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FORIS FAMILIATED, emancipated from rental authority FUNGARQUE INANI MUNERE, I have discharged an unavailing office

GABERLUNZIE, a professional or licensed beggar (blue-gown), who carried a wallet

GAMBADOES, gaiters, Jeggings

warn

GARDEZ L'EAU, a cry to passers-by when water was thrown from the windows, the cus tomary method of getting rid of dirty water in Edinburgh houses in those days

GARRING, making, causing

GATES, OTHER, in a different fashion, direction GAUDET EQUIS ET CANIBUS, fond of horses and dogs

GAY, or GEY, very GENERAL (drums beating the), the morning signal to prepare for the march GIGLET, a giddy, thought**less girl GILLFLIRT, headed or sportive girl GILLIE WET FOOT, a

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HACK, a cattle-rack HADDO'S HOLE, a chapel In St. Giles Cathedral, called because Sir John Gordon of Haddo was confined in it previous to his trial and execution (1644) for his pronounced hostility to the Scottish Estates

HAE TIBI ERUNT ARTES, etc. (p. 458), These shall be your alms-to impose good behavior during peace, to spare the conquered, and to wage war upon such as are proud HAG, a felling of copsewood; a coppice

HAGGIS, a Scotch pudding, consisting of minced meat, with oatmeal, beefsuet, onions, etc., boiled in a skin bag HALLAN, a wall screening the door inside a cottage, a partition wall HANTLE, much, a large quantity HARDYKNUTE, a ballad composed by Lady Wardlaw of Pitreavie in Fifeshire, and published in 1719, which made a very strong impression upon Scott, when a boy. "It was," he said, "the first poem I ever learned, the last I shall ever forget." HARROW, an old cry for help, an exclamation of distress

HECK AND MANGER, AT, in great abundance, prodigally HERSHIP, plundering, dev

astation

HET GAD, a hot bar, rod HILDING, a sorry, cowardly fellow HIL-FOLK, the Cameronians (a religious sect) HIRST, a shallow place in La river HOULETTE, LA, ET LE CHALUMEAU, the shepherd's crook and pipe (flute) HOUND'S-FOOT TRICKS. rascally, villanous tricks HOWE O' THE MEARNS, the plain of Kincardineshire

HUMANA PERPESSI SUMUS, we have endured the common lot of men HURDIES, buttocks, hips HURLEY-HOUSE, a large house in a bad condition, almost ruinous

HYLAX IN LIMINE LATRAT (Varg., Ecl., viil., 107), the dog Hylax at the threshold begins to bark

INFIELD, arable land on which manure is used INTROMIT, to interfere wich

JOGUE, JOGI, or YOGI, an Indian ascetic and mendicant JONATHAN WILD, a thief-taker, who was himself hanged at Tyburn for housebreaking. See Fielding's novel Jonathan Wand

JOYS OF THE SHELL. A phrase borrowed from Ossian ("Feast of Shells") where the heroęs drink from shells

KEMPLE, a heap, quantity of straw

KIPPAGE, UNCO, a terrib.e passion KITTLE, to tickle; adj. ticklish

KNOBBLER, a hart in its second year

KYLOES, Highland cattie

LAWING, an inn reckoning

LEASING, a l'e, calumnia

tion, falsehood

LEASING-MAKING, the buttering of seditious words

LES COUSTUSMES DE NORMANDIE, etc. (p. 81), According to the customs of Normandy, it is the man who fights and who gives counsel

LESLAEUS, John Lesley, Bishop of Ross, the cham

pion of Queen Mary, and author of a Latin his ory of the Scot ish pople LETTERS FROM THE HIGHLANDS (1726). The book alludes to is Capt. E. Burt's Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotl nd to his Friend in London . begun

Father

in 1726 (1754) LETTERS OF SLALNS, letters acknowledging that the penalty (fine) for manslaughter has been pa'd LIBER PATER. Dionysus or Bacchus LIE (-pit and gallows;Doots). The word "lie" is thus used in some old Scottish legal documents to call attention to a word or phrase that follows immediately after in the vernacular

