[GLOSSARY.]
☞ Figures placed after words denote the pages in which they occur.
- aboon, above.
- abye, pay a penalty for, suffer.
- ae, one.
- a-fit, afoot.
- ahin, ahint, behind, besides.
- airn, iron.
- anceane, ancient, aged.
- ane, [148]?
- aneath, beneath.
- angel, a coin worth from 6s. 8d. to 10s.
- aninder, under.
- anis, once.
- aquoy, coy, averse.
- a-rowe, in a row.
- assy-pan, [140], ash-pan.
- astonyd, confounded.
- athir, either.
- atweel, well, very well.
- atween, between.
- avow, vow.
- aw, all.
- ayont, beyond, on the other side of.
- ban'd, execrated.
- bandoun, [150], captivity.
- barker, tanner, from the bark used in his business.
- barrow-hogge, [47], a gelded hog.
- battes, cudgels, or blows.
- bauld, [117], bold, self-complacent.
- bayarde, bay-horse, horse in general: "blind Bayard" was a proverb.
- be, by.
- bede, [105], put forward, offer.
- behuvit, behoved, must.
- beik, [117], warm.
- ben, bend, in.
- bent, coarse grass, field.
- berry, [287], corrupt?
- besene, wel, appearing well, well dressed, &c.
- bet, beat.
- bet, better.
- beth, both.
- betrasit, betrayed.
- beur, bore.
- big, [279], cultivate.
- bigly, spacious, commodious.
- bill, bull.
- bill, halbert.
- birk, birch.
- birled, poured out drink, drank.
- blanne, stopped.
- bledoch, buttermilk.
- blink, smile;
- blinkit, [95], looked kindly.
- bolles, bowls.
- borrow, borrowit, ransom, ransomed.
- bot and, but also.
- boud, [264], behoved, must needs.
- bouks, bodies.
- bour, bower, chamber, dwelling.
- bowne, ready.
- brast, burst.
- brat, cloth.
- bra', braw, brave, handsome;
- braw wallie, fair fortune, exclamation of pleasure or admiration.
- brayn-pannes, skulls.
- bred, breed.
- bree, soup, broth.
- brenning, burning;
- brenyng drake, fire-drake, fiery dragon.
- brest, burst.
- bricht, the, [149], the fair one.
- brode-hen, [105], brood-hen, sitting-hen?
- brodit, pierced.
- brok, bruik, bruke, have possession of, enjoy, keep.
- bruchty, spotted, or streaked with dirt;
- brucket yowe, [140], speckled ewe.
- brunt, burnt.
- bur, bore.
- burne, brook.
- buskit, dressed.
- but and ben, out and in.
- ca'd, called;
- [16], driven.
- cadgily, merrily.
- can, could, used as auxiliaries to form the perfect and pluperfect tenses.
- cannilie, softly.
- cantels, pieces.
- canty, merry.
- capull, horse.
- carle, fellow.
- carpe, to talk, discourse, tell stories.
- casey, causeway.
- caud, called.
- cauk, chalk.
- chappit, tapped, knocked.
- cheape, bargain.
- chefe, cheveron, upper part of the escutcheon.
- chiel, young man, servant.
- childer-gamme, children's game.
- choice, choose.
- Christendye, Christendom.
- claise, clothes.
- clead, clad.
- cleikit, caught.
- cleir, bright.
- clenkyng, clinking.
- coffer, head-dress, cap.
- coft, bought, redeemed.
- cokeney, [115], "seems to be a diminutive for cook," says Percy. The word more probably denotes some kind of lean or common meat. See Wright's note.
- cold, could.
- comyn, come.
- con, see can.
- confound, destroy.
- coost, [110], region, direction.
- could of courtesie, knew what was good manners.
- cors, body.
- couple, rafter.
- courtnalls, a disrespectful (?) name for courtiers.
- cow, twig.
- cowth ring, [148], had reigned;
- see can.
- crap, crop, yield.
- crech, creek, crutch.
- creppid, crept.
- crook (my knee), make lame. They say in the North, "the horse crooks," i. e. goes lame. Percy.
- crouse, brisk, merry.
- cummerit, vexed, bothered.
- cund hir thank, gave her thanks.
- cunnand, covenant, engagement.
- curtass, courteous.
- daigh, dough.
- dang, knocked.
- dawing, dawning.
- de, dee, die;
- deed, died.
- denay, refuse.
- dent, blow.
- deport, [274], array.
- deray, ruin, confusion.
- descryed, described, related.
- develling, [142], sauntering.
- dicht, [150], circumstanced:
- dicht to deid, [151], done or put to death.
- disjune, breakfast.
- dizt, (dight), dressed.
- do, dow, you down, take yourself down.
- dole, dool, grief.
- donned, [105], dun.
- douse, blow.
- doute, fear.
- dow, dove.
- down-browit, scowling.
- doz troz, dough trough.
- drake, dragon.
- drowryis, love-gifts.
- dryt, dirt.
- ducadoons, ducats. (?)
- dulfully, dolefully, sadly.
- dun feather and gray, by, [88], by a carrier pigeon.
- dungin down, beat down, overcame.
- duzty, doughty;
- duztynesse, doughtiness.
- dyke, ditch or wall.
- earn, [100], curdle.
- ee, ene, eye, eyes.
- eftir syne, afterwards.
- eneuch, enough.
- ey, egg.
- fa', fall, befall.
- fain, glad, pleased, enamored.
- fairheid, beauty.
- fald, [148], fold, embrace.
- falle, fell.
- fancy, love.
- fand, found.
- fang, grasp (and carry off).
- fannes, [111], winnowing fans.
- fare, go.
- fauld, fold.
- fay, faith.
- fecht, fight.
- feckless, [282], poor, miserable.
- fee, property.
- feind fall, the devil take.
- fel, [102], [111], many. (?)
- fell, hide.
- fere, mate.
- ferly, wonder, miracle;
- wonderfully.
- fet, fetched.
- ffor, [105], from, against.
- firm, [199], first? Qy. corrupt?
- firstae, first one, first.
- fitted, [195], disposed?
- flatred, flattened, broken?
- fleechin, wheedling.
- fleet, flute.
- flirry, blossom.
- fold, [148], ground, world.
- fole, full.
- fond, foolish.
- forbye, over and above.
- forfend, forbid.
- forfozt, worn out with fighting.
- forrow, before.
- fow, full.
- fowkyn, crepitus ventris. Percy.
- fre, free, noble.
- freke, man, fellow.
- fullily, foully.
- fusome, fulsome.