Walter Scott - Guy Mannering or The Astrologer

ain, own.

amang, among.

an, if.

ance, once.

ane, one.

anent, about.

aneuch, enough.

auld, old.

auld threep, a superstitious notion.

avise, advise, deliberate.

awa', away.

aweel, well.

awfu', awful.

awmous, alms.

aye, ever.

bairn, a child.

baith, both.

ballant, a ballad.

banes, bones.

bannock, a flat round or oval cake.

barken, stiffen, dry to a crust.

barrow-trams, the shafts of a hand barrow.

baulks, ridges.

berling, a galley.

bield, a shelter, a house.

biggit, built.

billie, a brother, a companion.

bing out and tour, go out and watch.

binna, be not.

birk, a birch tree.

bit, a little.

bittle, beat with a bat.

bittock, a little bit.

Black Peter, a portmanteau.

blate, shy, bashful.

blawn, blown.

blear, obscure.

blude, bluid, blood.

blunker, a cloth printer.

blythe, glad.

boddle, a copper coin worth one third of a penny.

bogle, a goblin, a spectre.

bonnet, a cap.

bonnie, bonny, pretty, fine.

bonspiel, a match game at curling.

bottle-head, beetle-head, stupid fellow.

bow, a boll.

bowster, a bolster.

braw, fine.

brigg, a bridge.

brock, a badger, a dirty fellow.

brod, a church collection plate.

buckkar, a smuggling lugger.

bully-huff, a bully, a braggart.

burn, a brook.

bye, besides.

ca', call.

cake-house, a house of entertainment.

callant, a stripling.

cam, came.

canny, lucky, cautious.

cantle, a fragment.

canty, cheerful.

capons, castrated cocks.

carle, a churl, an old man.

cast, lot, fate.

chapping-stick, a stick to strike with.

cheerer, spirits and hot water.

chield, a young man.

chumlay, a chimney.

clanjamfray, rabble.

clashes, lies, scandal.

claught, clutched, caught.

clecking, hatching.

clodded, threw heavily.

close, a lane, a narrow passage.

clour, a heavy blow.

cloyed a dud, stolen a rag.

collieshangie, an uproar.

come o' will, a child of love.

cottar, cottage.

cramp-ring, shackles, fetters.

cranking, creaking.

craw, crow.

creel, a basket.

cuddy, an ass.

cusp, an entrance to a house.

cusser, a courser, a stallion.

daft, mad, foolish.

darkmans, night.

daurna, dare not.

day-dawing, dawn.

dead-thraw, death-agony.

death-ruckle, death-rattle.

deil-be-lickit, nothing, naught.

dike, a wall, a ditch.

dinging, slamming.

dingle, a dell, a hollow.

dizzen, a dozen.

doo, a dove.

dooket, dukit, a dovecot.

doun, down.

douse the glim, put out the light.

dow, list, wish.

drap, a drop.

drumming, driving.

dub, a puddle.

duds, clothes.

eassel, provincial for eastward.

een, eyes.

endlang, along.

eneugh, enough.

evening, putting on the same level.

faem, foam.

fair-strae, natural.

fambles, hands.

fash, trouble.

fauld, a fold.

fause, false.

feared, afraid.

fearsome, frightful.

feck, a quantity.

feckless, feeble.

fell, a skin.

fernseed, gather the, make invisible.

fie, mad, foredoomed.

fient a bit, never a bit

fient a haet, not the least.

fire-raising, setting fire.

firlot, a quarter of a boll.

fit, a foot.

flesh, fleesh, a fleece.

flick, cut.

flit, remove.

fond, glad to.

forbears, ancestors.

forbye, besides.

foumart, a polecat.

fowk, people.

frae, from.

frummagem'd, throttled, hanged.

fu', full.

fule-body, a foolish person.

gae, go.

gaed, went.

gane, gone.

gang, go.

gang-there-out, wandering.

gangrel, vagrant.

gar, make.

gate, gait, way.

gaun, going.

gay, gey, very.

gelding, a castrated horse.

gentle or semple, high born or common people.

gie, give.

gliffing, a surprise, an instant.

glower, glare.

gowan, a field daisy.

gowd, gold.

gowpen, a double handful.

greet, weep.

grieve, an overseer.

grippet, grasped, caught.

grunds, grounds.

gude, guid, good.

gudeman, master of a house.

gyre-carlings, witches.

ha', hall.

hadden, held, gone.

hae, have.

hafflin, half grown.

haick, hack.

haill, whole.

hallan, a partition.

hame, home.

hank, a skein of yarn.

hansel, a present.

hantle, a quantity.

haud, hauld, hold.

hauden, held.

heezie, a lift.

herds, herders.

heuch, a crag, a steep bank.

hinging, hanging.

hinney, honey.

hirsel, a flock.

hizzie, a housewife, a hussy.

hog, a young sheep.

horning, a warrant for a debtor.

houdie, a midwife.

howm, flat low ground.

humble-cow, a cow without horns.

hunds, hounds.

ilka, every.

ingans, onions.

ingleside, fireside.

I'se, I'll.

ither, other.

jaw-hole, a sink.

Jethart, Jedburgh.

jo, a sweetheart.

kahn, a skiff.

kaim, a low ridge, a comb.

kain, part of a farm-rent paid in fowls.

keep, a stronghold.

keepit, kept, attended.

ken, know.

kenna, do not know.

kibe, an ulcerated chilblain, a chapped heel.

killogie, the open space before a kiln fire.

kilt, upset.

kilting, girding or tucking up.

kimmer, a female gossip.

kinder, children.

kipper, cured salmon.

kirk, church.

kist, a chest, a coffin.

kitchen-mort, kinchen-mort, a girl.

kittle, tickle, ticklish.

kitt, a number, the whole.

knave, a boy.

knevell, knead, beat severely.

kobold, a hobgoblin.

laird, lord of the manor.

lampit, a limpet.

landloupers, persons of wandering tendencies.

lang, long.

lang or, long before.

lang-lugged, long-eared.

langsyne, long ago.

lap and paunel, liquor and food.

lassie, a young girl.

latch, mire.

leddy, a lady.

lee, pasture land.

leg bail, to give, to run away.

letter-gae, the precentor is called by Allan Ramsay

'the letter-gae of haly rhyme.'

leugh, laughed.

levin, lightning, scorn.

licks, blows.

lift, the sky.

like, as it were.

limmer, a jade, a hussy.

links, the windings of a river.

lippen, trust.

loan, an open place, a lane.

loaning, a milking place.

long bowls, ninepins.

looby, a booby, a lout.

loon, a clown, a rogue.

loup, leap, start.

low, blaze, flame.

luckie, an old woman.

lugs, ears.

lunt, blaze, torch.

lykewake, a watch at night over a dead body.

mair, more.

mair by token, especially.

maist, most.

maun, must.

meddling and making, interfering.

messan, a little dog.

milling in the darkmans, murder by night.

mind, remember.

minded, looked after.

mirk, dark; pit mirk, pitch dark.

moaned, mourned.

Monanday, Monday.

mony, many.

moonshie, a secretary.

morn, tomorrow.

moss, a morass.

moss-hag, a pit, a slough.

muckle, great, much.

muir, a moor, a heath.

muscavado, unrefined sugar.

mutchkin, a measure equal to an English pint.

na, nae, no.

nane, none.

nathless, nevertheless.

needna, need not.

nice, simple.

now, the, at once.

odd-come-shortly, chance time not far in the future.

ony, any.

or, ere.

orra, odd, occasional.

orra time, occasionally.

o't, of it.

out, out in rebellion.

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