_Fissle_, to make a
rustling
noise, to fidget, bustle, fuss.
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_Coost_, did cast.
_Coot_, the ankle, a species of water-fowl.
_Corbies_, blood crows.
_Cootie_, a wooden dish, rough-legged.
_Core_, corps, party, clan.
_Corn't_, fed with oats.
_Cotter_, the inhabitant of a cot-house, or cottage.
_Couthie_, kind, loving.
_Cove_, a cave.
_Cowe_, to terrify, to keep under, to lop.
_Cowp_, to barter, to tumble over.
_Cowp the cran_, to tumble a full bucket or basket.
_Cowpit_, tumbled.
_Cowrin_, cowering.
_Cowte_, a colt.
_Cosie_, snug.
_Crabbit_, crabbed, fretful.
_Creuks_, a disease of horses.
_Crack_, conversation, to converse, to boast.
_Crackin'_, cracked, conversing, conversed.
_Craft_, or _croft_, a field near a house, in old husbandry.
_Craig_, _craigie_, neck.
_Craiks_, cries or calls incessantly, a bird, the corn-rail.
_Crambo-clink_, or _crambo-jingle_, rhymes, doggerel verses.
_Crank_, the noise of an ungreased wheel--metaphorically inharmonious
verse.
_Crankous_, fretful, captious.
_Cranreuch_, the hoar-frost, called in Nithsdale "frost-rhyme. "
_Crap_, a crop, to crop.
_Craw_, a crow of a cock, a rook.
_Creel_, a basket, to have one's wits in a creel, to be crazed, to be
fascinated.
_Creshie_, greasy.
_Crood_, or _Croud_, to coo as a dove.
_Croon_, a hollow and continued moan; to make a noise like the low roar
of a bull; to hum a tune.
_Crooning_, humming.
_Crouchie_, crook-backed.
_Crouse_, cheerful, courageous.
_Crously_, cheerfully, courageously.
_Crowdie_, a composition of oatmeal, boiled water and butter; sometimes
made from the broth of beef, mutton, &c. &c.
_Crowdie time_, breakfast time.
_Crowlin_, crawling, a deformed creeping thing.
_Crummie's nicks_, marks on the horns of a cow.
_Crummock_, _Crummet_, a cow with crooked horns.
_Crummock driddle_, walk slowly, leaning on a staff with a crooked head.
_Crump-crumpin_, hard and brittle, spoken of bread; frozen snow yielding
to the foot.
_Crunt_, a blow on the head with a cudgel.
_Cuddle_, to clasp and caress.
_Cummock_, a short staff, with a crooked head.
_Curch_, a covering for the head, a kerchief.
_Curchie_, a curtesy, female obeisance.
_Curler_, a player at a game on the ice, practised in Scotland, called
curling.
_Curlie_, curled, whose hair falls naturally in ringlets.
_Curling_, a well-known game on the ice.
_Curmurring_, murmuring, a slight rumbling noise.
_Curpin_, the crupper, the rump.
_Curple_, the rear.
_Cushat_, the dove, or wood-pigeon.
_Cutty_, short, a spoon broken in the middle.
_Cutty Stool_, or, _Creepie Chair_, the seat of shame, stool of repentance.
D.
_Daddie_, a father.
_Daffin_, merriment, foolishness.
_Daft_, merry, giddy, foolish; _Daft-buckie_, mad fish.
_Daimen_, rare, now and then; _Daimen icker_, an ear of corn occasionally.
_Dainty_, pleasant, good-humored, agreeable, rare.
_Dandered_, wandered.
_Darklins_, darkling, without light.
_Daud_, to thrash, to abuse; _Daudin-showers_, rain urged by wind.
_Daur_, to dare; _Daurt_, dared.
_Daurg_, or _Daurk_, a day's labour.
_Daur_, _daurna_, dare, dare not.
_Davoc_, diminutive of Davie, as Davie is of David.
_Dawd_, a large piece.
_Dawin_, dawning of the day.
