Brats, rags; brats o' duddies 412, 12.
Brattle, a short race 158, 2; bickering |
brattle (scamper) 122, 25.
Brattle, onset; b. o' winter war 274,
3.

Braw, fine, handsome 1, 9, etc.; mair
braw nor when they're fine 114, 7.
Brawly, very well; brawly ken 255,
16; 556, 29.

Braxies, sheep that die of disease 87,

32.

Brechan, horse-collar 249, 6.

Brent, smooth, bright; your bonie brow
was brent 386, 10; brent new 441,
12.

Brie, juice; the barley brie 154, 8;
398, 9.

Brisket, breast 158, 15.

Butt the house, in the kitchen 875, 4.
Butt, the kitchen part of the house; a
routhie butt 498, 8; but an' ben
318, 26.

By, beside; by himsel' 118, 21.
Bye attour, moreover 587, 19.
Byke, swarm, crowd 136, 10; hive,
443, 28.

Brogue, trick 150, 7.

Broo, water 258, 9; snaw-broo
(melted snow) 256, 80.

Broose, wedding-race from church 157,
27.

Brose, meal mixed with boiling water
408, 2.

Browst, a brewing 336, 16.
Brugh, burgh 254, 23.

Brulyie, quarrel, broil 90, 22; 430, 6.
Brunstane, brimstone 102, 2.
Brunt, burnt 117, 21.
Brust, burst 167, 26.

Buckie, fellow; that daft buckie 428,
11; envious buckies 477, 28.
Buckle, curl 389, 10.

Buff, to pound; buff our beef 58, 29.
Bughtin-time, folding-time 501, 23.
Buirdly, stalwart; buirdly, steeve an'
swank 156, 17; b. chiels 162, 24.
Bum-clock, humming beetle 167, 3.
Bummle, blunderer 236, 22.
Burdies, girls 442, 22.
Bure, carried 157, 8.
Burn, burnie, a small stream 86, 11.
Burnewin, the blacksmith 153, 17.
Busk, to dress up; buskit in a braw
new coat 255, 21; bonie b. nest
296, 10; a buskit up naething 244,

12.

Buss, bush 572, 12.

Cairn, a heap of stones 440, 23.
Calf-ward, calf-pasture 74, 9.
Callan, callant, a boy 88, 12; 202,
10; a Scottish callan 462, 25;
callant (that) tents the kye 417, 12.
Caller, fresh ; air 95, 25; fishes' c.
rest 499, 15.

Callet, trull 128, 22.

Cankert, cankrie, cankered 270, 29,
Cannie, careful, cautious; wi' cannie
care 45, 11; 115, 6; cannie for
hoarding o' money 11, 5; quiet, a
cannie hour 37, 17; & cannie
errand 141, 26.

Cannie, quietly 74, 29; cleverly 103,
27; carefully 36, 14.
Cannilie, quietly 100, 24.
Cantie, lively, merry;

as a kittlen
121, 2; kind auld c. carlin 169,
20; hale an' weel an' cantie 411,
12; etc.

Cantraip, cantrip, spell, magic 149,
8; 272, 14; etc.

Care na by, do not mind 2, 18; 35,
21; 390, 7.

Carl, old man ; a gray-hair'd carl 270,

23.

Carlie, dim. of carl; a fusionless
carlie 496, 24.

Carlin, old wife; kind, auld cantie
carlin 169, 20.
Carle-hemp, male hemp 412, 24.

bush or bield 572, 12.

Catch-the-plack, money making 80, 4.

Cank, chalk; cauk an' keel 391, 19.
Caup, a wooden cup; cogs an' caups
102, 14; the luggit caup 153, 16.
Cavie, coop; chicken-cavie 135, 19.
Change-house, tavern 100, 28.
Chanter, a part of the bag-pipe 32, 14;
85, 21; 105, 16.
Chap, fellow 226, 30.
Chap, a blow 153, 18.
Chap, to strike 94, 26.
Cheep, squeak; wi' tunefu' cheep
176, 10.

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like some chicken

Cheep, to chirp ; ·
297, 30.
Chiel', chield, fellow; an odd kind
chiel' 76, 25; a dainty chiel 237,
27; best o' chiel's 60, 20.
Chimla, chimlie, chimney 60, 10.
Chittering, shivering 274, 11.
Chuckie, a hen; auld chuckie Reekie
296, 8; a dainty chuckie (of a
woman) 314, 28; 413, 3.
Chuffie, fat-faced;

vintner 169, 3.
Clachan, village 72, 18; 125, 22; the
clachan yill 70, 7.
Claise, clothes 43, 19.

