| ‘A, he, I. |
| A’, all. |
| ABLEEZE, blazing. |
| ABLINS, aiblins, perhaps. |
| ABOON, ABUNE, above. |
| ABULYIEMENTS, habiliments, accoutrements. |
| ABY, ABYE, endure, suffer. |
| ACCOLADE, the salutation marking the bestowal of knighthood. |
| AE, one. |
| AFF, off. |
| AFORE, before. |
| AFTERHEND, afterwards. |
| AGANE, against. |
| AGEE, AJEE, awry, off the right line, obliquely, wrong. |
| A-GUISARDING, masquerading. |
| AHINT, behind. |
| AIK, an oak. |
| AILS, hinders, prevents. |
| AIN, own. |
| AITS, oats. |
| ALANE, alone. |
| AMAIST, almost. |
| AMANG, among. |
| AMBRY, a cupboard, a pantry. |
| AN, if. |
| ANCE, once. |
| ANE, one. |
| ANENT, about, respecting, opposite. |
| ANEUCH, enough. |
| ANNEXIS AND CONNEXIS, anything connected with possession of right of property. |
| ARRAY, annoy, trouble. |
| ASSOILZIED, absolved, discharged, acquitted. |
| ASSYTHMENT, satisfaction, compensation. |
| ATWEEL, I wot well, I know well. |
| AULD, old. |
| AULD FIFTEEN, The fifteen judges of the Court of Session of Scotland. |
| AULD THREEP, a superstitious notion. |
| AVISE, advise, deliberate. |
| AWA’, away. |
| AWEEL, well. |
| AWFU’, awful. |
| AWMOUS, alms. |
| AWSOME, awful, terrible. |
| AY, AYE, yes. |
| AYE, always, ever. |
| BAFF, a blow. |
| BAGGANET, a bayonet. |
| BAIK, beck, curtsy, reverence. |
| BAILIE, a city magistrate in Scotland. |
| BAIRN, a child. |
| BAITH, both. |
| BAITTLE, rich pasture. |
| BALDRICK, girdle. |
| BALLANT, a ballad. |
| BAN, curse. |
| BANES, bones. |
| BANG-UP, get up quickly, bounce. |
| BANNOCK, a flat round or oval cake. |
| BARKEN, stiffen, dry to a crust. |
| BARLEY, a parley, a truce. |
| BARROW-TRAMS, the shafts of a hand barrow. |
| BAUD, a quantity, or bed, or whins (furze, gorse) growing closely, covering a considerable space (Jamieson). |
| BAULD, bold. |
| BAULDER, bolder. |
| BAULKS, ridges. |
| BAWBEE, a halfpenny. |
| BAWTY, sly, cunning. |
| BAXTER, a baker. |
| BAYGANET, bayonet. |
| BEES, in the, bewildered, stupefied. |
| BEFLUMM’D, flattered, cajoled. |
| BEGUNK, a trick, a cheat. |
| BELIKE, perhaps. |
| BELIVE, BELYVE, by and by, speedily. |
| BEN, within, inside. |
| BENEMPT, named. |
| BENT, an open field. |
| BERLING, a galley. |
| BHAIRD, a bard. |
| BICKER, a wooden dish. |
| BIDE, stay, endure. |
| BIELD, a shelter, a house. |
| BIELDY, affording shelter. |
| BIGGING, building. |
| BIGGIT, built. |
| BILLIE, a brother, a companion. |
| BING OUT AND TOUR, go out and watch. |
| BINNA, be not. |
| BIRK, a birch tree. |
| BIRLIEMAN, a peace officer. |
| BIT, a little. |
| BITTLE, beat with a bat. |
| BITTOCK, a little bit. |
| BLACK PETER, a portmanteau. |
| BLACK-COCK, the black grouse. |
| BLACK-FISHING, fishing by torchlight, poaching. |
| BLATE, shy, bashful. |
| BLAWN, blown. |
| BLEAR, obscure. |
| BLETHERS, babbling, foolish talk. |
| BLINKED, glanced. |
| BLOOD-WITE, compensation, fine for bloodshed. |
| BLUDE, BLUID, blood. |
| BLUNKER, a cloth printer. |
| BLYTHE, gay, glad. |
| BODACH, old man, bug-a-boo. |
| BODDLE, BODLE, a copper coin, worth one third of an English penny. |
| BODE, what is bidden, offer. |
| BOGLE ABOUT THE BUSH, beat about the bush, a children’s game. |
| BOGLE, a goblin, spectre, bugbear, scarecrow. |
| BOLE, a bowl. |
| BONNET, a cap. |
| BONNIE, beautiful, comely, fine, |
| BONSPIEL, a match game at curling. |
| BOOT-KETCH, a boot-jack. |
| BOTTLE-HEAD, beetle-head, stupid fellow. |
| BOUNE, prepared. |
| BOW, a boll. |
| BOWSTER, a bolster. |
| BRA’, fine, handsome, showy. |
| BRAE, the side of a hill. |
| BRANDER, broil. |
| BRAW, fine. |
| BREEKS, breeches. |
| BRENT, smooth, unwrinkled. |
| BRIGG, a bridge. |
| BRISSEL-COCK, a turkey cock. |
| BROCARD, first element of the law. |
| BROCK, a badger, a dirty fellow. |
| BROD, a church collection plate. |
| BROGUES, Highland shoes. |
| BROKEN MEN, outlaws. |
| BROO’, brew, broth. |
| BROUGHT FAR BEN, held in special favor |
| BROWST, a brewing. |
