corbie, I, 253,1; 254,b1,c1; III, 473,23: raven.cordain,cordan,cordevine, II, 435,50; IV, 312,7; 317,F3: Cordovan leather.cordin, shoon laced with cordin, IV, 435,8: cording, cord (and not with whangs of leather).cordiuant,adj., V,49,23: of Spanish, Cordovan leather.cored, II, 217 f.,5,10: covered.coresed(hors), III, 61,100: bodied (?) (later texts, corese, corse).corn, II, 88,17,18, etc.: in Scotland, unground oats. (Here distinguished from white meal, which is usually oat-meal.)corn-caugers, III, 479,8: cadgers, hucksters, in corn.corp, II, 218,25; 229,11: a vulgar singular of a supposed plural; corps, II, 217,30; these corps,31; cf. IV, 483,23; 484 a, after31. corpes, III, 231,97, may be corpse.cors, curse.corse,corss, I, 117,7; 351,31,32,44; IV, 53,8; 512 a,9; V,161,4: cross.corser, III, 68,256: should probably be forser==coffer (textghas coffer).cosh,coush, II, 363,13: quiet (snug).cote a pye,coate a pie,cote of pie, III, 65,194; 80,194; 86,194: corruption of courtepi, short cloak or gown. (Dutch kort, short, and pij, coat of warm woolen stuff.)cots,coats, III, 481,2,6: petticoats.couchd, V,9,12: lay, leaned.coug,cog, V,275b,2,3,9: boat.could, did. Seecan.couls, V,228,19: cools, chills.councell,counsell, II, 58,3; III, 58,45; V,62,78: secret.cound, IV, 467,13: count.counsell, II, 246,C9-11; III, 217,53: secret. Seecouncell.counterfeit,p. p., V,300,10: counterfeited.country-keeper, V,196,41: “one employed in a particular district to apprehend delinquents.” Jamieson.coup,cupe, cup.couped,koupd,coped, I, 469,23; II, 313,20; IV, 315,14: overturned.couper,cowper, IV, 259,7; 260,7: buyer and seller, dealer.couple-root, I, 302,13: rafter-end (the end resting on the wall).courting, III, 146,20: demonstration of affection, embracing.courtnolls, V,85,14: courtiers.courtrie, V,191,5;198b, after52: belonging to a court, courtiers.coush,cosh, IV, 483b: quiet.coustome, IV, 507,78: duty (the king will remit).cout,cowte, IV, 18,20,21; 21,16: colt.couth, II, 357,2: sound, word, Jamieson (the sense required, but the suggested derivation from Icel. kviðr, A. S. cwide, is not easy).couent, III, 60,86; 357,55: convent.coving-tree, II, 193,H4: meeting-tree. “A large tree in the front of an old Scottish mansion-house, where the laird met his visitors.” Similar to trysting-tree. Jamieson. In Roxburghshire, covin; in the north of England, covan, coban, and even capon. Denham Tracts, II, 226 ff.cow, twig. Seebroom-cow,heather-cow,kow.cow,coll(locks), II, 423,4,7: clip, (brume), III, 9,H8: browse. (Norwegian kolla (Aasen), dock, take off the top.)cowing, eating.cowper.Seecouper.cowte, colt. Seecout.coxcomb, III, 35,19: pate.crabby(crabbed), III, 488,23: provoking.crack,crak, II, 271,18; 488,6,10; III, 161,28; IV, 261,3; V,106,E3: talk. III,487,6,14,16: brag. crackd (the Border-side), IV, 146,4: defied, challenged. (In Scott’s printed copy,bragged, defied.)crack,crak, a moment of time. in a crack, within a crack, IV, 314,16; 315,13; 317,E6; V,271,13: instantly.crack fingers, in grief or perplexity, II, 26,G16. Seeknack.crae,pret., V,253a, No 200,B a8: crew.crak.Seecrack.cramoisie,cramasie, IV, 93,8,2,3; 410,17,20; 472,9: crimson.crap, II, 261,10; 286,16: crop, top.crap,pret.of creep, II, 323,3; 330,H3; 336,P2; 337,3.crapotee, I, 326,6: toad-stone, supposed to be generated in the head of toads; “in fact, a petrifaction of the teeth of extinct fishes.” Mätzner. Sometimes defined, smaragdus, emerald.cravin, II, 335,N2: asking for, demanding.crawen,crawn,p. p.of craw, crow, II, 139 f.,7,12,22; 222,17; IV, 473,36.cray, cry.credence, III, 449 b: credit.creed,n., IV, 262,13,14: blame.creel, V,122,5,11,12;123,5,11;124,4,12: basket.creep,pret.crap. Seecrap.cries,n., II, 73,22: calls, demands.Cristiantë,Cristinty,Cristendie: Christendom.croche, I, 413,36: crouch.croft, IV, 142 a: a piece of land adjoining a house.crooden,croodin,croodlin,croudlin, I, 163 f.,J1,2, etc.; 165,M1,N1, etc.; 166,K c1: cooing.cropped(knee), III, 280,26: crooked (Icel. kroppinn).cross,v., V,306,6(correct V,166,72, in accordance with this reading): oppose.p. p., the sheriff was crost, III, 157,30: balked.croudlin.Seecrooden.crouds,cruds, IV, 260,5: curds.crouse,crouselie,crously, II, 169,9; III, 161,28; IV, 261,3; V,17,33: briskly, merrily, jubilantly. III, 493,16: (perhaps) bumptiously. Seecrowse.crow,craw,crow. ar the coc him crowe, I, 244,18; V,288b, v.33.p. p.crowen, crawen, crawn.crowen,p. p.of crow, II, 138,7.crowner, I, 141 b: coroner.crowse, III, 457,B5: audacious. Seecrouse.crowt, I, 273,28: draw together, pucker up.cruds,n., IV, 260,7,18,19; 262,30; 265,A b1,11: curds.cry,crye, proclaim, proclamation. cry in, III, 320,A b7: call in. cry on, upo, I, 127,6; II, 150,13; III, 318,7; IV, 7,24: call upon, summon. cryed out on Robyn Hode, III, 70,296: cried out against, or, simply, cried out “R. H.”cryance, II, 58 f.,18,20,21: cowardice, faintheartedness (disposition to succumb).cud, V,104a: cudgel.cuddy, IV, 69,6: ass.cuirt,pret., I, 439,C11: covered.cuist,cust,pret.of cast, II, 248,1,2; IV, 68,E2; 182,G5; 394,C1; V,116,5. keist, kiest, I, 69,46; 75,36; 80,4.cuisten,p. p.of cast, I, 495,11. Seecustan.cum, V,191,8: become.cum,pret.of come, III, 386,22.cumand,ptc., V,192f.,35,49: coming.cumber, V,53,104: oppress, torment. Seecumre.cumbruk, cambric.cummers, V,106,E2: gossips (commères).cumre,n., IV, 316,19: cumber, trouble. Seecumber.cun thanke, III, 68,242: am, feel, grateful.cunnes.nones cunnes, I, 244,11: of no kind. enes cunnes, I, 244,12: of any kind.cunning, V,82,21: craft (mystery, trade).curch,curche, II, 131,6; III, 472,10: kerchief, woman’s head covering.cure, III, 262,7: pains. McNaughtoun’s cure, II, 386,25: “McNaughtoun’s cure to ye is, Devil relieve ye.” Motherwell.curn, III, 160,19; IV, 85,3: quantity, parcel, pack.curst turne, III, 93,34: malignant, spiteful, ferocious job, piece of work, feat.curstlye, V,53,104: fiercely, savagely.curtal(frier), III, 124 ff.,6,7,11,13, etc.: (Lat. curtilarius) having charge of, attached to, the vegetable garden of a