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  1. Constancy n.There was a coming and gaun aboot the plaee of ne'er-do-well dyvours and licht limmers . . . birling for a constancy at the wine and the cairtes. “I wouldn't do it for a constancy,” . I would not make a practiee of it.  
  2. Strag n.2 and restless ne'er-do-weels. Auld Purdie's doos are a' strags tae! To gae one's strags — to do one'sA bald man with only a fringe of hair left is said to “hae but a stragg o' hair.” All the strags 
  3. Do-nae-better n. phr. asked him what wey he'd been sic a stranger. “What do ye tak' me for?” he burst oot in a temper “Your do 
  4. Do-weel n. comb.A' the do-weels are of a soberly staid character.  
  5. Flether v., n.Expect na, Sir, to this narration, A fleechan, fleth'ran . Fleechers fletherin', Critics bletherin'. Aye, flaither awa! Since I'll no do wi' foul play, try me wi' fair play. An you athoot the hear thaim tell. Do you think to beguile me, wi' your fleeching and your flethers, to do the devil's wark? This, Tammie, is nae fleechin' flether. I thocht . . . he had sickened ye aince for a' wi' his 
  6. Awow interj.To do as she did, alake and avow. But to do as I did, alas, and awow, To busk up a rock at the 
  7. Blue-do n.If they ging on inflatin this wey, it's a blue do for us a'.  
  8. Eerie n. used to take it and put it in their breasts as a charm, repeating this rhyme— ‘Eerie, eerie, I do pluckHe plucked a bit of common Yarrow and told me that the plant was once called ‘Eerie’, as lasses And in my bosom I do put; The first young lad that speaks to me, The same shall my true lover be.’  
  9. Glinted adj.She's a glinted ting o' a lass, you can never tell what she may say or do.  
  10. Circumgird v.There are some . . . whoa do a' mankin' Circumgird wi' luive.  
  11. Povily adj.A puir povily body — she kunno even do for hersel.  
  12. Salamander n.Ye'll get a right salamander if ye do that again.  
  13. Readily adv., adj.Readily (not readily do) = not likely to do. Sandy Riddell wull hae been here the day readily? Here we are at the Kirk door, an' it'll readilys be a thin congregation. So that some readlyer tokens 
  14. Kyauve v., n. dubs. Then ye do buy a leaf o' wax, And kiauve it weel, and mould it fair. Gee the livven a gueede kyauve. See til Jean Tamson yon'or . . . aye in a kyave o' dirt an' never throu. To do a thing with a kyauve is to do it with reluctance. Gin the ae answer tae dool is wark then here's as muckle ontak as 
  15. Enlarger n.He preaches weel I do admit, And is a good enlarger.  
  16. Unsuspect adj.The Letters of Horning do afford a strong and unsuspect Proof.  
  17. Troutsho n.A' the Trout shows, in a bang, Do come, and to the barn they thrang, For that's their hame.  
  18. Poll n.1, v.“Oh” I said, noticing his hair-cut, “you mean a ‘pole', do you?” Conversation between two boys. A. = “'A polled thee?” B. “Bubba”.  
  19. Hoit v., n.1And do ye think I have naething a-do, but come here every other day hoiting after you? Tho' now ye dow but hoyte and hoble, An' wintle like a saumont-coble. Nor does he hoit, an' stoit, an' stacher. I cam doon the hurdies o' the shelt wi' a skelp that made it cock up its heid an' hoitle awa' yont the road. An' hoo the tailor had to lowse His wark, an' hoyte up in a crack The base auld lurdon on 
  20. Nyse v.A word in use among the boys of the High School of Edinburgh; . . . “I'll you” , I'll do you a 
  21. Riggaforaaser n., adj.Thoo're just a perfect riggaforaaser. What riggaforaaser way is that tae do it?  
  22. Wizzy n.Take Jenny to the lavvy, will you? She wants to do a wizzy.  
  23. Bowsh n., v.Can I do a bowsh for you? I'll send the bowsher up with it.  
  24. 'ithoot prep.Workin' ithoot devald an' makin' ready. A dinna ken fat I wad do 'ithoot ye. 'Ithoot sain' a wird 
  25. Design n.“Pickle” is also a small quantity — “Do you take sugar?” “Ay, a wad like a wee pickle,” or “a wee design” — also a small amount, as the case may be.  
  26. Grandur n.Oh! what's a' the walth o' the warld, my Jessie? An' what a' the kickshaws an' granneur sae braw? Do ye think I hae naething ither to do than to grin' the grandur o' an auld haythen into spunemate for a young sinner like you? O' warld's gear an' grande'r we ha'e never haen a store. Irving had tried his wings in the parish church of Kirkcaldy; he had “O'er muckle gran'ner.” A Scotland 
  27. Never adv. gentleman says, ye drunken ne'er-do-good? Back came the same reckless neer-do-gude . . . to make a like deevil's buckie o' a mither. Some of the ne'er-do-weel . . . clerks . . . were seen gaffawing andHe couldna wauk, he durstna crawl But shiver'd like a ne'er-devawl. D'ye hear what the . . . young attempt on our laird's roosts of far capons. Some ha'e a hantla fauts, ye're only a ne'er dowell. Heh, Sirs! what cairds and tinklers come, An' horse-coupers. If there isna our auld ne'er-do-weel haverelling with Jeanie. Hae they, like him grown ne'er-do-weels? They came upon the parish ne'er-do-weel. A' that waited me wis a dreary life on me faither's ferm, wae Peggy mairried tae yin ne'er-deu-weel chapin bottle is fivepence, the bottle never required [= not returnable]. , not to know. The never a rag we'll be seeking o't. Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest men and bonnie lasses. They are ne'er a hair better than them. The ne'er o' that I did, or may my shakal bane ne'er turn 
  28. Bristen adj.An' sae do I, but really now-a-days, Folk are sae bristen, wi' their meat an' Claise, A Tradesman's finances will scarcely thole, To make a purchase o' a cart o' coal.  
  29. Leazle v.Naether do I leazle mysel', makin. a wark in meikle mattirs, or in things ower heich for me.  
  30. Outlins adv.Do as their faither did too, quo the Ayrshireman. Let them gang ootlins an steal a wee coo.  
  31. Partle v., n.1A currant tart that's just gaun into the oven, if that hizzy wadna partle a' day oot there wi' a pickle berries . . . Gang and do my errand, and no stand partlin' there.  
  32. Basher n.2I am inclined to think that there are certain kinds of clothes that do not blend with a “basher.”  
  33. Groick n.D'ye think I'd let a groick like Hilly sell my beasts, or thon lousy slut Bally do my business?  
  34. Sychter v.Peat fires have always some warmth in them. If they do not burn with a strong heat, they “sychter.”  
  35. Ranter v., n.We also do a first class ranter patching service. Stockings were always “randered” in those days, and a great deal of the guidman's underclothing was made of scourings. “Ranter that thegither” — sew up that seam roughly. No ane — can do back-steek, bane-steek, ranterfield, and dodgel-hem, half sae weel as my Tibby. We speak of giving any garment that is much worn a ranter up, meaning a hasty sew. A fair rander o' scribbles lek 'at. A ranter steek an' a dirdgel hem — a stitch done in a hurry when one of the men tears his clothes at harvest. A Credit on Bills . . . to be Employed . . . partly 
  36. Wode interj.Wode I think ye're a cumstrarie piece o' stuff. . . . Wode she said you could do naething but scure 
  37. Flet n.2 [roomy] . Because it makes People sit at a Distance. Tho' ye sud do nae mair ava, But sit i' the flet like a midden, An' for your necessities ca'.  
  38. Funtan n. drink at the funtin fan we do come — a pure gospel preached. “Speer at Dawvid there,” said Meg, “He's aye the funtain heid o' buzness.” Ye see we get a pure 
  39. Smeeg n.2, v.“O no!” he replied, wi a kind o a smeeg. Drake smeegit till himsell an says, “Whin dis is done, A'll do fir you!” I just smeeget an hold me tongue.  
  40. Caukly adv.He drinks nothing but wine and eats more in a day than he used to do in a week and is turned very 
  41. Ambel n.1, v.1 to do a thing; to make an attempt. , , and , fumbling attempt to carry out a task; . . . fumbling attempt to walk. , , and , to make fumbling attempts; . . . . . . to walk feebly and totteringly, , of a child. , v.a., to try 
  42. Haet n., if they didna do that. An' sae it is, a strappin', guidlie queen, By square an' rule in nature's arable but they can do. ... ' Devil a haet's gaunna come o hus. 'Betsy, run and see if ony o' them has him if he had no idea what to do if he had £5,000, he lazily drawled, “I widna dae a blessed haetThere was a gentleman standing next to me . . . who said, A Pack of Damn'd Witches and Warlocks, that have the second Sight, the Devil-ha't do I see. What's siller for? Fiend haet awa, But gowden playfair, that may please. Ye'll be wanting mair siller, fule hate ye'll do for naething here. For thae! My mither said “Het! she's far ower young.” As is said of a destitute bodie, “Foundit hate or Deil-be-lickit hate he has.” Wud ye only do that! but na! haith ye! sorra haet ye'll do what onybuddy wants ye. De'il ha'e't I care how she enjoyed her party. Deil a haid care I for session or Presbytery. Then the Foumart, he sits knitting his stocking, and quarrelling wi' the haill o' them. The fient a 
  43. Clash-pyet n. comb.Ye'll do naething o' the kin', Betty. Are ye gaein' to turn clash-pyet at age? He said he wud gie me a letherin' if I was a clash-pie. With school boys . . . a tell-tale is a . . . “clash pyet.”  
  44. Ramstoorie adj., v. “anything will do if it does” we say she is “right ramstoorie.” ah'm mentul pure radge a richt ramstoorieWhen a woman barges through her house-work like a bull at a gate, and her attitude is sort of 
  45. Cluff n.1, v.1A'll gey ee a cluff o' the lug. to beat, thrash. An ye dinna do what I bid you, I'll cluff 
  46. Haut v., n.The principal thing aboot tellin' a story is to see that you do not send it awa' hattin. But, my maisters, it's nae gate ava to Gorranberry, a mere haut-stride-and-loup.  
  47. Husband Wark n. comb.A domestic servant man who can . . . work all husband work. A muckle lazy useless jade, she can do naething but work at husband wark; card and spin, wash ladies rooms . . . she canna tak a creel on her back.  
  48. Unsensible adj.The poor lad was not so unsensible, but he knew to do his bidding. No' that he's unsensible, except when a notion takes hnn.  
  49. Rate n., v.Standard Cherries may be planted to fill the upper Parts of a Wall planted with Dwarf Cherries, but not otherways at any Rate. Whate'er ye do' dispone Beersheba at no rate. I couldna follow him out at nae rate. Hout Donald, gang e'en yere ways, and do the Laird's bidding: we maunna anger the Laird at 
  50. Cleverality n.He could not do less than ask the honest man, whose cleverality had diverted us so much, to . . . take a chack of supper. Mr Fergusson . . . was a man of no little cleverality in some things.  
  51. Kletter n. frae yer head, but no' daurin' to do it, for a' da kletter they're makin' aboot it. A' da birds . . . skirlin', an' screamin', an' seemin' as gin they wud like to pick oot yer een 
  52. Cloch v.2Dinna be cloching on addled eggs: what has tou to do with a lodger? The Snaw-fleck sits busy in the neuk, as sleek as a kinnen [rabbit], and the auld clocher fornent her admiring and misca'ing her a 
  53. Rander v.1, n.1 see on their brows mair than I do.” Stap randerin' — hae some sense! She's a perfect rander. “Call“Havers, lassie!” cried her faither angrily; “are ye at your randering again? — what blood do ye 
  54. Loonge v., n.The trees wi' snaw aboon their heads Do loonge and grain aneath their laids. Siccan a lang loongin'-like fella that has grown. Yeh loonge owre the brig … an A was luntin alang the skleff, towrt Denum.  
  55. Auld-tasted adj.If I could get a bargain o' some butter, although it was a wee auld-tasted, or moatie, it might do 
  56. Clash-tae n. comb.Granny Dickson, the howdie, . . . had ta'en up with him in his younger days, — though I do not think there ever was ony marriage, but juist a clash-tae.  
  57. Banging vbl. n. a good banging water, by which he means taking chance shots, without seeing the run of the fish. Being asked, whether when they are deprived of sight, and can only fish by banging, they do not catch fewer fish than when they had sight? depones, that they do so, and that if they wanted sights, they 
  58. Nae adv.1“Nae, nae, ye'll get a reasonable price for your goods.” . . . “Do you mean to rob me?” “Nae, nae a' richt.”  
  59. Defender n.In the case of an action of reduction of a deed, the pursuer calls upon the defender to produce the deed in question, and the defender must do so.  
  60. Bud n.2, v.3Do you mind when he got the lick on the lug. . . . Well, he turned a' buddies and scaas (scabs), and he said that wis what did it. A buddin', braid, carbuncled beak, Spreads ower your phiz frae 
  61. Buggen v., p.p.For he has bugn a bigly bower, An a' to pit his ae daughter in. An' do thou, moreover, fauld us 
  62. Fykerie n.I dinna ken how ye do, Jeanie. . . . but I couldna be fashed wi' sic fikery. I canna understand . . . whar for a' this fykerie's about a lump o' yird? Several times his fussiness and have brought angry 
  63. Brush n., v.1 him a brushing gallop would do his favourite no harm. at any kind of work, to assist by working violently for a short time. White as a frosted plum-cake, by jingo! No matter; I am not sorry to find I can stand a brush of weather yet. I . . . assured 
  64. Manteel n., It's a' lined wi the frieze. Upo' her back the wauchty creels, She thraws as eithly in a spell; As yon “half-nabs” do their mantels.  
  65. Jurmummle v., n.“How do you mean when you say they were hashed?” “Champit like; a' broozled and jurmummled, as it war.” Myne curpin was jermummlyt. I trow it is a shame to see a pretty maid jaumphed an' jurmummled in that gate. A reid dawin. Sun and Yirth jurmummelt. A bairn's face taks lowe i the causey.  
  66. Kig n.' hey bru in a ulie kig. What canna mak a kig may do ta mak a daffik. Dey hed a kig at stod ahint deStrik da head oot o' da drink kig and ouse da boat; da watter wis up at da fasta bands. A drap o 
  67. Gigglegawkie n.A father complained to him in the following terms — “Maister Jolly, yin gigglegawkie, fat ye ca' m' son, . . . tramped 'po' my folpey's feet, and fat do ye think o' that, Maister Jolly?”  
  68. Glum v., adj.Winter's down-draught sweeps the lum, . . . And the peats do nocht but glum. To the funeral we a 
  69. Mummie n.2Do haes Him ta tank at mi hushapan is no laid in mummie an' I a cauld corp i' da brucks o' him 
  70. Skovin n.If I as muckle as scrape a pot in her hearing, she maun ken what I do wi' the scovins. Eftir 
  71. Dandie-claw n. comb., or of a job which one intends to do in the quickest and sketchiest way.  
  72. Capstride v. never a ane wad do well that cap-strided the kirk. For cuttin' drains, Or boxin' hedges, or for cuttinBetter be cuckold than capstridden. I have mony, mony a time, heard thy honest father say, that 
  73. Hailumly adv., healemlee, Just to a man do a' agree.  
  74. Unbeknowins adj., adv.Do you ever feel as if you could read folks' thoughts as plain as print unbeknownst to your neighbours? A man micht maist lose sicht o' wee odd drams an' be took drunk unbeknowin's. Sheena, aal unbeknownst, had been extra friendly with a young fellow.  