| BRUCKLE, brittle, infirm, disordered. |
| BRUIK, enjoy, possess. |
| BRULZIE, bruilzie, a broil, a fray. |
| BUCKIE, a perverse or refractory person. |
| BUCKKAR, a smuggling lugger. |
| BUDGET, a boot-jack. |
| BULLSEGG, a gelded bull. |
| BULLY-HUFF, a bully, a braggart. |
| BURD, bird, a term of familiarity. |
| BURN, a brook. |
| BUSKING, dress, decoration. |
| BUTTOCK-MAIL, an ecclesisastical fine for fornication or incontinence. |
| BYDAND, abiding, awaiting. |
| BYE, besides. |
| CA’, call. |
| CADGER, a country carrier, hawker. |
| CAILLIACHS, old women on whom devolved the duty of lamenting for the dead, which the Irish call keening. |
| CAKE-HOUSE, a house of entertainment. |
| CALLANT, a stripling, a fine fellow, a youth. |
| CAM, came. |
| CANNA, cannot. |
| CANNILY, prudently. |
| CANNY, prudent, skillful, lucky, cautious. |
| CANTER, a canting, whining beggar. |
| CANTLE, a fragment, a corner. |
| CANTRIP, a trick. |
| CANTY, cheerful. |
| CAPONS, castrated cocks. |
| CARLE, a churl, a fellow, an old man. |
| CAST, lot, fate. |
| CATERAN, a Highland irregular soldier, a freebooter. |
| CAULD, cold. |
| CEAN-KINNE, chief of a Highland clan (Jamieson) |
| CHAFFERING, bargaining. |
| CHA N’EIL BEURL AGAM, I don’t speak English. |
| CHANGE-HOUSE, tavern. |
| CHAP, a customer. |
| CHAPPING-STICK, a stick to strike with. |
| CHEERER, spirits and hot water. |
| CHIEL, CHIELD, a young man. |
| CHLAIN, clan. |
| CHUMLAY, a chimney. |
| CLACHAN, a village, a hamlet. |
| CLAMHEWIT, CLAMYHEWIT, hack, blow, drubbing. |
| CLANJAMFRAY, rabble. |
| CLASH, chatter, gossip, idle talk. |
| CLASHES, lies, scandal. |
| CLATTER, prattle, noisy talk. |
| CLAUGHT, clutched, caught. |
| CLAW, scratch. |
| CLAW FAVOUR, curry favour. |
| CLAYMORE, a broad two-edged Highland sword. |
| CLECKING, hatching. |
| CLEEK, a hook. |
| CLEIK the cunzie, steal the silver. |
| CLODDED, threw heavily. |
| CLOSE, a lane, a narrow passage. |
| CLOUR, a bump, a bruise, a heavy blow, a dint caused by a blow. |
| CLOYED A DUD, stolen a rag. |
| COB, beat. |
| COBLE, a small flat-bottomoed fishing boat. |
| COCKY-LEEKY, a soup made of a cock, seasoned with leeks. |
| COGHLING AND DROGHLING, wheezing and blowing. |
| COGS, wooden vessels. |
| COGUE, a round wooden vessel. |
| COLLIESHANGIE, an uproar. |
| COLLOP, piece or slice of meat (OED) |
| COME O’ WILL, a child of love. |
| CONCUSSED, violently shaken, disturbed, forced. |
| CORONACH, a dirge. |
| CORRIE, a mountain hollow. |
| COTTAR, cottage. |
| COUP, fall. |
| COVE, a cave. |
| COW YER CRACKS, cut short your talk, hold your tongues. |
| CRACK, boast. |
| CRAIG, the neck, the throat. |
| CRAME, a booth, a merchant’s shop. |
| CRAMES, merchants’ shops, booths. |
| CRAMP-RING, shackles, fetters. |
| CRANKING, creaking. |
| CRAW, crow. |
| CREAGH, an incursion for plunder, termed on the Borders a raid. |
| CREEL, a basket. |
| CROFT, piece of ground adjoining to a house, land of superior quality still cropped (Jamieson) |
| CROUSE, bold, courageous. |
| CRUMMY, a cow with crooked horns. |
| CUDDY, an ass. |
| CUITTLE, tickle. |
| CURRAGH, a Highland boat. |
| CUSP, an entrance to a house. |
| CUSSER, a courser, a stallion. daft, mad, foolish. |
| CUT-LUGGED, crop-eared. |
| CUTTIT, cut. |
| DAFT, silly, foolish, mad, crazy, frolicsome. |
| DARKENING, the dusk. |
| DARKMANS, night. |
| DAUR, dare. |
| DAURNA, dare not. |
| DAY-DAWING, dawn. |
| DEACON, expert tradesman, literally elected chairman of trade guild. |
| DEAD-THRAW, death-agony. |
| DEATH-RUCKLE, death-rattle. |
| DEAVING, deafening. |
| DEBINDED, bound down. |
| DECREET, an order of decree. |
| DEEVIL, DEIL, devil. |
| DEEVIL’S BUCKIE, devil’s brat. |
| DEIL-BE-LICKIT, nothing, naught. |
| DELIVER, light, agile. |
| DEOCH AN DORUIS, the stirrup-cup or parting drink. |
| DERN, hidden, concealed, secret. |
| DIAOUL, devil. |
| DIKE, a wall, a ditch. |
| DING, knock, beat, surpass. |
| DINGING, slamming. |
