whereas I intend to leave Scotland and go abroad, and having
acknowledged myself the father of a child named Elizabeth, begot upon
Elizabeth Paton in Largieside: and whereas Gilbert Burns in Mossgiel,
my brother, has become bound, and hereby binds and obliges himself to
aliment, clothe, and educate my said natural child in a suitable
manner as if she was his own, in case her mother chuse to part with
her, and that until she arrive at the age of fifteen years. Therefore,
and to enable the said Gilbert Burns to make good his said engagement,
wit ye me to have assigned, disponed, conveyed and made over to, and
in favours of, the said Gilbert Burns, his heirs, executors, and
assignees, who are always to be bound in like manner, with, himself,
all and sundry goods, gear, corns, cattle, horses, nolt, sheep,
household furniture, and all other moveable effects of whatever kind
that I shall leave behind me on my departure from this Kingdom, after
allowing for my part of the conjunct debts due by the said Gilbert
Burns and me as joint tacksmen of the farm of Mossgiel. And
particularly without prejudice of the foresaid generality, the profits
that may arise from the publication of my poems presently in the
press. And also, I hereby dispone and convey to him in trust for
behoof of my said natural daughter, the copyright of said poems in so
far as I can dispose of the same by law, after she arrives at the
above age of fifteen years complete. Surrogating and substituting the
said Gilbert Burns my brother and his foresaids in my full right,
title, room and place of the whole premises, with power to him to
intromit with, and dispose upon the same at pleasure, and in general
to do every other thing in the premises that I could have done myself
before granting hereof, but always with and under the conditions
before expressed. And I oblige myself to warrant this disposition and
assignation from my own proper fact and deed allenarly. Consenting to
the registration hereof in the books of Council and Session, or any
other Judges books competent, therein to remain for preservation and
constitute.
Proculars, &c. In witness whereof I have wrote and signed these
presents, consisting of this and the preceding page, on stamped paper,
with my own hand, at the Mossgiel, the twenty-second day of July, one
thousand seven hundred and eighty-six years.
(Signed) ROBERT BURNS.
* * * * *
Upon the twenty-fourth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and
eighty-six years, I, William Chalmer, Notary Publick, past to the
Mercat Cross of Ayr head Burgh of the Sheriffdome thereof, and thereat
I made due and lawful intimation of the foregoing disposition and
assignation to his Majesties lieges, that they might not pretend
ignorance thereof by reading the same over in presence of a number of
people assembled. Whereupon William Crooks, writer, in Ayr, as
attorney for the before designed Gilbert Burns, protested that the
same was lawfully intimated, and asked and took instruments in my
hands. These things were done betwixt the hours of ten and eleven
forenoon, before and in presence of William M'Cubbin, and William
Eaton, apprentices to the Sheriff Clerk of Ayr, witnesses to the
premises.
(Signed)
WILLIAM CHALMER, N.P.
WILLIAM M'CUBBIN, Witness.
WILLIAM EATON, Witness.
* * * * *
GLOSSARY.
"The _ch_ and _gh_ have always the guttural sound. The sound of the
English diphthong _oo_ is commonly spelled _ou._ The French _u_, a
sound which often occurs in the Scottish language, is marked _oo_ or
_ui._ The _a_, in genuine Scottish words, except when forming a
diphthong, or followed by an _e_ mute after a single consonant, sounds
generally like the broad English _a_ in _wall._ The Scottish diphthong
_ae_ always, and _ea_ very often, sound like the French _e_ masculine.
The Scottish diphthong _ey_ sounds like the Latin _ei._"
A.
_A'_, all.
_Aback_, away, aloof, backwards.
_Abeigh_, at a shy distance.
_Aboon_, above, up.
_Abread_, abroad, in sight, to publish.
_Abreed_, in breadth.
_Ae_, one.
_Aff_, off.
_Aff-loof_, off-hand, extempore, without premeditation.
_Afore_, before.
_Aft_, oft.
_Aften_, often.
_Agley_, off the right line, wrong, awry.
_Aiblins_, perhaps.
_Ain_, own.
_Airn_, iron, a tool of that metal, a mason's chisel.
_Airles_, earnest money.
_Airl-penny_, a silver penny given as erles or hiring money.
_Airt_, quarter of the heaven, point of the compass.
_Agee_, on one side.
_Attour_, moreover, beyond, besides.
_Aith_, an oath.
_Aits_, oats.