LIGHTLY, or LICHTLIE, to undervalue, d spise LIGONIER, COUNT, an English cavalry officer, of Huguenot descent, served under Marlborough and was captured by the French at the battle of Lawfeldt (1747) LIMMER, a worthless person, male or female LINDOR, the literary type of the amorous Spaniard, with his guitar, s renades, and sighings at the window of his innamorata. Of. The Barber of Seville

LOON, a term of contempt or scorn, meaning "fellow"

LUCKENBOOTHS, a block of houses and shops in the High Street of Edinburg, alongside of S. Giles' Cathedral, removed in 1817-18 LUNZIE, or LUNYIE, STRING, a sort of belt round the loins or wa.st

MAINS, the home-farm and farmstead, usully in the hands of the proprie or MAIST EWEST, almost contiguous

MAIST FECK, the greater part MALVAISE, malmsey wine MARCHEZ DONC, etc. (p. 344), March then, for God's sake, for I have forgotten the English word; but you are fine fellows, and understand me well enough

MARO, the cognomen or nickname of Virgil MARR AND WILLIAMSON A family named Mrr were all assassinatel at Ratcliffe Highway, London, on 8th December, 1811. The Williamson

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ΜΕΜΝΟΝΙA LEX; probably LEX ΜΕΜΜΙΑ, Cr. Cicero. Pro. Sext. Roscio Amerino, chap. 200

MERRY DEVIL OF EDΜΟΝΤΟΝ, a popular comedy of the 17th century; author not known MERSEMAN, a native of Merse or Berwickshire. Presumably Alick wsa native of the village of Coudingham or Codingham in that county MIDDEN AND MIDDENHOLE, a dunghill MISGUGGLED, or MISGOGGLED, blundered, spoiled

MISTER WIGHT, an oddity, queer fellow

MON COEUR VOLAGE, etc (p. 59). My fickle heart, she said, is not for you, young man; it's for a soldier with a beard on his chin, Lon, Lon Laridon. Who wears a plume in his hat, red heels to his shoes, who plays on the flute, also the violin, Lon, etc.

MONK, a grewsome comance (1795) by Matthew ("Monk") Lewis MONOMACHIA, a single combat

MOOR IN THE FOREST OF BOHEMIA. Cf. Schi ler's Robbers, of which Carl Moor is the hero MORE, a customary reply to a toast in some parts of Scotland; equivalent to "Let's have it again" MORITUR, ET MORIENS, etc. (p. 415), (He is dying and in his death thinks upon his beloved Argos MORNING, an early aram MORT, a flourish of the bugle in imating the death of the game MOUSTED, or MUSTED, powdered

MUNGO IN THE PADLOCK, a negro character in IsaacBiokerstaffe's musical comedy The Padlock, first produced at Drury Lane on 3d October, 1768

MUTEMUS CLYPEOS, etc. (p. 56), Let us exchange shields and adapt the Greeks' insignia for ourselves

NASO, the cognomen or nickname of Ovid

NOLT, or NOW'T, cattle, oxen

black

It

NORTH LOCH, a lake or morass that occupied the hollow of Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh. was urained in 1820 NUNCUPATIVE, oral; an oral will hold good it made before the proper witnesses

OBSIDIONAL CROWN, a chaplet of grass conferred by the ancient Romans upon a sold er who raised a siege or successfully maintained one

OLD PALACE YA'RD, at Westminster, in which the pillory stood ORGOGLIO. See Spencer's Faerie Queene, Book I., Canto viii.

over

DRRA-TIME, occasionally. OUTFIELD, land which, though not manured, is cropped year after year until exhausted OUTRECUIDANCE, weening pride or presumption OUTSIGHT AND INSIGHT PLENISHING, goods that belong to the outside and the inside of the house, respectively

OVOUS, QUI BUVEZ, etc. (p. 138), O ye who drink in full cups at this happy source, on whose margin there is nothing to see save some wretched Mocks, followed by village nymphs, who barefoot drive them on before them

