Provost Ramsay.—Your wife! Heaven preserve us! Weel, after a', I hae reason to be thankfu' I hae neither wife nor bairns on a day like this!

Sir Alex.—Behold an envoy from the English camp, Sent with proposals, or some crafty truce.

Hugh Elliot.—Let me entreat you, then, most noble sir, Give him all courtesy; and if his terms Be such as we in honour may accept, Refuse them not by saying, WE WILL DIE.

Enter EARL PERCY and Attendants.

Percy.—Good morrow, my Scotch cousins! My gracious sovereign, your right lawful master, Hath, in his mercy, left you these conditions— Now to throw wide your gates, and, if ye choose, Go walk into the Tweed, and drown your treason; Or run, like scapegoats, to the wilderness, Bearing your sins, and half a week's provision; Or, should these terms not meet your approbation, Ere midnight we shall send some fleeter messengers. So now, old Governor, my master's answer?

Provost Ramsay.—The mischief's in your impudence! But were I Sir Alexander, the only answer your master should hae, would be your weel-bred tongue sent back upon the end o' an arrow; an' that wad be as fleet a messenger, as ye talk about fleet messengers, as ony I ken o'.

Percy.—Peace, thou barbarian! keep thy frog's throat closed. I say, old greybeard, hast thou found an answer?

Sir Alex.—Had my Lord Percy found more fitting phrase To couch his haughty mandate, I perhaps Had found some meet reply. But as it is, Thou hast thine answer in this people's eyes.

Hugh Elliot.—Since we with life and honour may depart, Send not an answer that must seal our ruin, Though it be hero-like to talk of death.

[Enter LADY SETON, listening.

Bethink thee well, Sir Governor: these men Have wives with helpless infants at their breasts; What husband, think ye, would behold a child Dashed from the bosom where his head had pillowed, That his fair wife might fill a conqueror's arms! These men have parents—feeble, helpless, old; Yea, men have daughters!—they have maids that love them— Daughters and maidens chaste as the new moon— Will they behold them screaming on the streets, And in the broad day be despoiled by violence? Think of these things, my countrymen! [Aside to PERCY, Now, my Lord Percy, you may read your answer.

Percy [aside].—So thou art disaffected, good Sir Orator: Well, ply thy wits, and Edward will reward thee— Though, for my part, I'd knight thee with a halter!

Sir Alex.—Is this thy counsel in the hour of peril, Milk-hearted man? To thee, and all like thee, I offer terms more generous still than Edward's: Depart ye by the Scotch or English gate— Both shall be opened. Lade your beasts of burden— Take all you have—your food, your filthy gold, Your wives, your children, parents, and yourselves! Go to our Scottish king, and prate of courage! Or go to Edward—Percy will conduct thee.

[LADY SETON advances forward.

Lady Seton.—Spoke like thyself, my husband! Out on thee, slave! [To ELLIOT. Or shall I call thee traitor? What didst thou, On finishing thy funeral service, whisper In my Lord Percy's ear?

Elliot.—I whisper, lady?

Lady Seton.—You whisper, smooth-tongued sir!

Percy [aside].—Zounds! by the coronet of broad Northumberland, Could I exchange it for fair England's crown, I'd have my bodyguard of woman's eyes, And make the whole sex sharpshooters!

Provost Ramsay.—Wae's me! friend Elliot, but you have an unco dumfoundered-like look after that speech o' yours in defence o' liberty, and infants, and fair bosoms, maiden screams, and grey hairs, and what not.

Sir Alex.—Percy, we hear no terms but death or liberty. This is our answer.

Percy.—Well, cousins, be it so. The wilful dog— As runs the proverb. Lady, fare-ye-well. [Exit.

Sir Alex.—On with me, friends—on to the southern ramparts! There, methinks, they meditate a breach. On, Scotsmen! on— For Freedom and for Scotland! [Exeunt.



SCENE II.—Town Ramparts.

Enter SIR ALEXANDER, RICHARD, HENRY, PROVOST RAMSAY, HUGH ELLIOT, and Populace.

Sir Alex.—To-day, my townsmen, I shall be your leader; And though my arms may lack their wonted vigour, Here are my pledges [pointing to his sons] placed on either side, That seal a triumph youth could never reap. To-day, my sons, beneath a father's eye, Oh give such pride of feeling to his heart As shall outshame the ardour of his youth, And nerve his arm with power strong as his zeal!

[Exeunt all save HUGH ELLIOT.

Elliot.—Thanks to my destiny!—the hour is come— The wished-for hour of vengeance on mine enemy!— Heavens! there is neither nobleness nor virtue. Nor any quality that beggars boast not, But he and his smooth sons have swallowed up; And all the world must mouth their bravery!—- I owe a debt to Scotland and to him, And I'll repay it—I'll repay it now! This letter will I shoot to Edward's camp; And now, ere midnight, I'm revenged—revenged!

[LADY SETON appears from the window of the castle, as ELLIOT is fixing a letter on an arrow.

Lady Seton [from the window].—Hold, traitor! hold, Or, by the powers above us, this very hour Your body o'er these battlements shall hang For your fair friends to shoot at!

[ELLIOT drops the bow.

Elliot [aside].—Now fleet destruction seize the lynx-eyed fiend— Trapped in the moment that insured success! Thank fate—my dagger's left!—she has a son!

Lady Seton.—Go, worthless recreant, and in thickest fight Blot out thy guilty purpose: know thy life Depends on this day's daring; and its deeds And wounds alone, won in the onset's brunt, Secures my silence.

Elliot.—You wrong me, noble lady.

Lady Seton.—Away! I'll hear thee not, nor let my ears List to the accents of a traitor's tongue. [Exit ELLIOT.



SCENE III.—An Apartment in KING EDWARD'S Tent.

Enter EDWARD and PERCY.

Edward.—Well, my Lord Percy, thou hast made good speed. What say these haughty burghers to our clemency?

Percy.—In truth, your Grace, they are right haughty burghers. One wondrous civil gentleman proposed To write his answer on your servant's tongue— Using his sword as clerks might do a quill— Then thrust it on an arrow for a post-boy!

Edward.—Such service he shall meet. What said their governor?

Percy.—Marry! the old boy said I was no gentleman, And bade me read my answer in the eyes Of—Heaven defend me!—such a squalid crew! One looked like death run from his winding sheet; Another like an ague clothed in rags; A third had something of the human form, But every bone was cursing at its fellow. Now, though I vow that I could read my fate In every damsel's eyes that kissed a moonbeam, I've yet to learn the meaning of the words Wrote on the eyeballs of his vellum-spectres, But the old man is henpecked!

Edward.—Prythee, Lord Percy, lay thy fool's tongue by, And tell thy meaning plainly.

Percy.—Nay, pardon me, your majesty; I wot Your servant is the fool his father made him, And the most dutiful of all your subjects.

Edward.—We know it, Percy. But what of his wife?

Percy.—Why, if the men but possess half her spirit, You might besiege these walls till you have counted The grey hairs on the child that's born next June.

Edward.—And was this all?

Percy.—Nay, there was one—a smooth-tongued oily man— A leader of the citizens; and one Who measures out dissension by the rood: He is an orator, and made a speech Against the governor: the people murmured; And one or two cried out, "Behold an Antony!" But he's a traitor; and I'd hang all traitors!

Edward.—Ha!—then doth the devil, Disaffection, With his fair first-born, Treason, smooth our path. So we have friends within the citadel. Sent they no other answer?

Percy.—I did expect me to have brought the whole, Like half-clothed beggars bending at my heels, To crave your Grace's succour; but, behold, Ere I could bid them home for a clean shirt, That they might meet your majesty like Christians, Out stepped her ladyship, and with a speech Roused up the whole to such a flood of feeling That I did well 'scape drowning in the shout Of Scotland and Seton!—Seton and Scotland!—Then did she turn and ask me, "Are you answered?" I said I was!—and they did raise a cry Of Death or Liberty!

Edward.—They shall have it—death in its fullest meaning. Haste, ply our cannon on the opening breach. Forth!—they attack the camp! Now, drive them back, Break through their gate and guards, Till all be ours! [Exeunt



SCENE IV.—The Ramparts.

Scots driven through the gates in confusion.

Sir Alex.—Woe to thee, Elliot! this defeat is thine. Where was the caution ye but preached this morn, That ye should madly break our little band, And rush on certain ruin? Fie on thee, man! That such an old head is so young a soldier! Here, guard this breach, defend it to the last; Henry shall be thy comrade. On, my friends! They cross the river, and the northern gate Will be their next attack.

Elliot [aside].—"Woe to thee, Elliot! this defeat is thine!" So says our Governor! 'Tis true!—'twas mine! Though I have failed me in my firm, fixed purpose, Once more he's thrown revenge within my grasp; And I will clutch it—clutch it firmly, too; I guard the breach! and with his son to assist me! The Fates grow kind! The breach! he said the breach! And gave his son up to the power of Edward!

Henry.—Why stand ye musing there? Here lies your duty!

Elliot [aside].—'Tis true! 'tis true! my duty DOES lie there!

Henry.—Follow me, Elliot. See—they scale the walls! A moment lost, and they have gained the battlement.

Shouting.—PERCY and Followers leap upon the battlement.

Percy.—On! followers, on!—for Edward and for England!

Henry.—Have at thee, Percy, and thy followers, too! For Freedom and for Scotland! On, Elliot! on! Wipe out the morning's shame.

Elliot [aside].—Have at thee, boy, for insult and revenge!

[ELLIOT strikes HENRY'S sword from his hand.

Henry.—Shame on thee, traitor! are we thus betrayed?

[Percy's Followers make HENRY prisoner.

Elliot.—Thank Heaven! thank Heaven!—one then is in their grasp! A truce, Lord Percy. See thy prisoner safe, Ere his mad father sound a rescue—off! Thou wouldst not draw thy sword upon a friend?

[SIR ALEXANDER, RICHARD, PROVOST RAMSAY, and others, enter hurriedly.

Sir Alex.—Thanks, Elliot! thanks! You have done nobly!—thanks! Where is your comrade?—speak—where is my son?

Elliot.—Would he had been less valiant—less brave!

Sir Alex.—What! is he dead, my good, my gallant boy? Where is his body? show me—where? oh, where?

Richard.—Where is my brother? tell me how he fell?

Elliot.—Could I with my best blood have saved the youth, Ye are all witnesses that I would have done it.

Provost Ramsay.—Indeed, Mr. Elliot, if ye refer to me, I'm witness to naething o' the kind; for it is my solemn opinion, a' the execution your sword did was as feckless as a winnle-strae.

Sir Alex.—Where is my poor boy's body?

Elliot.—I did not say he died.

Richard.—Not dead!

Sir Alex.—Not say he died?

Elliot.—See yonder group now hurrying to the camp, And shouting as they run. He is their prisoner! [Aside] Feed ye, friends, on that.

Sir Alex.—Cold-blooded man! them never wert a father. The tyrant is! he knows a father's heart; And he will play the butcher's part with mine! Each day inflicting on me many deaths, Knowing right well I am his twofold prisoner; For on the son's head he'll repay, with interest, The wrongs the father did him! "He is their prisoner," saidst thou?" Is their prisoner!" Thou hast no sons!—none!—I forgive thee, Elliot!

Elliot.—Deeply I crave your pardon, noble sir; Pity for you, and love for Scotland, made me That I was loath to speak the unwelcome tidings; Fearful that to attempt his rescue now, Had so cut off our few remaining troops, As seal immediate ruin.

Provost Ramsay [aside].—Preserve us a'! hear that. Weel, to be sure, it's a true saying, "Satan never lets his saunts be at a loss for an answer!"



SCENE V.—Apartment in EDWARD'S Tent.

Enter EDWARD and PERCY.

Edward.—How fares it with these stubborn rebels now? Do they still talk of death as of a bridal, While we protract the ceremony?

Percy.—I learn, my liege, we've got two glorious allies— Two most right honourable gentlemen— Aiding the smooth-tongued orator: Disease and Famine have espoused our cause, And the said traitor Elliot is their oracle.

Edward.—Touching this man, we have advice from him, In which he speaketh much concerns the wants And murmurings of the citizens: he, too, Adds, they hold out expecting help from Douglas, And recommendeth that we should demand The other son of Seton as a hostage, In virtue of a truce for fourteen days: This is his snare. The sons once in his power, Their father yields, or both hang up before him.

