Glossary.

Lye. Oxon. 1743, folio.

A.

A' Au, s. all. Abacke, back.

Arcir, archer.

grate, round which the people sit: sometimes they draw this grate into the middle of the room.-Mr. Lambe.

B.

Bo', 8. ball. Bacheleere, knight.

fashioned kind of musket.

Ase, as.

Assinde, assigned.

Assoyl'd, Assoyled, absolved. Astate, estate, also a great per

son.

Astonied, astonished, stunned.
Astound, Astonyed, stunned, asto-
nished, confounded.
Ath, Athe, o' th', of the.

misery.

Bairne, s. child.

Bairn, s. child.

Bairded, s. bearded.
Buith, s. Bathe, both.

Bale, evil, mischief, misery. Bulow, s. a nursery term, hush, lullaby, &c.

Balysbete, Better our bales, remedy our evils.

abov.

A Twyde, of Tweed.

Auowe, a vow, an oath.
Auld, s. old.

Aureat, golden.

Austerne, stern, austere.
Avowe, vow.
Avoyd, void, vacate.
Awa', s. away.
Axed, asked.

Ayance, against.
Ayenst, against.

Aye, ever, also, ah, alas..

gates, always.

Amonge, at the same time.

An, and.

Ancient, a flag, banner.

Ancyent, standard.

And, if.

Ane, s. one, an, a.

Angel, a gold coin worth 10s. Ann, if.

Ant, and.

Apayde, satisfied, contented. Aplikt, Al aplyht, quite complete. 69

Azont, s. beyond.

Azont the ingle, s. beyond the fire. The fire was in the middle of the room.

In the west of Scotland, at this present time, in many cottages they pile their peats and turfs upon stones in the middle of the room. There is a hole above the fire in the ridge of the In house to let the smoke out at. some places are cottage-houses, from the front of which a very wide chimney projects like a bow window: the fire is in a grate like a malt-kiln

Ban, curse, Banning, cursing.
Banderolles, streamers, little flags.
Band, bond, covenant.
Bar, bare.

Bargan, business, commission. Bar-hed, bare-head, or perhaps bared.

Barne, Berne, man, person.
Base court, the lower court of a
castle.

Basnete, Basnite, Basnyte, Baso-
net, Bassonnette, helmet.
Battes, heavy sticks, clubs.
Baud, s. bold.

Bauzen, s. Skinne, perhaps sheep's leather dressed and coloured red, f. Barane, sheep's leasher. In Scotland, sheepskin mittens, with the wool on the inside, are called bauson mittens, Bauson also signifies a badger, in old English, it may therefore signify perhaps badger's skin. Bayard, a noted blind horse in the old romances. The horse on which the four sons of Ay(543)

Chanteclere, the cock. Chap, knock.

drance.

But, s. without, out of doors.

BUT, or BUTT, is from the Dutch BUYTEN. Lat. extra, præter, præterquam, which is compounded of the same preposition, By or BE, and of UYT, the same as OUT in English.

Butt, s. out, the outer room,
Buttes, butts to shoot at.

Bydys, Bides, abides.

nuptial feast.

Brigue, Brigg, bridge.

Bye, buy, pay for, also, Abey, suffer for.

a. s. Bryme, idem.

Britled, carved, vid. Bryttlynge.

Gloss. vol. 1.

headed arrow.

Brooche, Brouche, 1st, a spit. 2dly, a bodkin. 3dly, any ornamental trinket. Stone buckles of silver or gold, with which gentlemen and ladies clasp their shirtbosoms and handkerchiefs, are called in the north, brooches, from the f. broche, a spit. Brouch, an ornamental trinket, a stone buckle for a woman's breast, &c., vid. Brooche. Glos. vol. 3.

Brocht, s. brought. Brochys, ornamental pins, or buckles, like the Roman fibula, (with a single prong) for the breast or head-dress. Brodinge, pricking.

Brooke, bear, endure.

Brooke, enjoy.

Byste, beest, art. By thre, of three.

C.

Cadgily, s. merrily, cheerfully.
Caitiff, a slave.

