22; 82, 22; 85, 22: mein, look.
=sembled=, III, 160, 15: met. (=b=, asembled.)
=sen=, sent.
=sen=, II, 32, =Q= 2; 110, 2; 272, 10, 12: since.
=send=, =sene=, II, 360, 10; 365 f., (10), 17, 18: a thing sent. II,
109, 15: the messengers sent to fetch the bride.
=send=, _pret._, I, 204, =D= 3: sent.
=sendered=, IV, 229, 12, 16: sundered, parted.
=senes=, IV, 315, 2; 316, 25: sends, messages. See =send=.
=sent=, III, 75, 384: sendeth.
=sent=, sent I me, III, 76, 414: assent.
=sentence past=, IV, 514, 6: order given.
=sere=, serve. See =sair=.
=serre=, II, 59, 29: sair, sore? (MS. serrett).
=serundad=, =surunded=, V, 262, No 225, =A= 3; 263, 4: surrounded.
=servit=, II, 371, 5: (serviette) table-napkin.
=seruyd him of bred and cloth=, I, 241, 1: _for_ would make an easier
reading than _of_, which will have to be understood, on terms of
(receiving food and clothing).
=set=, V, 80, 57: sitteth.
=set=, II, 168, 1; 282, 7; 463, 19, 25; III, 216, 29; IV, 135, 20; 204,
9; 331, 18: sit, become, suit. set a petticoat, IV, 331, 18: became
(looked well in) the petticoat. See =become=.
=set=, _p. p._, III, 37, 61: fixed, determined. See =set for=, below.
=set= her brest (and swom), II, 459, 8: brought her breast to a level
with the water. (Elsewhere, smoothed.)
=set=, set a mill, I, 134, =O=, 8: to stop the machinery by turning off
the water from the wheel.
=set=, set the monke to-fore the brest, III, 67, 223: assailed, shot at.
=set= (=sete=, and wrongly =sat=) a dynt on, vppon, of, III, 309, 42,
45, 46: inflicted a blow, stroke.
=set by=, IV, 11, 15, 20: lay aside, cease, let be.
=set for=, IV, 229, 12, 16: set upon, bent upon.
=set them up in temper wood=, IV, 222, 20: corrupt. See note, 231, =D=
20.
=sete=, _n._, III, 63, 133: suit, dress.
=sett=, III, 340, 31: take aim.
=settle by=, IV, 219, 13: set you aside (?).
=settled=, gun, III, 341, 44: levelled, adjusted.
=sevent=, II, 75, 7: seventh.
=several=, III, 224, 13: variously.
=sey=, _pret._ of see, V, 80, 41.
=seyn=, =syen=, =syne=, then, afterwards.
=seyte=, neys seyte, V, 80, 39: pretty sight!
=sez I=, V, 304, b, 4: say(s) I.
=sha=, =shaw=, V, 267, 10: show.
=shack=, =shake=, IV, 325, 9; 326, 7: shake straw so that the corn may
fall out (?).
=shade=, =shadow=, =scad=, I, 101, 13; 490, 21; 491, 20; 492, 12:
reflection (of the color of). We have, shaddoowes _greene_, in one copy
of Adam Bell, see III, 32, 48.
=shaft their arrows on the wa=, IV, 3, 16: so in both copies,
unintelligible; corrected by Scott to sharp.
=shaftmont=, =shathmont=, I, 330 f., =A= 2, =B= 2, =C= 2; 332, =E= 2:
the measure from the top of the extended thumb to the extremity of the
palm, six inches. (A. S. “ix. scæfta munda.” Lex. Ath.)
=shake=. See =shack=.
=shals thou=, I, 481, 28. See =s= as sign of the future tense.
=shambo=, II, 376, 26: shamoy, chamois.
=shame=, the, II, 70, 15; III, 464, 11; 466 f., 44, 52, 58: euphemism
for the Devil. shame a ma, III, 490, 15, 27, 29: devil a bit.
=shamefu reel=, II, 110, 28: the first reel that is danced with the
bride, her maiden, and two young men; called the Shame Spring or Reel,
because the bride chooses the tune. Buchan.
=shames death=, II, 60, 41; III, 330, 14: death of shame, shameful
death.
=shamly=, III, 80, 337: shamefully.
=shane=, _pret._ of sheen, shine, IV, 469 a, 11.
=shank=, IV, 37, =A= 6, =B= 8: the projecting point of a hill, joining
it with the plain.
=shapen=, III, 79, 81, 85, 50: devised, ordained.
=share=, I, 388, =B= 7; IV, 416, 17: cutting, portion.
=shathmont.= See =shaftmont=.
=shaw=, =shawe=, I, 422, 3; III, 91, 1; 97, 1; V, 250, 25: wood,
thicket. See =wode shawe=. In Teviotdale shawe is “a piece of ground
which becomes suddenly flat at the bottom of a hill or steep bank.”
Jamieson. So, perhaps, V, 250, 25.
=shaw=, =sha=, show.
=shay=, V, 110, 8, 9: shy.
=she=, III, 318, 4: spurious Highland dialect, representing _he_,
_they_, and even _Highlander_, for which she, her, hernanesell have
become a nickname. (The Gaelic having no word for the neuter it, the
_masc._ e and _fem._ i do duty for the absent form. i in some Highland
districts is largely used in speaking of sexless objects.)
=sheaf=, =shefe=, of arrows, III, 3, 5; 62, 131: bundle of twenty-four.
Cf. II, 168, 5; III, 13, 9.
=shealin=, =shiel=, =shielin=, =shielen=, =shieling=, =shield=, IV,
258, 23; 259, 17; 260, 16; 262, 27, 29; 266, 17: herdsman’s hut.
=shear=, III, 307, 6, 8: several. (Scot. seir.)
=sheave=, =shive=, _n._, I, 470, 32; II, 358, 27; 367, 44; V, 16, 13,
14; 18, 3, 4; 219, 25: slice.
=sheave=, _v._, IV, 476, 7: slice.
=sheave-wisps=, V, 213, 5: wisps of straw from a sheaf, put by peasants
into their shoes for more warmth.
=shed=, II, 116, 27; 118, 21: a piece of ground on which corn grows, so
called as being separate from adjacent land.
=shed by= (hair), II, 129, 26, 27: parted, threw off from the face on
both sides. shed back, II, 135, 39 (shook back, 135, 38).
=shedd=, _pret._ See =sheede=.
=shee=, =shie=, I, 68, 9, 12; III, 271, =F= 9; 384, 9: shoe.
=sheed=, V, 251, 36: sheet.
=sheede=, I, 273, 43, 44: shed, spill.
=sheen=, =sheene=, =sheyne=, I, 490, 7; II, 52, 5, 11; 372, =A= =b= 2;
III, 24, 48; 91, 1; 97, 1: shining, bright, beautiful. (_bright_ is
also beautiful, I, 285, 25; 293, 2.) In, shawes been sheene, III, 91
and 97, 1; shadowes sheene, III, 24, 48, we must take sheene in the
secondary sense, beautiful.
=sheen=, =shene=, I, 176, 2, 7, 12; II, 395, 17; IV, 380, 26; 416, 12;
V, 306, 2, 3: shoes. See =schon=.
=sheen=, =shene=, _v._, III, 392, 9, 10: shine. _pret._ shane.
=sheene=, _n._, II, 183, 13: brightness, splendor (evidently a word of
Percy’s here).
=shefe.= See =sheaf=.
=shend=, III, 27, 114; 63, 140; 123, 13: put to shame, injure, destroy.
=shent(e)=, _p. p._, III, 27, 114: blamed. III, 75, 396; 123, 13: hurt,
etc.
=shete=, shoot. shete a peny, III, 97, 10, 11: shoot for a penny-stake.
_pret._ shet, III, 97, 12; shyt, III, 26, 83.
=sheu=, IV, 289, =F= 9: show.
=sheugh=, II, 238, 6; V, 108, =B= 1: trench, ditch, furrow.
=shew=, I, 299, a 13; II, 332, =J= 6: sew.
=shewed=, III, 450 b: represented.
=sheyne.= See =sheen=.
=shie=, shoe. See =shee=.
=shiel=, =shielen=, =shieling=, =shield=. See =shealin=.
=shill=, =schill=, I, 16, 1; 17, =E= 1; II, 254, 10; 382, 28; 383, 29;
386, 24; IV, 200, 2; 201, 1: shrill.
=shimmerd=, glittered.
=shin’d=, _pret._ of shine, IV, 240, 2.
=shirife=, =shirrfe=, =shrife=, =sheriff=. See =screfe=.
=shirrs=, shears.
=shive=, =sheave=, V, 219, 25: slice.
=shock=, _v._, IV, 106 b: collide, encounter.
=shoder=, V, 221, 10: shoulder.
=shogged=, III, 332, 14: moved away.
=shon=, =schon=, =shone=, =shoon(e)=, =shoun=, I, 69, 52; 71, 42; 73,
64; 78, 39; III, 65, 193; V, 83, 55: shoes.
=shook= (sword over the plain), II, 393, =K= 14: the MS. has shook, not
strook, but strook must at any rate be meant (cf. 380, =A= 32). See II,
378 a.
=shooled=, I, 184, 10; V, 210, 10: shovelled. See =shule=.
=shoon(e)=, =shoun=, shoes. See =shon=.
=shoon=, =shoun=, soon.
=shoot at sun and moon=, III, 201, 21; to the sun or the moon, III,
203, 18: they wish to have no mark measured, are ready to take any
distance.
=shope=, III, 59, 64: created.
=shopen=, =shapen=, III, 82, 50: devised, ordained.
=short-bread=, V, 262, 22: “a thick cake of fine flour and butter, to
which caraways and orange-peel are frequently added.” Jamieson. (A
sweet short-bread is still well known in Scotland.)
=shorten her=, I, 478, 14: while away the time for herself; cf. Germ,
kürzen, kurzweilen. See =shortsome=.
=shortlye and anone=, III, 23, 10: speedily.
=shortsome=, _adj._, II, 371, 2: enlivening, cheering.
=shortsome=, _v._, II, 370, 13, 14: divert (while away the time,
opposed to langsum). See =shorten=.
=shot=, o wheat, IV, 459, 2: field, patch.
=shot=, V, 76, 9; 127, 3: reckoning. trust me one shott, V, 15, 22.
=shot=, II, 256, =K= 2==schawit, looked at(?).
=shot=, _p. p._, IV, 458, 3: shod.
=shot-window=, II, 122, 5; 141, 10; 177, 24; 230, 9; 322, 7; 357, 8;
368, 3; 375, 22; 376, 37, 40; III, 23, 22; 105, 20; IV, 135, 19; 151,
6; 153, =E= 6; 154, 11; 428, 3; 493, 12; V, 248, 8. II, 141, a princess
looks out at a shot-window; II, 368, a lady draws her shot-window in
her bower, harps and sings; II, 376, a knight jumps to a shot-window
to escape; III, 105, Robin Hood glides out of a shot-window; IV,
135, a queen looks oer her shot-window; IV, 493, a knight goes in at
a shot-window.--“Windows called shots, or shutters of timber with a
few inches of glass above them.” Wodrow’s History, II, 286. But the
shot-window of recent times is one turning on a hinge, above, and
extensible at various angles by means of a perforated bar fitting into
a peg or tooth. Donaldson, Jamieson’s Dictionary, 1882, notes that in
the west of Scotland a bow-window is called an out-shot window. A
bow-window would be more convenient in some of the instances cited.
=shott=, V, 15, 22: reckoning (oddly used here as of an ale-house.) See
=shot=.
=shouir=, =shower=, III, 385: throe, pang. See =showr=.
=shoulder=, looked over the left, III, 339, 7; 368, 11; 369, 13, etc.:
apparently a gesture of vexation or of indignant perplexity. See the
passages cited at V, 286 a.
=shoun=, =shun=, shoes. See =shon=.
=shoun=, soon.
=shour=, sure.
=shourn=, V, 225, 5: shoulders,
=shouther=, =showther=, =shuder=, I, 21 b, 3; 302, =A= 7; 303, 9; 331,
=D= 2; 332, =F= 2; IV, 297, 10: shoulder.
=showded=, V, 124, =C= 15: swung.
=shower.= See =showr=.
=shower o his best love=, I, 476, =J= 4: share, or cut, of his best
loaf.
=showing-horne=, II, 437, 78: shoeing-horn, a pun on the beggar’s horn,
whether as a means of sponging liquor, or of helping one to take in
drink.
=showne=, _pret._, III, 37, 84: showed.
=showr=, =shower=, =shouir=, I, 68, 32; II, 105, 3; III, 385, 5; 386,
7: throe, paroxysm of pain.
=shradds=, III, 91, 1: coppices (Halliwell, perhaps conjecturally). The
equivalent shard, he says, is in Yorkshire an opening in a wood. (A. S.
scréadian, cut, dock?)
=shrewde=, =shrewed=, a term of vituperation; originally, cursed. thou
art a shrewed dettour, III, 61, 104; thou arte a shrewde hynde, III,
64, 164: perhaps ironical (devilish pretty). shrewde wyle, III, 65,
181: clever.
=shroggs=, III, 93, 28: rods, wands (serving for prickes, marks).
=shryuë=, III, 70, 287: sheriff. See =screfe=.
=shuder=, IV, 493, 8: shoulder. See =shouther=.
=shule=, _v._, IV, 207, 20: shovel. See =shooled=.
=shun=, =shoun=, shoes.
=shun=, III, 357, 41: better, shunte, as in the other texts, turn off,
aside. Shunte is to be understood in 43, 45, 47.
=shuped=, I, 204, =E= 2: shipped. (The reading may be sheeped.)
=shyt=, _pret._, III, 26, 83: shot.
=shyt=, _imperative_, III, 71, 314: shut. _p. p._, III, 25, 53: shut.
=si=, so.
=siccan=, =sic=, =sick=, =sicke=, =sicken=, such, such a.
=siccarlie=, III, 492, 27: so as to make all safe. sickerlie, III, 491,
5: securely. III, 491, 12: so as to make certain, make sure of the
effect.
=siccer=, =sicker= (siccer and honestly), III, 487, 9; IV, 31, =B= 6:
securely, safely.
=sich=, =sick=, _n._, sigh: II, 139, 6; 168, 15; 230, =C= 1.
=sich=, =sick=, _v._, I, 451, 12; V, 164, =D b= 10: sigh. _pret._
sicht, I, 73, 66; III, 453, 2. sikt, II, 241, 8. siched, I, 72, 21.
sight, IV, 503 f., 6, 21, 23. _pres. p._ sichand, sichan, sichin, II,
96, =I= 3, 4, 6; 471, 13; V, 41, 31; IV, 382, 6.
=sichin=, _n._, II, 286, =C= 10: sighing.
=sicht=, sight.
=sicke=, =sicken=, III, 367, 3; 441, 32; V, 194, 64 (sicken-like): such.
=sicker.= See =siccer=.
=sickles of ice=, =ickles of ice=, III, 152, 1; 154, f 1: icicles.
=side=, keeping her flocks on yon side, IV, 323, 1: ellipsis of hill,
river, or the like.
=side=, _adj._, II, 122, =H= 7, 8; 407, 9; 409, 15; 466, 37, 38;
469, 38, 39; IV, 165, 15; 283, 12; 285, 4; V, 267, 4: long, and so,
probably, IV, 130, 4; 134, 8. I, 80, 12, of stirrup too long, low for
the foot (Icel. síðr, demissus). saddle a steed side, IV, 464, 18:
wide. wear your boots sae side, I, 428, 8; 429, 5: of boots the tops
of which lap a good way over, or perhaps of boots wide at the tops; I,
430, 2. See =syde=.
=side be=, mother-in-law side be, II, 71, 11: seems to mean, side by,
by his side. Possibly, sud, should, be.
=sighan=, =sighend=, _pres. p._ of sigh.
=sight=, =sikt=, _pret._, IV, 503 f., 6, 21, 23: sighed. See =sich=,
_v._
=signd=, IV, 288, 10: that is, sind. Sind is to wash, rinse; here she
has simply wet her lips.
=signots=, took out the gowd signots, IV, 53, 13: ornaments, whether
seals or not, attached to the ears by “grips.” Three sygnets hang at a
gold ring, IV, 37, 13; 38, 13, which is taken off in the latter place,
and was, therefore, a finger-ring.
=sike=, =syke=, II, 238, 6; IV, 3, 28: ditch, trench (watercourse,
marshy bottom with a stream in it. Jamieson.) IV, 470, 25: (perhaps)
rivulet.
=sikt=, sighed.
=sile=, IV, 118, =C= 3: flow.
=silkie=, =selkie= (A. S. seolh), II, 494, 3, 4: seal.
=siller-knapped= (gloves), II, 134, 8, 13: ornamented with silver balls
or tassels. (golden-knobbed, 133, =D= 6.)
=silly.= silly tin, silly twine, II, 224, 12, 17: simple, mean, of
slight value. silly sisters, II, 311, 1: harmless, innocent? silly old
man, silly old woman, etc., III, 5 f., 10, 11, 20; 6 f., 9, 10; 9, =G=
9; 180 f., 3, 8, 9, 19; 271, 8: of a “puir body,” palmer, beggar. V,
129, 1; 130, 1; 131, =d= 1, =e= 1-3: of a supposedly simple old man
who turns out to be shrewd. V, 253 f., No 203, =D= 2, 8: (perhaps)
spiritless, cowardly. sit a silly sate: see =sit=.
=simmer=, II, 261, 10; V, 299, 4; etc.: summer. simmer-dale, II, 261,
8, 9.
=simple=, III, 163, 72: poor, scant.
=sin=, III, 281, 7; IV, 260, 17: son.
=sin=, II, 494, 6; IV, 77, 3; 280, =b= 22: sun.
=sin=, =sine=, =syne=, I, 16, =C= 9; 17, 7; 204, =E= 3; II, 32, 3; 160,
4, 7; 161, 5, 7; III, 433, 11; 436, 9 (?): since (temporal and causal),
then. II, 237, 6: when, as in Shakspere after verbs of remembering
(Winter’s ale, v, i, 219, etc.). See =syne=, then.
=sin-brunt=, V, 224, 19: sun-burnt.
=sinder=, II, 164 f., 18, 19, 21: sunder.
=sindle=, II, 261, 8: seldom.
=sindry=, II, 344, 4: several. IV, 219, =A= 5: sundry (people).
=sine=, then, since. See =sin= and =syne=.
=single=, liverie, IV, 261, 5: dress of a plain or inferior man;
IV, 334, 11, 12: dress of a private soldier. single man, sodger,
soldier-lad, IV, 335, =b=, =c=, =d= 16; 337, =f=, =g= 15; 338, =h=
after 15: private.
=sinner=, V, 254, 12: sooner.
=sinsyne=, =synsyne=, I, 227 b; III, 394, =J= 2; 396, =N= 2: since,
afterwards.
=sir=, title of parson: III, 217, 49.
=sit a sate=, IV, 469, 8: maintain or enjoy a position. (You may live
comfortably if you are well stocked with cattle, but only in a beggarly
or pitiable way with nothing but beauty.) “You shall sit at an easier
rent.” Scott’s Redgauntlet, Wandering Willie’s Tale. Falstaff sits at
ten pounds a week (his expenses came to that), Merry Wives, I, 3.
=sitt=, _p. p._, III, 400, 5: seated.
=sitten=, =sutten=, _p. p._ of sit, II, 273, 37; III, 433, 4.
=skail= (blood), IV, 373, 13: spill.
=skaith=, =skaeth=, _n._, I, 370, 5; II, 292 f., 8, 18: III, 162, 66:
harm. gien the skaeth, II, 364, 36; IV, 465, 35, 36: done a wrong,
injury.
=skaith=, _v._, III, 371, 21: harm.
=skaith frae=, _v._, I, 397, 14: keep from. (A. S. scéadan, Germ.
scheiden, O. Eng. shed, part, divide.) See =scathe=. A skaithie in
Scottish is a fence or wall to keep off wind.
=skeely=, =skilly=, III, 26, 1: skilful, intelligent.
=skeigh=, III, 495 b, 23, 24: shy, skittish.
=skelp=, V, 106, =E= 6: drub.
=skerry=, rocky. skerry fell, I, 325, 10: rocky hill.
=skerry=, =skerrie=, II, 494: a rock or rocky islet in the sea.
