glossary

  a', all.

  a-back, behind, away.

  abiegh, aloof, off.

  ablins, v. aiblins.

  aboon, above up.

  abread, abroad.

  abreed, in breadth.

  ae, one.

  aff, off.

  aff-hand, at once.

  aff-loof, offhand.

  a-fiel, afield.

  afore, before.

  aft, oft.

  aften, often.

  agley, awry.

  ahin, behind.

  aiblins, perhaps.

  aidle, foul water.

  aik, oak.

  aiken, oaken.

  ain, own.

  air, early.

  airle, earnest money.

  airn, iron.

  airt, direction.

  airt, to direct.

  aith, oath.

  aits, oats.

  aiver, an old horse.

  aizle, a cinder.

  a-jee, ajar; to one side.

  alake, alas.

  alane, alone.

  alang, along.

  amaist, almost.

  amang, among.

  an, if.

  an', and.

  ance, once.

  ane, one.

  aneath, beneath.

  anes, ones.

  anither, another.

  aqua-fontis, spring water.

  aqua-vitae, whiskey.

  arle, v. airle.

  ase, ashes.

  asklent, askew, askance.

  aspar, aspread.

  asteer, astir.

  a'thegither, altogether.

  athort, athwart.

  atweel, in truth.

  atween, between.

  aught, eight.

  aught, possessed of.

  aughten, eighteen.

  aughtlins, at all.

  auld, old.

  auldfarran, auldfarrant, shrewd, old-fashioned, sagacious.

  auld reekie, edinburgh.

  auld-warld, old-world.

  aumous, alms.

  ava, at all.

  awa, away.

  awald, backways and doubled up.

  awauk, awake.

  awauken, awaken.

  awe, owe.

  awkart, awkward.

  awnie, bearded.

  ayont, beyond.

  ba', a ball.

  backet, bucket, box.

  backit, backed.

  backlins-comin, coming back.

  back-yett, gate at the back.

  bade, endured.

  bade, asked.

  baggie, stomach.

  baig'nets, bayonets.

  baillie, magistrate of a scots burgh.

  bainie, bony.

  bairn, child.

  bairntime, brood.

  baith, both.

  bakes, biscuits.

  ballats, ballads.

  balou, lullaby.

  ban, swear.

  ban', band (of the presbyterian clergyman).

  bane, bone.

  bang, an effort; a blow; a large number.

  bang, to thump.

  banie, v. bainie.

  bannet, bonnet.

  bannock, bonnock, a thick oatmeal cake.

  bardie, dim. of bard.

  barefit, barefooted.

  barket, barked.

  barley-brie, or bree, barley-brew-ale or whiskey.

  barm, yeast.

  barmie, yeasty.

  barn-yard, stackyard.

  bartie, the devil.

  bashing, abashing.

  batch, a number.

  batts, the botts; the colic.

  bauckie-bird, the bat.

  baudrons, baudrans, the cat.

  bauk, cross-beam.

  bauk, v. bawk.

  bauk-en', beam-end.

  bauld, bold.

  bauldest, boldest.

  bauldly, boldly.

  baumy, balmy.

  bawbee, a half-penny.

  bawdrons, v. baudrons.

  bawk, a field path.

  baws'nt, white-streaked.

  bear, barley.

  beas', beasts, vermin.

  beastie, dim. of beast.

  beck, a curtsy.

  beet, feed, kindle.

  beild, v. biel.

  belang, belong.

  beld, bald.

  bellum, assault.

  bellys, bellows.

  belyve, by and by.

  ben, a parlor (i.e., the inner apartment); into the parlor.

  benmost, inmost.

  be-north, to the northward of.

  be-south, to the southward of.

  bethankit, grace after meat.

  beuk, a book: devil's pictur'd beuks-playing-cards.

  bicker, a wooden cup.

  bicker, a short run.

  bicker, to flow swiftly and with a slight noise.