_Aiver_, an old horse.
_Aizle_, a hot cinder, an ember of wood.
_Alake_, alas.
_Alane_, alone.
_Akwart_, awkward, athwart.
_Amaist_, almost.
_Amang_, among.
_An'_, and, if.
_Ance_, once
_Ane_, one.
_Anent_, over-against, concerning, about.
_Anither_, another.
_Ase_, ashes of wood, remains of a hearth fire.
_Asteer_, abroad, stirring in a lively manner.
_Aqueesh_, between.
_Aught_, possession, as "in a' my aught," in all my possession.
_Auld_, old.
_Auld-farran'_, auld farrant, sagacious, prudent, cunning.
_Ava_, at all.
_Awa_, away, begone.
_Awfu'_, awful.
_Auld-shoon_, old shoes literally, a discarded lover metaphorically.
_Aumos_, gift to a beggar.
_Aumos-dish_, a beggar's dish in which the aumos is received.
_Awn_, the beard of barley, oats, &c.
_Awnie_, bearded.
_Ayont_, beyond.
B.
_Ba'_, ball.
_Babie-clouts_, child's first clothes.
_Backets_, ash-boards, as pieces of backet for removing ashes.
_Backlins_, comin', coming back, returning.
_Back-yett_, private gate.
_Baide_, endured, did stay.
_Baggie_, the belly.
_Bairn_, a child.
_Bairn-time_, a family of children, a brood.
_Baith_, both.
_Ballets_, _Ballants_, ballads.
_Ban_, to swear.
_Bane_, bone.
_Bang_, to beat, to strive, to excel.
_Bannock_, flat, round, soft cake.
_Bardie_, diminutive of bard.
_Barefit_, barefooted.
_Barley-bree_, barley-broo, blood of barley, malt liquor.
_Barmie_, of, or like barm, yeasty.
_Batch_, a crew, a gang.
_Batts_, botts.
_Bauckie-bird_, the bat.
_Baudrons_, a cat.
_Bauld_, bold.
_Baws'nt_, having a white stripe down the face.
_Be_, to let be, to give over, to cease.
_Beets_, boots.
_Bear_, barley.
_Bearded-bear_, barley with its bristly head.
_Beastie_, diminutive of beast.
_Beet_, _beek_, to add fuel to a fire, to bask.
_Beld_, bald.
_Belyve_, by and by, presently, quickly.
_Ben_, into the spence or parlour.
_Benmost-bore_, the remotest hole, the innermost recess.
_Bethankit_, grace after meat.
_Beuk_, a book.
_Bicker_, a kind of wooden dish, a short rapid race.
_Bickering_, careering, hurrying with quarrelsome intent.
_Birnie_, birnie ground is where thick heath has been burnt, leaving
the birns, or unconsumed stalks, standing up sharp and stubley.
_Bie_, or _bield_, shelter, a sheltered place, the sunny nook of a wood.
_Bien_, wealthy, plentiful.
_Big_, to build.
_Biggin_, building, a house.
_Biggit_, built.
_Bill_, a bull.
_Billie_, a brother, a young fellow, a companion.
_Bing_, a heap of grain, potatoes, &c.
_Birdie-cocks_, young cocks, still belonging to the brood.
_Birk_, birch.
_Birkie_, a clever, a forward conceited fellow.
_Birring_, the noise of partridges when they rise.
_Birses_, bristles.
_Bit_, crisis, nick of time, place.
_Bizz_, a bustle, to buzz.
_Black's the grun'_, as black as the ground.
_Blastie_, a shrivelled dwarf, a term of contempt, full of mischief.
_Blastit_, blasted.
_Blate_, bashful, sheepish.
_Blather_, bladder.
_Blaud_, a flat piece of anything, to slap.
_Blaudin-shower_, a heavy driving rain; a blauding signifies a beating.
_Blaw_, to blow, to boast; "blaw i' my lug," to flatter.
_Bleerit_, bedimmed, eyes hurt with weeping.
_Bleer my een_, dim my eyes.
_Bleezing_, _bleeze_, blazing, flame.
_Blellum_, idle talking fellow.
_Blether_, to talk idly.
_Bleth'rin_, talking idly.
_Blink_, a little while, a smiling look, to look kindly, to shine by fits.
_Blinker_, a term of contempt: it means, too, a lively engaging girl.
_Blinkin'_, smirking, smiling with the eyes, looking lovingly.