OYER AND TERMINER, COMMISSION OF, a court of judges and assize, with ass.stant commissione s and a grand jury, appointed to inquire into, to hear (oyer) and determine (terminer), through a petty jury, all cases of treason, felony, and misdemeanor within the jurisdiction prescribed by the commission PA, paw; presumably for sword PAITRICK, a partridge PALINODE, in Scots law, a solemn recantation or withdrawal PANGED, crammed, filled PARMI LES AVEUGLES, &c. (p. 339), a one-eyed man is a king among the blind PARTRIDGE, THE SAPIENT, servant to Tom Jones in Fielding's novel of that name

PAWNIES, peacocks

PECULIUM, private property

PEEL-HOUSE, a fortified tower

PENDICLES, a piece of ground let off a farm to another tenant

PHRENESIAC, disordered in mind PIAFFED, strutted PINGLED, to be caused anxiety, care, labor PINNERS, a head-dress for women, with lappets pinned to the breast PIS-ALLER, last resource, makeshift

PIT. Female criminals were not hanged in Scotland in early days, but were drowned in a pit. PLACK, a Scotch copper. coin, worth one-third of a penny English PLOUGH-SOCK, a ploughshare

PLOY, feast, sport, frolic, entertainment

POCULUM POTATORIUM,

a drinking-cup POTTINGAR, a cook POWTERING, postering, groping, rummaging PROCUL A PATRIAE FINIBUS, at a great distance from his native country

PRONER, to praise or extol in an extravagant

manner

PROSAPIA, a race, lineage

PUER (OR RATHER JUVENIS), &c. (p. 72), a boy (or rather youth) of promise and of parts.

QUE DIABLE, &c. (p. 333), What on earth was he doing in that galley at all? See Moliere, Fourberies de Scapin

QU'EST CE QUE VOUS APPELLEZ VISA GE, MONSIEUR? What is the word for visage, sir QUINTAIN, RUNNING AT THE, tilting on foot at a square board RECEPTO AMICO, after greeting or receiving a friend

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REIF, robbery
REISES, brushwood
RELOCATION, renewal of
a lease

vaga

RESILING, drawing back, withdrawing RES VESTIARIA, clothing, dress RIGGS, ploughed fields RINTHEREOUTS, bonds, vagrants RISU SOLVUNTUR TABULAE, the whole thing ended in a laugh RITE ET SOLENNITER АСТА ET PERACTA, performed with all due and fitting ceremonies ROKELAY, a short cloak RORY DALL, or Roderick Morison, was harper and bard to the family of Macleod of Macleod in Queen Anne's reign ROW'D, rolled, wrapped ROWT, cried out loud ROYNISH, or ROINISH,

mean, paltry RUDAS LOON, a rude, bold fellow

RUNT, an old cow.

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bump, wound, indentation SALVATOR, 1. e., the painter Salvator Rosa SARK, a shirt SAVIOLA, VINCENT, Vincentio Saviola was an authority on the management of weapons in the duel, as laid down in a book (Eng. trans.) entitled V Saviolo, his Practice (Lond., 1595) SAY (of the deer), a sample, taste SCHELLUM, a low, worthless fellow SOHMIRSCHITZ'S DOURS, The Pandours were irregular Hungarian soldiers who made their name notorious by their rapine and cruelty in Bavaria during the war of the Austrian Succession

PAN

SCOUPING, running, leaping

THE SHEET, to copy manuscript for a farthing (properly one-third penny) a sheet SEANNACHIE, a Highland genealogist or bard SELMA. See Poems of Ossian, "Songs of Selma"

rass in Egypt, eastward SERBONIAN BOG, a moof the Nile delta

SERVABIT ODOREM TESTA DIU, the cask

smacks for a long time of what it has contained

SHANGS A BROGS, (put) shackles round the feet SHILPIT, weak, insipid SIDIER ROY, red soldiers, Government troops SIKE, a brook, rill SKIG, nothing at all SLIVER, to stice, cut in long thin piecesSMEARING-HOUSE, a hut in which sheep were smeared or salved, or frubbedio with a liquid dressing