  75. Ahame adv. a-fiel', For the sake o' Royal Geordie! Ye better bide the day. Whar do ye live whan ahameCome ilka loyal Scottish chiel, Wha bears a heart that's true an' leal, Wha'd sing a-hame, or ficht 
  76. Bawtie n.1Some distance aff where plantins grow, And firs their bushy taps do rear, There hopes to hide her pou, And gain some sma respite frae fear. , . The common name for a hare. . Titular name for: 1. A hare. Rxb., n[orth], n[orth]-w[est]. 2. A rabbit. c[entral].  
  77. Crab n., v. cause, and mease without amends. A couldn't thole bein' crabbed at, when A didn't do nothin' ondaicentJohn Dick . . . after all was a man, though a crab-grained and ill-conditioned one. Crab without a. You tirred the kirks, and crabbit God. The man who never kicks a ball, Nor figures in a punchin' bout 
  78. Barrier n.Every wheel he gives it [the swoople], he leaps over it, and so produces a very singular dance, . . . yet few of the who do this dance in style, are willing to perform before spectators.  
  79. Froon v., n.' there's glee — on ilk face do you see The ghaist o' a gloom or a froun', O? They never heed a word I speak, I try to gi'e a froon. There's a moral attached to my sang, On greed ye should aye gie a froon.  
  80. Gaffaw n., v. games do ye practise to pass your meal hours, An' bear aff the palm wi' a hearty gaffa? To bend wi' yeSyne circling wheels the flattering Gaffaw, As well they may, he gars their Beards wag a'. , They all laughed loud. Bean, wi' her scout-mouth, gi'es gaffaws. He nicker't sic a lang gaffaw. What and spend wi' ye An Evening, and gaffaw. What's a yon loud gaffawing din. Muckle din an' loud gilraivitch was amang them, gaffawan an' lauchan. Some of the ne'er-do-weel young clerks of the town were sides are sair! When e'en bit a younker, he'd cowr in a bunker Wi' 's beuk, daft gaffawers to mixna amang. The simple turning of a straw, Would make them both gaffaers, Like fools this day. Sydney Smith 
  81. Pictarnie n. principal. “What do you see extraordinary about that bird, Hector? — it's but a sea-maw.” “It's a pictarnie, sir,” said Edie. It is said proverbially, “If ye do that,” or “If that be sae, I'se be a pictarnie,” . . . referring to a thing supposed to be impracticable or incredible. I observed several parties of Pickietars , , the common , and the least sort called the [sic]. He described his wife as being a perfect . A peer pykit-to-dead-like pictarntie o' a forfairn craeter.  
  82. Jubish adj., v.I'd scarce approve't had I a vote — At least, I wad be jubous o't. An' whin the breir begood tae ky Sheu teuk a jubish care. 'E fowk 'e hoose is gettan' jubish at somethin's come owre 'ir. Nobody could do with him — he's that jubous.  
  83. Melodious adj., adv.'.” . . . “That's a melodious lee, whaever said it”. Rhinns people in general do not strengthen their language by“I carena if the Word o' the Deevil said sae”, says Kennedy, “it's a melodious lee for a 
  84. Piece n.2 da night he felt dat disjaskit at he could hardly do a haand's turn.  
  85. Sag n.Harn, 10d. to 1s. per lb.; sacking, 1s. per do.; sag and sarge from 2s. to 3s. per do.  
  86. Pod n.Children are warned that if they do not allow their heads to be combed with a “fine tooth comb 
  87. A'richt adv., Rab?' Cotter greeted me like I'd just slipped out five minutes earlier for a packet of fags. 'What do"You dinna want to follow him, son," said the howlat, squinting down at Faidh. "Aye, I do," said are no paths anyway.' A squad of military police came for him the next day and Geordie heard the bobby threatening them that, if they gave him a beating, he would come after them. "But the redcaps were, boys? Guess who?' with a big let's-kid-on-we're-all-pals grin, but it passed without action. 'Awright you think?' I said. Her eyes were wide with terror. 'It's awright, ye don't need tae do anything. Jist watch me. Jist be a witness.' The provider of ales took a careful look at his pint then came to 
  88. Kittie n.2 police station and cells. Of a ne'er-do-well — The Kitty is chapel. “kitty”. Said to a naughty child — You'll fill the Kitty yet. . “Kitty” is the Kelso word for the 
  89. Guiltree n. comb.Whether shall I gin thee in one of thy otter traps or hang thee on the guiltree? Do thou lead these villains to the guiltree. . . . In a short period the guiltree was ornamented with the unfortunate 
  90. Cairrage n. cairrage sud syne turn richt, Turned left, - an got stuck in the snaw. Sae whut dis she do but order aAn' they a' got cheese an' bread an' a drink o' ale and syne they pu't Sir Michael's cairrage a 
  91. Splunt v., n.The lovers comin there to splunt. An' when the amorous whidding hares, Do bicker thrang in splunting paires. To a laft amang some hay; Like others i' the splunting way. It's nought for lasses to splunt a wee wi' lads. A great ploy for the young swankies tae rin a' athort the country at nicht 
  92. Deik v., n. and hide himself said, “I'm gaun to do a deik.” ' er. [The men were hiding from the press-gang.] Come on, noo' deik. A boy who was going to run away 
  93. Cheerie-bye interj. off stage after his first really successful gig as a stand up comic to discover a fun-sized pack of potential sex magnet, do you think that he is going to bid them cheerie-bye and whip out his bus pass for one last demon spin around the block on the way back to cocoa with mumsie? Is he hell. A haven from "just have to do another day".  
  94. Between prep.Have a good deal to do between-hands in sorting up the newly arrived accession of books. I saw 
  95. Whup v.Archy Ritchie, prince o' fun, Whase whuppers set them daft. These are the chaps that can do it neat The whuppin' lie. I sune got my e'e on the salmon. I can tell ye, lads, he was a whupper.  
  96. Scart n.2 gather gear his sordid lifetime thro'. On you, ye scart o' a Hielantman! When do you think a scart likeTo be even'd in love to a scart O' a think [ ] like a buskit-up monkey. I ha'ena buried a leevin' sowl for sax months, an' it bena a scart o' a bairn. He's a puir scart wha sets himsel' wi' care To you could pay me? He's nothin but a drucken scart.  
  97. Forwandert ppl. adj.Among the bruised, the prisoners, the forwandered of Israel. Do not stand there fixed and forwandered in the midst of the floor. It was only a storm-forwandered bird attracted by the light. Frae heaven forwander't far its lane, Was greetin' to win back again. I was like a wean forwandered among 
  98. Smolie v., n.. I wad smoly tae do a thing like that. I meant nae smolie tae the King. Naebody's gaan tae cast a 
  99. Wide adj., adv.These young fellows come and go. Even now. They do not change. Still think they are wide. Soon as they can pot a ball they are ready to hand out JD himself three blacks of a start. Throw their money at 
  100. Barn-grieve n.In two large farms in my native parish a barn-grieve was always employed. His chief duty was to superintend the women outworkers and boys. He had nothing to do with the horsemen, who were looked after by 
  101. Carriage n. name of arriage and carriage, or services used and wont. Under carriages, the tenants were bound to do a certin amount of carting of coals, etc.  
  102. Slib adj.And how do ye do, my little wee Nan, My lamb and slibrikin mouse? Gosh, that's affa slibbery. I'll 
  103. Droud n.1 mother, who was by this time a widow woman, did not well know what to do with him, and folk pitied herHalf-a-guinea for a cod's head, and no bigger than the drouds the cadgers bring from Ayr. Shifty, I often think ye hae a heap in you, an' at ither times I think you're as toom as a drowd cod. His heavy handful of such a droud.  
  104. Keeriosity n.We have had the Kiriosity tee weight a peck of our Salt. I hae a keereosity tae see droll things. [ . 347, keriosity.] “What do you mean by ?” asked the marquis “Ow! keeriosities, ye ken. For enstance, there's some queer caves alang the cost.” Keriosity, Nancy, ma woman, hanged keriosity. Fae a slicht keeriosity, her min' grew in a glone ti ken fa the letter wis fae.  
  105. Outmost adj., n. friends on the beach that will do theire outmost to catch a proper opportunitie. I did till my outmaistFor aften far abufe the Mune, We watching Beings do convene, Frae round Eards outmost Climes. The religion. A' in outmost mazerment an' care. Ilk ane was pang'd to his outmaist desire. They have some the best way I could. A richt guid intention to dae my ootmost to mak . . . a thrifty an' helpfu 
  106. Asteep adv. brains asteep for a bit. — If you do not remember, think for a while and it will come to you. Our Cadger 
  107. Cob-worm n. comb.At the same time the destruction they [the rooks] do in this way, very probably is in a great are looking remarkably well, with the exception of a few fields on which the 'cob' has been very 
  108. Adveece n.. They should do their plain dutie an' save their dear minister's life, by giein him a good advice. How many lengthen'd, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises. Ye gae me a gude advice. I 
  109. Gor n.Strae's cheap an' sclate roofs are dear, gor I'll try the thack on't yet. If I were to do a' she bids me, gor, she would keep me carryin' water a' day. “My gorey, lass,” said Osla, perfectly chuckling with delight, “Whar wis yon?” “Twae pound for that [pig]!” exclaims a looker-on. “My gor, ye might as well buy a fat beast.” “Gor,” says he, “A dinna ken.”  
  110. Muid n., yill an' porter do fock guid, Whan they're ta'en to synd down the fuid, An' put ane i' a warkin' muidSae far frae towns, it could na be for gueed. That she was wand'ring there in sic a meed. Beer. She seemed in a dowie mid, Her e'en begrutin'-like an' red. A man o evil mudd, Wha beelt unto himself a Ha Beside her whaar shu studd.  
  111. Heichen v. ingle, Sport rousin' wine to smoor a' pingle, Do hichten them i' poor fock's sense. For it heichened 
  112. Buckie n.7I do not know of any Dancing Schools that are kept open after 10 o'clock, unless, indeed, he alludes to those Dancings, known by the name of , — meetings of such a nature, that no young man, that 
  113. Outintoun adj.. These Mills, besides a very considerable Thirlage, do, from their situation in a populous rich cornThey stent no outintouns burgeses who have nocht a residence nor living within this burgh. The land is very good: the corn mill has not only a good thirle, but is well situated for outen town custom country, encourage a large outtentowns Grist, and are capable of Manufacturing Grain to a great extent 
  114. Poutrie n. muckle matter what the folk do to the midden pootry, for they haud siccan a skarting and scraping in theA hogg six poutrie and two reek henns of customes. Sheep and Powtry, Geese and Ducks. It's no yard. A great big pootry fool pursued by a ggem-cock. The pootry keeps quate wi' his came, and wattles in a hole till ggemy gies him a spur or twa on the hurdies.  
  115. Boo n.6If the wedding was in the house of a well-to-do farmer or small laird, a brewing copper was 
  116. Broozle v. for yer meat. “How do you mean when you say they were hashed?” “Champit like — a' broozled and fa'in an' broozlit yer knee, A doot. Yer stren'th 'll be broizl't an' tint, An' to ithers ye'll wark 
  117. Gaskin n.Another way to do a pint of Green Gaskens. The kinds of preferred are not very numerous fought lang to gar us promise to gang up the length o' Perth durin' the berry sizzen, an' get a real blaw 
  118. Gripper n. which the King named him Grim-gere, . a hardy Gripper. Do ye imagine I'm gaun to hae a' my clippers 
  119. Distrenzie v.Ther is ane sentance for imprisoneing and distrennyieing his goodes. After a' that the law could do . . . in the way of poinding and distrenzieing, and sae forth . . . she ran awa to the Charity 
  120. Dirten adj.Money is welcome in a dirten Clout. I do full dirtenly, I wish they had the skitter that speers. She wis gey dirten 'e day an went past wi' her nose in 'e air. A dirten dirdum ye brag o' Done on the Trojan shore. Dae his dirtnist, he cudna meeve that muckle steen. A' the thank I got was a dirten 
  121. Garrer n. garrer was “one who compelled the younger boys to do anything required.” After a boy had been five yearsBut mind, let nane of the ken. They say . . . that once upon a time long ago the garriers got a in the institution, he was duly recognised by his companions as a garrer.  
  122. Dilse n. of God do repair in crowds to the shore for diversion and gathering Dilce. Wudna ye sen' a puckle o , a Sea-Plant, antiscorbutick. He never said onything aboot . . . dills. The Session being' the dilse to the goodwife, man? Beyond the scart, on a bunch o' dilse.  
  123. Misswear v.How cud she think that grace or thrift cud be Wi' ane, that she does sae missworn see? If I do go to Broomfield-hills, A maid I'll not return; But if I stay from Broomfield-hills, I'll be a maid mis-sworn. To prevent him from making himself a mis-sworn man. She would mis-swear hersel' black in the 
  124. Popular Sermon n. comb.The trials of a student, in order to his being licensed to preach the gospel, do consist in these parts: 1. The Homily . . . 2. The . . . 3. The Presbyterial exercise and addition . . . 4. A lecture . . . 5. A popular sermon. This day, according to advertisement givin, . . . Mr. John Fergushill 
  125. Rabiator n. be alloo't to riot and ravage in sic a most rabiator-like manner. Hoo — you wicked rabiawtor — doThe highland rabeatours are here; we're a' ruined and ravished. It's no possible that Walter can you keep casting a sheep's ee upon the cutties! To think that their auld richts shou'd fa', Aneath a robiator's feet. “The auld rabiawtor!” quo he, . . . “my gear is traiket, there's a wadset on my lands, and my wine-casks are dung a' to staves.”  
  126. Chap n.1 sat out, An' o'er her gab hang down a sneevling snout . . . But yet, say what I liked, nought wad do 
  127. Loutch v., n.Keep your head straight, and do not louch with your shoulders. Thy hoary head and loutching should she refuse, I'll louch my auld bonnet. He gings wi a loutch.  
  128. Biddin vbl. n.2A' day biddins I'll be meinin. His disciples read His face, an' they needna twa biddens to row the boat awa frae the shore. Dinna mislippen the biddens O' yer mither. The little fellow would not do . I taul' the wife tae pit on a gweed fire, for it wis fell caul', I thocht. An' for eence she did 
  129. Breese n.1, v.Do the descendants of the Ayrshire folk who made Campbelton still call chappet sand breese? The word seems to be obs. I have been told that used to be hawked through the streets, and also that a at keeping a shop used to breese sandstone to make sand.  
  130. Carecake n. vulgar in Ang[us]. Weel do I mind how she would gie me caurcakes and black-puddin's. The deil sal bake me into a ker-cake to gust his gab wi', afore I see that saucy tike ta'en off in sic a way.  
  131. Dishealth n.. The present dishealth among cattle in Orkney. “Do you know a woman who is lying ill there at present retain an old woman to assist her. There's ey some bit jobbie adee fan there's dishealth in a hoose 
  132. Don n.1Used at school of a boy who is a leading spirit, or great favourite. “Our Tom's jist the rarest don ye ever saw.” Do you mind when he got the lick on the lug fur trying to dodge frae douchie to don to 
  133. Badness n. curses at us for the noise we were creating. To do something means to do it from mere spite, to be pay attention tae um.' At New Year, aw, it was a laugh ... Everybody was that sociable, an' really 
  134. Main n.2 . . . to be mainless would never do. = patience, = impatient, sometimes applied to a horse that isBit he wus aye a hurried mainless man; an' trath he paid for his want o' main that time. [He] had no main (or mains) tae wait. In a harvest like this, when . . . the rain it raineth every day stamping with impatience to get away. He was wandering mainlessly about. Sheu was a mainless kind o' body.  
  135. Behin prep., adv.Leave welcome aye behint you. I tried tae hide behunt a big boady in the sate afront o' me. An' ran them till they a' did wauble, Far, far behin'. The Ulsterman will . . . either cut off the “d” or replace it by a “t.” Thus the word “behind” may either be called “behine” or “behint.” Tibby was sitting behind backs enjoying the meal. You must not do anything behind backs.  
