A', all, 3, 5, etc.
Aback, behind, 48; away, 11I.
Abeigh, aloof, 103.
Aboon, above, 5, 41, etc.
Abread, abroad, out, 104, 142.
Ae, one, 1, 6, etc.
Aff, off, 5, 16, etc.
Aff-hand, off-hand, at once,
Aff-loof, id., 37.
Aft, aften, oft, often.
Agley, askew, awry, 72.
Aiblins, perhaps, 97, 104, etc.
Aidle, foul water, 272.
Aik, oak, 73, etc.
Ain, own, 40, etc.
Air, early, 234.
Airn, iron, 99, 121, 159, etc.
Airt, to direct, 226.
Aith, oath, 30, 44, 117.
Aits, oats, 98.
Aiver, cart-horse, 158.
Aizle, live ember, 66.
Amaist, almost, 20, 33, etc.
Ance, once.
Ane, one.
Ase, ashes, 65.
Asklent, askew, 8.
Asteer, astir, 68.
Aught, eight.
Aughtlins, in any way, 154.
Auld, old.
Auld-farran(t, shrewd, sagaci-
ous, 61, 115.
Auld Reekie, Edinburgh, 201.
Aumous, alms, 75..
Ava', of all, 96; at all, 26, 47.
Awkart, awkward, 36.
Awnie, bearded, 98.
Ayont, beyond, 94.
BA', ball, 17, 267.
Backlins, backwards, back, 44.
Bade (pa. t. of bide), endured,
176.
Bade, asked, desired, 233.
(See Bid.)
Baggie, belly, 102.
Bailie, magistrate, 38, 178.
Bairn, child, 120, 122, etc.
Bairn-time, brood, offspring,
105, 158.
Bake, biscuit, 53.
Ban, to swear, 62.
Ban', band (part of ministerial
dress), 58.
Bane, bone; banie, big-boned,
Bang, blow, 176.
Bannock, a thin cake of oat-
meal or the like, 226.
Barefit, barefooted, 284.
Barmie, yeasty, 124.
Batch, company, party, 50.
Batts, botts, colic, 30.
Bauckie-bird, bat, 74.
Baudrons, a cat, 122, 261.
Bauk, beam, 66; bauk-en', 66.
Bauld, bold, 142, 171.
Baws'nt, white-striped, 106.
Bawtie, a dog's name. 220.
Be; to let be, to leave un-
molested, 93.
Bear, barley, 97, 198, 247.
Beas', beasts, vermin, 154.
Beet, add fuel to, fan (a
flame), 19, 90, 163.
Belyve, by-and-by, 87, 197.
Ben, into the parlour, 16, 89.
Benmost, innermost, 76, 155.
Be thankit, grace after meat,
Blastie, wretch, 139, 142.
Bonie, pretty, beautiful.
Bonilie, prettily, 87, etc.
Bonnock bannock, 117.
Boord, board, 95.
Boor-tree, elder-tree, 94.
Boost, must needs, 139, 157.
Boot, extra payment, 83.
Bore, hole, chink, 76, 245.
Botch, pustule, 96.
Bow-kail, cabbage, 64, 65.
Bow't, bent, crooked, 64.
Brachens, ferns, 70.
Brae, bank, slope, 40, 42, 70,
Braid, broad.
Braik, harrow, 36.
Brainge, to plunge forward,
Branks, wooden horse-curb,
bridle, 26, 57, 183.
Brash, sudden illness, 100.
Brattle, a spurt, scamper, 71,
104; onset, 191.
Brats, small bits, rags, 118,
234.
Braw, fine, handsome, 9, 63,
Blate, bashful, backward, 63, Brawlie, very well, 39, 176,
Blather, bladder, 3, 101.
Blaud, a large piece, 36.
Blaud, to beat, pelt, 120;
blaudin, 57.
Blaw, to brag, boast, 34.
Bleeze, a blaze, 65, 245.
Bleeze, to blaze, 65, 243.
Blellum, babbler, blusterer, 59,
203, 242.
Blether, blethers,
Blether, to talk nonsense, 50,
Blink, a moment, 55.
