? 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.
- ga, go.
- ga', gall.
- gaberlunzie, a wallet;
- gaberlunzie-man, a man that carries a wallet, beggar.
- gabs, mouths.
- gadlyngs, idle lads.
- gait, path, way.
- gane, gone.
- gappe, 106, entrance of the lists.
- gar, cause, make.
- gaun, going.
- gear, geere, property.
- gedurt, gathered.
- gife, gin, if.
- gip, 153, like gup, get up, be off, &c.
- gled, kite.
- gloamin', twilight.
- gloom, frown.
- goud, gold.
- gowt, 108, v. 109, MS. Harl., should perhaps be, "yf I have," &c.
- grate, scratch.
- gravat, cravat.
- graythid, made ready.
- gre, 105, prize.
- greave, manager of a farm.
- grit, great.
- gudefather, father-in-law.
- gurde, struck.
- gyand, gyane, giant.
- had, hold.
- hairt, heart.
- hard, heard.
- harnis, brains.
- harnys, 110, horns.
- harwos, harrows.
- haud, hold, keep.
- he, high, noble.
- heck, hatch, small-door.
- heid, head.
- hellis-cruk, 148, a crook by which vessels are hung over the fire.
- hend, 152, gentle;
- Aytoun reads, "hain'd," spared, saved.
- hent, took.
- het, heated.
- hicher, higher.
- hight, promised.
- hilt, taken.
- hindir, 148, hundred.
- hiphalt, lame in the hip.
- hireman chiel, man-servant.
- hit, it.
- holt, grove;
- sometimes, hill.
- horse-brat, horse-cloth.
- husband, husbandman.
- hussy, housewife;
- husyskep, housekeeping.
- hynt, took.
- hyzt, promised.
- ifere, together.
- ilka, each.
- ill-fardly, ill-favoredly, uglily.
- ill-willy, ill-natured.
- in-fere, together.
- ingle, fire.
- intil, in.
- i-wiss, surely, for a certainty;
- sometimes seems to be ignorantly employed for I wot, I know.
- jetted, 41, went proudly.
- jimp, slender.
- jumlit, 119, stirred rapidly, used of the motion of churning.
- kaily, cabbage-like.
- kall, drive.
- kavis, calves.
- keel, red ochre.
- keming-stock, back of a chimney grate.
- kest, cast.
- kexis, dried stalks of hemlock.
- kid, displayed.
- kill, kiln.
- kind, nature.
- kirn, churn.
- kists, chests.
- kned, kneed.
- know, knoll.
- ky, cows.
- kynde, nature, habit;
- comyn of kynde, 107, come of a good strain?
- kyrne, churn;
- kyrnd, churned.
- laigher, lower.
- laith, loath;
- laithliest, loathsomest.
- laitis, lusty, pleasant manners.
- lambs-wool, a beverage made of ale and roasted apples.
- lane, her, alone by herself.
- lauchty, 141, pale, white?
- lawing, scot, tavern-reckoning.
- leal, honest.
- lear'd, learned.
- led, 151, (of laws) carried out. (?)
- lenth, length.
- lese, lose.
- let, desist, omit.
- leuch, laughed.
- lever, rather.
- leys, leas.
- lightlye, without good reason.
- likame, body.
- lintseed bow, the globule which contains the seed of flax.
- lizt, light.
- lone, in the, 119, "an opening between fields of corn, for driving the cattle homeward, or milking cows."
- losel, worthless fellow.
- lout, let.
- louz, lowe, laughed.
- low, flame.
- lowte, bow;
- lowtit, bent.
- lugs, ears.
- lyarde, gray horse, horse in general.
- lyt, little, a little while.
- mane, moan.
- maries, maid-servants.
- maun, must.
- mavis, song-thrush.
- may, maid.
- meen, moan.
- meisseine, 195, mizzen-sail.
- mekle, much.
- menzie, many, retinue.
- merk, dark, sad.
- micht, might.
- micull, great.
- minny, mother.
- moe, more.
- mone, man.
- mot, mought, may.
- mou, mow, mouth.
- muckle, much.
- muir, moor.
- myskaryd, 104, miscarried, disadvantageously disposed of.
- nappy (of ale), strong.
- native, 162, true-born.
- neb, nose, beak.
- nedis hase spedde, succeeded in what he wanted.
- neis, nose.
- neist, next.
- nolles, heads.
- nones, nonce.
- nourice, nurse.
- nozt, nought.
- ohon, alas.
- on loft, 112, aloft, i. e. standing up, or on horseback.
- onys, once.
- other, 110, or?
- our, ower, over, too;
- our all quhair, 148, everywhere.
- ourtuk, overtook.
- pairt, part.
- palmer, pilgrim, vagabond.
- panis, pains.
- pannell, panele, 41, 108, a rustic saddle, a pad, without frame or bow.
- paramour, 148, passionately.
- partake, 212, impart, assign.
- pass, care.
- pat-fit, pot-foot.
- pawky, sly.
- pechmyn, parchment.
- peit, 269, whip.
- pele, long-handled baker's shovel.
- pendles, ear-rings.
- Pirie's chair, 282?
- ploo-mell, plow-mell, "a small wooden hammer occasionally fixed to the plough." Percy.
- ploom, plum.
- pluch, plough.
- pollis, polls.
- porcupig, porcupine.
- poudurt, powdered.
- prayse-folk, 114?
- prees, press, crowd.
- prest, ready, eager.
- priefe, prove.
- priving, proof.
- progeny, 158, descent.
- 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<
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- 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.
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