  136. Neeger n.“Do you ever find niggerheads about here now?” . . . He took the tiny cowrie of dazzling whiteness she handed him by way of answer. Aa yow yins that's ooreet an oold wui this neeger-wheeper ov a woarlt. Jock is a fair neeger at baith languages. Slavan' lek a neegur till get through afore 'e rain. An illiterate kintra niggar Blest wi' a smart external figure. He had given her a loundering wi' his 
  137. Assiepattle n. .] , a term of abuse for one who is loath to leave the fireside to do any useful work. , a dirty child , a negleted child. . Still in common use; applied occasionally as a term of contempt to any of in a country house. , one who sits raking in the ashes, a Cinderella, neglected child. [Under 
  138. Bleg n., v. upun [getting high], bit dey'll do fir saide bliggs. [ ] , to drive a wedge into a hoe in order to . Wooden wedges for keeping the hoe securely fixed to the haft. If the head of a hoe is loose and you push a piece of wood between the handle and the head to keep them firm, the piece of wood is called a . A wedge for a window is also called a . Da twartree piltiks i' da skjo [shed] ar noo faan 
  139. Trowth n.But still ae spell, it's trith to tell, Will last until my deith. Trowth I dow do na mair,” quo' Betty. “A real Scotsman — a true friend to the country.” “Ay, troth he is.” In troth I'm amaist'! Trath th'u'r' no' blate. Troth and indeed they will do him no harm. Gud traath! I'd rip dee open richt. Troth-a-wat I did that. Weel, trouth, a bonnie boch ye wid be in London. Dat in traath! — Expression truth. I'll give thee the truth of my right hand, The truth of it I'll freely gie. Wi' a silent kiss o' love their blessed paction seal, While sittin' in their truth. What I've tauld ye is a' God's truth.  
  140. Hurk v., n.I canna hae ye sit horking aboot the fire a' day. Clouts hurkers for axil and a strop for do. But was hoorkin' in his pocket for a penny. He's sittin' in the verra hork. A prob. dim. of this is 
  141. Rumford v.Do not Rumford your kitchen or get a Rumford cook. . . . Away they drove to a supper. . . . Taking down and Rumfording the kitchen chimney. Rumfoordin — the iron lining or casing of a fireplace finished with a curved sheet of iron to protect the stonework from the heat. It measures about 3 ft. by 2 
  142. Totum n.2 when we were wee tottums. I am no sae short as your totum of a taylor. “List! ye ye!” said she, “do into a totum, as we call a running wean. Wi' ae wee tottum sleepin' 'neath its mithers' ee. There's a 
  143. Flag v.3 tremendous. I do not know whether they went in for “flagging” or not in those days. What I mean by that is dragging a big flagstone over the ground to break the clods.  
  144. Birn n.2Nae Birns, or Briers, or Whins e'er troubled me. The lasses bidding do, an' o'er they gaes, An' of bleech'd birns pat on a canty bleeze. , roots of burnt heath; or rather, the stronger stems of the heath, An auld blunt ax for hackin' birns. The next time he saw her she was . . . tryin tae roast a half herrin on the heather birns amang the asse. It is said of a niggardly frugal person, “It's a queer brae that he couldna get a bern off.” Fourscore of breeding Ews of my ain Birn, Five Ky that at ae Milkin fills a Kirn, I'll gi'e to that Day she's a Bride. I have left him [a fat bullock] in the upper. The Smith's Wife her black Deary sought And fand him Skin and Birn. Do ye think our auld enemies of England . . . cares a boddle whether we didna kill ane anither, skin and birn, . . . all and sindry.?  
  145. Aploch n. — Remnants of any thing. Some few years ago a field of corn could not be shorn, nor a meadow the sort to do their worst; now are vanished away.  
  146. Glimp n., v.I only got a glimp o't . . . in an auld news. Whate'er could fill their herts wi' glee Like ae glimp o' the cruizie? Whiles ye get a glimp o' what he micht ha' been but for those wasted years o' exile. “Do know what it means, Nicie?” “No ae glimp, missie,” answered Nicie. Jess, wi' nieve at his 
  147. Na conj.He flegged starker fouk na' you. They toolzy'd mair na tongue can tell. A' thing gade righter na' suppit an' better na suppit. Deil na they never mair do guid, Play'd her that pliskie! Na micht I trive, Maigie; but I see a braw new hoos.  
  148. By-shot n. comb. provocations she may receive) remain speechless till they are finished; then, if she do so, she is looked upon danger of bearing the reproach of a by-shot, . a hopeless maid. But a' this story aboot the mills is only a kind o' a bye-shot.  
  149. Caper n.Do you not remember now Hugh, how I gave you a , and a of milk? King, King Capper Fill my happer; And I'll gie you bread and cheese. Before the letter was half wrote, she gave the deponent a dram, and gave him bread, butter, and cheese, which they call a caper. Khetch in her brat a kaeper 
  150. Knab n.2 eithly in a spell; As yon “half-nabs” do their mantels. A wyse man speels ower the tap o' a toon-fu' o equipage maintains, And ev'n of power sometimes do hold the reins. The name settled comfortably down to that of the “ ” and “ ”, from some one or two well-to-do weavers having been styled , or , by the public. At the corner sit some chosen nabs, Good punch are busy making. A Highland tartan plaid, belonging to a nauby that was going to Tobermory. And a' the Laings are to be bidden; A' the Bennies and a' the Dabbies, And a' the hale o' our half nabbies. Upo' her back the wauchty creels, She thraws as peetiefu' gait whilk the fowk spak thereawa, soon gart our knabrie tyne a' that auncient greeshoch whilk' the ellwan o' debt, are much o' a muchness wi' their puirer brethern. Gin he saw ony o' the knabery naebuddy should turn up their nose at a herrin' — the nabbery eats thim as weel as workin' folk. ' ... I like a man to talk me: not me. Oh, I've met a' kinds o' nabbery at the shoots here - some o' them 
  151. Dorbie n.Weather Lore — 1st March: “Corbie an dorbie baith a-biggin wid be.” Fin the muckle skweel at Byth wis biggit, the tyler wis a barra-min tae the masons. An aul' hoose . . . wis made a bothy for the dorbies. I wonder what the puir dorbies, plasterers, navvies, an' gardeners do in sic fearfu' weather 
  152. Adae get a jobbie adee. And do ye think I have naething a-do, but come here every other day hoiting afterI have nothing — nothing to do. The thing that's deen the day winna be adee the morn. We'll aye trippin ye? He took off up and over the rocks like a mountain goat shouting, 'What's wrong wi' ye? I never said anything wrong! What's a dae wi' ye, silly lassie?' Whit's adae wi ye? Ye're no yersel the — Boots, and spurs, and a' to provide. Od, aw min' 'at there wis a terrable adee amo' the faimly aifter their faader's deeth. Ee're maikin owre muckle adae aboot eet. Weel a wat, yere wife maun hae her ain]. A dersay she whiles had her ain ado's wi him. She has 'er ain adaes, wi' a no-weel man. It was quite different with my wife, that hadna seen ony sic grand adoes. Being a man of several adoes, I 
  153. Bowse v.2, n.. Noo' Lintie, dry up an' gie a han' to bowse doun this tack. Princie began to do a bit jeeg, garrinBut he's safe now, and here a comes — (for the chair was again lowered, and Sir Arthur made fast in it, without much consciousness on his own part) — here a comes — bowse away, my boys — canny wi' him' Sandy bowse aboot on the front o' the cairt like's he was foo. “I got a gude bowce” said of a sail on 
  154. Clype n.2, v.2 clype o' a chiel? The impident cleip; she'll no' do muckle o' a trade, yon smatchet. She geed clypinThat pig has torn a big clipe oot o' my dress. Fa wid hae onything t' dae wi' yon muckle ill-faurt' up the street wee a basket on her airm. That's a fool clypin' trailach o' a dehm. A widna like t aboot her queets wi' a wecht nae ordinar'.  
  155. Slent v. houses towards the water. . . . The road . . . is steep; but as it slents a good deal, loaded carts can, and really do pass and travel upon it. Wi' slent-up strokes, as rumour sings, Ilk on his foeman bears.  
  156. Foundit n.' behine ye, till she can't do a turn, nor a foundet. Withoot sayin' ought or foondit aboot it. LizzieHere down I fell to kiss his feet, But fiend a foundit could I find. Why a woman's kep throttin lyin' in her bed . . . no able to look after a fundit. From owre mony of them I never to this day have gotten a foondit. 'Er isna founded in 'e hoos. The doctor's been at him three times an' he's no yae foondit better. As is said of a destitute bodie, “Foundit hate he has.”  
  157. Kippage n. out. Often in a kippage to ken what to do with their shouthers and their arms and their heads. ButDinna pit yoursell into a kippage. A bonny kippage I would be in if my father and you had ony cast dinna put aff time here, for I'se warrant my father's in a bonny kippidge already. Come 'wa', boy; yer in great lek kippage 'e nicht, fat's on? A fine kippage ye'd mak', I 'sure ye, war ye to lose it [a farm] noo. Sic a kippage as ye are! An awfu like kippage!  
  158. Gean n.4 Ash planks and 2 Geen . . . 4/-. The orchard [is remarkable] for a great number of large old trees, bearing the species of small cherry, called black and red geens. Mahogany chairs; Elm do. Geantree do. The guine, whose luscious sable cherries spring, To lure the blackbird mid her boughs to sing gean (P. cerasus). A pear tree, a geen tree, and some ither bonny things. The geans were hanging, The blossom is drappin' fae the gean. He went to the woodie for a feed of geans instead. The gean and blackthorn Atween twa days the gean's cam wechty wi a freithin o flouers A bleezard oot aff Bennan, lan nae langer seen; the Firth a swirl o saftness lik blossom o the gean. On the Meadows' walks 
  159. Garring Law n. comb. boys to do anything. Immediately after a boy's entrance to the Hospital, he was sadly maltreated orThe Garring Law, a system of fagging of great severity, found to be in full force among the boys 
  160. Luining n.There is nothing brings to my mind a more natural and soothing joy than the playing and fingering of singing these same , and if he can humour it in words, I do not despair of seeing one of them sung upon the stage, in the original style, round a napkin. [Altered to in 1806 ed.]  
  161. Stechie adj.A thickset stighy ne'er-do-weel. Thou art nae stechie sonsie. [He] can nether Happie — Jump — nor rin — he is sae Stiff and Stechie. Stechy Tam a forward fule Wha never needit pressin. The talk was naturally somewhat “stechy” at first; but gradually a simmer of good-humoured sounds arose. His stechy 
  162. Winch v., n.1-peopled shire Should frolic round her bard and wince a tott'ring reel. The horse wincing and screaming upsta'ners, fowre deedlean'ers, Twae lookies, twae crookies And a winchaboot? Poor Petry gae a weary winch, He couldna do but baun.  
  163. Endaivour n., v. to get him out. I'm no a great haan at wark o' that kin', but I'll do my endaivour.  
  164. Munge v.1I'm sure wi' care I do ye keep, An' yet I hear ye mungin. Gae away when I bid ye — What are ye search of his horse. But, moonging aside, I am noo a' for peace.  
  165. AgÉ v. law phrase of no very determinate import, meaning, generally, to do what is fitting. (A.)] legal, a Scottish law phrase. (A.)] He would have time to speak to the Sheriff . . . and set about the matter in a regular manner, or, as he termed it, as summing up the duties of a solicitor, to . [A Scots 
  166. Strop n.1, v.1 brought on “bad luck.” To Clouts, hurkers for axil and a strop for do. . Some boys were rich in buttons, having perhaps thirty or forty on his “strop.” Dis laskit strops is a curse, whin a body is carryin' a burdeen. They spoke of superstitions, and of a man on board who had a 
  167. Thump v., n.When a friend said,“Thanks be thumpin' ye,” I added, as my mother used to do 50 years ago — “And dey a' geng thumpin'. Meg made thumps o' sappy cheese. I then was in coats, tho' a thump o' a callan. I wis a bit thump o' a callan playin' wi' her.  
  168. Dungeon n.“Do you not know the man who got his learning from the devil?” . . . “I warrant you he's a dungeon, then.” I have obliged them to confess me a . Although he's a dungeon o' Latin and Greek. They say he's a fair dungeon o' learnin', an' I daursay he may be. Before Dr Johnson came to breakfast, Lady Lochbuy said, “he was a of wit”; a very common phrase in Scotland to express a profoundness of intellect. And but few o' his trade e'er his fitstaps will fill, For a dungeon for craft was auld Mungo McGill. A deep, a dungeon-headed billie.  
  169. Vast n. to do. She's a vast better. There's a vast o' young chaps dichtit up wi' this war. The old woman bestowed a vast of presents on Tom. A vast o' foak a' round about came to the feast. They couldna get them sindry, else there had been a vast o' bludeshed. She could see a vast farrer afore her than me. Vast of women are confined before they have time to change themsel. We mak' a vast o' din. . . . I kent there were a vast o' grand new hooses oot thereawa. I've yet a vast o' baith 
  170. Skiddle v.1, n.Ye skiddled some soup on't [coat]. Tea at the best's a skiddlin' thing ye tak' to wash doon breid and butter. When he yearned for a satisfying high tea, a lot of skittling wee dishes were set before child is through the kitchen playing with water in the sink. I do not do spreadsheets, and desktop publishing is just a bit of skiddling, really. As for the web, well, yes, but it is not what it is cracked up proceed to make a pile of much-praised and quickly wolfed down crepes, complete with lemon juice and sugar. Stoap skiddlin in the soap suds. That puir, feckless skiddle ca'd tea. She taks naethin' but a skiddle o' tea. She's aye in a skiddle nae maitter whan ye drap in on her. An auld woman speaking of a small change-house, called it “a bit skiddle”.  
  171. Dottle v.3, n.3 away at a dottle-trot, I shouted. - But where to? Where do you live? An old man who goes a-courting isA small poney, that takes very short steps, is said to be . ...and as we approached the station said to have . She's a wee dottle o' a body nae mair than fower feet heigh. She wis jist a wee dottle o a lassie. A little useful "dottle of a body," already working for its little bit of bread there.  
  172. Trebuck v., n. player who aimed a “dinger” at a particular bool and then changed his mind would receive permission to doIf a person, on making a false move in a game of skill, calls out trebuck or trabuck me before his, wulks, biled wulks, a bawbee a jug [of a street-hawker too drunk to remember what he was selling]. A 
  173. Reef n., do we find upon the back of the dipped or unsalved turnip-fed sheep a hard crust, which not eminence, called . Wi' breeks gay an' raggit an' twa reefy hands. Every year, there are several among a flock which have a crust or foulness, or what the shepherd calls a , on their skins. How frequent, too 
  174. Arselins adv. fell arselins in the creel, And up the string they drew. Or, glowrin' high, ye in a stank Do arselins 
  175. Eastlin adj.Sae Roses wither in their Buds, Kill'd by an Eastlen Blast. How do you this blae eastlin wind, That's like to blaw a body blind? Come, blythsom Spring! O haste and come, Unbar yon eastlin gate 
  176. Forefolk n.He's up Bannockburn way looking for a front tooth frae the skull o' some o' yer forefolk, to stap in that bletherin' mooth o' yours. No one bragged more of his forefolk. Seldom do we tine the touch 
  177. Fuid n.Beer, yill an' porter do fock guid, Whan they're ta'en to synd down the fuid. He hopes his fuid he frae fud doon ta da aal. She's keepit a' in health an' fuid. Sax feet sax o' bouk 'ithout fude.  
