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OF THE OBSOLETE AND SCOTTISH WORDS

IN

VOLUME THE THIRD.

Such words, as the Reader cannot find here, he is desired to look for in the Glossaries to the other volumes.

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Baud, s. bold.

Bedeene, immediately.
Bedone, wrought, made up.
Beere, s. bier.

*Ben, s. within doors.

Bent, s. long grass; also, wild, fields, where bents, &c. grow. Bereth, (Introd.) beareth. Bernes, barns.

Beseeme, become.

Beshradde, cut into shreds. Beshrew me a lesser form of imprecation.

Besmirche, to soil, discolour.
Blee, complexion.
Blent, blended.

Blinkan, blinkand, s. twinkling.
Blinking, p. 388, squinting.
- Blinks, s. twinkles, sparkles.
Blinne, cease, give over.
Blyth, blithe, sprightly, joyous.
Blyth, p. 113, joy, sprightliness.
Bookesman, clerk, secretary.

Ban, curse. Banderolles, streamers, little Boon, favour, request, petition. flags.

Bore, born.

Bower,

**Of the Scottish words Ben, and But; Ben is from the Dutch Binnen, Lat. intra, intus, which is compounded of the preposition By, or Be, the same as By in English, and of in.

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Bower, bowre, any bowed or arched room; a parlour, chamber; also a dwelling in

general.

Canna, s. cannot.
Carle, a churl, clown.
Carlish, churlish, dicourteous.
Cau, s. call.

Bowre woman, s. chamber- Cauld, s. cold.

maid.

Certes, certainly.

Brae, s. the brow, or side of a Chap, p. 136, knock.

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Vid. Byrtt

lynge. Gloss. Vol. I. Brooche, brouche, 1st, a spit ; 2dly, a bodkin; 3dly, any ornamental trinket, Stonebuckles of silver or gold, with which gentlemen and ladies clasp their shirt-bosoms, and handkerchiefs, are called in the North Brooches, from the f. broche, a spit. Brocht, s. brought. Bugle, bugle-horn, a huntinghorn: being the horn of a Bugle, or Wild Bull, Burn, bourne, brook. Busk, dress, deck.

But if, unless.

* Butt, s. without, out of doors. Byre, s. cow-house.

C.

Can, 'gan, began,

Chevaliers, f. knights.

Child, p. 96, a knight. See Vol. I. Gloss. &c.

Chield, s. is a slight or familiar way of speaking of a person, like our English word fellow. The chield, i. e. the fellow.

Christentie, Christendome.
Churl, clown: a person of low
birth; a villain.
Church-ale, a wake, a feast in
commemoration of the dedica
tion of a Church.
Claiths, s. clothes.
Clead, s. clothed.
Cleading, s. clothing.
Cled, s. clad, clothed.
Clerks, clergymen, literati,
scholars.

Cliding, s. clothing.
Cold, could, p. 41, knew.
Coleyne, Cologn steel.
Con thanks, give thanks.
Courtnals, p. 234.
Cramasie, s. crimson.
Cranion, skull.

Crinkle, run in and out, run
into flexures, wrinkle.
Crook, twist, wrinkle, distort.
Crowt, to pucker up.
Cum, s. come.

Caitiff, a slave,

* But, or Butt, is from the Dutch Buyten, Lat. extra, præter, præterquam, which is compounded of the same preposition By or Be, and of uyt, the same as out in English.

D.

D.

Dank, moist, damp.
Dawes, (Introd.) days.
Deas, deis, the high table in a
hall: from f. dais, a canopy.
Dealan, deland, s. dealing.
Dee, s. die.

Deed, (Introd.) dead.
Deemed, p. 91, doomed, judged,
&c. thus, in the Isle of Man,
Judges are called Deemsters.
Deerly, p. 66, preciously, richly.
Deid, s. dead.

Deid bell, s. passing-bell.
Dell, narrow valley.
Delt, dealt.

Descrye, p. 218, descrive, describe.

Demains, demesnes; estate in lands.

Dight, decked.
Ding, knock, beut.

Din, dinne, noise, bustle.
Disna, s. doest not.
Distrere, the horse rode by a

knight in the turnament. Dosend, s. dosing, drowsy, torpid, benumbed, &c. Doublet, a man's inner garment; waistcoat. Doubt, fear. Doubteous, doubtful. Douzty, doughty.

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Effund, pour forth.
Eftsoon, in a short time.
Eir, s. e'er, ever.
Enouch, s. enough.
Eke, also.

Evanished, s. vanished. Everiche, every, each. Everychone, every one. Ew-bughts, p. 113, or Eweboughts, s. are small inclosures, or pens, into which the farmers drive (Scoticè weir) their milch ewes, morn→ ing and evening, in order to milk them. They are commonly made with fale-dykes, i. e. earthen dykes. Ezar, p. 137, azure.

F.