=skill=, =sckill=, =skylle=, reason, discernment, knowledge. a baron
of sckill, I, 295, 28: reasonable, of good judgment, etc. that’s but
skill, I, 295, 44: reason, something right and proper. the skylle I
sall þe telle wharefore, I, 328, 56: the reason why. can skill, little
they can skill of their train, etc., II, 445, 62; 450, 67, 69: Icel.
kunna skil, to know distinctions, have knowledge. could noe skill of
the whisstill heare, IV, 506, 70: perception (that is, literally, could
not hear whether there was a whistle or not). had no skill, IV, 213,
3: knew nothing of the matter, or, possibly, had no regard, felt no
approbation.
=skilly=, =skeely=, II, 97, 21: intelligent, knowing, skilful.
=skink=, I, 190 a: pour out liquor.
=skinkled=, II, 183, 19: sparkled.
=sklate=, II, 293, 15: slate.
=skomfishes=, III, 433, =C= 4, 7: stifles (discomfits).
=skorne=, III, 113, 77: disgrace, humiliation. See =scorn=.
=sky-setting=, I, 351, 31: sunset.
=skylle.= See =skill=.
=skyred=, IV, 413, 12, 14: startled, blenched, shrank back.
=slack=, II, 116, 20; 117, 14; 313, 23; III, 181, 29; 281, 12; 363,
note †; IV, 7, 27; 184, 2, 3; 467, 11; V, 250, 25; 262, 19. 1.) a gap
or narrow pass between two hills. 2.) low ground, a morass. It is often
not possible to determine which is intended. In III, 281, 12, the
meaning is morass. Plain ground will suit III, 181, 29. Such terms vary
according to locality and time. Cf. =slap=.
=slacke= (woe), V, 83, 44: lessen, mitigate.
=slade=, III, 92, 12: “a valley, ravine, plain.” Halliwell. Cf.
=slack=, =slap=.
=slae=, I, 450, 2: sloe.
=slap=, II, 120, 14; III, 185, 24, 25; V, 228, 26: a narrow pass
between two hills (==slack). In III, 185, 24, 25, there is a contrast
with glen, the word replacing the slack of III, 181, 29; perhaps, plain
ground. IV, 300, 12: a breach in a dyke or wall.
=slate=, =slait=, of whetting a sword by passing it over a straw or
the ground (Icel. sletta, to slap, or slétta, to level, smooth). has
slaited on the strae, II, 273, 30. slate it on the plain, IV, 491, 11.
slait it on the plain, V, 235, 32. See =strip=, =stroak=, =streak=,
=straik=, =strike=.
=slawe=, _p. p._ of slay, III, 14, 16, 17; 71, 306. y-slaw, III, 28,
140.
=slee=, sly.
=sleste=, =slist=, III, 70, 292; 79, 146: sliced, split.
=slet=, _pret._ of slit, III, 63, 146.
=slichting=, slighting.
=slight=, III, 473, 13: demolish. we’ll fecht them, we’ll slight them,
IV, 85, 5: make light of (?).
=slipe=, sleep.
=slist=, III, 70, 292: sliced, split.
=slo=, =sloe=, =sloo=, =slon=, I, 210, 9; III, 77, 438; 97, 8; 110, 19:
slay. _pret._ sloughe, III, 308, 25. _p. p._ slo, slowe, slone, II,
479, 17; III, 35, 22; 77, 428. slawe, y-slaw.
=slocken=, =sloken=, IV, 386, 16: quench.
=slode=, _pret._ of slide, II, 59, 22: split.
=sloe=, =sloo=, I, 210, 9; III, 77, 438: slay. _pret._ sloughe. _p. p._
slowe, slone. See =slo=.
=slogan=, III, 474, 32: war-cry, gathering word of a clan. Jamieson.
=sloken=, =slocken=, III, 473, 14: quench (fire), _p. p._, IV, 60 b,
after 10 (with _ellipsis of_ have).
=slough-hounds=, IV, 3, 15: sleuth-hounds, blood-hounds (slooth, b, 4,
15).
=sloughe=, _pret._ of slo, slay, III, 308, 25.
=slowe=, _p. p._ of slo, slay, II, 479, 17.
=sma=, small. of linen, I, 428, 18; 419, 3; II, 128, 5; 130, 4; 133,
=D= 3; 134, 7; 269, 15; III, 7, =E= 12: of fine texture. of the blast
of a horn, II, 258, 31; small, V, 83, 48: shrill, keen. of wine, I will
drain it sma, IV, 476, 8: should mean, strain it fine, or, pour out in
a thin stream, run it off gently; the intention seems to be, give but a
small quantity.
=smeek=, IV, 385, 25: smoke.
=smiddie=, IV, 470, 18: smithy. In smiddy-bour, II, 186, 12, bour for
room or workshop is strange.
=smirkling=, smirkling smile, IV, 117, 3: suppressed.
=smit=, II, 149, 2: noise, clash.
=smithered=, III, 268, 17: smothered.
=smoldereth=, III, 431, 19: smothereth.
=smooth=, II, 233, 14; V, 167, =A= 7: pass lightly over. smooth the
breast for swimming, see =breast=.
=smore=, V, 37, 6: smother.
=smotley=, V, 79, 15: pleasantly.
=snack=, IV, 415, 6: quick.
=snags=, III, 483, 7: protruding remnants of branches hewn off.
=sned=, II, 274, =C= 19; 462, 26: cut, lop. (misprinted sued, II, 462.)
=sneed=, V, 165, 4, 5: snood, fillet for a maiden’s hair.
=sneer=, IV, 18, 15; 19, 13: snort.
=sneeters=, V, 213, 10:==snotters, gatherings of snot.
=snell=, of weather, wind, frost, I, 342, 23; 344, 22; III, 435, 1; IV,
213, 17; 214, 4; V, 99, 2: sharp, keen. of a blast of a horn, III, 195,
7: keen, shrill. of talk, III, 492, 31: sharp, caustic.
=snoded=, tied with a snood.
=snood=, V, 306, 4, 5: a fillet with which a maiden’s hair was bound
up. See =sneed=.
=snotters=, V, 213, 10: gatherings of snot. See =sneeters=.
=soberly=, III, 487, 17: quietly, making no noise.
=socht=, =sought=, _pret._, I, 147, 11, 12; II, 30, 8; III, 466, 46:
asked for.
=sodde=, _pret._, V, 53, 103: seethed, boiled.
=solace=, I, 328, 53: pleasure. solaces, III, 287, 65: merry-makings,
diversions.
=soldan=, II, 59, 35-37: sultan, any pagan king; hence, giant. See
=soudan=.
=Soldanie=, =Soudonie=, V, 199 b, 33; 200 b, 33: Sultan’s people.
=solde=, I, 326, 4: should.
=some=, _with singular_, some clean white sheet, V, 294, 7.
=somers=, III, 67, 216, 224; 74, 374: sumpter-horses, pack-horses.
=sone=, at once.
=sone so=, I, 243, 8: as soon as.
=sonsie=, II, 370, 16: plump.
=soom=, =soum=, =sume=, =swoom=, II, 29, 19; III, 394, =K= 4; IV, 493,
9; 511 b, 4; V, 138, =B= 6: swim.
=soon=, III, 440, 13: early. soon at morn, IV, 446, 2: early in the
morning.
=soone=, II, 446, 92: swoon.
=sore=, as, they mighten a had, III, 441, 26: on whatever hard terms.
=sorn=, IV, 464, 14: sworn.
=sorners=, IV, 41, note *; 81 b: sojourners, properly those who take
free quarters (such may be expected to make free generally with
the property of those upon whom they impose themselves); “forcible
intruders, people quartering themselves on tenants, etc., masterful
beggars.”
=sorowe=, =sorrow=, III, 61, 96; IV, 174, 6; 241 b; V, 28, 55: sorry,
sorrowful, sad.
=sorraye=, II, 209, 9: sorrow.
=sorrowful=, III, 440, 12: sorry, pitiful.
=sorte=, III, 128, 97: set.
=souce=, V, 84, 7: the head, feet and ears of swine boiled and pickled.
=soud=, =sude=, should.
=soudan=, =sowdan=, =souden=, =soldan=, I, 54, 65; V, 195, 26; 197, 5.
=Soudron=, V, 192, 22: Southron.
=Soudronie=, V, 192, 33: Southronry.
=sough=, sound.
=sould=, should.
=soum=, =soom=, =sume=, II, 464, 2, 3; 474, =J= 5; V, 237, 9: swim.
=soun=, make bed saft and soun, IV, 279, 31, 32: smooth. lead the
bridle soun, II, 105, 14: steadily, so as not to cause a jolt by
jerking it.
=sound=, IV, 206, 10: safe and well. sailed it sound, II, 223, =F= 8:
safe.
=sound=, a sound, III, 165, 88: a-swoon.
=sound=, IV, 172, 12, 14; 173, 7, 10, 11: in the sleep of death.
=sounded=, IV, 99, 3: should probably be _rounded_, whispered.
=souner=, I, 442, 10: sounder.
=soup=, I, 324, =B= 9: sup.
=sour= (reek), III, 433, =C= 6: sharp, bitter.
=souter=, =soutter=, III, 282 a; IV, 262, 16: shoe-maker.
=south=, I, 334, 9: sweet.
=southen=, =southin=, II, 358, 16, 28; IV, 482 b, 2, 3, 4; 483, 9, 17,
18: southern.
=southering=, IV, 48, b 18: soldering (corruption of, seething).
=sowdan.= See =soudan=.
=sowe=, III, 41 b, line 17: to be corrected to sowter, cobbler (?).
=sowens=, V, 108, =B= 10: flummery; “oat-meal sowr’d amongst water
for some time, then boiled to a consistency, and eaten with milk or
butter.” Herd.
=sowt=, III, 13, 8: sought, peered, scanned.
=sowt=, south.
=soyt=, III, 110, 23; 111, 31, 43; 112, 55; V, 79, 30: sooth.
=spait=, III, 473, 26; 479, 2: flood.
=spak well in his mind=, V, 260, 15: sounded well, suited his own
thoughts.
=spakes=, I, 61, =C c=, 15: the bars of a bird-cage.
=spald.= See =spaul=.
=spang=, II, 394, 18: span.
=spare=, I, 302, =A= 10; 446, 10; 451, 11; III, 246, =E= 7: opening in
a gown or petticoat.
=sparks out o a weet=, IV, 379, 15: rain-drops from a shower. “Spirks,
spirkins, applied to drops of water in Scotland; sparks usually to
fire.” W. Forbes.
=sparred=, III, 97, 20; 99, 61: shut.
=spartled=, _v._, II, 94, 6: sprang. spartling, II, 306, 15: kicking,
struggling.
=spartles=, _n._, II, 94, 4: springs.
=spaul=, =spauld=, =spald=, =spole=, III, 473, 17; V, 105, =A= 3, =B=
6; 106, =D= 6, =E= 4; 107, 3: shoulder.
=spayed=, spied.
=speal=, I, 428, 17; 430, 6, 7: another form of scale, a wooden
drinking vessel.
=speals=, =spells=, II, 410, 24; V, 236, 18: chips.
=spear=, _v._, IV, 85, 1: spare.
=spear=, =speer=, =speir=, =spier=, =sper=, =ask=. See =spyrr=.
=speed=, prosperity, help.
=speel=, _v._, II, 73, 25: climb.
=speen=, IV, 287, 19; 357, =C= 8, 9: spoon.
=speer=, inquire. See =spyrr=.
=speere=, V, 15, 20: “a hole in the wall of the house, through which
the family received and answered the inquiries of strangers.” Ritson.
This, I fear, may be conjectural. Speere, a screen (wall) between
fire and door to keep off the wind is well known both in England and
Scotland. But the Heir seems to be outside and could not look up at
this speere.
=speir=, =ask=. See =spyrr=.
=spelle=, _v._, I, 329, 3: discourse.
=spells=, =speals=, II, 410, 24; V, 236, 18: chips.
=spendyd=, a spear, III, 309, 40: “=spanned=; hence, got ready, placed
in rest.” Skeat.
=sper=, V, 78, 5: inquire. See =spyrr=.
=spier-hawk=, IV, 484, 1, 2: sparrow-hawk.
=spin=, =spine=, gar your blood, IV, 84, 3, 6; V, 253, =D= 1: spirt (as
in Shakspere’s Henry V, iv, 2, spin in English eyes).
=spird=, II, 144, 12: spurred.
=spite=, I, 211, 27: spital.
=spleen=, _v._, III, 220, 5: regard with spleen, hatred.
=spleene=, _n._, III, 230, 70: animosity.
=splent= (splint), III, 473, 17: armor of overlapping plates.
=splinders=, II, 91, 26: splinters.
=splits=, II, 389, 10: strands.
=sply=, II, 252, 1: (perhaps miswritten) spy.
=spole=, III, 342, 63: (O. Fr. espaule) shoulder. See =spaul=.
=sporne=, _v._, III, 64, 161: kick.
=spreckl(e)d=, I, 159, 5; 160, 3: speckled.
=sprente=, III, 309, 32: sprang, spurted.
=spring=, IV, 265, 13: probably miswritten or corrupted for young,
which we find in the next stanza.
=spring=, I, 129, 17; 130, 20; 132, 13; 135, =O= 18, =P= 18, 19; IV,
312, 4; 313, 7: quick tune.
=spring= (well both clear and spring), II, 198 a, last line: spring
water, pure as a spring.
=sprunks=, fine, III, 221, 12: showily dressed women? (Cf. prank,
prink, Dan., Swed., Germ., prunk.)
=spulye=, _n._, III, 458 b: spoil.
=spulyie=, =spuilye=, =spuilzie=, _v._, III, 463 a; IV, 53, 11; 84, 5,
8: despoil.
=spunk-hole=, V, 213, 3 (spunk = fire): a hollow in the floor, where
the fire was made, fire-place.
=spurn(e)=, _n._, III, 310, 65, 66: kick. The word, though protected by
rhyme and by occurring twice, is suspicious. If spurn could be taken as
clash, encounter, collision, it might stand, but such a sense is forced.
=spurtle=, V, 92, 11, 12: stick for stirring porridge.
=spylle=, I, 327, 20: mar, destroy.
=spyrr=, =spire=, =spier=, =speir=, =speer=, =spear=, =sper= (A. S.
spyrian), I, 176, 17; 325, =B= 13; 349, =G= 9; 440, 10-15; III, 98, 41;
100, 64; V, 115, 4: ask, inquire. spear at, I, 151 a, 10; IV, 328, =A
b=, after 3: inquire of. I, 349, =G= 7; II, 268, 12; 272, 9, 18; 379,
12; IV, 203, 9; 205, 15: ask, request.
=squar=, =squer=, squire.
=square-wright=, V, 124, 3: carpenter, joiner.
=squeel=, =schele=, =schule=, II, 175 f., 1, 6; 306, 19; IV, 327, 8.
=squier=, II, 59, 30: = swire, neck.
=st=, as sign of the future. I’st, II, 449, 62; III, 411, 1; 413, 36;
thoust, ’st, I, 211, 29; 433, 8, 26; II, 44, 13; 442, 10; 449, 60, 61;
III, 277, 4; 411, 4; 432, 7; 477, 7; V, 50, 33. shee’st, she’st, II,
442, 3; 447, 3. you’st, II, 451, 88; III, 104, 6; 412, 12. (All from
English ballads.)
=sta=, _pret._ of steal, III, 464, 13, 14.
=stack=, I, 16, =B= 14: stalk.
=stad=, V, 248, 19: stood.
=staen=, stolen.
=stage=, at a, III, 98, 39: from a floor, story (?).
=stage=, III, 295, 3: stag.
=staig=, III, 301, =A a=, 3; IV, 26, 1: a young stallion.
=staking=, III, 138, 18: cutting into stakes (cleaving, 140, =c= 18;
stacking, 140, =d= 18).
=stale=, =stathle=, I, 18, =H= 9; 19, 12: the foundation of a stack,
the undermost layer of sheaves in a stack.
=stale strang=, V, 213, 5: urine long kept for a lye and smelling
strong. (But stale may = urine as well as strang.)
=stalle=, in strete and stalle, III, 101, 89: station; from the
contrast with street, we may infer the meaning to be, when in movement
(on the road) and when stationary, or housed.
=stamp= o the melten goud, IV, 471, 37: an embossed plate.
=stanch=, III, 364 b: check.
=stand= (of milk, water), I, 344, 34: a barrel set on end.
=stand=, briddel-(bridell-)stand, V, 228, 12, 22: suit of clothes
(bridal clothes).
=stand=, III, 453, =A= 14; IV, 515, 13: (of a court) sit. IV, 420, 9;
V, 222, 34; 269, 1: take place.
=stand=, IV, 152, =C= 11; stand out, III, 439, 2: stickle, scruple.
=stand na, nè, no(e), awe=, I, 421, 5; III, 350, 53; IV, 505, 54; 506,
69: _na_ may be a contraction of _in na_. na stand in awe, I, 419, 4;
stand not in awe, III, 345, 53.
=standen=, _p. p._ of stand, III, 361, =b=, =c= 64.
=stane=, II, 467, 56: i. e. the (stone) wall.
=stane-auld=, III, 9 f., 11, 12, 20: very old (Germ. stein-alt).
=stane-chucking=, I, 441, =E= 1: throwing the stone, as in =B= 2.
=stank=, IV, 47, 12, 13: (O. Fr. estanc) ditch.
=stap=, _n._ and _v._, I, 298, 4; II, 88, 8, 9: step.
=stap=, =stape=, stop. II, 494, 1: stop, stay, reside. will stap to
die, IV, 107, 7: shrink, hesitate.
=stap=, I, 439, 4, 5; 440, 5, 7; 504, 7; II, 294, 31, 32; 467, 41:
stuff, cram.
=stare=, III, 128, 104: (eyes) protrude, or, are fixed, cannot move (?).
=stare= (of hair), V, 66, 19: stand up.
=starf=, _pret._, V, 297 b: died.
=stark=, I, 69, 39; III, 474, 37: strong. stark thief, III, 365 b==the
English strong thief, one who uses violence. stark and stoor, II, 47,
5: in a moral sense, wanting in delicacy, rude, violent, or indecent.
the wind up stark, IV, 378, 5; 380, 11: _ellipsis of_ blew, came,
before _up_.
=starn=, =stern=, I, 440, 18; IV, 455, 10: (Icel. stjarna), star.
=start=, I, 341, 5; 343, 5; 347, 3; 348, 2: spring, jump. III, 164 b,
49; 342, 64: recoil, flinch, recede. _pret._ start, stert, I, 108 b, 8;
286, 56; II, 454, 56; III, 32, 81; 64, 159; IV, 477, 16: sprang. See
=stert=.
=state of my lande=, II, 446, 91; state of my father’s lands, 451, 98:
landed estate.
=stathle=, =stale=, I, 17, 12: the foundation of a stack, the undermost
layer of sheaves in a stack.
=staw=, II, 90, 23; 184, 13: stall.
=staw=, _pret._ of steal, II, 76, 25; 80 f., 9, 29; IV, 12, 13; 490, 30.
=stawn=, _p. p._ of steal, IV, 18, 19, 20.
=stay=, =stey=, IV, 262, 23: steep.
=stead(e)=, =steed(e)=. See =stede=.
=steal=, _pret._ sta, staw. _p. p._ stawn, stowen, stown, stoun.
stealed, steald, IV, 20, 16; 166, 2, 3. stelld, III, 459, 7.
=stean=, Marie’s stean, II, 183, 19: a stone seat at the door of St.
Mary’s Church.
=stear=, =steer=, III, 474, 33: stir, commotion.
=steck.= See =steek=.
=stede=, =steed(e)=, =stead(e)=, I, 334, 7; 411, 7, 16; II, 359, 19;
III, 60, 81; 74, 376; 79, 133; V, 194, 71, 72; 197, 55; 199, 71, 72:
place, dwelling-place. stand in stead, steed, steede, III, 344 f., 38,
44; 349, 38; IV, 505, 45: hold good, be kept, maintained, made good.
=steed=, I, 298, 4: stood.
=steek=, =steck=, =steik=, II, 336, =P= 2; IV, 188, 9; 279, 19, 27;
480, 4, 5; 514, 5: stick, shut, fasten. steekit (dor an window) to the
gin, IV, 480, 5: to the fastening.
=steek=, =steik=, _n._, II, 364, 30; IV, 483, 20: stitch with the
needle. III, 397, =A b= 5: stitch (of pain).
=steeking=, _n._, II, 361, 26: stitching.
=steel=, _pret._, I, 477, 4: stale, stole.
=steer=, =steir=, II, 21, 10, 11; 29, 13, 14: rudder.
=steer=, =stear=, II, 369, 12: disturbance.