  bickerin, noisy contention.

  bickering, hurrying.

  bid, to ask, to wish, to offer.

  bide, abide, endure.

  biel, bield, a shelter; a sheltered spot.

  biel, comfortable.

  bien, comfortable.

  bien, bienly, comfortably.

  big, to build.

  biggin, building.

  bike, v. byke.

  bill, the bull.

  billie, fellow, comrade, brother.

  bings, heaps.

  birdie, dim. of bird; also maidens.

  birk, the birch.

  birken, birchen.

  birkie, a fellow.

  birr, force, vigor.

  birring, whirring.

  birses, bristles.

  birth, berth.

  bit, small (e.g., bit lassie).

  bit, nick of time.

  bitch-fou, completely drunk.

  bizz, a flurry.

  bizz, buzz.

  bizzard, the buzzard.

  bizzie, busy.

  black-bonnet, the presbyterian elder.

  black-nebbit, black-beaked.

  blad, v. blaud.

  blae, blue, livid.

  blastet, blastit, blasted.

  blastie, a blasted (i.e., damned) creature; a little wretch.

  blate, modest, bashful.

  blather, bladder.

  blaud, a large quantity.

  blaud, to slap, pelt.

  blaw, blow.

  blaw, to brag.

  blawing, blowing.

  blawn, blown.

  bleer, to blear.

  bleer't, bleared.

  bleeze, blaze.

  blellum, a babbler; a railer; a blusterer.

  blether, blethers, nonsense.

  blether, to talk nonsense.

  bletherin', talking nonsense.

  blin', blind.

  blink, a glance, a moment.

  blink, to glance, to shine.

  blinkers, spies, oglers.

  blinkin, smirking, leering.

  blin't, blinded.

  blitter, the snipe.

  blue-gown, the livery of the licensed beggar.

  bluid, blood.

  bluidy, bloody.

  blume, to bloom.

  bluntie, a stupid.

  blypes, shreds.

  bobbed, curtsied.

  bocked, vomited.

  boddle, a farthing.

  bode, look for.

  bodkin, tailor's needle.

  body, bodie, a person.

  boggie, dim. of bog.

  bogle, a bogie, a hobgoblin.

  bole, a hole, or small recess in the wall.

  bonie, bonnie, pretty, beautiful.

  bonilie, prettily.

  bonnock, v. bannock.

  'boon, above.

  boord, board, surface.

  boord-en', board-end.

  boortress, elders.

  boost, must needs.

  boot, payment to the bargain.

  bore, a chink, recess.

  botch, an angry tumor.

  bouk, a human trunk; bulk.

  bountith, bounty.

  'bout, about.

  bow-hough'd, bandy-thighed.

  bow-kail, cabbage.

  bow't, bent.

  brachens, ferns.

  brae, the slope of a hill.

  braid, broad.

  broad-claith, broad-cloth.

  braik, a harrow.

  braing't, plunged.

  brak, broke.

  brak's, broke his.

  brankie, gay, fine.

  branks, a wooden curb, a bridle.

  bran'y, brandy.

  brash, short attack.

  brats, small pieces, rags.

  brats, small children.

  brattle, a scamper.

  brattle, noisy onset.

  braw, handsome, fine, gaily dressed.

  brawlie, finely, perfectly, heartily.

  braxies, sheep that have died of braxie (a disease).

  breastie, dim. of breast.

  breastit, sprang forward.

  brechan, ferns.

  breeks, breeches.

  breer, brier.

  brent, brand.

  brent, straight, steep (i.e., not sloping from baldness).

  brie, v. barley-brie.

  brief, writ.

  brier, briar.

  brig, bridge.

  brisket, breast.

  brither, brother.

  brock, a badger.

  brogue, a trick.

  broo, soup, broth, water; liquid in which anything is cooked.

  brooses, wedding races from the church to the home of the bride.

  brose, a thick mixture of meal and warm water; also a synonym for

  porridge.

