TORFEIR, TORFER, s. Hardship,
difficulty.
Gawan and Gol.
Isl. torfaer-a, iter difficile et impeditum.
To TORFEL, TORCHEL, v. n. To
pine away, to die.
Gl. Sibb.
Isl. torfellde, torvellde, difficilis, arduus.
TORYT. L. taryt, tarried.
Wallace.
To TORN, v. a. To turn.
Douglas.
TORN BUT, retaliation.
Barbour.
Fr. tourn-er, to turn, but a but, on equal terms.
TORNE, s. A turn, an action done to
another.
Douglas.
TORRIE, s. A term applied to peas roasted in the sheaf, Fife.
Lat. torreo, q. what is scorched.
TORRY-EATEN, adj. Torry-eaten land, poor moorish soil, exhausted by cropping, very bare, and bearing only scattered tufts of sheep's fescue, S. B.
Isl. torgiat-r, aegre reparabilis; or Fris. torre vermis, and eet-en, q. worm-eaten.
TORRIS, pl. Towers.
Gawan and Gol.
TORT, part. pa. Tortured; distorted.
O. Fr. tort, Lat. tort-us.
Douglas.
TOSCH, TOSCHE, adj. Neat, trim, S.
Douglas.
O. Fr. touzé, clipped; Belg. doss-en, to clothe.
TOSCHEODERACHE, s.
1. The deputy
of a Mair of fee.
Reg. Maj.
2. The name given to the office itself.
Skene.
Gael. Ir. teachdaire, a messenger; teachdairacht, a message.
TOSIE, adj.
1. Tipsy, intoxicated in
some degree, S.
Meston.
2. Intoxicating.
Hamilton.
Mod. Sax. dosig, giddy; Isl. dus, drunken.
TOSTIT, part. adj. Tossed with severe affliction, S. B.
TOT, s. A fondling designation for a
child, S.
V. Toyte.
Ramsay.
TOTHIR, TOTHYR, adj.
1. The
other, S. pron. tither.
Wallace.
2. The second.
Wyntown.
3. Indefinitely, in the sense of another,
or posterior.
Barbour.
TOTTIE, adj. Warm, snug, Perths.
Gael. teoth-am, to warm.
TOTTIS, s. Refuse of wool.
Leg. St Androis.
Su. G. totte, a handful of flax or wool.
To TOTTLE, v. n.
1. A term used to
denote the noise made by any substance,
when boiling gently, S.
A. Nicol.
2. To purl, applied to a stream, Dumfr.
V. Todle.
Nithsdale Song.
To TOVE, v. n. To talk familiarly, prolixly,
and cheerfully, S., often, to tove
and crack.
A. Scott.
Norw. toeve, to prattle, to be talkative.
Tovie, adj. Tipsy, Loth.
TOUK, s. A hasty pull, a tug, S.
A. S. twicc-an, vellicare.
Ruddiman.
To TUCK, v. a. To beat.
Spalding.
Teut. tuck-en, icero.
To Touk, Tuck, v. n. To emit a sound, in
consequence of being beaten.
Evergr.
Touk, s.
1. A stroke, a blow.
Douglas.
2. Touk of drum, beat of drum, S.
Gl. Sibb.
TOUNDER, s. Tinder.
Lyndsay.
Alem. tundere, Isl. tunthere, id.
TOUSIE, TOWZIE, adj.
1. Disordered,
dishevelled, S., sometimes touslie.
2. Rough, shaggy, S.
Burns.
To Tousle, v. a.
1. To put into disorder;
often, to rumple, S.
2. To handle roughly, as dogs do each
other.
Polwart.
Isl. tusk-a, luctari, tusk, lucta lenis et jocosa.
Tousle, Touzle, s. Rough dalliance, S.
R. Galloway.
To TOUT, v. a.
V. Toot.
To TOUT, TOOT, v. n. To take large
draughts, S.
Ferguson.
Tout, s.
1. A copious draught, S.
2. A drinking match, S. B.
Gl. Shirr.
Perh. from Teut. tocht, a draught.
To TOUT, TOWT, v. a.
1. To toss, to
put in disorder, S.
Chron. S. P.
2. To throw into disorder by quibbling
or litigation.
Melvill's MS.
3. To teaze, to vex, S.
Tout, s.
1. An ailment of a transient kind,
S.
Belg. tocht, togt, wind; een zwaare togt, a sore bout.
2. A transient displeasure, a fit of ill-humour,
Ang.
Shirrefs.
Touttie, adj.
1. Throwing into disorder;
as, a touttie wind, S.
