Walter Scott - The Fortunes of Nigel

GRAFFS, graves.

GRAMERCY, great thanks.

GRANDAM, old woman, grandmother.

GRAT, cried.

GREEN GEESE, parrots.

GREET, cry.

GREW, shudder.

GRIPS, handshakings, greetings.

GROSART, GROSSART, goose-berry.

GULL, one easily befooled,

GULLEY, large knife.

GUTTERBLOOD, one meanly bred.

GYNOCRACY, petticoat government.

HAET, thing.

HAFFITS, sides of the head.

HAFT, handle.

HAIRBOURED, resided, sojourned.

HAMESUCKEN, assaulting a man on his own premises.

HANKED, coiled.

HARLE, drag, trail.

HARMAN BECK, constable.

HEART-SCALD, disgust.

HEAD-TIRE, head-dress.

HECK AND MANGER, in comfortable quarters.

HEUGHS, glens.

HIRDIE-GIRDIE, topsy-turvy.

HIRPLING, limping, walking lame.

HIRSEL, flock.

HORSE-GRAITH, harness.

HOUGHS, hollows.

HOWFF, rendezvous, place of resort.

ILK ANE, each one.

ILL, bad.

ILL REDD-UP, very untidy.

ILL-WILLY, ill-natured.

INGINE, ingenuity.

INGOTS, masses of unwrought metal.

INGRATE, an ungrateful person.

IRON CARLES, iron figures of men.

JAW, wave.

JEDDART-STAFF, a species of battle-axe peculiar to Jedburgh.

JENNET, a small Spanish horse.

JINGLE, dance.

JOUP, dip, stoop down.

KEMPING, strife.

KENNING, knowledge.

KIMMER, gossip, neighbour.

KIRK, church.

KITTLE, ticklish, difficult, precarious.

KYTHED, seemed, appeared.

LAIGH, low.

LAIR, learning.

LAMB'S-WOOL, a beverage made of the pulp of roasted apples.

LANDLOUPER, adventurer, runagate.

LANG SYNE, long ago.

LATTEN, plated iron or brass.

LAVROCK, lark.

LEASING-MAKING, uttering treasonable language.

LEASINGS, falsehoods, treason.

LEGLIN-GIRTH, the lowest hoop on a leglin, or milk-pail.

LICK, a beating.

LIEFEST, most beloved.

LIFT, steal.

LIGHT O' LOVE, mistress, wanton woman.

LINKBOYS, juvenile torch-bearers.

LIST, like.

LITHER, soft.

LOOF, palm of the hand.

LOON, LOUN, rascal.

LOUPING, leaping.

LUG, LUGG, ear.

LUVE, love.

MAIR THAN ANCE, more than once.

MARLE, wonder, marvel.

MAGGOT, whim, fancy.

MELL, intermeddle.

MENSEFUL, modest, mannerly.

MERK, a Scottish coin, value 13s 4d.

MESS-BOOK, mass-book, Catholic prayer-book.

MICKLE, MUCKLE, much, great, large.

MINT, attempt.

MIRK, dark.

MISLEARD, unmannerly.

MORT-CLOTH, shroud.

MOTION, puppet-show.

MUCKLE v. MICKLE.

MUFFLED, disguised.

MUSKETOON, a species of musket.

MY GERTIE, my goodness! gracious!

NEB, nose, point.

NEEDSNA, need not.

NICHER, snigger.

NICKS, notches.

NIFFER, exchange.

NOBLE, a gold coin, value 6s. 8d. sterling.

NOWTE, black cattle.

NUNCHION, luncheon, food taken between meals.

OR, before.

OTHER GATE, other kind of.

OWER SICKER, too careful.

PAIK, fight, chastise.

PANGED, crammed.

PAPISTRIE, Popery.

PEASE-BOGLE, scarecrow among the pease growing.

PENNY-WEDDING, a wedding where all who attend contribute a trifle

towards the

expenses of the merrymaking.

PICKTHANK, a parasitical informer.

PIG, earthen pot, vessel, or pitcher.

PINK, stab, pierce holes into.

PLACK, a copper coin, value the third part of an English

penny.

PLOY, trick.

POCK-END, empty pocket or purse.

POCK-PUDDING, bag pudding.

POORTITH, poverty.

PORK-GRISKINS, sucking-pigs; also broiled loin of pork.

POUCH, pocket.

PRIE, taste.

PULLET, a young hen.

QUEAN, wench, young woman.

RAMPALLIONS, low women.

RAVE, tore.

RAXING, stretching.

REDDING-KAME, hair-comb.

