=ken=, I, 343, 42; 345, 41; 348, 21; III, 268, 4: know. III, 266, 4: to
make known.
=kene=, cawte and kene, III, 296, 26: wise, shrewd, or, perhaps, brave.
=kenna=, know not.
=kep=, =keep=, =cap=, =cape=, catch, stop, intercept: II, 322, 21;
325, 21; 407, 13; 413, 6, 8; III, 125, 34; 245, 2; 246, =E= 2; 436, 5,
7; IV, 480 f., 17, 18, 19; V, 230, 10, 11. she keppit him (received
him) on a penknife (as he leaned over to her), II, 147, 6. she keppit
Lamkin, II, 335, =M= 7; V, 230 b, =Y= 10: encountered. he kepped the
table, door, wi his knee, I, 476, =J= 5; 481, 42; II, 91, 26; 94,
18; 271, 17: took, struck. keppit, III, 246, =D= 2, is an obviously
wrong reading, and should be _kicked_; cf. 243, 2; 245, 2; 246, =E= 2.
kepd the stane wi her knee, II, 421, 29, is absurdly taken from other
ballads (and from ball-playing). _pret._ kept, kepd, kepped, kepit,
keppit. See =cap=.
=kepe=, I, 329, 2: care for, value. kepe I be, III, 100, 80: care I to
be.
=keping=, IV, 313, 20: meeting. The meaning is that he went to meet
(_come_ should be _came_) the body which was lying at the gates. There
was no procession towards him.
=kepping=, keeping.
=kept up=, IV, 287, 15: shut up. See =keep up=.
=kerches=, kerchiefs.
=kest=, =keste=, _pret._ of cast, III, 76 f., 421, 422. See =keist=.
=kettrin=, IV, 84, 8: cateran, Highland marauder. See =caterans=.
=kevel=, =kevil=, I, 74 f., 3, 36; 77, 4; 80, 4-6; II, 16, 2; 301, 1;
IV, 394, =C= 1: lot. See =kavil=.
=key=, kye.
=keys=, rang the keys, IV, 430, 2: keys of her spinnet.
=kickle=, III, 230, 59 (the actual reading): not easily managed,
unsteady, Scot, kittle. (But perhaps we should read _kick_, since a
verb would be expected.)
=kiest=, =keist=, _pret._ of cast, I, 74, 2; 75, 36; 80, 4; 351, 44;
IV, 32, 11.
=kilt=, IV, 257, 3: a skirt worn by Highlanders, reaching from the
belly to the knees.
=kilt=, =kelt=, tuck up: I, 341, 3, 17; 343 f., 3, 8, 16, 35; 369, 2;
II, 92, 7; 461, 5; 462, 5; 471, 4. _p. p._ kilt, II, 423, 8; IV, 210, 7.
=kin=, a’kin kind, II, 114, 2: a’kin, all kind, equivalent to every. na
kin thing, I, 394, 10.
=kin=, ken.
=kind=, =kindly=, II, 319, 7; III, 266 f., 1, 5, 21; 300, 26; IV, 501,
30: kindred, native. kindly cockward, I, 285, 24: natural, born, fool.
kindly rest, V, 124, =C= 14: natural.
=kine=, what kine a man, IV, 504, 27: kind (of).
=king’s felon=, =kynggis felon=, =kings ffelon=, III, 98, 21; 180, 16:
traitor, or rebel, to the king.
=kinnen=, III, 370, 4: coney, rabbit.
=kintra=, country.
=kipeng=, keeping.
=kipple=, I, 333, 5; IV, 432, 6: couple, rafter.
=kipple-roots=, I, 304, =F= 5: the ends of couples (rafters) that rest
on the top of the wall. “In rude erections the couples were rough
unhewn tree-stems, which were placed with their thickest, or root, ends
on the walls, the smaller ends abutting at the ridge of the roof.” J.
Aiken.
=kirking=, I, 371, 6, 12, 14: churching.
=kirk-shot=, IV, 359, 10: the fishings on the water where nets are
shot, belonging to, or adjacent to, the kirk.
=kirk-style=, I, 441, 8-10; 498, 16, 24; IV, 183, 9, 11; 360, 16: the
gate of the enclosure round a church, or, the stile in the church-yard
wall.
=kirk-toun=, II, 219, 13: village in which is a parish church.
=kirkyard=, V, 299, 4: churchyard.
=kirn=, _n._ and _v._, V, 115, 6: churn.
=kirtle=, =kirtell=, =kyrtell=, part of a man’s dress, perhaps
waistcoat: III, 65, 194; 71, 299. name given to a variety of articles
of female attire, explained as jacket, corsage or waist, upper
petticoat, a loose upper garment, tunic or short mantle, etc. dress of
silk worn under a gown, over a petticoat, I, 433, 9. gown, petticoat
and kirtle, III, 273, 14. kirtle and gown, III, 215, 10; IV, 432, 7, 8.
=kist=, chest, I, 15, =A= 3; =B= 3; 17, =D= 2; III, 189, 34; IV, 485,
19; V, 115, 5: coffin.
=kithe=, a, III, 93, 36: of kith, of the same country, region, people.
kith, kyth, and kin, II, 216, 6, 8; 252, 29; III, 93, 36.
=kitt=, V, 240, 14: outfit, supply.
=knabby=, IV, 262, 23: knobby, rough.
=knack fingers= (in sign of grief): IV, 418, 7; 435, 13; knak, V, 227,
5 (passage corrupted); knick, III, 455, =E= 1; knock, II, 312 f., 5, 6,
7: crack the finger-joints. (Elsewhere, wring, II, 315, =D= 7; 319, 17;
III, 477, 4.) ladies crackt their fingers, II, 26, =G= 16.
=knapped=, II, 134, 8, 13: knobbed, ornamented with balls or tassels.
See =naps=. golden-knobbed, II, 133, =D= 6. (knob, sometimes a tassel
to the cord of a mantle.)
=knapscap=, =napskape=, IV, 7, 35; V, 251, 31: head-piece.
=knaue=, III, 14, 16, 17; 60, 81; 94, 50; 127, 44 (play): servant. IV,
501, 37: person of servile or low rank.
=knave-bairn=, I, 350, 20; II, 418, 23: male child. knave-boy, V, 235
b, after 30.
=kneene=, III, 362, 87: knees.
=knell=, _v._, II, 189, 23: ring.
=knet=, _pret._ of knit, III, 431, 17; IV, 31, =B= 6: knitted, knotted.
=knicking fingers=, III, 455, =E=: making the finger-joints crack. See
=knack=.
=knight-bairn=, V, 236 f., 21, 28, 29: male child.
=knip-knap=, V, 213, 6: a knock, tap. V, 124, =C= 15: to express the
sound of cracking.
=knobbed.= See =knapped=.
=knock.= See =knack=.
=knocking-stane=, I, 304, 10: stone mortar.
=knoe.= See =know=.
=knop=, III, 138, 9: (knap), blow.
=knoppis=, knobs.
=know=(=e=), =knoe=, II, 308 b; III, 464, 5; 466, 38; IV, 171, 4; 193,
1; 195, 1; 201, 10; 205, 22: hillock.
=knowe-tap=, IV, 60, =C b= 6: top of a hill.
=kod=, =kuod=, quoth.
=koors=, I, 353, 15: turns.
=koupd.= See =couped=.
=kouthe=, II, 499 b: known.
=kow=, V, 157, 11, 12: twig. See =cow=.
=ky=, =kye=, =kyne=, III, 464, 6, 7; 465 f., 19, 62; IV, 7, 29-32; 84,
17, 18: cows.
=kyrtell.= See =kirtle=.
=kyst=, I, 241, 3: cast.
=kyth= (and kin), home, country, people. See =kithe=.
=kythe=, II, 168, 10: be manifest, appear, _pret._ kythed, I, 117, 10:
appeared.
L
=laa=, law.
=lachters=, =lauchters=, IV, 166, 14: locks.
=lack=, =lake=, _adj._=laigh, low, humble, in lack o luve, II, 376,
24, 27, 30. so lack a knight as bid her ride, II, 97, 10. thought
his father lack to sair, II, 408, 1 (lake, V, 235 b, 1; cf. thought
father’s service mean, II, 178, 2); V, 272 b, 8, 10: of mean position.
=lack=, =lake=, _n._ (think, hae, lack), reproach, discredit, IV,
15, 16; 518, 8. woman, lack o our kin, IV, 325, 13. had ye nae lack
(reproach or fault), IV, 281, 3. what other ladies would think lack,
II, 159, 22 (but here lack may=laigh, and mean _beneath them_, as in
II, 97, 10). tooke a lake, III, 419, 2: incurred a reproach or blame?
of his friends he had no lack, IV, 11, 18: corrupted from, of him his
friends they had no lack (or the like). See =lauch=.
=lad=, in =surgeon-lad=, IV, 484, after 25: man. lad nor lown, IV, 304,
8, 9: should probably read, laird.
=lad-bairn=, II, 299, 12, 21; III, 392, 7; 395, =L= 1, 5; IV, 510, =V=
3: boy.
=lad=, _pret._ of lead, III, 75, 388.
=lade=, led, taken.
=lader=, V, 265 b, 20: leather.
=laid=, III, 35, 15: laid a plan. laid about, III, 329, 1: invested.
=laid=, laid her bye, V, 169, 6: lay down by her.
=laidler=, II, 503 f., 10, 11, etc.: corruptly for laidley (as in 7).
=laidley=, =laily=, =laylë=, =layely=, etc. (A. S., láðlíc), I, 312,
8, 13; 348, 14, 20; II, 503 f., 7, 32, 35; V, 214 f., 2, 3, 5, etc.:
loathly, loathsome.
=laigh=, II, 188, 3; III, 384, 2; 397, =A b= 1; IV, 200, 9; 268, 21; V,
236, 11: low, mean. oer laigh, III, 480, 12: too low, too short. See
=lack=.
=laigh=, =leugh=, _n._, III, 162, 49: low ground. III, 489, 10: lower
part; so, leugh, 487, 6, 14, 16.
=laily=, =laylë=, =layly=, =layelly=, V, 214 f. See =laidley=.
=lain=, =laine=, =layne=, =leane=, =lene=, =len= (Icel. leyna), III,
332, 7; IV, 7 f., 30, 47; V, 250 f., 27, 40: conceal.
=lain=, alone. See =lane=.
=laine=, _p. p._, III, 401, 16: laid.
=lair=, =lear= (A. S., lár), II, 175, 16; 305, 15: instruction. unco
lair, to learn, get: II, 118, 1; 119, 1; 174, 1; 178, 2; III, 385, 1;
IV, 411, 1; unco lear, IV, 467, 1: strange lesson, applied to one who
is to have an extraordinary experience; cf. English lair, IV, 466, 1.
See =lear=.
=lair=, =lear=, II, 311, 1: lying-in.
=laird=, a landholder, under the degree of knight; the proprietor of a
house, or of more houses than one. Jamieson.
=lairy=, IV, 22, 10: miry, boggy.
=laith=, loath. See =leath=.
=lake=, _n._, III, 419, 2; V, 235 b, 1; 272 b, 8, 10. See =lack=.
=lake=, I, 254, 8: pit, cavity. See =laigh=, _n._
=lake=, V, 235 b, 1; 272, 8, 10=laigh, of mean position. See =lack=,
_adj._
=lake-wake=, =leak-wake=, =lyke-wake=, II, 311, 19: watching of a dead
body.
=lamar=, =lamer=, =lammer=, II, 131, 6; 323, 24; IV, 203, 5; 204, 14:
amber.
=lambes woole=, V, 85, 18: pulp of roasted apples mixed with ale.
=lammas beds=, II, =96=, =J= 4, in virtue leave your: corrupt. See
note, II, 100 b. Dr Davidson, correcting by sound, would read, never to
leave. For lammas beds we may perhaps read, families. Cf. 87, =B= 1,
that ye dinna leave your father’s house.
=lammer=, =lamer=, =lamar=, amber. See =lamar=.
=land=, V, 128, 29: country (opposed to town).
=land-lieutenant=, IV, 517, 17. lord lieutenant, III, 492 f., 7, 11,
17. lieutenant, III, 488, 32, 33, 35, 37. See next word.
=land-serg=(=e=)=ant=, III, 481, 33; 482, 27; IV, 2, 9, 14: officer of
the gendarmerie of the Borders, called land-lieutenant, IV, 517, 17.
=landart=, V, 106, =E= 1; 111, 1: belonging to the country, rural.
=landen=, II, 29, 17: landing.
=landen span=, III, 511, 16, 18: corrupted from London band, or the
like.
=landsman=, III, 489, 44: land owner.
=lane=, III, 357, 51: lane, as where poor men live? (Rhymed with aye,
and perhaps corrupt. 361, =C= 51, lawne.)
=lane=, =lain=, =leen=, =lean=, =lone=, =alane=, =alone=, annexed to
the dative or genitive of the personal pronoun (as in Old Eng. him ane,
hire ane), my, mine, thy, our, your, her, his, him, its: I alone, by
myself, etc. my lane, I, 79, 22. thy lane, IV, 197, 8. our lane, I,
72, 20. your lane, II, 69, 1. your lone, IV, 195, 16. her lane, lean,
I, 350, 10; IV, 456, 1. his lane, lean, IV, 227, 6; 345, 5. him lane,
leen, I, 368, 26, 28; II, 90, 18. their lane, I, 254, =C= 1. its lone,
I, 132, =J= 4; II, 308, 3. its leen, IV, 418, 1. it lane, II, 82, =J=;
307, 22; III, 388, 5. me ane, I, 333, 1. by my lane, I, 330, =B= 1.
mine alone, alane, I, 332, =E= 1, =F= 1; III, 489, 1. him alone, III,
159, 2; cf. IV, 464, 1.
=lane=, IV, 281, 2: misprint for bane.
=lang=, at lang, IV, 318, =F= 9: at length.
=lang kell=, V, 110, 9, 10: coleworts not cut up and mashed. “lang kail
[a tall-growing cabbage?] became extinct about 60 years ago, giving
place to finer-flavored varieties.” W. Forbes.
=langin=, she’s gane langin hame, IV, 198 a, 7: perhaps simply longing,
languishing; lingering would be more appropriate if the interpretation
were justifiable.
=lang-sought=, V, 35, =B= 5: been long (and fruitlessly) seeking for
some object (if the reading is right), indicating a hopeless passion.
=lap=, grip her in his lap, II, 325, 18: (possibly) embrace, clutch.
=lap=, =lappe=, III, 59, 70; 65, 194; 353, 12; 430 f., 15, 17: wrap,
roll.
=lap=, _pret._ of loup, leap, I, 330, =A= 5, 7, =B= 5; 331, =C= 5, 7;
III, 270, 1; V, 228, 16. lap him, III, 266, 2: the old construction of
dative of the subject after a verb of motion.
=lappen=, _p. p._ of loup, leap.
=lapperin=, III, 395, =L= 4; IV, 224, 23: clotting.
=lappin=, IV, 510, =V= 3: covering; probably corrupted from lapperin of
=L= 4, clotting.
=lard=, =leard=, V, 36, =B= 8, 9: laird.
=lass-bairn=, =lassie-bairn=, I, 350, 20; II, 301, 10, 11; IV, 418, 5:
girl.
=lat=, I, 310, 8; 351, 37: let.
=lat down=, III, 281, 2, 5, 6: give over, discontinue.
=late=, III, 164, b 51: let, hindrance.
=late=, _pret._ of let, allow, V, 256, 13.
=latten=, _p. p._ of let, II, 189, 26; IV, 493 f., 7, 28, 31 (left).
=lau=, low.
=lauch=, _n._, II, 20, 4; 385, 6; 390, 7; IV, 259, 9: laugh. IV, 327,
12: perhaps laughing-stock; but cf. lack, 325, 13, reproach.
=lauch=, =lawhe=, _v._, IV, 121, =G= 2; V, 80, 48: laugh. _pret._
laugh, laughe, leuch, leugh, luke, lough, low, lowe, lowhe, laucht,
lought.
=laucht=, _pret._ of laugh, II, 106, 14.
=lauchter=, IV, 385, 6: laugh.
=lauchters=, I, 74, 68, 72; 79, 25: locks.
=lauchty=, V, 213 a, No 33, 10: the reading in Sharpe’s Ballad Book
corresponding to tauchy, I, 302, =A= 10. In the copy of Sharpe used
(a presentation copy), a line is drawn through the l, indicating,
probably, the editor’s intention to emend to tauchty or tauchy.
=laue=, law.
=laugh=, =laughe=, _pret._ of laugh, II, 418, 34; 420, 59; III, 287, 59.
=launde=, =lawnde=, III, 27, 105; 33, 105: plain ground in a forest;
“a small park within a forest, enclosed in order to take the deer more
readily, or to produce fatter venison by confining them for a time.”
=launsgay=, III, 63, 134: a kind of lance, javelin (compound of lance
and the Arabic zagaye).
=lave=, =leve=, II, 78, 11; III, 495 b, 23, 24; IV, 220, 3; 428, 6;
517, 20: rest, remainder.
=lauede ablode=, I, 244, 9; V, 288, 16: swam in blood.
=lav=(=e=)=rock=, I, 201, 3; 202, 3; 205, =F= 4; IV, 266, 16: lark.
=law=, I, 209 a: faith, creed.
=law=, Castle-law, II, 149, 4, 7; Biddess-law, III, 460, 29: hill (A.
S. hlǽw).
=lawhe=, V, 80, 48: laugh. _pret._ lowhe.
=lawin=(=g=), III, 472, 7; IV, 151 f., =A= 2-4, =B= 5, 9, 10, etc.;
157, 5, 6: tavern-reckoning.
=lawing=, V, 266, 8: lying (reclining).
=lawnde.= See =launde=.
=lax=, IV, 233, 18: relief.
=lay=, II, 59, 25: law, faith.
=lay=, II, 483, 1; IV, 203 f., 6, 7, 23; V, 260, 10, 11: land not under
cultivation, grass, sward. lays, IV, 224, 23: fields, plains, ground.
=lay=, _v._, lie.
=lay=, I, 399 a, =E= 11: seems to be nonsense; probably we should read
gray, as in No 248, IV, 389 f.
=lay by=, IV, 519, 5, 7, 11; 520, 5, 10 (lay’d==lay it): lay aside, let
be, cease. lay bay, V, 275 b, 3: put aside or behind, outsail.
=layelly=, loathsome. See =laidley=.
=laying=, IV, 174, 1: lawing, reckoning.
=lay-land=, II, 59, 23: (Old Eng. leyland) lea land, untilled land;
simply plain, ground.
=laylë=, loathsome. See =laidley=.
=layn= (withouten), III, 97, 17; 100, 81: lie (truly).
=layne= (Icel. leyna), IV, 7 f., 30, 47: conceal. See =lain=.
=layne=, _v._ (A. S. légnian), III, 297, 35, 40: lie.
=layne=, _v._, II, 87, 33: lean.
=lazar=, =-er=, II, 44-46, 4, 5, 9, 11, etc.: leper.
=lea=, =lee=, =lie=, =loe=, =loi=, =loie=, =loy=, =loo=, =low=, =lue=,
_v._, I, 438, 10; II, 260, 4; 408, 23; 417, 2; 419, 52; V, 116, 2, 3;
117, 3; 220, 6; 221, 9; 242, 14; 260, 13; 272 b, 3, 7, 11; 277 f., 1,
4, 23, 31: love.
=lea=, =lee=, lie, _mentiri_.
=lea=, III, 457, =A= 2; IV, 100, 4; 102, =L= 6; 263, 2: leave. (so
leave, IV, 94, 15, is to be sounded.)
=lea=, _n._ See =lee=.
=lea=, =lee=, lie lea, lie lee: IV, 26, 5; 350, =B b= after 2; 520, 2:
untilled. lay lee, V, 189 b: lay waste.
=leace=, withouten leace, III, 27, 108, 115: falsehood.
=lead=, III, 460, 26: lead their horses?
=lead=, V, 36, 11; 117, 14; 221, 18; 268, 18: led.
=lead=, laid.
=lead=(=e=), I, 232, 9; V, 53, 103: vat, boiler.
=leaf=, loaf.
=leaf=, gae out under the leaf, IV, 379, 6: luff, loof, after part of a
ship’s bow; or here, as opposed to lee, the weather side. See =lowe=.
=leak=, _adj._, V, 111, 20; 224, 26: like.
=leak=, _v._, V, 242, 15: like.
