132], well appointed.
• bide, [273], pray to.
• bigged, built.
• biheveded, beheaded.
• billie, comrade.
• birk, birch.
• birst, (burst) fray.
• blan, stopped.
• blink, [49], glanced.
• blive, quickly.
• bobaunce, vanity, presumption.
• bode, bid.
• borrow, rescue.
• bot and, and also.
• bote, [274], amends;
• bote, no, not better off.
• boun, ready, gone.
• brae, hill-side.
• braid, [245], qy. corrupt?
• brain, gang, go mad.
• brank, [124], prance, caper.
• branks, a rude sort of bridle of rope and wood, used by country people.
• braw, bra', brave, fine.
• brayd on, [32], move on (rapidly).
• breast, [249], voice.
• breasting, springing forward.
• brecham, collar of a working horse.
• brede, o, ant o leynthe, in breadth and in length, far and wide.
• breek, breeches;
• [70], breek-thigh, the side pocket of the breeches.
• brie, brow.
• broked cow, a cow that has black spots mixed with white in her face.
• broken men, outlawed men.
• browhead, forehead.
• brugge, bridge.
• brusten, burst.
• bryd, bird.
• bryttled, cut up.
• bueth, be.
• bufft coat, leather coat.
• bund, bound.
• burel, sackcloth.
• burn, brook.
• busk, make ready.
• buss, bush.
• bussing, [137], covering (stolen from the packs).
• but, out;
• [236], but the floor, across the floor out of the room, or to the outer part of the house.
• by (sometimes) besides.
• byhet, promised.
• byres, byris, barns, cowhouses.
• bysoht, prepared for.
• bytake, committed.
• bythenche, bethink.

• ca', call.
• ca', [90], drive.
• carle, churl, fellow.
• carpit, talked, told stories.
• ca's, calves.
• cauler, cool.
• cess, tax, black-mail.
• cheventeyn, chieftain.
• chot, wot, know,
• chulle, shall.
• claes, clothes.
• clanked, gave a smart stroke.
• cleugh, a rugged ascent.
• closs, [191], area before the house, (close.)
• coll, cool.
• coman, command.
• con, [269], began.
• conquess, conquer.
• continaunce, countenance.
• corbie, crow.
• corn-caugers, corn-carriers, or dealers.
• cost, [135], loss, risk.
• could, [102], began.
• coune, began.
• courtrie, band of courtiers.
• couthe, knew.
• cowte, colt.
• coynte, quaint, cunning.
• crabit, crabbed.
• cracking, boasting.
• crooks, the windings of a river, the space of ground closed in on one side by these windings.
• crouse, brisk, bold.
• cumber, to red the, quell the tumult.
• cunnes, kinds.
• curch, kerchief, coif.
• cure, [214], care, pains.
• curtel, [281], shirt, gown.
• custan, cast.

• dae, doe.
• dandoo, [245], apparently should be dun doe.
• dane, done, taken.
• dang, beat.
• daw, dawn.
• de, (Fr.) God.
• dede, dealt.
• dee, die.
• deid, death.
• deme, adjudge.
• destaunce, disturbance.
• ding down, beat down.
• dints, blows.
• doddeth, [272], lop.
• dool, grief.
• dought, could, was able.
• dour, hard.
• douse, quiet, mild.
• doussé-pers, (Fr. douze pairs) gallant knights.
• douteth, feareth.
• dow, can, are able;
• downa, cannot.
• down-come of Robin Hood, [242], as quick as R. H. would knock one down? or pay down?
• dreigh, (tedious, long) high.
• dreynte, drowned.
• drie, bear, endure.
• drifts, [100], droves.
• drivand, driving.
• drue, dry.
• drunkily, merrily.
• drury, treasure.
• dub, pool, pond.
• duere, dear.
• dule, sorrow.
• dunt, dint, stroke.
• dyhte, [282], dispose of.

• e'en, [93], even, put in comparison.
• een, eyes.
• elshin, shoemaker's awl.
• ene, [270], even.
• enew, enough.
• er, before.
• ettled, designed.
• everuche, every;
• everuchon, every one.

• falla, fellow.
• fand, found.
• fang, catch.
• fankit, entangled, obstructed;
• here, so fixed that it could not be drawn.
• fared, went.
• fasten, [276], plight.
• fay, faith.
• fear't, frightened.
• fecht, fight.
• fee, income, property, wages.
• feid, feud.
• feir, [222], sound, unhurt.
• feiries, comrades.
• fell, high pasture land.
• fend, defence.
• feren, comrades.
• ferly, wonder.
• fet, foot.
• fie, predestined.
• fiend, [9], i. e. the devil a thing.
• fit, foot.
• flain, arrows.
• flatlies, flat.
• fley, fright.
• flinders, fragments.
• flo, flay.
• fon, [274], foes.
• fonge, take up.
• forbode, over God's, (on God's prohibition), God forbid.
• forehammer, the large hammer which strikes before the small one, sledge-hammer.
• foreward, covenant.
• forfaulted, forfeited.
• forfend, forbid.
• forfoughen (i. e. forfoughten) tired out.
• forst, frost.
• fot-lome, foot-lame.
• fou, full (of drink).
• four-half, on, in quarters.
• foursithe, four times.
• fow, [219], full?
• frae hand, forthwith.
• freits, omens.
• frith, wood.
• furs, furrows.
• fyn, end.

• gar, make, let.
• garste, [282], (should probably be gast) frighten away.
• gaun, going.
• gavelocks, (javelins) iron crows.
• gear, goods, property;
• [16], spoil.
• ged, went.
• geir, same as gear.
• genzie, engine of war.
• gifted, [31], given away.
• gilt, gold.
• gin, if.
• gin, trick.
• gleed, red-hot coal, a glowing bar of iron.
• gloamin', twilight.
• gomen, [282], game, mockery.
• goud, gold.
• goule, (Fr.) throat.
• graith, armor.
• graith, make ready;
• graithed, armed.
• grat, wept.
• green, yearn, long.
• greeting, weeping.
• gripet, seized.
• grom, groom, man.
• grome, [279], sorrow.
• gryming, sprinkling.
• guided, [172], treated.
• gynne, trap.