monastery. curtal dogs, 125,34.cust,pret.of cast, V,116,5. Seecuist.custan,p. p.of cast, III, 4,2.cut, V,202a: horse.cut, V,112,7;124,6;125,5: bite, gnaw.cutted(friar), III, 123,3,11,13,15,17: short-frocked (but apparently a corruption of curtal, see III, 121 f.).cutters, III, 228,10: bravos, robbers.cuttie, I, 72,13; 74,74: short.cutties, II, 470,49: spoons.cweet,queet, II, 96,I3: ankle.cypress queen, as fair as a cypress queen, V,164,15: Cyprus, Cypris (Venus).D’d, for ’t (it). bla’d wind, bla’d weet, II, 21,6; doo’d, IV, 464,16; born’d, deal’d, 465,22,37; 471,41; lai’d, 520,10; dee’d, V,248,12.dabs, II, 167 b,F: pricks.dada,dadda, II, 339,16,18; V,112,B b5: daddie.daft(love), II, 410,8: foolishly fond.dag-durk, I, 55,12: dagger.daggie, IV, 258,25: drizzling (dag, a slight rain).daghter,dather, daughter.daghterie, IV, 324,1: a word of no meaning, the original being simplydaughter: see V,272b,1.daigh,daighe, I, 302,A10; II, 467,42: dough.dail, IV, 430,5: (dool) the grief, the ill consequences.daily,dayly, daily flower, I, 76,9,15,18; II, 393,2; IV, 19,8: (Icelandic dælligr, Danish deilig) beautiful, charming.daily dight, IV, 432,6: beautifully adorned.dairgie, II, 195,41: refection given after a funeral.dale, been at a, III, 161,28,30: dole (to mendicants), satirically.dam, II, 192,10: dame.damasee, II, 327,32: damson plum.dame, addressed to an unmarried girl by her father, IV, 195,7.dandily, V,106,E5: over nice or dainty.dandoo, III, 5,C7,8: dun doe?dane,done, I, 68,20,24; 69,45,53; II, 81 f.,41,56: done. dane him to, III, 273,15,27: betaken himself. Seedo.dang,pret.of ding, I, 55,12; 129,D6; 130,F5; 133,M7,10; II, 253,19; 261,9; IV, 305,18: beat, struck, knocked, thrust, shoved. dang down, III, 460,32.p. p., II, 282,10: overpowered.danger, do danger, III, 163,67: exercise of the power of a superior? violence?dank(moat), V,295,7: damp, wet.danting,danton, IV, 287,1(burden); V,267,1(burden): (Fr. dompter) sexual conquest.danton, V,248,19: subdue, intimidate. Seedaunton.daown,adv., V,304,8: down.dapperpy, IV, 185,11: diapered, of variegated cloth.dather,dother, V,257,15: daughter.datit, IV, 467,15: dawtit, caressed.dative of pronoun: III, 58,37,44; 60,82; 61,100; 65,184; 75,381,391. after verbs of motion (dative of the subject): I, 244,10,13; 326,1; III, 70,281.daunton,danton, I, 325,6; III, 364 b: daunt, subdue, put down.daut,dawt, IV, 104,O; 277,4; 302,2: fondle, caress, make much of, pet.daw,v., II, 146,7: dawn.p. p.dawen, II, 139,7,12.dawdy, II, 308,5: the unborn young of an animal.dawt,daut, IV, 304,3; V,106,D3: caress.dawtie, V,117f.,B5,9,13;173,11: darling.day,dey,die,dye, IV, 257,B9; 259,7,17; 260,7,16; 262,16; V,265a,10: dairy-woman.day,dayed, die, died.dayly.Seedaily.de,dee,dea,deei,die, == do: I, 165,N8; 183,24; II, 175 f.,1,8. a dee, II, 110,25: to do. dee’d, V,248,12: do it.p. p.deen. Seedee.dea, die.dead,deed,deid,dede,died,n., I, 104,14; 353,13; 388,A11; 465,19; II, 385,25; 505,92; III, 387,16,10; IV, 36,3; 505,57: death.dead.be dead, II, 58,5,7; III, 23,25; 28,120; 99,50: die.deak, V,270,7: deck.dean,den, IV, 167,D5,6,11: hollow where the ground slopes on both sides, valley.dean, done.dear,deare,dere, I, 411,5; III, 164,b67: injury.Dear-Coft, II, 62,18: Dear-Bought.dearly, IV, 98,F6: costly.dearsome, III, 488 f.,38,44: costly.dear vow, interjection of surprise or commiseration.deas, II, 189,24: pew (stone seat at the door of the church. Chambers). Same word asdais. Seedice.deave, I, 389,C3; IV, 69,17: deafen.debate, III, 314,64: quarrel.deceivin(tree), III, 396,N3: corruption of savin (see 380 a).decencey, V,242b,8: corruption of bencite, benedicite.deck-board,deck-buird, oer (over), V,138,B5,6;139,c6,7: overboard.dede, V,283,8: death. Seedead.dee,deei,do. how can this dee, I, 453,6: be allowed, borne; and so, perhaps, a’ this winna dee (wont do), II, 97,14. a’ this winna dee, gif ony prayer can dee, II, 132,16; 176,10; it wad na do, IV, 509 b,13;itwidne deei, V,227,2: avail.dee,deei, do. Seede.dee,deei, die.deed, death. Seedead.deed,v., I, 164,K6; 165,O5: died.deed, indeed. by my deed, III, 262,12: on my word.deed-thraw, III, 501,10: death-throe.deei, do, avail; die. Seede,dee.deemed,demed, III, 61,95: judged. III, 356,35: condemned.deen, I, 16,C18; II, 182 a; 409,18,19: done (with no sense in19).deerlye(dight), III, 340,28,36: expensively (ornamented). III, 356,16,31,35: perhaps, with great cost to the sufferer, possibly, to his hurt; lovingly, out of love, would answer in the first two cases, but not in the third.deft, III, 145,3: neat, nice-looking.degree, III, 323,58; IV, 258,20: rank, sort. served him in his ain degree, V,191,19;193,57: rendered him respect accordant with his rank. wee shall beare no degree, III, 333,19: shall have no position, standing. (requite, thank, show) in euerye degree, V,84f.,9,14,27: to the full extent demanded by the occasion.deid, I, 105,26; 353,13: death. Seedead.deighte, IV, 504,29: dight, furnished, adorned, equipped.delated, III, 449 a, b; IV, 63 b: accused.dell, V,79,32: deal, bit, whit.dell, II, 345,29: we are apparently to understand that it was a dismal dell that brought James into the world (not in itself, but from the melancholy fact of his being born there). Possibly we may understand dell==dule, affliction. But the piece is spurious, and we need not be nice.delle, I, 327,22: perhaps, dally, talk, disport; perhaps, deal.demean, IV, 41, note *; 107,3: treat, maltreat. (in 107,3, treat as he deserves, damage, do harm to.)demed.Seedeemed.den,dean, IV, 166,B8; 168,5,11; 169,3,9,G2; 174 f.,2,7; 306 f.,12,20,48; V,119,D2: small valley, glen, dingle.den,dien, V,260,8,14: done.denay,deny, V,110,10;260,3,4: refuse.deol, V,297b: sorrow.dep, gave him a dep unto the heart, III, 281,14: perhaps dab, Old Eng. dabbe, stroke. But Dr Davidson suggests that the line was misheard, and that what was said was, a dep’oon (wound), which seems to me very likely.depart, III, 139,27: part company.deputed, III, 414,52: consigned, handed or delivered over (used of a fugitive carried back for