These volumes
being respectfully inscribed
to
our Scottish Addison,
Henry Mackenzie,
by
an unknown admirer
of
his genius.
Glossary
- A’
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All.
- Aboon
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Above.
- Accolade
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Salutation marking the bestowal of knighthood.
- Ae
-
One.
- Aff
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Off.
- Afore
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Before.
- Ahint
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Behind.
- Ain
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Own.
- Aits
-
Oats.
- Alane
-
Alone.
- Amaist
-
Almost.
- Ambry
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Cupboard, a pantry.
- An
-
If.
- Ane
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One.
- Aneuch
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Enough.
- Array.
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Trouble.
- Assoilzied.
-
Acquitted.
- Assythment.
-
Satisfaction.
- Auld
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Old.
- Aweel
-
Well.
- Aye
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Always.
- Baff
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Blow.
- Bagganet
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Bayonet.
- Bailie
-
City magistrate in Scotland.
- Bairn
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Child.
- Baith
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Both.
- Ban
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Curse.
- Banes
-
Bones.
- Bang Up
-
Get up quickly, bounce.
- Barley
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A parley, a truce.
- Bauld
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Bold.
- Baulder
-
Bolder.
- Bawbee
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A halfpenny.
- Bawty
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Cunning.
- Baxter
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A baker.
- Bees
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In the, stupefied, bewildered.
- Beflummed
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Cajoled.
- Begunk
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A trick, a cheat.
- Ben
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In, inside.
- Benempt
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Named.
- Bent
-
An open field.
- Bhaird
-
Bard.
- Bicker
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A wooden dish.
- Bide
-
Endure.
- Bieldy
-
Shelter.
- Bigging
-
Building.
- Birlieman
-
A peace officer.
- Blackcock
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Black grouse.
- Black-Fishing
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By torchlight poaching.
- Blinked
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Glanced.
- Blude
-
Blood.
- Blythe
-
Glad.
- Boddle
-
A copper coin, worth one third of an English penny.
- Bodle
-
Copper coin worth a third of an English penny.
- Bogle About the Bush
-
About the bush, a children’s game.
- Bole
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Bowl.
- Bonnie
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Comely, fine,
- Boot-Ketch
-
Bootjack.
- Boune
-
Prepared.
- Bra’
-
Handsome, showy.
- Brae
-
The side of a hill.
- Brander
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Broil.
- Brissel-Cock
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A turkey cock.
- Breeks
-
Breechs.
- Brent
-
Smooth, unwrinkled.
- Brogues
-
Highland shoes.
- Broken Men
-
Outlaws.
- Broo
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Broth.
- Brought far ben
-
Held in special favor.
- Browst
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Brewing.
- Bruckle
-
Brittle, infirm.
- Bruik
-
Enjoy.
- Brulzie
-
A broil, a fray.
- Bullsegg
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A gelded bull.
- Burd
-
A term of familiarity.
- Burn
-
Brook.
- Busking
-
Decoration.
- Buttock-mail
-
A fine for fornication.
- Bydand
-
Awaiting.
- Ca’
-
Call.
- Cadger
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Country carrier.
- Cailliachs
-
Old women on whom devolved the duty of lamenting for the dead, which the Irish call keening.
- Callant
-
A young lad, a fine fellow.
- Cannily
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Prudently.
- Canny
-
Prudent, skillful, lucky.
- Canter
-
Canting, whining beggar.
- Cantrip
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A trick.
- Carle
-
Churl, an old man.
- Cateran
-
Highland irregular soldier, a freebooter.
- Chiel
-
A young man.
- Clachan
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A hamlet.
- Clamhewit
-
Blow, a drubbing.
- Clash
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Gossip.
- Clatter
-
Tattle, noisy talk.
- Claw favour
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Curry favour.
- Claymore
-
A broad sword.
- Cleik
-
Cunzie, steal the silver.
- Close
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A narrow passage.
- Clour
-
A bump, a bruise.
- Cob
-
Beat.
- Coble
-
A small fishing boat.
- Cockyleeky
-
A soup made of a cock, seasoned with leeks.
- Coghling and Droghling
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Wheezing and blowing.
