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. Edidit 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. Abraide, p. 176, abroad. Aft, s. oft. Agoe, gone. Ain, awin, s. own. Aras, p. 5, arros, p. 9, arrows. Ath, p. 6, athe, p. 9, o'th', of the. VOL. I. 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. P Begylde, p. 103, beguiled, de- Behests, commands, injunctions. Belyfe, p. 182, belive, immedi- Bent, p. 5, bents, p. 47, (where Bille, &c. p. 299, 1 have delivered Blane, p. 12, blanne, did blin, Blaze, to emblazon, display. Blive, belive, immediately. Bluid, bluidy, s. blood, bloody. Bode, p. 101, abode, stayed. sistance. Borrowe, borowe, pledge, surety. 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. Bickarte, p. 5, bicker'd, skirm- horn. Bowne ye, prepare ye, get ready. Mr. Lambe also interprets "BICKERING," by rattling, e. g. 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. Bred banner, p. 26, broad banner. Brether, brethren. a broad forked Broad arrow, headed arrow, s. Brodinge, pricking. Brook, p. 16, enjoy. 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. 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. C. Calde, callyd, p. 8, called. 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). Coyntrie, p. 323, Coventry. Cristes cors, p. 8, Christ's curse. 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. Deir, s. deere, dere, dear. Dint, stroke, blow. Dolefulle dumps, pp. 200, 279, sorrowful gloom; or heaviness of heart. Dolours, dolorous, mournful. Dounae, s. p. 42, am not able; pro- Drap, s. drop. Dre, p. 13, drie, p. 126, suffer. Drovyers, drovers, p. 271, such Dryghnes, dryness. Duble dyse, double (false) dice. Dyght, p. 12, dight, page 58, E. Eame, eme, p. 27, uncle. Ee, s. eie, eye. Een, eyne, eyes. Eir, evir, s. e'er, ever. Eldridge, Scoticè Elriche, El- Ellyconys, Helicon's. Enharpid, &c. p. 105, hooked, or edged with mortal dread. Enkankered, cankered. Faytors, deceivers, dissemblers, cheats. Fe, fee, reward: also, bribe. But Feat, nice, neat. 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. being the prey of the fiends. Fersly, fiercely. Fesante, pheasant. Fette, fetched. Fetteled, prepared, addressed, Finaunce, p. 108, fine, forfeiture. Flyte, to contend with words, scold. Foo, p. 34, foes. For, on account of. Forbode, commandment, p. 188, * 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. |