[THE REFERENCES TO SPECIAL WORDS MAY SERVE THE PURPOSE OF A VERBAL
INDEX.]
(_The Figures refer to the Letters._)
_Abjects_; persons in the lowest grade of society. 291.
_Accidents_; incidental accompaniments, not essential. 293.
_Account-book_; journal of translations. 122, 124.
_Acquaint_; personally known.
_Ado_; Adjective, in the sense of _a-stir_. 97, 99, 181.
Noun; occupation,[533] trouble, concerns. 97, 99, 181, 184,
226, 250.
_Affect_; to love, have affection to. 4, 67, 174, 274, etc.--So
in Gal. iv. 17, etc.
_After-supper_; latest part of the day, between supper and
bed-time. 82.
_Agent_; advocate. 86.
_Airt_, or _airth_; quarter of the heavens, direction. 41,
167, 229, etc.
_All_; "to all power," to the utmost of my power.
_Allow_; to give an allowance. 105, 242, 287.
_Alone_; for only. 231, etc.
_Alongst_; along, side by side with. 363.
_Always_; although, notwithstanding.
(Fr., _toute-fois_.) 249, 336, 337.
_Anchor-tow_; the cable. 107.
_And_, or _an_; the conjunction "_if_." (Gr., ἐαν.)
_Anent_; concerning, over-against. 110, 234, etc.
_Annual_; yearly rent, quit-rent. 119.
_Annuity_; quit-rent. 70.
_As_; than. 306.
--It is the German "_als_," and is still a common word in the
south of Scotland.
_A-swoon_; in a swoon, or faint. 110, 186, 249.
_Athort_; athwart, across. 243.
_Aught_; to own. The Noun; possession, property. 247, 293.
So used by Gavin Douglas.
_Awsome_; fitted to overawe. 190, 219, 281, 317.
_Back._ The Verb intr. means: "to be unfortunate." 62.
The Verb trans.: "to help on." 128, 149, 200, 229, etc.
In a sermon on Zech. xi. 9, "The Godhead _backed_ him, and
convoyed him to the bar of God's justice."
_Back-bond_; a bond given after a former bond, declaring the
person who gave the first bond free. 118, 265, 291.
_Back-burden_; laid on a person's back. 288.
_Back-entry_; back-door. 277.
_Back-friend_; friend to back you or help. 199. So in a sermon
on Rev. xix.
_Back-over_; backward, quite in the other direction. 276.
_Back-set_; a thrust back. 167.
_Bailie_; magistrate. 138, etc.
_Bairns_; children. 18, 20, 106, 293, etc.
_Bairnteme_; family of children by one mother. 105, 106.
Peden speaks of the Church "with her bonny bairn-teme." In Norse,
"toma" signifies to bring forth.
_Balk_; beam for suspending scales. 225, 261.
_Band_; a bond, engagement. 18.--"_To take band with_" is to unite,
_q.d._, bind together. 46, 189, 292, 358.
"_Keep band_," the same. 42.
_Bankful_; full like a river up to the top of its bank. 169, 257.
_Bann_; to curse in the form of a minced oath. 147.
_Beguile_, Noun; deception, trick, disappointment. 176, 205, 353.
_Behind with one_; coming short of his due. 152, 157.
_Being-place_; may be a misprint for "_bigging_," _i.e._ building. 192.
_Bemist_; involved in mist, like _benight_. 118, 169, 176.
--See also "_misted_." 59, 223.
_Ben_; (_q.d._ being in), in the inner chamber, within. 20.
_Beside_; apart from, contrary to. 266, 271.
_Better cheap._--See _Cheap_.
_Bidding_; command. "_To sit a b._," to fail in prompt obedience. 43.
_Bide_; stand, wait for, endure. 23, etc.
--"_Law-biding_," ready to meet the law, instead of fleeing. 106,
107, 222, 302.
Knox's Work, vi. 593, etc.
_Bide out_; hold out. 85.
_Big_, Verb; to build.
_Binding._ The phrase, "to take binding," is the same as to "take
band." 20, 43.
_Binks_; benches. 285.
_Bird-mouthed_; mealy-mouthed. 181.
In this phrase _bird_ is the _young_, or _chicken_; hence,
the sense of softness.
_Bite upon_; leave the mark of their teeth. 84.
_Black-shame_; utter shame; so very dark. 130.
So in 272 he writes, "black nothing."
_Blae_; pale, unsatisfactory hue. 262. As in the phrase, "to
look blue."
_Blaflume_, or _blayflume_, or _bleflume_; a mere sham, air-bubble;
from _blaw_, or blow. 225, 249.
Same as "blellum," one good for nothing.
_Bleeze_; a sudden flaming up. 82.
_Blench_; a piece of white money; a mere peppercorn or nominal rent.
254. (Fr., "_blanc_.")
_Blenk_, or _blink_; a gleam, slight glance. 50, 57, etc.
_Blind_; a cheat, disappointment. 212.
_Block_; a bargain. The Verb; to bargain, plan, scheme. 20, 100,
106, 163, 200.
_Bloom_; blossom. 90, 93, 184, 185, 193.
_Bludder_, or _bluther_; to bleer, disfigure the face with weeping,
or the like. 105, 138.
_Board_; table. "Boardhead," head of the dinner-table. 30, 104,
107, 177, 249.
_Over the board_, 190.
The seller, when he handed the goods to the buyer, "over the
board," drank good luck to him. And so this came to be a
phrase for _formally giving up_ or renouncing.
_Bode_; to offer with view to a bargain. 177, 186.
It is allied in sense to "_bait_." Sibbs uses "_bawd_" (on
2 Cor. i. 3).
_Boist_, or _bost_, and sometimes written _boasts_; to threaten
with a blow. 101, 211, 226, 291.
It is connected with "boisterous."
_Borne in_; forcibly brought into the mind. 249.
_Borrow and lend_; to have dealings with. 98, 109.
_Borrows_; security in law, an Anglo-Saxon word.
"_To die in borrows_," to fail in security.--See _Burrows_.
_Botch-house_; house spoilt and disfigured. 237.
_Bouk_; from "_bulk_;" the corpse of man or beast. 141.
_Bound-road_; boundary-line. 273, 286.
_Brae_; declivity, slope of a hill. 69 141, etc.
Above ordinary bounds.--"From bank to brae." 147, etc.
_Braird_; the sprouting up blade of young wheat, or the like. 259.
_Brangle_; to shake into disorder, shake to and fro. 41, 196.
_Brash_; a passing fit of sickness. 186.
_Broadside_; openly, frankly. 81.
--_Lay on the broadside_; lay flat. 24.