Percy.—'Tis monstrous generous of our friendly Scot; And what return expects he for his service?

Edward.—On giving up the father's head—his place.

Percy.—I fear the lady will have his head first. Did you but see her eyes! I'd bet my coronet 'gainst our friar's cowl, Man wink not treason in his bedchamber But she detect it. Then her ears, again; 'Sdeath! she can hear the very sound of light As it does steal, i' the morning, through her curtains. Should our friend wear his head another week, His neck, I'll swear, is not as other men's are.

Edward.—How fares it with the son, our silent prisoner?

Percy.—Poor soul, he leans his head against the wall, And stands with his arms thus—across his breast— Pale as a gravestone, gnashing at his teeth, And looking on his guards just as his mother would!

Edward.—'Tis now the hour that Elliot has proposed To stir the townsmen up to mutiny. Take our conditions, and whatever you please; Get but the son as hostage!—get but that! And both shall die a thief's death if he yield not; He is a father, Percy—he's a father! The town is ours, and at an easy purchase. [Exit

Percy.—And she's a mother, Edward! she's a mother! Ay! and a mother; I will pledge my earldom, And be but plain Hal Percy all my life, If she despise not gallows, death, and children, And earn for thee a crown of shame, my master! In sooth, I am ashamed to draw my sword, Lest I should see my face in its bright blade; For sure my mother would not know her son, As he goes blushing on his hangman's errand.



SCENE VI.—_A Street_—_the Market-place.

Enter_ ELLIOT _and_ Populace.

Elliot—You heard, my townsmen, how our gracious governor Did talk to us of honour—! you all heard him! Can any of you tell us what is honour? He drinks his wine, he feeds on beeves and capons; His table groans beneath a load of meats; His hounds, his hawks, are fed like Christian men! He sleeps in a downy couch, o'erhung with purple; And these, all these are honourable doings! He talks of liberty! Is it, then, liberty to be cooped up Within these prison walls, to starve from want, That we may have the liberty—mark it, my friends!— The wondrous liberty to call him Governor? Had ye the hearts or hands your fathers had, You'd to the castle, take the keys by force, And ope the gates to let your children live. Here comes your provost—now appeal to him.

Enter PROVOST RAMSAY.—The people demand bread.

Provost Ramsay.—Gie you food!—your bairns dee wi' hunger!—and ye maun hae bread! It is easy saying, Gie ye! but where am I to get it? Do you think there's naebody finds the grund o' their stamachs but yersels? I'm sure I hae been blind fastin' these four-and-twenty hours! But wad ye no suffer this, and ten times mair for liberty, and for the glory and honour of auld Scotland?

Elliot [to the people].—He, too, can cant of liberty and honour!

Provost Ramsay.—I say, Mr. Hypocrite! it is my fixed and solemn opinion that ye are at the bottom o' this murmuring. I ken ye're never at a loss for an answer; and there is anither wee bit affair I wad just thank ye to redd up. Do ye mind what a fine story ye made in this very market-place the ither week, about getting ower the bed—and your wife's bosom being torn bare—and the blood gushing to your feet, and a' the rest o't? Do ye mind o' that, sir? Do ye mind o' that? I daresay, townsmen, ye've no forgot it? Now, sir, it's no aboon ten minutes sine, that the poor creature—wha, according to your account, was dead and buried—got loose frae her confinement, and cam fleeing to me for protection, as a man and a magistrate, to save her frae the cruelty o' you, you scoundrel. Now, what say ye to that, sir? What say ye to that? What do you think o' your orator now, friends?

Elliot.—'Tis false, my friends—'Tis but a wicked calumny devised Against the only man who is your friend.

Provost Ramsay.—Saftly, neebor, saftly! have a care how ye gie the lee to what I say; or, it is my solemn opinion, this bit sword o' my faither's may stap you frae gien it till anither.

Enter SIR ALEXANDER and RICHARD.

Ye are weel come, Sir Alexander: here is Orator Elliot been makin' a harangue to the townsfolk; and ane cries for bread, and anither for meal—that it is my opinion I dinna ken what's to be done.

Sir Alex.—What would you have? what is it that you wish? Would ye, for food, sweet friends, become all slaves; And for a meal, that ye might surfeit on it, Give up your wives, your homes, and all that's dear, To the brute arms of men, who hold it virtue To heap their shame upon a fallen foe? Would ye, that ye might eat, yet not be satisfied, Pick up the scanty crumbs around their camp, After their cattle and their dogs have left them; Or would ye, for this favour, be content To take up arms against your countrymen!— For this! will fathers fight against their sons?— Sons 'gainst their fathers?—brethren with each other? Those who would wish it may go o'er to Edward!

[Sound of French horns without

Provost Ramsay.—Ay, here comes mair proposals—the sorry proposal them! I wish them and proposals an' a' were in the middle o' the Tweed.

Enter EARL PERCY and Attendants.

Percy.—Save ye, my band of heroes; by St. Cuthbert, Your valorous deeds have wrought a miracle, And turned my master's hatred into mercy; For, deeming it a sin that such brave fellows Should die a beggar's vulgar death from want, He doth propose to drop hostilities, And for two weeks you may command our friendship: If in that time you gain no aid from Scotland, Renounce the country, and be Edward master; But, should you gain assistance—why, then, we Will raise the siege, and wish you all good-bye.

Elliot [to the people].—Urge the acceptance, friends, of these conditions.

Omnes.—We all accept these terms.

Sir Alex.—It is the people's wish; and I agree.

Percy.—And you, in pledge of due performance, sir, Do give up this your son into our hands, In surety for your honour———

Sir Alex.—What! my son! Give him up too—yield him into your power? Have ye not one already?—No! no! no! I cannot, my Lord Percy; no, I cannot Part with him too, and leave their mother childless!

Provost Ramsay.—Wad ye no tak me as a substitute, Lord Percy? I'm a man o' property, and chief magistrate beside; now, I should think, I'm the maist likely person.

Percy.—Good master magistrate and man of property, I like thy heart, but cannot take thy person. Give up the youth, or here must end my truce!

Richard.—Fear not, my father. I will be their hostage, For Scotland's sake, and for my father's honour—

Sir Alex.—My boy, my boy, and shall I lose you thus? What surety does cruel Edward give, That, keeping faith, he will restore my sons Back to my arms in safety? Tell me, Percy; Gives he his honour as a man or king?

Percy.—As both, I hold it.

Sir Alex.—And wilt thou pledge thine?

Percy.—This is my master's business, and not mine.

Sir Alex.—'Tis an evasion, and I like it not.

Richard.—Farewell! farewell, my father! be the first To teach these men the virtue of self-sacrifice. Commend me to my mother. I will bear Both of your best loves to our Henry. Farewell! Lead on, Lord Percy. [Exeunt.



SCENE VII.—Apartment in SETON'S House.

Enter SIR ALEXANDER, PROVOST RAMSAY, HUGH ELLIOT, and others.

Sir Alex.—Would Heaven that all go well with my dear boys! But there's that within me that does tear My bosom with misgivings. The very sun To me hangs out a sign of ominous gloom! A spirit seems to haunt me, and the weight Of evil undefined, and yet unknown, Doth, like a death's-hand, press upon my heart.

Provost Ramsay.—Hoot, I wad fain think that the warst is past, and that there is nae danger o' onything happenin' now. But do ye ken, sir, it is my fixed and solemn opinion, that, before onything really is gaun to happen to a body, or to ony o' their friends, like, there is a kind o' something comes ower ane—a sort o' sough about the heart there—an' ye dinna ken what for.

Sir Alex.—Have ye beheld how they are raising bastions, Flanking fresh cannon, too, in front the town, Gaining new reinforcements to their camp, And watching all our outgoings? Do you think This looks as Edward meant to keep his faith? I am betrayed, my friends—I am betrayed. Fear marcheth quickly to a father's breast— My sons are lost! are lost!

Provost Ramsay.—It's true that King Edward's preparations, and his getting sic fearfu' additions to his army, doesna look weel. But what is a king but his word mair than a man?

Enter Servant.

Servant.—Lord Percy craves an audience with your honour.

Sir Alex.—Conduct him hither. 'Tis as I boded!

[Exit Servant—enter PERCY.

You look grave, my lord.

Percy.—Faith, if I can look grave, to-day I should: None of my mother's children, gossips said, Were born with a sad face; but I could wish That I had never smiled, or that her maid Had been my mother, rather than that I Had been the bearer of this day's vile tidings.

Sir Alex.—'Tis of my sons!—what! what of them, Lord Percy? What of them?

Percy.—Yes, 'tis of your sons I'd speak!— They live—they're well!—can you be calm to hear me? I would speak of your sons.

Sir Alex.—I feel!—I feel! I understand you, Percy! you WOULD speak of my sons!— Go, thrust thy head into a lion's den, Murder its whelps, and say to it, Be calm! Be calm! and feel a dagger in thy heart! 'Twas kindly said!—kind! kind! to say, Be calm! I'm calm, Lord Percy! what—what of my sons?

Percy.—If I can tell thee, and avoid being choked— Choked with my shame and loathing—I will tell thee! But each particular word of this black mission Is like a knife thrust in between my teeth.

Sir Alex.—Torture me not, my lord, but speak the worst; My ears can hear—my heart can hold no more!

Enter LADY SETON.

Percy.—Hear them in as few words as I can tell it: Edward hath sworn, and he will keep his vow, That if to-day ye yield not up the town, Become his prisoners, break your faith with Scotland, Ye with the morning dawn shall see your sons Hung up before your windows. He hath sworn it; And, by my earldom—faith as a Christian— Honour as a peer—he will perform it!

Lady Seton [aside].—Ruler of earth and heaven! a mother begs Thy counsel—Thy protection! Say I mother! No voice again shall call me by that name— Both! both my boys!

Sir Alex.—Ha! my Matilda! Thou here! Dry up thy tears, my love! dry up thy tears! I cannot sacrifice both sons and mother! Alas, my country! I must sell thee dearly! My faith—mine honour too!—take—take them, Percy! I am a father, and my sons shall live!— Shall live! and I shall die! [Unsheathing his sword.

Lady Seton.—Hold! hold, my husband—save thy life and honour! Thou art a father—am not I a mother? Knowest thou the measure of a mother's love? Think ye she yearns not for her own heart's blood? Yet I will live! and thou shalt live, my husband! We will not rob this Edward of his shame; Write—I will dictate as my sons had done it— I know their nature, for 'twas I who gave it.

Sir Alex.—Thou wait'st an answer, Percy—I will give it. [Sits down to write.

No; I cannot, Matilda.

Lady Seton.—Write thus: "Edward may break his faith, but Seton cannot! Edward may earn disgrace, but Seton honour! His sons are in your power! Do! do as ye list!"

[He starts up in agitation.

Sir Alex.—No, no! it cannot be—say not my sons! Lord Percy, let your tyrant take my life! Torture me inchmeal!—to the last I'll smile, And bless him for his mercy!—but spare, oh spare my children!

Provost Ramsay.—Really, Sir Alexander, I dinna ken hoo to advise you. To think o' gien up the toun to sic a monster o' iniquity, is entirely out o' the question—just impossible a'thegither; and to think o' the twa dear brave bairns sufferin', is just as impossible as to flee in the air. I tell ye what, my lord—and it is my opinion it is a very fair proposal (if naething but deaths will satisfy your king)—I, for ane, will die in their stead—their faither will for anither; and is there ane amang you, my townsmen, that winna do the same, and let your names be handed down as heroes to your bairns' bairns, and the last generation?

Percy.—Thou hast a noble heart, old honest Scotsman; but I cannot accept your generous offer.

Lady Seton.—Mark this, my husband!—that we may still be parents— That we might have two sons to live and scorn us— Sell country—honour—all—and live disgraced: Think ye MY SONS would call a traitor father?— They drew their life from me—from me they drew it; And think ye I would call a traitor husband?— What! would ye have them live, that every slave, In banquet or in battle, might exclaim, "For you, ye hinds, your father sold his country?" Or, would you have them live, that no man's daughter Would stoop so low as call your sons her husband? Would you behold them hooted, hissed at, Oft, as they crossed the street, by every urchin? Would ye your sons—your noble sons—met this, Eather than die for Scotland? If ye do love them, Love them as a man!