Calde, callyd, called.
Callcer, a kind of musket.
Cumscho, s. stern, grim.
Cisa, s. cannot.

Can cane, Gan, began to cry.
Can curtesye, know, understand
good manners.
Can, Gan, began.
Cannes, wooden-cups, bowls.
Cantabanqui, ital. ballad-singers,

singers on benches. Cantles, pieces, corners.

Burgens buds, young shoots.
Burn, Bourn, brook.

Bushment, ambushment, ambush,

a snare to bring them into trouble.

Busket, Buskt, dressed.

Busk ye, s. dress ye.

Busk, dress, deck.

Busk and boun, i. e. make yourselves ready and go; Boun, to go. (north country.)

Buskt them, prepared themselves, made themselves ready.

It is also used in the north for a strong hale old man.

Carline, s. the feminine of carle. Carpe, to speak, recite, also to

censure.

Carping, reciting.

Chayme, chain. Chays, chase. Check, to stop. Check, to rate at.

Che, (Somerset dialect), I.
Cheefe, the upper part of the
scutcheon in heraldry.
Cheis, s. choose.

Cheke, choaked.
Chevaliers, f. knights.
Chill, (Som, dial.) I will.
Child, knight, children, knights.
Chield, s. is a slight or familiar
way of speaking of a person,
like our English word fellow.
The Chield, i. e. the fellow.
Chould, (ditto) I would.
Christentie, Christendom.

Christentye, Chrystiante, Christendom.

Church-ale, a wake, a feast in

commemoration of the dedica

tion of a church.

Churl, clown, a person of low

birth, a villain.

Chyf, Chyfe, chief.

Chylder, children, children's.

Chylded, brought forth, was deli

vered.

Claiths, s. clothes.

Clattered, beat so as to rattle.
Clawde, clawed, tore, scratched;
figuratively beat.
Clead, s. clothed.
Cleading, s. clothing.
Cled, s. clad, clothed.
Clenking, clinking, jingling.

Clennesse, cleanness, chastity.
Clepe, call.

Cleaped, Cleped, called, named.
Clerke, scholar.

Clerks, clergymen, literati, scholars.

Cliding, s. clothing.

Clim, the contraction of Clement.
Clough, a north-country word for
a broken cliff.
Clowch, clutch, grasp.
Clyppyng, embracing.
Coate, cot, cottage.

the purpose.

Cold, could, knew.

Coleyne, Cologne steel.

Com, came.

Combre, encumber, be too many for.

Comen, Commyn, come.

with crooked knotty horns. Cryance, belief, f. Creance, [whence recreant]. But in p. 12, col. 1, &c., it seems to signify fear, f. Crainte.

Cule, cool.

Cum, s. come, came.

Deir, s. dear. Item, hurt, trouble, disturb.

Deol, dole, grief.

Deepe-fette, deep-fetched.
Depured, purified, run clear.
Deere, hurt, mischief.
Deerly, preciously, richly.
Dere, Deye, die.

Dere, Deere, dear, also hurt.
Derked, darkened.

Dern, s. secret, I dern in secret.
Descreere, describe.

Deryz, devise, the act of bequeathing by will.

Dight, decked, put on. Dight-dicht, 8. decked, dressed, prepared, fitted out, done. Dill, dole, grief, pain. Dill I drye, pain I suffer. Dill was dight, grief was upon him. Dill, still, calm, mitigate.

Oure dameys

Din, Dinne, noise, bustle. Ding, knock, beat.

Dint, stroke, blow. Discust, discussed.

peny, Our mistress's penny. Dampned, damned.

Dampned, condemned.

from Lat. Dominus.

Dank, moist, damp.

Danske, Denmark, query.

Darr'd, s. hit.

(a phrase).

Could bear, a phrase for bare. Could creip, s. crept. Could say, said.

Could weip, s. wept. Could his good, knew what was good for him. Or perhaps could live upon his own. Countie, count, earle. Coupe, a pen for poultry. Couthen, knew.

Couth, could.

Coretise, covetousness.

Coyntrie, Coventry.