_Brod_; same as _board_. 328, etc.
_Brook_, or _bruke_; enjoy, possess. 140, 115, 249.
_Browden_; eagerly desirous of, foolishly attached to. 77.
_Browst_; a brewing, or what one brews for himself. 188. An
ill-managed matter is "an ill-browst."
_Bud_; to bribe, try to win over by a gift. 63, 88, 277.
_Bulks._--See _Bouk_.
_Burrows_, or _borrows_; (Anglo-Saxon) a pledge or security.
_Law-burrows_; security given not to injure the person or
property of one. 61, 163, 184, 222.
_Bushy-biel_ (see _Life_). In Scotch, _bield_ is a _shelter_.
The name of Rutherford's house is said by some to have been
"_Bush o' Biel'_," the bush of shelter.
In old Scott. Prov., we find, "Every man bows to the _bush_
he gets _bield_ frae."
Yet it is more probable that the name is corrupted from _Bosco
Beoll_, or _Boscobel_, "the fair wood," like the celebrated
spot in Shropshire where Charles I. hid in the oak.
_Busk_; adorn, deck. 22, 42, 133, 143.
_But_; only, only this and no more. 102, 188.
_Buy a plea_; get up a charge, when properly there is no room for
it. 74, 75, 161, 171, 284.
"_Buy up_;" to bribe; or so to buy up as to set another aside.
261, 265.
_By_, or _bye_; aside from, past, as in Acts xx. 16, "sail by."
23, 105, 148, 160, 175.
Also: Without, 96; beside, 359.--"Lock-by," mislock, 218.
_By-board_; side-table where the children sat. 77, 111, 197.
_By-errand_; message done at leisure time, as being of little
importance. 191, 199.
_By-going_; passing by. 122.
_By-gone_; passed away. 71, etc.
_By-gones_; things forgotten. 62, 72.
_By-good_, or _bye-good_; an object in addition to some other
good. 195.
_By-hand_; aside. 72, 276.
_By-look_, side-look. 249.
_By-past_; time that has elapsed, or recently, as a thing done. 190.
_By-purse_; a side purse, away from the other. 284.
_By-work_; work done at leisure time only. 191.
_Canny_; prudent, cautious and skilful. Adv., _cannily_. 69.
_Card_; chart or map. 69, 232.
_Cast_; participle, _casten_: throw or fling. 324.
--_Cast the balance_; turn the scale. 153.
--"_To cast at_;" be sulky, quarrel with. 4, 23.
--"_To cast up_;" to upbraid.
--"_To cast out with_;" quarrel. 224, 254.
--"_Cast a knot_;" tie so as not to slip. 122.
_Cast_, a Noun; lot, fate. "_Common cast_;" a providence occurs
often in Brown of Wamphray. 185, 265.
_Casualty_; emoluments beyond the stated yearly dues paid to
the superior. 240, 253.
_Cauldrife_; susceptible of cold; lukewarm. 198.
_Caums_; a mould. 282.
--_Moulds_ being often made of pipe-clay, it became customary
to call pipe-clay "caum-stone."
Baillie in his "Letters" spells it "caulms."
In Gaelic, _cuma_ means a _pattern_, or shape.
_Causey_ (Fr., _chausée_); the public street. "To keep the crown
of the causey" is to make bold appearance in the public
street in open day. 52, 59, 69, 181.
The streets in those days were raised in the middle, and had
gullies on either side. The French had the phrase, "Tenir
le haut du pavé." See "Notes and Queries," March 29, 1873.
_Caution_; security, surety. 2, 19, etc.
--Adj., _Cautionary_. 187. And as Noun, suretyship. 114.
_Challenge_; charge, upbraiding, accusation. 2, 10, etc.
_Cheap_ is connected with "chapman;" from the old English "_chap_,"
a bargain. The phrase "Better cheap." 216, 293.
--And so "_Good cheap_," properly "_a good bargain_."
_Chirurgeon_; surgeon. 293, 295. Greek and Latin word.
_Clap_; something done unexpectedly. "_In a clap_;" like thunder
suddenly heard. 264.
_Clay_; earth, earthenware. 291, etc.
--"Clay-banks," 300. So "Clay-heavens," 294;
"_clay-pawns_," 300, bodies of dust.
_Cleck_; to hatch a brood, swarm. 281.
_Clipped_; coin not of full weight. 81.
_Clog_; to adhere; form an encumbrance. 249.
--Used in old English.
_Close_, a Noun; the lane or porch leading into the house. 157.
_Close_, Adv.; "_close off_," completely. 50, 82 (like the phrase
close-shaven), 88.
_Closet-ward_; guard-room. 254.
_Coast_; to sail near land, sail from one port to another. 301.
_Coastful_; full to the utmost shore. 201.
_Cog_; to fix the teeth of a wheel, and so stop its motion; put on
a drag. 51, 194, 229.
_Coldlike_; like a fire going out; hope abating. 179.
_Coldrife_, 198.
--See _Cauldrife_. "How coldrife and indifferent are ye!" (Sermon
on Isa. xlix. 1-4). Chilly, heartless.
_Common_; alluding to persons sharing at a _common_ table in
College. As this was a privilege enjoyed by special favour,
"_To be in one's common_" is to be indebted to, under
obligation to. 42, 52, 157, 252, etc.
--"_To quit commons_" (214); to be freed from obligation by
requiting the person.
In 275 and 285, "_It is ill my common_" seems to mean, It
ill becomes me, having no right.
_Communion_; the dispensing of the Lord's Supper. 14, 20, 25, etc.
_Companionry_; companionship. 147, 280.
--The termination "ry" marks plurality in old English.
_Compear_; appear judicially, at the bar. 3, etc.
_Compearance_; the act of appearing in court in obedience to a
citation.
_Compose_; compromise. 357.
--_Composition_, in same sense.
_Comprize_; to arrest by a writ; attach by a legal process.
130, 160, 171.
Seize for debt. 184, 206, etc.
_Concional._ 179.--See _note_.
_Concredit_; entrust. 260. Used often by Dickson on Job.
_Conquest_; written also _conquess_; acquisition, made not by
inheritance but by purchase and exertion. 2, 54, 79, 182,
190, 191.
--"The young heir knows not how hard the conquest was to his
poor father" (Sermon at Anwoth on Zech. xi. 9).
_Conscionable_; according to conscience, reasonable, just. 365.
_Considerable_; worthy of consideration or regard. 321, 331.
_Construct_; for construe. 361, etc.
_Contestation_; strife. 189.
_Contrair_; adversary, contrary to. 6.
_Convoy_; to accompany a friend on the way. 210, 230, 231.