REDD-UP, tidy, put in order.

RED WUD, stark mad.

REIRD, shouting.

REMEID, resource, remedy.

ROOPIT, croupy, hoarse.

ROSE-NOBLE, a gold coin, value 6s. 8d., impressed with a rose.

ROUT, ROWT, to roar or bellow.

RUDAS, wild, forward, bold.

SAAM, same.

SACK, sherry or canary wine, warmed and spiced.

SACKLESS, innocent.

SCAT, tribute, tax.

SCAUDING, scalding.

SCAUR, scare, frighten.

SCLATE-STANE, slate-stone.

SCRIVENER, one who draws up contracts.

SHABBLE, cutlass,

SHOON, shoes.

SHOUTHER, shoulder.

SHULE, shovel.

SIB, related.

SIBYL, prophetess.

SICKER, careful.

SICLIKE, just so.

SILLER, money, silver.

SIRRAH, sir!

SKEIGH, skittish.

SKELDER, plunder, snatch.

SLEEVELESS, thriftless.

SMAIK, mean, paltry fellow.

SNAP-HAUNCHES, firelocks.

SPANG, spring.

SPEER, ask.

SPEERINGS, information, inquiries.

SPRAIKLE, to get on with difficulty.

SPUNK, slip.

SPUNKIES, will-o'-the-wisps.

STEEKING, closing.

STEEKIT, shut.

STONERN, stone.

STOT, a bullock between two and three years old.

STRAND-SCOURING, gutter-raking.

STURDIED, afflicted with the sturdy, a sheep disease.

STYPIC, astringent, something to arrest haemorrhage.

SUCCORY-WATER, sugar water.

SUNDOWN, sunset.

SUNER, sooner.

SUMPTER HORSE, pack-horse.

SWITH, begone! be off!

SYNE, ago.

TAIT, lock.

TANE, the one.

TAWSE, leather strap used for chastisement.

TEINDS, tithes.

THROUGH-STANES, gravestones.

TIKE v. TYKE.

TINT, lost.

TITHER, the other.

TOCHER, dowry.

TOOM, empty.

TOUR, see.

TOUT, blast on the horn.

TOYS, goods.

TREEN, wooden.

TROTH, truth.

TROW, believe, guess.

TRYSTE, appointment.

TURN-BROCHE, turn-spit.

TYKE, TIKE, dog, cur.

TWA, two.

TWIRING, coquetting, making eyes at.

UMQUHILE, late, deceased.

VIVERS, victuals.

WAD, pledge.

WADNA, would not.

WADSET, mortgage.

WANION, misfortune.

WARE, spend.

WARLOCKS, wizards.

WASTRIFE, waste, extravagance.

WAUR, worse.

WEEL KEND, well known.

WHA, who.

WHEEN, few, a number of.

WHIGMALEERY, trinkets, nicknacks.

WHILK, which.

WHINGER, cutlass, long knife.

WHINYARD, sword.

WHOMBLE, upset.

WIMPLED, wrapped up.

WINNA, will not.

WITHY, gallows rope.

WOO', wool.

WYLIE-COAT, under-petticoat.

WYND, street, alley.

WYTE, blame.

YESTREEN, last night. _

See Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Memoirs.

history of the First Fourteen Years of King James's Reign. See Somers's Tracts, edited by Scott, vol. ii. p.266.

Harrington's Nugae Antique, vol. ii. p. 352. For the gross debauchery of the period, too much encouraged by the example of the monarch, who was, in other respects, neither without talent nor a good-natured disposition, see Winwood's Memorials, Howell's Letters, and other Memorials of the time; but particularly, consult the Private Letters and Correspondence of Steenie, alias Buckingham, with his reverend Dad and Gossip, King James, which abound with the grossest as well as the most childish language. The learned Mr. D'Israeli, in an attempt to vindicate the character of James, has only succeeded in obtaining for himself the character of a skilful and ingenious advocate, without much advantage to his royal client

Dedication to the Squire of Alsatia, Shadwell's Works, vol. iv.

The uninitiated must be informed, that a second proof-sheet is so called.

I am certain this prudential advice is not original on Mr. Linklater's part, but I am not at present able to produce my authority. I think it amounted to this, that James flung down a petition presented by some supplicant who paid no compliments to his horse, and expressed no admiration at the splendour of his furniture, saying, "Shall a king cumber himself about the petition of a beggar, while the beggar disregards the king's splendour?" It is, I think, Sir John Harrington who recommends, as a sure mode to the king's favour, to praise the paces of the royal palfrey.