_Swear one's self bare_; swear that you have given up everything.
285.
_Sweer_; lazy, reluctant. 178, 230, 285.
_Tack_; stitch, hold, tie. 275.
Also, possession by lease. 284.
_Tailzie_; a Scotch law term for entail or charter of entail. 32.
_Take up house_; enter on housekeeping. 250.
--_I take myself_. 98.
--_I retract my word._
_Taken up with_; occupied with. 185.
_Taking_; that is, attractive. 305. South's sermons has it.
_Tarrow_; to be pettish at, reluctant. 23, 118.
_Tell_; count up. 85, 167, 241, 249, 265.
--"_Telling_;" something to mark down. 209.
_Testificate_; certificate, testimony to character. 149.
_That_; often for "so;" _e.g. that_ much. 41, 59, 85, 293.
_Then_; in that case. 24, 39, 220, 238, 241.
--"_Or then_;" if that be not so, otherwise. 43, 46, 72, 323.
_Thereanent_; regarding this. 110.
_Thereaway_; to or in that quarter. 133.
_Therefor_; on account of this. 34.
--See _note_.
_Thick_; a crowd or throng. 209, 225, 251.
--Adjective; very familiar with one. 94, 128.
_Thieves'-hole_; a prison. 178.
_Thin._ 223.
--_Thin-skinned_; soft. 256.
_Think long._ 16, 207, 133, 151, etc.
--See _Long_.
--It is still common to write, "I think long after you."
_Threap_; to assert vehemently, over and over. 85.
_Thring_; to push in by force. 147, 226, 282.
_Throng_; the multitude and the busy part. 206.
--_Thronging_; crowding in. 180, 206.
_Through other_; one thing blended with the other, promiscuously.
226, etc.
_Tig_; dally, toy with. 48.
--Also a civil sort of begging, when a new-married person brought
his cart to the house of friends, that they might put in
something to his store.
_Timeous_; early, seasonable, opportune. 180, 212, 275.
--So Knox uses it; and our metre version of Psalms, cxix. 148.
_Tine_; to lose. 182, 226, etc.
_To_; used for "in comparison of," in the phrase, "little to." 361.
_Tocher_; a marriage dowry. "Tocher-good." 265, 285.
_Toom_; quite empty; nothing in it. 138, 178, 188, etc.
_Topic-maxim_; a maxim for general use. 259, 260.
_Tops_; to be "on one's tops," to assault or oppose. 231.
--"To tope" is to oppose. "He has continued all his days _on tops
with_ God, and will not make peace with Him." Durham
Sermon 54, Isa. liii.
_Totch_; a push. 183.
--See _note_.
_Touches_; to "keep touches," 121, an English phrase for the exact
performance of an engagement.
_Towe_; rope made of tow, a hauser. 196.
_Train_; to draw, entice. 30.
--It is French, _trâiner_.
_Trance_; passage. Latin, _transitus_. 26.
_Tree_; for the _wood_ of a tree. 225.
--As in sermon on Rev. xix.
_Trindle_; same as _trundle_. 107.
_Truant_; pretended, like boys' pretences for play. 181.
_Tryst_; to appoint a meeting at a certain place and time. Noun
and Verb. 176, etc.
_Turnpike_; stair that winds. 300.
_Tutor_; to discipline. 282.
_Twin_; to separate. 82.
--It is _q.d._ to make into two.
_Unco_; uncommon, strange. Same originally as _uncouth_, and so
written very often.
--Noun; _Unconess_; 179.
_Undercote_, or _undercoat_; fester _under the skin_ (_coat_ is
"_cutis,_" skin). 66, 82, 151, 284.
--Calderwood in his "History" uses this word, v. 658.
_Under-tools_; lesser tools. 311.
_Under-water_; bilge-water. 82, 86, 203, 284.
_Unfriend_; less than friendly. 178.
_Unheartsome_; sad. 277.
_Unlaw_; transgress the law; also, to fine for transgressing the
law. 201.
_Unrid_, or _unred_. 133.
--It is _q.d. unred-up_; the boundaries not fixed.
--In A.S., _unrid_ is "disorderly."
_Upsun_; the sun above the horizon.
_Uptaking_; as a Noun, apprehension, 56, 275;
as an Adjective, exhilarating, or exalting, 210.
