GLOSSARY 'A, he, I OF WORDS, PHRASES, AND ALLUSIONS ABLINS, AIBLINS, perhaps AFTERHEND, afterwards ANCE ERRAND, for the very old AUT QUOCUNQUE ALIO NOMINE VOCARIS, or by whatever other name you are called AWEEL, Well BALLANT, ballad, song BERLING, BERLIN, sort of galley or boat BESTED, SAIR, in a sad way, sad condition BEZALEEL. He designed and executed the works of art for the Tabernacle. See Exod. xxxi. 1-6 BIDE, BIDDEN, remain, wait, stay, live BIELD, shelter BIG, BIGG, build; BIGGIT WA's, built walls BILBOES, a long iron bar with sliding shackles, in which the legs of prisoners were confined. See note on the Gad (p. 431) BILLIE, young man, jolly comrade BING OUT AND TOUR, go out BIRLING, drinking in company BIRTH, an obsolete form of 'berth,' situation BITTLE, or BEETLE, a wooden mallet for beating washed clothes BITTOCK, a little bit BLACK ACTS, the laws of necromancy or magic BLACK- FISHING, salmon spearing by night during the close season BLACK PETER, portmanteau. Cf. To rob Peter to pay Paul BLATE, shy, abashed BLEARING YOUR EE, blinding your eye by flattery BLUMENGARTEN, flowergarden BLUNKER, calico-printer BODDLE, small Scotch copper coin BOGLE, bogie, ghost BONA DEA, the special god. dess of women amongst the ancient Romans BONSPIEL, match at curling BOTTLE HEAD, a stupid fellow BOUGHT SO MANY BROOMS, got so many warrants out BOURTREE, elder tree Bow, boll BOWL O' A PINT STOUP, the handle of a pint flagon, than which, as the Scottish proverb infers, there is nothing comes more readily to the grasp BRAGGED WI', reproached, upbraided by BRIGG, bridge BROD, a church collectingplate BUIRDLY, stout, well made BULLY-HUFF, boasting bully BYE, besides CA', CA'D, call, called CAKE-HOUSE, house of en- Presumably Jacques Callot, a French designer and engraver of the 17th century, who CLANJAMFRAY, rabble, all sorts of people CLASHES, rumours, gossip CLAUGHT, snatch CLAVER, gossip CLECKING TIME, when hens hatch chickens CLEEKS, iron chimney hooks. See note on Lum Cleeks (p. 428) CLERIHUGH'S, a tavern in Writers' Court, off the High Street, Edinburgh CLOD, fling, hurl CLOSE, alley CLOUR, thump, smash CLOUTED SHOES, shoes having the soles studded with iron plates or large-headed nails; also patched shoes CLOYED A DUD, stolen a rag Cock, the mark or tee at which curlers play COCK AND A BOTTLE, in all probability a slip for cock and a bull' story COFT, bought COLLIESHANGIE, tumult quarrel, COME O' WILL, love-child, natural child CONCURRENT, an attendant on a sheriff's officer CONJURO, ABJURO, etc. (p. 329), I adjure, swear, protest, and emphatically enjoin thee CONJURO TE, etc. (p. 329), I adjure thee, thou most accursed, iniquitous, base, wicked, and wretched woman, I adjure thee CORPS DE LOGIS, main building of a mansionhouse COUP, upset, overturn CRACKS, familiar talk, gossip CRAMBO, a game at capping verses; CRAMBO SCRAPS, rhymed scraps CRANKING, creaking, bustling CRAPPIT - HEADS, haddockheads cooked with a stuffing of oatmeal, suet, onions, and pepper CROOKS, windings of a river CROW, a crowbar CRUFFEL FELL, a lofty hill (Criffell) in the east of Kirkcudbrightshire CUJACIUS. Jacques Cujas, a celebrated French jurist of the 16th century CUMMERBAND, or CUMMERBUND, the broad sash or shawl that an Oriental wears as a girdle CUSSER, one given to cursing CUSTOS ROTULORUM, the chief civil officer of a county CUTLUGGED, crop-eared CUTTY SPOON, short spoon DARBIES, handcuffs DARKMANS, night, nighttime GRIPPIT, gripped GUMPHIONS, funeral ban ners GYRE-CARLING, witch, hobgoblin HADDEN, held HAFFLIN CALLANT, halfgrown lad HAICK, hack HAILL WATER, whole riverside, valley, district HALLAN, partition wall HANSEL, gift of money in the hand, tip, Christmas box; HANSEL MONANDAY, Monday after New Year's day HANTLE, handful, a number of HAUD, hold HAULD, OUT OF HOUSE AND, destitute HEEZIE, hoist, lift HELLICAT, desperate, extravagant HERD, man in charge of the cattle on a Scotch farm HEUGH, or HEUCH, a broken bank on HEYDON AND CHAMBER. John Chamber, canon of Windsor, and Sir Christopher Heydon carried on a controversy astrology in 1601-4 HIGH MIGHTINESSES, the customary title of the Estates of Holland HINNEY, honey, a familiar form of address HIRSEL, HIRSILL, to slide or glide down; a flock HIZZIE, hussy HOLD MICH DER DEYVIL, a corruption of a common German oath, 'The devil take me!' HORNING, warrant for apprehending a debtor HOUDIE, midwife HOUNDSFOOT SCHELM, stupid