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.

Runt, an old cow.

Ruse de guerre, military stratagem.

SACRAMENTUM MILITARE, soldiers’ oath of allegiance.

SAGESSE, discretion.

Salient, in the act of leaping.

Sanctum SANCTORUM, lit. ‘holy of holies’; a specially private retreat or study.

Sans TACHE, without stain.

Sarks, shirts.

SCARTED, scratched,

SCHELLUM, scamp.

SCOUPING, scampering.

SENNACHIES, Highland genealogists.

SERVABIT ODOREM Testa diu, the pot will keep the smell for a long time.

Shemus beg, little James.

Shibboleth, a pass-word (Judges xii, 6).

SHILPIT, thin.

SICCAN, such.

SIDIER Roy, red-coated soldiers.

Siller, silver.

Skene, small dirk or dagger.

Smoky, suspicious.

Sonsie, sensible.

Sopite, allay.

SORNER, a person who lives on his neighbours.

Sowens, porridge or gruel.

SPEIRINGS, askings, = information.

Spence, best room.

SPES ALTERA, another hope.

Spleuchan, pocket.

SPRACK, spruce.

SPRECHERY, cattle-lifting.

SPUILZIE, spoil (cf.  BRUILZIE = broil).

Steadings, farms.

STIEVE, stiff.

Stirk, a year-old heifer or bullock.

Stoor, austere.

Stot, bull.

Stoup, mug, flagon.

STOUTHREIF, robbery with violence.

STRAE, straw.

Strath, a valley.

Strathspey, a Scottish dance.

Streek, lie down.

SUI Juris, of his own right.

SUUM CUIQUE, to each his due.

SYBOES, onions or radishes.

TACKSMAN, tenant.

TAIGLIT, slow, tired.

TAILLIE, covenant, bond.

TAISHATR, a person who has second-sight.

Tandem TRIUMPHANS, triumphant in the end.

TANQUAM PRIVATUS, in my private capacity.

TAPPIT-hen, a pewter-pot, holding nearly a gallon.

TENTAMINA, experiments.

TESTAMENTUM MILITARE, will made on the field of battle.

Thir, those.

Thraw, twist.

THREEPIT, declared.

Tighearna, chief.

Til, to; INTIL, into; until, unto.

TINCHEL, circle of beaters for driving game.

Tocher, dowry; tocherless, dowerless.

Toto COELO, as widely as may be.

TOUN, collection of houses,

Tracasserie, annoyance.

Trews, tartan trousers.

Trindling, trundling.

TROISIEME ETAGE, third floor.

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