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_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.

_Heapit_, heaped.

_Healsome_ healthful, wholesome.

_Hearse_, hoarse.

_Heather_, heath.

_Hech_, oh strange! an exclamation during heavy work.

_Hecht_, promised, to foretell something that is to be got or given,
foretold, the thing foretold, offered.

_Heckle_, a board in which are fixed a number of sharp steel prongs
upright for dressing hemp, flax, &c.

_Hee balou_, words used to soothe a child.

_Heels-owre-gowdie_, topsy-turvy, turned the bottom upwards.

_Heeze_, to elevate, to rise, to lift.

_Hellim_, the rudder or helm.

_Herd_, to tend flocks, one who tends flocks.

_Herrin'_, a herring.

_Herry_, to plunder; most properly to plunder birds' nests.

_Herryment_, plundering, devastation.

_Hersel-hirsel_, a flock of sheep, also a herd of cattle of any sort.

_Het_, hot, heated.

_Heugh_, a crag, a ravine; _coal-heugh_, a coal-pit, _lowin heugh_,
a blazing pit.

_Hilch_, _hilchin'_, to halt, halting.

_Hiney_, honey.

_Hing_, to hang.

_Hirple_, to walk crazily, to walk lamely, to creep.

_Histie_, dry, chapt, barren.

_Hitcht_, a loop, made a knot.

_Hizzie_, huzzy, a young girl.

_Hoddin_, the motion of a husbandman riding on a cart-horse, humble.

_Hoddin-gray_, woollen cloth of a coarse quality, made by mingling one
black fleece with a dozen white ones.

_Hoggie_, a two-year-old sheep.

_Hog-score_, a distance line in curling drawn across the rink. When a
stone fails to cross it, a cry is raised of "A hog, a hog! "
and it is removed.

_Hog-shouther_, a kind of horse-play by justling with the shoulder; to
justle.

_Hoodie-craw_, a blood crow, corbie.

_Hool_, outer skin or case, a nutshell, a pea-husk.

_Hoolie_, slowly, leisurely.

_Hoord_, a hoard, to hoard.

_Hoordit_, hoarded.

_Horn_, a spoon made of horn.

_Hornie_, one of the many names of the devil.

_Host_, or _hoast_, to cough.

_Hostin_, coughing.

_Hotch'd_, turned topsy-turvy, blended, ruined, moved.

_Houghmagandie_, loose behaviour.

_Howlet_, an owl.

_Housie_, diminutive of house.

_Hove, hoved_, to heave, to swell.

_Howdie_, a midwife.

_Howe_, hollow, a hollow or dell.

_Howebackit_, sunk in the back, spoken of a horse.

_Howff_, a house of resort.

_Howk_, to dig.

_Howkit_, digged.

_Howkin'_, digging deep.

_Hoy, hoy't_, to urge, urged.

_Hoyse_, a pull upwards. "Hoyse a creel," to raise a basket; hence
"hoisting creels. "

_Hoyte_, to amble crazily.

_Hughoc_, diminutive of Hughie, as Hughie is of Hugh.

_Hums and hankers_, mumbles and seeks to do what he cannot perform.

_Hunkers_, kneeling and falling back on the hams.

_Hurcheon_, a hedgehog.

_Hurdies_, the loins, the crupper.

_Hushion_, a cushion, also a stocking wanting the foot.

_Huchyalled_, to move with a hilch.


I.

_Icker_, an ear of corn.

_Ieroe_, a great grandchild.

_Ilk_, or _ilka_, each, every.

_Ill-deedie_, mischievous.

_Ill-willie_, ill-natured, malicious, niggardly.

_Ingine_, genius, ingenuity.

_Ingle_, fire, fire-place.

_Ingle-low_, light from the fire, flame from the hearth.

_I rede ye_, I advise ye, I warn ye.

_I'se_, I shall or will.

_Ither_, other, one another.


J.
_Jad_, jade; also a familiar term among country folks for a giddy young
girl.

_Jauk_, to dally, to trifle.

_Jaukin'_, trifling, dallying.

_Jauner_, talking, and not always to the purpose.

_Jaup_, a jerk of water; to jerk, as agitated water.

_Jaw_, coarse raillery, to pour out, to shut, to jerk as water.

_Jillet_, a jilt, a giddy girl.

_Jimp_, to jump, slender in the waist, handsome.

_Jink_, to dodge, to turn a corner; a sudden turning, a corner.