=steer=, =sture=, I, 69, 39; 71, 31: strong, robust. (stor, big.)
=steer=, II, 161, 12; IV, 69, 15: disturb, meddle with (for harm).
=steer=, I, 251, =A= 13: stir, move.
=steik=, _n._, stitch. See =steek=.
=steik=, _v._, shut. See =steek=.
=steir=, _n._, rudder. See =steer=.
=stell=, steel.
=stelld=, _pret._ of steal, III, 459, 7.
=stelld=, IV, 110, 10: placed, planted.
=stende=, me stende, I, 243, 5: that people should stone.
=step-minnie=, II, 367 b: stepmother.
=stern=, =starn=, I, 326, 16: star.
=sterne=, III, 308, 30: stern (men).
=stert=, =start=, _pret._ of start, III, 66, 211: sallied. stert out of
the dore, sterte (start) to an offycer, stert hym to a borde, III, 26,
81; 32, 81; 62, 120, 125: rushed. stert to foot, IV, 224, 14: sprang to
their feet.
=steuen=, III, 94, 52: voice. vnsett steven, III, 93, 27: time not
previously fixed.
=stey=, =stay=, IV, 185, 10; 264, 15: steep.
=stiffe=, I, 293 f., 2, 9, 11; II, 55, 67: unyielding, stanch.
=still=, had your still, IV, 85, 7; V, 247, 14: hold your peace.
=stime=, =styme=, I, 482, =E=; III, 163 f., 78, 91: glimpse, ray,
particle of light.
=Stincher=, IV, 69, 6: a river of Carrick, Ayrshire. (Misprinted
stincher.)
=stingy=, IV, 316, 17: forbidding, cross.
=stint=, =stinte=, I, 334, 8; 411, 8, 17; 412, 28: stop.
=stirred=, III, 162, 49: should probably be stirted (shrank, flinched).
The other text has, started.
=stirt=, stirred.
=stock=, I, 419, 2; 421, 2, 4, etc.; II, 467, 56: the outer side of a
bed, opposite the wall (the bed, an enclosed box, being enterable at
this side only).
=stock=, I, 402, 5: (term of disparagement) wanting in vitality,
sensibility, youth, or what not.
=stogg=, IV, 480, 7, 8: stick, stab.
=stoll yellow=, IV, 453 a, =b= 13: corrupt; =a= has, gold that is
yellow.
=stomach will give him=, II, 447, 17: disposition will incline him. II,
450, 69: courage.
=stomached=, well, III, 335 b: courageous.
=stonde=, I, 334, 8; III, 286, 55: while, time. See =stound(e)=.
=stonyt=, I, 242, 11: stoneth, _old plural of the imperative_.
=stood=, V, 269, 1: took place. stood him upon, III, 228, 11: was
incumbent on. See =stand=.
=stoode=, my need stoode, III, 412, 16: existed.
=stook=, I, 485, 10: put into shocks.
=stoor=, stark and stoor, II, 47, 5: (store, big) in a moral sense,
rude, brutal.
=store=, I, 328, 50: big. See =stoor=.
=store=, buffets store, III, 145, 8: in plenty.
=store=, purse of gold and store, II, 461, 23: treasure (precious
things laid up). carryd the store (of constancy), V, 158, 16: the
totality.
=stot=, =stott=, IV, 12, =B= 4; 26, 1; 248, 19; 519, 6; 520, 6, 7:
young ox.
=stoun=, III, 388, 8: (stoun, stound, North of England, to smart with
pain, Scott. an acute intermittent pain) a painful attack.
=stoun=, _p. p._ of steal, III, 453, 10; V, 221, 24. See =stowen=.
=stound(e)=, =stonde=, III, 25, 68; 284, 3; 298, 55; V, 83, 42: time,
point, moment of time.
=stoup=, II, 344, 1; V, 91, 7, 8: pitcher, can, bucket (narrower at the
top than at the bottom).
=stour=, =stoure=, =stowre=, II, 55, 67; III, 26, 89; 298, 58; 309,
47; 441, 27: tumult, brawl, fight. stour of thy hand, III, 280, 37:
turbulence, destructiveness. III, 270, 16: disturbance, commotion.
=stour=, II, 195, notes, =A=; IV, 470, 20: dust.
=stourished=, III, 520 a: read _flourished_(?), blooming. (Cf. III,
373, 4.)
=stout(e)=, II, 282 f., 4, 17 (audacious), 18; III, 339, 5; IV, 503,
5, 7: haughty, high-mettled, bold. III, 411, 8 (traitor): audacious,
unflinching. V, 36 f., 9, 10: unabashed. I, 3, 3; IV, 197, 3: sturdy.
=stowen=, =stown=, _p. p._ of steal, I, 367, 14; II, 72, 23; 79, 38;
IV, 133, =H= 6, 7; 241 a. See =stoun=.
=stowre=, _n._ See =stour=.
=stowre=, _adj._, I, 293, 2: (originally, big) strong.
=stracht=, =straght=, III, 521 b, 272, 15; V, 236, 9: straight.
=strack=, struck.
=strae=, =stray=, =stro=, II, 162, 8; 169, 19; 185, 36; 261, 15, etc.:
straw.
=straik=, =streak=, =streek=, stroke. (a sword) oer (on) a strae
(strow), II, 261, 15; V, 37, 8: pass it over a straw to give it an
edge. See =streak=. straiked back hair, IV, 184, =E= 17: stroked.
straik (streek) wi a (the) wan(d), II, 188, 8; IV, 46, 3; 480, 15: of a
measure, to even at the top by passing a stick over.
=straine=, =streen=, the, V, 221, 24: evening of yesterday.
=strait= (a rope), IV, 398, 7, 25: straighten, stretch, tighten.
_pret._, of stirrups, III, 492, 27.
=strait=, IV, 262, 23, strait and stay: another word for _stay_,
_stey_, steep.
=straith=, =strath=, IV, 184 a: a valley through which a river runs.
=straked=, streaked. straked her trouth on a wand, II, 230, 9: a
symbolical act, of gently rubbing or passing the fingers over a wand,
by way of giving back a lover’s troth.
=strand=, I, 165, =M= 4; III, 460, 28; IV, 172, 15; 174, 16: stream.
Sometimes hardly more than a rhyme-word. In, Scotland’s strands,
strand, II, 289, 7; 294, 8, strand appears to be put for country,
bounds; and for nothing more definite than way, road, in he gaed in
the strand, etc., II, 177, 23; 289, =B= 2; III, 3, 5; IV, 210, 1. In,
stript it to the stran, II, 390, 28, stran cannot mean more than plain
(ground).
=strang=, V, 213, 5: urine kept for a lye, and smelling strong. See
=stale=.
=strang=, strange.
=strange=, V, 76, 16: backward, diffident.
=strated=, V, 228, 15: stretched.
=stratlins=, I, 368, 23: straddlings, stridings.
=straucht=, =straught=, _adj._ and _adv._, I, 146, 14; 251, =A= 10; II,
461, 5; IV, 94, 9; 214, 1: straight.
=straught=, V, 199 a, after 61: stretched. See =straucht=.
=stray.= See =strae=.
=streak=, =straik=, of whetting a sword by passing it over a straw
(cf. Germ. streichen, strike, smooth, whet). streakd it on a strow, V,
37, 8. straiked it oer a strae, II, 261, 15. See =stroak=, =strike=,
=strip=, =slate=.
=streak=, =streek=, I, 299, 17: stretch.
=streak by=, I, 454, 12: to put off, put away.
=stream-tail=, IV, 185, 12: the lower end of a stream as opposed to the
upper. Tail-race is the name given to the stream that carries away the
water after it has passed the mill. J. Aiken.
=streek=, =streak=, I, 299, 17; II, 139, 7, 12; 345, 30; V, 174, 4; 209
b, 6: stretch. streeket, streekit, strickit, _p. p._, II, 189, 38; IV,
128, 17; 316, 25; 318, =G= 9; 319, =H= 7: stretched, laid out, as dead.
=streekit.= See =straik=, and =streek=.
=streen=, =straine=, the streen, I, 57, =C= 13; II, 30, 4; III, 396,
=N= 1; IV, 47, 10, 18; V, 118, =B= 13; 221, 24; 257, 14: yestreen,
yester-night.
=strenger=, _compar._, V, 283, 18 (and so we should read in 8 instead
of scharpper): stronger.
=strickit.= See =streek=.
=strike=, of whetting a sword, etc., on a straw, or the ground. he ’s
struck it (rappier) in the straw, II, 249, 18. struck it (brand) ower
a strow, V, 226 b, 8; (dagger) 227, 21. struck it (bran) across the
plain, II, 380, 32. See =stroak=, =streak=, =strip=, =slate=.
=strinkled=, III, 4, 10; 5, =C= 6: sprinkled.
=strip=, of whetting a sword by passing it across straw, a stone, the
ground; replaced by stroak, streak, strike, slate, draw (cf. German
streifen). has striped it throw the straw, II, 159, 15. he stript it
to the stroe, II, 161, 13. he’s stripped it athwart the straw, II,
256, 12. he’s stripd it oer a stane, II, 396, 28. has stript it to the
stran, II, 390, 28. he drew it through the strae, II, 185, 36; three
times thro the strae, II, 162, 8. See =stroak=, etc.
=stro=, =stroe=, =strow=, =strae=, =stray=, II, 131, 16: straw.
=stroak=, =stroke=, of whetting a sword by passing it over a straw.
stroakd it oer a stro, strae, stray, II, 131, 16; 166, 17; 169, 19;
305, 8, 21; 306, 14. See =strip=, =streak=, =straik=, =strike=, =slate=.
=stroe=, =stro=, =strow=, II, 161, 13: straw.
=stroke.= See =stroak=.
=stroke=, III, 180, 13: probably corrupt; read _streke_, stretch?
(Scott. streik, streek).
=stronge th(i)efe=, =strong thief=, III, 13, 2; 67, 221; V, 77, 32; 83,
49: a thief using violence. See =stark thief=.
=strook=, _pret._ of strike, V, 135, b 18.
=strow=, =stro=, V, 37, 8; 226 b, 8; 227, 21: straw.
=strucken=, _p. p._ of strike, II, 48, 3; III, 487, 13.
=stryke pantere=, V, 72 b: a drinking formula, in response to fusty
bandyas.
=stubborn=, IV, 168, 8; 169, 6, 15; 170, =G= 4, 11, =H= 3, 4, 10: seems
to have its old meaning of truculent, fierce, rather than wilful,
mulish. See note to =H= 3, 4, IV, 177.
=stude=, =stede=, I, 244, 15: place.
=study=, =studie=, =studdy=, II, 374, =A= 2, =B= 2; 375, 3: stithy,
anvil.
=sturdy=, sturdy steel, II, 380, 15; 381, 10; 385, 4; 388, 13: stiff,
rigid (stubborn, II, 393, 10).
=sture=, =steer=, I, 71, 31; 69, 39: strong, robust. (stor, big.)
=sturt=, II, 249, 4: trouble, anger.
=stye=, I, 310, 9, 11, 13: pen, den. III, 100, 76: a smaller
thoroughfare, alley.
=styme=, I, 482, =E=. See =stime=.
=styrande=, III, 295, 3: stirring, dislodging. See note, 301.
=stythe=, I, 311, 9, 11: place.
=suan=, V, 277, 14: swain.
=suar=, III, 308, 27; 309, 42: sure, trusty.
=succeed the fame=, his fame, IV, 249, 9; 251, 10: corrupt for, exceed
in fame, or the like. See note, IV, 254, =E= 9.
=such an a=, IV, 312, 12: such a.
=sud=, =soud=, =suld=, should.
=suddled=, thy suddled silks, that thou wears every day, etc., II, 186,
5, 6, 10, 11: soiled, or rumpled, creased.
=suddling=, suddling silks, III, 398, =C= 9: soiling, which one would
not mind exposing to soiling. Perhaps we should read suddlit. See
=suddled=.
=suderen=, V, 217, 17: southern.
=suds=, leave you in the suds, V, 114, 12: in difficulty, in a strait.
=sugar-sops=, defined in dictionaries as sugar-plums. Fletcher’s
Monsieur Thomas, ii, 3, “Dandle her upon my knee, and give her
sugar-sops.” By analogy, bits of bread or cake dipped in sugar juice.
=sugh=, II, 258, 34: sough, sound (of wind).
=suit=, V, 215, 11; 223 b, 1; 246 b, 2: sweet.
=suith=, III, 468, =c= 9: sooth.
=sulle=, sell.
=sume=, V, 221, 11, 12; 237, 10: swim. See =soum=.
=sun-bruist=, IV, 469, 9: should, perhaps, be sun-burnt, as in the
following line.
=sundry=, II, 212, 17: asunder, apart.
=sune=, _adj._, V, 256, 12: sound.
=sunks=, IV, 262, 29: seats.
=supply=, IV, 154, 13: afford help. mak him some supply, V, 196, 39,
cf. 43: succor, reinforcement.
=surrount=, IV, 245, 3: Skene’s spelling for the original serundad,
surrounded.
=suspitious=, II, 448, 37, 38: worthy of Mrs. Malaprop, but not so easy
to unriddle: in her mouth, _auspicious_; here the modern _suggestive_,
significant, would suit.
=suþþe=, III, 514 b, 1st line: then.
=sutor=, I, 430, 2: shoemaker. See =souter=.
=sutten=, _p. p._ of sit, IV, 468, 6.
=swack=, IV, 415, 6: nimble.
=swack=, _v._, V, 305, 5: whack.
=swads=, =swades=, V, 134, 7; 135 b, 7: “swad in the North is a
pescod-shell: thence used for an empty shallow-headed fellow.” Blount,
in Halliwell. Also, a cant term for soldier.
=swaft=, =swaffed=, III, 511, 8, 11: swapped.
=swair=, =swaird=, laird o the Ochilberry swair, IV, 207, 27, 29; laird
o Athole swaird, IV, 198, 14: sware, neck or slope of a hill. (swaird,
a corruption of swair,=sward, grassland, is not likely.)
=swak=, III, 300, 21. See =swap=.
=swap=, =swak=, swords, with swords, III, 298, 50, 54; 299, 9; 300,
21 (swakked); 301, 30; 309, 31; 422, 73; IV, 487, 29; 500 f., 22, 35
(swakked); V, 240, 6, 9: smite.
=swarmd=, III, 347, g 45; IV, 505, 56, 59: climbed. (swarm, to climb a
tree that has no side branches to help one.)
=swarued=, =swerved=, III, 341, 53, 56; 345, 45: climbed (=swarmd, IV,
505, 56, 59).
=swat=, _pret._ of swe(a)t, III, 299, 9; 300, 21; 301, 30; 309, 31.
swett, III, 422, 73. swette, III, 298, 50, 54.
=swathed=, II, 305, 10: swaddled (as it were) in blood.
=swatter=, I, 135, =P= 11: flounder, splash.
=sway=, howsoeuer this geere will sway, III, 341, 47: whatever turn
this business may take, however this affair may turn out.
=swear=, _pret._, swore.
=sweauen=, =sweuen=, II, 45, 18; III, 91, 4: dream.
=sweer=, II, 61, 4; IV, 229, 20: slow, reluctant. III, 160, 14:
reluctant (to part with money).
=swerers=, quest of, III, 25, 69: jurors.
=swerved=, III, 347, =d=, =e=, =f= 45: climbed. See =swarued=.
=swet=, =swett=, =swette=, _pret._ of =swe(a)t=. See =swat=.
=swetter=, _compar._, V, 283, 9, 19: sweeter.
=sweven=, =sweauen=, II, 45, 18; III, 91, 4: dream.
=sweythyli=, V, 80, 45: swiftly.
=swick=, IV, 438, 12: blame.
=swikele=, I, 243, 4: deceptive, treacherous.
=swilled=, I, 287, 72: tossed about or shook, as in rinsing (but in
this case to effect a mixture).
=swimd=, =swimmed=, _pret._ of swim, II, 16, 5; 24, =F= 9; IV, 129, 5;
130, =D= 9.
=swinke=, III, 171 f., 8, 26: labor.
=swire=, =swyre=, I, 295, 34; III, 91 a: neck. IV, 5, 2; 7, 27; V, 249,
2: “the declination of a mountain or hill, near the summit.” Jamieson.
=swith=, II, 55, 67; 248, 18: quickly.
=swither=, III, 268, 17; 272, 21: trepidation.
=swittert=, I, 129, 11: struggled, floundered, splashed (made spasmodic
motions to keep herself up).
=swoghynge=, _n._, I, 327, 31: sounding.
=swoom=, V, 151, =F= 2: swim.
=swoond=, =swound=, _n._, I, 434, 29; II, 105, 19; III, 373, =A= 4:
swoon.
=swumd=, _p. p._ of swim, III, 482, 25.
=swylke=, I, 327, 15: such.
=swyre=, =swire=, III, 91 a: neck.
=syde=, I, 333, 3: (of beard) long, hanging down. I, 426, 3: of a horn
worn low. See =side=.
=syke=, =sike=, II, 238, 6; IV, 3, 28: ditch, trench. IV, 470, 25:
perhaps, rivulet. (water-course, marshy bottom with a stream in it.
Jamieson.)
=syne=, =sayn=, =san=, =sane=, I, 17 f., =F= 2, 7; 127, 27; 347, 9;
III, 437, 16, 20, 21, 24: then, afterwards. I, 204, =E= 3; V, 306 b, 1;
III, 436, 9 (?): since.
=synsyne=, since. See =sinsyne=.
=sypress=, =cypress=, III, 148, 10; 150, =b= 10: crape (veil).
=syre=, IV, 21, 10: (sewer) drain, gutter.
=syt=, III, 70, 280: old contracted form of sitteth.
=sythis=, I, 327, 21: times.
T
=tabean brirben= (kame), II, 217, 2, 4: printed by Herd, Tabean
birben. Jamieson conjectured for Tabean, ‘made at Tabia, Italy.’ Dr
C. Mackay very properly remarks that Tabia was not known as a place
of manufacture for combs. He suggests a Gaelic origin: taobh, a side,
taobhan, sides; bior, a pin, point, prickle, the tooth of a comb; bean,
a woman; whence taobhan bior bean, the side comb of a woman. Whether
this is good Gaelic, I am myself unable to say; but it is a simple
criticism that a woman’s hair is not combed with a side-comb. The
passage is undoubtedly corrupt. In IV, 471, 2, we have, a haw bayberry
kame, also corrupt; bayberry was heard for whatever tabean brirben
stands for. One copy had birchen, IV, 471, note to 221.
=table=, take vp the, III, 29, 142: take away. the tables were laid on
trestles and easily handled, removed, and, as we often see in ballads,
kicked over. drew her table, V, 304, 13: see explanation at V, 304 a.
=tack= (of needlework), II, 30, =L= 1: attachment by stitching,
needle-tack, II, 217, 5.
=tack=, took.
=tacken=, =taiken=, IV, 515, 12: token.
=tae=, II, 147, 4: too.
=tae=, the tae, ==ae, one. See =tane=.
=taen=, =tane=, =tean=, =teyne=, _p. p._, taken.
=taiglet=, =taiglit=, IV, 195, 4; 196, 9: tarried.
=taiken=, =tacken=, I, 396, 5, 6: token.
=Tailliant=, =Talliant=, II, 383, 22, 24, 25; 385, 23, 25, 26; 387, 17,
19, 20; 388, 16, 18, 19: Italian.
=taipy-tapples=, I, 303, =D= 5: misreading of saipy-sapples, which see.
=tait.= See =tate=.
=take=, V, 277, 2: talk.
=take=, III, 60, 72, 76; 62, 123; 65, 194; 73, 351; 110, 9: hand over,
give. I, 465, 18; 472, 28; II, 108, 17; 271, 17; 273, 23; III, 110, 18;
472, 9; IV, 508, 5: deliver a blow, strike.
=take on= (lawing), IV, 175, =N= 4: run up (reckoning).
=take road=, =take foot=, II, 62 b, 14: make off.
=take sworne=, III, 340, 34; IV, 504, 34; V, 52, 73: take an oath of,
put under oath.
=take truce=, II, 443, 39; 449, 44; III, 469 a: take trewes, pledges of
good faith, for suspension of hostility. take peace, III, 278 f., 3, 6:
perhaps formed upon take truce.
=take up= (the table), III, 29, 142: clear away (remove the boards).
See =table=. take up (dogs), III, 125, 35, 36: stop, restrain, call
off(?).
=take with=, III, 413, 47; IV, 334, 13: take up with, put up with,
submit to.
