A', all. ABOON, abune, above. ABY, abye, endure, suffer. ACCOLADE, the salutation marking the bestowal of knighthood. AIN, own. ALANE, alone. AN, if. ANE, one. ARRAY, annoy, trouble. AULD, old. AWEEL, well. AYE, always. BAILIE, a city magistrate in Scotland. BAN, curse. BAWTY, sly, cunning. BAXTER, a baker. BEES, in the, stupefied, bewildered. BELIVE, belyve, by and by. BEN, in, inside. BENT, an open field. BHAIRD, a bard. BLACK-FISHING, fishing by torchlight poaching. BLINKED, glanced. BLUDE, braid, blood. BLYTHE, gay, glad. BODLE, a copper coin worth a third of an English penny. BOLE, a bowl. BOOT-KETCH, a boot-jack. BRAE, the side of a hill. BRISSEL-COCK, a turkey cock. BREEKS, breeches. BROGUES, Highland shoes. BROKEN MEN, outlaws. BROUGHT FAR BEN, held in special favor BROWST, a brewing. BRUIK, enjoy. BUCKIE, a perverse or refractory person. BULLSEGG, a gelded bull. BURD, bird, a term of familiarity. BURN, a brook. BUSKING, dress, decoration. BUTTOCK-MAIL, a fine for fornication. BYDAND, awaiting. CAILLIACHS, old women on whom devolved the duty of lamenting for the dead, which the Irish call keening. CALLANT, a young lad, a fine fellow. CANNY, prudent, skillful, lucky. CANTER, a canting, whining beggar. CANTRIP, a trick. CARLE, a churl, an old man. CATERAN, a Highland irregular soldier, a freebooter. CHAP, a customer. CLACHAN, a hamlet. CLAW FAVOUR, curry favour. CLAYMORE, a broad sword. CLEEK, a hook. CLEIK the cunzie, steal the silver. COB, beat. COBLE, a small fishing boat. COGS, wooden vessels. COGUE, a round wooden vessel. CONCUSSED, violently shaken, disturbed, forced. CORONACH, a dirge. CORRIE, a mountain hollow. COVE, a cave. CRAME, a booth, a merchant's shop. CREAGH, an incursion for plunder, termed on the Borders a raid. CROUSE, bold, courageous. CRUMMY, a cow with crooked horns. CUITTLE, tickle. CURRAGH, a Highland boat. DAFT, mad, foolish. DEBINDED, bound down. DECREET, an order of decree. DEOCH AN DORUIS, the stirrup-cup or parting drink. DERN, concealed, secret. DINMONTS, wethers in the second year. DOER, an agent, a manager. DOON, doun, down. DOVERING, dozing. DUINHE-WASSEL, dunniewassal, a Highland gentleman, usually the cadet of a family of rank. EANARUICH, the regalia presented by Rob Roy to the Laird of Tullibody. ENEUGH, eneuch, enough. ERGASTULO, in a penitentiary. EXEEMED, exempt. FACTORY, stewardship. FEAL AND DIVOT, turf and thatch. FECK, a quantity. FEIFTEEN, the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. FENDY, good at making a shift. FIRE-RAISING, setting an incendiary fire. FLEMIT, frightened, FRAE, from. FU, full. FULE, fool. GABERLUNZIE, a kind of professional beggar. GANE, gone. GANG, go. GAR, make. GATE, gait, way. GAUN, going. GAY, gey, very. GEAR, goods, property. GILLFLIRT, a flirty girl. GILLIE, a servant, an attendant. GILLIE-WET-FOOT, a barefooted Highland lad. GIMMER, a ewe from one to two years old. GLISKED, glimpsed. GRIPPLE, rapacious, niggardly. GULPIN, a simpleton. HA', hall. HAG, a portion of copse marked off for cutting. HAIL, whole. HALLAN, a partition, a screen. HAME, home. HANTLE, a great deal. HARST, harvest. HERSHIPS, plunder. HILDING, a coward. HIRSTS, knolls. HORNING, charge of, a summons