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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, to jerk as water

Jerkinet, a jerkin, or short grown

Jillet, a jilt, a giddy girl

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

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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
Lan', land; estate

Lane, lone; my lane, thy lane, &c. myself
alone, &c.

Lanely, lonely

Lang, long; to think lang, to long, to weary
Lap, did leap

Lave, the rest, the remainder, the others
Laverock, the lark

Lawin, shot, reckoning, bill
Lawlan', lowland
Lea'e, to leave

Leal, loyal, true, faithful
Lea-rig, grassy ridge

Lear, (pronounced lare), learning
Lee-lang, live-long

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
Leugh, did laugh
Leuk, a look; to look
Libbet, gelded
Lift, the sky

Lightly, sneeringly; to sneer at
Lilt, a ballad; a tune; to sing
Limmer, a kept mistress, a strumpet
Limp't, limped, hobbled'
Link, to trip along
Linkin', tripping

Linn, a waterfall; a precipicce
Lint, flax

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

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Loun, a fellow, a ragamuffin; a woman of easy virtue

Kitchen, any thing that eats with bread; to Loup, jump, leap

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Mang, among

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Nappy, ale; to be tipsy Negleckit, neglected

Neuk, a nook

Niest, next

Manse, the parsonage house, where the minis Nieve, the fist

ter lives

Manteele, a mantle

Mark, marks. (This and several other nouns which in English require an s to form the plural, are in Scotch, like the words sheep, deer, the same in both numbers.) Marled, variegated; spotted Mar's year, the year 1715 Mashlum, meslin, mixed corn Mask, to mash, as malt, &c. Maskin-pat, a tea-pot

Maud, maad, a plaid worn by shepherds, &c. Maukin, a hare

Maun, must

Mavis, the thrush

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Midden, a dunghill

hill

Nievefu', handful

Niffer, an exchange; to exchange, to bartar
Niger, a negro

Nine-tail'd-cat, a hangman's whip
Nit, a nut

Norland, of or belonging to the north
Notic't, noticed

Nowte, black cattle

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Midden-hole, a gutter at the bottom of a dung- PACK, intimate, familiar; twelve stone of

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Mools, dust, earth, the earth of the grave; to Pechan, the crop, the stomach

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Peelin', peeling, the rind of fruit
Pet, a domesticated sheep, &c.

Pettle, to cherish; a plough-staff

Philabegs, short petticoats worn by the Highlandmen

Phraise, fair speehes, flattery; to flatter
Phraisin', flattery

Pibroch, Highland war music adapted to the bagpipe

Pickle, a small quantity
Pine, pain, uneasiness
Pit, to put

Placard, public proclamation

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Ram-feezl'd, fatigued; overspread

Ram-stam, thoughtless, forward

Sair, to serve; a sore

Sairly, or sairlie, sorely

Sair't, served

Sark, a shirt; a shift

Sarkit, provided in shirts

Saugh, the willow

Saul, soul

Saumont, salmon

Raploch, properly a coarse cloth; but used as Saunt, a saint

an adnoun for coarse

Rarely, excellently, very well

Rash, a rush; rash-buss, a bush of rushes

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Reaming, brimful, frothing

Reave, rove

Reck, to heed

Rede, counsel; to counsel

Saut, salt, adj. salt

Saw, to sow

Sawin', sowing

Sax, six

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Scawl, a scold; a termagant

Scon, a cake of bread

Sconner, a loathing; to loathe

Scraich, to scream as a hen, partridge, &e.

Rod-wat-shod, walking in blood over the shoe. Screed, to tear; a rent

tops

Red-wul, stark mad

Ree, half drunk, fuddled

Reek, smoke

Reekin', sinoking

Reekit, smoked; smoky

Remead, remdy

Requite, requited

Rest, to stand restive

Bestit, stood restive; stunted; withered

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Servan', servan

Snapper, to stumble, a stumble

Settlin', settling; to get a settlin', to be fright- Snash, abuse, Billingsgate

ed into quietness

Sets, sets off, goes away
Shachled, distorted; shapeless
Shaird, a shred, a shard

Shangan, a stick cleft at one end for putting
the tail of a dog, &c. into, by way of mis-
chief, or to frighten him away
Shaver, a humorous wag; a barber
Shaw, to show; a small wood in a hollow
Sheen, bright, shining

Sheep-shank to think one's self nae sheepshank, to be conceited

Sherra-inoor, sheriff-moor, the famous battle
fought in the rebellion, A. D. 1715
Sheugh, a ditch, a trench, a sluice
Shiel, a ditch, a trench, a sluice
Shiel, a shed