=takle=, =takyll=, III, 70, 288; 75 f., 398, 404: arrow.
=talbott=, III, 333, 28: a species of hound.
=talents.=
The talents of golde were on her head sette Hanged low downe to her
knee.
II, 52, 17: talents probably refers to the weight or value of gold worn
in massive ornaments (cf. a weight of goud hung at her chin, I, 472,
24). It is not likely that the lady wore coins.
=talk=, IV, 13, 12: should probably be _lack_, reproach, blame. The
reading in =A= 18; =D= 5, is suspicious; lack, reproach, is in =E= 16.
=talkitive=, IV, 13, =D= 8: used for talkativeness.
=Talliant.= See =Tailliant=.
=tamper ye at=, keep ye up and, IV, 226, 13: seems to be corrupt, cf.
221, 17, keep ye up i temper guid. tamper may be meant for temper, in
the sense of putting a machine into working order, try expedients to
humor or manage you.
=tane=, the tane, the tither, tother, I, 253, 1; II, 104, 30; 132, 18;
190, 42; 212, 16. See =tean=, =ton=.
=tane=, =taen=, =tean=, =teyne=, _p. p._, taken. tane with me, IV, 98,
12: occupied, engrossed, captivated (seized or smitten with compassion
for, love?) tane sworn (I am), V, 52, 73: of one who has taken an oath.
=tangle=, V, 259 a, 11: sea-weed.
=taps=, V, 173, 8: tops, tips (of heather).
=Targalley=, V, 141, =c= 1, 2: perhaps a corruption of Turk (Turkish)
galley, cf. =C=, =a=, =f=, =g=.
=targats=, =targits=, III, 363, note *; 371, 26, 27: tassels.
=targe=, III, 75, 385: “Targe or chartyr. Carta.” Prompt. Parv. “quatre
grosses blancs appellés targes.” Ducange, targa. (Corrected from
_tarpe_.)
=tarlottus=, tynkerris in tarlottus, III, 41 b(?).
=tarnd=, V, 303 a: turned.
=tarpe=, III, 75, 385; 80, 385: emended to _targe_.
=tasse=, V, 37, 9: cup (tarse in MS.).
=tate=, =tait=, =teet=, =tet=, =tette=, I, 86, 15; 130, =E= 14; 323, 2;
II, 189, 23; 191, 18; 194, 27; 389, 16; IV, 449, 15: lock (of hair, of
mane).
=tattles=, =tittles=, I, 302, =B= 7: tits, bits.
=taucher=, =toucher=, =tocher=, dowry. See =toucher=.
=tauchy=, I, 302, 10: greasy.
=taul=, told.
=taunt=, bide to taunt, II, 272, 11: endure taunting(?).
=tay=, tie.
=tayened=, =tayned=, V, 228, 26, 27: (tined) lost, killed.
=teacht=, IV, 150, =g= 25, 30: taught.
=teall=, tale.
=tean=, IV, 456 f., 5, 24; 515, 12; V, 36, 11, 15: taken. See =taen=.
=tean=, the tean, the eather, V, 224, 27: the one, the other. See
=tane=.
=tear begane this spurn=, III, 310, 65: see note, 307.
=tee=, IV, 446, 7:==tie, 447, 7. glove tee, V, 300, 10, 16, 19.
=tee=, ti, I, 300, 7, 9, 15; II, 30, 4: to, too.
=teem=, =toom=, II, 169, 13; IV, 182, =F= 5: empty.
=teem=, I, 444, =G b= 2: pour.
=teemed=, II, 435, 36: allowed.
=teen=, =teene=, tithe. See =teind=.
=teene=, =tene=, I, 328, 40; III, 24, 48; 37, 63; 60, 78; 62, 128;
66, 211; 72, 329; 230, 70; 412, 22; 443, 1: injury, wrath, vexation,
annoyance, grief, trouble.
=teenouslye=, III, 366, 21: angrily,
=teet.= See =tate=.
=teeth=, I, 305, =A= 12: tooth.
=teind=, =teein=, =tiend=, =tene=, =teen=, I, 342, 24; 344, 23; 350,
28; 354, 32; 452, 3; III, 504 b, 9; IV, 456, 15; 458, 16: tithe.
=teindings=, IV, 455, 18: tithings.
=tell=, till, to.
=tempeng=, =tempen=, V, 165 f., 6, 9, 10: tempting.
=temper=, set them up in temper wood, IV, 222, 20: corrupted, as will
appear from the conclusion of the other versions. Parts of two stanzas
are mixed.
=tene=, _v._, III, 110, 13: do harm to.
=tene=, _n._ See =teene=.
=tenements=, V, 77, 38: holdings (whether of lands or houses does not
appear here).
=tenish=, V, 245 a, 8: tennis.
=tent=, _n._, II, 139, 11; IV, 223, 3; 390, 4: heed.
=tent=, _v._, I, 74, 81; III, 478, 28: take care of, guard, watch.
=tet=, =tette=. See =tate=.
=tew=, V, 303 a: two.
=teyne=, IV, 504, 26: taken. See =taen=.
=teytheyng=, =tythyng=, V, 79, 25: tidings,
=tha=, then. See =tho=.
=tha=, V, 296 a: the.
=thae=, I, 369, 3; 427, 15; 447, 14; II, 190, 43; IV, 69, 12; 258, 27;
470, 28, 29: they, them, those, these.
=thairbut=, =thairben=, IV, 291, after 11: out there, in there.
=thar=, I, 334, 8: it is necessary (it is not necessary to hinder thee
of thine errand).
=that=, II, 451, 93: till that.
=that=, _imperative particle_, anone that you tell me! III, 27, 118. no
peny that I se! III, 58, 41; 68, 246. no ferther that thou gone! III,
67, 219.
=that=, _superfluous_, I, 273, 38; 284, 7; II, 58, 6; 433, 3; 434, 16,
18; 436, 59; 437, 89; 442, 18; 444, 41; III, 276, 1; 277, 18, 19; 341,
46, 54, 57; 413, 39; IV, 503, 8; V, 48, 6. (Very common in the Percy
MS., where all the above, excepting one, occur.)
=that=, _plur._, that two lords, II, 130, 28, 29. See =this=.
=that ... his===whose, IV, 330, Appendix, 2.
=that was her own=, II, 73, 20: _that_ referring to roses and ribbons,
or the bridal relation, or to both.
=the=, =thé=, I, 284 f., 9, 30; III, 307 f., 3, 8, 12, 25, 28; 419 f.,
14, 33; 421, 45, 65; 477, 4; 479, 38; V, 263, 7, 9, 11, 12: they.
=the=, =thé=, I, 296, 50: thee.
=the day=, I, 356, 56; II, 32, =Q= 2; 248, 5; 285, 14: to-day.
=the morn=, II, 104, 18; III, 480, 18; 482, 14; 488, 19; V, 300, 17;
307, 7: to-morrow. the morn’s nicht, II, 208, =C= 9: to-morrow night.
=the night=, =the nicht=, I, 303, =C= 4; 304, =E= 4; III, 480, 18; 488,
19; V, 299 a, 1: to-night.
=the streen=, yestreen. See =streen=.
=the=, IV, 494, 29: to be corrected to _she_; _they_ in the next line
to mean the mill-people.
=the=, =thee=, =then=, =thye=, II, 164, 17; III, 67, 234; 78, 452; 113,
81; V, 76, 11; 79, 14; 82 f., 25, 27, etc.: thrive, prosper.
=thee=, III, 6, 20: for _thou_.
=theek=, I, 253, 4: thatch, _pret. and p. p._ theekit, theekd, IV, 76
f., 1, 2, 4; 458 b, 9: thatched, roofed.
=theer=, V, 296 a: there.
=thegither=, =thegithar=, =thegether=, III, 261, 3; V, 217 b, No 49, 1:
together.
=their.= See =thir=.
=then=, _v._ See =the=.
=there=, the diel o there, III, 488, 26: seems to mean _of that_; but
we have, devil be there in 43, as an equivalent phrase.
=there=, III, 504 a, 14; IV, 465, 25, 26; 485, 24; 510 a, 2: there is.
III, 489, 9: there are (or, there is, Scottice).
=there down=, downwards, down.
=theretoo=, III, 64, 172: besides.
=thes=, III, 111, 34; 113, 76: thus. See =this=.
=they=, II, 434 f., 25, 38; 437, 78; 442 f., 19, 29: the (frequent in
Percy MS.).
=thick=, spak thick, I, 343, 13: not articulating distinctly (from
emotion).
=thick=, III, 35, 29: thilke, that.
=thie=, I, 19, 14: 330, =B= 2; 331, =C= 2, =D= 2: thigh.
=thief=, foul thief, V, 123, 14; 184, 44: devil.
=thiggin=, V, 117, 2: begging, levying supplies.
=thimber=, I, 330, =A= 2: (Icelandic þungbærr, heavy to bear?) heavy,
massive. Not understood and changed to nimble, nimle, I, 332, =F= 2,
=G= 2, umber, I, 331, =C= 2.
=think=, =thynk=, III, 27, 98; 58, 37, 44; 60, 82: seem. me thinke, me
thynke, methink, III, 81, 37; 153, =c= 5; 158, =d= 17; 321 b; V, 82,
26, 41: methinketh, methinks. See =thoghte=, =thouth=.
=think lang= (A. S. lang thyncan, seem long), thouth me nouthe lange,
I, 334, 5, 9: seemed not long, amused me, impressed me pleasantly. In
Scottish, personal, with substitution of _think_ for _seem_. think
lang, I, 370, 4; V, 115, 2: find the time wearisome, suffer from
_ennui_. I think lang, I, 368, 35, 37, 39; 506, 2: long for. I’ll never
think lang, IV, 257, 10: shall never be discontented, she thought
(thocht) lang, I, 478, 14; II, 76, 11; 78, 14: was weary with waiting.
keep frae thinking lang, I, 467, 16, 20. keep him on-thought long, I,
478, 13. See =unthought lang=.
=thir=, =their=, I, 5, =C= 5; 329, 61; 482, =C b= 11; II, 78, 23, 24;
271, 21; III, 441, 34, 35; 464, 4; IV, 7, 30; 476, 4, 5; V, 115, 2;
195, 9, 10: these, those.
=thirld in his ear=, II, 208, 5: thrilled.
=thirled at the pin=, II, 121, 15: tirled, rattled.
=this=, _pl._, this bonny boys, II, 81, 37; this twa, II, 158 f., 1,
19. See =that=.
=this=, =thes=, =thys=, III, 73, 346; 111, 34; 113, 76; IV, 210, 4; V,
283, 2: thus.
=tho=, III, 28, 138; 34, 7, 11; 36, 44; 111, 30: then.
=thoe=, III, 285, 33: they (possibly, then).
=thoghte=, I, 328, 50: (probably) seemed. See =think=.
=thole=, =thoule=, I, 508, 8; II, 46, 2; 124, 38; 314, 10; IV, 17, 2;
21, 16; 278, 12; V, 229, 32: bear, suffer (IV, 17, 2: like dree, be
capable of.)
=thorn=, II, 27, =I= 6: dialectic variation of forn, =J= 6, _partic._
of fare: fill yourselves with good fare.
=thornd=, II, 110, 24: fared.
=thoth=, =thouth=, I, 334, 7, 8: though.
=thother=, the, III, 111, 43: tother, other.
=thou=, though.
=thou is=, =thou’s=, III, 483, 31; 488, 24.
=thou sitts=, =thou rydes=, III, 479, 35.
=thou will=, =thou made=, =thou was=, =thou took=, etc., _2 pers.
sing._ without termination: I, 221, =C= 9-11, 222 =E= 11-17; 223, 12,
16.
=thought lang=, I, 370, 4; 478, 14, etc. See =think lang=.
=thoule=, II, 159, 20: suffer, put up with. See =thole=.
=thouth=, I, 334, 5, 8, 9: seemed. See =think=.
=thouth=, I, 334, 8: though. See =thoth=.
=thowt=, _n._, V, 283, 20: thought.
=thra=, =thrae=, IV, 128, 1; 220, 2; 369 b; 446, 8; 465, 34; 470, 20;
479, 3; 518, 10; V, 197, 3, 13: dialectic variety of fra, frae, from.
=thrae=, I, 170, 6: through.
=thrall=, III, 480, 15: bondage.
=thrang=, V, 115, 2: intimate, familiar.
=thrashes=, =threshes=, IV, 77, =b= 4: thrushes, rushes.
=thrashin oer his songs= (of blackbird), I, 133, =M= 3, 5: repeating,
or practising.
=thrast=, _pret._, III, 98, 25: pressed.
=thrave=, I, 21, 10: twenty-four sheaves of corn, two shocks.
=thraw=, II, 146, 14; 147, 15; 149, 14; 283, 16; IV, 479, 8: twist,
contort. _pret._ threw. _p. p._ thrawen, thrawin, thrawn, IV, 348, 6,
7; 349, =b= 3; 350, =B= =b=, after 5; V, 273, No 239, 3.
=thrawin=, I, 465, 12: thrown.
=thrawn=, twisted. See =thraw=.
=thrawn=, IV, 465, 20: ill-humoredly.
=threefold oer a tree=, III, 267, 9: with a double curve, over a stick.
=threesome=, II, 270, 30: three together.
=threshes=, =thrashes=, IV, 258 f., 5, 20: rushes.
=threty=, thirty.
=threw=, _pret._ of thraw, I, 102, 18; 492, 18; II, 111, 21; 183, 30;
185, 40; 208, 12; 286, 16; V, 262, 24: twisted, intertwined. III, 180,
10, Robin he lope, Robin he threw: may be, threw himself about, or
twisted twirled, showing his suppleness.
=thrien=, I, 244, 18: thrice.
=thrild vpon=, =thirled at=, a pinn, II, 121, 15; 138, 10, 16: tirled,
rattled. See =pin=.
=thrill=, II, 291, 27: pierce, penetrate.
=thristle-cock=, I, 427, 8; thristle-throat, I, 429, 8: throstle,
thrush.
=throch=, II, 30, 6; 256, 12: through.
=throly=, III, 98, 25: strenuously, doggedly.
=thronge=, III, 25, 56: pressed, made his way.
=throw=, _intrans._, fyer out of his eyen did throw, I, 211, 23: dart,
shoot.
=throwardlie=, III, 365 a: frowardly, crossly, ill-temperedly.
=throwe=, III, 78, 448: space of time.
=thrown=, IV, 249, =F= 3: corrupted from _this road_; cf. =A= 6; =B= 7;
=C= 9; =D= 6.
=þrumme=, III, 13, 9: the extremity of a weaver’s warp, from six
to nine inches long, serving to hold arrows. Cf. II, 168, 5,
four-and-twenty arrows laced in a whang.
=thrusty=, IV, 172, 4: trusty? (rusted, 173, =K= 4.)
=thurst=, IV, 60 b, 6: thrust.
=thryfte=, euyll thryfte, III, 67, 220: ill thriving, ill speed, bad
luck.
=thu=, V, 283, 13: thou.
=thye=, thigh.
=thye=, II, 241, 14: thrive. See =the=.
=thys=, V, 283, 2: thus. See =this=.
=ti=, I, 299, 13: to; too.
=ticht.= See =tight=.
=tide=, =tyde=, III, 299, =C= 1; 432, 15; 473, 11; V, 83, 49: time.
into the tide, V, 160, 2; by the tide, 163, 4; 164, 1: at the time, now.
=tidive=, tidive hour, II, 257, 15: timely, early? (the hour may be
early morning).
=tiend=, tithe. See =teind=.
=tier=, V, 151, =F= 1, should be, tree.
=tift=, II, 183, 17: puff, whiff.
=tight=, =ticht=, V, 151, =E= 3; 161, 2: (of a man) well built. V, 258,
4: (of a maid) neatly shaped, jimp.
=till=, _n._, II, 409, 12: toil.
=till=, till see, II, 191, 22; till and frae, II, 71, 15: to. At
III, 338 b, it is said that in =A= 66, _till_ may mean _while_. Here
Jamieson was followed: but there appears to be only one case to cite,
in a single MS. of Barbour’s Brus, where others read quhil. The remark
must be withdrawn, though _while_ might be offered as an emendation,
since it is, for obvious reasons, far more probable than _till_.
=till=, _v._, II, 54, 57: entice.
=timmer=, timber, wooden.
=timouslie=, IV, 53, 1: early.
=tine=, =tyne=, =tayen=, I, 16, =C= 14; II, 70, 30; 313, 21; 336, =O=
8, 9; III, 75, 398; lose. I, 324, =B= 7; IV, 454, 3; 455, 11; 458, 5:
to be lost, perish. I, 115, 11: cause to perish. _pret._ and _p. p._
tint, IV, 18, 20; 127, 14; 165, 15; V, 99 =C= 4: lost.
=tinye=, _n._, a little tinye, V, 51, 69: bit.
=tip=, =tippet= (of horse’s mane), IV, 410, 18, 21; 413, 13:==tate,
lock.
=tirl at the pin=, trill, rattle, at that part of the door-fastening
which lifts the latch. See =pin=.
=tit=, V, 125, 9: quick pull.
=tithyngus=, III, 98, 40-42: tidings.
=tittles and tattles=, I, 302, =B= 7: tits, bits.
=to=, III, 110, 14, 16: two.
=to=, till.
=tobreke=, _subj._, I, 243, 6: break, burst (apart), _p. p._ to-broke,
broken up.
=tocher=, =toucher=, =tougher=, =taucher=, _n._ See =toucher=.
=to-clouted= (gowne), III, 179 a: with patches set to it.
=tod=, I, 355, 44; IV, 193, 11; 194, 4; 196, 9; 196, 13, etc.: fox.
=toe from home=, boune, IV, 504, 24: to a place away from? (perhaps
corrupt).
=to-hande=, III, 110, 14: two-hand, two-handed.
=tolbooth=, =tolbuith=, =tollbooth=, III, 482, 18; 489 f., 9, 10, 15:
prison, jail. That in Edinburgh, III, 385, 12; 386, 12; 389, 14; IV,
508 b, 8; 509, 9 (Towbooth).
=tolde=, III, 59, 67-69; 68, 247: counted.
=to-morne=, I, 328, 57: to-morrow.
=ton=, =tone=, the, III, 296 f., 12, 30: the one. tone, tother, II, 53,
27, 32. the tone, the tother, II, 51, 2. See =tane=.
=tooke=, III, 405, 14: put. See =take=.
=tooken vpon one part=, III, 404, 3: engaged, enlisted, on the same
side.
=toom=, =teem=, I, 72, 17; II, 124, 38; IV, 143, =B= 1, 3, =C= 6; 180,
8; V, 196, 53; 251, 30, 32; 256, 8: empty.
=toomly=, IV, 181, 11: empty.
=toorin=, I, 500, =R= 1-4: cooing. (Imitative, cf. Scott. curr, curroo,
Germ, gurren.)
=too-too=, =to-towe=, III, 217, =b=, =c=, 41: a strong _too_.
=top=, IV, 288, =E= 3: should be _toss_, toast.
=topcastle=, III, 340 f., 32, 58; 344 f., 28, 46; IV, 504 f., 32, 58
(topcasaille)==top. See =topps=.
=topps=, III, 419, 15; IV, 506, 61: “Among seamen tops are taken for
those round frames of board that lye upon the cross-trees, near the
heads of the masts, where they get up to furle or loose the topsails.”
Phillips. A noble ship at III, 419, 15, has five tops.
=tor= (of saddle), IV, 410, 21: pommel.
=tor=, =tore=, II, 323, 11; 334, =M= 2; IV, 480, 8: projection or knob
at the corner of old-fashioned cradles (as also, ornamental balls
surmounting the backs of chairs).
=torne=, III, 112, 56: turn, bout.
=tortyll-tre=, III, 112, 56: corruptly for trystell-tre.
=toss=, IV, 288, =E= 3: toast (as a beauty). (misprinted top.)
=to t’=, III, 439, 4: to the.
=to-towe=, III, 430, 1: too-too, a strong _too_.
=toucher=, =tougher=, =taucher=, _n._, IV, 283 f., 10, 22, 23; 285, 12,
13; 286, 11; 287, 4; 487, 30; 489, 29; V, 267, 12, 13: tocher, dowry.
=toucher=, _v._, IV, 284, 23: pay a dowry to.
=touchered=, V, 224, 11: dowered.
=toun=, =town=, IV, 200, 19; 201, 11; 202, =K= 5; 203, 13; V, 228, 27:
a farmer’s steading or place (or, a small collection of houses). V,
267, 7: perhaps simply house.