  178. Ieroe n.There was also one in the parish of , whose Heir-Oyes do yet live there. Till his wee, curlie ier-oe, The last, sad, mournful rites bestow! Sibbie waas a slesterin' pell, is 'er oys an' eerie oys 
  179. Institor n., manufacture, or other land-negotiation, is bound by the contracts of the institors whom he sets over it. A mercantile consignee or factor is, in this sense, an . . . . Institors do not, like shipmasters, bind 
  180. Bestial n.. He stiell strove to keep them wpon the said ground, sayeing that a few dayes would do the bestialls and his turn there. I saw a guid strong stump o' a naig among the bestial in the yard.  
  181. Buckie n.5 ye'r Lucky. If there isna our auld ne'er-do-weel deevil's buckie o' a mither. A thrawn buckie that wid neyther lead nor ca'. Bet Bowman, as was to be expected of such a devil's buckie, was an unquiet 
  182. Gaval v. . . . was overtaken by an apoplexy. There was a coming and gaun aboot the place of ne'er-do-well dyvours. I filled a glass . . . without any preliminary reflections on the gavaulling of past times. [ (1823) III. xxx., .] Bailie M'Lucre . . . one night in going from a gavawlling with some of the neighbours 
  183. Glengore n..” We spoke of the Glengore. He said we had a law to geld lepers, and a good one, as they could do say to Agnes M'Dowall She was Glengorrie and a thief. [p. 146, .] Reviled and called me both w 
  184. Govanenty interj.“Govanendy!” exclaimed the Magistrate, “did she really ca' ya a wh — e?” But whun A read it ower in the mornin, goavanendy! Sauners! could ye ‘a' believe't it? . . . it wus naething but blethers! I gien warlds — warlds for him to hae seen you do it.”  
  185. Kilmaurs n. better understood, and do more good. The Ayrshire proverb, “As gleg as a Kilmaurs whittle,” which cutA man of acute understanding and quickness in action is said to be as sharp as a Kilmaurs whittle 
  186. Plensher n. ¼ hundred of single plenshers for do. use . . . 2s. 4d. For ¼ hundred of double plenshers for that work . . . 4s. 6d. Handles & naills for a coffine and two hunder dowble plenches and half one hunder single flooren Nails and a 100 Door Nails.  
  187. Bjorg n.1Do opstander's [clergyman's] b[jorg].  
  188. Bondage n. system do ye?” asks Tam with an anxious look. “No, not for some years back; but for a' that I'll no hireTenants had also to cut and carry the landlord's peats; to come a day whenever called on to plough, harrow, and do anything the landlord wanted. In harvest they had to leave their own crop and cut his and “bonnage” or day's service abolished. At that time and place, Jane Milne, a good-looking young “deem,” shearing the bunnage days o' hairst, said to some of her neighbours in Tam's hearing, “He's a richt strappin' chiel that Tam Stott.” — is an obligation, on the part of a tenant, to cut down the proprietor's corn. . “Bonnage,” a surviving mediæval custom by which he [the farmer] was compelled to give a of a bit lassie,” as his mother said, “to keep up the bondage.” “Ye dinna gang in for the bondage a man that hasna a woman worker.” . A tenant, who is bound by the terms of his lease to reap, or use his hook, for the proprietor in harvest. . Peats, which, by his lease, a tenant is bound to 
  189. Atweel hame wi' walth o' siller to her, an' she needs it, atweel. Naebody can catch trouts wi' a wae hairt an' tears, atweel! “Do you ken the auld kirk o' Dunscore?” “Atweel do I.” “Well,” answered his reverence, “that, you must allow, is an extreme case.” “Extreme? oo, aye, it's a wee extreme atweel.” D'ye ca that a stream? That's the Black Water o' Dee, the graunest and auncientest water in Gallawa! A stream atweel! Troth and atweel, and that's too true. Atweel, nae farther gane than yestreen. . . . Atweel, a 
  190. Black-strippit Ba' n.There are aniseed balls and black-strippit balls and sugar-elly straps and sherbet bags, all a haipny each. Agnes went round the shelves with the line: a tin of Lyle's Golden Syrup; a tin of Fowler's treacle; a half pound of margarine; a half a dozen eggs; a tea loaf; a packet of Rinso; a bar of Sunlight; a packet of Woodbine; and a quarter of black striped balls. When I wis wee I used tae get a bag o ba's” — they do not speak of bulls' eyes on Clydeside.  
  191. Propale v.He forc'd the Gentlemen to propale their Matters, by exposing their Books. Do not frighten the pulpit of Penninghame. Anxious to propale their misdemeanour. To do them justice, they didna propale 
  192. Wheegee n., v.-gees there's nae pleasin him. As mony wheegees aboot what ye can do an' what ye canna do. Come, come 
  193. Miraculous adj.The hale lot in a body Had got themsel's mirac'lous fu'. Jamie was once taken home in a “miraculous” condition and put to bed. A drunk man, if very drunk, is described as “mortagious”, “miracklous knows why, pronounced 'marockyoolus', this is a slang term for drunk. is sometimes heard as a shortened form of this and has nothing to do with tangerines: 'Ah seen him stotin roon Georgie Square, pur [sic] maroc he wis!' He came hame completely mirac. He's a miraclous lump.  
  194. Sab v.3, n.3He went up upon the rigging and sabbed the house. Nae mair he [sun] early gilds the morn, (Now a' the flowrets sab). “How comes it that this dore does na shut sae close as it used to do?” “It is because that part of the floor has sabbit a wee”. Metaphorically applied to the elastic motion of a wooden floor, occasioned by the fall of a heavy body, or by the starting of any of the joists. By James Kellie 6 days taking up sob in East Levell . . . 4s. Some able-bodied sodger, a weighty sab of a man.  
  195. Gleek v., n. a valiant zeal Twa ne'er-do-weels, the Paip and deil, Wi' gleeks at Guise and Mary. I tuck a gleek weaver, He'll gleek and glaik wi' ilka dame. It hod itsel' in a holie in the feal-dyke an' gleeked oot 
  196. O interj. o' man, An' 'twere na for the lasses, O. O it fell out upon a day, When Drums was going to ride, O And there he met with a well-far'd may, Keeping her flocks on yon side, O. O mony a lad comes here to woo, It sairly does perplex me O, For what can simple maiden do — Their kind attentions vex me O.  
  197. Weel-hained ppl. adj. weel-hain'd kebbuck fell. Do Thou give to the puir stray thing a weel-hained heff and a beildy lair years a wheen, Aft baffles care. The Dame brings forth, in complimental mood, To grace the lad, her 
  198. Bellibucht n. do, but the contrary. These beily-buchts are artificially or partly artificially made on the lee or side of a hill, and are now used for the shelter of sheep, some being edged with stone. They were once 
  199. Yunk v.2 . One team bends down and links in a chain. The first boy of the other team then jumps on to them from the back, landing as far forward as possible, and his mates do the same thing behind him. Once 
  200. Bit n.2"Oh, they'll do that all right," Aunt Bella said. "Only, they'll no' help themselves to get out o' the bit. ..." Of a woman who is completely tied to the house by domestic affairs it is said that 
  201. Soup n.1, v.1. There's puir distressed whigs enow will be glad to do that for a bite and a soup. Naething louses the jawMy doggie and my little kit That held my wee soup whey. A wee soup drink dis unco weel To had the heart aboon. The goodwife collected a soup out of every cog. To coup a gay soup o'er their hass like a soup drink. There was nae drink but a soup I' the boddom o' a tun. Try him wi' a soup o' brandy. I can gie her a soop o' watter noo an' again. Burns gi'ed him Hornbook's paregoric But a'e soup 
  202. Goad n.I can do naething wi' that goad.  
  203. Dalt n.As much . . . would I do to any living man whose ears could have heard my dault (foster-son) so much as name a white doe. The fosterer, if he gives four cows, receives likewise four, and has, while, for which he pays only four cows when he dismisses his , for that is the name for a fostered child.  
  204. Port The Helm n. comb. the leader run very quickly, the momentum throws them off their feet with a dash if they do not drop . Any number may join in it. The players join hands and stand in line. The leader, generally a 
  205. Adherent n. twice changed. On this occasion She had to do with a Cameronian elder and not with a mere adherent 
  206. Warroch n., v.', mair especially by a weary warroch like Whistlin' Willie. An ill-fashioned warrach was ne'er-do-weelThey say the De'il's come to Baldarroch, Or some unearthly Devilish warroch. When looking at a plants described as a “warrack o' a thing, wi' a fuff o' a heid.” Naebody likes to be made a fule o Jock. When we see some wee warroch o' a craiter ging aff wi' a bang in that same battle. He wad never 
  207. Chuckie-stane n. comb. chew. The meat . . . was a' amang the gravel. What could we do but juist scoop up wi' a spoon what weA meikle maun blue pouch hingin' at the carr side o'd, fou o' mullens and chucky-stanes. "Dinna could get — meat, chuckie-stanes an' a'. The Soldier moved them, using the tree trunk as a great lever what generations of folk had failed to do with ropes and teams of harnessed oxen. The door that swung chuckie stanes on a tin. That's the kind of voice he has. Quartzy nodules, or , as they are vulgarly 
  208. Barley-bree n.But we'll take a soup of the barley-bree. [Peter] reared the flagon to his head from which he withdrew it not while a single drop of “barley-broo” remained. An' ower a feuch o' bogie an' a skirp o' barley-bree. But the daft days he minds aye, an' John Barley-bree An' pity his heart rends a drunkard to see. But I do think 'twas friendship too, Caused him gie me the barley broe. And still the spark 
  209. Eeskyie n.He had no the eeskyie to do it.  
  210. Fraesta interj. phr.Do sae, fraesta. Fresta, here's ta, here you are.  
  211. Glumishly adv.Do not start, lovely friend, nor look glumishly cross.  
  212. Antiburgher n., adj.The Associate synod, (those by some called ). Antiburghers and Burghers, to a certain number believe.” “I ance was ane, but onything I do noo in that way is wi' the Relief bodies.” Troth, sir, I am occupation as a teacher, commencing a school at Brechin, in connection with the Antiburgher congregation in 
  213. Best n. the Best, you're a strong healthy lad.' Thanks te'e Best, hid's lan' onywy. But hoo am to do thatOne bride . . . wished that the Best might send a wind i' this wind's teeth. Best forgie us, will Geordie. "Some whalp whar hetts me guts, onywey." 'Well,' said Jacob's mother, 'you'll be a great help to 
  214. Presence n.What the Lords do here [in the Inner House] is said to be done , in Presence, , in Presence of the whole Lords, or a of them. The Court beginning to demur upon the relevancy, the case was ca't. In the judicial procedure of the Court of Session, a hearing in presence is a formal hearing of 
  215. Tickle v.1. Another game played by a number of children, with a hold of one another, or , as it is technically called many a tickler, in the latter department, has our head ached with. I've got ye out, but it tickles my brain How the deuce I'm to pitch ye in again. How do you steer then, my lad? that's the tickler.  
  216. Descry v.The obvious problem is that we Brits just don't seem to do nationalism as well as the Irish, often having a worrying predilection to descry the more despicable aspects of the creed. Watsonians may not securing a place in the upper half of the table. Such a place should not be beyond Hawick either, on this 
  217. Royet adj., n., v.Royet lads may make sober men. Ye royit lowns! just do as he'd do. A royet, or riotous boy. They soud hae wytit the roytness o the government. Mony a sober Christian an' mony a roy't callant. The bairnies gude bless them, are royed an' rough. He was nae waur nor ither lads — a kind o' royty like maybe canna be the furth on a royt nicht like 'is. But fruit o' rough royt rhymin' function, That kentna' ye'll be bappin hamewa'th aifter 'e fechtin.” A randy royt ca'd Barmy Betty. One of the sons exclaimed sic a rambling royte . . . my mither is nae able to had her up to her ain stake. The coupers bring their fattit kye . . . An' while the roits fu' sair will trade Upo' their taes an' corns. A beast that 
  218. Wicht adj., adv.A Wight Man never wanted a Weapon. A man of sense, and good presence of Mind, will never want means to carry on his Business, but will make a Tool of the first thing that comes to his Hands. The wight an' doughty captains a'. . . . Gin my wightness doubted were. Had he been as wight as Wallace was bred to kintra-wark. And counted was baith wight and stark. My lan'-afore's a guid auld ‘has been', An' wight and wilfu' a' his days been. You wightly wag the skelping whang. It fell about the Lammas time, When wightsmen won their hay. Ye do you to my father's stable, Where steeds do stand baith wight and able . . . Willie was wight and well able. Wichtly Dobbin reached the Kirkton. As wight as a Webster's Westcoat, that every Morning takes a Thief by the neck. Whan the brulzie begins, put me in my post an' a wight weapon in my hand. Lang may ye wield a wichtfu' arm. But noo ten thousan' buirdly briests Micht mak' a wierwa' wide and wicht. Bare Thy wicht airm and bield us, God! Down the brae I gaed 
  219. Aither adv., conj., pron., adj.Ye's' aither tak' a freendly bowl wi' me, . . . or else bae me faith ye's' get a thrashin' [etc awee, An'ra, an' bena sae quick aithers. . . . I shouldna do that aithers. And her no tae hae her 
  220. Laylock n.[Patterns of wallpaper] Gum laylock, two reds, Orange do. two blues, Gum jessamine, ribb'd. Then' leloc toush is baith dirty an' torn. Deed I'm nane sae unbonny yet, for a' yer helicat flichtmafleathers, sprigget goons an' laylac bonnets. Her uniform … was … in the summer, on fine days, a lilac 
  221. Ploots v., n. pl.Plutshin, flapping with the feet in walking, as sea-fowl do. Shuard set the kishie firmly on his an happy is a bairn wi a new peenie plootchin i da burn. Eating his meals at the same table, and 
  222. Scutch v.3, n.3 and the ditcher's gane — To skutch the dykes. Each hewer had a labourer allotted to him to do the rougher work upon the stone with a short pick, technically to “scutch” it.  
  223. Fab n.1Gif I yer sangs hae in my fab. O sweet when fabs do fill the fist, Wi' pig-tail pang'd or ladies' twist. When I began this scrawl, I took it [a watch] Frae oot my fab, an' at it lookit. He pulled on 
  224. Treadwiddie n. harrows and trade withy of the owner's iron. A car-saddle, traidwiddies. The sign of the Cross was in against sprites of doubtful character. We do never hear to-day of the tragwiddie.  
  225. Haith interj.,” Haith, he's a loon! Wud ye only do that! but na! haith ye! sorra haet ye'll do yt onybuddy wants ye. She'll be sadly missed — haith, but she has stood the kittle customar with the scythe and leister a bauld], Sir, Is'e no sleepin'. “Haith, cratur!” he said, “ye're mair o' a man nor ye'll luik this saven year!” Bit heth! I draas da brut a smack Ahint da lug. “Edinburgh Toun!” Wha'd hing his faiple here and “dee, Hallelujah. It's fine we've got a body wi' us.” “Heth ay,” they said. “Praise God.” Heth, it wisna an aesy 
  226. Diffeeculty n. do no less than help you to him, which need be a matter of no diffeequalty. He so fangled the ane can ken a word they say. There sudna be nae gryte diffeekalty aboot gettin' hoose-room for twa aul' fowk. Weel, that ouchtna to mak muckle o' a diffeeclety atween auld friens like oorsels. I can a sma' soom for the estate.  
  227. Splinder n., v.In splendirs flew the stane about. For o'er they dang a whisky pig, And brake it a' to splinders' piping warm. A prettie splunder niu joktalegg oot o' da shopp o' Bunis. They resortit to their splinder pow'r, As e'en mith blaw Strathfen'la owre, An' splinder Clochnabane. Thrawn Trees do always splinder Best with a Wedge of their own Timber.  