=leak=, II, 193, 28; V, 224, 26; 228, 28:===lyke=, for lyke-wake,
watching of a dead body.
=leak-wake=, V, 228, 13, 14, 23, 24: lyke-wake, watching of a dead
body. See =lake-wake=, =lyke-wake=.
=leal=, =leel=, =leil=, =liel=, III, 464, 12: loyal, faithful, true. I,
70, 24; 73, 34, 45, 46; II, 73, 19; III, 437, 36; IV, 212, 1; 240, 13;
283, 11; 289, 11: virginal, chaste, expers viri; so, lealest, leelest,
I, 220, =A= 3; 221, =D= 6. III, 464, 3; 465, 30: veracious. V, 115, 5:
upright, honest. love me leel, I, 345, 9: faithfully.
=lea-lang=, I, 352, 7. See =lee=, _adj._
=leall=, V, 248, 4: perhaps only faithful; but possibly lief, lee
(dear), leman, the final l being caught from leman.
=leam=, =leem=, _v._, II, 410, 24: gleam.
=lean=, =leen=, his, him, IV, 345, =I= 5: lane, lone. See =lane=.
=lean=, =leane=, =lene=, =len=, _v._, II, 403, 8 (see =len=); III, 330,
19; 420 f., 30, 32, 34, 52; IV, 277, 15, 17; V, 36, =B= 8, 9: conceal.
II, 164, 8, 11, 14: conceal, or lie. See =lain=, to conceal.
=leap=, _pret._ of leap, loup, V, 227, 17. See =leepe=.
=lear=, II, 176, =C= 1, 2: instruction. IV, 413, 2; 414, 1; 467, 1:
learning. III, 473, 24: information. See =lair=.
=lear=, II, 313, 25: apparently meant for lair, bed; but rhymed with
white, and the reading should undoubtedly be lyke, that is, lyke-wake,
as in II, 117, 16.
=leard=, laird. See =lard=.
=lease===leash, II, 265, 19: a thong or string (as if for bringing back
the deer he should kill?). I, 211, 20: a leash (of hounds), pack. III,
216, 31: a leash (of bucks), three.
=leasing=(=e=), =leasynge=, =lesynge=, =leesin=, I, 412, 26; III, 28,
132, 134; 359, 86; IV, 465, 22: falsehood.
=leath=, =laith=, III, 162, 54; IV, 479, 4; V, 216, 6: loath.
=leaugh=, =leugh=, =lewgh=, =leiugh=, =lieugh=, III, 465 f., 33, 39,
42, 49; 487, 6, 14, 16 (see =laigh=): low.
=leave=, gie them a’ thier leave, I, 431, =D= 13, =E= 10: take leave of
them all.
=leave===leeve, dear, II, 414, 24. leaver, III, 362, 82.
=leave= (to weepe), IV, 140, 10: cease.
=leave=, live.
=lede=, III, 74, 368: leading, conduct.
=ledës-man=, =lodesman=, III, 74, 369; 88, 369: guide.
=ledyt=, I, 242, 11, _old imperative plural_: lead.
=lee=, =lea=, I, 100, 4; III, 171, 9; 174, 20: untilled ground, grass
land, open plain, ground.
=lee=, lie lee, IV, 26, 5: untilled. lay lee, V, 189 b, lay waste.
=lee=, _adj._, the (this, a) lee-lang, lief-lang day, I, 100, 11, 12;
440, 3; II, 96, =I= 2: (Old Eng. the leevë longë day) livelong, from
A. S. léof, used like German lieb in der liebe lange tag, die liebe
lange nacht. So lee, le, lei, ley, licht o the moon, I, 389, 5; II,
188 f., 4, 14, 35; 195, 37; 233, =F= 1; 374, =B= 3; 413, 7, as in die
liebe sonne, der liebe mond, regen, wind, and other formulas in great
variety. (lee licht o the moon is replaced, II, 103 f., 10, 12; 106,
10, by hie light, ae light.)
=lee=, _v._, lie, _mentiri_.
=lee=, II, 256, =K= 5: live.
=lee=, _v._, love. See =lea=, =love=.
=leech=, IV, 426, 11: meant for leesh, and so spelt in another copy.
=leed=, =lied= (A. S. lǽden), I, 207, 18; 430, 5, 9; II, 366, 19;
IV, 379, 14: talk.
=leed= (A. S. léod), III, 355, 3: man. _pl._ leeds, 6: people.
=leed=, laid.
=leed=, _n._, II, 366, 37: lead.
=leedginge=, II, 58, 7: leeching, doctoring.
=leeft=, _pret._, IV, 220, 1: lived.
=leel=, loyal, faithful, etc. love me leel, I, 345, 9: faithfully. See
=leal=.
=lee-lang.= See =lee=.
=leemin=, II, 361, 33: gleaming.
=leems=, IV, 460 a, No 47: gleams; but _langs_, belongs, is the word
required; cf. I, 430, 6.
=leen=, =lean=, her, your leen, him leen, IV, 291 b; 345, 9; V, 171, 2,
6: lone. See =lane=.
=leepe=, =leap=, _pret._ of leap, loup, II, 445, 76; V, 227, 17.
=lees=, =leeze=, me on thee, III, 495 a, after 7; IV, 517, 15:
blessings on, commend me to. (lees me, originally leeve is me, dear is
to me, my delight is.)
=leese=, III, 37, 75; 189, 4; 228, 17; 374, 3: lose.
=leesin=, IV, 465, 22: a lie. See =leasing=(=e=).
=leesome=, I, 182-3; IV, 432, 2; 455, 18; V, 178, 1: lovely, pleasing,
leesome blew the wind, IV, 410, 10: pleasantly.
=leeve=, =leve=, =leave=, =lefe=, =lieve=, =live=, _adj._, II, 305, 13;
414, 24; V, 227, 13: lovely, dear, pleasant; _comp._ leifer, leuer, I,
328, 43; III, 24, 35; 189, =A= 9; 297, 42; 436 f., 10, 25; V, 83, 51.
epithet of London, II, 265, 5, 12; 440, 14; III, 276, 1; 284, 6, 7;
330, 16; 406, 35; V, 227, 8. So, lovely London, III, 352, 1; 355, 7.
lilly Londeen, IV, 485, 19. whether he were loth or lefe, III, 67, 225
(properly, him were): disagreeable or agreeable; here, unwilling or
willing. For _had lever_ see =leuer=.
=leeve=, III, 105, 15: believe.
=leeve=, III, 287, 62: grant.
=leeze.= See =lees=.
=lefe=, III, 28, 128: pleasing, agreeable. III, 67, 225: pleased. See
=leefe=.
=leffe= (A. S. lǽfan), wolde not leffe beheynde, III, 112, 60:
remain.
=leg=, V, 126 f., 1, 2, 5, etc.: highwayman.
=legg=, V, 275, 7: league.
=leguays=, =lequays=, V, 217, 12, 13: likewise.
=lei=, =ley=, lei light o the moon, II, 188 f., 4, 14, 35; 195, 37. See
=lee=, _adj._
=leifer=, =leifar=, III, 436 f., 10, 25; IV, 196, 13: rather. See
=leeve=.
=leil.= See =leal=.
=leiugh=, low. See =leaugh=.
=leman=, =lemman=, Old Eng. leofman, beloved (of both sexes). I, 232,
6, 7; 314, 2-4, 6; II, 271, 18; 273, 24, 400, 6; IV, 151, =B= 1, 2;
154, 2, 3; V, 283, 3: lover, paramour. I, 72, 30, 32; 117, 8; 254,
10; II, 73, 27, 28; 81, 40; 289, =B= 2, 3; V, 248, 4; 283, 12: love,
mistress, loose woman.
=lemanless=, III, 434, 28: without lovers.
=lemanry=, V, 25, 4: illicit love.
=len=, _v._, lean. See =lend=.
=len=, =lene=, III, 420 f., 30, 32, 34, 52; neither lee nor len, IV,
277, 15, 17: conceal. II, 164, 8, 11, 14: conceal, or lie. that cannot
longer len, II, 403, 8: remain concealed (but the reading should
probably be, I cannot). See =lain=, =lean=.
=len=, =lene=, III, 79, 40, 81; V, 283, 14: lend, give, grant.
=lend=, II, 229, 5, 8; III, 63 f., 153, 165; 82, 76; 85, 76; V, 49, 21:
grant, give.
=lend=, _n._, II, 185, 38: loan.
=lend=, I, 207, 19, lend ye till your pike-staff: we should no doubt
read len==lean. lent. I, 223, =I= 4: leaned.
=lende=, III, 75, 395: dwell.
=lene=, conceal. See =len=.
=lenger=, =lengre=, III, 61, 105; 73, 341; 78, 443: longer.
=lenght=, III, 478, 17: length.
=length=, this length, IV, 271, =A= 4: for so long.
=lent=, _pret._, I, 223, =I= 4: leaned.
=lequays=, likewise. See =leguays=.
=lere= (A. S. hléor), III, 57, 28: cheek, face.
=lere=, III, 57, 16; 77, 426: learn.
=lese=, =leese=, III, 59, 56: lose.
=less= (age), IV, 64 a: minor.
=less o him=, I, 332, =G= 1: smaller of him, than him.
=lesse=, III, 296, 25: false, falsehood.
=lest=, II, 81, 45 (reading in earlier MS. for rest): last.
=lesynge=, falsehood. See =leasing(e)=.
=let=, =lat= (A. S. lǽtan), allow, leave. II, 54, 48; 265, 8, 15,
24; III, 58, 38: omit, fail. _pret._ late, loot, lute, lett. _p. p._
latten, letten, lotten, looten, loot (?).
=let=, =lette= (A. S. lettan), I, 334, 8; III, 110, 22, 23; 128, 75;
307, 2: hinder.
=letten=, _p. p._ of let, I, 87, 43; 452, 6: allowed, left.
=letters=, =letturs=, III, 99, 55 (the kyng did hit vnfold); III, 297,
36: letter.
=leuch=, =luke=, _pret._ of laugh, II, 30, =K= 1; 81, 33; 366, 23; IV,
272, 9.
=leugh=, _n._, lower part. See =laugh=.
=leugh=, _pret._ of laugh, I, 388, =A= 7; II, 134, 21; III, 69, 273;
467, 60; 490, 17.
=leugh=, =leaugh=, =lewgh=, etc., IV, 465, 34, 38; 484 f., 8, 10: low.
=leutye=, =lewtë=, III, 64, 154, 169: loyalty, faith.
=leuve=, I, 17, 14: palm of the hand. See =loof=.
=leve=, =lave=, _m._, II, 75, 20: rest.
=leue=, _v._, III, 61, 112; 79, 76: permit, grant.
=levedys=, I, 334, 9: ladies.
=leven=, I, 324, 13; 325, 12: lawn, glade, open ground in a forest. See
=launde=.
=leuer=, =leifer=, pleasanter, preferable, rather. had leuer, III, 24,
35; 189, =A= 9; 297, 42; 436 f., 10, 25; V, 83, 51. See =leeve=.
=lewde= (lye), III, 171, 8: base, vile.
=lewgh=, low. See =leaugh=.
=lewte.= See =leutye=.
=ley=, =lea=, =lee=, III, 109, 4; for a’ his father’s leys, II,
333, 11; 334, =M= 4; riding the leys, IV, 137, 34: land not under
cultivation, simply land, plain, field. lands and ley, V, 157, 2:
arable land and pasture; a common phrase in Scots conveyancing, “all
and whole the lands and leas.”
=ley-land=, I, 15, 11; 16, =B= 11: land lying lea, not under
cultivation. See =lay-land=.
=ley licht.= See =lei=, =lee=.
=leyngger=, V, 80, 37: longer.
=leyt=, V, 80, 37: lighted.
=leythe=, III, 112, 62: light.
=liag=, V, 237, 5: leg.
=libertie=, lying at, II, 464, 11: possessed in one’s own right,
unencumbered.
=liberty=, =lybertye=, place of, II, 443, 39; 449, 44, 52: where one
can fight without fear of interruption?
=liberty-wife=, II, 291, 2: mistress.
=licence=, V, 155, =C= 3, make their licence free: pay the licence of
an inn-keeper.
=licht=, I, 146, 19, 20: alight. lichted, lichtit, II, 92, 16; IV, 195,
=D= 2; 337 b, g after 20.
=lichter=, I, 21 b, 8; II, 105, 10: delivered. See =lighter=.
=lichtlie=, =lichtly=, =lightly=, IV, 94, 3; 98, 8; 100, 7; 337 a, g
16: make light of, treat, or speak of, with disrespect.
=lick=, II, 470, 45: gratuity (of meal from the miller).
=lick=, III, 163, 87: take for one’s self; cf. II, 470, 45.
=lidder=, =lither=, III, 464, 1: lazy. as _adv._, 467, b 1:
excessively. (A. S. lýðre, bad.)
=lie=, =ly=, =lye=, I, 103, 10; III, 123, 5; 432, 17; V, 191, 5:
reside, live.
=lie=, =lee=, =lea=, love. See =lea=.
=lie=, III, 301, =E=: lea.
=lie=, thou lie, IV, 197, 17: for thou liest, ye lie.
=lied= (A. S. lǽden), I, 430, 5, 9: language, talk. See =leed=.
=lied=, _pret._, V, 220, 6: loved.
=lief-lang.= See =lee-lang=, under =lee=.
=liel=, I, 70, 24: chaste. See =leal=.
=lien=, _p. p._, II, 135, 32: lain. she’s nouther pin’d nor lien, IV,
484, after 25: has not been lying bed-rid, does not look like one who
has long been confined to bed.
=lierachie=, III, 319, 20: hubbub. “leerach==the bottom of a dung-pit
after the dung has been removed, but left in a filthy state. The word
is used to signify anything in a disordered state. Hence, confusion,
hubbub.” Rev. Walter Gregor.
=lieugh=, low. See =leaugh=.
=lieve=, II, 345, 34: dear. See =leeve=.
=life=, leaf.
=life=, man of life, II, 244, 10: man alive (Chaucer’s lives man).
=lift=, I, 370, 16; 440, 18; II, 26, 14: air, sky.
=lift=, V, 82, 37: lifted.
=lig=, =ligg=, =ligge=, =lygge=, _imperat._, I, 328, 36; II, 437, 72;
439, 4, 7; IV, 396, 6; _inf._, III, 212, 17: lay.
=lig=, =ligge=, =lygge=, I, 328, 38-41; II, 244, 6, 7: lie.
=light=, _pret._, II, 46, 38; 54, 49; V, 53, 93: lighted, alighted. See
=lyght=.
=light=, III, 156, 1: corruption of lith, listen.
=lighter=, of a bairn, I, 86 f., 7, 8, 16, 17, 24, 25, 43; II, 98,
35; 108, 12; 109, 11; 115, 23; 117, 10, 11; 118, 13; 123, 25, 26:
delivered. (Icel. verða léttari, Old Eng. to lighten.) lighter a
dochter, II, 132, 15: _ellipsis of_ of. See =lichter=.
=lightly=, =lightlie=, =lyghtly=(=e=), III, 23 ff., 11, 41, 45, 61, V,
82, 36: quickly. III, 35, 35: easily. V, 84, 3: for slight reason.
=lightly=, =lichtlie=, =-ly=, III, 472, 10; IV, 351, 2, 9: treat with
disrespect. IV, 92, 2: slight (in love). IV, 94, 3; 98, 8; 100, 7; 103,
=M= 1; IV, 337 a, g 16: speak disparagingly of.
=like=, =liken=, like to be dead (dee), II, 58, 7; 372, 24; III, 386,
7; 392, 6; 394, =J= 4; 395, =M= 2 (cf. =L= 2): in a condition, in a
fair way, or likely. liker, II, 97, 22: more likely (?). See =lyken=.
=like=, III, 355, 13; 358, 60, 80; 360, 109, 111: please. III, 400 a,
(7): be pleased, satisfied.
=likesome=, II, 433, 5, 6, 8; 440, 23; 442, 4; 446, 89: pleasing,
lovely.
=lilt=, I, 187 b; IV, 266, 16: to sing cheerfully. lilted, IV, 95, 3:
sang, chanted.
=lily=, =lilly=, =lilye=, =lillie=, =liley=, =lillie=, lea, lee, lie,
I, 325, =B= 11; III, 299, 8, 11; 300, 25; 301, 32, =E=; 435, 2; IV,
454, 6; 455, 14; 458, 7; V, 244, 16, 19; lillie leven, I, 324, 13; 325,
=C= 12; lilly bank, brae, IV, 220, 13, 14: explained as “overspread
with lilies or flowers,” but clearly from A. S. léoflíc, Old Eng.
lefly, etc., lovely, charming. So, lilly feet (i. e. leely), I, 130,
=E= 13; lily leesome thing, IV, 432, 2. We have lilly Londeen, IV, 485,
19==the frequent leeve London, lovely London. See =leeve=, =lee-lang=.
=limmer= (French limier, a kind of hound), a term of opprobrium, or
simply of dislike. II, 322, 6; III, 466, 47: wretch (_m._ or _f._),
rascal. limmer thieves, 439 f., 4, 20; 441, 34. limmer loon, IV, 146,
15, 17. of a woman, II, 219, 9: jade.
=lin.= See =linn=.
=Lin=, =Linn=, =Linne=, =Line=, =Lyne=, a stock ballad-locality (like
Linkum): I, 78, 38; 466, 5; 478 f., 5, 10, 16, 34; II, 240, 2; 290, 19;
IV, 379, 18; 381, 12; 382, 15; V, 14, 1 ff.; 182 f., 2, 11, 29; 219, 6;
thro Linkum and thro Lin, II, 124, 37.
=lin=, III, 105, 11; 174, 15: stop.
=lin’d=, III, 164, 91: beat.
=ling=, =lyng=, III, 3, 6; 7, 5; 99, 53: a species of rush, or thin
long grass, bent grass, Scotland; in England, heath, furze.
=lingcan=, I, 299, 5: lichame, body.
=linger=, I, 334, 8: longer.
=Linkem.= See =Linkum=.
=linkin=, =linken=, IV, 332 b; V, 124, 4; 240, 1: tripping, walking
with a light step. on a horse, II, 285, 11. linking ladie, IV, 355
b: light of movement. key gaed linking in, V, 18, b 23: passing in
quickly, slipping in.
=linkit his armour oer a tree=, III, 270, =E= 7, comparing =A= 9; =B=
8; =D= 8, and observing the crooked carle in =E= 8, seems likely to be
corrupt, and perhaps we should read leaned his arm out-oer. Otherwise,
hung his armor, etc.
=Linkum=, an indefinite ballad-locality. not a bell in merry Linkum,
II, 106, 21, 22. thro Linkum and thro Lin, II, 124, 37. cock crew i the
merry Linkem, II, 239, =B= 4. a the squires in merry Linkum, IV, 432, 1.
=linn=, =lin=, =lynn=(=e=), water-course, torrent, river, pool in a
river (A. S. hlynna, torrens): I, 303, =D= 4; II, 147, 9; 153, 24; III,
274, 1. of a mill-stream, I, 129, =D= 6. o’er the linne, II, 282 f., 9,
17, 18; IV, 479, 10 (==in the lynn, IV, 479, 5); II, 283, 8, 9: over
the bank into.
=Linnen=, II, 225, =D= 3: Lunnon, London.
=linsey=, linsey-woolsey.
=lint=, IV, 433, 32: linen, linen mutch or cap.
=lippen on me=, II, 94, 10: depend. to God, III, 269, 12; to good==God,
V, 243, 15: trust.
=lirk=, IV, 198, 2: crease, hollow.
=lish=, leash.
=list=, _n._, III, 137, 2; 181, 16: inclination.
=list=, _v._, III, 171, 9; 179, 4; 311, 19: desire, be disposed.
_pret._ list, III, 171, 11. _impersonal_, me list, III, 97, 9. See
=lyste=.
=lith=, =lyth=, I, 135, =O= 15, 17; 345, =C= 4; II, 412, 1; 413, 8:
member, joint.
=lith=, I, 334, 7: light.
=lith=, =lithe=, =lythe= (Icel. hlýða), I, 334, 10; III, 22, 5; 198, 1;
411, 1: hearken.
=lither=, II, 54, 51; 138 f., 9, 13, 22, 23: bad. See =lidder=.
=Litle Brittaine=, I, 284 f., 4, 24, 33, 37: generally understood as
French Brittany, but it is inexplicable that Arthur should be reigning
there. Perhaps Litle means no more in this piece than in Litle England,
II, 440, 20, 22; III, 278, 34; 285, 27; Litle London, III, 285, 22;
Litle Durham, III, 285 f., 29, 39, 40. All these places, it will be
observed, are in the Percy MS.
