=coresed= (hors), III, 61, 100: bodied (?) (later texts, corese, corse).
=corn=, II, 88, 17, 18, etc.: in Scotland, unground oats. (Here
distinguished from white meal, which is usually oat-meal.)
=corn-caugers=, III, 479, 8: cadgers, hucksters, in corn.
=corp=, II, 218, 25; 229, 11: a vulgar singular of a supposed plural;
corps, II, 217, 30; these corps, 31; cf. IV, 483, 23; 484 a, after 31.
corpes, III, 231, 97, may be corpse.
=cors=, curse.
=corse=, =corss=, I, 117, 7; 351, 31, 32, 44; IV, 53, 8; 512 a, 9; V,
161, 4: cross.
=corser=, III, 68, 256: should probably be forser==coffer (text =g= has
coffer).
=cosh=, =coush=, II, 363, 13: quiet (snug).
=cote a pye=, =coate a pie=, =cote of pie=, III, 65, 194; 80, 194; 86,
194: corruption of courtepi, short cloak or gown. (Dutch kort, short,
and pij, coat of warm woolen stuff.)
=cots=, =coats=, III, 481, 2, 6: petticoats.
=couchd=, V, 9, 12: lay, leaned.
=coug=, =cog=, V, 275 =b=, 2, 3, 9: boat.
=could=, did. See =can=.
=couls=, V, 228, 19: cools, chills.
=councell=, =counsell=, II, 58, 3; III, 58, 45; V, 62, 78: secret.
=cound=, IV, 467, 13: count.
=counsell=, II, 246, =C= 9-11; III, 217, 53: secret. See =councell=.
=counterfeit=, _p. p._, V, 300, 10: counterfeited.
=country-keeper=, V, 196, 41: “one employed in a particular district to
apprehend delinquents.” Jamieson.
=coup=, =cupe=, cup.
=couped=, =koupd=, =coped=, I, 469, 23; II, 313, 20; IV, 315, 14:
overturned.
=couper=, =cowper=, IV, 259, 7; 260, 7: buyer and seller, dealer.
=couple-root=, I, 302, 13: rafter-end (the end resting on the wall).
=courting=, III, 146, 20: demonstration of affection, embracing.
=courtnolls=, V, 85, 14: courtiers.
=courtrie=, V, 191, 5; 198 b, after 52: belonging to a court, courtiers.
=coush=, =cosh=, IV, 483 =b=: quiet.
=coustome=, IV, 507, 78: duty (the king will remit).
=cout=, =cowte=, IV, 18, 20, 21; 21, 16: colt.
=couth=, II, 357, 2: sound, word, Jamieson (the sense required, but the
suggested derivation from Icel. kviðr, A. S. cwide, is not easy).
=couent=, III, 60, 86; 357, 55: convent.
=coving-tree=, II, 193, =H= 4: meeting-tree. “A large tree in the front
of an old Scottish mansion-house, where the laird met his visitors.”
Similar to trysting-tree. Jamieson. In Roxburghshire, covin; in the
north of England, covan, coban, and even capon. Denham Tracts, II, 226
ff.
=cow=, twig. See =broom-cow=, =heather-cow=, =kow=.
=cow=, =coll= (locks), II, 423, 4, 7: clip, (brume), III, 9, =H= 8:
browse. (Norwegian kolla (Aasen), dock, take off the top.)
=cowing=, eating.
=cowper.= See =couper=.
=cowte=, colt. See =cout=.
=coxcomb=, III, 35, 19: pate.
=crabby= (crabbed), III, 488, 23: provoking.
=crack=, =crak=, II, 271, 18; 488, 6, 10; III, 161, 28; IV, 261, 3; V,
106, =E= 3: talk. III, 487, 6, 14, 16: brag. crackd (the Border-side),
IV, 146, 4: defied, challenged. (In Scott’s printed copy, _bragged_,
defied.)
=crack=, =crak=, a moment of time. in a crack, within a crack, IV, 314,
16; 315, 13; 317, =E= 6; V, 271, 13: instantly.
=crack fingers=, in grief or perplexity, II, 26, =G= 16. See =knack=.
=crae=, _pret._, V, 253 a, No 200, =B a= 8: crew.
=crak.= See =crack=.
=cramoisie=, =cramasie=, IV, 93, 8, 2, 3; 410, 17, 20; 472, 9: crimson.
=crap=, II, 261, 10; 286, 16: crop, top.
=crap=, _pret._ of creep, II, 323, 3; 330, =H= 3; 336, =P= 2; 337, 3.
=crapotee=, I, 326, 6: toad-stone, supposed to be generated in the head
of toads; “in fact, a petrifaction of the teeth of extinct fishes.”
Mätzner. Sometimes defined, smaragdus, emerald.
=cravin=, II, 335, =N= 2: asking for, demanding.
=crawen=, =crawn=, _p. p._ of craw, crow, II, 139 f., 7, 12, 22; 222,
17; IV, 473, 36.
=cray=, cry.
=credence=, III, 449 b: credit.
=creed=, _n._, IV, 262, 13, 14: blame.
=creel=, V, 122, 5, 11, 12; 123, 5, 11; 124, 4, 12: basket.
=creep=, _pret._ crap. See =crap=.
=cries=, _n._, II, 73, 22: calls, demands.
=Cristiantë=, =Cristinty=, =Cristendie=: Christendom.
=croche=, I, 413, 36: crouch.
=croft=, IV, 142 a: a piece of land adjoining a house.
=crooden=, =croodin=, =croodlin=, =croudlin=, I, 163 f., =J= 1, 2,
etc.; 165, =M= 1, =N= 1, etc.; 166, =K c= 1: cooing.
=cropped= (knee), III, 280, 26: crooked (Icel. kroppinn).
=cross=, _v._, V, 306, 6 (correct V, 166, 7^2, in accordance with this
reading): oppose. _p. p._, the sheriff was crost, III, 157, 30: balked.
=croudlin.= See =crooden=.
=crouds=, =cruds=, IV, 260, 5: curds.
=crouse=, =crouselie=, =crously=, II, 169, 9; III, 161, 28; IV, 261,
3; V, 17, 33: briskly, merrily, jubilantly. III, 493, 16: (perhaps)
bumptiously. See =crowse=.
=crow=, =craw=, =crow=. ar the coc him crowe, I, 244, 18; V, 288 b, v.
33. _p. p._ crowen, crawen, crawn.
=crowen=, _p. p._ of crow, II, 138, 7.
=crowner=, I, 141 b: coroner.
=crowse=, III, 457, =B= 5: audacious. See =crouse=.
=crowt=, I, 273, 28: draw together, pucker up.
=cruds=, _n._, IV, 260, 7, 18, 19; 262, 30; 265, =A b= 1, 11: curds.
=cry=, =crye=, proclaim, proclamation. cry in, III, 320, =A b= 7: call
in. cry on, upo, I, 127, 6; II, 150, 13; III, 318, 7; IV, 7, 24: call
upon, summon. cryed out on Robyn Hode, III, 70, 296: cried out against,
or, simply, cried out “R. H.”
=cryance=, II, 58 f., 18, 20, 21: cowardice, faintheartedness
(disposition to succumb).
=cud=, V, 104 a: cudgel.
=cuddy=, IV, 69, 6: ass.
=cuirt=, _pret._, I, 439, =C= 11: covered.
=cuist=, =cust=, _pret._ of cast, II, 248, 1, 2; IV, 68, =E= 2; 182,
=G= 5; 394, =C= 1; V, 116, 5. keist, kiest, I, 69, 46; 75, 36; 80, 4.
=cuisten=, _p. p._ of cast, I, 495, 11. See =custan=.
=cum=, V, 191, 8: become.
=cum=, _pret._ of come, III, 386, 22.
=cumand=, _ptc._, V, 192 f., 35, 49: coming.
=cumber=, V, 53, 104: oppress, torment. See =cumre=.
=cumbruk=, cambric.
=cummers=, V, 106, =E= 2: gossips (commères).
=cumre=, _n._, IV, 316, 19: cumber, trouble. See =cumber=.
=cun thanke=, III, 68, 242: am, feel, grateful.
=cunnes.= nones cunnes, I, 244, 11: of no kind. enes cunnes, I, 244,
12: of any kind.
=cunning=, V, 82, 21: craft (mystery, trade).
=curch=, =curche=, II, 131, 6; III, 472, 10: kerchief, woman’s head
covering.
=cure=, III, 262, 7: pains. McNaughtoun’s cure, II, 386, 25:
“McNaughtoun’s cure to ye is, Devil relieve ye.” Motherwell.
=curn=, III, 160, 19; IV, 85, 3: quantity, parcel, pack.
=curst turne=, III, 93, 34: malignant, spiteful, ferocious job, piece
of work, feat.
=curstlye=, V, 53, 104: fiercely, savagely.
=curtal= (frier), III, 124 ff., 6, 7, 11, 13, etc.: (Lat. curtilarius)
having charge of, attached to, the vegetable garden of a monastery.
curtal dogs, 125, 34.
=cust=, _pret._ of cast, V, 116, 5. See =cuist=.
=custan=, _p. p._ of cast, III, 4, 2.
=cut=, V, 202 a: horse.
=cut=, V, 112, 7; 124, 6; 125, 5: bite, gnaw.
=cutted= (friar), III, 123, 3, 11, 13, 15, 17: short-frocked (but
apparently a corruption of curtal, see III, 121 f.).
=cutters=, III, 228, 10: bravos, robbers.
=cuttie=, I, 72, 13; 74, 74: short.
=cutties=, II, 470, 49: spoons.
=cweet=, =queet=, II, 96, =I= 3: ankle.
=cypress queen=, as fair as a cypress queen, V, 164, 15: Cyprus, Cypris
(Venus).
D
=’d=, for ’t (it). bla’d wind, bla’d weet, II, 21, 6; doo’d, IV, 464,
16; born’d, deal’d, 465, 22, 37; 471, 41; lai’d, 520, 10; dee’d, V,
248, 12.
=dabs=, II, 167 b, =F=: pricks.
=dada=, =dadda=, II, 339, 16, 18; V, 112, =B b= 5: daddie.
=daft= (love), II, 410, 8: foolishly fond.
=dag-durk=, I, 55, 12: dagger.
=daggie=, IV, 258, 25: drizzling (dag, a slight rain).
=daghter=, =dather=, daughter.
=daghterie=, IV, 324, 1: a word of no meaning, the original being
simply _daughter_: see V, 272 b, 1.
=daigh=, =daighe=, I, 302, =A= 10; II, 467, 42: dough.
=dail=, IV, 430, 5: (dool) the grief, the ill consequences.
=daily=, =dayly=, daily flower, I, 76, 9, 15, 18; II, 393, 2; IV, 19,
8: (Icelandic dælligr, Danish deilig) beautiful, charming.
=daily dight=, IV, 432, 6: beautifully adorned.
=dairgie=, II, 195, 41: refection given after a funeral.
=dale=, been at a, III, 161, 28, 30: dole (to mendicants), satirically.
=dam=, II, 192, 10: dame.
=damasee=, II, 327, 32: damson plum.
=dame=, addressed to an unmarried girl by her father, IV, 195, 7.
=dandily=, V, 106, =E= 5: over nice or dainty.
=dandoo=, III, 5, =C= 7, 8: dun doe?
=dane=, =done=, I, 68, 20, 24; 69, 45, 53; II, 81 f., 41, 56: done.
dane him to, III, 273, 15, 27: betaken himself. See =do=.
=dang=, _pret._ of ding, I, 55, 12; 129, =D= 6; 130, =F= 5; 133, =M= 7,
10; II, 253, 19; 261, 9; IV, 305, 18: beat, struck, knocked, thrust,
shoved. dang down, III, 460, 32. _p. p._, II, 282, 10: overpowered.
=danger=, do danger, III, 163, 67: exercise of the power of a superior?
violence?
=dank= (moat), V, 295, 7: damp, wet.
=danting=, =danton=, IV, 287, 1 (burden); V, 267, 1 (burden): (Fr.
dompter) sexual conquest.
=danton=, V, 248, 19: subdue, intimidate. See =daunton=.
=daown=, _adv._, V, 304, 8: down.
=dapperpy=, IV, 185, 11: diapered, of variegated cloth.
=dather=, =dother=, V, 257, 15: daughter.
=datit=, IV, 467, 15: dawtit, caressed.
_dative of pronoun_: III, 58, 37, 44; 60, 82; 61, 100; 65, 184; 75,
381, 391. after verbs of motion (dative of the subject): I, 244, 10,
13; 326, 1; III, 70, 281.
=daunton=, =danton=, I, 325, 6; III, 364 b: daunt, subdue, put down.
=daut=, =dawt=, IV, 104, =O=; 277, 4; 302, 2: fondle, caress, make much
of, pet.
=daw=, _v._, II, 146, 7: dawn. _p. p._ dawen, II, 139, 7, 12.
=dawdy=, II, 308, 5: the unborn young of an animal.
=dawt=, =daut=, IV, 304, 3; V, 106, =D= 3: caress.
=dawtie=, V, 117 f., =B= 5, 9, 13; 173, 11: darling.
=day=, =dey=, =die=, =dye=, IV, 257, =B= 9; 259, 7, 17; 260, 7, 16;
262, 16; V, 265 a, 10: dairy-woman.
=day=, =dayed=, die, died.
=dayly.= See =daily=.
=de=, =dee=, =dea=, =deei=, =die=, == do: I, 165, =N= 8; 183, 24; II,
175 f., 1, 8. a dee, II, 110, 25: to do. dee’d, V, 248, 12: do it. _p.
p._ deen. See =dee=.
=dea=, die.
=dead=, =deed=, =deid=, =dede=, =died=, _n._, I, 104, 14; 353, 13; 388,
=A= 11; 465, 19; II, 385, 25; 505, 92; III, 387, 16, 10; IV, 36, 3;
505, 57: death.
=dead.= be dead, II, 58, 5, 7; III, 23, 25; 28, 120; 99, 50: die.
=deak=, V, 270, 7: deck.
=dean=, =den=, IV, 167, =D= 5, 6, 11: hollow where the ground slopes on
both sides, valley.
=dean=, done.
=dear=, =deare=, =dere=, I, 411, 5; III, 164, =b= 67: injury.
=Dear-Coft=, II, 62, 18: Dear-Bought.
=dearly=, IV, 98, =F= 6: costly.
=dearsome=, III, 488 f., 38, 44: costly.
=dear vow=, interjection of surprise or commiseration.
=deas=, II, 189, 24: pew (stone seat at the door of the church.
Chambers). Same word as =dais=. See =dice=.
=deave=, I, 389, =C= 3; IV, 69, 17: deafen.
=debate=, III, 314, 64: quarrel.
=deceivin= (tree), III, 396, =N= 3: corruption of savin (see 380 a).
=decencey=, V, 242 b, 8: corruption of bencite, benedicite.
=deck-board=, =deck-buird=, oer (over), V, 138, =B= 5, 6; 139, =c= 6,
7: overboard.
=dede=, V, 283, 8: death. See =dead=.
=dee=, =deei=, =do=. how can this dee, I, 453, 6: be allowed, borne;
and so, perhaps, a’ this winna dee (wont do), II, 97, 14. a’ this winna
dee, gif ony prayer can dee, II, 132, 16; 176, 10; it wad na do, IV,
509 b, 13; _it_ widne deei, V, 227, 2: avail.
=dee=, =deei=, do. See =de=.
=dee=, =deei=, die.
=deed=, death. See =dead=.
=deed=, _v._, I, 164, =K= 6; 165, =O= 5: died.
=deed=, indeed. by my deed, III, 262, 12: on my word.
=deed-thraw=, III, 501, 10: death-throe.
=deei=, do, avail; die. See =de=, =dee=.
=deemed=, =demed=, III, 61, 95: judged. III, 356, 35: condemned.
=deen=, I, 16, =C= 18; II, 182 a; 409, 18, 19: done (with no sense in
19).
=deerlye= (dight), III, 340, 28, 36: expensively (ornamented). III,
356, 16, 31, 35: perhaps, with great cost to the sufferer, possibly, to
his hurt; lovingly, out of love, would answer in the first two cases,
but not in the third.
=deft=, III, 145, 3: neat, nice-looking.
=degree=, III, 323, 58; IV, 258, 20: rank, sort. served him in his ain
degree, V, 191, 19; 193, 57: rendered him respect accordant with his
rank. wee shall beare no degree, III, 333, 19: shall have no position,
standing. (requite, thank, show) in euerye degree, V, 84 f., 9, 14, 27:
to the full extent demanded by the occasion.
=deid=, I, 105, 26; 353, 13: death. See =dead=.
=deighte=, IV, 504, 29: dight, furnished, adorned, equipped.
=delated=, III, 449 a, b; IV, 63 b: accused.
=dell=, V, 79, 32: deal, bit, whit.
=dell=, II, 345, 29: we are apparently to understand that it was a
dismal dell that brought James into the world (not in itself, but
from the melancholy fact of his being born there). Possibly we may
understand dell ==dule, affliction. But the piece is spurious, and we
need not be nice.
=delle=, I, 327, 22: perhaps, dally, talk, disport; perhaps, deal.
=demean=, IV, 41, note *; 107, 3: treat, maltreat. (in 107, 3, treat as
he deserves, damage, do harm to.)
=demed.= See =deemed=.
=den=, =dean=, IV, 166, =B= 8; 168, 5, 11; 169, 3, 9, =G= 2; 174 f., 2,
7; 306 f., 12, 20, 48; V, 119, =D= 2: small valley, glen, dingle.
=den=, =dien=, V, 260, 8, 14: done.
=denay=, =deny=, V, 110, 10; 260, 3, 4: refuse.
=deol=, V, 297 b: sorrow.
=dep=, gave him a dep unto the heart, III, 281, 14: perhaps dab,
Old Eng. dabbe, stroke. But Dr Davidson suggests that the line was
misheard, and that what was said was, a dep’oon (wound), which seems to
me very likely.
=depart=, III, 139, 27: part company.
=deputed=, III, 414, 52: consigned, handed or delivered over (used of a
fugitive carried back for trial).
=dere=, =dear=(=e=), III, 99, 59: injury.
=dere-worthy=, III, 58, 36, 37; 59, 60; 61, 111; 67, 219; 68, 250; 73,
346: precious, dear.
=derf=, derf blowes, III, 422, 73: powerful.
=dernë=, I, 327, 30; III, 57, 21: secret, hidden, privy, obscure.
=descryvd=, IV, 405, 50: described.
=desse=, I, 328, 45: dais, the elevated part of the hall, on which was
the table for the chief personages.
=deuylkyns=, III, 79, 73: devilish sort of.
=develling=, come, I, 302, 5: moving like the devil, whether hieing,
scouring, bouncing, or what not; or, possibly, O. Fr. devalant,
descending; an equivalence to daundering, sauntering, has been
suggested.
=devyse=, I, 327, 16: will, pleasure.
=dey=, =die=, =dye=, IV, 257, 9; 259, 7, 17; 260, 7; 262, 16:
dairy-woman. See day.
=deythe=, =dyth=, III, 112, 59: dight, prepared.
=di=, =die=, II, 132, 24; V, 35, =B= 5: do. dinna, I, 146, 6, and
_passim_: do not. See =dinnë=.
=dice=, IV, 416, 17==deis: pew in a church.
=did=, I, 104, 3, 4: used for _should_.
=did= (be wrought), II, 506 a: caused.
=did him to.= See =do to=.
=did of.= See =do=.
=die=, IV, 264, 5: dey, dairy-woman. See =day=.
=die.= See =de=.
=die=, =do=, =din=, =dien=, done.
=died=, IV, 386, 19: death. See =dead=.
=died=, IV, 407, 7, 8: dead.
=dien.= See =den=, =die=.
=dight=, =dicht=, =dycht=, =deight=, =dyght=, III, 57, 19: prepared.
dedys that here be dyght, III, 72, 320: done. of grain, I, 16, =B= 16;
IV, 242 a: winnow. dight shoon, V, 105, =A= 11: clean. had not men to
dight my men, III, 300, 18; IV, 500, 19: serve, handle. she dighted her
father’s wounds, I, 101, 8; 103, =D= 6: dressed. pinnace, hachebord
deerlye dight, III, 340, 28, 36; IV, 504, 29: fitted out, dill (grief)
to him was dight, II, 68, 4: ordained.
