forfoughen, IV, 3,28: tired out with fighting.forgone, forgo.foriete, forgotten.forked, I, 492,7; IV, 445, p. 100,B7: of blood from a wound, issued in divided jets.forl, V,116,2;117,3: whorl, fly of a spinning-rock.for-lee, she’ll come in att your formast an gee out att yer forlee, IV, 377,5; V,275b,5: she’ll cross your bows and sail round you, coming out at your fore-lee or lee-bow.forlorn, I, 450,8; II, 114,15,16; III, 124,13; 212,16: lost. has him forlorn, II, 147,17: causatively. II, 123,13; V,41,23: destroyed, killed. I, 183,42; III, 145,9; V,210b,2: destitute, deserted.forn,p. p. of fare, II, 29,6,9. be weel forn: see that ye have fared well, eat and drink heartily.fornents,forenent,fornent, II, 197 a,15: opposite to, directly against.forren, foreign.forsake, forsake a ring, I, 192 a: let go, part with. forsake that I haue promised, III, 29,156: withdraw from. forsake this sorowe, III, 73,341: decline to have to do with this sad matter. II, 454,52: decline as adversary in a combat. III, 360,106: refuse an appointment. IV, 172,1; 173,K2: refuse suitors. III, 149,33; IV, 181,2: give up, renounce.forth, find forth, III, 148,17; choose forth, III, 440,9:out. thou maye well fforth for to pay mee, II, 444,58; thou mayst well forth, thou shalt pay me, 449,63; (b, mayst forthwith): go on, or, make out?fforthi, I, 329,60: therefore.forth withall, III, 127,16(play): forthwith.forthynketh, III, 28,137: repenteth.fortune be my chance, III, 308,21==my hap it were, 311,16.forward, III, 284,11: van.forward, V,283,4: compact.foster of the fe, III, 28,140: “A person who had for some service to the crown a perpetual right of hunting in a forest on paying to the crown a certain rent for the same.” Halliwell.fot, I, 141 b,10: fetched.fothe, III, 112,51: foot.fou, II, 25,8; 26,11: a firlot, which see.fou, V,270,9: how.fou,fow, full. fou drunken, II, 144,4.foucht,pret., II, 391,21: fought. IV, 200,1: toiled.p. p.foughten, II, 418,32; III, 277,22; 281,14; 333,30.fouie, IV, 20,10: well off, “possessing a comfortable independence.” Jamieson.fouled, a bill was fouled against him, III, 463 a: (equivalent to) found; he was indicted as guilty.foumart, IV, 389 b: polecat.found, III, 23,15: provided for.foure-eard foole, II, 483,7: as denoting a double ass?fousome,fusom(e), I, 302,B3,5,6; 304,2,3: (fulsome) disgustingly filthy.fow,fou, II, 273,35; III, 490,13; IV, 168,D14,15: full.fowd, V,304b: sheep-fold.fowk, I, 245,6: folk.frae,fray, from. be frae, IV, 433,21: remain away from.fraine,v., I, 334,6,7,10: question.frame, IV, 78,4: succeed. sae weel we frame: we are doing, or beginning so well.frank, of horses kept in a close, you keep them all both frank and free, II, 450,64: apparently, fat. Free is a much abused word, and the only apt meaning here would be, liberally treated. InA444,59, you keepe them ranke and royallye.ffrankely, II, 440,13: freely.free,n., I, 334,8: (complimentary term for man) noble, etc.free,adj., is used in a great variety of senses, and is often indefinite and hardly more than a rhyme word: bounteous, gracious, of noble birth or rank, independent, unrestricted, exempt, spirited, valorous, beautiful, precious, excellent in any way. The danger will be in assigning too positive a meaning to the word. of Mary, III, 420 f.,29,44. lady, ladies free, I, 324,A8; 328,52; 464,5; V,87,39;279a. a true-love free, IV, 461,22. God make you safe and free (your own master?), I, 427,2; II, 177,28; 421,22. castles free, I, 465,6; 474,21. lands sae free, I, 474,25. tocher free, II, 380,33; 383,26; 385,27. Clymme of the Clowgh so fre, Little John so free, III, 26,96; 154,2. freyke fulle fre, III, 308,30. of courage free, V,86,31. chrystall free, II, 52,17. gold soe free, V,49,23. gowd and jewels free, I, 474,23. silver free, II, 69,9; 445,64; 450,70. money ffeyre and ffre, III, 113,82. metal free, III, 300,7; 368 f.,12,14; IV, 372,7; (nonsense in IV, 404,29). staff of oke so free, III, 138,15. Less definite are the following: Couentrye faire and free, Derby Hills so free, Cannongate-side so free, III, 284,17; 323,10; 386,10; seas so free, IV, 498,6; water soe free, V,51,68; forest frie, V,191f.,8,12,23,28,34; learning my lesson free, I, 438,B7; chariot, coach, free, I, 475,44; IV, 410,29; 462,35. horses kept free, II, 450,64: liberally. going free, IV, 289,7: not under control, running off. free of grace, V,20,24: void of grace, cf.43.free,adv., arowes ifedred fre, III, 69,275; 70,288: in handsome style. ring she brake so free, I, 470,26: generously (cf. II, 450,64).freely,adj., freely feed, I, 309,B1: of noble birth, or beautiful.freely(naked), I, 508,10: entirely.freits, III, 434,23: superstitious notions concerning omens.freke,freck,freake,freyke, III, 298,58; 308,30; 309,32,47: bold man, man. (A. S. freca.)frem, foreign.frembde,adv., frembde bested, III, 63,138: in the position of a stranger (other readings, frend, friend).frese, frese your, our, bowes of ewe, III, 67,215; 80,215: seems to be corrupt. The interpretation in Donaldson’s Supplement to Jamieson, where “to frese a bow” (cited as if a phrase in full use) is said to mean unbend, slack, would be entirely inappropriate here, since three men are to make a desperate attack on two hundred and fifty (bende your bowes, st.218).f,ghave, bend we, the required sense. Chese will not do; they have but one bow each. leese==loose is possible, or dress, or even, free.frichtit, frighted.frienged,fringed, gray, III, 481,7; IV, 2,5: referring to mane and fetlocks, or perhaps to long fetlocks only.frightenedthe boar will, I, 214,3: afraid, etc.frith,frythe,firthe, V,191f.,14,24: enclosed land, wood.froom, V,296a: from.froth-mill, I, 305,13: “wauk-mill, or fulling-mill, from the froth of the soap.” But the expression seems not to have been heard of, and froth-mill is more probably corrupt for frozen mill. See next word.frozen mill, V,213,10: mill of which the lade, or canal conveying the water, is frozen.frush, IV, 185,13: brittle.frythe, I, 329,3: enclosed land, preserve, deer-park, wood. Seefrith.fue, few.fug, I, 302,3,5: slut, filthy woman. Seefag,flag.fuird, II, 471,6:fordfule, fowl.full, IV, 356,B1: proud.fun,fune, V,215,15; 248,9: whun, whin, furze.fundid, I, 334,8: went. (A. S. fundian.)fur, II, 188,12; III, 474,41: furrow.fusom,fusome,fousome, I, 302,B3,5,6; 