_Dawtit_, _dawtet_, fondled, caressed.
_Dearies_, diminutive of dears, sweethearts.
_Dearthfu'_, dear, expensive.
_Deave_, to deafen.
_Deil-ma-care_, no matter for all that.
_Deleerit_, delirious.
_Descrive_, to describe, to perceive.
_Deuks_, ducks.
_Dight_, to wipe, to clean corn from chaff.
_Ding_, to worst, to push, to surpass, to excel.
_Dink_, neat, lady-like.
_Dinna_, do not.
_Dirl_, a slight tremulous stroke or pain, a tremulous motion.
_Distain_, stain.
_Dizzen_, a dozen.
_Dochter_, daughter.
_Doited_, stupefied, silly from age.
_Dolt_, stupefied, crazed; also a fool.
_Donsie_, unlucky, affectedly neat and trim, pettish.
_Doodle_, to dandle.
_Dool_, sorrow, to lament, to mourn.
_Doos_, doves, pigeons.
_Dorty_, saucy, nice.
_Douse_, or _douce_, sober, wise, prudent.
_Doucely_, soberly, prudently.
_Dought_, was or were able.
_Doup_, backside.
_Doup-skelper_, one that strikes the tail.
_Dour and din_, sullen and sallow
_Douser_, more prudent.
_Dow_, am or are able, can.
_Dowff_, pithless, wanting force.
_Dowie_, worn with grief, fatigue, &c. , half asleep.
_Downa_, am or are not able, cannot.
_Doylt_, wearied, exhausted.
_Dozen_, stupified, the effects of age, to dozen, to benumb.
_Drab_, a young female beggar; to spot, to stain.
_Drap_, a drop, to drop.
_Drapping_, dropping.
_Draunting_, drawling, speaking with a sectarian tone.
_Dreep_, to ooze, to drop.
_Dreigh_, tedious, long about it, lingering.
_Dribble_, drizzling, trickling.
_Driddle_, the motion of one who tries to dance but moves the middle only.
_Drift_, a drove, a flight of fowls, snow moved by the wind.
_Droddum_, the breech.
_Drone_, part of a bagpipe, the chanter.
_Droop rumpl't_, that droops at the crupper.
_Droukit_, wet.
_Drouth_, thirst, drought.
_Drucken_, drunken.
_Drumly_, muddy.
_Drummock_ or _Drammock_, meal and water mixed, raw.
_Drunt_, pet, sour humour.
_Dub_, a small pond, a hollow filled with rain water.
_Duds_, rags, clothes.
_Duddie_, ragged.
_Dung-dang_, worsted, pushed, stricken.
_Dunted_, throbbed, beaten.
_Dush-dunsh_, to push, or butt as a ram.
_Dusht_, overcome with superstitious fear, to drop down suddenly.
_Dyvor_, bankrupt, or about to become one.
E.
_E'e_, the eye.
_Een_, the eyes, the evening.
_Eebree_, the eyebrow.
_Eenin'_, the evening.
_Eerie_, frighted, haunted, dreading spirits.
_Eild_, old age.
_Elbuck_, the elbow.
_Eldritch_, ghastly, frightful, elvish.
_En'_, end.
_Enbrugh_, Edinburgh.
_Eneugh_, and _aneuch_, enough.
_Especial_, especially.
_Ether-stone_, stone formed by adders, an adder bead.
_Ettle_, to try, attempt, aim.
_Eydent_, diligent.
F.
_Fa'_, fall, lot, to fall, fate.
_Fa' that_, to enjoy, to try, to inherit.
_Faddom't_, fathomed, measured with the extended arms.
_Faes_, foes.
_Faem_, foam of the sea.
_Faiket_, forgiven or excused, abated, a demand.
_Fainness_, gladness, overcome with joy.
_Fairin'_, fairing, a present brought from a fair.
_Fallow_, fellow.
_Fand_, did find.
_Farl_, a cake of bread; third part of a cake.
_Fash_, trouble, care, to trouble, to care for.