=toun-head=, V, 267, 11: centre or principal part of the town.
=tour=, lyin in a tour, IV, 87, 20: continuous route.
=tout=, I, 274, 18: backside.
=touting=, blowing.
=tow=, III, 396, =N= 8; 449 b; V, 125, 9: rope.
=tow=, III, 434, 17, 18; 435, 12: let down by a rope. V, 123, 15, 16:
draw up and let down.
=towbooth=. See =tolbooth=.
=toweld=, II, 194, 22: twilled (?).
=town.= See =toun=.
=tows=, went to the, IV, 380, 8: tows==touts, drinking-bouts, fell to
drinking (in contrast to Allan, who went to pray. _Tows_ cannot be
ropes; they had not gone aboard the ship).
=trace=, II, 479, 16: track, path, way.
=trachled=, V, 169, 9: tired out.
=trade=, II, 454, 37: should be train, as in 445, 62; 450, 67.
=train=, IV, 107, 1, 13, 15: company.
=train(e)=, II, 445, 62; 450, 67: training.
=traitorye=, III, 411, 2: treachery.
=tralled=, V, 274, 10: trailed (had rather have married A. and have
trailed).
=trance=, II, 468 f., 18, 22; V, 268, 7: passage in a house.
=tranckled=, I, 284, 10: travelled. (Dutch trantelen, tranten, tarde
progredi; morari. Hexham, to go lazily, at a soft pace.)
=trap=, a doublet of trip. trip for trap, II, 328, 17: tripping.
=trapand=, _p. p._, (of horse) IV, 44, 4: treacherously dealt with.
=trappin=, IV, 342, 12: tape.
=trattles=, II, 152, 5: tattles.
=travisse=, II, 92, 20: (a frame for confining cavalry horses) horse’s
stall.
=trawale=, III, 41 a: travail, operations.
=tray=, =tree= (A. S. trega), injury, suffering, grief, vexation. tene
and traye, I, 328, 40; tray and tene, III, 66, 218: grief and vexation,
tree and teene, III, 412, 22: grief and injury. (tregan and téonan,
Genesis, 2274.)
=tray=, try.
=tread=, =tred=, _pret._ of tread, II, 160, 5, 6; 165, 9; 171, 10, 12;
IV, 468, 3, 4. _p. p._, IV, 128, 19.
=treasonie=, II, 344, 14: treason.
=tree=, =tre=, I, 343, 42; 345, 40; II, 218, 19; III, 23, 26; 309, 44:
wood. I, 465, 2; 473, 4: pole, shaft of a cart. I, 341, 21; 344, 20;
III, 25, 59; 29, 154; 63, 147; 97, 4: the cross. III, 160, 22, 25; 161,
42; 162, 55, 62; 163, 78; 267, 9; 268, 8; 270, =D= 8; 271, =F= 10:
staff, straight piece of rough wood. crooked tree, III, 160, 18: bow.
trenchen tree, III, 164, 91: truncheon, cudgel, staff. of (a) myghttë
tre, III, 308 f., 27, 42: of strong wood. a trusti tree, III, 309, 40:
perhaps shaft; but the _a_ is likely to be _of_, as Professor Skeat
suggests, and the meaning, of trusty wood (cf. 44, bowe made off trusti
tree). horse of tree, III, 478, 13: bridge, or, at least, tree-trunk.
=tree=, III, 412, 22. See =tray=.
=trenchen tree=, III, 164, 91: truncheon, cudgel, staff.
=trew=, =true=, II, 384, 20, 21; III, 474, 45: trow, believe.
=trews=, =trues=, IV, 157, 18, 19; 267, 7; 272, 3; V, 165, 1; 267 a, 6;
306, 1: trousers.
=treyffe=, III, 113, 81: thrive.
=triest=, =trist=. See =tryst=.
=trinkle=, I, 497, 15; II, 197, 17; 209, =D= 7; 290, 25; 326, 11; 411,
=B= 17; IV, 236, 5; 409, 6; 487, 27: trickle.
=trip for trap=, came down the stair, in, 328, 17: tripping, trip-trap
(trap, a doublet of trip).
=tristil-tre=, III, 98, 37. See =trystell-tre=.
=troule=, V, 84, 13: go round (of a bowl of ale).
=trow=, =trew=, =true=, believe, suppose. I trow, I, 104, =c= 13:
assuredly.
=trowt=, =trowet=, III, 110, 23, 26: troth.
=truce=, my petticoat, IV, 288, =E= 2: put in a trouss, tuck or fold,
to shorten.
=true=, days of, III, 352 a: (singular of truce, trews, pledges of good
faith) truce.
=true=, IV, 486 f., 5, 21; 491, 5: trow. See =trew=.
=true-love=, lover, betrothed lover (often not to be distinguished from
true love), _passim_.
=trues=, trousers. See =trews=.
=truff=, II, 144 f., 14, 24: turf.
=trust=, II, 307, 34; 379, 4; IV, 494, 37; V, 38, 5: trow, believe,
suppose (of the things one would rather not believe).
=truste=, III, 66, 207: trusty.
=trusty tree=, III, 92, 8; 116 f., 2, 21; 200, 37; V, 75, 4: an
obvious corruption of trystill-tree, a tree appointed for a meeting or
assemblage. (Trusty also in later copies of Adam Bell and the Gest for
trysty, trystell, which see.)
=trusyd=, III, 13, 9: trussed, bound up.
=tryst=, =tryste=, _n._, I, 394, =A= 1; 395, 1; IV, 2, 4, 6:
appointment to meet. IV, 413, 7; 414, 3, 4: appointment for wedding. I,
326, 18: market.
=tryst=, =tri(e)st=, _v._, I, 314, 1; II, 270, 3; 272, 4; IV, 201, 8;
V, 171, 4: engage, induce, entice, to come, go with. II, 294, 13; IV,
194, 6; 198, 8; 200, 19; 201, 11; 202, =K= 5: prepare a way for coming,
cause to come.
=tryst=, _n._ or _v._, IV, 154, 5: appoint a place, or, appointment of
a place.
=trystell-tree=, =trysty-tre=, =trystyll-tre=, =tristil-tre=, III,
69 f., 274, 286; 71, 298; 75, 387; 76, 412: a tree serving for a
meeting-place (of Robin Hood’s band). (In later texts, trusty.)
=trysty tre=, III, 26 f., 95, 98; 27, 102: tree fixed upon for
rendezvous (trusty, trustie in later copies).
=tu=, V, 303 a: to.
=tua=, the tua part, V, 254 =b=, 4: two thirds. But twa part, V, 276,
20, seems to mean second part, half, which we have at IV, 120 =F= 7;
381, 16; that is, it is more likely that an equal share should be
offered.
=tul=, III, 440, 25; til, to. tul a, III, 440, 13: to have.
=turn=, IV, 477, 14; turning o the tune, II, 249, 11; o the note, 250,
13; IV, 477, 13: refrain (owreturn, I, 332, =E=, =F= 7; owreword, II,
254, 8, 9). turnin o the bell, IV, 314, 19.
=turn the wind wi thee=, IV, 379, 6:==take the wine (i.e. wind) fra
thee, V, 275, 5. (The meaning is clear, but whether turn is in actual
use in the required sense I have not ascertained.)
=turning.= See =turn=.
=tust=, IV, 224, 20: tost.
=twa=, two. twa part, see =tua=.
=twafald(-fold)=, oer a tree, staff, II, 461, 19; III, 268, 8: bent
double over a stick. twafald ower his steed, III, 8, 18: doubled, head
hanging on one side, feet on the other. See =twofold=.
=twain=, _v._, part. See =twin=.
=twal=, twelve.
=twalmon=, =twalmont=, twelvemonth.
=twalt=, =twelt=, twelfth.
=twan=, _pret._ of twine, I, 256, 2.
=twatling=, dishes, V, 86, 36: unmeaning, nonsensical, of no account.
=twaw=, two.
=twig=, IV, 31, =B= 6: twitch, pull.
=twin=, =twine=, =twyne=, twin me o my make, twin babe of life, I, 129,
8; 174, 18; 175, =D= 6, 12; 177, 17; 220, =B= 3; 222, 7; II, 218, 16;
IV, 179, =A= 2: deprive. twine a mantle, I, 453, 3; twine me, IV, 154,
5: part with. twin(n) with, I, 175, 4, 5, 10, 11; II, 232, 7, 10, 12;
twin(e) me and my make, etc., I, 127, 14; 128, 11; 350, 15; II, 159,
12, 13 (twain); V, 178, 1: separate. gar twa loves twin (twain), etc.,
I, 56, =B= 9; II, 63, 23; 230, =B= 3, 6: part, _intrans_.
=twine=, coarse linen, duck, crash. for towel, IV, 460, No 47, 1, 2;
shift (contrasted with holland), II, 224, 17. II, 27, 19, 20: canvas.
I, 221, =C= 9; 504, 4: coarse stuff of some kind. Lincoln twine, III,
5, =D= 5; 8, 12; IV, 496, 10, is doubtless the Lincoln green of other
versions, and so simply texture. III, 192, 10: yarn, ropes o silken
twine, IV, 472, 10: twist, shoes of small corded twine, V, 301 b, 3.
=twinkle=, II, 409, 17; 425, =A= 7: trinkle, trickle.
=twinn=, _v._ See =twin=.
=twinn=, part in twinn, I, 432, 3: in twain, in two.
=twirld=, at the pin, IV, 390, =b= 4: tirled, rattled.
=twofold oer a staff=, =threefold oer a tree=, III, 267, 9; the body
being bent double over the staff, the whole presentation is, with the
staff (tree) threefold. Corruptly, III, 188, 6, two foote on a staffe,
the third vpon a tree. See also =twa-fald=.
=tydand=, II, 433, 9: tidings.
=tyde.= See =tide=.
=tyndes=, III, 65, 186: (A. S. tind) tynes, antlers.
=tyne=, I, 17, 11:==tynd, harrow-tooth (harrow-pin, I, 19, 10).
=tyne=, _v._, to lose, to perish. See =tine=.
=tyte=, his backe did from his belly tyte, III, 277, 17: quickly. A
verb of the sense _fall away_ may have dropped out after _did_, and is
at any rate to be understood, unless _tyte_ had that sense. A Scottish
_tyte_, to totter, fall (tyte oer, fall over), is noted by Jamieson.
=tythance=, =tythand(e)s=, =tythyng=, III, 361, =b=, =c= 1; =c= 14, 49;
362, 93; V, 78, 5: tidings.
U
=ugsome=, II, 47, 15: exciting disgust or abhorrence. (Icel. uggr,
fear.)
=ull=, I ull, V, 267, 5: will.
=umber=, I, 331, =C= 2: seems to be the same as thimber (I, 330, =A=
2): massive.
=unbeen=, my barn’s unbeen, IV, 143, =A= 4: not thoroughly closed in
or made tight? (been, well-provided, warm, dry and snug. A bein cask,
watertight, Jamieson.) a house is beind when thoroughly dried.
=vnbethought him=, I, 214, =A= 17 (printed um-); II, 240, 5; V, 15, 16:
bethought himself of.
=unbigged=, IV, 143, =A= 4: unbuilt.
=unco=, _adj._, A. S. uncúð (uncouth, III, 245, 11). unco man, IV, 235,
11: unknown, strange, unco land, ground, I, 182, 1, 3; 324, 4; IV, 410,
10, 11. unco squire, V, 26 f., 25, 36: stranger, unco woman, I, 78, 26:
unfriendly. unco lair (lear), II, 118, 1; 119, 1; 174, 1; 178, 2; III,
385, 1; IV, 411, 1; 467, 1: extraordinary.
=unco=, _adv._, I, 370, 5: unusually, very.
=uncouth=, =vnkowth=, =vnkuth=, =vnketh=, I, 344, 25; III, 245, 11: (A.
S. uncúð) unknown, strange. See =unco=.
=vnder=, Grenwich, III, 358, 78: perhaps, below, further down the
Thames.
=vnder hand=, shott it vnder hand, III, 199, 29; 202, 33; shot under
his hand, III, 204, 26: Dr Furnivall and Mr C. J. Longman suggest,
putting the bow horizontally, in which case you shoot with the arrow
under the left hand, instead of beside it, as in shooting with the bow
vertical. Ascham speaks of an underhand shaft, but without defining it:
“The underhande [shafte] must have a small breste, to go cleane awaye
oute of the bowe; the forehande muste have a bigge breste, to bere the
great myght of the bowe.” Toxophilus, 1545, ed. Arber, p. 126. And
again, as cited by Dr W. Hand Browne, of Johns Hopkins University: “Men
doubt yet, in looking at the mark, what way is best, above or beneth
hys hand”; “a byg brested shafte for hym that shoteth _under hande_,
bycause it will hobble.” Upon which Dr Browne remarks, “As he is here
speaking only of taking aim, under-hand shooting would seem to be done
when the archer raised his bow high, and looked at the mark under the
arrow-hand.”
=under night=, I, 100, 1: in the night.
=vndergoe=, II, 59, 33: undertake.
=undertaking=, be your, IV, 152, 6; 153, =D= 7: will undertake, manage
for you.
=vnfaine=, III, 355, 14: not glad.
=unfriends=, III, 470 b: enemies.
=vngoodly=, III, 322 a: unhandsome.
=vnhappie=, V, 82, 29: ill-conditioned, having bad tricks.
=unhappy=, IV, 64 a: mischievous.
=unhappy=, V, 86, 32: unlucky (as speaking inopportunely). (The _on_ of
_horson_ occasioned the omission of _un-_.)
=unkensome=, III, 495 =B= =b= 7: not to be known.
=unkent=, IV, 435, 12: unknown.
=vnketh=, =vnkouth=, =vnkuth=, III, 56, 6; 57, 18; 66, 209; 79, 6, 18;
82, 6, 18; 85, 6: uncouth, unknown, stranger.
=vnmackley=, II, 59, 30: misshapen. (Scott. makly, well proportioned,
mackerly, Northumberland, shapely. Halliwell.)
=vnneth=, =unneath=, III, 73, 358; 171, 17: with difficulty, scarcely.
=vnready=, V, 81, 10: indirect, or, attended with difficulties.
=unright(e)=, I, 294, 7; III, 339, 5; IV, 503, 5: wrong.
=unruly=, IV, 383, 1: should probably be unseally, as in IV, 378, 1.
=unseally=, IV, 378, 1: unlucky.
=vnsett=, III, 358, 71: surrounded, invested. (A. S. ymbsettan.)
=unshemly=, V, 215, 14: unseemly.
=unthought=, =unthocht=, =onthought lang=, haud, keep, I, 478, 13; 482,
=C b= 16, 20; II, 139, 3; III, 492, 5; IV, 260, 10: keep from thinking
long, wearying, from _ennui_. See =think lang=.
=vnthrift=, V, 81, 16: spendthrift.
=until=, =untill=, I, 221, =D= 3, 4; III, 488, 35, 36: unto, to.
=unto=, IV, 170, 11; 467, 11; V, 262, 19: into, in.
=vnto the same=, I, 284, 12: after the same fashion.
=vntyll=, gates shut them vntyll, III, 25, 52: to, against.
=vnwieldie=, V, 82, 29: unmanageable.
=vowsed=, =uowsed=, V, 79, 14: used, practised.
=vp chaunce=, III, 57, 18; 66, 209: on, for, the chance.
=up stark=, IV, 378, 5; 380, 11: (came, blew) up strong, as still
common, with the like ellipsis, V, 51, 68; 56, 45.
=upgive=, V, 193, 59: avow, acknowledge, own up.
=vpon=, =vppon=, I, 271, 2; 433, 15, 16: on. stay upon, wait upon, III,
450 b: for.
=upper hand=, II, 245, 29: upper tier, above.
=upricht=, I, 473, 3: right out.
=upstart=, II, 54, 56: sprang up.
=us=, I us gar, V, 267, 12: shall, will. See =s=, sign of future.
=used=, V, 85, 23: frequented. used him in her company, IV, 98, =F= 6:
accustomed him to.
=vtter=, III, 361, =b=, =c= 52: outer.
=utuer=, IV, 506, 59. See =beame=.
V
=vain=, streams proud and vain, IV, 204, 8: repetition of proud in the
sense of fierce, etc.
=valiant= (of ladies), V, 119, 1: of worth, estimation.
=value= (of an hour), IV, 514, 15, 16: amount.
=value=, =va(l)low=, _v._, II, 162, =E= 2: think important, make ado
about, stick. vallow not the feed, IV, 36, 3: value, care not for the
feud which will ensue; cf. =B= 3.
=vance=, spak wi a vance, IV, 465, 30: seems to be meant for vaunt.
It is hardly probable that the plural of the old Scottish and English
avant, vaunt (_with avants_) can be intended.
=vanitie=, IV, 300, 2, is nonsense.
=vawward=, III, 284, 14; vanward, III, 285, 21, 34; 333, 27: vanguard,
van.
=veiwe=, =vew=, =vewe=, III, 92, 15: yew.
=velvaret=, IV, 369, 1: meant for velvet; not velveret.
=venie= (?), III, 219 b, note: vein.
=venison=, II, 59, 38: hunting (prerogative of).
=vension=, III, 196, =d= 4: venison.
=vepan=, weapon.
=verament=, III, 308, 26; 333, 26: truly.
=vessell=, _pl._, III, 65, 175, 179, 191: vessels.
=vew=, your vew, V, 86, 40: sight of you.
=vew=, =vewe=, =veiwe=, III, 92, 15; 105, 27; 362, 78: yew. (The v is
not for u. The word is pronounced vewe in Cheshire.)
=vild=, V, 53, 102: vile.
=virgus=, I, 420, 13: verjuice, a kind of vinegar (green juice).
=virr=, I, 183, 16: vigor.
=virtue=, in virtue leave your lammas beds, II, 96, =J= 4: corrupt. Cf.
=B= 1. Dr Davidson suggests, never tae leave your lammie’s, lambkin’s
beds (lammie’s, innocent).
=vo=, =vou=, woe.
=vogie=, IV, 176, 11: vain, merry; no longer have you cause for
self-gratulation, to be demonstratively joyful.
=vones=, I, 334, 6: dwellest.
=voss.= a voss o, IV, 224, 8, 12: comparing =G= 8, 10, 21, =K= 22, the
voice of, this last seems to be meant. Otherwise, a corruption of, it
was a (cf. =A= 11; =C= 15; =D= 17; =E= 19; =H= 11).
=votes=, IV, 114, =C= 2: for voters? probably a corruption.
=vou’s me=, V, 271, 16, 17, wo is me!
=vouch it safe=, III, 75, 381: grant, bestow (safe corrected from
halfe).
=voued=, _pret._, V, 268, 17: viewed.
=vour.= o vour, II, 25, =F= 13: half owre, as in =C= 18.
=vow=, =wow=, IV, 133 f., 12, 15; 136, 21; V, 118, =C= 11: exclamation
of surprise, emphasis, or admiration.
=voyded=, III, 26, 79: made off.
=vue=, _v._, V, 265, 17: view.
=vyld=, wild.
=vytouten nay=, I, 334, 4: without, beyond, denial.
W
=wa=, =wae=, IV, 448 a, 3^d st.: wo.
=waaf=, II, 72, 2: waif.
=wad=, _n._, II, 63, 23; 172, 31, 32: pledge, in security. I, 340, 2;
343, 2; II, 376, 39; III, 455, 10: forfeit.
=wad.= I wad, I, 130, =F= 14, 15, 20: I wot, in a weak sense,
assuredly, truly. See =a=I=, and =wat=.
=wad=, =wade=, I, 71, 55, 56; 74, 76, 77; III, 465, 30; V, 299, 2:
would. See =wads=.
=wad=, =wade=, _v._, IV, 18, 17; 185, 7; 384, 5; 385, 2, 7; 386, 2; V,
219, 23; 275 b, 6; 300, 14: wager. IV, 432, 4, 5: engage (to fight).
=wadded=, I, 272, 11: of woad color, blue.
=wadded=, V, 261, 6: wedded.
=wadding=, =wadin=, II, 131 f., 11, 16, 19, 20; IV, 470, 15-17: wedding.
=wade=, =wad=, _pret._ of wide, wade, II, 97, 12, 13; 283, 4; 461, 10;
IV, 68, 6; 190, 27, 28; 438, 13; 455, 9.
=waders=, IV, 188, 20: miscopied by Skene for mideers, mothers.
=wadin.= See =wadding=.
=wads=, II, 133, =D= 4, 5, 6: wishes (wad, would, treated as a present
tense).
