'A, he, 1 AULINS, AIBLINS, perhaps WORDS, PHRASES AND ALLUSIONS Monastery, Appendix: ABOULFOUARIS. See Ane Author's answer to Capt. Clutterbuck GLOSSARY BARROW-TRAM, rawboned, awkward fellow PAULK, ridge, hank BEDRAL, sex on BERLING, BERLIN, 30 of galley or boat BESTED, SAIR in a sad way, sad con lition BEZALEEL He design-1 and executed the works of art for the Taber OF nacle. See Exod. xxxl. 1-6 BIDE, BIDDEN. remain, wait, stay, live BIELD, sheiter BIG, BIGG, build; BIGGIT WA'S, built walls BILBOES, a long iron bar with sliding shackles, in which the legs of pris oners were confined. See note on the Gad (p. 419) BILLE, young man, jolly comrade DING OUT AND TOUR. go out and watch BINNA, be not BIRK, birch twig BIRLING. drinking company BIRTH, an obsolete form of "berth," situation BITTLE, or BEETLE, wooden mallet for beating washed clotl es BITOCK, a little bit BLACK ACTS, the laws of necromancy or mag C BLACK-FISHING, salmonspearing by night during the close season BLACK PETER, pormanteau. Cf. To rob Pe.er to pay Paul PLATE, shy, abashed PLEARING YOUR FE blinding your eye by flattery DLUMENGARTEN, flower nו a garden PLUNKER, calico-printer DODDLE, small Scotch copper coin POGLE, bogie, ghost DONA DIEZA the specia! goddess of women an ong the ancient Ro mans BONSPIEL, match at curling CHAUDRONS, entrails CHEERER, glass of spirits and hot water CHFELD. fellow CHRISTENBURY CRAIG, ог CHRISTIANBURY CRAG, a hill in the east of Cumberland CHUMLAY, chimney CIRCUMDUCE, to declare the time elapsed during which proof can be brought forward. A 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, & tavern in Writers' Court, off the High Street, Edinburgh CLOD, fling, hurl CLOSE, alley CUSSER, one given to cursing CUSTOS ROTULORUM, the chief civil officer of a county CUTLUGGED, crop-eared CUTTY SPOON, short spoon DARBIES, handcuffs DARKMANS, night, highttime DAURNA, dare not DEATH-RUCKLE, death ony rattle DEFEAT. exhausted DEIL-BE-LICKET, not the least scrap, piece DE LYRA, a French theologian of the 14th century, wrote celebrated Commentaries (In Latin) on the Old Testament DEUKE, the Duke of Buccleuch narrow DEURLOO, or DEURLO, a DRY-HANDED, unarmed FERN-SEED. GATHER THE, a means of rendering one's self invisible FERRET, a narrow cotton or worsted band FESCENNINE, ↑ 1bald. scurrilous FIE predestined, foredoomed FIENT A BIT, never a bit: FIENT A HAET, the devil a jot! FIKE, bother, take trouble a FIRLOT, a corn measure FLISK, frisk, jerk FORBYE, besides FORDBEARS, forefathers FOU, full, satisfied FOUR-HOURS. slight meal taken between dinner and supper, usually at 4 o'clock FOUR QUARTERS, hands and feet (to help). FRIAR'S CHICKEN, eggs chicken broth with beaten up and dropped into it FRUMMAGEM'D, throttled of GAE, GAED, go, went ing, vagrant ner, road GAY, GEY, considerable GELT, money man GIFF GAFF, give and take 111 stant, minute farm HIZZIE, hussy GLIM, light adorn the gallows RIEVE, overseer GRIPPIT, gripped UMPHIONS, funeral ban (YRE-CARLING, witch, habgoblin ners WOODIE, GLOSSARY HADDEN, held grown lad HAICK, hack HAILL HUMBLE-COW, 2 COW that has no horns HUMDUDGEON, ado, pet HUND, hound, drive HUNT-THE-GOWK, fool's errand ICH BIN, I am, I be HERD, man in charge of the ca.tle on 2 Scotch ILKA WAF CARLE, every steward of the lord of 11... Series KAHN, skiff KAIM, camp, hillock KEEPIT THE KIRK, attending the parish church 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 Ldies lale. See Minthe hand, tip. Christstrelsy of Scottish B.rmas box; HANSEL MON''Johnnie Armder, after ANDAY, Monday strong" New Year's Day JOHNNIE FAA, THE UPHANTLE, handful, a numRIGHT MAN, Faa is a ber of well-known gypsey famHAUD, holl HAULD, OUT OF HOUSE ily on the Borders. The leader of a ging (and AND, destitute HEEZIE, hoist, lift the greatest rogue in it) HELLICAT, desperate, ex- was called "the upright See Blackwood, travagant man." 1817, vol. 1. JOHN WATER, who'e riverside, valley, district HALLAN, partition wall HANSEL, gift of money in O' THE SCALES, KEN, KENNA, know, KIBE, chapped heel, ulcerated chilblain KILLOGIE, lime-kiln fur nace KILT, upset, overturn KINCHIN, infant KITT, booty, plunder hobgoblin; the devil LAIR, learning, education LATCH, mire, bog LETTER-GAE, church pre centor or clerk LOUGH, laughed LEVIN, lightning LIB-KEN, jail quarters, lodgings LIFT, the firmament, sky LINKS, windings of a river LIPPEN, trust LOUP, leap of buildings in the mid- |
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