Belg. togtig, windy.
2. Irritable, easily put in disorder, S.
TOW, s.
1. A rope of any kind, S.
Leg. St Androis.
Su. G. tog, Isl. tog, taug, Belg. touw, id.
2. A halter, S.
Muse's Thren.
To TOW, v. n. To give way, to fail, to perish, S. B.
Alem. douu-en, Su. G. do, to die.
To TOWEN, v. a. To tire, to weary out, Fife.
Isl. thion-a, laborare.
To TOWIN, TOWN, v. a. To tame,
Loth. Berwicks.
Ramsay.
Teut. touw-en, premere, subigere.
TOWMONT, TOWMON, TOWMOND, s. A year; corr. of twelve-month, used in the same sense, S.
Towmontell, s. A cow of a year old, Ayrs.
TOWNNYS, pl. Tuns, large casks.
Barbour.
TRACED, adj. Laced; as a traced hat, S.
O. Fr. tress-ir, faire un tissu.
To TRACHLE, TRAUCHLE, v. a.
1.
To draggle, to trail, S.
Mellvill's MS.
Alem. dregel-en, per incuriam aliquid perdere.
2. To dishevel.
Complaynt S.
Gael. trachladh, to loosen.
3. To drudge, to overtoil, S. B.
Sw. traal-a, duro labore exerceri.
TRACK, s. Feature, lineament, S.
Belg. trek, id. from trekk-en, to dilineate.
TRACK-BOAT, s. A boat used on a canal, S.
Belg. trek-schuyt, id. from trekk-en, to draw.
TRACK-POT, s. A tea-pot, S.
From Belg. trekk-en, to draw.
TRACTIUE, s. A treatise.
Crosraguel.
Fr. traité, id.
TRAD, s. Track, course in travelling or
sailing.
Wyntown.
Isl. troeda, terra, quod teratur et calcetur.
TRAGET, TRIGGET, s. A trick, a deceit,
S. triget.
Douglas.
O. Fr. trigaud-ier, to embroil.
TRAY, s. Trouble, vexation.
Barbour.
A. S. treg, Su. G. traege, Alem. trege, dolor.
To TRAIK, v. n. To go idly from place to place, S.
Trackit, part. adj. Much fatigued, S.
Dunbar.
Traikit-like, adj. Having the appearance of great fatigue from ranging about.
Belg. treck-en, to travel; Sw. traek-a, niti.
TRAIK, s.
1. A plague, a mischief.
Douglas.
2. The flesh of sheep that have died of
disease or by accident, S.
Pennecuik, N.
To TRAIK, v. n. To be in a declining
state of health.
Baillie.
Su. G. trak-a, cum difficultate progredi.
TRAILSYDE, adj. So long as to trail on
the ground.
V. Side.
Douglas.
To TRAYN, v. a. To draw, to entice.
Fr. train-er, to draw.
Barbour.
Train, s. A rope used for drawing, Orkn.
Stat. Acc.
To TRAIST, TREST, TREIST, v. a.
1. To trust.
Lyndsay.
2. v. n. To pledge faith, by entering into
a truce.
Gawan and Gol.
Isl. treist-a, Su. G. traest-a, confidere.
Traist, Trest, s. Trust, faith.
Complaynt S.
Isl. traust-r, Su. G. troest, fiducia.
Traist, Traisty, adj.
1. Trusty, faithful.
Wallace.
Isl. traust-r, Su. G. troest, fidus, fidelis.
2. Confident.
Barbour.
Germ. treist, Su. G. troest, audax.
3. Secure, safe.
Barbour.
Traist, s. An appointed meeting.
V. Tryst.
Barbour.
Traistis, s. pl. A roll of the accusations
brought against those who, in former
times, were to be legally tried.
Acts Ja. III.
Traistly, adv. Confidently, securely.
Barbour.
TRAIST, s. Frame of a table.
V. Trest.
TRAYT, s. Bread of trayt, a superior kind of bread made of fine wheat.
Panis de Treyt, Fleta.
Chalm. Air.
TRAKIT, part. pa. Much fatigued.
V. Traik.
TRAM, s.
1. The shaft of a cart or carriage
of any kind, S.
Dunbar.
Su. G. traam, that part of a tree, which is cut into different portions.
2. A beam or bar.
Spalding.
3. In a ludicrous sense, the leg or limb;
as, lang trams, long limbs, S.
TRAMALT NET, corr. from E. trammel.
Lyndsay.
TRAMORT, s. A corpse.
Dunbar.
