AITs, oats. GLOSSARY BROO', broth. BRUCKLE, brittle. BRUIK, enjoy. BRULZIE, broil, scuffle, fray. AMBRY, close cupboard for keeping BUCKIE, shell of a sea-snail, or any 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. CATERAN, robber, Irish and Highland irregular soldier, freebooter. CEANKINNE, chieftain. CESS-MONEY, tribute. CHIEL, CHIELD, young fellow. etc. CONEY, rabbit. CORONACH, dirge. CORRIE, a mountain hollow in the Highlands COUP, barter. COUPE-JARRET, ham-stringer. CREAGH, a Highland foray, or 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. GIMMER, a two-year-old ewe. GIRDLE, an iron plate for firing cakes on. GIRNEL, a meal-chest. GITE, noodle. DECREET, order of decree; a judicial GLED, kite. 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, HERSHIP, plunder. 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. 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. STIRK, a steer or heifer between one and two years old. STOOR, stiff, grim. STOT, bullock. |