The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. / With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham

25th August, 1787.

I leave Edinburgh for a northern tour, in company with my good friend Mr. Nicol, whose originality of humour promises me much entertainment.—Linlithgow—a fertile improved country—West Lothian. The more elegance and luxury among the farmers, I always observe in equal proportion, the rudeness and stupidity of the peasantry. This remark I have made all over the Lothians, Merse, Roxburgh, &c. For this, among other reasons, I think that a man of romantic taste, a “Man of Feeling,” will be better pleased with the poverty, but intelligent minds of the peasantry in Ayrshire (peasantry they are all below the justice of peace) than the opulence of a club of Merse farmers, when at the same time, he considers the vandalism of their plough-folks, &c. I carry this idea so far, that an unenclosed, half improven country is to me actually more agreeable, and gives me more pleasure as a prospect, than a country cultivated like a garden.—Soil about Linlithgow light and thin.—The town carries the appearance of rude, decayed grandeur—charmingly rural, retired situation. The old royal palace a tolerably fine, but melancholy ruin—sweetly situated on a small elevation, by the brink of a loch. Shown the room where the beautiful, injured Mary Queen of Scots was born—a pretty good old Gothic church. The infamous stool of repentance standing, in the old Romish way, on a lofty situation.

What a poor pimping business is a Presbyterian place of worship; dirty, narrow, and squalid; stuck in a corner of old popish grandeur such as Linlithgow, and much more, Melrose! Ceremony and show, if judiciously thrown in, absolutely necessary for the bulk of mankind, both in religious and civil matters.—Dine.—Go to my friend Smith’s at Avon printfield—find nobody but Mrs. Miller, an agreeable, sensible, modest, good body; as useful, but not so ornamental as Fielding’s Miss Western—not rigidly polite à la Français, but easy, hospitable, and housewifely.

An old lady from Paisley, a Mrs. Lawson, whom I promised to call for in Paisley—like old lady W——, and still more like Mrs. C——, her conversation is pregnant with strong sense and just remark, but like them, a certain air of self-importance and a duresse in the eye, seem to indicate, as the Ayrshire wife observed of her cow, that “she had a mind o’ her ain.”

Know all men by these presents that I Robert Burns of Mossgiel: whereas I intend to leave Scotland and go abroad, and having acknowledged myself the father of a child named Elizabeth, begot upon Elizabeth Paton in Largieside: and whereas Gilbert Burns in Mossgiel, my brother, has become bound, and hereby binds and obliges himself to aliment, clothe, and educate my said natural child in a suitable manner as if she was his own, in case her mother chuse to part with her, and that until she arrive at the age of fifteen years. Therefore, and to enable the said Gilbert Burns to make good his said engagement, wit ye me to have assigned, disponed, conveyed and made over to, and in favours of, the said Gilbert Burns, his heirs, executors, and assignees, who are always to be bound in like manner, with, himself, all and sundry goods, gear, corns, cattle, horses, nolt, sheep, household furniture, and all other moveable effects of whatever kind that I shall leave behind me on my departure from this Kingdom, after allowing for my part of the conjunct debts due by the said Gilbert Burns and me as joint tacksmen of the farm of Mossgiel. And particularly without prejudice of the foresaid generality, the profits that may arise from the publication of my poems presently in the press. And also, I hereby dispone and convey to him in trust for behoof of my said natural daughter, the copyright of said poems in so far as I can dispose of the same by law, after she arrives at the above age of fifteen years complete. Surrogating and substituting the said Gilbert Burns my brother and his foresaids in my full right, title, room and place of the whole premises, with power to him to intromit with, and dispose upon the same at pleasure, and in general to do every other thing in the premises that I could have done myself before granting hereof, but always with and under the conditions before expressed. And I oblige myself to warrant this disposition and assignation from my own proper fact and deed allenarly. Consenting to the registration hereof in the books of Council and Session, or any other Judges books competent, therein to remain for preservation and constitute.

Proculars, &c. In witness whereof I have wrote and signed these presents, consisting of this and the preceding page, on stamped paper, with my own hand, at the Mossgiel, the twenty-second day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six years.

(Signed)

ROBERT BURNS.

Upon the twenty-fourth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six years, I, William Chalmer, Notary Publick, past to the Mercat Cross of Ayr head Burgh of the Sheriffdome thereof, and thereat I made due and lawful intimation of the foregoing disposition and assignation to his Majesties lieges, that they might not pretend ignorance thereof by reading the same over in presence of a number of people assembled. Whereupon William Crooks, writer, in Ayr, as attorney for the before designed Gilbert Burns, protested that the same was lawfully intimated, and asked and took instruments in my hands. These things were done betwixt the hours of ten and eleven forenoon, before and in presence of William M’Cubbin, and William Eaton, apprentices to the Sheriff Clerk of Ayr, witnesses to the premises.

(Signed)

William Chalmer, N.P.

William M’Cubbin, Witness.

William Eaton, Witness.

“The ch and gh have always the guttural sound. The sound of the English diphthong oo is commonly spelled ou. The French u, a sound which often occurs in the Scottish language, is marked oo or ui. The a, in genuine Scottish words, except when forming a diphthong, or followed by an e mute after a single consonant, sounds generally like the broad English a in wall. The Scottish diphthong ae always, and ea very often, sound like the French e masculine. The Scottish diphthong ey sounds like the Latin ei.”

A.

• A’, all.
• Aback, away, aloof, backwards.
• Abeigh, at a shy distance.
• Aboon, above, up.
• Abread, abroad, in sight, to publish.
• Abreed, in breadth.
• Ae, one.
• Aff, off.
• Aff-loof, off-hand, extempore, without premeditation.
• Afore, before.
• Aft, oft.
• Aften, often.
• Agley, off the right line, wrong, awry.
• Aiblins, perhaps.
• Ain, own.
• Airn, iron, a tool of that metal, a mason’s chisel.
• Airles, earnest money.
• Airl-penny, a silver penny given as erles or hiring money.
• Airt, quarter of the heaven, point of the compass.
• Agee, on one side.
• Attour, moreover, beyond, besides.
• Aith, an oath.
• Aits, oats.
• Aiver, an old horse.
• Aizle, a hot cinder, an ember of wood.
• Alake, alas.
• Alane, alone.
• Akwart, awkward, athwart.
• Amaist, almost.
• Amang, among.
• An’, and, if.
• Ance, once
• Ane, one.
• Anent, over-against, concerning, about.
• Anither, another.
• Ase, ashes of wood, remains of a hearth fire.
• Asteer, abroad, stirring in a lively manner.
• Aqueesh, between.
• Aught, possession, as “in a’ my aught,” in all my possession.
• Auld, old.
• Auld-farran’, auld farrant, sagacious, prudent, cunning.
• Ava, at all.
• Awa, away, begone.
• Awfu’, awful.
• Auld-shoon, old shoes literally, a discarded lover metaphorically.
• Aumos, gift to a beggar.
• Aumos-dish, a beggar’s dish in which the aumos is received.
• Awn, the beard of barley, oats, &c.
• Awnie, bearded.
• Ayont, beyond.

