Ringan Gilhaize, or, The Covenanters

  GLOSSARY

  _Airt_, direction, point of the compass.

  _almous_, alms.

  _atwish_, betwixt.

  _aught_, possession.

  _aumrie_, store-cupboard.

  _Bakie_, a large square wooden vessel.

  _beek_, _v._ bathe; here, bask.

  _bein_, well-to-do, comfortable.

  _ben_, within.

  _benweed_, ragwort.

  _bield_, shelter.

  _big_, _v._ build.

  _bilf_, a blunt stroke (Jamieson).

  _bir_, impetuosity.

  _blate_, bashful.

  _blether_, _v._ talk foolishly.

  _blithemeat gift_, gift made to those present at a child's birth.

  _bout-gait_, roundabout.

  _bow_, arch, gateway.

  _boyne_, tub.

  _braird_, the first sprouting of grain.

  _brattle_, _v._ clatter.

  _brechan_, bracken.

  _buirdly_, burly.

  _bunker_, bench.

  _busk_, adorn.

  _but_, _but the house_, toward the outer apartment of a house.

  _by ordinare_, out of the common.

  _Ca'_, _v._ drive.

  _callan_, _callant_, boy.

  _camstrarie_, unmanageable, perverse.

  _cantrip_, magical device.

  _canty_, lively.

  _cap_, a wooden bowl.

  _carl_, fellow (_fem._) _carlin_.

  _carry_, motion of the clouds.

  _carse_, low-lying fertile land, generally adjacent to a river.

  _causey_, street or paved road; _crown of the causey_, middle of the street.

  _change-house_, a small inn or ale-house.

  _chap_, _v._ strike.

  _chappin_, a quart measure.

  _chimla_, _chumla_, chimney; _chimla-lug_, fireside.

  _churme_, murmur.

  _clachan_, hamlet.

  _clamper_, to make a noise with the feet in walking.

  _claught_, snatched (_pret._ of _v._ _clatch_).

  _clishmaclavers_, idle discourse.

  _clok_, beetle.

  _clout_, ragged cloth.

  _Cluty_, _fam._ the "Old One."

  _cod_, pillow, cushion.

  _couthiness_, kindness.

  _cowan-boat_, a fishing-boat.

  _cranreuch_, hoar-frost.

  _creel_, basket.

  _crouse_, confident, _crack crouse_, to "talk big."

  _cruisie_, _crusie_, a small iron lamp.

  _cuif_ simpleton.

  _cushy-doo_, cushat, dove.

  _Dark_, _darg_, task.

  _dauner_, _daunder_, stroll.

  _dauty_, pet.

  _dinle_, thrill.

  _dirl_, _v._ clatter, thrill.

  _doless_, void of energy.

  _dominie_, schoolmaster.

  _donsie_, unfortunate.

  _door-cheek_, door-post.

  _doure_, hard, harsh.

  _dow_, _v._ can compass.

  _dowie_, dull.

  _dreich_, tedious.

  _drumly_, turbid, troubled.

  _duds_, rags.

  _dunt_, to knock out by repeated blows.

  _dwam_, seizure (sickness).

  _dyke_, boundary wall.

  _Ellwand_, yard-measure.

  _erles_, _arles_, an earnest.

  _ettle_, _v._ aim.

  _excambio_, exchange ratified by law.

  _eydent_, zealous, industrious.

  _Fash_, _v._ vex.

  _fek_, "_o' ony fek_," of any effect.

  _fey_, infatuated.

  _fisle_, _v._ rustle.

  _flesher_, butcher.

  _flit_, _v._ word in general use in Scotland for changing residence.

  _flyte_, _v._ scold.

  _foregather_, _v._ get into company together.

  _fornent_, in front of.

  _fyke_, bustle.

  _Gait_, _gate_, way.

  _gar_, compel.

  _gardevine_, cellaret.

  _garnel_, granary.

