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Bure, did bear

Burn, water, a rivulet

Clarkit, wrote

Clash, an idle tale

Burnewin, i. e. Burn the wind, Clatter, to tell idle stories

a blacksmith

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Claught, snatched at

Claut, to clean, to scrape

Cleekit, having caught

Clinkin, jerking, clink ing

Clinkumbell, who rings the church-bell

But an' beu, the country kit Clishmaclaver, idle conversi

chen and parlour

Byke, a bee hive

tion

Clips, sheers

CA'T, or ca'd, called, driven, Clock, to hatch, a beetle

calved

Cadger, a carrier

Cadie, or caddie, a person, a
young fellow
Caff, chaff
Caird, a tinker

Cairn, a loose heap of stones
Callan, a boy
Callar, fresh, sound

Cantie, or cannie, gentle, mild, dextrous

Cantie, or canty, cheerful
Cantraip, a charm, a spell
Cap-stane, cope stone
Careerin, cheerfully

Carl, an old man

Carlin, a stout old woman

Cauk and keel, chalk and red clay

Caup, a wooden vessel
Cesses, taxes

Chauter, a part of a bagpipe
Chaup, à stroke, a blow
Cheekit, cheeked

Cheep, a chirp, to chirp

Cloot, the hoof of a cow, &c.
Clootie, name for the devil
Clour, a bump or swelling
Cockernony, a lock of hair
Coft, bought

Cog, a wooden dish
Coggie, dimin. of cog
Coil, from Kyle, a district of
Ayrshire, so called from Coi-
la, or Coilus, a Pictish mo-
narch

Collie, a name of curs
Collieshangie, quarrelling
Commaun, command

Coof, a blockhead, a ninny Cookit, appeared and disappeared by fits

Coost, did cast

Coot, the ancle or foot

Cootie, a wooden kitchen dish Core, corps, party clan

Cotter, the inhabitant of a cothouse, or cottage Couthie, kind, loving

Cowe, to terrify

Cowp, to barter, to tumble

over, a gang

Cowte, a colt

Chow,to chew; cheek for chow, Cozie, snug

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Crabbit, crabbed, fretful

Crack, to converse

Craft, or Croft, a field near a

house

Craiks, cries or calls

Crambo-cliuk, or crambo jingle, | Dearthfu', dear

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Deave, to deafen

Deil-ma-care, no matter! for

all that!

Deleerit, delirious
Descrive, to describe

Dight, to wipe, to clean corn from chaff

Ding, to worst, to push
Dirl, slight tremulous stroke
or pain

Diazen, or dia'n, a dozen
Donsie, unlucky, sickly

Dool, sorrow; to sing dool, to
lament, to mourn
Dorty, saucy, nice

Douce, or douse, sober, wise Dought, was or were able Doup, backsida

Doup-skelper, one who strikes the tail

Dour and din, sullen, sallow
Dour, stout, durable, sullen
Douser, more prudent
Dov, am or are eble, can
Dowff, pithless, wanting force
Dowie, worn with grief, fatigue,
&c. half asleep
Downa, am or are not able
Doylt, stupid

Drapping, dropping
Dreep, to ooze, to drop
Dreigh, long about it
Dribble, drizzling, slaver
Droddum, the breech
Drone, part of a bag-pipe
Droop rumpl't, that droops at

the crupper Droukit, wet

Drounting, drawling

Drumly, muddy

Drummock, meal and water
Drunt, pet, sour humour
Dub, a small pond
Duds, rags, clothes
Dunted, beaten, boxed
Dusht, pushed by a ram, &c.

E'E, the eye

Eerie, frighted, dreading spi rits

Eild, old age

Elbuck, the elbow

Eldritch, ghastly, frightful
Enbrugh, Edinburgh
Ettle, to try, attempt
Eydent, diligent
FA', fall, lot, to fall
Fa's, docs fall, waterfalls
Faem, foam
Faiket, unknown
Fallow, fellow

Fand, did find

Farl, a cake of bread

Fash, trouble, care
Fasteren-een, Fastens Even

Fauld, a fold, to fold
Faulding, folding

Fawsont, decent, seemly

Feal, a field, smooth

Feat, neat, spruce

Fearfu', frightful

Fechtio, fighting

Feck, many, plenty

Fecket, waistcoat

Feck'fu, large, brawny

Feckless, puny, weak, silly
Feg, a fig

Feide, feud, enmity
Fell, a field pretty level
Fen, successful struggle, fight
Fend, to live comfortably
Ferlie, or Ferley, to wonder, a
term of contempt
Fetch, to pull by fits
Fidge, to fidget

Fiel, soft, smooth

Fient, fiend, a petty oath

Fier, sound, healthy; a brother, a friend

Fisle, to make a noise

Fit, a foot

Fittie lan, the nearer horse Fizz, to make a hissing noise, like fermentation

Fleech, to supplicate in a flat

tering manner Fleesh, a fleece

Fleg, a kick, a random blow
Flether, to decoy
Fletherin, flattering
Fley, to scare, to frighten
Flicher, to flutter

Flickering, to meet, to encoun. ter with

Flinders, shreds

Fliugin-tree, a piece of timber hung between two horses in a stable, a flail

Flisk, a fret at the yoke

Fiishit, fretted

Flitter, to vibrate like the wings

of small birds

Flittering, fluttering

Flunkie, a servant in livery

Foord, a ford

Forbears, forefathers

Forbye, besides

Forfairn, distressed, jaded

-Forfaughten, fatigued

Forgather, to meet, to encoun
ter with

Forjeskit, jaded with fatigue
Fou', full, drunk

Foughten, troubled, harassed
Fouth, plenty, enough
Fow, a bushel, a pitchfork
Fud, the scud, or tail of the
hare, coney, &c.