304,F2,3; IV, 469,10,12: offensive, disgusting (fulsome).fusty bandyas, V,72b: a drinking-formula.fute,whute,v., III, 123,15: whistle.fynde, III, 308,24: Professor Skeat would read fyne, end.fynly, III, 70,284: goodly.fyt,fytt,fytte. Seefit.Gga,gaa,gaw, I, 420,9,10; 421,9,10; 423,6,7; V,216,9,10: gall.ga,gaa, I, 146,5; V,166,8;221,16;227,6;247,3;278,25: go. Seegang,gae.ga,gaa, IV, 513 a,4; V,221,14;242a,8;268,23: gave.gab,n., I, 302, B12: 422,13: mouth.gab,v., II, 149,17: prate.gab,n., I, 277 f.: joke, sportive brag.gabber reel, I, 217,8,13: evidently a sprightly air. The root may be Icelandic gabb, mockery. Perhaps simply gabber, jabber.gaberlunyie, V,115f.,6-10;119,8,9: beggar’s wallet.gad,gaud, I, 342,33; 344,32; 348,13,19; 356,42; III, 505,21: bar.gad,gade, IV, 493 f.,13,26: went.gaddie, IV, 273,1==gaudie: showy, dashing.gae,gai,gay,ga,gaa,gee,gie, I, 69,49,62; 71,39,50; II, 304,17; 468,14; V,166,7;278,24: go.pret.gaed, gade, gad, gaid, gied, gid, ged, good, gude.p. p.gaen, gain, gane, gaed.pres. p.gain, gan, gaen, gane, gaun, gawen, etc. Seegang.gae,gang,go down, IV, 12,C6,7; 518,2: be hanged.gae, IV, 493 f.,23,32: give.gae,pret.of gie, I, 69,55-58,68; 71,45-47; 75,42; 108,15: gave.gae,gay,gey,adv., V,266,9: (gay) pretty, rather.gaed,gade,gad,gaid,pret.of gae, go, I, 102,D4; 103,E3; 131,G10; 439,14,15; II, 140,17,18; III, 453,10; IV, 395,6; 494,26; V,117,11;238,27;274b,6;278,24.gaed,p. p., II, 70,21; III, 473,30: gone,gaen,gain,gane,p. p.of gae, I, 70,19; 108,12; II, 468 f.,15,18,22; IV, 507,2; V,237,5: gone.gaen,gain,p. p.of gie, gae, give, I, 469,23(gaen the table, given a knock); III, 271,13; V,183,34. So perhaps II, 212,15; cf. gain, fifth word below.gaeng.Seegang.gae-through-land, IV, 428,13: vagrant.gai.Seegae.gaid.Seegaed.gain.Seegaen.gain,gaine,gaing,gan,gaen,gane,gaun,gawn,gawen,pres. p.of gae, ga, go. gain, etc., I, 466,15; II, 151,H2,4; IV, 257,8; V,247,15;256,6. gan, etc., II, 144,12; IV, 210,3; 507,2.gain, II, 212,15, ye’s gain as much at mine: will get, receive. (But will (have) given, dealt, is perhaps possible.)gain(him at the law), IV, 286,3: Icel. gegna, to proceed against?gain,gane(Icel. gegna, to suit, be meet), II, 25,8; 26,11(with ellipsis of will): serve, suffice. II, 369,15: suit my case.gaing.Seegain,pres. p.gair, pay meat and gair, V,268,27: gear, clothes an arms? or money (a variation of pay meat and fee)?gair(of clothes). Seegare.gait, III, 266 b; 272,5; IV, 265,A b10: way, road. Seegate.galerie, V,140,f.1,5: for gallaly, galley (doubtful form).Galiard, III, 459 f.,1,4, etc.:sobriquetof a freebooter of a gay (perhaps dissipated) character.galla.Seegallowe-tree.gallage, V,247,20: gallows.gallaly,galalie, V,136f.,1-3, etc.;141,d1: galley, prolonged for metrical convenience.gallan,gellant,gillan, IV, 260,4; 315 f.,1,4-7,18: gallant, gayly or finely dressed.gallio, V,141,2,3, etc.==galley O.gallowe,sing.(like A. S. galga), a gallowe, III, 92,18. Cf. next word.gallows, the highest, I, 150,13: one elevated above a triangular framework, for special offenders; der höchste Galgen; see Grimm’s Deutsches Wörterbuch, Galgen, column 1168 (?). Perhaps simply the highest that is to be had.gallows-pin.Seepin.gallow-tree(A. S. galgtréow; O. Eng. galwetre), III, 24,43; 180,17; 358,71; 368,10. gallou-, gallage-, galla-tree, gallow-pine, V,247,17,18,20,23,24.gam, game.game, had god game, V,80,46,47: sport, amusement.gamene, I, 328,52: game, sport.gamon, II, 59,25: gamen, amuse himself.gan,gane. Seegain,pres. p.gan,gon, with infinitive: began, did.gane, II, 26,11: serve, suffice. Seegain.gane,p. p.of gae, go. Seegaen.gane, III, 281,14:p. p.of gae, give. Seegaen.gane frae, IV, 378,3: gone ahead of, left behind.gang,gange,gaeng,gieng, I, 55,A5; 57,4; 68f.,21,37,46; 75,36,39; 217,16; II, 175,13; 468f.,13,14,38,39; III, 75,397; V,16,2,5: go, walk.pret.yede, yeede, yeed, yed, ȝede, yode, yod, youd.p. p.gaen, gain, gane, gaed, gade, gad, gaid, gude, good.inf.also, gon, gone.p. p.ganged: III, 362,102. Seegae.gang,gae,go down: IV, 11,9,12; 12,C6,7; 518,2: like the Scottishbe put down, be hanged.gantrees, II, 369,11; 370,11: barrel-stands.gar,gaur, I, 100,8; 127,15; 130,8; 397,D9,11,13; II,115,30,31; 153,16; 358,17,22-24: (Icel. göra) make do, cause. as auxiliary, gar lay, I, 5,D1: do lay, lay. So II, 106,11; 107,19; 216,3,4.garded, III, 117,16: looked at.gare,gair,gore, properly, a triangular piece of cloth inserted in a garment to give width at that part; in Old English often coat or gown. low down by his (her) gare is a frequently recurring expression which may be taken literally, down by that part of a garment where the gore would be==low by his knee, II, 197,18. In, your ain hand sewed the gare (of a shirt), II, 379,13; 389,5; 395,12(following ain hand sewed the sleeve), gare in the limited sense seems hardly important enough, and perhaps is to be understood side: cf. rive it (sark) frae gore to gore, gair by gair, I, 439,4; 440,5,7; 441,6,7; 442,5,6; II, 294,31,32. So also in, frae breast to gare, I, 438,B4, probably, though the limited sense would answer. So, riven him frae gair to gair, IV, 416,17; the brown bride pat her hand in att Annë’s left gare, V,224,20. penknife, sword, brand, down by (below) his (her) gare, I, 451,9; II, 98,40; 144,6; 154,11; 172,34; IV, 465,38. keys hung leugh down by her gair, IV, 465,34. she hung’t (cup of wine) low down by her gare, II, 369,10(recklessly and absurdly; the cup is in her hand in the next stanza). In, frae my sark ye shear a gare, I, 388,A8,9,B6, gare must be a strip large enough to make a bandage for the head.gare, III, 98,24: ready.garl, II, 129,18; V,223a, No 66,18: gravel (suspicious word).garlande, III, 93,31; rose-garlonde, III, 75,398: a circular wreath, apparently hung upon a wand or rod. In III, 93,31, this can be nothing more than an extemporized circlet of twigs.garlings, II, 366,24: garlands.garmarcie,garmercy, III, 33,130; 81,34: gramercy.garned, the bride she garned round about, IV, 410,23, is a misprint of Buchan’s forgazed, which stands in the original MS.garrett, III, 332,16: watch-tower, look-out.gars,garse, IV, 221,11; 467,7: grass.gartan,garten,gartin, IV, 169,10; 170,H6; 175,M8; 176,N14,P2; 490,12: garter. (Gael. gairtein.)garthes, girths.gast, guest.gate,gait,get, I, 225,8; II, 311 f.,2,15,21; 402,10; III, 92,11; 477 f.,11,15(ford); 480,24; IV, 3,21; V,99,C4: way, road. water-gate, V,250,12: round by the water. in this gate, II, 73,26: in such a way or condition. to the gate (get) has gain, IV, 493,5; V,237,5: has gone away. tuke the gate, II, 30,7; IV, 392,9: started, departed.gaucy, IV, 271,B1; V,152,3: lusty, jolly.gaud.Seegad.gaudie,gaudy,gawdie, IV, 273,12,13, of speech: with a stately or pompous air. 274,D19; 297,13: showy, conspicuous. 