| DINGLE, a dell, a hollow. |
| DINGLE, dinnle, tingle, vibrate with sound. |
| DINMONTS, wethers in the second year. |
| DINNA, do not, did not. |
| DIRK, highland dagger. |
| DISPONED, made over. |
| DIVOT, fuel. |
| DIZZEN, a dozen. |
| DOER, an agent, a manager. |
| DOG-HEAD, the hammer of a gun. |
| DOIL’D, crazed, silly, stupid. |
| DOITED, having the faculties impaired. |
| DOO, a dove. |
| DOOKET, dukit, a dovecot. |
| DOON, doun, down. |
| DORLACH, a bundle, valise. |
| DOUN, down. |
| DOUSE THE GLIM, put out the light. |
| DOVERING, dozing. |
| DOW, a dove, to list, to wish. |
| DOWF, DOWFF, dull, spiritless. |
| DRAP, a drop. |
| DRAPPIE, a little drop, a small quantity of drink. |
| DROGHLING AND COGHLING, wheezing and blowing. |
| DRUMMING, driving. |
| DUB, a puddle. |
| DUDS, clothes. |
| DUINHÉ-WASSEL, DUINÉ-WASSEL, DUNNIEWASSAL, a Highland gentleman, usually the cadet of a family of rank. |
| DUNE, done. |
| EANARUICH, the regalia presented by Rob Roy to the Laird of Tullibody. |
| EARN, eagle. |
| EASSEL, provincial for eastward. |
| EEN, eyes. |
| EFFEIR, what is becoming. |
| ENDLANG, along. |
| ENEUGH, enough. |
| ERGASTULO, in a penitentiary. |
| ETTER-CAP, a spider, an ill-natured or hot-headed person. |
| EVENING, putting on the same level. faem, foam. |
| EVITE, avoid, escape. |
| EWEST, ewast, contiguous. |
| EXEEMED, exempt. |
| FA’, fall. |
| FACTOR, land-agent. |
| FACTORY, stewardship, agency. |
| FAIR-STRAE, natural. |
| FALLOW, a fellow. |
| FAMBLES, hands. |
| FASH, trouble. |
| FAST-DAY, a week-day set apart preparatory to Sacrament Sunday. |
| FAULD, fold. |
| FAUSE, false. |
| FEAL, fuel. |
| FEAL AND DIVOT, turf and thatch. |
| FEARED, afraid. |
| FEARSOME, frightful. |
| FECK, a quantity, a part. |
| FECKLESS, feeble. |
| FEIFTEEN, the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. |
| FELL, a skin. |
| FENDY, good at making a shift. |
| FERNSEED, gather the, make invisible. |
| FIE, mad, foredoomed. |
| FIENT A BIT, never a bit |
| FIENT A HAET, not the least. |
| FIRE-RAISING, setting an incendiary fire. |
| FIRLOT, a quarter of a boll. |
| FIT, a foot. |
| FLEMIT, frightened, |
| FLESH, fleesh, a fleece. |
| FLEYT, frightened, shy. |
| FLEYT, stormed. |
| FLICK, cut. |
| FLIT, remove. |
| FOND, glad to. |
| FORBEARS, ancestors. |
| FORBYE, besides. |
| FORGIE, forgive. |
| FORTALICE, a fortress (Jamieson). |
| FOUMART, a polecat. |
| FOUN, fun. |
| FOWK, people. |
| FRACTIOUS, irascible. |
| FRAE, from. |
| FREEND, friend. |
| FRUMMAGEM’D, throttled, hanged. |
| FU’, full. |
| FUEL FEAL AND DIVOT, the right of cutting peat and turf. |
| FULE-BODY, a foolish person. gae, go. |
| FULE, fool, foolish. |
| GABERLUNZIE, a kind of professional beggar. |
| GAD, a goad, a rod. |
| GAE, go. |
| GAE OUT, to go into rebellion. |
| GAED, went. |
| GALLOWAY, a horse not more than fourteen hands high. |
| GANE, gone. |
| GANG-THERE-OUT, wandering. |
| GANG, go. |
| GANGREL, vagrant. |
| GAR, make, cause |
| GARTAN’D, gartered. |
| GATE, gait, way, manner, place. |
| GAUN, going. |
| GAY, gey, very, moderately. |
| GEAR, goods, property. |
| GELDING, a castrated horse. |
| GENTLE or SEMPLE, high born or common people. |
| GHAIST, a ghost. |
| GIE, give. |
| GILLFLIRT, a flirty girl. |
| GILLIE-WET-FOOT, a barefooted Highland lad. |
| GILLIE, a servant, an attendant. |
| GILL-STOUP, a bucket for carrying water (Jamieson). |
| GIMMER, a ewe from one to two years old. |
| GIN, if. |
| GITE, crazy, a noodle, covering. |
| GLED, a kite or hawk. |
| GLEG, quick, clever, sharp. |
| GLIFFING, a surprise, an instant. |
| GLISK, a glimpse. |
| GLISKED, glimpsed. |
| GLOWER, glare. |
| GOWAN, a field daisy. |
| GOWD, gold, money. |
| GOWPEN, a double handful. |
| GRANING, groaning. |
| GRAT, wept. |
| GREE, agree. |
| GREET, weep. |
| GREYBEARD, a stone bottle or jug. |
| GRICE, gryce, gris, a pig. |
| GRIEVE, an overseer. |
| GRIPPET, grasped, caught. |