_Couchers_; cowards; or rather lazy fellows. Fr., _coucher_, to
lie down. 251.
_Count_; to lay the count. 289. To settle, balance.
_Country_, in opposition to city; common, in contrast to fine.
153, 353.
_Coup_; to upset, overturn. 120.
_Court._ "_No great court_;" no influence. 78, 141, 148, 151,
158, 183, etc.
--"_To be in court_," in favour. See "Sermons."
_Cow_; to cut out, eat up, carve (Fr., _couper_). 170, 178.
_Cripple_; halting. 258.
_Crook_; to walk crookedly, lamely; halt. 233, 299.
_Cry down_; depreciate, cause to lose good name. 280.
--As a Noun. 289.
--"_Cry_," proclamation, 289.
_Cuff_; a blow with the hand. 130.
_Cumber_; trouble. 196.--Adj., "cumbersome." 292.
_Daft_; foolish, crazy. 93, 285.--"A daft young heir" (Sermon
on Zech. xi. 9).
_Dainty_; that has in it something fine, 301.
_Dawted_; made a favourite, petted. 89, 98, 166.
--"_Dawted Davie_;" a petted child. 110.
--"Better be God's sons than the world's dawties" (Sermon
on Isa. xlix. 1).
_Daylight_; note in 315.
_Dead_; in the expression, "_Dead-sweer_," thoroughly lazy; as
incapable of moving as one dead. 105.
_Deaf nuts_; no kernel in them. 138.
_Dear_; where provision is sold at a high price. 84.
_Deave_, from _deaf_; to make deaf; distract. 286.
_Decore_; to adorn. 42.--(Lat., _decorus_.)
_Decourt_; to discard, send out of court. 188, 197, 284.
_Decreet_; a judicial sentence. 3, 12, 132, etc.
_Depone_; state as a witness. 180.
_Depursement_; same as disbursement. 59.
--_Q.d._, taking out of the purse, or _bourse_ (291).
_Dew_; a Verb; to moisten. 333.
_Din_; noise. 38, 59, 100, 155, 249, 282, 325.
_Ding_; knock in with violence. 248.
_Dint_; the stroke, or force. 332.
--Zachary Boyd speaks of "The dint of God's judgments."
_Dispone_; make over. 19, 261.
_Disrespective_; disrespectful. 300.
--See _Respective_.
_Ditty_, or _Dittay_; indictment, ground of accusation. 12,
44, 180, 233.
_Do._ "_To do for_;" to act for; make effort for; accomplish
a thing. 93, 116, 135, 162, 206, 228, 244.--See Ps. cix. 21.
_Dool-like_; in mourning guise. 268.
--_Dool_; grief; "Dolor." 272.
_Doomster_; pronouncer of sentence. 229.
_Dorts_; the sulks, offence taken. 23, 70, 89.
_Double_; a duplicate. 353.
_Dow_; to be able; can. 23, 260, etc.
--_Dought_ is the past tense. Hogg's "Queen's Wake" uses the
perf.: "She turned away and _dought_ luck nae mair." So
Letter 74, "dought."
_Draff-poke_; the beggar's bag, for carrying anything put in.
249.
--_Draff_; a useless thing; "draught," Matt. xv. 17. "Corruption
like a draff-poke at my heels" (Eliz. West).
_Draught_; plans drawn out and sketched. 14.
_Draw_; in the sense of "_remove_;" table drawn. 146.
In Lady Montague's Letters, "drawing-room, or _withdrawing_
room, as they now say."
_Draw by_; draw aside. 11.
_Draw-knot_; a slip-knot, easily loosened. 51.
_Dreary_; sad. 87.
_Drink over the board_; renounce.
_Drink-silver_; gift, or token of regard for kindness shown
or service done,
--a gift to servants. 119.
--_Drink-money_, 277; the same.
_Drouthy_; from "drought;" very dry. 256.
_Drumbled_; made muddy; troubled water. 153.
_Dry_; reserved, backward. 181, 182, 187, 206, etc.
_Dumps_; bad humour. 187.
_Dwine_; to pine away. 85, 169, etc.
_Dyke_; a wall. 194, 276, etc.
_Dyvour_; a debtor; sometimes a bankrupt
--Fr., "_Devoir_."
_Earnest_; the foretaste. 179.
_Ease-room_; a room for pleasure or repose. 5, 247, 311.
_Ebb_, Adj.; shallow, like tide going back. 94, 120, etc.
--_Ebbness._ 175.
_Edge by_; push aside. 225.
_Empawn_; lay down as pledge. 229, 268.
_Enact_; to decree. 291.
"_End_;" thrice on end. 324.
--Thrice in succession.
_Engyne_, or _ingyne_; Latin, _Ingenium_, disposition, ability,
policy. 84, 94.
--Power of mind. 64.
_Entire_; no division or half-heartedness. 119, 280.
_Errand_; business. 210, 250.--"Ride his errands," 249, go on
with his work.
_Evangel_; good news generally. 224.
_Even_; to put down one as capable of a thing; propose as fit
for a person, 70.
--The phrase, "_Be even with_;" have accounts settled, be
quits. 113, 114.
_Evil-worthy_; unworthy, ill-worth. 336.
_Expone_; explain the sense. 165.
_Eye_, Verb; to look for. 276.
_Eye-sweet_; pleasant to the eye. 213, 277.
_Fail_, or _feal_; turf. 194.
_Fain_; glad. "_Faintes_," most gladly.
"_Fain not twice_" is glad to remain settled; not caring
to rise after sitting down.
"Fain have taken effect," 16; desire to have carried through.
_Fair_; a market. 172.
_Fair_; Adj. in the phrase, "_fair fire_," is commonly in Scotland
"a fair lowe," _i.e._ all a flame together. 204.
--"_Fair fall you_," good betide. 337.
_Faird_, or _fard_; to paint (_q.d._ make _fair_), embellish,
disguise. 82, 83, 88, 191.
_Fair-outsided_. 88.
--Applied to the world that is fair only on the outside.
_Fall about_; search about. 21.
--"_Fall by_;" be lost. 252, 291.
--"_Fall to_;" engage in. 72, 288.
--"_Fall off_;" forsake. 246.
_Far_ "The _far end_," the final issue. 184.
_Fard_; paint, fine colouring. 82, 83.
_Farm-room_; a rented room, like a tenant's firm.
_Fash_ and _fashery_; trouble by importunity and about little
things. 145, 196, 249, etc.
_Fast_; firm. 74, 250.
_Feared_; alarmed, timid. 293.
_Feckless_; worthless, useless, pithless. 23, 24, etc.