274,E1: dashing. gaudy locks, 285,10,19: bright-colored. 356,B1: ostentatious.gaule, I, 272,11: of the color of gall; or gules, red.gaun,gawn,gawen, I, 22,A1,B1; III, 473,21-24; 479,8; IV, 261,8; 511 a,6; 513 a,3: going.gaunt, IV, 20,12: yawn.gaur,gar, I, 73,36; IV, 226,11: make.gavellock,gavlock, III, 470 b; 493,10: iron lever.gavil-post, II, 227 a: gable-post.gaw.Seega.gawdie.Seegaudie.gawen,gawn. Seega, andgaun.gay.Seegae.gay,gae,gey,adv., II, 184,16; IV, 271,9; 329,c20; V,266,9: pretty, rather.gaze, IV, 313,10: gauze.ge, ye.ge, give. Seegie.gear,geare,geere,geir,gier, I, 411,5; II, 182,5; 184,9; 185,38; III, 440,12; 459,3; IV, 6 f.,5,19,29; 469,10; V,170,3,4: goods, property, often cattle. silken gear, I, 145,22: clothes. III, 440,7,18,19; 446 b: fighting equipments. the less gear and the mair, III, 8,23: smaller game and greater. pay meat an gair, V,268,27: clothes and arms? or money? III, 341,47; 404,1; IV, 505,51; 506,66: business, affair.geat.Seeget.gecks, gien the, II, 105 f.,20,21: made a fool of. Geck in German, the northern languages and English, fool; in Scottish, according to Jamieson, “sign of derision, gibe, cheat.” Seegowk.gee, give. Seegie.gee,gie, IV, 508,2; V,238,22: go.pret.gied, gid, ged. Seegae.geere.Seegear.geet, IV, 494,37: get, progeny, child.geid,pret.of gie, give, II, 277,A8. Seegied.gein,p. p.of gie, IV, 316,18.geir.Seegear.gell, V,221,20(unnecessarily changed to kell): congeal, freeze. (Aberdonian.)gellant, gallant. Seegallan.gen, V,247,10: given.gen, gen Pasche, II, 146,9: against, for, Easter.general, with the, III, 176,2: people in general (in public).genty, I, 421,10: elegant of form or dress, but here refers to gentleness of disposition.gep,gip, III, 138,11; 140, d11==gup, go up, get up (properly, a call to a horse). marry gep, interjection of contempt==marry, come up.gereamarsey, III, 111,37: gramercy.gerss, I, 450,5; II, 248,9,15; 464,8,10: grass.get, IV, 493,5: gate, road (to the get he’s gane, has gone away). Seegate.get,gett,geat, II, 470,56-8; V,238,13,24: progeny, brat.getterne, I, 328,49: a stringed instrument.geve, give. Seegie.gey,adv.gey sad, II, 184,15,16: pretty, rather. Seegay.ghesting, I, 284,17,18: guesting, lodging.gie, go. Seegae.gie,gi,ge,gee,gae,geve,give. gie, I, 71,55,56; 74,76,77; 206,26,30; 207,30.gi, I, 68 f.,26,69,70; IV, 493,21. ge, gee, IV, 222,19; 493,15; V,228,10;248,4,5,21,22.pret.gae, ga, gaa, gaed, geed, geid, gied.p. p.gin, gine, geen, gein, gien, gen, gane, gaen. geve on (like take)==strike, III, 127,53. gien, II, 232,13: struck.gied,gid,ged,pret.of gae, gie, go, I, 74,3; 80,5; 310,10,12,14; II, 75,11; 357,7; III, 434,27.gied,geed,geid,pret.of gie, give, I, 79 f.,24,28; 439,3; II, 408 f.,3,4; IV, 512 b,8.gien,gine,gin,gein,geen,gen,p. p.of gie, give: I, 100,25; 467,25; IV, 316,18; 509 a,13; 510,16; 513,12; V,215,13;219,23;224,20;229,30;247,10;306b,3. V,219,23: given (a blow) to.gieng, II, 61,3: gang, go.gier.Seegear.gif,giff==if, I, 70,16; II, 21B10; 28,3; III, 285,22.giff-gaff, I, 21 b,14: give and take, tit for tat.gile, III, 48211: jail.gill, a steep, narrow glen.gillan, V,272b,1: gallant. Seegallan.Gilliecrankie, be a, IV, 268,22: a Gilliecrankie woman, live in Gillecrankie (see20), be a Highlander.greads, hae a Killycrankie, that is, a domestic battle, or row.gillore, III, 136,34: galore, in plenty.gilt, III, 370,10: money.gimp, I, 387,1; II, 220,1,3: jimp, slender.gin,gine,ginne, V,125,9: a contrivance. specially, the apparatus for fastening a door, I, 107,4; II, 241,23; III, 492,6; IV, 445 f.,3,4; 446,b3,4; door and window, IV, 480,4,5. chappit (knocked) at the gin, I, 465,11; IV, 445 f.,3,4. lift the gin (that is the lever for raising the latch), II, 158,4; 165,4,7, altered to pin. II, 158,4, in the margin of the MS., and pin stands in7of the same piece. Otherwise, chin.gin, I, 108,B3, like the gin: corrupt, compareA4.gin, II, 23,E8; 271,34; 286,3; IV, 412,11; 485,15; V,243,17: (of time) against, towards. II, 313,14; IV, 138,M1; 166,C6; 392,12: by the time that.gin,conj., I, 5,C8; 68,21,22; 70,15; 72,24; 310,4,5; 466,4,5; 468,5,8; 478,4,5,8-10: if.gin,gine, given.gine,ginne,n.Seegin.gip.Seegep.gird, III, 35,19: blow, stroke.girded out,guirded, V,76,23;82,37: cracked, let.girdle, I, 403,12: griddle.girds, II, 70,27; IV, 481,6: hoops.girn, I, 344,31: (of a hound) snarl. IV, 69,18: (of men hanged) grin.girth was the gold-twist to be, III, 490,16, see 486 b. girth should probably be graith, but admitting this, the sense is not clear, and further corruption may be suspected. We may understand, perhaps, that after the rescue the mare was to have a caparison of gilded chains. Or we may read, her graith was used the gold-twist to be.gitter, V,243,16: gutter.giue, II, 442,7,10:==gif, if.gives, II, 448,26: misgives.gladdynge, III, 70,297: gladdening (cheeringin later texts).glaive,glaue, IV, 491,11; V,235,32: sword. Seeglaue.glamer,glamour,glamourie,glaumry, IV, 65,2; 66,2; 67,2; 68,D2,E2; 70,F2, etc.; 367,8; V,301, No 200: a charm deluding the eye. IV, 310,14: glitter, gleam.glance, III, 394,K6; 397,5; IV, 508 a,8: shine.glaned, IV, 406,14: (giant, from glent) glanced, shone.glar, I, 494,18: mire.glashet, I, 434,36: (O. French, glacer, glachier) darted, flashed.glasse, III, 340,32; 344,30,31; 349,31; IV, 504,36: lantern, ship-light.glaue,glaive, III, 105,20: (in this place) a cutting weapon fixed to the end of a pole. Seeglaive.glaumry.Seeglamer.glazen, of glass.gleat(Icelandic glit), I, 100,28: glitter.glede,gleed(e), I, 285,28; 287,67; 342,34; III, 308,14; IV, 379,14; V,184,42: glowing coal. II, 115,29; 140,18; V,27,46: fire. Seeglyde.glee(==glue), I, 68,9,12: glove.gleid,gley(e)d, IV, 56,B3; 58,3,4,9,10; 135,23,24: squint-eyed.glen, set her on the glen, IV, 284,25; take her to the glen, 286,29; set her to the glen, 287,18: because, the roadways running usually through glens, this