Curmurring, murmuring; a slight ru bl ng Dribble, drizzling; slaver. noise. Dirl, a slight tremulous stroke or pain. Dizen, or dizz'n, a dozen. Doited, stupified, hebetated. Dolt, stupified, crazed. Donsie, unlucky. Drift, a drove. Droddum, the breech. Drone, part of a bagpipe. Droop-rumpl't, that droops at the crupper, Droukit, wet. Drounting, drawling. Drouth, thirst, drought. Drucken, drunken. Drumly, muddy. Drummock, meal and water mixed in a raw FA', fall; lot; to fall. F. Dool, sorrow; to sing dool, to lament, to Fa's, does fall; water-falls. mourn. Doos, doves. Dorty, saucy, nice. Douce, or douse, sober, wise, prudent. Doucely, soberly, prudently. Dought, was or were able. Doup, backside. Doup-skelper, one that strikes the tail. Dow, am or are able, can. Dour and din, sullen and sallow. Doure, stout, durable; sullen, stubborn. Dowff, pithless, wanting force. asleep. Doylt, stupid. Faddom't, fathomed. Faem, foam. Fae, a foe. Faiket, unknown. Fairin, a fairing; a present. Fallow, fellow. Fand, did find. Farl, a cake of oaten bread, &c. Fash, trouble, care; to trouble, to care for. Fasht, troubled. Fasteren-e'en, Fasten's Even. Fauld, a fold; to fold. Dowie, worn with grief, fatigue, &c. half Faulding, folding. Downa, am or are not able, cannot. Dozent, stupified, impotent. Drap, a drop; to drop. Draigle, to soil by trailing, to draggle among wet, &c. Drapping, dropping. Draunting, drawling; of a slow enunciation. Dreep, to ooze, to drop. Dreigh, tedious, long about it. Fleech, to supplicate in a flattering manner. Fleechin, supplicating. Fleesh, a fleece. Fleg, a kick, a random stroke. Flether, to decoy by fair words. Fley, to scare, to frighten. Flichter, to flutter, as young nestlings when their dam approaches. Flinders, shreds, broken pieces, splinters. Flinging-tree, a piece of timber hung by way of partition between two horses in a stable: a flail. Flisk, to fret at the yoke. Flisket, fretted. Flitter, to vibrate like the wings of small birds. Flittering, fluttering, vibrating. Fodgel, squat and plump. Foord, a ford. GAB, the mouth; to speak boldly, or pertly, Gaberlunzie, an old man. Gadsman, a ploughboy, the boy that drives the horses in the plough. Gae, to go; gaed, went; gaen, or gane, gone; gaun, going. Gaet, or gate, way, manner; road. Gairs, triangular pieces of cloth sewed on the Gar, to make, to force to. Gash, wise, sagacious; talkative; to converse. Gaucy, jolly, large. Gaud, a plough. Gear, riches; goods of any kind. Geck, to toss the head in wantonness or scorn Ged, a pike. Gentles, great folks, gentry. Genty, elegantly formed, neat. Get, a child, a young one. Gie, to give; gied, gave; gien, given. Gilpey, a half grown, half informed boy or girl, a romping lad, a hoiden. Gimmer, a ewe from one to two years old. Gipsey, a young girl. Girn, to grin, to twist the features in rage, agony, &c. Girning, grinning. Gizz, a periwig. Glaiket, inattentive, foolish. Glaive, a sword. Gawky, half-witted, foolish, romping. Glaizie, glittering; smooth like glass. Glaum, to snatch greedily. Glaum'd, aimed, snatched. Gleck, sharp, ready. Gleg, sharp, ready. Glen, a dale, a deep valley. Gley, a squi Gley, a squint; side, wrong. to squint; a-gley, off at a Glib-gabbet, smooth and ready in speech. Glint, to peep. Glinted, peeped. Glintin, peeping. Gloamin, the twilight. Glowr, to stare, to look; a stare, a look. Glowred, looked, stared. Glunsh, a frown, a sour look. Goavan, looking round with a strange, inquiring gaze; staring stupidly. Hafflins, nearly half, partly. Hag, a scar, or gulf in mosses, and moors. Gowan, the flower of the wild daisy, hawk-Hairst, harvest. Gowany, daisied, abounding with daisies. Gowff, the game of Golf; to strike as the bat does the ball at golf. Gowff'd, struck. Great, intimate, familiar. edly victor. Haith, a petty oath. Haivers, nonsense, speaking without thought. Hal', or hald, an abiding place. | Hale, whole, tight, healthy. Haly, holy. Hame, home. Hap step an' loup, hop skip and leap. Harkit, hearkened. Harn, very coarse linen. Gree, to agree; to bear the gree, to be decid- Hash, a