_Blirt and blearie_, out-burst of grief, with wet eyes.
_Blue-gown_, one of those beggars who get annually, on the king's
birth-day, a blue cloak or gown with a badge.
_Bluid_, blood.
_Blype_, a shred, a large piece.
_Bobbit_, the obeisance made by a lady.
_Bock_, to vomit, to gush intermittently.
_Bocked_, gushed, vomited.
_Bodle_, a copper coin of the value of two pennies Scots.
_Bogie_, a small morass.
_Bonnie_, or _bonny_, handsome, beautiful.
_Bonnock_, a kind of thick cake of bread, a small jannock or loaf made
of oatmeal. See _Bannock._
_Boord_, a board.
_Bore_, a hole in the wall, a cranny.
_Boortree_, the shrub elder, planted much of old in hedges of barn-yards
and gardens.
_Boost_, behoved, must needs, wilfulness.
_Botch_, _blotch_, an angry tumour.
_Bousing_, drinking, making merry with liquor.
_Bowk_, body.
_Bow-kail_, cabbage.
_Bow-hought_, out-kneed, crooked at the knee joint.
_Bowt_, _bowlt_, bended, crooked.
_Brackens_, fern.
_Brae_, a declivity, a precipice, the slope of a hill.
_Braid_, broad.
_Braik_, an instrument for rough-dressing flax.
_Brainge_, to run rashly forward, to churn violently.
_Braing't_, "the horse braing't," plunged end fretted in the harness.
_Brak_, broke, became insolvent.
_Branks_, a kind of wooden curb for horses.
_Brankie_, gaudy.
_Brash_, a sudden illness.
_Brats_, coarse clothes, rags, &c.
_Brattle_, a short race, hurry, fury.
_Braw_, fine, handsome.
_Brawlys_, or _brawlie_, very well, finely, heartily, bravely.
_Braxies_, diseased sheep.
_Breastie_, diminutive of breast.
_Breastit_, did spring up or forward; the act of mounting a horse.
_Brechame_, a horse-collar.
_Breckens_, fern.
_Breef_, an invulnerable or irresistible spell.
_Breeks_, breeches.
_Brent_, bright, clear; "a brent brow," a brow high and smooth.
_Brewin'_, brewing, gathering.
_Bree_, juice, liquid.
_Brig_, a bridge.
_Brunstane_, brimstone.
_Brisket_, the breast, the bosom.
_Brither_, a brother.
_Brock_, a badger.
_Brogue_, a hum, a trick.
_Broo_, broth, liquid, water.
_Broose_, broth, a race at country weddings; he who first reaches the
bridegroom's house on returning from church wins the broose.
_Browst_, ale, as much malt liquor as is brewed at a time.
_Brugh_, a burgh.
_Bruilsie_, a broil, combustion.
_Brunt_, did burn, burnt.
_Brust_, to burst, burst.
_Buchan-bullers_, the boiling of the sea among the rocks on the coast
of Buchan.
_Buckskin_, an inhabitant of Virginia.
_Buff our beef_, thrash us soundly, give us a beating behind and before.
_Buff and blue_, the colours of the Whigs.
_Buirdly_, stout made, broad built.
_Bum-clock_, the humming beetle that flies in the summer evenings.
_Bummin_, humming as bees, buzzing.
_Bummle_, to blunder, a drone, an idle fellow.
_Bummler_, a blunderer, one whose noise is greater than his work.
_Bunker_, a window-seat.
_Bure_, did bear.
_Burn_, _burnie_, water, a rivulet, a small stream which is heard as it
runs.
_Burniewin'_, burn this wind, the blacksmith.
_Burr-thistle_, the thistle of Scotland.
_Buskit_, dressed.
_Buskit-nest_, an ornamented residence.
_Busle_, a bustle.
_But_, _bot_, without.
_But and ben_, the country kitchen and parlour.
_By himself_, lunatic, distracted, beside himself.
_Byke_, a bee-hive, a wild bee-nest.
_Byre_, a cow-house, a sheep-pen.
C.
_Ca'_, to call, to name, to drive.
_Ca't_, called, driven, calved.
_Cadger_, a carrier.
_Cadie_ or _caddie_, a person, a young fellow, a public messenger.
_Caff_, chaff.
_Caird_, a tinker, a maker of horn spoons and teller of fortunes.
_Cairn_, a loose heap of stones, a rustic monument.
_Calf-ward_, a small enclosure for calves.