amounts to a public exposure.glent, I, 105 a,28: glitter, glancing. wi a glent, II, 119,19; IV, 467,14: in a flash, a moment (otherwise, in a glent).glent, III, 307,6: glanced, went (perhaps, darted).gley(e)d.Seegleid.glided, I, 333,3: glittered, glinted.glintin, IV, 450 b,6: gleaming, flashing.glister, IV, 510,5: shine.gloamin, III, 319,23: twilight, evening.gloe, III, 455,8,9,11: glove. Seeglee.gloom, IV, 94,9: frown, morose look.gloom, I, 302,A11,B9; 303,C6; IV, 337,gbefore20: frown, look sullen.glore, II, 319,13: glory.glove, cut my glove, etc., II, 105,18: lovers were wont to cut a glove and each take a part. S. W. will take in his hand the half of his glove which represents Janet and dance for two. T. Davidson, played at the glove, III, 448,5: some game for braw gallants, unexplained; possibly, spearing a glove when riding rapidly.glove tee.Seetee.glowd,glowde, II, 454 f.,54,58: glided.glowred, IV, 429,a15: stared.glue, II, 147,12: glove. Seeglee,gloe.glyde, II, 375,19: spark. Seeglede.go,goe,goo,gone, III, 64,160; 71,302; 77,429; 105,22; 432,19: walk. go boun away, IV, 224,15,16: go, depart. go down, IV, 13,2,3; 14,2: be hanged (cf.gae down). goe vppon his death, V,53,99: pass upon the question of.gockies, II, 470,48: deep wooden dishes.god,godde, III, 113,72,78,80: property, goods.God,omitted, O save and you may see, III, 181,19; 184,16.God, II, 46,51; III, 29,146; 59,62,63; 61,92; 68,240; 75,391; 101,90; 105,23(mood, wrongly formy God?); 359,103; 444,16,17: the second person in the Trinity.God a marsey,God amercy,God have mercy, III, 111,39; 138,22; 149,41; 445,30; V,76,10;77,39;80,51,53;81,13;83,55: gramercy (not Dieu merci, thank God, which meaning, unlikely in all, is impossible in most of the cases).God beffore, V,79,19: before God (attestation). Cf. for God. But perhapsGod before(and God before) is always to be distinguished frombefore God, and to be understood as, God my guide or helper; which sense seems to be required in Shakspere’s Henry V, I,II, 307, III,VI, 165; Percy MS., Hales & Furnivall, III, 30, v. 304, 528, v.57. [So, and God to-forn, in Chaucer, Troilus,I, 1049;II, 431. Cf. also King Edw. and the Shepherd, Hartshorne, Ancient Metrical Tales, p. 47; Peniworth of Witte, Englische Studien, VII, 116, v. 287; Weddynge of Syr Gawen, v. 640, Madden, p. 2983; etc.]God’s peny, V,14,5;15,27: an earnest-penny, to bind a bargain.Godzounds, V,93,4,8,12, etc.: God’s wounds.gogled, III, 179,7: joggled, waggled.golden-knobbed(gloves), II, 133,6: ornamented with golden balls or tassels. (siller-knapped, 134,8,13.)golettof þe hode, III, 99,49: throat, part covering the throat.gon,gone,infin.of go, III, 24,45; 35,32; 66,204; 67,223; 71,316; 74,363; 77,435; 111,28.gon, gon gae, I, 333,3: did go.gone,subj.of gon, go, III, 67,219.good,gude,pret.of go, III, 464,4; V,153,1.Good, V,199b,20:God.Good-ben, III, 267,A10. Ifbenis to stand, it must bebenisonabridged. Good benison be here, quoth he, makes a satisfactory line. CompareB9,D9.good-brother, IV, 168,9: brother-in-law.good b’w’ye, III, 134,6: God be wi you, good-bye.goodman, III, 274,33,35; V,91,1,5, etc.;98,2,3: master of a house.good-mother, IV, 412,19: mother-in-law.good-son, IV, 283,10: son-in-law.goodwife, III, 274,33,35; V,91,2,6, etc.;98,1,2: mistress of a house, housewife.goold, V,296a: gold.gorgett, III, 422,75: defense for the neck, here a part of a jack.gorgett, II, 45,32: a neckerchief. (“Nearly==wimple in Edward I.’s time; in 15th century, neckerchief.”)gorney, journey.goud==gan, did, IV, 20,12,13. (Cf. begoud==began.)goud,gowd,n.andadj., I, 127,12; 135,9-12; 351,35; 429,28: gold.gouden,gowden, I, 127,21,22; 145,23: golden.goudie,goudy, V,110,7;267b,10;268,19: golden, yellow (locks).goun-teall.Seegown-tail.goupen, I, 356,D bafter23: hollow of the hand.gouernor, I, 286,40: director, guardian.gowans, I, 55,A1: daisies.gowany, I, 315,12: covered with daisies.gowd.Seegoud.gowk, II, 111,12: (cuckoo), fool. gien me the gowk, made a fool of me. Seegecks.gown of green, gien her a, II, 472,2: defloured. got on the, I, 350,11: strangely used for to be with child; properly, she got a gown of green eight months before: it can hardly mean, put on a green gown, literally, as at I, 358,40.gown-tail,gooun-teall, II, 31,M4; 472,19; V,235,4: lower part of the skirt of a gown.goy, joy.graid, great.graie dogs, III, 7,1: Scottish hunting dogs, deer dogs, rough greyhounds.grain, sitt in a graine, I, 210,5: fork of a tree. III, 267,21; 269,14; V,243,17: branch of a tree.graith,n., IV, 86,8: equipment (horse and arms).graith,v., V,192,34;198b,34: make ready.p. p.graithed, IV, 2,5; 27,26: equipped in defensive armor. golden graithed behin, II, 191,18; gowden-graithd before and siller-shod behind, II, 343,4; shod wi silver afore an gold graithed behind, II, 194,16,20: properly, harnessed, but as the horse is silver-shod before and gold behind, 183,16; 185,23; V,224,14, shod seems to be meant here. So in the patched-up ballad IV, 410,18. The horse silver-shod before and gold-shod behind is a commonplace; see II, 266,1; 267,1.graithing(gowd), IV, 410,18: harness or caparison, behind horse. But seegraith,v.grammarye,grammeree, V,294b,2: grammar, learning. II, 53,36,41; 54,55; 55,68: magic. Gramery==grammar, learning, occurs three times in the Towneley Mysteries, but strangely enough seems not to have been heard of in the sense of magic till we come to Percy’s Reliques. Percy suggests that the word is probably a corruption of the Frenchgrimoire, a conjuring book. Grimoire, however, does not appear until the 16th century and was preceded by gramoire (Littré). Gramaire in the 13th-15th centuries has the sense of magic: see the history of grimoire in Littré. Godefroi interprets gramaire savant, magicien.grandmother over, IV, 70,G2: corruption of, glamer, oer her.grange-house, III, 360,116: farm-house.grat, II, 70,25; 323,26,27; IV, 7,35; V,156,11,13,pret.of greet, weep.
forfoughen, IV, 3,28: tired out with fighting.
forgone, forgo.
foriete, forgotten.
forked, I, 492,7; IV, 445, p. 100,B7: of blood from a wound, issued in divided jets.
forl, V,116,2;117,3: whorl, fly of a spinning-rock.
for-lee, she’ll come in att your formast an gee out att yer forlee, IV, 377,5; V,275b,5: she’ll cross your bows and sail round you, coming out at your fore-lee or lee-bow.
