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A GLOSSARY

OF

THE OBSOLETE AND SCOTTISH WORDS IN

THE FIRST VOLUME.

The Scottish words are denoted by s. French by f. Latin by 1. Anglo-Saxon by A. S. Icelandic by Isl. &c. For the etymology of the words in this and the following volumes, the reader is referred to JUNII ETYMOLOGICUM ANGLICANUM. ED. LYE, Oxon. 1743, fol.

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For such words as may not be found here, the reader is desired to consult the Glossaries to the other volumes.

A, au, s. all.

A Twyde, p. 7, of Tweed.

A backe, back.

Abone, aboon, s. above.
Abowght, about.

Abraide, p. 176, abroad.
Acton, a kind of armour made
of taffaty, or leather quilted,
&c.worn under the habergeon,
to save the body from bruises.
f. Hocqueton.

Aft, s. oft.
Agayne, against.

Agoe, gone.

Ain, awin, s. own.
Al gife, although.
Alate, p. 111, of late.
An, p. 85, and.
Ane, s. one, an.
Ancyent, standard.

Aras, p. 5, arros, p. 9, arrows.
Arcir, p. 85, archer.
Assinde, assigned,
Assoyl'd, assoyled, absolved.
Astate, estate; also a great person.
Astound, astonyed, stunned, as-
tonished, confounded.

Ath, p. 6, athe, p. 9, o'th', of the.

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haps, sheep's leather dressed and coloured red, f. bazane, sheep's leather. In Scotland, sheepskin mittens, with the wool on the inside, are called Bauzon-mittens.-Bauson also signifies a badger, in old English; it may therefore signify, perhaps, badger skin. Be that, p. 6, by that time. Bearyng arowe, p. 186, an arrow that carries well. Or, perhaps bearing, or birring, i. e. whirring or whizzing arrow : from Isl. Bir. ventus, or A. S. Bene, fremitus. Bedight, bedecked. Bedyls, beadles.

Beheard, heard.

Beette, did beat.
Beforn, before.

P

Begylde, p. 103, beguiled, de-
ceived.

Behests, commands, injunctions.
Behove, p. 191, behoof.

Belyfe, p. 182, belive, immedi-
ately, by and by, shortly.
Bende-bow, a bent bow, qu.
Ben, bene, been.
Benison, blessing.

Bent, p. 5, bents, p. 47, (where
bents, long coarse grass, &c.
grow) the field; fields.

Bille, &c. p. 299, 1 have delivered
a promise in writing, confirmed
by an oath.

Blane, p. 12, blanne, did blin,
i. e. linger, stop.
Blaw, s. blow.

Blaze, to emblazon, display.
Blee, colour, complexion.
Bleid, s. blede, bleed.
Blist, blessed.

Blive, belive, immediately.
Bloomed, p. 324, beset with bloom.
Blude, blood, bluid reid, s. blood
red.

Bluid, bluidy, s. blood, bloody.
Blyve, believe, instantly.
Boare, bare.

Bode, p. 101, abode, stayed.
Boltes, shafts, arrows.
Bomen, p. 5, bowmen.
Bonnye, bonnie, s. comely.
Boone, a favour, request, petition.
Boot, boote, advantage, help, as-

sistance.

Borrowe, borowe, pledge, surety.
Borowe, p. 168, to redeem by a
pledge.
Borowed, p. 34, warranted,
pledged, was exchanged for.
Bot and, s. p. 125. (It should
probably be both and) and also.
Bot, but.

Bote, boot, advantage.

Benyngne, p. 106, benigne, be- Bougill, s. bugle-horn, hunting

nign, kind.

Beste, beest, art.

Bestis, beasts.

Be strawghted, p.201, distracted.
Beth, be, are.

Bickarte, p. 5, bicker'd, skirm-
ished. (It is also used some-
times in the sense of swiftly
coursed, which seems to be
the sense, p. 5. Mr. Lambe).*

horn.
Bounde, bowynd, bowned, pre-
pared, got ready. The word
is also used in the north in
the sense of went or was going.
Bowndes, bounds.

Bowne ye, prepare ye, get ready.
Bowne, ready; bowned, prepared.
Bowne to dine, p. 45, going to
dine. Bowne is a common word

Mr. Lambe also interprets "BICKERING," by rattling, e. g.
"And on that slee Ulysses head

Sad curses down does BICKER."