=live=, leave.
=live=, V, 227, 13: dear.
=live best=, IV, 146, 2: are the best of those living.
=lively=, I, 184, 47: alive.
=liuer=, _adj._, III, 180, 10: deliver, agile.
=liuerance=, III, 411, 8: payment for delivering.
=livery-man=, I, 419, 1; 421, 1: servant.
=liues=, II, 59, 25: ’lieves, believes.
=liuor=, III, 411 f., 8, 9, 10, 14: deliver, hand over, surrender.
=load=, III, 267, 10: loaded (with liquor).
=loaden=, _p. p._ of load, IV, 395, =A b= 5.
=loan=, =lone=, a common, any free or uncultivated spot where children
can play or people meet, even the free spaces about a house: II, 62 a,
14, 16; 140, 1; V, 118, 2. (loan-head, IV, 285, 11, is toun-head in the
original.)
=locked=, =lockit=, in a glove, II, 461, 21; 464, 6; 477, =D= 17:
fastened.
=lockerin=, comes lockerin to your hand, IV, 213, 14; lockren, V, 258
b, 7: curling, closing as if to embrace.
=loddy=, IV, 70 f., =G= 4, 5, etc.: laddy.
=lodder=, =loder=, V, 283, 6, 16: louder.
=lodesman.= See =ledesman=.
=lodging-maill=, III, 474, 38: rent for lodging.
=lodly=, I, 285 f., 31, 43, 56; II, 44, 12: loathly, disgusting.
=lodomy=, IV, 398 f., 9, 34: laudanum.
=loe=, =loie=, =loy=, =lou=, _v._, I, 438, 10; V, 221, 9; 260, 13; 272
b, 3, 7, 11; 277, 1, 4: love. See =lea=.
=loffe=, _n._ and _v._, V, 79, 26, 28: love.
=logie=, IV, 175, =N= 11: lodge.
=loie=, =loy=, love. See =loe=.
=lome=, II, 44, 12: lame man.
=lone=, _n._, II, 333, 1; 489, 17. See =loan=.
=long=, tall. Long Lankyn, Long Iamie, II, 328, 1, etc.; III, 358, 63,
65, etc.
=long of=, II, 436, 53; III, 98, 22: owing to, the fault of.
=loo=, love, II, 408, 23. _pret._ lood, II, 417, 2; 419, 52. See =lea=.
=lood=, loud.
=loof=, =looff=, =lufe=, =luve=, =leuve=, I, 15, 15; 16, =B= 16, =C=
16; 17, 14; 18, =F= 9; 19, 14; III, 374, 8: palm of the hand. (Icel.
lófi.)
=looke=, IV, 503, 12: look up.
=loon.= See =loun=.
=loord.= See =lourd=.
=loose=, V, 300, No 191: lose.
=loot=, bend. See =lout=.
=loot=, _pret._ of let, I, 68, 7; 204, 19: allowed.
=loot=, _p. p._ (?) of let, I, 351, 49; III, 436, 13; IV, 33, 26:
allowed, allowed to, come.
=looten=, _p. p._ of let, II, 168, 8: allowed (to come). See =lotten=.
=lope=, _pret._ of loup, II, 59, 30; 434 f., 28, 47; 436, 58; III, 479,
39.
=lord nor loun=, III, 301, 32: man of high or low rank. In II, 159, 26,
lord is a wrong reading; rogue nor loun, or the like, is required, as
in 160, 20.
=lordane=, =lurden=, III, 25, 61: dolt, clodpoll, etc.
=lore=, =lorne=, III, 59, 51; V, 79, 32: lost.
=loset=, III, 94, 52: loosed, delivered.
=loss=, V, 200 a, 65; 262, No 223, 10; 277, 6: lose.
=lotten=, _p. p._ of let, I, 87, 38: allowed. See =looten=.
=loudly=, III, 440, 12: loud.
=lough=, =loughe=, _pret._ of laugh, II, 54, 58; 444, 48; V, 254 b, 2.
See =leuch=, =leugh=.
=lought=, _pret._ of laugh, III, 82, 74; V, 51, 55.
=loukynge=, V, 283, 17: expectation, hope deferred.
=loun=, =lown=, =lowne=, =loon=, IV, 501, 36, 37: a person of low rank.
laird or (nor) loun (lown), I, 69, 40, 41; 71, 32; III, 435, =F= 8;
IV, 514, 12. lord nor (or) loun (lowne), III, 301, 32; 430, 13; 435,
=E= 5; 436, 6, 8. IV, 11, 2; 519, =H= 2, =I= 2: rogue. often a mere
term of general disparagement (as in, English loun): (of a man) II,
118, 3, 4; 140, 25; V, 171, 4; (woman) I, 100, 30; 491, =G= 24, =H= 22.
fellow, without disparagement, IV, 258, 21. naughty girl, II, 419, 37.
mistress, concubine, whore, II, 181 b; IV, 14, 13; 330 a, 3; 332 b;
469, 3; 519, 9; 520, 13. See =lown=.
=loup=, I, 102, =D= 3; II, 464, 1; IV, 44 f., 14, 15, 17, 23; 47, 4,
5: leap. _pret._ lap, leap, leepe, lope, loup, louped. _p. p._ loupen,
luppen. loupin, V, 213, 3, has been explained as a form of leeping,
heating (warming herself over the coal; cf. cowering oer a coal, I,
304, 2). We have, however, whisking ore the coal, I, 302, 4; reeking
(==raiking) oer the coal, 304 =E= 3; and _across_ agrees better with
leaping than with heating.
=loup=, _pret._ of loup, II, 461, 5.
=loupen=, =louped=, _p. p._ of loup, III, 465, 27; IV, 462, 36.
=lourd=, =loord=, _pret._ and _p. p._ of lour==prefer, verb made from
lever, rather. I had lourd, IV, 199, 18. I wad lourd have, IV, 7, 43.
loord a had, V, 251, 36. I rather lourd it had been, II, 275 b.
=lout=, =loot=, I, 56, =B= 12; 351, 36, 48; II, 401, =C= 5: bow, bend,
lean. _pret._ louted, looted. louted in, I, 331, =D= 5: bent our heads
to enter? louted twafauld, threefauld, V, 242 b, 7: bent double,
treble, _p. p._ louted, lootit, louten.
=louten=, _p. p._ of lout, II, 168, 9: bent.
=love=, I, 476, =J= 4: loaf.
=love-clapped=, II, 165, 10; 169, 8; 171, 13; 370, 8; 371, 8; IV, 392,
8; V, 277, 8: embraced lovingly, caressed.
=loverd=, I, 243 f., 1, 6, 17: lord.
=louesome=, III, 431, 30: lovely.
=lov(e)ly=, =louelie=, epithet of London: III, 199, 19; 310, 61; 352,
1; 355, 7. See =leeve=.
=low=, =lowe=, I, 211, 35; III, 93, 46: hill.
=low=, =lowe=, III, 435, =F= 5, 10; 436 f., 13, 20, 24, 34; IV, 47, 5;
514, 8: flame.
=low=, =lowe=, _pret._ of laugh, III, 110, 16; 112, 53; V, 78, 4. See
=lowhe=.
=lowe=, doggs bite soe, III, 342, 66: a phrase for, take mean
advantages.
=lowe=, bye lerbord or by lowe, IV, 504, 30: loof, luff, the after part
of a ship’s bow (Falconer, Marine Dictionary); or perhaps the weather
side. See =leaf=.
=lowhe=, =low=, =lowe=, _pret._ of laugh, V, 80, 44, 46-48.
=lown=, IV, 304, 8, 9: must mean here a young man in a low social
position, since there can be no question of her kissing a disreputable
fellow. There is no proper contrast with lad, and probably we should
read, laird nor lown (see =loun=).
=lowse=, loose, free.
=loyed=, V, 221, 9: loved.
=lucettes=, III, 297, 46: luces, pikes.
=Luckenbooths=, V, 162, =C= 7: a range of buildings which formerly
stood in the thoroughfare of the High Street in Edinburgh, parallel to
Saint Giles Church.
=lue=, =loe=, =loo=, =lou=, =loie=, =lea=, =lee=, =lie=, _v._, love.
See =lea=.
=lufe=, =luve=, =leuve=, =loof=, I, 16, =C= 16; 17, 14; 19, 14; III,
374, 8: palm of the hand.
=lugs=, I, 302, =A= 10; IV, 53, 11; 296, 8; V, 102, =B= 15; 103 b, 15:
ears.
=luid=, III, 370, 19: loved.
=luke=, _pret._ of laugh, V, 238, 28.
=lum=, V, 125, 3, 9: chimney.
=luppen=, _p. p._ of loup, leap, I, 55, =A= 3, =B= 3; IV, 444, 26; 470,
30; 518, 8.
=lurden=, =lordan=, III, 35, 18: dolt, clodpoll.
=luscan=, a sturdy beggar (and thievish), III, 519 a.
=lust=, V, 213 a, 1: a bundle. (last, a measure, as twelve dozen hides
or skins, etc.?)
=lust=, III, 56, 6; 85 and 89, 446; 332, 13: inclination, disposition.
thy lustës to full fyll, III, 90 b: wishes. att his owne lust, III,
332, 13: pleasure.
=lute=, _pret._ of lett, IV, 345, 8: allowed. V, 248, 15: let down.
=luve=, palm of the hand. See =loof=.
=ly=, =lye=, IV, 261, 24; V, 168 f., 1, 2, 3, etc.: live, dwell.
_pret._ lyed.
=lyand=, lying.
=lyart=, IV, 7, 36: grizzled, gray.
=lybertye=, apoint a place of, II, 443, 39; 449, 44, 52: a place where
the two can fight freely, without risk of interruption?
=lye.= See =ly=.
=lyed=, II, 266, 28: lay, lived. See =ly=.
=lygge=, =ligge=, I, 328, 38-41: lie. See =lig=.
=lygge=, lay. See =lig=.
=lyghte=, =lyght=, I, 327, 21; III, 297, 33: alighted. See =light=.
=lyghtly=(=e=). See =lightly=.
=lyke=, I, 327, 22; III, 28, 121; 64, 165; 76, 417: please.
=lyke=, I, 506, 3, 8, 9; II, 295, 8; IV, 236, 30: lyke-wake, watching
of a dead body. In II, 117, 16: simply, death-scene.
=lyke-wake=, I, 251, =B= 4, 5, 7; II, 282, 14; III, 495 b, 21; IV, 516
f., 1, 7, 18: watch of a dead body. dead lyke-wake, I, 251, =B= 4, 5:
wake for your death. See =lyke=, =leak=, =leak-=(=lake-=)=wake=.
=lyken=, _participle_, IV, 511 b, =X= 6: about, at the point. See
=like=, =liken=.
=lynde=, =lyne=, III, 75, 398; 91, 2; 92, 22; 93, 33; 97, 10; 98, 23;
100, 76, 78: linden, tree.
=lyne.= See =lynde=.
=lyne.= See =lin=.
=lyng=, III, 99, 53: heath. See =ling=.
=lyon=, III, 344, 33; 349, 33: the royal standard (quite out of place
here).
=lyste=, =me lyste=, III, 78, 446: it would please me, I should like.
See =list=.
=lyth=, =lyth=, =lithe= (Icel. hlýða), III, 56, 1; 63, 144, 70, 282;
71, 317: hearken.
=lyth=, member. See =lith=.
=lyuer=, III, 362, 82: leever, rather.
=lyueray=, III, 59, 70: present of clothes. III, 64, 161: purveyance of
drink.
M
=ma=, III, 490, 15, 27, 29: bit, whit.
=Mable=, booke of, III, 422, 61: some book of predictions, like Thomas
Rymer’s.
=made=, a lie, I, 478, 25: told.
=made=, men, III, 406, 37: raised. made a bow o bere, V, 264 a, 2:
contributed.
=mae=, III, 301, =E=; 349, 46; IV, 490, 27: more.
=maen=, =mane=, =meen=, _n._, II, 107, 2: moan.
=magger of=, in the, III, 307, 1: in spite of, maugre.
=maick=, =make=, mate.
=maid=, =may=, used loosely of a young wife: II, 300, 6, 8; 307, 33;
V, 227, 7. So κόρη, παρθένος, in Homer, of a young wife, and puella of
married woman often.
=maid= _of a place_, as, maid of the Cowdenknows, IV, 200, 12, 13;
202, =J= 2, 3; 203, 8; 205, 14: the eldest daughter of the tenant or
proprietor, who is generally called by the name of his farm.
=maid alone=, II, 149, 2: solitary, like burd-alone, I, 298, 2 (which,
however, is there used of a man).
=maiden=, IV, 30 a: an instrument for beheading, resembling the
guillotine.
=maigled=, IV, 41, note *: mangled.
=maik.= See =make=.
=mail=, rent. lodging-maill, III, 474, 38.
=main.= man o the main, is it to a man o the might, or till a man o
the main, II, 403, 7, 8: main can have no sense distinct from might,
and man of the might, man of the main, is simple verbiage. In =B= 4,
=H= 6, we have, to a man of micht or a man of mean: man of mean cannot
be wrenched into man of low degree, and we do not want that sense even
if we could legitimately get it, for the antithesis is not between the
man of micht and the man of mean degree, but between both these and the
robber or robbers of the last half of the stanza. The stall copy, 405,
5, 6, having only grammar in mind, reads man (one) that’s mean, and but
for rhyme might perhaps have gone so far as, a man of means. IV, 146,
21, reads, man o mine, to avoid the difficulty. See =mean=.
=main=, _n._, IV, 473, 39: moan. See =mane=.
=ma-i-ntn=, V, 303 a: maintain, support.
=mair=, IV, 21, 14: more, bigger.
=mairly=, IV, 59 f., =d= 2; =e= 2, =g= 2: a rhyme used for mair.
=maist=, II, 169, 7: almost.
=maistly=, I, 138 b, =d= 5: mostly, almost. See =mostly=.
=make=, =maik=, =maicke=, I, 127, 14; 128, 11: 129, =D= 8; 347, 23, 30;
348, 11, 17: mate, consort. I, 403, 12; II, 46, 1; IV, 344, 7; V, 184,
44: match, like; and so in, what is my lineage or what is my make, IV,
341, =D= 8.
=make=, III, 37, 67: for _made_, _p. p._
=making=, IV, 208, 3: doing, deportment.
=maks=, V, 307 b: makes.
=male=, III, 63, 134; 68, 247, 255: (O. Fr. male) trunk. male-hors,
III, 74, 374.
=mall=, with the leaden mall, III, 357, 42: mallet, hammer (referring
to the weight of his stroke).
=mallasin=, malison.
=man=, V, 191, 8, 12: vassal. V, 304 b, 3: husband.
=man=, =mane=, =maun=, =mun=, I, 16, =B= 8, 9, 12-16; 146, 5, 6; V,
197, 12; 219, 29; 220, 4; 248, 12, 13: must.
=mane=, =maen=, =main=(=e=), =meane=, =meen=, I, 72, 20; 448, =A= 1,
3; etc.: moan, complaint, lament; often nothing more than utterance,
enunciation, as, I, 253, 1; 394, =A= 2; 395, =C= 4; III, 489, 1.
=mane=, _v._, I, 72, 23: moan. See =mean=.
=maney=, III, 109, 4: meny, followers. See =menë=.
=mang=, I, 108, 6: among.
=manhood=, =manhead=, =manheed=, men (man) o your, men to your, I, 108,
14; 109, 13; IV, 446 f., 14: a strange way of saying, if you are men
(man) of true valor, willing to fight one by one. III, 422, 59: manly
deed, exploit demanding courage.
=manie=, =mennie=, V, 270, 8: maunna, must not.
=mankie=, V, 173, 3: calamanco, a stuff made in the Low Countries.
=manratten=, =manrydden= (A. S. manrǽden), III, 359, 95; 362, 95:
homage, vassalage.
=manrent=, IV, 34 b: homage, vassalage. See =manratten=.
=mansworn=, I, 394, 3; IV, 442, 10: perjured.
=marchandise=, III, 92, 22: dealing.
=march-man=, III, 296, 8: one who lives on the march, or border.
=March-parti=, =Marche-partes=, III, 310, 58, 67: Border-part, -parts,
Border, Borders.
=marie=, III, 491, 14: mare.
=marie.= See =mary=.
=mark=, II, 62 b, 11; 132, 29; IV, 202, =K= 2: murky. the mark, II,
164, 3. See =mirk=.
=marke=, =merk=, I, 394 ff., =B= 1; =C= 2; III, 68, 243, 246; 69, 270:
two thirds of a pound.
=marke hym=, III, 297, 44: commit himself by signing the cross.
=marries=, IV, 487, 25: maids. See =mary=.
=marrow=, I, 147, 5; 148, =G= 4; 149, =I= 4; IV, 165, 13; 168, 2; V,
41, 16: (of man or woman) mate, husband, wife. IV, 165, 8, 9; =B= 2;
166, 2, 3; 167, =D= 6; 169, 5, 6; 170, =G= 3; =H= 3: match, equal in
rank, equal antagonist. bear ye marrow, 169, 4: should perhaps be, be
your marrow, as in 170, =G= 3.
=mary=, =marie=, =marrie=, =marry=, II, 369, 13, 15, 19, 20; 370, 13,
14, 17; 371, 14, 15, 20, 21, etc.; 390, 25; 391, 19; IV, 487, 25; 489,
26: a queen’s lady, maid-of-honor (cf. III, 381 b; 385, 18; 386, 19;
etc.), maid (like abigail).
=mary mild=, IV, 213, 13: marigold; cf. V, 259, 5.
=Mas= (James Melvine), III, 471 a: Magister, Mr. Mess James Murray, V,
196, 51: see =Mess=.
=masar=, =maser=, III, 65, 175; 83, 86, 175: a drinking-vessel, of
wood, especially of knotty-grained maple, often mounted with bands or
rings of precious metals. See Way’s note, Prompt. Parv., p. 328.
=mass=, in the frequent formula, when bells were rung and mass was sung
and a’ men bound to bed, II, 70, 21, etc.: a domestic religious service
at the end of the day. evening-mass, II, 168, =A= 4.
=mast=, =maste=, III, 296 f., 22, 31; V, 79, 22: mayst.
=master-man=, II, 16, 2: captain of a ship. V, 191, 19: chief.
=masteryes=, make, III, 92, 27: do feats of skill.
=mat=, =matt=, mat he (ye) dee! wae mat fa, mat(t) worth!==mot, in the
sense of may: II, 27, 7, 10; 472, 25, 33; IV, 391, 6; 392, 9, 21; 428,
6; V, 166, 10; 306, 10. See =met=.
=maught=, =maugt=, might.
=maugre=, maugre in theyr teethe, III, 67, 225: in spite of.
=maun=, I, 16, =B= 8, 9, etc.; =C= 7-10, etc.; 17, =D= 5-7, etc.; 146,
5, 6; 183, 25, 26: must. 71, 39 in _pret._ sense. See =man=, =mun=.
=maunna=, I, 185, 25: must not. See =manie=.
=mavosie=, I, 465, 8: mavis, song-thrush.
=maw=, =sea-maw=, II, 360, 3; 363, 7; 365, 5; IV, 482, 6: sea-mew, gull.
=maw=, _v._, I, 427, 13, 15: mow.
=mawys=, I, 326, 2: mavis, song-thrush.
=may=, =mey=, I, 115, =B= 1, 3, etc.; 173 f., 6, 10; III, 93, 39; 286,
45; IV, 432, 9; 515, 2: maid.
=may=, _optative_, frequently put after the subject, as, Christ thy
speed may bee! thou mayst sune be! I may be dead ere morn! III, 355 f.,
5, 23; 359, 87; 370, 8, 11; IV, 365, 18.
=may be===is, like _can be_: II, 448, 33; 451, 100. might be==was, III,
452, 10. (So, possibly, might see, I, 434, 30.)
=may gold=, III, 497, 13: marigold.
=mayne=, strength.
=maystry=, mastery.
=me=, I, 243 f., 5, 15: men, French _on_.
=me=, _ethical dative_, sawe I me, etc., III, 65, 184; 68, 249; 75,
381; 79, 147; 80, 169.
=meal=, III, 163, 77: meal-bag.
=meal=, II, 230, 14, 15; 362, 36: mold, dust, earth. See =meel=.