Sir Alex.—'Tis done! my country, thou hast made me bankrupt! And I am childless! [Exeunt

SCENE VIII.—The river, and boat. Time midnight. Enter one habited as a friar.

Friar.—-'Tis now thick midnight. All round me sleep, And not a star looks from the curtained heaven. The very sentinels cease to pace their round, And stand in calm security. I'll brave them. What though the bridge be guarded, and the river Rush like a tiger?—love has no such fears, And Heaven is stronger than its waters!

[A bell tolls slowly.

Ha! that slow-tongued bell, that speaks of death, Falls on my ears as would a solid substance, Pressing my heart down! Oh cruel speed! Already they prepare their execution! But they shall live, or I with them shall die! THOU, who beholdest me, and lookest through The darkness of Thy heavens upon Thy suppliant, Let not a tyrant stain Thy earth with blood— The blood of innocence! Thou, who art mercy, Spare a father's tears! Thou, who art love, Look on a mother's anguish! Thou, who art justice, Save! oh, save their children! Thou, who art power, Strengthen my hands to-night. [Rises. Now, may an angel's hand direct my skiff Straight to their camp, till with one blow I strike Their freedom and my country's!

[He leaps into the boat and pushes off.



SCENE IX.—The English camp. A fire in the distance. Enter HENRY and RICHARD, fettered and guarded.

Henry.—Would it were morning, and the hour were come. For still my heart misgives me, lest our parents Do, in fond weakness, save us by dishonour!

Richard.—Rather than purchase life at such a price, And have my father sell his faith for me, And sell his country, I would rather thou, My brother in my birth and in my death, Should be my executioner! We know them better!

Henry.—Now I seem old and weary of this life, So joy I in our death for Scotland's sake; For this death will so wed us to our country, We shall be old in years to all posterity! And it will place a blot on Edward's name, That time may blacken, but can ne'er efface.

Richard.—My heart, too, beats as light as if tomorrow Had been, by young love, destined for my bridal; Yet oft a tear comes stealing down my cheek, When I do think me of our mother, Henry!

Henry.—Oh speak not of our parents! or my heart Will burst ere morning, and from the tyrant rob His well-earned infamy.

Richard.—Oh! I must speak of them: They now will wander weeping in their chamber, Or from their window through the darkness gaze, And stretch their hands and sigh towards the camp; Then, when the red east breaks the night away— Ah! what a sight will meet their eyes, my brother!

Henry.—My brother! oh my brother!

Enter FRIAR.

Guard.—Who would pass here?

Friar.—A friend! a friend!—a messenger of mercy!

Guard.—Nay, wert thou mercy's self, you cannot pass.

Friar.—Refuse ye, then, your prisoners their confessor?

Guard.—Approach not, or ye die!

Friar.—Would ye stretch forth your hand 'gainst Heaven's anointed?

Guard.—Ay! 'gainst the Pope himself, if he should thwart me.

Friar.—Mercy ye have not, neither shall ye find it.

[Springs forward and stabs him—approaches RICHARD and HENRY, and unbinds their fetters.

Friar.—In chains as criminals! Ye are free, but speak not.

Richard.—Here, holy father, let me kneel to thank thee.

Henry.—And let me hear but my deliverer's name, That my first prayer may waft it to the skies.

Friar.—Kneel not, nor thank me here. There's need of neither; But be ye silent, for the ground has ears; Nor let it hear your footsteps.

[He approaches the fire; kindles a torch and fires the camp.

Henry.—Behold, my brother, he has fired the camp! Already see the flames ascend around him.

Friar.—Now! now, my country! here thou art avenged! Fly with me to the beach! pursuit is vain! Thou, Heaven, hast heard me! thou art merciful! [Exit.



SCENE X.—Apartment in SETON'S House.

Sir Alex.—Oh, what is honour to a father's heart? Can it extinguish nature—soothe its feelings— Or make the small still voice of conscience dumb? My sons! my sons! Though ye should hold me guiltless, there's a tongue Within me whispers, I'm your murderer! Ah! my Matilda! hadst thou been less noble, We both had been less wretched! But do I, To hide my sin, place't on the mother's heart? Though she did hide the mother from men's eyes, Now, crushed by woes, she cannot look on mine. But, locked in secret, weeps her soul away, That it may meet her children's! I alone, Widowed and childless, like a blasted oak Reft of its root and branches, must be left For every storm to howl at!

[ELLIOT enters with a dagger.

Ah, my sons! Could anguish rend my heartstrings, I should not Behold another sun rise on my misery!

Elliot [springing upon him].—By Heavens, mine enemy, I swear thou shalt not!

They struggle. Shouting without. Enter FRIAR and SETON'S SONS, PROVOST RAMSAY. FRIAR springs forward.

Friar.—Down! traitor, down! [Stabs ELLIOT.

Sir Alex.—My sons! my sons! Angels of mercy, do you mock my sight! My boys! my boys!

Provost Ramsay.—Save us a'! save us a'!—callants, come to my arms too! Here's an hour o' joy! This, in my solemn opinion, is what I ca' livin' a lifetime in the twinklin' o' an ee. And what think ye, Sir Alexander! The English camp is a' in a bleeze, and there they are fleeing awa helter-skelter, leaving everything behind them.

Sir Alex.—What! they fly too!—thank Heaven! thank Heaven! My cup of joy o'erflows, and floods my heart More than my griefs!

Richard.—'Tis true, my father— To this, our unknown saviour, do we owe Our life and yours!—'twas he, too, seized the torch, And bid the bonfire blaze to Scotland's freedom.

Sir Alex.—Forgive me, reverend stranger, if that I, In the delirium of a parent's joy, O'erlooked the hand that saved me: Kneel, my sons, And with your father, at this stranger's feet, Pour out your thanks, and beg his blessing also.

[They kneel around the supposed friar, who casts off the disguise, and is discovered to be their mother.

Lady Seton.—A mother, in her children's cause, fears nothing, And needs not thanks— A woman, in her country's cause, Can dare what man dare! [They start up.

Sir Alex.—What! my Matilda!

Richard.—My mother!

Henry.—Ha! my mother!

Lady Seton.—Joy, joy, my sons; your mother's done her duty! And joy, my husband, we have saved our honour.

Sir Alex.—Matilda, thou hast ta'en my heart anew, And with it, too, my words!

Provost Ramsay.—The like o' this! I may weel say, what, in the universal globe, tempted me to be a bachelor! [Exeunt.



XXV.

FAREWELL TO A PLACE ON THE BORDERS.

Lochmaben! I from thee must part, 'Tis destined so to be; Thy lovely lochs, dear to my heart, I never more may see.

The heaven of May is mirror'd clear Within thy waters deep; So shall my soul with loving care Thine image ever keep.

I've seen Edina's rocky walls, Her palaces and bowers; I've gazed on London's lofty halls, And monumental towers.

In yon green isle towards the west, I've roamed without control; And many a wild, romantic coast Has charm'd my inmost soul.

But aye to me the sunniest rays Have thrown their sweetest gleams Where Bruce was born, and summer days Inspired my youthful dreams.

The water lilies there shall rest, And minnows round them play; The coot shall build her floating nest, When I am far away.

But ah! no more thy streams and glens Shall bless my sight, Lochmaben; Farewell, farewell, lochs, woods, and fens— Farewell, farewell, Lochmaben!



GLOSSARY AND GENERAL INDEX.



GLOSSARY.



—A—

A', adj. all.

ABAK, adv. behind.

ABASIT, part. pa. confounded; abashed.

ABBACY, s. an abbey.

ABEE—to let abee, to let alone; not to meddle with.

ABEECH, ABIEGH, adv. aloof; "at a shy distance;" keep aloof.

ABLE, ABLIS, ABLINS, AIBLINS, adv. perhaps; peradventure.

ABONE, ABOW, ABOON, ABUNE, prep, above.

ABOOT, prep, about.

AE, adj. one; only; single.

AFF, adv. off; away.

AFFCAST, s. a castaway.

AFFCOME, s. the termination of any business. "I gied him his affcome," I gave him a down-setting, or offset.

AFEIRD, part. pa. afraid.

AFFHAND, adj. plain; honest; blunt; without premeditation.

AFFLUFF, adv. extempore.

AFORE, prep, before.

AFFPUT, s. pretence for delay.

AFFPUTTING, adj. trifling; delaying.

AFFSIDE, s. offside.

AFT, adv. often.

AFTEN, adv. often.

AFTERHEND, adv. afterwards.

AGAYNE, prep, against.

AGAIT, adv. on the way or road.

AGEE, adv. to one side; ajar; a little open.

AGLEY, A-GLY, adv. off the right line; obliquely; wrong.

AHIND, AHINT, adv. behind.

AIK, s. the oak.

AILEN, part. pa. ailing.

AIN, adj. own.

AINS, adv. once.

AIR, adv. early in the morning.

AIR, AIRE, AYR, s. an heir.

AIRMS, s. pl. arms.

AIRN, s. iron.

AIRT, AIRTH, s. point of the compass.

AISLAIR, adj. a polished substance.

AITS, s. pl. oats.

AITEN, adj. oaten.

AITH, s. an oath.

AIZLE, s. a hot ember.

ALANE, adj. alone.

ALANG, adv. along.

ALD, AULD, adj. old.

ALMOUS, AUMES, s. pl. alms.

AMAIST, adv. almost.

AMANG, prep. among.

AMBRY, s. a press or closet where victuals are kept for daily use.

AN', conj. and.

ANE, adj. one.

ANENT, prep, over against; opposite.

ANETH, prep, beneath.

ANEUCH, adv. enough.

ANIEST, adv. or prep. on this side of; on the nearest side.

ANITHER, adj. another.

ANKERSTOCK, s. a loaf made of rye, sweetened with treacle.

ANSE, adv. once.

APERT, adj. brisk; bold; free.

APERTLY, adv. briskly; readily.

APON, APOUN, prep. upon.

APPARELLE, s. equipage; furniture for warfare.

APPLERINGIE, s. the plant called southernwood.

ARCH, adj. averse; reluctant.

To ARGLE-BARGLE, ARGIE-BARGIE, v. a. to contend; to bandy backwards and forwards.

ARK, s. a large chest used for holding meal or corn.

ARK of a Mill, s. the place in which the water-wheel moves.

To ARLE, v. a. to give earnest of any kind.

ARLES, s. earnest of any kind.

ARLY, adv. early.

ARMYN, ARMYNG; s. armour; arms.

ART and PART, accessory to, or abetting.

ASSE, s. ashes, plural assis and aiss.

ASSHOLE, s. place for receiving ashes under the grate.

ASCHET, s. a large plate, on which meat is brought to table.

ASK, AWSK, s. an eft or water newt; a lizard.

ASKLENT, ASCLENT, ASKLINT, adv. obliquely; asquint; on one side.

To ASSAILYIE, v. a. to attack, to assail.

To ASSOLYIE, v. a. to acquit.

ASTEER, adv. in confusion; in a bustle.

A'THEGITHER, adv. altogether.

ATHORT, prep, through, athwart.

ATOUR, ATTOURE, prep. over.

ATTOMIE, s. a skeleton.

ATTELED, part. pa. aimed.

ATTER-CAP, ATTIR-COP, s. 1. a spider; 2. an ill-tempered person; one of a malignant or virulent disposition.

ATWEESH, prep, between; betwixt.

AUGHT, pret. pa. possessed.

AUCHT, s. property; possession; that which is exclusively one's own. In aw my aucht, all I am possessed of.

AUKWART, AWKWART, prep. across; athwart.

AULD-CLUITY, s. the devil.

AULDEST, adj. oldest; elder.

AULD, adj. old; aged.

AULDFARRANT, AULDFARRAND, adj. sagacious.

AULD-MOU'D, adj. sagacious in discourse. Sometimes used as crafty.

AUMUS, s. an alms.

AVA, adv. at all.

AWA, adv. away.

AWFU', adj. awful.

AWIN, AWYN, adj. own. This is the common pronoun in the south of Scotland; in other parts, ain.

AWNIE, adj. bearded.

AWNS, s. pl. the beards of corn or barley.

AWSK, s. the newt or eft.

AWSOME, adj. awful; appalling.

To AX, v. a. to ask.

AX-TREE, s. an axle-tree.

AYONT, prep. beyond.

AY, adv. yes.



—B—

BABIE, BAWBIE, s. a halfpenny.