=dight=, _adv._, bird sang fu dight, II, 261, 10: readily, freely
(strange use of the word). Cf. =complete=.
=dild=, God, III, 35, 31: God ild, yield, reward (_d_ carried on from
the subject).
=dill=, II, 58, 4, 11: dule, grief.
=dimitted=, III, 447 b: discharged, released.
=din=, =dien=, done.
=din=, I, 133, 10; II, 186, 16: dun.
=dine=, I, 127, 23; II, 94, 12; 194, 13, 17; 313, 17; III, 267, 18; V,
277 f., 18, 29: dinner, meal.
=ding=, II, 62 a, 17; 261, 8; IV, 97, =F= 2; 304, 16, 17: beat, knock.
ding down, II, 240, 6; III, 5, =D= 2, 6; 6, 2, 5; 8, 5; 9, 2, 7: lay
low, overthrow. _pret._ dang, dung. _p. p._ dung, dang. my ain wand
dings me now, IV, 97, =F= 2: I am suffering the consequences of my own
folly.
=dink=, I, 74, 72: neat, trim.
=dinna=, do not.
=dinnë=, V, 229 a, 35: do (you) not. V, 229 b, 6: (disne) does not.
dinner==dinna, dinnë.
=dinne=, I, 272, 25: (noise) ado, trouble.
=dint= (of arrow), III, 345, 48; 350, 48: stroke, impact.
=dirt=, _v._, V, 304, 2, 3: soil.
=dis=, does.
=Disaware=, V, 49, 29; 51, 51, 62: O. E. aver (O. Fr. aver, avoir)
seems to be the basis of the word, which would mean stripped of wealth,
sans aver (avoir); a Galterius Sine Avero is noted by Ducange.
=discared=, III, 38, 85: revoked, withdrawn (apparently for discarded).
=discharged=, IV, 63 b: revoked.
=discreene=, II, 439, 2: descry, spy out, discover.
=discreeue=, II, 58, 3, should be _disceuere_, diskevere, discover,
reveal.
=disgrate=, V, 269, 17: disgrace.
=disgrate=, III, 58, 48: unfortunate, out of fortune’s favor. (Ital.
disgraziato.)
=disna=, does not.
=distan=, IV, 329 a, after 16: (distance) distinguish.
=dittay=, IV, 245 a: indictment.
=dive=, II, 132, 25: do.
=diuel’s mouth.= He could not finde a priuy place, for all lay in the
diuel’s mouth, II, 483, 4: as the devil’s mouth is depicted wide open
in painted windows, etc., Professor Skeat has suggested that meaning
for the phrase.
=do=, it wad na do, IV, 509 b, 13: avail. See =dee=.
=do.= See =doo=.
=do=, =doe=, doe my thy hawkes, I, 211, 20: give, deliver.
=do adowne=, III, 67, 226; 69, 263: put down.
=do away=, III, 59, 63: have done with, stop.
=do be=, I, 184, 47: are.
=do down.= See _do to_.
=do gladly=, III, 58, 34; 61, 103; 67, 232: make yourself happy (==make
glad chere, 67, 215).
=do= (=doe=) =of=, =off=, II, 138, 13; III, 78, 449; V, 49, 23-25: put
off. _pret._ doft, II, 490 b.
=do on=, III, 23, 27; 76, 421: put on, don.
=do to=, =do till=, with reflexive pronoun, I, 86, 30; 87 b; 115, =B=
3, 4; 182 f., 7, 11, 13, 17; 352, 32, 44; III, 72, 328: betake. So with
_up_, _down_, V, 300, 5, 8.
=do up.= See =do to=, and =dop=.
=doited=, IV, 427, 10: stupid, doting.
=doll=, =dolle=, =döl=, =dule=, I, 217, 3; V, 111, 19, 21: grief.
=domineer=, in, wi, III, 268, 9; 270, 9; V, 242 b, 8: with haughtiness,
superciliously. (Perhaps a corruption of III, 270, =E= 7, since the
captain is said to be buke-learned in 268, 9.)
=doo= (ynnë gon), III, 91 a: cause, make.
=doo=, =dou=, =dow=, I, 163-165; 497, =L= 2; V, 40 f., 3, 9, 15, etc.:
dove.
=don=, down.
=done=, how done you? III, 35, 31: old plural, how do you do?
=done upon=, V, 48, 6: put on.
=doo’d=, IV, 464, 16: do it.
=dool=, =doll=, =dule=, II, 175, 17; IV, 85, 42; V, 17, 31; 111, 19,
21: grief. See =dail=.
=dool=, dool and down, II, 271, 26: corruption of dale and down; cf.
II, 175, 14; 273, 33; IV, 219, =B= 5: and elsewhere.
=doon=, II, 198 b, 2d line: a corruption, or possibly an Irish word, of
which I can make nothing.
=doon=, youar begun yar doon, V, 304 b, 4.
=doorcheeks=, II, 99 b, 33: door-posts.
=dop=, III, 34 f., 6, 21: do up, open.
=dorn=, II, 300, 5: (sheets of) dornic, table-linen, ordinarily, from
Dornick, the Dutch name for Tournay.
=dorty=, IV, 288, 10: pettish, peevish, saucy.
=dother=, IV, 327, 15; V, 110, 1; 237 f., 6, 7, 12, 22, etc.; 264, 7:
daughter.
=dottled=, V, 94, =A= 3: in a state of dotage.
=dou=, dove. See =doo=, =dow=.
=dou=, =dow= (A. S. déah, dugon), III, 245, =B= 12; 247, 18; 370, 10,
13; IV, 472, 22: can (of physical ability). II, 78, 4; 104, 24; 105,
16; 168, 12; III, 386, 21; IV, 31, 9; 512, 12: (with negative) am
unable from aversion, want of resolution, etc. dought (A. S. dohte,
_pret._ of dugan), _pret._, I, 146, 20; II, 401, =C= 7; III, 465, 22;
IV, 23, =A c= 18: was able, could. _Subjunctive_, I, 326, 18, 19 be at
liberty); I, 330, =B= 3: should be able. dought, he neere dought good
day, I, 434, 32: he never was good for anything a good day. But we
should expect _him_: never a good day profited him.
=double-horsed=, III, 489, 42: with horse carrying double.
=doubt=, =doute=, =dout=, _n._ and _v._, I, 295, 35; 478 f., 19, 28;
II, 52, 22; III, 57, 10; 76, 406; 125, 26; 188, 4: fear.
=doubt=, =if tho=[u], II, 449, 58: corrupt. =A= 53, without all doubt.
=doubtit=, III, 364 b: redoubted, held in awe. See =doubt=.
=douce=, I, 184, 1; V, 210 a, 1: staid and sober. violence douce, II,
271, 19: corrupt; read _done_?
=douë=, =douey===dowie, V, 257, 7, 17: dreary, melancholy. V, 220 f.,
6, 7, 9 (of bran): wretched.
=doughetë=, III, 308, 28: doughty man.
=dought.= See =dou=.
=douk=, =duck=, II, 151, =H= 6; 153, 16, 17, 19, 21: dive.
=doukers=, =duckers=, II, 151, =H= 6, 8: divers.
=doulfou=, II, 159, 23: doleful.
=dounae.= See =dou=.
=doup= (dish-doup), II, 463, 23: bottom.
=dour=(=e=), I, 117, 17: hard, severe. V, 295, 3: savage. knocks
bauldly and dowr, II, 341, =R= after 3: hard, or pertinaciously.
=dout=, =doute=. See =doubt=.
=dow=, =dou=, =doo=, I, 163 f., =J= 1-6, etc.; II, 299, 22-24; 301, 14;
V, 111, 18; 302, 17: dove.
=dow=, do.
=dow=, =downa=, _v._ See =dou=.
=dowie=, =dowy=, I, 56, =B= 11; II, 146, 19; 148, 21, 22; 189, 36, 37;
IV, 33, 24; 165, 12; 166, =C= 4, 5, 6; etc.: sad, doleful, melancholy,
wretched. See =douë=.
=dowilie=, I, 439, 11: sadly.
=down=, wi meikle dool and down, II, 271, 26: nonsense; corruption of,
beheld baith dale and doun, =F= 33.
=down-browed=, scowling; I, 302, =A= 11.
=downfall=, =downcome= of Robin Hood, with the, III, 271, 10; 274, 30:
knocked down in R. Hood’s fashion?
=dowr.= See =doure=.
=doyn=, III, 111, 39: done.
=doyt=, III, 109, 1: doth (plural).
=draff=, refuse, dirt.
=drank=, II, 30, 7: gave to drink, drenched.
=drap=, III, 281, 10, drap down: perhaps, drap[d] down; otherwise,
should drop.
=draps=, drops.
=draught=, I, 432, 1: sketch, picture.
=draw=, drew her table, V, 304, 13: see explanation, 304 a.
=draw=, III, 6, 14, 15: move (cf. Germ. ziehen).
=draw to=, =ti=, =till=, draw to hose and sheen, II, 249, 15; 256, 9;
IV, 464, 10: draw on. drew till him his hose, II, 189, 35. drew to him
his sheen, II, 257, 30.
=draw up wi=, II, 114, 14: take up with, enter into intimacy, relations
of love, with.
=drawght= that thowe dost drawe, IV, 503, 16: of the drawing of a bow.
(So “Chaucer’s Dream,” v. 788, Morris.)
=drawn=, ere the horse was drawn and brought, IV, 346 b, =I b= 5:
chosen.
=drawn= a stroke behind his hand, II, 63, 24: evidently means give a
back-handed stroke, but the phrase sounds factitious.
=dreaded=, II, 169, 14: suspected.
=dreads=, IV, 32, =C= 7: suspicions.
=dreamed=, I was, I, 432, 1: dreamed, had a dream.
=drede=, _n._, III, 296, 8: doubt.
=dreder=, II, 403, 3, 4: dread, apprehension.
=dre=(=e=), =dri=, =drie=, =drye=, suffer, undergo, hold out, stand,
be able. dree pine, II, 466, 35; 467, 45. doom, III, 391, 9. death,
III, 391, 1. dill I drye, II, 58, 11. dreeing trying hour, I, 73, 47.
as fast as they might dree, III, 286, 49: could do it; so, II, 149, 7;
255, 10; III, 106, 12; 267, 9; IV, 2, 6; 6, 13; V, 195, 13, 35; 196,
37. whylle the myghte dre, III, 298, 58; 309, 47: as long as they could
hold out. draw carts, which horse were wont to drie, I, 465, 2: do,
perform. drie to feel, III, 479, 5: be compelled, come to feel.
=dreel=, gie a, I, 403, 9: stir up, put into a flurry, make scud. (Old
Dutch drillen, ultro citroque cursitare gyrosque agere, etc. Scottish
dreel, to move quickly.)
=dreigh=, IV, 47, 4: seems to mean here, far to jump from.
=dress=, III, 336 b: redress.
=dressen=, _v._ the dressede into the countrey, V, 71, note †: betaken.
=drew= (her table). See =draw=.
=dri.= See =dree=.
=drie=, _n._, III, 415, 22: an unauthorized word of Percy’s, to mean
suffering.
=drie=, =dri=. See =dree=.
=driep=, drop.
=drifts=, IV, 2, 10: droves.
=drive=, IV, 6, 19; 7, 30, 32: drive off.
=droonet=, I, 133, 13: drowned.
=droop=, droop and drowsie (of blood), IV, 220, 13: droop might be the
Old English drup, sad, piteous, but a word indicating the quality or
condition of the blood would be expected (as in German trübe, thick,
muddy). The nearest is _drubly_, turbid, muddy. Cf. wan and drousie,
IV, 224, 23. her lothely lere is droupy and drowsy, Skelton, Elynour
Rummynge, 15: downcast and drowsy. See =drousie=.
=droped=, III, 164, 88: drooped.
=drouflye=, III, 85, 22: sad. See =drousli=.
=drousie=, wan and drousie, IV, 224, 23. droop and drowsie, IV, 220, 13
(of blood): sluggish, perhaps slowly dripping. The combination occurs
in Skelton’s Elynour Rummynge, 15, droupy and drowsy, with sense. See
=droop=.
=drousli=, III, 82, 22, should be droufli (drouflye, or drouslye, 85,
22): (Old Eng. drof, droflie) sad.
=drowryis=, I, 415 b: love-tokens. See =drury=.
=drowsie.= See =drousie=.
=drucken=, II, 155, =A b= 3: drunken (and in =A a= 3, where there is a
misprint).
=druken=, =drucken=, _p. p._, II, 285, 9; V, 99, 11, =C= 6; 155, =C= 2:
drunk, imbibed.
=drumlie=, =-ly= (stream), IV, 185, 8, 14; (eye), IV, 368, 10; 369 b:
perturbed, turbulent, turbid, gloomy.
=drunken=, _p. p._ of drink, II, 110, 24; 134, 26. drunken was==had
drunken, IV, 46, 5, 6.
=drunkilie=, III, 490, 25: merrily (as being tipsy with pleasure?).
=drury=, IV, 58, =A b= 5: dowry. Drowry is used as synonymous with
morning-gift in the Acts of James VI. Jamieson. See =drowryis=.
=drussie=, V, 257. 14: drowsy.
=drye.= See =dree=.
=drywyng=, driving.
=dub=, I, 164, =J= 3; III, 162, 49; IV, 470, 25, 26; V, 169, 9: pool.
=dubby=, IV, 257, =A= 6: dirty, having many small pools.
=ducatdowns=, =dukedoons=, IV, 128, 8; 139, =I b= 21: ducatoons.
corrupted ridiculously, IV, 137, 2, to ducks.
=duck=, =douk=, II, 145, 18, 19, 22, 23: dive.
=duckers=, =doukers=, II, 145, 18: divers.
=ducks.= See =ducatdowns=.
=duddie=, I, 208, =G= 15: ragged.
=duddies=, =dudes=, V, 111, 24; 112, =B= 13; 113 =b=, 13: duds, poor
clothes.
=duȝty=, III, 98, 32: doughty, valiant.
=duke=, IV, 295, =D= 5: dyke, wall.
=dukedoons.= See =ducatdowns=.
=dulchach=, =dulget=, I, 305, 1; V, 213, 1: bundle, always applied in
Aberdeenshire to ill-shaped, untidy bundles of clothes carried on the
person (also, bulshach).
=dule=, =dool=, I, 169, =B= 3; 442, =E= 15; II, 290, 8, 12; IV, 86, 20;
303, 14: grief.
=dulget=, I, 305, 1. See =dulchach=.
=dumped=, V, 227, 4: struck with the feet.
=dumpes=, III, 313, 50: in the modern sense, but not inelegant.
=dune=, I, 302, 2; IV, 326, 15: done.
=dune out=, V, 27, 28: worn out, used up.
=dung=, _pret._ of ding, beat, knock, strike, II, 132, 17. _p. p._, II,
62 a, 17; 392, =J= 9; 472, 20, 28; III, 161, 43; IV, 479, 4: beaten,
worsted, overpowered, put down. IV, 183, 8: overwhelmed, disconsolate.
dung over, V, 127, 22: knocked over, struck down. dung down, I, 345, 5:
thrust down.
=Dunny’s well=, =Dunny’s dyke=, II, 189, 28: an impersonation,
signifying that the washing and drying have been done in dark-colored
water and on a dark-colored (dirty) wall.
=dunts=, III, 491, 13: dints, blows. See =dynt=.
=dwine=, IV, 303 f., 12, 21, 27; 304, 10: pine, waste.
=dwrf=, IV, 290, =D c= 5: _dowf_ seems to be intended, lethargic,
inert, impotent; rather than _dwarf_, as being puny or incomplete.
=dyd him to=, III, 72, 328: betook himself. See =do to=.
=dyde adowne=, III, 67, 226: put down.
=dye=, IV, 260, 16: dey, dairy-woman. See =day=.
=dyght=, III, 72, 320, dedes that here be dyght: prepared, concerted.
=dyght= (to the deth), III, 309, 40: done, brought.
=dyghtande=, III, 75, 388: making ready (but seems to be intended for a
past participle).
=dyke===wall, IV, 295, =E= 6; 296, =F= 6. castle-dyke, II, 410, 4.
garden-dyke, II, 370, 5; 371, 5. fail dyke, I, 253, 2: turf wall.
hollan dyke, II, 195, 32; nettle-dyke, II, 463, 22: wall on which
hollies, nettles, are growing.
=dyke=, III, 441, 36: ditch.
=dyne=, garre me ones to dyne, III, 296, 24: give me my dinner,
my fill, beat thoroughly. (Able to give the greatest prince in
Christendome a mortall breakfast, if he had been the king’s enemie.
Holinshed’s Chronicle, III, 512, ed. 1807-8. G. L. Kittredge.)
=dynt(e)=, =dint=, III, 309, 42, 45, 46: stroke, hit, lunge, shot (of
spear, arrow). See =dunts=.
=dypper=, V, 283, 5, 15: deeper.
=dysheryte=, III, 60 f., 87, 95: dispossessed.
=dyspyse=, II, 478, 6: cause to be despised.
=dyth=, =deythe=, I, 334, 7: dight, furnished or built.
E
=E an O me=, =E an O an O me=, V, 275 a, 9, 10: simple exclamations,
having here the character of a refrain.
=é=, II, 217, 24: =ae=, only.
=ea=, V, 214 b, 3: to be dropped; remnant of a corrected reading.
=eaen=, V, 267, 4: even.
=eaght=, the, the eighth.
=ealky=, =elky=, =eke a=, =ylk a=, =ilka=, V, 220 f., 4, 5, 8: each
(one).
=ean=, V, 165, 2: eyes. See =ee=.
=ear=, I, 395, 1; 480, 54: early.
=ear=, eer, ever.
=eare=, =ere=, =ayre=, heir.
=eare=, _v._, I, 15, 12: plough.
=earn=, V, 115, 6: curdle.
=eartly=, II, 494, 1: earthly.
=eased=, III, 61, 101 (of horses): cared for, attended to.
=eased we=, V, 239, 35: used (as in 33), familiar with.
=easer=, IV, 315, 14; V, 271, 14: maple (mazer). See =ezar=.
=easterling= (born), V, 54, 3, 4 (in =A=, 48, 3, 4, stranger borne).
The boy learned too fast for a native. Easterling, a native of the
Hanse towns, or of the East of Germany. Halliwell.
=eathe=, III, 408, 33: easy.
=eather=, V, 224, 25; 241, No 156, 6: other.
=eay=, =eayn=, V, 238, 18, 28; 248, 18: eye(s). See =ee=.
=edder-flowe=, IV, 450 a, 2: adder-morass.
=ee=, III, 4, 9; 11, =K=: eye. _Pl._ een, eeen, II, 158 f., 5, 8, 18;
160, 4, 7, 17. See =ean=, =eay=, =eghne=, =eyen=.
=ee= (of a cup), IV, 221, 9: may be eye, top, brim.
=ee=, the table ee, II, 409, 20 (Motherwell, table eye): seems to be
nonsense; _edge_ does not suit. =b=, the printed copy, has _play_.
=ee= (A. S. ege, O. Eng. eȝe, eie, etc.), IV, 3, 15: awe; an
unsatisfying emendation of _lee_, _lye_ (eie would be better; I have
not found ee). The Campbell MS. has fee, meant, I suppose, for value.
=ee-bree=, III, 11, =K=; IV, 257, 5: eye-brow.
=een=, IV, 257, 13: one.
=een=, _v._, III, 495, 23, 24; IV, 517, 21: even, make of the same
value.
=eenin=, IV, 169, =F= 1: evening.
=eerie=, =eiry=, I, 342, 24, 36; 355, 46; II, 466, 39; IV, 175, =N= 5;
368, =G= 8: dreary, gloomy, weird, exciting superstitious dread.
=eft=, eft agayne = eftsones, III, 83, 238; 87, 238.
=eftsones=, III, 68, 238: hereafter, another time.
=eghne=, I, 327, 23: eyn, eyes.
=eh=, IV, 512, 11: exclamation of grief.
=eight=, the eight, I, 55, 9; 56, =B= 10; =C= 5, 11: eighth.
=eihte=, I, 244, 11: possession, valuable thing.