Fadge, s. a thick loaf of bread; figuratively, any coarse heap of stuff.

Fain, glad, fond, well-pleased.
Falds, s. thou foldest.
Fallan', falland, s. falling.
Falser, a deceiver, hypocrite.
Fa's, s. thou fallest.
Faw'n, s. fallen.
Faye, faith.

Feare, fere, feire, mate.
Fee, reward, recompence; it
also signifies land, when it is
connected with the tenure by
which it is held; as knight's
fee, &c.

Fet, fetched.

Fillan', filland, s. filling.

Find frost, find mischance, or disaster.

use.

A phrase still in

Fit, s. feet.
Five teen, fifteen.
Flayne, flayed.

Flindars,

Flindars, s. pieces, splinters.
Fonde, found.

Foregoe, quit, give up, resign.

Forewearied, much wearied.

Forthy, therefore.

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Fou', Fow, s. full: Item, drunk. Gule, red.

Frae, s. fro: from.

Gyle, guile.

Furth, forth.

H.

Fyled, fyling, defiled, defiling.

Ha', s. hall.

Fyers, (Introd.) fierce.

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Hame, home.

Hauss-bane, s. p. 113, the neck-
bone (halse-bone), a phrase
for the neck.

Hee's, s. he shall: also, he has.
Hey-day guise, p. 259, frolick;
sportive frolicksome manner*.
Heathenness, the heathen part
of the world.
Hem, 'em, them.

Hente, (Introd.) held, pulled.
Heo, (Introd.) they.
Her, hare, their.

Hett, hight, bid, call, command.
Hewkes, heralds coats.
Hind, s. behind.

Hings, s. hangs.

Hip, hep, the berry, which con-
tains the stones or seeds of the
dog-rose.

Hir; hir lain, s. her; herself
alone.
Hole, whole.

Hollen, p. 414, probably a cor-
ruption for holly.

Honde, hand.

Hooly, s. slowly.
Hose, stockings.
Huggle, hug, clasp.
Hyt, (Introd.) it.

*This word is perhaps, in p. 259, corruptly given; being apparently the same with HEYDEGUIES, or HEYDEGUIVES, which occurs in Spenser, and means a "wild frolick dance." Johnson's Dictionary.

I.

Ilfardly, s. ill-favouredly,uglily.
Ilka, s. each, every one.
Impe, a little demon.
Ingle, s. fire.

Jow, s. joll, or jowl.
Ireful, angry, furious.
Ise, s. I shall.

Kame, s. comb.

K.

Kameing, s. combing.

Kantle, piece, corner, p. 66.

Kauk, s. chalk.
Keel, s. raddle.
Kempt, combed.
Ken, s. know.

Kever-chefes, handkerchiefs.
(Vid. Introd.)
Kilted, s. tucked up.
Kirk, s. church.

Kirk-wa, s. p. 301, church-wall:
or perhaps church-yard-wall.
Kirn, s. churn.

Lacke, want.
Laith, s. loth.

L.

Lamb's wool, a cant phrase for ale and roasted apples, p. 235. Lang, s. long.

Lap. s. leaped.

Largesse, f. gift, liberality.
Lee, lea, field, pasture.
Lee, s. lie.

Leech, physician.
Leese, s. lose.

Leffe, (Introd.) leefe, dear.
Leid, s. lyed.
Lemman, lover.
Leugh, s. laughed.

Lewd, ignorant, scandalous.
Libbard, Leopard.

Libbard's-bane, a herb so called.
Lichtly, s. lightly, easily.nimbly.
Lig. s. lie.

Limitours, friars licensed to beg
within certain limits.
Limitacioune, a certain pre-
cinct allowed to a limitour.
Lither, naughty, wicked, p. 88.

Kirtle, a petticoat, woman's Lo'e, loed, s. love, loved.

gown.

Kith, acquaintance.
Knellan, knelland, s. knelling,
ringing the knell.
Kyrtell, vid. kirtle. In the In-
trod. it signifies a man's un-
der garment*.

Lothly, p. 57, (vid. lodlye,
Gloss. vol. II.) loathsome†.
Lounge, (Introd.) lung.
Lourd, lour, s. lever, had rather.
Lues, luve, s. loves, love.
Lyan, lyand, s. lying.
Lystenyth, (Introd.) listen.

* Bale, in his Actes of English Votaries (2d Part, fol. 53), uses the word KYRTLE to signify a Monk's Frock. He says, Roger Earl of Shrewsbury, when he was dying, sent "to Clunyake, in France, for the KYRTLE of holy Hugh the "Abbot there," &c.

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+ The adverbial Terminations -SOME and -LY were applied indifferently by our old writers: thus, as we have Lothly for Loathsome, above; so we have Ugsome in a sense not very remote from Ugly in Lord SURREY'S Version of Eneid II. viz.

"In every place the UGSOME sightes I saw.". Page [29].

M.

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