_Calimanco_, a certain kind of cotton cloth worn by ladies.
_Callan_, a boy.
_Caller_, fresh.
_Callet_, a loose woman, a follower of a camp.
_Cannie_, gentle, mild, dexterous.
_Cannilie_, dexterously, gently.
_Cantie_, or _canty_, cheerful, merry.
_Cantraip_, a charm, a spell.
_Cap-stane_, cape-stone, topmost stone of the building.
_Car_, a rustic cart with or without wheels.
_Careerin'_, moving cheerfully.
_Castock_, the stalk of a cabbage.
_Carl_, an old man.
_Carl-hemp_, the male stalk of hemp, easily known by its superior strength
and stature, and being without seed.
_Carlin_, a stout old woman.
_Cartes_, cards.
_Caudron_, a cauldron.
_Cauk and keel_, chalk and red clay.
_Cauld_, cold.
_Caup_, a wooden drinking vessel, a cup.
_Cavie_, a hen-coop.
_Chanter_, drone of a bagpipe.
_Chap_, a person, a fellow.
_Chaup_, a stroke, a blow.
_Cheek for chow_, close and united, brotherly, side by side.
_Cheekit_, cheeked.
_Cheep_, a chirp, to chirp.
_Chiel_, or _cheal_, a young fellow.
_Chimla_, or _chimlie_, a fire-grate, fire-place.
_Chimla-lug_, the fire-side.
_Chirps_, cries of a young bird.
_Chittering_, shivering, trembling.
_Chockin_, choking.
_Chow_, to chew; a quid of tobacco.
_Chuckie_, a brood-hen.
_Chuffie_, fat-faced.
_Clachan_, a small village about a church, a hamlet.
_Claise_, or _claes_, clothes.
_Claith_, cloth.
_Claithing_, clothing.
_Clavers and havers_, agreeable nonsense, to talk foolishly.
_Clapper-claps_, the clapper of a mill; it is now silenced.
_Clap-clack_, clapper of a mill.
_Clartie_, dirty, filthy.
_Clarkit_, wrote.
_Clash_, an idle tale.
_Clatter_, to tell little idle stories, an idle story.
_Claught_, snatched at, laid hold of.
_Claut_, to clean, to scrape.
_Clauted_, scraped.
_Claw_, to scratch.
_Cleed_, to clothe.
_Cleek_, hook, snatch.
_Cleekin_, a brood of chickens, or ducks.
_Clegs_, the gad flies.
_Clinkin_, "clinking down," sitting down hastily.
_Clinkumbell_, the church bell; he who rings it; a sort of beadle.
_Clips_, wool-shears.
_Clishmaclaver_, idle conversation.
_Clock_, to hatch, a beetle.
_Clockin_, hatching.
_Cloot_, the hoof of a cow, sheep, &c.
_Clootie_, a familiar name for the devil.
_Clour_, a bump, or swelling, after a blow.
_Cloutin_, repairing with cloth.
_Cluds_, clouds.
_Clunk_, the sound in setting down an empty bottle.
_Coaxin_, wheedling.
_Coble_, a fishing-boat.
_Cod_, a pillow.
_Coft_, bought.
_Cog_, and _coggie_, a wooden dish.
_Coila_, from Kyle, a district in Ayrshire, so called, saith tradition,
from Coil, or Coilus, a Pictish monarch.
_Collie_, a general, and sometimes a particular name for country curs.
_Collie-shangie_, a quarrel among dogs, an Irish row.
_Commaun_, command.
_Convoyed_, accompanied lovingly.
_Cool'd in her linens_, cool'd in her death-shift.
_Cood_, the cud.
_Coof_, a blockhead, a ninny.
_Cookit_, appeared and disappeared by fits.
_Cooser_, a stallion.
_Coost_, did cast.
_Coot_, the ankle, a species of water-fowl.
_Corbies_, blood crows.
_Cootie_, a wooden dish, rough-legged.
_Core_, corps, party, clan.
_Corn't_, fed with oats.
_Cotter_, the inhabitant of a cot-house, or cottage.
_Couthie_, kind, loving.
_Cove_, a cave.
_Cowe_, to terrify, to keep under, to lop.
_Cowp_, to barter, to tumble over.
_Cowp the cran_, to tumble a full bucket or basket.
_Cowpit_, tumbled.
_Cowrin_, cowering.
_Cowte_, a colt.