BACHLE, BAUCHLE, s. an old shoe or slipper.

BACKLINS, adv. backwards. To gae backlins, to walk backwards, like a ropemaker.

BACKSPANG, s. a trick, or legal quirk; advantage taken by one over another.

To BACK-SPEIR, v. a. to trace a report as far back as possible; to cross-question.

BACK-SPEIRER, s. a cross-examiner.

BADE, pret. of bide.

BADRANS, BATHRONS, s. a designation for a cat.

To BAE, v. n. to bleat like sheep.

To BAFF, v. a. to beat.

BAFF, s. a stroke or blow.

BAIKIE, s. the stake to which a cow is fastened in the stall.

BAILIE, s. an alderman; the deputy of a baron in a borough of barony.

BAIR, BAR, s. a boar.

BAIRD, s. a bard or poet.

BAIRN, BARNE, s. a child.

BAIRNHEID, s. childhood.

BAIRNLY, adj. childish.

BAIRNLINESS, s. childishness.

BAIRNS-MAID, s. a nursery-maid.

BAIS, adj. having a deep or hollow sound: bass.

To BAYT, v. n. to feed.

BAISEE, BAIVIE, s. a large fire; a great blaze.

BAKE, s. a biscuit.

BAKSTER, BAXSTER, s. a baker.

BALD, BAULD, adj. bold; intrepid.

BALDERDASH, s. foolish noisy nonsense.

BALK, BURRAL, s. an elevated ridge, raised by a plough.

BALLANT, s. a ballad; a song.

BALOW, BALOO, s. a lullaby; a term used by nurses when lulling children.

To BAN, BANN, v. a. to curse.

BANNIN, pr. pa. swearing.

BANDKYN, s. a species of cloth, the warp of which is thread of gold and the woof silk, and adorned with figures.

BANDSTER, BANSTER, s. one who binds sheaves after the reapers in the harvest field.

BANE, s. a bone.

BANE-FYER, s. a bonfire.

To BANG, v. a. to change place with impetuosity— as, to bang up, to start to our feet suddenly.

BANNOCK, s. a cake of barley or pease meal baked on a girdle.

BANNOCK-FLUKE, s. a turbot.

BAP, s. a thick cake, baked in an oven, with yeast in it, and made of flour, oat meal, or barley meal, and sometimes a mixture of two of them.

BARE, adj. lean; meagre; naked; uncovered.

To BARKEN, v. n. to become hard; to clot.

BARLA-BREIKIS, BURLEY-BRAKS, s. a game played in a corn-yard, running round the stacks.

BARLEY, s. a term used by children in games, when a truce, or a cessation for the time, is demanded.

BARNE. See BAIRN.

BASSIE, s. an old horse.

BASTOUN, s. a heavy staff; a baton.

BAITH, adj. both.

BATIE, BAWTIE, s. a name applied to dogs, generally large ones, without reference to sex.

BATS, s. pl. the bots, a disease in horses.

To BATTER, v. a. to paste.

BAUCHLE, BACHEL, s. an old shoe.

BAUGH, adj. ungrateful to the taste.

BAUK, BAWK, s. a cross beam in the roof of a house.

BAUK, BAWK, s. a strip of land, two or three feet wide, left unploughed.

BAUSY, adj. strong; big.

To BAW, v. a. to hush; to lull in the manner of nursing a child.

BAW, s. a ball.

BAWBEE, a halfpenny.

BAWDEKYN, s. cloth of gold.

BAXTER, s. a baker.

BEAR, BERE, s. barley.

To BECK, v. to curtsey.

BEDRAL, s. a person who is bedrid.

BEGRUTTEN, part. pa. having the face disfigured with weeping.

BEIK, BIKE, s. a hive of bees.

BEIK, BEKE, BEEK, v. a. to bask, as in the sun.

BEILD, BIELD, s. shelter; refuge.

BEIN, BANE, s. bone.

BIRR, s. noise; cry; force.

BEKE, BEIK, BEEK, v. a. to bask.

BELD, adj. bald; without hair on the head.

BELE, s. a fire; a blaze.

BELYVE, adv. by and by.

To BELL THE CAT, to contend with a person of superior rank; to withstand him, either by actions or words, especially the former.

BELLY-THRA, s. the colic.

To BELT, v. a. to gird; to flog; to scourge.

BEN, adv. towards the inner apartments of a house. A room is generally called ben, and the kitchen but.

BEN-END, s. the ben-end of a house, the inner end of it.

BEN, BIN, s. a mountain.

BENE, BIEN, adj. wealthy; having abundance.

BENK, BINK, s. a bench; a seat.

BENORTH, prep. to the northward of.

BENSHIE, BENSHI, s. a fairy's wife.

BENT, s. a coarse grass growing on sand-hills.

BERE, BEAR, s. barley.

BERN, s. a barn.

To BESEIK, v. a. to beseech; to entreat.

BESYNE, BYSIM, s. a bawd.

BESOUTH, prep, to the southward of.

BEST-MAN, s. groomsman; best-maid, the bridesmaid.

BETWEESH, prep, betwixt.

BEUCH, a branch; a bough.

BEVIE, s. a great fire.

To BEWRY, v. a. to pervert, to distort.

BIB, s. a piece of linen used to keep the breast of a child clean when feeding it.

BICK, s. a bitch; the female of the canine species.

To BICKER, v. a. to fight with stones as schoolboys; to run off quickly.

BICKER, BIQUOUR, s. a small wooden dish, made in the form of a washing-tub, the staves being alternately black and white.

To BIDE, BYDE, v. n. to wait for; to abide; to endure; to suffer.

To BIG, v. a. to build.

BIGGIN, BYGGYN, s. a building.

BIGGIT, part. pa. built.

BIKE, BEIK, BINK, s. a nest of wild bees or wasps.

BILGET, adj. bulged; swelling out.

BILLIE, BILLY, s. a companion; a comrade.

BINDWOOD, s. ivy.

BING, s. a heap; a pile of wood.

BINK. See BIKE.

BIRD, BURD, s. a bird; a damsel; a lady.

BIRDIE, s. a little bird.

BIRK, s. a birch-tree.

To BIRK, v. n. to give a tart or sharp answer.

BIRKIN, adj. of or belonging to birch-wood.

BIRKY, s. a lively young man; a mettlesome person.

BIRL, v. n. to ply with drink; to club money for the purpose of purchasing drink.

BIRN, v. a. to burn.

BIRS, BIRSE, s. a bristle. His birse is up, he is in a passion. He's a birsie man, he is liable to be irritated easily.

To BIRSLE, v. a. to broil; to roast.

BIRSSY, adj. having bristles; hot-tempered.

To BIRZE, BRIZE, v. a. to bruise; to drive or push.

BISKET, BRISKET, s. the breast.

To BISSE, BIZZ, v. n. to make a hissing sound, as hot iron plunged into water.

BISSOME, BYSSYM, s. an unworthy female.

BIT, s. a vulgar term used for food. He takes the bit and the buffit wi't, he takes the food and the blow along with it.

BITTILL, BEETLE, s. a wooden mallet for beating clothes.

To BLABBER, v. n. to babble; to speak indistinctly.

BLACKAVICED, a. dark-complexioned.

BLACK-COCK, s. the black grouse.

BLACK-FISHING, s. fishing for salmon by torch light.

BLACK-FOOT, s. a person who makes matches, or goes between a lover and his mistress.

BLAD, s. a large piece of anything.

BLADE, s. the leaf of a tree.

BLADOCH, BLEDOCH, s. buttermilk.

BLAE, BLA, adj. livid; used when the skin is discoloured with a blow, or when chilled with cold.

BLAEBERRY, s. the bilberry.

BLAIDRY, s. nonsense; folly; silly talk.

BLAIN, s. a mark or blemish left by a wound.

BLAIT, adj. bashful; sheepish.

BLAIT-MOUIT, adj. sheepish; ashamed to open one's mouth, or speak. Ye'r no blait, you are very forward or impudent—used metaphorically.

BLAITIE-BUM, s. a stupid, simple fellow.

BLASH, s. a heavy fall of rain.

BLASHY, adj. deluging, sweeping away, as in a flood; thin, poor, as applied to broth or soup.

To BLAST, v. n. to smoke. To take a blast, to take a smoke.

BLATE, BLAIT, adj. bashful.

To BLATHER, v. n. to talk nonsense; to talk ridiculously.

BLATTER, s, a rattling noise, such as that made by a heavy shower of rain or hail.

To BLAW, v. to blow.

BLEAR, s. to obscure the sight.

BLEARD, s. dull of sight; having inflamed eyes.

BLEEZE, v. n. milk is said to be bleezed when it has become a little sour.

BLEIB, s. a pustule, a blister.

The BLEIBS, s. pl. the chicken-pox.

To BLENK, BLINK, v. n. to open the eyes as after slumber; to throw a glance of regard.

BLENK, BLINK, s. a gleam of light.

BLENT, s. a glance as in the quick motions of the eye.

To BLETHER, v. n. to stammer, or speak indistinctly, or nonsensically.

BLIN, adj. blind.

BLINK. See BLENK.

To BLIRT, v. n. to burst out a-crying or weeping.

BLOB, BLAB, s. 1. anything circular and turned; 2. a blister.

BLOBBIT, part. pa. bloated; blurred; blotched.

BLUBBER, s. a bubble of air.

To BLUBBER, v. a. to cry, to weep.

BLUE-GOWN, s. a pensioner. Formerly all pensioners received a blue gown on the king's birthday.

BLUID, s. blood.

BLUIDY, adj. bloody; bloodthirsty; covered with gore.

BLUITER, BLUTTER, v. n. to make a rumbling noise.

BLUNTIE, s. a stupid fellow; a sniveller.

BOAL, BOLE, s. a small aperture or press in a house for the reception of small articles; a small opening in a wall for the admission of light or air.

BOB, s. a curtsey.

To BOCK, v. a. to make a noise with the throat, as persons will frequently do before vomiting.

BOD, BODDY, s. a person of diminutive stature.

BODDUM, s. bottom.

BODE, BOD, s. an offer made prior to a bargain; a proffer.

BODEN, BUDDEN, v. offered; proffered.

BODLE, s. an old copper coin of the value of two pennies Scots, or third part of a penny English.

BOGILL, BOGLE, s. 1. a hobgoblin; a spectre; 2. a scarecrow; any made-up imitation of a spectre.

BOMBILL, BUMBILL, s. buzzing noise.

BOMBILL-BEE, s. a drone.

BONIE, BONYE, BONNY, adj. beautiful; having a fine countenance.

BONIEST, adj. the most beautiful.

BOOL, s. an ironical name, as applied to an old man.

BOONMOST, adj. uppermost.

BOORDLEY, s. strong; large; broad; having a manly appearance.

BORDEL, s. a brothel.

BOS, BOSS, BOIS, adj. hollow.

BOT, BUT, conj. but; without anything.

BOTHE, BOOTHE, s. a shop made of boards.

BOTHIE, s. pl. a cottage; such a one as is occupied generally for the use of servants.

BOTTINGS, BUITINGS, s. half boots, or leathern spatterdashes.

BOUCHT, BOUGHT, BUCHT, s. a small pen used for milking ewes.

To BOUCHT, BUCHT, v. a. to enclose.

BOUK, BUIK, s. the trunk of the body; bulk.

BOUKIT, adj. bulky, large. No muckle boukit, not of much size or dimensions.

BOUN, adj. prepared; ready.

BOUR, s. the private chamber of a lady in ancient times.

BOURTREE, BOUNTREE, s. common elder-tree.

BOW, s. a boll; eight pecks.

BOW, s. the arch of a bridge; a gateway; a crooked path.

BOWIE, s. a small cask or barrel; a milk pail.

BOWSIE, adj. crooked; applied to a crooked person, who is called a bowsie.

BRACE, s. the chimney-piece.

BRACKEN, BRAIKEN, BROCKEN, s. the fern.

To BRACK, v. a. to break.

BRACKIT, BRACKET, BRUCKIT, adj. speckled.

BRAE, s. tho side of a hill; an acclivity.

To BRAG, v. a. 1. to defy; 2. to reproach.

BRAID, BRADE, adj. wide; broad.

BRANDNEW. See BRENTNEW.

BRANDER, s. a gridiron.

To BRANDER, v. n. to broil.