  228. Feesick n., v. change will do me gude, and set me up mair than a' Dr Hepburn's pheesic. “Nae sae muckle 's feesick a' thae whim-whams. Fat would else be a halesome pheesic to oor souls, will only be poosion to them. A snipe” — said in ridicule over a small bit of eatables. Ither weel-meanin bodies Jump oot frae ahin the curtains Wi a speenfu o English pheesic Tae purge the Scots spikker O aa orra idioms, Aa non-standard 
  229. Grab n. ye. Hae nocht to do wi' greedy grabs. A bare-faced, auld, close-fisted grab. “If a get ma grabs onGrab was a favourite expression among the Light Infantry, and meant any plunder taken by force.” He got a richt grab o' the horse at the roup. Ilk muckle grab, ilk little tailor, A' strive to catch had a spree, He shared the tatie grab wi' me.  
  230. Puist v.1, adj., n.1. Ye're hardheided an' gey puist. A person who was well-to-do was said to be “puist”. Like your puist haWill Wabster, poisted as a puddock, And coglie as a weather cock. A puisteet an leined masel weel. Whan a' are contented, an' puist, an' fu'. Puist fowk, unus'd to cudgel-play, And doose spectators we are competently rich. The heirs of tenants of a former generation have now become lairds 
  231. Birkie n.1, adj. bouncin' birkie, what ye do. Ye see yon birkie ca'd “a lord,” Wha struts, an' stares, an' a' thatThat's something like it, man. Od, ye are a clever birkie! He wis a richt mirkie birkie, jist fu tap, Stout birkies and fu' o' sap. It's weel eneugh kenned that, birky tho' he be, he's just a bit o' putty in her hauns. Whaur swankin' birkies, daft wi' glee, . . . Hae met in mony a score. And mind, my' his lasses. 'Dare ye give me lip, my birkie?' The old man started forward. 'You'll do as you're bid, or spend days around Balwhinny as a horseboy!' , a sharp-tongued, quick-tempered person (usually a woman). Sometimes used facetiously to a lively child. Spoke like ye'r sell, Auld-birky. Guid-day, auld birkie, fu gaes a'? The twa auld birkies caper blythe an bauld. Kate being a nimble and birky thing. Daft Will Speir was ance a gleg and birkie loon. Keep on the flair, ye birky elf! There hae yer brattles. I meant nae offence — sae, dinna be sae birkie. He's a birkie sort o' chap, but there's nae ill 
  232. Flobbery adj.An' hungry lads make flobbery wark, An' flobbery wark it winna do.  
  233. Kaker n.Confin'd at home, wi' churlish want, The sooty kakers do me daunt.  
  234. Ranegill n.They mith eleck ony wil' ranegill, or ca'd aboot neer-do-weel.  
  235. Sirple v., n. do brawly when the sap's scarce. We whiles wad shake hauns o'er a sirple o' . My faither an' meAnd troth I think it is nae faut To sirple aff a glass or twa. He sirpl'd an' souked, but wha kens how muckle? I took a sirpling of rum-brandy. Sirple, sirplin' at the broo. Whenever it [calf] doesn't take its milk with a relish, but stands and sirples and bites at the edge of the pail. A child wishing to stay up instead of going to bed would sirple at his cocoa. Though a wee sirple o't [tea] may had a wee sirple also. To hand a sirple O' the gude gear to her gudeman.  
  236. Kiow-ow v., n.A person who occupies his mind with . . . frivolous matters or conversation, is called a . Ye're ower kyow-owy, Tammas. Sandy, loonikie, your exyems may do amon' your triangles an' sic like fyke-facks an' kyowows, but they're a' blethers. My God, what a ke-o of life I've made — that auld trollop for my wife, that sumph for my son, and that dying lassie for my dochter! She mak's a heap o' din 
  237. Conquess v.And gif he refuses to do that, We'll conquess both his lands and he. Better conquess your bad Keelevin, and surely I may mak a kirk and a mill o't an I like. Ye have conquest the key. I can tell you 
  238. Curdoo v., n. — the pair o' them curdooin' awa' in the face o' a' the folk! He then . . . cur-dooed to the pigeons — and squeaked with the guinea-pigs. But I do not approve of yon curdooing with the lad Tompkins. The-dow, An' ruffled a' her feathers fair.  
  239. Lampeekoo n.Do the wiser youngsters of today play and ? Played in Montrose in the last quarter of the 19th century at least. One set of boys would gather round a lamp-post; another set would be at the next lamp-post and a chase followed from lamp-post to lamp-post, an effort being made by the first set to capture 
  240. Goldie n. topers like me for the past 30 years. Danny, do I get a free wee goldie for that? Order up a "wee Goldie down your throat, it'll warm you up. What's your poison? A wee goldie can't do any harm, can it? TheA goldie's nest it might ha'e been, It was sae round and warm. And goldies may chirp and pick seeds on his graft. Linties an' goldies were fleein' a' aroond makin' the air cheery wi' their sangs. It's a fine bird a goldie if ye get a guid yin; it can whustle better nor a canary. That Goldie — weel, she micht hae learnt a tune If frae him [linnet] she had gat a trainin' sune. Waste ground with deep minnen ditch I weel ken. I'd pour out that hauf, Eddie. It's great how the prospect o a wee goldie fairly gies a man acceleration. Twigging that Dolan was less interested in his lighter than he was in tossing over a few more goldies, I volunteered to go. An affectionate term for a glass of whisky: 'Ah'm fur a wee goldie this time.' Well a half pint then. Or a wee yin? a goldie - eh? I'm 
  241. Grannam n. weather-glass I do declare. Sud but your honest grandham hear ye, I wadna for a saxpence clear ye. I 
  242. Mismak v.I canna leave the sowens to rin here an' there, as ye would do, an' hae them mismade ower again. Dinna mismake yoursell for me. He could threep a lee in your face an' no mismak him. For 'e wadna been 
  243. Fode n.God rue on thee, poor luckless fode! What hast thou to do here.  
  244. Pactorial adj.The deed contains no pactorial contract to do anything except for the marriage.  
  245. Wancheerie adj.Wancheerie youth, Do nature's ills demand your ruth, Or fortune mak' you wae?  
  246. Mappin n.Now cadies and mappins do wrangle, To cut purses fast if they can.  
  247. Propine n., v. fairness, to do something as a propyne for the succession you are to step into so easily. Since dedicatorsThere are leaves also tore, and others that are damnified; however, as it stands, it is a good propine to the church. Gowden Chains and Diamond Rings upo my Troth are Costly Things to gie a mistress in propine. The fates deny us this propine, Because we slaithfu' are. Sae, lad, receive this as a sma' Propine frae me. Sir William Ashton promised me a bonny red gown to the boot o' that — a stake, and a chain, and a tar barrel, lass! — what think ye o' that for a propine. Your propine of the ham propine. Noo' what I would propose for a propine, Geordie, is, Health and happiness to Mr. and Mrs. Milrookit. If I were thine, and in thy propine, O what wad ye do to me? The richest gift in Heaven's senseless Billy , His to propine a giglet Lassy. Bless God that you have had a husband, if it were only to 
  248. Jellie adj.I had na pu'd a flowr but ane, Till by there came a jelly hind greeme. By chance came in a jelly tanner; His braw address an' gentle manner Spak' him nae blate. Weel do I ken An'ra Gray o' Whistlecraft, a dainty jealy man. An aunt o' the bride's was there to welcome the fowk: a richt jellie wife in a close mutch, but unco braid spoken. A bonny pair ye are — the jeely man, for Aeneas! — keepin' me in the dark about the cairry-ons wi' silly glaikit lassies! A jelly Sum to carry on A Fishery's design'd. To the west, thy gelly mouth [a door] Stood wide to a'. And jellily dance the damsels, Blythe 
  249. Earnin vbl. n. will I do, for the creatures are aye at me for cruds every day!” They [whey brose] were a' made oot oMany Cheeses are spoiled, by giving too great or too small a Proportion of Rennet or Earning to the' ae meal pock, an' a' oot o' ae whey — guid, fresh whey it was too, juist aff this mornin's earnin'.  
  250. Envy n., v.Then, O my soul! do thou not fret, Nor yet envious be. My aunty Kate sits at her wheel, And sair she lightlies me; But weel ken I it's a' envy, For ne'er a jo has she. Wi' sma to sell and less to neebors, their loathin' she earns — Sae pity the chield to a feckless wife tied. Thae Macalisters are 
  251. Hostel n.Syne paid him upon a gantree, As hostler wives should do. The rest around the hostel fire, Their the hostler line maun pit up wi' muckle. We alighted at the door of a jolly hostler-wife, as Andrew, for a decent hostel, Lichtit he on Knappyroon. Ye needna fear for me, I'll no gang near the hostler 
  252. Larrie n.2. Fient a trap, boaggie, geeg, laarrie, caager's cairt or hurlie. Faerce motor cars an larries tu. (Davie's faither wis a larry driver an aince in an awfa nicht o blindrift an hailsteens as big as fitbas he'd stukken jist ooto Knockandhu an taen an ill-will at the place sinsyne: "No can do at Knockandhu," he aye said.) An Arctic larrie afore us jist raisse up like a feather an crashed doon the sheugh 
  253. Broach v.I'll tell you what we'll do, I'll hame and broach her the night on't.  
  254. Chim Chim v.Fock that dare do naething but chim chim at the same thing ower again.  
  255. Hookie n.And, by the hookie! if ye think, I at your teasings here do wink.  
  256. Convene v.I was to tak' possession as soon as it convened mysel' to do sae.  
  257. Afftakin He wis odious afftakin (= given to ridiculing). A dinna like 'im; he's a mokin' smatchit. The, sardonic, 'afftakkin' wit, the joke with a sting in its tail. He wis an aff-takkin loon, as coorse a. A wat he's an afftaking craitur. A cuisin o' mine wis kent fae 'is earliest days fur 'is afftakin' weys. Yon fellow thinks he's witty, but he's witty nane; he's jist an afftakin neer-do-weel for aa his 
  258. Grushie adj. roun' my knee, Sometimes do clim' an' sometimes tumble. Wi' five grush bairnies an' a wife. Ye're a thing [for a girl to bathe naked] — and you a grushie lad. Thou's wont to sing that liquor stout Gars 
  259. Crook n.O! had she died o' crook or cauld, As Ewies do when they grow auld.  
  260. Furroch v.Tie your brogues, Allan Dhu, hasten and run: Allan MacAllan Dhu, why do ye furroch?  
  261. Luckras n.Was the auld lucriss out to-day? What do you mean, ye ugly auld lucriss?  
  262. Book n. in “the books” was jist a sight to see. The boy must be indoors every morning and night "at the dhair brekfust un book. “But what will they do about ‘the Books' — about the difference in their manner of conducting family worship?” He saved a public scandal by lifting his books and . . . resigning 
  263. Bunk n., v. than pleased; that they do not can, to a great degree, be blamed on those bunkwives who refuse students, and bunks be few And most of them troubled with rat or mouse, Never take rooms in a corner house 
  264. Defences n. pl.Defences are pleas offered by a defender for eliding an action. They are either , which do not enter into the cause itself . . . or , which entirely cut off the pursuer's right of action. A summons 
  265. Design v. designed to him for the support of a horse . . . and praying the Presbytery to make the necessary in the parish, by the presbytery of the bounds. . . . After a designation by the presbytery, if the possessors of the lands, designed for manse or glebe, do not yield possession to the minister, he . . . may 
  266. Sussie n., v. “haein' a sizzie wi' ” a drunk man who was foolish enough to give chase and too drunk to do it properly 

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  1. Wa adv.‘Do way,’ said Schir Rolland, ‘me think thow art not wise’ Do wa thy bost and mannance maid to ws Persew me not thus with ȝour … teris … Do wa [ way] to present me sik takyn of wo Sum makis God of Sanctis baine Quhilk war thay leuand heir wald say Idolateris, do way, do way ‘Do way,’ quod scho, ‘Ȝe] Had I a child consavyt of thyne ofspryng Huchon … confessit … the way pullyng of the tayll of ane ox 
  2. Never-do-well n.Remember that this delusion is a black mark of a never-do-well  
  3. Pickadilloon n.Indeed it was more proper for him to do penance in a pickadilloon, a pillory  
  4. Mow v.2 dochter for a mock? To mow and steill, I ken the pryce Who may do as ye may do to mow & gait no bairnes his wyf in the mercat Haue I not maid a berrie block That hes for Jennie maryit Jock That mowit my 
  5. Companionrie n. , … a lawing in companionrie Companionry is wondrous good. I should do as others do The great 
  6. Doule n.I dar do nocht on the day bot droupe as a dovle [: owle]  
  7. Doude n.Than he fand that drowy doude Amang a pak off karlynys loud Thus in sege a sot to se, Or do a 
  8. Uncurtasy n.Vncourtessie comes aluayis of a cur His maister aw to kepe him hale, and fere of his persone, that nane do him wrang, na uncourtasy of his persone [etc.] That nane tak upoun hand to do to thame … harme 
  9. Mandant n.[A mandate connotes a] warrand, or order, upon the part of the mandant to the mandatar, to do some 
  10. Do v. and stabyle quhat thyng the forsayd … doyis I dare do nocht on the day, but droupe as a doule All he, for thou seis I am bot a beste and dois as a beste Na man may … spere quhy dois God thus in this DoDo away Quhat is to do To do and tak full radresse I do bot my dett Do as I bid the To do … thair lawbouris thairintill Do thou nocht thus, … thou salbe brynt We do ȝou to wit Quhat do ȝe now? Quhat sal he do to … men? Sic thingis as he went about to doo Ȝour cloathes doe away I doe knaw of customyt seruys In kyrkys doand thare service [To] pas throu a contree but grete scathe doand Doand contrar I rede we cast ws betuene How best is to done Full sore thay dred to done a violence I traist vpon a mow it did Sere ferlyis that Thomas dyd Thai dyd hym that honowre He … did mony hie waslage To sie how hir husband did How the Iouys ded vith hyme A wikit man that gret myse dede Payand … wderys gud caws to be done to me Thair richtis … on arbetrie wes done Ilk man do as he wald be done to 
  11. Revel n.With my neiues I sall the nauell, Auld custrone carle tak thair a reuell, Than do as I command  
  12. Scart n. without a scart We will haw the byttis, and rywis, and scrattis in owr bodies All whom the lawyers do skarth] hyne do turs the hame fra ws Haill skart  
  13. Unfeasable adj.Being assured … yow … will do your best for dissuading his excellency … from pressing so hard and unfeasable a matere upone us  
  14. Landles adj.Lordis ar left landles be onleill lawys A woman lowpar landles … sall nevir … do weill Better have a man landles nor land manles To defraude the most landles liuer [of burial] were a shamelesse 
  15. Emplesance n. … yhou that … ȝe wald present our said chaplane to the said vicarage as ȝe wil do ws a singularQwat emplesance, seruice, or kyndnes that we may or suld do to ȝour said kyngis maieste We exhort 
  16. Dishonest adj.To fle of the bataill is bathe dishoneste and schamefull thing God kepe the … that thou do never sa dishonest a turn  
  17. Martirit ppl. adj.Thai began To say ‘Cum on, thow marterit [ martyrit, martyrde] man And do as we devyse’ What a 
  18. Til v.For eth is a man to til To do it that is his wil That woman lang has tillit him so fair  
  19. Tratoures n. … giff the prince may succeid to ane tratrice Ye caus me do almaist the office of a traitores 
  20. Ungrevand pres. p.[The poison] Vngrewand hyme mare than he Had dronkyne pyment & clarre How may than a man do till 
  21. Warenes n.I fear the common affaires do not fayre a whit the better for our to greate warenes With such 
  22. Switch v.A young gentleman, brother to the lady seing him, switcht him about the ears, saying, you warlok cairle, what have you to do here?  
