at heck and manger, in plenty.
Herships

Plunder.

Het

Hot.

Hirsts

Knolls.

Hog

A young sheep before its first shearing.

Horning

Charge of, a summons to pay a debt, on pain of being pronounced a rebel, to the sound of a horn.

Horse-couper

Horse-cowper, a horse-dealer.

Howe

A hollow.

Houlerying and poulerying

Hustling and pulling.

Hurley-house

A broken-down manor house.

Ilk

Same; of that ilk, of the same name or place.

Ilka

Each, every.

In the bees

Stupefied.

Ingle

A fire burning upon the hearth.

Intromit

Meddle with.

Keepit

Kept.

Kemple

A Scotch measure of straw or hay.

Ken

Know.

Kittle

Tickle, ticklish.

Kippage

Disorder, confusion.

Kirk

Church.

Kyloe

A small Highland cow.

Laird

Squire, lord of the manor.

Land-louper

A wanderer, a vagabond.

Lang-leggit

Long-legged.

Lawing

A tavern reckoning.

Lee land

Pasture land.

Leddy

A lady.

Lie

A word used in old Scottish legal documents to call attention to the following word or phrase.

Lift

Capture, carry off by theft.

Lightly

Make light of, disparage.

Limmer

A jade.

Loch

A lake.

Loon

An idle fellow, a lout, a rogue.

Luckie

An elderly woman.

Lug

An ear, a handle.

Lunzie

The loins, the waist.

Mae

Mair, more.

Mains

The chief farm of an estate.

Mair

More.

Maist

Most, almost.

Mart

Beef salted down for winter.

Malt abune the meal

The drink above the food, half-seas over.

Mask

Mash, infuse.

Maun

Must.

Meal-ark

A meal chest.

Merk

13⅓ pence in English money.

Mickle

Much, great.

Misguggled

Mangled, rumpled.

Mony

Many.

Morn

The morn, tomorrow.

Morning

A morning dram.

Mousted

Powdered.

Muckle

Much, great.

Munt

Mount.

Muir

Moor.

Mutchkin

A measure equal to about three quarters of an imperial pint.

Na

Nae, no, not.

Naigs

Horses.

Nail

The sixteenth part of a yard.

Nainsell

Own self.

Nathless

Nevertheless.

Neb

Nose, tip.

Ne’er be in me

Devil be in me.

Nice

Simple.

Nolt

Black cattle.

Ony

Any.

Old to do

Great doings.

Orra

Odd, unemployed.

Orra time

Occasionally.

Ower

Over.

Paitrick

A partridge.

Panged

Crammed.

Parritch

Oatmeal porridge.

Peculium

Private property.

Peel-house

A fortified tower.

Pendicle

A small piece of ground.

Pingle

A fuss, trouble.

Pinners

A headdress for women.

Plack

A copper coin worth one third of a penny.

Plaidy

An outer covering for the body.

Plenish

Furnish.

Ploy

Sport, entertainment.

Pottingar

An apothecary.

Pownie

A pony.

Powtering

Poking, stirring.

Pretty men

Stout, warlike fellows.

Quean

A young woman.

Redd

Part, separate.

Reifs

Robberies.

Reises

Twigs, branches.

Reivers

Robbers.

Resiling

Retracting, withdrawing.

Riggs

Ridges, ploughed ground.

Rinthereout

A roving person, a vagabond.

Rokelay

A short cloak.

Row

Roll.

Rowed

Rolled.

Rowt

Cried out, bellowed,

Roynish

Scurvy, coarse.

Rudas

Coarse, hag-like.

Sae

So.

Sain

Mark with the sign of the cross, bless.

Sair

Sore, very.

Sall

Shall.

Saumon

Salmon.

Sark

A shirt.

Saut

Salt.

Say

A sample.

Scarted

Scratched, scribbled over.

Schellum

A rascal.

Scouping

Scowping, skipping, leaping, running.

Scroll

Engross, copy.

Seannachie

A Highland antiquary.

Shanks

Legs.

Shearing

Reaping, harvest.

Sheers

Shears.

Shilpit

Weak, sickly.

Shoon

Shoes.

Shouther

The shoulder.

Sic

Siccan, such.

Siccan

Sic, such.

Sidier dhu

Black soldiers, independent companies raised to keep peace in the Highlands; named from the tartans they wore.

Sidier roy

Red soldiers, King George’s men.

Sikes

Small brooks.

Siller

Silver, money.

Silly

Weak.

Simmer

Summer.

Sliver

Slice, slit.

Skig

The least quantity of anything.

Sma’

Small.

Smoky

Suspicious.

Sneck

Cut.

Snood

A fillet worn by young women.

Sopite

To quiet a brawl.

Sorners

Sornars, sojourners, sturdy beggars, especially those unwelcome visitors who exact lodgings and victuals by force.

Sorted

Arranged, adjusted.

Sowens

The seeds of oatmeal soured.

Speir

Ask, investigate.

Spence

The place where provisions are kept.

Sporran-mollach

A Highland purse of goatskin.

Sprack

Animated, lively.

Sprechery

Movables of an unimportant sort.

Spring

A cheerful tune.

Spuilzie

Spoil.

Spong

Pick one’s pocket.

Saint Johnstone’s tippet

A rope or halter for hanging.

Stieve

Stiff, firm.

Stirk

A young steer or heifer.

Stoor

Rough, harsh.

Stot

A bullock.

Stoup

A jug, a pitcher.

Stouthreef

Robbery.

Strae

Straw.

Strath

A valley through which a river runs.

Streeks

Stretches, lies.

Syboes

Onions.

Syne

Before, now, ago.

Ta

The.

Taiglit

Harassed, encumbered, loitered.

Tappit Hen

A pewter pot that holds three English quarts.

Tauld

Told.

Teil

The devil.

Teinds

Tithes.

Telt

Told.

Thae

Those.

Thir

These.

Thole

Bear, suffer.

Thraw

Twist, wrench.

Threepit

Maintained obstinately.

Throstle

The thrush.

Till

To.

Tirrivies

Hasty fits of passion,

Tocherless

Without dowry.

Toun

A town, a hamlet, a farm.

Toy

An old-fashioned cap for women.

Trews

Trousers.

Trindling

Rolling.

Trow

Believe, suppose.

Tuilzie

A quarrel.

Tume

Toom, empty.

Turnspit doggie

A kind of dog, long-bodied and short-legged, formerly used in turning a treadmill.

Twa

Two.

Tyke

A dog, a snarling fellow.

Unco

Strange, very.

Unkenn’d

Unknown.

Unsonsy

Unlucky.

Usquebaugh

Whiskey.

Vivers

Victuals.

Wa’

Wall.

Wad

Would.

Wadset

A deed conveying property to a creditor.

Wain

A wagon; to remove.

Walise

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