abiit, evasit, erupit, effugit, more correctly the quotation is, 'abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit': varying terms to express the haste, secrecy, and energy of the flight. aboon or abune, above. accolade, embrace.

adscripti glebae, slaves, transferred with the land to which they are bound, from one possessor to another. ahint, behind. aits, oats.

Alerte à la muraille, ' Quick to the wall!'

Alexander ab Alexandro, Alexander the son of Alexander.

bent, open country. bhaird, bard.

bibliopolist, seller of books. bieldy, sheltered.

birlieman, a parish official.
blind, hidden, out of the way.
blood-wit, blood-money, compen-
sation for homicide.
bodach, spectre.
bodle, farthing.
bogle, bogey.

bon vivant, a lover of good fare.
boune, make ready.
brander, broil.

braw, fine.

brogues, shoes.

broo', broth.

bruckle, brittle, frail.

bruik, possess.

bruilzie, broil, scrimmage.

burgonet, helmet.

busk, get ready.

cailliach, crone, old woman. caisse militaire, military chest. callant, lad.

canny, shrewd; uncanny or по canny, eerie.

canter, beggar; from the whining or 'canting' tone. cantrips, tricks. cath-dath, tartan.

c'est des deux oreilles, properly, c'est d'une oreille,' an expression appreciative of good wine. c'est l'homme ki se bast et ki conseille, it is the man who fights and gives counsel.

cean-kinné, head of the clan. cedant arma togae, let weapons give place to the citizen's robe.

earn, eagle. eld, age.

elisos oculos, et siccum sanguine guttur, eyes squeezed out of his head, and throat drained of blood.

en attendant, meanwhile.

en mousquetaire, from a soldier's point of view.

epulae ad senatum, prandium vero ad populum attinet, for the senate feasts are befitting, but for the people a simple meal.

epulae lautiores, splendid feasts. equiponderate, equivalent.

et singula praedantur anni, the passing years rob us of every thing we possess, one by one. etter-cap, a venomous person. evite, evade.

Haec tibi erunt artes, &c. (p. 532.) 'These be your acts; to impose the rule of peace;

To spare the humbled, crush the arrogant foe.' hag, copse.

haggis, a dish composed of the pluck, &c., of a sheep, with oatmeal, suet, onions, &c., boiled inside the animal's maw. haill, whole.

hallan, inner wall.

hantle, a lot.

heck, cattle rack.

her nain sell, me, myself. hership, plunder.

het, hot.

hippogriff, a cross between a horse and a dragon.

hog, lamb.

homagium, the act of homage. horning, outlawry. horse-couper, horse-dealer.

howe, hollow.

humana perpessi sumus, we have borne all that man can inflict on

us.

hurdies, buttocks.

ilk, each; of that ilk, having the same title as the surname. impiger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer, untiring, swift to wrath, unyielding, keen.

in carcere, in prison.

in ergastulo, in a dungeon (a private prison, as opposed to in carcere).

in integrum, in full.

in loco parentis, in the place of a parent.

in rebus bellicis maxime dominatur Fortuna, in matters of war, Luck has most to say.

in servitio exuendi, seu detrahendi, caligas regis post battaliam, for the service of undoing or pulling off the king's boots after a battle. intromitted, interfered with.

jogue, jogee, ascetic or conjurer.

kemple, a load of hay (forty 'bottles '). kippage, rage.

kittle, tricky, difficult. kyloes, highland cattle.

la belle passion, the gentle passion. la houlette et le chalumeau, the shepherd's crook and pipe. laird, (equivalent to) squire. Laissez faire à Don Antoine, Leave that to Don Antonio. lang-leggit, long-legged.

lapis offensionis et petra scandali, a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence.

lawing, reckoning.

le beau idéal, the perfect conception. leges conviviales, the rules of the table.

les coustusmes de Normandie, c'est l'homme ki se bast et ki conseille,

mais cela viendra avec le temps, but that will come with time. maist, most.

major domo, butler, mayor of the house, steward.

manège, the art of training and managing horses.

mart, fatted beasts, slaughtered at Martinmas for winter provision. mask, infuse.

maugre, in spite of.

maun, must.

mauvaise honte, false shame.
mavortia pectora, warlike breasts.
meal-ark, meal-tub.
misguggle, mishandle.
moldwarp, mole.

Mon cœur, &c. (p. 74):
'My heart so light, quo' she,
My lad, is not for you;
'Tis for a soldier bold,

With beard of martial hue.
Down, down, derrydown.

'A feather in his hat,

A red heel on his shoe;

Who plays upon the flute,
And on the fiddle too.

Down, down, derrydown.'

morning, morning drink.

mortis causa, the cause of death. mousted, powdered.

phrenesiac, frenzied.

pinners, cap with lappets.

pis-aller, an inferior article which will do to go on with. plack, halfpenny. pleader, barrister.

ploy, employment, or fuss. poculum potatorium, drinking-cup. powtering, rummaging. prandium, a meal. pretty, athletic.

primae notae, of the first quality. princeps, chieftain.

procul a patriae finibus, far from the borders of your own land. procul dubio, without doubt. proner, praise up.

propone, propose. prosapia, ancestry.

puer (juvenis) bonae spei et magnae indolis, a youth of promising future and of high character.