Clankie, a smart knock 404, 2.
Clap, clapper of a mill 197, 19.
Clark, clerkly, learned 98, 11.
Clarty, dirty; barm 397, 30.
Clash, idle talk; the countra clash
179, 21.

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Clash, to gossip; let them clash 47,

Cleg, gad-fly; the alegs o' feeling
271, 11.

Clink, coin 8, 7; 876, 18.

Clink, to sit down quickly 98, 81.
Clinkum, the bell-ringer, beadle 251,
27; Clinkumbell 103, 6.
Clips, shears 32, 5.

Clishmaclaver, idle talk 228, 18; 259,
9.

Clockin-time, hatching-time 46, 18.
Cloot, hoof 28, 10; 80, 7.

Clootie, Cloots, Satan 147, 6; 151, 1.
Clour, a blow; clours an' nicks 89, 14.
Clout, to patch; clout the caldron 184,
27; clouted 226, 20.
Clout, a patch 604, 18.

Clunk, to sound (of liquor) 135, 14.
Coble, a fishing-boat 157, 14.

Cock, cockie, good fellow 44, 10; 418,
5.

Cod, a pillow 601, 21; 617, 7.
Coft, bought 443, 10; 599, 11.
Cog, a wooden dish; cogs an' caups
102, 14.

Coggie, dim. of cog 299, 23.
Collieshangie, uproar 422, 22.
Coof, fool, ninny 69, 15; blockhead!
coof! 185, 13.

Cook, to hide; -underneath the braes
121, 16.

Cooser, a stallion 423, 14.
Coost, did cast, threw a hitch 28,
10; tossed, her head 507, 22;
threw off, their claise 48, 19;
her duddies 442, 13.
Cootie, a small pail 147, 9.
Cootie, with feather'd legs;

cocks 268, 6.
Corbie, raven 258, 81.

moor-

28; 617, 24.

Crowdie-time, breakfast-time 97, 19.
Crummock, a staff 270, 22; 442, 25.
Crump, crisp 97, 32.

Crunt, a knock 89, 16.

Cuif, ninny; fumblin cuifs 153, 27.
See coof.

Cummock, a staff 237, 13.
Curch, female head-dress 314, 24.
Curchie, curtsey 96, 21.
Curmurring, rumbling noise 75, 2.
Curpin, crupper, haunch 119, 9.
Curple, id. 286, 26.

Cushat, wood-pigeon 86, 29; 433, 1.
Custock, heart of a cabbage stalk 115,
3.

Cutty, short; cutty stool 264, 6;
cutty sark 448, 5.

Daddie, father 8, 27; 47, 10.

Dails, planks 98, 7.

Daimen, occasional; a daimen icker
123, 11.

Dang, pret. of ding; dang o'er my
daddie 496, 18; her tapsalteerie
544, 19.

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Darklins, in the dark 117, 8.
Daud, a large piece 102, 18.

Daud, to pelt 174, 24; daudin showers
104, 8.

Daunder, to saunter 427, 12.
Daunton, subdue, depress 47, 7; 837,

17.
Daurk (=day-work), day's labour 159,
7; his han'-daurk 162, 16.
Daut, dawt, to fondle; kiss and dawt
47, 24; 603, 6; muckle dautit 229,
20; dautit hawkie 149, 3.
Dautie, darling 506, 23.
Daviely, spiritless; dowff an' daviely
362, 2.

Daw, to dawn 398, 8; day was dawin
315, 5.

Dawin, the dawning 405, 17.
Dawd, dawt, see daud, daut.
Dead, death 400, 16.

Dead-sweer, very loath 232, 33.
Deave, deafen, annoy; deave us wi'
their din 178, 14; did deave me
610, 14.

Deil, devil 7, 8, etc.; deil a ane 8, 28;
deil-haet 166, 14; deil-ma-care 72,
28.

Delvin, digging 232, 8.

Dern, to hide; dern'd in caves 126, 1.
Devel, a heavy blow 267, 15.
Diddle, move quickly 109, 11; 270,
19.

Ding, to beat; -a' to sticks 305, 5;
chiels that winna ding 226, 17.
Dink, neat 291, 6.

Dirl, a rattle; play'd dirl on the bane
72, 29.