trial).dere,dear(e), III, 99,59: injury.dere-worthy, III, 58,36,37; 59,60; 61,111; 67,219; 68,250; 73,346: precious, dear.derf, derf blowes, III, 422,73: powerful.dernë, I, 327,30; III, 57,21: secret, hidden, privy, obscure.descryvd, IV, 405,50: described.desse, I, 328,45: dais, the elevated part of the hall, on which was the table for the chief personages.deuylkyns, III, 79,73: devilish sort of.develling, come, I, 302,5: moving like the devil, whether hieing, scouring, bouncing, or what not; or, possibly, O. Fr. devalant, descending; an equivalence to daundering, sauntering, has been suggested.devyse, I, 327,16: will, pleasure.dey,die,dye, IV, 257,9; 259,7,17; 260,7; 262,16: dairy-woman. See day.deythe,dyth, III, 112,59: dight, prepared.di,die, II, 132,24; V,35,B5: do. dinna, I, 146,6, andpassim: do not. Seedinnë.dice, IV, 416,17==deis: pew in a church.did, I, 104,3,4: used forshould.did(be wrought), II, 506 a: caused.did him to.Seedo to.did of.Seedo.die, IV, 264,5: dey, dairy-woman. Seeday.die.Seede.die,do,din,dien, done.died, IV, 386,19: death. Seedead.died, IV, 407,7,8: dead.dien.Seeden,die.dight,dicht,dycht,deight,dyght, III, 57,19: prepared. dedys that here be dyght, III, 72,320: done. of grain, I, 16,B16; IV, 242 a: winnow. dight shoon, V,105,A11: clean. had not men to dight my men, III, 300,18; IV, 500,19: serve, handle. she dighted her father’s wounds, I, 101,8; 103,D6: dressed. pinnace, hachebord deerlye dight, III, 340,28,36; IV, 504,29: fitted out, dill (grief) to him was dight, II, 68,4: ordained.dight,adv., bird sang fu dight, II, 261,10: readily, freely (strange use of the word). Cf.complete.dild, God, III, 35,31: God ild, yield, reward (dcarried on from the subject).dill, II, 58,4,11: dule, grief.dimitted, III, 447 b: discharged, released.din,dien, done.din, I, 133,10; II, 186,16: dun.dine, I, 127,23; II, 94,12; 194,13,17; 313,17; III, 267,18; V,277f.,18,29: dinner, meal.ding, II, 62 a,17; 261,8; IV, 97,F2; 304,16,17: beat, knock. ding down, II, 240,6; III, 5,D2,6; 6,2,5; 8,5; 9,2,7: lay low, overthrow.pret.dang, dung.p. p.dung, dang. my ain wand dings me now, IV, 97,F2: I am suffering the consequences of my own folly.dink, I, 74,72: neat, trim.dinna, do not.dinnë, V,229a,35: do (you) not. V,229b,6: (disne) does not. dinner==dinna, dinnë.dinne, I, 272,25: (noise) ado, trouble.dint(of arrow), III, 345,48; 350,48: stroke, impact.dirt,v., V,304,2,3: soil.dis, does.Disaware, V,49,29;51,51,62: O. E. aver (O. Fr. aver, avoir) seems to be the basis of the word, which would mean stripped of wealth, sans aver (avoir); a Galterius Sine Avero is noted by Ducange.discared, III, 38,85: revoked, withdrawn (apparently for discarded).discharged, IV, 63 b: revoked.discreene, II, 439,2: descry, spy out, discover.discreeue, II, 58,3, should bedisceuere, diskevere, discover, reveal.disgrate, V,269,17: disgrace.disgrate, III, 58,48: unfortunate, out of fortune’s favor. (Ital. disgraziato.)disna, does not.distan, IV, 329 a, after16: (distance) distinguish.dittay, IV, 245 a: indictment.dive, II, 132,25: do.diuel’s mouth.He could not finde a priuy place, for all lay in the diuel’s mouth, II, 483,4: as the devil’s mouth is depicted wide open in painted windows, etc., Professor Skeat has suggested that meaning for the phrase.do, it wad na do, IV, 509 b,13: avail. Seedee.do.Seedoo.do,doe, doe my thy hawkes, I, 211,20: give, deliver.do adowne, III, 67,226; 69,263: put down.do away, III, 59,63: have done with, stop.do be, I, 184,47: are.do down.Seedo to.do gladly, III, 58,34; 61,103; 67,232: make yourself happy (==make glad chere, 67,215).do(doe)of,off, II, 138,13; III, 78,449; V,49,23-25: put off.pret.doft, II, 490 b.do on, III, 23,27; 76,421: put on, don.do to,do till, with reflexive pronoun, I, 86,30; 87 b; 115,B3,4; 182 f.,7,11,13,17; 352,32,44; III, 72,328: betake. So withup,down, V,300,5,8.do up.Seedo to, anddop.doited, IV, 427,10: stupid, doting.doll,dolle,döl,dule, I, 217,3; V,111,19,21: grief.domineer, in, wi, III, 268,9; 270,9; V,242b,8: with haughtiness, superciliously. (Perhaps a corruption of III, 270,E7, since the captain is said to be buke-learned in 268,9.)doo(ynnë gon), III, 91 a: cause, make.doo,dou,dow, I, 163-165; 497,L2; V,40f.,3,9,15, etc.: dove.don, down.done, how done you? III, 35,31: old plural, how do you do?done upon, V,48,6: put on.doo’d, IV, 464,16: do it.dool,doll,dule, II, 175,17; IV, 85,42; V,17,31;111,19,21: grief. Seedail.dool, dool and down, II, 271,26: corruption of dale and down; cf. II, 175,14; 273,33; IV, 219,B5: and elsewhere.doon, II, 198 b, 2d line: a corruption, or possibly an Irish word, of which I can make nothing.doon, youar begun yar doon, V,304b,4.doorcheeks, II, 99 b,33: door-posts.dop, III, 34 f.,6,21: do up, open.dorn, II, 300,5: (sheets of) dornic, table-linen, ordinarily, from Dornick, the Dutch name for Tournay.dorty, IV, 288,10: pettish, peevish, saucy.dother, IV, 327,15; V,110,1;237f.,6,7,12,22, etc.;264,7: daughter.dottled, V,94,A3: in a state of dotage.dou, dove. Seedoo,dow.dou,dow(A. S. déah, dugon), III, 245,B12; 247,18; 370,10,13; IV, 472,22: can (of physical ability). II, 78,4; 104,24; 105,16; 168,12; III, 386,21; IV, 31,9; 512,12: (with negative) am unable from aversion, want of resolution, etc. dought (A. S. dohte,pret.of dugan),pret., I, 146,20; II, 401,C7; III, 465,22; IV, 23,A c18: was able, could.Subjunctive, I, 326,18,19be at liberty); I, 330,B3: should be able. dought, he neere dought good day, I, 434,32: he never was good for anything a good day. But we should expecthim: never a good day profited him.double-horsed, III, 489,42: with horse carrying double.doubt,doute,dout,n.andv., I, 295,35; 478 f.,19,28; II, 52,22; III, 57,10; 76,406; 125,26; 188,4: fear.doubt,if tho[u], II, 449,58: corrupt.A53, without all doubt.doubtit, III, 364 b: redoubted, held in awe. Seedoubt.douce, I, 184,1; V,210a,1: staid and sober. violence douce, II, 271,19: corrupt; readdone?douë,douey==dowie, V,257,7,17: dreary, melancholy. V,220f.,6,7,9(of bran): wretched.doughetë, III, 308,28: