_Laich_--low.
_Lair_--burying plot, bed.
_Laith_--loth.
_Lampin'_--taking long steps.
_Lane_--alone; _his lane_, by himself.
_Lapbuird_--lapboard.
_Lapstane_--stone on which a shoe-maker beats his leather.
_Larick_--larch.
_Lave_--the rest, the remainder.
_Lay_ (_turning_)--lathe.
_Leefu' lane_--all alone.
_Leems_--implements.
_Lettergae_--one who gives out the line, the precentor.
_Lettrin_--precentor's desk.
_Leuch_--laughed.
_Liftward_--skywards.
_Limmer_--worthless woman.
_Lint-pot_--pool where lint is washed.
_Lippens_--entrusts.
_Loan, loanin'_--piece of uncultivated land about a homestead.
_Loupin'_--leaping.
_Lowse_--make loose.
_Lozen_--pane of glass.
_Lum_--chimney.
_Lythe_---shelter, lea side.
_Marrow_--match, equal.
_Mart_--ox killed at Martinmas for winter use.
_Mawkin_--hare.
_Mear_--mare.
_Mint_--aim, intention.
_Mirk_--darkness.
_Mith_--might.
_Muggins_--boot hose.
_Monyfaulds_--entrails, the part which consists of many folds.
_Moss_--moor where peats are dug.
_Mou'_--mouth.
_Moulter_--multure.
_Mouter_--multure, miller's fee.
_Mull, snuff mull_--box, snuff box.
_Mutch_--head-dress for a woman.
_Mutchkin_--liquid measure.
_Nearhan'_--nearly.
_Neeps_--turnips.
_Neive_--fist.
_Newlins_--newly.
_Nick_--notch.
_Nickum_--mischievous boy.
_Niffer_--to barter.
_Nott_--needed, required.
_Nowt_--nolt, neat cattle.
_O'ercome_--burden.
_Oes_--grand-children.
_Ongauns_--goings-on.
_Ooks, ouks_--weeks.
_Oonchancie_--uncanny.
_Oonfashed_--untroubled,
_Oxter_--arm-pit.
_Panged_--crammed.
_Partan_--common sea crab.
_Pass_--passage.
_Pech_--to pant, to labour in breathing.
_Peer_--match, equal.
_Peerman_--holder for fir candle.
_Pig_--pitcher.
_Pirn_--reel.
_Plisky_--mischievous trick.
_Ploy_--frolic.
_Pock_--bag.
_Pooch_--to pocket.
_Pow_--poll, head.
_Pree'd_--tasted.
_Preen_--pin.
_Prob_--to pierce.
_Puckle_--small quantity.
_Quaich_--drinking cup with two handles.
_Queel_--to cool.
_Queet_--ankle.
_Quern_--stone hand-mill.
_Queyn_--quean, young woman.
_Quirky_--tricky.
_Rant_--quick lively tune.
_Rantree_--rowan tree, mountain ash.
_Rape_--rope, especially one made of straw.
_Rax_--to stretch.
_Ream_--cream.
_Redd up_--to clear up.
_Reed_--rood by measurement,
_Reek_--smoke.
_Reemish_--weighty stroke or blow.
_Reeshlin'_--rustling.
_Reets_--roots.
_Reist_--to bank up a fire.
_Rifted_--belched.
_Riggin'_--ridge, roof.
_Roch_--rough.
_Rockins_--evening gatherings for work and gossip.
_Roddens_--rowans.
_Roup_--sale by auction.
_Roupy_--hoarse.
_Routh_--plenty.
_Rotund_--rolled, wrapped,
_Ruck_--rick, stack.
_Ruggin'_--pulling.
_Rung_--heavy staff.
_Runt_--withered hag.
_St. Sairs_--market in Aberdeenshire.
_Sappy_--moist, full of juice.
_Saugh_--willow.
_Scob_--to put in splints.
_Scouk_--evil look.
_Scrat_--scratch.
_Scrunt_--stunted in growth.
_Scunner_--loathing, to disgust.
_Seggit_--sagged, sunk down.
_Seggs_--yellow flower-de-luce or iris.
_Set_--rented.
_Seyed_--put through a sieve.
_Shaltie_--pony.
_Shank_--to knit, knitting.
_Shee_--shoe.
_Shoon_--shoes.
_Shortsome_--amusing, causing the time to seem short.
_Shue_--sew.
_Siccan_--such.
_Sids_--corn husks.
_Simmer_--summer.
_Sizzons_--seasons.
_Skaith_--hurt, injury.
_Skeely_--skilful.
_Skelp_--stroke, blow.
_Skep_--bee hive.
_Skirtit_--ran quickly.
_Skraich_--screech.
_Skreek of day_--dawn.
_Slap_--opening, piece broken out.