blockhead, blundering rascal HowFF, resort, lurkingplace. See Whaap Howk, dig HOWM, hollow, small island HUMBLE-COW, a cow that errand ICH BIN, I am, I be fool's ICH BIN GANZ GEFRORNE, I am frozen to death ILKA WAF CARLE, every insignificant churl ILK ITHER, one another INGAN, onion JAW-HOLE, the hole or sink where dirty water, etc., is thrown JET AND OBJECT, aim, point, and object JETHART, Jedburgh JOE, Sweetheart JOHN A' NOKES, or JOHN o' NOAKES, a fictitious name used by lawyers in writs for ejectment JOHNNIE ARMSTRONG AND HIS MERRY-MEN; celebrated Border raiders of Liddesdale. See Minstrelsy of Scottish Border, 'Johnie Armstrong' JOHNNIE FAA, THE UPRIGHT MAN. Faa is a well-known gipsy family on the Borders. The leader of a gang (and the greatest rogue in it) was called the upright man.' See Blackwood, 1817, vol. i. JOHN o' THE SCALES, steward of the lord of Linne, whose estate he bought at a ridiculously low figure and then treated his late master despitefully. See Percy's Reliques, Series II. Book II. LOON, rogue fellow, (humorously) LOUP, leap Low, flame LUCKENBOOTнs, a block of buildings in the middle of the street beside St. Giles' church, Edinburgh; it was removed in 1817 LUCKIE, mother, a generic title given to old dames LUNT, blaze L'UN VAUT BIEN L'AUTRE, one is quite as good as the other LUSTHAUS, pleasure-house LYKEWAKE, the watch over a dead body MAIST, most MAROONS, Outlaws (runaway slaves and others) in Jamaica MAUN, MAUNNA, must, must not MAUNDERING, grumbling MEARNS, an old name for Kincardineshire MEIN HERR, sir MEMORIAL, barrister's brief MESSAN, cur, dog of little value MILLING IN THE DARKMANS, SARK, shirt SARKFU' O' SAIR BANES, a shirt-full of sore bones SAUFEN BIER, etc. (p. 226), Quaff the beer and brandy, Smash the windows in! I'm a rake; you're a rake. Are we not all rakes together? SAUGH, Willow SAULIES, hired mourners SCAFF-RAFF, riff-raff, rabble SCOURING THE CRAMP-RING, SHAKE-RAG, tatterdemalion SHEALING, SHEELING, hut SHOEING-HORN, something SIC, SICKEN, such SICCA RUPEES, rupees newly coined; rupees struck by the Government of Bom bay from 1793 to 1836, and richer in silver than the Company's rupees SING OUT, or WHISTLE IN THE CAGE, is when а rogue, being apprehended, peaches against his comrades SKEEL, professional advice SKITS, tricks SLACK, morass, a low pass age between two hills SLAP, gap, breach SMAIK, a mean, despicable fellow, wretch SOUPLE, a stout cudgel SPAE, cast, foretell SPAN COUNTER, a game with counters in which the player tries to pitch his own counter within a span's length of his antagonist's SPEER, SPEIR, to inquire, ask SPLEUCHAN, a tobaccopouch, occasionally used as a purse SPLORES, frolics, squabbles SPRUG, a sparrow SPUNK OF FIRE, a bit of FAIR. Stagshaw bank Fair, held at a spot near the Roman Wall in Cumberland STEEK, stitch; shut, close STICKIT MINISTER, STICKIT STIBBLER, one who, after studying for the church in Scotland, fails in the profession STIRK, Steer STIR YOUR GEAR, touch, meddle with, your belongings STOWN, Stolen STRAE, straw STRAFE MICH HELLE, Hell take me! STRAFE MICH DER DEYFEL, the devil fetch me! STRAMMEL, straw STREIK, STREEK, stretch, lay out a dead body STURE, tall, big SUNKETS, delicacies SUNKIE, a low stool SUUM CUIQUE TRIBUITO, TO every man his due SWEAR, difficult, hard TAIT O' WOO', tuft (small piece) of wool TAK TENT, to take care, beware of TARTARS. The gipsies are popularly called Tartars in Norway and Sweden TASS, glass TEINDS, tithes TEMPORE CAROLI PRIMI, in the time of Charles I. TENT, care THACK AND RAPE, thatch and rope, with which farmers make fast their corn-stacks THAE, these THAT WEIGHT OF WOOD, etc. From Crabbe's Library THRAPPLE, the throat TIFF, a sup, draught of drink TIPPENNY, twopenny ale TOLBOOTH, jail, house of detention TONGUE OF THE TRUMP, the tongue of the Jew's harp, the sounding-piece of the instrument TOOм, empty TOTA RE PERSPECTA, Con- TRINE TO THE CHEAT, get hanged TROKE, deal or traffic with TRON, a church on the High Street, Edinburgh, a little to the east of St. Giles' Cathedral TRYST, market, fair TUILZIE, brawl, scuffle TURBAND, turban TWA, TWASOME, two TWEEL, web, woven cloth TYKE, cur UMQUHILE, UMWHILE, late, deceased UNCO, uncommon, strange UPHAUD, uphold VERBUM VOLANS, a winged word, idle word WAD, would; bet, wager WASTER, OF LEISTER, a long spear used for striking salmon. There is also a shorter, which is cast from the hand, and |