=eild=, III, 162, 46: age.
=ein=, I, 134, 13: een, evening.
=eiry=. See =eerie=.
=eisin=, IV, 331 b, 2: serve.
=eke=, also. At I, 133, =L= 1, _eke ... eke_ seems to be wrongly used
for _either ... or_.
=eke a=, III, 298, 57: each (one). See =ealky=.
=elbouthe=, I, 334, 5: elbow (the th for g or ȝ).
=eldelike=, I, 334, 5: elderly.
=eldern=, =eldren=, =eldrin=, I, 350, 12, 13; II, 20, 2; 26, 2; 27, 2;
61, 2; IV, 485, 28: old.
=eldrige=, =elridge= (hill, king), II, 58 f., 14, 15, 23, 25-7,
36==Scottish elric, elvish. The eldrige king has something of the
character of the ellor-gást family in Beówulf (spirits who belong
outside of mankind), haunts a hill, is a pagan, no one that has coped
with him has come off alive. The lady who attends him, however, seems
in no way extra-human. elric hour, I, 140, =N= (Pinkerton): hour when
elves, or bad spirits, are active. In Elrick’s hill, II, 62, 8, 10,
etc., the adjective is improperly turned into a noun. See =elrick=.
=element=, I, 286, 44: air, sky.
=elephant=, III, 211, 2: a species of scabious is so called, according
to Halliwell.
=elfin=, =elphin=, =elphan=, _n._ and _adj._, I, 15 ff.; 341, 15; IV,
456, 13: elf, elvish. I, 346, 15 (the Elfins); 350, 28; IV, 456 f., 14,
15, 19, 24: fairy-land.
=Elfins=, the, I, 346, 15: fairy-land. See =elfin=.
=elfish=, _n._, I, 343, 15: elf.
=elflyn=, of the elves.
=Elizium=, V, 158, 16: Elysian.
=elky=. See =ealky=.
=ell=, =ill=, =ull=, _v._, will.
=ellish=, III, 481, 9: ellis, ells. (h may well be dropped.)
=elphan=, =elphin=, _n._ and _adj._ See =elfin=.
=elrick=, =elritch=, _adj._, II, 63, 18; I, 357, 53: elvish. Elrick’s,
62 f., 8, 10, 16, 21: as a substantive. See _eldrige_.
=embowered=, _pret._, II, 503, 13: used as bower.
=eme=, III, 296, 26: uncle. emys, III, 98, 38: uncle’s.
=-en=, =-n=, =-yn=, sign of plural of verb, I, 244, 9; II, 5 b, 3; 54,
61; 445, 62; III, 13, 2, 3, 4, 8; 35, 31; 63, 134; 92, 11; 104, 7; 105,
9, 11; 277, 15; 284, 3, 8, 17; 285, 30, 32, 33; 286, 48, 49; 404, 3;
406, 28; etc.
=end=, =en=, end. hous(e)-end, -en, I, 254, variations of Twa Corbies,
=b=, 1, =c=, 1; toun-end, V, 267 f., 10, 11, 24. on end, IV, 353, 18:
to an end.
=-end=, termination of the present participle. sighend, I, 55 f., =B=
7, 9.
=endres daye=, þis, I, 326, 1: the other day.
=eneuch=, =enew=, I, 102, 5; III, 318, 6; 440, 10; IV, 117, 8; 384, 8:
enough.
=enlured=, III, 36, 45: allured (which is the word in =b=).
=enter plea att my iollye=, III, 278, 32: unintelligible to me. iollye
should probably be iollytë. The king will have the head to serve some
inscrutable purpose when he is making merry.
=enterprise=, _v._, I, 411, 9; III, 230, 70: undertake.
=entertain=, III, 153, 18: take into service.
=envye=, III, 296 f., 12, 30: ill-will, hostility, spite.
=ere=, V, 300, 3: eer, ever.
=ere=, =eare=, =ayre=, _n._, heir.
=ere=, _v._, heir.
=ere=, II, 216, 19; 470, 44; IV, 242 a; 378, 6; 433, 31: till.
=ere syne=, II, 362, 34: ere then, before that.
=erlis=, I, 329, 60: should probably be _ernis_, eagle’s (_herons_,
_yrons_ in other texts).
=erlish=, I, 355, 49: elrish, elvish.
=ermeline=, ermine.
=ern=, IV, 490, 12: iron.
=-ës=, =-is=, =-ys=, =-us=, preserved in _gen._ _sing._, I, 69, 52; II,
25, 7; III, 40, n.; 98, 21, 35; 99, 47 f., 52; 100, 64 f.; 111, 33, 36,
42, etc. In the _plural_, I, 72, 15; III, 40, n.; 97, 2, 3, 20; 98, 25,
33, 37, 40-2; 100, 63, 82; 109, 1; 111, 29, 31-37, 45 f., etc.
=esk=, I, 355, 50: newt. See =ask=.
=ettled=, IV, 47, 2: purposed.
=even cloth=, I, 324, 16: smooth, with the nap well shorn.
=even down=, IV, 110, 10, 11: flat to the ground. V, 124, =B= 14:
perpendicular. 225 b, No 78: straight down (of heavy rain).
=even forward=, I, 324, 3: straight forward.
=even up=, I, 305, 7: straight up.
=evening-mass=, II, 168, =A=, 4: a religious service at the end of the
day (as in Romeo and Juliet, IV, 1).
=euery= syde, III, 75, 398: each side of.
=euerych=, =euerichone=, =euerechone=, =euerilkon=, =everlke ane=, I,
334, 5; III, 22, 4; 65, 174; 67, 230; 98, 30: each, each one.
=evidents=, IV, 40 b: title-deeds.
=evyll=, _adv._, III, 26, 93: ill. euyll go, III, 77, 429: ill walk.
=ew-bught.= See =bucht=.
=ewer=, IV, 19, 8: dug, udder.
=exaltre=, III, 90 b: axletree.
=examine=, II, 58, 15: put you to test.
=exite=, II, 125, =B= 22; excit, V, 223 a, No 65, =B= 22: amended to
_sight_ under the supposition that _exit_ must be impossible.
=exoner=, IV, 307, 42: exonerate.
=ey=, I, 415 b: egg.
=eye= (cote with one eye), III, 360, 117: window?
=eyen=, =eyne=, I, 472, 29; III, 74, 359: eyes. See =ee=.
=eylde het the=, III, 112, 62: yield, requite thee for it.
=eylyt=, I, 241 f., 5, 7: aileth.
=eyre=, _pl._, III, 113, 70: years.
=ezar=, II, 271, 17; 273, 23: maple. See =easer=, =masar=.
F
=f=, in Northern Scotch, often for wh; as, _fa_, _faa_, who; _fan_,
when; _far_, _faer_, where.
=fa=, IV, 260, 6; 261, 6: who.
=fa=, V, 118, =B= 10: fault.
=fa=, my lady cannot fa sic servants, I, 116, 11: have such fall to
her, put up with. fa frae her, II, 133, =D= 1: break off, give up.
=fa=, =fae=, IV, 256, 5; 337, f 2, 3, 7: from.
=faa=, V, 275 a, 8: who.
=face=, with a, III, 180, 12: with effrontery, boldness.
=fache=, fetch.
=fact=, III, 229, 32; IV, 11, 11: offence, crime.
=fadge.= fat fadge, II, 182, 8: “a lusty and clumsy woman.” Jamieson.
“_fadgy_, corpulent, unwieldy. _fudge_, a little, fat person. _North._”
Halliwell. “_fodge_, a fat person; evidently the same with _fadge_.”
Jamieson. A _dirty drab_ is the phrase corresponding to fat fadge, II,
194, 10 (fusom fag, IV, 469, =I= 10, 12). See =fag=, =fug=.
=fadther=, IV, 260, 7: father.
=fae=, =fay=, =fey=, =fee=, =fie=, I, 245, 6; III, 481 f., 30, 24; 489,
39; 490, 24; 492, 26; IV, 430, 2: (A. S. fǽge) destined to die.
=fae=, II, 184, 19; 196, 9: foe.
=fae=, IV, 165 f., 2, 10; 337 =f=, 2, 3, 7: frae, from. See =fa=.
=faein=, =faen=, =fawn=, fallen.
=faem=, =fame=, I, 68, 1; 70, 1; 86, 1; II, 24, 12; 25, =G= 14: foam,
sea.
=faer=, IV, 262, 15; 378 f., 6, 19: where.
=fag=, I, 304, =F= 2, 3; IV, 469, =I= 10, 12: a dirty drab. Cf. fusome
fug, described as a dirty drab, =B= 3-6; dirty slut, =C= 4; dirty
bitch, =E= 4; filthy foul flag, =G= 4. See =fadge=, =fug=.
=faikine=, III, 199, 24: faith.
=fail=, =feall=, =fell=, I, 304, =F= 6: turf.
=fail-dyke=, I, 253, 2: turf-wall.
=fails=, II, 365 f., 2, 3, 23: falls, befalls.
=fain=(=e=), =fayn=(=e=), II, 444, 48, 57; 453, 28; III, 100, 66; 298,
50; 309, 32: glad, pleased, eager. IV, 211, 13; V, 115, 2: fond. for
faine, III, 479, 40: for glad, for gladness.
=fainly=, joyfully, blithely.
=fair=, V, 26 f., 13, 39: far.
=fairlie=, =farlie=, =ferlie=, I, 324, 11; 325, =B= 9: wonder. gars me
fairlie, IV, 357, 2: causes me astonishment.
=fairly= (fields), IV, 57, =D= 1: fair, looking well.
=fait=, =faitt=, =fett=, V, 224, 18, 19; 274, 10; 278, 29: white.
=faith and troth=, to be, IV, 147, 34: to be in the relation of men who
have taken the engagement of mutual fidelity, sworn-brethren.
=fald=, =fall=, =fauld=, _n._, V, 105, =A= 3; 248, 21: fold.
=fall=, III, 76, 406: suit, become. well falls me, V, 25, 5: my luck is
good.
=fall=, V, 206 b, 8: _pret._ of fall, unless there is ellipsis of did.
=falling=, III, 470 a: sunset.
=fallow’s deed=, I, 448, 7-10: deed of a bad fellow seems unlikely.
felloun’s? farlie, strange?
=falsh=, IV, 442, 1, 10, 12: false.
=falyf=, III, 13, 4: fallow.
=fame=, =faem=, I, 68, 1; 86, 1: foam, sea.
=fa’n=, IV, 6, 7; V, 249, 7: fallen.
=fan=, =fand=, found.
=fan=, IV, 262, 19; V, 110, 4; 116, 1; 184, 49: when.
=fancy=, fell in her, V, 272 b, 2: fell in love with her. faen deap in
my fancy, 273, 12.
=fand=, found.
=fang=, III, 160, 5: fastening. (164, =b= 5, whang.) Perhaps North
Scotch for whang.
=fankit=, IV, 27, 28: entangled, obstructed.
=far=, III, 513 b, 1-4: fair.
=far=, =fare=, =faur=, I, 165, =N= 1; II, 191, 23; 335, =N= 3-5; V,
224, 17, 18; 227, 8; 248, 22: where.
=fare=, go, I, 170, 4; II, 222, 21; III, 22, 6; 98, 24; 340, 23, 24;
421, 43; V, 183, 22, 32. I fare you well, II, 207, =A= 1: I bid you
fare well. _pret._ foor. _p. p._ forn.
=fare=, go on, comport oneself: III, 188, 6; 357, 59.
=fare=, _n._, III, 160, 11, 20: going on, procedure. III, 76, 403: (in
the modern sense) fortune, experience.
=fared=, favored, well-fared, well-(weel-)fard, weel-fart,
well-(weel-)faird, weil-faurit, weill-(weel-)faurd, well-fard, II,
268, 21; 317, =B a= 21; 408, 26; 462, 7, 8; IV, 220, 8, 1, 4; 223, 3;
274, 2; 434, 2, 3; V, 16, 1; 154, 10; 163, 12; 177, 14: well-favored,
handsome.
=farei=, =farie=, =Farie= (MS. farie), V, 165 f., 6, 9, 10: should be
emended to Fyvie. See V, 305 f.
=farer=, I, 369, 51; V, 91 f., 4, 8, 12, etc.; 208, 9: further.
=ffarley=, _adj._, ffarley thinge, III, 92, 9: strange.
=farlies=, =farleys=, =ferlies=, I, 325, =B= 9; IV, 147, 26: wonders,
novelties. See =fairlie=.
=far sought=, was, V, 161, 6: required long to reach.
=fart=, weel-fart, IV, 223, 3: fared, favored. See =fared=.
=fas=, =fase=, III, 299, 6; V, 248, 5: false.
=fa’s=, IV, 399, 46: fall, _1st per. sing. pres._
=fash=, IV, 493, 21, 23; V, 238, 22: meddle, make trouble, or, perhaps,
trouble yourself. fashed himself, IV, 69, 18, 19: got himself into
trouble by meddling.
=fashes=, II, 238, 4: troubles (emendation for _fishes_; possibly we
should read _freshes_).
=fast=, fast they bad, III, 26, 90: strenuously. stare, look, III, 62,
122; V, 82, 35: intently. weep, II, 240, 3: copiously. fast unto, III,
131, 6: close down to.
=Fastness=, IV, 103, 15: originally meant for _faustness_, falseness.
=fat=, =fatt=, III, 281, 4; IV, 260, 2; 357, =C= 5, 7, 9, etc.; V, 111,
18; 214 b, 5: what.
=fate they coud na fa=, II, 130 1: from it (fae it, frae it) they could
not desist.
=fatten a=, V, 221, 22; 247, 2: what, what sort of.
=faue=, V, 260, 7: fie!
=fauld-dyke=, IV, 199, 11: fold-wall,
=faun=, fallen.
=faur=, V, 124, 2: where. See =far=.
=faurit=, =faurd=. See =fared=.
=fause=, false.
=fause fa thee=, III, 435, =F= 5: may treachery befall thee, be thy lot!
=fave=, V, 275 b, 8: five.
=fawe=, IV, 505, 54: fall.
=fawn=, IV, 277, 13: fallen.
=fay=, _adj._ See =fae=.
=fay=, III, 74, 362; 110, 13; V, 85, 16: faith.
=ffayne=, III, 297 f., 48, 50: glad. III, 100, 66: fond of, pleased
with. See =fain=.
=fe=, =feea=, wage, etc. See =fee=.
=feall=, =feale=, =fail=, =fell=, IV, 262, 29: turf.
=Feansell=, =feanser=, V, 55, 30: emended to _le and fell_.
=fear=, II, 470, 51: frighten (us from dancing).
=fearder=, =feardest=. See =feart=.
=feare=, in, V, 15, 18: together. See =fere=.
=fearsome=, II, 394, 18: fearful.
=feart=, =feert=, III, 262 f., 11, 13, 15, 17; IV, 456, 15; 498, 12,
14, 16: frightened. fearder, III, 267, 13: more frightened. feardest,
III, 162, 55: most frightened.
=feather=, IV, 512 b, 2, 9: father.
=feathern=, IV, 482 f., 4, 9, 13: feathers.
=fecht=, =feght=, _v._, II, 319, 16; 391, 16, 17; III, 370, 15; IV,
224, 14, 15: fight. See =ficht=.
=feckless=, I, 429, 28 (dress): weak, feeble, effectless, miserable,
silly. (here==inefficacious, of no account.)
=fedred=, =ifedred fre=, III, 69, 275; 70, 288: feathered liberally,
handsomely.
=fee= (A. S. feoh), I, 327, 16 (wylde fee): animals. I, 58, 2; 434, 31;
II, 25, 7; 172 f., 40, 42, 45; 442, 8; 447, 8; III, 94, 51; IV, 18,
17: wealth, possessions, property, having. I, 182, 2; II, 31, =N= 4;
114, 17; 123, 15; 379, 1; 403, 9; III, 433, 12; 435, =F= 6; 436, 14;
IV, 514, 21: pay, wages. II, 117, 5, 6; III, 163, 72; 299, 5: reward.
I, 328, 57: tribute. gentylman of clothynge and of fee, III, 30, 165:
entitled to a regular stipend. knights fee, III, 94, 51: land of the
value of £20 per annum (under Edward I., II.). See =foster of the fe=,
III, 28, 140. penny-fee(-fie), I, 491, 10; IV, 444, 10: gift.
=fee=, _v._, I, 211, 3, 4: hire. (gae fee, go hire yourself.) See
=feet=, _pret._
=fee=, =fey=, doomed. See =fae=.
=feed=, =feid=, III, 436, 2; 464, 2; 468, =c= 2; IV, 2, 9; 36, 3; 37
f., 3, 10: feud.
=feed=, =fode=, =food=, I, 309, =B= 1: child, man.
=feed= about your fire, II, 184, 13: the sense _eat_ seems unlikely.
Possibly, to move about, to sit or move restlessly (like feik).
=feed=, _pret._ of feed, V, 236, 18: fed.
=feel=, =fiel=, II, 175, 1; 176, =C= 3; IV, 262, 29: fool.
=feel daft=, II, 410, 8: foolishly fond.
=feel===fell: very.
=feere=, =fere=, =feire=, =feer=, mate, consort (fere): I, 295, 43; II,
58, 2. V, 15, 13: fellow (contemptuously). See =feires=.
=feert.= See =feart=.
=feet=, _pret._, IV, 355 b, =D=: hired. See =fee=.
=feeties=, V, 209 b, 4: feet.
=feght=, fight. See =fecht=.
=feid=: feud. See =feed=.
=feires=, =feiries=, I, 295, 43; IV, 2 =f=., 7, 20, 22: comrades,
consorts. See =feere=.
=felaushyp=, III, 67, 229: abstract for concrete, our fellows.
=felischepe=, fellowship.
=fell=, =fail=, =feale=, =feall=, IV, 266, =E= 29: turf.
=fell=, III, 300, 9; IV, 500, 10: skin, hide.
=fell=, III, 439 f., 4, 8, 11; IV, 455, 15; V, 55, 30: high land, fit
only for pastures, a wild hill. fells, III, 299 f., =C= 3, 6; IV, 26,
6; 500, 3: chain of hills.
=fell= (yard), I, 287, 63: severe, cutting. (spice), III, 388, 3:
hot, biting. IV, 258, 20: strange, prodigious. fell thing to see, II,
132, 27: strange. freezes fell, IV, 93, 7; 105, 7; 514, 17: sharply,
severely.
=fell=, _v._, II, 419, 46: kill.
=fell=, =feel=, I, 478, 14; II, 344, 15; V, 183, 20: very.
=fellen=, _p. p._ of fell, III, 483, 7: felled (a tree).
=fells=, befalls. well fells me, IV, 437, 25: good for me!
=felon= (the kynggis), III, 98, 21, 22: traitor, rebel.
=felt=, III, 146, 14: should be emended _delt_.
=fences=, cock shall crow fences three, II, 8, 10, 11: evidently bouts,
_coups_; but I have not found this usage elsewhere.
=fend=, =fende=, V, 283, 2; 284, 22: fiend.
=fend=, _v._, III, 300, 12; IV, 500, 13: provision.
=fend=, III, 440, 12: defence.
=ffend.= that ffend I Godys fforbod, III, 113, 72: seems to be a
double expression for deprecation,--I inhibit, protest, God forbid
(see =forbode=). “I fende to Goddes forbode it should be so: a Dieu ne
playse qu’aynsi il aduiengne. Palsgrave, p. 548, col. 1.” Hales and
Furnivall, Percy MS., III, 554.
=fende=, III, 61, 106; 117, 8: defend.
=fer dayes=, III, 57, 16: far on in the day.
=ferd=, III, 99, 52: fear.
=fere=, fere love, IV, 219, =B= 3, 5: fair. (fair love, V, 260, =E= 5.)
=fere=, =feere=, II, 58, 2; III, 22, 5: mate, consort.
=fere=, in, on, III, 57, 27; 59, 61; 67, 231; 77, 423; 98, 38: in
company, together. See =feare=.
=fferli=, I, 334, 7: fairly, civilly.
=ferlicke=, I, 334, 8: strange. See =ferly=.
=ferly=, =ferlie=, =ferley=, =farlie=, I, 325, =C= 1, 10; 329, 4; 333,
2; 424, =d= 11; III, 440, 20; IV, 455, 1, 13; 524, 10; V, 244, 8, 12:
marvel, wonder, news.
