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A GLOSSARY

OF

THE OBSOLETE AND SCOTTISH WORDS IN
THE THIRD VOLUME.

Such words as the reader cannot find here, he is desired to look for in the Glossaries to the other volumes.

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Of the Scottish words Ben and But; Ben is from the Dutch Binnen, Lat. intra, intus, which is compounded of the preposition By, or Be, the same as By in English, and of in.

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Bridal, (properly bride-ale,) the Chield, s. is a slight or familiar

nuptial feast.

Brigue, brigg, bridge. Britled, carved.

Vide Byrtt

lynge. Gloss. vol. i. 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 shirt-bosoms and handkerchiefs, are called in the north brooches, from the f. broche, a spit. Brocht, s. brought. Bugle, bugle-horn, a huntinghorn being the horn of a bugle, or wild bull.

Burn, bourne, brook.

Busk, dress, deck.

way of speaking of a person, like our English word fellow. The chield, i. e. the fellow. Christentie, Christendome. Churl, clown: a person of low birth; a villain.

Church-ale, a wake, a feast in
commemoration of the dedica-
tion of a church.
Claiths, s. clothes.
Clead, s. clothed.
Cleading, s. clothing.
Cled, s. clad, clothed.
Clerks, clergymen, literati, scho
lars.
Cliding, s. clothing.
Cold, could, p. 41, knew.
Coleyne, Cologne steel.
Con thanks, give thanks.

* But, or Butt, is from the Dutch Buyten, Latin extra, præter, præterquam, which is compounded of the same preposition By or Be, and of uyt, the same as out in English.

Courtnals, note p. 230.

Cramasie, s. crimson.

Cranion, skull.

Crinkle, run in and out, run into

flexures, wrinkle.

Crook, twist, wrinkle, distort.

Crowt, to pucker up.

Cum, s. come.

D.

Dank, moist, dump.
Dawes, (Introd.) days.

Deas, deis, the high table in a
hall: from f. dais, a canopy.
Dealan, deland, s. dealing.
Dee, s. die.

Deed, (Introd.) dead.
Deemed, p. 90, doomed, judged,
&c thus, in the Isle of Man,
Judges are called deemsters.
Deerly, p. 66, preciously, richly.
Deid, s. dead.

Deid bell, s. passing-bell.
Dell, narrow valley.
Delt, dealt.

Descrye, p. 215, descrive, describe.

Demains, demesnes ; estate in lands.

Dight, decked.
Ding, knock, beat.

Din, dinne, noise, bustle.
Disna, s. doest not.

Distrere, the horse rode by a knight in the tournament. Dosend, s. dosing, drowsy, torpid, benumbed, &c.

Doublet, a man's inner garment; waistcoat.

Doubt, fear.
Doubteous, doubtful.

Douzty, doughty.
Drapping, s. dropping
Dreiry, s. dreary.
Dule, s. dole, sorrow.

Dwellan, dwelland, s. dwelling.
Dyan, dyand, s. dying.

E.

Eather, s. either.

Ee; een, eyne, 8. eye; eyes.
Een, even, evening.
Effund, pour forth.

Eftsoon, in a short time.
Eir, s. e'er, ever.
Enouch, s. enough.
Eke, also.

Evanished, s. vanished.
Everiche, every, each.
Everychone, every one.
Ew-bughts, p. 112, or Ewe-
boughts, s. are small encio-
cures, or pens, into which
the farmers drive (Scoticè
weir) their milch ewes, morn-
ing and evening, in order to
milk them. They are com-
monly made with fale-dykes,
i. e. earthen dykes.
Ezar, note, p. 137, azure.

F.

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

Fain, glad, fond, well-pleased.
Falds, s. thou foldest.
Fallan', falland, s. falling.
Falser, a deceiver, hypocrite.
Fa's, s. thou fallest.
Faw'n, s. fullen.

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Hauss-bane, s. p. 113, the neckbone, (halse-bone,) a phrase for the neck.

Hee's, s. he shall also, he has. Hey-day guise, p. 255, frolick; sportive frolicksome manner. *

Gear, geir, s. geer, goods, fur- Heathenness, the heathen part of

niture.

the world.

* This word is perhaps. in p. 255, corruptly given; being apparently the same with HEYDEGUIES, or HEYDEGUIVES, which occurs in Spenser, and means a "wild frolick dance."-Johnson's Dictionary.

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