sypress, cypress, III, 148, 10; 150, b 10: crape (veil).
syre, IV, 21, 10: (sewer) drain, gutter.
syt, III, 70, 280: old contracted form of sitteth.
sythis, I, 327, 21: times.
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tabean brirben (kame), II, 217, 2, 4: printed by Herd, Tabean birben. Jamieson conjectured for Tabean, ‘made at Tabia, Italy.’ Dr C. Mackay very properly remarks that Tabia was not known as a place of manufacture for combs. He suggests a Gaelic origin: taobh, a side, taobhan, sides; bior, a pin, point, prickle, the tooth of a comb; bean, a woman; whence taobhan bior bean, the side comb of a woman. Whether this is good Gaelic, I am myself unable to say; but it is a simple criticism that a woman’s hair is not combed with a side-comb. The passage is undoubtedly corrupt. In IV, 471, 2, we have, a haw bayberry kame, also corrupt; bayberry was heard for whatever tabean brirben stands for. One copy had birchen, IV, 471, note to 221.
table, take vp the, III, 29, 142: take away. the tables were laid on trestles and easily handled, removed, and, as we often see in ballads, kicked over. drew her table, V, [304], 13: see explanation at V, [304] a.
tack (of needlework), II, 30, L 1: attachment by stitching, needle-tack, II, 217, 5.
tack, took.
tacken, taiken, IV, 515, 12: token.