forlorn, I, 450,8; II, 114,15,16; III, 124,13; 212,16: lost. has him forlorn, II, 147,17: causatively. II, 123,13; V,41,23: destroyed, killed. I, 183,42; III, 145,9; V,210b,2: destitute, deserted.
forn,p. p. of fare, II, 29,6,9. be weel forn: see that ye have fared well, eat and drink heartily.
fornents,forenent,fornent, II, 197 a,15: opposite to, directly against.
forren, foreign.
forsake, forsake a ring, I, 192 a: let go, part with. forsake that I haue promised, III, 29,156: withdraw from. forsake this sorowe, III, 73,341: decline to have to do with this sad matter. II, 454,52: decline as adversary in a combat. III, 360,106: refuse an appointment. IV, 172,1; 173,K2: refuse suitors. III, 149,33; IV, 181,2: give up, renounce.
forth, find forth, III, 148,17; choose forth, III, 440,9:out. thou maye well fforth for to pay mee, II, 444,58; thou mayst well forth, thou shalt pay me, 449,63; (b, mayst forthwith): go on, or, make out?
fforthi, I, 329,60: therefore.
forth withall, III, 127,16(play): forthwith.
forthynketh, III, 28,137: repenteth.
fortune be my chance, III, 308,21==my hap it were, 311,16.
forward, III, 284,11: van.
forward, V,283,4: compact.
foster of the fe, III, 28,140: “A person who had for some service to the crown a perpetual right of hunting in a forest on paying to the crown a certain rent for the same.” Halliwell.
fot, I, 141 b,10: fetched.
fothe, III, 112,51: foot.
fou, II, 25,8; 26,11: a firlot, which see.
fou, V,270,9: how.
fou,fow, full. fou drunken, II, 144,4.
foucht,pret., II, 391,21: fought. IV, 200,1: toiled.p. p.foughten, II, 418,32; III, 277,22; 281,14; 333,30.
fouie, IV, 20,10: well off, “possessing a comfortable independence.” Jamieson.
fouled, a bill was fouled against him, III, 463 a: (equivalent to) found; he was indicted as guilty.
foumart, IV, 389 b: polecat.
found, III, 23,15: provided for.
foure-eard foole, II, 483,7: as denoting a double ass?
fousome,fusom(e), I, 302,B3,5,6; 304,2,3: (fulsome) disgustingly filthy.
fow,fou, II, 273,35; III, 490,13; IV, 168,D14,15: full.
fowd, V,304b: sheep-fold.
fowk, I, 245,6: folk.
frae,fray, from. be frae, IV, 433,21: remain away from.
fraine,v., I, 334,6,7,10: question.
frame, IV, 78,4: succeed. sae weel we frame: we are doing, or beginning so well.
frank, of horses kept in a close, you keep them all both frank and free, II, 450,64: apparently, fat. Free is a much abused word, and the only apt meaning here would be, liberally treated. InA444,59, you keepe them ranke and royallye.
ffrankely, II, 440,13: freely.
free,n., I, 334,8: (complimentary term for man) noble, etc.
free,adj., is used in a great variety of senses, and is often indefinite and hardly more than a rhyme word: bounteous, gracious, of noble birth or rank, independent, unrestricted, exempt, spirited, valorous, beautiful, precious, excellent in any way. The danger will be in assigning too positive a meaning to the word. of Mary, III, 420 f.,29,44. lady, ladies free, I, 324,A8; 328,52; 464,5; V,87,39;279a. a true-love free, IV, 461,22. God make you safe and free (your own master?), I, 427,2; II, 177,28; 421,22. castles free, I, 465,6; 474,21. lands sae free, I, 474,25. tocher free, II, 380,33; 383,26; 385,27. Clymme of the Clowgh so fre, Little John so free, III, 26,96; 154,2. freyke fulle fre, III, 308,30. of courage free, V,86,31. chrystall free, II, 52,17. gold soe free, V,49,23. gowd and jewels free, I, 474,23. silver free, II, 69,9; 445,64; 450,70. money ffeyre and ffre, III, 113,82. metal free, III, 300,7; 368 f.,12,14; IV, 372,7; (nonsense in IV, 404,29). staff of oke so free, III, 138,15. Less definite are the following: Couentrye faire and free, Derby Hills so free, Cannongate-side so free, III, 284,17; 323,10; 386,10; seas so free, IV, 498,6; water soe free, V,51,68; forest frie, V,191f.,8,12,23,28,34; learning my lesson free, I, 438,B7; chariot, coach, free, I, 475,44; IV, 410,29; 462,35. horses kept free, II, 450,64: liberally. going free, IV, 289,7: not under control, running off. free of grace, V,20,24: void of grace, cf.43.
free,adv., arowes ifedred fre, III, 69,275; 70,288: in handsome style. ring she brake so free, I, 470,26: generously (cf. II, 450,64).
freely,adj., freely feed, I, 309,B1: of noble birth, or beautiful.
freely(naked), I, 508,10: entirely.
freits, III, 434,23: superstitious notions concerning omens.
freke,freck,freake,freyke, III, 298,58; 308,30; 309,32,47: bold man, man. (A. S. freca.)
frem, foreign.
frembde,adv., frembde bested, III, 63,138: in the position of a stranger (other readings, frend, friend).
frese, frese your, our, bowes of ewe, III, 67,215; 80,215: seems to be corrupt. The interpretation in Donaldson’s Supplement to Jamieson, where “to frese a bow” (cited as if a phrase in full use) is said to mean unbend, slack, would be entirely inappropriate here, since three men are to make a desperate attack on two hundred and fifty (bende your bowes, st.218).f,ghave, bend we, the required sense. Chese will not do; they have but one bow each. leese==loose is possible, or dress, or even, free.
frichtit, frighted.
frienged,fringed, gray, III, 481,7; IV, 2,5: referring to mane and fetlocks, or perhaps to long fetlocks only.
frightenedthe boar will, I, 214,3: afraid, etc.
frith,frythe,firthe, V,191f.,14,24: enclosed land, wood.
froom, V,296a: from.
froth-mill, I, 305,13: “wauk-mill, or fulling-mill, from the froth of the soap.” But the expression seems not to have been heard of, and froth-mill is more probably corrupt for frozen mill. See next word.
frozen mill, V,213,10: mill of which the lade, or canal conveying the water, is frozen.
frush, IV, 185,13: brittle.
frythe, I, 329,3: enclosed land, preserve, deer-park, wood. Seefrith.
fue, few.
fug, I, 302,3,5: slut, filthy woman. Seefag,flag.
fuird, II, 471,6:ford
fule, fowl.
full, IV, 356,B1: proud.
fun,fune, V,215,15; 248,9: whun, whin, furze.
fundid, I, 334,8: went. (A. S. fundian.)
fur, II, 188,12; III, 474,41: furrow.
fusom,fusome,fousome, I, 302,B3,5,6; 304,F2,3; IV, 469,10,12: offensive, disgusting (fulsome).
fusty bandyas, V,72b: a drinking-formula.
fute,whute,v., III, 123,15: whistle.
fynde, III, 308,24: Professor Skeat would read fyne, end.
fynly, III, 70,284: goodly.
fyt,fytt,fytte. Seefit.
ga,gaa,gaw, I, 420,9,10; 421,9,10; 423,6,7; V,216,9,10: gall.
ga,gaa, I, 146,5; V,166,8;221,16;227,6;247,3;278,25: go. Seegang,gae.
ga,gaa, IV, 513 a,4; V,221,14;242a,8;268,23: gave.
gab,n., I, 302, B12: 422,13: mouth.
gab,v., II, 149,17: prate.
gab,n., I, 277 f.: joke, sportive brag.
