Airt, direction, point of the compass.
almous, alms.
atwish, betwixt.
aught, possession.
aumrie, store-cupboard.
Bakie, a large square wooden vessel.
beek, v. bathe; here, bask.
bein, well-to-do, comfortable.
ben, within.
benweed, ragwort.
bield, shelter.
big, v. build.
bilf, a blunt stroke (Jamieson).
bir, impetuosity.
blate, bashful.
blether, v. talk foolishly.
blithemeat gift, gift made to those present at a child's birth.
bout-gait, roundabout.
bow, arch, gateway.
boyne, tub.
braird, the first sprouting of grain.
brattle, v. clatter.
brechan, bracken.
buirdly, burly.
bunker, bench.
busk, adorn.
but, but the house, toward the outer apartment of a house.
by ordinare, out of the common.
Ca', v. drive.
callan, callant, boy.
camstrarie, unmanageable, perverse.
cantrip, magical device.
canty, lively.
cap, a wooden bowl.
carl, fellow (fem.) carlin.
carry, motion of the clouds.
carse, low-lying fertile land, generally adjacent to a river.
causey, street or paved road;
crown of the causey, middle of the street.
change-house, a small inn or ale-house.
chap, v. strike.
chappin, a quart measure.
chimla, chumla, chimney;
chimla-lug, fireside.
churme, murmur.
clachan, hamlet.
clamper, to make a noise with the feet in walking.
claught, snatched (pret. of v. clatch).
clishmaclavers, idle discourse.
clok, beetle.
clout, ragged cloth.
Cluty, fam. the "Old One."
cod, pillow, cushion.
couthiness, kindness.
cowan-boat, a fishing-boat.
cranreuch, hoar-frost.
creel, basket.
crouse, confident, crack crouse, to "talk big."
cruisie, crusie, a small iron lamp.
cuif simpleton.
cushy-doo, cushat, dove.
Dark, darg, task.
dauner, daunder, stroll.
dauty, pet.
dinle, thrill.
dirl, v. clatter, thrill.
doless, void of energy.
dominie, schoolmaster.
donsie, unfortunate.
door-cheek, door-post.
doure, hard, harsh.
dow, v. can compass.
dowie, dull.
dreich, tedious.
drumly, turbid, troubled.
duds, rags.
dunt, to knock out by repeated blows.
dwam, seizure (sickness).
dyke, boundary wall.
Ellwand, yard-measure.
erles, arles, an earnest.
ettle, v. aim.
excambio, exchange ratified by law.
eydent, zealous, industrious.
Fash, v. vex.
fek, "o' ony fek," of any effect.
fey, infatuated.
fisle, v. rustle.
flesher, butcher.
flit, v. word in general use in Scotland for changing residence.
flyte, v. scold.
foregather, v. get into company together.
fornent, in front of.
fyke, bustle.
Gait, gate, way.
gar, compel.
gardevine, cellaret.
garnel, granary.
gaud, a bar of metal.
gauntrees, gantrees, a stand for a barrel.
gawsie, gaucy, jolly.
geizen't, drought-cracked.
gett, contemptuous term for progeny.
gif, if.
gir, gird, hoop.
girn, a snare.
glaikit, foolish.
glebe, land held ex officio by a parish minister.
gled, hawk.
gleg, eager.
glower, v. glare.
gludder, the sound caused by a body falling among mire (Jamieson).
gowk, fool, lit. cuckoo.
greet, weep.
grew, v. shudder.
grouff, belly.
gude-mother, mother-in-law.
gurl, n. growl.
gurly, surly.
Hack, a rack for horses or cattle.
haffet, side-lock.
Hallowe'en, the eve of All Saints' Day.
hap, wrap.
harl, v. drag.
hass, throat.
havers, foolish or incoherent talk.
hempy, rogue.
herry, harry.
hirkos (Lat. hircus), a he-goat.
hirple, limp.
hirstle, to shove oneself along by the hands in a seated posture.
hobbleshow, a difficulty.
HogmanÆ, the last day of the year.
holm, howm, low-lying level ground on the banks of a river.
hooly, cautiously.
horse-setter, job-master.
howdy, midwife.
howf, n. haunt.
howk, dig, burrow.
hyte and fykie, anxious and irritable.
Jawp, v. dash and rebound as water (Jamieson).
jealouse, suspect.
jelly-flowers, gilliflowers.
jimp, scarcely.
jink, chink (corruption).
jo, sweetheart.
jow, v. toll.