Blink, to beam, glance, 74, 87,
Blinker, one who looks or
glances, 101, 190.
Blue-gown, beggar's livery, 6.
Blype, a large piece, 69.
Bock, to vomit, 191.
Boddle, a small coin (2 pen-
nies Scots), 176, 245.
Bogle, hobgoblin, 244.
247.
Braxies, sheep that have died
of disease, 43.
Breeks, breeches, 101, 226.
Brent-new, brand-new, 245.
Brie, juice; barley-brie, 100.
Brief, writ, 124, 171.
Brig, bridge, 176.
Brisket, breast, 104.
Brock, badger, 13, 108.
Brogue, trick, 96.
Broo, water, 179; snaw-broo,
melted snow, 177.
Broose, a wedding-race from
the church to the bride's
home, 103.
Brose, meal mixed with boil-
ing water, 234.
Browster-wives, ale wives, 56.
Brugh, burgh, 38, 113, etc.
Brulyie, quarrel, broil, 45,
285.
Brunstane, brimstone, 25, 54.
Brunt, burned, 65.
Brust, burst, 113.
Bummle, drone, useless fellow,
164.
Burdies, lasses, 246.
Bure, bore, carried, 41.
Burn, burnie, a small stream,
41, 69, 238.
Burnewin, the blacksmith,
99.
Busk, to dress, dress up, trim,
176, 201, 202, 268.
But, in the outer room (kit-
chen); but an' ben, 53; but
the house, 225.
By, beside, 67.
Byke, hive, 247; swarm,
crowd, 83.
CA', to call, 45; to drive,
carry on, 32; ca'd, driven,
Carlin, old woman, 69, 79, 115,
Cartes, playing cards, 19, 23,
37, 266.
Catch-the-plack, money-mak-
ing, 35.
Cauk, chalk, 230.
Cauld, cold.
Caup, a wooden cup, 54, 99,281.
Cavie, coop; chicken-cavie, 83.
Change house, inn, tavern, 53.
Chanter, a part of the bag-
pipes, 40, 227.
Chap, fellow, 51, 156.
Chap, a blow, 99.
Chap, to strike, 47.
Chapman, pedlar, 241, 296.
Cheek-for-chow, cheek by jowl,
114, 189.
Cheep, a squeak, 121.
Cheep, to chirp, 203.
Chiel', chield, fellow, 16, 32,
40, 78, etc.
Chimla, chimlie, chimney, 16,
64, 213.
Chittering, shivering, 191.
Chuckie, hen (applied to a
woman), 201, 235.
Chuffie, fat-faced, 114.
Clachan, hamlet, village, 28,
73; clachan-yill, 25.
Claes, claise, clothes, 50, 88,
118, 267.
Claithing, clothing, 6.
Clap, clapper of a mill, 167.
Clash, idle talk, 124.
Clash, to tattle, gossip, 8.
Clatter, talk, gossip, 8, 61, 243,
Clatter, to chatter, prattle,
100, 186.
Claught, clutched, seized, 248.
Claut, a catch, 261.
Clautit, scraped, 159.
Clavers, nonsense, 198.
Cleckin, a brood, 203.
Cleed, to clothe, 185.
Cleek, to snatch, steal, 79;
cleekit, joined hands, 246.
Cleg, gadfly, 189.
Clink, coin, 227.
Clink, jingle, 62.
Clink, a smart blow, 73.
Clink, to jingle, to rime, 37, 61.
Clour, the mark of a blow, 44.
Clout, to patch, 82; clouted,
156.
Clunk, to sound (of liquor),
83.
Coble, a fishing-boat, 103.
Cock, good fellow, 5, 117;
cockie, 235-
Coft, bought, 247.
Cog, a wooden cup or dish,
54, 99, 104; coggie, 159.
Coof, fool, ninny, 16, 25, 130.
(See Cuif.)
Cook, to hide, 70.
Coost, did cast, 1; threw off,
246, 267.
Cootie, a small pail, 93.
Cootie, with feathered legs,
Corbie, raven, 179.
Corn't, fed with corn, 103.