to pay a debt, on pain of being pronounced a rebel, to the sound of a horn. HOWE, a hollow. HOULERYING AND POULERYING, hustling and pulling. HURLEY-HOUSE, a brokendown manor house. ILK, same; of that ilk, of the same name or place. ILKA, each, every. IN THE BEES, stupefied. INTROMIT, meddle with. KEN, know. KITTLE, tickle, ticklish. KNOBBLER, a male deer in its second year. KYLOE, a small Highland cow. LAIRD, squire, lord of the manor. LANG-LEGGIT, long-legged. LAWING, a tavern reckoning. LEE LAND, pasture land. LIE, a word used in old Scottish legal documents to call attention to the following word or phrase. LIFT, capture, carry off by theft. LIMMER, a jade. LOCH, a lake. LOON, an idle fellow, a lout, a rogue. LUCKIE, an elderly woman. LUG, an ear, a handle. LUNZIE, the loins, the waist. MAE, mair, more. MAINS, the chief farm of an estate. MALT ABUNE THE MEAL, the drink above the food, half-seas over. MAUN, must. MEAL ARK, a meal chest. MERK, 13 1/3 pence in English money. MICKLE, much, great. MISGUGGLED, mangled, rumpled. MONY, many. MORN, the morn, tomorrow. MORNING, a morning dram. MUCKLE, much, great. MUIR, moor. NA, nae, no, not. NAINSELL, own self. NICE, simple. NOLT, black cattle. ony, any. ORRA, odd, unemployed. ORRA-TIME, occasionally. OWER, over. PEEL-HOUSE, a fortified tower. PENDICLE, a small piece of ground. PINGLE, a fuss, trouble. PLENISHING, furnishings. PLOY, sport, entertainment. PRETTY MEN, stout, warlike fellows. REIFS, robberies. REIVERS, robbers. RIGGS, ridges, ploughed ground. ROKELAY, a short cloak. RUDAS, coarse, hag-like. SAIN, mark with the sign of the cross, bless. SAIR, sore, very. SAUMON, salmon. SAUT, salt. SAY, a sample. SCHELLUM, a rascal. SCOUPING, scowping, skipping, leaping, running. SEANNACHIE, a Highland antiquary. SHEARING, reaping, harvest. SHILPIT, weak, sickly. SHOON, shoes. SIC, siccan, such. SIDIER DHU, black soldiers, independent companies raised to keep peace in the Highlands; named from the tartans they wore. SIDIER ROY, red soldiers, King George's men. SIKES, small brooks. SILLER, silver, money. SIMMER, summer. SLIVER, slice, slit. SMOKY, suspicious. SNECK, cut. SNOOD, a fillet worn by young women. SOPITE, quiet a brawl. SORNERS, sornars, sojourners, sturdy beggars, especially those unwelcome visitors who exact lodgings and victuals by force. SORTED, arranged, adjusted. SPEIR, ask, investigate. SPORRAN-MOLLACH, a Highland purse of goatskin. SPRACK, animated, lively. SPRING, a cheerful tune. SPURRZIE, spoil. STIEVE, stiff, firm. STIRK, a young steer or heifer. STOT, a bullock. STOUP, a jug, a pitcher. STOUTHREEF, robbery. STRAE, straw. STRATH, a valley through which a river runs. SYBOES, onions. TA, the. TAIGLIT, harassed, loitered. TAILZIE, taillie, a deed of entail. TAPPIT-HEN, a pewter pot that holds three English quarts. TAYOUT, tailliers-hors; in modern phrase, Tally-ho! TEIL, the devil. TEINDS, tithes. TELT, told. TILL, to. TOUN, a hamlet, a farm. TREWS, trousers. TROW, believe, suppose. TWA, two. TYKE, a dog, a snarling fellow. UNCO, strange, very. UNKENN'D, unknown. USQUEBAUGH, whiskey. WA', wall. WARE, spend. WEEL, well. WHA, who. WHAR, where. WHAT FOR, why. WHILK, which. WISKE, whisk, brandish. |