=ferly=, _adj._, ferly strife, III, 97, 13: strange, extraordinary. See
=ffarley=.
=ferra-cow=, =farrow-cow=, I, 224, =I= 9, 11; II, 261, 8: a cow not
producing a calf for the current year.
=fesh=, =fess=, III, 319, 15; IV, 94, 14; 257, 1, 2: fetch.
=fet.= See =fett=.
=fetchie=, III, 520 b (note to II, 272, 22): tricky, practising
fetches? Cf. wylie, st. 21.
=fetcht a race=, II, 454 f., 54, 58: took a swift preliminary run.
=fett=, I, 432, 5: fetch, _pret._ fet, fette, III, 31, 14; 63, 145; 64,
172; 298, 67.
=fett=, V, 224, 18: white.
=ffettle=, III, 92 ff., 15, 37, 56: make ready.
=feud=, II, 279 a, 16: contest of feeling?
=feughten=, _p. p._ of fecht, ficht, fight, I, 109, 15.
=feume=, IV, 473, 44: foam.
=fey=, I, 245, 6; IV, 44, 4; 430, 2: destined to death. See =fae=.
=ffeyt=, faith.
=feyther=, V, 296 a: father.
=ficht=, =fecht=, =feght=, _v._, IV, 84 f., 16, 26, 27, etc.: fight.
_pret._ focht, foucht. _p. p._ foughten, feughten.
=fie.= See =fee=.
=fie=, doomed. See =fae=.
=fiel=, =feel=, II, 176, =C= 3: fool.
=fieldert=, V, 126, 1: fieldward, away (from where they were).
=fiend thing=, IV, 23, =A c= 18: devil of a thing.
=fift=, II, 75, 6: fifth.
=file=, _v._, I, 135, 4: defile.
=file=, IV, 494, 33: while, till.
=fileshap=, V, 260, 16: fellowship.
=fill=, full.
=fill=, I, 403, 10: follow, pursue.
=filtt=, _p. p._, III, 490, 20: filed.
=fin=, find.
=fin=, craig and fin, II, 28, 27: whin, whin-stone, synonymous with
greenstone, but applied to any hard rock.
=finikin=, III, 174, 18: fine, handsomely dressed.
=fire-beams=, IV, 96, 3: should be fire-boams (bombs), as at 99, =G= 8,
=H= 6.
=fire-boams=, bombs. See =fire-beams=.
=firlot=, IV, 46, 3; 379, 13: the fourth part of a fou, which is a dry
measure varying from two to six Winchester bushels (a Winchester bushel
being of a slightly less capacity than the present imperial bushel).
=firmaty=, V, 114, 3: frumenty; in old cookery, wheat pottage, with
flesh in it; hulled wheat boiled in milk and seasoned with cinnamon,
sugar, etc.
=fit=, =fitt=, =fyt=, =fytte=, II, 54, 60: song. I, 329, 62; III, 25,
51; 27, 97; 308, 24: division of a song. (A. S. fitt.)
=fit=, I, 131, =G= 4, 5; 164, =J= 6; 302, =A= 7; 472, 28; 491, 26; IV,
119, 6: foot, feet.
=fit=, III, 142, 32; V, 240, 5: ready.
=fitches= (of deer), II, 132, 19: flitches, sides.
=fite= (bread), V, 220, 6: (probably) wheat. See =white bread=.
=fitt=, III, 465, 21: it is better to read sitt, as in Caw’s text.
=fitted=, IV, 18, 9: footed.
=fitted=, II, 485, 18, 31; V, 103 a: suitably treated or served. V,
132, 2: ready, disposed.
=fittie=, IV, 450 a, 4: foot.
=fivesome=, III, 472, 3: five together.
=flaff=, IV, 470, 20: flap, fan.
=flag=, I, 305, 3, 4; V, 213, 3, 4: corruption of _fag_, drab, slut.
See =fag=.
=flain in=, IV, 224, 23: correct to _fla_ or _flai_ (flew) _in_?
=flamboy=, V, 298, 7: flambeau, torch.
=flat=, II, 258, 45, 46: highest and lowest layer of a grave.
=flatte=, IV, 504, 32: positively determined on.
=flattered=, =flottered= (on the faem), II, 25 =G= 14; 27, 22: flitted,
floated (O. Eng. floteren, Germ. flattern).
=flattering= (toung), II, 144, 8: fluttering, waggling. flattering
tongue that flutters, II, 154, 21.
=flaugh=, =flaw=, _pret._ of fly, I, 286, 56; 397, =E= 8; II, 314, 9.
=flaw=, tell me without a flaw, V, 41, 28: lie.
=flay=, frighten. See =fley=.
=flay= (A. S. fléon), fly. _pret._ flaw, flaugh.
=fleachy=, II, 470, 53: infested with fleas.
=flear=, =fleer=, I, 454, 11; IV, 392, 7; 410, 26: floor.
=flee=, _v._, V, 304 b, 4: flay. _pret._ fleed.
=flee=, not a, IV, 53, 12: not a whit (fly, for a small thing). I
count him lighter than a flee, etc., III, 480, 23; 482, 19; 488, 26
(flea); 490, 15. left him not a flee, IV, 53, 12.
=fleechin=, I, 424, d 11; II, 32, =Q= 2: wheedling, cajoling.
=fleed=, _pret._, V, 304 b, 4: flayed.
=fleed=, =flied=, V, 257, 7, 17: frightened. See =fleg=.
=fleed=, IV, 348, 14; 349, 9: flood.
=fleer=, I, 69, 39; 298, 4; 452, 14: floor. See =flear=.
=fleet=, flute.
=fleg=, =fley=, =flay= (A. S. flégan, Old Eng. fleyen), V, 253 b, No
203, 3: frighten.
=flesse=, V, 283, 18: flesh.
=flex=, V, 283, 11, 21: flax.
=fley=, =flay=, III, 457, =A= 2; 474, 36: frighten. _pret._ fleed,
flied. See =fleg=.
=flight=, I, 21, note *: dispute and scold.
=flink=, care a flink, V, 259, 3: care a whit.
=flirry=, I, 424, d 10: blossom.
=flo=, =flon(e)= (A. S. flá, flán), I, 327, 10; III, 13, 5, 15: arrow.
=flotterd.= See =flattered=.
=flourishd=, I, 398, 13: adorned.
=flow=, IV, 79, 14: moss with a spring in it, morass.
=flower=, I, 352, 3, 4: get flowers for, or deck with flowers.
=flutters=, II, 154, 21: waggles,
=flyte=, =flight=, III, 414 b: dispute, debate, scold (here Percy’s
word, replacing _flout_ and _mock_).
=forward=, V, 283, 4: compact.
=focht=, _pret._ of fecht, ficht, fight, IV, 167, =C= 10. _p. p_.
feughten, foughten.
=fode.= See =feed=.
=folde=, _pret._, III, 76, 407: folded.
=folle=, foal.
=folye=, I, 327, 17: a very unlikely word (unless we may understand it
to have the meaning of Old Fr. foler, errer çà et là). Another text has
balye (Fr. baillie), which gives a good sense, under thine own control,
in thine own custody. (folye, in 17, may be caught from 18.)
=fone=, II, 196 b, 2, 8: foes.
=fond=, fond to see him sleep, II, 269, 26: doted, was foolishly happy?
(But probably corrupt: cf. fondly seen thee sleep, 271, 30.)
=food=, III, 287, 61: man. See =feed=.
=ffooder=, II, 46, 41: (cf. Ger. fuder, cart-load, the largest or one
of the largest measures for corn, liquids, and other things), here,
tun, as is clear from _auger_, 41.
=foonshief=, V, 206 a, 8: foundation, bottom sheaf of a stack.
=foor=, V, 99, =C= 4: fared, went.
=foote=, goe two foote, III, 188, 6: corrupt for fold; cf. 267, 9.
=for=, =ffor=. ye (yes), for God, nay, for God, III, 61, 105, 107; 69,
259, 267, 269, 271; 76, 413, 414: by.
=for=, II, 124, 38: before.
=for=, IV, 21, 6; 438, 9; V, 16 f., 2, 5, 29: where.
=for= _when_ but _would be expected_, II, 58, 11, 13; 59, 22 (see II,
57 b). for and, V, 76, 25; 144, 9.
=for no, I=, 183, 25; II, 256, =K= 3: phrase of refusal, obscurely
elliptical, after the manner of _why, no_; or corruptly for _fye, no_
(cf. II, 158, 2).
=forbears=, I, 206, 2; II, 63, 19: forefathers.
=forbode=, =forbott=, ouer Goddes, III, 29, 162; 123, 18; V, 199 a,
64: God forbid, against God’s prohibition; so A. S. ofer cinges bebod,
against the king’s order; ofer dryhtnes word, against the word of the
Lord, etc. Elliptically, God’s forbod, as III, 37, 79; 180, 16. III,
113, 72: see =ffend=.
=forbye=, =forebye=, I, 402, 1; II, 154, 8, 9; IV, 224, 17; 433, 16:
near by. I, 86, 33; II, 70, 22: apart, aside. IV, 203, 2: further.
=forbye=, =forebye=, =forby=, I, 305, 1; IV, 203, 2; V, 17, 32; 213 a,
1: besides.
=force=, no, III, 57, 13; 67, 227: no matter.
=forces.= for (thro, V, 306, 8) a’ her father’s forces, V, 166, 11: in
spite of all her father could do?
=fordoo=, destroy.
=fore=, first fore love, II, 191, 22, 25, 28, 29: earlier.
=forebye.= See =forbye=.
=fforefend=, III, 340, 26; 407, 5: avert, forbid.
=forehammer=, I, 21 b, 12; III, 474, 34: sledge-hammer, the large
hammer, which strikes before the smaller.
=foremost man=, 1, 146, 12; IV, 412, 19: apparently the bridegroom’s
“best man.”
=forenent=, =fornent=, I, 221 f., =E= 7, 17; 504, 7; IV, 77, 3; 288,
=F= 2; 451 a, 3, 5: over against, in the face of.
=foresteed=, V, 237, 28: protection, protector.
=foret=, I, 244, 10: forth.
=forfaulted=, V, 194, 68, 73: forfeited.
=forfouchald=, IV, 4 b, 28: very much tired. (Scottish wauchle,
forwauchld, forfaughlit.)
=forfoughen=, IV, 3, 28: tired out with fighting.
=forgone=, forgo.
=foriete=, forgotten.
=forked=, I, 492, 7; IV, 445, p. 100, =B= 7: of blood from a wound,
issued in divided jets.
=forl=, V, 116, 2; 117, 3: whorl, fly of a spinning-rock.
=for-lee=, she’ll come in att your formast an gee out att yer forlee,
IV, 377, 5; V, 275 b, 5: she’ll cross your bows and sail round you,
coming out at your fore-lee or lee-bow.
=forlorn=, I, 450, 8; II, 114, 15, 16; III, 124, 13; 212, 16: lost.
has him forlorn, II, 147, 17: causatively. II, 123, 13; V, 41, 23:
destroyed, killed. I, 183, 42; III, 145, 9; V, 210 b, 2: destitute,
deserted.
=forn=, _p. p_. of fare, II, 29, 6, 9. be weel forn: see that ye have
fared well, eat and drink heartily.
=fornents=, =forenent=, =fornent=, II, 197 a, 15: opposite to, directly
against.
=forren=, foreign.
=forsake=, forsake a ring, I, 192 a: let go, part with. forsake that
I haue promised, III, 29, 156: withdraw from. forsake this sorowe,
III, 73, 341: decline to have to do with this sad matter. II, 454, 52:
decline as adversary in a combat. III, 360, 106: refuse an appointment.
IV, 172, 1; 173, =K= 2: refuse suitors. III, 149, 33; IV, 181, 2: give
up, renounce.
=forth=, find forth, III, 148, 17; choose forth, III, 440, 9: out.
thou maye well fforth for to pay mee, II, 444, 58; thou mayst well
forth, thou shalt pay me, 449, 63; (=b=, mayst forthwith): go on, or,
make out?
=fforthi=, I, 329, 60: therefore.
=forth withall=, III, 127, 16 (play): forthwith.
=forthynketh=, III, 28, 137: repenteth.
=fortune be my chance=, III, 308, 21==my hap it were, 311, 16.
=forward=, III, 284, 11: van.
=forward=, V, 283, 4: compact.
=foster of the fe=, III, 28, 140: “A person who had for some service
to the crown a perpetual right of hunting in a forest on paying to the
crown a certain rent for the same.” Halliwell.
=fot=, I, 141 b, 10: fetched.
=fothe=, III, 112, 51: foot.
=fou=, II, 25, 8; 26, 11: a firlot, which see.
=fou=, V, 270, 9: how.
=fou=, =fow=, full. fou drunken, II, 144, 4.
=foucht=, _pret._, II, 391, 21: fought. IV, 200, 1: toiled. _p. p._
foughten, II, 418, 32; III, 277, 22; 281, 14; 333, 30.
=fouie=, IV, 20, 10: well off, “possessing a comfortable independence.”
Jamieson.
=fouled=, a bill was fouled against him, III, 463 a: (equivalent to)
found; he was indicted as guilty.
=foumart=, IV, 389 b: polecat.
=found=, III, 23, 15: provided for.
=foure-eard foole=, II, 483, 7: as denoting a double ass?
=fousome=, =fusom=(=e=), I, 302, =B= 3, 5, 6; 304, 2, 3: (fulsome)
disgustingly filthy.
=fow=, =fou=, II, 273, 35; III, 490, 13; IV, 168, =D= 14, 15: full.
=fowd=, V, 304 b: sheep-fold.
=fowk=, I, 245, 6: folk.
=frae=, =fray=, from. be frae, IV, 433, 21: remain away from.
=fraine=, _v._, I, 334, 6, 7, 10: question.
=frame=, IV, 78, 4: succeed. sae weel we frame: we are doing, or
beginning so well.
=frank=, of horses kept in a close, you keep them all both frank and
free, II, 450, 64: apparently, fat. Free is a much abused word, and the
only apt meaning here would be, liberally treated. In =A= 444, 59, you
keepe them ranke and royallye.
=ffrankely=, II, 440, 13: freely.
=free=, _n._, I, 334, 8: (complimentary term for man) noble, etc.
=free=, _adj._, is used in a great variety of senses, and is often
indefinite and hardly more than a rhyme word: bounteous, gracious,
of noble birth or rank, independent, unrestricted, exempt, spirited,
valorous, beautiful, precious, excellent in any way. The danger will be
in assigning too positive a meaning to the word. of Mary, III, 420 f.,
29, 44. lady, ladies free, I, 324, =A= 8; 328, 52; 464, 5; V, 87, 39;
279 a. a true-love free, IV, 461, 22. God make you safe and free (your
own master?), I, 427, 2; II, 177, 28; 421, 22. castles free, I, 465,
6; 474, 21. lands sae free, I, 474, 25. tocher free, II, 380, 33; 383,
26; 385, 27. Clymme of the Clowgh so fre, Little John so free, III, 26,
96; 154, 2. freyke fulle fre, III, 308, 30. of courage free, V, 86, 31.
chrystall free, II, 52, 17. gold soe free, V, 49, 23. gowd and jewels
free, I, 474, 23. silver free, II, 69, 9; 445, 64; 450, 70. money
ffeyre and ffre, III, 113, 82. metal free, III, 300, 7; 368 f., 12,
14; IV, 372, 7; (nonsense in IV, 404, 29). staff of oke so free, III,
138, 15. Less definite are the following: Couentrye faire and free,
Derby Hills so free, Cannongate-side so free, III, 284, 17; 323, 10;
386, 10; seas so free, IV, 498, 6; water soe free, V, 51, 68; forest
frie, V, 191 f., 8, 12, 23, 28, 34; learning my lesson free, I, 438,
=B= 7; chariot, coach, free, I, 475, 44; IV, 410, 29; 462, 35. horses
kept free, II, 450, 64: liberally. going free, IV, 289, 7: not under
control, running off. free of grace, V, 20, 24: void of grace, cf. 43.
=free=, _adv._, arowes ifedred fre, III, 69, 275; 70, 288: in handsome
style. ring she brake so free, I, 470, 26: generously (cf. II, 450, 64).
=freely=, _adj._, freely feed, I, 309, =B= 1: of noble birth, or
beautiful.
=freely= (naked), I, 508, 10: entirely.
=freits=, III, 434, 23: superstitious notions concerning omens.
=freke=, =freck=, =freake=, =freyke=, III, 298, 58; 308, 30; 309, 32,
47: bold man, man. (A. S. freca.)
=frem=, foreign.
=frembde=, _adv._, frembde bested, III, 63, 138: in the position of a
stranger (other readings, frend, friend).
=frese=, frese your, our, bowes of ewe, III, 67, 215; 80, 215: seems to
be corrupt. The interpretation in Donaldson’s Supplement to Jamieson,
where “to frese a bow” (cited as if a phrase in full use) is said to
mean unbend, slack, would be entirely inappropriate here, since three
men are to make a desperate attack on two hundred and fifty (bende your
bowes, st. 218). =f=, =g= have, bend we, the required sense. Chese will
not do; they have but one bow each. leese==loose is possible, or dress,
or even, free.
=frichtit=, frighted.
=frienged=, =fringed=, gray, III, 481, 7; IV, 2, 5: referring to mane
and fetlocks, or perhaps to long fetlocks only.
=frightened= the boar will, I, 214, 3: afraid, etc.
=frith=, =frythe=, =firthe=, V, 191 f., 14, 24: enclosed land, wood.
=froom=, V, 296 a: from.
=froth-mill=, I, 305, 13: “wauk-mill, or fulling-mill, from the froth
of the soap.” But the expression seems not to have been heard of, and
froth-mill is more probably corrupt for frozen mill. See next word.
=frozen mill=, V, 213, 10: mill of which the lade, or canal conveying
the water, is frozen.
=frush=, IV, 185, 13: brittle.
=frythe=, I, 329, 3: enclosed land, preserve, deer-park, wood. See
=frith=.
=fue=, few.
=fug=, I, 302, 3, 5: slut, filthy woman. See =fag=, =flag=.
=fuird=, II, 471, 6: =ford=
=fule=, fowl.
=full=, IV, 356, =B= 1: proud.
=fun=, =fune=, V, 215, 15; 248, 9: whun, whin, furze.
=fundid=, I, 334, 8: went. (A. S. fundian.)
=fur=, II, 188, 12; III, 474, 41: furrow.
=fusom=, =fusome=, =fousome=, I, 302, =B= 3, 5, 6; 304, =F= 2, 3; IV,
469, 10, 12: offensive, disgusting (fulsome).
=fusty bandyas=, V, 72 b: a drinking-formula.
=fute=, =whute=, _v._, III, 123, 15: whistle.
=fynde=, III, 308, 24: Professor Skeat would read fyne, end.
=fynly=, III, 70, 284: goodly.
=fyt=, =fytt=, =fytte=. See =fit=.
G
=ga=, =gaa=, =gaw=, I, 420, 9, 10; 421, 9, 10; 423, 6, 7; V, 216, 9,
10: gall.
=ga=, =gaa=, I, 146, 5; V, 166, 8; 221, 16; 227, 6; 247, 3; 278, 25:
go. See =gang=, =gae=.
=ga=, =gaa=, IV, 513 a, 4; V, 221, 14; 242 a, 8; 268, 23: gave.
=gab=, _n._, I, 302, B 12: 422, 13: mouth.
=gab=, _v._, II, 149, 17: prate.
=gab=, _n._, I, 277 f.: joke, sportive brag.
=gabber reel=, I, 217, 8, 13: evidently a sprightly air. The root may
be Icelandic gabb, mockery. Perhaps simply gabber, jabber.
=gaberlunyie=, V, 115 f., 6-10; 119, 8, 9: beggar’s wallet.
=gad=, =gaud=, I, 342, 33; 344, 32; 348, 13, 19; 356, 42; III, 505, 21:
bar.
=gad=, =gade=, IV, 493 f., 13, 26: went.
=gaddie=, IV, 273, 1==gaudie: showy, dashing.