  _gaud_, a bar of metal.

  _gauntrees_, _gantrees_, a stand for a barrel.

  _gawsie_, _gaucy_, jolly.

  _geizen't_, drought-cracked.

  _gett_, contemptuous term for progeny.

  _gif_, if.

  _gir_, _gird_, hoop.

  _girn_, a snare.

  _glaikit_, foolish.

  _glebe_, land held _ex officio_ by a parish minister.

  _gled_, hawk.

  _gleg_, eager.

  _glower_, _v._ glare.

  _gludder_, the sound caused by a body falling among mire (Jamieson).

  _gowk_, fool, _lit._ cuckoo.

  _greet_, weep.

  _grew_, _v._ shudder.

  _grouff_, belly.

  _gude-mother_, mother-in-law.

  _gurl_, _n._ growl.

  _gurly_, surly.

  _Hack_, a rack for horses or cattle.

  _haffet_, side-lock.

  _Hallowe'en_, the eve of All Saints' Day.

  _hap_, wrap.

  _harl_, _v._ drag.

  _hass_, throat.

  _havers_, foolish or incoherent talk.

  _hempy_, rogue.

  _herry_, harry.

  _hirkos_ (_Lat._ hircus), a he-goat.

  _hirple_, limp.

  _hirstle_, to shove oneself along by the hands in a seated posture.

  _hobbleshow_, a difficulty.

  _Hogmanae_, the last day of the year.

  _holm_, _howm_, low-lying level ground on the banks of a river.

  _hooly_, cautiously.

  _horse-setter_, job-master.

  _howdy_, midwife.

  _howf_, _n._ haunt.

  _howk_, dig, burrow.

  _hyte and fykie_, anxious and irritable.

  _Jawp_, _v._ dash and rebound as water (Jamieson).

  _jealouse_, suspect.

  _jelly-flowers_, gilliflowers.

  _jimp_, scarcely.

  _jink_, chink (_corruption_).

  _jo_, sweetheart.

  _jow_, _v._ toll.

  _Kail_, cabbage; soup made with the same.

  _kell_, scurf on a child's head (Jamieson).

  _kep_, catch.

  _kist_, chest.

  _kithe_, show, appear.

  _Laigh_, low.

  _lair_, lore.

  _lanerly_, _alanerly_, alone, lonely.

  _laverock_, lark.

  _lawing_, reckoning.

  _lift_, firmament.

  _limmer_, "baggage" (term of depreciation).

  _linn_, waterfall.

  _lippy_, a bumper.

  _litherly_, lazily.

  _lone_, _loaning_, lane.

  _loun_, serene.

  _lounder_, swinging stroke (Jamieson).

  _low_, _n._ flame.

  _lum_, chimney.

  _lug_, ear.

  _luggie_, a small wooden vessel made of staves.

  _Mailing_, farm.

  _manse_, residence of a minister of the Gospel.

  _midden_, refuse-heap.

  _morphosings_, metamorphoses.

  _moss_, a place where peat may be dug (Jamieson).

  _mutchkin_, a measure equal to a pint.

  _Napery_, household linen.

  _neb_, beak of a bird.

  _nieve_, fist.

  _notour_, notorious.

  _O'ercome_, burden of a song or discourse.

  _outstropolous_, obstreperous.

  _oxter_, arm-pit, also arm.
br />   _Pawkie_, sly; _pawkrie_, slyness.

  _peeseweep_, lapwing.

  _pen-gun_, pop-gun; _a pen-gun at a crack_, a "wunner to talk."

  _pet-day_, term applied to a fair day when the weather is generallyfoul.

  _pig_, earthenware vessel.

  _plack_, small copper coin.

  _play-marrow_, playmate.

  _prin_, pin.

  _puddock_, toad; _puddock-stool bonnet_, toadstool or Tam o' Shanter cap.

  _Rackses_, andirons.

  _raised_, delirious.

