Walter Scott - Redgauntlet

CAUSEWAY, path, roadway.

CAVALIERE SERVENTE, gentleman in attendance.

CAVE NE LITERAS, ETC. take care that you are not carrying

Bellerophon's letters (letters unfavourable to the bearer).

CHACK, a slight repast.

CHANCY, safe, auspicious.

CHANGE-HOUSE, a small inn or ale-house.

CHANTER, the tenor or treble pipe in a bag-pipe.

CHAPE, a thin metal blade at the end of a scabbard.

CHAPEAU BRAS, a low, three-cornered hat.

CHOUGH, a bird of the crow family.

CHUCKY, fowl.

CHUCKY-STONES, small stones, a child's game.

CLAP AND HOPPER, signs of the mill.

CLAVERS, gossip, idle talk.

CLEEK, lay hold on.

CLEIK IN, to join company.

CLOSE, an alley, a narrow way.

CLOSE-HEADS, the entry to an alley, a meeting-place for gossips.

CLOUR, to strike, to bump.

COBLE, a little boat.

COCKERNONY, top-knot.

COGIE, small wooden bowl.

COMMUNE FORUM, ETC. the common court is the common dwelling-place.

CORDWAIN, Spanish leather.

CORIOLANUS, a Roman patrician, who, being driven from the city,

took refuge with Aufidius, the leader of the Volsci.

COUP, fall, upset.

COURIER DE L'EUROPE, a newspaper.

COVYNE, artifice.

CRACK, gossip.

CRAIG, throat, neck.

CRAWSTEP, the steplike edges of a gable seen in some old houses.

CREEL, basket carried on the back.

CREMONY, Cremona [56].

CROWDER, fiddler.

CUR ME EXAMINAS QUERELIS TUIS?, why do you wear me out with your

complaints.

CURN, a very little.

DAFT, crazy.

DAIS, a canopy, a table placed above the others, a room of state.

DARGLE, dell.

DAURG, day's work.

DE APICIBUS JURIS, from the high places of the law.

DE PERICULO ET COMMODO REI VENDITAE, concerning the risk and profit of sales.

DEAD-THRAW, death-thraw.

DEBOSHED, debauched.

DEFORCEMENT—SPULZIE—SOUTHRIEF, legal terms for resisting an

officer of law.

DEIL, devil.

DELATE, accuse.

DELICT, misdemeanour, QUASI DELICT, apparent offence.

DEPONE, to testify.

DERNIER RESORT, last resort.

DIABLERIE, sorcery, witchcraft.

DILIGENCE, writ of execution, coach.

DING, to knock, beat down.

DIRDUM, uproar, disturbance.

DITTAY, an indictment.

DIVOT, thin turf used for thatching cottages.

DOCH AN DORROCH, the stirrup cup.

DOMINUS LITIS, one of the principals in a law suit.

DOOL, sorrow, sad consequences.

DOOR-CHEEK, door-post.

DOUCE, respectable.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE, persons of the drama.

DRAPPIT, fried.

DRIBBLE, a drop.

DRIFT, drift-snow.

DULCINEA, Don Quixote's imaginary mistress.

DUNSTABLE, something simple and matter-of-fact.

DYVOUR, bankrupt.

EKE, addition.

EMBONPOINT, plumpness.

EN CROUPE, riding behind one another.

ET PER CONTRA, and on the other side.

EVITE, avoid.

EX COMITATE, out of courtesy.

EX MISERICORDIA, out of pity.

EXCEPTIO FIRMAT REGULAM, the exception proves the rule.

EXOTIC, of foreign origin.

FACTOR LOCO TUTORIS, an agent acting in place of a guardian.

FARDEL, burden.

FASH, FASHERIE, trouble.

FECK, space.

FEMME DE CHAMBRE, chamber-maid.

FIERI, to be made.

FLACON, a smelling bottle.

FLAP, gust.

FLIP, a drink consisting of beer and spirit sweetened.

FLORY, frothy.

FORBY, besides.

FORENSIC, legal.

FORFOUGHEN, out of breath, distressed.

FORPIT, fourth part of a peck.

FORTALICE, a small outwork.

FRIST, to postpone, give credit,

FUGIE, fugitive.

FUNCTUS OFFICIO, having finished my duties, 'out of office'.

GABERLUNZIE, a beggar.

GAEN, gone.

GALLOWAY, a strong Scotch cob.

GANGREL, wandering, a vagrant.

GAR, to force, make.

GATE, way, road.

GAUGER, an exciseman.

