Eastern District of Pennsylvania, ss. Be it remembered, That, on the thirteenth day of June, in the forty-second year of the independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1818, Thomas H. Palmer, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "A New and Complete Glossary to the Scottish Words and Phrases in Burns's Poems." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intituled, "An act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.”—And also to the act, entitled, “An act supplementary to an act, entitled, An act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other Prints." D. CALDWELL, GLOSSARY. THE ch and gh have always the guttural sound. The sound of the English diphthong oo, is commonly spelled ou. The French u, a sound which often occurs in the Scottish language, is marked oo, or ui. The a, in genuine Scottish words, except when forming a diphthong, or followed by an e mute after a single consonant, sounds generally like the broad English a in wall. The Scottish diphthong ae, always, and ea, very often, sound like the French e masculine. The Scottish diphthong ey, sounds like Latin ei. Agley, off the right line, Amang, among An', and; if Ance, once Ane, one Anent, over against Anither, another Ase, ashes Asklent, asquint, aslant Asteer, abroad, stirring Athort, athwart Atween, between Aught, possession; as in a' my aught, in all my possession; eight Auld-warld, old-fashioned Aul lang syne, olden time, days of other years Auld, old Auldfarran, or auld farrant, sagacious, cunning, prudent Ava, at all the kiln Baumy, balmy Bawk, bank Awn, the beard of bar- Baws'nt, having a white Beuk, a book en dish, a short race Biggin, building; a house Biggit, built Bike, a wild bee's nest in the ground Bill, a bull Billie, a brother, a young fellow Bing, a heap of grain, Birken-shaw, birchen wood-shaw, a small wood Birkie, a fellow Birring, the noise of partridges, &c. when they spring Bit, crisis, nick of time and blind Bleerit, bleared, sore with rheum Bleezing, blazing or gown, with a badge Bluid, blude, blood Bluntie, snivelling Blype, a shred, a large piece Bock, to vomit, to gush intermittently Bocked, gushed, vomited Bodle, a small coin Bogles, spirits, hobgob lins Bonnie, or bonny, hand some, beautiful Bonnock, a kind of thick cake of bread, a small jannack or loaf made. of oatmeal Boord, a board Boorick, a rough booth Boortree, the shrub el der; planted much of old in hedges of barnyards, &c. Boost, behoved, must needs Bore, a hole in a wall Botch, an angry tumour |