  browster wives, ale wives.

  brugh, a burgh.

  brulzie, brulyie, a brawl.

  brunstane, brimstone.

  brunt, burned.

  brust, burst.

  buckie, dim. of buck; a smart younker.

  buckle, a curl.

  buckskin, virginian: the buckskin kye, negroes.

  budget, tinker's bag of tools.

  buff, to bang, to thump.

  bughtin, folding.

  buirdly, stalwart.

  bum, the buttocks.

  bum, to hum.

  bum-clock, beetle, cockchafer, junebug.

  bummle, a drone, a useless fellow.

  bunker, a seat.

  bunters, harlots.

  burdies, dim. of bird or burd (a lady); maidens.

  bure, bore.

  burn, a rivulet.

  burnewin, the blacksmith (i.e., burn the wind).

  burnie, dim. of burn, a rivulet.

  burr-thistle, spear-thistle.

  busk, to dress; to garb; to dress up; to adorn.

  buss, a bush.

  bussle, bustle.

  but, without.

  but, butt, in the kitchen (i.e., the outer apartment).

  by, past, aside.

  by, beside.

  by himsel, beside himself.

  bye attour (i.e., by and attour), beside and at a distance.

  byke, a bees' nest; a hive; a swarm; a crowd.

  byre, a cow-house.

  ca', call, knock, drive.

  cadger, a hawker (especially of fish).

  cadie, caddie, a fellow.

  caff, chaff.

  caird, a tinker.

  calf-ward, grazing plot for calves (i.e., churchyard).

  callan, callant, a stripling.

  caller, cool, refreshing.

  callet, a trull.

  cam, came.

  canie, cannie, gentle, tractable, quiet, prudent, careful.

  cankrie, crabbed.

  canna, can not.

  canniest, quietest.

  cannilie, cannily, quietly, prudently, cautiously.

  cantie, cheerful, lively, jolly, merry.

  cantraip, magic, witching.

  cants, merry stories, canters or sprees or merry doings.

  cape-stanc, copestone.

  capon-castrate.

  care na by, do not care.

  carl, carle, a man, an old man.

  carl-hemp, male-hemp.

  carlie, a manikin.

  carlin, carline a middle-aged, or old, woman; a beldam, a witch.

  carmagnole, a violent jacobin.

  cartes, playing-cards.

  cartie, dim. of cart.

  catch-the-plack, the hunt for money.

  caudron, a caldron.

  cauf, calf.

  cauf-leather, calf-leather.

  cauk, chalk.

  cauld, cold.

  cauldron, caldron.

  caup, a wooden drinking vessel.

  causey-cleaners, causeway-cleaners.

  cavie, a hen-coop.

  chamer, chaumer, chamber.

  change-house, tavern.

  chanter, bagpipes; the pipe of the bag-pipes which produces the

  melody; song.

  chap, a fellow, a young fellow.

  chap, to strike.

  chapman, a pedler.

  chaup, chap, a stroke, a blow.

  chear, cheer.

  chearfu', cheerful.

  chearless, cheerless.

  cheary, cheery.

  cheek-for-chow, cheek-by-jowl (i.e. close beside).

  cheep, peep, squeak.

  chiel, chield (i. e., child), a fellow, a young fellow.

  chimla, chimney.

  chittering, shivering.

  chows, chews.

  chuck, a hen, a dear.

  chuckie, dim. of chuck, but usually signifies mother hen, an old dear.

  chuffie, fat-faced.

  chuse, to choose.

  cit, the civet.

  cit, a citizen, a merchant.

  clachan, a small village about a church.

  claeding, clothing.

  claes, claise, clothes.

  claith, cloth.

  claithing, clothing.

  clankie, a severe knock.

  clap, the clapper of a mill.

  clark, a clerk.

  clark, clerkly, scholarly.

  clarkit, clerked, wrote.

  clarty, dirty.