Translat. of Ovid.

in the north for going ; e. g. Where are you bowne to? Where are you going? Bowre, bower, habitation: chamber, parlour, perhaps from Isl. bouan, to dwell. Bowre-window, chamber window. Bowys, bows.

Braid, s. broad, large.
Brandes, swords.
Breere, brere, briar.

Bred banner, p. 26, broad banner.
Breech, p. 323, breeches.
Breeden bale, breed mischief.
Breng, bryng, bring.

Brether, brethren.

a broad forked

Broad arrow,

headed arrow, s.

Brodinge, pricking.

Brook, p. 16, enjoy.
Brooke, p. 314, bear, endure.
Browd, broad.

Bryttlynge, p. 6, brytlyng, p. 7.

cutting up, quartering, carving. Bugle, bugle horn, hunting horn. Bushment, p. 103, ambushment, ambush, a snare to bring them into trouble.

Buske ye, dress ye.
Busket, buskt, dressed.
Buskt them,p.103,prepared them-

selves, made themselves ready. Busk and boun, p. 128, i. e. make yourselves ready and go. Boun, to go, (North country). But if, unless.

Buttes, buts to shoot at.
By thre, p. 160, of three.
Bye, p. 168, buy, pay for; also,
abye, suffer for.
Byears, beeres, biers.
Bydys, bides, abides.
Byll, bill, an ancient kind of
halbert, or battle-ax, p. 6.
Byn, bine, bin, been, be, are.
Byrche birch-tree, birch wood.
Byste, beest, art.

C.

Calde, callyd, p. 8, called.
Camscho, s. stern, grim.
Can, p. 27, began to cry.
Cane, p. 31, 'gan to cry.
Capull hyde, p. 95, horse-hide.
Care-bed, bed of care.

Carpe off care, p. 15, complain thro' care.

Cast, p. 7, mean, intend. Cawte and kene, p. 26, cautious and active, 1. cautus. Caytiffe, caitif, slave, despicable wretch, p. 49.

Cetywall, p. 322, setiwall, the herb valerian: also, mountain spikenard. See Gerard's Herbal. Chanteclere, the cock. Chays, chase. Check, to rate at. Check, to stop.

Child, p. 113, knight. Children, p. 48, knights: see v. iii. p. 94. Christentye, christiante, Christendom.

Churl, one of low birth, a villain, or vassal.

Chyf, chyfe, chief.

Clawde, clawed, tore, scratched; p. 191, figuratively, beat. Cleaped, cleped, called, named. Clerke, scholar.

Clim, the contraction of Clement. Clough, a north-country word for a broken cliff. Coate, cot, cottage. Cockers, p. 323, a sort of buskins or short boots fastened with laces or buttons, and often worn by farmers or shepherds. In Scotland they are called cutikins, from cute, the ankle.-'Cokers: fishermen's boots.' (Littleton's Diction.)

Collayne, p. 31, Cologne steel.

Commen, commyn, come. Confetered, confederated, entered into a confederacy. Cordiwin, p. 323, cordwayne: properly Spanish or Cordovan leather; here it signifies a more vulgar sort. Corsiare, p. 12, courser, steed. Cote, cot, cottage. Item, coat. Coulde, cold. Item, could. Cold bee, p. 309, was. Cowde

dye, p. 33, died, (a phrase).
Countie, p. 318, count, earl.
Coupe, a pen for poultry.
Couth, could.

Coyntrie, p. 323, Coventry.
Crancky, merry, sprightly, exult-
ing.
Credence, belief.
Crevis, crevice, chink.

Cristes cors, p. 8, Christ's curse.
Crowch, crutch.

Clowch, clutch, grasp.

Cryance, belief, f. creance, [whence recreant.]

But in

p. 47, &c. it seems to signify

fear, f. crainte.

Cum, s. come, p. 10, came.

D.

Dampned, p. 168, condemned.
De, dy, dey, pp. 7, 10, 15, die.
Deepe-fette, deep-fetched.
Deid, s. dede, deed. Item, dead.
Deip, s. depe, deep.

Deir, s. deere, dere, dear.
Dell, deal, part; p. 111, every
dell, every part.
Denay, deny, (rhythmi gratia.)
Depured, purified, run clear.
Descreeve, describe.
Dight, decked, put on.
Dill, p. 44, dole, grief, pain.-
Dill I drye, p. 45, pain I suf-
fer. Dill was dight, p. 44,
grief was upon him.