GENTRICE, gentle blood.

GIFF-GAFF, give and take.

GIRDED, hooped like a barrel.

GIRN, to grin, cry.

GLAIKET, giddy, rash.

GLIFF, glimpse, moment,

GOWFF BA', golf ball.

GRAINED, groaned.

GRANA INVECTA ET ILLATA, grain brought and imported.

GRAT, wept.

GRILLADE, a broiled dish.

GRIT, great.

GROSSART, gooseberry.

GRUE, to creep, shiver,

GUDESIRE, grandfather.

GUIDE, to deal with, to employ.

GUMPLE-FOISTED, sulky, sullen.

GWAY, very.

GYTES, contemptuous name for a young child, a brat.

HAFFLINS, half-grown.

HAILL, all, the whole.

HAIRST, harvest.

HAMESUCKEN, assaulting a person in his own house.

HAMSHACKLE, to fasten.

HANK, a hold.

HAP, to hop, turn from.

HARPOCRATES, an Egyptian god, supposed by the Greeks to be the

god of silence.

HAUGH, holm, low-lying flat ground.

HAULD, place of abode.

HAVINGS, behaviour.

HEFTED, closed, as a knife in its haft.

HELLICAT, extravagant, light-headed.

HEMPEY, rogue.

HET, hot.

HEUCK, sickle.

HINC ILLAE LACRYMAE, hence these tears.

HINNY, honey, a term of endearment.

HIPPOGRIFF, a fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin.

HODDIN-GREY, cloth manufactured from undyed wool.

HOMOLOGATING, ratifying, approving.

HOOKS, OFF THE, light-headed.

HOSE-NET, a small net used for rivulet fishing.

HOW-COME-SO, light-headed.

HUMOURSOME, subject to moods.

HUSSEY, lady's needle-case.

HYSON, green tea from China.

IGNIS FATUUS, will o' the wisp.

ILK, each; of the same name, as Redgauntlet of that Ilk

=Redgauntlet of Redgauntlet.

ILL-DEEDIE, mischievous.

ILL-FAUR'D, ugly, ill-favoured.

IN CIVILIBUS or CRIMINALIBUS, in civil or criminal causes.

IN FORO CONSCIENTIAE, in the assize of conscience.

IN MEDITATIONE FUGAE, meditating flight.

IN PRESENTIA DOMINORUM, before the Lords.

INCEDIT SICUT LEO VORANS, goeth about like a roaring lion.

INCOGNITA, unknown.

INFRA DIG, beneath one's dignity.

INSTANTER, at once.

INTROMIT, to medldle with.

INVITA MINERVA, against my bent.

JACK, a metal pitcher.

JAZY, wig.

JET D'EAU, jet of water.

JORUM, a drinking-vessel, or the liquor in it.

JOW, to toll.

JURIDICAL, pertaining to a judge or to the courts.

KATTERFELTO, a famous quack.

KEEK, to look.

KEFFEL, a bad horse.

LAIGH, low.

LAND-LOUPER, runagate, vagabond.

LARES, household gods, the special divinities of a family.

LAP, leaped; fold.

LAVE, rest, remainder.

LAWING, inn reckoning.

LEAL, loyal, true.

LEASING-MAKING, lies, slander, seditious words.

LEASOWES, the estate of the poet Shenstone.

LEE-SIDE, the side of a vessel farthest from the point where the wind blows.

LEESOME LANE, his dear self alone.

LEEVIN, living.

LEE WAY, arrears of work.

LEG, TO MAKE A, to bow.

LETTRES DE CACHET, sealed letters issued by the King of France, conferring power over the liberty of others.

LEX AQUARUM, the law of the waters.

LIMMER, a loose woman, a jade.

LING, thin long grass, heather.

LOANING, a meadow, pasture where the cows were milked,

LOE, love.

LOON, fellow, rogue.

LOOPY, crafty.

LOUIS-D'OR, a French gold coin worth from 16s, 6d. to 18s. 9d.

LOUP, leap.

LOUP-THE-DYKE, giddy, runaway.

LOUP THE TETHER, breaking loose from restraint.

LOVELACE AND BELFORD, characters in CLARISSA HARLOWE.

LUCKY, a name given to an elderly dame.

LUG, the ear.

LUM, chimney.

MACER, a court official.

MAILING, a small farm or rented property.

MAILS, rents.

MALVERSATION, fraudulent tricks.

MANUMISSION, liberty.

MARCH, border.

MARE MAGNUM, the great sea.