_Skyte_, a
worthless
fellow, to slide rapidly off.
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_Pennie_, riches.
_Pet_, a domesticated sheep, &c. , a favourite.
_Pettle_, to cherish.
_Philabeg_, the kilt.
_Phraise_, fair speeches, flattery, to flatter.
_Phraisin_, flattering.
_Pibroch_, a martial air.
_Pickle_, a small quantity, one grain of corn.
_Pigmy-scraper_, little fiddler; a term of contempt for a bad player.
_Pint-stomp_, a two-quart measure.
_Pine_, pain, uneasiness.
_Pingle_, a small pan for warming children's sops.
_Plack_, an old Scotch coin, the third part of an English penny.
_Plackless_, pennyless, without money.
_Plaidie_, diminutive of plaid.
_Platie_, diminutive of plate.
_Plew_, or _pleugh_, a plough.
_Pliskie_, a trick.
_Plumrose_, primrose.
_Pock_, a meal-bag.
_Poind_, to seize on cattle, or take the goods as the laws of Scotland
allow, for rent, &c.
_Poorteth_, poverty.
_Posie_, a nosegay, a garland.
_Pou, pou'd_, to pull, pulled.
_Pouk_, to pluck.
_Poussie_, a hare or cat.
_Pouse_, to pluck with the hand.
_Pout_, a polt, a chick.
_Pou't_, did pull.
_Poutherey_, fiery, active.
_Pouthery_, like powder.
_Pow_, the head, the skull.
_Pownie_, a little horse, a pony.
_Powther_, or _pouther_, gunpowder.
_Preclair_, supereminent.
_Preen_, a pin.
_Prent_, printing, print.
_Prie_, to taste; _prie'd_, tasted.
_Prief_, proof.
_Prig_, to cheapen, to dispute; _priggin_, cheapening.
_Primsie_, demure, precise.
_Propone_, to lay down, to propose.
_Pund, pund o' tow_, pound, pound weight of the refuse of flax.
_Pyet_, a magpie.
_Pyle, a pyle, o' caff_, a single grain of chaff.
_Pystle_, epistle.
Q.
_Quat_, quit
_Quak_, the cry of a duck.
_Quech_, a drinking-cup made of wood with two handles.
_Quey_, a cow from one to two years old, a heifer.
_Quines_, queans.
_Quakin_, quaking.
R.
_Ragweed_, herb-ragwort.
_Raible_, to rattle, nonsense.
_Rair_, to roar.
_Raize_, to madden, to inflame.
_Ramfeezled_, fatigued, overpowered.
_Rampin'_, raging.
_Ramstam_, thoughtless, forward.
_Randie_, a scolding sturdy beggar, a shrew.
_Rantin_', joyous.
_Raploch_, properly a coarse cloth, but used for coarse.
_Rarely_, excellently, very well.
_Rash_, a rush; _rash-buss_, a bush of rushes.
_Ratton_, a rat.
_Raucle_, rash, stout, fearless, reckless.
_Raught_, reached.
_Raw_, a row.
_Rax_, to stretch.
_Ream_, cream, to cream.
_Reamin'_, brimful, frothing.
_Reave_, take by force.
_Rebute_, to repulse, rebuke.
_Reck_, to heed.
_Rede_, counsel, to counsel, to discourse.
_Red-peats_, burning turfs.
_Red-wat-shod_, walking in blood over the shoe-tops.
_Red-wud_, stark mad.
_Ree_, half drunk, fuddled; _a ree yaud_, a wild horse.
_Reek_, smoke.
_Reekin'_, smoking.
_Reekit_, smoked, smoky.
_Reestit_, stood restive; stunted, withered.
_Remead_, remedy.
_Requite_, requited.
_Restricked_, restricted.
_Rew_, to smile, look affectionately, tenderly.
_Rickles_, shocks of corn, stooks.
_Riddle_, instrument for purifying corn.
_Rief-randies_, men who take the property of others, accompanied by
violence and rude words.
_Rig_, a ridge.
_Rin_, to run, to melt; _rinnin'_, running.
_Rink_, the course of the stones, a term in curling on ice.
_Rip_, a handful of unthreshed corn.
_Ripples_, pains in the back and loins, sounds which usher in death.
_Ripplin-kame_, instrument for dressing flax.
_Riskit_, a noise like the tearing of roots.
_Rockin'_, a denomination for a friendly visit. In former times young
women met with their distaffs during the winter evenings, to
sing, and spin, and be merry; these were called "rockings. "
_Roke_, distaff.
_Rood_, stands likewise for the plural, roods.
_Roon_, a shred, the selvage of woollen cloth.
_Roose_, to praise, to commend.