doughty man.dought.Seedou.douk,duck, II, 151,H6; 153,16,17,19,21: dive.doukers,duckers, II, 151,H6,8: divers.doulfou, II, 159,23: doleful.dounae.Seedou.doup(dish-doup), II, 463,23: bottom.dour(e), I, 117,17: hard, severe. V,295,3: savage. knocks bauldly and dowr, II, 341,Rafter3: hard, or pertinaciously.dout,doute. Seedoubt.dow,dou,doo, I, 163 f.,J1-6, etc.; II, 299,22-24; 301,14; V,111,18;302,17: dove.dow, do.dow,downa,v.Seedou.dowie,dowy, I, 56,B11; II, 146,19; 148,21,22; 189,36,37; IV, 33,24; 165,12; 166,C4,5,6; etc.: sad, doleful, melancholy, wretched. Seedouë.dowilie, I, 439,11: sadly.down, wi meikle dool and down, II, 271,26: nonsense; corruption of, beheld baith dale and doun,F33.down-browed, scowling; I, 302,A11.downfall,downcomeof Robin Hood, with the, III, 271,10; 274, 30: knocked down in R. Hood’s fashion?dowr.Seedoure.doyn, III, 111,39: done.doyt, III, 109,1: doth (plural).draff, refuse, dirt.drank, II, 30,7: gave to drink, drenched.drap, III, 281,10, drap down: perhaps, drap[d] down; otherwise, should drop.draps, drops.draught, I, 432,1: sketch, picture.draw, drew her table, V,304,13: see explanation,304a.draw, III, 6,14,15: move (cf. Germ. ziehen).draw to,ti,till, draw to hose and sheen, II, 249,15; 256,9; IV, 464,10: draw on. drew till him his hose, II, 189,35. drew to him his sheen, II, 257,30.draw up wi, II, 114,14: take up with, enter into intimacy, relations of love, with.drawghtthat thowe dost drawe, IV, 503,16: of the drawing of a bow. (So “Chaucer’s Dream,” v. 788, Morris.)drawn, ere the horse was drawn and brought, IV, 346 b,I b5: chosen.drawna stroke behind his hand, II, 63,24: evidently means give a back-handed stroke, but the phrase sounds factitious.dreaded, II, 169,14: suspected.dreads, IV, 32,C7: suspicions.dreamed, I was, I, 432,1: dreamed, had a dream.drede,n., III, 296,8: doubt.dreder, II, 403,3,4: dread, apprehension.dre(e),dri,drie,drye, suffer, undergo, hold out, stand, be able. dree pine, II, 466,35; 467,45. doom, III, 391,9. death, III, 391,1. dill I drye, II, 58,11. dreeing trying hour, I, 73,47. as fast as they might dree, III, 286,49: could do it; so, II, 149,7; 255,10; III, 106,12; 267,9; IV, 2,6; 6,13; V,195,13,35;196,37. whylle the myghte dre, III, 298,58; 309,47: as long as they could hold out. draw carts, which horse were wont to drie, I, 465,2: do, perform. drie to feel, III, 479,5: be compelled, come to feel.dreel, gie a, I, 403,9: stir up, put into a flurry, make scud. (Old Dutch drillen, ultro citroque cursitare gyrosque agere, etc. Scottish dreel, to move quickly.)dreigh, IV, 47,4: seems to mean here, far to jump from.dress, III, 336 b: redress.dressen,v.the dressede into the countrey, V,71, note †: betaken.drew(her table). Seedraw.dri.Seedree.drie,n., III, 415,22: an unauthorized word of Percy’s, to mean suffering.drie,dri. Seedree.driep, drop.drifts, IV, 2,10: droves.drive, IV, 6,19; 7,30,32: drive off.droonet, I, 133,13: drowned.droop, droop and drowsie (of blood), IV, 220,13: droop might be the Old English drup, sad, piteous, but a word indicating the quality or condition of the blood would be expected (as in German trübe, thick, muddy). The nearest isdrubly, turbid, muddy. Cf. wan and drousie, IV, 224,23. her lothely lere is droupy and drowsy, Skelton, Elynour Rummynge, 15: downcast and drowsy. Seedrousie.droped, III, 164,88: drooped.drouflye, III, 85,22: sad. Seedrousli.drousie, wan and drousie, IV, 224,23. droop and drowsie, IV, 220,13(of blood): sluggish, perhaps slowly dripping. The combination occurs in Skelton’s Elynour Rummynge, 15, droupy and drowsy, with sense. Seedroop.drousli, III, 82,22, should be droufli (drouflye, or drouslye, 85,22): (Old Eng. drof, droflie) sad.drowryis, I, 415 b: love-tokens. Seedrury.drowsie.Seedrousie.drucken, II, 155,A b3: drunken (and inA a3, where there is a misprint).druken,drucken,p. p., II, 285,9; V,99,11,C6;155,C2: drunk, imbibed.drumlie,-ly(stream), IV, 185,8,14; (eye), IV, 368,10; 369 b: perturbed, turbulent, turbid, gloomy.drunken,p. p.of drink, II, 110,24; 134,26. drunken was==had drunken, IV, 46,5,6.drunkilie, III, 490,25: merrily (as being tipsy with pleasure?).drury, IV, 58,A b5: dowry. Drowry is used as synonymous with morning-gift in the Acts of James VI. Jamieson. Seedrowryis.drussie, V,257.14: drowsy.drye.Seedree.drywyng, driving.dub, I, 164,J3; III, 162,49; IV, 470,25,26; V,169,9: pool.dubby, IV, 257,A6: dirty, having many small pools.ducatdowns,dukedoons, IV, 128,8; 139,I b21: ducatoons. corrupted ridiculously, IV, 137,2, to ducks.duck,douk, II, 145,18,19,22,23: dive.duckers,doukers, II, 145,18: divers.ducks.Seeducatdowns.duddie, I, 208,G15: ragged.duddies,dudes, V,111,24; 112,B13; 113b,13: duds, poor clothes.duȝty, III, 98,32: doughty, valiant.duke, IV, 295,D5: dyke, wall.dukedoons.Seeducatdowns.dulchach,dulget, I, 305,1; V,213,1: bundle, always applied in Aberdeenshire to ill-shaped, untidy bundles of clothes carried on the person (also, bulshach).dule,dool, I, 169,B3; 442,E15; II, 290,8,12; IV, 86,20; 303,14: grief.dulget, I, 305,1. Seedulchach.dumped, V,227,4: struck with the feet.dumpes, III, 313,50: in the modern sense, but not inelegant.dune, I, 302,2; IV, 326,15: done.dune out, V,27,28: worn out, used up.dung,pret.of ding, beat, knock, strike, II, 132,17.p. p., II, 62 a,17; 392,J9; 472,20,28; III, 161,43; IV, 479,4: beaten, worsted, overpowered, put down. IV, 183,8: overwhelmed, disconsolate. dung over, V,127,22: knocked over, struck down. dung down, I, 345,5: thrust down.Dunny’s well,Dunny’s dyke, II, 189,28: an impersonation, signifying that the washing and drying have been done in dark-colored water and on a dark-colored (dirty) wall.
corbie, I, 253,1; 254,b1,c1; III, 473,23: raven.
cordain,cordan,cordevine, II, 435,50; IV, 312,7; 317,F3: Cordovan leather.
cordin, shoon laced with cordin, IV, 435,8: cording, cord (and not with whangs of leather).
cordiuant,adj., V,49,23: of Spanish, Cordovan leather.
cored, II, 217 f.,5,10: covered.
coresed(hors), III, 61,100: bodied (?) (later texts, corese, corse).