=wae=, =wa=, I, 69, 48; 127, 28; 169, 3; 217, 3, 6; V, 306, 10: wo.
=wae=, _adj._, I, 367, 11; II, 70, 25; 89, 36; 129, 17: unhappy.
=wael=, IV, 443, 5: choice. See =wale=.
=waely=, IV, 59, =d= 3: a rhyme-word for wae, sad.
=waesome=, IV, 369 b: woful.
=waft=, I, 420, 15, 16; 422, 12, 13: weft, woof.
=wafu=, woful.
=wainless=, II, 72, 8: homeless (without a wane, habitation).
=wair=, II, 472, 24: bestow. See =war=.
=wait=, I wait, a wait, wate, IV, 128, 16, 17; 169, 3; 371, 2, 3, 5;
447, 6, 17; 470, 17; 510, =W= 2; 515, 12, 15; 517, 20: I wot, know,
indeed. See =wat=, and =a=I=.
=wait=, IV, 456, 7:=wite, blame.
=wait=, =wayte=, III, 57, 18; 66, 209; 83, 202; 86, 202; 412, 21:
watch, lie in wait, seek an opportunity, to do.
=waith=, steed, V, 176, 18: waif, stray, wandering.
=waitmen=, II, 424, 3: waiting-men (or possibly, wight men, strong men).
=wake=, II, 327, 2, 4, 5: aperture, way. (Icel. vök, aperture,
especially one cut in ice, or remaining in water not completely frozen
over; passage cut for ships in ice; Swed. vak, hole in ice; Dutch vak,
empty space. “In Norfolk, when the ‘broads’ are mostly frozen over, the
spaces of open water are called wakes.” Wedgwood.)
=wake=, I, 107, 5; IV, 446, 5; 447, 5: watch (people set to watch me),
but the reading at I, 107; IV, 447, is probably wrong; cf. I, 108, =B=
4. See =wane=.
=wake=, IV, 141, 12: merry-making, sport.
=wake=, _v._, V, 277, 2: walk.
=wake=, III, 88, 340, is an original misprint.
=waken=, I, 433, 24: waking.
=wakerife.= See =waukrife=.
=wald=, =walde=, I, 334, 6: would.
=wale=, =wael=, =walle=, IV, 265, =A b= 10; 477, 19; V, 256 a, 2:
choice.
=wale=, =weil=, =wile=, =wyle=, I, 428, 14; IV, 169, 5; 300, 12; 461,
19; V, 105, =B= 1: choose.
=wale wight=, I, 490, 13. See =wall wight=.
=walker=, I, 272, 14: fuller.
=wall=, I, 387, 2, 4; 440, 4, 6; V, 206 a, 3: well, spring. The water
at St Johnston’s wall was fifty fathom deep, II, 21, 14: an alleged
deep place in the Tay; cf. 24, 14, there’s a brig at the back o Sanct
John’s toun, it’s fifty fadom deep.
=wall=, green wall sea, green wall wave, V, 275 b, 7, 8: apparently
wave, despite tautology; cf. II, 22, 15, green-waved sea. (haw sea, IV,
379, 10; 380, 19. Prof. Murison informs me that when Mrs Murison sings
the ballad mechanically, or without attention, she invariably sings
haw.)
=walle=, V, 256 a, 2: wale, choice. See =wale=.
=wallourt.= See =wallowt=.
=wallowd=, II, 392, 10: rolled over (?).
=wallowit=, II, 361, 32: withered.
=wallowt=, IV, 127, 3: drooped, grew pallid. was wallourt, IV, 138,
=M=: (misspelt) was pallid.
=wall-wight=, II, 123, 15; 403, 9; III, 10, 23; IV, 392, 11, 12; V, 37,
6; 41, 29, 32 (all from Buchan’s ballads): explained by Donaldson as
waled wight, picked strong men. Donaldson cites _weild wightman_ from
Semple of Beltrees. See =well wight=, =wale wight men=, I, 490, 13.
=wallwood=, swine, II, 299, 16: wild-wood, compare II, 144, 3,
wild-wood steer (unhallowed swine, II, 154, 10).
=walting=, IV, 312, 8: welting, edging.
=waly=, IV, 21, 13: fine large.
=waly=, =wallie=, =wally=, II, 363, 1, line 1; IV, 109 f., 5, 8; 293,
=A= 1, 2, 7, 9 (oh and a waly); V, 195, 8; 197, 9, 10, 11: exclamation
of admiration. O braw wallie, IV, 296, =F= 1: literally, O good, lucky!
or, O good luck! but, as before, an exclamation of admiration.
=waly=, =wally=, II, 363, 1, line 3; IV, 92, 1, 3; 94, 1; 95, 1, etc.:
interjection of lamentation (probably A. S. wá lá!). the wally o’t, IV,
290, =D b= 1: sorrow, pity of it! waly’s my love! V, 208, 1, 2, etc.
=wamb=(=e=), =wame=, II, 130, 2; 183, 24; 189, 27; 195, 33; III, 437,
23: womb. See =weam=.
=wan=, one.
=wan=, dark-colored, pallid, colorless, white. II, 92, 3, 4, 9; 97, 11;
144, 13; 147, 10; 150, 14: dark-colored. II, 74, =E= 6; 79, 28; 185,
33; 187, 16; 399, 2: pallid. wan water (as contrasted with wine), II,
70, 17; 74, =D= 7; 75, 10; 92, 4; 96, =J= 7, 8: colorless. far got ye
that water that washes ye so wan, II, 191, 23: white (ye wad never be
so white, 24).
=wan=, =wane=, _pret._ of win, I, 73, 53; II, 21, 4; 123, 22; III, 474,
32; IV, 180, 7. he wan free, V, 300, 11: got free.
=wan=, _p. p._ of win, IV, 385, 26.
=wand=, II, 146, 13; 147, 14; 150, =E= 9; 151, =G= 4: of (willow)
twigs, staff made of the wand, II, 118, 22 (very nearly verbiage): made
of a rod.
=wane=, I, 334, 7; III, 63, 148: habitation. in my bower there is a
wane, IV, 446, 5: wane, says Jamieson, denotes not only a dwelling (Old
Eng. wone), but “different apartments in the same habitation;” if so,
in my house there is a room, is the sense here. wan, in the wake there
is a wan, IV, 447, 5: should at least be, in the wane there is a wake,
as the rhyme shows, and as we have at 446, 5. In, at the wake there
is a wane, I, 107, 5, wane was meant by Scott to be understood as a
collection of people (wheen). See =wake=.
=wane=, III, 309, 36: “quantity, multitude; a single arrow out of a
vast quantity.” Skeat (quantity as in Chaucer’s wone, see =wheen=).
This is to me quite unsatisfactory, but I have no better interpretation
to offer. Wain, in the sense of a vehicle for a missile, ballista,
catapult, would be what is wanted, but I have not succeeded in finding
a case.
=wanhappy=, IV, 386, 1: unlucky.
=wanna=, did not win, go.
=wannelld=, III, 488, 38: was unsteady, staggered. (A. S. wancol, North
Eng. wankle, unstable, Germ. wankeln.)
=wannle=, IV, 491, 32: agile, vigorous, strong.
=wanny=, II, 261, 8, 9: small wand, rod.
=want=, IV, 196, 3; 268, 17, 22; 357, =B= 7; 358, 17: do without,
dispense with. sae soon as we’ve wanted him, IV, 359, 12: had to do
without. III, 513 b, 2, _pret._: wanted.
=wanton=, III, 452, 1; 453, 1: free and easy, frolicsome. (rantin, 455,
1.) Cf. Wanton Brown (a horse), IV, 17, 1, etc.
=wantonlie=, =-ly=, III, 488, 27; 490, 14: gaily, merrily. rode, lap,
wantonly, IV, 146 f., 8, 38: in easy, spirited style.
=wap=, horse will gie his head a wap, I, 182 f., 8, 14: throw, toss.
=wap=, _n._, coost a wap on horse’s nose, IV, 21, 9: noose.
=wap=, _v._, wrap, lap. wap cloth into ship’s side, II, 27, 19: stuff.
roun ship’s side, 20: wrap. wap halter oer horse’s nose, IV, 17, 4:
lap, twine, perhaps throw.
=wap=, _v._, throw. wappin corn and hay oer to horse, IV, 21, 18:
throwing. wappit wings, II, 139 f., 7, 12, 22: beat, flapped.
=war=, =ware=. be war, ware, a, of, on, I, 273, 37; II, 46, 37; III,
66, 213; 109, 4; 296, 20; 307, 10: be aware, have a sight of. was war
wher, III, 98, 39.
=war=, =waur=, I, 388, =A= 10; 420, 12, 13; 466, 22; II, 417, 6, 9; V,
193, 48: worse.
=war=, =waur=, I, 132, =I= 1; 149, =I= 1; 331, =B= 8: were.
=war=, =ware=, =wair=, I, 431, 3; 478, 7; II, 418, 22; 472, 24; V, 142,
11: expend, bestow. ware my dame’s cauf’s skin on thee, IV, 7, 31; V,
250, 29: apply, use, my wife’s (mother’s) whip.
=waran=, =warran=, =warrand=, =warraner=, =warrant=, III, 430, 15; 435,
=F= 7; 436, 5, 7: sponsor for, security. III, 405, 7; IV, 310, 4 (cf.
=warn=): safeguard.
=ward=, =warde=, III, 404 b; 470 b: defence. III, 72, 332, 337; 449 a;
IV, 11, 18: prison, confinement. enter himself in ward, III, 447 b:
voluntarily go into confinement.
=ward=, IV, 446, 1: _corrupt_. See =weird=.
=warde=, II, 273, 25; 340 b, line 8: forewarn, advise.
=warden=, I, 161, 4; V, 209 a, 4: guardian, tutor.
=warden=, IV, 317, =F= 3, 4: facing, edging (cf. the walting, welting,
of 312, =A= 8).
=warden pies=, III, 216, 35: made of large pears called wardens.
=wardle=, I, 127, 14; V, 214 f., 1, 6: world. wardle’s make, see
=warld=.
=ware=, V, 169, 11: sea-weed, alga marina (used for manure).
=ware=, V, 306, 2, 3: were.
=ware=, _pret._, V, 221, 20: wore.
=ware.= See =war=.
=warison=, =waryson=, III, 100, 74; 297, 43: reward.
=warld=, world. warld’s make, I, 129, 8; 348, 17; 351 f., 40, 54; 353,
=H= 12; wardle’s make, I, 127, 14; warldly, worldly, make, mate, I,
344, 30; II, 118, 6, 7; world’s make, I, 128, 11; 348, 11; wordlye
make, II, 86, 18, 20: world’s, earthly, mate, consort. world’s mait, I,
508, 9.
=warldly.= See =warld=.
=warlock=, II, 220, 11, 12; 223 f., 8, 14; IV, 472 f., 24, 25: wizard.
=warn=, IV, 309, 2, 6: surety, safeguard. Cf. warran, IV, 310, 4, and
see =waran=.
=warn=, _p. p._, IV, 445 b, 2, No 8: warnd (as 446, =b= 2).
=warp=, _v._, I, 312, 8; II, 503, 7: curl, twist.
=warran=, =warrand=. See =waran=.
=warraner.= See =waran=.
=warsle=, _n._, I, 438, =A= 1: wrestle.
=warsle=, =warsel=, _v._, I, 438, =A= 2; 439, 2; 440, 3; 441, 1-3:
wrestle. warsled, I, 56, 14: wrestled, struggled, bestirred herself.
=warslin=, a-warslin, I, 440, 1, 2: a-wrestling.
=warwolf=, I, 311, 15, 16: werewolf, man-wolf, man transformed into a
wolf.
=waryson.= See =warison=.
=wa’s=, ways.
=was.= See =wash=.
=wash.= _pres._ was, I, 494, 7; III, 111, 41. _pret._ weesh, wish,
wush. _p. p._ washen (I, 304, =E= 5; II, 111, 10; V, 102, =B= 15),
wushen, which see.
=wast=, west.
=waste=, I, 349, =F= 9: seems to be nonsense (_ride_ expected).
=wat=, =wate=, =wait=, =watt=, =weet=, =wet=, =wit=, =wite=, =wyte=,
=wis=, =wot=, know. I wat, wate, a wat, a wite, etc., frequently
nothing more than assuredly, indeed: II, 159, 11, 13, 15, 16, 19, 23;
160, 10-16, 18, 19; 161, 12, 13, 17; III, 199, 23; 464 f., 10, 15,
34; 466, 43; IV, 175, =M= 7; 359, 4, 5, 7, etc.; 470, 17; V, 300, 2.
_pret._ wist. _p. p._ wist, west.
=wat=, _pret._ of weet, weit, to wet, I, 17, =D= 6; II, 21, 12, 13; 23
f., =D= 7, =F= 10, etc.; IV, 424, 5. _p. p._, I, 55, =B= 7; II, 23, =E=
8.
=wate=, knew. See =wat=, =wait=.
=wate=, _pret._ of wite, blame, II, 273, 25.
=water=, =water-side=, IV, 7, 25; V, 250, 24, 25: “the banks of a
river, in the mountainous districts of Scotland the only inhabitable
parts.” Scott.
=water-cherry=, II, 186, 18: perhaps a species of cherry used as a
cosmetic.
=water-gate=, IV, 510, 6; V, 250, 12: street leading to the water, way
along the water.
=water-kelpy=, IV, 185, 10: water-sprite.
=water-side.= See =water=.
=water-sluice.= bored nine holes in her water-sluice, V, 142, =f= 5,
should mean in the gate or valve of some vent for water; bored a watery
sluice, or aperture for water, =g= 6, is a more rational reading.
=water-stoups=, V, 91, 7, 8: water-buckets or pitchers.
=wather=, =wither=, =wuther=, V, 107, 3, 5: wether.
=watt=, III, 199, 23: know. See =wat=.
=waught=, I, 299, 14: draught.
=wauk=, walk.
=wauk=, II, 139, 5, 13: watch, be awake.
=wauken=, II, 139, 11, 13: waken. _pret._ waukenit, II, 79, 38: awoke.
=wauken(e)d= =at=, II, 162, 12: tried to waken; perhaps, chid,
expostulated with.
=waukrife=, =wakerife=, IV, 389 b: watchful, wakeful.
=waur=, =war=, I, 5, 13, 18; 422, 17; 475, 44; 476, =J= 6; II, 421, 26;
IV, 26, 4, 5: worse.
=waur=, I, 147, =C= 1; II, 61, 9; IV, 417, 5, 10: were.
=wavers wi the wind=, II, 266, =B= 1: is as restless, changeable (?).
=wawis=, IV, 196, 19: walls.
=way=, I, 4, =A= 13, 16; =B= 8, 9; 5, =D= 4, 9; V, 283, 7, 17: the
Milky Way.
=way.= would I way or would I wight, I, 77, 13; 78, 42: nonsense. See
=weight=. Motherwell conjectures, would I away, or would I wait. See
=wee=.
=waylawaye=, alas.
=ways=, IV, 196, 15: in a direction.
=wayte=, =wait=, III, 57, 18; 66, 209; 83, 202; 86, 202; 412, 21:
look out for; watch, lie in wait, seek an opportunity, to do. _pret._
wayted, III, 72, 331: lay in wait for.
=waythmen=, III, 41 a: hunters. See =wight-men=.
=we=, V, 302 a, 13: with.
=we an E an O me=, =we an E an O an O me=, V, 275 a, 9, 10: these
words have been treated as interjections. It is possible that they are
corrupted from something like, were a’ foald in a yeir to me, III, 370,
9; cf. II, 465, 9.
=wea=, see your body wea, V, 226 b, 7:=wae, suffering? (strange
expression, see II, 305, 7, you red and blue.)
=wead=, would.
=weal=, III, 310, 60: “clench so as to leave marks, mark with
wales”(?). “Perhaps read wringe and wayle.” Skeat.
=weame=, IV, 505, 56: belly. See =wamb=(=e=), =weme=.
=wean=, II, 136 a, 16; III, 253, =R=; 397, =A b= 2: wee an, little one,
child.
=wear.= sare a man a wear, I, 301, 2: sair, supply, a man, of, with,
his wear, clothing.
=wear=, _pret._, V, 221, 21: wore.
=Wearie=, I, 55 f., 3, 4, 6, etc.: the Devil.
=wearied=, =wearit=. See =wearyd=.
=wearifu=, V, 115, 7: tiresome, vexatious, cursed.
=wearin’s wa=, I, 333, 6: wearing his way, growing less and less,
slowly vanishing.
=weary fa=, IV, 389 b: a curse befall.
=weary=, =wearie=, I, 310, 16; II, 131 f., 11, 16; 231, 1; III, 319,
24; IV, 56, =A= 3, =B= 3; 57, =C= 3, 6; 133, =G= 6; V, 16, 1, 2, 5, 8;
192, 25: sad, unhappy, distressed. IV, 44, 6; 290, =B c= 5; 359, 6;
480, 3: vexatious, hateful, horrid, cursed.
=weary=, weary high hat, III, 184, 13: monstrously, deucedly.
=wearyd=, =wearied=, =wearit=, III, 261 f., 8, 10; IV, 128, 5; 132, 8:
troubled, afflicted.
=wearyin for me in=, V, 155, 6: longing to have me indoors.
=weate=, III, 341, 47: corrupt. Possibly, I weate, wit, know.
=weather=, IV, 213, 17, 18: storm of rain or snow.
=wed=, =wedd=(=e=), =wad=, III, 66, 214; 71, 298; 110, 7, 8, 12, 13;
356, 34: pledge, fine, forfeit (ley a wed, 110, 7, 8,=leffe, leave a
wed, 12, 13). sette to wedde, III, 59, 54: put in pledge.
=wed=, _v._, I, 481, 42: wager. See =wad=.
=wed=, proudest wed, III, 4, 5: proudest dressed (from wede)
=wede=, =weed=, II, 28, 28; III, 61, 97; 74, 368, 371; IV, 212, 2, 7;
213, 10, 15; V, 306, 13: clothing, garment.
=wee=, I, 163, =J= 1, 2, etc.; 164, =K= 1, 2, etc.: little. I, 203, 5;
IV, 412, 15; 413, 18; 421, 25: short time.
=wee.= would I wee or would I way, I, 77, 12; 78, 41: would I (stay)
wi (him) or (go) away, is all the meaning this can have. Motherwell
conjectures, would I wait or would I away. See =way=.
=weed.= See =wede=.
=weel=, well. See =well=.
=weel.= the weel gae wi his body, IV, 129, 21, 23-25: prosperity.
=weel=, =well=. weel fa! good luck befall, I, 388, =B= 5. for my weel,
II, 461, 8; 466, 24: well, advantage (461, 9, for my better). Euphemism
for God: weel met thee save! I, 324, 3 (MS. thou); well met ye (you)
save! IV, 455, 4; V, 195, 9; well (weel, weill) may ye (you) save! IV,
195, 13; 198 f., =G= 4, 21. So III, 268, 3^1, originally; the _far
better_ in the line following, is nonsense.
=weel=, =weil=, IV, 517, 19: a pot, deep place, or whirlpool in a river.
=weel that was her own=, II, 73, 20: seems to mean that the roses and
ribbons were indeed hers by right.
=weel-busked=, hat, IV, 199, 9: handsomely adorned.
=weel-fared=, =weel-fart=, =weil-faurit=, etc.: well-favored. See
=fared=.
=weel-worst=, V, 214 a, 1: very worst.
=ween=, II, 132, 21: whimper, whine, lament.
=ween=, heigh a ween and oh a ween (where _a_ may be _I_), II, 504, 27:
exclamation of distress.
=weep=, _n._, V, 241 a, 4, 5: weeping, tears.
=weer=, I, 72 f., 6, 61: weird, fortune.
=weer=, war. See =weir=.
=weesh=, _pret._ of wash, V, 213, 6.
=weet=, II, 293, 13: know.
=weet=, _n._, III, 160, 6; IV, 379, 15: rain, shower of rain.
=weet=, =weit=, _v._, III, 401, 7: wet.
=weetie=, =weety=, IV, 197, 9, 17; 258, 25: rainy.
=weighed more=, II, 455, 57: made more account.
=weight=, IV, 224, 23: wight, strong.
=weight=, was he weel or was he weight, I, 80, 9: nonsense; _weight_
would be wight, strong, etc., which has no pertinency. The same of,
would I way or would I wight, 77, 13. See =way=.
=weil=, =weel=, IV, 182, =G= 8: a pot, deep place, or whirlpool in a
river. weil-head, II, 153, 17: vortex of a whirlpool.