  clash, an idle tale; gossip.

  clash, to tattle.

  clatter, noise, tattle, talk, disputation, babble.

  clatter, to make a noise by striking; to babble; to prattle.

  claught, clutched, seized.

  claughtin, clutching, grasping.

  claut, a clutch, a handful.

  claut, to scrape.

  claver, clover.

  clavers, gossip, nonsense.

  claw, a scratch, a blow.

  claw, to scratch, to strike.

  clay-cauld, clay-cold.

  claymore, a two-handed highland sword.

  cleckin, a brood.

  cleed, to clothe.

  cleek, to snatch.

  cleekit, linked arms.

  cleg, gadfly.

  clink, a sharp stroke; jingle.

  clink, money, coin.

  clink, to chink.

  clink, to rhyme.

  clinkin, with a smart motion.

  clinkum, clinkumbell, the beadle, the bellman.

  clips, shears.

  clish-ma-claver, gossip, taletelling; non-sense.

  clockin-time, clucking- (i. e., hatching-) time.

  cloot, the hoof.

  clootie, cloots, hoofie, hoofs (a nickname of the devil).

  clour, a bump or swelling after a blow.

  clout, a cloth, a patch.

  clout, to patch.

  clud, a cloud.

  clunk, to make a hollow sound.

  coble, a broad and flat boat.

  cock, the mark (in curling).

  cockie, dim. of cock (applied to an old man).

  cocks, fellows, good fellows.

  cod, a pillow.

  coft, bought.

  cog, a wooden drinking vessel, a porridge dish, a corn measure for

  horses.

  coggie, dim. of cog, a little dish.

  coil, coila, kyle (one of the ancient districts of ayrshire).

  collieshangie, a squabble.

  cood, cud.

  coof, v. cuif.

  cookit, hid.

  coor, cover.

  cooser, a courser, a stallion.

  coost (i. e., cast), looped, threw off, tossed, chucked.

  cootie, a small pail.

  cootie, leg-plumed.

  corbies, ravens, crows.

  core, corps.

  corn mou, corn heap.

  corn't, fed with corn.

  corse, corpse.

  corss, cross.

  cou'dna, couldna, couldn't.

  countra, country.

  coup, to capsize.

  couthie, couthy, loving, affable, cosy, comfortable.

  cowe, to scare, to daunt.

  cowe, to lop.

  crack, tale; a chat; talk.

  crack, to chat, to talk.

  craft, croft.

  craft-rig, croft-ridge.

  craig, the throat.

  craig, a crag.

  craigie, dim. of craig, the throat.

  craigy, craggy.

  craik, the corn-crake, the land-rail.

  crambo-clink, rhyme.

  crambo-jingle, rhyming.

  cran, the support for a pot or kettle.

  crankous, fretful.

  cranks, creakings.

  cranreuch, hoar-frost.

  crap, crop, top.

  craw, crow.

  creel, an osier basket.

  creepie-chair, stool of repentance.

  creeshie, greasy.

  crocks, old ewes.

  cronie, intimate friend.

  crooded, cooed.

  croods, coos.

  croon, moan, low.

  croon, to toll.

  crooning, humming.

  croose, crouse, cocksure, set, proud, cheerful.

  crouchie, hunchbacked.

  crousely, confidently.

  crowdie, meal and cold water, meal and milk, porridge.

  crowdie-time, porridge-time (i. e., breakfast-time).

  crowlin, crawling.

  crummie, a horned cow.

  crummock, cummock, a cudgel, a crooked staff.

  crump, crisp.

  crunt, a blow.

  cuddle, to fondle.

  cuif, coof, a dolt, a ninny; a dastard.

  cummock, v. crummock.

  curch, a kerchief for the head.

  curchie, a curtsy.

  curler, one who plays at curling.

  curmurring, commotion.

  curpin, the crupper of a horse.

  curple, the crupper (i. e., buttocks).