B.

• Ba’, ball.
• Babie-clouts, child’s first clothes.
• Backets, ash-boards, as pieces of backet for removing ashes.
• Backlins, comin’, coming back, returning.
• Back-yett, private gate.
• Baide, endured, did stay.
• Baggie, the belly.
• Bairn, a child.
• Bairn-time, a family of children, a brood.
• Baith, both.
• Ballets, Ballants, ballads.
• Ban, to swear.
• Bane, bone.
• Bang, to beat, to strive, to excel.
• Bannock, flat, round, soft cake.
• Bardie, diminutive of bard.
• Barefit, barefooted.
• Barley-bree, barley-broo, blood of barley, malt liquor.
• Barmie, of, or like barm, yeasty.
• Batch, a crew, a gang.
• Batts, botts.
• Bauckie-bird, the bat.
• Baudrons, a cat.
• Bauld, bold.
• Baws’nt, having a white stripe down the face.
• Be, to let be, to give over, to cease.
• Beets, boots.
• Bear, barley.
• Bearded-bear, barley with its bristly head.
• Beastie, diminutive of beast.
• Beet, beek, to add fuel to a fire, to bask.
• Beld, bald.
• Belyve, by and by, presently, quickly.
• Ben, into the spence or parlour.
• Benmost-bore, the remotest hole, the innermost recess.
• Bethankit, grace after meat.
• Beuk, a book.
• Bicker, a kind of wooden dish, a short rapid race.
• Bickering, careering, hurrying with quarrelsome intent.
• Birnie, birnie ground is where thick heath has been burnt, leaving the birns, or unconsumed stalks, standing up sharp and stubley.
• Bie, or bield, shelter, a sheltered place, the sunny nook of a wood.
• Bien, wealthy, plentiful.
• Big, to build.
• Biggin, building, a house.
• Biggit, built.
• Bill, a bull.
• Billie, a brother, a young fellow, a companion.
• Bing, a heap of grain, potatoes, &c.
• Birdie-cocks, young cocks, still belonging to the brood.
• Birk, birch.
• Birkie, a clever, a forward conceited fellow.
• Birring, the noise of partridges when they rise.
• Birses, bristles.
• Bit, crisis, nick of time, place.
• Bizz, a bustle, to buzz.
• Black’s the grun’, as black as the ground.
• Blastie, a shrivelled dwarf, a term of contempt, full of mischief.
• Blastit, blasted.
• Blate, bashful, sheepish.
• Blather, bladder.
• Blaud, a flat piece of anything, to slap.
• Blaudin-shower, a heavy driving rain; a blauding signifies a beating.
• Blaw, to blow, to boast; “blaw i’ my lug,” to flatter.
• Bleerit, bedimmed, eyes hurt with weeping.
• Bleer my een, dim my eyes.
• Bleezing, bleeze, blazing, flame.
• Blellum, idle talking fellow.
• Blether, to talk idly.
• Bleth’rin, talking idly.
• Blink, a little while, a smiling look, to look kindly, to shine by fits.
• Blinker, a term of contempt: it means, too, a lively engaging girl.
• Blinkin’, smirking, smiling with the eyes, looking lovingly.
• Blirt and blearie, out-burst of grief, with wet eyes.
• Blue-gown, one of those beggars who get annually, on the king’s birth-day, a blue cloak or gown with a badge.
• Bluid, blood.
• Blype, a shred, a large piece.
• Bobbit, the obeisance made by a lady.
• Bock, to vomit, to gush intermittently.
• Bocked, gushed, vomited.
• Bodle, a copper coin of the value of two pennies Scots.
• Bogie, a small morass.
• Bonnie, or bonny, handsome, beautiful.
• Bonnock, a kind of thick cake of bread, a small jannock or loaf made of oatmeal. See Bannock.
• Boord, a board.
• Bore, a hole in the wall, a cranny.
• Boortree, the shrub elder, planted much of old in hedges of barn-yards and gardens.
• Boost, behoved, must needs, wilfulness.
• Botch, blotch, an angry tumour.
• Bousing, drinking, making merry with liquor.
• Bowk, body.
• Bow-kail, cabbage.
• Bow-hought, out-kneed, crooked at the knee joint.
• Bowt, bowlt, bended, crooked.
• Brackens, fern.
• Brae, a declivity, a precipice, the slope of a hill.
• Braid, broad.
• Braik, an instrument for rough-dressing flax.
• Brainge, to run rashly forward, to churn violently.
• Braing’t, “the horse braing’t,” plunged end fretted in the harness.
• Brak, broke, became insolvent.
• Branks, a kind of wooden curb for horses.
• Brankie, gaudy.
• Brash, a sudden illness.
• Brats, coarse clothes, rags, &c.
• Brattle, a short race, hurry, fury.
• Braw, fine, handsome.
• Brawlys, or brawlie, very well, finely, heartily, bravely.
• Braxies, diseased sheep.
• Breastie, diminutive of breast.
• Breastit, did spring up or forward; the act of mounting a horse.
• Brechame, a horse-collar.
• Breckens, fern.
• Breef, an invulnerable or irresistible spell.
• Breeks, breeches.
• Brent, bright, clear; “a brent brow,” a brow high and smooth.
• Brewin’, brewing, gathering.
• Bree, juice, liquid.
• Brig, a bridge.
• Brunstane, brimstone.
• Brisket, the breast, the bosom.
• Brither, a brother.
• Brock, a badger.
• Brogue, a hum, a trick.
• Broo, broth, liquid, water.
• Broose, broth, a race at country weddings; he who first reaches the bridegroom’s house on returning from church wins the broose.
• Browst, ale, as much malt liquor as is brewed at a time.
• Brugh, a burgh.
• Bruilsie, a broil, combustion.
• Brunt, did burn, burnt.
• Brust, to burst, burst.
• Buchan-bullers, the boiling of the sea among the rocks on the coast of Buchan.
• Buckskin, an inhabitant of Virginia.
• Buff our beef, thrash us soundly, give us a beating behind and before.
• Buff and blue, the colours of the Whigs.
• Buirdly, stout made, broad built.
• Bum-clock, the humming beetle that flies in the summer evenings.
• Bummin, humming as bees, buzzing.
• Bummle, to blunder, a drone, an idle fellow.
• Bummler, a blunderer, one whose noise is greater than his work.
• Bunker, a window-seat.
• Bure, did bear.
• Burn, burnie, water, a rivulet, a small stream which is heard as it runs.
• Burniewin’, burn this wind, the blacksmith.
• Burr-thistle, the thistle of Scotland.
• Buskit, dressed.
• Buskit-nest, an ornamented residence.
• Busle, a bustle.
• But, bot, without.
• But and ben, the country kitchen and parlour.
• By himself, lunatic, distracted, beside himself.
• Byke, a bee-hive, a wild bee-nest.
• Byre, a cow-house, a sheep-pen.