=weil=, =wile=, V, 10, 2: wale, choose. See =wale=.
=weil==well, very. See =well=.
=weir=, =weer=, =were=, III, 480, 9; 491, 6; IV, 432, 14; V, 183, 21:
war.
=weir=, bot weir, I, 140 =N=: without doubt. (Pinkerton.)
=weir-window=, =wire-window=, IV, 44, 10; 46, 11, 7: seems to be a
window grated with iron bars.
=weird=, =wierd=, =weer=, _n._, I, 69, 42, 47; 71, 37; 72 f., 6, 61;
77, 6; 309, =B= 1; 482, =E=: fate, fortune, destiny.
=weird=, _v._, I, 311, 3: destine.
=weird=, I, 107, 1: the reading at this place is compounded from, weird
her a grit sin, IV, 445, 1, and ward her in a great sin, IV, 446, 1;
the reading of IV, 445, would mean, destined, put her in the way of, a
great sin; _ward in_ of the other text does not give an easy sense, and
_ward_ is perhaps a corruption of _weird_.
=weirdless=, III, 391, =H= 3: unlucky.
=weit=, I, 140, =N= (Pinkerton): know.
=welde=, III, 112, 52: would.
=well=, euphemism for God. See =weel=.
=well=, III, 112, 48: will.
=well=, the well o wine gaed in, IV, 428, 16: perhaps wale, choice, the
best; but since the wine was poisoned, this must be meant ironically.
=well=, =weel=, =weil=, very, right. well good, II, 46, 43; III, 132,
5; 478 f., 15, 34; V, 49, 11: very good. weil gaucy, V, 152, 3. well
warst, V, 180, 14, 16; 214 a, 1: very worst. well faire mayde, II, 439,
3, 8, should perhaps be well-fared.
=well and wellsome=, II, 159, 16: should probably be wae and waesome
(sad and woful).
=well o Spa=, IV, 286, 6: a spring to the west of Aberdeen.
=well or wae=, was he well or was he wae, I, 80, 8: whether he liked or
disliked. (The passage is variously corrupted, and the original reading
probably nowhere preserved.)
=well-a-woo=, III, 77, 438: a variety of well-a-way. (A. S. wá-lá-wá.)
=well-bespoke=, V, 149, 9-11: well spoken.
=well-strand=, I, 165, =M= 4; IV, 172, 15; 174, 16: stream from a
spring.
=well-wight=, III, 3 f., 12, 16, 21; 487, 5, 7; IV, 165, 7; 222, 9
(wiel-wight); 428, 4: very strong, sturdy, stalwart; but, sometimes,
brave, see III, 4, 16. See =wall-wight=.
=welt=, _pret._ of wield, III, 74, 366: disposed of.
=welth=(=e=), III, 77, 436: either, simply, his money, or, more
probably, his well-being, his palmy days; so III, 287, 65. III, 295, 5,
6; 296, 15, (rich) booty.
=weme (of ring)=, III, 412, 21: belly, hollow. See =weame=.
=wen=, III, 200, 3: win, get, go. V, 256, 7: _pret._ of win.
=wend=, III, 38, 104: gone (gone, =b=).
=wend=, =went=, V, 80, 42; 81, 14: weened.
=wenion=, with a, III, 138, 11: wanion, a curse, bad luck (waniand,
waning (of the moon). Skeat).
=wenking=, winking.
=went.= See =wend=.
=were=, I, 334, 11: war. See =weir=.
=were=, vulgar English, he were, II, 4, 2; 8, 8.
=werne=, II, 139, 23: were.
=werre=, I, 327, 20: worse.
=werryed=, I, 273, 37: worried.
=werschepyd=, III, 109, 3: showed respect to.
=west=, _p. p._, III, 113, 70: wist.
=west-airt lands=, II, 73, 30: western. See =airt=.
=westlan=, =westlin=, =westryn=, II, 258, 34; III, 431, 20; 435, =E= 7;
IV, 240, 18: western.
=wet=, =wete=, III, 63, 141; 70, 287; 112, 50: know.
=wether=, I, 210, 14; III, 430, 2; 432, 19 (perhaps=whether): whither.
=wex=, =weks=, _n._, V, 283, 11, 21: wax.
=weynde=, III, 297, 41: wend, go.
=wha=, who.
=wha’s= (=whae’s=) =aught=. See =aucht=.
=whall=, white as whall, II, 478, 7: that is, whale’s bone.
=whang=, I, 19, 11; II, 168, =A= 5: thong. In II, 217, 1, 3, lace his
middle with a whang, the reading should no doubt be _band_ as in other
versions.
=whang= (of cheese), V, 115, 8: slice.
=whar=, =whaur=, I, 164, =K= 1, 3, =L= 1, 5: where.
=whas=, whose.
=what an a=, =whaten a=, =whatna=, =whattna=, =whatten=, I, 169, =B= 4;
203, =C= 18; 441, 19; II, 195, 34; III, 433, 2; 434, 2; 453, 12, 13; V,
162, =C= 2: what sort? what (in particular)? what a! So, what for a? V,
160, 3; what like a ? V, 163, 5; 164, =E b= 2.
=wheder=, III, 57, 11: whither.
=wheen=, a wheen blackguards, IV, 67, 5, 6: number, pack, etc.
=whether=, II, 455, 62; III, 92, 26: which of the two.
=whether=, whither.
=whew=, =whue=, =whute=, III, 440, 10: whistle.
=whidderand=, =whithering=, V, 191, 16: (of arrows) whizzing, moving
with a whiz.
=whight.= See =wight=.
=whikety whack=, V, 304, 9: whick-whack (whick, doublet of whack).
=while=, the other, I, 414, 18: the remaining time, henceforth (?).
=while=, I, 232, =A= 2: for a while.
=while=, =whyll=(_e_), II, 223, =F= 1, 2; III, 201, 23, 31; 298, 50,
54; 309, 47: till.
=whiles=, I, 115, =B= 1; =C= 1; 131, =G= 9; 256, 2; II, 470, 59: at
times.
=whiles=, =whilest=, =whileste=, =whilste=, =whyllys=, =the whyles=,
III, 87, 278; 107 b, 7; 357, 38, 45; 358, 83; 361, =b=, =c= 38, 43, =c=
41: while.
=whilk=, IV, 373, 10; 476, 1: which.
=whin=, =whun=, win, fun, II, 116, 10, 18; 117, 4, 12; 360, 5, 7: furze.
=whirpled=, V, 106, =E= 5: evidently whipped, stripped (but I have not
found the word elsewhere).
=whistling= (of ladies moving), II, 386, 19: whisking.
=white bookes=, III, 357, 58: clear of oppressive charges.
=white bread=, II, 88, 15, 16, 22, 23; wheat bread, as in 89, 4; 92, 5,
6 (white meal is contrasted with corn and oats, II, 88, 17, 18). So 96,
=J= 5, 6; fite bread, whit bread, V, 220 f., 6, 7, 9.
=white-fish=, II, 129, 8; IV, 436, 10, 18, 19; V, 122, 1; 124, 1;
274, 10 (fait fish): haddock, cod, ling, etc., as distinguished from
gray-fish, coal-fish; in Banff, as opposed to salmon, trout, herring.
=white-fisher=, IV, 436, 18, 19: one who fishes for haddock, cod, etc.
(as distinguished from salmon).
=white-land=, IV, 213, 14: wheat-land.
=white meal and gray=, II, 261, 12; IV, 494, 29; V, 238, 29: oat-meal
as distinguished from barley-meal (oat-meal and grey, II, 462, 30). But
white meal, II, 88, 17, 18, being contrasted with corn (oats), must
there be wheat.
=white money=, =monie=, I, 464, 7; 471, 11, 12; 473, 12; II, 352 f.,
=E= 5, 7; 473, 7, 8, 14; 475, 13, 14; 476, 10, 13; III, 389, 17, 18,
20, 22: silver.
=white rigs=, IV, 131, 14: of grain (to distinguish from crops which
remain green).
=whithering=, =whidderand=, V, 191, 16; 199 b, 16: whizzing.
=who would=, III, 163, 87: if one would.
=whorle=, V, 116, 10; 118, 4; 119, 7; 120, 5: the fly of a
spinning-rock.
=whue.= See =whute=.
=whummil=, I, 255, 2: wimble, gimlet.
=whun=, =fun=, III, 5, =D= 7; 6, 12: whin, furze. See =whin=.
=whunnie=, IV, 69, 22: covered with whins, furze.
=whute=, =fute=, =whue=, =whew=, _n._ and _v._, III, 125, 29-31:
whistle. 126 =B=, =b= 29-31, whues.
=why=, V, 264, 5: whey.
=whyles=, the whyles, III, 70, 278: while. See =whiles=.
=whyll=(_e_), till. See =while=.
=whyllys=, III, 309, 37: while. See =whiles=.
=wiald=, wield.
=wicht.= See =wight=.
=wicker=, =wigger=, III, 125, 20; 126 f., =b=, =d-f=: willow. (Wycker,
osier. Palsgrave. Swed. and Dan. dialects, vikker, vægger, willow.
Skeat.)
=wicker=, IV, 31, 6: twist.
=wid=, IV, 456, 15: would.
=wide=, I, 55 f., =B= 4, 6, 8; II, 88, 5; 94, 3; 96, =I= 5; IV, 424,
11: wade. (Spelt _wade_, but rhymed with -ide, II, 462, 7; 465, 19;
III, 493, 14.) _pres. p._ widen, IV, 68, 6. _pret._ wade, wad. _p. p._
wooden.
=widifu=, =widdifu=, =widifau=, =widdefu=, IV, 84, 7, 10, 11, 13; 85,
3; V, 253 f., No 203, =D= 2, 8: one qualified to fill a widdie or
halter.
=widna=, =widne=, would not.
=wiel-wight=, IV, 222, 9: bold, stanch. See =well-wight=.
=wierd.= See =weird=.
=wigger.= See =wicker=.
=wight=, =wyght=, =wicht=, =whight=, I, 330 f., =A= 3, =B= 3, =C= 3;
333, 4; II, 409, 16; III, 63, 152; 414, 49: strong; but also, denoting
bodily activity, brisk, as III, 117, 20; III, 63, 148, of John, who has
shot well. III, 27, 97; 65, 195; 75, 389; 78, 448, Adam Bell, Clim, and
William, and Robin Hood’s men are wight young men. III, 91 f., 6, 8,
Guy of Gisborne is a wight yeoman: sturdy. See =well-wight=. wighty,
III, 94, 48, has perhaps caught the y from the word following. See
=wighty=.
=wightdom=, III, 488, 26: weight.
=wightlye=, II, 58, 10: with vigor, or briskness.
=wight-men=, II, 433, 7: waith-men, hunters. (Icel. veiði-maðr, Germ.
weidmann.) See =waythmen=.
=wightsmen=, IV, 432, 1: wechtsmen, winnowers. wecht is “an instrument
for winnowing corn, made of sheep’s skin, in the form of a sieve, but
without holes.”
=wighty=, III, 32, 45, 50; 94, 48; 362, 70:==wight, strong. See =wight=.
=wil=, IV, 472 f., 24, 25: wild, perhaps vile.
=wild=, I, 334, 6: would.
=wild-fire=, III, 281, 12: ignis fatuus. (slack here is marsh.)
=wild-wood swine=, =steer=, drunk as, II, 144, 3, 4; 368, 7: a popular
comparison like, drunk as a dog.
=wile=, vile.
=wilfull=, III, 92, 24, wilfull of my way: (Scottish will, Icel. villr)
astray, lost; _and of my morning tyde_ may be that he does not know the
hour, or, he has lost his time as well as his road. See =will=.
=wile=, =wyle=, =weil=, =wale=, I, 428, 13; 429, 7, 8; II, 344, 12; IV,
287, 14; V, 127, 20, 21; 157, 9: choose.
=will=, _pret._ wald, walde, wad, wade, wild, wid, wud.
=will=, =would=, _ellipsis of_. as muckle guid canvas as wrap the ship
a’roun, II, 28, 22. there’s nane come, win, II, 89, 34; 99 b, 34. So,
II, 26, 11; 375, 23; IV, 131, 13; 379, 11; 380, 7; 381, 8, 10; 382, 13;
V, 177, 9; 184, 38; 276, 14.
=will=, V, 16, 10, 15, 20: bewildered, at a loss what to do. will of
his way, V, 70 b: lost, astray. See =wilfull=.
=willinglye=, I, 272, 22: at will, freely.
=williwa=, IV, 19, =C= 6: wellaway, interjection of (affected)
reluctance.
=willy=, willow.
=wilsome=, IV, 235, 3: erratic, intricate.
=win=, I, 72, 22, 23: whin, furze, gorse. See =whin=.
=win=, =wynne=, =won=, =wonne=, =hay=, III, 295, 1; 299, =B= 1, =C= 1;
V, 243, 1: dry by airing.
=win=, =wine=, =wynne=, =wen=, =won=, make your way, arrive. III, 71,
314; IV, 314, 15: get, go. IV, 189, 2, 4, 6: arrive, get there. win
down, I, 481, 39. win frie, III, 453, 11. lat me win in, II, 148, 25:
get in. win up, I, 368 f., 34, 36, 44, 47: get up. win on, I, 388, A 7:
go on, keep on. win through, I, 21 b, 4: transitively, allow, cause,
to pass through. win to, I, 466, 13; V, 262, 17: get to, arrive at.
_pret._ wan. _p. p._ wone, wan, win, wine, wen.
=win=, _p. p._ of win, I, 101, 15; IV, 189, 15; 220, 3; 446, 17; 467,
8, 9.
=win your love aff me=, II, 207, B 2: detach your love from me.
=wine=, _p. p._ of win, V, 276, 22.
=winder=, I, 430, 1: wonder, wondrous. See =wonder=.
=windie=, II, 362, 3: window.
=windling sheet=, III, 245, B 13: winding-sheet.
=winking=, II, 463, 16: with eye closed as if blind.
=winn=, in your barn, IV, 323, 6: do harvest work generally, dry corn,
etc., by exposing to the air. (unless meant for winna, winnow.)
=winna=, IV, 326, 7: winnow.
=winna=, =winnë=, will not.
=winten=, V, 248, 7: (wanting) without.
=winter=, =wynter=, III, 58, 47; 64, 162; 285, 20: year(s).
=wir=, I, 217, 9: our.
=wire-window.= See =weir-window=.
=wis=, I, 217, 9: us.
=wis=, you wis, IV, 233, 13: know.
=wis=, III, 319, 20, 24; V, 206 a, No 2, 4: was.
=wish=, _pret._ of wash, V, 36, 14.
=wiss=, _n._, I, 420, 12; II, 194, 8: wish.
=wiss=, =wis=, _v._, I, 22, 6, 8; 217, 3; III, 453, 3; IV, 168, =E= 15;
169, 12; 461, 8, 9: wish. _pret._ wist, II, 423, =A= 1; III, 434, 20;
V, 248, 18.
=wiss=, I wiss, III, 223, 10: perhaps for I wot (not i-wiss). wist,
III, 187, 32; 222, 34: know. (I wist, 187, 32==assuredly.)
=wist=, _pret._ of wiss, wish. See =wiss=.
=wiste=, =wist=, _pret._ of wat, etc., I, 243, 6; 334, 6; 368, 23; 413,
37. _p. p._ west, III, 113, 70.
=wit=, =witt=, _n._, III, 393, 22, 23; 419, 8, 12; IV, 509 a, 11; 512,
16, 17: knowledge, information.
=wit=, =wite=, =wyte=, I, 334, 6; II, 307, 34; III, 67, 230; 385, 15,
16; 396, M 8; IV, 98, 2; 221, 5; 508, 10, 11; 513, 6, 7; V, 81, 7; 82,
23: know. _p. p._ wit, IV, 98, 2.
=wite=, I wite, II, 160, 18; IV, 260, 12; 277, 5: I know-indeed. See
=wat=, =wyte=.
=wite=, =wyte=, =witt=, _n._, I, 350, 12; II, 145, 25; 146, 8; 312, 30;
IV, 33, 28; 127, 1; 207, 21; V, 171, 5; 247, 11: blame.
=wite=, =wyte=, _v._, I, 397, 13; II, 271, 19; 273, 25; III, 357, 53:
blame. _pret._ wate, II, 273, 25.
=with=, I, 334, 7: wit, know (orthography doubtful).
=with=, =wyth=, III, 297, 42; 358, 75; 434, 23: by.
=with that=, II, 478, 5; III, 76, 414; V, 298 a: on condition that.
=wither=, =wather=, V, 105, =B= 7, 8: wether.
=witherlands=, =witherlins=, IV, 378, 5; 380, 11: (-lins, -lingis as
in Scottish backlingis, backlins, English sidelins, sidelong; -lands a
corruption of -lins) in a contrary, unwished-for, direction.
=withershins=, II, 318 =a=, 2: (M. H. Germ, widersinnes) in the wrong
direction, in a direction contrary to the usual, or the desired
(contrary to the course of the sun, often, but not necessarily here).
=within me=, lept, III, 127, Play 12: inside of my guard (?).
=withouten=, =withowghten=, I, 425, =f= 9, 10; III, 272, 6; 296, 18:
without. See =wythowtten=.
=witt=, knowledge. See =wit=.
=witt=, _n._, blame, V, 247, 11. See =wite=.
=witted=, V, 132, 2: minded.
=witter=, I, 399, =A b= 8:-wittering, information.
=wittering=, I, 394, 8: information, indication.
=witty=, III, 131, 3: corruption of wight, wighty.
=wo=, =woo=, =woe=, II, 59, 33; 86, 16; 139, 20; III, 23, 23; 27, 101;
70, 297; 97, 19: sad, unhappy. a woe ses me, II, 504, 27: exclamation
of distress; perhaps corruption of, woe is.
=wobs=, I, 305 a, =A= 3: webs (of cloth).
=wod=, =wode=, mad. See =wood=.
=wode=, III, 54, 3: went.
=wode=, V, 283, 9, 19: wood.
=wode-shawe.= grene-wode shawe, greenwood shaw, III, 57, 14; 70, 284;
IV, 427, 1: thicket of the wood. (wood-shaw is of rather frequent
occurrence and Halliwell cites, under the shawe of the wood, Morte
d’Arthur, I, 374).
=wodewale=, =woodwele=, =woodweele=, I, 326, 2; III, 91, 2: wood-lark
(?).
=woe.= See =wo=.
=wol=, _v._, V, 283, 1, etc.: will.
=wolt=, _v._, V, 283, 4: wilt.
=wolwarde=, III, 77, 442: with skin against wool, that is wearing a
woolen fleece directly against the skin.
=won=, =wone=, one.
=won=, I, 18, =I= 1; 174, 1; 246, 1; 299, 6, 17; II, 419, 44, 51; III,
71, 315; IV, 19, =C= 5; 26, 15: dwell.
=won=, =wonne=, =win=, hay, III, 293 a; IV, 432, 1; 499, 1: dry by
airing.
=won=, =win=, I, 464, 15; 506, 7; II, 89, 32; 140, 22; 172, 24; 256,
=K= 2; 407, 12; IV, 242 a; 259, 21, 23: get, go, come, arrive. II, 316,
3, 7; IV, 115, =D= 9: gain, earn. (spelt one, IV, 284, 23; corrected to
win.) _p. p._ wone, V, 276, 20. See =wun=.
=wonder=, III, 411, 2: bewilderment? disaster?
=wonder=, V, 283, 1: wondrous. See =winder=.
=wone=, III, 98, 25: number, plenty.
=wone=, withowtyn, withowt wone, V, 78 f., 9, 23: fail.
=wonige=, I, 334, 7: dwelling. Qy. wonninge?
=wonynge=, wonning, III, 63, 148; 86, 148: dwelling.
=woo=, wool.
=woo.= See =wo=.
=wood=, =woode=, =wode=, =wod=, =wud=, I, 242, 7; 244, 9; 328, 51; 348,
12, 18; II, 183, 26; 242, 30; 245, 27; V, 80, 42: mad.
=woodcock(e)=, III, 199, 27; 201, 31: tropically, fool (from the bird’s
reputation for folly). (A proverb, perhaps.)
=wooden=, _p. p._ of wide, wade, I, 324, =B= 6.
=woodweele=, =wodewale=, III, 91, 2 (MS. woodweete): woodwale,
woodlark? (generally explained as woodpecker; sometimes as thrush,
red-breast).
=woon=, =won=, _v._, III, 146, 16: dwell.