_Cosie_, snug.
_Crabbit_, crabbed, fretful.
_Creuks_, a disease of horses.
_Crack_, conversation, to converse, to boast.
_Crackin'_, cracked, conversing, conversed.
_Craft_, or _croft_, a field near a house, in old husbandry.
_Craig_, _craigie_, neck.
_Craiks_, cries or calls incessantly, a bird, the corn-rail.
_Crambo-clink_, or _crambo-jingle_, rhymes, doggerel verses.
_Crank_, the noise of an ungreased wheel--metaphorically inharmonious
verse.
_Crankous_, fretful, captious.
_Cranreuch_, the hoar-frost, called in Nithsdale "frost-rhyme."
_Crap_, a crop, to crop.
_Craw_, a crow of a cock, a rook.
_Creel_, a basket, to have one's wits in a creel, to be crazed, to be
fascinated.
_Creshie_, greasy.
_Crood_, or _Croud_, to coo as a dove.
_Croon_, a hollow and continued moan; to make a noise like the low roar
of a bull; to hum a tune.
_Crooning_, humming.
_Crouchie_, crook-backed.
_Crouse_, cheerful, courageous.
_Crously_, cheerfully, courageously.
_Crowdie_, a composition of oatmeal, boiled water and butter; sometimes
made from the broth of beef, mutton, &c. &c.
_Crowdie time_, breakfast time.
_Crowlin_, crawling, a deformed creeping thing.
_Crummie's nicks_, marks on the horns of a cow.
_Crummock_, _Crummet_, a cow with crooked horns.
_Crummock driddle_, walk slowly, leaning on a staff with a crooked head.
_Crump-crumpin_, hard and brittle, spoken of bread; frozen snow yielding
to the foot.
_Crunt_, a blow on the head with a cudgel.
_Cuddle_, to clasp and caress.
_Cummock_, a short staff, with a crooked head.
_Curch_, a covering for the head, a kerchief.
_Curchie_, a curtesy, female obeisance.
_Curler_, a player at a game on the ice, practised in Scotland, called
curling.
_Curlie_, curled, whose hair falls naturally in ringlets.
_Curling_, a well-known game on the ice.
_Curmurring_, murmuring, a slight rumbling noise.
_Curpin_, the crupper, the rump.
_Curple_, the rear.
_Cushat_, the dove, or wood-pigeon.
_Cutty_, short, a spoon broken in the middle.
_Cutty Stool_, or, _Creepie Chair_, the seat of shame, stool of repentance.
D.
_Daddie_, a father.
_Daffin_, merriment, foolishness.
_Daft_, merry, giddy, foolish; _Daft-buckie_, mad fish.
_Daimen_, rare, now and then; _Daimen icker_, an ear of corn occasionally.
_Dainty_, pleasant, good-humored, agreeable, rare.
_Dandered_, wandered.
_Darklins_, darkling, without light.
_Daud_, to thrash, to abuse; _Daudin-showers_, rain urged by wind.
_Daur_, to dare; _Daurt_, dared.
_Daurg_, or _Daurk_, a day's labour.
_Daur_, _daurna_, dare, dare not.
_Davoc_, diminutive of Davie, as Davie is of David.
_Dawd_, a large piece.
_Dawin_, dawning of the day.
_Dawtit_, _dawtet_, fondled, caressed.
_Dearies_, diminutive of dears, sweethearts.
_Dearthfu'_, dear, expensive.
_Deave_, to deafen.
_Deil-ma-care_, no matter for all that.
_Deleerit_, delirious.
_Descrive_, to describe, to perceive.
_Deuks_, ducks.
_Dight_, to wipe, to clean corn from chaff.
_Ding_, to worst, to push, to surpass, to excel.
_Dink_, neat, lady-like.
_Dinna_, do not.
_Dirl_, a slight tremulous stroke or pain, a tremulous motion.
_Distain_, stain.
_Dizzen_, a dozen.
_Dochter_, daughter.
_Doited_, stupefied, silly from age.
_Dolt_, stupefied, crazed; also a fool.
_Donsie_, unlucky, affectedly neat and trim, pettish.
_Doodle_, to dandle.
_Dool_, sorrow, to lament, to mourn.
_Doos_, doves, pigeons.
_Dorty_, saucy, nice.
_Douse_, or _douce_, sober, wise, prudent.
_Doucely_, soberly, prudently.
_Dought_, was or were able.
_Doup_, backside.
