Waverley — Complete eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 733 pages of information about Waverley — Complete.

Waverley — Complete eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 733 pages of information about Waverley — Complete.

GITE, crazy, a noodle,

GLED, a kite.

GLEG, quick, clever.

GLISK, a glimpse.

GOWD, gold.

GRANING, groaning.

Grat, wept.

Gree, agree.

Greybeard, a stone bottle or jug.

Grice, gryce, gris, a pig.

GRIPPLE, griping, niggardly.

Gude, guid, good.

GULPIN, a simpleton.

Ha’, hall.

Hag, a portion of copse marked off for cutting.

Haggis, a pudding peculiar to Scotland, containing oatmeal, suet, minced sheep’s liver, heart, etc., seasoned with onions, pepper, and salt, the whole mixture boiled in a sheep’s stomach.

Hail, whole.

Heck, a hay rack; at heck and manger, in plenty.

Het, hot.

Hog, a young sheep before its first shearing.

Horse-couper, horse-cowper, a horse-dealer.

Hurdles, the buttocks.

Hurley-house, a large house fallen into disrepair.

 Ilk, same; of that ilk, of the same name or place,

ILKA, every.

Ingle, a fire burning upon the hearth.

In the bees, stupefied.

KEEPIT, kept.

Kemple, a Scotch measure of straw or hay.

Ken, know.

KIPPAGE, disorder, confusion.

Kirk, church.

Kittle, tickle, ticklish.

Laird, lord of the manor.

LANDLOUPER, a wanderer, a vagabond.

Leddy, a lady.

Lightly, make light of, disparage.

Limmer, a hussy, a jade.

Loon, a worthless fellow, a lout.

Loup, leap, start.

Lug, an ear.

LUNZIE, the loins, the waist.

Mae, more.

Mains, the chief farm of an estate.

Mair, more.

MAIST, most, almost.  Mart, beef salted down for winter.

Mask, mash, infuse.

Maun, must.

Merk, an old silver coin worth 13 1/3 pence, English.

Mickle, large, much.

Morn, tomorrow.

MOUSTED, powdered.

Muckle, great, much.

Munt, mount.

Mutchkin, a measure equal to about three quarters of an imperial pint.

Na, nae, no, not.

NAIGS, horses.

Nail, the sixteenth part of a yard.

Natheless, nevertheless.

Neb, nose, tip.

NE’ER be in me, devil be in me.

Old to do, great doings.

OWER, over.

PAITRICK, a partridge.

PANGED, crammed.

PARRITCH, oatmeal porridge.

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