Birk, birch Brither, a brother Birken-shaw, Birchen-wood-shaw, a small Brock, a badger wood. Birkie, a clever fellow Brogue, a hum; a trick Broo, broth; a trick Birring, the noise of partridges, &c. when they Broose, broth; a race at country weddings, spring Bit, crisis, nick of time Bizz, a bustle, to buzz who shall first reach the bridegrooms's house on returning from church Browster-wives, ale-house wives Blastie, a shrivelled dwarf; a term of contempt Brugh, a burgh Blastit, blasted Blate, bashful, sheepish Blather, bladder Bladd, a flat piece of any thing; to slap Bleerit, bleared, sore with rheum Bleerit and blin', bleared and blind Blellum, an idle talking fellow Blink, a little while; a smiling look; to look 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 Bluntie, a sniveller, a stupid person Blype, a shred, a large piece Bock, to vomit, to gush intermittently Bocked, gushed, vomited Bodle, a small gold coin Bogles, spirits, hobgoblins Bonnie or bonny, handsome, beautiful Bonnock, a kind of thick cake of bread, small jannock, or loaf made of oat meal Boord, a board Boortree, the shrub elder; planted much of old in hedges of barn-yards, &c. Boost, behaved, must needs Bore, a hole in the wall But an' ben, the country kitchen and parlour By himsel, lunatic, distracted Byke, a bee-hive Byre, a cow-stable; a sheep-pen C Brae, a declivity; a precipiece; the slope of a Caff, chaff hill Caird, a tinker Cairn, a loose heap of stones Calf-ward, a small enclosure for calves Caller, fresh; sound; refreshing Canie, or cannie, gentle, mild; dexterous Cantie, or canty, cheerful, merry Cape-stane, cope-stone; key-stone. Brawly, or brawlie, very well! finely; heartily Carl, an old man Breastie, diminutive of breast Breastit, did spring up or forward Breckan, fern Carlin, a stout old woman Caudron, a cauldron Cauk an' keel, chalk and red clay Cauld, cold Caup, a wooden drinking vessel. Cesses, taxes Chanter, a part of a bagpipe Chap, a person, a fellow; a blow Cheep, a chirp; to chirp Chimla, or chimlie, a fire-grate, a fire-place Chittering, shivering, trembling Chow, to chew; Cheek for chow, side by side Clachan, a small village about a church; a hamlet Claise, or claes, clothes Claivers, nonsense; not speaking sense Clash, an idle tale, the story of the day Clavers, idle stories. Claw, to scratch Cleed, to clothe Cleeds, clothes Cleekit, having caught Clinkin, jerking; clinking Clinkumbell, he who rings the church-bell Clips, shears Coaxin, wheedling Coble, a fishing boat Cove, a cave Cowe, to terrify; to keep under, to lop; fright; a branch of furze, broom, &c. Cowp, to barter; to tumble over; a gang Cowrin', cowering Cozie, snug Cozily, snugly Crabbit, crabbed, fretful Crack, conversation; to converse Craft, or croft, a field near a house (in ok husbandry) Craiks, cries or calls incessantly; a bird Crambo-clink, or crambo-jingle, rhymes, doggrel verses Crank, the noise of an ungreased wheel Crap, a crop; to crop Craw, a crow of a cock; a rook Creel, a basket; to have one's wits in a creel, Crood, or croud, to coo as a dove Croon, a hollow and continued moan; to make a noise like the continued roar of a bull; to hum a tune Crooning, humming Crouchie, crook-backed Croose, cheerful; courageous Crousely, cheerfully; courageously Crowdie, a composition of oat-meal and boil. ed water, sometimes from the broth of beef, mutton, &c. Crowdie-time, breakfast time Crowlin', crawling Crummock, a cow with crooked horns Crump, hard and brittle; spoken of bread Crunt, a blow on the head with a cudgel Cummock, a short staff with a crooked head Cockernony, a lock of hair tied upon a girl's Curler, a player at a game on the ice, practis head; a cap Coft, bought Cog, a wooden dish Coggie, diminutive of cog Coila, from Kyle, a district of Ayrshire: so called, saith tradition, from Coil, or Coilus, a Pictish monarch Collie, a general and sometimes a particular name for country curs Collieshangie, quarrelling, an uproar Cood, the cud Coof, a blockhead; a ninny Cookit, appeared and disappeared by fits Coost, did cast Coot, the ankle or foot Cootie, a wooden kitchen dish:-also, those fowls whose legs are clad with feathers are said to be cootie Corbies, a species of the crow Core, corps; party; clan Corn't, fed with oats tager Daffin, merriment; foolishness Daimen, rare, now and then; daimen-icker, Dainty, pleasant, good humoured, agreeable Cotter, the inhabitant of a cot-house, or cot-Daud, to thrash, to abuse