_Fasheous_, troublesome.
_Fasht_, troubled.
_Fasten e'en_, Fasten's even.
_Faught_, fight.
_Faugh_, a single furrow, out of lea, fallow.
_Fauld_, and _Fald_, a fold for sheep, to fold.
_Faut_, fault.
_Fawsont_, decent, seemly.
_Feal_, loyal, steadfast.
_Fearfu'_, fearful, frightful.
_Fear't_, affrighted.
_Feat_, neat, spruce, clever.
_Fecht_, to fight.
_Fechtin'_, fighting.
_Feck_ and _fek_, number, quantity.
_Fecket_, an under-waistcoat.
_Feckfu'_, large, brawny, stout.
_Feckless_, puny, weak, silly.
_Feckly_, mostly.
_Feg_, a fig.
_Fegs_, faith, an exclamation.
_Feide_, feud, enmity.
_Fell_, keen, biting; the flesh immediately under the skin; level moor.
_Felly_, relentless.
_Fend_, _Fen_, to make a shift, contrive to live.
_Ferlie_ or _ferley_, to wonder, a wonder, a term of contempt.
_Fetch_, to pull by fits.
_Fetch't_, pull'd intermittently.
_Fey_, strange; one marked for death, predestined.
_Fidge_, to fidget, fidgeting.
_Fidgin-fain_, tickled with pleasure.
_Fient_, fiend, a petty oath.
_Fien ma care_, the devil may care.
_Fier_, sound, healthy; a brother, a friend.
_Fierrie_, bustle, activity.
_Fissle_, to make a rustling noise, to fidget, bustle, fuss.
_Fit_, foot.
_Fittie-lan_, the nearer horse of the hindmost pair in the plough.
_Fizz_, to make a hissing noise, fuss, disturbance.
_Flaffen_, the motion of rags in the wind; of wings.
_Flainen_, flannel.
_Flandrekins_, foreign generals, soldiers of Flanders.
_Flang_, threw with violence.
_Fleech_, to supplicate in a flattering manner.
_Fleechin_, supplicating.
_Fleesh_, a fleece.
_Fleg_, a kick, a random blow, a fight.
_Flether_, to decoy by fair words.
_Flethrin_, _flethers_, flattering--smooth wheedling words.
_Fley_, to scare, to frighten.
_Flichter_, _flichtering_, to flutter as young nestlings do when their
dam approaches.
_Flinders_, shreds, broken pieces.
_Flingin-tree_, a piece of timber hung by way of partition between
two horses in a stable; a flail.
_Flisk_, _flisky_, to fret at the yoke.
_Flisket_, fretted.
_Flitter_, to vibrate like the wings of small birds.
_Flittering_, fluttering, vibrating, moving tremulously from place to
place.
_Flunkie_, a servant in livery.
_Flyte_, _flyting_, scold: flyting, scolding.
_Foor_, hastened.
_Foord_, a ford.
_Forbears_, forefathers.
_Forbye_, besides.
_Forfairn_, distressed, worn out, jaded, forlorn, destitute.
_Forgather_, to meet, to encounter with.
_Forgie_, to forgive.
_Forinawed_, worn out.
_Forjesket_, jaded with fatigue.
_Fou'_, full, drunk.
_Foughten_, _forfoughten_, troubled, fatigued.
_Foul-thief_, the devil, the arch-fiend.
_Fouth_, plenty, enough, or more than enough.
_Fow_, a measure, a bushel: also a pitchfork.
_Frae_, from.
_Freath_, froth, the frothing of ale in the tankard.
_Frien'_, friend.
_Frosty-calker_, the heels and front of a horse-shoe, turned sharply up
for riding on an icy road.
_Fu'_, full.
_Fud_, the scut or tail of the hare, coney, &c.
_Fuff_, to blow intermittently.
_Fu-hant_, full-handed; said of one well to live in the world.
_Funnie_, full of merriment.
_Fur-ahin_, the hindmost horse on the right hand when ploughing.
