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È'e, the eye e'en, the eyes e'enin, evening

eerie, frighted, dreading spirits

eild, old age
elbuck, the elbow
eldritch, ghastly, frightful
en', end

ENBRUGH, EDINBURGH
eneugh, enough
especial, especially
ettle, to try, attempt
eydent, diligent

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fallow, fellow

fand, did find

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feckless, puny, weak, silly feg, a fig

feide, feud, enmity fell, keen, biting; the flesh immediately under the skin; a field pretty level ou the side or top of a hilt fen, successful struggle,fight fend, to live comfortably ferlie, or ferly, to wonder ; a wonder, a term of contempt

fetch, to pull by fits fetch't, pulled inte: mittently fidge, to fidget

fiel, a field, soft, smooth fient, fiend, a petty oath

fairin, a fairing, a present fier, sound, healthy; a bro

fareweel, farewel

farl, a cake of bread

fash, trouble, care; to trouble, to care for fash't, troubled fastern-een, Fastens-even fauld, a fold; to fold faulding, folding

ther, a friend

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fleech'd, supplicated Heechin, supplicating fleesh, a fleece

fleg, a kick, a random blow flether, to decoy by fair words fletherin, flattering

fley, to scare, to frighten flichter, to flutter as young nestlings, when their dam approaches

flickering, to meet, to encounter with flinders, broken pieces Alingin-tree, a piece of timber hung by the way of partition between two horses in a stable; a flail flisk, to fret at the yoke fliskit, fretted

flitter, to vibrate like the wings of small birds flunkie, a servant in livery foord, a ford

forbears, forefathers

forfairn, distressed, worn out, jaded

forfoughten, fatigued

forgather, to meet, to en

counter with

forgie, to forgive

frien, friend fu', full

fud, the scut, or tail of the hare, coney, &c. fuff, to blow intermittently fuff t, did blow funnie, full of merriment fur, a farrow furm, a form, bench fyke, trifling cares; to piddle fyle, to soil, to dirty fylt, soiled, dirtied. G.

Gab, the mouth; to speak boldly, or pertly gaber-lunzie,abegger'swallet gadsman, ploughboy, the boy that drives the horses in the plough

gae, to go; gaed, went; gaen, gone

gaet, or gate, way, manner, road

gang, to go, to walk
gar, to make, to force to
gar't, forced to

garlen, a garter

gash, wise, sagacious, talk

ative, to converse

gashin, conversing

forjesket, jaded with fatigue gaucy, jolly, large

fother, fodder

fou', full, drunk

foughten, troubled, harassed fouth, plenty, enough fow, a bushel, &c. also a pitch-fork

frae, from fraeth, froth

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gear, riches, goods of kind

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ghaist, a ghost

gie, to give; gied, gay!

gien, given
giftie, dimin. of gift
giglets, playful girls
gillie. dimin, of gill
gilpey, a half grown, half in-
formed boy or girl, a
romping lad

gimmer, an ewe from one
to two years old
gin, if, against
gipsey, a young girl
girn, to grin, to twist the
features in rage, agony,
&c.
girning, grinning
gizz, a periwig

glaikit, inattentive, foolish
glaive, a sword

gawky half-witted, foolish glaizie guttering, smooth like a glass

glaum'd, aimed, snatched gleck, sharp, ready

gleib, glebe

glen, dale, deep valley
gley, a squint, to squint, a
gley, off at a side, wrong
glib-gabbet, that speaks
smoothly and readily
glint, to peep

daisy, dandelion, &c.
gowany, gowany glens, dai-
sied dales
good, 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, groan-
ed and grunted
graining, groaning
graip, a pronged instrument
for cleaning stables
graith, accoutrements, fur-
niture, dress, gear
grannie, grandmother
grape, to grope
grapit, groped

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grat, wept, shed tears
great, intimate familiar
gree, to agree; to bear the
gree, to be victor
gree't, agreed

greet, to shed tears, to weep
greetin, crying, weeping
grippet, catched, seized
groat, to get the whistle of
one's groat, to play a los-
ing game

grouseme,loathsomely grim

glowr, to stare, to look, a grozet, a gooseberry

glinted, peeped

glintin, peeping

gloamin, the twilight

stare, a look

glowred, looked, stared

grumphie, a sow

gowan, the flower of the

grun' ground

grumph, a grunt, to grunt

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the 31st of October hamely, homely, affable han', or haun', hand hap. an outer, garnrent, mantle, pla d. &". to wrap, to cover, to hap happer, a hopper happing, hopping

hap step an loup, hop skip and leap

harkit, hearkened

ha' bible, the great bible that harn, very course linen

lies in the hall

hae, to have

haen, had, the participle haet, fient-heat, a petty oath of negation; nothing haffet, the temple, the side of

the head

haflins, 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 hair'd, spared

hash, a fellow that neither knows how to dress nor act with propriety hastit, hastened haud, to hold haughs, low lying, rich lands, valleys haurl, to drag, to peel haurlin, peeling haverel, a half witted person, half wilted havins, good manners, de corum, good sense hawkie, a cow, properly one with a white face

hizzie, hussy, a young girl

kealsome, healthful, whole-hoddin, the motion of a sage

heapit, heaped

some

heurse, hoarse

hear't, hear it

heather, heath

hech! oh! strange hecht, promised to foretel something that is to be got or given; fortold; the thing foretold

heckle, a board, in which are fixed a number of sharp pins, used in dressing hemp flax, &c.

heeze, to elevate, to raise herd, to tend flocks, one who tends flocks herrin, a herring

herry, to plunder; most properly to plunder birds

nests

herryment, plundering, devestation

hersel, herself: also a herd
of cattle, of any sort
het, hot

heugh, a cragg, a coal-pit
hilch, a hobble, to halt
hilchin, halting
himsel, himself
hiney, honey
hing, bang

hirple, to walk crazily, to creep

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hissel so many cattle as one

person can attend histie, dry, chapt, barren hitcht, a loop, a knot

countryman riding on a cart-horse-bumb.e

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 nutshell, pease-swade hoolie, slowly, leisurely hoolie, take leisure, stop hoord, a hoard, to hoard hoordit, hoarded

horn, a spoon made of horn hornie, one of the many names of the devil host, or hoast, to cough hostin, coughing hosts, coughs

hoteh'd, turned topsy-turvey blended, mixed houghmagandie, fornication houlet, an owl

housie, dimin. of house hove, to heave, to swell hov'd, heaved, swelled howdie, a midwife

howe, hollow, a hollow or dell

how ebackit, sunk in the back spoken of a horse, &c. howff, a landlady, a house of resort howk, to digg howkit, digged -hawkin, digging

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