Cramasie, s. crimson.

Dart the trie, s. hit the tree.
Daukin, diminutive of David.
Daunger hault, coyness holdeth.
Dawes, (introd.), days.
Dealan, deland, s. dealing.
Deare day, charming pleasant
day.

Deas, Deis, the high table in a hall, from f. Dais, a canopy.

Dee, 8. die.

De, dey, dy, die.

Dede is do, deed is done.

Deed (introd.) dead.

Dis, this.

Distrere, the horse rode by a

knight in the tournament.

Dites, ditties.
Dochter, s. daughter.
Do gladly, eat heartily.
Dois, s. Doys, does.
Dole, grief.

Dol. See Deol, Dule.
Dolours, dolorous, mournful.
Dolefuldumps, sorrowful gloom, or
heaviness of heart.

Doluyn, delved, buried.
Don, down.

Dosend, s. dosing, drowsy, torpid, benumbed, &c.

Doth, Dothe, doeth, do.

Doubt, fear.

flexures, wrinkle.

Cristes cors, Christ's curse.

Croft, an enclosure near a house. Croiz, cross.

Crook my knee, make lame my

knee. They say in the north, "The horse is crookit," i. c. lame. "The horse crooks," i. e. goes lame.

Deemed, doomed, judged, &c.; thus, in the Isle of Man, judges

are called deemsters.
Den, grave.
Denay, deny (rhythmi gratia).
Dent, a dint, blow.

Deimt, s. deemed, esteemed.
Deip, s. Depe, deep.
Deir, s. Deere, Dere, dear.

Doughetic, i. e. doughty man. Doughte, Doughete, Doughetie, Doughtye, doughty, formidable. Doughtiness of dent, sturdiness of

blows.

Dounae, s. am not able; properly,
cannot take the trouble.
Doute, doubt. Item, fear.
Doutted, doubted, feared.
Douzty, doughty.
Dozter, daughter.

Doz-trogh, a dough-trough, a kneading-trough.

Dradde, dreaded, feared.
Drake. See Brenand Drake.
Drap, s. drop.
Drapping, s. dropping.

Dre, suffer.

Drede, fear, doubt.

Dreid, s. Dreede, Drede, dread.
Dreips, s. drips, drops.
Dreiry, s. dreary.

Drewrè. The word properly sig-
nified love, courtship, &c., and
hence a love-token, or love-gift;
in which sense it is used by
Bp. Douglas.
Drie, s. suffer.
Drough, drew.

Drouyers, drovers, such as drive herds of cattle, deer, &c.

Drowe, drew.

Drye, suffer.

Dryghnes, dryness.

Dryng, drink.

Dryvars, drovers.

Duble dyse, double (false) dice. Dude, did. Dudest, didst.

Dughtie, doughty.

Dule, s. Duel, Dol, dole, grief. Dwellan, Dwelland, s. dwelling.

Dyan, Dyand, s. dying.

Dyce, s. dice, chequer-work.

Dyd, Dyde, did.

"Laithely of forme, with crukit camscho beik,

Ugsome to here was his wyld Elriche skriek."

In Bannatyne's MS. Poems (fol. 135, in the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh) is a whimsical rhapsody of a deceased old woman, travelling in the other world, in which, "Scho wanderit, and zeid, by to an Elrich well."

In the Glossary to G. Douglas. Elriche, &c., is explained by " wild, hideous, Lat. Trux. immanis;" but it seems to imply somewhat more, as in Allan Ramsay's Glossary. Elke, each.

Fair of feir, s. of a fair and
healthful look. (Ramsay) per-
haps, far off (free from) fear.
Fallan, Falland, s. falling.
Falds, s. thou foldest.
Fals, false. Item, falleth.
Falser, a deceiver, hypocrite.
Falsing, dealing in falsehood.
Fannes, instruments for winnow-
ing corn.

Fang, seize, carry off.
Farden, fared, flashed.
Fare, go, pass, travel.

lumine a book was to ornament

it with paintings in miniature.

Ellyconys, s. Helicons.