  23. Potful n.Ane tuird wil spill ane potfull of bruiss Ye will not trow quhat grotes will do, the[y] will swel and be a potful  
  24. Trinket n.1[Used in shoe manufacturing] 1 do. [ lb.] trinkets is 9 s. 1½ do. quyt clesps at 10 s. do. 15 s 
  25. Coulie n.Some coward coulie of this strain … Ran rampant on a schollar boy Some cowlies murders more with words Than trowpers do with guns and swords  
  26. Dow-talit adj.ij do. dow talit tynnit botis vj yrne boiltis … kneyit and dow taillit Tua doutailed bottis for a 
  27. Enquire v.Do all thy diligence to enquire and spere of the grete necessitee of the poure My fader, a thing 
  28. Obligatorious adj.He [ . a lunatic] culd nocht contract, trespas or do ony sic deid as were obligatorious, quherbj he 
  29. Pluckbrow n.You never gave me so fair occasion for a pluckbrow as in saying you meet with many passages in mine you do not understand well  
  30. Provenent n.With all such other provinent, As was to Greece by Xerxes sent Ye cannot do so much as giue a 
  31. Sublime v. thereon do carpe Virgill was amongst the Romans syne A spreit sublimed, a pillar of thair prayse  
  32. Pinicill n.Quhen now we … haue sett doune … the boundes of hail Scotland, we sal do diligence … with a 
  33. Dere n.2Help all power at thi power, For Godis saik do thaim no dere To the Scottis he did full mekill der Ȝon wood cattis sall do ws litill der On fut suld be all Scottis weire, … That innymeis do thaim na deire May nane do thame na deir with vndoyng For than thai alls that fled … war … come now to do ws deir The dynt dyd no deir Quhairby tha mycht … Suffer vneis and do thame litill deir Walking and It dois thame gude to do vs deir Thinking … that nathir God nor man micht do thame deir Countre men quhilk in ane band Conspyris still to do the deir Ȝow mon first to me sweir That ȝe to me sall do na 
  34. Cohertive adj.Powere and iurisdiccioune cohertiue is powere to caus a persoune to do richt quhethir he will ore 
  35. Unquit p.p.Unquyt I do no thing nor sane, Nor wairis a luvis thocht in vane Suppois the servand be lang 
  36. Term v.) I do fear that that which with men terme lenitie and dulcenes do bring upon thameselves … mor Maxwall, … hed … termed the said advise a pernitious counsale Tearmed the Lords of the faction Sa termis it ther landswartis reidairis A controversy of the Kirk … whether the moderator should be constant level that runs unforced) He begin to cry to suche as he tearmes his flock He … hectors such as do not 
  37. Borow-greff n.Gif the borow greff will nocht do iustice on hym The mersar … sall geyf a halpeny to the borow 
  38. Lone adj.He … compeared His lone in the fields against them all He will do all His lone Every good thing, except God, wanteth a bottom, and cannot stand its lone  
  39. Droup v.That he lewit to play & sing, Bot drupyt & mad murnyng I dar do nocht on the day bot droupe as a His ene drowpit, how sonkin in his heid As he was droupand thus in dule I drup with a ded luke in my dule habit I do bot drowp as I wald die Mezentyus … Seand the steid drowpand and sad, thus said The 
  40. Libbit ppl. adj.Of ȝoung new libbit capones xx Tua libbet bull stottis Like a libbed eunuch Soldatis … into the house do holde Of libbit sonne to aagit yeire, thaire garnisoun full colde  
  41. Netheles adv. [ . Na the les] for me … Do this a thing Neththeles ȝoure grace knawis full wele I [etc.]  
  42. Trick adj.Say weill in wordis is wonderous trick Bot do weill in deidis is nimbill and quick, Lord, quick and trick togiddir knit, And sa sall they pipe a merie fit  
  43. Justicier n.This thay do to conquise the name of guid iusticiers, to punish the falter He was a good justicier 
  44. Joint p.p., adj. What ye do in these things do it jointly and not dividedly, as one man, with jointshoulder, every one working to others hands They avouch that a heluo, or great-eater, hath a voracious elve to be his attender, called a joint-eater or just-halver, feeding on the pith … of what the man eats The duke … ioynt 
  45. Trukling ppl. adj. port In place of being truckling retailers with a little stock of wool and tin, why do we neglect soOthers … in a trukling way sold ther goods quich was to the great loss of the goods att the stapell rich a treasure, which we have at uptaking  
  46. Contrepoyze v.Some [bees] litle stones do beir, And ballast thus do contrepoyze the winde  
  47. Warrandabillie adv.Lett me intreat yow to do them all the favore that can warrandabillie be done out of these peces thatt Captane Dowglas careit doun A protestation aganis ruleing elders was warrantablie answered  
  48. Incompetency n.It is usual to propone a declinator or exception of incompetency against any judge or judicatory. .when in the exercise of their jurisdiction they do exceed the bounds prescribed by the law  
  49. Do-service n.Payand ȝerlie tel ws and our hous … ten pounds … with othir do service acht and wont Payand … for ale other do seruis, with courtis, plantis [etc.] The sade Johne and his ayris payande to ws … devyteys and do seruis acht and wovnt He dysyris the … do service of all the tenandis All vthir do 
  50. Lardon n.1I do intend … to send Monsieur Dosell to the Quene your maistres … quho sall declair that unto hir from me that, I trust, sall satisfie hir ( . This wes a secreit lardon) Trusting the Quene, my gude-sister, will do the lyke, and that from hensfurth none of my disobedient subjectis (gif thair be ony 
  51. Misnurtourit ppl. adj. thair governouris … quhill [etc.] Of misnortured persons: He hes a brasen face, He knowes not the doore do, misnurtured crying and knocking will do This unruly and misnurtured neighbour  
  52. Hicht v.1Scho sal cum to the … To do thi wil; that I the hicht The pouere thu hichtis me … I refuse The I hicht the befor He fullfillyd all that he hycht To do at he hycht to do Scho wrait him to, so This schir Eduard, forsuth I hicht, Wes … a nobill knycht Emynedus the wicht May sie his poynt 
  53. Side-subscribe v.A writ consisting of more sheets than one was quarrelled as null, because not side-subscribed The party user offered to get it side-subscribed: upon which the lords allowed him to do it  
  54. Sparkling vbl. n. sustaine The sparklings of God in itself [ the soul] presaging, as eagles do carrion, at a great distance  
  55. Twang n.2English writers … labour to disparage our conversion to the faith, as they do every thing … that is for our honor … Cambden, and others of great name … want not a twang of that epidemic infection  
  56. Mis n. martyr but a mis For thi-selfe Goddis angel is, And to cum her thu doys myse To greve God and do evir thame sustene the pane To do so foull a mys The King … bad him ga and do sik misse na mair Of euery trespas and euery mys, Throu prayer of Thy mother, queyn of blys Let never thy innemeis wit thy mis A myse That neuir dyd with hyre body myse A[s] mane that mykil mys had wrocht Suppos he escape, he dois na mys Suppose the saide shirefe wald graunt he had done mys Thus, do thai mys, thai have the wyt The pure is pelit, the lord may do no mis Ȝe did greit mis, fayr Conscience, be ȝour leif wald do sic myse With man This mys For ony mys [ . mysse] that he had dwne Quha did the mis lat king that wirkith sich o mys When thei do well or quhen thei do o mis For had my husband said or done a mys My pane [etc.] That thu ma ȝete thi mys remed To de … As Criste did, al oure myse to mend thai do na mys in that agaynis thair king He did me greit mis He flat no sad mys ony man till Off 
  57. Ill-like adj.Do na-thinge that ill-lyk may bee If thou do na ill, do na ill like He persaveing John Park to be 
  58. Barlafummil interj., n.Fra his thowme thay dang a sklys, quhill he cryd barla fummyll [ . barlaw fummill] Do not goe To, Barlafumle clamat When Coachmen drinks, & Horses stumble, It's hard to miss a Barlafumble  
  59. Pleuresie n.With parleis and plurasies opprest The pluirasie Pleuressie the hoast & reume do sealdome make repair In my conceat it was a pleurasie Pleuresie Plurisie A great pluressie … I was forced to cause draw off 24 unces of bloud [The] prisoner … is now by a pleurisy of blood … in danger of his lyfe  
  60. Pine n.2Of frutfull treis … Our all the laif a ioly pyne, … it was callit the pereles pyne Thair schip … from Norrovay contenand … ane do. peine asche ane fawdom burnewod trie Aged Atlas, whose pyn-bearing 
  61. Ne conj.1 refusyt to do sa vile a deid, Ne list not anys thame twich That thai forstall this burgth … ne pais nochtNe to do wrang ne wiolence Ne yhit to do the peple offence It is nocht our will nor our entent to do ony preiudice to the kirk of Brechine ne to the bischop of it That thai come for na ill of him ne his childer Nor cruell harm forȝet ne out of mynd At thai ne suld do entir ne thame fynd Nocht 
  62. Furthtakin vbl. n. [ a ship] furthtakin of the pow of Arth and to bring hir do[w]n to the ferry  
  63. Tene v.All is to tene him that I do That turment so him teynd He quiklie & prettilie inuentit ane prettie trik to teine thame Three toddes and a tersel shal tene al the woods, From Tynemouth to Tultie  
  64. Secund Sicht n. Foir shawing thame quhat they had done and quhat they sould do And that be the secund sicht grantit to, magie, and the like Because she had consulted a man who pretended to have the second sight, which none indued with the fear of [God] would or should do At such revolution of time, seers or men of the second that exalted sight (whither by airt or nature) have told me they have seen at those meetings a double-man or the shape of the same man in two places [etc] The men of that second sight do not discover strange things when asked but at fits and raptures A man of the second sight perceivd a person standing 
  65. Monesting vbl. n. lyffis sawfte [etc.] Quhen he to thaim … Had maid a fayr monesting To do weill He resauet exhortatioun 
  66. Lavish adj. kind of inhibitions, whereby a weak or lavish pairty obliges himself to do nothing in prejudice of his purpois proceid Verray spairing of his countrimennis blude, and lauisch of his awin Interdictions are a 
  67. Stedfull adj.And sall all tymis … do hym gud and stedfull seruece [I mind so to proceed that the realm reduced to obedience, may be] mair steidfull [to your majesty] The setling of a steidfull and continewing 
  68. Daf v.Quhat do ȝe now? I se ȝe do but daf Dastard, thow daffis, that with sic dewillrie mellis Quhen we 
  69. Condamnit ppl. adj.It is forbedyn to do evill, and condampnyt thing That we may haue anis in the yeir ane condampnit condampnit transgressouris The auld condamned Anabaptists A pledge for releif of a condamnit theif  
  70. Indevoir n.The said Lauchlane sall do his exact diligens and indevoir to revenge the samyn Carying a ernest intentioun and studious indevoir to be a scoller Provyding his … indevore be tryed to haue beine done to the 
  71. Skink v. in skull Thai skynk the wyne And with gud will do skynk and birl the wynys And gan do skynk and have skinked over and foregone my part of paradise and salvation, for a breakfast of dead, moth-eaten earth To make it a matter of bairn's play, to skink and drink over paradise  
  72. Furthward adv. beggit with a pardoun in all kirkis Furthward I went We haue deliberat … to do and sett furthward all 
  73. Hen-wyf n.He … chairget sone his henwyfe to do hir cure, And make thame [eggs] fruct [In heaven] Scho lewit a gud life, And wes our ladyis hen wif With Venus henwyffis quhat wys may I flyte, That strakis 
  74. Unrichtfulnes n.For quhen a richtfulman turnis away him self fra his richtfulnes … he sal de in the vnrichtfulnes vnrychtfulnes … gevis exempill to otheris to do the samyn  
  75. Detfully adv. wagis of a lord and levis him or he have maid service detfully tharfore That oure souwerain lord … sal say that we may wele and detfully do it that we may do The said Iames protestyt for the largest price 
  76. Scribler n.1Nor do I ever hear that any of those publick spirited authors do turn the edge of their zeal 
  77. Exequias n. pl.Gif he hes nay gudis of his awin to … do his exequias, the College sal … do his exequias as efferis 
  78. Upsails n. pl.I wait on … till the Lord send a full sea, that with up-sailes I may lift up Christ The devil, and the lusts of a deceiving world, and sin, are upon horseback, and follow with upsails Consider how fair before the wind some do ply with up-sails and white … And yet … are quickly broken upon the rocks  
  79. Cosinage n.A lady of that cuntre, That wes till hym in neir degre Of cosynage Thai sal suer that nother for radnes … na for cosynage, … thai sal nocht spare to do rycht til all men Nocht for knaulage of cosynage 
  80. Cowartry n. had reprochit thame a litill of thare cowartry Sua that na man find cowardrye Nother in thy hart nor in thy hand Do we neuer na couardry!  