- Cogs
-
Wooden vessels.
- Cogue
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A round wooden vessel.
- Concussed
-
Violently shaken, disturbed, forced.
- Coronach
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A dirge.
- Corri
-
A mountain hollow.
- Cove
-
A cave.
- Coup
-
Fall.
- Cow yer Cracks
-
Cut short your talk, hold your tongues.
- Crack
-
Boast.
- Craig
-
The neck, the throat.
- Crame
-
A booth, a merchant’s shop.
- Creagh
-
An incursion for plunder, termed on the Borders a raid.
- Crouse
-
Bold, Courageous.
- Crummie
-
A cow with crooked horns.
- Cuittle
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Tickle.
- Curragh
-
A Highland boat.
- Cut-lugged
-
Crop-eared.
- Daft
-
Mad, foolish.
- Daur
-
Dare.
- Deaving
-
Deafening.
- Debinded
-
Bound down.
- Decreet
-
An order of decree.
- Deliver
-
Light, agile.
- Deoch an Doruis
-
The stirrup-cup or parting drink.
- Dern
-
Concealed, secret.
- Dingle
-
Dinnle, tingle, vibrate with sound.
- Dinmonts
-
Wethers in the second year.
- Doer
-
An agent, a manager.
- Dog-head
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The hammer of a gun.
- Doil’d
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Crazed, silly.
- Doon
-
Doun, down.
- Dorlach
-
A bundle.
- Dovering
-
Dozing.
- Dow
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A dove.
- Dowf
-
A little drop, a small quantity of drink.
- Duinhé-Wassel
-
Dunniewassal, a Highland gentleman, usually the cadet of a family of rank.
- Eanaruich
-
The regalia presented by Rob Roy to the Laird of Tullibody.
- Effeir
-
What is becoming.
- Eneugh
-
Eneuch, enough.
- Ergastulo
-
In a penitentiary.
- Etter-cap
-
A spider, an ill-natured person.
- Evite
-
Avoid, escape.
- Ewest
-
Ewast, contiguous.
- Exeemed
-
Exempt.
- Factory
-
Stewardship.
- Fallow
-
A fellow.
- Fauld
-
Fold.
- Feal and Divot
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Turf and thatch.
- Feared
-
Afraid.
- Feck
-
A quantity.
- Feifteen
-
The Jacobite rebellion of 1715.
- Fendy
-
Good at making a shift.
- Fire-raising
-
Setting an incendiary fire.
- Flemit
-
Frightened,
- Fleyt
-
Frightened, shy.
- Frae
-
From.
- Fu
-
Full.
- Fule
-
Fool.
- Gad
-
A goad, a rod.
- Gaberlunzie
-
A kind of professional beggar.
- Gane
-
Gone.
- Gang
-
Go.
- Gar
-
Make.
- Gate
-
Gait, way.
- Gaun
-
Going.
- Gay
-
Gey, very.
- Gear
-
Goods, property.
- Ghaist
-
A ghost.
- Gillie
-
A servant, an attendant.
- Gillie-wet-foot
-
A barefooted Highland lad.
- Gimmer
-
A ewe from one to two years old.
- Gin
-
If.
- Gîte
-
Crazy, a noodle,
- Gled
-
A kite.
- Gleg
-
Quick, clever.
- Glisk
-
A glimpse.
- Graning
-
Groaning.
- Grat
-
Wept.
- Gree
-
Agree.
- Greybeard
-
A stone bottle or jug.
- Grice
-
Gryce, gris, a pig.
- Gripple
-
Rapacious, niggardly.
- Gowd
-
Gold.
- Gude
-
Guid, good.
- Gulpin
-
A simpleton.
- Ha’
-
Hall.
- Hag
-
A portion of copse marked off for cutting.
- Haggis
-
A pudding peculiar to Scotland, containing oatmeal, suet, minced sheep’s liver, heart, etc., seasoned with onions, pepper, and salt, the whole mixture boiled in a sheep’s stomach.
- Hail
-
Whole.
- Hallan
-
A partition, a screen.
- Hame
-
Home.
- Hantle
-
A great deal.
- Heck
-
A hay rack;