Elvish, peevish, fantastical.
Eme, kinsman, uncle.
Endyed, dyed.

Eny, s. Eyn, eyes, Ene, s. even.
Enharpid, hooked or edged with
mortal dread.
Enkankered, cankered.
Enouch, s. enough.

Ensue, follow.

Entendement, f. understanding.

Dyht, to dispose, order.

Dyne, s. dinner.

Dynte, dint, blow, stroke.

Dysgysynge, disguising, masking. Dyrt, vid. Dight.

E.

Eame, Eme, uncle.
Eard, 8. earth.

Earn, s. to curdle, make cheese.
Eathe, easy.
Eather, s. either.

Ech, Eche, Eiche, Elke, each.

Ee, s. Eie, eye. Een, Eyne, eyes.
Ee, even, evening.

Effund, pour forth.
Eftsoon, in a short time.

Eiked, s. added, enlarged.

Ein, s. even.

Eir, Evir, s. e'er, ever.
Eke, also; Eike, each.
Eldern, s. elder.
Eldridge, Scotice, Elriche, El-

ritch, Elriche; wild, hideous,
ghostly. Item, lonesome, unin-
habited, except by spectres, &c.
Gloss. to A. Ramsey, Elritcht,
laugh. Gen. Shep. a. 5.

In the ballad of Sir Cawline, we have "Eldridge Hill," pt. 1. ver. 59, Eldridge Knight, pt. 1, v. 63, pt. 2, v. 86. Eldridge Sword, pt. 1, v. 145. So Gawin Douglas calls the Cyclops, the Elriche Brethir," i. e. brethren; and in his Prologue, he thus describes the night owl,

Envie, Enrye, malice, ill-will, injury.

Er, Ere, before, are, Ere, ear.
Erst, s. heretofore.

reckoning. Farley, wonder.

Fauell, deceit.

See Skelton's

Bowge of Courte. The meaning of the text is nevertheless still obscure, though it should seem to be the origin of our modern phrase to curry favour. Faulcone, faulcon.

Fauzt, faucht, s. fought. It., fight.
Fawn, s. fallen.
Fay, Faye, faith.
Fayere, fair.
Fayne, fain, glad.

Faytors, deceivers, dissemblers, cheats.

Feare, Fere, Feire, mate.
Feat, nice, neat.

mited.

Ettled, aimed.

Evanished, s. vanished.

Everiche, every, each. Everychone, every one. Everych, one, every one. Ewbughts, or Ewe-boughts, s. are small enclosures, or pens, into which the farmers drive (Scotice, weir) their milch ewes morning and evening, in order to milk them. They are commonly made with fall-dykes, i. e. earthen dykes. Eyre, heir.

Eysell, vinegar. Ezar, azure.

F.

Fach, Feche, fetch.
Fader, Fatheris, s. Fadur, father,

fathers. His jadur eyre, his

father's heir.

Fadge, s. a thick loaf of bread, figuratively, any coarse heap of

stuff.

Fa, s. fall.

Fa's, s. thou fallest.
Fain, Fayne, glad, fond.
Faine, Fayne, feign.

| Faine of fighte, fond of fighting.

Feble, Febull, Febyll, poor, wretched, miserable.

Fe, fee, reward; also bribe. But properly fee is applied to lands and tenements which are held by perpetual right, and by acknowledgment of superiority to a higher lord. Thus, in fee, i. e. in feudal service, 1. feudum, &c.-Blount. Feffe, enfeoff.

Feil, s. Fele, many. So Hardinge has Lords fele, i. e. many Lords.

Feir, s. Fere, fear.

Felay, Feloy, fellow.

Fele, Fell, furious, skin.

Fend, defend.

Fendys pray, &c., from being the

prey of the fiends. Fce, reward, recompense; it also signifies land when it is connected with the tenure by which it is held, as knight's fee, &c. Fere, fear. Item, companion, wife, husband, lover, friend. Ferliet, s. wondered. Ferly, wonder, also wonderful. Fersly, fiercely.

Feztyng, fighting.

Fesante, pheasant.
Fette, fetched.