_Vaccane_, or _vacanse_; vacation, holidays. 84.
_Vively_; in a lively manner, to the life. 4.
_Voyage_; journey. 226.
--The French "voyage," from _via_.
_Wad-fee_; the sum paid in hiring, as a pledge of the person
being engaged.
--_Wad_ is a pledge.
--See Wed.
_Wadset_; to pledge in mortgage, alienate by reversion. 79, 191,
201, 206, etc.
--Noun, the money paid in hiring as a pledge of engagement. 182.
_Wager_; something hazarded. 220.
A pledge. 170.
_Wair'd_, or _wared_.
--See _Ware_.
_Wale_; to choose (Noun and Verb), select out of other articles.
39, 192, etc.
_Walkings_; weights of a clock. 199.
--Possibly the _waggings_ of the pendulum, though some say it is
the striking of the hour that "_waukens up_." It is
connected with _motions_. 292, 342.
_Wandhand_; the hand that holds the rod, or whip, as the hand that
guided the horse was the working hand. 186.
_Want_; to be destitute of. 95.
_Ward_; guard. 254.
_Ware_; to expend, use. 37, 104, 201, 228, etc.
_Warmly_; heart-warming. 227.
_Washen_; washed or whitened, with fair appearance. 167.
_Waster_, Adj.; prodigal, wasteful. 226.
_Watch-glass_; hour-glass. 276.
_Watered_; plated over. 206, 280.
--"The watering will go off and leave nothing but dross" is a
sentence in a sermon on Zech. xiii. 7.
_Wed_; a pledge or fee. Written also _wad_.
--Our "wedding" is a derivative, signifying the security or
pledge given by the parties.
_Weight_, or _wecht_; to put on a weight or burden, depress. 115,
159.
In one of his sermons he says, "Death did not weight the martyrs.
"--"_To bear weight_," 249, is to stand the weighing.
_Well_; a Noun for _weal_, welfare. 72, 202.
--"_Well is me_;" it is good for me. 120, 222, 250, 257, etc.
--"_Wellcome_;" come in an honest way. 162, 182.
_Well-wared_; well laid out. 104.
--Well deserved. 203.
_Wersh_; saltless, insipid. 182.
_While_, or _whill_; till. 12, 24, 44, etc.
_Whiles_; at times. 102, 182.
_White_; the _white_ is the mark aimed at, the bull's eye. 194.
_Whiten._ 287. Like a stick from which the bark is stript.
_Whitsunday_; term day. 21.
"_Who but he?_" a non-such. 23.
--See _note_.
_Why but?_ why object although? 295.
_Win_; reach, attain to. 21, 30.
--"_Win away_;" to escape from. 6.
_Wind in_; get your way into. 297.
_Windlestrae_ or _windlestraw_; from _Windel_, to hoist about.
Used in plaiting. A withered stalk of dog's-tail grass;
metaphorically, a mere trifle. 63, 190, 192, 212.
--In the "Life" of Pringle of Greenknow, a place is mentioned
called "The Windlestraw Law." So Durham on Job, p. 285.
_Wit_; to know. Noun; wisdom, intelligence. 184, 282.
--"_Wit's head_;" a wiseacre. 232, 235, 239, 249, 258.
_Wo_, an Adjective; sorrowful. 116, 178, 196.
--Generally written "wae" by Scotch writers.
_Wombful_; bellyful. 225.
_Won goods_; goods already got and secured. 128.
_Work on_; it causes care. 230.
_Wrack_; ruin, wreck. 284.
_Wring_; squeeze out water; as Judges vi. 30. 300.
_Writ_; a writing in law. 59, 285, 359.
--"_In write_;" by written paper. 359.
_Yoke_; yoke for work; set to, press in. 94, 119, 181, 202.
--Noun, _yoking_, a setting to, contest, onset. 117. "He yoked
to the Jews early" (sermon on Heb. xii. 1). So Durham on
Isa. liii. 8.
_Yonder_; far off in the distance. 245.
--"The yonder end."
[532] Apothecary in Edinburgh. See Livingstone's "Charact."
[533] In a sermon at Kirkcudbright on Rev. xix. 11, he introduces
the courtiers saying to Daniel, "What need ye _make all the
fields ado_ with your prayers?"