AITs, oats.

BROO', broth. BRUCKLE, brittle.

BRUIK, enjoy.

BRULZIE, broil, scuffle, fray.

provisions.

ARIETTE, song.

ASSYTHMENT, compensation. ASSOILZIE, acquit, release.

spiral shell, of whatever size. BUSKING, dressing.

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

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

COUP, barter.

COUPE-JARRET, ham-stringer.
COW YER CRACKS, stop your chatter.
CRAIG, neck.

CREAGH, a Highland foray, or
plundering excursion.
CUITTLE, tickle.

CUNZIE, slang word for money. CURRAGH, Highland boat or skiff. CUT-LUGGED, GRANING CARLES, crop-eared, groaning humbugs.

DAFT, silly, cracked.

DAUR, dare.

DEAVING, deafening.

GAFFER, old man, master.

GAR'D, forced, compelled.
GARRING, making.
GATE, way, manner.
GEAR, goods, property, cattle.
GILLIE WET-FOOT, a running foot.
man, who had to carry his master
over brooks and watery places
when travelling.

GIMMER, a two-year-old ewe.
GIN, if.

GIRDLE, an iron plate for firing cakes on.

GIRNEL, a meal-chest.

GITE, noodle.

final sentence.

GLEG, sharp; on te alert.

GRANING, groaning.

GOTTEN, got.

GRAT, cried.

GREE, agree.

GRIPPLE, greedy, avaricious. GULPIN, simpleton.

HAE, have.

HAG, moss ground; a year's cutting of oak.

HAGGIS, the pluck, etc., of a sheep,
minced with suet, onions, etc.,
boiled in its stomach; a dish con-
secrated by Burns as Chieftain
of the pudding race.'
HALLAN, partition between the
door of a cottage and the fireplace.
HANTLE, good handful, great many.
HECK AND MANGER, reckless in
prodigality.

HERSHIP, plunder.
HILL-FOLK, Covenanters.

Ho, thou.

HOG, a ram gelding.

HORNING, enforced payment of

debt.

HORSE-COUPER, a horse dealer.

HOULERING AND POULERING, bustling and pulling.

PIAFFED, strutted. PINGLED, fussed.

PINNERS, caps with lappets, formerly worn by ladies of rank. PLACK, a copper coin, equalling the third part of an English penny. PLOY, sport, frolic.

POWTERING, groping among the ashes, or rummaging in the dark.

QUEANS, young women.

REDD, put straight.

REIF, robbing.

REISES, brushwood.

RIN, run.

RINTHEREOUT, cut-throat, vaga

bond.

ROKELAY, woman's short cloak.
RUDAS, rough.

RUGGING AND RIVING, pulling and tearing.

RUNT, old cow.

SAIN, bless.

SARK, shirt.

SASSENACH, Saxons, English.

SCARTED, scratched.

SHILPIT, meagre, wan.

SLIVER, slit.

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.