Menfe, difcretion, fobriety, goodbreeding, Mensfou, mannerly.

Menzie, company of men, army,
aflembly, one's followers.
Meen, a little dog, lap-dog.
Midding, a dunghill.
Midges, gnats, little flies.
Mim, affectedly modest.
Mint, aim, endeavour.
Mirk, dark.

Ivlifear, to give names.
Mifchance, misfortune.
Mifken, to neglect, or not take
notice of one; alfo, let alone.
Mijlufocus, malicious, rough.
Milters, neceffities, wants.
Mittans, woolen gloves.
Mony, many.

Modls, the earth of the grave.
Mou, mouth.

Moup, to eat, generally used of
children, or of old people, who
have but few teeth, and make
their lips move fast, though
they eat but flow.
Mow, a pile or bing, as of feuel,
hay, fheaves of corn, &c.
Mows, jefts.
Muckle, fee Meikle.
Murgullied, mifmanaged, abufed.
Mutch, coif.

Mutchien, an English pint.

Paddock, a frog.

Paddock-ride, the spawn of frogs.
Paiks, chaftifement. To paik,
to beat or belabour one found.
ly.
Pang, to fqueeze, prefs, or pack,
one thing into another.
Paughty, proud, haughty.
Pawky, witty, or fly in word or
action, without any harm or
bad defign.

Peer, a key or wharf.
Peets, turf for fire.
Pegh, to pant.

Perfy, finical, foppish, conceit ed.

Perquire, by heart.

Pett, a favourite, a fondling. To pettle, to dandle, feed, cherish, flatter. Hence, to take the

Poortih, poverty.

Pewny, a little horfe or gallo-
way; alfo a turkey.
Poufe, to push.
Pouch, a pocket.

Pratick, practice, art, fratagem.
Priving pratiek, trying ridicu-
lous experiments.
Prets, tricks, rogueries. We
fay, He plaid me a pret, i. e.
cheated. The callan's fou o'
prets, i. e. has abundance of
waggish tricks.
Prig, to cheapen, or importune
for a lower price of goods one
is buying.
Prin, a pin.
Prive, to prove or tafte.
Propine, gift or prefent.
Pryme or prime, to fill or stuff.
Putt a fane, throw a big stone.

henfive.

Rede, counfel, advice; as, I wad na rede ye to do that. Reek, reach; also smoak. Reeft, to rust, or dry in the fmoke.

Reft, bereft, robbed, forced or carried away.

Reif, rapine, robbery.

Reik or rink, a courfe or race.
Rever, a robber or pirate.
Rewth, pity.

Rice or rife, bulrushes, bramble-
branches, or twigs of trees.
Ryfe or ryfe, plenty.`
Rift, to belch.

Rigging, the back or rig-back, the top or ridge of a house. Ripples, a weakness in the back

and reins. Rock, a distaff.

Roofe or rufe, to commend, ex

tol. Roove, to rivet. Rottan, a rat.

Scart, to fcratch.

Scaup, a bare dry piece of ftony ground.

Scon, bread the country people bake over the fire, thinner and broader than a bannock. Sccrop, to leap or move haftily

frome one place to another. Secreth, room, freedom. Scrimp, narrow, ftraitened. lit

tle.

Scroggs, fhrubs, thorns, briers.
Scroggy, thorny.
Scuds, ale.

it by the benders.

Scunner, to loath.

Sell, felf.

Seach, furrow, ditch.
Sey, to try.
Seybow, a young onion.
Shan, pitiful, filly, poor.
Sharn, cow's dung.
Shary, a wood or foreft.
Sharul, hallow.

Skybald, a tatterdemalion. Skyt, fly out haftily. Slade or flaid, did flide, moved, or made a thing move eafily. Slap or flak, a gap, or narrow pafs between two hills. Slap, a breach in a wall. Sleek, fmooth.

Sleet, a fhower of half-melted fnow.