  _ree_, half-drunk.

  _reek_, smoke.

  _redde_, rede, counsel.

  _rig_, ridge (of ploughed land).

  _rones_, external waterducts of a building.

  _rug_, _v._ pull roughly.

  _runkle_, crumple.

  _Scad_, gleam, reflection.

  _schore_, a man of high rank.

  _scog_, _v._ hide.

  _scomfisht_, discomfited.

  _scowther_, scorch.

  _scrog_, a stunted shrub.

  _shavling-gabbit_, shavling mouthed, a shavling being a carpenter's toolof the plane order. Having a mouth which emits sounds like those made inplaning.

  _sicker_, certain.

  _siver_, sewer.

  _skail_, _skayl_, disperse.

  _skelf_, shelf.

  _skirr_, scour.

  _sklinter_, _v._ splinter.

  _skreigh_, cry.

  _sleekit_, deceitful.

  _slocken_, slake.

  _smeddam_, spirit.

  _sneck_, bolt.

  _snell_, keen.

  _snod_, trim.

  _snool_, subjugate by tyrannical means.

  _sole_, sill.

  _sorn_, to "sponge" upon; used by Galt for to loiter.

  _sosherie_, social intercourse.

  _sough_, murmur.

  _spae_, _v._ forecast.

  _spean_, _v._ wean.

  _speat_, flood.

  _speer_, _speir_, inquire.

  _spunk_, spark.

  _staincher_, stanchion.

  _stang_, a pole; to "ride the stang" was to be subjected to a form of mob justice bywhich the patient was borne shoulder-high astride a pole.

  _steek_, stitch, fasten.

  _stock_ (bed-stock), the fore-part of a bed.

  _stoure_, dust in motion.

  _straemash_, disturbance.

  _stravaig_, _v._ stroll.

  _swanky_, strapping young countryman (Brockett).

  _swatch_, sample.

  _swee_, a chimney crane for suspending a pot over the fire (Jamieson).

  _swither_, _v._ to be reluctant, hesitate; _n_. reluctance, hesitation, indecision.

  _syne_, then.

  _Tack_, lease.

  _taigle_, hinder, delay.

  _tawnle_, bonfire.

  _temming_, a coarse thin woollen cloth.

  _tent_, heed.

  _thacket_, thatched.

  _thole_, endure.

  _throng_, _adj._ busy.

  _thumbikins_, thumbscrews.

  _tirl at the pin_, old-fashioned mode of intimating desire of admissionto a house.

  _tod_, _tod lowrie_, fox.

  _tolbooth_, a municipal building including a jail.

  _toom_, empty.

  _toop_, a ram.

  _toupie_ (French), toupet.

  _trance_, paved passage.

  _trintle_, _v._ roll.

  _trone_, a public weighing-machine standing in a market-place.

  _Unco_, _adj._ extraordinary, remarkable; _n._ remarkable object.

  _Virl_, ring (as those which bind a fishing-rod); frill.

  _vivers_, provisions.

  _vogie_, vain, complacent.

  _Wae_, grieved.

  _waff_, feeble, worn out.

  _warrandice_, warrant.

  _warsle_, wrestle.

  _wastage_, a place of desolation (J.).

  _wastrie_, waste.

  _waught_, a large draught.

  _wean_, child.

  _whin_, furze.

  _Whigamore_, sometimes derived from "whig," a word used in the West forurging on horses, and hence applied as a nickname to a political party.The expedition of the Covenanters under Eglinton to Edinburgh was knownas the Whigamore Raid.

  _whumple_, overturn, reverse.

  _willease_, valise.

  _willy-wa_, palaver, wheedle.

  _wise, v._ entice, incline.

  _wud_, wild.

  _wuddy_, "gallows-looking"; widdy is the gallows.

  _wyte_, blame.

  _Yett_, gate.

  _yird_, _n._ earth; _v. a._ run to earth.

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