_Roun'_, round, in the circle of neighbourhood.
_Roupet_, hoarse, as with a cold.
_Row_, to roll, to rap, to roll as water.
_Row't_, rolled, wrapped.
_Rowte_, to low, to bellow.
_Rowth_, plenty.
_Rowtin'_, lowing.
_Rozet_, rosin.
_Rumble-gumption_, rough commonsense.
_Run-deils_, downright devils.
_Rung_, a cudgel.
_Runt_, the stem of colewort or cabbage.
_Runkled_, wrinkled.
_Ruth_, a woman's name, the book so called, sorrow.
_Ryke_, reach.
S.
_Sae_, so.
_Saft_, soft.
_Sair_, to serve, a sore; _sairie_, sorrowful.
_Sairly_, sorely.
_Sair't_, served.
_Sark_, a shirt.
_Sarkit_, provided in shirts.
_Saugh_, willow.
_Saugh-woodies_, withies, made of willows, now supplanted by ropes
and chains.
_Saul_, soul.
_Saumont_, salmon.
_Saunt, sauntet_, saint; to varnish.
_Saut_, salt.
_Saw_, to sow.
_Sawin'_, sowing.
_Sax_, six.
_Scaud_, to scald.
_Scauld_, to scold.
_Scaur_, apt to be scared; a precipitous bank of earth which the stream
has washed red.
_Scawl_, scold.
_Scone_, a kind of bread.
_Sconner_, a loathing, to loath.
_Scraich_ and _Scriegh_, to scream, as a hen or partridge.
_Screed_, to tear, a rent; _screeding_, tearing.
_Scrieve, scrieven,_ to glide softly, gleesomely along.
_Scrimp_, to scant.
_Scrimpet_, scant, scanty.
_Scroggie_, covered with underwood, bushy.
_Sculdudrey_, fornication.
_Seizin'_, seizing.
_Sel_, self; _a body's sel'_, one's self alone.
_Sell't_, did sell.
_Sen'_, to send.
_Servan'_, servant.
_Settlin'_, settling; _to get a settlin'_, to be frightened into quietness.
_Sets, sets off_, goes away.
_Shachlet-feet_, ill-shaped.
_Shair'd_, a shred, a shard.
_Shangan_, a stick cleft at one end for pulling the tail of a dog, &c. ,
by way of mischief, or to frighten him away.
_Shank-it_, walk it; _shanks_, legs.
_Shaul_, shallow.
_Shaver_, a humorous wag, a barber.
_Shavie_, to do an ill turn.
_Shaw_, to show; a small wood in a hollow place.
_Sheep-shank, to think one's self nae sheep-shank_, to be conceited.
_Sherra-muir_, Sheriff-Muir, the famous battle of, 1715.
_Sheugh_, a ditch, a trench, a sluice.
_Shiel, shealing_, a shepherd's cottage.
_Shill_, shrill.
_Shog_, a shock, a push off at one side.
_Shoo_, ill to please, ill to fit.
_Shool_, a shovel.
_Shoon_, shoes.
_Shore_, to offer, to threaten.
_Shor'd_, half offered and threatened.
_Shouther_, the shoulder.
_Shot_, one traverse of the shuttle from side to side of the web.
_Sic_, such.
_Sicker_, sure, steady.
_Sidelins_, sideling, slanting.
_Silken-snood_, a fillet of silk, a token of virginity.
_Siller_, silver, money, white.
_Sin_, a son.
_Sinsyne_, since then.
_Skaith_, to damage, to injure, injury.
_Skeigh_, proud, nice, saucy, mettled.
_Skeigh_, shy, maiden coyness.
_Skellum_, to strike, to slap; to walk with a smart tripping step, a
smart stroke.
_Skelpi-limmer_, a technical term in female scolding.
_Skelpin, skelpit_, striking, walking rapidly, literally striking the
ground.
_Skinklin_, thin, gauzy, scaltery.
_Skirling_, shrieking, crying.
_Skirl_, to cry, to shriek shrilly.
_Skirl't_, shrieked.
_Sklent_, slant, to run aslant, to deviate from truth.
_Sklented_, ran, or hit, in an oblique direction.
_Skouth_, vent, free action.
_Skreigh_, a scream, to scream, the first cry uttered by a child.
_Skyte_, a worthless fellow, to slide rapidly off.
_Skyrin_, party-coloured, the checks of the tartan.
_Slae_, sloe.
_Slade_, did slide.
_Slap_, a gate, a breach in a fence.
_Slaw_, slow.
_Slee, sleest_, sly, slyest.
_Sleekit_, sleek, sly.
_Sliddery_, slippery.