corn, II, 88,17,18, etc.: in Scotland, unground oats. (Here distinguished from white meal, which is usually oat-meal.)
corn-caugers, III, 479,8: cadgers, hucksters, in corn.
corp, II, 218,25; 229,11: a vulgar singular of a supposed plural; corps, II, 217,30; these corps,31; cf. IV, 483,23; 484 a, after31. corpes, III, 231,97, may be corpse.
cors, curse.
corse,corss, I, 117,7; 351,31,32,44; IV, 53,8; 512 a,9; V,161,4: cross.
corser, III, 68,256: should probably be forser==coffer (textghas coffer).
cosh,coush, II, 363,13: quiet (snug).
cote a pye,coate a pie,cote of pie, III, 65,194; 80,194; 86,194: corruption of courtepi, short cloak or gown. (Dutch kort, short, and pij, coat of warm woolen stuff.)
cots,coats, III, 481,2,6: petticoats.
couchd, V,9,12: lay, leaned.
coug,cog, V,275b,2,3,9: boat.
could, did. Seecan.
couls, V,228,19: cools, chills.
councell,counsell, II, 58,3; III, 58,45; V,62,78: secret.
cound, IV, 467,13: count.
counsell, II, 246,C9-11; III, 217,53: secret. Seecouncell.
counterfeit,p. p., V,300,10: counterfeited.
country-keeper, V,196,41: “one employed in a particular district to apprehend delinquents.” Jamieson.
coup,cupe, cup.
couped,koupd,coped, I, 469,23; II, 313,20; IV, 315,14: overturned.
couper,cowper, IV, 259,7; 260,7: buyer and seller, dealer.
couple-root, I, 302,13: rafter-end (the end resting on the wall).
courting, III, 146,20: demonstration of affection, embracing.
courtnolls, V,85,14: courtiers.
courtrie, V,191,5;198b, after52: belonging to a court, courtiers.
coush,cosh, IV, 483b: quiet.
coustome, IV, 507,78: duty (the king will remit).
cout,cowte, IV, 18,20,21; 21,16: colt.
couth, II, 357,2: sound, word, Jamieson (the sense required, but the suggested derivation from Icel. kviðr, A. S. cwide, is not easy).
couent, III, 60,86; 357,55: convent.
coving-tree, II, 193,H4: meeting-tree. “A large tree in the front of an old Scottish mansion-house, where the laird met his visitors.” Similar to trysting-tree. Jamieson. In Roxburghshire, covin; in the north of England, covan, coban, and even capon. Denham Tracts, II, 226 ff.
cow, twig. Seebroom-cow,heather-cow,kow.
cow,coll(locks), II, 423,4,7: clip, (brume), III, 9,H8: browse. (Norwegian kolla (Aasen), dock, take off the top.)
cowing, eating.
cowper.Seecouper.
cowte, colt. Seecout.
coxcomb, III, 35,19: pate.
crabby(crabbed), III, 488,23: provoking.
crack,crak, II, 271,18; 488,6,10; III, 161,28; IV, 261,3; V,106,E3: talk. III,487,6,14,16: brag. crackd (the Border-side), IV, 146,4: defied, challenged. (In Scott’s printed copy,bragged, defied.)
crack,crak, a moment of time. in a crack, within a crack, IV, 314,16; 315,13; 317,E6; V,271,13: instantly.
crack fingers, in grief or perplexity, II, 26,G16. Seeknack.
crae,pret., V,253a, No 200,B a8: crew.
crak.Seecrack.
cramoisie,cramasie, IV, 93,8,2,3; 410,17,20; 472,9: crimson.
crap, II, 261,10; 286,16: crop, top.
crap,pret.of creep, II, 323,3; 330,H3; 336,P2; 337,3.
crapotee, I, 326,6: toad-stone, supposed to be generated in the head of toads; “in fact, a petrifaction of the teeth of extinct fishes.” Mätzner. Sometimes defined, smaragdus, emerald.
cravin, II, 335,N2: asking for, demanding.
crawen,crawn,p. p.of craw, crow, II, 139 f.,7,12,22; 222,17; IV, 473,36.
cray, cry.
credence, III, 449 b: credit.
creed,n., IV, 262,13,14: blame.
creel, V,122,5,11,12;123,5,11;124,4,12: basket.
creep,pret.crap. Seecrap.
cries,n., II, 73,22: calls, demands.
Cristiantë,Cristinty,Cristendie: Christendom.
croche, I, 413,36: crouch.
croft, IV, 142 a: a piece of land adjoining a house.
crooden,croodin,croodlin,croudlin, I, 163 f.,J1,2, etc.; 165,M1,N1, etc.; 166,K c1: cooing.
cropped(knee), III, 280,26: crooked (Icel. kroppinn).
cross,v., V,306,6(correct V,166,72, in accordance with this reading): oppose.p. p., the sheriff was crost, III, 157,30: balked.
croudlin.Seecrooden.
crouds,cruds, IV, 260,5: curds.
crouse,crouselie,crously, II, 169,9; III, 161,28; IV, 261,3; V,17,33: briskly, merrily, jubilantly. III, 493,16: (perhaps) bumptiously. Seecrowse.
crow,craw,crow. ar the coc him crowe, I, 244,18; V,288b, v.33.p. p.crowen, crawen, crawn.
crowen,p. p.of crow, II, 138,7.
crowner, I, 141 b: coroner.
crowse, III, 457,B5: audacious. Seecrouse.
crowt, I, 273,28: draw together, pucker up.
cruds,n., IV, 260,7,18,19; 262,30; 265,A b1,11: curds.
cry,crye, proclaim, proclamation. cry in, III, 320,A b7: call in. cry on, upo, I, 127,6; II, 150,13; III, 318,7; IV, 7,24: call upon, summon. cryed out on Robyn Hode, III, 70,296: cried out against, or, simply, cried out “R. H.”
cryance, II, 58 f.,18,20,21: cowardice, faintheartedness (disposition to succumb).
cud, V,104a: cudgel.
cuddy, IV, 69,6: ass.
cuirt,pret., I, 439,C11: covered.
cuist,cust,pret.of cast, II, 248,1,2; IV, 68,E2; 182,G5; 394,C1; V,116,5. keist, kiest, I, 69,46; 75,36; 80,4.
cuisten,p. p.of cast, I, 495,11. Seecustan.
cum, V,191,8: become.
cum,pret.of come, III, 386,22.
cumand,ptc., V,192f.,35,49: coming.
cumber, V,53,104: oppress, torment. Seecumre.
cumbruk, cambric.
cummers, V,106,E2: gossips (commères).
cumre,n., IV, 316,19: cumber, trouble. Seecumber.
cun thanke, III, 68,242: am, feel, grateful.
cunnes.nones cunnes, I, 244,11: of no kind. enes cunnes, I, 244,12: of any kind.
cunning, V,82,21: craft (mystery, trade).
curch,curche, II, 131,6; III, 472,10: kerchief, woman’s head covering.
cure, III, 262,7: pains. McNaughtoun’s cure, II, 386,25: “McNaughtoun’s cure to ye is, Devil relieve ye.” Motherwell.
curn, III, 160,19; IV, 85,3: quantity, parcel, pack.
curst turne, III, 93,34: malignant, spiteful, ferocious job, piece of work, feat.
curstlye, V,53,104: fiercely, savagely.
curtal(frier), III, 124 ff.,6,7,11,13, etc.: (Lat. curtilarius) having charge of, attached to, the vegetable garden of a monastery. curtal dogs, 125,34.
cust,pret.of cast, V,116,5. Seecuist.
custan,p. p.of cast, III, 4,2.
cut, V,202a: horse.
cut, V,112,7;124,6;125,5: bite, gnaw.
cutted(friar), III, 123,3,11,13,15,17: short-frocked (but apparently a corruption of curtal, see III, 121 f.).
cutters, III, 228,10: bravos, robbers.
cuttie, I, 72,13; 74,74: short.
cutties, II, 470,49: spoons.
cweet,queet, II, 96,I3: ankle.
cypress queen, as fair as a cypress queen, V,164,15: Cyprus, Cypris (Venus).
