Naples. See Horace, Epodes and Sat., I. CANNY, cautious, prudent. CANTL E, corner-piece, slice

CANTY, cheerful, merry CAPTION, warrant for apprehension

CAPUCHIN, a kind of hood or shawl

CARLE, fellow

CE

land-tax

CHAPPIT, struck (e. g. a clock)

CHAUDRONS. entrails
CHEERER, glass of spirits
and hot water
CHIELD, fellow

CHRISTENBURY

CRAIG,

or CHRISTIANBURY CRAG, a hill in the east of Cumberland CHUMLAY, chimney CIRCUMDUCE, to declare the time elapsed during which proof can brought forward. Scots law term CLANJAMFRAY,

rabble,

all sorts of people CLASHES, rumors, gossip CLAUGHT, snatch CLAVER, gossip CLECKING TIME, when hens hatch chickens CLEEKS, iron chimneyhooks. See note on Lum Cleeks (p. 415) CLERIHUGH'S, a tavern in Writers' Court, off the High Street, Edinburgh CLOD, fling, hurl

CLOSE, alley

CLOUR, thump, smash CLOUTED SHOES, shoes having the soles studded with iron plates or largeheaded nails; also patched shoes CLOYED A DUD, stolen a rag

COCK, the mark or tee at which curlers play

be A

COCK AND A BOTTLE, in

all probability a slip for "cook and a bull" story COFT, bought COLLIESHANGIE, quarrel,

tumult

COME O' WILL, lovechild, natural child CONCURRENT, an attendant on a sheriff's officer

CONJURO, ABJURO, etc.

(p. 319), I adjure, swear, protest and emphatically enjoin thee CONJURO TE, etc. (p. 319), I adjure thee, thou most accursed, iniquitous, base, wicked. and wretched woman, I adjure thee CORPS DE LOGIS. main building of a mansionhouse

COUP, upset, overturn CRACKS, familiar talk, gossip

ORAMBO, a game at capping verses; CRAMBO SCRAPS, rhymed scraps CRANKING, creaking, bustling CRAPPIT-HEADS,

haddock-heads cooked with a stuffing of oatmeal, suet, onions, and pepper CROOKS, windings of a river

CROW, a crowbar CRUFFEL FELL, a lofty hill (Criffell) in the east of Kirkcudbrightshire CUJACIUS, Jacques Cujas, a celebrated French jurist of the 16th century CUMMERBAND, or CUMMERBUND, the broad sash or shaw! that an Oriental wears as a girdle CUSSER, one given to cursing CUSTOS ROTULORUM, the chief civil officer of a County

CUTLUGGED, crop-eared CUTTY SPOON, short spoon

DEURLOO, or DEURLO, a
narrow arm of the
Western Scheldt, be-
tween the island of Wal-
cheren and Flanders
DING, throw, beat
DONNERT, stupid
DOO, dove. See also Dukit
DOOMS, very, absolutely
DOUCE, quiet, staid
DOUSE THE GLIM, put
out the light
DOW, list, care
DOWIE, dull, melancholy
DOWNRIGHT DUNSTA-
BLE, one who speaks
plain and straight to the
point
DREED HIS WEIRD, bore
his fate

DRY-HANDED, unarmed
DUB, pool, puddle
DUDS, clothes, rags

fancy FERN-SEED, GA THER THE, a means of rendering one's self invisible FERRET, a narrow cotton

or worsted band FESCENNINE, ribald, scurrilous

FIE, predestined, foredoomed

FIENT A BIT, never a bit; FIENT A HAET, the devil a jot!

FIKE, bother, take trouble

FIRLOT, a corn measure
FLISK, frisk, jerk
FORBYE, besides
FOREBEARS, forefathers
FOU, full, satisfied

a

FOUR-HOURS. slight meal taken between dinner and supper, usually at 4 o'clock FOUR QUARTERS. hands and feet (to help) FRIAR'S CHICKEN chicken broth with eggs beaten up and dropped into it FRUMMAGEM'D, throttled

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GAE, GAED, go, went
GAEDOWN, drinking bout
GALLOWAY, kind
strong Scotch cob
GANG, to go
GANGREL, vagrant
GANGTHEREOUT, wander-

ing, vagrant

GAN WEHIS, possibly for
Gauricus, an astrologer
of the 16th century
GAR, force, make
GATE, GAIT, way. man-
ner, road

GAY, GEY, considerable
GELT, money
GIFF-GAFF, give and take
GLIFF, GLIFFING,

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stant, minute

GLIM, light
GLOWER, stare
GOTT, God

GOUD, gold
GOWAN, daisy
GRACE

THE WOODIE, adorn the gallows GREET, cry, weep GREGO, GRIEGO, a short cloak, of coarse woollen stuff, with a hood attached

or

HEUCH, &

farm HEUGH, broken bank HEYDON AND CHAMBER, John Chamber, canon of Windsor and Sir Christopher He, don carried on a controversy on astrology in 1601-4 HIGH MIGHTINESSES, the customary title or the Estates of Holland HINNEY, honey, a familiar form of address HIRS HIRSILL, to

slide or glide down; a flock

HIZZIE, hussy HOLD MICH DER DEYVIL, a corruption of a common German oath, "The devil take me!"' HORNING, warrant for apprehending a debtor HOUDIE, midwife HOUNDSFOOT SCHELM, stupid blockhead, blundering rascal