  81. Pus n.Do you intend to bell the pus; With king, duke, parliament, and us They'le, like to pouse, o'ere the window leape; So pouse in majestie … St Geills saw thrown by Huffie duke of late This pouse wes a 
  82. Brangil n.Vpstart Troianys, … And gan do dowbill brangillys and gambatis Dansand base dansis, … braulis and branglis The cauldnes of the dealing of England puttis mony in a brangle I houp his Lordschip sall mak a brangill to his advauntage Forced, for want of a convenient agent to give them the due brangle, to lye 
  83. Coram n.Though thair do not remain so many as we have sett doun for the coram Aney 4 of the number, … to be the coram Be ane adicinall desyre … ther may be a coram appointed of the counsell Som circuit court to be held at Elgin by a coram of the councel Three of the counsell and any one of the baillies being a coram  
  84. Losit ppl. adj. with terrour more afray … As I do feare the starnes of her ees The cruel torments of a condemnit and lossed [ ] man I haue wanderit a straylyk a lossit scheip  
  85. Rant v.Wedensday: rantinge; shooke hands with a man that was going to be hanged [We] dranke till twelfe a cloke in the night, at which time we ranted thorrowe all the litle towens with a great bagge pipe Although we do not rant and swagger, Nor drink in taverns till we stagger Her stoutest enemies, that 
  86. Smuke v. countrey fellows whom we had smoaked out of a cave If they do those serpents choak [ with incense] As to death The haill houssis wes … brunt, to haue smokit the men of the dungeoun out A hundreth easterlings their bees do smoak For 2 unce brimston to smeik the 4 beeskeps The matronys … smokis the future sickness Sum drinking, and sum smoaking tabacca Then I went to a coffee house and smoak'd a pipe If a man smoke himselfe to death with it [ tobacco] [etc.] These coasts Which smoake with his hot 
  87. Dishart v.We are … cassin in a dispaire to do any gude in the earand we came for, all thingis disharting ws 
  88. Stepbarne n.The pyote said … Quhy mak ȝe me stepbarne, and I ȝour brother? Ȝe do me wrang, schir gled Suppois scho wes bot hir stepbarne as than And that if any were a stepbairn, in respect of comfort and sense 
  89. Trinnell v.Within a fewe yeares, this head, which now lyeth softlie vpon this pillow, shall bee rouled and trinnelled vp and downe by the feete of the posteritie I know He hath other things to do than to play with 
  90. Unschut v.Thidder the passage and al the wayis rycht Do teiche me, and thay secrete portis vnschet schot wyndo vnschet [ onschet] a lytill on char Gymp gerraflouris thar royn levys vnschet [ onschet]  
  91. Emplesour n. teindschawis … at oure emplessour As ye will … do us singular empleisur Sic ane falt as I am assureit ye repent of alreddy, quhilk will be ane greit emplesour to me And this ye faill not to do, as ye will do 
  92. Giand n. Do hold that Wallace was a mightie gian giandis that etis men Thai fand in it a certane of giandis The proud giandis, and thristy Tantalus They 
  93. Unhandsomly adv.Busines is so unhansumlie caried on that I can do litell or nothing in it Mr. John Rae had disappointed me of a bargane … very unhandsomely Nether use unhandsomly [or] uncivily these who enter or pass ordained to cause cover it with a daill or two  
  94. Scoup n. skowpes as I do I will not, perhaps, take the skowps this time as I use to do  
  95. Chak v.2The hund … With hys wyd chaftis at hym makis a snak, The byt oft falȝeis for ocht he do mycht, And 
  96. Outreddar n. permittit … to persew the master [of a ship] bot also the outredder quha pat in the maister His cumpany seing proffeit thairthrow to his awneris and outredderis, he [the skipper] may lauchfulle do the samyn 
  97. Crous adj., adv. do bring forth a mouse The crous capone, a clerk under cleir weidis, … was officiale Sum ar heire crous that thaire will ryatas na crous Als hail a man As euir he wes … And in him self that tyme as crous and kant That none durst be so hardie and so crous To speik of him [etc.] Ane spak with wourdis wonder crous: A done with ane mischance! Be crous, ȝe commouns! in this cace, In auenture ȝe cry, allace! Do ȝe not se that mad menȝe How thay ar waxin crous? A cock is crouse in his own midding There is nothing so crouse as a new washen louce For Edinburgh Cross, Venetian Coffee Hous, Batons in chiefe are armes that make 
  98. Chose v.He chosit a place, thare-in to duel, Be the se-syd in Galoway The banys, walit by and naitly chosit, Choryneus in a brassyn twn hes closit I chosit rather to underly the opinioun of presumptioun in speking than of tressoun in silence Do choys the ane, and I sal quynch the lycht The same deane and ane Ireland man … to be ane cheiftane It is ȝour luif that I do chois [: refuis] Then may ȝe chois 
  99. Lowpar n. and supplycatioun Off prencis A woman lowper [ . lowpar, . louppar] landles … Sall never … do weill 
  100. Devoir n.I trow thai stalwardly sall stand, And do thair deuour as thai aw Sanct Mercure … did his dewoure did their deuour douchtelly I sal do my devour and full best to convoy that mater Quhill the oistis was done I trow forsuth that thai suld say That thai suld do thair dewor wele This feirs rinning wes impediment to Maximus to do his devore Traisting to have done sufficientlie thare devore Monsieur Cumbo personis, being requirit be the said Lard of Cesfurde to cum with him, and to do thair devore [etc thai do thair devoir as otheris dois Lat thame ga togeder, and do thare devoire I trete for na favour; Do furth thy devoir Quhen he saw that he culd cum na speid, To do his devoir be the way of deid I dewoire Gif you do nocht your extreme devoir thairin to bring the samyn to lycht Do ȝour devoir quhen that thay lat ȝow That the magistratis … sall do thair devoir and vtter diligence, to the end that 
  101. Respond v.That the souerteis salbe haldin to rispond for the falye Ane subiect ay suld do commandement Quhilk do thow nocht thow sall respond thairfore Wald God my tong wald to my will respond … Than suld my 
  102. Entercomoun v. to cum in hous na entercommoun, & giff thai do … to be with hyrne clekis put in the water That na leper men na woman entercomoun but a cop to a takinn [Not] to favour na resset the inymyes of the faith 
  103. Leister n. instrument called a leaster For leisters being 8 of them Many people … that do at mill dams, and otherTo fische the said watter … be bottis, cobillis, nettis and leastouris at thair plessour A fishing 
  104. Ne adj., adv. grayn … of a grene tre Nye besyd Catalone This great cumpany that approcheth neyest to us will do us understude that scho was nie [: pusillamitie, companie] Hys helm of steil besyde hym hang weil ne Apon a 
  105. Prevention n.The effect of the law wes fulfullit be preventioun of the terme Argumentum a simili maye iustlie prevension of any probable prejudice Prevention is when one judge interposes his authority or when a tryal is entered upon by one judge before another judge do exerce any action of jurisdiction about that 
  106. Crouning vbl. n.All the thyngis that the kinge in his crownyng wes suorne for til do to haly kyrke and the pupyl The king set syne a certane day, And for his crownyng gert purvay A grete semblee of lordis, at a 
  107. Ordinarily adv. for it than they do A fierce young man who ordinarily had a minȝie attending him Legal execution is without the knawledge of the Presbyteries and Synodis As ordinarily melted gold casteth forth a drossy 
  108. Quhidderfull adj.And all the parte quhilk vpwart was dede Was like a man … And quyk and quhiddirfull the nether husband … gave his soull and bodie quick and quidderful to the devil and bade her do so  
  109. Splent n. brest plate pans & legsplentis at the lest Gevin to Muncur of Dunde for leg splentis and a pare of arme splentis iiij li. To a man to ryde to Dunde, for to ger mak arm splentis and leg splentis to the King ij s xx merkis be bodyn at the lest with ane jak with slevys to the hande or ellis a payr of splentis a Janet and Owchtre] … twa spetis, a rak with ane fryane pane, … ane cellat, … a pare of splentis, the Splenttis A per splentis x s. a knapscall xl d. Sleves of plait or splenttis Certane auld harnes with … attempt to do or raise ony bandis of men of weare on hors or fute, with pikkis, speris, jakkis, splentis, steilbonettis, quhyte harnes, or uther munitioun bellical … without speciall licence Some doubting what to do, to leap or stay, Were trampled under foot … The shivering spears do through their bodies tremble, And strongly brangled in splents do quickly flee Splintis Personis that beis fund in ony borrowit geir … fitman … with a jack of plett, steilbonet, splent slevis of mailyie or plait  
  110. Squad n. go through their own squad and exhort them to their dewtie Squade There is a skwad of the king's troap with ane company of foote to be heir this night All that the king was able to do was to set out some squads of small ships … to be a guard  
  111. Clovin ppl. adj.Usque le Clowin Stane v do[sin] clovin botis [= bolts] Ane of the saidis kistis being of auld aik Turnagain The rebelles sent vp a boy with a lettir in a clofin stik to the liwtenant Making … herring 
  112. Bery n. berreis, … rutis & eirbis Nor [do thou] bett the bus that vthairis eattis the bereis , the kirnell of a 
  113. Coucher n.Gawane Ellott … ansuerit the deponner, that Gib wes bot a feeble coutcher, and wald neuir do the 
  114. Droich n. Callit the drochis pairt of the play Go, sey thy science; do, droche [ . droigh] quhat thow dow , … a 
  115. Enples v.Thare for is nedful, that thru the Oure goddis now enpleysit be A monk [that] forsit hym ay In besynes cane do To enplese to this warld, than he Did enplesand to God to be  
  116. Kist v.The feyndis sewine of hire kyst he Thane he kyst in his thocht In that case he best do mocht Quhare thru sic luf scho kist til Hyme, that to syn with hym scho had wil Thai kyst hym in a presoune 
  117. Misdeme v.We afferis til helpe saklas men Bot to mysdeme na man kene Thair rais a sclander … Off quhilk the war that ȝe do nocht misdeme my taill How is the honest mans actions misdeemed  
  118. Punȝé n.1, … Ane harde ponyhe [ Ane ponȝane; A gret ponȝe] off were befell Alssua he that brekis ordinaunce of bataill … suppos he pas to do sum pugny of were that be prouffitable to his lorde, that savis him nocht  
  119. Saules adj.Sic saules thingis [ women] hes nouther sin nor schame Or than to God ȝe do grit injure And sall and testament A saulles suinger, seuintie tymes mensuorne Thir saulless lovnis plunderit … quhair 
  120. Impulsion n. ardent impulsioun to persew the samyn than afore Men … quha … be impulsioun of a certain wil … may do na 
  121. Inhumanite n.And [= if] his maister … do him sum outrageous injure or othir inhumanitee And a man demembrit him 
  122. Jugling vbl. n. and vther juglingis whilkis thay committ in the boundis circumjacent Thay do ... abuse the ... ignorant people by ... a nomber of jugling trickis and falsettis  
  123. Outlaw v. vtlawit The officer at armes doth in signe or token of his outlawing blowe three severall tymes a little horne Upon this sentence letters of horning … do follow of course, that is an outlawing of the party 
  124. Rawn n. do mightie fishes breid As selchs haue milke and young ons lacking rawnes A piece of fish raune 
  125. Lunatik adj.The kynge of the land … That lunatyk a douchtyre hade Thame that ware lunatyke & brayne woude Herretyk, lunatyk, purspyk Lunatike Ane curatour beand gevin be ane judge to a furious or lunatique sammyn do That he dyd to the lunatyke Fore thare seknes ware elyke Nane that is out of his wit as lunatik na naturale foyl A noyefull nychtbour, A lunatik, a sismatyk  
  126. Skene n.[The Highlanders (wear) … a dirk, or skean about a foot or half a yard long, and the back of it filed into divers notches, wherein they put poyson Ane do. of skenis hewin iiij s. They thrust at him with durks and skanes He tooke hold of a long skeen … and therewith did give him a deadly wound 
  127. Extré n. cannownes war brokin They can do no moir than the wheillis can do without the extrie The vtter quheill … of Balcaithlie milne with the extrie A pese of yrone to mend the extrie of the great kairt Ane 
  128. Shrew v. [ schro] my scawpe A schrew me if I think it Thus of my freind I mak ane fo: Schrew me and I mair do so worst I schrew him euirmore I schrew him giff I le Ȝe do me wrang schir gled; I schrew ȝour harte I 
  129. Dow v.1 thou do, syk luf dowe nocht a stra Of … dremys quhat dow it to endite? Ten pece of ald clathis sting or wapping, to be in ane reddynes Scho shuits so sharpe, ȝe dou not byde a brattill The little docht him dres At the sege of Leith, scho … dang the Frenchmen, quhilk we docht not do Becaus of his thameselves to some desolat places Thocht he dow not to leid a tyk, Ȝit can he not lat deming be With all my the king hard … That he had maid ane carll knicht … , And docht nocht to do With ȝoung and ald that waponis docht to weild Tha rewit sair … Quhen tha doucht litill for to mak remeid Promittand to do hyr vtter deligens … to gar bryng hayme the saiddis deym Isobellis bullis theroff … and sche docht to do it let the samyn gif I dow He sall do daylie that euer he dow Ȝow to distroy Do quhat ȝe dow, detractouris ay will deme ȝou Do quhat ȝe dow to haif him haile With thy bou do vhat thou dou Let her doe 
  130. Excell v. presumptioun Quha amang thame do excell ar deir boght and gyue a gret price his fallowis he was mvrdryst A thousand tymes ȝe thame excell ilk on The authoritie, quhairthrouch sche excellis the rest The king Nysus … had a dochter of ȝoung age that exellit in bewte In vice most 
  131. Nobles n.The grete prowes and nobles of armes that thare was done All noble men ar behaldin to do nobles till a noble lorde To se nobles … as tournaymentis or othir wasselage Princis … beris armes of mare nobles na otheris For hir nobles nan suld were this colour bot a prince At he … wes a vertues man in 
  132. Tabill-talk n. maid ȝour tabill talk When magistrates do disconntenance true religion, then it becometh a matter of derision to rascals … and a table-talk to every tipler Wee ordaine … that no measson shall begin to 
  133. Unsensibill adj. vnsensibill marks It was found undernethe her richt shoulder a little whyt unsensible spott Many a sober man of us with on consent, groning under this heavie and unsensible weight, do herby statutt I am not 
  134. Trowabil adj.] That mannys wertu … Mycht othir do or wndo it Arestotiles … sais that this is nocht weill trowable for to do this … convenis nocht to humane natur It is … nocht trowabil that sic exempil suld be 
  135. Captive adj.Thocht captive flesche do sterue  
  136. Phrenesie n. Protestantis Wtheris as in a phrenesie, rinnand … without knaulege quhat thai othir do or say Vtheris lauchHe dyed … in a phrenesye Dansing … is termed the jesture rather of those that ar mad and in … seruants tooke a phrenisie … so that they werre forcet to binde her with small cords He was distracted of his witt ever afterward and died … with a phrenesie The phrenesie of thir proud pestilent 
  137. Coactioun n.That na lord … compell ony of the kingis tennentis … to do thaim ony maner of sic seruice be tennentis to do thame … service be coactioun or dreid  
  138. Withsay v.And gyf ony wald thaim withsay Thai suld swa do that thai suld tyne Othir land or lyff or leyff in wythsay [ withe say] Quhou dar thow, Aliadane, be sa bald To withsay [?] ocht that I do wald?  