--Baxter in his "Saints' Rest" uses it.
_Fenced_; guarded; also constituted; a law term, used of opening
a Court and proclaiming the authority by which the Court
was held and the object of it. 77, 82, 112, 146, 161.
_Fend_; provide for, take care of. 87, 114, 129, etc. So Maxton
on Ps. cxix. cxlv.
_Fetch_; to make for a place. 83, 106, 184, 240, 241, 284.
_Feu-duty_; yearly rent for ground on which a house is built. 254.
_Find_; to feel, or find out. 155, 169, 192, 334.
_Fire-flaught_; a flake of fire, a flash of lightning. 104.
--In Row's "Hist. of Scot.," "extraordinary thunder and
fire-flaught," p. 333.
_Flitting_; removing furniture and goods to another place.
250, 277. (It is A.S.)
_Flourish_; to blossom. 50.
_Flyte_; to scold or chide. 189.
--"Flyting free;" they have nothing to say against him. 181.
_Foot._ The phrase, "_hold the foot to it_," go on in the march.
249.
_Foot-mantle_; a riding habit reaching to the feet. 268.
--In a sermon on Zech. xi. 9, "Gold, silks, velvets, and
foot-mantles, and high horses."
_For_; notwithstanding. 307.
_Forcasten_; cast away, neglected. 167, 177, 285.
_Fore_; surplus; the perquisite given over and above; something
still remaining. 70, 80, 158.
_Foregainst_; opposite. 289.
_Forfeit_; declare to be forfeited. 206.
_Forlorn_; prodigal. 167, 228, 285.
--"The lost forlorn son" is the prodigal. (So in German.)
_Forthcoming_; ready to come forward and speak. 250.
_Four-hours_; the afternoon meal, taken four hours after the
forenoon's. 94, 110, 118, 285.
_Fourteen Prelates_; the number of Bishops in Scotland under
Charles II.
_Frame_; to fit or set (Judg. xii. 6; Hos. v. 4), set in a
proper position; turn out, or succeed. 32, 41, 187,
232, 254, 287.
_Fraught_; the same as _freight_. 84, 153, 195, 217.
--"Fraught-free;" no fare to pay. 265.
_Freeholding_; lands held for life. 203.
_Free-ward_; liberty. 269.
_Free-warders_; prisoners who have right to go free. 265.
_Frem_, A. S., "_fremd_;" hence written "_fremd_" or
"_fremmyt_;" strange, foreign, distant. 69, 165.
_Friend-sted_; to befriend. 188, 275.
_Frith_; strait; sea. 84.
_Fryst_, or _frist_; to postpone possession or action,--the
opposite of _tryst_. 176, 205, etc.
Give credit to. 105.
Put off a demand. 20.
_Fyle_; to defile, _find guilt_. 212.
_Gaddy_; fond of gadding about. 270.
_Gardies_, or _gardess_; arms. 18.--It is
the Gaelic word "_gairdean_," an arm. In Row's "Life of Blair"
(p. 154), "Mrs. Hamilton came up to Traquair, and fest-grip
his _gardie_."
_Gate_; road, way, manner of doing. 29, 38, etc.
--The phrase, "_start to the gate_," begin early, soon on the
road. 136, 148, 186, 294.
_Gawd_; trick, bad custom. 240.
--Used by Gawin Douglas and by Chaucer for a freak, and said to be
from Fr., "_gaudir_," to be merry.
_Gear_; goods, substance, money. 120.
_General_; not at all familiar. 205.
"In fair generals." 93.
Not coming to close quarters.
_Gifted_; bestowed as a favour. 353, 359.
--Often so used in his "Covenant of Life Opened." Make a
present of.
_Glaiked_, or _glaiket_; giddy, light. 284.
_Glance_; bright as glowing metal. So in his sermon on Zech.
xiii. 7. 287, 295.
_Glister_; glitter, shine bright. 51.
--See Luke ix. 21.
_Gloom_; frown, sullen look. Verb and Noun. 187, 266, etc.
--"The sad and glooming cross" ("Christ Dying").
_Goodman_, or _gudeman_; one who holds his house or lands from a
superior; unlike _laird_, who owns no superior but the king.
16, 18, etc.
--_Goodwife_. 34.--See Luke xii. 39.
_Good cheap_; very cheap, gratuitous.
But probably _cheap_ is here a Noun, "_chap_," equivalent to
"_bargain_." 104, 105, 121, 186, 215, 245, 249.
--"_Better cheap_." 216.
--See _Cheap_.
_Gone_; ruined, hopeless. 183.
_Gowk_; a simpleton.
--"_Gowket_," acting like a simpleton, or put in a foolish
position. 151, 232, 256.
_Grace_; to give favour and honour to a person, to adorn; sometimes
to get mercy. 12, 29, 133, 237, 275.
_Grammercy_; thanks. 249.
--French, "grand-merci."
_Green_; to long after. 85, 160, 213, 226, etc.
_Grip_; a grasp, firm hold, clasp. 22, 24, etc.
--"Grips," close quarters, fight. 294.
_Ground_; bottom. 85, 99, 203, 287.
Out at the ground. 287.
--"_Ground-stone_;" foundation-stone; from the very foundation.
74, 82, 248.
--"_Grounds_;" dregs of a cup. 251.
_Guide_; to manage or to make use of. 256, 275.
_Guise_; manner, way (French). 101, 164, 172.
--Bunyan, in his History of Badman: "One _guise_ for abroad,
another for home."
_Gutters_; pools of dirty water, marks made by the tears that
soil the face. 138, 194.
_Hable_; able. Fr., _habile_. 325.
--Rollock (Lect. li.), "hability and strength." Trappe on Rom.
vi. 22, "Our hability for obedience."
_Halfer_; an equal sharer. 200, 245, 249.
--Written "_halver_" also.
_Half-hungered_; left in a hungry state. 26.
_Half-marrow_; a married partner. 183, 270.
_Half-tiner_; half-loser. 182.
_Hall_; the "_hall-house_," or _ha-house_, the mansion-house. So
in sermon on John xx. 13, 285.
--_Hall-binks_; seats of honour.
_Handfast_; to join hands in betrothing, to affiance. 143, 173, 225.
_Handgrips_; grasping close. 87, 106.
_Handsel_; to use for the first time. 239.
_Handwrite_; written with one's own hand. 270.
_Hard._
--See _Heads_.
_Hardly_; with difficulty. 232.
_Haunt up_; be up frequently in his company. 84.
--Fullerton of Earlton, in his "Turtle Dove," speaks of Christ and
His saints; "with whom espoused now He _haunts_ in heavens
of bliss."
