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. Baud, s. bold. Bedeene, immediately. *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. Blinkan, blinkand, s. twinkling. 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. Bower, bowre, any bowed or arched room; a parlour, chamber; also a dwelling in general. Canna, s. cannot. Bowre woman, s. chamber- Cauld, s. cold. maid. Certes, certainly. Brae, s. the brow, or side of a Chap, p. 136, knock. 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. Cliding, s. clothing. Crinkle, run in and out, run 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. Deed, (Introd.) dead. Deid bell, s. passing-bell. Descrye, p. 218, descrive, describe. Demains, demesnes; estate in lands. Dight, decked. Din, dinne, noise, bustle. knight in the turnament. Dosend, s. dosing, drowsy, torpid, benumbed, &c. Doublet, a man's inner garment; waistcoat. Doubt, fear. Doubteous, doubtful. Douzty, doughty. Effund, pour forth. 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. Feare, fere, feire, mate. Fet, fetched. Fillan', filland, s. filling. Find frost, find mischance, or disaster. use. A phrase still in Fit, s. feet. Flindars, Flindars, s. pieces, splinters. Foregoe, quit, give up, resign. Forewearied, much wearied. Forthy, therefore. 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. Hame, home. Hauss-bane, s. p. 113, the neck- Hee's, s. he shall: also, he has. Hente, (Introd.) held, pulled. Hett, hight, bid, call, command. Hings, s. hangs. Hip, hep, the berry, which con- Hir; hir lain, s. her; herself Hollen, p. 414, probably a cor- Honde, hand. Hooly, s. slowly. *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. Jow, s. joll, or jowl. Kame, s. comb. K. Kameing, s. combing. Kantle, piece, corner, p. 66. Kauk, s. chalk. Kever-chefes, handkerchiefs. Kirk-wa, s. p. 301, church-wall: Lacke, want. L. Lamb's wool, a cant phrase for ale and roasted apples, p. 235. Lang, s. long. Lap. s. leaped. Largesse, f. gift, liberality. Leech, physician. Leffe, (Introd.) leefe, dear. Lewd, ignorant, scandalous. Libbard's-bane, a herb so called. Limitours, friars licensed to beg Kirtle, a petticoat, woman's Lo'e, loed, s. love, loved. gown. Kith, acquaintance. Lothly, p. 57, (vid. lodlye, * 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. + 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. |