Fuff, to blow intermittently
Fuff't, did blow

Furm, a form, bench

Fyke, trifling cares
Fyle, to soil, to dirty
Fyl't, soiled, dirtied

GAB, the mouth; to speak
boldly, or pertly
Gaber-lunzie, au old man
Gadsman, ploughboy

Gae, to go; gaen, went; gaen,
or gaun, going
Gaet, or gate, way, manner,

read

Gar, to make, to force to Gash, wise, talkative Gashin, conversing Gaucy, jolly, large Gear, riches, goods

Geck, to toss the head in wan

tonness or scorn
Genes, great folks
Geordie, a guinea
Ghaist, a ghost

Gie, to give; gied, gave
Giftie, dimin. of gift
Giglets, playful girls
Gillie, dimin. of gill
Gilpey, a half a crown, boy or
girl, a romping lad, a hoyden
Gimmer, an ewe from one to
two years old
Gin, if, against

Girn, to grin in rage, agony,&c.
Gizz, a periwig
Glaikit, inattentive, foolish
Glaive, a sword

Gawky, half-witted, foolish
Glaizie, glittering, smooth
Glaund, aimed, snatched
Gleck, or gleg, sharp, ready
Gley, a squint, to squint, agley,
off at a side, wrong
Glib-gabbet,that speaks smooth.
ly and readily
Glint, to peep
Gloamin, the twilight
Glowr, to stare, to look
Glowred, looked, stared
Gowan, the flower of the daisy,
dandelion, &c.
Gowany, gleus, daisied dales
Gowff'd, struck

Gowff, the game of golf Gowk, a cuckoo, a term of con. tempt

Gowl, to howl

Grane, or grain, a groan

Grain'd, aud graunted, groaned

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Graith, dress, geer

Grannie, grandmother
Great, intimate, familiar
Gree, to agree, to bear the gree,
to be decidedly victor
Greet, to shed tears, to weep
Groat, to get the whistle of
one's groat, to play a losing
game

Gronsome, loathsome, grim
Grozet, a gooseberry
Grumph, a grunt, to grunt
Grumphie, a sow
Grun', ground

Grunstane, a grindstone
Gruntle, the pliz, a grunting
noise
Grunzie, mouth

Grushie, thick of thriving, growth

Gude, the Supreme Being,good Guid-mornin, good morning Guid-e'en, good evening Guidman and guidwife, the master and mistress of the house; a young guidman, a man newly married Gully, or gullie, a large knife Gumlie, muddy Gusty, tasteful HA'BIBBLE,

bible Hae, to have

large family

Haen, had, the particle Haet, fient, haet, a petty oath of negation, nothing

Haffet, the temple

Haffins, nearly half, partly Hag, a scar, or gulf in mosses and moors

Haggis, a kind of pudding

Hain, to spare, to save

Hairst, harvest

Hith, a petty oath

Haivers, nonsense, speaking without thought

Hal' or ha'd, an abiding place

Hale, whole, tight, healthy
Hame, home

Hallan, partition-wall in a cottage, or a seat of turf at the outside

countrymau riding on a cart. horse; humble

Hog-score, a kind of distance line, in curling, drawn across the rink

Hallowmas, Hallow-eye, the Hog-souther, a kind of play,

31st of October

Han', or haua', hand

Hap, plaid, &c. to wrap, to

cover

Happing, hopping
Harkit, bearkened
Harn, very coarse linen

Hash, a fellow that neither
knows how to dress nor act
with propriety
Hastit, hastened
Haud, to hold

Haughs, rich lands, vaileys
Haurl, to drag, to peel
Haverel, a half-witted person,
half-witted

Havins, good manners
Hawtie, a cow, properly one
with & white face
Healsome, healthful
Hearse, hoarse

Hecht, promised to foretel something that is to be got or given

Heeze, to elevate, to raise Herryment, plundering, devas

tation

Hersel, herself; also a herd of

cattle of ang sort Het, bot

Heugh, craig, a coal-pit"
Hilch, a hobble, to halt
Hiney, honey
Hing, to hang
Hirple, to walk crazily
Hissel, so many cattle as one

person can attend
Histie, dry, chapt, barren
Hitcht, a loop, a kuot
Hissic, hussy, a young girl
Hoddin, the motion of a sage

by justling with the shoulder Hool, outer skin or case, &

nutshell, pease swade Hoolie, slowly, leisurely Hoord, a hoard; to board Horn, a spoon made of horn Hornie, one of the many names of the devil

Host, or hoast, to cough Hotch'd, turned topsy-turvy, blended, mixed

Houghmagandie, fornication
Housie, dimin. of house
Hove, to heave, to swell
Howdie, a midwife
Howe, a hollow or dell
Howebackit, sunk in the back
Howff, a house of resort
Howk, to dig
Hoy, to urge

Hoyse, a pull upwards
Hoyte, to amble crazily
Hughoc, dimin. of Hugh
Hurdies, the loins
Hushion, cushion

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