_Hause_; to clasp or close with. 69.
--Gawin Douglas uses it for "embrace;" from "hals," the neck or
throat.
_Have_; to "_have over_," to let alone, be done with. 87, 106.
_Head of Wit_; a wiseacre, one who affects to have much wisdom.
230, 234.
--"_Hard-heads_;" the name of a small coin. 270.
--Knox's "History," etc. See note in Letter 270.
_Heap-mete_; heaped up measure, full measure. 249.
_Hear_; to attend, to treat, serve. 195.
_Heartsome_; happy, cheerful. 32, 51, 167.
--"Clear, bright, and heartsome morning" (Sermon on Zech. xi. 9).
So heartful. 99.
_Heaven-name_; name he bears in heaven. 301.
_Hell-hot_; hot as hell. 357.
_Hereaway_; in this quarter. 50, 286, 336, etc. In this present
life, in this world.
_Herry_; cruelly spoil, or rob. 52.
_Hesp_; hank or hasp of yarn. 196.
_Hide_; the skin. 198.
--In "Christ Dying," he speaks of the skin or hide of the
visible hearers.
_Hing_; for hang. 104, 249.
_Ho_; cessation, to cause to stop. 167.
_Hold-draw_; struggle with. 137.
_Holding_; tenure. 284. So in sermon on Rev. xix.
_Hole_ (sometimes spelt "holl"); to make a hole, to pierce, dig
out. 103, 177, 196.
--"_Holey_," or "_holie_;" full of holes. 83, 196, 258.
_Homely_; familiar, at home with one. 59, 105, 130, etc.
_Home over_; homewards. 28, 205, 211, etc.
_Homeward_; in its own favour. 163.
_Honesty_; kindly dealing. 69-76.
_Hook_; sickle, reaping-hook. 16, 21, 224, etc.
"Mowers with the scythe and hook." Sermon at Kirkmabreck, 1630.
_Hope_; consider. 204, 295.
_Horning_; a legal demand for payment of a debt under threat of
imprisonment and being proclaimed rebels. It used to be
proclaimed by sound of horn in the market-place. 130.
_Horologue_; a watch. From the Greek.
--An old tower at Montrose bore the name of "The Horologue
Tower." 238, 289.
Rutherford in a sermon before the House of Lords speaks of
"Time's horologue, set agoing by God at the Creation."
_House_; "take up his house." 250.
Enter on housekeeping.
_Howbeit_; although.
--See our Version of the Bible.
_Huge_; vast, very great. 189, 288, etc.
--"I am _hugely_ pleased with your letter," says Waterland, in
a letter to T. Boston (App. to Life). In Forbes, on Rev.
xix., "huge matter of God's praise." In Rutherford's
Treatise on Prayer, "heaven is a huge thing," p. 97.
305.
_Hungredly_; on spare diet. 282.
_Hungry of heart_; heart-hungered. 203.
_If_; but that. 342.--_O if._ 206.
_Ill_; in the phrase, "_Ill to please_," difficult to please. 131.
_Ill-flitten_; misplaced. 106. _Q.d._ removed to a wrong place.
_Ill-friended_; without friends. 96.
--Zachary Boyd uses this word in "Last Battle," p. 410.
_Ill-learned_; taught evil. 276.
_Ill-ravelled_; sadly entangled. 196.
_Ill-waled_; ill-selected. 326.
_Ill-washen_; dirty. 227, etc.
_Improbation_; action to prove forgery, or that the person had no
right to what he claimed. 178.
_Incontinently_; immediately, as if unable to restrain himself. 241.
_Indent_ Its common English sense occurs in Letter 288, to set in
corresponding notches.
But also to sign a paper containing agreement to certain
articles. 173.
--Zachary Boyd's "Samson" has, "As I indented, so I'll undertake."
_Ingyne._ 64.
--See _Engyne_.
_Inhibit_; forbid.
_Instant_; earnest. 16.
_Instruct of_; instruct concerning. 225.
_Instruments, to take_; to take documents from the hand of the
proper party by way of attestation. 107, 110, 144, etc.
_Interdict_; forbid by positive injunction to do or use a thing
for a time, to enter on possession.
_Into_; for in. 336.
--Rollock (Lect. xlvii.): "When the Spirit is wrestling _into
us_."
_Intromit_; intermeddle, a law phrase; handle. 82, 105.
_In-under_; close under. 260.
_Irresponsal_; not able to pay, insolvent. 104, 204.
_Jealousy_; suspicion. So the Adjective. 74, 144, 148, 152, etc.
_Jouk_; to bend down, in order to escape a storm or a stroke; to
dissemble, compromise. 16, 181, 284.
_Kep_; intercept, catch when falling. 165.
_Kind_; nature. 276.
--"Man doth _his kind_ in committing evil," says Trappe on Gen.
vii. 21; that is, does what his nature leads to.
_Kindly_; what our kindred give us right to. 261. Also according
to nature; natural. 66, 98, 102, 254.
--In "Christ Dying" (p. 30) we find, "The life of Christ had
infirmities _kindly_ to it."
_Kingly._ 55, 61, 281, 363; and used by him on his deathbed.
_Kinless_; who have no kindred. 250.
_Knot_; difficulty to be solved. 312.
--Rollock (Lect. li.) speaks of "getting office with a knot"
--a difficulty accompanying it.
_Knottiness_; full of knots. 287.
_Lair_; a bog. 110. "To lair" is to stick in the mire.
_Laird._--See _Goodman_.
_Lap_; the loose part or fold of a garment. 78.
_Laureation_; obtaining or conferring academic honours. 274.
_Law-biding._ 106, 231, 299.--See _Bide_.
_Law-burrows_; giving a pledge not to injure.
--See _Burrows_. 61, 66, 163, 184, 275, etc.
_Lea_; an unploughed part of a field, where the grass grows. 75,
234.
_Lead._ In the phrase, "_Lead stones to a wall_;" convey them,
_q.d._ by leading the horse and cart. 24.
_Leal_; honest, genuine, loyal. 182, 225.
_Learn_; in the sense of "to teach." 175, 199, 222.--(German,
"_lehren_.")
_Leave_; dismissal from a situation. 277, 311.
_Leavings_; the overplus of the feast.
_Leck_; a leak. 130.
--In Row's "History" (398) we find, "The ship being _leck_."
_Leel-come_; what has been got in an honest way. 182.
_Lee-side_; sheltered side. 115.
_Leme_; earthen; our "_loam_." Lat., "_limus_." 182.
--In Row's "Hist." (260), "A leme pig" is an _earthen jug_.
