GLOSSARY

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A body a person
Airt direction
Ahint behind
Bairn child
Baudrons Scotch name for a cat
Ben in towards an inner room
Ben a mountain peak
Bicker to argue in a petty way
Bonnet-piece an old Scottish coin
Byre cowhouse
Canty kindly, cheerful
Cantrip a freak, or wilful piece of trickery
Chuckie-stone a small white pebble
Clout a blow
Cloving separating lint from its stalk
Clue a ball of worsted
Creel a large hand-made basket
Cutty-pipe a short clay pipe
Daft silly, weak-minded
Dander to walk aimlessly
Darkening the twilight
Divot a sod
Doo a dove
Douce sedate
Dowie dull, low-spirited
Dyke a wall
Eldritch weird
Emprise an enterprise
Entry a passage
Fain gladly
Feared afraid
Forbye besides
Gang go
Girnel a meal-chest
Gled a hawk
Gloaming the twilight
Greeting crying
Hantle very much, a considerable number
Havers nonsense
Heckle to comb
Hinnie a term of endearment
Hirple to limp
Histie "haste thee"
Inbye inside
Ingle neuk the corner by the fire
Joists the beams in a roof
Kailyard a kitchen garden
Ken know
Kirn a churn, to churn
Kist a chest
Knowe a little hillock
Lift the sky, the air
Light alight
Lintie a linnet
Lout to stoop
Lum chimney
Louping-on-stane a stone from which to mount a horse
Malison a curse
Meat food
Migraine a pain affecting one half of the head
Mutch a cap
Onstead farm buildings
Paddock a toad or frog
Pirnie a woollen nightcap
Poke a bag
Rivlins shoes made of cowhide
Sen' night a week
Shoon shoes
Siccan such
Siller money
Sinsyne since
Smatchet small boy
Sneck to latch or shut a door
Snibbit bolted, snib, a bolt
Thrapple throat
Thole to bear
Unchancy uncanny
Wheen a few
Wheesht be quiet!
Wight a person
Winnock a window
Winnow to separate the chaff from the grain by wind
Yestreen yesterday
Yule Christmas
Unicorns Ancient Scottish coins

THE SCOTTISH FAIRY BOOK BOOKS IN THE "FAIRY SERIES"

The English Fairy Book
The Welsh Fairy Book
The Irish Fairy Book
The Scottish Fairy Book
The Italian Fairy Book
The Hungarian Fairy Book
The Indian Fairy Book
The Spanish Fairy Book
The Danish Fairy Book
The Norwegian Fairy Book
The Jewish Fairy Book
The Swedish Fairy Book
The Chinese Fairy Book

Transcriber's notes:

These corrections are indicated by dotted lines under the corrections. Scroll the mouse over the word and the original text will appear.

Leaving the two words 'tomorrow' and 'to-morrow' as is.
Taken out hypen in 'Mer-maids' and 'Mer-men' in Preface as not in text.
P.76. Taken out extra 'day' from 'day day'.
P.80. Taken out extra 'the' from 'the the'.
P.104. 'craried' is found in another version of this book, so leaving as is.
P.124. Taken out extra 'did' from 'did did'.
P.144. Taken out hypen in 'burn-side'.
P.161. Taken out hypen in 'Yule-tide'.
P.263. Taken out hypen in 'mis-shapen'.

Above advertisement for the other books in the series has been moved from the front of the book to the end in the this version only.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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