  cushat, the wood pigeon.

  custock, the pith of the colewort.

  cutes, feet, ankles.

  cutty, short.

  cutty-stools, stools of repentance.

  dad, daddie, father.

  daez't, dazed.

  daffin, larking, fun.

  daft, mad, foolish.

  dails, planks.

  daimen icker, an odd ear of corn.

  dam, pent-up water, urine.

  damie, dim. of dame.

  dang, pret. of ding.

  danton, v. daunton.

  darena, dare not.

  darg, labor, task, a day's work.

  darklins, in the dark.

  daud, a large piece.

  daud, to pelt.

  daunder, saunter.

  daunton, to daunt.

  daur, dare.

  daurna, dare not.

  daur't, dared.

  daut, dawte, to fondle.

  daviely, spiritless.

  daw, to dawn.

  dawds, lumps.

  dawtingly, prettily, caressingly.

  dead, death.

  dead-sweer, extremely reluctant.

  deave, to deafen.

  deil, devil.

  deil-haet, nothing (devil have it).

  deil-ma-care, devil may care.

  deleeret, delirious, mad.

  delvin, digging.

  dern'd, hid.

  descrive, to describe.

  deuk, duck.

  devel, a stunning blow.

  diddle, to move quickly.

  dight, to wipe.

  dight, winnowed, sifted.

  din, dun, muddy of complexion.

  ding, to beat, to surpass.

  dink, trim.

  dinna, do not.

  dirl, to vibrate, to ring.

  diz'n, dizzen, dozen.

  dochter, daughter.

  doited, muddled, doting; stupid, bewildered.

  donsie, vicious, bad-tempered; restive; testy.

  dool, wo, sorrow.

  doolfu', doleful, woful.

  dorty, pettish.

  douce, douse, sedate, sober, prudent.

  douce, doucely, dousely, sedately, prudently.

  doudl'd, dandled.

  dought (pret. of dow), could.

  douked, ducked.

  doup, the bottom.

  doup-skelper, bottom-smacker.

  dour-doure, stubborn, obstinate; cutting.

  dow, dowe, am (is or are) able, can.

  dow, a dove.

  dowf, dowff, dull.

  dowie, drooping, mournful.

  dowilie, drooping.

  downa, can not.

  downa-do (can not do), lack of power.

  doylt, stupid, stupefied.

  doytin, doddering.,

  dozen'd, torpid.

  dozin, torpid.

  draigl't, draggled.

  drant, prosing.

  drap, drop.

  draunting, tedious.

  dree, endure, suffer.

  dreigh, v. dreight.

  dribble, drizzle.

  driddle, to toddle.

  dreigh, tedious, dull.

  droddum, the breech.

  drone, part of the bagpipe.

  droop-rumpl't, short-rumped.

  drouk, to wet, to drench.

  droukit, wetted.

  drouth, thirst.

  drouthy, thirsty.

  druken, drucken, drunken.

  drumlie, muddy, turbid.

  drummock, raw meal and cold water.

  drunt, the huff.

  dry, thirsty.

  dub, puddle, slush.

  duddie, ragged.

  duddies, dim. of duds, rags.

  duds, rags, clothes.

  dung, v. dang.

  dunted, throbbed, beat.

  dunts, blows.

  durk, dirk.

  dusht, pushed or thrown down violently.

  dwalling, dwelling.

  dwalt, dwelt.

  dyke, a fence (of stone or turf), a wall.

  dyvor, a bankrupt.

  ear', early.

  earn, eagle.

  eastlin, eastern.

  e'e, eye.

  e'ebrie, eyebrow.

  een, eyes.

  e'en, even.

  e'en, evening.

  e'enin', evening.

  e'er, ever.

  eerie, apprehensive; inspiring ghostly fear.

  eild, eld.

  eke, also.

  elbuck, elbow.

  eldritch, unearthly, haunted, fearsome.

  elekit, elected.