Rutherford in a sermon on Dan. vi. 26 speaks of the
potter making a "leme vessel."
_Let_; to hinder.
--"_To let in_," to admit. To let on. 182. To seem to notice.
_Lift_; part of a load. 298.
_Lightly_, a Verb; to trifle with. 201, 260, 272. Knox and Rollock
use this word.
_Like_; same as _likely_; probable. 21, 267, 384.
--"_The like of_;" such as. 92, 158, 275, 284, 336.
_Lippen_; to trust, entrust. 69, 182, 260.
_Lith_; a joint.
--"The shoulder-blade _out of lith_." Sermon, 1634. The A.S. word
for the joints of the body. 86, 167.
_Lone_; one's self, alone. 49, 162, 192, etc.
_Long._ "Think long;" to weary for. 14, 93, etc.
_Loof_; the palm of the hand.
--Gaelic, "_lambh_." 77, 122.
_Look by_; neglect, look aside. 23.
_Loun_; a rogue, worthless fellow; _q.d._ low one. 116, 160, 232,
241.
_Love-blinks_; love-glances.
_Low_; of low stature. 236.
_Lucks-head_; chance of winning, prospect of success. 178, 182.
Brown of Wamphray, p. 150, "Swan-Song."
_Lust_; to desire a thing. 226, 276.
_Lustred_; made to shine, 89, 117, 191.
--Noun, 75, 260, 289, 295, 297, 298. A fair, shining look.
_Mail_; rent, tax.
--"_Mail free_;" rent free. 29, 50, 284, 321.
_Mailing_; sometimes written "_mealing_;" a farm, for which rent
is paid. 29, 50.
_Make_; to mould, turn to use. 145.
_Make on_; to make up by putting the fuel in order. 32.
_Make up with._ 247. Become friends with.
_Man_, a Verb; "to man the house," act as the goodman of the
house, attending to visitors, etc. 142.
_March-boundary_; limit. 82, etc.
--"March-stones;" 278.
In his Treatise on Prayer, he calls Christ, as God-man, "the
common march-stone."
_Market-sweet_ (like "eye-sweet"); pleasing to the frequenters of
the market; suitable for sale, and so set up in open market.
213, 216, 237.
_Marrow_; a match, companion. 26, 133, 148, etc.
--"Marrowless" occurs, 180.
Unequalled; peerless.
_Mask_; to infuse. 287.
_Masterless_; owned of no one. 120.
_Mealing._
--See _Mailing_. 50.
_Mean_; to consider, reckon. 86, 250.
Noun; resource, 257.
_Meikle_; much. "Meikle world's good," as much as having a world's
good things. 165, 180, 225.
_Melancholious_; melancholy. 293.
_Mends_; reparation of a wrong. 14.
--"_To the mends_;" to boot, besides, add to that.
_Midses_; means, instrumentality. 190, 317.
_Mid-way_; courses. 190.--Half and half, undecided.
_Minch_; cut into small pieces. 127.
_Mind_; remember, take care to speak of. 333, 334, 342.
_Mint_; to attempt, intend at doing, essay. 29, 92, 188, etc.
_Mired_; plunged into mire, soiled. 174.
_Misbelief_; wrong belief. 112, 143.
_Miscall_; give wrong names to. 322, etc.
_Misconstruct_; misconstrue. 285.
_Miscount_; erroneous calculation. 133.
_Misken_; to misunderstand, overlook, to treat as if unknown. 89,
99, 102, 148, 181, etc.
_Misleard_; indiscreet, rude; _q.d. mislearned_. 112, 181.
_Mismannered_; unmannerly. 106.
_Misnurtured_; ill-disciplined, ill-trained. 181, 234.
_Missive_; a letter empowering the person to act. 142.
_Misted._
--See _Bemisted_. 118, 146.
Like one in a mist.
_Moderate_, a Verb; to rule over a meeting. 203.
--An ecclesiastical phrase from the Latin.
_Moneys_; price. 281.
_Moyen_; means; interest; influence. 59, 116, 119, etc.
_Muir-ground_; waste land covered with heath. 157, 298.
_Naughty_; vile, worthless. 77, 81, etc.
--Bunyan calls Badman, "a man left to himself, a _naughty_ man."
_Nay-say_; denial. 80, 231.
--In a sermon on Zech. xiii. 7: "Christ gave the devil three
nay-says."
_Near-hand_; near at hand. 29, 79, 191, etc.
_Need-force_; by sheer necessity; or, by hook or crook. 71, 179,
205, etc.
Under plea of necessity.
_Nether_; the lower; not high enough. 245.
_Newings_; novelties; _q.d. new things_. 29.
_Nice_; chary, capricious, ill to please. 81, 226.
_Nick_; mark, notch, point. 70, 249, etc.
_Niffer_; exchange, barter. 140, etc.
_Nigh-hand_; near. 183, 347.
_Night-glass_; hour-glass. 281.
_Non-entry_; money, or rents, due to the superior by an heir on
coming to his property; or the state of one who is heir,
but has not yet got the legal investiture. 222, 256.
_Nor_; than. 144, 307.
_Noughty_; useless, worthless, nothing in it. 175, 200, 225.
--Sibbs, "Others that are nought" (on 2 Cor. i. 4).
_Nurture_; discipline. 70, 98, 206.
--The Verb, to use discipline. 299.
_Odds_; difference. 294.
--Also _odd_; any leisure time.
_Of._ The use of the preposition "of" is common and peculiar to the
time in such phrases as "Dear of a drink of water;" at the
price of. 148.
--"Content of." 45.
--"Understood of." 51.
--Is it from the French
"de?" Old Chaucer sings: "And all the orient laugheth of delight"
(Knight's Tale).
_Off-fallings_; droppings, remnants, 70, 169, 285. John Livingstone
writes:
"Compared with Christ Himself, what is all this but the
_off-fallings_."
_Oh if._ 180, 204, etc.
--"_Oh if_," 152.
What would you say if.
_Oh that!_ in the sense of _Alas_! 189.
So "_Oh for_." 97.
_Old-dated_; antiquated, 320.
_Once_; one time or other, sooner or later. 62, 112, 143, 152,
170, 217, 255, 270, 330.
Knox uses it often thus. Also, once for all; altogether.
_Once-errand_; on the sole business. 210, 301.
_Opposites_; opponents. 231.
_Or._
--See _Then_.
_Order_; take order is an old English phrase for "take measures."
18.
_Ordinarily_; usually. 144.
_Other_; ought else. 68, 77.
--_Others_; each other. 82.
_Out_, a Noun; laying out, exhibiting for sale. 277.
_Outcast_; a contention, quarrel. 239, 274, 275.