Storg,

Slerg, to bedawb or plaifter. Slid, fmooth, cunning, flippery; as, He's a flid down. Slidry, flippery. Slippery, fleepy.

Slunk, a mire, ditch, or flough;
to wade throw a mire.
Slote, a bar or bolt for a door.
Slough, husk or coat.
Smaik, a filly little pitiful fel-
low; the fame with fmatchet.
Smirky, fmiling.

Smittle, infectious or catching.
Smoor, to fmother.

Snack, nimble, ready, clever.
Sned, to cut.

Sneer, to laugh in derifion.
Sneg, to cut; as, Sneg'd off at
the web's end.
Snell, fharp, fmarting, bitter,
firm.

Snib, fnub, check or reprove,

correct.

Swifter, to fnuff or breathe thro' the nofe a little stopt. Snod, metaphorically ufed for neat, handfume, tight. Snood, the band for tying up a woman's hair.

Snool, to difpirit by chiding, hard
labour, and the like; alfo, a
pitiful groveling flave.
Snoove, to whirl round.
Snotter, fnot.

Snuri, to ruffle, wrinkle.
Sod, a thick turf.

Sonly, happy, fortunate, lucky: fometimes ufed for large and lufty.

Sore, forrel, reddish-coloured.
Sorn, to fpunge.

Sofs, the noife that a thing makes when it falls to the ground. Sough, the found of wind amongst trees, or of one sleeping. Sowens, Aummery, or oat-meal fowered amongst water for fome time, then boiled to a confiftency, and eaten with milk or butter.

Strapan, clever, tall, handfome.
Strath, a plain on a river fide.
Streek, to ftretch.
Striddle, to fride; applied com-
monly to one that's little.
Strinkle, to fprinkle or straw.
Stroot or frut, ftuff'd full, drunk.
Strunt, a pet. To take the firunt,

to be petted or out of humour. Studdy, an anvil, or smith's ftithy. Sturdy,giddy-headed; item, ftrong. Sture or floor, stiff, strong, hoarse. Sturt, trouble, disturbance, vex. ation.

Teet, to peep out.
Tenfome, the number of ten.

Swab, fquat, fuddled.

Swatch, a pattern.

Savats, fmall ale.

Swecht, burden, weight, force.
Sweer, lazy, flow,
Sweeties, confections.

Savelt, fuffocated, choaked to death.

Swith, begone quickly.
Swither, to be doubtful whether
to do this or that.
Syne, afterwards, then.

Tackle, an arrow.
Taid, toad.
Tane, taken.

Tap, a head. Such a quantity of lint as fpinfters put upon the diftaff, is called a Lint-tap. Tape, to use any thing fparingly. Tappit-ben, the Scotch quart stoup.

Tarrosu, to refufe what we love,

from a crofs humour. Tartan, crofs ftripped stuff of various colours, checquered. The Highland plaid.

Thack, thatch. Thacker, thatcher. Thae, thofe.

Tharmes, fmall tripes.

Theek, to thatch.

Thig, to beg or borrow.

Thir, thefe.

Thole, to endure, fuffer.
Thozu, thaw.

Thewless, unactive, filly, lazy, heavy.

Thrawart, fioward, cross, crabbed.

Thrawin, ftern and cross-grained. Threep, to aver, alledge, urge, and affirm boldly.

Thrimal, to prefs or squeeze thro' with difficulty.

Thud, a blast, blow, ftorm, or

the violent found of thefe. Cry'd beb at ilka thud; i. e. gave a groan at every blow. Tid, tid or time; proper time; as, He took the tid. Tift, good order, health. Tine, to lofe. Tint, lost. Tinfel, lofs.

Tip or tippony, ale fold for 2d. the Scotch pint.

Tirl or tir, to uncover a houfe, or undress a perfon; ftrip one naked. Sometimes a fhort action is named a Tirle; as, They took a tirle of dancing, drinking, &c. Titty, filter.

Tocher,