| GRIPPLE, rapacious, niggardly, grasping. |
| GRUNDS, grounds. |
| GUDE, guid, good, God. |
| GUDEMAN, master of a house. |
| GUDEWIFE, mistress of a house. |
| GULPIN, a simpleton. |
| GYRE-CARLINGS, witches. |
| HA’, hall. |
| HADDEN, held, gone. |
| HADNA, had not. |
| HAE, have. |
| HAFFLIN, half grown. |
| HAG, a portion of copse marked off for cutting, moss, mossy moorland. |
| HAGGIS, a pudding peculiar to Scotland, containing oatmeal, suet, minced sheep’s liver, heart, etc., seasoned with onions, pepper, and salt, the whole mixture boiled in a sheep’s stomach. |
| HAICK, hack. |
| HAIL, whole. |
| HAILL, whole, unmolested, unplundered. |
| HALLAN, a partition, a screen. |
| HAME, home. |
| HANK, a skein of yarn. |
| HANSEL, a present. |
| HANTLE, a great deal. |
| HARST, harvest. |
| HAUD, hauld, hold. |
| HAUDEN, held. |
| HEATH-COCK, black grouse. |
| HECK, a hay rack. |
| HECK AND MANGER, in plenty, in comfortable quarters (literally the hay-rack and corn-manger of a stable). |
| HEEL, end. |
| HEEZIE, a lift. |
| HERDS, herders. |
| HERSHIPS, plunder. |
| HET, hot. |
| HEUCH, a crag, a steep bank. |
| HIELAND, Highland. |
| HILDING, a coward. |
| HILL-FOLK, Covenanters who worshipped on the hills. |
| HIMSELL, himself. |
| HINGING, hanging. |
| HINNEY, honey. |
| HIRSEL, a flock. |
| HIRST, knoll, bare summit of a hill. |
| HIZZIE, a housewife, a hussy. |
| HOG, a young sheep before its first shearing. |
| HORNING, charge of, a summons to pay a debt, on pain of being pronounced a rebel, to the sound of a horn. |
| HORSE-COUPER, horse-cowper, a horse-dealer. |
| HOUDIE, a midwife. |
| HOULERYING AND POULERYING, hustling and pulling. |
| HOUT, (interjection expressive of disagreement). |
| HOWE, a hollow. |
| HOWM, flat low ground. |
| HUMBLE-COW, a cow without horns. |
| HUNDS, hounds. ilka, every. |
| HURDIES, loins |
| HURDLES, the buttocks. |
| HURLEY-HOUSE, a large house fallen into disrepair, dilapidated mansion. |
| I’SE, I’ll. |
| ILK, each, same, the same name |
| ILKA, each, every. |
| ILL, attended with difficulty. |
| IN THE BEES, stupefied. |
| INGANS, onions. |
| INGLE, a fire burning upon the hearth. |
| INGLESIDE, fireside. |
| INNOCENT, imbecile, fool. |
| INTROMIT, meddle with. |
| ITHER, other. jaw-hole, a sink. |
| JETHART, Jedburgh. |
| JO, a sweetheart. |
| JUSTIFIED, having satisfied justice, i.e. hanged |
| KAHN, a skiff. |
| KAIL, colewort, coelwort soup. |
| KAIL-WORM, caterpillar. |
| KAIM, KAME, a low ridge, a comb. |
| KAIN, part of a farm-rent paid in fowls. |
| KEBBIE, cudgel, club, rough walking stick. |
| KEB-EWE, an ewe that has lost her lamb. |
| KEEP, a stronghold. |
| KEEPIT, kept, attended. |
| KEMPLE, a Scotch measure of straw or hay, 40 wisps. |
| KEN, know. |
| KENNA, do not know. |
| KENSPECKLE, gazing-stock. |
| KIBE, an ulcerated chilblain, a chapped heel. |
| KILLOGIE, the open space before a kiln fire. |
| KILT, upset. |
| KILT, the philabeg or short petticoat of a Highlander. |
| KILTING, girding or tucking up. |
| KIMMER, a female gossip. |
| KINDER, children. |
| KINRICK, kingdom. |
| KINTRAY, country. |
| KIPPAGE, disorder, confusion, rage, violent passion. |
| KIPPER, cured salmon salted and smoke dried, salmon in the state of spawning. |
| KIRK, church. |
| KIRK-FAST, week-day set apart for religious services preparatory to Sacrament Sunday |
| KIRN, churn. |
| KIST, a chest, trunk, coffin. |
| KITCHEN-FEE, drippings. |
| KITCHEN-MORT, kinchen-mort, a girl. |
| KITH, acquaintance. |
| KITT, a number, the whole. |
| KITTLE, tickle, ticklish, anxious. |
| KNACKS, trifles for ornament, nick-nacks. |
| KNAVE, a boy. |
| KNEVELL, knead, beat severely. |
| KNOBBLER, a male deer in its second year. |
| KOBOLD, a hobgoblin. laird, lord of the manor. |
| KYLOE, a small Highland cow. |
| LACK-A-DAY!, an exclamation denoting grief (Cheviot). |
| LAID, load. |
| LAIRD, landlord, squire, lord of the manor. |
| LAITH, loath. |
| LAMPING, beating, going quickly and with long strides. |
