Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since — Volume 1

by Walter Scott

  GLOSSARY

  A', all.

  ABOON, abune, above.

  ABY, abye, endure, suffer.

  ACCOLADE, the salutation marking the bestowal of knighthood.

  AIN, own.

  ALANE, alone.

  AN, if.

  ANE, one.

  ARRAY, annoy, trouble.

  AULD, old.

  AWEEL, well.

  AYE, always.

  BAILIE, a city magistrate in Scotland.

  BAN, curse.

  BAWTY, sly, cunning.

  BAXTER, a baker.

  BEES, in the, stupefied, bewildered.

  BELIVE, belyve, by and by.

  BEN, in, inside.

  BENT, an open field.

  BHAIRD, a bard.

  BLACK-FISHING, fishing by torchlight poaching.

  BLINKED, glanced.

  BLUDE, braid, blood.

  BLYTHE, gay, glad.

  BODLE, a copper coin worth a third of an English penny.

  BOLE, a bowl.

  BOOT-KETCH, a boot-jack.

  BRAE, the side of a hill.

  BRISSEL-COCK, a turkey cock.

  BREEKS, breeches.

  BROGUES, Highland shoes.

  BROKEN MEN, outlaws.

  BROUGHT FAR BEN, held in special favor

  BROWST, a brewing.

  BRUIK, enjoy.

  BUCKIE, a perverse or refractory person.

  BULLSEGG, a gelded bull.

  BURD, bird, a term of familiarity.

  BURN, a brook.

  BUSKING, dress, decoration.

  BUTTOCK-MAIL, a fine for fornication.

  BYDAND, awaiting.

  CAILLIACHS, old women on whom devolved the duty of lamenting forthe dead, which the Irish call keening.

  CALLANT, a young lad, a fine fellow.

  CANNY, prudent, skillful, lucky.

  CANTER, a canting, whining beggar.

  CANTRIP, a trick.

  CARLE, a churl, an old man.

  CATERAN, a Highland irregular soldier, a freebooter.

  CHAP, a customer.

  CLACHAN, a hamlet.

  CLAW FAVOUR, curry favour.

  CLAYMORE, a broad sword.

  CLEEK, a hook.

  CLEIK the cunzie, steal the silver.

  COB, beat.

  COBLE, a small fishing boat.

  COGS, wooden vessels.

  COGUE, a round wooden vessel.

  CONCUSSED, violently shaken, disturbed, forced.

  CORONACH, a dirge.

  CORRIE, a mountain hollow.

  COVE, a cave.

  CRAME, a booth, a merchant's shop.

  CREAGH, an incursion for plunder, termed on the Borders a raid.

  CROUSE, bold, courageous.

  CRUMMY, a cow with crooked horns.

  CUITTLE, tickle.

  CURRAGH, a Highland boat.

  DAFT, mad, foolish.

  DEBINDED, bound down.

  DECREET, an order of decree.

  DEOCH AN DORUIS, the stirrup-cup or parting drink.

  DERN, concealed, secret.

  DINMONTS, wethers in the second year.

  DOER, an agent, a manager.

  DOON, doun, down.

  DOVERING, dozing.

  DUINHE-WASSEL, dunniewassal, a Highland gentleman, usually thecadet of a family of rank.

  EANARUICH, the regalia presented by Rob Roy to the Laird ofTullibody.

  ENEUGH, eneuch, enough.

  ERGASTULO, in a penitentiary.

  EXEEMED, exempt.

  FACTORY, stewardship.

  FEAL AND DIVOT, turf and thatch.

  FECK, a quantity.

  FEIFTEEN, the Jacobite rebellion of 1715.

  FENDY, good at making a shift.

  FIRE-RAISING, setting an incendiary fire.

  FLEMIT, frightened,

  FRAE, from.

  FU, full.

  FULE, fool.

  GABERLUNZIE, a kind of professional beggar.

  GANE, gone.

  GANG, go.

  GAR, make.

  GATE, gait, way.

  GAUN, going.

  GAY, gey, very.

  GEAR, goods, property.

  GILLFLIRT, a flirty girl.

  GILLIE, a servant, an attendant.

  GILLIE-WET-FOOT, a barefooted Highland lad.

  GIMMER, a ewe from one to two years old.

  GLISKED, glimpsed.

  GRIPPLE, rapacious, niggardly.

  GULPIN, a simpleton.

  HA', hall.

  HAG, a portion of copse marked off for cutting.

  HAIL, whole.

  HALLAN, a partition, a screen.

  HAME, home.

  HANTLE, a great deal.

  HARST, harvest.

  HERSHIPS, plunder.

  HILDING, a coward.

  HIRSTS, knolls.

  HORNING, charge of, a summons to pay a debt, on pain of beingpronounced a rebel, to the sound of a horn.

  HOWE, a hollow.

  HOULERYING AND POULERYING, hustling and pulling.

  HURLEY-HOUSE, a brokendown manor house.

  ILK, same; of that ilk, of the same name or place.

  ILKA, each, every.

  IN THE BEES, stupefied.

  INTROMIT, meddle with.

  KEN, know.

  KITTLE, tickle, ticklish.

  KNOBBLER, a male deer in its second year.

  KYLOE, a small Highland cow.

  LAIRD, squire, lord of the manor.

  LANG-LEGGIT, long-legged.

  LAWING, a tavern reckoning.

  LEE LAND, pasture land.

  LIE, a word used in old Scottish legal documents to call attentionto the following word or phrase.

  LIFT, capture, carry off by theft.

  LIMMER, a jade.

  LOCH, a lake.

  LOON, an idle fellow, a lout, a rogue.

  LUCKIE, an elderly woman.

  LUG, an ear, a handle.

  LUNZIE, the loins, the waist.

  MAE, mair, more.

  MAINS, the chief farm of an estate.

  MALT ABUNE THE MEAL, the drink above the food, half-seas over.

  MAUN, must.

  MEAL ARK, a meal chest.

  MERK, 13 1/3 pence in English money.

  MICKLE, much, great.

  MISGUGGLED, mangled, rumpled.

  MONY, many.

  MORN, the morn, tomorrow.

  MORNING, a morning dram.

  MUCKLE, much, great.

  MUIR, moor.

  NA, nae, no, not.

  NAINSELL, own self.

  NICE, simple.

  NOLT, black cattle. ony, any.

  ORRA, odd, unemployed.

  ORRA-TIME, occasionally.

  OWER, over.

  PEEL-HOUSE, a fortified tower.

  PENDICLE, a small piece of ground.

  PINGLE, a fuss, trouble.

  PLENISHING, furnishings.

  PLOY, sport, entertainment.

  PRETTY MEN, stout, warlike fellows.

  REIFS, robberies.

  REIVERS, robbers.

  RIGGS, ridges, ploughed ground.

  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 keeppeace 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.

  SMO
KY, suspicious.

  SNECK, cut.

  SNOOD, a fillet worn by young women.

  SOPITE, quiet a brawl.

  SORNERS, sornars, sojourners, sturdy beggars, especially thoseunwelcome 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.

  END OF VOLUME I