_Furder_, further, succeed.
_Furm_, a form, a bench.
_Fusionless_, spiritless, without sap or soul.
_Fyke_, trifling cares, to be in a fuss about trifles.
_Fyte_, to soil, to dirty.
_Fylt_, soiled, dirtied.
G.
_Gab_, the mouth, to speak boldly or pertly.
_Gaberlunzie_, wallet-man, or tinker.
_Gae_, to go; _gaed_, went; _gane_ or _gaen_, gone; _gaun_, going.
_Gaet_ or _gate_, way, manner, road.
_Gairs_, parts of a lady's gown.
_Gang_, to go, to walk.
_Gangrel_, a wandering person.
_Gar_, to make, to force to; _gar't_, forced to.
_Garten_, a garter.
_Gash_, wise, sagacious, talkative, to converse.
_Gatty_, failing in body.
_Gaucy_, jolly, large, plump.
_Gaud_ and _gad_, a rod or goad.
_Gaudsman_, one who drives the horses at the plough.
_Gaun_, going.
_Gaunted_, yawned, longed.
_Gawkie_, a thoughtless person, and something weak.
_Gaylies_, _gylie_, pretty well.
_Gear_, riches, goods of any kind.
_Geck_, to toss the head in wantonness or scorn.
_Ged_, a pike.
_Gentles_, great folks.
_Genty_, elegant.
_Geordie_, George, a guinea, called Geordie from the head of King George.
_Get_ and _geat_, a child, a young one.
_Ghaist_, _ghaistis_, a ghost.
_Gie_, to give; _gied_, gave; _gien_, given.
_Giftie_, diminutive of gift.
_Giglets_, laughing maidens.
_Gillie_, _gillock_, diminutive of gill.
_Gilpey_, a half-grown, half-informed boy or girl, a romping lad, a hoyden.
_Gimmer_, an ewe two years old, a contemptuous term for a woman.
_Gin_, if, against.
_Gipsey_, a young girl.
_Girdle_, a round iron plate on which oat-cake is fired.
_Girn_, to grin, to twist the features in rage, agony, &c. ; grinning.
_Gizz_, a periwig, the face.
_Glaikit_, inattentive, foolish.
_Glaive_, a sword.
_Glaizie_, glittering, smooth, like glass.
_Glaumed_, grasped, snatched at eagerly.
_Girran_, a poutherie girran, a little vigorous animal; a horse rather
old, but yet active when heated.
_Gled_, a hawk.
_Gleg_, sharp, ready.
_Gley_, a squint, to squint; _a-gley_, off at the side, wrong.
_Gleyde_, an old horse.
_Glib-gabbit_, that speaks smoothly and readily.
_Glieb o' lan'_, a portion of ground. The ground belonging to a manse is
called "the glieb," or portion.
_Glint_, _glintin'_, to peep.
_Glinted by_, went brightly past.
_Gloamin_, the twilight.
_Gloamin-shot_, twilight musing; a shot in the twilight.
_Glowr_, to stare, to look; a stare, a look.
_Glowran_, amazed, looking suspiciously, gazing.
_Glum_, displeased.
_Gor-cocks_, the red-game, red-cock, or moor-cock.
_Gowan_, the flower of the daisy, dandelion, hawkweed, &c.
_Gowany_, covered with daisies.
_Goavan_, walking as if blind, or without an aim.
_Gowd_, gold.
_Gowl_, to howl.
_Gowff_, a fool; the game of golf, to strike, as the bat does the ball
at golf.
_Gowk_, term of contempt, the cuckoo.
_Grane_ or _grain_, a groan, to groan; _graining_, groaning.
_Graip_, a pronged instrument for cleaning cowhouses.
_Graith_, accoutrements, furniture, dress.
_Grannie_, grandmother.
_Grape_, to grope; _grapet_, groped.
_Great_, _grit_, intimate, familiar.
_Gree_, to agree; _to bear the gree_, to be decidedly victor; _gree't_,
agreed.