| LAMPIT, a limpet. |
| LANDLOUPER, a wanderer, a vagabond, a tramp. |
| LANG OR, long before. |
| LANG-LEGGIT, long-legged. |
| LANG-LUGGED, long-eared. |
| LANG, long. |
| LANGSYNE, long ago. |
| LAP AND PAUNEl, liquor and food. |
| LASSIE, a young girl. |
| LATCH, mire. |
| LAWING, a tavern reckoning. |
| LEDDIE, LEDDY, a lady. |
| LEECH, physician. |
| LEE LAND, pasture land. |
| LEELANE, LEEFU’LANE, all alone, quite solitary. |
| LEG BAIL, to give, to run away. |
| LEGLIN, milk-pail. |
| LET-A-BE, let alone. |
| LETHERING, tanning the hide, thrashing. |
| LET THAT FLEE STICK I’ THE WALL, leave that subject alone. |
| LETTER-GAE, the precentor is called by Allan Ramsay ‘the letter-gae of haly rhyme.’ |
| LETTERS OF SLAINS, writ discharging murderers from civil damages. |
| LEUGH, laughed. |
| LEVIN, LEVEN, lightning, scorn. |
| LICKS, blows. |
| LIE, a word used in old Scottish legal documents to call attention to the following word or phrase. |
| LIFT, capture, carry off by theft. |
| LIFT, the sky. |
| LIGHTLY, make light of, disparage, to slight. |
| LIKE, as it were. |
| LILT, carol, lively air. |
| LIMMER, a hussy, a jade, a loose woman. |
| LINKS, the windings of a river, flat sandy ground on the sea-shore. |
| LIPPEN, trust, rely upon. |
| LITH, joint. |
| LOAN, an open place, a lane, enclosed road. |
| LOANING, a milking place. |
| LOCH, a lake. |
| LONG BOWLS, ninepins. |
| LOOBY, a booby, a lout. |
| LOON, a worthless fellow, a lout, a clown, a rogue, a rascal. |
| LOUP, leap, start. |
| LOURED, scowled. |
| LOW, blaze, flame. |
| LUCKIE, an old woman, landlady of a tavern. |
| LUG, an ear, a handle. |
| LUNT, blaze, torch. |
| LUNZIE, the loins, the waist. |
| LYKEWAKE, a watch at night over a dead body. mair, more. |
| MAE, more. |
| MAINS, the chief farm of an estate. |
| MAIR BY TOKEN, especially. |
| MAIR, more. |
| MAIST, most, almost. |
| MAJORING, swaggering with a military air. |
| MAK, make. |
| MALT ABUNE THE MEAL, the drink above the food, half-seas over. |
| MART, beef salted down for winter. |
| MASK, mash, infuse. |
| MAUN, must. |
| MEAL ARK, a meal chest. |
| MEDDLING AND MAKING, interfering. |
| MERK, an old silver coin worth 13s. 4d. |
| MESSAN, a little dog. |
| MICKLE, much, great. |
| MILLING IN THE DARKMANS, murder by night. |
| MIND, remember. |
| MINDED, looked after. |
| MIRK, dark; pit mirk, pitch dark. |
| MISGUGGLED, mangled, rumpled. |
| MISTA’EN, mistaken. |
| MOANED, mourned. |
| MONANDAY, Monday. |
| MONY, many. |
| MOONSHIE, a secretary. |
| MOOR-ILL, a disease among cattle. |
| MORN, the morn, tomorrow. |
| MORNING, a morning dram. |
| MOSS-HAG, a pit or slough in a mire or bog. |
| MOSS, a morass. |
| MOUDIWARP, MOUDIWART, MOULDWARP, mole. |
| MOUSTED, MUISTED, powdered or cropped (of a head of hair). |
| MUCKLE, much, great. |
| MUIR, a moor, a heath. |
| MULES, slippers. |
| MUNT, mount. |
| MUSCAVADO, unrefined sugar. |
| MUTCHKIN, a measure equal to an English pint. |
| MYSELL, MA’SELL, myself. |
| NA, NAE, no, not. |
| NAEBODY, nobody. |
| NAETHING, nothing. |
| NAIG, nag, horse. |
| NAIL, the sixteenth part of a yard. |
| NAIN, own. |
| NAINSELL, own self. |
| NAN, of. |
| NANE, none. |
| NAPERY, table linen. |
| NASHGAB, impertinent chatter. |
| NATHELESS, NATHLESS, nevertheless. |
| NE’ER BE IN ME, devil be in me. |
| NEB, nose, tip. |
| NEEBOR, neighbor. |
| NEEDNA, need not. |
| NE’ER-BE-LICKIT, nothing which could be licked up by dog or cat, i.e. absolutely nothing. |
| NEEVE, the closed hand, fist. |
| NICE, simple. |
| NET AND COBLE, legal phrase for fishing |
| NEUK, nook, corner. |
| NIFFY-NAFFY, fastidious, conceited and finical. |
| NO, not |
| NOLT, black cattle. ony, any. |
| NOW, the, at once. |
| O’, of. |
| ODD-COME-SHORTLY, chance time not far in the future. |
| OE, OY, OYE, grandchild. |
| O’T, of it. |
| OLD TO DO, great doings. |
| ONDING, fall of rain or snow. |
| ONFALL, falling on, attack. |