Su. G. tra, to consume, mort, dead.
To TRAMP, v. a.
1. To tread with force,
S.
Lyndsay.
Sw. trampa pa, conculcare.
2. To tread, in reference to walking, S.
Ferguson.
To Tramp, v. n.
1. To tread with a heavy
step, S.
Su. G. tramp-a, id.
2. To walk; as opposed to any other
mode of travelling, S.
Pop. Ball.
Tramp, s.
1. The act of striking the foot
suddenly downwards, S.
2. An excursion, properly a pedestrian
one. S.
Burns.
TRANCE, TRANSE, s.
1. A passage
within a house, S.
Sir J. Sinclair.
2. Used metaph. in relation to death.
Rutherford.
To TRANE, v. n. To travel.
Burel.
Su. G. tren-a, incedere, gressus facere.
To TRANONT, TRANOYNT, TRANOWNT,
TRANENT, TRAWYNT, v. n.
1. To march suddenly in
a clandestine manner.
Barbour.
2. To march quickly, without including
the idea of stratagem or secrecy.
Wallace.
3. To return, to turn back.
Pal. Hon.
Fr. traine, a snare, an ambush.
Tranowintyn, s. A stratagem of war.
Barbour.
To TRANSE, v. n. To determine, to resolve.
Burel.
Fr. tranch-er, decider, parler franchement.
TRANSS, s. A species of dance anciently
in use.
Chr. Kirk.
To TRANSMUGRIFY, v. a. To transform,
to transmute, S.
Burns.
* To TRANSPORT, v. a. To translate a
minister from one charge to another, S.
Pardovan.
Transportation, s. The act of translating
a minister, S.
Acts Assembly.
TRANTLE, s. The rut made by a cartwheel, when it is deep, Ang.
TRANTLES, TRITLE-TRANTLES,
TRANTLIMS, s. pl.
1. Trifling or superstitious
ceremonies.
Cleland.
2. Moveables of little value, petty articles
of furniture, S.
Ross.
3. Toys used by children, S. Loth.
trantles.
V. Trentalis.
TRAP, s. A sort of ladder, S.
Sw. trappa, Teut. trap, gradus.
TRAPPYS, s. pl. Trappings.
Douglas.
L. B. trap-us, Hisp. trop-o, cloth.
TRAPPOURIS, TRAPOURIS, s. pl.
Trappings.
Douglas.
L. B. trappatura, ornatus è trapo seu panno.
TRAS, s. The tract of game.
Sir Gawan.
Fr. trace, id. trasses, the footing of a deer.
TRAST, TREST, s. A beam.
Wallace.
O. Fr. traste, a cross-beam.
TRAT, TRATTES, s. An old woman;
a term generally used in contempt, S.
Douglas.
Isl. draett-ur, Su. G. drott, a servant; Germ. trot, an old woman, a witch.
To TRATTIL, TRATLE, v. n.
1. To
prattle, to tattle.
Dunbar.
2. To repeat in a rapid and careless
manner.
Lyndsay.
C. B. tryd-ar, to prattle.
Trittell trattell, pshaw.
Lyndsay.
Trattils, s. pl. Trattles, idle talk.
Pitscottie.
TRAVESSE, s.
V. Treviss.
TRAWART, adj. Perverse.
V. Thrawart.
Dunbar.
TRAWYNTIT.
V. Tranont.
TRAZILEYS, s. pl. The props of vines.
Douglas.
L. B. trestell-us, fulcrum mensae.
To TREADLE, v. n. To go frequently and with difficulty, Fife.
TREE, s. A barrel, S.
Acts Ja. V.
Su. G. trae, mensura aridorum.
TREE and TRANTEL, a piece of wood that goes behind a horse's tail, for keeping back the sunks or sods, used instead of a saddle, Perths.
TREGALLION, s. Collection, assortment, Dumfr.
C. B. treigliant, a strolling; treiglian-nu, to effect a circulation; O. Fr. trigalle, a lodging-house.
TREIN, TRENE, adj. Wooden; treein,
S.
Bellenden.
A. S. treowen, arboreus, ligneus.
Trein mare, a barbarous instrument of
punishment, formerly used in the army.
Spalding.
To TREISSLE, v. a. To abuse by treading, Loth.
O. Fr. tressaill-ir, to leap or skip.
To TREIT, TRETE, v. a. To entreat,
Lanerks.; pret. tret.
Dunbar.
O. Fr. traict-er, id. Lat. tract-are.
Treyter, s. A messenger for treating of
peace.
Barbour.