Couthie, kind, loving Donsie, unlucky Dool, sorrow; to sing dool, to lament, to Fairin', a fairing; a present mourn Doos, doves Dorty, saucy, nice Douce, or douse, sober, wise, prudent Doup-skelper, one that strikes the tail Doure, stout, durable; sullen, stubborn Dow, am or are able, can Dowff, pithless, wanting force Fallow, fellow Fand, did find Farl, a cake of oaten bread, &c. Fash, trouble, care; to trouble, to care for Fasteren-e'en, Fasten's Even Faut, fault Faute, want, lack Fawsont, decent, seemly Feal, a field; smooth Dowie, worn with grief, fatigue, &c. half a- Fearfu', frightful Feart, frighted sleep Downa, am or are not able, cannot Doylt, stupid Dozent, stupified, impotent Drap, a drop; to drop Feat, neat, spruce Fecht, to fight Fechtin', fighting Feck, many, plenty Draigle, to soil by trailing, to draggle among Fecket, an under waistcoat with sleeves Drummock, meal and water mixed in a raw Fidge, to fidget Droukit, wet Drounting, drawling Drucken, drunken Drumly, muddy 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 Gawky, half-witted, foolish, romping Glaizie, glittering; smooth like glass Glaum'd, aimed, snatched Gleg, sharp, ready Glen, a dale, a deep valley Gley, a squint; to squint; a-gley, off at a side, wrong Glib-gabbet, smooth and ready in speech Glowr, to stare, to look; a stare, a look Glunsh, a frown, a sour look Goavan, looking round with a strange, inquir ing gaze; staring stupidly Gowan, the flower of the wild daisy, hawkweed, &c. Gowany, daisied, abounding with daisies Gowff, the game of golf; to strike as the bat does the ball at golf' Gowff'd, struck Gowk, a cuckoo; a term of contempt Grane, or grain, a groan; to groan Graip, a pronged instrument used for cleaning stables Graith, accoutrements, furniture, dress, gear Grat, wept, shed tears Gairs, triangular pieces of cloth sewed on the Great, intimate, familiar bottom of a gown, &c. Gang, to go, to walk Gar, to make, to force to Gar't, forced to Garten, a garter Gree, to agree; to bear the gree, to be decid. edly victor Gree't, agreed Greet, to shed tears, to weep Greetin', crying, weeping Gash, wise, sagacious; talkative; to converse Grippet, catched, seized Gashin', conversing Gaucy, jolly, large Gaud, a plough Gear, riches; goods of any kind Ged, a pike Groat, to get the whistle of one's groat, to play a losing game Grousome, loathsomely grim Grozet, a gooseberry Geck, to toss the head in wantonness or scorn Grumph, a grunt; to grunt Gentles, great folks, gentry Genty, elegantly formed, neat Geordie, a guinea HA', hall H Hirple, to walk crazily, to creep Ha'-Bible, the great bible that lies in the Hirsel, so many cattle as one person can attend hall Hae, to have Haen, had, the participle Haet, fint haet, a petty oath of negation; no- Haffet, the temple, the side of the head Hag, a scar, or gulf in mosses, and moors Haggis, a kind of pudding boiled in the stomach of a cow or sheep Hain, to spare, to save Hain'd, spared Hairst, harvest Haith, a petty oath Hastie, dry; chapped; barren Hizzie, a hussy, a young girl 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 just ling with the shoulder; to justle Hool, outer skin or case, a nut-shell; a pass cod Hoolie, slowly, leisurely Hoolie! take leisure, stop Haivers, nonsense, speaking without thought Hoordit, hoarded Hal', or hald, an abiding place Hale, whole, tight, healthy Hame, home Hallun, a particular partition-wall in a cot- Hallowmas, Hallow-eve, the 31st of October Han', or haun', hand Horn, a spoon made of horn Hornie, one of the many names of the devil Hosts, coughs Hotch'd, turn'd topsyturvy; blended, mixed Housie, diminutive of house Hap, an outer garment, mantle, plaid, &c. to Hoved, heaved, swelled Hash, a fellow that neither knows how to dress Howkit, digged Haughs, low lying, rich lands; valleys Haurl, to drag; to peel Haurlin, peeling Haverel, a half witted person; half witted Hawkie, a cow, properly one with a white face Heapit, heaped Healsome, healthful, wholesome Hearse, hoarse Hear't, hear it Heather, heath Hech! oh! strange! Hecht, promised; to foretell something that is to be got or given; foretold; the thing foretold; offered Howkin, digging Howlet, an owl Hoy, to urge Hoy't, urged Hoyse, to pull upwards Hoyte, to amble crazily Hughoc, diminutive of Hugh Hurdies, the loins: the crupper I', in I Icker, an ear of corn Ill-willie, ill-natured, malicious, niggardly Heckle, a board, in which are fixed a number | Ingine, genius, ingenuity |