=mean=, man of, I, 358, 30; II, 233, =F= 3; 400, 4, 5; 404, 6, 7; V,
36, =B= 8, 9: mere verbiage, I judge; _mean_ looks like an attempt to
escape from _main_, which see. (man of mean, II, 233, =F= 3, not being
joined with man of might, might be understood as, man of main, or
violent man.)
=mean=, =meane=, =meen=, _v._, I, 426, 5; V, 246, 4, 6: moan, lament.
I, 388, =A= 7, 10: bemoan, lament the state of. not to mean, V, 160,
2: not to be pitied. mean, V, 160, 1, is doubtful, but the verb
corresponding to moan is to be preferred. See =mane=, =menyd=.
=mean=, _n._, moan. See =meen=.
=meany=, III, 307, 3, 10: troop. See =menë=.
=meaten=, =meeten=, II, 434, 17; III, 33, 158: measured.
=meathe=, IV, 378, 9; 380, 17: landmark.
=meatrif=, III, 163, 87: abounding in food.
=meckle=, =meikle=, =muckle=, IV, 513, 6, 7: much.
=medder=, V, 221, 11: mother.
=medill-erthe=, I, 327, 27. See =middle-earth=.
=meed=, I, 68, 10, 14; II, 172, 33: mood, heart, state of feeling.
=meed=, warld’s meed, I, 108, 14; IV, 446 f., 14: seems to be corrupted
from mate (make). Woreldes make is a familiar phrase in Old English,
and not unfrequent in ballads.
=meel=, meel or mor, III, 281, 8, 10: mold, earth, ground; but perhaps
an error for mede, mead. See =meal=.
=meen=, _v._, moan, lament. See =mean=, _v._
=meen=, =mean=, I, 427, 5; II, 124, 39; 417, 11; III, 389, 12, 13:
lamentation. See =mane=.
=meen=, I, 222, 8; 315, 8; IV, 416, 10: moon.
=meet=, I, 148, =F= 10: (_causative_) pass, put, thrust in.
=meet=, =meete=, II, 46, 45: even, equal. II, 229, 13: scant, close,
and so, perhaps, II, 436, 61.
=meeten=, =meaten=, II, 434, 17: measured, by measure. See =met=.
=meiht=, I, 243, 3: mayst.
=meikle=, =meickle=, =mickle=, =muckle=, I, 72, 24, 25; 86, 2, 3; 309
f., 2, 4; 330, =A= 3, =B= 3; IV, 514, 5: much, great.
=meisseine=, V, 132, 7: spanker, or perhaps, Fr. misaine, foresail.
=mell=, I, 299, 6; 304, 10; =F= 6; 305, 12; V, 108, =B= 6: mall, wooden
hammer, beetle.
=mell=, IV, 177 b, =I= 7: mail.
=mell=, III, 172, 24: meddle.
=meller’s hoops=, I, 304, =F= 5: mill-casings, the circular wooden
frames which surround mill-stones.
=melten= (goud), IV, 471, 37: molten.
=menë=, =menye=, =meany=, =menyie=, =meynë=, =maney=, =monie=, III, 72,
335: followers, band.
=menement=, V, 242, 9, 11, 13: amendment.
=menji=, menji feathers in her hat, V, 163, 13: many.
=mennie=, =manie=, V, 270, 8: maunna, must not.
=mensked=, I, 334, 11: honored, dignified.
=menyde= (of hir songe), I, 326, 2: moaned, uttered, delivered. See
=mean=.
=menye=, =menyie=, household, retinue, people: III, 91 a; IV, 127, 4,
5. See =menë=.
=mere=, IV, 493, 21: more.
=meri.= See =mery=.
=merk=, =marke=, I, 394 f., =B= 1, =C= 2: two thirds of a pound.
=merk.= See =merkes=.
=merk=, _v._, mark, merked them one, III, 297, 47: took their aim at.
=merkes=, III, 75, 397: distances between the bounds.
=merke-soote=, I, 334, 4: mark-shot, distance between the marks (cf.
III, 75, 397), from bow to target, bow-shot.
=merlion=, =merlyon=, II, 45, 21, 33: merlin, the smallest of British
falcons.
=merrilye=, III, 329, 11: in good or valiant fashion. So, nearly, IV,
477, 8.
=merry= (men). See =mery=.
=merry Cock land=, III, 250, 1: corruption of the _merry Scotland_ of
249, =I=, =J=, 1; 251, =M=, 1; 252, =O=, 1.
=merrys=, I, 327, 22: mars, marrest.
=mery=, =meri=, =merry=, =merrie=, =myrri=, =myrry= (men), II, 386, 12;
III, 66, 205; 71, 316; 73, 340; 97, 9; 114, 121, 131; 116, 2; 285 f.,
30, 48; 309, 37; 330, 17; 430, 5; 431, 4; 432, 2; 433, 2; IV, 234, 39;
V, 191, 4, 14: a standing phrase for followers, companions in arms.
=mese=, I, 328, 45: course (at table).
=mese=, III, 484 a, 16: mitigate.
=Mess=, an epithet said to be contemptuous for a priest or parish
minister (as one who says, or said, mass), so Mess John, IV, 442, 10,
12; but there is no reason to suppose disrespect in V, 196, 51. See
=Mas=.
=mestoret=, V, 80, 42: needed.
=met=, I, 324, 3; IV, 455, 4; V, 195, 9: mat, may. See =mat=.
=met=, _pret._ of mete, III, 60, 73: measured. _p. p._ met, mete, III,
60, 72; 203, 17; IV, 465, 23; 467, 13.
=methe=, meat.
=mett=, meet.
=met-yard=, III, 105, 27: measuring-rod.
=mey=, V, 161, 9: maid. See =may=.
=meynë=, III, 27, 96; 58, 31; 61, 95, 97; 76, 419: retinue, suite,
household, company, body of people. See =menë=.
=meythe=, III, 112, 59: might.
=micht=, _v._, V, 299, 4: might.
=micht’ll=, might well.
=mickle=, great, much. See =meikle=.
=midder=, =mideer=, mother.
=middle-earth=, =medill-erthe=, I, 327, 27; II, 59, 25: (A.S.
middangeard, middaneard), earth (conceived as being the middle of the
universe; see miðgarðr in Vigfusson).
=middle stream=, III, 125, 19: middle of the stream.
=middle waist=, IV, 523, 6: middle of his waist.
=mid-larf=, crowing a, II, 230, 5, 8: corrupt (changed by Scott to
merry midnight). Taking into account the young cock crew i the merry
Linkem, II, 239, =B= 4, midlarf may stand for some locality (suggestion
of Professor Kittredge).
=might be===was, III, 452, 10. See =may=, =can=.
=mild=, maidens mild, II, 312, 1; 314, =C= 1, =D= 1; 316, 1: meek,
gentle, demure. So Mild Mary, II, 315, =E= 7; Mary(-ie) Mild, III,
395, =M= 1, 3; 396, =N= 1; 398 a, =c= 4; Mary Mile, III, 386, 5, 6, 8.
Corrupted to Moil, IV, 507 b, =S= 2; Miles, IV, 511 a, 5. myld(e) Mary,
of the Virgin, III, 97, 7, 17; 98, 35: lenient, compassionate. myld
myȝth, V, 283, 13.
=milk-dey=, IV, 262, 26; 524, 6: dairy-woman.
=mill=, =mille=, IV, 503, 13; 505, 45; V, 221, 15, 16; 224, 25: mile.
=millaine=, I, 286, 42, 45: of Milan steel. See =myllan=.
=mill-capon=, II, 477 b, =D= 27: a poor person who asks charity at
mills from those who have grain grinding, the alms usually given being
a gowpen, or handful, of meal.
=millering=, II, 467, 42: waste meal, sweepings of a mill (dust [which]
lyes in the mill, II, 470, 43).
=mill-town=, =mill-toun=, II, 471, 18; V, 238, 29: miller’s steading or
place.
=miln=, I, 18, 11: mill.
=milner=, =mylner=, III, 85, 4; 360, 111: miller.
=min.= See =mind=.
=mind=, II, 216, 12, 15; 218, 13, 16: recollection. her mind she
keeped, II, 72, 13: did not forget what she had promised. for changing
o her min, 81, 32: seems to mean, lest she should change her mind; but
the sense is not striking.
=mind.= mind o, on, I, 481, 26; IV, 194, 16, 9; 195, 15; 196, 17; 197,
17, etc.: remember. _pret._ mind, I, 183, 30. mind of, on, mind to, I,
470, 16; IV, 403 f., 14, 28; 437, 24: remind of. he mind’t him on, V,
18, 5: remembered.
=minde=, ffor the maydens loue that I haue most minde, II, 58, 5:
elliptical or corrupt. Comparing 59, 24 (where the MS. reads, wrongly,
most meed) we see that _for_ is not to be taken with _minde_. We must
understand _most in mind_ or _most mind to_ or _of_, or, possibly,
_minde_ may be (from minnen, remember) _had in mind_.
=minge= (A. S. myndgian), III, 355, 6; 362, 72: utter. minged, II, 59,
21: didst name the name of, mention (or, perhaps, only bore in mind).
myn, III, 358, 72.
=minikin=, V, 201 b: little, pretty little.
=minion=, I, 284, 12: dainty.
=minnie=, =minny=, II, 473, 16, 17; IV, 69, 16; 294, =C= 9, 10; V, 115,
9: mother. IV, 6, 15; V, 250, 14: dam.
=mint to=, II, 469, 31; IV, 493, 20; V, 28, 67; 238, 21: put out the
hand towards, move towards. minted as, V, 9, 7: took a direction as if,
made as if.
=mire=, =myre=, I, 428, 13, 14; 429, 7, 8; III, 475 b: swamp, bog. mire
an moss, bog, an miery hole, IV, 22, 12; cf. 184, 5.
=mirk=, =myrke=, =mark=, I, 326, 16; IV, 517, 14: dark.
=Mirry-land toune=, III, 244, =B= 1: probably a corruption of the
_merry Lincoln_ of =A= 16, 17; 246, =D= 1; 251, =L= 1.
=miscarry me=, IV, 267, 11: get me into trouble; fail, disappoint me
(?).
=misgae=, misgave.
=misgiding=, V, 117, 15: ill treatment.
=misguide=, =misgiding=, V, 117, 15; 119, 15: ill treatment.
=miss=, _n._, IV, 317, =E= 5; 325, =C= 5, =D= 3: mistress, whore.
=miss=, _n._, II, 465, 4: wrong or injury.
=miss=(=e=), _v._, I, 210, 12: omit, fail. miss your Wanton slack, IV,
22, 10, 12: fail to keep him tightly reined (?).
=mis-sworn=, I, 395, =C= 5: mansworn, perjured.
=mister=, =myster=, III, 450 a; IV, 268, 26; 464, 15: need,
requirement, an exigency. misters, III, 164, 90: sorts of.
=mistkane=, I, 105 a, 18, if not miswritten, seems to be simply a
phonetic variation of mistane.
=mith=, =mithe=, _n._, I, 334, 6, 7, 11: might.
=mith=, =mithe=, _v._, II, 139, 10; IV, 493, 19: might. mith slain, II,
165, 23: might [have] slain.
=mode=, I, 328, 47: spirit.
=modther=, IV, 260, 3, 7: mother.
=mody=, =mudie=, I, 334, 10: proud, high-spirited.
=mold=, =molde=, mane of molde, I, 327, 20: earth. ouer the mold, into
the Scottish mold, I, 433, 21, 23: land, country. I, 434, 37; II, 246,
7: ground.
=Moll Syms=, I, 126, 13; IV, 448, 7: a well-known dance tune of the
sixteenth century.
=mome=, III, 352, 7: dolt.
=monand=, _n._, II, 87, 36: moaning.
=mone=, I, 326, 1: moan, lamentation, complaint. See =meen=.
=monie=, IV, 437, 2: menie, company, suite. See =menë=.
=montenans.= See =mountnaunce=.
=monty=, IV, 42 a, note §: staircase. (Fr. montée.)
=mood=, giue me, III, 105, 23: though _give me my God_ looks like a
bold change, it is not improbable. We have, yeve me my savyour, in the
Romaunt of the Rose, 6436, le cors nostre Seigneur, 12105, Michel. And
again: For it was about Easter, at what times maidens gadded abrode,
after they had taken their Maker, as they call it. Wilson, Arte of
Logike, fol. 84 b. “In 1452 John Bulstone (of Norwich) bequeathed to
the church of Hempstede ‘j pyxte, to putte owre lord god in.’” Academy,
XL, 174. (These last two citations furnished by Prof. J. M. Manly.)
Again, the Breton ballad, Ervoan Camus, Revue Celtique, II, 496, st. 6,
has ‘she has received my God.’ (Dr F. N. Robinson.) See V, 297 a.
=moody-hill=, =moudie-hill=, =mould-hill=, IV, 148 f., 48; 150, =g=,
=h= 48: mole-hill.
=mool=, =mools=. See =moul=.
=morn=, morrow. the morn, III, 480, 18; 482, 14; 488, 19; 489, 11; IV,
517, 18: to-morrow. the morn’s morning, IV, 373, 8.
=mornin’s gift=, =morning gift=, II, 132, 32; 135, 28: gift made the
morning after marriage.
=mort=, III, 307, 8; IV, 26, 8: note on the horn to announce the death
of deer.
=mose-water.= See =moss-water=.
=moss=, =muss=, =mose=, I, 78, 32; 99, 6; III, 4, 3, 48; 440, 10; IV,
443 f., 6, 19; 445, 8: bog.
=moss-water=, =mose-water=, II, 193, 21; 195, 33; V, 224, 19: water of
a peat-bog.
=most=, I, 328, 50: greatest.
=mostly=, =maistly=, IV, 242 b: almost.
=mot=, I, 473, 5: must.
=mot=, =mote=, I, 333, 2; III, 7, 9; 68, 243; 75, 394; 113, 81; IV,
137, 29; V, 82, 25, 27; 83, 44, 50, 53; 283, 3: may.
=mote=, III, 68, 253: meeting.
=moten=, molten.
=mothe=, =mouthe=, I, 334, 4, 6: for meahte (mohte), might.
=mother-in-law=, II, 71, 11; 72 f., 14, 15: stepmother.
=mother-naked=, I, 344, 33: naked as in, or coming from, the womb.
=mothly=, III, 148, 27: motley.
=motion=, III, 216, 38: =proposal=.
=mou=, =moue=, =mow=, I, 302, =B= 8; III, 149, 34; IV, 277, 10; V, 115,
9; 268, 18; 269, 13: =mouth=.
=moudie-hill.= See =moody-hill=.
=moue=, I, 16, =C= 15: put up in ricks.
=mought=, V, 76, 28; 83, =b= 25, etc.: mote, may. III, 30, 98: might,
were able.
=moul=, =mouls=, =mool=, =mools=, IV, 329, =A b=, after 16; 330, =D d=
20: mould, dust, ashes (of the dead). I, 184, 10; II, 233, 6; 429, 6;
IV, 492, 6; V, 210, 10: earth of a grave. See meal, II, 230, 14, 15.
=mould-hill.= See =moody-hill=.
=mould-warpe=, III, 420, 20: mole.
=mountnaunce=, =montenans=, I, 327, 31; III, 64, 168: =amount=.
=mouthe.= See =mothe=.
=mow=, III, 149, 34: seems to be meant for mouth (lip). But perhaps we
may understand grimace (for a tyrant to make faces at). See =mou=.
=mow=, =mows,= IV, 224, 22; 225, 20: jest.
=moyen=, IV, 42 a, note: =means=.
=mucell.= See =muckle=.
=muck=, IV, 323, 6: dung.
=muck the byre=, IV, 293, 9; 294, =C= 9, 10; 295, =D= 9; 297, 9: carry
out dung from the cow-house.
=muckle=, =mukle=, =mucell=, =meikle=, IV, 398, 6; 494, 33: big. IV,
399, 40; V, 271, 13: much.
=mudie=, III, 434, 27, 28: bold. See =mody=.
=muir=, moor.
=mullertd=, IV, 86, 12: miller.
=mun=, =maun=, =man=, II, 59, 20; 314, 28; IV, 343, 6: must.
=mune=, moon.
=munt=, I, 304, =E= 2: come to, make out.
=mure=, V, 202 b: moor, heath (?).
=muss=, III, 4, 3, 4, 8: moss, bog. See =moss=.
=myght=, welcome myght thou be, III, 65, 177: Old Eng. _2d pers. pres.
ind._ == mayst.
=myght neuer no tyme to sleepe=, III, 77, 441: probably corrupt, and to
be read, no tymë slepe; but the construction is not unknown.
=myȝth=, _n._, V, 283, 13: might, power.
=myld=, =mylde=. See =mild=.
=myle=, two myle way, III, 64, 168: the time it takes to go two miles.
=myllan=, III, 309, 31: Milan steel. See =millaine=.
=mylner=, =milner,= III, 81, 4; 97, 8: =miller=.
=myn=, III, 358, 72: say. See =minge=.
=myneyeple=, III, 308, 30: corruption of manople, a gauntlet protecting
the hand and the whole forearm (?). Skeat.
=myre.= See =mire=.
=myrke=, =mirk=, =mark=, I, 327, 30: dark.
=myrri=, =myrry=. See =mery=.
=myrthës= can, III, 66, 210: knows pleasant stories.
=mysaunter=, III, 13, 10: =mischance=.
=myster=, III, 68, 244: need, occasion. See =mister=.
=mystery=, =mysterie=, III, 495, =B b=, after 7; IV, 517, 15: craft.
N
=n=, carried on from preceding word to following. noo nother, no noder,
III, 81, 58; 100, 80: none other. a nother, nether, III, 80, 200; V,
247, 9: an other. a naughtless, noughtless, IV, 286, 12; 287, 5: an
aughtless, good for nought. a noke, V, 81, 45: an oke. they nere, they
nee, III, 112, 50; 204, =b= 31: theyn ere, thyn ee. my nane, I, 469, 29
(but nane should probably be name). So, his nawn, her nain (nen), yer
nane, as if from hisn, hern, yern, I, 469, 28; III, 269, 1; IV, 132,
13; V, 224, 24. In, an oute-horne, III, 30, 87, n seems to have been
carried back, from noute (see V, 297 a). n in nant, III, 35, 24, 31, is
an arbitrary prosthesis.
=na=, =nae=, no, not: I, 68 f., 12, 22, 31, 44, 51; 107, 3, 8; 310, 9,
11, 13; V, 260, 16. Frequently united with the preceding verb. hadna,
I, 343, 5, 18. winna, 354, 27. canno, 368 f., 35, 37, 39. coudna,
369, 51. wadna, 394, 9, 11. shanae, 394, =B= 1. woudna, 396, 23, 26.
shoudna, 396, 27. didna, 397, 12. kensnae, 466, 13. wasnae, 467, 34,
etc., etc.
=naesaid=, IV, 371, 7: =refused=.
=nags=, =naggs=, =nogs=, III, 480, 11; 481, 8; 484 a, 11: notches,
nicks.
=nain=, own. See =n=.
=nane=, =nen=, yer nane, my nane, etc.: own. (n, originally, carried on
from mine.) See =n=.
=nane=, =neen=, none. I, 16, 6; 309, 12; II, 108, 13; 129, 16; 425, 3:
adverbially, not, not at all. See =none=.
=nant=, III, 35, 24, 31: aunt.
=naow=, V, 304, 5, 12, 14: now.
=napkin (-ken, -kain)=, I, 395, 9, 14: neckerchief. II, 108, 3; 158 f.,
5, 8; 160, 4, 7; 163, 4, 6: pocket handkerchief. pocket-napkin, IV,
468, 2.
=nappy=, V, 84, 13 (of ale): strong.
=naps=, naps of gold were bobbing bonnie, IV, 295, 8, 9: knobs, balls,
mentioned as ornaments to gloves, II, 133, =D= 6, golden-knobbed
gloves; 134, 8, 13, siller-knapped gloves.
=napskape=, =knapscap=, IV, 7, 35; V, 251, 31: head-piece.
=nar= = nor, with comparative, for _than_: III, 112 f., 57, 69; V, 78
f., 12, 18. See =nor=.
=nas=, I, 244, 15: ne was, was not.
=naught=, V, 102, =A= 13: naughtiness.
=naughtless=, a naughtless lord, IV, 287, 5; a noughtless heir, 286,
12: an aughtless, oughtless, good-for-naught, impotent.
=naughty=, V, 267, 13: good-for-naught.