C.

• Ca’, to call, to name, to drive.
• Ca’t, called, driven, calved.
• Cadger, a carrier.
• Cadie or caddie, a person, a young fellow, a public messenger.
• Caff, chaff.
• Caird, a tinker, a maker of horn spoons and teller of fortunes.
• Cairn, a loose heap of stones, a rustic monument.
• Calf-ward, a small enclosure for calves.
• Calimanco, a certain kind of cotton cloth worn by ladies.
• Callan, a boy.
• Caller, fresh.
• Callet, a loose woman, a follower of a camp.
• Cannie, gentle, mild, dexterous.
• Cannilie, dexterously, gently.
• Cantie, or canty, cheerful, merry.
• Cantraip, a charm, a spell.
• Cap-stane, cape-stone, topmost stone of the building.
• Car, a rustic cart with or without wheels.
• Careerin’, moving cheerfully.
• Castock, the stalk of a cabbage.
• Carl, an old man.
• Carl-hemp, the male stalk of hemp, easily known by its superior strength and stature, and being without seed.
• Carlin, a stout old woman.
• Cartes, cards.
• Caudron, a cauldron.
• Cauk and keel, chalk and red clay.
• Cauld, cold.
• Caup, a wooden drinking vessel, a cup.
• Cavie, a hen-coop.
• Chanter, drone of a bagpipe.
• Chap, a person, a fellow.
• Chaup, a stroke, a blow.
• Cheek for chow, close and united, brotherly, side by side.
• Cheekit, cheeked.
• Cheep, a chirp, to chirp.
• Chiel, or cheal, a young fellow.
• Chimla, or chimlie, a fire-grate, fire-place.
• Chimla-lug, the fire-side.
• Chirps, cries of a young bird.
• Chittering, shivering, trembling.
• Chockin, choking.
• Chow, to chew; a quid of tobacco.
• Chuckie, a brood-hen.
• Chuffie, fat-faced.
• Clachan, a small village about a church, a hamlet.
• Claise, or claes, clothes.
• Claith, cloth.
• Claithing, clothing.
• Clavers and havers, agreeable nonsense, to talk foolishly.
• Clapper-claps, the clapper of a mill; it is now silenced.
• Clap-clack, clapper of a mill.
• Clartie, dirty, filthy.
• Clarkit, wrote.
• Clash, an idle tale.
• Clatter, to tell little idle stories, an idle story.
• Claught, snatched at, laid hold of.
• Claut, to clean, to scrape.
• Clauted, scraped.
• Claw, to scratch.
• Cleed, to clothe.
• Cleek, hook, snatch.
• Cleekin, a brood of chickens, or ducks.
• Clegs, the gad flies.
• Clinkin, “clinking down,” sitting down hastily.
• Clinkumbell, the church bell; he who rings it; a sort of beadle.
• Clips, wool-shears.
• Clishmaclaver, idle conversation.
• Clock, to hatch, a beetle.
• Clockin, hatching.
• Cloot, the hoof of a cow, sheep, &c.
• Clootie, a familiar name for the devil.
• Clour, a bump, or swelling, after a blow.
• Cloutin, repairing with cloth.
• Cluds, clouds.
• Clunk, the sound in setting down an empty bottle.
• Coaxin, wheedling.
• Coble, a fishing-boat.
• Cod, a pillow.
• Coft, bought.
• Cog, and coggie, a wooden dish.
• Coila, from Kyle, a district in Ayrshire, so called, saith tradition, from Coil, or Coilus, a Pictish monarch.
• Collie, a general, and sometimes a particular name for country curs.
• Collie-shangie, a quarrel among dogs, an Irish row.
• Commaun, command.
• Convoyed, accompanied lovingly.
• Cool’d in her linens, cool’d in her death-shift.
• Cood, the cud.
• Coof, a blockhead, a ninny.
• Cookit, appeared and disappeared by fits.
• Cooser, a stallion.
• Coost, did cast.
• Coot, the ankle, a species of water-fowl.
• Corbies, blood crows.
• Cootie, a wooden dish, rough-legged.
• Core, corps, party, clan.
• Corn’t, fed with oats.
• Cotter, the inhabitant of a cot-house, or cottage.
• Couthie, kind, loving.
• Cove, a cave.
• Cowe, to terrify, to keep under, to lop.
• Cowp, to barter, to tumble over.
• Cowp the cran, to tumble a full bucket or basket.
• Cowpit, tumbled.
• Cowrin, cowering.
• Cowte, a colt.
• Cosie, snug.
• Crabbit, crabbed, fretful.
• Creuks, a disease of horses.
• Crack, conversation, to converse, to boast.
• Crackin’, cracked, conversing, conversed.
• Craft, or croft, a field near a house, in old husbandry.
• Craig, craigie, neck.
• Craiks, cries or calls incessantly, a bird, the corn-rail.
• Crambo-clink, or crambo-jingle, rhymes, doggerel verses.
• Crank, the noise of an ungreased wheel—metaphorically inharmonious verse.
• Crankous, fretful, captious.
• Cranreuch, the hoar-frost, called in Nithsdale “frost-rhyme.”
• Crap, a crop, to crop.
• Craw, a crow of a cock, a rook.
• Creel, a basket, to have one’s wits in a creel, to be crazed, to be fascinated.
• Creshie, greasy.
• Crood, or Croud, to coo as a dove.
• Croon, a hollow and continued moan; to make a noise like the low roar of a bull; to hum a tune.
• Crooning, humming.
• Crouchie, crook-backed.
• Crouse, cheerful, courageous.
• Crously, cheerfully, courageously.
• Crowdie, a composition of oatmeal, boiled water and butter; sometimes made from the broth of beef, mutton, &c. &c.
• Crowdie time, breakfast time.
• Crowlin, crawling, a deformed creeping thing.
• Crummie’s nicks, marks on the horns of a cow.
• Crummock, Crummet, a cow with crooked horns.
• Crummock driddle, walk slowly, leaning on a staff with a crooked head.
• Crump-crumpin, hard and brittle, spoken of bread; frozen snow yielding to the foot.
• Crunt, a blow on the head with a cudgel.
• Cuddle, to clasp and caress.
• Cummock, a short staff, with a crooked head.
• Curch, a covering for the head, a kerchief.
• Curchie, a curtesy, female obeisance.
• Curler, a player at a game on the ice, practised in Scotland, called curling.
• Curlie, curled, whose hair falls naturally in ringlets.
• Curling, a well-known game on the ice.
• Curmurring, murmuring, a slight rumbling noise.
• Curpin, the crupper, the rump.
• Curple, the rear.
• Cushat, the dove, or wood-pigeon.
• Cutty, short, a spoon broken in the middle.
• Cutty Stool, or, Creepie Chair, the seat of shame, stool of repentance.