’d, for ’t (it). bla’d wind, bla’d weet, II, 21,6; doo’d, IV, 464,16; born’d, deal’d, 465,22,37; 471,41; lai’d, 520,10; dee’d, V,248,12.
dabs, II, 167 b,F: pricks.
dada,dadda, II, 339,16,18; V,112,B b5: daddie.
daft(love), II, 410,8: foolishly fond.
dag-durk, I, 55,12: dagger.
daggie, IV, 258,25: drizzling (dag, a slight rain).
daghter,dather, daughter.
daghterie, IV, 324,1: a word of no meaning, the original being simplydaughter: see V,272b,1.
daigh,daighe, I, 302,A10; II, 467,42: dough.
dail, IV, 430,5: (dool) the grief, the ill consequences.
daily,dayly, daily flower, I, 76,9,15,18; II, 393,2; IV, 19,8: (Icelandic dælligr, Danish deilig) beautiful, charming.
daily dight, IV, 432,6: beautifully adorned.
dairgie, II, 195,41: refection given after a funeral.
dale, been at a, III, 161,28,30: dole (to mendicants), satirically.
dam, II, 192,10: dame.
damasee, II, 327,32: damson plum.
dame, addressed to an unmarried girl by her father, IV, 195,7.
dandily, V,106,E5: over nice or dainty.
dandoo, III, 5,C7,8: dun doe?
dane,done, I, 68,20,24; 69,45,53; II, 81 f.,41,56: done. dane him to, III, 273,15,27: betaken himself. Seedo.
dang,pret.of ding, I, 55,12; 129,D6; 130,F5; 133,M7,10; II, 253,19; 261,9; IV, 305,18: beat, struck, knocked, thrust, shoved. dang down, III, 460,32.p. p., II, 282,10: overpowered.
danger, do danger, III, 163,67: exercise of the power of a superior? violence?
dank(moat), V,295,7: damp, wet.
danting,danton, IV, 287,1(burden); V,267,1(burden): (Fr. dompter) sexual conquest.
danton, V,248,19: subdue, intimidate. Seedaunton.
daown,adv., V,304,8: down.
dapperpy, IV, 185,11: diapered, of variegated cloth.
dather,dother, V,257,15: daughter.
datit, IV, 467,15: dawtit, caressed.
dative of pronoun: III, 58,37,44; 60,82; 61,100; 65,184; 75,381,391. after verbs of motion (dative of the subject): I, 244,10,13; 326,1; III, 70,281.
daunton,danton, I, 325,6; III, 364 b: daunt, subdue, put down.
daut,dawt, IV, 104,O; 277,4; 302,2: fondle, caress, make much of, pet.
daw,v., II, 146,7: dawn.p. p.dawen, II, 139,7,12.
dawdy, II, 308,5: the unborn young of an animal.
dawt,daut, IV, 304,3; V,106,D3: caress.
dawtie, V,117f.,B5,9,13;173,11: darling.
day,dey,die,dye, IV, 257,B9; 259,7,17; 260,7,16; 262,16; V,265a,10: dairy-woman.
day,dayed, die, died.
dayly.Seedaily.
de,dee,dea,deei,die, == do: I, 165,N8; 183,24; II, 175 f.,1,8. a dee, II, 110,25: to do. dee’d, V,248,12: do it.p. p.deen. Seedee.
dea, die.
dead,deed,deid,dede,died,n., I, 104,14; 353,13; 388,A11; 465,19; II, 385,25; 505,92; III, 387,16,10; IV, 36,3; 505,57: death.
dead.be dead, II, 58,5,7; III, 23,25; 28,120; 99,50: die.
deak, V,270,7: deck.
dean,den, IV, 167,D5,6,11: hollow where the ground slopes on both sides, valley.
dean, done.
dear,deare,dere, I, 411,5; III, 164,b67: injury.
Dear-Coft, II, 62,18: Dear-Bought.
dearly, IV, 98,F6: costly.
dearsome, III, 488 f.,38,44: costly.
dear vow, interjection of surprise or commiseration.
deas, II, 189,24: pew (stone seat at the door of the church. Chambers). Same word asdais. Seedice.
deave, I, 389,C3; IV, 69,17: deafen.
debate, III, 314,64: quarrel.
deceivin(tree), III, 396,N3: corruption of savin (see 380 a).
decencey, V,242b,8: corruption of bencite, benedicite.
deck-board,deck-buird, oer (over), V,138,B5,6;139,c6,7: overboard.
dede, V,283,8: death. Seedead.
dee,deei,do. how can this dee, I, 453,6: be allowed, borne; and so, perhaps, a’ this winna dee (wont do), II, 97,14. a’ this winna dee, gif ony prayer can dee, II, 132,16; 176,10; it wad na do, IV, 509 b,13;itwidne deei, V,227,2: avail.
dee,deei, do. Seede.
dee,deei, die.
deed, death. Seedead.
deed,v., I, 164,K6; 165,O5: died.
deed, indeed. by my deed, III, 262,12: on my word.
deed-thraw, III, 501,10: death-throe.
deei, do, avail; die. Seede,dee.
deemed,demed, III, 61,95: judged. III, 356,35: condemned.
deen, I, 16,C18; II, 182 a; 409,18,19: done (with no sense in19).
deerlye(dight), III, 340,28,36: expensively (ornamented). III, 356,16,31,35: perhaps, with great cost to the sufferer, possibly, to his hurt; lovingly, out of love, would answer in the first two cases, but not in the third.
deft, III, 145,3: neat, nice-looking.
degree, III, 323,58; IV, 258,20: rank, sort. served him in his ain degree, V,191,19;193,57: rendered him respect accordant with his rank. wee shall beare no degree, III, 333,19: shall have no position, standing. (requite, thank, show) in euerye degree, V,84f.,9,14,27: to the full extent demanded by the occasion.
deid, I, 105,26; 353,13: death. Seedead.
deighte, IV, 504,29: dight, furnished, adorned, equipped.
delated, III, 449 a, b; IV, 63 b: accused.
dell, V,79,32: deal, bit, whit.
dell, II, 345,29: we are apparently to understand that it was a dismal dell that brought James into the world (not in itself, but from the melancholy fact of his being born there). Possibly we may understand dell==dule, affliction. But the piece is spurious, and we need not be nice.
delle, I, 327,22: perhaps, dally, talk, disport; perhaps, deal.
demean, IV, 41, note *; 107,3: treat, maltreat. (in 107,3, treat as he deserves, damage, do harm to.)
demed.Seedeemed.
den,dean, IV, 166,B8; 168,5,11; 169,3,9,G2; 174 f.,2,7; 306 f.,12,20,48; V,119,D2: small valley, glen, dingle.
den,dien, V,260,8,14: done.
denay,deny, V,110,10;260,3,4: refuse.
deol, V,297b: sorrow.
dep, gave him a dep unto the heart, III, 281,14: perhaps dab, Old Eng. dabbe, stroke. But Dr Davidson suggests that the line was misheard, and that what was said was, a dep’oon (wound), which seems to me very likely.
depart, III, 139,27: part company.