=naur=, II, 62 a, 15: near, or nearer.
=naw= = na = no.
=naw=, IV, 442, 2: nay. V, 296, a: not.
=nawn=, own. See =n=.
=naye=, withowghten naye, III, 296, 18: undeniably, truly.
=ne=, III, 349, 46; V, 272 b, 5, 6; 273, 16: no. III, 62, 128: not.
=ne=, stand ye nè aw, III, 350, 53: misprint (in original); =g=, stand
in no awe.
=nean=, V, 219, 27; 220, 1; 257, 11: none.
=near=, =neare=, =ner=, =nere=, I, 101, 19; II, 183, 30; 191, 37; III,
62, 119; 111, 46; V, 224, 28: nearer.
=near=, IV, 446, 14^4; 447, 14^4: corrupt, as the repetition from the
second verse shows; _while_ (till) _my days are near_ (to an end) would
be extremely forced, in any case.
=near=, =neer=, never.
=near-hand=, _adj._, IV, 197, 4, 5: near, short. _adv._, III, 161, 36;
IV, 222, 8 (near-han): near, almost.
=neast=, =neist=, =nist=, =nest=, V, 117, =A= 7; 216 f., 1, 5, 7, 10,
18; 242 a, 10, 12: next.
=neathing=, nothing.
=neave=, III, 123, 16, 20: fist.
=neb=, I, 425, =A= 16: beak.
=nee=, III, 422, 67: nigh.
=needle-tack=, II, 217, 5: fastening or stitch with a needle.
=neen=, none. See =nane=.
=neen nae=, II, 318 b, 4: need na, need not.
=neerice=, nurse. See =nourice=.
=neeze=, V, 222 b, 26: sneeze, snort.
=neigh=, _v._, II, 54, 54, 55: nigh, approach.
=neis=, I, 302, =B= 8; IV, 247, =B= 12: nose.
=neist=, =niest=, I, 223, 9; 314, 5; 419 f., 1, 3, etc.: next.
=nelle=, V, 284, 22: ne will, will not.
=nen=, her nen, V, 224, 24: own. See =nane=.
=ner=, =nere=, III, 62, 119; 111, 46: nearer. See =near=.
=nere=, III, 113, 75: were [it] not.
=nere=, they nere, III, 112, 50: theyn ere, thine ear.
=neshe=, III, 445, 31: of delicate quality.
=nest=, next. See =neast=.
=nettle-dyke=, II, 463, 22: wall with nettles growing on it, or near
it. Cf. II, 467, 40; 469, 42.
=neuk=, coat-neuk, II, 107, 4, 5: nook, corner.
=new-fangle=, I, 272, 9: fond of novelties, capricious, inconstant.
=next=, I, 412, 27; II, 45, 30, 34: nighest.
=nextand=, II, 94, 6. See =-an=.
=neys=, V, 80, 39: nice (ironically).
=nicher=, =nicker=, _n._ and _v._, III, 370, 10; IV, 18, 15; 19, 13;
20, 10; 21, 11: neigh.
=nicht=, the, to-night.
=nicked him of naye=, II, 52, 12; nickd them wi nae (nay), V, 182 f.,
12, 30 (clearly borrowed from the above in Percy’s Reliques): refused
with nay.
=nicker.= See =nicher=.
=nick-nack=, playd nick-nack on the wa, V, 123, 16; 124, =B= 14: to
express the sound of successive collisions.
=niddart=, niddart ither wi lang braid-swords, II, 422, 49: thrust at.
Jamieson, pressed hard upon. Correspondents from the North of Scotland
say, notched, slashed.
=nie=, III, 473, 27: neigh.
=nie=, =neigh=, nigh.
=niest=, I, 15, =B= 3; 147, 5: next, nearest. come niest, IV, 485, 30:
nigh to. See =neist=.
=niffer=, _n._ and _v._, I, 203, =C= 10, 15; IV, 406, 24: exchange.
=night-coif=, III, 514, 3; 515, 1; V, 225, 4: night-cap.
=night-wake=, IV, 453, 3, 4: night-watch, as of a dead body, perhaps a
corruption of _lyke-wake_.
=nimble=, =nimle=, wrongly for thimble, thimber, I, 332, =E= 2, =F= 2,
=G= 2.
=nine=, the, III, 392, 8: the nine justices of the supreme criminal
court of Scotland. Kinloch, A. S. B., p. 259.
=ning=, V, 165 f., 4, 12: nine. nine, 111, 26, is changed from ninge.
In the older stages of the language, remarks Dr. Murray (Dialect of the
Southern Counties of Scotland, p. 125), ng was often written for Latin
gn, and vestiges of this substitution of the nasal for the liquid n are
still found in the spoken dialect.
=nip=, III, 160, 18, 19: bit.
=nires=, =norice=, nurse. See =nourice=.
=nist=, =nest=, =neast=, V, 216, 10; 242 a, 10, 12: next.
=nit=, III, 465, 20: knit, fasten.
=nit=, I, 450, 2-4: nut.
=nit-broun=, IV, 469, 7; 470, 23, 29, etc.: nut-brown.
=no=, I, 86, 13; 100, 10; 108, 6, 8; 135, =P= 8, 10; II, 218, 12; 222,
19; III, 465, 32: not.
=noble=, =nobellys=, III, 113, 81; 126, 39; 201, 29: a gold coin of
the value of one third of a pound. (Fifteen score nobles is of course
exactly an hundred pound.) == 20 groats, V, 76 f., 18, 19, etc.
=nocked=, III, 82, 132; 86, 132: notched.
=noder=, =nother=, III, 81, 58; 100, 80, no noder, noo nother=none
other. See =n=.
=nog.= See =nags=.
=noghte=, not.
=nolt=, =nout=, V, 249, 4: neat, neat-cattle.
=nom=, III, 51 b, 13-15: take.
=none=, _adv._, II, 361, 24; V, 295, 1: not at all. See =nane=.
=none of=, none of my brother, II, 11, 3, 5, 7: not at all my brother.
=noo=, V, 307, 11: now.
=noorice.= See nourice.
=nor=, =nar=, after a comparative, I, 5, =C= 9-18; II, 134 f., 15, 29;
268, 21; 374, 13; 409, 19; IV, 166, 12; V, 184, 49: than. nor be, II,
97, 22: than to be (if liker means more likely). too gude nor ever woud
make a lie, II, 372, 26: better than, too good, to make. I doubt not
nor she be, II, 390, 23,=je ne doute pas qu’elle ne soit.
=not=, IV, 331 b, 8: misprint for _out_.
=note=, =notte=, V, 283, 9, 19: nut.
=note=, III, 512, =E= 6: corrupt (_nut_ in =F= 7). Some impossibility
is required.
=noth=, =nothe=, I, 334, 7, 8: not.
=nother.= See =noder=.
=noughtless=, =naughtless=, IV, 286, 12; 287, 5: a noughtless==an
oughtless, good-for-nothing, impotent.
=noumbles=, =nowmbles=, noumbles of the dere, of a do, III, 58, 32; 64,
172: frequently defined entrails; Palsgrave, praecordia, the numbles,
as the heart, the splene, the lunges, and lyver. At least a part of the
noumbles are the two muscles of the interior of the thighs of a deer:
venatores nombles vocant frustum carnis cervinae sectum inter femora
(Ducange). See the elaborate directions for breaking or undoing deer in
Juliana Barnes’s Boke of Huntynge, and in Madden, Sir Gawayne and the
Grene Knyȝt, vv. 1344-48 especially.
=nourice=, =nourrice=, =noorice=, =nourry=, =nurice=, =nurische=,
=nury=, II, 322, 6, 13-17; 333, 5-7; III, 433, =C= 7; IV, 31, 7; 32, 3;
480, 5, 10, etc.: nurse.
=nout=, =nolt=, III, 460, 25, 36; IV, 246, 13; V, 116, 1: neat cattle.
=noute-horne=, a, III, 26, 87: horn of neat, ox, cow (wrongly
substituted for, an oute-horne; see V, 297).
=nouthe=, I, 334, 5: not.
=nouther=, IV, 219, 8: neither.
=now=, V, 78 f., 5, 24, 25: new.
=noy=, I, 217, 7, 12: grief.
=nul=, =nule=, I, 244, 11, 13: will not.
=nume=, _pret._, III, 355, 4: took.
=nurice.= See =nourice=.
=nurische=, IV, 28 a, 29 a: nurse. See =nourice=.
=nury.= See =nourice=.
=nyghtgales=, I, 327, 33: nightingales.
=nyll=, II, 478, 4: will not.
O
=O=, brighter O shall, IV, 170, =G= 10: heard for _rose_. For _rose_
(which the last letter of _brighter_, the _o_, and the first letter of
_shall_ make) cf. 167, 17; 169, 14; 175, =M= 11.
=o= = of. diel o there, III, 488, 26: devil (i. e. not a bit) of
anything in that way (?) (devil be there, 489, 43).
=o= = on: I, 232, =A= 2; II, 375, 15, 16; III, 488 f., 23, 39, 45; IV,
84, 19.
=ochanie=, =och how=, IV, 103, 14; III, 392, 11: interjections of
sorrow.
=ocht=, IV, 230, 1: aught.
=ochree.= See =ohon=.
=of= = on: I, 284, 14, 16; II, 59, 23; 452, 5; III, 105, 19; 309, 46
(on, 45, vppone, 42); 355, 8; 359, 89; 464, 2; IV, 503, 20. beate of
mee, II, 54, 53 (?). In, put of the pot, put of the pan, II, 118, 8,
_of_ is perhaps simply an error of the scribe; we have, put on, 119, 5,
6. In, seruyd (q. v.) hi_m_ of bred, I, 241, 1, _for_ is required, and
_of_, which would signify _with_, cannot stand.
=officier=, V, 155, D 2: officer.
=oȝaines=, I, 192 a: against, towards.
=oger=, I, 202, 1: auger.
=ohon ochree=, III, 390, 13: exclamation of sorrow.
=okerer=, III, 58, 46: usurer.
=old=, =auld=, old (auld) son, of babe just born, II, 95, 11, 12; 105,
7; 107, 4, 5, 6, 17: called young son, II, 104, 12, 15; 106, 8, 10,
18, and, at II, 95, immediately after, 13, 14. See =auld son=. old
daughter, II, 382, 1; 387, 1; 388, 15: oldest. old sister, I, 175, =D=
8: one older than a second sister.
=old=, =auld=, in your fifteen year old, I, 115, 13; in fifteen years
old, I, 116, 13: of age. See =aull=, =auld=.
=on= = of: III, 93, 38; 132, 3; 231, 84; 296, 20; 308, 13.
=on= = one: V, 78 f., 7, 26, 28; 80, 52. on for on, III, 308, 21.
=on=, wedded on, I, 146, 24; married on, I, 497, 22: on the strength of
(to have as a dowry).
=on ane=, I, 334, 6: anon.
=on fere=, III, 98, 38: in company.
=on o= = on (on upon?): III, 349, 38 (calld on o); 488, 25, 27; IV,
470, 18; 517, 9. (cald of, IV, 503, 20.)
=onbred=, I, 415 b: incompletely grown.
=one=, I, 104, 6; II, 45, 28: a. of one, I, 104, 6^2 should have been
retained (=on a).
=one=, on.
=onë=, =ony=, =onie=, II, 58, 3: any.
=ones=, =onys=, III, 98, 23: once.
=onfowghten=, III, 297, 41: unfought, without fighting.
=onlouping=, III, 449 b: mounting (of a horse).
=onthought lang=, I, 478 f., 13, 47: without wearying, entertained. See
=unthought lang=, =thinke lang=.
=ony=, =onie=, =onë=, any.
=oor=, I, 133, =M= 6: hour.
=or=, I, 285, 33; 294, 10; 328, 35; 411, 17; II, 22, 13; 105, 8:
before. or eir, II, 21, =A= 9: or or (doubling of before).
=or=, II, 166, 27: than.
=order=, =ordre=, III, 66, 197, 198: rule of an order.
=ordered=, II, 257, 9: taken order for, made arrangements for.
=orders=, III, 286, 44: prepares.
=ordeyn=, III, 72, 326: give order for, levy.
=orghie=, IV, 513, H 2^4 (to be supplied): orgeis, a fish, large kind
of ling. See V, 299 b, note on No 178.
=orlange=, II, 61, 8, 9, 12: perversion of eldrige.
=orless=, I, 141 b, =S=: emended to unless.
=orpharë=, I, 326, 9: orfevrie, goldsmith’s work.
=osterne=, III, 412, 27: austere. See =austerne=.
=ostler=, V, 155, =C= 4, =D= 2: innkeeper.
=ostler-ha=, III, 270, 6: ostler-house, hostelry, inn.
=ostler-house=, III, 268, 4, 6, 8; 269, 4-6: hostelry.
=other=, _pl._, III, 298, 66; 335 b.
=ottraunce=, at, III, 90 b: to the utterance, extremity, death.
=ought=, I, 294, 12: am under obligation. _pret._ and _p. p._ III, 228,
9; 431, 30: owed.
=ould=, IV, 456, 9; V, 199 b, 35: would.
=our=, =owr=, =ower=, over, too.
=oure=, _prep._, over. See =ower=.
=ousen=, =owsen=, =owsn=, II, 192, 6: oxen.
=out=, he slew out, II, 383, 25; beat out, III, 151, =A= 4, =B= 4: out
and out. fight ye all out, IV, 173, 6: through, to the last.
=out into=, I, 115, =B= 2: from within.
=out of hand=, II, 321, 3; III, 440, 25: forthwith.
=out the gate=, =way=, IV, 470, 21; 477, 12: along the way.
=outehorne=, III, 26, 87 (the original and popular reading): here, a
horn blown to call out citizens to the support of the civil authority.
See Spelman’s Glossary, 1687, p. 441. Cf. V, 297 a.
=outlyer=, I, 175 f., =D= 3, 9, 15, 21: one who lives away from men, in
the woods, banished man, outlaw.
=out make= I, 61, =C c= 5: make out.
=outmet=, _p. p._, III, 29, 158: measured out.
=out-oer=, =-our=(=e=), =-ower=, =-owre=, =-over=, I, 246, 13, 14; II,
256, =K= 1; III, 6, 19; 7, 17; 270, 13, 17: over, above. heirs out ower
a’ my land, II, 176, =C= 8. leand himsel outowre a tree, III, 270, =D=
8. the flower out ower (owr) them a’, II, 256, =L= 1; III, 246, =D= 7.
out oer her, IV, 224, 19, should perhaps be, out o’ her.
=outrake=, III, 413, 32: excursion, outing.
=outside=, =outsyde=, II, 444, 43; 449, 48: place apart, retired.
=outspeckle=, IV, 7, 30; V, 250, 27: laughing-stock.
=outthro=, IV, 445, 20: through to the opposite side.
=outwood=, III, 179, 8: wood outside (of a town?).
=ouer all=, III, 28, 141: everywhere.
=ouer goddes forbode=, =forbott=. See =forbode=.
=ouer-by-gone=, I, 326, 8: covered, set.
=overthrew us=, V, 134, 8: threw us over.
=o-vour=, II, 25, =F= 13: half owre, half way over.
=ower=, =owre=, =oure=, I, 16, =C= 17; 80, 1: over. ower (a window):
over against.
=ower=, =owr=, our, over, too.
=owerturn=, =owreturn=, I, 332, =E=, =F= 7; III, 10, 21: refrain. See
=owerword=.
=owes=, who, IV, 205, 27: owns, whose is (who owns==wha’s aucht).
=owerword=, =owre-word=, =oerword=, II, 254, 8, 9; 363, 14; IV, 7,
28; 482 f., 8, 11: refrain (word frequently repeated), call, cry. See
=owerturn=.
=owre=, II, 20, 8: or, before.
=owsn=, =owsen=, =ousen=, I, 465, 2; II, 175, 7, 8; 176, 8, 9; 192, 6;
194, 10; IV, 12, =C= 8; 27, 20: oxen.
=owthe=, III, 112, 51: out.
=owtlay=, III, 99, 43: outlaw.
=oxe-lig=, ox-leg.
=oxtere=, IV, 506, 6: (A. S. óhsta) arm-pit.
=oyes=, II, 315, 11; V, 229, 37: grandsons.
=oysyd thare trawale=, III, 41 a: used, carried on their operations.
P
=pa=, paw.
=pa.= See =palle=.
=Pa=, III, 244, =B= 1: unintelligible and doubtless corrupt. Percy,
who supposed that Mirryland toune might be corrupted from Milan, Germ.
Mailand, understands Po, although, as he observes, the Adige, not the
Po, runs through Milan.
=pack=, IV, 69, 12: familiar.
=pad=, V, 114, 1: (in canting language) highway.
=pae=, I, 333, 3: peacock.
=pakets=, V, 165, 6: pockets. (V, 306, 9, has _pouches_.)
=pale= (of a puncheon), II, 81, 45: tap, spigot.
=pale=, and the covring that these lovers had was the clouted cloak an
pale, I, 305, 12: a derivation from Lat. pallium, coverlet, cloak, O.
Fr. paile, palle, has been suggested, and as to meaning would suit;
but if the word were popular it should be heard of elsewhere. Possibly
an error for fale, turf, which is the bed-covering in =F= 6, p. 304;
though the combination with cloak would be strange.
=palle=, =pale=, =paule=, =pa=, I, 68, 7; 333, 1; II, 139, 4; 256, =L=
4; 259, =A a= 3, =b= 3, =C c= 3; 483, 5: fine cloth.
=pallions=, III, 300, 15; IV, 500, 16: pavilions.
=palmer=, I, 232, 3-5, 12, =B= 1; 284, 8: pilgrim. III, 3, 10, 11; 4,
4, 5; 180, =B= 8; 186, 10, 11, 17; 189, =A= 8, =B= 3; IV, 445, 3, 4,
20; V, 16, 9, 17: tramp, vagabond, beggar.
=pannells=, V, 86, 29: riding-pads or cushions.
=papeioyes=, I, 328, 33: popinjays.
=paramour=, I, 68, 4; 70, 4: in =A= 4, the word, coming between
bouted flour and baken bread, should signify something eatable; =B=
has attempted to make easy sense by inserting the. Paramour as lover,
lady-love, in the honest sense occurs II, 86, 19, 21; 412, 2; V, 182,
7. the love was like paramour, II, 407, 8: like amorous passion (?).
Quite unintelligible in II, 409, 4, a red rose flower, was set about
with white lilies, like to the paramour; again, 410, 2.
=parand=, =heir and parand=, II, 447, 2, 4: parand, in 4, might appear
to be meant for apparent, but we have his parand and his heir, in 2.
There is more ignorance of the meaning of words in the piece.
=pardon=, I, 411, 8: leave of absence.
=part=, God, Christ haue part(e) of the (me), III, 58, 39; 329, 8:
perhaps, make me an object of his care (as prendre part en==take an
interest in); or, take me for his, number me among the saved.
=part=, part the quick, II, 231, 9; parte our company, III, 71, 307:
quit, part from.
=partakers=, III, 138, 7, 8: helpers.
=parti=, vppone a parti, III, 308, 19: aside. March-parti, III, 310,
58: Border-side. Marche-partes, III, 310, 67.
=party=, nane to party me, V, 127, 19: be of part with.
=Pasch=, =Pasche=, II, 146, 9; 147, 7: Easter.
=pass for=, III, 138, 15: care for.
=passe vppon=, V, 51, 67: pass, go, on.
=passe=, III, 73, 357: extent? In 84, 357, and 88, 357, the reading is,
compasse.
=passage=, IV, 515, 1: occurrence, incident, adventure.
=passilodion=, V, 71 b; 72 a: a drinking-word.
=passments=, IV, 343, 4: laces, trimmings for dresses.
=pat=, pot.
=pat=, =patt=, =paut=, I, 396, 20; II, 123, 29: strike the ground with
the feet, stamp. pat the ball, III, 251, =L= 1, 2: kick. patted wi her
lips, II, 83 a: struck together, smacked (?).
=pat=, =patt=, _pret._ of pit, put, I, 107, 7; 465, 2, 3; V, 218, 2.
=pat-fit=, I, 302, =B= 8: pot-foot.
=paughty=, II, 364, 21: haughty, malapert.
=pauky=, V, 115, 1: sly.
=pautit=, I, 397, =D= 9, 11: patted, struck with the foot, stamped. See
=pat=.
=pavag=, =pauage=, =pawage=, III, 109 f., 5, 11-13: Fr. pavage,
road-tax. See =Ducange=, =pavagium=. (passage, III, 114 f., 130, 180,
181, etc.)