BRANG, part. pa. brought.

BRANKS, s. a swelling in the glands of the neck.

BRAT, s. a coarse apron.

BRATCHET, BRATCHART, s. an opprobrious term, equivalent to whelp.

BRAW, BRA, adj. fine; gaily-dressed.

BRAWLY, BRAVELY, adv. very well.

BRAWS, s. fine clothes; a person's best suit.

BRAXY, BRACKS, s. a disease in sheep.

BREADBERRY, s. pap, used as food for children.

BREAK (of a hill,) s. a hollow cleft in a hill.

BRECHAME, BRECHEM, s. the collar of a horse.

BREE, BRIE, BREW, BROO, s. broth; soup.

BRE, BREE, s. the eyebrow.

BREEKS, BREIKS, s. breeches.

BREER, BREARD, s. the first blades of grain which appear above ground.

To BREER, v. n. to germinate.

BREID, s. breadth.

BRENT, adj. high; straight; upright.

BRENTNEW, quite new.

BRIG, BREG, BRYG, s. a bridge.

To BRIZE, BIRSE, v. a. to bruise; to drive or push.

BROCHAN, s. oatmeal boiled to a consistence thicker than gruel.

BROCK, s. a badger.

BROCKED, BROCKET, adj. streaked and spotted, as a brockit cow.

BROCKLIE, adj. brittle.

BROD, s. a flat piece of wood; a board.

To BROG, v. a. to pierce.

BROGUE, s. a coarse kind of shoe made of horse leather with the hair on, used by Highlanders.

BROK, s. refuse; fragments.

BROO, s. broth.

BROONIE, s. a spirit supposed to haunt farm-houses, and which, if treated well, performed the duties of the servants while they were sleeping.

BROSE, s. a kind of food made by pouring hot water on oatmeal, and mixing them together. Kail-brose is made by substituting broth for water.

BROWST, s. the quantity of malt liquor brewed at one time.

BRUGH, BURGH, s. a borough; a circular encampment; the hazy circle round the moon.

BRUSE, BROOSE, BRUISE, v. a. To ride the bruise, to run a race on horseback at country weddings. Metaphorically— to contend; to strive.

To BRUSH, v. a. to rush forth with speed.

BU, BOO, s. a sound often made use of to excite terror in children. Bu-man, the devil, or a goblin; an imaginary evil being; a phrase used to keep children in subjection.

BUBBLY, adj. snotty.

BUBBLYJOCK, s. a turkey-cock.

BUCHT, s. a fold; a bending; the fold of a ribbon.

BUCKIE, BUCKY, s. any spiral shell.

BUCKIE-INGRAM, s. the soldier-crab, Cancer bernardus, which always inhabits the shells of other animals.

To BUCKLE, v. a. to join together, as in marriage.

BUCKLE-THE-BEGGARS, s. a person who marries others in a clandestine manner.

BUCKTOOTH, s. a tooth jutting out from the others.

BUFF, s. a stroke; nonsense.

BUFFER, s. a foolish fellow.

BUFFET, s. a blow.

BUFFETS, s. pl. swellings in the glands.

BUFFIE, adj. swelled; blown up; puffed up.

BUIK, s. the body; the chest.

BUIK, BUK, BUKE, s. a book.

BUIRDLY, BURDLY, adj. large and well-made; stately.

To BULLER, v. n. to make a noise like water rushing to and fro in the cavity of a rock.

To BULLIRAG, v. a. to abuse; to tease; to rally in contempt; to reproach.

BULYIEMENTS, s. habiliments.

To BUM, v. n. to make a sound like that of bees; the sound emitted by a bagpipe.

BUMBAZED, adj. stupified.

BUMBEE, s. the humble bee; a wild bee; a drone.

BUM-CLOCK, s. the common flying beetle.

BUN, BUNN, s. a cake commonly used at New-Year time, composed of flour, dried fruits, and spices.

To BUNG, v. n. to make tipsy.

BUNKER, BUNKART, s. a low and long chest, frequently placed in front of a bed in cottages, and used as a press, and also as a seat.

BUNTLING, s. a bantling; a bird.

BURD, s. a damsel; a lady.

BURDALANE, s. used when a person is left solitary, as a child the inmate of a strange family.

BURDE, BOORD, s. a table; a board.

BURIAN, s. a tumulus; a mound of earth.

BURLAW, BYRLAW, BIRLEY, s. a court consisting of country neighbours who settle local disputes, etc.

BURLY, s. a crowd; a brawl.

BURN, s. a small stream; a rivulet. Burnie, burny, is used as the diminutive of burn.

BURR, BURRH, s. persons are said to have the burr who pronounce the letter r with a whirring sound, as the Northumbrians.

BURSIN, BURSTEN, part. pa. burst; overpowered with fatigue.

To BUSK, v. a. to dress; to attire.

BUT, prep, without; towards the outer apartment of a house, or kitchen.

BUTER, BUTTER, s. the bittern.

BYGANES, s. what is past; used in quarrels, as, Let byganes be byganes; let what is past be past.

BYRE, s. a cow-house.

BY-RUNIS, s. pl. arrears; past debts.

BYSPRINT, part. pa. besprinkled.

BYSSYM, BISSOM, s. an unworthy female.



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To CA, v. a. to call; to strike; to drive.

To CAB, v. a. to pilfer.

CABBACK. See KEBBUCK.

CADDIS, s. lint for dressing a wound.

CADIE, s. an errand-runner; a carrier of parcels.

CAFF, s. chaff.

CAIGIE, s. wanton.

CAIGIELY, adv. cheerfully; wantonly.

CAIK, s. a flat cake made of oatmeal.

To CAIKLE, v. a. to make a noise like a hen.

CAIRD, s. a gipsy; a travelling tinker.

CAIP, CAPE, s. the highest part of anything.

CAIRN, s. a conical heap of stones.

CAIR-WEEDS, s. mourning weeds.

CALD, CAULD, s. cold.

CALLAN, CALLANT, s. a stripling.

CALLER, adj. cool; refreshing.

CALLOT, s. a cap for a woman's head.

CALM-SOUGH, to say little.

CALSAY, CAWSAY, s. a causeway street; that part of a street which is bounded by the flags.

CAM, pret. came.

CAM-NOSED, adj. hook-nosed.

CAMPY, adj. bold; brave.

CAMSHAUCHEL'D, part. adj. distorted.

CAMSTERIE, CAMSTAIRIE, adj. unmanageable; perverse.

CANE, KAIN, s. a duty paid by a tenant of land to the owners in kind.

CANKERT, adj. ill-tempered; cross.

CANN, CAN, s. skill; knowledge; acquirements.

CANNA, CANNAE, cannot.

CANNIE, KANNIE, adj. cautious; prudent.

CANNILY, adv. prudently; cautiously.

CANTY, adj. cheerful; lively.

CANTEL, s. the crown of the head.

CANTRAP, s. an incantation; a spell; mischief artfully performed.

CAP, v. n. to crown; to surmount.

CAP, KAP, s. a wooden bowl.

CAPERCAILYE, CAPERCALYEANE, s. the wood-grouse or cock of the wood, Tetrao urogallus (Linn.)

CAPERNOITED, adj. peevish; irritable; crabbed; snappish.

CARDINAL, s. a long cloak worn by women, generally those of a red colour, and commonly provided with a hood.

CAR-HANDED, adv. left-handed.

CARL, CAIRLE, CARLL, s. an old man.

CARLIE, s. a diminutive man.

CARLIN, s. an old woman.

CARLINS-E'EN, s. the last night of the year.

CARLISH, s. boorish; clownish.

CARRITCH, CARITCH, s. the catechism.

To CARP, v. a. to contend.

CARSE, KERSS, s. a low and fertile tract of land adjacent to a river.

CASTOCK, CASTACK, s. the stalk or inner core of cabbage or greens.

To CAST-OUT, v. n. to quarrel.

To CAST-UP, v. a. to upbraid; to throw in one's teeth.

CATCHY, adj. ready to take advantage of another.

CATTLE-RAIK, s. a common on which cattle are fed; the feeding range of cattle.

CATWITTIT, adj. harebrained; unsettled.

CAUDRON, s. a chaldron.

CAULD, s. cold.

CAULDRIFE, adj. susceptible ofcold.

CAULD-STEER, s. sour milk and oatmeal stirred together.

CAUSE, conj. because.

CAUSEY, CAUSAY, s. a street.

CAUTION, s. surety.

CAUTIONER, s. a surety.

CAVIE, s. a hencoop.

To CA', v. a. to drive.

To CAWK, v. a. to chalk.

CAWKER, s. a dram; a glass of any spirits.

CERTIS. Certis, ye're a fine ane! You are indeed a good one—(ironically.)

CHACK, CHECK, s. a slight repast.

CHAFTS, s. the chops.

CHAFT-BLADE, s. jaw-bone.

To CHAK, v. a. to check.

CHAKIL, s. the wrist.

CHALMER, s. a chamber.

To CHAMP, v. a. to mash; to chop.

CHANCY, adj. fortunate; happy.

CHANNEL, s. gravel.

CHAP, s. a fellow.

To CHAP, v. n. to strike with a hammer or any other instrument, or with a stone.

CHAPIN, s. a quart.

CHAPMAN, s. a pedlar.

CHAUDMELLE', s. a sudden broil or quarrel.

To CHAW, v. a. to gnaw; to fret.

CHEEK-BLADE, s. cheek-bone.

CHEIP, CHEPE, v. n. to chirp, as young birds do.

CHEK, s. the cheek; the side of a door.

CHESS, s. the frame of wood for a window.

CHESWELL, s. a cheese-vat.

CHEVERON, s. armour for the head of a horse.

CHIEL, CHIELD, s. a fellow; a stripling.

CHILD, CHYLD, s. a page; a servant.

CHILDER, s. pl. children.

CHIMLEY, s. a grate; a chimney.

CHIMLEY-BRACE, s. the mantelpiece.

CHIMLEY-LUG, s. the fireside.

To CHIRK, CHORK, v. n. to grind the teeth in a noisy manner.

To CHIRME, v. a. the soft warbling of a bird.

To CHITTER, v. n. to shiver.

CHOUKS, s. the glandular parts under the jaw-bones.

CHOWS, s. small bits of coal.

CHUCKIE, s. a hen.

CHUCKIE-STANE, s. a small pebble.

CLACK, s. the clapper of a mill.

CLAES, CLAISE, s. pl. clothes.

CLAG, CLAGG, s. an incumbrance.

CLAGGY, adj. adhesive; unctuous.

CLAIK, v. n. to make a clacking noise like a hen.

CLAIRGY, s. clergy.

CLAITH, CLAYTH, s. cloth.

To CLAIVER, CLAVER, v. a. to talk idly.

CLAM-SHELL, s. a scallop shell.

CLAMJAMPHRY, s. pl. low acquaintances; not respectable.

CLAMP, s. a heavy footstep.

CLAP, s. a stroke.

CLAP O' THE HASS, the uvula of the throat.

CLARTS, s. pl. dirt; smell.

CLARTY, adj. dirty or foul.

To CLASH, v. n. to talk idly.

To CLAT, v. a. to rake anything together.

CLAT, s. a rake or hoe.

CLATCH, s. thick mud.

To CLATTER, v. a. to tell tales; to tittle-tattle.

CLAUGHT, pret. laid hold of suddenly or eagerly.

To CLAVER, v. a. to talk in an idle or nonsensical manner.

CLAVER, s. clover.

To CLAW, v. a. to scratch.

CLECKIN, s. pl. a brood of birds.

CLECKIN-BROD, s. a battledoor.

To CLEED, v. a. to clothe.

CLEG, GLEG, s. a gad-fly; a horsefly.

To CLEIK, CLEEK, v. a. to catch with a hooked instrument.

CLEIK, CLEEK, s. an iron hook.

CLEIKY, adj. ready to take advantage.

CLEUCH, CLEUGH, s. a precipice; a steep rocky ascent; a strait hollow between two steep banks.

To CLEW, v. a. to stop a hole by compressing.

CLICK-CLACK, s. uninterrupted talking.

CLINK, s. a smart blow; money.

CLIPPIE, s. very talkative; generally applied to a female.

CLISH-CLASH, s. idle discourse.

CLISHMACLAVER, s. idle nonsensical talk.

CLITTER-CLATTER, s. idle talk carried from one to another.

