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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 slan
Blaw, to blow, to boast

Bleerit, bleared, sore with rheum

Bleerit and blin', bleared and blind
Bleezing, blazing

Blellum, an idle talking fellow
Blether, to talk idly; nonsense
Bleth'rin', talking idly

Blink, a little while; a smiling look; to look
kindly; to shine by fits
Blinker, a term of contempt
Blinkin, smirking

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, a 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

Botch, an angry tumour

Bruilzie, a broil, a combustion Brunt, did burn, burnt

Brust, to burst; burst

Buchan-bullers, the boiling of the sea among the rocks of Buchan

Buckskin, an inhabitant of Virginia
Bught, a pen

Bughtin-time, the time of collecting the sheep in the pens to be milked

Buirdly, stout made; broad made

Bum-clock, a humming beetle that flies in the
summer evenings
Bumming, humming as bees
Bummle, to blunder
Bummler, a blunderer
Bunker, a window-seat
Burdies, diminutive of birds
Bure, did bear

Burn, water, a rivulet

Buinewin, i. e. burn the wind, a blacksmith Burnie, diminutive of burn

Buskie, bushy

Buskit, dressed

Busks, dresses

Bussle, a bustle; to bustle
Buss, shelter

But, bot, with; without

But an' ben, the country kitchen and parlour
By himsel, lunatic, distracted
Byke, a bee-hive

Byre, a cow-stable; a sheep-pen

C

Bousing, drinking

Bow-kail, cabbage

Bowt, bended, crooked

Brackens, fern

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Brae, a declivity ; a precipiece; the slope of a Caff, chaff

hill

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Caird, a tinker

Cairn, a loose heap of stones

Calf-ward, a small enclosure for calves
Callan, a boy

Caller, fresh; sound; refreshing

Canie, or cannie, gentle, mild; dexterous
Cannilie, dexterously: gently

Cantie, or canty, cheerful, merry
Cantrip, a charm, a spell

Cape-stane, cope-stone; key-stone.
Careerin, cheerfully

Brawly, or brawlie, very well! finely; heartily Carl, an old man

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Carlin, a stout old woman
Cartes, cards

Caudron, a cauldron

Cauk an' keel, chalk and red clay

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Cove, a cave

Cowe, to terrify; to keep under, to lop; frigh:;
a branch of furze, broom, &c.

Cowp, to barter; to tumble over; a gang
Cowpit, tumbled

Cowrin', cowering
Cowt, a colt

Cozie, snug

Cozily, snugly

Crabbit, crabbed, fretful

Crack, conversation; to converse
Crackin', conversing

Craft, or croft, a field near a house (in old
husbandry)

Craiks, cries or calls incessantly; a bird
Crambo-clink, or crambo-jingle, rhymes, dog-
grel verses

Crank, the noise of an ungreased wheel
Crankous, fretful, captious
Cranreuch, the hoar frost

Crap, a crop; to crop

Craw, a crow of a cock; a rook

Creel, a basket; to have one's wits in a creek,

to be crazed; to be fascinated Creepie-stool, the same as cutty-stool Creeshie, greasy

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 boi..

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
Cuif, a blockhead, a ninny

Cummock, a short staff with a crooked head
Curchie, a courtesy

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
Commaun, command

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

Couthie, kind, ving

ed in Scotland, called curling

Curlie, curled, whose hair falls naturally in
ringlets

Curling, a well known game on the ice
Curmurring, murmuring; a slight rumbling

noise

Curpin, the crupper

Cushat, the dove, or wood-pigeon

utty, short; a spoon broken in the middle (utty-stool, the stool of repentance

DADDIE, a father

D

Daffin, merriment; foolishness
Daft, merry, giddy; foolish

Daimen, rare, now and then; daimen-icker,
an ear of corn now and then.
Dainty, pleasant, good humoured, agreeable
Daise, daez, to stupify
Dales, plains, valleys
Darklins, darkling

Cotter, the inhabitant of a cot-house, or cot- Daud, to thrash, to abuse

Daur, to dare

Daurt, dared

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Donsie, unlucky

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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
Doucely, soberly, prudently
Dought, was or were able
Doup, backside

Doup-skelper, one that strikes the tail
Dour and din, sullen and shallow

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
Fasht, troubled

Fasteren-e'en, Fasten's Even
Fauld, a fold; to fold
Faulding, folding
Faut, fault

Faute, want, lack
Fawsont, decent, seemly
Feal, a field; smooth

Dowie, worn with grief, fatigue, &c. half a- Fearfu', frightful

Downa, am or are not able, cannot

sleep

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Drap, a drop; to drop

wet, &c.

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

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

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Drummock, meal and water mixed in a raw Fidge, to fidget

state

Droukit, wet

Drounting, drawling

Drucken, drunken

Drumly, muddy

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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

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Gawky, half. witted, foolish, romping

Glaizie, glittering; smooth like glass
Glaum, to snatch greedily

Glaum'd, aimed, snatched
Gleck, sharp, ready

Gleg, sharp, ready
Gleib, glebe

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
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, inquir ing gaze; staring stupidly

Gowan, the flower of the wild daisy, hawkweed, &c.

Gowany, daisied, abounding with daisies
Gowd, gold

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
Gowl, to howl

Grane, or grain, a groan; to groan
Grain'd and grunted, groaned and grunted
Graining, groaning

Graip, a pronged instrument used for cleaning stables

Graith, accoutrements, furniture, dress, gear
Grannie, grandmother
Grape, to grope
Grapit, groped

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 decidedly victor

Gree't, agreed

Greet, to shed tears, to weep

Greetin', crying, weeping

Gash, wise, sagacious; talkative; to converse Grippet, catched, seized

Gashin', conversing

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Gear, riches; goods of any kind

Ged, a pike

Gentles, great folks, gentry

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

Genty, elegantly formed, neat

Geordie, a guinea

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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

Hafflins, nearly half, partly

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

ing on a cart-horse; humble

Hog-score, a kind of distance-line, in curbing, 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 peas-
cod

Hoolie, slowly, leisurely
Hoolie! take leisure, stop
Hoord, a hoard; to hoard

Haivers, nonsense, speaking without thought Hoordit, hoarded

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Han', or haun', hand

Horn, a spoon made of horn

Hornie, one of the many names of the devil
Host, or hoast, to cough; a cough
Hostin', coughing
Hosts, coughs

Hotch'd, turn'd topsyturvy; blended, mixed
Houghmagandie, fornication
Houlet, an owl

Housie, diminutive of house
Hove, to heave, to swell

Hap, an outer garment, mantle, plaid, &c. to Hoved, heaved, swelled

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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

Havins, good manners, decorum, good sense
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
Hurcheon, a hedgehog
Hurdies, the loins: the crupper
Hushion, a cushion

I', in

I

Icker, an ear of corn
Ier-oe, a great-grandchild
Ilk, or ilka, each, every

Ill-willie, ill-natured, malicious, niggardly

Heckle, a board, in which are fixed a number|Ingine, genius, ingenuity

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