provisions.

ARIETTE, song.

ASSYTHMENT, compensation. ASSOILZIE, acquit, release.

BAFF, bang, shot.
BAGGONET, bayonet.

BAILIE, alderman or magistrate.
BAN, curse.

BANG, a spring, a bound.

BARTIZAN, a battlement.
BEFLUMMED, befooled.

BEILDY ENOUGH BIT, small shelter enough.

BEJUNK, BEGUNK, trick.

BEN, within, the inner apartment.
BENT, a kind of grass; metaphori-
cally, the hill, the moor.
BIGGING, building.
BIRLIEMAN, parish assessor.
BIT, small, little, short.

BLINK, a glimpse, a glance of the eye.

BLOOD-WIT, compensation, fine for

bloodshed.

spiral shell, of whatever size.

BUSKING, dressing.

BUTTOCK-MAIL, fine imposed for fornication, in lieu of sitting on the stool of repentance.

CADGER, carrier, buxter.
CAILLIACHS, old women.
CALLANT, lad, young fellow.
CANTRIP, trick.

CAPERCAILZIE, the great cock of the wood.

CARLE, churl, fellow.
CAST, lot, fate.

CATERAN, robber, Irish and Highland irregular soldier, freebooter. CEANKINNE, chieftain.

CESS-MONEY, tribute.
CHANGE HOUSE, roadside inn,
where horses are changed on a
journey.

CHIEL, CHIELD, young fellow.
CLACHAN, a small village.
CLAMHEWIT, stroke, back.
CLAW FAVOUR, to curry favour.
CLEIK THE CUNZIE, "hook the
siller" (take the money).
CLOUR, knock on the head.
COGUE, a round vessel made by a
cooper for holding milk, liquor,

etc.

CONEY, rabbit.

CORONACH, dirge.

CORRIE, a mountain hollow in the Highlands

HAGGIS, the pluck, etc., of a sh
minced with suet, onions,
boiled in its stomach; a dish
secrated by Burns as Chief
of the pudding race.
HALLAN, partition between
door of a cottage and the firepl
HANTLE, good handful, great ma
HECK AND MANGER, reckless
prodigality.

HERSHIP, plunder.
HILL-FOLK, Covenanters.
Ho, thou.

HOG, a ram gelding.

HORNING, enforced payment o debt.

HORSE-COUPER, a horse dealer.

HOULERING AND POULERIN

bustling and pulling.

stone and lime.

SNOOD, a maiden's fillet for tying round her head.

SORNERS, sturdy beggars, who in the Highlands demand food and lodging at the houses they pass by. SORTED, attended to.

SOWENS, gruel made from oaten chaff.

SPEIRINGS, information.

SPENCE, parlour, inner apartment of a country house.

SPLEUCHAN, tobacco-pouch.
SPULZIE, spoil.

STIRK, a steer or heifer between

one and two years old.

STOOR, stiff, grim.
STOT, bullock.