To CLOCHER v. n. to cough.

To CLOCK, CLOK, v. n. to chuck; to call chickens together.

CLOIT, s. a clown; a stupid fellow.

To CLOIT, v. n. to fall heavily, or suddenly.

CLOITERY, s. tripe; dirty work.

CLOOT, CLUTE, s. a hoof.

CLOSE, s. a passage; an entry.

To CLOUR, v. a. to dimple.

CLOUSE, s. a sluice.

To CLOUT, v. a. to patch; to mend.

CLOUT, s. cuff; a blow.

CLUF, CLUIF, s. a hoof.

CLUMP, s. a heavy inactive fellow.

CLUTE, s. a hoof.

COBLE, s. a small boat, such as is used by fishermen.

COCKERNONNY, s. the hair of a female gathered in a knot.

COCKLAIRD, s. a landowner who cultivates all his own estate.

COD, s. a pillow.

COFF, COFFE, v. a. to buy; to purchase.

COFT, pret. and part. of purchased or bought.

COG, COAG, COGUE, s. a wooden basin.

To COGLE, v. a. to move anything from side to side, as a boat in the water.

COLLIE, COLLEY, s. a shepherd's dog; a lounger.

COLLIESHANGIE, s. a squabble, an uproar.

COMMONTIE, s. a common; a community.

To COMPEAR, v. a. to appear.

COMPLIMENT, s. a present.

CONYNG, s. knowledge.

COODIE, CUDIE, s. a small tub.

COOF, CUFE, s. a dastardly silly fellow.

COORIN, v. n. crest-fallen; timid.

CORBIE, CORBY, s. a raven.

CORP, s. a corpse; a dead body.

CORRIE, s. a hollow in a hill.

CORS, CORSE, s. the market-place or cross.

COSH, s. neat; quiet.

COSIE, COZIE, adj. warm; snug, well-sheltered.

COTTAR, COTTER, s. a person who inhabits a cottage.

To COUP, COWP, v. a. to exchange; to deal; to fall; to upset.

COUPER, s. a dealer.

COUPLE, s. a rafter.

COUR, v. n. to stoop; to crouch.

COUT, s. a young horse.

COUTH, COUTHY, adj. affable; facetious; affectionate; pleasant.

COVE, s. a cave.

COW, KOW, s. a besom made of broom.

COWE, v. n. to beat; to overcome.

To COW v. a. to poll the head; to cut; to prune; to damp or frighten.

COWIT, part. pr.. docked closely; cut; having short hair.

COWSHOT, CUSHIT, s. the ringdove.

To CRACK, v. a. to talk.

CRAFT, s. a piece of ground adjoining a house.

CRAG, CRAGE, CRAIG, s. the neck; the throat. CRAIG, s. a rock; a precipice.

To CRAIK, v.n. the cry of a hen after laying.

CRANCH, v. n. the sound made by an animal in eating bones or other hard substances. CRAP, s. a crop, the produce of the soil; the craw of a fowl; the highest part of anything.

To CRAW, s. to crow; to boast.

CRAW, s. a crow. CREEK of day, dawn; the first appearance of morning.

CREEPY, s. a low stool.

To CREEP-IN, v. n. to shrink.

CREIL, CREEL, s. an osier basket.

CREISH, s. grease.

To CREISH-A-LUFE, v. a. to give money as a bribe or recompense.

CRINCH, s. a very small bit of anything.

To CRINCH, v. a. to grind with the teeth.

To CRINE, CROYNE, CRYNE, v. n. to shrivel; to shrink.

CROK, s. a dwarf. CRONEY, s. a companion.

CROUS, CROUSE, adj. brisk; brave; speeding courage.

CROWDIE, s. meal and water in a cold state, or sometimes meal and milk, or cream.

CRUDS, s. curds.

CRUELS, s. the king's evil; scroula.

CRUMMIE, CRUMMOCK, s. a cow.

CRUNE, CROON, s. a moaning sound.

CRUSIE, s. a lamp, properly one made of malleable iron, and suspended by a handle or wire.

To CRY, v. a. to proclaim the banns of marriage in church.

CRYING, s. childbirth.

CUD, s. a club; a strong staff.

To CUDDLE, v. a. to embrace.

CUDDIE, s. an ass.

CUFE, s. a simpleton.

CUFF-O'-THE-NECK, the back part of the neck.

CUMMAR, KIMMER, s. a young woman.

CUNING, CUNNIE, s. a rabbit.

To CURFUFFLE, v. a. to discompose.

To CURL, a game, to throw or force a flat-bottomed stone along the surface of ice.

CURLING, s. a game in which stones are pushed along ice.

CURPLE, s. a crupper.

CURRAN, CURN, KURN, s. a few; indefinite number.

CURUNDDOCH, CURCUDDY, s. a dance among children, in which they sit down on their houghs, and hop round, in different directions.

CUSCHETTE, s. a ringdove.

CUTE, COOT, s. the ankle.

CUTIKINS, s. pl. spatterdashes.

CUTTY, s. a wanton immoral young woman.

CUTTY, CUTTIE, adj. short.

CUTTY-STOOL, s. a low stool; the stool of repentance.

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To DAB, DAUB, v. a. to peck, as birds do with their bills.

DAD, DADDIE, s. father.

To DAD, DAUD, s. to beat.

To DADDLE, DAIDLE, v. a. to do anything slowly.

DADDLIE, s. a larger sort of bib.

To DAFF, v. n. to sport; to romp.

DAFFIN', s. gaiety; sporting; diversion.

DAFT, adj. delirious; stupid.

DAFT-LIKE, adj. foolish-looking; silly-like.

DAFT-DAYS, the Christmas holidays.

DAG, s. a gentle shower.

To DAG, v. a. to rain gently.

DAIGH, s. dough.

DAINTITH, s. a dainty.

DAINTY, adj. pleasant; good-humoured; worthy; excellent.

DAIVERED, adj. dull; stupid; wanting apprehension.

DALL, s. a doll.

DAMBROD, s. a draft-board.

To DANCE, his or her lane, a phrase used to signify sudden and great rage, or joy at any news.

To DANDER, v. n. to wander slowly; to roam.

DANDERS, s. pl. the hard refuse of a smithy fire.

DANG, the pret. of ding.

DARKLINS, adv. in the dark; hidden; sly.

To DASE, DAISE, v. a. to stupify; to benumb.

DAW, DA, s. a sluggard; appropriated to a female, a drab.

To DAW, v. n. to dawn.

DAWDIE, s. a dirty slovenly female.

To DAWT, DAUT, to fondle; to caress; pet; to dote upon.

DAWTIE, s. a favourite; a darling.

DAWTIT, part. pa. doted; fondled; caressed.

DAYWERK, DAWERK, s. a day's work.

To DEE, v. n. to die.

DEAN, DEN, s. hollow with sloping banks on both sides; a small valley.

To DEAVE, DEEVE, v. n. to deafen.

DEDE-THRAW, s. in the agonies of death.

DEED-DAIL, s. the board on which the dead are laid before being coffined.

'DEED, adj. indeed.

DEEIN', v. n. dying.

DEEVIL, s. the devil.

DEIL, DEEL, s. the devil.

DEIL'S-BUCKIE, s. a wicked imp.

DEIS, s. the upper part of a hall, where the floor was raised, and a canopy erected over it, as for festivals, etc.

DELIERET, adj. delirious.

To DEMENT, v. n. to deprive of reason.

DEMENTED, adj. insane; unsettled in mind; crazy.

DEN, s. a hollow in a hill or mountain.

To DEPONE, v. n. to testify on oath.

To DEVALL, DEVALD, s. to cease; to intermit.

To DEVE, v. n. to stupify with a noise.

DEUCHANDORACH, DEUCHANDORIS, s. a drink taken at the door before departing.

DICHT, DYCHT, v. to wipe.

DIDNA, did not.

DIKE, DYKE, s. a wall either of mud or stones.

DING, v. a. to beat; to drive.

DINNA, do not.

To DINLE, v. n. to tremble.

DIRD, s. a stroke.

DIRDUM, s. an uproar.

DIRK, a dagger.

To DIRLE, v. a. to tingle.

DIRL, s. a vibration.

DIRT, s. excrement.

DIRTIN, adj. mean; shabby; contemptible.

DISNA, DOESNA, does not.

DISJASKET, part. pa. having a dejected or downcast look.

To DISPARAGE, v. n. to despise on account of want of rank.

To DISPLENISH, v. a. to disfurnish.

DIV, v. a. do. I div, I do.

DIVET, DIFFAT, DIVOT, s. a thin oblong turf used for covering cottages and mud walls.

DIZEN, s. dozen.

DOCHTER, DOUGHTYR, s. daughter.

DOCKEN, DOKEN, s. the dock; an herb.

DODDY, DADDIT, adj. destitute of horns; bald.

DOGGIT, adj. stubborn.

DOIN, v. n. doing.

DOITIT, DOITED, adj. stupid lack of mental activity.

DOIT, s. a small copper coin, long in disuse.

DOIT, s. a fool; a numskull.

DOMINIE, s. a schoolmaster; a pedagogue; a contemptuous name for a clergyman.

DONNARD, DONNART, adj. stupid.

DOOCK, DUCK, s. a strong coarse cloth used for sails, etc.

To DOODLE, v. a. to dandle; to fondle.

DOOF, s. a stupid silly fellow.

DOOKIT, s. a dovecot or pigeon-house.

To DOOK, DOUK, v. n. to bathe; to duck.

DOOL, s. grief; sorrow.

DOON, DOUN, s. down.

DOOT, s. doubt.

DORT, s. pet.

To DORT, v. n. to pet.

DORTY, adj. pettish.

DOTTAR, s. become stupid from age.

DOUCE, DOUSE, s. sedate; quiet.

DOUF, s. a stupid fellow.

DOUF, DOLF, s. destitute of courage.

DOUKED, v. n. bathed; wetted.

DOUNGEOUN, s. the strongest or chief tower belonging to a fortress.

DOUP, s. the buttocks; the bottom of anything.

DOUR, adj. stubborn; inflexible; obstinate.

To DOUSE, v. a. to beat; to maltreat.

DOUSE, adj. solid; sedate.

DOUSS, s. a blow; a stroke.

To DOVER, v. n. to slumber.

DOW, DOO, s. a dove; a pigeon.

To DOW, v. n. to fade; to wither; to lose freshness.

DOWCATE, DUKET, s. a dovecot.

DOWNCOME, adj. the act of descending.

DOWY, DOWIE, adj. dull; downcast; sorrowful.

DOZEND, DOSEND, s. stupified; benumbed.

To DRABLE, DRAIBLE, v. a. to slabber; to befoul.

DRAFF, s. the refuse of grain after being distilled or brewed.

DRAGON, s. a paper kite.

To DRAIGLE, v. a. to bespatter.

DRAMOCK, s. a mixture of meal and water in a raw state.

DRAP, s. a drop.

DRAVE, s. a drove of cattle.

To DREEL, v. n. to move quickly.

DREGY, DERGY, s. the compotations after a funeral.

DREICH, DREECH, adj. slow; tedious.

DRIBBLE, s. a very small drop.

To DROUK, v. a. to drench.

DROIC, s. a dwarf.

DROUTH, s. drought; thirst.

DRUMLY, DRUMLIE, adj. troubled.

DRUNT, s. to be in a sour, pettish humour.

DUB, s. a small pool of water, generally applied to those produced by rain.

DUD, s. a rag; a dish-clout.

DUDDY, adj. ragged.

DUKE, s. a duck.

DULE, s. grief.

To DULE, v. n. to grieve.

DUMBIE, DUMMIE, s. a dumb person.

To DUMFOUNDER, v. a. to stupify; to confuse; to confound.

DUMPY, adj. short and thick.

DUN, s. a hill; an eminence.

To DUNCH, v. a. to jog; to push with the elbow or fist.

DUNDERHEAD, s. a blockhead.

To DUNT, v. a. to strike, so as to produce a dull hollow sound.

DURK, DIRK, s. a dagger.

DUST, s. a tumult.

DWALM, DWAUM, s. a swoon; a sudden fit of sickness.

DWINING, s. a declining consumption.

To DWYNE, s. to pine.

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EARN, s. an eagle.

To EARN, YEARN, v. to coagulate.

EASING, s. pl. the eaves of a house.