=gae=, =gai=, =gay=, =ga=, =gaa=, =gee=, =gie=, I, 69, 49, 62; 71, 39,
50; II, 304, 17; 468, 14; V, 166, 7; 278, 24: go. _pret._ gaed, gade,
gad, gaid, gied, gid, ged, good, gude. _p. p._ gaen, gain, gane, gaed.
_pres. p._ gain, gan, gaen, gane, gaun, gawen, etc. See =gang=.
=gae=, =gang=, =go down=, IV, 12, =C= 6, 7; 518, 2: be hanged.
=gae=, IV, 493 f., 23, 32: give.
=gae=, _pret._ of gie, I, 69, 55-58, 68; 71, 45-47; 75, 42; 108, 15:
gave.
=gae=, =gay=, =gey=, _adv._, V, 266, 9: (gay) pretty, rather.
=gaed=, =gade=, =gad=, =gaid=, _pret._ of gae, go, I, 102, =D= 4; 103,
=E= 3; 131, =G= 10; 439, 14, 15; II, 140, 17, 18; III, 453, 10; IV,
395, 6; 494, 26; V, 117, 11; 238, 27; 274 b, 6; 278, 24.
=gaed=, _p. p._, II, 70, 21; III, 473, 30: gone,
=gaen=, =gain=, =gane=, _p. p._ of gae, I, 70, 19; 108, 12; II, 468 f.,
15, 18, 22; IV, 507, 2; V, 237, 5: gone.
=gaen=, =gain=, _p. p._ of gie, gae, give, I, 469, 23 (gaen the table,
given a knock); III, 271, 13; V, 183, 34. So perhaps II, 212, 15; cf.
gain, fifth word below.
=gaeng.= See =gang=.
=gae-through-land=, IV, 428, 13: vagrant.
=gai.= See =gae=.
=gaid.= See =gaed=.
=gain.= See =gaen=.
=gain=, =gaine=, =gaing=, =gan=, =gaen=, =gane=, =gaun=, =gawn=,
=gawen=, _pres. p._ of gae, ga, go. gain, etc., I, 466, 15; II, 151,
=H= 2, 4; IV, 257, 8; V, 247, 15; 256, 6. gan, etc., II, 144, 12; IV,
210, 3; 507, 2.
=gain=, II, 212, 15, ye’s gain as much at mine: will get, receive. (But
will (have) given, dealt, is perhaps possible.)
=gain= (him at the law), IV, 286, 3: Icel. gegna, to proceed against?
=gain=, =gane= (Icel. gegna, to suit, be meet), II, 25, 8; 26, 11 (with
ellipsis of will): serve, suffice. II, 369, 15: suit my case.
=gaing.= See =gain=, _pres. p._
=gair=, pay meat and gair, V, 268, 27: gear, clothes an arms? or money
(a variation of pay meat and fee)?
=gair= (of clothes). See =gare=.
=gait=, III, 266 b; 272, 5; IV, 265, =A b= 10: way, road. See =gate=.
=galerie=, V, 140, =f=. 1, 5: for gallaly, galley (doubtful form).
=Galiard=, III, 459 f., 1, 4, etc.: _sobriquet_ of a freebooter of a
gay (perhaps dissipated) character.
=galla.= See =gallowe-tree=.
=gallage=, V, 247, 20: gallows.
=gallaly=, =galalie=, V, 136 f., 1-3, etc.; 141, =d= 1: galley,
prolonged for metrical convenience.
=gallan=, =gellant=, =gillan=, IV, 260, 4; 315 f., 1, 4-7, 18: gallant,
gayly or finely dressed.
=gallio=, V, 141, 2, 3, etc.==galley O.
=gallowe=, _sing._ (like A. S. galga), a gallowe, III, 92, 18. Cf. next
word.
=gallows=, the highest, I, 150, 13: one elevated above a triangular
framework, for special offenders; der höchste Galgen; see Grimm’s
Deutsches Wörterbuch, Galgen, column 1168 (?). Perhaps simply the
highest that is to be had.
=gallows-pin.= See =pin=.
=gallow-tree= (A. S. galgtréow; O. Eng. galwetre), III, 24, 43; 180,
17; 358, 71; 368, 10. gallou-, gallage-, galla-tree, gallow-pine, V,
247, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24.
=gam=, game.
=game=, had god game, V, 80, 46, 47: sport, amusement.
=gamene=, I, 328, 52: game, sport.
=gamon=, II, 59, 25: gamen, amuse himself.
=gan=, =gane=. See =gain=, _pres. p._
=gan=, =gon=, with infinitive: began, did.
=gane=, II, 26, 11: serve, suffice. See =gain=.
=gane=, _p. p._ of gae, go. See =gaen=.
=gane=, III, 281, 14: _p. p._ of gae, give. See =gaen=.
=gane frae=, IV, 378, 3: gone ahead of, left behind.
=gang=, =gange=, =gaeng=, =gieng=, I, 55, =A= 5; 57, 4; 68 =f.=, 21,
37, 46; 75, 36, 39; 217, 16; II, 175, 13; 468 =f.=, 13, 14, 38, 39;
III, 75, 397; V, 16, 2, 5: go, walk. _pret._ yede, yeede, yeed, yed,
ȝede, yode, yod, youd. _p. p._ gaen, gain, gane, gaed, gade, gad, gaid,
gude, good. _inf._ also, gon, gone. _p. p._ ganged: III, 362, 102. See
=gae=.
=gang=, =gae=, =go down=: IV, 11, 9, 12; 12, =C= 6, 7; 518, 2: like the
Scottish _be put down_, be hanged.
=gantrees=, II, 369, 11; 370, 11: barrel-stands.
=gar=, =gaur=, I, 100, 8; 127, 15; 130, 8; 397, =D= 9, 11, 13; II,
115, 30, 31; 153, 16; 358, 17, 22-24: (Icel. göra) make do, cause. as
auxiliary, gar lay, I, 5, =D= 1: do lay, lay. So II, 106, 11; 107, 19;
216, 3, 4.
=garded=, III, 117, 16: looked at.
=gare=, =gair=, =gore=, properly, a triangular piece of cloth inserted
in a garment to give width at that part; in Old English often coat or
gown. low down by his (her) gare is a frequently recurring expression
which may be taken literally, down by that part of a garment where the
gore would be==low by his knee, II, 197, 18. In, your ain hand sewed
the gare (of a shirt), II, 379, 13; 389, 5; 395, 12 (following ain hand
sewed the sleeve), gare in the limited sense seems hardly important
enough, and perhaps is to be understood side: cf. rive it (sark) frae
gore to gore, gair by gair, I, 439, 4; 440, 5, 7; 441, 6, 7; 442, 5,
6; II, 294, 31, 32. So also in, frae breast to gare, I, 438, =B= 4,
probably, though the limited sense would answer. So, riven him frae
gair to gair, IV, 416, 17; the brown bride pat her hand in att Annë’s
left gare, V, 224, 20. penknife, sword, brand, down by (below) his
(her) gare, I, 451, 9; II, 98, 40; 144, 6; 154, 11; 172, 34; IV, 465,
38. keys hung leugh down by her gair, IV, 465, 34. she hung’t (cup of
wine) low down by her gare, II, 369, 10 (recklessly and absurdly; the
cup is in her hand in the next stanza). In, frae my sark ye shear a
gare, I, 388, =A= 8, 9, =B= 6, gare must be a strip large enough to
make a bandage for the head.
=gare=, III, 98, 24: ready.
=garl=, II, 129, 18; V, 223 a, No 66, 18: gravel (suspicious word).
=garlande=, III, 93, 31; rose-garlonde, III, 75, 398: a circular
wreath, apparently hung upon a wand or rod. In III, 93, 31, this can be
nothing more than an extemporized circlet of twigs.
=garlings=, II, 366, 24: garlands.
=garmarcie=, =garmercy=, III, 33, 130; 81, 34: gramercy.
=garned=, the bride she garned round about, IV, 410, 23, is a misprint
of Buchan’s for _gazed_, which stands in the original MS.
=garrett=, III, 332, 16: watch-tower, look-out.
=gars=, =garse=, IV, 221, 11; 467, 7: grass.
=gartan=, =garten=, =gartin=, IV, 169, 10; 170, =H= 6; 175, =M= 8; 176,
=N= 14, =P= 2; 490, 12: garter. (Gael. gairtein.)
=garthes=, girths.
=gast=, guest.
=gate=, =gait=, =get=, I, 225, 8; II, 311 f., 2, 15, 21; 402, 10; III,
92, 11; 477 f., 11, 15 (ford); 480, 24; IV, 3, 21; V, 99, =C= 4: way,
road. water-gate, V, 250, 12: round by the water. in this gate, II,
73, 26: in such a way or condition. to the gate (get) has gain, IV,
493, 5; V, 237, 5: has gone away. tuke the gate, II, 30, 7; IV, 392, 9:
started, departed.
=gaucy=, IV, 271, =B= 1; V, 152, 3: lusty, jolly.
=gaud.= See =gad=.
=gaudie=, =gaudy=, =gawdie=, IV, 273, 12, 13, of speech: with a stately
or pompous air. 274, =D= 19; 297, 13: showy, conspicuous. 274, =E=
1: dashing. gaudy locks, 285, 10, 19: bright-colored. 356, =B= 1:
ostentatious.
=gaule=, I, 272, 11: of the color of gall; or gules, red.
=gaun=, =gawn=, =gawen=, I, 22, =A= 1, =B= 1; III, 473, 21-24; 479, 8;
IV, 261, 8; 511 a, 6; 513 a, 3: going.
=gaunt=, IV, 20, 12: yawn.
=gaur=, =gar=, I, 73, 36; IV, 226, 11: make.
=gavellock=, =gavlock=, III, 470 b; 493, 10: iron lever.
=gavil-post=, II, 227 a: gable-post.
=gaw.= See =ga=.
=gawdie.= See =gaudie=.
=gawen=, =gawn=. See =ga=, and =gaun=.
=gay.= See =gae=.
=gay=, =gae=, =gey=, _adv._, II, 184, 16; IV, 271, 9; 329, =c= 20; V,
266, 9: pretty, rather.
=gaze=, IV, 313, 10: gauze.
=ge=, ye.
=ge=, give. See =gie=.
=gear=, =geare=, =geere=, =geir=, =gier=, I, 411, 5; II, 182, 5; 184,
9; 185, 38; III, 440, 12; 459, 3; IV, 6 f., 5, 19, 29; 469, 10; V, 170,
3, 4: goods, property, often cattle. silken gear, I, 145, 22: clothes.
III, 440, 7, 18, 19; 446 b: fighting equipments. the less gear and the
mair, III, 8, 23: smaller game and greater. pay meat an gair, V, 268,
27: clothes and arms? or money? III, 341, 47; 404, 1; IV, 505, 51; 506,
66: business, affair.
=geat.= See =get=.
=gecks=, gien the, II, 105 f., 20, 21: made a fool of. Geck in German,
the northern languages and English, fool; in Scottish, according to
Jamieson, “sign of derision, gibe, cheat.” See =gowk=.
=gee=, give. See =gie=.
=gee=, =gie=, IV, 508, 2; V, 238, 22: go. _pret._ gied, gid, ged. See
=gae=.
=geere.= See =gear=.
=geet=, IV, 494, 37: get, progeny, child.
=geid=, _pret._ of gie, give, II, 277, =A= 8. See =gied=.
=gein=, _p. p._ of gie, IV, 316, 18.
=geir.= See =gear=.
=gell=, V, 221, 20 (unnecessarily changed to kell): congeal, freeze.
(Aberdonian.)
=gellant=, gallant. See =gallan=.
=gen=, V, 247, 10: given.
=gen=, gen Pasche, II, 146, 9: against, for, Easter.
=general=, with the, III, 176, 2: people in general (in public).
=genty=, I, 421, 10: elegant of form or dress, but here refers to
gentleness of disposition.
=gep=, =gip=, III, 138, 11; 140, d 11==gup, go up, get up (properly, a
call to a horse). marry gep, interjection of contempt==marry, come up.
=gereamarsey=, III, 111, 37: gramercy.
=gerss=, I, 450, 5; II, 248, 9, 15; 464, 8, 10: grass.
=get=, IV, 493, 5: gate, road (to the get he’s gane, has gone away).
See =gate=.
=get=, =gett=, =geat=, II, 470, 56-8; V, 238, 13, 24: progeny, brat.
=getterne=, I, 328, 49: a stringed instrument.
=geve=, give. See =gie=.
=gey=, _adv._ gey sad, II, 184, 15, 16: pretty, rather. See =gay=.
=ghesting=, I, 284, 17, 18: guesting, lodging.
=gie=, go. See =gae=.
=gie=, =gi=, =ge=, =gee=, =gae=, =geve=, =give=. gie, I, 71, 55, 56;
74, 76, 77; 206, 26, 30; 207, 30. =gi=, I, 68 f., 26, 69, 70; IV, 493,
21. ge, gee, IV, 222, 19; 493, 15; V, 228, 10; 248, 4, 5, 21, 22.
_pret._ gae, ga, gaa, gaed, geed, geid, gied. _p. p._ gin, gine, geen,
gein, gien, gen, gane, gaen. geve on (like take)==strike, III, 127, 53.
gien, II, 232, 13: struck.
=gied=, =gid=, =ged=, _pret._ of gae, gie, go, I, 74, 3; 80, 5; 310,
10, 12, 14; II, 75, 11; 357, 7; III, 434, 27.
=gied=, =geed=, =geid=, _pret._ of gie, give, I, 79 f., 24, 28; 439, 3;
II, 408 f., 3, 4; IV, 512 b, 8.
=gien=, =gine=, =gin=, =gein=, =geen=, =gen=, _p. p._ of gie, give: I,
100, 25; 467, 25; IV, 316, 18; 509 a, 13; 510, 16; 513, 12; V, 215,
13; 219, 23; 224, 20; 229, 30; 247, 10; 306 b, 3. V, 219, 23: given (a
blow) to.
=gieng=, II, 61, 3: gang, go.
=gier.= See =gear=.
=gif=, =giff===if, I, 70, 16; II, 21 =B= 10; 28, 3; III, 285, 22.
=giff-gaff=, I, 21 b, 14: give and take, tit for tat.
=gile=, III, 482 11: jail.
=gill=, a steep, narrow glen.
=gillan=, V, 272 b, 1: gallant. See =gallan=.
=Gilliecrankie=, be a, IV, 268, 22: a Gilliecrankie woman, live in
Gillecrankie (see 20), be a Highlander. =g= reads, hae a Killycrankie,
that is, a domestic battle, or row.
=gillore=, III, 136, 34: galore, in plenty.
=gilt=, III, 370, 10: money.
=gimp=, I, 387, 1; II, 220, 1, 3: jimp, slender.
=gin=, =gine=, =ginne=, V, 125, 9: a contrivance. specially, the
apparatus for fastening a door, I, 107, 4; II, 241, 23; III, 492,
6; IV, 445 f., 3, 4; 446, =b= 3, 4; door and window, IV, 480, 4, 5.
chappit (knocked) at the gin, I, 465, 11; IV, 445 f., 3, 4. lift the
gin (that is the lever for raising the latch), II, 158, 4; 165, 4, 7,
altered to pin. II, 158, 4, in the margin of the MS., and pin stands in
7 of the same piece. Otherwise, chin.
=gin=, I, 108, =B= 3, like the gin: corrupt, compare =A= 4.
=gin=, II, 23, =E= 8; 271, 34; 286, 3; IV, 412, 11; 485, 15; V, 243,
17: (of time) against, towards. II, 313, 14; IV, 138, =M= 1; 166, =C=
6; 392, 12: by the time that.
=gin=, _conj._, I, 5, =C= 8; 68, 21, 22; 70, 15; 72, 24; 310, 4, 5;
466, 4, 5; 468, 5, 8; 478, 4, 5, 8-10: if.
=gin=, =gine=, given.
=gine=, =ginne=, _n._ See =gin=.
=gip.= See =gep=.
=gird=, III, 35, 19: blow, stroke.
=girded out=, =guirded=, V, 76, 23; 82, 37: cracked, let.
=girdle=, I, 403, 12: griddle.
=girds=, II, 70, 27; IV, 481, 6: hoops.
=girn=, I, 344, 31: (of a hound) snarl. IV, 69, 18: (of men hanged)
grin.
=girth was the gold-twist to be=, III, 490, 16, see 486 b. girth should
probably be graith, but admitting this, the sense is not clear, and
further corruption may be suspected. We may understand, perhaps, that
after the rescue the mare was to have a caparison of gilded chains. Or
we may read, her graith was used the gold-twist to be.
=gitter=, V, 243, 16: gutter.
=giue=, II, 442, 7, 10:==gif, if.
=gives=, II, 448, 26: misgives.
=gladdynge=, III, 70, 297: gladdening (_cheering_ in later texts).
=glaive=, =glaue=, IV, 491, 11; V, 235, 32: sword. See =glaue=.
=glamer=, =glamour=, =glamourie=, =glaumry=, IV, 65, 2; 66, 2; 67, 2;
68, =D= 2, =E= 2; 70, =F= 2, etc.; 367, 8; V, 301, No 200: a charm
deluding the eye. IV, 310, 14: glitter, gleam.
=glance=, III, 394, =K= 6; 397, 5; IV, 508 a, 8: shine.
=glaned=, IV, 406, 14: (giant, from glent) glanced, shone.
=glar=, I, 494, 18: mire.
=glashet=, I, 434, 36: (O. French, glacer, glachier) darted, flashed.
=glasse=, III, 340, 32; 344, 30, 31; 349, 31; IV, 504, 36: lantern,
ship-light.
=glaue=, =glaive=, III, 105, 20: (in this place) a cutting weapon fixed
to the end of a pole. See =glaive=.
=glaumry.= See =glamer=.
=glazen=, of glass.
=gleat= (Icelandic glit), I, 100, 28: glitter.
=glede=, =gleed=(=e=), I, 285, 28; 287, 67; 342, 34; III, 308, 14; IV,
379, 14; V, 184, 42: glowing coal. II, 115, 29; 140, 18; V, 27, 46:
fire. See =glyde=.
=glee= (==glue), I, 68, 9, 12: glove.
=gleid=, =gley=(=e=)=d=, IV, 56, =B= 3; 58, 3, 4, 9, 10; 135, 23, 24:
squint-eyed.
=glen=, set her on the glen, IV, 284, 25; take her to the glen, 286,
29; set her to the glen, 287, 18: because, the roadways running usually
through glens, this amounts to a public exposure.
=glent=, I, 105 a, 28: glitter, glancing. wi a glent, II, 119, 19; IV,
467, 14: in a flash, a moment (otherwise, in a glent).
=glent=, III, 307, 6: glanced, went (perhaps, darted).
=gley=(=e=)=d.= See =gleid=.
=glided=, I, 333, 3: glittered, glinted.
=glintin=, IV, 450 b, 6: gleaming, flashing.
=glister=, IV, 510, 5: shine.
=gloamin=, III, 319, 23: twilight, evening.
=gloe=, III, 455, 8, 9, 11: glove. See =glee=.
=gloom=, IV, 94, 9: frown, morose look.
=gloom=, I, 302, =A= 11, =B= 9; 303, =C= 6; IV, 337, =g= before 20:
frown, look sullen.
=glore=, II, 319, 13: glory.
=glove=, cut my glove, etc., II, 105, 18: lovers were wont to cut a
glove and each take a part. S. W. will take in his hand the half of his
glove which represents Janet and dance for two. T. Davidson, played
at the glove, III, 448, 5: some game for braw gallants, unexplained;
possibly, spearing a glove when riding rapidly.
=glove tee.= See =tee=.
=glowd=, =glowde=, II, 454 f., 54, 58: glided.
=glowred=, IV, 429, =a= 15: stared.
=glue=, II, 147, 12: glove. See =glee=, =gloe=.
=glyde=, II, 375, 19: spark. See =glede=.
=go=, =goe=, =goo=, =gone=, III, 64, 160; 71, 302; 77, 429; 105, 22;
432, 19: walk. go boun away, IV, 224, 15, 16: go, depart. go down, IV,
13, 2, 3; 14, 2: be hanged (cf. =gae down=). goe vppon his death, V,
53, 99: pass upon the question of.
=gockies=, II, 470, 48: deep wooden dishes.