  ell (scots), thirty-seven inches.

  eller, elder.

  en', end.

  eneugh, enough.

  enfauld, infold.

  enow, enough.

  erse, gaelic.

  ether-stane, adder-stone.

  ettle, aim.

  evermair, evermore.

  ev'n down, downright, positive.

  eydent, diligent.

  fa', fall.

  fa', lot, portion.

  fa', to get; suit; claim.

  faddom'd, fathomed.

  fae, foe.

  faem, foam.

  faiket, let off, excused.

  fain, fond, glad.

  fainness, fondness.

  fair fa', good befall! welcome.

  fairin., a present from a fair.

  fallow, fellow.

  fa'n, fallen.

  fand, found.

  far-aff, far-off.

  farls, oat-cakes.

  fash, annoyance.

  fash, to trouble; worry.

  fash'd, fash't, bothered; irked.

  fashious, troublesome.

  fasten-e'en, fasten's even (the evening before lent).

  faught, a fight.

  fauld, the sheep-fold.

  fauld, folded.

  faulding, sheep-folding.

  faun, fallen.

  fause, false.

  fause-house, hole in a cornstack.

  faut, fault.

  fautor, transgressor.

  fawsont, seemly, well-doing; good-looking.

  feat, spruce.

  fecht, fight.

  feck, the bulk, the most part.

  feck, value, return.

  fecket, waistcoat; sleeve waistcoat (used by farm-servants as both

  vest and jacket).

  feckless, weak, pithless, feeble.

  feckly, mostly.

  feg, a fig.

  fegs, faith!

  feide, feud.

  feint, v. fient.

  feirrie, lusty.

  fell, keen, cruel, dreadful, deadly; pungent.

  fell, the cuticle under the skin.

  felly, relentless.

  fen', a shift.

  fen', fend, to look after; to care for; keep off.

  fenceless, defenseless.

  ferlie, ferly, a wonder.

  ferlie, to marvel.

  fetches, catches, gurgles.

  fetch't, stopped suddenly.

  fey, fated to death.

  fidge, to fidget, to wriggle.

  fidgin-fain, tingling-wild.

  fiel, well.

  fient, fiend, a petty oath.

  fient a, not a, devil a.

  fient haet, nothing (fiend have it).

  fient haet o', not one of.

  fient-ma-care, the fiend may care (i don't!).

  fier, fiere, companion.

  fier, sound, active.

  fin', to find.

  fissle, tingle, fidget with delight.

  fit, foot.

  fittie-lan', the near horse of the hind-most pair in the plough.

  flae, a flea.

  flaffin, flapping.

  flainin, flannen, flannel.

  flang, flung.

  flee, to fly.

  fleech, wheedle.

  fleesh, fleece.

  fleg, scare, blow, jerk.

  fleth'rin, flattering.

  flewit, a sharp lash.

  fley, to scare.

  flichterin, fluttering.

  flinders, shreds, broken pieces.

  flinging, kicking out in dancing; capering.

  flingin-tree, a piece of timber hung by way of partition between two

  horses

  in a stable; a flail.

  fliskit, fretted, capered.

  flit, to shift.

  flittering, fluttering.

  flyte, scold.

  fock, focks, folk.

  fodgel, dumpy.

  foor, fared (i. e., went).

  foorsday, thursday.

  forbears, forebears, forefathers.

  forby, forbye, besides.

  forfairn, worn out; forlorn.

  forfoughten, exhausted.

  forgather, to meet with.

  forgie, to forgive.

  forjesket, jaded.

  forrit, forward.

  fother, fodder.

  fou, fow, full (i. e., drunk).

  foughten, troubled.

  foumart, a polecat.

  foursome, a quartet.

  fouth, fulness, abundance.

  fow, v. fou.

  fow, a bushel.

  frae, from.

  freath, to froth,

  fremit, estranged, hostile.

  fu', full.

  fu'-han't, full-handed.