=woone=, III, 358, 77: domicile.
=woot=, V, 82, 26, 41: wolt, wilt.
=word=, att a, I, 411, 9: in short.
=wordie=, III, 269, 12: worthy.
=wordlye make=, II, 86, 18, 20: earthly mate, consort. See =warld=.
=wordy=, IV, 135, 16: worthily.
=worrie=, =worry=, _v._, (of smoke, flame) III, 434, 15; 435, 14; 437,
24; IV, 514, 20: choke.
=worselaid=, V, 217, =H= 2: wrestled.
=worset=, worset lace, III, 11, =J= 1: worsted; _lace_ must be meant
for web; it cannot mean cord, and seems quite out of place.
=worth=, wat sal worth of, I, 334, 11: come, come to pass. wo the
worth, worth the! III, 65, 189; 70, 296; 400, 1: come, be, to thee.
woe worth you, wae worth ye, II, 245, 27; V, 247, 10; 248, 11. wae mat
worth, IV, 236, 28; 428, 6; V, 166, 10; 306, 10: may wo come to.
=wou=, I, 244, 13: how.
=wouche=, III, 308, 26: (A. S. wóh, Scott, wouch) evil, harm.
=would=, _ellipsis of_, II, 375, 23; IV, 131, 13; V, 177, 9; 184, 38;
etc. See =will=.
=wound=, _pret._, II, 148, 4; IV, 15, 19; 392, 19: wounded.
=wow=, I, 101, 20; 299, 8, 10, 12; II, 260 f., 1, 11, 14: exclamation
of distress. IV, 65, 1; V, 272 a, 9: exclamation of admiration,
sorrowful surprise. II, 282 2; IV, 271, =A= 3, 4, 7, 9; V, 197, 6: of
confirmation, (vow!). See =vow=.
=wrack=, ruin.
=wrack=, V, 122, 11: mischief! devil!
=wraft=, I, 424, =b= 12, 13: waft (woof) misspelt.
=wraikit=, III, 427, note ‡: wrecked, destroyed.
=wraith=, wroth.
=wraith=, I, 134, =N= 15; III, 505, 12: apparition.
=wreck=, sea-wreck, IV, 442, 7: whatever is thrown up by the sea.
=wreke=, _p. p._, I, 243, 6: avenged.
=wril=, V, 73 a: a drinking-word, in response to pril.
=wrist=, III, 179, 4; 181, 16; 188, 3: ankle, instep. (Icel. rist,
instep, ristar-liðr, instep-joint; Germ, rist, instep or wrist;
fotwerst, fotwriust, hondriust, Richthofen, Altfriesisches Wörterbuch.)
=writer=, =writter=, IV, 131, 18; 135, 25: scrivener. IV, 180, =D= 2,
3; 181, 3; V, 256 a, 2, 3: attorney (?).
=writhe of=, III, 413, 34: (_pret._ of writhe, twist) twisted off.
=writs= (things written), papers.
=writter.= See =writer=.
=wrobbe=, I, 326, 4: wrabbe, warble? or Scottish wrable, warble,
wriggle? J. A. H. Murray.
=wrocht=, wrought.
=wrocken=, =wroken=, _p. p._, III, 91, 3: avenged.
=wrongeous=, II, 129, 25: unjust.
=wrought=, _p. p._, II, 46, 40: rought, recked.
=wrought=, _pret._, I, 286, 51: raught, reached.
=wrthe=, I, 243, 5: worthy.
=wruched=, I, 286, 47: thrown up (ruck, a heap, to gather in heaps);
perhaps, thrown ashore as wrack (Icelandic rek, originally vrek, reki,
originally vreki, a thing drifted ashore).
=wrye=, I, 326, 4: twist.
=wud=, II, 249, 19: mad. See =wood=.
=wud=, I, 78, 53: would.
=wuddie=, IV, 69, 18: widdie, withy, a rope of willow-twigs.
=wuman=, V, 304 b, 1, 2: woman.
=wun=, _n._, II, 315, =E= 6: wind.
=wun=, _v._, II, 190, 4, 10: win, gain. See =won=.
=wundouten nay=, I, 334, 9: without, beyond contradiction, truly.
=wus=, V, 304 b, 1: was.
=wush=, _pret._ of wash, III, 386, 20; IV, 166, =C= 7. _p. p._ wushen,
I, 490, 22.
=wuther=, V, 304 b, 3, 4: wether.
=wyght=, _adj._, strong, sturdy, active. See =wight=.
=wyȝth=, _n._, V, 283, 14: wight.
=wyld=, III, 307, 6: (like Germ. wild) deer; or, perhaps, an adjective
with noun to be supplied, of which there are several cases in the
ballad.
=wyle=, choose. See =wile=.
=wyled=, they wyled the bonny lassie by, IV, 205, 26: the meaning
cannot be that they (a troop of gentlemen) enticed the lassie aside.
Mr. Forbes suggests, very plausibly, wyled (waled, took) their way past
the lassie.
=wyliecot=, V, 107, 2: under-vest.
=wynd=, alley, lane.
=wynke=, III, 77, 441: shut the eyes.
=wynne=, III, 296, 22: joy, pleasure.
=wynne=, _v._ See =win=.
=wynter=, =winter=, III, 58, 47; 64, 162; 285, 20: year(s).
=wyse in=, V, 156, =B= after 16: show the way in (?), let in.
=wystly=, III, 76, 410: observingly, thoughtfully.
=wyte=, I wyte, I, 332, =G= 3; II, 376, 25; IV, 32 f., 6, 17, 19, 27;
136, 13; 278, 21; 410, 25; V, 299 b, 1, 300, 14, 17, 18: (I know)
indeed, assuredly. II, 307, 34: I know, simply. See =wit=, =wyte=.
=wyte=, _n._ and _v._, blame. See =wite=.
=wyth=, =with=, III, 297, 42; 358, 75; 434, 23: by.
=wythe=, I, 334, 11: wight, strong. (Orthography questionable.)
=wythowtten=, drede, III, 296, 8: without, beyond doubt. withowghten
naye, 296, 18: beyond denial. wythowghten (withouten) stryffe (strife),
295, 2; 299, =B= 2: beyond contestation. See =withouten=.
X
=xal=, I, 242, 8, 9; III, 13 f., 7, 10-12, 14: shall.
=xalt=, III, 13 f., 9, 16, 17: shalt.
=xul=, _sing._ and _pl._, III, 13, 4, 12: shall.
=xuld=, I, 415 b: should.
Y
(See also under =ȝ=, at the end of =G= and =I=.)
=y=, first y, III, 3, 15: ae, one. See =a=, =ae=.
=yad=, III, 483, 5, 9: jade, mare.
=yae=, I, 446, 8, 9: ae, only. II, 183, 17: every. See =a=, =ae=.
=yard=, =yerde=, I, 287, 63; III, 75, 397: rod, stick.
=yard o stane=, I, 466, =B= 23: perhaps, garden stane, something being
meant equivalent to the fountain stane of =A= 23, at which the lady was
christened.
=yare=, =ȝare=, II, 261, 6; III, 98, 24: ready.
=yate=, =yeat=, =yett=, I, 68 f., 23, 69; II, 336, =P= 2; III, 268, 15;
V, 28, 60: gate. ȝates, ȝatis, III, 99, 61, 62.
=yatid=, I, 334, 10: granted. (A. S. géatan).
=ychon=, III, 101, 88: each one.
=ydrawe=, III, 91 a: drawn.
=ydyght=, =idyght=, III, 62, 131, 132: prepared, made, fabricated,
adjusted. III, 75, 392: made ready.
=yeaman.= See =yeman=.
=yeard-fast=, =yird-fast=, II, 88, 11; 94, 8; 97, 15: fixed firmly in
the earth.
=yearl=, II, 191, 20: earl. See =yerl=.
=yeat=, IV, 68, =D= 1: gate. See =yate=.
=yebent=, III, 308, 25: bent.
=yede=, =yeede=, =yeed=, =yed=, =ȝede=, =yode=, =yod=, _pret._ of gang,
gae, go, I, 211, 37; III, 73, 346; 76, 408; 83 and 86, 160; 99, 60;
110, 18; 163, 69: went.
=yee=, III, 297, 39: eye.
=yeen=, I, 333, 2: towards, on.
=ye feth=, i faith.
=yeff=, =yeffe=, V, 79 f., 17, 51, 53, 54: if.
=yeffell=, III, 109, 6; 111, 34: evil, ill.
=yeffor.= See =yeuer=.
=yeft=, III, 70, 295: gift.
=yeldyde=, surrendered.
=yellow-fit=, yellow-foot[ed].
=yeman=, =yeaman=, III, 22, 4; 24, 43; 25, 51; 28, 121; 30, 165, 170;
56, 1, 3, etc.: yeoman.
=yemanr(e)y=, =yemenrey=, =yeomanry=, =yeomandree=, =yeomandrie=,
=yeomendry=, III, 58, 45; 110, 23; 113, 83; 123, 19; 157, 31; 186, 14;
192, 23; 204, 31: class or company of yeomen; what is in accordance
with a yeoman’s principles, idea or character.
=yend=, III, 110, 17: yond, yon.
=yenoughe=, enough.
=yeomanry=, =yeomandrie=, etc. See =yemanr(e)y=.
=ye’r=, V, 306 b, 2: ye are.
=yerde.= See =yard=.
=yerl=, =yerle=, =yerlle=, =yirl=, =yearl=, III, 298, 52, 60; 308, 19;
309, 33; IV, 298, =G c= 11: 354, 7: earl.
=yerly=, III, 307, 7: early.
=yerning=, I, 334, 10: desire.
=ye’se=, ye shall. See =s=.
=yestreen=, II, 20, 7; 21, 7; 22, 6; 23, 7, etc.; V, 299 a, 1:
yesterday even, yesternight. See =streen=.
=yet=, =yett=, I, 204, 11; 207, 20; 465, 11, 15; 472, 17, 18, 21; III,
269, 11; 270, 15: gate. See =yate=.
=yett-pin=, IV, 483 b: bolt, or latch, of a gate.
=yeuer=, =yeffor=, III, 113, 82; V, 79, 33; 80, 52: ever.
=ygeve=, V, 298 a: given.
=yield=, IV, 514, 9: grant, concede.
=yill=, III, 449, 8; IV, 481, 6; V, 99, 9: ale.
=yird-fast.= See =yeard-fast=.
=yirl=, IV, 69, 9: earl. See =yerl=.
=ylk= a, I, 328, 45: each, every. See =ilka=.
=ylke=, III, 61, 95: same. See =ilk=.
=yll=, with grete, III, 26, 90: in much distress.
=ymet=, III, 85, 72: measured.
=ympe tree=, I, 216 a: a grafted fruit tree; here, perhaps, apple, see
I, 340 a.
=ynowe=, III, 113, 80: enough.
=yo=, V, 296 a: you.
=yo=, V, 296 a: your.
=yode=, =yod=, =youd=, _pret._ of gang, gae, go, I, 333, 1; II, 138,
12; 265, 9; 483, 7; III, 110, 25: went. good, III, 464, 4. gude, V,
153, 1. See =yede=.
=yolden=, III, 282 b: surrendered.
=yon=, such a blast as yon, III, 4, 7: that.
=yonders=, III, 187, =b= 13; 193, =b= 17; 259, 16, 17; 264, =A= =b=,
=c= 17: yonder.
=yont=, I, 431, 3; II, 82, 51: beyond. lie yond, yont, II, 82, 49; 168,
12; IV, 345, 11; 494, 40: further off.
=you=, =yowe=, IV, 195 f., 1, 4, 10, 12, 17; 198, =F= 6; 206, 1; 261,
20: ewe.
=youd=, II, 138, 12: went. See =yode=.
=young son=, of a babe just born, I, 183 f., 32, 45, 47; II, 89, 35;
91, 30, 33, 35, =D= 29; 92, 22; 93, 9-12, etc.; called auld son, being
the oldest because the only one, I, 184, 3, 8, 9. See =auld son=, =old
son=.
=yowe-bucht.= See =bucht=.
=yowre=, V, 78 f., 7, 15: our. (But _owre_ twelve times in the same
piece, _howre_ six.)
=y-slaw=, _p. p._ of slay, III, 28, 140.
SOURCES OF THE TEXTS OF THE ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH BALLADS
MANUSCRIPTS.
MS. B. 14. 39, Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, 13th century.
Recently recovered (see V, 288). (No 23.)
Rawlinson MS. D. 328, 15th century (before 1445). Bodleian Library. (No
1.)
MS. F. f. 5. 48, Library of the University of Cambridge, c. 1450. (No
119, =a=.)
One leaf of MS. in Bagford Ballads, vol. i, art. 6, British Museum, c.
1450. (No 119, =b=.)
Sloane MS. 2593, British Museum, c. 1450. (Nos 22, 115.)
MS. E. e. 4. 35, Library of the University of Cambridge, C. 1500. (No
121.)
Rawlinson MS. C. 813, beginning of the sixteenth century. Bodleian
Library. (No 111.)
Cotton MS. Cleopatra, C. iv., British Museum, c. 1550. (No 161, =A=,
=a=.)
MS. Ashmole 48, Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1550, or later. (No 162.)
MS. in York Minster Library, 16th century. (No 167, =C=, IV, 503.)
Cotton MS. Vespasian, A. xxv, British Museum, end of 16th century. (No
178.)
Harleian MS. 293, leaf 52, British Museum, about 1620. (No 161 =A=,
=b=.)
Percy MS., British Museum, Additional MSS, 27879, c. 1650.
Philiphaugh MS. of No 305, Edinburgh, 1689-1708(?). Not now accessible:
printed by Aytoun. A supposed transcript extant among the Philiphaugh
papers is not older than 1848. (V, 191.)
Fly-leaf of a volume printed at Edinburgh, 1670. Laing MSS, Div. II,
358, Library of the University of Edinburgh. (Fragment, V, 202 b.)
Elizabeth Cochrane’s Songbook, Collection of Songs English and Scots,
1730(?). Harvard College Library. (Nos 5, =E=, I, 76; 76, =A=, II, 215;
144, =B=, III, 195; 293, =A=, V, 160.)
Mrs Cockburn’s MS. of No 305, used by Scott, and described by him as
“apparently of considerable antiquity.” Edinburgh. Not now accessible.
(V, 191.)
Bishop Percy’s papers. MS. copies of ballads from Rev. P. Parsons of
Wye, Miss Fisher of Carlisle, Principal Robertson of Edinburgh, the
Dean of Derry, George Paton of Edinburgh, Rev. Robert Lambe of Norham,
Roger Halt, the Duchess Dowager of Portland, and others. In all about
33. 1766-80. Harvard College Library.
David Herd’s MSS, two volumes folio, the second volume duplicating a
portion of the first. 1776. British Museum, Additional MSS, 22311-12.
(See Mr H. L. D. Ward’s Catalogue of Romances, I, 531.[130])
MSS of Mrs Brown of Falkland. 1783-1801.
(1) Jamieson-Brown MS., mostly taken down from the mouth of Mrs Brown
by Professor Scott of Aberdeen about 1783. Laing MSS, Library of the
University of Edinburgh.
(2) William Tytler’s Brown MS. Fifteen ballads, with the airs:
thirteen being revisions of pieces in (1). Presented by Mrs Brown
to W. Tytler in 1783. Described by Anderson in a letter to Percy,
Nichols’s Illustrations, VII, 176 ff. The MS. has disappeared, but,
excepting one, all the pieces it contained are substantially known
from (1) or other sources.
(3) Alexander Fraser Tytler’s Brown MS. Nine ballads sent A. F. T.
by Mrs Brown in 1800; with the airs. Anderson, as above, VII, 179 f.
Aldourie Castle, Inverness-shire.
Sir Walter Scott’s collection, Abbotsford. 1783-1830.
(1) Small folio without title, Library, L 2 (Catalogue, p. 57). Two
fragments.
(2) ‘Scottish Songs,’ 1795. Library, N 3 (Catalogue, p. 104). Seven
ballads with airs and three fragments. All the ballads appear to be
Mrs Brown’s copies altered.
(3) Letters addressed to Sir Walter Scott, 1796-1831. Ballads
enclosed have in most cases been removed, but some seven remain.
(4) ‘Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,’ a folio volume
made up at a recent date from detached pieces to the number of above
eighty.
(5) ‘North Country Ballads’ in a quarto volume with the title
‘Miscellanea Curiosa,’ Library =B= 5 (Catalogue, p. 15).
(6) ‘Miscellanies,’ a folio with one ballad and a fragment.
Glenriddell MS., 1791. In vol. XI of Robert Riddell’s collection
of Scottish Antiquities. (There is an earlier transcript of one of
the ballads in vol. VIII.) Library of the Society of Antiquaries of
Scotland.
MS. described by Scott as the ‘collection of an old lady’s complete
set of ballads.’ In two portions, the first in 53 pages, on paper of
1805-6-7; the second in 10 pages, on paper of 1818. Contains thirty-two
popular ballads and gives the titles of others known to the compiler.
Obtained by Skene of Rubislaw in the north of Scotland (but obviously
not so early as 1802-3 as endorsed by Scott on the cover of the Skene
MS.), turned over to Scott by Skene, and in 1823 by Scott to C. K.
Sharpe. In the possession of Mr Macmath.
Skene MS., nine separate quires, amounting in all to 125 pages, and
containing thirty-six pieces. Almost all of these are found in the Old
Lady’s Collection, from which they appear to have been transcribed,
but with misreadings and changes. 118 pages in the possession of Mr
Alexander Allardyce of Edinburgh; the remainder in the possession of Mr
Macmath.
Pitcairn’s MSS, 1817-25. Three volumes in the writing of Robert
Pitcairn; partly from printed sources. In the possession of the
representatives of Mr James L. Mansfield, Edinburgh.
Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe’s Collection (besides the Old Lady’s MS. and
the Skene MS.). (1) ‘Songs,’ 12mo, in Sharpe’s handwriting. (2) MS. of
32 pages, small 4to, on paper of 1822, not in Sharpe’s hand. (3) MS. of
12 pages, on paper of 1820, not in Sharpe’s hand. (4) An independent
transcript by Sharpe of the pieces entitled by Scott ‘North Country
Ballads.’ (5) Letters from Motherwell to Sharpe, enclosing ballads. (6)
Single copies of ballads, not in Sharpe’s hand. All in the possession
of Mr Macmath.
Motherwell’s MS., 1825 and after. A folio, almost entirely in
Motherwell’s hand, containing, besides some pieces not indexed, 228
indexed ballads. Most of these are from the West of Scotland, but not
a few were given Motherwell by Buchan and are duplicates of copies
which occur in Buchan’s MSS. In the possession of Mr Malcolm Colquhoun
Thomson, Glasgow.
Motherwell’s Note-Book, c. 1826-27. A small octavo containing various
memoranda referring to ballads, including the whole, or a portion, of
several copies. Formerly in the possession of Mr J. Wylie Guild.
Kinloch MSS, 1826 and after. Seven volumes, the fourth being an
interleaved (printed) copy of Kinloch’s Ancient Scottish Ballads with
additions and variations. Vols I, II, III, VII, are almost wholly in
Kinloch’s hand; V, VI are mostly in the writing of James Beattie, John
Hill Burton, and Joseph Robertson. Harvard College Library.
Peter Buchan’s MSS, about 1828. Two volumes, folio. British Museum,
Additional MSS, 29408-9. For a description, see Mr Ward’s Catalogue of
Romances, etc., I, 537.
Mr. David Scott of Peterhead possesses a volume entirely in Buchan’s
writing “which contains all [the ballads] that Buchan ever collected
except some ‘high-kilted’ ones in another volume.” [The two volumes
here mentioned are now in the Child Memorial Library of Harvard
University. The “high-kilted” volume is entitled ‘Secret Songs of
Silence.’]
Joseph Robertson’s MSS, 1829-32. Four small notebooks, one entitled
‘Journal of Excursions;’ another, ‘Adversaria’; also an annotated copy
of The New Deeside Guide [1832]. In the possession of Dr Robertson’s
representatives.
John Hill Burton’s MSS, 1829-30. Mostly in the Kinloch collection,
but his daughter, Mrs Rodger, Aberdeen, has a small volume containing
portions of two ballads.
Alexander Laing of Brechin’s MS., 1829-35. ‘Ancient Ballads and Songs,
etc., etc., from the recitation of old people; never published, 1829.’
Three ballads and a fragment. Harvard College Library.
Robert White’s Papers, 1829 and after. Ballads selected from his
_collectanea_ by Mr White of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Harvard College Library.