_Slee_--sly.
_Slips the timmers_--(metaphor for) dies.
_Slock_--to quench thirst.
_Smorin'_--smothering.
_Snaw-bree_--melted snow.
_Sneck_--latch.
_Sned_--to cut, to prune.
_Snell_--keen, sharp, severe.
_Sonsy_--plump.
_Sooker_--sucker.
_Soorocks_--sorrel.
_Sooter_--cobbler.
_Sornin'_--obtruding on another for bed and board.
_Souff_--to whistle or con over a tune in a low tone.
_Soughin'_--sighing, making a low whistling noise.
_Souple_--supple.
_Spae_--to tell fortunes.
_Spairge_--to bespatter by dashing a liquid.
_Spate_--flood.
_Speel_--to climb.
_Speer_--to enquire.
_Spring_--tune.
_Stachers_--staggers.
_Stance_--place, station.
_Stang_--long pole; (of a trump), tongue of a Jew's harp.
_Starkly_--strongly, bravely.
_Starn_--star.
_Steed_--stood.
_Steek_--stitch.
_Steer_--stir, disturb.
_Stent_--extent of task.
_Stirk_--young bullock.
_Stob_--thorn.
_Stobbit_--thatched by means of a stob or stake.
_Stoitered_--staggered, tottered.
_Stookit_--put into shocks.
_Stoor_--dust.
_Stoorum_--gruel.
_Store the kin_--live, keep up the stock.
_Stot_--bullock older than a stirk.
_Stounds_--aches, acute pains.
_Streek_--stretch.
_Streen_--yesterday.
_Strype_--small rill.
_Studdy_--anvil.
_Swak_--supple.
_Swarfed_--fainted.
_Swatch_--sample piece.
_Sweel_--swill, to wash away.
_Sweer_--lazy.
_Swith_--swiftly.
_Swither_--hesitate.
_Syne_--then, since.
_Tablin'_--top stones on a gable,
_Tack_--lease.
_Tansies_--ragweed,
_Tap_--top.
_Tashed_--fatigued.
_Ted_--toad, applied to children or young women as a term of endearment.
_Teem, toom_--empty.
_Tenty_--careful, attentive.
_Teuch_--tough.
_Teuchat_--lapwing.
_Thackit_--thatched.
_Thewless_--feeble.
_Thiggin'_--to go about receiving supply not in the way of common
mendicants, but rather giving others an opportunity of showing their
liberality.
_Thirled_--bound or enthralled.
_Thoom_--thumb, to massage with the thumbs.
_Thrang_--throng.
_Thrapple_--throat.
_Thrave_--two stocks or sheaves.
_Thraw_--twist, sprain.
_Thrawcruik_--implement for twisting straw ropes.
_Threeve_--throve.
_Thrums_--ends of yarn; _span her thrums_--purred.
_Timmer_--timber.
_Tint_--lost.
_Tirl_--act of vibrating.
_Tirl the sneck_--twirl the handle of the latch.
_Tirr_--to strip forcibly.
_Tittit the tow_--pulled the bell-rope.
_Toom_--empty.
_Tocher_--dowry.
_Tod_--fox.
_Towmond_--twelvemonth.
_Trail the rape_--Hallowe'en spell which consisted in dragging a straw
rope of peculiar make round the house.
_Trams_--shafts, as of a cart.
_Trauchled_--draggled.
_Travise_--division between stalls.
_Troke_--barter.
_Truff_--turf.
_Trump_--Jew's harp.
_Tulzie_--quarrel.
_Tweezlock_--another name for thrawcruik.
_Tyauve_ (_wi' a_)--with great difficulty.
_Unco_--strange, uncommon.
_Virr_--force, impetuosity.
_Vratches_--wretches.
_Vreetin'_--writing.
_Vricht_--wright.
_Wadset_--to mortgage.
_Waled_--chosen.
_Waller_--weller, frequenter of St. Ronan's well.
_Wardly_--worldly.
_Wared_--expended.
_Warslin'_--struggling.
_Waucht_--large draught
_Weet_--wet.
_Weird_--fate, destiny.
_Whaup_--curlew.
_Wheeple_--shrill intermitting note with little variation of tone.
_Whip-the-cat_--tailor with no fixed place of business, who goes from
house to house.
_Whorl_--flywheel of a spindle made of wood or stone.
_Whylock_--little while.
_Wicks o' mou's_--corners of the mouth.
_Winceys_--petticoats made of wincey.
_Wiss_--wish.
_Wuddy_--gallows.
_Wye_--way.
_Yeldrin_--yellow-hammer.
_Yett_--gate.
_Yill_--ale.
_Yird_--earth.
_Yokin'_--working period during which horses are in harness.
_Youkie_--itchy.
_Yowes_--ewes.
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