SMOKY, suspicious of a trick

SOPITE, to set at rest, settle, a Scots law term SORNAR, OR SORNER, a sturdy beggar; one who exacas lodgings and victuals almost by force SORTED, agreed, put in proper order or condition

SOWENS, wa kind of gruel made from the soured siftings of oatmeal SPEIRINGS, information SPRACK, lively, anımated F

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rambles on, ix

Authorship of Waverley, xv. See Wav-
erley

Awake on your hills, 137

BALL at Holyrood, 260
Ballenkeiroch, 123, 290

Bally-Brough, pass of, 96

Balmawhapple, Laird of, 53; quarrelat
Luckie Macleary's, 61; apology to
Waverley, 64; escorts Waverley from
Doune, 238; insults the garrison of
Stirling Castle, 240; death of, 288, 466
Ban and Buscar, Bradwardine's dogs,
66, 379, 422
Ban-dog, 444

Bard of Glennaquoich, 124

Bean Lean, Alice, 106; in the hut, 227;
delivers up Waverley's papers, 230:
Bean Lean, Donald, 101; raid on Gillie-
whackit, 111; intrigues with Wav-
erly's seal, 310; end and confession,
367

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interest in Waverley, 265; her assist
ance to him at Cairnvreckan, 887

Bridal song, 450

Bullsegg of Killancureit, 54
But follow, follow me, 379

Byron and the authorship of Waverley,
xviii

CAIRNVRECKAN, 188

Callum Beg, 150; accompanies Waver-
ley, 180; in Edinburgh, 254; fires at
Waverley, 341; struck by Fergus, 843;
his death, 358

Cameronians, 211

Cannon in Highland army, 271, 468
Canongate, Waverley's lodgings in, 249;

Waverley returns to, 374

Canting heraldry, 79, 458

Carlisle, Mac-Ivor and Waverley at, 400
Caterans, 86, 459
Cathleen's song, 139
Cattle-lifting, Highlanders' ideas on

111

Cave of Donald Bean Lean, 101, 104
Charles Edward. See Prince Charles
Chief, Highland, a typical, 95; hospital
ity required from, 122; devotion of
followers to, 107

Clans, Highland, encamped at Edin-
burgh, 268; how armed, 270; helets

among, 270; at Prestonpans, 278
Clifton, skirmish at. 353, 468
Conan the Jester, 461
Cope, General, 246

Creagh on Tully-Veolan, 85
Crieff, kind gallows of, 459

Cruickshanks, Ebenezer, 181, 194

DARK hag, 51

Deasil, 146

Bear, the Blessed, 56; restored, 429;

prototype of, 457

Beaujeu, Count de, 344

Been out, to have, 462

Bickers, 452

Black-mail, Highland, 86, 89, 458

Bodach Glas, 350, 414

Boots, service of, by Bradwardine, 291, Dirk, oath upon, 471
303

Bradshaigh legend, 454

Bradwardine, Baron, 31, 51: receives
Waverley, 52; his taste in literature,
71; the barony in male-fief. 81; lauded
by Flora, 139; greets Waverley at
Holyrood, 251; conducts evening ser-
vice before battle, 281; dilemma about
the service of boots, 291, 302; his hid-
ing-place, 385; is pardoned, 396; re-
covers the Blessed Bear, 429

Bradwardine, Rose, 50; her private
apartments at Tully-Veolan, 72; de-
scribed by Flora, 140; her letter to
Waverley, 174; at Holyrood, 262; her

Donald Bean Lean. See Bean Lean,

Donald

Doune Castle, 234, 462

Doutelle, 256
Drumming the 119th Psalm, 215

Duchran, meeting at, 401
Dyer's Weekly Letter, 454

EMBLEM of England's ancient faith, 185
Ennerdale, Lord, a fragment, 439
Episcopal clergy in Scotland, 54, 457
Erskine, Rev. John, D. D., 193
Evan Dhu. See Maccombich

FALCONER. See Balmawhapple

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