| ONY, any. |
| OR, ere. |
| ORRA-TIME, occasionally. |
| ORRA, odd, unemployed, occasional. |
| OUT OF HOUSE AND HAULD, destitute. |
| OUT, out in rebellion. |
| OUT BYE, without, a little way out. |
| OUTCAST, a falling out, a quarrel. |
| OUTSHOT, projecting part of an old building. |
| OUT TAKE, except. |
| OWER, over. |
| OWERBY, over the way. |
| OWERLOUP, get over the fence, trespass on another’s property. |
| OWSEN, oxen. |
| OWT, the exterior, out. |
| PAIKS, punishment. |
| PAITRICK, a partridge. |
| PANGED, crammed. |
| PANTLER, keeper of the pantry. |
| PARAFFLE, ostentatious display. |
| PARRITCH, oatmeal porridge. |
| PATRICK, PAETRICK, PARTRICK, PERTRICK, partridge. |
| PATTLE, plough-staff. |
| PAUNIE, a peacock. |
| PAWKY, wily, sly, drolly but not mischievously. |
| PEASEWEEP, PEESEWEEP, PEEWEET, lapwing. |
| PEAT-HAG, a bog. |
| PECULIUM, private property. |
| PEEBLE, pebble. |
| PEEL-HOUSE, a fortified tower. |
| PENDICLE, a small piece of ground. |
| PENNY-STANE, a stone quoit. |
| PERIAPTS, amulets. |
| PHRAISING, palavering, makign long or fine speeches. |
| PIBROCH, a Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to martial music (Jamieson). |
| PICKLE, grain of corn, small quantity of any thing. |
| PICK-MIRK, dark as pitch. |
| PIKE, pick. |
| PINGLE, a fuss, trouble. |
| PINGLED, pained, put to difficulty. |
| PINNERS, a headdress for women. |
| PIRN, a reel. |
| PIT, put. |
| PLACK, a copper coin worth one third of a penny. |
| PLAIDY, an outer covering for the body. |
| PLASH, splash. |
| PLENISH, furnish. |
| PLENISHING, furnishings. |
| PLOUGH-GATE OF LAND, land that can be tilled with one plough. |
| PLOY, an entertainment, a pastime. |
| POCK, a pouch, a bag. |
| POINDED, impounded. |
| POSCHAY, a post-chaise. |
| POTTINGER, an apothecary. |
| POUCHES, pockets. |
| POW, the head. |
| POWNIE, a pony. |
| POWNY, a pony. |
| POWTERING, poking, stirring. |
| PRECEESE, exact. |
| PRECENTOR, a leader of congregational singing. |
| PRETTY MAN, a stout, warlike fellow. |
| PRIN, a pin. |
| PUIR, poor. |
| QUAICH, small drinking cup. |
| QUEAN, a young woman, a wench. |
| RADE, rode. |
| RAMBLE, a spree. |
| RAMPAUGING, raging. |
| RANDLE-TREE, a horizontal bar across a chimney, on which pot-hooks are hung; sometimes used as an opprobrious epithet. |
| RANDY, wild. |
| RANGING AND RIPING, scouring and searching. |
| RAPE, rope. |
| RASP-HOUSE, a custom-house. |
| RED COCK CRAW, kindle a fire. |
| REDD, part, separate. |
| REDDING-STRAIK, a blow received when trying to separate combatants. |
| REEK, smoke. |
| REIF AND WEAR, robbery and injury. |
| REIFS, robberies. |
| REISE, a bough. |
| REISES, twigs, branches. |
| REIST, smoke. |
| REIVER, a robber. |
| RESILING, retracting, withdrawing. |
| RETOUR, return of a writ. |
| RIGGS, ridges, ploughed ground. |
| RIN, run. |
| RINTHEROUT, a roving person, a vagabond. |
| RIPE, search. |
| RIVE, rend, rob. |
| ROKELAY, a short cloak. |
| ROOPIT, hoarse. |
| ROOSE, RUSE, extol, praise. |
| ROTTEN, rottan, a rat. |
| ROUGHIES, withered boughs, a sort of rude torch, dried heath. |
| ROUP, an auction. |
| ROUPIT, sold at auction. |
| ROUTING, snoring, bellowing. |
| ROVING, raving, delirious. |
| ROW, roll. |
| ROWED, rolled. |
| ROWT, cried out, bellowed, |
| ROYNISH, scurvy, coarse. |
| RUBBIT, robbed. |
| RUDAS, coarse, hag-like. |
| RULLIONS, shoes made of untanned leather. |
| RUMP AND DOZEN, meat and drink, a good dinner. |
| RUN GOODS, smuggled goods. |
| SACK, sackcloth. |
| SACK DOUDLING, bagpiping. |
| SAE, so. |
| SAFT, soft. |
| SAIL, shall. |
| SAIN, mark with the sign of the cross, bless. |
| SAIR, sore, very. |
| SALL, shall. |
| SAMYN, the same. |
| SANG, song. |
| SARK, a shirt. |
| SASSENACH, an English person (derogatory, from “Saxon”)(OED) |
| SAUGH, a willow tree. |
| SAUL, soul. |
| SAUMON, a salmon. |
| SAUT, salt. |
| SAX, six. |
| SAY, a sample. |
| SCAFF-RAFF, riff raff. |
| SCART, scratched, written on. |