  fud, a short tail (of a rabbit or hare).

  fuff't, puffed.

  fur, furr, a furrow.

  fur-ahin, the hindmost plough-horse in the furrow.

  furder, success.

  furder, to succeed.

  furm, a wooden form.

  fusionless, pithless, sapless, tasteless,

  fyke, fret.

  fyke, to fuss; fidget.

  fyle, to defile, to foul.

  gab, the mouth.

  gab, to talk.

  gabs, talk.

  gae, gave.

  gae, to go.

  gaed, went.

  gaen, gone.

  gaets, ways, manners.

  gairs, gores.

  gane, gone.

  gang, to go.

  gangrel, vagrant.

  gar, to cause, to make, to compel.

  garcock, the moorcock.

  garten, garter.

  gash, wise; self-complacent (implying prudence and prosperity);

  talkative.

  gashing, talking, gabbing.

  gat, got.

  gate, way-road, manner.

  gatty, enervated.

  gaucie, v. gawsie.

  gaud, a. goad.

  gaudsman, goadsman, driver of the plough-team.

  gau'n. gavin.

  gaun, going.

  gaunted, gaped, yawned.

  gawky, a foolish woman or lad.

  gawky, foolish.

  gawsie, buxom; jolly.

  gaylies, gaily, rather.

  gear, money, wealth; goods; stuff.

  geck, to sport; toss the head.

  ged. a pike.

  gentles, gentry.

  genty, trim and elegant.

  geordie, dim. of george, a guinea.

  get, issue, offspring, breed.

  ghaist, ghost.

  gie, to give.

  gied, gave.

  gien, given.

  gif, if.

  giftie, dim. of gift.

  giglets, giggling youngsters or maids.

  gillie, dim. of gill (glass of whiskey).

  gilpey, young girl.

  gimmer, a young ewe.

  gin, if, should, whether; by.

  girdle, plate of metal for firing cakes, bannocks.

  girn, to grin, to twist the face (but from pain or rage, not joy);

  gapes;

  snarls.

  gizz, wig.

  glaikit, foolish, thoughtless, giddy.

  glaizie, glossy, shiny.

  glaum'd, grasped.

  gled, a hawk, a kite.

  gleede, a glowing coal.

  gleg, nimble, sharp, keen-witted.

  gleg, smartly.

  glieb, a portion of land.

  glib-gabbet, smooth-tongued.

  glint, sparkle.

  gloamin, twilight; gloamin-shot, sunset.

  glow'r, stare.

  glunch, frown, growl.

  goavin, looking dazedlyl; mooning.

  gotten, got.

  gowan, the wild, or mountain, daisy.

  gowany, covered with wild daisies.

  gowd, gold.

  gowdie, the head.

  gowff'd, struck, as in the game of golf.

  gowk, the cuckoo, a dolt.

  gowling, lamenting (as a dog in grief).

  graff, a grave, a vault.

  grain'd, groaned.

  graip, a dung-fork.

  graith, implements, gear; furniture; attire.

  graithing, gearing, vestments.

  grane, groan.

  grannie, graunie, grandmother.

  grape, grope.

  grat, wept.

  gree, the prize (degree).

  gree, to agree.

  greet, to weep.

  groanin maut, groaning malt, brewed for a lying-in.

  grozet, a gooseberry.

  grumphie, the pig.

  grun', the ground.

  gruntle, the face.

  gruntle, dim. of grunt.

  grunzie, growing.

  grutten, wept.

  gude, god.

  guid, gude, good.

  guid-e'en, good evening.

  guid-father, father-in-law.

  guid-man, husband.

  guid-wife. mistress of the house.

  guid-willie, hearty, full of good-will.

  gullie, gully, a large knife.

  gulravage, riotous play.

  gumlie, muddy.

  gumption, wisdom.

  gusty, tasty.

  gutcher, goodsire, grandfather.

  ha', hall.