HOWFF, resort, lurkingplace. See Whaap HOWK, dig

HOWM, hollow, small island

HUMBLE-COW,

a COW that has no horns HUMDUDGEON, ado, pet HUND, hound, drive HUNT THE-GOWK, errand

fool's

ICH BIN, I am, I be
ICH BIN GANZ GEF-
RORNE, I am frozen to
death

ILKA WAF CARLE, every
insignificant churl
ILK ITHER, one another
INGAN, onion

JAW-HOLE,

the hole or sink where dirty water, etc., is thrown JET AND OBJECT, aim, point, and object JETHART, Jedburgh JOE, sweetheart JOHN A' NOKES, or JOHN O' NOAKES, a fictitious name used by lawyers in writs for ejectment JOHNNIE ARMSTRONG AND HIS MERRY-MEN, celebrated Border raid rs of L dieslale. See Minstrelsy of Scottish Br der, "Johnnie Armstrong"

JOHNNIE FAA, THE UP

RIGHT MAN, Faa is a well-known gypsey family on the Borders. The leader of a ging (and the grea est rogue in it) was called "the upright man." See Blackwood, 1917, vol. 1. JOHN

O' THE SCALES,

steward of the lord of Linne, whose estate ho bought at a ridiculously low figure and then tiete ed his late master aespitefully. See Percy's Reliques, Series II., Book II.

KAHN, skiff

KAIM, camp, hillock KEEPIT THE KIRK, attending the parish church

KEN, KENNA, know not

know,

KIBE, chapped heel, ulcerated chilblain

KILLOGIE, lime-kiln fur

nace

KILT, upset, overturn
KIMMER, gossip, friend
KINCHEN-MORT.
a girl

KINCHIN, infant
KINDER, children
KIPPER, smoked salmon
KIST, chest

KITT, booty, plunder
KITTLE, ticklish, doubtful
KNAVE BAIRN, boy child
KNEVEL, best severely
with the fists
KOBOLD. a hobgoblin;
the devil

LAIR, learning, education LANG GATE, a long way, a good step

LANGSYNE, long ago LAP AND PANNEL, liquor and food

LATCH, mire, bog LED FARM. a farm on which the tenant does not reside

LETTER-GAE, church pre

centor or clerk LEUGH, laughed

LEVIN, lightning
LIB-KEN, jail

lodgings LIFT, the firmament, sky LILLY, WILLIAM, in the middle of the 17th century made a profession, in London, of casting nativities and foretelling future events, his knaveries having great weight with many LIMMER, jade LINKS, windings of a river LINNE, HEIR OF. The story is related in Percy's Reliques, Series II., Book II.

LIPPEN, trust
LITH, joint
LOAN,
pathway

LOANING, lane,

LOON, fellow, rogue (humorously)

LOUP, leap LOW, flame LUCKENBOOTHS, a block of buildings in the middle of the street beside

quarters,

RANDLE-TREE, А tall, rawboned person RANDY, vagrant, disorderiy RANGING AND RIPING, sifting and searching RASP-HOUSE, customhouse

RED COCK CRAW, raise fire REDDING (a quarrel), settling, putting an end to REDGILL, Dr., a vulgar, se.fish gourmand in Miss Ferrier's novel Marriage REISE, twig, small branch REIST, smoke, dry (fish, etc.)

RETOUR, returned to Chancery for service of an heir

RIG, ridge, field, acre
RIN, run

RIPE, to search
RIVE, rob, pilfer
ROTTEN, rat
ROTURIER, a plebeian
ROUGHIES, dry splinters
or branches used as fuel
to supply the light for
"burning the water," as
it is called. Bags dipped
in tar and similariy em-
ployed are called
"hards"
ROUP, to sell by auction,
a sale; ROUPIT, sold by
auction

ROUTING, bellowing, snoring

RUBBIT, robbed RULLION GREEN, & natural pass on the south side of the Pentland Hills, where in 1666 a party of Covenanters from Galloway were cut to pieces by General Thomas Daiziel RUMP AND DOZEN, rump of beef and a dozen of wine, a good dinner

SACKLESS, innocent
SAIN, bless

SAIR, sore

SALL ICH BIN, shall I be SALVATOR, Salvator Rosa, the Neapolitan painter

SAMYN, self-same SAP, ninny, heavy-headed fellow

SARK, shirt SARKFU' O' SAIR BANES, a shirt-full of sore bones SAUFEN BIER, etc. (p. 220), Quaff the beer and brandy, Smash the windows in! I'm a rake; You're a rake. Are we not all rakes together? SAUGH, willow SAULIES, hired mourners SAUT, salt