Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 657 pages of information about Waverley.

Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 657 pages of information about Waverley.

Change-house, public house.

CHEVAUX-de-POSTE, post-horses.

CHIEL, person.

Clachan, village.

CLAMHEWIT, slash, clout.

Claw favour, curry favour.

CLOUR, bump.

COGHLING, blowing.

Com., short for COMITATUS = county.

CONCLAMARE Vasa, to give the signal for baggage, i.e. for packing the baggage.

CONGES, bowing and scraping.

Coronach, lament.

CORRI, hill-side.

Coup, upset.

Coupe-Jarret, cut-throat (literally, leg-chopper).

COUR PLENIERE, full court, state-reception.

COUTEAU de chasse, hunting-knife.

Cow yer cracks, stop your chatter.

Craig, neck.

Creagh, foray, raid.

CUITTLE, fickle.

CURRAGH, boat,

Currant, running.

Cut-lugged, crop-eared.

Dans son tort, in the wrong.

De facto, in actual fact.

De Jure, by legal right.

DEAVING, deafening.

Deliver, active.

DEMELEE, extrication from a hobble.

DEOCH an DORUIS, stirrup-cup.

Dern, dark.

Diaoul, devil.

Diaoul!—­CEADE MILLIA MOLLIGHEART, O the devil! a hundred thousand curses.

DINMONTS, year-old wethers.

DISPONE, assign.

DIVERTISEMENTS, diversions.

Doer, factor, agent.

Doited, witless.

Doon, down.

DORLACH, valise, portmanteau.

DOVERING, half-asleep.

Dow, dove.

DOWFF, dull.

Due DONZELLETTE GARRULE, two garrulous damsels.

Duinhe-wassel, gentleman.

Earn, eagle.

Eld, age.

Elisos oculos, et siccum sanguine guttur, eyes squeezed out of his head, and throat drained of blood.

En attendant, meanwhile.

En mousquetaire, from a soldier’s point of view.

EPULAE ad SENATUM, PRANDIUM Vero ad POPULUM ATTINET, for the senate feasts are befitting, but for the people a simple meal.

EPULAE LAUTIORES, splendid feasts.

Equiponderate, equivalent.

Et SINGULA PRAEDANTUR ANNI, the passing years rob us of every thing we possess, one by one.

Etter-cap, A venomous person.

Evite, evade.

EWEST, nearest.

EXEEMED, exempt.

Faire la CUREE, to give the shin, &c., of a killed stag to the hounds.

Faire la MEILLEURE Chere, to make good cheer.

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