D.

• Daddie, a father.
• Daffin, merriment, foolishness.
• Daft, merry, giddy, foolish; Daft-buckie, mad fish.
• Daimen, rare, now and then; Daimen icker, an ear of corn occasionally.
• Dainty, pleasant, good-humored, agreeable, rare.
• Dandered, wandered.
• Darklins, darkling, without light.
• Daud, to thrash, to abuse; Daudin-showers, rain urged by wind.
• Daur, to dare; Daurt, dared.
• Daurg, or Daurk, a day’s labour.
• Daur, daurna, dare, dare not.
• Davoc, diminutive of Davie, as Davie is of David.
• Dawd, a large piece.
• Dawin, dawning of the day.
• Dawtit, dawtet, fondled, caressed.
• Dearies, diminutive of dears, sweethearts.
• Dearthfu’, dear, expensive.
• Deave, to deafen.
• Deil-ma-care, no matter for all that.
• Deleerit, delirious.
• Descrive, to describe, to perceive.
• Deuks, ducks.
• Dight, to wipe, to clean corn from chaff.
• Ding, to worst, to push, to surpass, to excel.
• Dink, neat, lady-like.
• Dinna, do not.
• Dirl, a slight tremulous stroke or pain, a tremulous motion.
• Distain, stain.
• Dizzen, a dozen.
• Dochter, daughter.
• Doited, stupefied, silly from age.
• Dolt, stupefied, crazed; also a fool.
• Donsie, unlucky, affectedly neat and trim, pettish.
• Doodle, to dandle.
• Dool, sorrow, to lament, to mourn.
• Doos, doves, pigeons.
• Dorty, saucy, nice.
• Douse, or douce, sober, wise, prudent.
• Doucely, soberly, prudently.
• Dought, was or were able.
• Doup, backside.
• Doup-skelper, one that strikes the tail.
• Dour and din, sullen and sallow
• Douser, more prudent.
• Dow, am or are able, can.
• Dowff, pithless, wanting force.
• Dowie, worn with grief, fatigue, &c., half asleep.
• Downa, am or are not able, cannot.
• Doylt, wearied, exhausted.
• Dozen, stupified, the effects of age, to dozen, to benumb.
• Drab, a young female beggar; to spot, to stain.
• Drap, a drop, to drop.
• Drapping, dropping.
• Draunting, drawling, speaking with a sectarian tone.
• Dreep, to ooze, to drop.
• Dreigh, tedious, long about it, lingering.
• Dribble, drizzling, trickling.
• Driddle, the motion of one who tries to dance but moves the middle only.
• Drift, a drove, a flight of fowls, snow moved by the wind.
• Droddum, the breech.
• Drone, part of a bagpipe, the chanter.
• Droop rumpl’t, that droops at the crupper.
• Droukit, wet.
• Drouth, thirst, drought.
• Drucken, drunken.
• Drumly, muddy.
• Drummock or Drammock, meal and water mixed, raw.
• Drunt, pet, sour humour.
• Dub, a small pond, a hollow filled with rain water.
• Duds, rags, clothes.
• Duddie, ragged.
• Dung-dang, worsted, pushed, stricken.
• Dunted, throbbed, beaten.
• Dush-dunsh, to push, or butt as a ram.
• Dusht, overcome with superstitious fear, to drop down suddenly.
• Dyvor, bankrupt, or about to become one.

E.

• E’e, the eye.
• Een, the eyes, the evening.
• Eebree, the eyebrow.
• Eenin’, the evening.
• Eerie, frighted, haunted, dreading spirits.
• Eild, old age.
• Elbuck, the elbow.
• Eldritch, ghastly, frightful, elvish.
• En’, end.
• Enbrugh, Edinburgh.
• Eneugh, and aneuch, enough.
• Especial, especially.
• Ether-stone, stone formed by adders, an adder bead.
• Ettle, to try, attempt, aim.
• Eydent, diligent.

F.

• Fa’, fall, lot, to fall, fate.
• Fa’ that, to enjoy, to try, to inherit.
• Faddom’t, fathomed, measured with the extended arms.
• Faes, foes.
• Faem, foam of the sea.
• Faiket, forgiven or excused, abated, a demand.
• Fainness, gladness, overcome with joy.
• Fairin’, fairing, a present brought from a fair.
• Fallow, fellow.
• Fand, did find.
• Farl, a cake of bread; third part of a cake.
• Fash, trouble, care, to trouble, to care for.
• Fasheous, troublesome.
• Fasht, troubled.
• Fasten e’en, Fasten’s even.
• Faught, fight.
• Faugh, a single furrow, out of lea, fallow.
• Fauld, and Fald, a fold for sheep, to fold.
• Faut, fault.
• Fawsont, decent, seemly.
• Feal, loyal, steadfast.
• Fearfu’, fearful, frightful.
• Fear’t, affrighted.
• Feat, neat, spruce, clever.
• Fecht, to fight.
• Fechtin’, fighting.
• Feck and fek, number, quantity.
• Fecket, an under-waistcoat.
• Feckfu’, large, brawny, stout.
• Feckless, puny, weak, silly.
• Feckly, mostly.
• Feg, a fig.
• Fegs, faith, an exclamation.
• Feide, feud, enmity.
• Fell, keen, biting; the flesh immediately under the skin; level moor.
• Felly, relentless.
• Fend, Fen, to make a shift, contrive to live.
• Ferlie or ferley, to wonder, a wonder, a term of contempt.
• Fetch, to pull by fits.
• Fetch’t, pull’d intermittently.
• Fey, strange; one marked for death, predestined.
• Fidge, to fidget, fidgeting.
• Fidgin-fain, tickled with pleasure.
• Fient, fiend, a petty oath.
• Fien ma care, the devil may care.
• Fier, sound, healthy; a brother, a friend.
• Fierrie, bustle, activity.
• Fissle, to make a rustling noise, to fidget, bustle, fuss.
• Fit, foot.
• Fittie-lan, the nearer horse of the hindmost pair in the plough.
• Fizz, to make a hissing noise, fuss, disturbance.
• Flaffen, the motion of rags in the wind; of wings.
• Flainen, flannel.
• Flandrekins, foreign generals, soldiers of Flanders.
• Flang, threw with violence.
• Fleech, to supplicate in a flattering manner.
• Fleechin, supplicating.
• Fleesh, a fleece.
• Fleg, a kick, a random blow, a fight.
• Flether, to decoy by fair words.
• Flethrin, flethers, flattering—smooth wheedling words.
• Fley, to scare, to frighten.
• Flichter, flichtering, to flutter as young nestlings do when their dam approaches.
• Flinders, shreds, broken pieces.
• Flingin-tree, a piece of timber hung by way of partition between two horses in a stable; a flail.
• Flisk, flisky, to fret at the yoke.
• Flisket, fretted.
• Flitter, to vibrate like the wings of small birds.
• Flittering, fluttering, vibrating, moving tremulously from place to place.
• Flunkie, a servant in livery.
• Flyte, flyting, scold: flyting, scolding.
• Foor, hastened.
• Foord, a ford.
• Forbears, forefathers.
• Forbye, besides.
• Forfairn, distressed, worn out, jaded, forlorn, destitute.
• Forgather, to meet, to encounter with.
• Forgie, to forgive.
• Forinawed, worn out.
• Forjesket, jaded with fatigue.
• Fou’, full, drunk.
• Foughten, forfoughten, troubled, fatigued.
• Foul-thief, the devil, the arch-fiend.
• Fouth, plenty, enough, or more than enough.
• Fow, a measure, a bushel: also a pitchfork.
• Frae, from.
• Freath, froth, the frothing of ale in the tankard.
• Frien’, friend.
• Frosty-calker, the heels and front of a horse-shoe, turned sharply up for riding on an icy road.
• Fu’, full.
• Fud, the scut or tail of the hare, coney, &c.
• Fuff, to blow intermittently.
• Fu-hant, full-handed; said of one well to live in the world.
• Funnie, full of merriment.
• Fur-ahin, the hindmost horse on the right hand when ploughing.
• Furder, further, succeed.
• Furm, a form, a bench.
• Fusionless, spiritless, without sap or soul.
• Fyke, trifling cares, to be in a fuss about trifles.
• Fyte, to soil, to dirty.
• Fylt, soiled, dirtied.