TREITCHEOURE, s. A traitour; Fr.
trichear.
Douglas.
TRELLYEIS, TRELYEIS, s. pl. Currycombs.
Fr. etrille, Lat. strigil-is.
Doug.
TREMBLING FEVERS, the ague, Ang.
Trembling aixes, Loth. from A. S. ace, dolor.
TRENSAND, part. pr. Cutting.
Fr. trenchant, id.
Wallace.
TRENTAL, s. A service of thirty masses,
which were usually celebrated upon
as many different days, for the dead.
Bannatyne P.
Fr. trentel, id. from trente, thirty.
To TREST, to trust.
V. Traist.
TREST, TRAIST, TRIST, s.
1. The
frame of a table, S. tress.
Pal. Hon.
2. A tripod.
Douglas.
3. The frames for supporting artillery.
Acts Ja. V.
Fr. tresteau, fulcrum mensae.
TREST, s. A beam.
V. Trast.
TRET, adj. Long and well proportioned.
Wallace.
Fr. traict, trait, drawn out, lengthened.
TRETABYL, adj. Tractable, pliable.
Douglas.
To TRETE, v. a. To entreat.
V. Treit.
Tretie, s. Entreaty.
Henrysone.
TRETIE, s. A treatise.
Fr. traité.
Dunbar.
TREVALLYIE, s. A train or retinue, implying the idea of its meanness, Clydes.
C. B. trafull-iaw, to bustle extremely.
TREVISS, TREVESSE, TRAVESSE, s.
1. Any thing laid across by way of
bar, S.
2. A counter or desk in a shop, S. B.
L. B. travacha, travayso, Fr. travaison, intertignium.
3. Hangings, a curtain.
King's Quair.
To TREW, v. a. To trust.
V. Trow.
TREW, s. Often in pl. trewis, a truce.
O. Fr. treu, also treves, id.
Barbour.
Trewyd, part. pa. Protected by a truce.
Wyntown.
TREWS, s. pl. Trouse, trousers, S.
Ir. trius, Gael. triubhas, Fr. trousse.
TREWAGE, s. Tribute.
Wallace.
O. Fr. truage, treuage, toll, custom.
TREWANE, adj. Auld trewane, anciently
credited.
V. Tronie.
Knox.
Su. G. troen, fidus.
TREWBUT, s. Tribute.
Wallace.
TRY, s. Means of finding any thing that has been lost, S. B.
* TRIAL, s. Proof, S.
Spalding.
TRIAPONE, s.
Burel.
TRIG, adj. Neat, trim, S.
Macneill.
To TRIGLE, TRIGIL, v. n. To trickle.
Isl. tregill, alveolus.
Douglas.
* To TRIM, v. a. To drub, to beat soundly, S.
TRIMMIE, s. A disrespectful term applied to a female, S. B.
TRYNE, s. Art, stratagem.
Godly Sangs.
Fr. traine, id.
TRYNE, s. Train, retinue.
Burel.
Teut. treyn, comitatus.
TRINES, s. pl. Drinking matches.
Polwart.
TRINKETING, s. Clandestine correspondence
with an opposite party.
Baillie.
O. Fr. trigaut, one who uses shifts and tricks.
To TRINKLE, TRYNKLE, v. n. To
trickle, S.
Douglas.
To TRINKLE, v. n. To tingle, to thrill.
Baillie.
To TRINSCH, v. a.
1. To cut, to hack.
Fr. trench-er, id.
Douglas.
2. To cut off, to kill.
Douglas.
To TRINTLE, TRINLE, v. a. to trundle or roll, S.
Fr. trondel-er, id.; A. S. trendel, globus.
TRIP, s. A flock, a considerable number.
C. B. tyrfa, a flock.
Henrysone.
TRIST, adj. Sad, melancholy.
Douglas.
Fr. triste, Lat. trist-is.
TRYST, TRIST, TRISTE, TRYIST, s.
1. An appointment to meet, S.
Wynt.
To set tryst, to make an appointment to
meet, S.
To keep tryst, to fulfil an engagement to
meet, S.
To break tryst, to break an engagement,
S.
Spalding.
To crack tryst, id.
Z. Boyd.
2. An appointed meeting, S.
Minstr. Bord.
3. The appointed time of meeting.
Wallace.
4. The place appointed, S.
Houlate.
5. A concurrence of circumstances or
events.
V. Traist, v.
Fleming.
6. A trial, an affliction.
K. Hart.
To Tryst, v. a.
1. To engage a person to
meet one at a given time and place, S.
Fountainhall.