EASTLIN, adj. easterly.

EBB, adj. shallow.

EE, s. an eye.

EEN, s. pl. the eyes.

EE-SWEET, adj. agreeable or pleasing to the sight.

EERIE, adj. dull; lonely.

EFTERHEND, adv. afterwards.

EIDENT, adj. diligent; industrious.

EIK, EKE, adj. an addition.

To EIK, v. n. to add to anything.

EIZEL, s. a hot ember.

ELBECK, ELBUCK, s. elbow.

ELD, adj. old.

ELEVEN-HOURS, s. a luncheon.

ELDERS, s. pl. the members of the kirk-session among Presbyterians.

ELS, adv. already.

ELSYN, ELSHYN, s. an awl.

ELVES, s. pl. fairies.

ELWAND, ELNWAND, s. a rod for measuring, an ell in length.

EMBRO', s. Edinburgh.

EMERANT, s. emerald.

ENEUCH, ENEUGH, s. enough.

ERD, ERDE, YERD, YERTH, s. earth; soil or ground.

To ERD, YERD, v. a. to inter.

ERDDIN, YIRDIN, s. an earthquake.

ERLIS, EARLES, s. earnest.

ERSE, s. Gaelic or Celtic, the language of the Highlanders of Scotland.

ERY, EIRY, EERIE, adj. affected with fear.

ESK, s. a newt or lizard.

To ETTIL, v. n. to aim at.

To EVEN, v. a. to level.

EVENDOUN, adj. perpendicular.

EVIRLY, adv. continually; constantly.

EVINLY, adj. equally.

To EXCAMB, v. a. to exchange.

To EXPONE, v. n. to explain.

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FA, FAE, s. foe.

FA', s. fall.

FAIL, FALE, FEAL, s. a grassy turf; a sod.

FAIL-DYKE, s. a wall built of sods.

To FAIRLY, FERLEY, v. n. to wonder.

FAIRNTICKL'D, adj. freckled.

FALD, FAULD, s. a sheepfold.

FAME, FAIM, s. foam.

FAND, pret. found; felt.

FARD, adj. Weel-fard, well-favoured; well-looking.

FARLE, s. the fourth part of a thin cake of oat or other meal.

FARRAND, FARRANT, adj. seeming; Auld-farrand, sagacious; Fair-farrand, Weel-farrand, having a goodly appearance.

To FASCH, FASH, v. a. to trouble.

FASCHEOUS, adj. troublesome; difficult.

FAUCHT, pret. fought.

To FAW, FA', v. a. to obtain.

FAY, s. faith.

FE, FEE, s. wages.

FEALE, adj. loyal; faithful; true.

To FECHT, v. a. 1. to fight; 2. to toil.

FECK, FEK, s. 1. quantity; number; 2. the greater part.

FECKLESS, adj. weak.

To FEE, v. a. to hire.

FEENT, not any; not one.

FEENICHIN, adj. triflingly foppish.

FEEZE, v. a. to twist.

FEIGH, FEECH, interj. fy!

To FEIKLE, FICKLE, v. a. to puzzle.

To FELL, adj. to kill; to murder.

To FEND, FEN, v. a. to shift.

FERLIE, FAIRLIE, s. a wonder.

FETTEL, FETTLE, s. power; energy.

FEU, FEW, s. a possession held on payment of a certain yearly rent, the same as a chief-rent in England.

FEYKIE, adj. troublesome.

To FICKE, FYKE, v. n._ to be in a restless state.

FIDDLING, adj. trifling, although apparently busy.

FIDGING, v. n. itching.

To FILE, FYLE, v. a. to dirty or sully.

FILIBEG, s. a kilt or short petticoat, reaching a little way above the knee-cap (patella), and worn by the men in the Highlands instead of breeches.

FILL, s. full.

FILLAT, FILLET, s. the flank of an animal.

FILLER, s. a funnel.

To FIND, FIN, v. a. to feel.

FIREFLAUCHT, s. lightning.

FIRLOT, s. the fourth part of a boll.

FIRTH, s. an estuary.

To FISSLE, v. n. to rustle.

FIXFAX, s. the tendon of the neck of cattle or sheep.

To FIZZ, v. n. to make a hissing noise.

To FLAF, v. n. to flap.

FLAT, s. a floor of a house.

FLEE, s. a fly.

FLEEIN, v. a. flying.

To FLEG, v. n. to affright, to frighten.

To FLEISH, FLEITCH, v. a. to wheedle.

FRENDRIS, FLINDERS, s. pl. splinters.

FLIPE, FLYPE, v. a. to turn a stocking or glove inside out.

To FLISK, v. a. to skip; to caper.

FLIT, s. to transport.

To FLIT, v. n. to remove from one house to another.

FLOURISH, s. blossom.

FLUNKIE, s. a servant in livery.

FLUSTER, s. bustle; confusion.

To FLUTHER, v. n. to be in a bustle.

FLYTE, v. n. to scold.

FOG, s. moss.

FOISON, FUSHIOUN, s. strength, ability.

FOISIONLESS, adj. weak in intellect; weak in body.

FOK, s. pl. folk.

FOOL, s. a. a fowl.

FOR, conj. because.

FORAT, adv. forward.

FORBEARIS, s. pl. ancestors.

FORBY, adj. besides.

FORE, prep, priority; to the fore; still remaining.

FOREFOUCHT, FORFOUCHTEN, adj. exhausted with fighting.

FORGANE, FOREGAINST, prep. opposite.

To FORGATHER, v. n. to meet accidentally.

FORGIE, v. a. to forgive.

FORJESKET, p. pa. jaded; fatigued.

FORNENT, prep. opposite.

FORPET, s. the fourth part of a peck.

FORRAY, s. a predatory excursion.

To FORSTA, v. a. to understand.

FOUL, adj. wet, rainy.

FOUMARTE, s. a polecat.

FOURHOURS, s. tea; four o'clock being the old hour at which that meal was taken in early times.

FOUTRE, s. a term expressive of the greatest contempt.

FOW, FU, FOO, s. full; drunk.

FOY, s. an entertainment given by or to a person before leaving home, or where he has been some time on a visit.

FOZY, adj. spongy; porous.

FRACTIOUS, adj. fretful; peevish.

FRAE, prep. from.

FREND, FREEN, FREEND, s. a relation.

FRESH, s. a slight flood after rain.

FREY, s. a tumult; a fray.

FUD, s. the tail of a hare or rabbit.

FUGIE, s. a coward.

To FUNK, v. a. to strike or kick behind, like a horse. In a funk, in a bad humour.

FUR, FURE, s. a furrow.

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To GA, GAE, v. n. to go.

GAB, s. the mouth.

GABBY, adj. fluency or speech.

To GAB, v. n. to prate; to mock.

GABERLUNGIE, GABERLUNZIE, s. a wallet that hangs by the loins, such as is often used by beggars.

GAED, GAID, pret. went.

To GAFFAW, v. n. laugh loud.

GAISLINE, s. a gosling, a young-goose.

GAIST, s. a ghost.

GAIT, GATE, s. a way; a street.

GAIT, s. a goat.

GANE, part. pa. gone.

To GANG, pret. to go; to walk, in opposition to riding.

GANGIN, v. a. going.

To GANT, GAUNT, v. n. to yawn.

GAPUS, s. a fool; a silly fellow.

To GAR, v. a. to make; to cause; to force.

GARRIN, v. a. making.

GARRON, GERRON, s. a small horse.

GART, GERT, pret. of made.

GART, pret. of Gar.

GARTEN, s. a garter.

To GASH, v. n. to talk much and confidently; pert, insolent talking.

GASH-GABBIT, s. with a projecting under-jaw.

GATE, s. road.

GAUCY, GAWSY, s. plump; jolly.

GAUCKIT, adj. stupid.

GAVEL, GAWL, s. the gable of a house.

To GAW, v. n. to gall.

GAWD, s. a goad.

GAWKIE, GAWKY, s. a foolish gaping person.

GAWKIT, adj. foolish; giddy.

GAWN, pret. of going.

GEAN, GEEN, s. a wild cherry.

GEAR, GERE, GEIR, s. goods.

GEAT, GETT, s. a child.

GEBBIE, s. the crop of a fowl.

GEE, pettish. To tak the gee, to become unmanageable.

GEY, GAY, adj. tolerable; pretty much. A gey wheen, a considerable number.

GEILY, GEYLIES, adj. pretty well.

GENTY, adj. neat; genteel-looking; neatly formed.

GEORDIE, s. George.

GERS, GYRS, s. grass.

GEYEN, GEISIN, GIZZEN, v. a. to become leaky for want of moisture.

GIBBLE-GABBLE, s. noisy confused talk among a party.

GIBE, v. n. to tease; to taunt.

GIE, v. a. to give.

GIEN, pret. of given.

GIF, GYVE, conj. if.

GIFF-GAFF, s. mutual giving.

GILLIE, s. a page or attendant.

GILLIEPAGUS, s. a fool; a silly fellow.

GILPY, s. a roguish boy or frolicsome girl.

GILSE, s. a young salmon.

GIMMER, s. a ewe two years old.

GIMP, GYMP, JIMP, adj. slim; delicate; scanty.

GIMPLY, JIMPLY, adv. scarcely.

GIN, conj. if.

GIR, GIRD, GYRD, s. a hoop.

GIRDLE, s. a circular plate of malleable iron with a handle, for toasting oaten bread, etc., over a fire.

To GIRN, s. to grin.

GIRN, s. a snare for catching birds.

GIRNALL, GIRNELL, s. a large chest for holding meal.

GITE, s. crazy.

GLAIKIT, adj. light; giddy.

GLAMER, GLAMOUR, s. gipsies were formerly supposed capable of casting a charm over the eyes of persons, and thus making them see objects differently from what they really were. Cast the glamer o'er her, caused deception of sight.

GLAR, GLAUR, s. mud; mire.

To GLAUM, v. a. to grasp anything greedily.

GLAYMORE, s. a two-handed sword.

GLED, s. the kite, a bird of the hawk kind.

GLEEK, v. a. to gibe.

GLEG, adj. quick of perception.

To GLEG, GLYE, GLEE, v. n. to squint.

GLEN, s. a hollow betwixt two hills.

To GLENT, GLINT, part. pa. to glance.

GLEYD, adj. squint-eyed.

GLIB-GABBIT, adj. glib-tongued.

GLIFF, s. a sudden fright or alarm.

GLIMMER, v. n. to wink; to blink; to twinkle.

GLISK, s. a transient view.

GLOAMIN, s. twilight.

GLOCK, s. a gulp.

To GLOUM, GLOOM, v. n. to frown.

To GLOUR, GLOWR, v. n. to stare.

GLOUR, s. a broad stare.

GLU, s. a glove.

To GLUDDER, v. n. to work in a dirty manner.

To GLUNSH, v. n. to pout.

GOLACH, s. a beetle of any kind.

GOLDSPINK, GOUDSPINK, s. the goldfinch.

GOLK, GOWK, s. the cuckoo; a stupid fellow.

GOMRELL, s. a stupid fellow; a numskull.

GOOL, GULE, adj. yellow.

GORB, GORBET, GORBIE, s. a young bird.

GORMAND, s. a glutton.

GOUF, s. a stroke; a blow.

GOUD, GOULD, s. gold.

GOUPIN, GOWPIN, s. the hollow of the hand.

GOWAN, s. the wild mountain daisy. Ewe-gowan, the common wild daisy.

GOWANY, adj. abounding with daisies.

GOWK, s. the cuckoo.

GOWK'S-ERRAND, s. a fool's errand.

GOWL, s. a hollow between two hills.

To GOWL, v. n. to howl; to yell.

GOWP, s. a mouthful.

To GOWP, v. a. to gulp.

GRAIP, s. a dung-fork.

To GREEN, GREIN, v. n. to long for anything.

To GREIT, GREET, v. n. to weep.

GREETING, s. weeping.

GRIEVE, s. an overseer.

GRILSE, s. a salmon not full grown.

GRIPPY, adj. disposed to defraud; to be quick at taking advantage.

GRIST, s. fee paid to a mill for grinding any kind of grain.

GROATS, s. oats with the husks taken off.

GROSET, GROSART, s. a gooseberry.

To GROUE, GROWE, v. n. to shiver.

GROUSAM, GRUESOME, adj. frightful, uncomely.