=paw=, a slight motion. neer played paw, III, 480, 14: never stirred
again.
=pay=, _n._, I, 285, 32; III, 28, 128; 59, 66: satisfaction.
=pay=, =paye=, _v._, I, 328, 37; II, 478, 12: satisfy, please.
=pay=, III, 142, 36; 161, 26; V, 105, =A= 5, 6; 106, =E= 6: beat.
=payetrelle=, I, 326, 9: poitrail, part of the harness on the breast of
a horse.
=payrelde=, =parelde=, I, 327, 16, 17: apparelled.
=peak=, pick.
=peak=, peck.
=peak-staff=, pike-staff.
=pean-kniff=, pen-knife.
=pear=, =peare=, V, 110 f., 2, 4, 6, etc.: poor.
=pearled=, apron, IV, 67, 12: bordered or trimmed with lace.
=pearlin=, =pearlins=, III, 9 f., 6, 14; IV, 448 a, 2d line: pearls.
=pearling=, =pearlin=, II, 323, 6; IV, 326, 16: lace.
=pearting=, parting, separation.
=peat=, I’se gar ye dance upon a peat, V, 104 b (a threat): on a
(burning) peat, make it hot for you.
=pecis=, III, 65, 175: vessels (of silver), probably cups.
=peed=, IV, 316, 14: pu’d, pulled.
=peel=, I, 403, 9: pool.
=peel=, a tower, stronghold; climbing the peel seems inappropriate
at IV, 6, 4; V, 249, 4, unless the meaning be that the peel was
“ransakled” for valuables (since kye would not be kept in the peel).
=peeped=, V, 10, 3: spoke faintly, whined.
=peerls=, peerls many, IV, 134, 10: poor folk (Chaucer’s poraille). =B=
8, =C= 6, =D= 10, =F= 8, =G= 4, etc., poor folk many.
=peers=, pears.
=peit=, I, 22, 3: a peat carried to school as a contribution to the
firing.
=pellettes=, III, 430, 12: bullets.
=pendles=, IV, 296, 8: pendants, ear-rings.
=penned in=, of windows, II, 330, =G= 3: fastened, perhaps pinned. See
=pin=, _v._
=penny-brown=, III, 281, 10: brown as a penny. penny-gray, III, 281,
8, at best would mean gray as a silver penny; but silver is called
white money. It is just possible that the word is legitimate, and that,
penny-brown being understood as very brown, penny-gray might come into
use for very gray. Possibly penny-brown (gray) might mean dappled with
brown (gray) spots.
=penny-fee=, =-fie=, I, 491, 10; IV, 444, 10: gift of a penny largess,
pour-boire. (I, 490, 6, penny instead of penny-fee.) II, 469, 25, 26:
simply, money.
=peny=, shete a peny, III, 97, 10: shoot for a penny, as 104, 6.
=Perce=, V, 298 a: Persia.
=perelle=, I, 326, 8: pearl.
=perfyte=, II, 72, 4; 75, 6; 78, 8: perfectly.
=pestilett=, III, 430, 11: pistolet.
=petty toes=, I, 133, =L= 9: pettitoes, feet (as in Winter’s Tale, IV,
4), or a play upon words, little toes.
=phat=, III, 318, 8: what.
=philabeg=, IV, 234, 21; 271, 8; V, 266, 8: kilt, skirt worn by
Highlanders, reaching from belly to knee.
=pibrochs=, IV, 298, =G b= 14: bagpipe airs; seems here to be meant for
the pipes.
=pick=, pick a mill, I, 211, =B= 3, 4: sharpen the surface of a
mill-stone when worn smooth by friction. picked a stane, II, 323, 1:
dressed with a pick.
=pick=, =pickle=, I, 16, =C= 14; IV, 481, 5; V, 206 a, 6: a grain.
=pick=, _n._, IV, 2, 12: pitch.
=pick=, =pict=, _v._, 380, 20: pitch (pict, II, 28, 23, may be a
misspelling).
=picke=, III, 358, 77: pitch (throw).
=pickle=, a grain. See =pick=.
=pickle=, II, 147, 12, 14; 476, 16, 17: pick, collect.
=picklory=, III, 132, 4: name of a cloth.
=pickman=, pikeman.
=pict=, _v._, II, 28, 23: pitch (probably a misspelling).
=pig=, I, 305, 5; IV, 206, 9: an earthen vessel, earthen pitcher.
=pig-staves=, V, 213 a, 1: pike-staves.
=pile=, o corn, I, 18, =H= 7: a grain.
=pile=, pile o the gravil green, gray, I, 350, 18, 19; pile that grows
on gravel green, IV, 456, 11, 12: a fibre or blade of some velvety moss
which grows on stones. See =gravil=.
=pilk=, II, 473, 16: pick, collect. See =pickle=.
=pilleurichie.= See =pitleurachie=.
=pin=, =pinn=, an implement for raising the fastening of a door. tirled
the pin, IV, 390, 4; 415, 5. tirled at the pin, I, 470, 23; II, 141,
8; 164, 3; 471, 8; 474, =I= 3, etc. tirled on the pin, II, 461, 11.
thirled at the pin, II, 121, 15. thrild upon a pinn, II, 138, 10, 16.
twirld at the pin, IV, 390, =b= 4. lifted, lifted up the pin, II, 104,
14; IV, 391, 3; 415, 6. “The pin was always inside, hung by a latch, or
leather point, the end of which was drawn through a small hole in the
door to the outside. During the day-time, the pin was attached to a bar
or sneck in such a way that when the latch was pulled the door was free
to open. But at night the pin was disconnected from the door-fastening
and hung loose, so that when the latch was pulled the pin rattled.”
W. Forbes. (See =tirled=.) knocked at the pin, II, 387, 10; 468, 15;
upon a pin, III, 105, 12; rappit at the pin, I, 472, 17; chapped at the
pin, I, 481, 29, are probably corrupted from knocked, etc., at the ring
(and so, tinkled at the pin, II, 253, 3); if not, the meaning must be,
knocked at the door at the place of the latch. that so priuilye knowes
the pinn, I, 433, 25, implies that there was some secret connected with
the pin (like, knew not the gin, IV, 446 b, 3), which it is difficult
to conceive in an arrangement so simple as that described above; but it
is probable that complications were employed by the cautious. See =gin=.
=pin=, =gallows-pin=, =gallou-pine=, I, 146, 25; 150, 17; III, 388,
18; V, 247, 18; hanged them out-oer a pin, III, 268, 18; hang you on a
pin before my door, V, 26, 15: the projecting, or horizontal beam of
the gallows? Any projection upon which a rope could be fastened.
=pin=, _v._, pin my windows in, V, 295, 5, 6: fasten. See =penned=.
=pindee=, II, 326, 2, of windows, pinned-ee for rhyme, or, possibly,
for _in_, as penned in, II, 330, =G= 3.
=pinder=, =pindar=, =pinner=, III, 131 ff., =A= 1-5, etc.; =B= 1-3; II,
484, =C= 6, 7; 491 a, 5, b, 5: pounder.
=pine=, =pyne=, I, 464, 8; 470, 15, 32; 474 f., 36, 41; IV, 430 f., 4,
23; V, 219, 25: suffering, pain. Goddës, Creystys, pyne, III, 75, 391;
V, 79, 18: suffering, distress, passion.
=pine=, I, 453, 3: (pind, poind) distrain, seize.
=piner-pig=, III, 385, 7: an earthen vessel for keeping money.
=pingo=, pingo white, IV, 213, 12: pinkie (?).
=Pinnatree, The Gold=, V, 141 b: name of a ship.
=pinner.= See =pinder=.
=pint=, point.
=Pirie=, in Pirie’s chair you’ll sit, the lowest seat o hell: I, 429,
30, 31. For the derivation Sir W. D. Geddes suggests as possible le
pire, which would be in the way of the Scottish “ill chiel.” Professor
Cappen writes: “Familiar name in doggerel lines recited by boys
in their games. One boy stood back against the wall, another bent
towards him with his head on the pit of the other’s stomach; a third
sat upon the back of the second. The boy whose head was bent down
had to guess how many fingers the rider held up. The first asked the
question in doggerel rhyme in which Pirie, or Pirie’s chair, or hell,
was the doom threatened for a wrong answer. I remember Pirie (pron.
Peerie) distinctly in connection with the doom. Pirie’s chair probably
indicates the uncomfortable position of the second boy (or fourth, for
there may have been a fourth who crouched uncomfortably on the ground
below the boy bending), whose head or neck was confined in some way and
squeezed after a wrong answer.”
=pistol-pece=, III, 432, 9: pistol.
=pit=, I, 86, 31; 467, 17; V, 219, 10: put. pit mee down, II, 131, 4:
be my death. pit back, IV, 510, =W= 3: stop the growth or development
of. _pret._ pat. _p. p._ pitten, putten.
=pith=, hammer o the, II, 374, =B= 2: sounds like nonsense. The smith’s
anvil being of gold and his bellows-cords of silk, his hammer should
be of some precious material. To say his hammer was wielded with force
would be out of keeping, and very flat at best.
=pitleurachie=, =pilleurichie=, III, 320, =A a= 20, =b= 20: hubbub,
discord. See =lierachie=.
=pit-mirk=, III, 495 a, after 7; IV, 517, 14: dark as a pit.
=pitten=, _p. p._ of pit, put, I, 463 f., 2, 14.
=place=, in place, V, 84 f., 10, 25: presence. in place, III, 422, 76:
(means only) there.
=plaet=, _pret._, IV, 465, 40: plaited.
=plaiden=, IV, 257, 3, 5: coarse woollen cloth diagonally woven.
=plain fields=, IV, 432 f., 2, 10, 17, 21: open fields.
=plainsht=, III, 360, 121: plenisht, filled.
=plainstanes=, IV, 152, 5: pavement.
=plaow=, _n._, V, 304, 5, 12: plough.
=plat=, I, 101, 19; II, 285, 20, _pret._ of plet: plaited, interfolded.
=plate-jack=, IV, 147, 22: a defensive upper garment laid with plates.
=platen=, I, 243 f., 8, 11: plates, pieces.
=play-feres=, III, 244, 2, 6; 245, 4, 5: play-fellows.
=plea=, I, 169, 7; II, 282, 2: quarrel.
=plea=, enter plea att my iollye, III, 278, 32. See =enter=.
=plead=, III, 277, 10, 12: contend.
=pleasure=, drink his, V, 307 a, 4: drink as much as he wishes.
=plee=, III, 165, 72: plea (your offer to give up your money is but a
slight ground for a plea to be spared? or a slight argument to enforce
the justification previously attempted?).
=pleuch=, =pleugh=, _n._, II, 190, 9; 194, 10: plough. IV, 196, 19;
197, 19: (of land) plough, which see.
=plewed=, feathers plewed with gold, II, 435, 49: not understood.
=plight= I lay, IV, 433, 21: the pledge I did lay? condition in which I
should lie? (Very obscurely expressed stanza.)
=plight=, _pret._, II, 52, 24; 364, 24; V, 50, 45: plighted.
=plooky=, II, 47, 14: pimpled.
=plough=, =pleugh=, =pleuch=, =plow=, IV, 194, 18, 11; 195, 18; 196,
19; 197, 19; etc. (of land): as much land as one plough will till in a
year.
=plucke=, fyght a plucke, III, 128, 85: (blow, stroke) a bout.
=plucke-buffet=, they shote, III, 77, 424: at taking and giving a
buffet for missing. (This supposes pluck==take, get; it may be the noun
pluck, blow.)
=plummet=, of swords, III, 466, 40: pommel.
=pock=, III, 160, 5, 16; 163, 68, 74, 83: bag.
=pocket-napkin=, IV, 468, 2: pocket-handkerchief.
=poind=, _pret._, =poinded=, _p. p._, II, 429 b, 3; IV, 80 b; IV, 492
a, 3: distrained.
=poll=, lighter than the poll, IV, 434, 1 (not recognized as Scottish
by any of my correspondents): boll, lint-bow, the seed-pod of flax? Not
probable.
=poorly=, IV, 444, 35: feebly. V, 10, 3; 266 b, 2: faint-heartedly.
=portioner=, IV, 81 a: possessor of a part of a property originally
divided among co-heirs. Jamieson.
=portly=, III, 280, 24: of imposing appearance.
=pot=, II, 144 f., 14, 24; 153, 22; 154 f., 17, 31, 34, 35; 474, =J= 6;
IV, 181, 13; 189 f., 7, 22, 28: deep place or pool in a river.
=potewer=, I, 271, 6: read potener, French pautonnière, pouch, purse.
“pawtenere, cassidile.” Prompt. Parv. “Marsupium, a pawtenere, a
powche.... Cassidile est pera aucupis, vel mercipium, vel sacculus,
a pautenier or a pouche. Cassidile dicitur pera ... crumena, etc.
cremena, a pautener.” (Way’s note.)
=pottinger=, IV, 509 b, 13: apothecary.
=pottle=, V, 86, 35: a measure of two quarts.
=pow=, II, 476, 16: head.
=powd=, III, 268, 7: pulled.
=powder=, IV, 514, 17: dust (?).
=power=, above (loved), II, 286, 2: beyond (ordinary) capacity or
intensity.
=powther=, powder.
=prah=, _v._, V, 303 a: pray.
=praise=, III, 204, 29: prize.
=praise=, V, 115, 5:==God.
=praisin=, III, 455, =D= 1: if the line is genuine, all the meaning
praisin can have will be, the laudation of the queen for her generous
behavior.
=pran=, V, 220 f., 6, 7, 9: bran.
=prece=, =prese=, =prees=, III, 24, 36; 67, 218: press, crowd. III, 62,
116: thick of a conflict.
=pree=, I, 81 a: taste. See =prey=.
=preen=, _n._, I, 430, 13: pin.
=preen=, _v._, I, 147, 13; III, 436, 3; V, 105, =B= 7: pin. See =prin=.
=prees=, =prese=. See =prece=.
=preke=, _n._, III, 112, 52. See =pricke=.
=preke=, _v._ See =prekyd=.
=preker=, V, 79, 13: rider.
=prekyd=, =prycked=, V, 78, 6; 80, 40: spurred, rode fast. the hors
prekyd, 80, 42: ran, scampered, sped.
=prese.= See =prece=.
=present=, III, 199, 19: represent, act as representatives of.
=presentting=, wine, IV, 37, 16: holding out the cup or glass towards
the person saluted.
=presently=, III, 400 a (7): at present.
=president=, III, 231, 82: precedent.
=press=, V, 111, 22: closet.
=prest=, the made them prest, III, 111, 45: ready. berdys sang preste,
III, 112, 63: freely, con amore. III, 171, 10: in haste.
=prestly=, III, 27, 113: quickly.
=pretend=, I, 110, 18; V, 57, 66: purpose, design.
=prevayle=, III, 313, 55: avail.
=prey=, II, 490 b, 12-14: (prie, pree) taste.
=price=, III, 358, 63: estimation.
=prick= them to the gin, IV, 480, 4: pin to the fastening.
=prick=(=e=), =pry=(=c=)=ke=, =preke=, rod or wand, used as a mark in
shooting==pricke-wand: 111, 93, 28, 30; 202, 34. he cleffed the preke
on three, III, 112, 52. ‘have at the pryke!’ ‘and Y cleue the styke,’
III, 90 b. a mark or butt generally, III, 29, 145. slise, cleue the
wand==cleffe the preke, III, 70, 292; 75, 401.
=pricked=, _pret._, II, 266, 28: stuck.
=pricke-wande=, III, 93, 31: a rod set up for a mark.
=prickt=, _p. p._, I, 345, =C= 1: prinkt, deckt.
=priefe=, V, 81, 14: prove, experience, enjoy.
=pril=, V, 73 a: a drinking word, to which the response must be wril.
=prime=, =pryme=, I, 254, 9: the first canonical hour.
=prin=, _n._ and _v._, I, 345, =C= 1; 431, 10; II, 109, 17, 19; III,
388, 17; IV, 189, 4, 6; V, 105, =B= 7 (preened): pin.
=prinkling=, II, 386, 20: seems to be used (perhaps an error) for
trinkling, trickling.
=prittle=, I, 59, 15: a doublet of prattle.
=priving=, V, 115, 8: tasting.
=process=, III, 164, 90: occurrences, story of occurrences.
=propine=, I, 79, 24: present, gift. in thy propine, I, 227 b: to be
had by thee as a gift.
=propose=, _n._, V, 207 b, No 5: proposal.
=proselya=, the reef was o the proseyla, I, 333, 5: in other copies the
roof is of beaten gold, the floor of cristal a’. The roof here might be
of proseyl a’, if that would help, but I know no more of proseyl than
of proseyla. The nearest I can come to cristal is, porcelain.
=prossed=, proceed.
=proue=, II, 446, 81: try? Poor sense and no rhyme. The MS. reading is
perhaps praie, which is, however, not preferable. Pross is a northern
word for talk (Halliwell), and the corresponding verb would suit here.
=prowed=, proud.
=Prudents=, I, 471, 2, 4: black people of the Holy Land.
=pruel=, made her heart to pruel, II, 376, 32: to ache or shiver with
fear. (Dr Davidson.) To preel in Aberdeenshire is to cool. (Principal
Barbour.)
=pryce=, III, 63, 137: prize.
=prycke=, _n._ See =pricke=.
=prycked=, as faste as he myght ronne, III, 296, 21: sped; and so V,
80, 42. See =prekyd=.
=pryckynge=, III, 67, 229: spurring, riding briskly, should probably be
rakynge; the yeomen are on foot. Cf. III, 123, 12; 180, 9, 11.
=pryke=, _n._ See =pricke=.
=pryme=, =prime=, III, 23, 9; 25, 72: the first canonical hour, first
hour of the day.
=pryse=, I, 327, 16, 17: value, most(e) of pryse==most richly.
=pu=, =pow=, pull.
=pudding-pricks=, III, 160, 19: wooden skewers to fasten the end of a
gut containing a pudding.
=puggish=, II, 427, 6: in a later copy, ragged. Mr Ebsworth suggests
the meaning, tramper’s. (puggard, thief; pugging, thieving.)
=purchase=, III, 203, 20: booty, prize.
=purchast=, _p. p._, III, 36, 48: acquired (perhaps, stolen).
=pure=, poor.
=pusin=, _n._ and _v._, poison.
=puss-pay=, V, 110, 9, 10: hare or rabbit pie (still in use: W. Walker).
=put down.= See =putten down=.
=put on= (intransitively), II, 92, 21; 255, 22; 278, 7; IV, 190, 25:
dressed. put on him, II, 162, 12: jogged, pushed.
=putten=, =putn=, _p. p._ of put, I, 446, 10; 469, 3; III, 433, 3.
=putten=, =put down=, II, 178, 39; III, 393, 15; IV, 14, 11; 66, =A=
10; 70, 13: hanged. IV, 32, 12: put to death by violence.
=putting-stane=, II, 421, 28: as the stone is thrown, there is no
propriety in the hitting and kepping (catching) in 29.
=pyet=, =pyot=, magpie: II, 93, 6; 148 f., 11, 13, 15, 17.
=pyght=, III, 296, 19: pitched (fixed in the ground the pole of).
=pygrall=, III, 410 b, note: paltry.
=pylled=, hatte, III, 179 a: (bald) that has lost the nap.
=pyne=, Goddes, Creystys, pyne, III, 75, 391; V, 79, 18: passion. See
=pine=.
=pyot.= See =pyet=.
Q
=quaich=, V, 264 a, 3: cup or bowl (Irish cuach).
=quarrelld=, _p. p._, I, 367 f., 12, 20: quarrelled with, found fault
with.
=quarry=, IV, 26, 6: of living game, in the modern way (in an
adulterated ballad). See =querry=.
=quarterer=, IV, 152, =B= 9, 10: lodger.
=queed=, II, 423, =A= 1: gueed, good is required; queed could mean only
ill.
=queen=, =quean=, =queyne=, =quen=, =quien=, I, 69, 38, 39; 302, =A=
11; 303, =C= 6: woman. II, 141, 11; V, 272, 8, 10: concubine.
=queer=, =quir=, IV, 465, 39; V, 224, 27: choir.
=queet=, =quit=, =cweet=, IV, 190, 26; II, 96, =I= 3: ankle.
=quen.= See =queen=.
=quequer=, III, 112, 51: quiver.
=quere=, III, 250, =K= 7: inquire.