gabber reel, I, 217,8,13: evidently a sprightly air. The root may be Icelandic gabb, mockery. Perhaps simply gabber, jabber.
gaberlunyie, V,115f.,6-10;119,8,9: beggar’s wallet.
gad,gaud, I, 342,33; 344,32; 348,13,19; 356,42; III, 505,21: bar.
gad,gade, IV, 493 f.,13,26: went.
gaddie, IV, 273,1==gaudie: showy, dashing.
gae,gai,gay,ga,gaa,gee,gie, I, 69,49,62; 71,39,50; II, 304,17; 468,14; V,166,7;278,24: go.pret.gaed, gade, gad, gaid, gied, gid, ged, good, gude.p. p.gaen, gain, gane, gaed.pres. p.gain, gan, gaen, gane, gaun, gawen, etc. Seegang.
gae,gang,go down, IV, 12,C6,7; 518,2: be hanged.
gae, IV, 493 f.,23,32: give.
gae,pret.of gie, I, 69,55-58,68; 71,45-47; 75,42; 108,15: gave.
gae,gay,gey,adv., V,266,9: (gay) pretty, rather.
gaed,gade,gad,gaid,pret.of gae, go, I, 102,D4; 103,E3; 131,G10; 439,14,15; II, 140,17,18; III, 453,10; IV, 395,6; 494,26; V,117,11;238,27;274b,6;278,24.
gaed,p. p., II, 70,21; III, 473,30: gone,
gaen,gain,gane,p. p.of gae, I, 70,19; 108,12; II, 468 f.,15,18,22; IV, 507,2; V,237,5: gone.
gaen,gain,p. p.of gie, gae, give, I, 469,23(gaen the table, given a knock); III, 271,13; V,183,34. So perhaps II, 212,15; cf. gain, fifth word below.
gaeng.Seegang.
gae-through-land, IV, 428,13: vagrant.
gai.Seegae.
gaid.Seegaed.
gain.Seegaen.
gain,gaine,gaing,gan,gaen,gane,gaun,gawn,gawen,pres. p.of gae, ga, go. gain, etc., I, 466,15; II, 151,H2,4; IV, 257,8; V,247,15;256,6. gan, etc., II, 144,12; IV, 210,3; 507,2.
gain, II, 212,15, ye’s gain as much at mine: will get, receive. (But will (have) given, dealt, is perhaps possible.)
gain(him at the law), IV, 286,3: Icel. gegna, to proceed against?
gain,gane(Icel. gegna, to suit, be meet), II, 25,8; 26,11(with ellipsis of will): serve, suffice. II, 369,15: suit my case.
gaing.Seegain,pres. p.
gair, pay meat and gair, V,268,27: gear, clothes an arms? or money (a variation of pay meat and fee)?
gair(of clothes). Seegare.
gait, III, 266 b; 272,5; IV, 265,A b10: way, road. Seegate.
galerie, V,140,f.1,5: for gallaly, galley (doubtful form).
Galiard, III, 459 f.,1,4, etc.:sobriquetof a freebooter of a gay (perhaps dissipated) character.
galla.Seegallowe-tree.
gallage, V,247,20: gallows.
gallaly,galalie, V,136f.,1-3, etc.;141,d1: galley, prolonged for metrical convenience.
gallan,gellant,gillan, IV, 260,4; 315 f.,1,4-7,18: gallant, gayly or finely dressed.
gallio, V,141,2,3, etc.==galley O.
gallowe,sing.(like A. S. galga), a gallowe, III, 92,18. Cf. next word.
gallows, the highest, I, 150,13: one elevated above a triangular framework, for special offenders; der höchste Galgen; see Grimm’s Deutsches Wörterbuch, Galgen, column 1168 (?). Perhaps simply the highest that is to be had.
gallows-pin.Seepin.
gallow-tree(A. S. galgtréow; O. Eng. galwetre), III, 24,43; 180,17; 358,71; 368,10. gallou-, gallage-, galla-tree, gallow-pine, V,247,17,18,20,23,24.
gam, game.
game, had god game, V,80,46,47: sport, amusement.
gamene, I, 328,52: game, sport.
gamon, II, 59,25: gamen, amuse himself.
gan,gane. Seegain,pres. p.
gan,gon, with infinitive: began, did.
gane, II, 26,11: serve, suffice. Seegain.
gane,p. p.of gae, go. Seegaen.
gane, III, 281,14:p. p.of gae, give. Seegaen.
gane frae, IV, 378,3: gone ahead of, left behind.
gang,gange,gaeng,gieng, I, 55,A5; 57,4; 68f.,21,37,46; 75,36,39; 217,16; II, 175,13; 468f.,13,14,38,39; III, 75,397; V,16,2,5: go, walk.pret.yede, yeede, yeed, yed, ȝede, yode, yod, youd.p. p.gaen, gain, gane, gaed, gade, gad, gaid, gude, good.inf.also, gon, gone.p. p.ganged: III, 362,102. Seegae.
gang,gae,go down: IV, 11,9,12; 12,C6,7; 518,2: like the Scottishbe put down, be hanged.
gantrees, II, 369,11; 370,11: barrel-stands.
gar,gaur, I, 100,8; 127,15; 130,8; 397,D9,11,13; II,115,30,31; 153,16; 358,17,22-24: (Icel. göra) make do, cause. as auxiliary, gar lay, I, 5,D1: do lay, lay. So II, 106,11; 107,19; 216,3,4.
garded, III, 117,16: looked at.
gare,gair,gore, properly, a triangular piece of cloth inserted in a garment to give width at that part; in Old English often coat or gown. low down by his (her) gare is a frequently recurring expression which may be taken literally, down by that part of a garment where the gore would be==low by his knee, II, 197,18. In, your ain hand sewed the gare (of a shirt), II, 379,13; 389,5; 395,12(following ain hand sewed the sleeve), gare in the limited sense seems hardly important enough, and perhaps is to be understood side: cf. rive it (sark) frae gore to gore, gair by gair, I, 439,4; 440,5,7; 441,6,7; 442,5,6; II, 294,31,32. So also in, frae breast to gare, I, 438,B4, probably, though the limited sense would answer. So, riven him frae gair to gair, IV, 416,17; the brown bride pat her hand in att Annë’s left gare, V,224,20. penknife, sword, brand, down by (below) his (her) gare, I, 451,9; II, 98,40; 144,6; 154,11; 172,34; IV, 465,38. keys hung leugh down by her gair, IV, 465,34. she hung’t (cup of wine) low down by her gare, II, 369,10(recklessly and absurdly; the cup is in her hand in the next stanza). In, frae my sark ye shear a gare, I, 388,A8,9,B6, gare must be a strip large enough to make a bandage for the head.
gare, III, 98,24: ready.
garl, II, 129,18; V,223a, No 66,18: gravel (suspicious word).
garlande, III, 93,31; rose-garlonde, III, 75,398: a circular wreath, apparently hung upon a wand or rod. In III, 93,31, this can be nothing more than an extemporized circlet of twigs.
garlings, II, 366,24: garlands.
garmarcie,garmercy, III, 33,130; 81,34: gramercy.
garned, the bride she garned round about, IV, 410,23, is a misprint of Buchan’s forgazed, which stands in the original MS.
garrett, III, 332,16: watch-tower, look-out.
gars,garse, IV, 221,11; 467,7: grass.
gartan,garten,gartin, IV, 169,10; 170,H6; 175,M8; 176,N14,P2; 490,12: garter. (Gael. gairtein.)
garthes, girths.
gast, guest.
gate,gait,get, I, 225,8; II, 311 f.,2,15,21; 402,10; III, 92,11; 477 f.,11,15(ford); 480,24; IV, 3,21; V,99,C4: way, road. water-gate, V,250,12: round by the water. in this gate, II, 73,26: in such a way or condition. to the gate (get) has gain, IV, 493,5; V,237,5: has gone away. tuke the gate, II, 30,7; IV, 392,9: started, departed.
