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  • quert, [150], high spirits, hilarity.
  • quha, &c. who, &c.
  • quhill, till.
  • ra, roe.
  • ramped, rampit, rushed violently, pranced about in bad humor.
  • rant, make merry, riot.
  • rarely, [229], dear.
  • raton, rat.
  • rauzt, reft, took away.
  • reade, advice.
  • record, [247], avowal;
  • draw to record, take to witness.
  • red, [119], to part (them).
  • reet, [141], root.
  • refe, steward, bailiff.
  • remorse, [164], tenderness of feeling.
  • renning, running.
  • reve, take from.
  • richt, right.
  • ridand, riding.
  • ring, [148], reign.
  • rok, distaff.
  • roose, [87], boast of, commend.
  • root, [268], rout, i. e. stretch, or tramp?
  • rost, thu carpis of cold, [110], (proverb), thou speakest to no purpose?
  • round claith and small, [118]?
  • rout, blow.
  • rowte, crowd.
  • rowe, a-, upon a row, in a row.
  • ruell bones, see Gloss. to vol. i.
  • ruggut, pulled violently.
  • rung, cudgel, staff.
  • ryschys, rushes.
  • ryzt, right.
  • sa, so.
  • sair, suit, satisfy.
  • sark, shirt.
  • say, essay.
  • scart, scratch.
  • scho, she.
  • schondir, in, asunder.
  • se'en, seven.
  • sen, since.
  • sen, send, grant.
  • senvye, mustard-seed.
  • serk, shirt.
  • set, suit.
  • sevensum, seven.
  • sheave, slice.
  • shent, [66], shamed.
  • shott-window, projecting window.
  • shouthers, shoulders.
  • shriefe, sheriff.
  • shurtyng, [103], sport, pastime.
  • sic, siccan, such.
  • sicht, sight.
  • side, long.
  • sith, sithence, since.
  • six-mennys song, song for six voices.
  • skomfet, discomfit.
  • skumd, skimmed.
  • slatred, broken, cracked.
  • slee, sly.
  • smeek, smoke.
  • sonde, sending.
  • sooth, truth, troth.
  • sorrow, devil a bit.
  • sort, style;
  • company, swarm (of bees).
  • sot, [247], fool.
  • sould, should.
  • sowkit, sucked.
  • spait, flood, freshet.
  • spare, [141], opening in a gown or petticoat.
  • speal, [280], chip or shaving. The sense?
  • speer, ask for.
  • speere, [67], "an aperture in the wall, shot-window." Aytoun. (?)
  • spence, expense.
  • spright, sprite, spirit.
  • spyre, a post or pillar, supporting a shelf on which victuals are put. See Gloss. to Jamieson's Pop. Ball.
  • stark, stiff, strong.
  • sted, stede, place.
  • steer, stir.
  • stert, started.
  • stock, the forepart of a bed further from the wall.
  • stollin, stolen.
  • stondis, stands.
  • stottis, oxen.
  • stound, time.
  • stoure, [119], hurry.
  • stown, stolen.
  • strae, straw.
  • strene, this, [120], yesternight.
  • stripe, [199], measure.
  • swa, so.
  • swear, oath.
  • swete, [103], qy. sweté, sweaty?
  • swippyng, striking fast, as in threshing.
  • swipylles, 112; "a swepyl is that staff of the flail with which the corn is beaten out, vulgarly a supple," Percy: swingle.
  • swynkers, laborers.
  • syde, long.
  • syne, then.
  • tald, told.
  • tee, too.
  • teene, sorrow, suffering.
  • tent, [58], "a kind of Alicant, a general name for Spanish wines, except white." Halliwell.
  • tha, then.
  • than, then.
  • thannes, thence.
  • thee, thrive.
  • then, than.
  • think lang, suffer from ennui.
  • thir, these.
  • tho, then.
  • thouz, though.
  • thrang, close.
  • thristing, thirsting.
  • thristlecock, throstle, thrush.
  • thrustand, thrusting, pressing.
  • tide, time.
  • tint, lost.
  • tittles and tattles, "clots of dirt such as hang on a cow's tail."
  • to-brast, burst in pieces.
  • to-claterde, [111], beaten in (with noise)?
  • to-flaterde, [111], broken to pieces?
  • tokynyng, [107], token, sign.
  • tolbooth, prison.
  • tone, taken.
  • trestly, truly, confidently.
  • trippande, tripping.
  • tryst, an appointment to meet;
  • to make such an appointment.
  • tuggut, tugged.
  • twatling, [43], small, piddling.
  • twine, part (from).
  • unhappy, [42], ill-conditioned.
  • unlusum, unlovely, revolting;
  • was his likame dicht, [150], unlovely was the condition into which his body was brought.
  • up, upon;
  • upon lofte, on high.
  • verrey, very, true.
  • vow, exclamation of admiration.
  • wa', wall.
  • wad, would.
  • wad, wager.
  • waft, weft, woof.
  • wale, choose.
  • wallow't, became pale.
  • wame, belly, stomach.
  • wan, [91], come, got.
  • war, worse.
  • ware, aware.
  • waryd, cursed.
  • wat, know.
  • wearifu', causing pain or trouble.
  • wede, dress.
  • weel-faurd, well-favored, fair.
  • weet, know.
  • weir, war.
  • weir, 149, were.
  • weloo, interjection of grief.
  • we'se, we shall or will.
  • wha's aucht, who is it owns?
  • whang, slice.
  • whereas, where that, where.
  • white moneye, silver.
  • whoard, hoard, keep.
  • whorles and spindles, [101], "instruments used in Scotland for spinning instead of spinning-wheels." Percy.
  • wicht, wight, creature.
  • wiel, wield.
  • wight, quick.
  • will, uncertain how to proceed, distracted.
  • win, go.
  • winna, will not.
  • winsome, gay, comely, pleasant.
  • withouttin, without.
  • witted, [195], endowed with wit?
  • wo, woo, sad.
  • wobs, webs.
  • woir, worse.
  • wood, frantic.
  • wow, woe.
  • wow, vow;
  • exclamation of admiration.
  • woweir, wooer, suitor.
  • wraik, wreck.
  • wrest and wrang, [113], writhed and twisted.
  • wryth away, put aside.
  • wynne, joy.
  • wynnit, dwelt.
  • wyspys, wisps.
  • wyte, blame.
  • wyte, for wot, know.
  • yates, gates.
  • ycha, every.
  • yeersel, yourself.
  • yeid, went.
  • ye'se, you shall or will.
  • yestreen, yesterday.
  • yetts, gates.
  • ying, young.
  • yirne, curdle.
  • ze, ye.
  • zede, went.
  • zet, yet.
  • zong, young.