| SCARTED, scratched, scribbled over. |
| SCHELLUM, a rascal. |
| SCHNAPS, a dram of liquor. |
| SCONES, flat round cakes. |
| SCOUPING, SCOWPING, SKELPING, skipping, leaping, running, moving hastily, scampering. |
| SCOURING THE CRAMP-RING, said metaphorically for being thrown into fetters or, generally, into prison. |
| SCRAUGHING, SCRAICHING, screaming hoarsely. |
| SCREED O’ DRINK, a drinking bout. |
| SCROLL, engross, copy. |
| SCUD, a heavy shower. |
| SEA-MAW, sea-mew, sea-gull. |
| SEANNACHIE, a Highland antiquary. |
| SEILED, strained through a cloth or sieve. |
| SELL, self. |
| SELL’D, sold. |
| SEMPLE, simple, poor people. |
| SHAKE-RAG, a tatterdemalion. |
| SHANKS, legs. |
| SHEALING, sheiling, a shed, a hut. |
| SHEAR, cut. |
| SHEARING, reaping, harvest. |
| SHEERS, shears. |
| SHERRA, a sheriff. |
| SHILPIT, weak, sickly. |
| SHOEING-HORN, something that leads to more drinking. |
| SHOON, shoes. |
| SHOUTHER, the shoulder. |
| SIC, SICCAN, so, such. |
| SICLIKE, such. |
| SIDIER DHU, black soldiers, independent companies raised to keep peace in the Highlands; named from the tartans they wore. |
| SIDIER ROY, red soldiers, King George’s men. |
| SIKE, SYKE, small rill or brook commonly running out of a quagmire, small rill without sand or gravel. |
| SILLER, silver, money. |
| SILLY, weak. |
| SIMMER, summer. |
| SINSYNE, since. |
| SKEEL, a bucket, a tub. |
| SKEEN, SKENE, knife. |
| SKENE-OCCLE, a concealed dirk (Jamieson). |
| SKIG, the least quantity of anything. |
| SLACK, a hollow, a morass. |
| SLAP, a breach. |
| SLEEPERY, sleepy. |
| SLIVER, slice, slit. |
| SLOW-HUND, a sleuth hound. |
| SMA’, small. |
| SMACK, smaik, a rogue, a low wretch. |
| SMOKY, suspicious. |
| SNAW, snow. |
| SNECK, cut. |
| SNOOD, a fillet worn by young women. |
| SOPITE, quiet a brawl. |
| SORNERS, sornars, sojourners, sturdy beggars, especially those unwelcome visitors who exact lodgings and victuals by force. |
| SORTED, arranged, adjusted. |
| SOUP O’ DRINK, a spoonful. |
| SOUPLE, a cudgel. |
| SOWENS, the seeds of oatmeal soured. |
| SPAE, foretell. |
| SPEER, ask, investigate. |
| SPEIR, ask. |
| SPENCE, the place where provisions are kept. |
| SPORRAN-MOLLACH, a Highland purse of goatskin. |
| SPRACK, animated, lively. |
| SPRECHERY, movables of an unimportant sort. |
| SPRING, a cheerful tune. |
| SPRUG, a sparrow. |
| SPUILZIE, spoil. |
| SPUNG, pick one’s pocket. |
| SPUNK, a spark. |
| SPURRZIE, spoil. |
| ST. JOHNSTONE’S TIPPET, a rope or halter for hanging. |
| STANE, STAINE, stone. |
| STANG, sting, a long pole. |
| STARK, a heifer, a bullock. |
| STARK, strong, rigid, stiff. |
| START, betray. |
| STEADINGS, STEADING, STEAD, the ground on which a house stands, or the vestiges of a former building (Jamieson). |
| STEAK-RAID, STIKE-RAIDE, That portion of the livestock, taken in a predatory incursion, which was supposed to belong to any proprietor through whose lands the prey was driven (Jamieson). |
| STELL, a stall, a covert. |
| STERNS, STARNS, stars. |
| STICKIT, stopped, hindered. |
| STIEVE, STEEVE, stiff, firm, durable. |
| STIR YOUR GEAR, disturb your goods. |
| STIRK, a young steer or heifer. |
| STIVER, a small Dutch coin. |
| STOOR, rough, harsh. |
| STOPPIT, stopped. |
| STOT, a bullock. |
| STOUP, a jug, a drinking vessel, a wooden pitcher. |
| STOUR-LOOKING, gruff-looking. |
| STOUTH AND ROUTH, plenty. |
| STOUTHREEF, robbery. |
| STOWN, stolen. |
| STRAE, straw. |
| STRAE DEATH, death upon the bed-straw, natural death. |
| STRAIK, stroke. |
| STRAMMEL, straw. |
| STRATH, a valley through which a river runs. |
| STREEKS, stretches, lies. |
| STREIK, stretch. |
| SULD, should. |
| SUMPH, soft muddy-headed fellow. |
| SUNE, SUNE OR SYNE, soon. |
| SUNKETS, delicacies, provisions of any kind. |
| SUNKIE, a low stool. |
| SWAIR, swore. |
| SWART-BACK, great black-and-white gull. |
| SWEAR, SWEER, difficult, lazy, reluctant. |
| SWITHER, doubt, hesitation. |
| SWUIR, swore |