deputed, III, 414,52: consigned, handed or delivered over (used of a fugitive carried back for trial).
dere,dear(e), III, 99,59: injury.
dere-worthy, III, 58,36,37; 59,60; 61,111; 67,219; 68,250; 73,346: precious, dear.
derf, derf blowes, III, 422,73: powerful.
dernë, I, 327,30; III, 57,21: secret, hidden, privy, obscure.
descryvd, IV, 405,50: described.
desse, I, 328,45: dais, the elevated part of the hall, on which was the table for the chief personages.
deuylkyns, III, 79,73: devilish sort of.
develling, come, I, 302,5: moving like the devil, whether hieing, scouring, bouncing, or what not; or, possibly, O. Fr. devalant, descending; an equivalence to daundering, sauntering, has been suggested.
devyse, I, 327,16: will, pleasure.
dey,die,dye, IV, 257,9; 259,7,17; 260,7; 262,16: dairy-woman. See day.
deythe,dyth, III, 112,59: dight, prepared.
di,die, II, 132,24; V,35,B5: do. dinna, I, 146,6, andpassim: do not. Seedinnë.
dice, IV, 416,17==deis: pew in a church.
did, I, 104,3,4: used forshould.
did(be wrought), II, 506 a: caused.
did him to.Seedo to.
did of.Seedo.
die, IV, 264,5: dey, dairy-woman. Seeday.
die.Seede.
die,do,din,dien, done.
died, IV, 386,19: death. Seedead.
died, IV, 407,7,8: dead.
dien.Seeden,die.
dight,dicht,dycht,deight,dyght, III, 57,19: prepared. dedys that here be dyght, III, 72,320: done. of grain, I, 16,B16; IV, 242 a: winnow. dight shoon, V,105,A11: clean. had not men to dight my men, III, 300,18; IV, 500,19: serve, handle. she dighted her father’s wounds, I, 101,8; 103,D6: dressed. pinnace, hachebord deerlye dight, III, 340,28,36; IV, 504,29: fitted out, dill (grief) to him was dight, II, 68,4: ordained.
dight,adv., bird sang fu dight, II, 261,10: readily, freely (strange use of the word). Cf.complete.
dild, God, III, 35,31: God ild, yield, reward (dcarried on from the subject).
dill, II, 58,4,11: dule, grief.
dimitted, III, 447 b: discharged, released.
din,dien, done.
din, I, 133,10; II, 186,16: dun.
dine, I, 127,23; II, 94,12; 194,13,17; 313,17; III, 267,18; V,277f.,18,29: dinner, meal.
ding, II, 62 a,17; 261,8; IV, 97,F2; 304,16,17: beat, knock. ding down, II, 240,6; III, 5,D2,6; 6,2,5; 8,5; 9,2,7: lay low, overthrow.pret.dang, dung.p. p.dung, dang. my ain wand dings me now, IV, 97,F2: I am suffering the consequences of my own folly.
dink, I, 74,72: neat, trim.
dinna, do not.
dinnë, V,229a,35: do (you) not. V,229b,6: (disne) does not. dinner==dinna, dinnë.
dinne, I, 272,25: (noise) ado, trouble.
dint(of arrow), III, 345,48; 350,48: stroke, impact.
dirt,v., V,304,2,3: soil.
dis, does.
Disaware, V,49,29;51,51,62: O. E. aver (O. Fr. aver, avoir) seems to be the basis of the word, which would mean stripped of wealth, sans aver (avoir); a Galterius Sine Avero is noted by Ducange.
discared, III, 38,85: revoked, withdrawn (apparently for discarded).
discharged, IV, 63 b: revoked.
discreene, II, 439,2: descry, spy out, discover.
discreeue, II, 58,3, should bedisceuere, diskevere, discover, reveal.
disgrate, V,269,17: disgrace.
disgrate, III, 58,48: unfortunate, out of fortune’s favor. (Ital. disgraziato.)
disna, does not.
distan, IV, 329 a, after16: (distance) distinguish.
dittay, IV, 245 a: indictment.
dive, II, 132,25: do.
diuel’s mouth.He could not finde a priuy place, for all lay in the diuel’s mouth, II, 483,4: as the devil’s mouth is depicted wide open in painted windows, etc., Professor Skeat has suggested that meaning for the phrase.
do, it wad na do, IV, 509 b,13: avail. Seedee.
do.Seedoo.
do,doe, doe my thy hawkes, I, 211,20: give, deliver.
do adowne, III, 67,226; 69,263: put down.
do away, III, 59,63: have done with, stop.
do be, I, 184,47: are.
do down.Seedo to.
do gladly, III, 58,34; 61,103; 67,232: make yourself happy (==make glad chere, 67,215).
do(doe)of,off, II, 138,13; III, 78,449; V,49,23-25: put off.pret.doft, II, 490 b.
do on, III, 23,27; 76,421: put on, don.
do to,do till, with reflexive pronoun, I, 86,30; 87 b; 115,B3,4; 182 f.,7,11,13,17; 352,32,44; III, 72,328: betake. So withup,down, V,300,5,8.
do up.Seedo to, anddop.
doited, IV, 427,10: stupid, doting.
doll,dolle,döl,dule, I, 217,3; V,111,19,21: grief.
domineer, in, wi, III, 268,9; 270,9; V,242b,8: with haughtiness, superciliously. (Perhaps a corruption of III, 270,E7, since the captain is said to be buke-learned in 268,9.)
doo(ynnë gon), III, 91 a: cause, make.
doo,dou,dow, I, 163-165; 497,L2; V,40f.,3,9,15, etc.: dove.
don, down.
done, how done you? III, 35,31: old plural, how do you do?
done upon, V,48,6: put on.
doo’d, IV, 464,16: do it.
dool,doll,dule, II, 175,17; IV, 85,42; V,17,31;111,19,21: grief. Seedail.
dool, dool and down, II, 271,26: corruption of dale and down; cf. II, 175,14; 273,33; IV, 219,B5: and elsewhere.
doon, II, 198 b, 2d line: a corruption, or possibly an Irish word, of which I can make nothing.
doon, youar begun yar doon, V,304b,4.
doorcheeks, II, 99 b,33: door-posts.
dop, III, 34 f.,6,21: do up, open.
dorn, II, 300,5: (sheets of) dornic, table-linen, ordinarily, from Dornick, the Dutch name for Tournay.
dorty, IV, 288,10: pettish, peevish, saucy.
dother, IV, 327,15; V,110,1;237f.,6,7,12,22, etc.;264,7: daughter.
dottled, V,94,A3: in a state of dotage.
dou, dove. Seedoo,dow.
dou,dow(A. S. déah, dugon), III, 245,B12; 247,18; 370,10,13; IV, 472,22: can (of physical ability). II, 78,4; 104,24; 105,16; 168,12; III, 386,21; IV, 31,9; 512,12: (with negative) am unable from aversion, want of resolution, etc. dought (A. S. dohte,pret.of dugan),pret., I, 146,20; II, 401,C7; III, 465,22; IV, 23,A c18: was able, could.Subjunctive, I, 326,18,19be at liberty); I, 330,B3: should be able. dought, he neere dought good day, I, 434,32: he never was good for anything a good day. But we should expecthim: never a good day profited him.
double-horsed, III, 489,42: with horse carrying double.
doubt,doute,dout,n.andv., I, 295,35; 478 f.,19,28; II, 52,22; III, 57,10; 76,406; 125,26; 188,4: fear.
doubt,if tho[u], II, 449,58: corrupt.A53, without all doubt.
doubtit, III, 364 b: redoubted, held in awe. Seedoubt.