Shill, shrill

Shog, a shock; a push off at one side

Shool, a shovel

Shoon, shoes

Shore, to offer, to threaten

Shor'd, offered

Shouther, the shoulder

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Sin', since

Skaith, see scaith

Skellum, a worthless fellow

Skelp, to strike, to slap; to walk with a smart tripping step; a smart stroke Skelpie-limmer, a reproachful term in female scolding

Skelpin', stepping, walking

Skiegh, or skeigh, proud, nice, highmettled
Skinklin, a small portion

Skirl, to shriek, to cry shrilly
Skirling, shrieking, crying
Skirl't, shrieked

Sklent, slant; to run aslant, to deviate from truth

Sklented, ran, or hit, in an oblique direction Skouth, freedom to converse without restraint; range, scope

Skriegh, a scream; to scream

Skyrin', shining; making a groat show
Skyte, force, very forcible motion

Slae, a sloc

Snaw, snow; to snow
Snaw-broo, melted snow
Snawie, snowy

Sneck, snick, the latch of a door
Sned, to lop, to cut off
Sneeshin, snuff

Sneeshin-mill, a snuff-box
Snell, bitter, biting

Snick-drawing, trick-contriving, crafty
Snirtle, to laugh restrainedly
Snood, a ribbon for binding the hair
Snool, one whose spirit is broken with oppres.
sive slavery; to submit tamely, to sneak
Snoove, to go smoothly and constantly; to
sneak

Snowk, to scent or snuff, as a dog, &c.

Snowkit, scented, snuffed

Sonsie, having sweet, engaging looks; lucky jolly

Soom, to swim

Sooth, truth, a petty oath

Sough, a heavy sigh, a sound dying on the

ear

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Spurtle, a stick, used in making oatmeal puš ding or porridge

Squad, a crew, a party

Squatter, to flutter in water as a wild duck Squattle, to sprawl

Slade, did slide

Slap, a gate; a breach in a fence

Slaver, saliva; to emit saliva

Slaw, slow

Slee, sly; sleest, sliest

Sleekit, sleek; sly

Sliddry, slippery

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Slype, to fall over, as a wet furrow from the Squeel, a scream, a screech; to scream

Smoutie, smutty, obscene, ugly

Stane, a stone

Stang, an acute pain; a twinge; to sting Stank, did stink; a pool of standing water

Smytrie, a numerous collection of small indi- Stap, stop

viduals

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Stark, stout

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harvest who takes he lead Stick an' stow, to say, altogether Stile, a crutch; o nalt, to limp

Stimpart, the eighth part of a Winchester
bushel
Stirk, a cow or bu
Stock, a plant o

&c.

ock a year old

oot of colewort, cabbage,

Stockin, stocking; Throwing the stockin, when the bite and bridegroom are put into bed, and handle out, the former throws andom among the company, uson whom it strikes is the next ve married

a stock and tha w Stoiter,

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stagger, to stammer

Stooked made up in shocks as corn
Stoor, sounding hollow, strong, and hoarse
Stot, a ox

Stou or stowp, a kind of jug or dish with a
haule

Stour, dust, more particularly dust in mo

tion

Stowlins, by stealth

Stown, s'en

Stoyte, umble

in bed

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TACKETS, a kind of nails for driving into
the heals of shoes

Tae, a toe; three tae'd, having three pronge
Tairge, a target

Tak, to take; takin, taking
Tamtallan, the name of a mountain
Tangle, a sea-weed
Tap, the top

Tapetless, heedless, foolish
Tarrow, to murmur at one's allowance
Tarrow't, murmured
Tarry-breeks, a sailor
Tauld, or tald, told

Taupie, a foolish, thoughtless young person
Tanted, or tautie, matted together; spoken
of hair or wool

Tawie, that allows itself peaceably to be hand.
led; spoken of a horse, cow, &c.
Teat, a small quantity

Teen, to provoke; provocation
Tedding, spreading after the mower
Ten-hours bite, a slight feed to the horses
while in the yoke, in the forenoon

Tent, a field-pulpit; heed, caution; to take
heed; to tend or herd cattle

; to die a fair strae heath, to die Tentie, heedful, cautious

Strai, did strike

Strai stroked

S.rap tail and handsome

Straught, straight, to straighten

Streck, stretched, tight; to stretch

Strid to straddle

Stroa, to spout, to piss

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Strunt, spirituous liquor of any kind; to walk Thick, intimate, familiar

Studdie, an anvil

Stumpie, diminutive of stump

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Sugh, the continued rushing noise of wind or Thowe, a thaw; to thaw

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Southron, southern; an old name for the Eng-Thrang, throng; a crowd

lish nation

Swaird, sward

Swall'd, swelled

Swank, stately, jolly

Thrapple, throat, windpipe

Thrave, twenty-four sheaves or two shocks of corn; a considerable number.

Thraw, to sprain, to twist, to contradict

Swankie, or swanker, a tight strappin young Thrawin, twisting, &c.

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