=god=, =godde=, III, 113, 72, 78, 80: property, goods.
=God=, _omitted_, O save and you may see, III, 181, 19; 184, 16.
=God=, II, 46, 51; III, 29, 146; 59, 62, 63; 61, 92; 68, 240; 75, 391;
101, 90; 105, 23 (_mood_, wrongly for _my God_?); 359, 103; 444, 16,
17: the second person in the Trinity.
=God a marsey=, =God amercy=, =God have mercy=, III, 111, 39; 138,
22; 149, 41; 445, 30; V, 76, 10; 77, 39; 80, 51, 53; 81, 13; 83, 55:
gramercy (not Dieu merci, thank God, which meaning, unlikely in all, is
impossible in most of the cases).
=God beffore=, V, 79, 19: before God (attestation). Cf. for God. But
perhaps _God before_ (_and God before_) is always to be distinguished
from _before God_, and to be understood as, God my guide or helper;
which sense seems to be required in Shakspere’s Henry V, I, II, 307,
III, VI, 165; Percy MS., Hales & Furnivall, III, 30, v. 304, 528, v.
57. [So, and God to-forn, in Chaucer, Troilus, I, 1049; II, 431. Cf.
also King Edw. and the Shepherd, Hartshorne, Ancient Metrical Tales, p.
47; Peniworth of Witte, Englische Studien, VII, 116, v. 287; Weddynge
of Syr Gawen, v. 640, Madden, p. 298^3; etc.]
=God’s peny=, V, 14, 5; 15, 27: an earnest-penny, to bind a bargain.
=Godzounds=, V, 93, 4, 8, 12, etc.: God’s wounds.
=gogled=, III, 179, 7: joggled, waggled.
=golden-knobbed= (gloves), II, 133, 6: ornamented with golden balls or
tassels. (siller-knapped, 134, 8, 13.)
=golett= of þe hode, III, 99, 49: throat, part covering the throat.
=gon=, =gone=, _infin._ of go, III, 24, 45; 35, 32; 66, 204; 67, 223;
71, 316; 74, 363; 77, 435; 111, 28.
=gon=, gon gae, I, 333, 3: did go.
=gone=, _subj._ of gon, go, III, 67, 219.
=good=, =gude=, _pret._ of go, III, 464, 4; V, 153, 1.
=Good=, V, 199 b, 20: =God.=
=Good-ben=, III, 267, =A= 10. If _ben_ is to stand, it must be
_benison_ abridged. Good benison be here, quoth he, makes a
satisfactory line. Compare =B= 9, =D= 9.
=good-brother=, IV, 168, 9: brother-in-law.
=good b’w’ye=, III, 134, 6: God be wi you, good-bye.
=goodman=, III, 274, 33, 35; V, 91, 1, 5, etc.; 98, 2, 3: master of a
house.
=good-mother=, IV, 412, 19: mother-in-law.
=good-son=, IV, 283, 10: son-in-law.
=goodwife=, III, 274, 33, 35; V, 91, 2, 6, etc.; 98, 1, 2: mistress of
a house, housewife.
=goold=, V, 296 a: gold.
=gorgett=, III, 422, 75: defense for the neck, here a part of a jack.
=gorgett=, II, 45, 32: a neckerchief. (“Nearly==wimple in Edward I.’s
time; in 15th century, neckerchief.”)
=gorney=, journey.
=goud===gan, did, IV, 20, 12, 13. (Cf. begoud==began.)
=goud=, =gowd=, _n._ and _adj._, I, 127, 12; 135, 9-12; 351, 35; 429,
28: gold.
=gouden=, =gowden=, I, 127, 21, 22; 145, 23: golden.
=goudie=, =goudy=, V, 110, 7; 267 b, 10; 268, 19: golden, yellow
(locks).
=goun-teall.= See =gown-tail=.
=goupen=, I, 356, =D b= after 23: hollow of the hand.
=gouernor=, I, 286, 40: director, guardian.
=gowans=, I, 55, =A= 1: daisies.
=gowany=, I, 315, 12: covered with daisies.
=gowd.= See =goud=.
=gowk=, II, 111, 12: (cuckoo), fool. gien me the gowk, made a fool of
me. See =gecks=.
=gown of green=, gien her a, II, 472, 2: defloured. got on the, I, 350,
11: strangely used for to be with child; properly, she got a gown of
green eight months before: it can hardly mean, put on a green gown,
literally, as at I, 358, 40.
=gown-tail=, =gooun-teall=, II, 31, =M= 4; 472, 19; V, 235, 4: lower
part of the skirt of a gown.
=goy=, joy.
=graid=, great.
=graie dogs=, III, 7, 1: Scottish hunting dogs, deer dogs, rough
greyhounds.
=grain=, sitt in a graine, I, 210, 5: fork of a tree. III, 267, 21;
269, 14; V, 243, 17: branch of a tree.
=graith=, _n._, IV, 86, 8: equipment (horse and arms).
=graith=, _v._, V, 192, 34; 198 b, 34: make ready. _p. p._ graithed,
IV, 2, 5; 27, 26: equipped in defensive armor. golden graithed behin,
II, 191, 18; gowden-graithd before and siller-shod behind, II, 343,
4; shod wi silver afore an gold graithed behind, II, 194, 16, 20:
properly, harnessed, but as the horse is silver-shod before and gold
behind, 183, 16; 185, 23; V, 224, 14, shod seems to be meant here. So
in the patched-up ballad IV, 410, 18. The horse silver-shod before and
gold-shod behind is a commonplace; see II, 266, 1; 267, 1.
=graithing= (gowd), IV, 410, 18: harness or caparison, behind horse.
But see =graith=, _v._
=grammarye=, =grammeree=, V, 294 b, 2: grammar, learning. II, 53, 36,
41; 54, 55; 55, 68: magic. Gramery==grammar, learning, occurs three
times in the Towneley Mysteries, but strangely enough seems not to have
been heard of in the sense of magic till we come to Percy’s Reliques.
Percy suggests that the word is probably a corruption of the French
_grimoire_, a conjuring book. Grimoire, however, does not appear until
the 16th century and was preceded by gramoire (Littré). Gramaire in the
13th-15th centuries has the sense of magic: see the history of grimoire
in Littré. Godefroi interprets gramaire savant, magicien.
=grandmother over=, IV, 70, =G= 2: corruption of, glamer, oer her.
=grange-house=, III, 360, 116: farm-house.
=grat=, II, 70, 25; 323, 26, 27; IV, 7, 35; V, 156, 11, 13, _pret._ of
greet, weep.
=gravat=, II, 283, 21; V, 240, 14: cravat.
=graveld green=, II, 158, 1: a green with gravel walks? Probably
corrupt: in yonder green, =B=, garden green =G=.
=gravil=, I, 350, 18, 19 (pile o the gravil): expounded by Donaldson,
Supplement to Jamieson, p. 304, as “the plant graymill or gromwell, of
the genus _Lithospermum_, anciently used in the cure of gravel, hence
its name. Said to be used also in producing abortion.” I fear this is
somewhat conjectural or even arbitrary. The pile seems to be simply
some downy plant (velvety moss) which grows on stones; indeed we are
expressly told this, IV, 456, 9, 12: ‘a flower, it grows on gravel
greay,’ ‘the pile that grows on gravel green.’ (We have gravel green
and gravel grey in the ordinary sense again, I, 347, 1.)
=greaf=, grave.
=greahondes=, =grehoundis=, greyhounds.
=great=, I, 252, 3, 5: groat.
=great=, IV, 373, 15; V, 176, 16: intimate, high in favor.
=grece=, harte of, III, 27, 105: a fat hart.
=gree=, III, 61, 108 (made the gree): paid my dues. (make gre in Old
English, to discharge obligation; Old Fr. gre, gret, from gratum.)
=gree=, from them take the gree, IV, 248, 16: prize, superiority. (Lat.
gradus.)
=greecy= (ghost), II, 390, 27: frightful (grisly).
=greeme=, I, 69, 51: (groom) young fellow. See =grome=.
=greet=, =greit=, I, 186, =B= 3; 359, 1, 2; 448 f., =B= 1, 5; II, 77,
30; III, 384, 4; 387, 6; 391, 5; V, 36, =C= 3: weep, cry. _pret._ grat.
=greete=, III, 105, 26: grit, gravel, sand.
=greeter=, V, 183, 17: weeper.
=greeting=, weeping.
=grefe=, III, 69, 268; 83, 268: 87, 268: offence, displeasure. a-grefe,
III, 69, 268: in displeasure.
=grehoundis=, greyhounds.
=greit=, =greet=, weep, cry.
=grenner=, _compar._, V, 283, 9, 19: greener.
=gret=, _pret._ of greet, address, III, 111, 40.
=grett wurdes=, III, 297, 31: high, haughty words.
=grevis=, III, 307, 6: groves. See =grief=.
=grew=, grow.
=grew=, V, 113 b, 7: greyhound. See next word.
=grew hound=, =grew=(=e=)=hund=, I, 328, 47; II, 70, 24; 79, 37: Dr. J.
A. H. Murray says Greek hound; “still called in Scotland a grewe, which
was the older Scotch for Greek.” Grew==Greek is well known in Middle
English, and _greyhound_ (Icelandic greyhundr) may have been changed to
_grewhound_ under its influence.
=grey= (meal), oat-meal and grey, II, 462, 30: barley-(bere-)meal, as
distinguished from oat-meal (==white meal).
=grief=, V, 151, =F= 1: grove. (tier _should be_ tree.) See =grevis=.
=grien=, III, 397, =Q= 2: yearn, long.
=griesly=, =grisly=, =grizly=, I, 298, 4: 300 a; V, 234 b, 31:
frightful.
=grievd=, _pret._, III, 162, 58: injured.
=grimlie=, =grimly=, II, 45, 19, 31; 199 a; 201, 7: grim, terrible.
=grind=, II, 216 f., 4, 27, 29: an apparent corruption for _graith_,
_graithed_, accoutre, adorn. Cf. II, 191, 18; 194, 16, and many other
places.
=grinding=, I, 130, 1; 134, =O= 1: this word of the refrain may be
suggested by the mill.
=grips=, IV, 53, 13: clutches, fastenings. See =signots=.
=grisel=, =grissell=, III, 369, 20, 23: gray horse.
=grisly=, II, 397, =A= 30: terrible. See =griesly=.
=grit=, =grite=, =gryte=, IV, 312, 9; 445, b 1: great.
=grit oats=, IV, 20, 14: great, or improved oats as distinguished from
the sma corn or oats of the early part of the century.
=grith=, III, 101, 86, 87: (peace) remission of hostility, “charter of
peace.” neither grith nor grace, 358, 65.
=grizly=, IV, 398, 21: frightful. See =griesly=.
=grome=, =groom=, =greem=, I, 75, 40; 77, 20; 342, 40; 345, 38; 355,
52; 371, 3; III, 56, 4; 67, 224: man, young fellow.
=gross=, II, 267, 13; 268, 18: big, burly.
=ground=, the grounds o my pouches, V, 306, 9: bottoms (V, 165, 6 has,
the boddoms of my pakets).
=ground-wa-stane=, III, 433, 12, 13: foundation-stone. (A. S.
grundweall, fundamentum.)
=growende=, ground.
=grumly= (A. S. gramlíc, gromlíc), (of the sea) II, 22, 10: furious.
(of a seal) II, 494, 2: fierce-looking. (Jamieson: muddy, turbid.)
=grun=, ground.
=gryming=, IV, 6, 7; V, 249, 7: sprinkling, thin covering.
=grype=, II, 45, 19, 31: griffon (also vulture).
=grysely=, III, 298, 60: frightfully.
=gryte=, great: I, 127, 22. See =grit=.
=gude=, gued==God, II, 94, 17; V, 221, 24.
=gude=, =guid=, =gueed=, good.
=gude=, =good=, _pret._ of go, III, 464, 4; V, 153, 1.
=gude father=, =gude faythir=, I, 301, 1; 302, 1; 303, =C= 1:
father-in-law.
=gudemother=, II, 284, 10: mother-in-law.
=gude neighbours=, I, 352, 8: euphemism for fairies.
=gudeson=, =guidson=, II, 463, 20; IV, 309, 3; 310, 6: stepson,
son-in-law. wrongly used of an own son, II, 219, 9.
=gued=, =gueed=(=e=), I, 68, 10, 14; V, 221, 24: good.
=gued=, God. See =gude=.
=guid=, good.
=guide=, =gyde=, _n._, I, 101, 9; 102, 7; IV, 174, 19; 425, 5: one who
has charge, etc., custodian. I shal be þe munkis gyde: III, 98, 35:
take charge of him. death is her guide, II, 191, 29: has her in hand.
this sword shall be thy guide, V, 49, 28: shall settle thy case. IV,
309, 2: escort, convoy.
=guide=, _v._, I, 481, 44; II, 152, =I= 2; III, 459, 21: treat, use.
=guiding=, gude, I, 303, =C= 3: thrifty management.
=guidson.= See =gudeson=.
=guildery=, guildery maids, V, 301 b, 5: guildry is Scottish for guild,
but this makes small sense here.
=guilt=, all of guilt, II, 46, 43: of gilding or gilt metal, all begilt.
=guirded=, V, 77, a b 23. See =girded=.
=gull=, III, 217, 44: a fool.
=gunies=, guineas.
=gurious=, II, 380, 31: (same as gruous, grugous) grim, grisly (or,
ugly).
=gurly=, (sea) II, 26, 14; IV, 366, 7: grim, surly, growling. gurrl(e)y
fellow, IV, 489, 24, 25: gruff, surly.
=gutter-hole=, I, 164, =K= 3: the place where filth from the kitchen is
thrown.
=gyde=, be þe munkis, III, 98, 35: take charge of the monk. See =guide=.
=gyff=, =gif=, if.
=gyll=, II, 478, 4: opprobrious term for woman, here referring to
levity.
=gyrde=, _pret._, III, 66, 211: girt.
=gyst=, III, 13, 10: gettest.
=ȝare=, III, 98, 24: ready. See =yare=.
=ȝates=, =ȝatis=, III, 99, 61, 62: gates. See =yate=.
=ȝe=, V, 283, 1: ye.
=ȝe=, III, 97, 6: yea.
=ȝede=, III, 99, 60: went. See =yede=.
=ȝelpe=, III, 14, 16, 17: brag.
=ȝeluer=, _compar._, V, 283, 11, 21: yellower.
=ȝeman=, =ȝoman=, III, 99, 58; 100, 74; 101, 86, 87: yeoman.
=ȝete=, III, 100, 82: ate.
=ȝeue=, III, 13, 12, 14: give. ȝouyn, 14: given.
=ȝone=, I, 327, 11, 12; 328, 38-44; III, 13, 1: yon.
=ȝowe=, I, 328, 53: you.
H
=ha=, =hae=, =hay=, I, 299, 7, 9, 11; 330, =A= 6, =B= 6; 331, =C= 3, 6;
=D= 6; 332, =F= 5; II, 74, =E= 6; 145, 27; V, 215, 9; 219, 20, 21; 221,
16, 22: have. See =haed=, =haet=.
=ha=, hall, I, 101, 14; 133, =M= 1; II, 371, 8; 387, 13; IV, 84, 5; V,
209 a, the last 2: house, manor-house. hall, IV, 513 b, 1, 2; V, 247,
1, 2, must be hold, as in other versions; but in IV, 514, 15, 16, would
be house, unless an error for _hale_, whole.
=haad=, _v._, II, 338, =R= 11: hold. See =hand=.
=hachebord=, =hatchbord=, III, 340, 36; 342, 70: would most naturally
be interpreted gunwale, or side of the ship, and so archborde, 340,
23. But in 36 Sir Andrew lies at the hache-bord (which is hached with
gold), and stern would be a better meaning for hachebord in that place,
the high stern of the old ship being a conspicuous place for a captain
to lie. See =archborde=. Barton lies a larborde in the York copy, IV,
504, 38, which is quite loose.
=hached=, the hache-bord is hached with gold, III, 340, 36: gilt
(possibly inlaid).
=haches=, =hatches=, III, 341, 54, 57: deck, properly a frame of
crossbars laid over an opening in a ship’s deck. (Skeat.)
=had=, _ellipsis of_, V, 274, 10, [had] rather [have] wedded, and
[have] tralled, I [had] rader.
=had=, =haad===hold. See =haud=.
=hadden=, _p. p._, I, 402, 4, 6: held.
=hadno=, had not.
=hads=, hads slaine, III, 358, 61: the s in hads is perhaps caught from
slaine. Other readings are had, hadeste.
=hae=, have. See =ha=.
=hae=, II, 97, 18: correct to _has_; cf. drees, 17.
=haed=, II, 110, 33: had.
=haely.= See =haly=.
=haet=, =hayt=, =haȝt=, I, 415 b; III, 109, 5; 110, 20; 111, 41; 113,
78: hath.
=hafe-gate.= See =half-gate=.
=hagg-worm=, II, 503: a monstrous snake.
=haghty=, V, 219, 21: haughty.
=ha-house=, manor-house.
=haik ye up=, IV, 219, 13: keep you in suspense (from hake, a frame on
which fish are hung to be dried?), or, haik, to drag up and down to
little purpose (Jamieson), “bear in hand,” delude with false hopes?
=hail=, III, 163, 77: whole, wholly. See =hale=.
=hail=, II, 151, =H= 1; 256, =K= 5: conceal. See =heal=.
=hailing= (Old Eng. halen==Germ. ziehen, draw, move), denoting rapid
motion, driving, rushing. wind come hailing, II, 22, 9. ship come
hailing, IV, 402, 15, 25. went hailing to the door, hailing ben the
floor, hailing through the closs, IV, 422 f, 11, 15, 18; V, 279 a, No
257, 11. Of tears and blood falling fast, tears came hailing down, II,
407, 14; drops o blude came hailing to the groun, II, 418, 31. See
=halling=.
=hailing at the ba’=, II, 269, 8: playing foot-ball. Hail the ba is
specifically drive the ball to or beyond goal.
=haill.= See =hale=.
=hailsed=, I, 333, 2: greeted.
=hain=, II, 92, 17, strong participle of have (haven), wald hain==would
(have) had.
=haind grass=, II, 465, 7 (spared, preserved): grass kept from cutting
or pasturing.
=hair=, hire.
=haisling=, IV, 46, =B= 9, come haisling to the town; cf. =hailing=,
proceeding. (Perhaps miswritten; Hill Burton’s hand is not always
careful.)
=halch=, =halch vpon=, I, 294, 18, 20; III, 419 f., 7, 37: salute,
bestow a salutation on.
=hald.= See =hauld=, hold.
=hale=, =haill=, =hail=, =haylle=, =hell=, II, 28, 23; 80, 15; III,
296, 23; IV, 379, 11; 380, 20; 381, 8; 382, 13; V, 276, 14, 15: whole,
in sound condition. III, 163, 77; 299, 3: wholly.
=Haleigh=, as he was walking the Haleigh throw, I, 76, =E= 6: ha-lee,
the lea of the hall?
=halfendell=, III, 75, 382: the half part.
=half-gate=, =hafe-gate=, II, 313, 14, 16: half-way.
=halke=, III, 74, 366: corner, hiding-place.
=hall=, house, manor-house. See =ha=.
=hall=, either in archbord or in hall, he wold ouercome you, III, 340,
29: hull?
=hall=, hold. See =hauld=.
=hall=, IV, 514, 15, 16: perhaps written for hale; in any case meaning
whole.
=hallan=, V, 99, 2: in cottages a wall between the fireplace and the
door, to shelter from the air (extending only as far as is thought
requisite for that purpose).
=halld.= See =hauld=.
=hallë=, V, 236, 23: hollo! or, perhaps, simply halle==hail.
=halled=, V, 270, 11: hailed, saluted.
=halleen=, V, 197, 9: holly. See =hollen=.
=halling=, come halling to the town, V, 277 f., 15, 25. See =hailing=.
=hallow=, =haly=, II, 175, 16; 239, 1: holy.
=hallow=, good hallow, II, 270, 10: a form of salutation; perhaps, God
hallow, sanctify, cleanse us from sin! perhaps simply an elliptical
Good saint! I have not met the phrase elsewhere, and it seems no longer
to be familiar in Scotland.