  139. Sorrowing ppl. adj.My sorowing sighes … do not dispyse  
  140. Howland ppl. adj.Quhair howland howlattis ay do hant  
  141. Infaminait p.p.To do iustice thai ar infaminait  
  142. Lefit ppl. adj.To do my leifid [ . leisid] effairis  
  143. Corage n.Thai had left haill that viage, Na war a knycht of gret corage, … That thame confort vith all his mycht To geve yow corage for to do in sik maner I fynd nane of sa hye corage In him is the corage of a knycht Off gret corage he is that has no dreid The talȝeouris corage a litill schrenkit Quhen 
  144. Ether adv.Quhen he suld eyther do or say … helplyk thing He sal mak … bandis of security eythir of landis or sowmes of money Ether to call and withdraw the leiwe [= lave] or ȝet [etc.] To haue a greidie desyre maisteris besynes æthir be land or seæ Ethair with a mirie hart … Or with a faithfull freind It was 
  145. Soldat n.That ye vptak … the samyn [ rents] Bestowing it on soldatis to do ws seruice Make not a daylie a candie soldat We had not tyme to imbattell compleatlie; which souldattis thinks necessarie to be done He resauis ws … in the number of his soldats to a spiritual wear The king [of the bees] … so 
  146. Coupill v. band With Walter Quhat sal I do, That sic a man is couplit to? As schelde is couplit to the knychtis 
  147. Larum n. cleir do craue The pelmell chok with larum loude alwhair The Inglismen … crie a larum that the Scotis 
  148. Tanting ppl. adj.Sum taunting wordes thay haue parqueir That seruis thame in all mateir A man in shape doth not do my style no tort The diuk quarrellit the chanceller for vsing sum tanting wordis Nor have I used 
  149. Adoun adv., prep.Adoune his shoulders raging spates do spowt  
  150. Ide pron.When leame tombes cannot do 'ide [: broode]  
  151. Gold-fulȝe n.A buke with levis of gold, with xiij levis of gold fulȝe 4 grotkyn off gold follȝe For gold fulȝee Gold fulȝie to the ladis crownis For gold fuilȝie … to the Kingis of Cullane iiij do[sane] gold With spranges or streames of gold fuilȝie Half a groce gold foylie For more gold fuilȝie bookes for 
  152. Towartnes n. to do moche with her in religion, if they ones entre in a good familiarity We sie no towardnes to shewin to ws during our minorite I se in her a good towardnes and think that the Quene … shall be able 
  153. Lo interj. quhen men seis a dukis son thai say nocht ‘Lo thar a fair squyer’ bot ‘Lo thair a fair lord’ Our breist And in the port entrit, lo we se Flokkis and herdis of oxin and of fe Quhat wald thou do In wyntir sesson pres graith thi navy, lo! Quhen, at the last, on Turnus schuldir lo [: do] The fey gyrdill [: ado] For lymmer lawdis and litle lassis lo [: scho, thairto, do] Will argun bayth with bischop preist and freir Sen lo thow scho this to now do hes place, … ingraif it heir Lo heir ane man of singular uprichtnes Gif thay be wyse, thair doings lo [: to, vndo] Will signifie the same Lw [ . Lo] how a lytill 
  154. Diligence n. diligence to sete [etc.] I oblis me … to do my lele diligence … to further the said A. I, and A. to brouke diligence in the use … of the samin I traist he suld do diligence and cuir I fynd this cuntray folkis makand diligence to the ost Than sall he do diligence to inquire [etc.] Gif diligence to mak the giltie payment To do deligence for the biganes and persew thairfore Efter all diligence done alsweil aganis diligens, aganis witnessis quha … compeiris nocht The diet continued and a new dilligence granted to the and joise the forsaid landis Do all thy diligence to enquire and spere of the grete necessitee of the poure Beseikand him to do his diligence To stanche all stryfe The said Iohne … sall do his vtter That the clerk had don his dilligence in wryting to the magistratis I oblyis me … to do al my power and delygens … to get … ane lettir of reuersioun Thinkand it was na wyt … till a wysman, till set his do thare deligens to cause gud reule be keipit be the said clann [I set] my haill labouris and 
  155. Displesere n. sone in pecis What displeseir sal we do to our ennimes, gif we do sic importabil schame to our prince 
  156. Frevolie adv.As we do maist freuolie and falslie affirme  
  157. Vailȝeance n.Here tellis the storye the mekle valiaunce of schir Cipro consul of Rome … Past in Spayne with a grete host of men and wan a citee The grete vailliaunce, and worthy dedis of armes … that he did Vailliance It war lak … to mak men knychtis that war nocht hable till armes, and to do vailliaunce in tyme man to do honorable vaillance He strikin of … membris in gret nombre be gret vaillance in dedis of 
  158. Gud Will n.Thai went furth in ful gud vyl, And al his bydynge can fuifill He … gud wil had to do gud Til ap contritioun Salbe thar saulis remissioun Call on our patron comnmon God dyvyne is, And with gud will do skynk.] War thai hale, thai wald serve with gude will, quhilk gude will … is repute till a persone for gude awin gudewill may do All this I grant with gude willis perfay Sen I find ȝow sa kynd, And with gude persone tack wpoine hand to … giwe guidwill of thair horses for that effect I sall do gudwill my self to braik the back of all questiouns Send me ane of thir men and I sall do gud will to lat him sie the meir a gud will and a stowte He sayd, that he wald ayl na thyng I have had mony smale thouchtis and gude will to malk sum buke Thai … renkis … Kest thame with gude will to do vther skaith With sik drink 
  159. Prowes n.As ȝour hart that enlumynyt wes Off all bounte and all prowes He worth [a] mychtty mane Thru gud & prowes that he wane A son … That grewe to werteu & proves Nou luffeis men sendill for noblenes, Or ȝit Betwex battaillys prys prowys for to wyn And wes a man … chaissand his enemys be prowesse [ to provese] Prowes but vyce is provit lefull thyng Prowest Ȝe haif wincust ws … be manly proves He was master of a Ire … and stoutnes Summond thame to do proues He sett on Arestes to do prowes He thoucht prowes for Vmphrevell that ves Renownit of so hye prowes That [etc.] A knycht … Off prowes prowyd Quhen Romanys mast … the mony gret prowes That ȝe haff doyne [etc.] Comnyer … Schupe him to do ane proves or he stynt  
  160. Rascal n., adj., bot at prencis aeir I do frequent With whom past a nowmer of ten or tuelff raskallis of the toun AnAlthocht the principallis will do him … no hurt yit thei can not pleadge thair honouris for his number of rascalls and scullions following the campe As watteris lang restraint do gusche Sa did thais Sowmonit … for calling the elders of Dysert raiscalls You are a baise rascal and a mensworne couard He base raskall, how durst yee bee so peart A bas uncivil raskel I persued the reskal crimenaly Reskel pretence A grite nowmer of the rascall multitude inhabitantis of the said citie The infamous bill giffin 
  161. Derance n.Thair scharp assay micht do me no derance [ . deirance]  
  162. Encurragement n.To the encurragement of otheris to do the lyk  
  163. Invironat v.Cairs so me inuironats, That daith I do desire  
  164. Nor-the-les adv.Ȝit nor the les the erand I sall do  
  165. Poustales adj.He wes poustales he culd not do na thing  
  166. Raband n.Do lows the rabandis, and lat down the saill  
  167. Bestely adj.Thu spekis bestly thinge to me Thare sall men … do mare bestly dedis The fleschly appetite beistlie maneris Mair then beistlie crewelteis A takne … of a beistlie nature The sklander of the 
  168. Duité n.The sayd Johne doand to vs al duyte and servys as … customyt is of our lordschip to do All dwiteis auld preist … be restorit to his dwittie of his ruid seruice The king … began a justice are, quhair he did the duetie of a gude … prince  
  169. Lirk n., v.A party of the rebells … were killed. They were so fat that one might have hid his fingers in the lirks of their breasts It is the Lord we have to do with who knows how to seek out the lirks of our pretences It [the elephant] has … a rough tannie skin, and lirking throughout all its body; the trunk of it 
  170. Spottit adj., the common fleuk. Passer lævis auratus, the spotted fleuk He hes of my beasts in his custodie, a whyt humbled dinn spoted cowe My sister Jonat dyed of a spoted feaver So manie deadlie bands Of spotted venoms, and of pests Cyniphien … do lie into embuscade dern'd  
  171. Superinduce v. superinducit ane hething woman Hence a man cannot leave his wife tutrix to his bairns, in the case that she superinduces a second husband The precept seemed to be razed and vitiated, and that it had been [nuncupat,] and in place thereof the word Smellholme had been superinduced Do not think, my beloved, to 
  172. Hé Mes n.The begynnyng of the hee mes Vpon a sonday within the solemnyte of the hee mesis done in the said parisch kirk His offerrand at the hemes To … do daily seruice in the queir … in matins howrs, he mes 
  173. Ink n.Mercurius … With pen and ink That I with ink may do bot paper blek Ȝe neid nocht … paper for to making of ink With him a clerk with ynk, paper & pen Quhat I sould wryt, with pen and ynk Threttein 
  174. Quhilumis adv. quhilumis to do it at before he wes clene of A man mekle of speiche Quhylomis [ sum tyme] mon lie 
  175. Cortschit n.Fiftie pund wecht suker, … 4 do[sane] pundis cortschittis confettis  
  176. Frawardnes n.Thi fel frawardnes do away Remufe fra me all frawardnes  
  177. Glainer n.As the glainers empty lapp Do shaw the barren land  
  178. Plese n.To do sic decoratiouin and plese at the first entre  
  179. Grevance n. All thir bure ganyeis to do me grevance Giff it to God war na grevance To be ane pykthank I wald preif I will not heire remaine … To do ȝow grevance and myself uneise Meik war hir wordis, thocht Ane most vniversall and heavie grivance to the haill natione That Assyses of Error are a greivance 
  180. Na Man n. nowthir side sal [etc.] Na man of thame was sa hardy That [etc.] Na man bot a burges That naman seine at na manis mairiaige Do well and doubt na man, and do weill and doubt all men Nae man Whilk 
  181. Applesaunce n.All the perelles to assay … With hys applesaunce he walde do  
  182. Brevit n.As the paipis holyness exhorted us by his brevites to do  
  183. Brytht n.To do in all thingis … according to the said schipis brytht  
  184. Ebill adj.An ebill sufficient fitman As ony … sall be ebill to do  
  185. Ever Ilka adj.Thame thocht richt wele It war to do euer ilka dele  
  186. Hyll n., adj.To do gud agan hyl Thu hyll man & of will thra  
  187. Nouche n.Item do lego eidem unum nowche cum uno ruby in medio  
  188. Petousable adj.Be euir of pur folk petousable Do almous deid be cherytable  
  189. Kew n.1Will ȝe gif me leif, schir, first till go to, And I sall ken ȝow the kewis how ȝe sall do [Ch. I sall leirne ȝow all kewis how to do] Vthir sum vly spewis. Bot he keipis weill his kewis Spowttis in 
  190. Awsum adj.Jesus … knawis richt weill how that we do prouok his awsum Ire  
  191. Ensence v.All clergy do to him inclyne, … Ensence his altar, reid, and sing  
  192. Unconsonand adj.Vnconsonand is to the veritie To do to ws so greit inormitie  
  193. Redubbre v.Yf their proceedinges heerafter do not redubbre that which hath beene omitted  
  194. Wink n. still did on the ladie think How prompe and radie to do the king pleisour at a wink quhen he wald parteyne, Or ony wink come in thar eyne This night I myght not sleip a wink Neuer mair may scho sleip a wynk [He] Woik mony nycht and durst nocht sleip a wynk That nicht he sleipit neuer ane wink, Bot charge Bright Apollo staineth euiry star With goldin rayis, vhen he begins to ryse … Quhen with a wink 
  195. Ground-annual n. annuell, quhairof I have red nathing in onie vther place; and am incertaine quhat they do signifie Ground-annual is a distinct several annualrent, constitute upon the ground, before the house was built To a 
  196. Hekil v. … mikle of a large hour You do not so much as promise you will heckle them [discourses] over again, and would not that gar a man stick his own mare? Next with blasphemie and rude speeches New coin'd 
  197. Helplik adj.Quhen he suld eyther do or say … helplyk thing The kyng of Ingillande wile be to vs gracious & helplik He was richt help-like into were For sik a gude man in bataill is mare helplyke … na as a 
  198. Unwisdom n.I wald that ye wald suffir a litil thing of my vnwisdom [ vnwysdom; L. ], bot alsa support ye me Bot ferthir thai sal nocht proffite, for the vnwisdome of thame salbe knawne to almenn For and ȝe do 
  199. Poppill n.We leif evin as our crede …, Thus weidit is the poppill fra the corne I do bot mix the poppill vith guid quhyt … ether till intend Sche is callit a feild in vhilk the poppill and tares grou vp vyth 
  200. Chare v.Of sorcery scho cuth do, & as scho mycht did turne and chare [: ware]  
  201. Forschorn p.p.His mowth wes schent and sa forschorne … He mycht nocht do bot blatter  
  202. Lusting ppl. adj.How lusting lufe, that laithsum sin, The oppin eyis of sum do blind  
  203. Pactiounal adj.Do they think that all the limited and pactional princes are but cyphers?  
  204. Performatione n.Gyf ȝe … will do diligence to stoppe the performatione of thair intention [etc.]  
  205. Stekill n.Allace quod scho quhat sall I do And our doure hes na stekill  
  206. Upgrowing vbl. n.The vertues that do … procure … our nourishment [and] … Vp-growing [ upgrouing] alway sure  
  207. Willit ppl. adj.Thair salbe na man mair fervent nor bettir willit to do the thing  
  208. Rediliness n.Witness my rediliness to do you service, this day I have learned [etc.]  
  209. Samin-like adj.& in His name I traste that thu Ma do the sammyne-lyk vertu  
  210. Schorand ppl. adj.Do behald ȝone schorand hewchis brow, Quhar all ȝon craggy rochis hyngis now  
  211. Knottles adj.I have litle to do that tells you so knottless and vulgar tales  
  212. Surfetlie adv.[The bear] ete thaim [ the fruit] so surfatly That he mycht do na thing bot ly The furius cruelte surfetly tane, that our guddis ar confiscat, and our bodyis pinit Thai suld do thair uter deligence for 
  213. Underling n. names underling to Mr. Hamilton Many carnall men do say, such a son is for this calling and employmentHow suld he be cald a kyng That wes, he sayd, [ane] wndyrlyng [ vndyrlynge, vnderling]? May, and such for another, but this naughty underling child is fit for nothing, but to be a minister And 
  214. Desperance n.Ȝone waryit wicht, Hecht Desperance Hir act [that] scho had to do with Desperance  
  215. Dures n.Thair scharp assayes mycht do no dures To me, for all their aufull ordynance  
  216. Engendring vbl. n.Of the planetis sic mellynge In the tyme of engendryng Gerris weman do adultery  
  217. Loaffer n.I do not doubt of my being weallcom to my heartsome loaffer [ . her son]  
  218. Radot v.Than softlie did I suoufe and sleep, … Radoting, starnoting As wearie men will do  
  219. Baillerie n.The schirefys & officeris of regalitez ilkane within thair bayllery sal do thair besines til All … vthers thingis to do, … that to the office of balry … is knawin to pertene That thairby the Alexander Lindsay … pretended a title to the baylerie of Aberbrothock The office of Baillarie of the 
  220. Gloming n. … in the gloming cummis furth to fle Efter supper [he] past furth in the gloming to do his eis In the Ker [etc.] … came in the gloming of the evening to his landis of Haltree The king passing furth to do to the head of the castle … about the glomeing of the nycht Withdrawing himself allone in a 
  221. Squader n.First there is a crafty sort that [etc.] … next there is a combersome kynde [etc.] … The first sect that commes in, are captanes of cheef, who … with a full mouth say, this kirk … is mine A squadre Of chimers The squadre of all the vitall parts The sqadre fourt, wherein the chouks, As soldats do remaine The vile deuouring cancer and The gout … the hynes [etc.] Manie a spitefull cleg … doe on his skin Their squadre campe The fleete was diuided in three squaders There being a squader of his maiesties 
  222. Attray v.I windir quhy so fremmitly ȝour say Frome me away ȝe do attray so tyte  
  223. Coequivolant adj.In cais they do in the contrair, it salbe coequiuolant as they had nochtt comperit  
  224. Inserceabill adj.We do gather by the effectis the secreitis of menis hartis, utherwayis inserceabill unto us  
  225. Kittarr n.I do not fancy the viol de gamboe, the siter or kittarr is mor proper  
  226. Landswartis adj.We use na prayairis of vengeance as they do, sa termis it ther landswartis reidairis  
  227. Novellité n.That na man do till othir dishonour, schame na vilany, na injure, na new novelliteis  
  228. Sophisticate v.Thay quho by fals contractis … do Aqquyre … substance … & goes sophisticating all the simple 
  229. Sufforhe n.Sax chaplannis … to syng and do sufforhe for the sawill of the sayd wumquhill Jhone  
  230. Quernal n. attrib.Hay … and his two Mars-like sons, Do for all ages wear the quernal crowns  
  231. Ravin n.2And lat no fowll of ravyne do efferay, Nor devoir birdis bot his awin pray  
  232. Re-establing vbl. n.[That recent] novations do sensiblie tend to re-establing of the popis religioune and tirrany  
  233. Ocht n. a do For ocht Occa culd outher do or sa Tha left the feild Bot I se na provision mayd for ocht I man kep weill gif he ocht wowis Der hart, quha has mysdoyn ocht, I? A scurrour he set, to warn quhen sall thay be, that ocht to The prefar Gyff man bad his thryll owcht do For tyll hym tynt that day erd wes wroucht? Ȝit than it is better to do oucht na nocht Gif he aucht him oucht he has tane rycht ocht of the commoun forme Impossible thing is That ocht be done but genesis The turser is a fule? Ay quhill to do him levyt ocht Na ocht quhare-in men suld affy Gife ocht be done in the contrar Gife thar be ocht that may plece yw that I may do of resoun Mare … Than siluer or land or ocht that is Gif thair be ocht amys And thair be oucht concelit, It avalis nocht [etc.] To excers and do ocht be his wil … oucht to do … that suld ryn ony man in preiudice of thair heritage Oght Lippening to do may To God of hewine ay serwe I, & euire sal do, for ocht ma be Defer it nocht for ocht thow has 
  234. Subfeudation n. subfeudation of the whole with a feu-duty equivalent to the half of the true rent … should infer recognition It is a very dubious case, if liferents (where the husband's possession is the wife's possession … ) and the like subfeudations, do fall under ward or forfeiture  

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