=querry=, =quyrry=, III, 307, 8; 311, 11: quarry, dead game. See
=quarry=.
=quest=, III, 25, 69; IV, 11, 12: inquest.
=questry-men=, another, IV, 11, 13: men constituting a quest, inquest;
but _another_ raises a doubt whether we should not read _quest of_, as
in 12 (ry being caught from jury, above).
=queyt=, III, 112, 59: quit, requite. See =quite=.
=quien.= See =queen=.
=quiles=, II, 488, 1, 2: coils, colls, cocks.
=quill=, IV, 213, 11: quill, the small round fold of a ruff, seems to
be put for the quilled ruff; otherwise, kell, cap (or coul, night-cap,
not likely).
=quinë-stane=, =qunie-stane=, V, 248, 10, 11: (quoin, coin)
corner-stone.
=quir=, =queer=, V, 224, 27: choir.
=quirn=, I, 17, 15: hand-mill.
=quit=, II, 283, 3: ankle. See =queet=.
=quite=, III, 333, 28: requite. See =queyt=, =quyte=.
=quite=, III, 431, 28: free, clear, unpunished.
=qunie-stane.= See =quinë-stane=.
=quoif=, coif, II, 279, 1: cap.
=qustens=, V, 217, a 15: questions.
=quyrry=, III, 307, 8: quarry, the slaughtered game. See =querry=.
=quyte þe=, III, 100, 77: acquit thyself, square the account. The other
text has, quit me.
R
=race=, of ginger, IV, 70, =G= 3: root.
=race=, II, 445, 70, 72; 450, 77, 79; III, 278, 24, 29: course in
justing. fetched a race, II, 454 f., 54, 58: took a run (for impetus);
so I, 176, 22.
=race=, castle-race, II, 75, 15; 81, 43: course in the castle-grounds,
or contour of the castle (?).
=rache=, I, 327 f., 10, 16, 51: a scenting dog.
=rack=, III, 472, 3, 4: ford. “A very shallow ford, of considerable
breadth: Teviotdale.” Jamieson.
=rad=, V, 192, 26: afraid.
=rader=, rather. V, 283, 7, 17: quicker.
=rader=, rider.
=radly=, III, 98, 24: quickly. See rathely.
=rae=, I, 350, 21; 352, 7: roe (referring to the wildness of Tam Lin).
=raid=, =read=, =rede=, _pret._ of ride.
=raid=, _n._, IV, 520, 3: simply ride, for hunting.
=raik.= See =rake=.
=rair=, I, 256, 4: roar.
=rais=, =raise=, =rase=, _pret._ of rise, I, 305, 5; 327, 13; 420, 18;
422, 18; 451, 12; II, 30, 5; 92, 21; 108, 13-15; IV, 215, =A= 6.
=raiths=, =rathes=, =reaths= (Gael. ràidh), II, 314, 30; V, 268, 21,
22: quarters of a year.
=rake=, =raik=, =reek=, II, 216 f., 5, 30; 483, 1; III, 125, 27; 162,
47; 180, 9: walk, move. raking on a rowe, III, 117, 24; 123, 16; 180,
11: advancing in a line; on a rowte, III, 180, 9: in a company.
=ramp=, rider, IV, 198, =G= 6: wild (of manners or habits). See =rank=.
=ramp=, I, 302, =B= 7: spring, bounce, whisk. ramped him, I, 215 a,
7:==ramped, bounded.
=randy=, I, 104 a, burden of =d=: probably unmeaning, though the sense
“indelicate hoyden” would suit with stanza 2.
=rane=, lang rane, II, 82, =C=: yarn, tedious tale.
=rang=, wrong.
=rank= (A. S. ranc, strenuus, fortis, protervus), wild, bold
(turbulent), strong, violent. rank river, IV, 200, 5; 442, 4. rank
robber (who robs with violence, “strong thief”): II, 223, =F= 4; 233,
=F= 3; 399, 6; 400, 4; 401, =C= 6; 404, 6. rank reiver, III, 472,
6; IV, 195, =C= 3; 472, 11. rank rider, IV, 196, 4; 204, 11: rude,
boisterous; but II, 434, 24; 437, 75: of spirit and courage, sturdy
(stout rider, IV, 197, 3, no reference to horsemanship). ramp rider,
IV, 198, =G= 6. rank Highlands, II, 93, 2, 3: rude, wild. ranke (of
horses), II, 444, 59: high-fed (or used adverbially).
=rankit=, _pret._ and _p. p._, V, 197, 10: drew, drawn, up in military
order.
=ranshakled=, IV, 6, 4; V, 249, 4: ransacked.
=rantan=, =ranten=. See =ranting=.
=ranted=, IV, 153, =E= 4; V, 115, 1; was rantin, IV, 85, 39: of making
noisy merriment.
=ranting=, _n._, IV, 284, 26; 287, 1; 288, 1: raking.
=ranting=, =rantin=, =rantan=, =ranten=, laird, laddie, III, 455, =D=
1, 13; IV, 351, 1, 3 ff.; 356 f., =B= 1, 3, 4; V, 274 b, 3-6: jovial,
dissipated, wanton, rakish, “fast;” we have a rantin lassie, IV, 354,
=A b= 1, 2.
=rap=, IV, 382, 14: knock, drive. _pret._ rapped, rappit, rappet, at,
with ellipsis of the door, I, 105 a, 29; IV, 444, 16, 35; V, 173, 1;
306 b, 1.
=rap=, II, 426, 12; IV, 352, 7; V, 161, =B= 1, 5; 274 b, 7; 302, 14:
(of tears) to fall in quick succession.
=rape=, rope.
=rarely=, IV, 58, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11; 358, 20, 21: rhyme-word (to which
any one can assign all the sense it has). as _adj._, IV, 154, 7: rare.
=rase=, _pret._ of rise. See =rais=.
=rash=, _n._, IV, 75 a, b; 76, 1; 448 b, 5 (rash-bush); 524, 4, 7; V,
157, 12: rush.
=rashin=, V, 173, 7: rushen, of rush.
=rassiecot=, V, 107, 2: perhaps of no meaning, or, rush-coat.
=rathely=, I, 327, 13: quickly. See =radly=.
=rathes=, II, 314, 30. See =raiths=.
=rau=, row. See =rawe=.
=raught=, I, 434, 36: reached, delivered.
=rauked=, I, 69, 61: searched, rummaged. (Misprinted ranked.)
=rave=, =reave=, =rive=, _pret._ of rive, I, 439, 5; II, 294, 32; IV,
181, 15. See =rive=.
=ravie= (rave?), V, 111, 19: rive. raving, V, 254, 14, 18, 19: tearing.
=raw=, green raw sea, II, 30, 6: as of weather, wet and cold; but I am
informed that the singer ordinarily gave haw, as II, 28, 21.
=rawe=, =rewe=, _n._, III, 71, 306: row.
=rawstye by the roote=, III, 94, 56: rusty, soiled, foul, (with blood)
at the end (?).
=ray=, _n._ and _v._, III, 112, 60; 201, 17; 406, 29; V, 83, =b= 3:
array. V, 192, 34: make ready, saddle.
=ray=, _n._, IV, 3, 22: track.
=raye=, III, 67, 230: striped cloth.
=raysse=, III, 295, 2: riding, raid.
=reacheles= on, III, 93, 38: reckless of, heedless about.
=read=, _pret._ of ride, IV, 457, 23; V, 166, 11; 228, 25.
=read=, I, 309, =B= 1; 310, =B b=: rehearse, tell.
=read= (of dreams), IV, 167, =D= 9, 10; 171, 11; 172, 12, etc.; 180,
=C= 3; 190, 23; V, 221, 24; 224, 23; 257, 14: interpret, give an issue
to.
=read=, =reade=, =rede=, =red=, =redd=, _n._, II, 53, 34, 35; 182, 4:
advice. See =rede=.
=read=, =reade=, =red=, _v._, II, 52 f., 6, 34; III, 104, 2, 4; 105,
25: advise. read my rede, II, 186, 1: corrupted from riddle my riddle,
187, 2, 8. See =riddle=.
=readilie=, =readylye=, II, 23, =E= 7; 444, 43: (without difficulty or
hesitation) certainly.
=ready=, V, 75, 6, 7; 81, 10: direct. readye, II, 58, 16: indubitable,
certain.
=reaf=, =reif=, III, 458 b: plunder.
=reak=, smoke. See =reek=.
=reaming=, a suit o claise were o the apple reamin, IV, 176, 15:
reaming==creaming, foaming, which of course gives little or no meaning.
Apples were sometimes used to scent clothes.
=rean=, =rin=, run.
=reap=, V, 165 f., 6, 9:==ripe, search, rummage; see V, 306, 9.
=reapen=, _p. p._ of reap, II, 9, 26.
=rear=, rare.
=reas=, praise. See =roos=.
=reas=, =ryse=, III, 307, 5: rouse.
=reast=, =reest=, V, 256 b, 4: roost.
=reaths.= See =raiths=.
=reave=, IV, 26, 1: rob.
=reave=, =rave=, =rive=, _pret._ of rive, I, 442, 6; IV, 416, 18.
=reavel(l)d=, II, 140, 19, 20: ravelled, disordered (of hair).
=reaver=, =rever=, =riever=, IV, 85, 2: robber.
=recher=, _compar._, V, 283, 10, 20: richer.
=reck=, _v._, II, 340 b, 2d line: rock (perhaps miswritten).
=recones=, IV, 496 b: reckonings.
=record=, sma, III, 319, 22: note.
=red=, =redd=, =rede=, _n._, II, 182, 4; III, 112, 58: counsel. I, 22,
=B= 1; 227 a, 5: talk, tale. See =read=.
=red=, =redd=, =rede=, =reid=, _v._, I, 329, 58; II, 59, 20; 62 a, 15;
182, 4, 6, 9, 10; 272, 6; IV, 495, 2; V, 191, 8: advise.
=red=, III, 163, 80: to rid, clear out. of hair, comb (see
=redding-kaim=). red the question, II, 253, 18: clear up, settle.
=red lan(d)=, I, 16, =C= 11; IV, 274, 6; V, 206 a, 5: cleared, ploughed.
=red river comb=, II, 216, 19, 21: corrupted, as are other versions in
this passage.
=redding-kaim=, =reeding-comb=, III, 452, 8; IV, 515, 7: comb (for
disentangling).
=rede.= See =red=.
=rede=, _p. p._, III, 298, 53: read, divined, discerned.
=rede=, _pret._ of ride, III, 63, 134 (reden, they rode); IV, 182, =F=
5. See =read=.
=redly=, III, 67, 223: quickly.
=reeding-comb.= See =redding-kaim=.
=reef=, I, 333, 5: roof.
=reef-tree=, I, 299, 5: roof-tree, beam in the angle of a roof.
=reek=, =reak=, =reik=, _n._, II, 191, 24; 193, 21; 195, 33; III, 433,
=C= 6-8, =D= 12; 434, 15; 435, 14; IV, 514, 16, 20: smoke.
=reek=, _v._, I, 304, =E= 3; II, 30, =L= 2; V, 152, =E b= 1: rake,
range, move, turn. See =rake=.
=reekit=, V, 108, =B= 7: smoked, smoky.
=reel=, reel went round, V, 155, =C= 2: revel, riot (of merry-makers)?
=reem=, II, 335, =N= 7: room.
=reest=, =reast=, IV, 189, 3, 4: roost.
=reet=, I, 367, 7; V, 213, 8: root.
=reeve=, V, 69 b: bailiff, steward. _pl._ reues.
=refell=, I, 110, 22: repel.
=refer=, message, II, 286, =C= 10: report, announce.
=regulate=, III, 509, 1, 7: corruption of, riddle it.
=reid=, _v._, V, 200 a, after 50: advise.
=reif=, =reiff=, III, 365 b; 471, note ‡; V, 198 b, after 52: robbery.
=reign=, II, 8, 1: for rhyme; range ? or rein, as 9, b 1.
=reik=, smoke. See =reek=.
=reill=, reel.
=reiver=, =rever=, =riever=, III, 472, 6; 473, 22: robber. See =reaver=.
=rejoyfull=, IV, 173, 7: rejoicing.
=remeid=, II, 367, 42; 371, 13; IV, 405, 49; 428, 7: remedy.
=remorse=, III, 209, 10; 231, 94: compassion.
=remoued=, II, 58, 4: agitated.
=renisht=, renisht them to ride of twoe good renisht steeds, II, 52,
8; 53, 42 (42 emended from, on tow good renish, in conformity with 8):
should have some such meaning as accoutred, but a derivation is not to
be made out. Qy. [ha]renisht, harnessed?
=renown=, spake wi renown, IV, 348, 11: force of authority (of
prestige), or, with the air of a person of repute.
=repair=, II, 163, 18: resort to? fix upon? (probably nonsense for
rhyme).
=require=, II, 427, 6: ask for. (Other texts, inquire.)
=reset=, IV, 281 a: harboring.
=respect=, in respect, III, 364 b: considering.
=rest=, _pret._ of rest, IV, 424, 12.
=restore=, IV, 425, 8: restore, because the morning-gift would revert
to the father and be at his disposition, no son having been born.
=retour=, IV, 91, note †: return.
=returned=, III, 356, 33: turned away.
=reuelle=, I, 328, 51, 52: festivity.
=rever=, III, 458 b; IV, 472, 11: robber. See =reaver=.
=reues=, III, 68, 254: bailiffs. See =reeve=.
=rewe=, be rewe, II, 479, 15: in a row, one after another, each of the
whole class. See =rawe=.
=rewth=, III, 28, 136: pity.
=ribless kiln=, I, 18, =F= 11: the ribs of a kiln for drying grain are
the cross-beams, on which were laid the “stickles,” or short pieces of
wood, to support a layer of straw (or hair-cloth, or bricks) on which
the grain was placed. It would of course be impossible to dry grain on
a ribless kiln.
=rid=, =ried=, red.
=riddle=, II, 184, 5, 8, 11, 18; 186, 1; 187, 2, 8; 196, e 1, 7:
resolve. riddle my riddle, 187, 2, 8: resolve my dilemma. read my rede,
186, 1, is probably corrupted from riddle my riddle; cf. 187, 2, 8.
=ried=, ride.
=rien=, V, 161, 9; 162, =B= 6: riven.
=riever=, =reiver=, =rever=, IV, 84, 8; 195, =C= 3: robber. See
=reaver=.
=rig=, =rigg=, =riggin=, ridge.
=rig=, =rigg=, of land, I, 19, 9; II, 152, 11; V, 164, 16; rig-length,
III, 273, 23: a measure of land 600 feet by 15, containing 9000 square
feet. Donaldson.
=riggin=, III, 459, 5: ridge.
=right=, III, 356, 19: right off, directly.
=rigland=, land under the plough, and so in rigs, ridges. rigland
shire, II, 132, 32: a shire of such land (?).
=rin=, =rine=, =rean=, V, 221, 15: run.
=ring=, plural, II, 285, 16 f.: misprint in Scott?
=ring= (dancing), II, 104, 23; so, take me to the middel o the ring, V,
273, 12.
=ring=, knocked at the, with the, ring, II, 187, 12; 201, 2; 459,
10; III, 106, 4; 250, 11. rappit wi a, II, 462, 10. rapped on the,
V, 293 b, 10. pulled at a, II, 490, =D b= 9. tinkled at the, II, 196
b, 4; 251, 4; 266, 7; 267, 9; 393, 11; 475, =K= 6: the hammer of a
doorknocker. But, perhaps, in the case of tinkling, the ring may have
been gently drawn up and down or struck against the projecting bow or
rod of a door-handle (often wound with a spiral), an operation which,
when vigorously performed, is described as risping or rasping.
=ring= (game), to ride at the ring, III, 448, =A= 3: to attempt, while
at full gallop, to carry off, on the point of a rod, a ring suspended
on a cross-beam resting on two upright posts. Jamieson.
=ring and the ba=, IV, 257, 4; 354, =A b= 1, 2: a game in which a ring
was thrown up, and a ball was to be thrown through before the ring
fell. Dr. W. Gregor. The rantin lassie plays at this, IV, 354.
=ringle-tree=, V, 112, =B b= 11: probably the huge block of wood used
for scutching flax and mangling clothes. An old game-keeper tells me
that he has heard the word and so understands it. When not in use for
beating flax, the beetle and tree-block were used by the women to
mangle their clothes after washing. W. Walker.
=ripe=, =reap=, =rype=, III, 160, 16; 163, 83, 84; V, 306, 9: search,
rummage, clear or clean out, rifle.
=rise=, III, 332, 2: branch.
=rise===raise: III, 513 b, 4. _pret._ rose, 514 a, 5. See =ryse=.
=rise=, _pret._ of rise, III, 369, 17.
=rise=, did on anchor rise so high, III, 344, 34: said of a ship in
full sail; no apparent sense. (ride in =B c=, =g=, 347, 34; upon an
anchor rose so high in h, 349, 34.)
=rispen=, fine rispen kame, II, 225, =J= 2: keen, sharp, risping,
rasping? or, _p. p._, filed? (This passage is variously corrupted in
different versions.)
=ritted=, II, 295, =B b= 4, 22: stuck, stabbed.
=rive=, =rave=, =reave=, _pret._ of rive, tear, V, 256, 13. _p. p._ II,
465, 4, 6, 8.
=rive up=, I, 303, 7: plough up, tear up.
=riued=, I, 284, 9: arrived, travelled.
=river=, III, 364 b: robber. See =reaver=.
=river-comb=, red, II, 216, =A= 19: is river a corruption of _ivory_?
In =B= 2, 4, it is a tabean brirben kame. =H= 1, brown berry comb. =J=
2, fine rispen kame: fine-filed (?). All seem to be badly corrupted.
=rook=, =roke=, IV, 84, 14; 85, 4; 86, 6; 87, 4; V, 254 =a=, 4: distaff.
=rocked=, =rocket=, =roked=, II, 191, 24; 195, 33: smoked.
=rod=, III, 8, 21: a bier was extemporized by taking rods from bushes
for spakes, spokes, or bars.
=roddins=, II, 408, 19, 20; 409 f., 21, 23: berries of mountain ash.
(But the berries are said to grow on yonder thorn, 409, 21.)
=rode=, rood.
=roelle-bone=, I, 326; 6. royal bone, I, 466 f., 10, 33; royal ben,
I, 478 f., 12, 46: interpreted variously, without satisfaction. See
_rewel-boon_, Professor Skeat’s note to Chaucer’s Sir Thopas, v. 2068.
Hertzberg suggests Reval bone, mammoth tooth, fossil ivory, imported
into western Europe via Reval, Chaucer Nachlese, in Jahrbuch für Rom.
und Engl. Litteratur, VIII, 164 f.; and Prof. Skeat (with a different
derivation), ivory of the walrus, citing Godefroy, “rochal, ivoire de
morse.”
=roke=, III, 298, 51: reek, vapor.
=roke=, V, 254 a, 4: rock, distaff. See =rock=.
=roked=, =rocket=, =rocked=, II, 191, 24; 193, 21; 195, 33; V, 224, 19:
smoked.
=rom=, V, 304 b, 2: room.
=rood=, III, 93, 28: rod (a measure).
=rood=, four and thirty stripes comen beside the rood, II, 59, 29:
referring to the scourging of Jesus (?).
=room ye roun=, II, 89, 29: move round so as to make room.
=roome=, III, 36, 44: companye (the reading in =b=).
=roos=, =rous=, =reas=, _v._, IV, 69, 21; 378, 2; 379, 2; 384, 2; V,
275, 2: to praise, laud, boast.
=roose=, _n._, IV, 503, 19: rose.
=roosing=, =rosin=, =rousing=, _n._, IV, 378, 1; 379, 1; 383, 1; V,
275, 1: praising, boasting, bragging.
=root=, I, 304, =F= 5: the end of a rafter, resting on a wall. ring
of an auld tree-root, I, 304, =F= 4: hoops are sometimes made of
tree-roots, which are very tough; the point here is the size of the
fingers which such a ring would fit.
=root of his sword=, III, 268, 11: a blunder; see note, III, 275.
=rose-garlonde=, III, 75, 398: a “garland” appears to have been
attached to the yerdes (397), and every shot outside of the garland was
accounted a failure. The garland as the limit of allowable shots is
mentioned at 93, 31. This must have been an extemporized ring of twigs
in the latter case, and was so, perhaps, in the other, for it is likely
that the term would become conventional, and mean, as Mr C. J. Longman
suggests, nothing more than a disk with circular rings, such as survive
to this day in archery targets.