2. To meet with; used in relation to a
divine ordination.
Baillie.
To Tryst, v. n.
1. To agree to meet at
any particular time or place, S.
Wodrow.
2. To concur with; used metaph. as to
circumstances or events.
Fleming.
3. Often used in a passive sense, in relation
to one's meeting with adverse dispensations,
S.
Fleming.
Tryster, s. A person who convenes others,
fixing the time and place of meeting.
Baillie.
Trysting-place, s. The place of meeting
previously appointed, S.
Minstr. Bord.
Tristres, s. pl. The stations allotted to
different persons in hunting.
Sir Gawan.
L. B. tristra, id.
To TRODDLE, v. n. To walk with
short steps, as a little child does, Ang.
Morison.
Germ. trottel-n, tarde et pigre incedere.
TRODWIDDIE, s. The chain that fastens the harrow to what are called the Swingle-trees, S. B.
Isl. troda, terra, and vijd-er, vimen; q. the withe which touches the earth.
TROGGERS, s. pl. The designation
given to one species of Irish vagrants,
q. trokers, Wigton.
Statist. Acc.
TROISTRY, s. The entrails of a beast, offals, S. B.
Isl. tros, trash, Sw. trastyg, trumpery.
TROYT, s. An inactive person, S. B.
Su. G. tryt-a, pigere, taedere; troett, fessus, lassus.
To TROKE, v. a.
1. To bargain in the
way of exchange, to barter, S. truck, E.
Fr. troqu-er, to exchange.
Ferguson.
2. To do business on a small scale, S.
3. To be busy about little, in whatever way, S.
Trock, Troque, s.
1. Exchange, barter, S.
Fr. troc, id.
2. Troques, pl. small wares, S. B.
Shirrefs.
3. Small pieces of business that require
a good deal of stirring, S. B.
4. Familiar intercourse, S. B.
Morison.
TROLY, TRAWLIE, s. A ring through
which the sowme passes betwixt the two
horses, or oxen, next the plough, Ang.
V. Sowme.
Isl. travale, impedimentum; Teut. traelie, clathrus, a bar.
TROLOLLAY, s. A term which occurs in a rhyme used by young people, on the last day of the year, S.
It has been viewed as a corr. of Fr. trois rois allois, three kings are come.
TRONACH, s. The crupper used with a pack-saddle; formed of a piece of wood, connected with the saddle by a cord at each end; Mearns.
TRONE, s.
1. An instrument, consisting
of two horizontal bars crossing each
other, beaked at the extremities, and
supported by a wooden pillar; used for
weighing heavy wares, S.
Stat. Dav. II.
L. B. trona, statera publica; Isl. tra-na, a crane; rostrum longiusculum.
2. The pillory, S.
Acts Sed.
Trone-weight, s. The standard weight used at the Trone, S.
Tronare, s. The person who had the
charge of the Trone. L. B. tronar-ius.
Stat. Dav. II.
Trone-men, s. Those who carry off the soot sweeped from chimneys; denominated from their station at the Trone, Edinburgh.
To Trone, v. a. To subject to the disgraceful
punishment of the pillory.
Kennedy.
TRONE, s. A throne.
Fr. id.
Douglas.
TRONIE, s. A traditionary saw, generally in rhyme; any thing frequently repeated, S. B. apparently the same with Trewane.
TROOD, s. Perh. wood for fences.
Statist. Acc.
Su. G. trod-r, lignum, quod materiam praebet saepibus construendis.
TROPLYS, s. pl. Expl. troops.
Barbour.
Teut. troppel, globus, congeries.
To TROSS, v. a.
1. To pack up, to truss, S.
2. To pack off, to set out, S. B. also turs, truss, S. A.
Fr. trouss-er, to truss.
TROSSIS, s. pl. The small round blocks
in which the lines of a ship run.
Complaynt S.
Sw. trissa, Dan. tridse, a pulley.
* TROT, s.
1. Schaik a trot, seems to
have been an old phrase for, Take a
dance.
Complaynt S.
2. An expedition by horsemen, synon. raid.
Spalding.
Teut. trot, cursus, gressus.
TROTCOSIE, s. A piece of woollen
cloth, which covers the back part of the
neck and shoulders, with straps across
the crown of the head, and buttoned
from the chin downwards on the breast;
for defence against the weather, S. properly
throatcosie, as keeping the throat
warm.
Waverley.
TROTTERS, s. pl. Sheeps' feet, S.
Ferguson.
TROVE, s. A turf, Aberd. toor, Ang.
Stat. Acc.
