INTROMITTED, interfered with.
Jogue, jogee, ascetic or conjurer.
Kemple, a load of hay (forty ’bottles’).
KIPPAGE, rage.
Kittle, tricky, difficult.
KYLOES, highland cattle.
La Belle passion, the gentle passion.
La HOULETTE et le CHALLUMEAU, the shepherd’s crook and pipe.
Laird, (equivalent to) squire.
Laissez Faire A Don Antoine, Leave that to Don Antonio.
Lang-leggit, long-legged.
Lapis OFFENSIONIS et Petra SCANDALI, a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence.
Lawing, reckoning.
Le Beau ideal, the perfect conception.
Leges CONVIVIALES, the rules of the table.
Les COUSTUSMES de Normandie, c’est L’HOMME KI Se Bast et KI CONSEILLE, [according to] the Norman custom, it is the man who fights and gives counsel.
Levy en masse, full muster.
Liber Pater, Father Liber; an old Italian deity, afterwards identified with Bacchus.
Lightly, make light of.
Limmer, hussy, good-for-nothing.
Loon, fellow.
Louping-on stane, mounting-stone.
LOUR, to frown.
Luckie, widow.
Lug, ear.
LUNZIE, wallet.
Ma Belle demoiselle, my fair damsel.
Madame son EPOUSE, Madam his wife.
Mails, rent, dues.
Mais cela VIENDRA avec le TEMPS, but that will come with time.
MAIST, most.
Major domo, butler, mayor of the house, steward.
Manege, the art of training and managing horses.
Mart, fatted beasts, slaughtered at Martinmas for winter provision.
Mask, infuse.
Maugre, in spite of.
Maun, must.
MAUVAISE HONTE, false shame.
MAVORTIA PECTORA, warlike breasts.
Meal-ark, meal-tub.
MISGUGGLE, mishandle.
MOLDWARP, mole.
Mon coeur, &c. ‘My heart so light, quo’ she, My lad, is not for you; ’Tis for a soldier bold, With beard of martial hue. Down, down, derrydown. ’A feather in his hat, A red heel on his shoe; Who plays upon the flute, And on the fiddle too. Down, down, derrydown.’
Morning, morning drink.
Mortis CAUSA, the cause of death.
MOUSTED, powdered.
Mutemus clypeos, &c. ’Change we our shields, and for ourselves assume the trappings of the Greeks.’
Neb, nose.