Dint, stroke, blow.
Dis, p. 85, this.
Discust, discussed.
Dites, ditties.
Dochter, s. daughter.
Dole, grief.

Dolefulle dumps, pp. 200, 279, sorrowful gloom; or heaviness of heart.

Dolours, dolorous, mournful.
Doth, dothe, doeth, do.
Doughte, dougheti, doughetie,
dowghtye, doughty, formida-
ble.

Dounae, s. p. 42, am not able; pro-
perly, cannot take the trouble.
Doute, doubt. Item, fear.
Doutted, doubted, feared.
Dois, s. doys, does.

Drap, s. drop.

Dre, p. 13, drie, p. 126, suffer.
Dreid, s. dreede, drede, dread.
Dreips, s. drips, drops.

Drovyers, drovers, p. 271, such
as drive herds of cattle, deer, &c.
Dryvars, p. 5, idem.
Drye, p. 33, suffer."

Dryghnes, dryness.

Duble dyse, double (false) dice.
Dughtie, doughty.
Dule, s. dole, grief.
Dyd, dyde, did.

Dyght, p. 12, dight, page 58,
dressed, put on, put.
Dynte, dint, blow, stroke.
Dysgysynge, disguising, masking.

E.

Eame, eme, p. 27, uncle.
Eathe, easy.

Ee, s. eie, eye. Een, eyne, eyes.
Ech, eche, eiche, elke, each.
Ein, s. even.

Eir, evir, s. e'er, ever.
Eke, also. Eike, each.
Eldern, s. elder.

Eldridge, Scoticè Elriche, El-
ritch, Elrische; wild, hideous,
ghostly. Item, lonesome, unin-
habited except by spectres, &c.
Gloss. to A. Ramsey. Elritcht-
laugh, Gen. Shep. a. 5.
Ellumynynge, p. 105, embellish-
ing. To illumine a book, was
to ornament it with paintings
in miniature.

Ellyconys, Helicon's.
Endyed, dyed.

Enharpid, &c. p. 105, hooked, or

edged with mortal dread.

Enkankered, cankered.

Faytors, deceivers, dissemblers, cheats.

Fe, fee, reward: also, bribe. But
properly Fee is applied to
lands and tenements, which
are held by perpetual right,
and by acknowledgment of
superiority to a higher Lord.
Thus, p. 107, in fee, i. e. in
feudal service. 1. feudum, &c.
(Blount.)

Feat, nice, neat.
Featously, neatly, dexterously.
Feere, fere, mate, companion.
Feir, s. fere, fear.

Envye, pp. 24, 27, malice, ill- Fendys pray, &c. p. 108, from

will, injury.

Erst, s. heretofore.

Etermynable, p. 108, intermina

ble, unlimited.

Everych-one, every-one.

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being the prey of the fiends.

Fersly, fiercely.

Fesante, pheasant.

Fette, fetched.

Fetteled, prepared, addressed,
made ready.
Filde, field.

Finaunce, p. 108, fine, forfeiture.
Fit, p. 9, fyt, p. 169, fytte, p.
85. Part or division of a song.
Hence in p. 76, fitt is a strain
of music. See vol. ii. p. 183,
and Glossary.

Flyte, to contend with words, scold.

Foo, p. 34, foes.

For, on account of.

Forbode, commandment, p. 188,
Over God's forbode. [Præter

* In the ballad of SIR CAULINE, we have Eldridge Hill,' p. 46. ' Eldridge Knight,' p. 46, 56. 'Eldridge Sword,' p. 50, 57.-So Gawin Douglas calls the Cyclops, the ELRICHE BRETHIR," i. e. brethren (b. ii. p. 91, 1. 16,) and in his Prologue to b. vii. (p. 202, 1. 3), he thus describes the night-owl:

'Laithely of forme, with crukit camscho beik,

Ugsome to here was his wyld ELRISCHE shriek."

In Bannatyne's MS. Poems, (fol. 135, in the Advocates' library at Edinburgh,) is a whimsical rhapsody of a deceased old woman, travelling in the other world; in which

"Scho wanderit, and zeid by, to an ELRICH well."

In the Glossary to G. Douglas, ELRICHE, &c. is explained by "wild, hideous Lat. trux, immanis;" but it seems to imply somewhat more, as in Allan Ramsey's Glossaries.

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