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  • had, haud, hold.
  • haif, have.
  • hail, [133], (vigorous, and so) boisterous?
  • halewen, saints.
  • halt, [276], [282], profits?
  • halve, side.
  • haly, holy.
  • happers, hoppers.
  • hardilyche, boldly.
  • harpit, harped.
  • harried, plundered.
  • hastifliche, hastily.
  • haud, hold, keep.
  • he, [282], they.
  • head, [117], assemblage.
  • heckle, a hatchel, flax-comb.
  • hem, them.
  • hende, hendy, gentle.
  • hente, caught.
  • herry, harry, spoil.
  • he's, he shall.
  • het, head.
  • het, hot.
  • heugh, a ragged steep, sometimes, a glen with steep overhanging sides.
  • heved, head.
  • hi, they.
  • hie, high.
  • hirst, a barren hill.
  • hold, [276], faithful.
  • hope, houp, a sloping hollow between two hills.
  • hostage house, [233], inn.
  • how, pull.
  • howm, a plain on a river side.
  • hue, they;
  • huem, them;
  • huere, their.
  • hulles, hills.
  • ibore, born.
  • ich, I.
  • ichulle, I shall.
  • ilka, every.
  • intill, in.
  • is, his.
  • I'se, I will.
  • jack, a short coat plated with small pieces of iron.
  • jeopardy, [223], adventure.
  • jimp, slender.
  • jugge, [271], condemn.
  • keekit, peeped.
  • kend, known.
  • kettrin, cateran, thieving.
  • keverest, [273], recoverest.
  • kilted, tucked.
  • kinnen, rabbits.
  • kirns, churns.
  • Kirsty, Christy.
  • knapscap, head-piece.
  • know, knoll.
  • knulled, [272], pushed, beaten (with the knuckles).
  • kunnes, kinds.
  • kyne-yerde, king's wand or sceptre.
  • kyneriche, kingdom.
  • laht, caught.
  • laigh, low.
  • langsome, tedious.
  • lap, wrap up.
  • lave, rest.
  • law, low.
  • lawing, scot, reckoning.
  • lay, lea.
  • layne, conceal.
  • leal, leel, loyal, true, chaste.
  • lear, lore.
  • leauté, loyalty.
  • lede, people.
  • lee, waste, lonely.
  • lee-lang, live-long.
  • lee, shelter, peace;
  • set at little lee, [101], left little peace? "left scarcely any means of shelter." Jamieson.
  • leeze me on, [90], I take pleasure or comfort in.
  • lerrum, (Fr.) leave.
  • les, lying.
  • let, [278], ceased.
  • leugh, laughed.
  • levedy, lady.
  • libbe, live.
  • lidder, lazy.
  • lidder fat, fat from laziness;
  • (qu. same as leeper fat?)
  • lightly, make light of, treat with contempt.
  • limmer, rascal, scoundrelly.
  • Lincome, Lincoln;
  • Lincum twine, Lincoln manufacture.
  • ling, heath.
  • loan, a piece of ground near a farm house where the cows are milked.
  • loot, let.
  • lordswyk, traitor to his lord.
  • lore, loren, lost.
  • loup, leap, waterfall.
  • louped, loupen, leapt.
  • lourd, liefer, rather.
  • low, flame.
  • lowne, loon.
  • luid, loved.
  • lyan, lain.
  • lyart, hoary.
  • lyke-wake, watching of a dead body.
  • lyves man, [271], living man.
  • ma, shame a, [93], devil a bit.
  • mae, more.
  • maill, rent.
  • mane, moan.
  • maries, maids.
  • marrows, equals.
  • maun, must.
  • may, maid.
  • me, they (Fr. on).
  • mear, mare.
  • mene, moan.
  • mergh, marrow.
  • mest, most.
  • minnie, mother.
  • mirk, dark.
  • modi, bold.
  • mot, may.
  • mounde, [270], might?
  • mowe, may.
  • mowes, jests.
  • mudie, bold.
  • muss, moss.
  • naggs, notches.
  • nede, [280], he had not.
  • neist, next.
  • nes, was not.
  • neuk, [224], corner?
  • nicher, nicker, neigh.
  • nie, neigh.
  • niest, next.
  • nogs, stakes.
  • noisome, [139], annoying, vexatious.
  • nolden, would not.
  • nome, name.
  • nome, nomen, took.
  • nones, no.
  • notour, [267], notorious.
  • noud, nout, nought, not.
  • nowt, cattle.
  • nule, will not.
  • nythe, [275], wickedness.
  • oht, oath.
  • onde, [275], malice, envy.
  • other, or.
  • ou, you.
  • ouir, our.
  • our, oure, over.
  • outspeckle, laughing-stock.
  • ower-word, burden.
  • owsen, oxen.
  • palliones, tents.
  • paw, neer play'd, [84], did not stir hand or foot.
  • peel, [106], the stronghold, where the cattle were kept.
  • pellettes, balls.
  • peruenke, periwinkle.
  • pestelets, pistols, fire-arms.
  • pleugh, plough.
  • plumet, [75], pommel.
  • poer, power.
  • pouraille, common people.
  • pris, [276], praise.
  • prude, pride.
  • prye, pray.
  • pure, poor.
  • putfalle, pitfall.
  • pyne, pain.
  • questry, jury.
  • quey, young cow.
  • quhavir, whoever.
  • quhilk, which.