_Slip-shod_, smooth shod.
_Sloken_, quench, slake.
_Slype_, to fall over, as a wet furrow from the plough.
_Slypet-o'er_, fell over with a slow reluctant motion.
_Sma'_, small.
_Smeddum_, dust, powder, mettle, sense, sagacity.
_Smiddy_, smithy.
_Smirking_, good-natured, winking.
_Smoor, smoored_, to smother, smothered.
_Smoutie_, smutty, obscene; _smoutie phiz_, sooty aspect.
_Smytrie_, a numerous collection of small individuals.
_Snapper_, mistake.
_Snash_, abuse, Billingsgate, impertinence.
_Snaw_, snow, to snow.
_Snaw-broo_, melted snow.
_Snawie_, snowy.
_Snap_, to lop, to cut off.
_Sned-besoms_, to cut brooms.
_Sneeshin_, snuff.
_Sneeshin-mill_, a snuff-box.
_Snell_ and _snelly_, bitter, biting; _snellest_, bitterest.
_Snick-drawing_, trick, contriving.
_Snick_, the latchet of a door.
_Snirt, snirtle_, concealed laughter, to breathe the nostrils in a
displeased manner.
_Snool_, one whose spirit is broken with oppressive slavery; to submit
tamely, to sneak.
_Snoove_, to go smoothly and constantly, to sneak.
_Snowk, snowkit_, to scent or snuff as a dog, scented, snuffed.
_Sodger_, a soldier.
_Sonsie_, having sweet engaging looks, lucky, jolly.
_Soom_, to swim.
_Souk_, to suck, to drink long and enduringly.
_Souple_, flexible, swift.
_Soupled_, suppled.
_Souther_, to solder.
_Souter_, a shoemaker.
_Sowens_, the fine flour remaining among the seeds, of oatmeal made
into an agreeable pudding.
_Sowp_, a spoonful, a small quantity of anything liquid.
_Sowth_, to try over a tune with a low whistle.
_Spae_, to prophesy, to divine.
_Spails_, chips, splinters.
_Spaul_, a limb.
_Spairge_, to clash, to soil, as with mire.
_Spates_, sudden floods.
_Spaviet_, having the spavin.
_Speat_, a sweeping torrent after rain or thaw.
_Speel_, to climb.
_Spence_, the parlour of a farmhouse or cottage.
_Spier_, to ask, to inquire; _spiert_, inquired.
_Spinnin-graith_, wheel and roke and lint.
_Splatter_, to splutter, a splutter.
_Spleughan_, a tobacco-pouch.
_Splore_, a frolic, noise, riot.
_Sprachled_, scrambled.
_Sprattle_, to scramble.
_Spreckled_, spotted, speckled.
_Spring_, a quick air in music, a Scottish reel.
_Sprit, spret_, a tough-rooted plant something like rushes, jointed-leaved
rush.
_Sprittie_, full of spirits.
_Spunk_, fire, mettle, wit, spark.
_Spunkie_, mettlesome, fiery; will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus; the devil.
_Spurtle_, a stick used in making oatmeal pudding or porridge, a notable
Scottish dish.
_Squad_, a crew or party, a squadron.
_Squatter_, to flutter in water, as a wild-duck, &c.
_Squattle_, to sprawl in the act of hiding.
_Squeel_, a scream, a screech, to scream.
_Stacher_, to stagger.
_Stack_, a rick of corn, hay, peats.
_Staggie_, a stag.
_Staig_, a two year-old horse.
_Stalwart_, stately, strong.
_Stang_, sting, stung.
_Stan't_, to stand; _stan't_, did stand.
_Stane_, stone.
_Stank_, did stink, a pool of standing water, slow-moving water.
_Stap_, stop, stave.
_Stark_, stout, potent.
_Startle_, to run as cattle stung by the gadfly.
_Staukin_, stalking, walking disdainfully, walking without an aim.
_Staumrel_, a blockhead, half-witted.
_Staw_, did steal, to surfeit.
_Stech_, to cram the belly.
_Stechin_, cramming.
_Steek_, to shut, a stitch.
_Steer_, to molest, to stir.
_Steeve_, firm, compacted.
_Stell_, a still.
_Sten_, to rear as a horse, to leap suddenly.
_Stravagin_, wandering without an aim.
_Stents_, tribute, dues of any kind.
_Stey_, steep; _styest_, steepest.
_Stibble_, stubble; _stubble-rig_, the reaper in harvest who takes
the lead.
_Stick-an'-stow_, totally, altogether.
_Stilt-stilts_, a crutch; to limp, to halt; poles for crossing a river.
_Stimpart_, the eighth part of a Winchester bushel.
