- rack, a shallow ford, extending to a considerable breadth before it narrows into a full stream. Jamieson.
- rad, [27], afraid.
- rae, roe.
- raid, foray, predatory incursion, fight.
- rank'd, [25], i. e. looked finely, formed in ranks.
- ranshackled, ransacked.
- rantin', gay, jovial.
- rathere, [274], sooner, beforehand.
- raxed, stretched.
- ray, [102], path or track.
- reaving, robbing.
- redd, rede, advise, advice.
- reek, smoke.
- reif, bailiff.
- reif, robbery;
- reiver, robber.
- reil, reel.
- remuy, remove.
- res, [276], (Ang. Sax. raes,) incursions, exploits?
- retheres hude, bullock's hide.
- rig, [119], ridge.
- rigging, ridge, top.
- rin, run.
- rok, distaff.
- roof-tree, the beam which forms the angle of the roof.
- rouncyn, horse.
- routing, bellowing.
- row, roll.
- row-footed, [63], rough-footed?
- rudds, reddens.
- rude, rood.
- Rumary, [249]?
- rybaus, ribalds, villains.
- saft, [65], light.
- saht, [276], at one, reconciled.
- sark, shirt, shift.
- saugh, willow.
- sawe, speech.
- schaw, wood.
- scroggs, stunted trees.
- see, protect.
- see, [277], seat, throne.
- seen, soon.
- seld, sold.
- selkethe, strange.
- serime, [248], corrupt: qy. betime?
- seth the, after.
- served, [25], behaved to.
- shame a ma, [93], devil a bit.
- sheen, shoes.
- sheil, shepherd's hut.
- shome, shame.
- shonde, disgrace.
- shonkes, shanks.
- sic, sicken, such.
- skaithd, injured.
- skeigh, sky.
- slack, a shallow dell, morass.
- slae, [119], sloe.
- sleuth-dog, blood-hound.
- slogan, the gathering word peculiar to a family or clan, a war-cry.
- sloken, slake.
- slough-hounds, blood-hounds.
- slowen, slew.
- smoldereth, smothereth.
- snear, snort.
- so, as.
- solas, amusement.
- sonde, godes, God's sending.
- sote, soot.
- soth, soht, truth.
- Soudron, Southerner, English.
- sould, suld, should.
- sowie, sow (Lat. vinea, pluteus), a shed or pent-house
- under cover of which the walls of a besieged town were assailed.
- soy, silk.
- spaits, floods, torrents.
- spauld, shoulder.
- spene, [272], cost.
- spier, ask.
- spin, run.
- splent, armor.
- springald, a military engine for discharging heavy missiles at the walls of a beleaguered town.
- spuilye, spulzie, despoil.
- star, see ayeyn.
- starkest, strongest.
- staun, stolen.
- steads, places.
- stear, stir.
- stont, stands.
- stots, bullocks.
- stounde, time.
- stour, turmoil, affray.
- straught, stretched.
- streynthe, strength.
- strick, strict.
- strinkled, sprinkled.
- Strivelyn, Sterling.
- stude, place.
- sturt, [138], trouble, disturbance.
- suereth, swear.
- sugge, say.
- suithe, very.
- sunne, sin.
- sweynes, [272], swains, men in general below the rank of knights.
- swithe, very.
- swither, doubt, consternation.
- swyers, squires.
- swykedom, treachery.
- swythe, very.
- syke, ditch.
- syne, then.
- tackles, arrows.
- tald, told.
- targats, [49], tassels.
- te, to.
- temed, [276], tamed.
- thae, these.
- thah, though.
- the, thrive.
- then, than.
- thenche, think.
- theynes, thanes.
- thir, these;
- thir's, these are.
- this, these.
- tho, then.
- thole, bear, endure.
- thonkes, his, [283], willingly, gladly, by his good will.
- thrawin, [219], distorted, wrinkled.
- thunche, [273], seem.
- til, to;
- til't, to it.
- tint, lost.
- to-drawe, to-drowe, drawn.
- to-dryven, [270], break to pieces.
- token, [277], gave to.
- tome, tame.
- toom, empty.
- tour, [192], course or road.
- tow, [158], throw.
- tprot, interjection of contempt.
- trayne, stratagem.
- tree, staff.
- trepan'd, [180], foully dealt with.
- trew, trust.
- tryst, meeting.
- tu-brugge, draw-bridge.
- tul, to.
- twa-fald, [15], two-fold, i. e. with his body hanging down both sides.
- twa-some, couple.
- twined, parted.
- uch, each.
- unkensome, not to be recognized.
- unthought lang, hold, keep from growing weary.
- upgive, [34], acknowledge.
- villiche, vilely.
- vor, for.
- Vrenshe, French.
- vyhte, fighting.
- vylté, disgrace.
- wad, would.
- wad, [225], wager, forfeit.
- Waleis, Wallace.
- wally fa', [262], ill luck befall.
- wan, pale, dark, black.
- wan, reached.
- wap, tie round.
- waran, guaranty.
- ware, [111], lay out, use.
- ware, [272], (Ang. S. were, capitis æstimatio) ransom, life-money.
- wark, work.
- warrand, protection.
- wat, know.
- wat, wet.
- waur, worse.
- way, to the, [262], away?
- wear, guard.
- webbes, weavers.
- wed, [247], qy. corrupt?
- weht, what.
- weel-fared, well-favored.
- weil, [92], eddy.
- weir, war.
- wel the felle, [273], will fall from thy head?
- wende, weened.
- wes, was.
- wesleyn, western.
- wether, whither.
- weylaway, well-a-day!
- whang, thong.
- whidderan, whizzing.
- whet, what.
- whew, whistle.
- whosé, any one whatever.
- wicker, [119], switch.
- widdifu, one who deserves to fill a widdie or halter, gallows bird, ruffian.
- wight, strong, quick;
- wightmen (Ang. Sax. wigman) fighting men, brave fellows;
- waled wightmen, [220], picked warriors.
- win, get.
- winna, will not.
- winsomely, handsomely.
- wit, knowledge.
- wod, waded.
- wombe, belly.
- won, [120], misprint for win?
- wons, dwells.
- wood, mad.
- worries, strangles.
- Wudspurs, Madspur, Hotspur.
- wyht, wight.
- wysloker, more wisely.
- wyte, know.
- wyte, [282], wait, watch (?)
- y, in.
- yate, gate.
- ybate, [280]?
- y-be, been.
- y-brend, burnt.
- y-caht, caught.
- y-core, chosen.
- y-cud, known.
- y-demed, judged.
- y-dyht, [278], arranged.
- yeate, gate.
- yef, if.
- yeme, govern.
- yere, to, [276], this year.
- yestreen, yesterday.
- yett, gate.
- y-herde, heard.
- y-knawe, recognize.
- y-laht, caught, taken.
- y-nemned, named.
- yongeth, goeth.
- y-suore, sworn.
- y-tuht, drawn.
- yynge, young.
- zour, &c., your, &c.
Transcriber's Notes
Page [iv]: added "Book VIII." to the Table of Contents.