_Doup-skelper_, one that strikes the tail.
_Dour and din_, sullen and sallow
_Douser_, more prudent.
_Dow_, am or are able, can.
_Dowff_, pithless, wanting force.
_Dowie_, worn with grief, fatigue, &c., half asleep.
_Downa_, am or are not able, cannot.
_Doylt_, wearied, exhausted.
_Dozen_, stupified, the effects of age, to dozen, to benumb.
_Drab_, a young female beggar; to spot, to stain.
_Drap_, a drop, to drop.
_Drapping_, dropping.
_Draunting_, drawling, speaking with a sectarian tone.
_Dreep_, to ooze, to drop.
_Dreigh_, tedious, long about it, lingering.
_Dribble_, drizzling, trickling.
_Driddle_, the motion of one who tries to dance but moves the middle only.
_Drift_, a drove, a flight of fowls, snow moved by the wind.
_Droddum_, the breech.
_Drone_, part of a bagpipe, the chanter.
_Droop rumpl't_, that droops at the crupper.
_Droukit_, wet.
_Drouth_, thirst, drought.
_Drucken_, drunken.
_Drumly_, muddy.
_Drummock_ or _Drammock_, meal and water mixed, raw.
_Drunt_, pet, sour humour.
_Dub_, a small pond, a hollow filled with rain water.
_Duds_, rags, clothes.
_Duddie_, ragged.
_Dung-dang_, worsted, pushed, stricken.
_Dunted_, throbbed, beaten.
_Dush-dunsh_, to push, or butt as a ram.
_Dusht_, overcome with superstitious fear, to drop down suddenly.
_Dyvor_, bankrupt, or about to become one.
E.
_E'e_, the eye.
_Een_, the eyes, the evening.
_Eebree_, the eyebrow.
_Eenin'_, the evening.
_Eerie_, frighted, haunted, dreading spirits.
_Eild_, old age.
_Elbuck_, the elbow.
_Eldritch_, ghastly, frightful, elvish.
_En'_, end.
_Enbrugh_, Edinburgh.
_Eneugh_, and _aneuch_, enough.
_Especial_, especially.
_Ether-stone_, stone formed by adders, an adder bead.
_Ettle_, to try, attempt, aim.
_Eydent_, diligent.
F.
_Fa'_, fall, lot, to fall, fate.
_Fa' that_, to enjoy, to try, to inherit.
_Faddom't_, fathomed, measured with the extended arms.
_Faes_, foes.
_Faem_, foam of the sea.
_Faiket_, forgiven or excused, abated, a demand.
_Fainness_, gladness, overcome with joy.
_Fairin'_, fairing, a present brought from a fair.
_Fallow_, fellow.
_Fand_, did find.
_Farl_, a cake of bread; third part of a cake.
_Fash_, trouble, care, to trouble, to care for.
_Fasheous_, troublesome.
_Fasht_, troubled.
_Fasten e'en_, Fasten's even.
_Faught_, fight.
_Faugh_, a single furrow, out of lea, fallow.
_Fauld_, and _Fald_, a fold for sheep, to fold.
_Faut_, fault.
_Fawsont_, decent, seemly.
_Feal_, loyal, steadfast.
_Fearfu'_, fearful, frightful.
_Fear't_, affrighted.
_Feat_, neat, spruce, clever.
_Fecht_, to fight.
_Fechtin'_, fighting.
_Feck_ and _fek_, number, quantity.
_Fecket_, an under-waistcoat.
_Feckfu'_, large, brawny, stout.
_Feckless_, puny, weak, silly.
_Feckly_, mostly.
_Feg_, a fig.
_Fegs_, faith, an exclamation.
_Feide_, feud, enmity.
_Fell_, keen, biting; the flesh immediately under the skin; level moor.
_Felly_, relentless.
_Fend_, _Fen_, to make a shift, contrive to live.
_Ferlie_ or _ferley_, to wonder, a wonder, a term of contempt.
_Fetch_, to pull by fits.
_Fetch't_, pull'd intermittently.
_Fey_, strange; one marked for death, predestined.
_Fidge_, to fidget, fidgeting.
_Fidgin-fain_, tickled with pleasure.
_Fient_, fiend, a petty oath.
_Fien ma care_, the devil may care.
_Fier_, sound, healthy; a brother, a friend.
_Fierrie_, bustle, activity.
_Fissle_, to make a rustling noise, to fidget, bustle, fuss.