_Stirk_, a cow or bullock a year old.
_Stock_, a plant of colewort, cabbages.
_Stockin'_, stocking; _throwing the stockin'_, when the bride and
bridegroom are put into bed, the former throws a stocking
at random among the company, and the person whom it falls
on is the next that will be married.
_Stook, stooked_, a shock of corn, made into shocks.
_Stot_, a young bull or ox.
_Stound_, sudden pang of the heart.
_Stoup_, or _stowp_, a kind of high narrow jug or dish with a handle
for holding liquids.
_Stowre_, dust, more particularly dust in motion; _stowrie_, dusty.
_Stownlins_, by stealth.
_Stown_, stolen.
_Stoyte_, the walking of a drunken man.
_Straek_, did strike.
_Strae_, straw; _to die a fair strae death_, to die in bed.
_Straik_, to stroke; _straiket_, stroked.
_Strappen_, tall, handsome, vigorous.
_Strath_, low alluvial land, a holm.
_Straught_, straight.
_Streek_, stretched, to stretch.
_Striddle_, to straddle.
_Stroan_, to spout, to piss.
_Stroup_, the spout.
_Studdie_, the anvil.
_Stumpie_, diminutive of stump; a grub pen.
_Strunt_, spirituous liquor of any kind; to walk sturdily, to be affronted.
_Stuff_, corn or pulse of any kind.
_Sturt_, trouble; to molest.
_Startin_, frighted.
_Styme_, a glimmer.
_Sucker_, sugar.
_Sud_, should.
_Sugh_, the continued rushing noise of wind or water.
_Sumph_, a pluckless fellow, with little heart or soul.
_Suthron_, Southern, an old name of the English.
_Swaird_, sword.
_Swall'd_, swelled.
_Swank_, stately, jolly.
_Swankie_, or _swanker_, a tight strapping young fellow or girl.
_Swap_, an exchange, to barter.
_Swarfed_, swooned.
_Swat_, did sweat.
_Swatch_, a sample.
_Swats_, drink, good ale, new ale or wort.
_Sweer_, lazy, averse; _dead-sweer_, extremely averse.
_Swoor_, swore, did swear.
_Swinge_, beat, to whip.
_Swinke_, to labour hard.
_Swirlie_, knaggy, full of knots.
_Swirl_, a curve, an eddying blast or pool, a knot in the wood.
_Swith_, get away.
_Swither_, to hesitate in choice, an irresolute wavering in choice.
_Syebow_, a thick-necked onion.
_Syne_, since, ago, then.
T.
_Tackets_, broad-headed nails for the heels of shoes.
_Tae_, a toe, _three-taed_, having three prongs.
_Tak_, to take; _takin_, taking.
_Tangle_, a sea-weed used as salad.
_Tap_, the top.
_Tapetless_, heedless, foolish.
_Targe, targe them tightly_, cross-question them severely.
_Tarrow_, to murmur at one's allowance.
_Tarry-breeks_, a sailor.
_Tassie_, a small measure for liquor.
_Tauld_, or _tald_, told.
_Taupie_, a foolish, thoughtless young person.
_Tauted_, or _tautie_, matted together (spoken of hair and wool).
_Tawie_, that allows itself peaceably to be handled (spoken of a cow,
horse, &c. )
_Teat_, a small quantity.
_Teethless bawtie_, toothless cur.
_Teethless gab_, a mouth wanting the teeth, an expression of scorn.
_Ten-hours-bite_, a slight feed to the horse while in the yoke in the
forenoon.
_Tent_, a field pulpit, heed, caution; to take heed.
_Tentie_, heedful, cautious.
_Tentless_, heedless, careless.
_Teugh_, tough.
_Thack_, thatch; _thack an' rape_, clothing and necessaries.
_Thae_, these.
_Thairms_, small guts, fiddle-strings.
_Thankit_, thanked.
_Theekit_, thatched.
_Thegither_, together.
_Themsel'_, themselves.
_Thick_, intimate, familiar.
_Thigger_, crowding, make a noise; a seeker of alms.
_Thir_, these.
_Thirl_, to thrill.
_Thirled_, thrilled, vibrated.
_Thole_, to suffer, to endure.
_Thowe_, a thaw, to thaw.
_Thowless_, slack, lazy.
_Thrang_, throng, busy, a crowd.
_Thrapple_, throat, windpipe.
_Thraw_, to sprain, to twist, to contradict.
_Thrawin'_, twisting, &c.
_Thrawn_, sprained, twisted, contradicted, contradiction.
_Threap_, to maintain by dint of assertion.
_Threshin'_, threshing; _threshin'-tree_, a flail.
_Threteen_, thirteen.