_Green-graff_, green grave,
_Gruesome_, loathsomely, grim.
_Greet_, to shed tears, to weep; _greetin'_, weeping.
_Grey-neck-quill_, a quill unfit for a pen.
_Griens_, longs, desires.
_Grieves_, stewards.
_Grippit_, seized.
_Groanin-Maut_, drink for the cummers at a lying-in.
_Groat_, to get the whistle of one's groat; to play a losing game, to
feel the consequences of one's folly.
_Groset_, a gooseberry.
_Grumph_, a grunt, to grunt.
_Grumphie_, _Grumphin_, a sow; the snorting of an angry pig.
_Grun'_, ground.
_Grunstone_, a grindstone.
_Gruntle_, the phiz, the snout, a grunting noise.
_Grunzie_, a mouth which pokes out like that of a pig.
_Grushie_, thick, of thriving growth.
_Gude_, _guid_, _guids_, the Supreme Being, good, goods.
_Gude auld-has-been_, was once excellent.
_Guid-mornin'_, good-morrow.
_Guid-e'en_, good evening.
_Guidfather_ and _guidmother_, father-in-law, and mother-in-law.
_Guidman_ and _guidwife_, the master and mistress of the house;
_young guidman_, a man newly married.
_Gully_ or _Gullie_, a large knife.
_Gulravage_, joyous mischief.
_Gumlie_, muddy.
_Gumption_, discernment, knowledge, talent.
_Gusty_, _gustfu'_, tasteful.
_Gut-scraper_, a fiddler.
_Gutcher_, grandsire.
H.
_Ha'_, hall.
_Ha' Bible_, the great Bible that lies in the hall.
_Haddin'_, house, home, dwelling-place, a possession.
_Hae_, to have, to accept.
_Haen_, had, (the participle of hae); haven.
_Haet_, _fient haet_, a petty oath of negation; nothing.
_Haffet_, the temple, the side of the head.
_Hafflins_, nearly half, partly, not fully grown.
_Hag_, a gulf in mosses and moors, moss-ground.
_Haggis_, a kind of pudding, boiled in the stomach of a cow, or sheep.
_Hain_, to spare, to save, to lay out at interest.
_Hain'd_, spared; _hain'd gear_, hoarded money.
_Hairst_, harvest
_Haith_, petty oath.
_Haivers_, nonsense, speaking without thought.
_Hal'_, or _hald_, an abiding place.
_Hale_, or _haill_, whole, tight, healthy.
_Hallan_, a particular partition-wall in a cottage, or more properly a
seat of turf at the outside.
_Hallowmass_, Hallow-eve, 31st October.
_Haly_, holy; "haly-pool," holy well with healing properties.
_Hame_, home.
_Hammered_, the noise of feet like the din of hammers.
_Han's breed_, hand's breadth.
_Hanks_, thread as it comes from the measuring reel, quantities, &c.
_Hansel-throne_, throne when first occupied by a king.
_Hap_, an outer garment, mantle, plaid, &c. ; to wrap, to cover, to hap.
_Harigals_, heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
_Hap-shackled_, when a fore and hind foot of a ram are fastened together
to prevent leaping he is said to be hap-shackled. A wife
is called "the kirk's hap-shackle. "
_Happer_, a hopper, the hopper of a mill.
_Happing_, hopping.
_Hap-step-an'-loup_, hop, step, and leap.
_Harkit_, hearkened.
_Harn_, very coarse linen.
_Hash_, a fellow who knows not how to act with propriety.
_Hastit_, hastened.
_Haud_, to hold.
_Haughs_, low-lying, rich land, valleys.
_Haurl_, to drag, to pull violently.
_Haurlin_, tearing off, pulling roughly.
_Haver-meal_, oatmeal.
_Haveril_, a half-witted person, half-witted, one who habitually talks
in a foolish or incoherent manner.
_Havins_, good manners, decorum, good sense.
_Hawkie_, a cow, properly one with a white face.
