English and Scottish Ballads, Volume VII - Unknown

bade, abode.
bald, bold.
bale, sorrow;
ballys bete, [42], better, amend, our evils.
bandoun, command, orders.
banket, banquet.
barne, (A. Sax. beorn,) chief, man.
basnites, bassonetts, helmets.
battellis, [225], divisions of the army, or, the armies.
be, by, at, by the time that.
bearing arrow, [65], "an arrow that carries well:" Percy, who also suggests birring, i.e. whirring, whizzing.
See Boucher's Glossary.
bed, [224], [229], abode, remained.
bedeen, [265], in numbers, one after another?
beild, shelter;
[224], position of safety.
ben, in.
bende-bow, bent bow.
bended, [182], bounded?
bent, coarse grass, ground on which this grass grows, field.
berne (A. Sax. beorn), chief, man.
ber, bare.
beth, [98], is.
be-west, to the west of.
biggingis, buildings.
bille, see sworne.
billie, comrade.
bla', blow.
blaithe, blithe.
blan, blane, ceased, stopped.
blate, silly, stupid.
bleid, blood.
bodward, [182], message.
borrowe, security, hostage, ransom;
borowed, [18], ransomed.
bouk, body, carcase.
bowne, bowyn, ready, prepared;
[235], going;
bound, bowynd, [19], [5], [6], made ready, went.
brace, [260], same as breeze, hurry?
bracken, braken, fern.
brae, side of a hill.
braid, broad.
bra'ly, bravely.
branken, branking, prancing, capering.
braveries, displays.
braw, brave, handsome.
bread, [59], breadth;
bred, broad.
breeks, breeches.
brent, burned.
brim, fierce.
bronde, brand, sword.
brook, enjoy;
[186], take (possession of).
brose, [261], pottage.
brouine, brown, brewed.
broust, brewage.
bruch, brugh, burgh, city.
bryttlynge, cutting up (of game.)
buft, buffeted, beat.
burd-alone, alone.
burn, brook.
but, without, [221];
but bed, before we sleep.
butter-box, [154], "Dutchmen." Ritson.
byckarte, [30], moved quickly, rattling their weapons.
byddys, abides.
byears, biers.
byll, halbert, battle-axe.

ca', call;
[265], drive, beat.
caliver, [116], large pistol, or blunderbuss.
can, could, used as auxiliaries to form the past tenses.
canty, merry.
carefull, anxious.
carpe, tell, discourse.
cast, propose, intend.
cawte, cautious.
chafts, chaps.
chess, chace.
chessit, chased.
cheverons, gloves.
christiantè, Christendom.
claw, scratch, fight.
clinkum clankum, a phrase for smart blows.
cogue, wooden pail.
cold bee, [100], was;
see can.
collayne, Cologne, i. e. steel, or manufacture:
see i. 357.
cor, core, corps.
corpes, [287], living body.
cors, curse.
corynoch, lamentation for the dead.
cowde dye, [16], did die;
see can.
crouse, [169], brisk, brave.
crowdie, gruel, porridge.
cryand, crying.

daft, mad.
dandering, an epithet expressing the noise of drums, like tantara, p. [124].
de, die;
deid, dead, death.
decay, destruction, death.
dee, do.
deemedst, doomedst.
demean, punish, put down.
deputed, [103], used of a fugitive carried back for trial.
diel, devil.
dight, dicht;
[61], furnished;
[37], [189], to deth, "done," wounded;
[22], dispose of, handle, encounter.
ding, pr. dung, strike, knock, beat, overcome.
dinne, noise.
discord, quarrel.
doghtie, doughty.
door, 154? dorlach, which Jamieson says is a short-sword, means a wallet.
douted, redoubtable, feared.
doutsum, doubtful.
drede, doubt.
dre, drye, endure, bear;
drie, [98], as noun, suffering.
dulesum, doleful.
dunted, beat.
durk, dirk.
dyne, garre, [10], give one his fill of fighting.
dyne, [228], valley.
dynte, blow, stroke.

eathe, easy.
ee, eye.
edicang, aide-de-camp.
eme, uncle.
endlongis, along.
enewch, enough.
ensenzie, enzie, ensign.
envye (to do), ill-will, injury.
ewill, [229]; qy, eve, or vigil?

fa', fall;
[162], share, portion.
fach, fetch.
fallows, fellows, equals.
fare, go.
fay, [219], on the verge of death, doomed.
fayne, glad.
feale, fail.
fearit, feared.
fecht, fight.
fee, property, reward.
feck, maist, greatest part.
feid, feud, enmity.
feingit, feigned.
feirdness, cowardice.
fell, hide.
fells, hills, also, moors.
fend, keep, support.
fett, fetched.
fiery-fairy, confusion and consternation.
filabeg, kilt, or short petticoat, worn by Highlanders instead of breeches.
firstin, first.
fit, song, division of a song, story.
flegs, frights.
flinders, fragments.
flyte, scold, remonstrate;
[95], rally.
forder, further.
forefend, forbid.
forgatherit, met together.
forwarde, van.
fou, full.
fourugh, see furich.
frame, [133], succeed.
freck, freke, freyke (A. S. one who is bold) warrior, man.
fun', found.
furich, furichinish, Gaelic;
fuirich means wait, stop;
fearach is an old Irish warcry. "Fy, furich, Whigs, awa'!" was a Jacobite pipe air, says Chambers.
free, frie, noble;
[20], of metal, precious (?)

gade, went.
galliards, quick and lively dances.
gare, gore.
See Glossary to vol. 2.
garre, make;
gart, garde, made.
gate, way.
geed, went.
geere, [64], business, affair.
gettyng, [9], plunder.
gled, gladden.
glede, live coal.
glent, glanced, passed swiftly.
gloamin', dusk, night-fall.
glove, [121]; to claim a glove worn as a lady's favor, was a form of challenge,—which is perhaps the reference here.
graif, grave.
graithed, grathed, prepared, dressed, armed;
[183], laid, or laid out.
gree, bear the, bore the palm.
gresse, grass.
grevis, groves, bushes.
grite, weep.
grysely, dreadfully.
guide, good.

habershoune, coat of mail.
hach-borde, [60], [63], [68], (MS. has in one place, "archborde,") seems to be used for the side of the ship.
hached, inlaid or gilded.
hagbutis, a kind of muskets.
halched, greeted.
hale, whole.
hard, heard.
harneis, armor.
haryed, plundered.
haws, low grounds on the border of a river.
haylde, hauled.
haylle, [10], healthy.
he, high.
heal, hail.
heidit, beheaded.
heidin, beheading.
hernainsell, see note p. [154].
hich, high.
hight, promise, be called.
hinde, gentle.
hing, hang.
his, has.
Hogan Dutch, 155?
holtes, [8], woods.
hoved, [9], hovered, hung about, tarried.
howe, hollow, valley.
husbonds, husbandmen.
hye, hyght, (on,) on high, aloud.
hyght, promised.

ilk, ilkay, each.
into, in.
is, has.
i-wis, certainly.

jack, a coat of mail, a leather jacket.
jouk, avoid a blow by bending the body forward.

kain, [180], rent paid in kind;
here, paid the kain is suffered sorely.
kaithe, appear, come.
ken, know;
kenna, know not.
kindly, [23], native born.
kith, acquaintance.
kittle flaws, variable winds, i.e. not to be depended on for courage.
knop, knob.
knowe, knoll.