=Hallowday=, I, 342, 25; 507, 1; III, 246, =E= 1: saints’ day, All
Saints.
=hallow seat=, I, 367, 7: a saint’s place.
=hals-bane=, =hass-bane=, =hause-bane=, =hase-bane=, I, 394, 8:
neck-bone.
=halse=, I, 327, 10: neck. See =hause=.
=haly=, =haely=, =hallow=, II, 104, 22; 175, 16; 179, 13; 239, 1; 417,
13; III, 262, 5: holy.
=halycon=, come halycon to the town, III, 434, =E= 3: in a rollicking,
or a boisterous, turbulent way. North Eng. hallacking, making merry;
Scottish hallach, hallokit, crazy.
=halyde=, hauled.
=hame=, bring hame, bear a child. See =bring=.
=hame=, =home=, came, IV, 405, 54; 420, 5: was born.
=hame=, gae hame, III, 398, =A c= after 3: that is, to the heaven where
you belong. seek your lover hame, IV, 174, 11: go for and bring.
=hame-gaun=, I, 72 f., 11, 66: home-going (to go home),
=hamesucken=, IV, 244 b: invasion of a private house.
=hand=, att hand of, III, 278, 30: nearly, about; cf. Old Eng.
nearhand. (stroke) behind his hand, II, 63, 24: seems to be intended
for backhanded.
=hand for hand=, III, 465, 34; 466, 48: in a fair match? (hand to hand,
468, 48.)
=hand=, lokyde at his hand, III, 307, 10: probably, shading his eyes
with his hand; possibly, looked aside. Cf. lookit aneath (below) the
sun, III, 5, =D= 7; 6, 6; 8, 6.
=hand=, on the upper, II, 245, 29: side, uppermost (see II, 247, 32;
254, 22).
=hand=, out of, III, 440, 25: forthwith? (The line seems to be
corrupted; without resource, unable to help themselves, _hors de
combat_, would give an easier sense if allowable.) Should we read: as
many as was, out of hand?
=hand-write=, III, 455, 8, 9, 11; V, 300, 10, 16, 19: handwriting.
=hang=, _pret._ of hing, to hang, I, 327, 23 (hange); 448, 5; 451, 9;
II, 154, 11; 172, 34; IV, 465, 38.
=hang down=, III, 483, =D= 9: unintelligible to me, whether hang or
gang. ding down? (drown my mare and thee, III, 492, 26; 493, 15.)
=hanging well=, III, 440, 17: draw-well of which the bucket is raised
and lowered by a pole or beam turning on an upright post? By some
understood as, a well near the place of execution.
=hankit=, I, 224, =J= 2, 8: tied tight.
=hansell=, haffe hansell for the mare, III, 111, 32: have a present,
the more you buy? have the first purchase (which was thought lucky)
for the larger part (of the ware)? (Doubtful.) III, 284, 10: reward.
V, 112, =B b= 9: used in Galloway of a piece of bread given before
breakfast (Jamieson); here apparently of a draught of ale given early
in the morning.
=hantle=, II, 337, 11: a large number.
=hap=, =happing=, cover, coverlet: IV, 65, 7; 258 f., 5, 20.
=hap=, _v._, I, 15, 18; 299, 5; IV, 233, 2: cover, wrap.
=hap=, _v._, IV, 483 b, after 12: hop.
=happer=, hopper.
=happing.= See =hap=.
=harbengers=, III, 198, 2: harbingers, officers who preceded the king
in a progress to provide accommodation for the court.
=harl=, harl her thro the lin, I, 303, =D= 4: drag. See =haurld=.
=harme=, III, 357, 50: sorrow.
=harnessed= (men), III, 62, 133: equipped.
=harns=, V, 201, note ‡: brains, harn-pan, brain-pan, skull.
=harried=, =haryed=, _pret._ and _p. p._, III, 295, 4, 6; 296, 12; IV,
6, 9, 14, etc.; V, 250, 9, 13: plundered. See =herry=.
=harte of= =gre=(=e=)=ce=, III, 27, 105; 124, 3, 4: a fat hart.
=hartinge=, IV, 504, 31: encouragement.
=hart-roote=, II, 241, 27: (Icel. hjarta-rœtr, _pl._, Old Eng. heorte
rotes, heart-roots, -strings) term of affection.
=has be=, I, 86, 24: as if for future (see =s=, =us=, etc.); but
_shall_ in 7, 16, and _sall_ in =b=.
=hase=, halls.
=hase=, =hass=, neck, throat. See =hause=.
=hase-bane=, =hass-bane=. See =hause-bane=.
=hast=, V, 78, 12: am in haste (as well as þow hast, hastest).
=hastëly=, =hastilye=, III, 74, 376; 75, 392; 405, 20: immediately,
soon, promptly.
=hat=, _pret._ of hit, I, 299, 5; III, 350, 50.
=hatches===deck: III, 335 b; IV, 505, 57. See =haches=.
=hather=, III, 424 b; 425 a: heather.
=haud=, =had=, =hawd=, =haad=, =howd=, I, 21 b, 3, 4; 74, 75; 341, 12;
354, 17; 421, 4, 8, 11; II, 70, 17; 74, =D= 7; 463, 24, 25; III, 491,
9; V, 296, 1, etc.; 304 b, 3: hold, keep. _pret._ had, II, 371, 7. _p.
p._ hadden, I, 402, 6; hauden, II, 161, 7.
=haud me unthought lang=, IV, 260, 10: keep me without the time seeming
long, interested, entertained.
=haugh=, low ground, properly on the border of a river: III, 9, =G=
10; 483, 5; IV, 3, 17; 77, 3; 273, =C= 7; V, 250, 20, 21.
=hauld=, =hald=, =halld=, =hall=, =hold=, III, 281, 1; 371, 33; 433, 1,
2; 434, 1, 2; 436, 1; IV, 513 b, 1, 2; V, 247, 1, 2: place of shelter,
stronghold, quarters. See =hold=.
=hauld=, I, 359, 9, gang by the: walk by taking hold of things. gang by
haulds, III, 162, 46.
=hauping=, II, 463, 16: hopping, hobbling.
=haurld===harld, V, 99, =C= 5: dragged.
=hause=, =hase=, =hass=, =halse=, I, 149, =H= 1; 327, 10; II, 165, 22;
319, 3; 366, 38; III, 163, 75; V, 184, 44: neck, throat.
=hause-bane=, =hase-bane=, =hass-bane=, =hals-bane=, I, 394, 8; 395,
=B= 3; II, 146, 14; 147, 15; IV, 165, 15; 447 b, after 13; 448 a, 2d
stanza; V, 204 b: neck-bone.
=have=, _ellipsis of_. would been, I, 169, 7. I wad taen, I, 356, 54,
55. shuld I slain, II, 169, 7. ye widna kept, III, 390, 10. I woud not
swum, III, 489, 42. I should, might, enjoyd, IV, 135, 23; 137, 32. he
woud guarded me, IV, 148, 55. they taen, IV, 221, =D= 7. as muckle as
wald bocht, IV, 386, 18. I seen’t, IV, 465, 31. euer I seene, V, 53,
105. seem[d] to worn, V, 55, 26. he’ll learned, V, 196, 53. had rather
lost, V, 302, 17.
=have===proceed, go. have in (to water), have over, III, 128, 76, 77.
=have===provide or procure that a thing is done. hae me hame, II, 82,
54; hae me to the town, II, 122 f., 4, 28: take.
=have in=, had him in, II, 216, 8: had him in my possession (Germ.
innehaben)?
=have= (on the skynne), III, 127, 60: get a blow.
=haw=, green haw sea, II, 28, 21; IV, 379, 10, 14; 380, 19: bluish.
“azure; pale, wan;” Jamieson. (A. S. hæwen, glaucus, caeruleus. Old
Eng. hawe, haa.) green raw sea, II, 30, 6, is a corruption; I have been
lately informed that the singer ordinarily gave haw. In haw bayberry
kame, IV, 471 f., 2, 4, there is again corruption; as in the same
passage of other versions.
=hawd.= See =haud=.
=hay=, II, 160, 18: for hae, has.
=hay=, went forth to view the hay, IV, 233, 1; 238, 1: to see how the
hay was coming on, as a way of taking the air.
=hay=, IV, 225, 15; V, 261 a, No 221, =G= 22; hays, 16: in Maidment’s
text, _lea_, _leas_, probably right, hays making no reasonable sense.
=haylle=, III, 296, 23: whole, entire. See =hale=.
=hayt=, =haȝt=, I, 415 b; III, 109, 5; 111, 41; 113, 78: hath. See
=haet=.
=he=, =him=, =she=, =her=, with proper names (almost always him, her):
like Icelandic hann, hón (hún) (“so frequent in modern conversational
usage that a person is scarcely ever named without the pronoun,”
Vigfusson.) out and spak he Sweet Willie, II, 108, 19; 185, 33. sighing
said he Love Robbie, 370, 8. up and raise he Sweet Willie, 108, 15. up
and raise he the bridegroom, 108, 13. up and stands she Fair Annie,
189, 32. whare it is him Sir Colin, 61, 1; so 147, 16. out it speaks
him Young Bondwell, I, 479, 41; so II, 418, 25; 419, 37, 53. sighing
says him Brown Robyn, II, 371, 8, 9. leugh him Childe Vyet, 134, 21.
out it spake her Dow Isbel, II, 97, 21; so 418, 34. out spoke her Lady
Frendraught, IV, 44, 12. out waked her May Meggie, 188, 14. it was her
May Catheren, II, 145, 25. sighan says her Susë Pay, V, 219, 17. Etc.,
etc. Cf. Chaucer in, he Iakke Straw, he Theodomar, he Pluto,==perhaps,
ille; but not, him Arcite, Knight’s Tale, 352, 475.) with the objective
case: as, sought her Lady Maisry, II, 114, 3, 4, 10; 154, 11, 24, 26,
27; 370, 18; etc. (Him, her, with verbs of motion may possibly be a
relic of the old use of a dative, and such cases are not included.)
=he=, I, 242, 12; III, 13, 4, 8: they.
=he=, =hee=, III, 307, 4: high.
=header=, heather.
=heal=, =healle=, =hail=, I, 453, 9; II, 145, 26; 146, 9, 10; 154, 13,
14; 155, 37: conceal.
=healy=, =hooly=, _adj._, gentle.
=healy=, =heely=, =hooly=, slowly, gently: II, 94, 15; 110, 22, 23.
=heans=, hens.
=heard=, V, 253 f., No 203, =D= 2, 8: hired.
=hearten=, IV, 444, 32: encourage.
=heathen= (child), II, 246, 13: unbaptized.
=heathennest=, I, 284, 15: heathendom.
=heather-cow=(=e=), I, 302, =A= 9; 304, =E= 8, =F= 8; 305, 14; V, 173,
8; 174, =C= 2; 213, 8; heather-crow, I, 301, note *: tuft or twig of
heather.
=heather-knaps=, V, 173, 8: heather hillocks, knolls.
=hech and how=, III, 392, 13: to utter these interjections of grief.
=heckle=, IV, 247, 12; 248, 17: hackle, flax-comb (board set with sharp
steel spikes).
=hecks=, IV, 319, =I=, 5: racks.
=hee.= See =he=.
=heely=, II, 220, 21: slowly. See =healy=.
=heer=, =heir=, =heire=, I, 301, 3; 303, =C= 3; 304, =E= 2: the sixth
part of a hank of yarn, 240 threads.
=hegehen=, I, 333, 3: eyen, eyes.
=heght=, IV, 179, =A= 1: promised.
=heigh a ween=, =and Oh a ween!= interjections of grief, II, 504, 27. a
ween is probably I ween.
=height=, =heihte=, =hight=, =hith=, =heiste=, =hette=, I, 244, 10; IV,
503, 11, 14; V, 288, 18: was, is, called.
=heir=, =heire=. See =heer=.
=heiste.= See =height=.
=hele====heal=, conceal.
=hell===whole, staunch, tight, V, 276, 14, 15. See =hale=.
=hell=, heel.
=helt=, IV, 457, 22: _pret._ of hile: hailed.
=heme=, III, 434, 27, 28: home.
=hempten=, V, 87, 11: hempen.
=hend=, =hendë=, =heynd=, =hind=, =hindy=, III, 57, 25: noble,
gracious. lady hende, of the Virgin, III, 68, 251. hend soldan, II, 59,
36, 37: noble, of rank. III, 110, 27; V, 49, 12: friendly, kindly. I,
71, 41(?); 329, 57: fine-looking. III, 98, 41: civil. See =hind=.
=hende=, I, 71, 41 (gallant hende): hind, young fellow? The adjective,
of noble rank, courteous, kindly, is less likely.
=hent=, III, 110, 14; 123, 8, 10: caught, took.
=hepe=, III, 66, 204: hip (as II, 273, 35), berry of the wild rose.
=herbere=, I, 327, 32: garden.
=herkeneth=, =herkens=, _imperative plural_, III, 81, 317; 109, 2.
=herowed=, herowed hell, III, 25, 63: harried, despoiled. See
=harried=, =herry=.
=herry=, II, 261, 7; III, 473, 23; IV, 26, 2: harry, pillage, rob. See
=harried=.
=hersed=, V, 156, 15: rehearsed, repeated praise of?
=hership=, IV, 41, note *: plundering.
=he se=. See =-s= as sign of future.
=het=, eat.
=het=, hot.
=hethyn=_e_, I, 329, _58_: hence.
=hett=, I, 271, 5: bid.
=hette=, I, 224, 10: is called. See =height=.
=heuch=, =heugh=, I, 312, 13; II, 503 f., 11, 15, 28; IV, 231, =I= 15:
steep hill or bank, glen with steep overhanging sides.
=heved=, I, 243, 7; III, 70, 290 (?): head.
=hewen=_e_, V, 283, 15: heaven.
=hey=, I, 438, =B= 1: interjection of pleasure, displeasure, pain,
excitation. (Not the dance which is called the hay.)
=heye=, III, 482, 21: hie.
=heyer=, =hyer=, _compar._, V, 283, 5, 15: higher.
=heynd=, III, 110, 27: friendly, kindly. See =hend=, =hind=.
=heyng=, _pret._ of hang, V, 78, 4.
=heyt war howte!= III, 111, 28: heyt! is a well-known call to horses,
as in Chaucer (get up!), and war-oute is a term used in driving,
according to Halliwell’s Dictionary.
=hi=, I hi, III, 349, 46: have. I hinna, II, 469, 28: have not.
=hich=, high.
=hide=, II, 467, 44, 50: should probably be heed, as written by
Motherwell.
=hie=, =hye=, _n._, I, 328, 37; II, 164, 9, 12; III, 99, 50: haste.
=hie=, she smiled hie, V, 51, 55: with a smile not confined to her
mouth, but mounting higher.
=hiean=, II, 147, 2: hying.
=hiesed=, IV, 424, =b= 7, 8: hoised, lifted, dragged.
=high-gate=, V, 239, =O= 4: high-road.
=highman=, I, 203, =C= 16, 17. In =a= 16, the reading is hymen, which
is in itself plausible, but not ballad-like. If highman is right,
the meaning would seem to be, the chief man of the occasion, the
bride-groom.
=hight=, III, 441, 30: is, was, called. See =height=.
=hight=, III, 309, 34: I promise. _pret._ heght, hight, III, 407, 17.
=hile=, _v._, IV, 456, 17: hail. _pret._ helt, 457, 22.
=hill-gate=, IV, 249, =F= 4: hill-road.
=hilt=, V, 76, 21: flayed.
=him.= him, hym come, I, 244, 10, 13, 17; up stod him, 15, 16: dative
of subject after verb of motion. stert hym, III, 62, 120. wente hym,
III, 62, 126. rade him, IV, 2, 5. ar the coc him crowe, I, 244, 18.
=hin-chill=, V, 278, 33. See =hind-chiel=.
=hinchman=, III, 320, =A b= 16: henchman, servant (man who stands at
the hinch, haunch).
=hind=, =hinde=, =hindy=, =hynde=, _adj._, courteous, gracious, gentle,
kindly: I, 430, 5, 9; II, 177 f., 20, 35; III, 310, 52; 358, 69. See
=hend=.
=hind=, =hynde=, _n._ (A. S. hína, O. Eng. hine, servant), youth,
chiel, callant, seems often to be used as an epithet==young (but this
may possibly be hind==kindly courteous, etc., in some cases). Hynde
Etin, I, 369 f., 3, 5, etc. (called Young Akin in =A= 367, 6, etc.,
Young Hastings the groom in =C=, 371, 3). Hind Henry, II, 305 f., 6,
18, etc.; Hynde Henry, II, 306 f., 6, 8, etc. hind-chiel, hin-chill,
hynd-chiel, I, 367, 3; II, 83, after 38; IV, 432, 15; V, 278, 33.
hind-greeme, I, 69, 51. hind-squire, I, 452, =C= 10; 453, 7; hynde
squire, V, 25 f., 2, 13, 19, etc. hine-squar, V, 278, 29 (called young
squar in 18). In all three, both parts signify young fellow.
=hind=, gane hind away, II, 248, 5==hyne away, far away.
=hindy.= See =hind=.
=hing=, II, 194, 22, 27; 239, 6; III, 299, 6; V, 226, 4: hang. _pret._
hang, hanget. _p. p._ hanged, hangit.
=hingers=, V, 40, 4: hangings.
=hinna=, I hinna will, II, 469, 28: I have not will, I wish it may not.
=hinnie=, =hinny=, =honey=, IV, 66, 15; 69, 15; 70, 12; 72, =I= 5: term
of affection.
=hinnie-mark=, =honey-mark=, IV, 479, 7: mole? (cf. Germ. honigflecken,
yellow spot.)
=hinny-drap=, II, 283, 5: mole?==hinnie-mark.
=hire=, a yearl’s hire, II, 191, 20: rent, revenue.
=hirewoman=, IV, 202, =J= 3: female servant. hired your han, IV, 240,
14, if right, must mean, she would have paid you to do it. Other
copies, kissed.
=hirn=, I, 334, 9: corner.
=hirpling=, II, 474, 8; 476, 3: halting.
=hisn=, V, 293, 14: his.
=hith=, I, 334, 7: hight, am called. See =height=.
=ho=, who.
=hochis=, III, 306 =b=, note *: hocks.
=hoe=, IV, 19, 7: (as a singular of hose) stocking.
=hoes=, IV, 486, 7, 8: as plural of hoe (?).
=hog=, II, 258, 32; IV, 325, 6, 7; 328, 3, 4; 332, 13; 469, 10, 12:
young sheep that has not yet lost a fleece.
=hog-rubber=, IV, 208 =a=: (seemingly) a fellow employed to rub down
hogs, or fit for such business.
=hoised=, =hoisd=, =hoist=, I, 206 f., 9, 11; IV, 248, 2, 5; V, 132, 7,
_pret._ of hoise, heave, lift, drag.
=hoky-gren= (burnt like), II, 145, =A= 27: hoakie, “a fire that has
been covered up with cinders, when all the fuel has become red.”
Jamieson. A branch or stem in such a fire? or good to make such a fire
with? Scott has, hollins grene.
=hold=, =holde=, =hauld=, II, 216 f., 4, 27, 29; III, 358, 74; 430, 1;
435, 1: housing, quarters, place of shelter, lodging. thirty horsses
in one hold, II, 444, 59: perhaps place of keeping (450, 64, in one
close). See =hauld=.
=hold=, =holde=, _v._, III, 97, 11; 176, 5, 6: wager.
=holde=, III, 61, 93, 107: retain (legally).
=hole-house=, I, 305, 3; V, 213, 3: said in depreciation of an humble
sort of house (hole of a house), as a divot-house, a turf-cottage.
(Still in use. W. Walker.)
=hollan=, =hollin=, holland, linen.
=Hollan=, =Hollans=, boats, I, 467, 18, 22: Dutch boats. Dutch
fishing-luggers are to be seen in great numbers on the Scottish coast
in summer.
=hollan=, =holland=, of holly, hollan dyke, II, 195, 32: wall planted
on the top with holly.
=hollen=, =hollin=, I, 294 f., 15, 27; II, 153, 29; V, 191 f., 3, 18:
holly. (Perhaps hollin’s, V, 194, 2, should be hollins.)