gaucy, IV, 271,B1; V,152,3: lusty, jolly.
gaud.Seegad.
gaudie,gaudy,gawdie, IV, 273,12,13, of speech: with a stately or pompous air. 274,D19; 297,13: showy, conspicuous. 274,E1: dashing. gaudy locks, 285,10,19: bright-colored. 356,B1: ostentatious.
gaule, I, 272,11: of the color of gall; or gules, red.
gaun,gawn,gawen, I, 22,A1,B1; III, 473,21-24; 479,8; IV, 261,8; 511 a,6; 513 a,3: going.
gaunt, IV, 20,12: yawn.
gaur,gar, I, 73,36; IV, 226,11: make.
gavellock,gavlock, III, 470 b; 493,10: iron lever.
gavil-post, II, 227 a: gable-post.
gaw.Seega.
gawdie.Seegaudie.
gawen,gawn. Seega, andgaun.
gay.Seegae.
gay,gae,gey,adv., II, 184,16; IV, 271,9; 329,c20; V,266,9: pretty, rather.
gaze, IV, 313,10: gauze.
ge, ye.
ge, give. Seegie.
gear,geare,geere,geir,gier, I, 411,5; II, 182,5; 184,9; 185,38; III, 440,12; 459,3; IV, 6 f.,5,19,29; 469,10; V,170,3,4: goods, property, often cattle. silken gear, I, 145,22: clothes. III, 440,7,18,19; 446 b: fighting equipments. the less gear and the mair, III, 8,23: smaller game and greater. pay meat an gair, V,268,27: clothes and arms? or money? III, 341,47; 404,1; IV, 505,51; 506,66: business, affair.
geat.Seeget.
gecks, gien the, II, 105 f.,20,21: made a fool of. Geck in German, the northern languages and English, fool; in Scottish, according to Jamieson, “sign of derision, gibe, cheat.” Seegowk.
gee, give. Seegie.
gee,gie, IV, 508,2; V,238,22: go.pret.gied, gid, ged. Seegae.
geere.Seegear.
geet, IV, 494,37: get, progeny, child.
geid,pret.of gie, give, II, 277,A8. Seegied.
gein,p. p.of gie, IV, 316,18.
geir.Seegear.
gell, V,221,20(unnecessarily changed to kell): congeal, freeze. (Aberdonian.)
gellant, gallant. Seegallan.
gen, V,247,10: given.
gen, gen Pasche, II, 146,9: against, for, Easter.
general, with the, III, 176,2: people in general (in public).
genty, I, 421,10: elegant of form or dress, but here refers to gentleness of disposition.
gep,gip, III, 138,11; 140, d11==gup, go up, get up (properly, a call to a horse). marry gep, interjection of contempt==marry, come up.
gereamarsey, III, 111,37: gramercy.
gerss, I, 450,5; II, 248,9,15; 464,8,10: grass.
get, IV, 493,5: gate, road (to the get he’s gane, has gone away). Seegate.
get,gett,geat, II, 470,56-8; V,238,13,24: progeny, brat.
getterne, I, 328,49: a stringed instrument.
geve, give. Seegie.
gey,adv.gey sad, II, 184,15,16: pretty, rather. Seegay.
ghesting, I, 284,17,18: guesting, lodging.
gie, go. Seegae.
gie,gi,ge,gee,gae,geve,give. gie, I, 71,55,56; 74,76,77; 206,26,30; 207,30.gi, I, 68 f.,26,69,70; IV, 493,21. ge, gee, IV, 222,19; 493,15; V,228,10;248,4,5,21,22.pret.gae, ga, gaa, gaed, geed, geid, gied.p. p.gin, gine, geen, gein, gien, gen, gane, gaen. geve on (like take)==strike, III, 127,53. gien, II, 232,13: struck.
gied,gid,ged,pret.of gae, gie, go, I, 74,3; 80,5; 310,10,12,14; II, 75,11; 357,7; III, 434,27.
gied,geed,geid,pret.of gie, give, I, 79 f.,24,28; 439,3; II, 408 f.,3,4; IV, 512 b,8.
gien,gine,gin,gein,geen,gen,p. p.of gie, give: I, 100,25; 467,25; IV, 316,18; 509 a,13; 510,16; 513,12; V,215,13;219,23;224,20;229,30;247,10;306b,3. V,219,23: given (a blow) to.
gieng, II, 61,3: gang, go.
gier.Seegear.
gif,giff==if, I, 70,16; II, 21B10; 28,3; III, 285,22.
giff-gaff, I, 21 b,14: give and take, tit for tat.
gile, III, 48211: jail.
gill, a steep, narrow glen.
gillan, V,272b,1: gallant. Seegallan.
Gilliecrankie, be a, IV, 268,22: a Gilliecrankie woman, live in Gillecrankie (see20), be a Highlander.greads, hae a Killycrankie, that is, a domestic battle, or row.
gillore, III, 136,34: galore, in plenty.
gilt, III, 370,10: money.
gimp, I, 387,1; II, 220,1,3: jimp, slender.
gin,gine,ginne, V,125,9: a contrivance. specially, the apparatus for fastening a door, I, 107,4; II, 241,23; III, 492,6; IV, 445 f.,3,4; 446,b3,4; door and window, IV, 480,4,5. chappit (knocked) at the gin, I, 465,11; IV, 445 f.,3,4. lift the gin (that is the lever for raising the latch), II, 158,4; 165,4,7, altered to pin. II, 158,4, in the margin of the MS., and pin stands in7of the same piece. Otherwise, chin.
gin, I, 108,B3, like the gin: corrupt, compareA4.
gin, II, 23,E8; 271,34; 286,3; IV, 412,11; 485,15; V,243,17: (of time) against, towards. II, 313,14; IV, 138,M1; 166,C6; 392,12: by the time that.
gin,conj., I, 5,C8; 68,21,22; 70,15; 72,24; 310,4,5; 466,4,5; 468,5,8; 478,4,5,8-10: if.
gin,gine, given.
gine,ginne,n.Seegin.
gip.Seegep.
gird, III, 35,19: blow, stroke.
girded out,guirded, V,76,23;82,37: cracked, let.
girdle, I, 403,12: griddle.
girds, II, 70,27; IV, 481,6: hoops.
girn, I, 344,31: (of a hound) snarl. IV, 69,18: (of men hanged) grin.
girth was the gold-twist to be, III, 490,16, see 486 b. girth should probably be graith, but admitting this, the sense is not clear, and further corruption may be suspected. We may understand, perhaps, that after the rescue the mare was to have a caparison of gilded chains. Or we may read, her graith was used the gold-twist to be.
gitter, V,243,16: gutter.
giue, II, 442,7,10:==gif, if.
gives, II, 448,26: misgives.
gladdynge, III, 70,297: gladdening (cheeringin later texts).
glaive,glaue, IV, 491,11; V,235,32: sword. Seeglaue.
glamer,glamour,glamourie,glaumry, IV, 65,2; 66,2; 67,2; 68,D2,E2; 70,F2, etc.; 367,8; V,301, No 200: a charm deluding the eye. IV, 310,14: glitter, gleam.
glance, III, 394,K6; 397,5; IV, 508 a,8: shine.
glaned, IV, 406,14: (giant, from glent) glanced, shone.
glar, I, 494,18: mire.
glashet, I, 434,36: (O. French, glacer, glachier) darted, flashed.
glasse, III, 340,32; 344,30,31; 349,31; IV, 504,36: lantern, ship-light.
glaue,glaive, III, 105,20: (in this place) a cutting weapon fixed to the end of a pole. Seeglaive.
glaumry.Seeglamer.
glazen, of glass.
