Coaxin, wheedling Coble, a fishing boat Cove, a cave Cowe, to terrify; to keep under, to lop; fright; 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 old Craiks, cries or calls incessantly; a bird 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 Collieshangie, quarrelling, an uproar Cood, the cul Coof, a blockhead; a ninny Cookit, appeared and disappeared by fits 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 ed in Scotland, called curling Curlie, curled, whose hair falls naturally in Curling, a well known game on the ice noise Curpin, the crupper Cushat, the dove, or wood-pigeon Cutty, short; a spoon broken in the middle DADDIE, a father D Daffin, merriment; foolishness Daimen, rare, now and then; daimen-icker, Cotter, the inhabitant of a cot-house, or cot- Daud, to thrash, to abuse tager Couthie, kind, loving Donsie, unlucky Faiket, unknown 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 Faute, want, lack Dowie, worn with grief, fatigue, &c. half a- Fearfu', frightful sleep Downa, am or are not able, cannot Doylt, stupid Dozent, stupified, impotent Drap, a drop; to drop Feart, frighted 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 wet, &c. Drapping, dropping. Draunting, drawling; of a slow enunciation Dreep, to ooze, to drop Dreigh, tedious, long about it Dribble, drizzling; slaver Drift, a drove Droddum, the breech Drone, part of a bagpipe Droop-rumpl't, that droops at the crupper Drouth, thirst, drought Droukit, wet Drounting, drawling Drucken, drunken Drumly, muddy Drummock, meal and water mixed in a raw Fidge, to fidget state Dung, worsted; pushed, driven Dunted, beaten, boxed Dush, to push as a ram, &c. Dusht, pushed by a ram, ox, &c. F'E, the eye F'en, the eyes F'ening, evening E 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 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 Hirple, to walk crazily, to creep Ha'-Bible, the great bible that lies in the Hirsel, so many cattle as one person can attend HA', hall Hae, to have hall Haen, had, the participle Hastie, dry; chapped; barren Hitch, a loop, a knot Hizzie, a hussy, a young girl Haet, fint haet, a petty oath of negation; no- Hoddin, the motion of a sage countryman rid thing 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 Hairst, harvest Haith, a petty oath ing 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 pass cod Hoolie, slowly, leisurely Hoolie! take leisure, stop Hoord, a hoard; to hoard Haivers, nonsense, speaking without thought Hoordít, hoarded Hal', or hald, an abiding place Hale, whole, tight, healthy Hame, home Hap, an outer garment, mantle, plaid, &c. to Hoved, heaved, swelled Hash, a fellow that neither knows how to dress Howkit, digged Howkin, digging Howlet, an owl Hoy, to urge Hoy't, urged Hoyse, to pull upwards Hoyte, to amble crazily Hurdies, the loins: the crupper I', in I Icker, an ear of corn Ill-willie, ill-natured, malicious, niggardly JAD, jade; also a familiar term among coun- LADDIE, diminutive of lad try folks for a giddy young girl Jauk, to dally, to trifle Jaukin', trifling, dallying Jaup, a jerk of water; to jerk as agitated wa ter. Jaw, coarse raillery; to pour out; to shut, jerk as water Jerkinet, a jerkin, or short grown Jillet, a jilt, a giddy girl to Laggen, the angle between the side and sot tom of a wooden dish Laigh, low Lairing, wading, and sinking in snow, mud, &c. Laith, loath Laithfu', bashful, sheepish Lallans, the Scottish dialect of the English language Jimp, to jump; slender in the waist; hand- Lambie, diminutive of lamb Ken, to know; kend or kenn'd, knew Kennin, a small matter Kenspeckle, well known, easily known Ket, matted, hairy; a fleece of wool Kilt, to truss up the clothes Kimmer, a young girl, a gossip Kin, kindred; kin', kind, adj. Lampit, a kind of shell-fish, a limpit Lane, lone; my lane, thy lane, &c. myself alone, &c. Lanely, lonely Lang, long; to think lang, to long, to weary Lave, the rest, the remainder, the others Lawin, shot, reckoning, bill Leal, loyal, true, faithful Lear, (pronounced lare), learning Leesome, pleasant Leeze-me, a phrase of congratulatory endear ment; I am happy in thee, or proud of thee Leister, a three-prong'd dart for striking fish Lightly, sneeringly; to sneer at Linn, a waterfall; a precipicce Lint i' the bell, flax in flower King's-hood, a certain part of the entrails of Lintwhite, a linnet an ox, &c. Kintra, country Kintra cooser, country stallion Kirn, the harvest supper; a churn Kirsen, to christen, or baptize Kist, a chest; a shop counter Kitchen, any thing that eats with bread; to Loup, jump, leap |