Dirl, to rattle 441, 20; dirl❜d them
aff 544, 17.

81; 197, 10.

doited 305, 24.

Fash, to trouble; f. me for't 45, 27; f. |
nae mair 110, 10; ne'er f. your
head 60, 23; ne'er f. your thumb
168, 14.

Fashious, troublesome 376, 4.
Fasten-e'en, Fastern-even 76, 9.
Fatt'rels, trimmings 205, 2.
Fauld, to fold sheep; a-faulding let us
gang 563, 12.

Faulding-slap, fold-gate 207, 16.
Fause-house, see note to 115, 15.
Faut, lack; f. o' light 426, 3.
Faut, find fault with 584, 5.
Fautor, defaulter 603, 8.

Fawsont, seemly; honest f. folk 164,
14; handsome, f. hizzies 224, 25.
Feat, trim; lasses f. 114, 6.

Fleg, kick; jirt an' fleg 82, 18; un-
couth kintra fleg 427, 1.
Fletherin, flattering 230, 4.
Flewit, sharp stroke 252, 18.
Fley, to scare 618, 1; be na fley'd 71,
14; fley'd an' eerie 119, 18; fley'd
awa 526, 12.

Flichterin', fluttering 141, 17.
Flinders, fragments 237, 4.
Flinging-tree, flail 184, 15.
Flisk, to fret (of a horse) 158, 13.
Flit, shift 159, 21.
Flyte, to scold 587, 4.

Fodgel, plump; a fine, fat, f. wight
391, 15.

Foor (pret. of fare) went 335, 27; 405,

10.

life 494, 29; worth 361, 23.
Fecket, vest 389, 12; 620, 4.

Feckless, weak, powerless; a f. matter

47, 15; f. as a rash 280, 14.
Feckly, mainly 200, 16.
Feid, feud; deadly f. 268, 26.
Feirrie, active; f. auld wife 496,
19.

Fell, keen 278, 16; strong (of cheese)
144, 1.

Fen', shift; mak a fen' 387, 15.
Fen', make shift; fecht an' fen' 426,
11; how do you fen'? 493, 12.
Fend, look after 29, 20; ward off 98,

10.

Fere, companion; my trusty f. 355,
1; 411, 29.

Ferlie, a wonder, marvel; nae ferlie
183, 30; 367, 16; crowlin ferlie
204, 11.

Ferlie, to wonder 163, 29.
Fey, death-doomed 402, 3.
Fidgin-fain, excited with joy 77, 1.
Fien', fient, fiend, devil; f. a hair 2,
22; f. a wame 71, 3; fient-haet
165, 19; fien-ma-care 496, 19 (com-
pare deil).

Fier, active; hale an' fier 60, 26.
Fissle, fidget with joy 80, 15.
Fittie-lan, a plough-horse 158, 7.
Flaffin, fluttering 224, 29.

Flainen, flannel 205, 14; 442, 17.
Fleech, to supplicate, fawn; fleech'd
an' pray'd 507, 26; fleechin,
fletherin dedication 280, 4.

Forbears, ancestors 29, 27; 32, 3;
427, 31.

Forbye, besides 392, 25.

Forfairn, worn out 256, 19.
Forfoughten, exhausted 284, 24.
Forgather, to meet 52, 3; 70, 25; 160;
8; to take up with 30, 11.
Forjeskit, tired out 81, 1.
Forrit, forward 462, 26.
Fou, drunk 44, 18; 67, 7; 70, 8.
Foughten, troubled; f. an' harass'd
165, 12.

Foumart, pole-cat 405, 15.
Fouth, abundance 392, 13.
Fow, a bushel 159, 16.
Freath, foam; fizz an' freath 153, 15;
freathing 243, 19.

Fremit, strange 416, 6.

Fud, a hare's tail 268, 7; to co'er
their fuds 137, 15.

Fuff, to puff; fuff't her pipe 117, 19.
Furder, progress; gude speed and
furder 103, 25.

Furder, to speed; weel may thou
furder 557, 6.

Furr, a furrow 96, 3; 404, 1.
Furr-ahin, a plough-horse 200, 7.
Fusionless, pithless 496, 24.
Fyke, bustle 443, 27.

Fyke, to fidget 109, 19; fyke an'
fumble 236, 28; scrape and f. 544,

22.

Fyle, to dirty 98, 21; 492, 10.

Gab, mouth 114, 12; 122, 15; 127, 25.