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.

Feal, loyal.

Feck, part.

FENDY, handy.

FEROCIORES in ASPECTU, MITIORES in ACTU, fierce in appearance, in behaviour mild.

Fille de chambre, lady’s maid.

FLEMIT, frightened.

FLEYT, scold.

FORIS-familiated, excluded from the family, out of the jurisdiction of the head of the family.

FUNGARQUE INANI MUNERE, I shall render a fruitless service.

Gaberlunzie, beggar.

Gad, bar.

Gane, gone.

Gar, make.

GARCONS APOTHICAIRES, chemists’ assistants.

GARDEZ L’EAU, beware of the water.

GARTANED, gartered.

Gaudet EQUIS et CANIBUS, he finds his pleasure in horses and dogs.

GAUN, going.

Gear, goods.

GIMMERS, ewes of two years.

Gin, if.

GLED, hawk.

GLEG, quick.

GLISK, glimpse.

GRANING, groaning.

Grat, cried; greet, cry, weep.

Grey-beard, jug.

Grice, young pig.

Griffin, a four-legged dragon.

GRIPPLE, greedy.

Gusto, taste.

HAEC tibi erunt artes, &c.  ’These be your acts; to impose the rule of peace; To spare the humbled, crush the arrogant foe.’

Hag, copse.

Haggis, a dish composed of the pluck, &c., of a sheep, with oatmeal, suet, onions, &c., boiled inside the animal’s maw.

HAILL, whole.

Hallan, inner wall.

HANTLE, a lot.

Heck, cattle rack.

Her nain sell, me, myself.

HERSHIP, plunder.

Het, hot.

Hippogriff, a cross between a horse and a dragon.

Hog, lamb.

HOMAGIUM, the act of homage.

Horning, outlawry.

Horse-couper, horse-dealer.

Howe, hollow.

HUMANA PERPESSI SUMUS, we have borne all that man can inflict on us.

Hurdles, buttocks.

Ilk, each; of that ilk, having the same title as the surname.

Impiger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer, untiring, swift to wrath, unyielding, keen.

In CARCERE, in prison.

In ERGASTULO, in a dungeon (a private prison, as opposed to INCARCERE).

In INTEGNUM, in full.

In Loco PARENTIS, in the place of a parent.

In rebus BELLICIS Maxime DOMINATUR Fortuna, in matters of war, Luck has most to say.

In SERVITIO EXUENDI, Seu DETRAHENDI.  CALIGAS Regis post BATALLIAM, for the service of undoing or pulling off the king’s boots after a battle.

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