G.

• Gab, the mouth, to speak boldly or pertly.
• Gaberlunzie, wallet-man, or tinker.
• Gae, to go; gaed, went; gane or gaen, gone; gaun, going.
• Gaet or gate, way, manner, road.
• Gairs, parts of a lady’s gown.
• Gang, to go, to walk.
• Gangrel, a wandering person.
• Gar, to make, to force to; gar’t, forced to.
• Garten, a garter.
• Gash, wise, sagacious, talkative, to converse.
• Gatty, failing in body.
• Gaucy, jolly, large, plump.
• Gaud and gad, a rod or goad.
• Gaudsman, one who drives the horses at the plough.
• Gaun, going.
• Gaunted, yawned, longed.
• Gawkie, a thoughtless person, and something weak.
• Gaylies, gylie, pretty well.
• Gear, riches, goods of any kind.
• Geck, to toss the head in wantonness or scorn.
• Ged, a pike.
• Gentles, great folks.
• Genty, elegant.
• Geordie, George, a guinea, called Geordie from the head of King George.
• Get and geat, a child, a young one.
• Ghaist, ghaistis, a ghost.
• Gie, to give; gied, gave; gien, given.
• Giftie, diminutive of gift.
• Giglets, laughing maidens.
• Gillie, gillock, diminutive of gill.
• Gilpey, a half-grown, half-informed boy or girl, a romping lad, a hoyden.
• Gimmer, an ewe two years old, a contemptuous term for a woman.
• Gin, if, against.
• Gipsey, a young girl.
• Girdle, a round iron plate on which oat-cake is fired.
• Girn, to grin, to twist the features in rage, agony, &c.; grinning.
• Gizz, a periwig, the face.
• Glaikit, inattentive, foolish.
• Glaive, a sword.
• Glaizie, glittering, smooth, like glass.
• Glaumed, grasped, snatched at eagerly.
• Girran, a poutherie girran, a little vigorous animal; a horse rather old, but yet active when heated.
• Gled, a hawk.
• Gleg, sharp, ready.
• Gley, a squint, to squint; a-gley, off at the side, wrong.
• Gleyde, an old horse.
• Glib-gabbit, that speaks smoothly and readily.
• Glieb o’ lan’, a portion of ground. The ground belonging to a manse is called “the glieb,” or portion.
• Glint, glintin’, to peep.
• Glinted by, went brightly past.
• Gloamin, the twilight.
• Gloamin-shot, twilight musing; a shot in the twilight.
• Glowr, to stare, to look; a stare, a look.
• Glowran, amazed, looking suspiciously, gazing.
• Glum, displeased.
• Gor-cocks, the red-game, red-cock, or moor-cock.
• Gowan, the flower of the daisy, dandelion, hawkweed, &c.
• Gowany, covered with daisies.
• Goavan, walking as if blind, or without an aim.
• Gowd, gold.
• Gowl, to howl.
• Gowff, a fool; the game of golf, to strike, as the bat does the ball at golf.
• Gowk, term of contempt, the cuckoo.
• Grane or grain, a groan, to groan; graining, groaning.
• Graip, a pronged instrument for cleaning cowhouses.
• Graith, accoutrements, furniture, dress.
• Grannie, grandmother.
• Grape, to grope; grapet, groped.
• Great, grit, intimate, familiar.
• Gree, to agree; to bear the gree, to be decidedly victor; gree’t, agreed.
• Green-graff, green grave,
• Gruesome, loathsomely, grim.
• Greet, to shed tears, to weep; greetin’, weeping.
• Grey-neck-quill, a quill unfit for a pen.
• Griens, longs, desires.
• Grieves, stewards.
• Grippit, seized.
• Groanin-Maut, drink for the cummers at a lying-in.
• Groat, to get the whistle of one’s groat; to play a losing game, to feel the consequences of one’s folly.
• Groset, a gooseberry.
• Grumph, a grunt, to grunt.
• Grumphie, Grumphin, a sow; the snorting of an angry pig.
• Grun’, ground.
• Grunstone, a grindstone.
• Gruntle, the phiz, the snout, a grunting noise.
• Grunzie, a mouth which pokes out like that of a pig.
• Grushie, thick, of thriving growth.
• Gude, guid, guids, the Supreme Being, good, goods.
• Gude auld-has-been, was once excellent.
• Guid-mornin’, good-morrow.
• Guid-e’en, good evening.
• Guidfather and guidmother, father-in-law, and mother-in-law.
• Guidman and guidwife, the master and mistress of the house; young guidman, a man newly married.
• Gully or Gullie, a large knife.
• Gulravage, joyous mischief.
• Gumlie, muddy.
• Gumption, discernment, knowledge, talent.
• Gusty, gustfu’, tasteful.
• Gut-scraper, a fiddler.
• Gutcher, grandsire.

H.