fellow that neither knows how to Gree't, agreed. Grippet, catched, seized. dress nor act with propriety. Hastit, hastened. Haud, to hold. Haughs, low lying, rich lands; valleys. Haurl, to drag; to peel. Groat, to get the whistle of one's groat, to Haurlin, peeling. play a losing game. Grousome, loathsomely grim. Grozet, a gooseberry. Grumphie, a sow. Grumph, a grunt; to grunt. Grun', ground. Grunstane, a grindstone. Gruntle, the phiz; a grunting noise. Grushie, thick; of thriving growth. Guid-morning, good morrow. Guidman and guidwife, the master and mistress of the house; young guidman, a man newly married. Guid-willie, liberal; cordial. Guidfather, guidmother, father-in-law, and Herd, to tend flocks; one who tends flocks. Ha'- Bible, the great bible that lies in the hall. Hilch, a hobble; to halt. Hissel, so many cattle as one person can at- | Jaw, coarse raillery; to pour out; to shut, to tend. Hastie, dry; chapped; barren. Hitch, a loop, a knot. Hoddin, the motion of a sage countryman riding on a cart-horse; humble. Hog-score, a kind of distance line, in curling, drawn across the rink. Hog-shouther, a kind of horse play, by justling with the shoulder; to justle. Hool, outer skin or case, a nut shell; a peascod. Hoolie, slowly, leisurely. Horn, a spoon made of horn. Hornie, one of the many names of the devil. Hosts, coughs. Hotch'd, turn'd topsyturvy; blended, mixed. Houghmagandie, fornication. Houlet, an owl. Housie, diminutive of house. Hove, to heave, to swell. Hoved, heaved, swelled. Howdie, a midwife. Howe, hollow; a hollow or dell. Howebackit, sunk in the back, spoken of a horse, &c. Howff, a tippling house; a house of resort. Howkit, digged. Howkin, digging. Howlet, an owl. Hoyse, to pull upwards. Hurdies, the loins; the crupper. jerk as water. Kail, colewort; a kind of broth. Kail-runt, the stem of colewort. Kain, fowls, &c. paid as rent by a farmer. Kebbuck, a cheese. Keckle, to giggle; to titter. Keek, a peep, to peep. Kelpies, a sort of mischievous spirits, said to haunt fords and ferries at night, especially in storms. Ken, to know; kend or kenn'd, knew. Kenspeckle, well known, easily known. Kimmer, a young girl, a gossip. King's-hood, a certain part of the entrails of an ox, &c. Kintra, country. Kintra Cooser, country stallion. Kirn, the harvest supper; a churn. Kist, a chest ; a shop counter. Kitchen, any thing that eats with bread; to serve for soup, gravy, &c. Kith, kindred. Kittle, to tickle; ticklish; lively, apt. Kittlin, a young cat. Kiuttle, to cuddle. Kiuttlin, cuddling. Knaggie, like knags, or points of rocks. stones. Knowe, a small round hillock. Knurl, a dwarf. Kye, cows. JAD, jade; also a familiar term among coun- Kyle, a district in Ayrshire. try folks for a giddy young girl. Jauk, to dally, to trifle. Jaukin, trifling, dallying. Jaup, a jerk of water; to jerk as agitated water. Kyte, the belly. Kythe, to discover; to show one's self. tom of a wooden disb. Laigh, low. Maist, most, almost. Maistly, mostly. Lairing wading, and sinking in snow, mud, &c. Mak, to make. Laith, loath. Laithfu', bashful, sheepish. Makin, making. Mailen, a farm. Lallans, the Scottish dialect of the English Mallie, Molly. language. Lambie, diminutive of lamb. Lampit, a kind of shell-fish, a limpit. Lan', land; estate. Lane, lone; my lane, thy lane, &c. myself alone, &c. Looves, plural of loof. Mang, among. M. Manse, the parsonage house, where the minister lives. Mim, prim, affectedly meek. Min', mind; resemblance Mind't, mind it; resolved, intending. Minnie, mother, dam. Mirk, mirkest, dark, darkest. Misca', to abuse, to call names. Loun, a fellow, a ragamuffin; a woman of Misca'd, abused. Loup, jump, leap. easy virtue. Lowe, a flame. Mislear'd, mischievous, unmannerly. Misteuk, mistook. Mither, a mother. Mixtie-maxtie, confusedly mixed. Moistify, to moisten. Mony, or monie, many. Mools, dust, earth, the earth of the grave; To rake i' the mools; to lay in the dust. Moop, to nibble as a sheep. Moorlan', of or belonging to moors. Moudiwort, a mole. 'Mousie, diminutive of mouse. Muckle, or mickle, great, big, muců. |