--In a sermon on Zech. xiii. 7 he says: "After a sore _outcast_,
there is greater love betwixt Christ and His people than
before."
_Outfield_; waste land, covered with heath. 256, 261.
_Outgate_; way of escape, outlet. "Make home over us, go homeward."
_Over_; in the phrase "_over-little_," too little. 257.
_Overmist_; rise over like a mist. 189.
_Over-watered_; plated over. 299.
_Oyess_; the French _Oyez_; the crier's "Hearken." The Verb, to
denounce one by public proclamation. 249.
_Paces_ (from French "_peser_," to weigh, and old English "to
paise"); the weights of a clock. He uses the same figure
in a sermon on Song v. 1. 189, 197, 199, 292.
_Packald_; burdens, things packed up. 198.
_Packs_, or _paiks_; a severe blow. "_Paiks_ the man," the man
soundly beaten. 138.
_Pact._ 230.
_Paiks._
--See _Packs_.
_Painful_; taking pains, laborious. 188.
--See _Baxter_, etc.
_Paintry_; painting. 83.
_Panged_; quite full, crammed; "_Pang-full_." 225.
_Pantry_, a Verb; to lock up in the cupboard. 110.
_Pasch_; Passover, or Easter. 51. (Acts xii. 4; πασχα.)
_Pass from_; used of a summons; not enforce it.
_Passments_; strips of lace sewed on dress by way of ornament. 42,
75, 275.
_Pawn_; pledge. "_Pawn-clay_;" a thing of dust, and that is only
partly ours. 77, 130, 139.
_Perqueer_; the French _par cœur_; by heart, perfectly. 204.
_Pertinacy_; same as pertinacity.
_Pickle_; small grain. 22, 186, 197.
_Piece-withered_; withered patches. 254.
_Pinning_; a small stone to fill up a crevice. 211, 239. In a sermon
on Zech. xi. 19 he says: "Would they give Christ no room?
Might they not have made Him _a pinning_?" R. Blair's "Life"
(p. 115). "Weak _pinnings_ are very useful in building a wall;
and so are _graces_, though they are not the foundation."
_Playmaker_; director of the play. 70.
_Plea_; a quarrel between parties. 240, etc.
_Plenishing_; furniture, possessions. 4, 133, 258. The Verb, fill.
247, 250, 326.
_Ply_; a fold or turn. Verb; to ply, applied to a ship. 95, 105,
152.
_Poind_; to distrain, make seizure of goods. 160. "Drive the
poind" is to drive away the cattle thus seized.
_Point_; to fill up crevices in a wall with lime and little
stones. 299.
_Port_; gate. 241, 336, 339.
--"He went out at the ports, bearing His cross." Sermon on
Heb. xii.
_Pose_; a hoard, store. 206.
--In a sermon by Rutherford, we find
the "_miser's hoard_" called "the wretch's pose."
_Prevent_; anticipate. 297. Be first in acting.
_Prig_; to chaffer or higgle about a thing. 21, 81.
_Proctor-fee._ 285. A fee to the procurator, one who manages a
cause, paid when the suit is ended.
_Professor_; in the sense of confessing or professing the faith.
105, 284, 292, 304.
_Propine_; Noun and Verb; hold out a gift, to present. 37, 88,
130, 165. Used as a Noun, 29.
_Put_; to "put" as a ram, push, help.
--"_Put by_;" to put away from, cause to pass by. 111.
--"_Put it down_;" make it more easily swallowed. 62.
--"_Put off_;" spend time. 162. Also, put aside as finished. 190.
--"_Put to_;" apply; also to shut. 97, 275.
--"_Put upon_;" urge, to set on one in the way of importunity.
7, 12.
--To cause difficulty. 319.
--"_Put up_;" push up. 29.
_Quarrelous_; fault-finding, provoking to quarrels. 184, 189, 239.
--He writes it "_querulous_" in his "Christ Dying," p. 179:
"Querulous love-motions against the reality of Christ's
love."
_Quick_; alive. 61, 265.
_Quit_; to set one free from. 224, 268.
_Ragged_; torn and incomplete. 151.
_Ravel_; disorderly twisting of threads. 196.
_Reckon_; consider of importance. 230, 233.
_Red_, Adj., in the phrase, "_red hunger_," intensive. 213.
--"_Red war_," and "_red wet_," means soaked in wet.
_Redd up_; to clear up, settle. 34, 38, 48, 136, etc.
_Refreshful_; full of refreshment. 333.
_Registrate_; to register, to protest. 85, 249.
--See _note_.
_Repair_; make amends to. 312.
_Resemble_; to represent. 3.
_Respective_; to each individual. 136.
--Is this Sibbs' meaning, "Every saint has something lovely and
respective in him" (on 2 Cor. i. 1)? But, also, Sibbs
uses it for _respectful_: "Dependency is always very
respective." And so Ferguson on Col. iii. 22: "Servants
respective to their masters."
--See _Disrespective_. Letters 321, 360.
_Responsal_; solvent, able to pay. 231.
_Rest_; in the Latin sense, "_remains_." 244.
_Reverence_; _q.d._ rendering homage, power. 30, 43, 233, 298.
--"_I will not be in your reverence_" was a phrase for, "I will
not submit to your dictation."
_Reversion_; the right held by some one to the future possession
of an estate. 148.
_Rid_ (see _Redd_); annihilate. Participle, put away. 133.
_Ridable_; can be crossed on horseback. 160.
_Rifle_; same as _ruffle_. 158.
_Rift_; a rent, crack. 241, 284.
--Verb, to vomit, or come back with violent retching. 72.
--_Rifty_; broken, full of rents. 120.
_Right_, Verb; to put right. 196.
_Rights_; title-deeds. 77.
_Rink_; the ring, or race-course. 122, 276, 286.
_Ripe_; to examine and search carefully. Connected with "rip up."
203.
_Rive_; rend, tear; break up. 16, 50, 72, etc.
_Rooftree_; the beam that runs across the roof, and supports the
rafters. 270.
_Room_; place. 22, etc.
_Round_; whisper or sing in the ear. (German, _raunen_.) 293.
_Roup_; set up to sale by action. 37, 131, 199, etc.
_Rovers_; "at rovers," at random. 182.
_Roving_; wandering through excitement of mind, raving. 161.
_Rub_; trouble. 323.
_Rue_; to repent, be sorry, 115.
--"_Rue upon_;" take pity. 21, 69, 186, etc.
_Run by_; run past. 226.
_Rush_; to push forward with violence. 270.
--See _note_.
_Sad_; settled, solid, real. 62, 75, 99, 163, 191, 203.
