ROKELAY, a short cloak.

RUDAS, coarse, hag-like.

Sain, mark with the sign of the cross, bless.

SAIR, sore, very.

SAUMON, salmon.

SAUT, salt.

Say, a sample.

SCHELLUM, a rascal.

SCOUPING, scowping, skipping, leaping, running.

SEANNACHIE, a Highland antiquary.

Shearing, reaping, harvest.

SHILPIT, weak, sickly.

Shoon, shoes.

Sic, siccan, such.

Sidier Dhu, black soldiers, independent companies raised to keep peace in the Highlands; named from the tartans they wore.

Sidier roy, red soldiers, King George’s men.

Sikes, small brooks.

Siller, silver, money.

Simmer, summer.

Sliver, slice, slit.

Smoky, suspicious.

Sneck, cut.

Snood, a fillet worn by young women.

Sopite, quiet a brawl.

SORNERS, sornars, sojourners, sturdy beggars, especially those unwelcome visitors who exact lodgings and victuals by force.

Sorted, arranged, adjusted.

Speir, ask, investigate.

Sporran-mollach, a Highland purse of goatskin.

SPRACK, animated, lively.

Spring, a cheerful tune.

SPURRZIE, spoil.

STIEVE, stiff, firm.

Stirk, a young steer or heifer.

Stot, a bullock.

Stoup, a jug, a pitcher.

STOUTHREEF, robbery.

STRAE, straw.

Strath, a valley through which a river runs.

SYBOES, onions.

Ta, the.  TAIGLIT, harassed, loitered.

TAILZIE, taillie, a deed of entail.

Tappit-hen, a pewter pot that holds three English quarts.

TAYOUT, tailliers-hors; in modern phrase, Tally-ho!

Teil, the devil.

TEINDS, tithes.

TELT, told.

Till, to.  TOUN, a hamlet, a farm.

Trews, trousers.

Trow, believe, suppose.

TWA, two.

Tyke, a dog, a snarling fellow.

Unco, strange, very.

UNKENN’D, unknown.

Usquebaugh, whiskey.

WA’, wall.

Ware, spend.

WEEL, well.

WHA, who.

WHAR, where.

What for, why.

WHILK, which.

WISKE, whisk, brandish.

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