_Jink an' diddle_, moving to music, motion of a fiddler's elbow.
Starting here and there with a tremulous movement.

_Jinker_, that turns quickly, a gay sprightly girl.

_Jinkin'_, dodging, the quick motion of the bow on the fiddle.

_Jirt_, a jerk, the emission of water, to squirt.

_Jocteleg_, a kind of knife.

_Jouk_, to stoop, to bow the head, to conceal.

_Jow_, to _jow_, a verb, which includes both the swinging motion and
pealing sound of a large bell; also the undulation of
water.

_Jundie_, to justle, a push with the elbow.


K.

_Kae_, a daw.

_Kail_, colewort, a kind of broth.

_Kailrunt_, the stem of colewort.

_Kain_, fowls, &c. , paid as rent by a farmer.

_Kebars_, rafters.

_Kebbuck_, a cheese.

_Keckle_, joyous cry; to cackle as a hen.

_Keek_, a keek, to peep.

_Kelpies_, a sort of mischievous water-spirit, said to haunt fords and
ferries at night, especially in storms.

_Ken_, to know; _ken'd_ or _ken't_, knew.

_Kennin_, a small matter.

_Ket-Ketty_, matted, a fleece of wool.

_Kiaught_, carking, anxiety, to be in a flutter.

_Kilt_, to truss up the clothes.

_Kimmer_, a young girl, a gossip.

_Kin'_, kindred.

_Kin'_, kind.

_King's-hood_, a certain part of the entrails of an ox.

_Kintra_, _kintrie_, country.

_Kirn_, the harvest supper, a churn.

_Kirsen_, to christen, to baptize.

_Kist_, a shop-counter.

_Kitchen_, anything that eats with bread, to serve for soup, gravy.

_Kittle_, to tickle, ticklish.

_Kittling_, a young cat. The ace of diamonds is called among rustics
the kittlin's e'e.

_Knaggie_, like knags, or points of rocks.

_Knappin-hammer_, a hammer for breaking stones; _knap_, to strike or break.

_Knurlin_, crooked but strong, knotty.

_Knowe_, a small, round hillock, a knoll.

_Kuittle_, to cuddle; _kuitlin_, cuddling, fondling.

_Kye_, cows.

_Kyle_, a district in Ayrshire.

_Kyte_, the belly.

_Kythe_, to discover, to show one's self.


L.

_Labour_, thrash.

_Laddie_, diminutive of lad.

_Laggen_, the angle between the side and the bottom of a wooden dish.

_Laigh_, low.

_Lairing, lairie_, wading, and sinking in snow, mud &c. , miry.

_Laith_, loath, impure.

_Laithfu_', bashful, sheepish, abstemious.

_Lallans_, Scottish dialect, Lowlands.

_Lambie_, diminutive of lamb.

_Lammas moon_, harvest-moon.

_Lampit_, kind of shell-fish, a limpet.

_Lan_', land, estate.

_Lan'-afore_, foremost horse in the plough.

_Lan'-ahin_, hindmost horse in the plough.

_Lane_, lone; _my lane, thy tune, &c. _, myself alone.

_Lanely_, lonely.

_Lang_, long; to _think lang_, to long, to weary.

_Lap_, did leap.

_Late and air_, late and early.

_Lave_, the rest, the remainder, the others.

_Laverock_, the lark.

_Lawlan'_, lowland.

_Lay my dead_, attribute my death.

_Leal_, loyal, true, faithful.

_Lear_, learning, lore.

_Lee-lang_, live-long.

_Leesome luve_, happy, gladsome love.

_Leeze me_, a phrase of congratulatory endearment; I am happy in thee or
proud of thee.

_Leister_, a three-pronged and barbed dart for striking fish.

_Leugh_, did laugh.

_Leuk_, a look, to look.

_Libbet_, castrated.

_Lick, licket_, beat, thrashen.

_Lift_, sky, firmament.

_Lightly_, sneeringly, to sneer at, to undervalue.

_Lilt_, a ballad, a tune, to sing.

_Limmer_, a kept mistress, a strumpet.

_Limp't_, limped, hobbled.

_Link_, to trip along; _linkin_, tripping along.

_Linn_, a waterfall, a cascade.

_Lint_, flax; _lint i' the bell_, flax in flower.

_Lint-white_, a linnet, flaxen.

_Loan_, the place of milking.

_Loaning_, lane.

_Loof_, the palm of the hand.

