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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,
Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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.

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Agley, off the right line, Amang, among

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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

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the kiln

Baumy, balmy

Bawk, bank

Awn, the beard of bar- Baws'nt, having a white

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Beuk, a book
Bicker, a kind of wood-

en dish, a short race
Bide, endure, suffer
Bie, or bield, shelter
Bien, wealthy, plentiful
Big, to build

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,
potatoes, &c.
Birdie, dimin. of bird
Birk, birch

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
Bizz, a bustle, to buzz
Bizzy, busy
Blastie, a shrivelled
dwarf, a terin of con-
tempt
Blastit, blasted
Blate, bashful, sheepish
Blather, a bladder
Blaud, a flat piece of
any thing; to slap
Blaw, to blow, to boast
Bleert and blin, bleared

and blind Bleerit, bleared, sore with rheum Bleezing, blazing

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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

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