Su. G. Isl. torf, id. torfa, effodere.
TROW, s. The wooden spout in which water is carried to a mill-wheel, S.
Su. G. Belg. trog, Dan. trou, E. trough.
To TROW, TREW, v. a.
1. To believe,
S.
Wallace.
Moes. G. traw-an, Isl. tru-a, credere.
2. To confide in.
Barbour.
3. To make believe; often in sport, S.
TROW, s.
1. The devil, Orkn.
2. In pl. an inferior order of evil spirits,
ibid.
O. Goth, troll, a spectre, an incarnate goblin.
To Trow, v. a. Apparently, to curse.
Wallace.
To TROW, v. a. To season a cask, by rinsing it with a little wort, before it be used, Ang.
A. S. ge-treow-ian, purgare.
TROWENTYN, L. tranouwintyn.
V. Tranont.
Barbour.
TROWIE GLOVES, a name given to
sponges, Caithn.
Stat. Acc.
Q. make-believe gloves.
TROWTH, s.
1. Truth.
Wyntown.
2. Belief.
Wyntown.
TRUBLY, adj. Dark, lowering.
Doug.
Fr. troublé, overcast, obscure.
TRUCKER, s.
V. Trukier.
TRUDGE-BAK, a humpback.
K. Hart.
Su. G. trutn-a, to swell.
TRUDGET, s. A trick, a mischievous prank, Loth.
Alem. trug, fraud; O. Fr. trick-er, to deceive.
TRUE-BLUE, adj. An epithet given to
those accounted rigid Presbyterians,
from the colour of the cockade worn by
the Covenanters, S.
True Bleu Presb. Loyalty.
TRUFF, s. Corr. of E. turf, S.
Ferguson.
TRUFF, s. A trick, a deceit.
Douglas.
Ital. truffa, id. truff-are, to cheat.
To Truff, v. a. To steal.
Gl. Shirr.
Truffure, s. A deceiver.
Douglas.
TRUGS, adv. A mode of profane swearing, used among the vulgar, S. B.
Moes. G. triggua, Su. G. trigg, faithful.
TRUKIER, TRUCKER, s.
1. A deceitful
person.
Polwart.
O. Fr. trikeur, a deceiver.
2. A designation often given to a female in contempt, as equivalent to "worthless hussy," S.
TRULIE, adj. True, not factitious. A trulie story, S. B.
Su. G. trolig, credibilis.
TRULIS, s. pl. Some kind of game.
Dunbar.
TRULLION, s. A sort of crupper, Mearns.
Teut. treyl-linie, helcium, the trace of a cart-horse.
To TRUMP, v. n. To march, to trudge,
S.
Barbour.
Isl. tramp-a, calcare; Germ. trump-en, currere.
To TRUMP up, v. n.
1. To trumpet
forth.
Douglas.
Teut. tromp-en, canere tuba.
2. To break wind backwards.
Wynt.
TRUMP, s. A Jews-harp.
Kelly.
Teut. Fr. trompe, Germ. trompff, id.
To TRUMP, v. a. To deceive.
Barbour.
Fr. tromp-er, Teut. tromp-en, id.
Trumpe, s.
1. A trifle, a thing of little value.
Douglas.
2. In pl. goods.
Douglas.
Belg. tromp, a rattle for children.
Trumpour, Trumper, s.
1. A deceiver.
Fr. trumpeur, id.
Dunbar.
2. Used as a contemptuous designation,
without any definite meaning.
Philotus.
TRUMPH, s. The principal card, S. trump, E.
To Play trumph about, to be on a footing
with, to retaliate, S. B.
Poems Buch. Dial.
TRUNCHER SPEIR, a pointless spear.
Fr. tronc-ir, to cut off.
Evergreen.
TRUNSCHEOUR, s. A plate, a trencher,
S.
Douglas.
Fr. trencheoir, quadra mensaria.
TRUSTFUL, adj. Trust-worthy.
Baillie.
TUAY, adj. Two.
V. Twa.
TUCK, s. Tuck of drum, beat of drum, S.
V. Touk.
Wodrow.
TUEIT, s. An imitative word, expressing
the short shrill cry of a small bird,
Complaynt S.
TUFF, s. A tuft of feathers or ribbons.
Watson.
Fr. touffe, a tuft, applied to hair, ribbons, feathers, &c.
TUFFING, TOFFIN, s. Tow, ockam;
wadding.
Douglas.
O. Fr. estoupe, O. Fr. stoupe, id. Lat. stupa.
To TUFFLE, v. a. To ruffle, to put any
thing in disorder by frequent handling,
S. Tifle, A. Bor. tyfell, O. E. to employ
the fingers much about any thing.