=hollie=, V, 111, 16: (slowly) softly. See =hooly=.
=hollin=, holland.
=holm=, =holme=, =houm=, =howm=, III, 460, 38; 488 f., 31, 34, 41; IV,
522, 4, 10: low ground on a river-bank.
=holpe=, _pret._ of help, III, 342, 76. See =hope=.
=holtes=, III, 296, 14; 357, 53: woods.
=holydame=, by my, III, 209, 7: halidom. Originally halidom in oaths
meant reliques of saints; my halidom seems to be used in the sense of
sacred oath. (Printed _holy dame_ in three copies, and very likely
often so understood.)
=hom=, V, 304 b, 2, 4: home.
=hom=, III, 308, 26: them.
=home=, =hame=, came, IV, 405, 54; 420, 5; was born. See =bring hame=.
=hondert=, =hondreth=, =hondrith=, hundred.
=honey=, term of endearment. See =hinny=.
=honey-mark=, II, 282, 12: mole? See =hinnie-mark=, =hinny-drap=.
=honey month=, she has turned the honey month about, to see if he was
coming, IV, 320, =J= 2: inexplicable.
=hongyr=, V, 283, 16: hunger.
=honour’s gate=, II, 163, 21: (honour, a manor, the mansion-house of a
manor) an imposing gate, such as would be put at the principal entrance
to a mansion-house. W. Macmath.
=hooding.= See =huddin=.
=hook=, IV, 19 f., =C= 3, 8: loop.
=hook-tooth=, I, 18, =F= 9: tooth of a sickle with serrated edge.
=hooly=, _adj._, II, 107, 9: slow, gentle.
=hooly=, =hoolie=, =hollie=, =huly=, _adv._, slowly, softly: I, 451,
12; II, 108, 10; 111, 10; III, 393, 14. See =healy=.
=hope=, =houp=, IV, 25, 4; 27, 12; 184, 2, 3: “a deep and pretty wide
glen among hills.” Jamieson.
=hope=, _pret._, V, 103, =A c= 14: holp, helped. See =holpe=.
=hope=, I, 327, 12; 449, 17; II, 311, 6; V, 54, 3: expect, think.
=hore=, =hoar=, gray, grenë wode hore, holtes hore, III, 65, 176; 357,
53: gray as to trunks.
=horne and lease=, III, 360, 113. See =Pegge=, Archæologia, III, 1,
1775, “Of the horn as a charter or instrument of conveyance.” Professor
Gross, of Harvard College, has favored me with the following case: “Pro
quo officio [_i. e._ coroner and escheator of the Honor of Tutbury]
nullas evidentias, carta vel alia scripta, proferre possit nisi tantum
cornu venatorium.” The possession of this horn still conveys the right
to hold the office. Cf. J. C. Cox, Three Centuries of Derbyshire
Annals, London, 1890, I, 73-79.
=horse-brat=, I, 302, =B= 10: horse-cloth (horse’s sheet, horse-sheet,
of =A= 13, =F= 4).
=hose=, I, 285, 38: embrace, hug (halse, Scottish hawse).
=hosen=, =hose=, III, 65, 193: stockings (not breeches; see 196).
=hosens=, IV, 257, 3: stockings without feet.
=hostage=, III, 271, =F= 10; hostage-house, 4, 5, 8, 9: inn.
=hosteler-ha=, III, 270, =E= 3, 4, 5, 7: inn.
=hostess-house= (==hostage-house), IV, 175, =N= 4: inn.
=hostler=, III, 266 f., 4, 6, 9, 10; V, 153 f., =A= 3, 4, =B= 3-5; 156
b, =B=: innkeeper.
=hostler-wife=, IV, 508 1; V, 154, 3: woman keeping an inn.
=houk=, V, 218, 5: dig. _Pret._ and _p. p._ houked, houket, houkit,
howket, etc., I, 184, 9; 220, =A= 2, =B= 4, =C= 4; 221 f., =E= 7, 17;
III, 500 b, 8; IV, 451 a, 3, 5; V, 210, 9.
=houl=, III, 247, 5: hold.
=houm=, =howm=, =holm=, I, 394, 14; III, 370, 5; IV, 168, =E= 2, 5, 7,
8, 11, 12; 523, 3, 5: level low ground on a river-bank.
=hound=, IV, 19, 4; 20, 9: chase, drive.
=houp=, =hope=, IV, 2, 13: (A. S. hóp) sloping hollow between two hills.
=hour=, whore.
=house=, V, 273, No 237, 20: hose.
=housen=, II, 3, 10; 5 b, 2: house (_sing._).
=house-end=, =-en=, I, 254, =b= 1, =c= 1: gable.
=housle=, =houzle=, II, 46, 46; III, 330, 13: give the sacrament.
=houzle=, III, 105, 22, 23: communion.
=hove=, hove hole, I, 304, =F= 2: a hole which one haunts or lives in.
=hoved=, III, 296, 20: hung about, tarried.
=hoved on=, III, 358, 69: moved on (hied, 362, 69).
=hoves=, V, 227, 4: hoofs.
=how=, how soon, III, 450 a: so soon as.
=how=, =howe=, _n._, III, 164, =b= 49; 316 a, last line; IV, 110, 10;
303, 7: hollow, sometimes, plain.
=how=, _adj._, IV, 476 a, 4: hollow.
=how=, III, 392, 11, 13 (_as verb_): exclamation of grief.
=howbeit=, III, 450 a: although.
=howd=, hold. See =haud=.
=howded=, V, 124, =C= 15: swung.
=howk=, =howked=, etc. See =houk=.
=howm.= See =houm=.
=howre=, V, 78, 5, 6; 79, 28, 33, 35; 80, 37: our.
=howther o dirt=, II, 184, 13: a mass of dirt.
=howyn=, own.
=hoyse=, =hoise=, II, 26, 8: hoist.
=huddin=, =hooding= (hud, hod, to hide), IV, 262, 30; 266, 15:
covering, coverlet.
=huddle=, II, 246, =B= 7: (hide) cover, protect (Scot. hiddle, hide).
=huggar=, I, 303, =D= 5: stocking without a foot.
=huggell=, II, 244, 16: hug, or, perhaps, a variety of huddle.
=huly=, =hooly=, =healy=, II, 168, =B= 4; 169, 12; 216, 2; IV, 413, 18;
436, 8: slowly, softly.
=humming=, III, 136, 30: heady, strong, as causing a hum in the head.
=hunder=, =hundre=, =hunner=, =huner=, =hundredth=, hundred.
=hunger=, =hungre=, _v._, II, 382, 4; 386, 4; 387, 2; 391, 2: starve.
=hunkers=, V, 213, 9==clunkers, clots of dirt.
=hunt’s ha=, I, 298, 2: hunting-house or lodge.
=husbande=, =husbonde=, III, 57, 13; 295, 1: farmer, husbandman. III,
58, 46: economist, manager.
=hussyfskap=, =husseyskep=, V, 98, =A= 3, =B= 3: housewifery (she was
making puddings). But perhaps, specifically, hussyskep, a sort of
basket or bin of straw, formerly used, especially in ruder districts,
for holding corn or meal. In like manner, a “platted hive of straw” is
called a bee-skep. G. F. Graham’s Songs of Scotland, III, 181.
=hy=, =hye=, =hyght=, on, vpon, III, 296, 9; 297, 31, 47, 48; 359, 91:
in a loud voice. on hy, hye, III, 309, 51; 297, 45: on high, up, erect.
on hyght, III, 297, 34: on high.
=hye=, =hie=, _n._, I, 328, 37; III, 99, 50: haste.
=hyer=, =heyer=, _compar._, V, 283, 5, 15: higher.
=hyf=, V, 283, 4: if.
=hyghte=, I, 328, _36_: promise, hyght, _p. p._, III, 297, 29:
promised; III, 77, 442: vowed.
=hym=, wente hym, stert hym, III, 62, 120, 126: dative of subject after
verb of motion. See =him=.
=hyndberry=, I, 177, =A c=: raspberry or brambleberry.
=hynd-chiel.= See =hind=.
=hynde=, _n._, III, 64, 164: fellow. hynde Henry, II, 306 f., 6, 8,
etc.; hynde squire, V, 25 f., 2, 13, 19, etc. See =hind=, _n._
=hynde=, _adj._, II, 177 f., 20, 35: gentle, or the like. See =hind=,
_adj._
=hyne=, II, 314, =C= 3: (up) behind.
=hyne=, II, 314, =C= 3: hence, away.
=hypped=, III, 77, 429: hopped.
I
(See also under =J=, =Y=.)
=I=, II, 59, 34; 160, 10-16; 264 f., 4, 18; III, 185 f., 3, 4, 15, 23;
203, 18; 287, 59; 356, 28: ay.
=i=, _abridgment of_ in, _passim_.
=i=, _abridgment of_ with: IV, 465, 23.
=i-bouht=, bought.
=ickles of ice=, III, 154 =f= 1: icicles.
=i-dyght=, =y-dyght=, III, 62, 131, 132: furnished, adjusted. III, 75,
392: made ready.
=if=, _apparent ellipsis of_, II, 62, 9, with honour that ye do return.
=i-fedred=, feathered.
=i-flawe=, III, 13, 6: flayed.
=ile=, =oil=. ’inted (anointed) bar with ashen ile, V, 305 =a=, 6: gave
her a beating with an ashen cudgel.
=ilk=, =ilke=, same. of that ilk, III, 451, note *: having a title the
same as the surname: as, Wemys of Wemys. in that ilke, I, 287, 72: in
that same; III, 105, 14: at that same moment.
=ilka=, I, 107, 7; 302, =A= 9, 11, 12; 474, 40: each, either. ilka ane,
ilkone, II, 185, 25; III, 97, 16: each one.
=ilkone.= See =ilka=.
=ill=, =ell=, =ull=, will.
=ill-bukled=, V, 276, 18: badly run down at the heel. See =baucheld=.
(Unless _ill_ be for _old_.)
=ill-far’d=, I, 342, 41: ill-favored.
=ill-fardly=, V, 115, 9: ill-favoredly, in an ugly way.
=ill-wordie=, V, 243, 15: unworthy.
=im=, am.
=impale=, V, 182, 5: make pale.
=imy=, I, 243, 7: in my.
=in=, IV, 464, 3; V, 277, 5, 9: an, and, if.
=in o===in (in some part of?), III, 495 b, 23, 24; IV, 19, 3; 517, 19.
=in one=, II, 186, 1; 187, 8; 196 =e= 1, 7; into ane, 184, 5, 8, 11,
18: anon, or, at once==in a single answer. In, riddle both of us into
ane, the intention was, perhaps, together, simultaneously; and so, all
in one, III, 4, 7; both as one, II, 187, 2.
=inbearing=, II, 28, 15: obtrusive, over-officious, inter-meddling
(with the object of thereby ingratiating oneself).
=infeft with=, =in=, I, 478, 5, 10; IV, 350, =B b=, 4, 5; V, 274, 6, 7;
convey (land, money) to, put in possession of. inheft (o), IV, 349, =B=
4, 5: mistakenly for _infeft_.
=in-fere=, together. See =fere=.
=ingle=, III, 484 a, 36; V, 45 1: fire.
=inheft=, IV, 349, =B= 4, 5, for _infeft_ =b=, to invest with a
possession in fee.
=inn=, =inne=, III, 117, 11; 118, 8; 200, 6, 7; 212, 5: lodging.
=i-nocked=, III, 62, 132: nocked, notched.
=inowe=, III, 57, 13; 58, 43: enough.
=instiled=, III, 227, 3: styled, intitled.
=’inted=, V, 305 a, 6: anointed. See =ile=.
=intil=, =intill=, I, 68, 28; 69, 36; 302, =A= 11, IV, 171, 1: into, in.
=into=, I, 70, 20; 71, 29; 127, 5; 440, 13-15; IV, 263, 35: in. into
his age, IV, 359, 12: at, of.
=into ane=, II, 184, 5, 8, 11, 18: anon, in a single answer, or
simultaneously. See =in one=.
=intoxicate=, _pret._, II, 47, 8: intoxicated.
=i-pyght=, III, 63, 136: put.
=ir=, are.
=irale= (stane, as the rhyme shows the reading should be), I, 326, 9:
an undetermined stone mentioned in romances.
=ire=, thro, II, 408, 17: seems to mean, as resenting the covering (not
ballad-like). wi ire, II, 411, 10, is sufficiently incongruous.
=irke= with, V, 15, 14: tired, weary of.
=is=, III, 440, 11: has.
=-is=, =-ys=, termination of 3d _pers. pres. indic._, he stendis louys:
III, 98, 22; 101, 88.
=I’se=, IV, 506, 68: I am.
=istow=, I, 175 f., 4, 10, 16: is thou, art thou.
=it= (==O. Eng. his), its. defile it nest, III, 445, 32.
=ith=, in the.
=’ith=, with.
=ither=, IV, 210 a; V, 306, 15: other. IV, 110, 9: one another.
=I wat=, =a wat=, =I wot=, =I wad===surely: I, 107, 1; 471, 11; and
very often. See a==I.
=I wis=, IV, 405, 1: probably to be taken as assuredly, since we have I
wot in that sense in 7.
=i-wis=, =i-wisse=, =i-wys=, II, 46, 43; 265 f., 9, 26; III, 27, 104;
277, 17; 359, 84: surely, indeed. As to _i-wis that_, III, 277, 18, 19,
it is to be remembered that a superfluous _that_ is common in the Percy
MS.
=I wist=, III, 187, 32: for iwis, indeed. Perhaps the Scottish I wat,
surely, has influenced the form.
=iyen=, =iyn=, III, 57, 23, 28; 59, 58: eyen, eyes.
J
=Jack=, IV, 112, 4; 113, 5: insolent fellow.
=iacke=, III, 342, 64: (here) coat of mail, cf. 58, 59, 60. soldans
iack, III, 422, 75. An ordinary soldier’s jack (III, 440, 18; 465 f.,
33, 42, 49; IV, 147, 41) consisted of two folds of stout canvas, or
some quilted material, with small pieces of metal enclosed. Fairholt.
Old Robin, II, 241, 21, puts a silke cote on his backe was thirteen
inches folde.
=jail-house=, V, 300, 16: jail.
=jamp=, _pret._ of jump, II, 121, 21: jumped.
=iapis=, III, 59, 63: japes, jests, waggery, trifling.
=jauel=, V, 81, 11: a term of abuse, good-for-nothing, idle fellow.
Prompt. Parvulorum, gerro. “He called the fellow ribbalde, villaine,
iauel, backbiter, sclaunderer, and the childe of perdition.” Utopia,
Arber, p. 53.
=jaw=, =jawe=, I, 127, 10; 128, 8; II, 21, 8; 24, 11; 29, 10-12: wave.
=jawing=, jawing wave, II, 223, =F= 7; IV, 472, 16: surging.
=jawing=, _n._, IV, 462, 24: surging.
=jee=, I, 389, 7; IV, 476, 5: move, stir.
=jelly= (jolly), I, 69, 51; 298, 2; 452, 10; II, 403, 5; IV, 413, 20:
handsome, pleasant, jovial. Jamieson: “upright, worthy, excellent in
its kind.”
=ietted=, III, 199, 19; V, 86, 30: moved in state or with pride.
=jimp=, =gimp=, =jump=, _adj._, I, 330, 8; 333, 6; II, 216, 18, 20;
217, 1, 3; 221, 1, 3; 225, =J= 1; IV, 212, 1; 272, 2: slender, slim.
=jimp=, _adv._, II, 74, =D= 3: tightly, so as to make slender.
=jo=, II, 103, 5: sweetheart.
=jobbing= (of faces), III, 219, 14: billing (like doves).
=jobbing at=, I, 104 b, 10: jogging. The at is difficult. The old
prefix means off, away, but is not separable.
=Jock Sheep=, =John Sheephead=, II, 480 a; IV, 290, 23: a man deficient
in virility (?). V, 206 a, 9: simpleton, of one who has been stultified
or outwitted.
=iollye=, III, 278, 32: should probably be iollytë. See enter plea.
=joukd=, V, 9, 12: bent forward. See =juks=.
=jow= (of bell), II, 277, =A= 8: stroke.
=juks=, V, 110, 5: bows, obeisances. See =joukd=.
=jule=, jewel.
=jully-flowers=, gilly-flowers.
=jumbling=, V, 102 =B= 13: mudding, fouling.
=jumly=, IV, 182, =F= 9: turbid.
=jump=, V, 267 b, 5: jimp, slender.
=jumpted=, IV, 519 a, 3: jumped.
=justle=, III, 280, 26: joust, tilt.
=justler=, III, 280, 31, 32: jouster, tilter.
=justling=, III, 279, 12, 14, 16: jousting.
K
=kail=, =kale=, colewort, made the baron like kail to a pot, IV, 86,
13: cut him up. broth made of greens, especially of coleworts: II, 467,
41; III, 300, 12; 388, 3; IV, 500, 13. See =kell=.
=kaily= lips, I, 302, =A= 10: covered with kail, and so repulsive.
=kaim=, =kame=, =keem=, comb.
=kaivle=, II, 298 f., 3, 19: lot. See =kavil=.
=kale=. See =kail=.
=kame=, =keem=, comb.
=kamen=, combing.
=kane=, I, 353, 15; 356, 56: tribute (originally a duty in the form of
a part of the produce, paid by an occupant of land to his superior).
=kauk=, V, 116, 10: chalk.
=kavil=, =kaivle=, =kevel=, =cavil=, I, 71, 36, 38: lot.
=kay=, =key=, kine.
=keach=, V, 123, 17: perturbation, shaking up.
=kean=, _v._, V, 110, 4: ken.
=kebars=, I, 332, =F= 6; II, 227 a: rafters.
=kebbuck=, IV, 323, 5: cheese.
=keckle-pin=, burnt like keckle-pin, II, 155, 38: that is, I suppose,
like heckle-pin, the sound of the _k_ being carried on from _like_. Mr
William Forbes, of Peterhead, suggests the following explanation: The
pins used to hold the straw raips which hold down the thatch on cob or
mud huts; being driven into the top of the walls close to the eaves,
they are always dry and ready to burn. The mass of interlaced straw is
called a hackle. Used all over East Aberdeenshire.
=keeked=, =keekit=, I, 303, =D= 1; 304, =E= 3: peeped.
=keel=, V, 116, 10: red chalk.
=keem=, =kem=, =kemb=, =kame=, comb.
=keen=, _v._, V, 238, 18; 278, 38: ken, know.
=keen=, armour, II, 62, 10: no sense except for arms of offense (as in
Old Eng.).
=keen= (of tying), II, 162, =D= 3: strong or hard.
=keen(e)=, II, 45, 26; 46, 39; V, 192 f., 27, 57: bold. spak sharp and
keene, III, 394, =K= 3: cuttingly, poignantly.
=keep=, catch. See =kep=.
=keep up=, V, 114, 12: keep under custody, safe from the hands of
others, lock up. See =kept up=.
=keep=(=e=) =with=, II, 411, 15; III, 36, 41: stay, live with.
=keepit= a bower, II, 407, 8: frequented, lived in.
=keepit=, IV, 215, =A= 2: heeded, observed.
=keist=, =kiest=, =kest=, =kyst=, _pret._ of cast, I, 69, 46; 241, 3.
=kell=, II, 264 f., 5, 12; 364, 30; V, 161, 7: a cap of network for
women’s hair.
=kell.= lang kell, V, 110, 9, 10. See =lang kell=.
=kelter=, kelter-coat, V, 54, 20: made of kelt, black and white wool
mixed and not dyed. Dillon, Fairholt’s Costume in England, where a
kelter-coat is cited from a will. Kelt, cloth with the knap, generally
of native black wool. Jamieson.
=keltit=, IV, 493, 5: kelted, tucked.
=kem=, =kemb=, comb.
=kemp=, =kempe=, =kempy=, I, 301, 1; 302, 6, =B= 1; 303, =C= 1, 9; 309,
3, 5; II, 53 f., 25, 31, 55; III, 447 a: champion, fighting-man (A. S.
cempa). kemp o the ship, V, 151 f., =F= 2, 4, is no doubt a corruption.
=kempery=(=e=), II, 54 f., 54, 66, 68: company of fighting men (or, if
adjective, fighting).