• Ha’, hall.
• Ha’ Bible, the great Bible that lies in the hall.
• Haddin’, house, home, dwelling-place, a possession.
• Hae, to have, to accept.
• Haen, had, (the participle of hae); haven.
• Haet, fient haet, a petty oath of negation; nothing.
• Haffet, the temple, the side of the head.
• Hafflins, nearly half, partly, not fully grown.
• Hag, a gulf in mosses and moors, moss-ground.
• Haggis, a kind of pudding, boiled in the stomach of a cow, or sheep.
• Hain, to spare, to save, to lay out at interest.
• Hain’d, spared; hain’d gear, hoarded money.
• Hairst, harvest
• Haith, petty oath.
• Haivers, nonsense, speaking without thought.
• Hal’, or hald, an abiding place.
• Hale, or haill, whole, tight, healthy.
• Hallan, a particular partition-wall in a cottage, or more properly a seat of turf at the outside.
• Hallowmass, Hallow-eve, 31st October.
• Haly, holy; “haly-pool,” holy well with healing properties.
• Hame, home.
• Hammered, the noise of feet like the din of hammers.
• Han’s breed, hand’s breadth.
• Hanks, thread as it comes from the measuring reel, quantities, &c.
• Hansel-throne, throne when first occupied by a king.
• Hap, an outer garment, mantle, plaid, &c.; to wrap, to cover, to hap.
• Harigals, heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
• Hap-shackled, when a fore and hind foot of a ram are fastened together to prevent leaping he is said to be hap-shackled. A wife is called “the kirk’s hap-shackle.”
• Happer, a hopper, the hopper of a mill.
• Happing, hopping.
• Hap-step-an’-loup, hop, step, and leap.
• Harkit, hearkened.
• Harn, very coarse linen.
• Hash, a fellow who knows not how to act with propriety.
• Hastit, hastened.
• Haud, to hold.
• Haughs, low-lying, rich land, valleys.
• Haurl, to drag, to pull violently.
• Haurlin, tearing off, pulling roughly.
• Haver-meal, oatmeal.
• Haveril, a half-witted person, half-witted, one who habitually talks in a foolish or incoherent manner.
• Havins, good manners, decorum, good sense.
• Hawkie, a cow, properly one with a white face.
• Heapit, heaped.
• Healsome healthful, wholesome.
• Hearse, hoarse.
• Heather, heath.
• Hech, oh strange! an exclamation during heavy work.
• Hecht, promised, to foretell something that is to be got or given, foretold, the thing foretold, offered.
• Heckle, a board in which are fixed a number of sharp steel prongs upright for dressing hemp, flax, &c.
• Hee balou, words used to soothe a child.
• Heels-owre-gowdie, topsy-turvy, turned the bottom upwards.
• Heeze, to elevate, to rise, to lift.
• Hellim, the rudder or helm.
• Herd, to tend flocks, one who tends flocks.
• Herrin’, a herring.
• Herry, to plunder; most properly to plunder birds’ nests.
• Herryment, plundering, devastation.
• Hersel-hirsel, a flock of sheep, also a herd of cattle of any sort.
• Het, hot, heated.
• Heugh, a crag, a ravine; coal-heugh, a coal-pit, lowin heugh, a blazing pit.
• Hilch, hilchin’, to halt, halting.
• Hiney, honey.
• Hing, to hang.
• Hirple, to walk crazily, to walk lamely, to creep.
• Histie, dry, chapt, barren.
• Hitcht, a loop, made a knot.
• Hizzie, huzzy, a young girl.
• Hoddin, the motion of a husbandman riding on a cart-horse, humble.
• Hoddin-gray, woollen cloth of a coarse quality, made by mingling one black fleece with a dozen white ones.
• Hoggie, a two-year-old sheep.
• Hog-score, a distance line in curling drawn across the rink. When a stone fails to cross it, a cry is raised of “A hog, a hog!” and it is removed.
• Hog-shouther, a kind of horse-play by justling with the shoulder; to justle.
• Hoodie-craw, a blood crow, corbie.
• Hool, outer skin or case, a nutshell, a pea-husk.
• Hoolie, slowly, leisurely.
• Hoord, a hoard, to hoard.
• Hoordit, hoarded.
• Horn, a spoon made of horn.
• Hornie, one of the many names of the devil.
• Host, or hoast, to cough.
• Hostin, coughing.
• Hotch’d, turned topsy-turvy, blended, ruined, moved.
• Houghmagandie, loose behaviour.
• Howlet, an owl.
• Housie, diminutive of house.
• Hove, hoved, to heave, to swell.
• Howdie, a midwife.
• Howe, hollow, a hollow or dell.
• Howebackit, sunk in the back, spoken of a horse.
• Howff, a house of resort.
• Howk, to dig.
• Howkit, digged.
• Howkin’, digging deep.
• Hoy, hoy’t, to urge, urged.
• Hoyse, a pull upwards. “Hoyse a creel,” to raise a basket; hence “hoisting creels.”
• Hoyte, to amble crazily.
• Hughoc, diminutive of Hughie, as Hughie is of Hugh.
• Hums and hankers, mumbles and seeks to do what he cannot perform.
• Hunkers, kneeling and falling back on the hams.
• Hurcheon, a hedgehog.
• Hurdies, the loins, the crupper.
• Hushion, a cushion, also a stocking wanting the foot.
• Huchyalled, to move with a hilch.

I.

• Icker, an ear of corn.
• Ieroe, a great grandchild.
• Ilk, or ilka, each, every.
• Ill-deedie, mischievous.
• Ill-willie, ill-natured, malicious, niggardly.
• Ingine, genius, ingenuity.
• Ingle, fire, fire-place.
• Ingle-low, light from the fire, flame from the hearth.
• I rede ye, I advise ye, I warn ye.
• I’se, I shall or will.
• Ither, other, one another.

J.

• Jad, jade; also a familiar term among country folks for a giddy young girl.
• Jauk, to dally, to trifle.
• Jaukin’, trifling, dallying.
• Jauner, talking, and not always to the purpose.
• Jaup, a jerk of water; to jerk, as agitated water.
• Jaw, coarse raillery, to pour out, to shut, to jerk as water.
• Jillet, a jilt, a giddy girl.
• Jimp, to jump, slender in the waist, handsome.
• Jink, to dodge, to turn a corner; a sudden turning, a corner.
• Jink an’ diddle, moving to music, motion of a fiddler’s elbow. Starting here and there with a tremulous movement.
• Jinker, that turns quickly, a gay sprightly girl.
• Jinkin’, dodging, the quick motion of the bow on the fiddle.
• Jirt, a jerk, the emission of water, to squirt.
• Jocteleg, a kind of knife.
• Jouk, to stoop, to bow the head, to conceal.
• Jow, to jow, a verb, which includes both the swinging motion and pealing sound of a large bell; also the undulation of water.
• Jundie, to justle, a push with the elbow.

K.