GRUMPHIE, s. a vulgar name for a sow. People are said to be Grumphie when in a bad humour.

GRUTTEN, part. pa. of cried.

GRYCE, s. a pig.

GUD, GUDE, GUEED, adj. good. Frequently used for the name of God, as Gude forgie me, God forgive me.

GUD-BRODER, GUD-BROTHER, s. brother-in-law.

GUD-DOCHTER, s. daughter-in-law.

GUD-SISTER, s. sister-in-law.

GUD-SYR, GUDSHER, s. a grandfather.

GUD-WIFE, s. 1. a wife; 2. a landlady.

GUDGIE, adj. short and stout.

GUFF, s. a vapour; a smell.

GUIDMAN, GUDEMAN, s. a proprietor of land; a farmer; a husband.

To GULLER, v. n. to guggle.

GULLY, s. a large knife.

GUMPTION, s. understanding.

GUSEHORN, GUISSERN, s. the gizzard.

GUSTY, adj. savoury.

GUTSY, adj. gluttonous.

To GUTTER, v. n. to do anything in a dirty manner.

GUTTERS, s. pl. mire; mud; dirt.

GUTTY, adj. gross; thick—applied both to persons and things.

GYISARD, GYSART, s. children who go from door to door singing during the Christmas time. Masks are frequently used on such occasions.

GYM, adj. neat and spruce.

To GYS, v. a. to disguise.

GYTE, adj. foolish. To gang gyte, to act extravagantly or foolishly.

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HA', s. a hall.

HAAFLANG, HAFLIN, adj. half-grown.

HAAR, s. a fog; a chill easterly wind.

To HABBER, v. n. to stutter.

HA-BIBLE, s. a large family Bible.

HABBLE, s. a scrape; a perplexity.

HACK, s. a chop in the hands or feet.

To HAE, v. to have.

HAE, v. n. to offer anything.

HAEIN, s. having.

HAENA, have not.

HALF-MERK-MARRIAGE, a clandestine marriage. From the price paid, viz. a merk.

HAFFIT, s. the side of the head.

To HAG, v. a. to hew wood.

HAGABAG, s. coarse table-linen.

HAGBUT, s. a kind of firearms used soon after the discovery of gunpowder.

HAGGIES, HAGGIS, s. a pudding made of a lamb's maw, lungs, heart, and liver, mixed with suet, onions, salt, pepper, and oatmeal, and boiled in the stomach of a sheep.

HAILSOME, adj. wholesome; healthful.

To HAIN, HANE, v. a. to spare; to save.

HAIR-MOULD, s. the mould which appears on bread. Hair-ryme, hoar-frost.

HAIRST, s. harvest.

HAIRUMSKARUM, adj. harebrained.

To HALD, v. a. to hold; to cease.

HALE, HAILL, adj. whole; unbroken.

HALF-MARROW, s. a husband or wife.

HALLACH'D, HALLAKET, adj. crazy, boisterous; extremely frolicsome.

HALLANSHAKER, s. a sturdy beggar; a person of shabby appearance.

HALLAN, HALLON, HALLOND, HALLIN, s. a mud wall in cottages, extending from the front backwards, to shelter the interior of the house from the draft of the door when open.

HALLOWE'EN, s. the evening before Allhallows.

HALLOKIT, adj. giddy; harebrained.

HALLOCK, s. a thoughtless, giddy girl.

HALS, HAWSE, s. the neck.

HALY, adj. holy.

HAME, HAIM, s. home.

HAMELY, adj. familiar; friendly.

HANDSEL, s. the first money received for goods; a gift on the first Monday after New Year's Day.

HANDSEL-MONDAY, s. the first Monday of the new year.

HANK, s. a coil.

HANTLE, s. a considerable number.

To HAP, v. a. to cover; to conceal.

HAP-STEP-AN'-LOUP, v. a. to hop, step, and leap.

HARIGALDS, s. the pluck of an animal.

HARN, s. coarse linen cloth made from the tow-hards.

HARNES, s. brains.

HASH, s. a sloven.

HASSOCK, HASSICK, s. a besom; a large round turf used as a seat. HATE, HAIT, HAID, s. a whit; an atom; the smallest bit of anything. Fient a haid hae I i' the house, I have not a particle of anything in the house.

HATHER, HEATHER, s. heath.

HAUGH, HAWCH, HAUCH, s. low-lying flat ground.

To HAUP, v. n. to turn to the right, applied to horses in the yoke. He will neither haup nor wind, he will neither turn to the right nor left; a stubborn man.

To HAVERS, v. n. to talk foolishly.

HAVERS, s.. foolish, incoherent talk, or idle talk.

HAVERIL, s. one who habitually talks idly.

To HAWGH, v. n. to force up phlegm; to hawk.

HAWKIT, adj. having a white face—applied to cattle.

HAWKEY, s. a cow with a white face.

HAWSE, s. the throat.

HEARTSOME, adj. merry; light-hearted.

HEARTY, adj. cheerful; liberal.

HEATHER-BELLS, s. heath-bells.

HECH, s. an exclamation.

HECK, s. a rack for cattle.

To HECKLE, v. a. to dress flax; to examine with severity.

HEGH-HEY, HEIGH-HOW, an interjection expressive of languor or fatigue.

HEIL, HEYLE, s. health; in health.

HEIS, HEESE, v. a. to lift up.

HEMPY, s. a rogue.

HENDER, adj. past; bygone. Henderend, the back end.

HEREAWAY, adv. in this quarter.

HERISON, s. a hedgehog.

HERRIE, v. a. to rob; to pillage.

HERRIE-WATER, s. a net made with meshes of a small size, such as used by poachers.

HESP, s. a clasp; a book.

HET, adj. hot.

HETFUL, adj. hot; fiery.

HET-PINT, s. a hot beverage carried by persons to the house of their friends early in the morning of New Year's Day, composed of ale, whisky, and eggs.

HEUCH, HEUGH, s. a crag; a rugged steep.

HEUCK-BANE, s. the hackle-bone.

HIDDIL, HIDLINS, adv. secretly.

HILLIEGELEERIE, adv. topsy-turvy.

HILT AND HAIR, adj. the whole of anything.

HILTER-SKILTER, adv. in rapid succession.

HIMSEL, part. pa. of himself.

To HIRD, v. a. to tend cattle or sheep.

HIRD, s. a shepherd; one who tends cattle.

To HIRE, v. a. to let; to engage.

To HIRPLE, v. a. to walk in a lame or waddling manner.

HIRSELL, HIRSLE, v. n. to move forward resting on the hams.

HISSIE, HIZZIE, s. a housewife.

HISSIESKIP, HUSSYFSKAP, s. the business of housewifery.

HIT, pron. It.

HITCH, s. a quick motion by a jerk.

HOAM'D, HUMPH'D, part. adj. fusty tasted.

HOBBLE, s. a scrape, or state of perplexity.

HOBBLEDEHOY, s. a stripling.

HOCUS, s. a stupid dull fellow.

HODDEN-GREY, adj. cloth made of wool in its natural condition, and worn by the peasantry.

HODDIE, HOODIE, s. a carrion crow; also applied to the black-headed or royster crow.

HOESHINS, s. stockings without feet.

HOG, s. a sheep before it has been shorn of its first fleece.

HOGGERS, s. coarse stockings without feet, generally worn over the shoes.

HOGMANAY, HOGMENAY, s. the last day of the year.

HOGRY-MOGRY, HUGGERY-MUGGERY adj. slovenly.

HOIF, HOUFF, s. a haunt; a place of concealment; burying-ground.

To HOIST, HOST, HOAST, v. a. to cough.

To HOLK, HOUK, HOWK, v. a. to dig.

HOLL, HOWE, s. a hollow or deep place; concave.

HOLM, HOWN, s. the low level ground on the bank of a river.

HOOLIE, adj. slowly; moderately.

HOP, HAP, s. a dance.

HORSE-COUPER, s. a horse-dealer.

HOSTELER, s. an innkeeper.

HOSTILAR, HOSTILLARIE, s. an inn.

To HOTCH, v. n. to move the body by sudden jerks.

HOTCH-POTCH, s. broth made of lamb cut into small pieces, accompanied with greens, carrots, turnips, green-peas.

HOW, a hollow.

HOWDY, s. a midwife.

HOWSOMEVER, adv. howsoever.

HOUP, s. hope.

HOWTOWDY, s. a hen that has never laid eggs.

HUBBILSCHOW, s. a tumult; a hubbub.

HUDGE-MUDGE, adv. clandestinely.

HULLION, s. a sloven.

HUMMEL-BEE, s. a drone bee.

To HUNKER, v. n. to squat down upon one's hams.

HURCHEON, s. a hedgehog.

HURDIES, s. the buttocks.

To HURDLE, v. n. to crouch.

To HURKLE, v. n. to draw the body together.

HURRY-SCURRY, s. an uproar.

HY, s. haste.

HYNDER, s. hindrance.

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IDLESEST, s. the state of being idle.

IER-OE, s. a great-grandchild.

ILK, ILKA, ILKE, adj. each; every.

ILKA-DAY, s. a week-day.

ILL-AFF, adj. badly off.

ILL-DEEDY, adj. mischievous.

ILL-FARD, adj. ill-looking.

ILL-SAR'D, adj. ill-served; badly used.

ILL-WILLIE, ILL-WILLIT, adj. ill-natured.

IMMICK, s. an ant.

To IMPLEMENT, v. a. to fulfil.

IN-BY, adv. the inner part of the house.

INCH, s. an island; a level plain.

INGAN, INGIN, s. onion.

INGLE, INGIL, s. fire.

INGLE-NOOK, s. the corner of the fireside.

INLYING, s. childbearing.

INTILL, pret. into; denoting entrance.

IRNE, AIRN, s. iron.

ISK! ISKIE! interj. a word used in calling a dog.

ITHER, pron. other.

IZIE, IZBEL, s. Isabella.

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To JAG, v. a. to job.

JANET, s. Jess.

JANTY, adj. cheerful.

JAP, JAWP, s. a spot of mud.

JAPIT, adj. bespattered with mud.

JAW, JAWE, s. a wave; coarse raillery.

JEDDART, s. Jedburgh, a town of Roxburghshire.

JEDDART-JUSTICE, s. a legal trial after punishment has been inflicted on the accused.

To JEE, v. n. to move to one side.

To JELOUSE, v. n. to suspect.

JENNY, s. Jess.

JIFFIE, s. a moment.

JILLET, s. a giddy girl.

JIMP, s. neat, slender.

JINK, v. n. the act of one eluding another.

JO, JOE, s. a sweetheart.

JOCK, JOCKIE, s. John.

JOCKTELEG, s. a clasp knife; a folding knife.

To JOGILL, v. n. to jog; to move from side to side.

JOG-TROT, s.. to trot at a slow rate on horseback; anything done in a slow manner.

To JOUK, v. n. to bend down the body with a quick motion so as either to elude the sight or a blow.

JOUKRY-PAWKRY, s. trickery; juggling.

JUGGS, JOUGS, JUGGES, s. pl. a kind of pillory, used on the Borders, whereby criminals were fastened to a post on the wall, with their necks enveloped in an iron collar.

JUPE, s. a kind of short mantle for a female.

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KAIL, KALE, s. common colewort.

KAIL-BROSE, s. raw meal placed in a basin with boiling broth poured over it, and then stirred all together.

KAIL-RUNT, s. stem of colewort.

KAIM, s. a comb.

KAR-HANDED, adj. left-handed.

KAY, KA, KAE, s. a jack-daw.

KAYME, KAME, s. honeycomb.

KEBBUCK, CABBACK, s. a cheese.

KEGIE, adj. cheerful.

KEEK, KEIK, v. n. to look with a prying eye.

KEEK-BO, s. bo-peep.

KEEKING-GLASS, s. a mirror.

KEELIVINE, s. a blacklead pencil.

To KEKKIL, KEKIL, v. n. to cackle; to laugh aloud.

KELL, KULL, s. a dress for a woman's head. A caul, the hinder-part of a woman's cap.

KELPIE, WATER-KELPIE, s. the spirit of the waters, who, as is vulgarly believed, gives warning of those who are to be drowned within the precincts of his beat. This is indicated by preternatural noises and lights. He is supposed to appear in the form of a horse. Many wonderful exploits are attributed to the kelpie.