| SWURE, swore. |
| SYBO, onion that does not form a bulb at the root. |
| SYNE, SYN, SIN, before, now, ago, since. |
| TA’EN, taken. |
| TA, the. |
| TAIGLIT, harassed, encumbered, loitered. |
| TAILZIE, taillie, a deed of entail. |
| TAISHATR, prophet |
| TAIT, a tuft. |
| TAK, take. |
| TAP, the top. |
| TAPPIT-HEN, a pewter pot that holds three English quarts. |
| TARGED HIM RIGHTLY, pelted or riddled him with importunities |
| TASS, a cup. |
| TAT, that. |
| TAULD, told. |
| TAYOUT, tailliers-hors; in modern phrase, Tally-ho! |
| TEIL, the devil. |
| TEINDS, tithes. |
| TELL’D, told. |
| TELT, told. |
| TEN COMMANDMENTS, fingernails |
| TENT, care. |
| THACK, thatch. |
| THAE, these, those. |
| THEGITHER, together. |
| THEREAWA’, thence, thereabout. |
| THIR, these. |
| THOLE, bear, suffer. |
| THRAPPLE, the windpipe, the throat. |
| THRAW, twist, wrench. |
| THREEPIT, persisted, maintained obstinately. |
| THRISTLE, a thistle. |
| THROSTLE, the thrush. |
| THROUGH-GANGING, through-going |
| TIGHEARNACH, TIARNACH, lord, chief |
| TILL, to. |
| TINT, lost. |
| TIPPENNY, ale at twopence a bottle. |
| TIRRIVIES, tantrums, hasty fits of passion. |
| TOCHERLESS, portionless, without dowry. |
| TOD, a fox. |
| TOFT, a bed for plants. |
| TOLBOOTH, a jail. |
| TOOM, empty. |
| TOUN, a town, a hamlet, a farm. |
| TOW, a rope. |
| TOY, an old-fashioned cap for women. |
| TREWS, trousers. |
| TRINDLING, rolling, trundling. |
| TRINE TO THE CHEAT, get hanged. |
| TROKING, intercourse, trafficking. |
| TROW, believe, suppose, trust. |
| TUILZIE, tuilzie, a scuffle, a quarrel, a brawl. |
| TUME, toom, empty. |
| TURN, piece of work |
| TURNSPIT DOGGIE, a kind of dog, long-bodied and short-legged, formerly used in turning a treadmill. |
| TWA, two. |
| TWEEL, a web. |
| TYKE, a dog, a rough fellow. |
| UMQUHILE, formerly, late. |
| UNCANNY, weird, unlucky. |
| UNCO, strange, very, uncommonly |
| UNKENN’D, unknown. |
| UNSONSY, unlucky, eerie. |
| UPHAUD, uphold. |
| UPRIGHT MAN, the leader (and greatest rogue) of the gang. wa’, wall. |
| USQUEBAUGH, whiskey. |
| VENY, venue, a bout. |
| VERA, very |
| VILIPEND, disparage |
| VIVERS, victuals. |
| WA’, wall. |
| WAD, would. |
| WADDED, wedded. |
| WADNA, would not |
| WADSET, a deed conveying property to a creditor |
| WAE, woe. |
| WAEFU’, woeful. |
| WAIN, a wagon; to remove. |
| WALD, would |
| WALE, choice. |
| WALISE, a portmanteau, saddlebags. |
| WAN, won. |
| WANCHANCY, unlucky. |
| WARE, spend. |
| WARK, work. |
| WARLD, the world. |
| WARLOCK, a wizard. |
| WARRANDICE, warranty, security |
| WASNA, was not |
| WASTER, a long spear. |
| WAUR, worse. |
| WEAN, a young child. |
| WEAR, war. |
| WEARY FA’, curse. |
| WEDDER, a wether. |
| WEE, small. |
| WEEL-FAR’D, weel-faur’d, having a good appearance. |
| WEEL, well. |
| WEISING, inclining, directing. |
| WEIZE, direct, incline. |
| WERENA, were not |
| WESSEL, westward. |
| WHA, who. |
| WHAAP, the (or the Hope), is the sheltered part or hollow of the hill. Hoff, howff, haaf, and haven are all modifications of the same word. |
| WHAR, where, |
| WHAT FOR, why. |
| WHEEN, a few. |
| WHIGGING, jogging. |
| WHILE SYNE, a while ago. |
| WHILES, sometimes. |
| WHILK, which. |
| WHILOME, formerly |
| WHIN, a few. |
| WHIN, furze, gorse (OED). |
| WHINGEING, whining. |
| WHINGER, a kind of knife, a hanger. |
| WHISHT, hush |
| WHISTLE, give information against one. |
| WHITTRET, a weasel. |
| WI’, with. |
| WIN, get. |
| WINNA, will not. |
| WIS, know |
| WISKE, whisk, brandish. |
| WITTERS, the barbs of the spear. |
| WOO’, wool. |
| WOODIE, wuddie, a rope, a halter, the gallows. |
| WORRICOW, a hobgoblin. |
| WOTS NA, does not know. |
| WRANG SIDE OF THE BLANKET, illegitimate. |
| WRANG, wrong. |
| WRITER, an attorney. |
| WUDE, mad |
| WUDDIE, a rope, the gallows. |
| WUSS, wish. |
| YAFFING, chattering, barking. |
| YATE, gate. |
| YER, yere, your. |
| YONT, beyond. |
| YOURSELL, yourself |