Kail, cabbage; soup made with the same.
kell, scurf on a child's head (Jamieson).
kep, catch.
kist, chest.
kithe, show, appear.
Laigh, low.
lair, lore.
lanerly, alanerly, alone, lonely.
laverock, lark.
lawing, reckoning.
lift, firmament.
limmer, "baggage" (term of depreciation).
linn, waterfall.
lippy, a bumper.
litherly, lazily.
lone, loaning, lane.
loun, serene.
lounder, swinging stroke (Jamieson).
low, n. flame.
lum, chimney.
lug, ear.
luggie, a small wooden vessel made of staves.
Mailing, farm.
manse, residence of a minister of the Gospel.
midden, refuse-heap.
morphosings, metamorphoses.
moss, a place where peat may be dug (Jamieson).
mutchkin, a measure equal to a pint.
Napery, household linen.
neb, beak of a bird.
nieve, fist.
notour, notorious.
O'ercome, burden of a song or discourse.
outstropolous, obstreperous.
oxter, arm-pit, also arm.
Pawkie, sly; pawkrie, slyness.
peeseweep, lapwing.
pen-gun, pop-gun;
a pen-gun at a crack, a "wunner to talk."
pet-day, term applied to a fair day when the weather is generally foul.
pig, earthenware vessel.
plack, small copper coin.
play-marrow, playmate.
prin, pin.
puddock, toad;
puddock-stool bonnet, toadstool or Tam o' Shanter cap.
Rackses, andirons.
raised, delirious.
ree, half-drunk.
reek, smoke.
redde, rede, counsel.
rig, ridge (of ploughed land).
rones, external waterducts of a building.
rug, v. pull roughly.
runkle, crumple.
Scad, gleam, reflection.
schore, a man of high rank.
scog, v. hide.
scomfisht, discomfited.
scowther, scorch.
scrog, a stunted shrub.
shavling-gabbit, shavling mouthed, a shavling being a carpenter's tool of the plane order. Having a mouth which emits sounds like those made in planing.
sicker, certain.
siver, sewer.
skail, skayl, disperse.
skelf, shelf.
skirr, scour.
sklinter, v. splinter.
skreigh, cry.
sleekit, deceitful.
slocken, slake.
smeddam, spirit.
sneck, bolt.
snell, keen.
snod, trim.
snool, subjugate by tyrannical means.
sole, sill.
sorn, to "sponge" upon;
used by Galt for to loiter.
sosherie, social intercourse.
sough, murmur.
spae, v. forecast.
spean, v. wean.
speat, flood.
speer, speir, inquire.
spunk, spark.
staincher, stanchion.
stang, a pole;
to "ride the stang" was to be subjected to a form of mob justice by which the patient was borne shoulder-high astride a pole.
steek, stitch, fasten.
stock (bed-stock), the fore-part of a bed.
stoure, dust in motion.
straemash, disturbance.
stravaig, v. stroll.
swanky, strapping young countryman (Brockett).
swatch, sample.
swee, a chimney crane for suspending a pot over the fire (Jamieson).
swither, v. to be reluctant, hesitate;
n. reluctance, hesitation, indecision.
syne, then.
Tack, lease.
taigle, hinder, delay.
tawnle, bonfire.
temming, a coarse thin woollen cloth.
tent, heed.
thacket, thatched.
thole, endure.
throng, adj. busy.
thumbikins, thumbscrews.
tirl at the pin, old-fashioned mode of intimating desire of admission to a house.
tod, tod lowrie, fox.
tolbooth, a municipal building including a jail.
toom, empty.
toop, a ram.
toupie (French), toupet.
trance, paved passage.
trintle, v. roll.
trone, a public weighing-machine standing in a market-place.
Unco, adj. extraordinary, remarkable;
n. remarkable object.
Virl, ring (as those which bind a fishing-rod);
frill.
vivers, provisions.
vogie, vain, complacent.
Wae, grieved.
waff, feeble, worn out.
warrandice, warrant.
warsle, wrestle.
wastage, a place of desolation (J.).
wastrie, waste.
waught, a large draught.
wean, child.
whin, furze.
Whigamore, sometimes derived from "whig," a word used in the West for urging on horses, and hence applied as a nickname to a political party. The expedition of the Covenanters under Eglinton to Edinburgh was known as the Whigamore Raid.
whumple, overturn, reverse.
willease, valise.
willy-wa, palaver, wheedle.
wise, v. entice, incline.
wud, wild.
wuddy, "gallows-looking";
widdy is the gallows.
wyte, blame.
Yett, gate.
yird, n. earth;
v. a. run to earth.

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