_Loot_, did let.

_Looves_, the plural of loof.

_Losh man_! rustic exclamation modified from Lord man.

_Loun_, a follow, a ragamuffin, a woman of easy virtue.

_Loup_, leap, startled with pain.

_Louper-like_, lan-louper, a stranger of a suspected character.

_Lowe_, a flame.

_Lowin_', flaming; _lowin-drouth_, burning desire for drink.

_Lowrie_, abbreviation of Lawrence.

_Lowse_, to loose.

_Lowsed_, unbound, loosed.

_Lug_, the ear.

_Lug of the law_, at the judgment-seat.

_Lugget_, having a handle.

_Luggie_, a small wooden dish with a handle.

_Lum_, the chimney; _lum-head_, chimney-top.

_Lunch_, a large piece of cheese, flesh, &c.

_Lunt_, a column of smoke, to smoke, to walk quickly.

_Lyart_, of a mixed colour, gray.


M.

_Mae_, and _mair_, more.

_Maggot's-meat_, food for the worms.

_Mahoun_, Satan.

_Mailen_, a farm.

_Maist_, most, almost.

_Maistly_, mostly, for the greater part.

_Mak_', to make; _makin_', making.

_Mally_, Molly, Mary.

_Mang_, among.

_Manse_, the house of the parish minister is called "the Manse. "

_Manteele_, a mantle.

_Mark_, marks. This and several other nouns which in English require
an _s_ to form the plural, are in Scotch, like the words sheep,
deer, the same in both numbers.

_Mark, merk_, a Scottish coin, value thirteen shillings and four-pence.

_Marled_, party-coloured.

_Mar's year_, the year 1715. Called Mar's year from the rebellion of
Erskine, Earl of Mar.

_Martial chuck,_ the soldier's camp-comrade, female companion.

_Mashlum_, mixed corn.

_Mask_, to mash, as malt, &c. , to infuse.

_Maskin-pot_, teapot.

_Maukin_, a hare.

_Maun, mauna_, must, must not.

_Maut_, malt.

_Mavis_, the thrush.

_Maw_, to mow.

_Mawin_, mowing; _maun_, mowed; _maw'd_, mowed.

_Mawn_, a small basket, without a handle.

_Meere_, a mare.

_Melancholious_, mournful.

_Melder_, a load of corn, &c. , sent to the mill to be ground.

_Mell_, to be intimate, to meddle, also a mallet for pounding barley in
a stone trough.

_Melvie_, to soil with meal.

_Men_', to mend.

_Mense_, good manners, decorum.

_Menseless_, ill-bred, impudent.

_Merle_, the blackbird.

_Messin_, a small dog.

_Middin_, a dunghill.

_Middin-creels_, dung-baskets, panniers in which horses carry manure.

_Midden-hole_, a gutter at the bottom of a dunghill.

_Milkin-shiel_ a place where cows or ewes are brought to be milked.

_Mim_, prim, affectedly meek.

_Mim-mou'd_, gentle-mouthed.

_Min_', to remember.

_Minawae_, minuet.

_Mind't_, mind it, resolved, intending, remembered.

_Minnie_, mother, dam.

_Mirk_, dark.

_Misca_', to abuse, to call names; _misca'd_, abused.

_Mischanter_, accident.

_Misleard_, mischievous, unmannerly.

_Misteuk_, mistook.

_Mither,_ mother.

_Mixtie-maxtie_, confusedly mixed, mish-mash.

_Moistify_, _moistified_, to moisten, to soak; moistened, soaked.

_Mons-Meg,_ a large piece of ordnance, to be seen at the Castle of
Edinburgh, composed of iron bars welded together and then
hooped.

_Mools_, earth.

_Mony_, or _monie_, many.

_Moop,_ to nibble as a sheep.

_Moorlan_, of or belonging to moors.

_Morn_, the next day, to-morrow.

_Mou_, the mouth.

_Moudiwort_, a mole.

_Mousie_, diminutive of mouse.

_Muckle_, or _mickle_, great, big, much.

_Muses-stank_, muses-rill, a stank, slow-flowing water.

_Musie_, diminutive of muse.

_Muslin-kail_, broth, composed simply of water, shelled barley, and
greens; thin poor broth.

_Mutchkin_, an English pint.

_Mysel_, myself.


N.

_Na_', no, not, nor.

_Nae_, or _na_, no, not any.

_Naething_, or _naithing_, nothing.