gleat(Icelandic glit), I, 100,28: glitter.
glede,gleed(e), I, 285,28; 287,67; 342,34; III, 308,14; IV, 379,14; V,184,42: glowing coal. II, 115,29; 140,18; V,27,46: fire. Seeglyde.
glee(==glue), I, 68,9,12: glove.
gleid,gley(e)d, IV, 56,B3; 58,3,4,9,10; 135,23,24: squint-eyed.
glen, set her on the glen, IV, 284,25; take her to the glen, 286,29; set her to the glen, 287,18: because, the roadways running usually through glens, this amounts to a public exposure.
glent, I, 105 a,28: glitter, glancing. wi a glent, II, 119,19; IV, 467,14: in a flash, a moment (otherwise, in a glent).
glent, III, 307,6: glanced, went (perhaps, darted).
gley(e)d.Seegleid.
glided, I, 333,3: glittered, glinted.
glintin, IV, 450 b,6: gleaming, flashing.
glister, IV, 510,5: shine.
gloamin, III, 319,23: twilight, evening.
gloe, III, 455,8,9,11: glove. Seeglee.
gloom, IV, 94,9: frown, morose look.
gloom, I, 302,A11,B9; 303,C6; IV, 337,gbefore20: frown, look sullen.
glore, II, 319,13: glory.
glove, cut my glove, etc., II, 105,18: lovers were wont to cut a glove and each take a part. S. W. will take in his hand the half of his glove which represents Janet and dance for two. T. Davidson, played at the glove, III, 448,5: some game for braw gallants, unexplained; possibly, spearing a glove when riding rapidly.
glove tee.Seetee.
glowd,glowde, II, 454 f.,54,58: glided.
glowred, IV, 429,a15: stared.
glue, II, 147,12: glove. Seeglee,gloe.
glyde, II, 375,19: spark. Seeglede.
go,goe,goo,gone, III, 64,160; 71,302; 77,429; 105,22; 432,19: walk. go boun away, IV, 224,15,16: go, depart. go down, IV, 13,2,3; 14,2: be hanged (cf.gae down). goe vppon his death, V,53,99: pass upon the question of.
gockies, II, 470,48: deep wooden dishes.
god,godde, III, 113,72,78,80: property, goods.
God,omitted, O save and you may see, III, 181,19; 184,16.
God, II, 46,51; III, 29,146; 59,62,63; 61,92; 68,240; 75,391; 101,90; 105,23(mood, wrongly formy God?); 359,103; 444,16,17: the second person in the Trinity.
God a marsey,God amercy,God have mercy, III, 111,39; 138,22; 149,41; 445,30; V,76,10;77,39;80,51,53;81,13;83,55: gramercy (not Dieu merci, thank God, which meaning, unlikely in all, is impossible in most of the cases).
God beffore, V,79,19: before God (attestation). Cf. for God. But perhapsGod before(and God before) is always to be distinguished frombefore God, and to be understood as, God my guide or helper; which sense seems to be required in Shakspere’s Henry V, I,II, 307, III,VI, 165; Percy MS., Hales & Furnivall, III, 30, v. 304, 528, v.57. [So, and God to-forn, in Chaucer, Troilus,I, 1049;II, 431. Cf. also King Edw. and the Shepherd, Hartshorne, Ancient Metrical Tales, p. 47; Peniworth of Witte, Englische Studien, VII, 116, v. 287; Weddynge of Syr Gawen, v. 640, Madden, p. 2983; etc.]
God’s peny, V,14,5;15,27: an earnest-penny, to bind a bargain.
Godzounds, V,93,4,8,12, etc.: God’s wounds.
gogled, III, 179,7: joggled, waggled.
golden-knobbed(gloves), II, 133,6: ornamented with golden balls or tassels. (siller-knapped, 134,8,13.)
golettof þe hode, III, 99,49: throat, part covering the throat.
gon,gone,infin.of go, III, 24,45; 35,32; 66,204; 67,223; 71,316; 74,363; 77,435; 111,28.
gon, gon gae, I, 333,3: did go.
gone,subj.of gon, go, III, 67,219.
good,gude,pret.of go, III, 464,4; V,153,1.
Good, V,199b,20:God.
Good-ben, III, 267,A10. Ifbenis to stand, it must bebenisonabridged. Good benison be here, quoth he, makes a satisfactory line. CompareB9,D9.
good-brother, IV, 168,9: brother-in-law.
good b’w’ye, III, 134,6: God be wi you, good-bye.
goodman, III, 274,33,35; V,91,1,5, etc.;98,2,3: master of a house.
good-mother, IV, 412,19: mother-in-law.
good-son, IV, 283,10: son-in-law.
goodwife, III, 274,33,35; V,91,2,6, etc.;98,1,2: mistress of a house, housewife.
goold, V,296a: gold.
gorgett, III, 422,75: defense for the neck, here a part of a jack.
gorgett, II, 45,32: a neckerchief. (“Nearly==wimple in Edward I.’s time; in 15th century, neckerchief.”)
gorney, journey.
goud==gan, did, IV, 20,12,13. (Cf. begoud==began.)
goud,gowd,n.andadj., I, 127,12; 135,9-12; 351,35; 429,28: gold.
gouden,gowden, I, 127,21,22; 145,23: golden.
goudie,goudy, V,110,7;267b,10;268,19: golden, yellow (locks).
goun-teall.Seegown-tail.
goupen, I, 356,D bafter23: hollow of the hand.
gouernor, I, 286,40: director, guardian.
gowans, I, 55,A1: daisies.
gowany, I, 315,12: covered with daisies.
gowd.Seegoud.
gowk, II, 111,12: (cuckoo), fool. gien me the gowk, made a fool of me. Seegecks.
gown of green, gien her a, II, 472,2: defloured. got on the, I, 350,11: strangely used for to be with child; properly, she got a gown of green eight months before: it can hardly mean, put on a green gown, literally, as at I, 358,40.
gown-tail,gooun-teall, II, 31,M4; 472,19; V,235,4: lower part of the skirt of a gown.
goy, joy.
graid, great.
graie dogs, III, 7,1: Scottish hunting dogs, deer dogs, rough greyhounds.
grain, sitt in a graine, I, 210,5: fork of a tree. III, 267,21; 269,14; V,243,17: branch of a tree.
graith,n., IV, 86,8: equipment (horse and arms).
graith,v., V,192,34;198b,34: make ready.p. p.graithed, IV, 2,5; 27,26: equipped in defensive armor. golden graithed behin, II, 191,18; gowden-graithd before and siller-shod behind, II, 343,4; shod wi silver afore an gold graithed behind, II, 194,16,20: properly, harnessed, but as the horse is silver-shod before and gold behind, 183,16; 185,23; V,224,14, shod seems to be meant here. So in the patched-up ballad IV, 410,18. The horse silver-shod before and gold-shod behind is a commonplace; see II, 266,1; 267,1.
graithing(gowd), IV, 410,18: harness or caparison, behind horse. But seegraith,v.
grammarye,grammeree, V,294b,2: grammar, learning. II, 53,36,41; 54,55; 55,68: magic. Gramery==grammar, learning, occurs three times in the Towneley Mysteries, but strangely enough seems not to have been heard of in the sense of magic till we come to Percy’s Reliques. Percy suggests that the word is probably a corruption of the Frenchgrimoire, a conjuring book. Grimoire, however, does not appear until the 16th century and was preceded by gramoire (Littré). Gramaire in the 13th-15th centuries has the sense of magic: see the history of grimoire in Littré. Godefroi interprets gramaire savant, magicien.
grandmother over, IV, 70,G2: corruption of, glamer, oer her.
grange-house, III, 360,116: farm-house.
grat, II, 70,25; 323,26,27; IV, 7,35; V,156,11,13,pret.of greet, weep.