=rosin=, V, 275, 11: boasting. See =roosing=.
=rosses=, roses.
=rottens=, =rottons=, I, 466, 8; V, 124, 6: rats.
=roudes=, II, 284, 4: haggard (_subst._, an old wrinkled woman).
=roun=, =rown=, =round=, III, 199, 28; 356, 19: whisper.
=rounin(g)=, _n._, V, 256, 10: whispering.
=round=, so it went round, IV, 146, 7: so much it came to (?).
=round tables=, II, 343, 1: a game.
=roundlie=, I, 104, 6: at a good pace.
=rous=, =roos=, =reas=, IV, 379, 2; V, 275, 2: boast of.
=rousing=, _n_., boasting. See =roosing=.
=rout=, _n._, III, 160, 22: blow.
=rout=, _n._, IV, 113, 3; 114, =D= 1: row, brawl, disturbance.
=rout=, _v._, II, 318 a; IV, 378, 5; 380, 11: roar. IV, 6, 15; V, 250,
14: bellow.
=route=, =rowte=, =rowght=, III, 23, 22; 26, 88; 180, 9; 207, 33:
company, band, crowd. In III, 297, 33: perhaps mêlée, affray.
=routh=, I, 298, 1: plenty.
=row=, rough.
=row=, =rowe=, I, 71, 61; 80, 33; 441, 6, 8; II, 443, 35; 448, 39; IV,
267, 9; 269 b, 9: roll. _pret._ and _p. p._ rowed, rowd, rowit, rowt,
I, 441, 7, 9; IV, 274, 15; V, 106, =D= 7: rolled, wound.
=rowan=, =rowon=, =rown=, tree, II, 504, 18: mountain-ash.
=rowe=, on a, III, 67, 229; 117, 24: in a line, file.
=row-footed=, III, 473, 25: rough-footed.
=rowght=, III, 297, 33: company. ryall in rowghte, kingly among men.
See =route=.
=rowght=, wrought.
=rown=, I, 312, 17, 22: rowan, mountain-ash. See =rowan=.
=rown=, =roun=, =round=, III, 356, 19: whisper.
=rowt=, _pret._, V, 106, =D= 7: rolled. See =row=.
=rowte.= See =route=.
=rowynde=, III, 297, 33: round.
=royal bone=, =royal ben=. See =roelle-bone=.
=royaltye=, III, 411, 5: splendid display, or the like.
=rub-chadler=, =rub-chandler=, I, 285 f., 31, 43: rubbish-barrel. See
I, 279.
=rudd=, _n._, I, 272, 13, 20, 24: (redness) complexion, face.
=rudd=, _v._, IV, 28, 34: redden.
=rudely=, III, 162, 49: sturdily.
=rue=, III, 220, 6: cause to rue.
=rugge=, I, 243, 2: back.
=rule=, III, 98, 32: going on, taking on, noisy bewailing.
=run=, IV, 289, =F= 6: issue, outcome (said to be slang).
=run=, red runs i the rain, II, 304, 4: gives no sense, and so of
Scott’s reading at this place, the red sun’s on the rain. It will be
observed that the day has not dawned.
=run a reel=, II, 108, 17: gone through, danced.
=rung=, I, 202, =A= 12; III, 161, 43; IV, 444, 20: staff, pike-staff.
=rung= (of the noise of a cannon), _n._, IV, 52, 14: ring; appears to
have been altered, for rhyme, from ring, which is in two other copies.
=rusty=, V, 151, =E= 6: surly.
=rybybe=, I, 328, 49: a stringed instrument.
=ryght=, straight, directly, ryȝth, V, 283, 14: aright.
=rynde=, be rynde and rent, III, 297, 42: flayed., (rynde should
perhaps be _riven_.)
=rype=, _v._ See =ripe=.
=ryse=, III, 22, 2; 23, 20: rouse. See =rise=.
=rysse=, I, 328, 39: probably rising ground, elevation (compare
mountayne, playne, delle, hill, in 38, 40-42: not twig, brushwood).
=rysyt=, I, 242, 11: riseth (old _imperat. pl._), rise.
S
=s=, =se=, as sign of the future tense. I’se, III, 488, 19; IV, 428,
18. thou’s,’se, IV, 3, 31; 12, =C= 6. he’s, hee’se, II, 442, 16; IV,
146, 6. we’s, I, 467, 29; IV, 181, =D= 14. ye’se, IV, 22, 18; 109, 7.
yow’s, IV, 504, 36. they’s, IV, 486, 32. itt’s, II, 443, 22. heart’s,
IV, 181, 17. Jocky Ha’s, III, 487, 6. thy dinner’s, III, 489, 41. (The
_s_ being the initial letter of sal, it would be better to write I s’,
etc.) _s_ attached to the verb, be’s, III, 160, 9. We even find shals,
I, 481, 28.
=-s (-is)=, of the genitive, omitted, III, 97 f., 8, 23, 28; 111, 39.
moder son, III, 98, 24, 27, as in A. S.
=’s=, II, 375, 19: of his.
=-s (-se)=, termination of the _2d pers. sing, of the pres. indic._
thou was, I, 222, =E= 11; seese þou, I, 328, 38-42; þou commes, 44.
thou’s welcome, III, 488, 24. shals thou, I, 481, 28. istow, 175 f.,
=D= 4, 10, 16. See I, 130, 5; 327, 20; 328 f., 56, 58; 341, 13; 411, 4;
413, 3; II, 54, 57; 148 f., 12, 20; 218, 8, 10, 16; III, 97, 11, 15;
99, 62; 110, 23. Etc., etc.
=-s=, =-es=, =-ys=, termination of _pres. indic. plur_. cods that
sleeps, cheeks gars, bairns has, lies men, raches rynnys, fowles
synges, I, 68, 29; 115, =C= 3; 130, =F= 11; 327, 16; 329, 59; 342, 40;
345, 39; II, 32, =P= 4. So, is, was, I, 68, 27; 69, 43; 255, 3-5; 342,
30; 344, 28; II, 71, 13, 14. Etc.
=saa=, _pret._, saw.
=sabelline=, I, 221, =D= 8, 9: sable.
=sackless=, =sakeless=, =saikless=, II, 145, 22, 23; 153, 19, 21; III,
437, 27; IV, 373, 9: innocent.
=sad=, III, 67, 215; 357, 40: steadfast, firm, stanch.
=saep=, _v_., III, 269, =D= 3: soap.
=saerd=, _p. p._, IV, 494, 33: served.
=safe=, II, 160, 4, 6, 7: save.
=safeguard=, V, 66, 11: riding-skirt.
=safer=, V, 283, 21: saffron.
=safly=, IV, 18, 10: softly.
=saft= (of sleep), III, 489, 11: lightly.
=saikless.= See =sackless=.
=sain=, I, 351, 36, 48: cross, bless. _p. p._ sained, I, 354, 26. ill
sained, _pret._, I, 350, 25. well saint, _p. p._, III, 488, 37.
=saint=, III, 488, 37: blest. See =sain=.
=saint=, _v._, disappear. See =sainted=.
=St Mary knot(t)=, III, 465, 26, 27: a triple knot (see 462, note *).
=sainted=, =saunted=, I, 331, =C= 8; 333 b, 8: disappeared.
=saipy-sapples=, I, 303, =D= 5 (the right reading): soap-suds in which
clothes have been washed (probably meaning the _strang_ of V, 213, 5).
=sair=, sore. I, 100, 9: lamentable.
=sair=, =sare=, =saer=, =sere=, I, 301, 2; II, 71, 15; 105, 9; 408, 1,
2; IV, 248, 10; V, 105, =B= 3, 11; 239, 34: serve.
=sairly=, IV, 358, 19: rhyme word; _much_ is all the meaning.
=sait=, set.
=sakeless.= See =sackless=.
=sale=, V, 228, 19: sold.
=sall=, shall, _pret._ sould.
=sally rod=, III, 252, 12: sallow, willow.
=salten=, _adj._, IV, 452, 6; 475, 6: salt.
=salued=, III, 61, 102: greeted.
=Saluter=, III, 250, 3: corrupted from Sir Hugh (see other versions of
the ballad).
=same=, alle in same, III 91 a: all, together. vppon the same, III,
361, b 33: again, after the same fashion (?).
=san=, =sane=, =sayn=, =syne=, V, 214 f., 4, 9; 221, 24; 242 a, 7; 257,
14: since.
=sanchoþis=, of his bryk, III, 13, 3: apparently the fork of the
breeches, but the etymology is to me inexplicable.
=sang=, _pret._ of sing, to singe, II, 155, 37, 38.
=sanna=, shall not.
=sarbit=, II, 132, 33, 34: exclamation of sorrow.
=sare=, serve. See =sair=. sare a man a wear, I, 301, 2: serve, supply,
a man (of) with his wear, clothing.
=sark=, I, 15, 8, 17; 16, =B= 8, 18, =C= 6, 18, etc.; 387 f., =A= 5, 8,
9; =B= 5, 6, 7: shirt, shift.
=sarsenent=, IV, 312, 8: sarcenet.
=sassaray=, II, 209, =E= 5: imitation of the sound of church-bells. See
=céserará=.
=sat=, =saut=, I, 310, 4: salt.
=sate=, sit a gude sate, a silly sate, IV, 469, 8: occupy, be in, a
good, pitiable, position.
=sathe=, I, 333, appendix 1, wrongly written (or read) for sagh (or
something equivalent), saw. (th in this piece very frequent for gh.)
=saugh=, III, 459, 15; IV, 95, 2: willow.
=saun faile=, V, 297 b: assuredly.
=saunted=, =sainted=, I, 331, =C= 8; 335 b, 8: disappeared.
=saut=, =sat=, IV, 258, 26: salt.
=saute=, III, 327 b: assault, attack.
=sauyour=, see (saw) my sauyour, III, 97, 7: attended mass, or, took
the sacrament.
=saving tree=, III, 398, =D= 4: corruption of savin tree.
=saw=, _v._, I, 427, 13, 15; 428, 11: sow.
=sawe=, _p. p._ of see, III, 59, 60.
=sawe=, speech.
=sawten=, _v._, _3 pl._, III, 100, 63: assault, attack.
=sawtrye=, I, 328, 49: psaltery, a stringed instrument.
=say=, II, 87, 30: try.
=say=, =saye=, _pret._ of see, III, 111, 34; 309, 44; V, 79, 35; 80, 47.
=sayn=, =san=, =sane=, =syne=, V, 239, 34; 254, 9, 11, 13, 22; 257, 15:
since, then.
=sayne=, I, 70, 19, _strong participle of_ say. In, I yow sayne, III,
297, 46, an auxiliary, _do_ or _can_, must be omitted, or else we must
read _saye_, as in 32, 34, 62, 65.
=scad=, I, 102, 12: reflection (of the color of). In other texts,
shade, shadow, I, 490, 21; 491, 20; 492, 12.
=scaith=, =skaith=, =scath=, _n._, III, 162, 52, 66: hurt.
=scaith=, =skaith=, _v._, III, 5, =D= 8; 6, 17: hurt.
=scale=, I, 429, 11: a drinking-vessel. (Icelandic skál, Danish skaal,
a bowl for drinking.)
=scale=, III, 403 a: scatter, disperse. III, 393, 6: expel, drive away.
scaling wide, III, 301, =D= 2: scattering, covering a good deal of
ground.
=scales=, V, 211, 25, 31-34: discs worn as ornaments on the head.
=scanct=, I, 336 a, last line but one: shone, gleamed.
=scarson=, II, 434, 29: scarcely up to.
=scart=, I, 301, 5, 6; 303, =D= 2: scratch, scrape.
=scath=, =scaith=, _n._, I, 284, 18: harm.
=scathe=, awayte me scathe, III, 66, 202; =wayte= me skathe, wait me
scath, III, 83, 202; 86, 202: lie in wait, seek an opportunity to do me
harm.
=scathe away=, I, 348 f., 5, 8: expel, get rid of? See =skaith=, I,
397, 14.
=scaur=, Braidscaur, III, 5, =D= 2, 6: a bare and broken place on a
steep hill; also, cliff, precipice. Broadspear, 6, 2, 5, is probably a
corruption.
=Scere-thorsday=, I, 243, 1: Maundy Thursday, Thursday before Easter.
(Icelandic Skíri-þorsdagr.)
=schane=, _pret._, shone.
=scharpper=, _compar._, V, 283, 6, 16: sharper. V, 283, 8: emend to
_strenger_.
=schele=, =scheel=, II, 164, 2; 335, =N= 5; IV, 328, =A b=, after 7:
school. See =schule=.
=schet=, =schette=, _pret._ of schote, shoot, III, 13 f., 13, 15.
=schill=. See =shill=.
=scho=, II, 146, 19; IV, 418, 2: she.
=schon=, =shon=, =shone=, V, 79, 27: shoes. See =sheen=.
=schoote= his horsse away, froo, III, 297, 32, 33: discarded, sent off.
=schrewde= (arrow), III, 13, 6: accursed, pernicious, baneful.
=schule=, =scheel=, =squeel=, II, 175, 16; IV, 327 f., 2, 5; 329, =D d=
7: school.
=schunte besides=, =beside=, III, 361, =b, c= 38, 41: turn aside from.
=schylde=, _imperat._, V, 283, 14: shield, protect.
=sckill=, I, 295, 28: reason, judgment. See =skill=.
=sclasps=, twa lang sclasps between his eyes, IV, 489, 25: clasps. Span
would answer were it not that there are but three sclasps between the
shoulders. (In =L= 18, of the same ballad, II, 394, there are three
women’s spang (span) between his brows.) If sclasps were taken in the
sense of fathom, the space between the arms extended, this would suit
the shoulders well enough, but the absurd disproportion in relation to
the eyes would remain. Probably yard or ell has dropped out in 25^4.
(yards three in =L= 18.)
=sclavin=, I, 190 a: pilgrim’s cloak.
=scob(b)=, =scope=, =scoup=, II, 313, 26; 316, 10: gag.
=scop=, III, 138, 9: (scalp) pate, head.
=scope=, =scoup=, =scob=, II, 312, 29; V, 229, 33: gag.
=score.= See =cor=.
=scorn=, =skorne=, II, 105, 20; III, 113, 77: shame, humiliation,
mortification. give the, this, a, scorn, III, 111, 12; 360, 23; 362,
35; 363, =D= 14; 367, 49; IV, 201, 23; 224, 24, 25; 254, 25; 357, =B=
6, 10; 358, 16; 465, 35, 36: put to shame, subject to humiliation
(especially, by showing a preference as to marriage, or by slighting a
woman). So, playd you the scorn, IV, 483, 25; get the scorn, II, 367,
47; IV, 221, 16; 222, 18, 19; 227, 16, 17; 228, 19; 230, 24.
=scort=, I, 334, 4: short.
=scoup=, _n._, V, 229, 33: gag. See =scob=, =scope=.
=scoup=, _v._, II, 70, 15: move hastily from one place to another, fly.
=scouth=, III, 161, 42: room, range.
=scray=, III, 116, 4, as to form suggests _scrag_, scrog; but the
meaning required is, branches, _branchage_, or even spray.
=scread=, II, 425, =A= 6: shred, bit, piece.
=screeded= (or =scrieded=), _pret._, II, 212, 13: rent.
=screeking=, =screehing=, II, 485, 17: screeching.
=screfë=, =screffë=, =shryvë=, III, 111 ff., 27, 33, 38-42, etc.:
sheriff.
=screighed=, IV, 174, 20: shrieked.
=scrieded.= See =screeded=.
=scrime=, IV, 10, 2; serime, 15, =d= 2: seem to be corrupt; possibly,
crime; pursuing the crime for pursuing the criminal.
=scrodeley=, V, 79, 14: shrewdly, rudely, ungraciously.
=scroggs=, =scrogs=, III, 3, 12; 5, =C= 3; 7, =E, F= 11; 9, =G= 10, =H=
13; 10, =I= 5; IV, 496, 8: stunted bushes, or perhaps trees; underwood.
“Scroggs, blackthorn.” Halliwell, from a MS. scrogg-bush, V, 10, 4
(high enough here to hang the pair on).
=scroggy=, =scroggie=, IV, 174, 10; 273, 14: covered with stunted
bushes; “abounding in underwood,” Halliwell.
=scug=, to scug his deadly sin, II, 283, 22: shade, screen. (Icel.
skyggja, overshadow; Dan. skygge, Swed. skugga, shade.) expiate, W.
Scott.
=scuttle-dishes=, II, 467, 43: the larger dishes, in which things are
served, in distinction from those out of which things are eaten (T.
Davidson); platters.
=se=, sign of the future tense. See =s=.
=se=, _pret._ of see. See =see=.
=sea-ground=, I, 448, 11: bottom of the sea.
=sea-maw=, II, 363, 7; 365, 5; IV, 482 b, 6: gull.
=seal=, IV, 409, 5: (A. S. sǽl) happiness, blessing. gude seal
that it sae spread, II, 420, 1: (happiness result from its spreading?)
quod faustum sit!
=seale=, III, 412, 24: sail.
=sear=, =sair=, IV, 456 f., 15, 19: sore.
=sear=, V, 223, 8: sure.
=sear=, serve. See =sair=.
=search her=, IV, 446, 2: look her up, see about her, overhaul (should,
perhaps, be _seek_, visit).
=seat=, V, 274 b, 1: sight.
=seck=, I, 15, 15: sack.
_Second person of pret. indic._ without termination, thou made, thou
did, thou came, etc., I, 221, =C= 9; 222, =E= 10-17; 434, 27; II, 148
f., 12, 14, 20; 218, 16. So, thou will, schall, thou’ll, well thow, I,
130, 4; 221, =C= 10, 11; III, 110, 24; 112, 48.
=securly=, III, 98, 34: surely.
=see= (_videre_), _pret._ say, saye, sey, se, see, seed. _pret._ se,
see, I, 283, 1; 295, 27; II, 46, 40; 245, 27; III, 24, 47; 27, 99; 97,
19. _p. p._ se, III, 27, 102.
=see=, save and se(e), II, 44, 6, 15; 52 f., 10, 18, 44; III, 65, 177;
IV, 198, =G= 4; 455, 4: protect (_tueri_).
=see=, well mot ye fare and see, III, 266, 3: as here used, _see well_
would have to mean, see prosperity; but apparently there is a confusion
of _well may you fare_ and _God see you_, protect you (as in, save and
see). In =B= 3, p. 268, _weel may ye save_ might mean, may God save
you, but _far better_, in the next line, is not in concatenation, and
we shall be obliged to understand _weel_ as good fortune. The passage
must be corrupted. well may you sit and see, lady, well may you sit and
say, II, 290, 15: (corrupted) nonsense.
=see=, sigh and see, IV, 193, 14: apparently a doublet of sigh, as _ne_
of _neigh_ and _nigh_, _he_ of _high_.
=see=, _n_., V, 283, 5, 15: sea.
=seed=, _pret._ of see, IV, 151, 6.
=seek=, =seke=, I, 75, 46; II, 146, 18, 20; 171, 16; III, 68, 255; V,
256 b, 14: search. I, 202, 16; 204, 11; V, 211, 19, 23: ask. socht, II,
30, 8: asked for. _partic_. seek and, seeking.
=seek in=, V, 180, 13, 15: ask admission.
=seeke to=, =unto=, III, 444, 5: resort to.
=seel o downs=, IV, 218, 12: chelidonium, celandine, mallow-wort.
=seely=, happy. seely court, I, 315, 12; 507 f., 2, 12: fairy court (as
I, 346, 16; elfin court, 351, 30).
=seen=, I, 504, 7: sun.
=seen=, I, 183, 9, 15; II, 166, 20; 257, 30; IV, 135, 25: soon. seener,
IV, 262, 31.
=seen===syne, afterwards.
=seene=, I seene, V, 53, 105: _ellipsis of_ have.
=seep=, II, 148, 10: ooze, leak.
=seeth=, III, 281, 7: sooth.
=seke=, III, 68, 255; 100, 76: search. See =seek=.
=seke=, to, III, 110, 14: at a loss.
=seker=, III, 67, 215: firm, resolute.
=sekirlye=, I, 327, 18: certainly, truly.
=seld=, IV, 2, 2: sold.
=selerer=, III, 61, 91, 93; 67, 233: the monk who has charge of the
provisioning of a convent.
=selke=, V, 283, 21: silk.
=selkie=, =silkie=, II, 494 a: seal.
=selle=, I, 326, 6: saddle.