_Fit_, foot.
_Fittie-lan_, the nearer horse of the hindmost pair in the plough.
_Fizz_, to make a hissing noise, fuss, disturbance.
_Flaffen_, the motion of rags in the wind; of wings.
_Flainen_, flannel.
_Flandrekins_, foreign generals, soldiers of Flanders.
_Flang_, threw with violence.
_Fleech_, to supplicate in a flattering manner.
_Fleechin_, supplicating.
_Fleesh_, a fleece.
_Fleg_, a kick, a random blow, a fight.
_Flether_, to decoy by fair words.
_Flethrin_, _flethers_, flattering--smooth wheedling words.
_Fley_, to scare, to frighten.
_Flichter_, _flichtering_, to flutter as young nestlings do when their
dam approaches.
_Flinders_, shreds, broken pieces.
_Flingin-tree_, a piece of timber hung by way of partition between
two horses in a stable; a flail.
_Flisk_, _flisky_, to fret at the yoke.
_Flisket_, fretted.
_Flitter_, to vibrate like the wings of small birds.
_Flittering_, fluttering, vibrating, moving tremulously from place to
place.
_Flunkie_, a servant in livery.
_Flyte_, _flyting_, scold: flyting, scolding.
_Foor_, hastened.
_Foord_, a ford.
_Forbears_, forefathers.
_Forbye_, besides.
_Forfairn_, distressed, worn out, jaded, forlorn, destitute.
_Forgather_, to meet, to encounter with.
_Forgie_, to forgive.
_Forinawed_, worn out.
_Forjesket_, jaded with fatigue.
_Fou'_, full, drunk.
_Foughten_, _forfoughten_, troubled, fatigued.
_Foul-thief_, the devil, the arch-fiend.
_Fouth_, plenty, enough, or more than enough.
_Fow_, a measure, a bushel: also a pitchfork.
_Frae_, from.
_Freath_, froth, the frothing of ale in the tankard.
_Frien'_, friend.
_Frosty-calker_, the heels and front of a horse-shoe, turned sharply up
for riding on an icy road.
_Fu'_, full.
_Fud_, the scut or tail of the hare, coney, &c.
_Fuff_, to blow intermittently.
_Fu-hant_, full-handed; said of one well to live in the world.
_Funnie_, full of merriment.
_Fur-ahin_, the hindmost horse on the right hand when ploughing.
_Furder_, further, succeed.
_Furm_, a form, a bench.
_Fusionless_, spiritless, without sap or soul.
_Fyke_, trifling cares, to be in a fuss about trifles.
_Fyte_, to soil, to dirty.
_Fylt_, soiled, dirtied.
G.
_Gab_, the mouth, to speak boldly or pertly.
_Gaberlunzie_, wallet-man, or tinker.
_Gae_, to go; _gaed_, went; _gane_ or _gaen_, gone; _gaun_, going.
_Gaet_ or _gate_, way, manner, road.
_Gairs_, parts of a lady's gown.
_Gang_, to go, to walk.
_Gangrel_, a wandering person.
_Gar_, to make, to force to; _gar't_, forced to.
_Garten_, a garter.
_Gash_, wise, sagacious, talkative, to converse.
_Gatty_, failing in body.
_Gaucy_, jolly, large, plump.
_Gaud_ and _gad_, a rod or goad.
_Gaudsman_, one who drives the horses at the plough.
_Gaun_, going.
_Gaunted_, yawned, longed.
_Gawkie_, a thoughtless person, and something weak.
_Gaylies_, _gylie_, pretty well.
_Gear_, riches, goods of any kind.
_Geck_, to toss the head in wantonness or scorn.
_Ged_, a pike.
_Gentles_, great folks.
_Genty_, elegant.
_Geordie_, George, a guinea, called Geordie from the head of King George.
_Get_ and _geat_, a child, a young one.
_Ghaist_, _ghaistis_, a ghost.
_Gie_, to give; _gied_, gave; _gien_, given.
_Giftie_, diminutive of gift.
_Giglets_, laughing maidens.
_Gillie_, _gillock_, diminutive of gill.
_Gilpey_, a half-grown, half-informed boy or girl, a romping lad, a hoyden.
_Gimmer_, an ewe two years old, a contemptuous term for a woman.
_Gin_, if, against.
_Gipsey_, a young girl.
_Girdle_, a round iron plate on which oat-cake is fired.