douce, I, 184,1; V,210a,1: staid and sober. violence douce, II, 271,19: corrupt; readdone?
douë,douey==dowie, V,257,7,17: dreary, melancholy. V,220f.,6,7,9(of bran): wretched.
doughetë, III, 308,28: doughty man.
dought.Seedou.
douk,duck, II, 151,H6; 153,16,17,19,21: dive.
doukers,duckers, II, 151,H6,8: divers.
doulfou, II, 159,23: doleful.
dounae.Seedou.
doup(dish-doup), II, 463,23: bottom.
dour(e), I, 117,17: hard, severe. V,295,3: savage. knocks bauldly and dowr, II, 341,Rafter3: hard, or pertinaciously.
dout,doute. Seedoubt.
dow,dou,doo, I, 163 f.,J1-6, etc.; II, 299,22-24; 301,14; V,111,18;302,17: dove.
dow, do.
dow,downa,v.Seedou.
dowie,dowy, I, 56,B11; II, 146,19; 148,21,22; 189,36,37; IV, 33,24; 165,12; 166,C4,5,6; etc.: sad, doleful, melancholy, wretched. Seedouë.
dowilie, I, 439,11: sadly.
down, wi meikle dool and down, II, 271,26: nonsense; corruption of, beheld baith dale and doun,F33.
down-browed, scowling; I, 302,A11.
downfall,downcomeof Robin Hood, with the, III, 271,10; 274, 30: knocked down in R. Hood’s fashion?
dowr.Seedoure.
doyn, III, 111,39: done.
doyt, III, 109,1: doth (plural).
draff, refuse, dirt.
drank, II, 30,7: gave to drink, drenched.
drap, III, 281,10, drap down: perhaps, drap[d] down; otherwise, should drop.
draps, drops.
draught, I, 432,1: sketch, picture.
draw, drew her table, V,304,13: see explanation,304a.
draw, III, 6,14,15: move (cf. Germ. ziehen).
draw to,ti,till, draw to hose and sheen, II, 249,15; 256,9; IV, 464,10: draw on. drew till him his hose, II, 189,35. drew to him his sheen, II, 257,30.
draw up wi, II, 114,14: take up with, enter into intimacy, relations of love, with.
drawghtthat thowe dost drawe, IV, 503,16: of the drawing of a bow. (So “Chaucer’s Dream,” v. 788, Morris.)
drawn, ere the horse was drawn and brought, IV, 346 b,I b5: chosen.
drawna stroke behind his hand, II, 63,24: evidently means give a back-handed stroke, but the phrase sounds factitious.
dreaded, II, 169,14: suspected.
dreads, IV, 32,C7: suspicions.
dreamed, I was, I, 432,1: dreamed, had a dream.
drede,n., III, 296,8: doubt.
dreder, II, 403,3,4: dread, apprehension.
dre(e),dri,drie,drye, suffer, undergo, hold out, stand, be able. dree pine, II, 466,35; 467,45. doom, III, 391,9. death, III, 391,1. dill I drye, II, 58,11. dreeing trying hour, I, 73,47. as fast as they might dree, III, 286,49: could do it; so, II, 149,7; 255,10; III, 106,12; 267,9; IV, 2,6; 6,13; V,195,13,35;196,37. whylle the myghte dre, III, 298,58; 309,47: as long as they could hold out. draw carts, which horse were wont to drie, I, 465,2: do, perform. drie to feel, III, 479,5: be compelled, come to feel.
dreel, gie a, I, 403,9: stir up, put into a flurry, make scud. (Old Dutch drillen, ultro citroque cursitare gyrosque agere, etc. Scottish dreel, to move quickly.)
dreigh, IV, 47,4: seems to mean here, far to jump from.
dress, III, 336 b: redress.
dressen,v.the dressede into the countrey, V,71, note †: betaken.
drew(her table). Seedraw.
dri.Seedree.
drie,n., III, 415,22: an unauthorized word of Percy’s, to mean suffering.
drie,dri. Seedree.
driep, drop.
drifts, IV, 2,10: droves.
drive, IV, 6,19; 7,30,32: drive off.
droonet, I, 133,13: drowned.
droop, droop and drowsie (of blood), IV, 220,13: droop might be the Old English drup, sad, piteous, but a word indicating the quality or condition of the blood would be expected (as in German trübe, thick, muddy). The nearest isdrubly, turbid, muddy. Cf. wan and drousie, IV, 224,23. her lothely lere is droupy and drowsy, Skelton, Elynour Rummynge, 15: downcast and drowsy. Seedrousie.
droped, III, 164,88: drooped.
drouflye, III, 85,22: sad. Seedrousli.
drousie, wan and drousie, IV, 224,23. droop and drowsie, IV, 220,13(of blood): sluggish, perhaps slowly dripping. The combination occurs in Skelton’s Elynour Rummynge, 15, droupy and drowsy, with sense. Seedroop.
drousli, III, 82,22, should be droufli (drouflye, or drouslye, 85,22): (Old Eng. drof, droflie) sad.
drowryis, I, 415 b: love-tokens. Seedrury.
drowsie.Seedrousie.
drucken, II, 155,A b3: drunken (and inA a3, where there is a misprint).
druken,drucken,p. p., II, 285,9; V,99,11,C6;155,C2: drunk, imbibed.
drumlie,-ly(stream), IV, 185,8,14; (eye), IV, 368,10; 369 b: perturbed, turbulent, turbid, gloomy.
drunken,p. p.of drink, II, 110,24; 134,26. drunken was==had drunken, IV, 46,5,6.
drunkilie, III, 490,25: merrily (as being tipsy with pleasure?).
drury, IV, 58,A b5: dowry. Drowry is used as synonymous with morning-gift in the Acts of James VI. Jamieson. Seedrowryis.
drussie, V,257.14: drowsy.
drye.Seedree.
drywyng, driving.
dub, I, 164,J3; III, 162,49; IV, 470,25,26; V,169,9: pool.
dubby, IV, 257,A6: dirty, having many small pools.
ducatdowns,dukedoons, IV, 128,8; 139,I b21: ducatoons. corrupted ridiculously, IV, 137,2, to ducks.
duck,douk, II, 145,18,19,22,23: dive.
duckers,doukers, II, 145,18: divers.
ducks.Seeducatdowns.
duddie, I, 208,G15: ragged.
duddies,dudes, V,111,24; 112,B13; 113b,13: duds, poor clothes.
duȝty, III, 98,32: doughty, valiant.
duke, IV, 295,D5: dyke, wall.
dukedoons.Seeducatdowns.
dulchach,dulget, I, 305,1; V,213,1: bundle, always applied in Aberdeenshire to ill-shaped, untidy bundles of clothes carried on the person (also, bulshach).
dule,dool, I, 169,B3; 442,E15; II, 290,8,12; IV, 86,20; 303,14: grief.
dulget, I, 305,1. Seedulchach.
dumped, V,227,4: struck with the feet.
dumpes, III, 313,50: in the modern sense, but not inelegant.
dune, I, 302,2; IV, 326,15: done.
dune out, V,27,28: worn out, used up.
dung,pret.of ding, beat, knock, strike, II, 132,17.p. p., II, 62 a,17; 392,J9; 472,20,28; III, 161,43; IV, 479,4: beaten, worsted, overpowered, put down. IV, 183,8: overwhelmed, disconsolate. dung over, V,127,22: knocked over, struck down. dung down, I, 345,5: thrust down.
Dunny’s well,Dunny’s dyke, II, 189,28: an impersonation, signifying that the washing and drying have been done in dark-colored water and on a dark-colored (dirty) wall.