English and Scottish Ballads, Volume VII - Unknown

lair, [239], place where they were lying.
lang, long.
lap, leapt.
layne, deceive;
[13], break word.
leaguer, camp.
leath, loath.
leeve, dear, pleasant;
lever, rather.
lesse, [10], lying.
let, prevent.
lift, air.
lifting, stealing.
liges, lieges.
liklie, handsome, promising.
lilye, [23], lilly, [179], covered with lilies?
lilting, singing cheerfully.
linking, walking quickly.
list, please.
lithe, list.
liverance, [95], "money for delivering up." Percy.
logeying, lodging.
lope, leapt.
lucetts, [14], luces, pikes.
lurdane, a heavy, stupid fellow.
luves, palms, hands.

maker, makys, mates.
march-man, warden of the Marches.
march-perti, [40], the Border parts or region.
marke hym to the Trenité, [13], commit himself to God by making the sign of the
cross? marked, [14], fixed their eyes on, took aim at?
maugre, spite.
may, maid.
meany, company.
merchand, marching.
mickle, great.
mind, remember.
miss, [264], evil, fault, trouble.
moe, moo, more, greater.
mome, fool.
mort, death (of the deer.)
mowes, mowis, (mouths,) joke.
muir, moor.
mykel, great.
myllàn, [36], Milan, i. e. steel or manufacture.
myne-allaine, alone by myself.
myneyeple, [35], maniple (i. e. many folds), a name for a close dress with sleeves worn under the armor.

nare, nor.
naye, denial.
near, nearer.
neist ae, next.
nixtin, next.
northen, be, to the north of.

oh'on a ri, Gaelic, oh, my heart! oh' rig in di, 155?
one, on.
ones, once.
outrake, [100], riding out, excursion.
oware, hour.
owermaskit, overcast.

paiks, [154], drubbing.
palione, [222], pallion, pavilion, tent.
pall, a rich cloth.
parti, part.
paw, pa', [158], swift motion;
one's part in a performance, [154];
of the contortions of a person hanged, [162];
of the movement of weapons, [163].
peart, pert.
perseiued, pursued.
philibeg, kilt, or short petticoat, worn by Highlanders instead of breeches.
Pitlarichie, 319?
pleadis, prayers.
polititious, politic, ingenious.
pompous, [278], proud, magnificent.
pra, [173], brave, fine.
presumand, presuming.
prycked, rode.
pyght, pitched.

quaint, acquaint.
quat, quit.
quhat, &c. what, &c.
quhill, while, until.
quhois, whose.
quite, quit.
quyrry, quarry, slaughtered game.
quyt, paid, repaid.

race, [184], course.
raid, a predatory incursion.
rais, rose.
raking, [242], running, scouring along.
rave, bereave.
raw, row, rank;
upo' the raw, in rank of battle.
rax, reach, stretch;
[265], beat?
rear, ride the, [233], ride behind, have the worse.
recks, [23], matters.
rede, advise;
[15], guessed.
red, rode.
Reidswire, see vol. vi. p. [131].
remeid, remedy.
rent, rend.
rewyth, regrets.
riggings, [154], backs?
rinnes, runs.
rise on anchor, 206?
roke, reek, steam.
rout, company, crowd.
rowght, rout, strife.
rowynde, round.
rung, cudgel;
canon's, figuratively, for shot?
ryall, royal.
ryght, [7], straight.
rynde, [13], flayed? rinde, to destroy, Halliwell's Dict.

saw, saying, statement.
say, saw.
say, assay.
sayne, say.
scale, [262], [178], scatter, spread.
schapped, [15], apparently should be "swapped;"
see post.
schoote, [12], shot, let go.
sen, since.
sene, [189], skilled, experienced.
shear, [30], [31], quickly, at once. (?) Halliwell.
she, used of Highlanders in general.
siccan, such.
sinsyne, since.
sith, since.
skelps, blows.
silver wand, 100?
slaydis, [228];
the passage is corrupt.
slicht, slight.
sloughe, slew.
smirkling, smirking, smiling.
smored, smothered.
snell, [269], sharp, loud.
snood, a band with which a young woman ties up her hair.
sould, should.
souters, cobblers.
spear, speir, ask.
spendyd, [96], probably the same as spanned, grasped.
splenderis, splinters.
spole, shoulder.
spuente, [36], spirited, sprung out.
spurne, kick; [42], retaliation?
stain, outdo, excel.
stalwurthlye, stoutly, boldly.
stane'd, stationed.
stank, [154], pool.
stead, [65], place, post.
stell'd, placed.
stent, stop.
stounde, time.
stour, stowre, (turmoil of) fight.
straiks, strokes.
stynttyde, stopped.
styrande, [6], see note: according to Percy's reading, driving the deer from their retreats;
but adopting Motherwell's, prancing, spirited.
suar, [35], [38], sure, trusty.
suthe, true.
swakked, [23], swapped, swapte, [15], [24], [36], struck, smote.
swat, sweat.
sweirand, swearing.
sworne into my bille, [95], "I have delivered a promise in writing, confirmed by an oath." Percy.
syne, since, then, afterward.

tackes, takes.
tald, [227], tall?
talent, [310], seems to be used for property in general.
tear, [42], possibly the same as dere, injury.
teene, tene, injury.
tenne, taken.
tent, heed.
the, thee, they.
thi, the.
thir, these, those.
thought long, found the time drag.
thrang, throng.
thraw, twist.
thrysse, thrice.
thuds, [169], sound of blows, noises, strokes.
tinkler, played the, [161], played the coward.
tint, lost.
tockin, token.
ton, tone, the, the one.
tooke, [39]; supply an omitted word, as "rest."
toom, empty.
top-castle, [62], a kind of turret built round the mast-head.
topsail, to cast, a kind of salute.
tre-trip for hay, [131]; tray-trip was a game at dice.
tree, [226], spear-shaft? cudgel?
trews, [155], Highland pantaloons, consisting of breeches and stockings in one piece;
here used for Highlanders.
trone, [143], pillory.
trows, [156], see trews.
touk, tuick, beat.
tyll, to.
tyne, lose.

uds-doyns, an oath.
uncouth, unknown.
uttermost, outmost.