Coup, to upset, overturn, 172.
(See Cowp.)
Couthie, kind, loving, 64.
Cowe, a fright, scare, 45.
Cowe, to lop, crop, 123.
Cowp, to overturn, 57; to fall,
28. (See Coup.)
Cowt, a colt, 139, 158.
Crack, talk, chat, story, 32,
33, 35, 55, etc.; cracks, 5,
65, 70.
Crack, to talk, 89; crackin,
Creel, basket; in a creel, con-
fused, 40.
Creeshie, greasy, 119, 246.
Crock, an old yew, 12.
Cronie, intimate friend, 49,
151, 243.
Crood, to coo, 42.
Croon, moan, low sound, 5,
70, 94, 188.
Croon, to make a hollow
sound, 55: to hum, 33, 244.
Crouchie, hunch-backed, 68.
Crouse, merry, lively, 95, 171.
Crouse, crousely, merrily,
109, 186.
Crowdie-time, breakfast-time,
Crowlin, crawling, 141.
Crummock, a staff, 188, 247.
Crump, crisp, 50.
Crunt, a knock, 44.
Cuif, ninny, 100, 178. (See
Coof.)
Cummock, a staff, 165.
Curchie, curtesy, 49.
Curmurring, rumbling noise,
30.
Curpin, crupper, 67; curple,
Cushat, wood pigeon, 42, 238.
Custock, heart of a cabbage-
stalk, 64.
Cutty, short; cutty sark, 247.
Cutty-stool, stool of repent-
ance, 182.
DADDIE, father, 8, 44.
Daffin, merry-making, fun,
49, 78, 167.
Daft, foolish, mad, 78, 84.
Dails, deals, planks, 50.
Daimen, odd, occasional, 71.
Darklins, in the dark, 66.
Daud, a large piece, 54.
Daud, to pelt, 120; daudin,
56.
Daunder, to saunter, 283.
Daunton, to subdue, depress,
8, 283.
Daurk, day's labour, 105.
Daut, dawt, to pet, fondle, 9;
dautit, 95, 159.
Dawd, see Daud.
Dead, death, 40, 247.
Dead-sweer, very lazy, 162.
Deave, to deafen, annoy, 123.
Deil, devil, 93, etc.
Deil-haet, nothing at all, 62,
Deil-ma-care. no matter, 28.
Deleerit, delirious, 66.
Delvin, digging, 162.
Dern, to hide, 73.
Devel, a heavy blow, 185.
Diddle, to move quickly, 61,
188.
Dight, to wipe, 21, 80, 196,
220; to clean (corn), 167.
Ding, to beat, surpass, 156.
Dirl, rattle, 28.
Dirl, to rattle, 245.
Doit, to feel stupid, 183.
Doited, stupid, 98, 178.
Donsie, vicious, mischievous,
103, 167.
Dool, woe, sorrow, 13, 166,
Drone, a part of the bagpipe,
267.
Droop-rumpl't, with drooping
rump, 104.
Drouth, thirst, 85, 114, 233.
Drouthy, thirsty, 241.
Drucken, drunken, 5, 100, 183.
Drumlie, muddy, turbid, 110.
Drummock, raw meal and
water. 165.
Drunt, pet, huff, 65.
Dub, a puddle, pool, 14, 162,
Duddie, ragged, 106, 108, 142,
Duddies, rags, clothes, 74, 234,
246.
Duds, id., 85, 96, 154.
Dunt, to beat, 259.
Dusht, dashed down, 131.
Dyke, a wall, 12, 81, 108, etc.;
dyke-back, 33.
Dyvor, bankrupt, 154.
EARN, eagle, 238.
Eastlin, eastern, 225.
Eerie, awed, frightened, 26,
58, 68, 131; ghostly, 94.
Eild, old age, 126, 177.
Elbuck, elbow, 61, 121.
Eldritch, unearthly, ghostly,
30, 51, 94, 95, 230, 239, 248.
Erse, Gaelic, 97..
Ether-stone, adder-stone, 269.
Ettle, aim, intent, 248.
Ev'n-down, downright, 112.
Eydent diligent, 88.
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