Nithsdale Song.
Isl. tif-a, manus celeriter movere; or O. Fr. touell-er, souiller, gâter; to soil, to waste, to turn upside down; also, touill-er, salir, tacher.
TUG, s. Raw-hide, of which formerly
plough-traces were made, S. O.
V. Teug.
Burns.
To TUGGLE, TUGLE, v. a.
1. To pull
by repeated jerks, S.
Ross.
2. To toss backwards and forwards, to
handle roughly.
Polwart.
3. To fatigue with travelling or severe
labour, to keep under, S. B.
Gawan and Gol.
From Su. G. toeg-a, to draw, or E. tug.
TUG-WHITING, s. A species of whiting.
Spalding.
TUIGH, s. Suspicion.
S. P. Repr.
A. S. tweog-an, dubitare, tweo, a doubt.
TUILYIE, TULYE, TOOLYIE, s. A quarrel, a broil, S.
Polwart.
Fr. touill-er, to mix in a confused manner.
To Tuilyie, Toolie, v. n. To quarrel, to
squabble, S.
Skene.
Tuilyie-mulie, s. The same with Tuilyie, S. B.
Teut. muyl-en, to quarrel.
Tuilyeour, s. One who is addicted to fighting
or engaging in broils.
Chalm. Air.
Tuilyiesum, adj. Quarrelsome, S. Prov.
TILL, s. Toil, trouble.
Maitland P.
Teut. tuyl, labor.
TULCHANE, TULCHIN, s.
1. A
calf's skin, in its rough state, stuffed
with straw, and set beside a cow to make
her give her milk, S.
Tulchane bishop, one who received the
episcopate, on condition of assigning the
temporalities to a secular person.
Calderwood.
2. A bag or budget, generally of the
skin of an animal, S. B.
Journ. Lond.
3. Applied to a chubby, sometimes to a
dwarfish, child, Ang.
Isl. tulk-a, pellicere.
TULSURELIKE, adj. Apparently,
fierce or furious.
Henrysone.
Gael. tulchoir, obstinate.
TUMDEIF, s. Perh. swooning.
Roull.
Isl. tumb-a, cadere praeceps; and deyfa, hebetudo.
To TUME, v. a. To empty, S.
V. Teym.
Dan. tomm-er, Su. G. Isl. toem-a, vacuare.
Tume, Toom, Tome, adj.
1. Empty, S.
Wyntown.
2. Untenanted, S.; as, a tume house.
S. Prov.
3. In a state of inanition, as to food, S.
4. Lank, tall and meagre, S.
5. Shadowy, unsubstantial.
Douglas.
6. Vain, having no real cause for boasting.
Douglas.
7. Unprofitable, what brings no return,
S.
Ramsay.
8. Deficient in mind, S.
Tume, s. A tume of rain, a sudden and heavy fall of rain, S. B.
Tume-handit, adj. Empty handed, in
whatever respect, S.
Ross.
Dan. tomhaendet, id.
TUMFIE, s. A dumpish sort of fellow.
Tumfie, adj. Dull and stupid, S. O.
Dan. dumt-fae, a blockhead.
TUP, s.
1. The common term for a ram,
S.
2. A foolish fellow, S.
3. An unpolished store-farmer, S. A.
Mannering.
TUQUHEIT, TEUCHIT, s. The lapwing,
S.
Houlate.
Probably meant to imitate the sound made by this bird.
TURBOT, s. The name commonly given,
in our markets, to halibut, S.
Stat. Acc.
TURCHIE, adj. Short and thick, squat, Perths.
Gael. dorcha, gross; or radically the same with Durgy.
TURCUME, s. Clotted filth.
Lyndsay.
C. B. tywarchen, a covering, a stratum, Owen; clotty, Richards.
TURDION, s. A species of galliard or
gay dance; Fr. tordion.
Compl. S.
TURKAS, TURKES, TURKESSE, s. Pincers, nippers, S.
Dunbar.
Arm. turcques, turkes, id.
TURN, s. To do the turn.
1. To perform
any piece of work or business, S.
Reg. Maj.
2. To be sufficient for any purpose; to
give satisfaction, S.
Ross.
TURNER, s. A copper coin, formerly
current in S., in value two pennies
Scots money, and equivalent to a Bodle.
Spalding.
Fr. tournois, the tenth part of a penny Sterling.
TURNGREYS, s. A winding stair.
Wallace.