  ha' folk, the servants.

  haddin, holding, inheritance.

  hae, have.

  haet, a thing.

  haffet, hauffet, the temple, the side of the head.

  haffets, side-locks.

  hafflins, half, partly.

  hag, a moss, a broken bog.

  haggis, a special scots pudding, made of sheep's lungs, liver and

  heart,

  onions and oatmeal, boiled in a sheep's stomach.

  hain, to spare, to save.

  hairst, har'st, harvest.

  haith, faith (an oath).

  haivers, v. havers.

  hal', hald, holding, possession.

  hale, hail, the whole.

  hale, health.

  hale, hail, whole, healthy.

  halesome, wholesome.

  hallan, a partition wall, a porch, outer door.

  halloween, all saints' eve (31st of october).

  hallowmas, all saints' day (1st of november).

  haly, holy.

  hame, home,

  han', haun, hand.

  han-darg, v. darg.

  hand-wal'd, hand-picked (i.e., choicest).

  hangie, hangman (nickname of the devil).

  hansel, the first gift; earnest.

  hap, a wrap, a covering against cold.

  hap, to shelter.

  hap, to hop.

  happer, hopper (of a mill).

  hap-step-an'-lowp. hop-step-and-jump.

  harkit, hearkened.

  harn, coarse cloth.

  hash, an oaf.

  haslock woo, the wool on the neck of a sheep.

  haud, to hold, to keep.

  hauf, half.

  haughs, low-lying rich lands by a river.

  haun, v. han',

  haurl, to trail.

  hause, cuddle, embrace.

  haveril, hav'rel, one who talks nonsense.

  havers, nonsense.

  havins, manners, conduct.

  hawkie, a white-faced cow; a cow.

  heal, v. hale.

  healsome, v. halesome.

  hecht, to promise; threaten.

  heckle, a flax-comb.

  heels-o'er-gowdie, v. gowdie.

  heeze, to hoist.

  heich, heigh, high.

  hem-shin'd, crooked-shin'd.

  herd, a herd-boy.

  here awa, hereabout.

  herry, to harry.

  herryment, spoliation.

  hersel, herself.

  het, hot.

  heugh, a hollow or pit; a crag, a steep bank.

  heuk, a hook.

  hilch, to hobble.

  hiltie-skiltie, helter-skelter.

  himsel, himselfk

  hiney, hinny, honey.

  hing, to hang.

  hirple, to move unevenly; to limp.

  hissels, so many cattle as one person can attend (r. b.).

  histie, bare.

  hizzie, a hussy, a wench.

  hoast, cough.

  hoddin, the motion of a sage countryman riding on a cart-horse

  (r. b.).

  hoddin-grey, coarse gray woolen.

  hoggie, dim. of hog; a lamb.

  hog-score, a line on the curling rink.

  hog-shouther, a kind of horse-play by jostling with the shoulder;

  to jostle.

  hoodie-craw, the hooded crow, the carrion crow.

  hoodock, grasping, vulturish.

  hooked, caught.

  hool, the outer case, the sheath.

  hoolie, softly.

  hoord, hoard.

  hoordet, hoarded.

  horn, a horn spoon; a comb of horn.

  hornie, the devil.

  host, v. hoast.

  hotch'd, jerked.

  houghmagandie, fornication.

  houlet, v. howlet.

  houpe, hope.

  hove, swell.

  howdie, howdy, a midwife.

  howe, hollow.

  howk, to dig.

  howlet, the owl.

  hoyse, a hoist.

  hoy't, urged (r. b.).

  hoyte, to amble crazily (r. b.).

  hughoc, dim. of hugh.

  hullions, slovens.

  hunder, a hundred.

  hunkers, hams.

  hurcheon, the hedgehog.

  hurchin, urchin.

  hurdies, the loins, the crupper (r. b.) (i. e., the buttocks).

  hurl, to trundle.

  hushion, a footless stocking.