--It is from old English "_set_," settled down. Wickliffe's Bible,
Rom. xv. 1: "We that are _sadder_ men" (stronger).
Pilkington on Neh. iv.: "A good builder digs down to the
_sad_ earth."
_Salt_; bitter, unpleasant, sarcastic. 115.
--In his "Christ Dying," p. 690, he says: "A violent death hath
a _salter_ bite."
_Sanded_; driven on the sands. 217.
_Scad_; the red tinge of a burn. "_Scadded_ and burnt in the
furnace" (Rutherford's "Cov. of Life," p. 69). The tinge
given by reflected light. 291. It is connected with
"_scald_."
_Scaur_, or _scar_; to boggle, take fright. 70, 119, 183, etc.
_School-heads_; worldly wise. 337.
_Second_, Noun and Verb; one who helps.
--Often used by Lord Kenmure in "Last Speeches." 2, 91, 247.
_Seen-in_; experienced in a matter. 86.
_Set_; it becomes, 260; disposed, 120.
--"_Set to_;" engage, set about. 110, 145, 179, 235.
_Set-rent_; full rent.
_Shake_; to push aside, push out.
_Shell_ of a balance; the scale. 268.
_Short_; in temper hasty, rash. 153.
--"_Shortly_;" forthwith. 249.
--"_Short-dated_;" lasting only a short time. 196.
_Shute_; sometimes written _shoot_; to push in, shove back. 20, 29,
158, 163.
--"Satan shutes in his teeth," occurs in Rutherford's "Christ
Dying."
_Sib_; nearly related to. 106, 212, 245, etc.
--"We behoved to be as _sib_ as brethren." Sermon.
_Sicht_, or _sight_, a Verb; to examine narrowly, _q.d._ by close
sight. 12. It occurs in Row's "History" often.
_Sicker_; strong. 107.
_Silly_; poor, frail, pitiful. 27, 184.
_Silver_, or _siller_; money. 254.
_Sing_; in the phrase, "_Sing_ dumb," be reduced to silence. 128.
_Singly_; with a single mind. 83.
_Sink_; a common sewer. 272, 276.
_Sit with_; to endure in patient silence. 52, 63. Submit to. 43.
Treat with carelessness.
_Skaill_; disperse, scatter. 160, 190, 241, etc.
_Skaith_; harm. 285.
_Skaur._
--See _Scaur_.
_Skink_; formally renounce, or bid farewell to. 85, 88.
--In A.S., the Verb is "to give drink;" in German, "_schenken_,"
to give. It is _q.d._ take leave by giving a present, or
by drinking a farewell.
_Slot_; a moveable bolt; bar. 29, 47, 48.
_Sned_; to prune, lop off, make tidy. 298.
_Solacious_; full of cheer, or comfort. 105.
_Soldiers-stately_; in Letter 63. It might have been noticed that
old editions make this one word equivalent to "a spirit
becoming a soldier;" like Milton's "timely-happy spirits."
Joseph Alleine's "Life" has, "holy-taking rhetoric." Others
point thus, "Your soldier's stately spirit." So,
"_heavenly-wise_." 191.
_Some._ 64, 214. For somewhat.
_Sometimes_; properly "_some-time_;" on former days, once on a
time. 28, etc.
--In our Version of the Bible, Eph. ii. 3; 1 Pet. iii. 20.
_Soon-saddled_; hasty in temper. 189.
--Little time taken to get on the saddle.
_Soul-couper_; a jobber in souls. 330.
--See _Coup_.
_Souple_; same as _supple_. 132.
_Spaits._
--See _Speat_.
_Sparing_; niggardly. 222.
_Spark_; to squirt out. 163.
_Sparkle_; to spark out, scatter sparks. 263.
--Chaucer speaks of the shepherd seeking his "_sparkeland sheep_,"
i.e. scattered.
_Speat_, or _spait_; a flood, overflowing stream. 37, 248, 285.
(Gaelic, "_speid_"), a river-flood.
_Speed_; to "come speed" is to succeed.
_Speir_, or _speer_; ask questions at.
--"_Speer out_," search out by questions. 180.
_Spelk_; to truss, support by splinters. 107, 128. (Saxon word.)
_Spill_; spoil, mar, or injure. 22, 310, etc.
--So Ps. lxiii. 9, in Rous' version; a child spoiled by
indulgence.
_Spring_; a tune, sprightly air. 181, 182, 214.
_Spunk_; a spark. 215.
_Stalks._ In Letter 17, "to keep the stalks," is the reading
of some old editions; but in another Letter, 194, "keep
the stakes." If the former, the sense is, "to get only
the withered stalks to keep," Song ii. 14 specially; if
the latter, "get what they deposited."
_Stand upon_; require the help of. 81.
_Standing drink._ 177.--Like the stirrup-cup handed to a friend
as he stood at the door.
_Startle_; ran up and down in excitement, as cattle do in hot
weather; act extravagantly. 69, 75, 182, 258.
_Starts._ "At starts;" fitfully. 7, 293.
--"_Start to the gate._"
--See _Gate_.
_State_; the mode of putting or stating a question. 214, 245,
278, 333, 359.
--"_Stated_;" set down. 359.
_Sted_; a place, a foundation for a house, a site. 18. So used
by Gawin Douglas.
--"_Stedable_," _q.d._ able to furnish a foundation; available,
serviceable. 170, 252.
_Stent_; to fix at a certain rate, and no more. 249. In Fullerton's
"Turtle Dove:" "He stented twice on the horologue."
_Still_; always, ever. 87, 108, 133, 285. In our metre version of
the Psalms it occurs, _e.g._ Ps. ciii. 9, "Keep His anger
still."
_Stob_; a stake sharpened at the end. 240.
_Stock of cards_; a pack of. 194.
_Stoop_; to make a stoop is to bow low. 287.
_Stop-hole_; anything to fill up a hole. 239.
_Stot_; a rebound. 249.
--"_To keep stots_;" keep pace with, to rebound regularly. 236.
_Stound_; a stroke that suddenly over-powers and produces
faintness. 167.
_Stoup_; a stake, post, prop. 84, 196.
_Suit_; urge a suit, woo, solicit. 19, 26, 37, 355, etc.
_Sundry_; separate. 247.
--"_Sunder_," part from, the Verb. 264.
_Sure_; surely. 359, etc.
_Suspension_; an act in law, suspending final execution of a
sentence. 230.
_Swatter_; to move, or toss about, as a duck in the water. 178.
--R. Blair (see "Life" by Row) uses it in a poem,--
"Out of the dreary vale of tears
My soul hath _swattered_ out."