• Kae, a daw.
• Kail, colewort, a kind of broth.
• Kailrunt, the stem of colewort.
• Kain, fowls, &c., paid as rent by a farmer.
• Kebars, rafters.
• Kebbuck, a cheese.
• Keckle, joyous cry; to cackle as a hen.
• Keek, a keek, to peep.
• Kelpies, a sort of mischievous water-spirit, said to haunt fords and ferries at night, especially in storms.
• Ken, to know; ken’d or ken’t, knew.
• Kennin, a small matter.
• Ket-Ketty, matted, a fleece of wool.
• Kiaught, carking, anxiety, to be in a flutter.
• Kilt, to truss up the clothes.
• Kimmer, a young girl, a gossip.
• Kin’, kindred.
• Kin’, kind.
• King’s-hood, a certain part of the entrails of an ox.
• Kintra, kintrie, country.
• Kirn, the harvest supper, a churn.
• Kirsen, to christen, to baptize.
• Kist, a shop-counter.
• Kitchen, anything that eats with bread, to serve for soup, gravy.
• Kittle, to tickle, ticklish.
• Kittling, a young cat. The ace of diamonds is called among rustics the kittlin’s e’e.
• Knaggie, like knags, or points of rocks.
• Knappin-hammer, a hammer for breaking stones; knap, to strike or break.
• Knurlin, crooked but strong, knotty.
• Knowe, a small, round hillock, a knoll.
• Kuittle, to cuddle; kuitlin, cuddling, fondling.
• Kye, cows.
• Kyle, a district in Ayrshire.
• Kyte, the belly.
• Kythe, to discover, to show one’s self.

L.

• Labour, thrash.
• Laddie, diminutive of lad.
• Laggen, the angle between the side and the bottom of a wooden dish.
• Laigh, low.
• Lairing, lairie, wading, and sinking in snow, mud &c., miry.
• Laith, loath, impure.
• Laithfu‘, bashful, sheepish, abstemious.
• Lallans, Scottish dialect, Lowlands.
• Lambie, diminutive of lamb.
• Lammas moon, harvest-moon.
• Lampit, kind of shell-fish, a limpet.
• Lan‘, land, estate.
• Lan’-afore, foremost horse in the plough.
• Lan’-ahin, hindmost horse in the plough.
• Lane, lone; my lane, thy tune, &c., myself alone.
• Lanely, lonely.
• Lang, long; to think lang, to long, to weary.
• Lap, did leap.
• Late and air, late and early.
• Lave, the rest, the remainder, the others.
• Laverock, the lark.
• Lawlan’, lowland.
• Lay my dead, attribute my death.
• Leal, loyal, true, faithful.
• Lear, learning, lore.
• Lee-lang, live-long.
• Leesome luve, happy, gladsome love.
• Leeze me, a phrase of congratulatory endearment; I am happy in thee or proud of thee.
• Leister, a three-pronged and barbed dart for striking fish.
• Leugh, did laugh.
• Leuk, a look, to look.
• Libbet, castrated.
• Lick, licket, beat, thrashen.
• Lift, sky, firmament.
• Lightly, sneeringly, to sneer at, to undervalue.
• Lilt, a ballad, a tune, to sing.
• Limmer, a kept mistress, a strumpet.
• Limp’t, limped, hobbled.
• Link, to trip along; linkin, tripping along.
• Linn, a waterfall, a cascade.
• Lint, flax; lint i’ the bell, flax in flower.
• Lint-white, a linnet, flaxen.
• Loan, the place of milking.
• Loaning, lane.
• Loof, the palm of the hand.
• Loot, did let.
• Looves, the plural of loof.
• Losh man! rustic exclamation modified from Lord man.
• Loun, a follow, a ragamuffin, a woman of easy virtue.
• Loup, leap, startled with pain.
• Louper-like, lan-louper, a stranger of a suspected character.
• Lowe, a flame.
• Lowin‘, flaming; lowin-drouth, burning desire for drink.
• Lowrie, abbreviation of Lawrence.
• Lowse, to loose.
• Lowsed, unbound, loosed.
• Lug, the ear.
• Lug of the law, at the judgment-seat.
• Lugget, having a handle.
• Luggie, a small wooden dish with a handle.
• Lum, the chimney; lum-head, chimney-top.
• Lunch, a large piece of cheese, flesh, &c.
• Lunt, a column of smoke, to smoke, to walk quickly.
• Lyart, of a mixed colour, gray.

M.

• Mae, and mair, more.
• Maggot’s-meat, food for the worms.
• Mahoun, Satan.
• Mailen, a farm.
• Maist, most, almost.
• Maistly, mostly, for the greater part.
• Mak‘, to make; makin‘, making.
• Mally, Molly, Mary.
• Mang, among.
• Manse, the house of the parish minister is called “the Manse.”
• Manteele, a mantle.
• Mark, marks. This and several other nouns which in English require an s to form the plural, are in Scotch, like the words sheep, deer, the same in both numbers.
• Mark, merk, a Scottish coin, value thirteen shillings and four-pence.
• Marled, party-coloured.
• Mar’s year, the year 1715. Called Mar’s year from the rebellion of Erskine, Earl of Mar.
• Martial chuck, the soldier’s camp-comrade, female companion.
• Mashlum, mixed corn.
• Mask, to mash, as malt, &c., to infuse.
• Maskin-pot, teapot.
• Maukin, a hare.
• Maun, mauna, must, must not.
• Maut, malt.
• Mavis, the thrush.
• Maw, to mow.
• Mawin, mowing; maun, mowed; maw’d, mowed.
• Mawn, a small basket, without a handle.
• Meere, a mare.
• Melancholious, mournful.
• Melder, a load of corn, &c., sent to the mill to be ground.
• Mell, to be intimate, to meddle, also a mallet for pounding barley in a stone trough.
• Melvie, to soil with meal.
• Men‘, to mend.
• Mense, good manners, decorum.
• Menseless, ill-bred, impudent.
• Merle, the blackbird.
• Messin, a small dog.
• Middin, a dunghill.
• Middin-creels, dung-baskets, panniers in which horses carry manure.
• Midden-hole, a gutter at the bottom of a dunghill.
• Milkin-shiel a place where cows or ewes are brought to be milked.
• Mim, prim, affectedly meek.
• Mim-mou’d, gentle-mouthed.
• Min‘, to remember.
• Minawae, minuet.
• Mind’t, mind it, resolved, intending, remembered.
• Minnie, mother, dam.
• Mirk, dark.
• Misca‘, to abuse, to call names; misca’d, abused.
• Mischanter, accident.
• Misleard, mischievous, unmannerly.
• Misteuk, mistook.
• Mither, mother.
• Mixtie-maxtie, confusedly mixed, mish-mash.
• Moistify, moistified, to moisten, to soak; moistened, soaked.
• Mons-Meg, a large piece of ordnance, to be seen at the Castle of Edinburgh, composed of iron bars welded together and then hooped.
• Mools, earth.
• Mony, or monie, many.
• Moop, to nibble as a sheep.
• Moorlan, of or belonging to moors.
• Morn, the next day, to-morrow.
• Mou, the mouth.
• Moudiwort, a mole.
• Mousie, diminutive of mouse.
• Muckle, or mickle, great, big, much.
• Muses-stank, muses-rill, a stank, slow-flowing water.
• Musie, diminutive of muse.
• Muslin-kail, broth, composed simply of water, shelled barley, and greens; thin poor broth.
• Mutchkin, an English pint.
• Mysel, myself.