Fr. tourn-er, to turn, and gre, a step.
TURN-TAIL, s. A fugitive.
Spalding.
TURNE-PYK, TURNEPECK,
TURNPIKE, s.
1. The winding stair
of a castle.
Wyntown.
2. Any stair of a spiral form, built without
a house, S.
Cant.
Teut. torn, a tower; baecke, a place for observation.
To TURS, TURSS, v. a.
1. To pack up
in a bale or bundle, S.
2. To carry off hastily.
Wallace.
3. To take one's self off quickly.
Doug.
4. To turss furth, to bring out what has
been kept in store.
Wallace.
Tursable, adj. What may be carried away.
Spalding.
TURTOUR, TURTURE, s. The turtle-dove.
Lat. turtur.
King's Quair.
TUSCHÉ, s. A girdle.
V. Tische.
To TUSH, v. n. To express displeasure.
Rutherford.
E. tush, Su. G. tyst, silens; tyst-a, silere.
TUSK, s. The torsk of Pennant, S.
Isl. thosk-r, asellus.
Martin.
TUSKER, s. An instrument made of iron, with a wooden handle, for casting peats, Orkn.
Perhaps, q. twaeskaer, Sw. twae, two, and skaer-a, to cut.
TUSSOCK (of wheat), s. A tuft of wheat in a corn-field, generally owing to the vegetating of the nest or granary of a field-mouse, Loth.
C. B. tusw, a tuft; tuswawg, having a wisp or bundle.
To TUTE, v. n. To jut out, to project, S. B.
Tute, s. A jutting out, a projection, S. B.
Su. G. tut, Teut. tuyte, rostrum, a beak.
Tute-mowitt, adj. Having the nether jaw
projected.
Dunbar.
Teut. tuyte-muyl, having the nether jaw projecting more than the upper.
TUTIE TATIE, interj. Pshaw.
Isl. taut-a, murmurare.
TUTIVILLARIS, s. pl. Perh. rustics.
Ir. tuatamhail, tuatavail, rustic.
TUTIWING, s. L. tutilling, a blast or
blowing of a horn.
V. Toot.
Barbour.
TUT-MUTE, s. A muttering or grumbling between parties, that has not yet assumed the form of a broil, S. B.
Teut. tuyt-en, to buzz; muyt-en, Su. G. mutt-a, to mutter.
TWA, TUAY, TWAY, adj. Two, S.
Wyntown.
Moes. G. twa, twai, A. S. twa, id.
Twa-faced, adj. Double, deceitful, S.
Twa-fald, Twa-fawld, adj. Double,
twofold, S.
Wyntown.
A. S. twe-feald, Sw. twefallt, duplex.
Twa-handed crack, a familiar conversation between two persons, S.
Twa part, two-thirds.
Douglas.
The twa part and third, i. e. two-thirds,
S. B.
Twasum, adj. Two in company.
V. Sum,
term.
Twa-three, s. A few, S. q. two or three.
TWAY, adj. Two.
V. Twa.
TWAL, adj. Twelve, S.
Barbour.
To TWEDDLE, TWEEL, v. a. To work cloth in such a manner, that the woof appears to cross the warp vertically, kersey-wove, S.
A. S. twaede, duplex; or twa, and dael, part.
Tweddlin, s. Cloth that is tweeled.
Tweddlin, adj. Used in the same sense, S.
To TWICHE, TWITCH, v. a.
1. To
touch, S. B.
R. Bruce.
2. To engage with.
Douglas.
Twiching, prep. Touching, concerning.
Douglas.
To TWIG, v. a. To pull hastily, S. B.
Morison.
E. tweag, tweak; A. S. twicc-ian, vellicare; Germ. twick-en, id.
Twig, s. A quick pull, a twitch, S.
TWYN, adj. In twyn, in twain, asunder.
Wallace.
A. S. twegen, twain, from tweg, two.
To Twin, Twine, v. n. To part, to separate.
Wallace.
To Twin, v. a. To twin one out of a thing, to deprive him of it, S. B.
TWYNRYS, s. pl. Pincers, nippers.
Teut. dwingh-en, arctare.
Douglas.
TWINTER, s. A beast that is two years
old, S, corr. quinter.
Douglas.
A. S. twy-winter, duos annos natus.
TWIST, TWYST, s. A twig.
Barbour.
Teut. twist, rami abscissi, ramalia.
To TWITCH, v. a. To touch.
V. Twiche.
TWITTER,
1. That part of a thread that
is spun too small, S.
2. Any person or thing that is slender
or feeble, S.
Kelly.