N.

• Na‘, no, not, nor.
• Nae, or na, no, not any.
• Naething, or naithing, nothing.
• Naig, a horse, a nag.
• Nane, none.
• Nappy, ale, to be tipsy.
• Negleckit, neglected.
• Neebor, a neighbour.
• Neuk, nook.
• Neist, next.
• Nieve, neif, the fist
• Nievefu’, handful.
• Niffer, an exchange, to barter.
• Niger, a negro.
• Nine-tailed cat, a hangman’s whip.
• Nit, a nut.
• Norland, of or belonging to the north.
• Notic’t, noticed.
• Nowte, black cattle.

O.

• O’, of.
• O’ergang, overbearingness, to treat with indignity, literally to tread.
• O’erlay, an upper cravat.
• Ony, or onie, any.
• Or, is often used for ere, before.
• Orra-duddies, superfluous rags, old clothes.
• O’t, of it.
• Ourie, drooping, shivering.
• Oursel, oursels, ourselves.
• Outlers, outliers; cattle unhoused.
• Ower, owre, over.
• Owre-hip, striking with a forehammer by bringing it with a swing over the hip.
• Owsen, oxen.
• Oxtered, carried or supported under the arm.

P.

• Pack, intimate, familiar: twelve stone of wool.
• Paidle, paidlen, to walk with difficulty, as if in water.
• Painch, paunch.
• Paitrick, partridge.
• Pang, to cram.
• Parle, courtship.
• Parishen, parish.
• Parritch, oatmeal pudding, a well-known Scotch drink.
• Pat, did put, a pot.
• Pattle, or pettle, a small spades to clean the plough.
• Paughty, proud, haughty.
• Pauky, cunning, sly.
• Pay’t, paid, beat.
• Peat-reek, the smoke of burning turf, a bitter exhalation, whisky.
• Pech, to fetch the breath shortly, as in an asthma.
• Pechan, the crop, the stomach.
• Pechin, respiring with difficulty.
• Pennie, riches.
• Pet, a domesticated sheep, &c., a favourite.
• Pettle, to cherish.
• Philabeg, the kilt.
• Phraise, fair speeches, flattery, to flatter.
• Phraisin, flattering.
• Pibroch, a martial air.
• Pickle, a small quantity, one grain of corn.
• Pigmy-scraper, little fiddler; a term of contempt for a bad player.
• Pint-stomp, a two-quart measure.
• Pine, pain, uneasiness.
• Pingle, a small pan for warming children’s sops.
• Plack, an old Scotch coin, the third part of an English penny.
• Plackless, pennyless, without money.
• Plaidie, diminutive of plaid.
• Platie, diminutive of plate.
• Plew, or pleugh, a plough.
• Pliskie, a trick.
• Plumrose, primrose.
• Pock, a meal-bag.
• Poind, to seize on cattle, or take the goods as the laws of Scotland allow, for rent, &c.
• Poorteth, poverty.
• Posie, a nosegay, a garland.
• Pou, pou’d, to pull, pulled.
• Pouk, to pluck.
• Poussie, a hare or cat.
• Pouse, to pluck with the hand.
• Pout, a polt, a chick.
• Pou’t, did pull.
• Poutherey, fiery, active.
• Pouthery, like powder.
• Pow, the head, the skull.
• Pownie, a little horse, a pony.
• Powther, or pouther, gunpowder.
• Preclair, supereminent.
• Preen, a pin.
• Prent, printing, print.
• Prie, to taste; prie’d, tasted.
• Prief, proof.
• Prig, to cheapen, to dispute; priggin, cheapening.
• Primsie, demure, precise.
• Propone, to lay down, to propose.
• Pund, pund o’ tow, pound, pound weight of the refuse of flax.
• Pyet, a magpie.
• Pyle, a pyle, o’ caff, a single grain of chaff.
• Pystle, epistle.

Q.

• Quat, quit
• Quak, the cry of a duck.
• Quech, a drinking-cup made of wood with two handles.
• Quey, a cow from one to two years old, a heifer.
• Quines, queans.
• Quakin, quaking.

R.

• Ragweed, herb-ragwort.
• Raible, to rattle, nonsense.
• Rair, to roar.
• Raize, to madden, to inflame.
• Ramfeezled, fatigued, overpowered.
• Rampin’, raging.
• Ramstam, thoughtless, forward.
• Randie, a scolding sturdy beggar, a shrew.
• Rantin‘, joyous.
• Raploch, properly a coarse cloth, but used for coarse.
• Rarely, excellently, very well.
• Rash, a rush; rash-buss, a bush of rushes.
• Ratton, a rat.
• Raucle, rash, stout, fearless, reckless.
• Raught, reached.
• Raw, a row.
• Rax, to stretch.
• Ream, cream, to cream.
• Reamin’, brimful, frothing.
• Reave, take by force.
• Rebute, to repulse, rebuke.
• Reck, to heed.
• Rede, counsel, to counsel, to discourse.
• Red-peats, burning turfs.
• Red-wat-shod, walking in blood over the shoe-tops.
• Red-wud, stark mad.
• Ree, half drunk, fuddled; a ree yaud, a wild horse.
• Reek, smoke.
• Reekin’, smoking.
• Reekit, smoked, smoky.
• Reestit, stood restive; stunted, withered.
• Remead, remedy.
• Requite, requited.
• Restricked, restricted.
• Rew, to smile, look affectionately, tenderly.
• Rickles, shocks of corn, stooks.
• Riddle, instrument for purifying corn.
• Rief-randies, men who take the property of others, accompanied by violence and rude words.
• Rig, a ridge.
• Rin, to run, to melt; rinnin’, running.
• Rink, the course of the stones, a term in curling on ice.
• Rip, a handful of unthreshed corn.
• Ripples, pains in the back and loins, sounds which usher in death.
• Ripplin-kame, instrument for dressing flax.
• Riskit, a noise like the tearing of roots.
• Rockin’, a denomination for a friendly visit. In former times young women met with their distaffs during the winter evenings, to sing, and spin, and be merry; these were called “rockings.”
• Roke, distaff.
• Rood, stands likewise for the plural, roods.
• Roon, a shred, the selvage of woollen cloth.
• Roose, to praise, to commend.
• Roun’, round, in the circle of neighbourhood.
• Roupet, hoarse, as with a cold.
• Row, to roll, to rap, to roll as water.
• Row’t, rolled, wrapped.
• Rowte, to low, to bellow.
• Rowth, plenty.
• Rowtin’, lowing.
• Rozet, rosin.
• Rumble-gumption, rough commonsense.
• Run-deils, downright devils.
• Rung, a cudgel.
• Runt, the stem of colewort or cabbage.
• Runkled, wrinkled.
• Ruth, a woman’s name, the book so called, sorrow.
• Ryke, reach.