hound, IV, 19,4; 20,9: chase, drive.houp,hope, IV, 2,13: (A. S. hóp) sloping hollow between two hills.hour, whore.house, V,273, No 237,20: hose.housen, II, 3,10; 5 b,2: house (sing.).house-end,-en, I, 254,b1,c1: gable.housle,houzle, II, 46,46; III, 330,13: give the sacrament.houzle, III, 105,22,23: communion.hove, hove hole, I, 304,F2: a hole which one haunts or lives in.hoved, III, 296,20: hung about, tarried.hoved on, III, 358,69: moved on (hied, 362,69).hoves, V,227,4: hoofs.how, how soon, III, 450 a: so soon as.how,howe,n., III, 164,b49; 316 a, last line; IV, 110,10; 303,7: hollow, sometimes, plain.how,adj., IV, 476 a,4: hollow.how, III, 392,11,13(as verb): exclamation of grief.howbeit, III, 450 a: although.howd, hold. Seehaud.howded, V,124,C15: swung.howk,howked, etc. Seehouk.howm.Seehoum.howre, V,78,5,6;79,28,33,35;80,37: our.howther o dirt, II, 184,13: a mass of dirt.howyn, own.hoyse,hoise, II, 26,8: hoist.huddin,hooding(hud, hod, to hide), IV, 262,30; 266,15: covering, coverlet.huddle, II, 246,B7: (hide) cover, protect (Scot. hiddle, hide).huggar, I, 303,D5: stocking without a foot.huggell, II, 244,16: hug, or, perhaps, a variety of huddle.huly,hooly,healy, II, 168,B4; 169,12; 216,2; IV, 413,18; 436,8: slowly, softly.humming, III, 136,30: heady, strong, as causing a hum in the head.hunder,hundre,hunner,huner,hundredth, hundred.hunger,hungre,v., II, 382,4; 386,4; 387,2; 391,2: starve.hunkers, V,213,9==clunkers, clots of dirt.hunt’s ha, I, 298,2: hunting-house or lodge.husbande,husbonde, III, 57,13; 295,1: farmer, husbandman. III, 58,46: economist, manager.hussyfskap,husseyskep, V,98,A3,B3: housewifery (she was making puddings). But perhaps, specifically, hussyskep, a sort of basket or bin of straw, formerly used, especially in ruder districts, for holding corn or meal. In like manner, a “platted hive of straw” is called a bee-skep. G. F. Graham’s Songs of Scotland, III, 181.hy,hye,hyght, on, vpon, III, 296,9; 297,31,47,48; 359,91: in a loud voice. on hy, hye, III, 309,51; 297,45: on high, up, erect. on hyght, III, 297,34: on high.hye,hie,n., I, 328,37; III, 99,50: haste.hyer,heyer,compar., V,283,5,15: higher.hyf, V,283,4: if.hyghte, I, 328,36: promise, hyght,p. p., III, 297,29: promised; III, 77,442: vowed.hym, wente hym, stert hym, III, 62,120,126: dative of subject after verb of motion. Seehim.hyndberry, I, 177,A c: raspberry or brambleberry.hynd-chiel.Seehind.hynde,n., III, 64,164: fellow. hynde Henry, II, 306 f.,6,8, etc.; hynde squire, V,25f.,2,13,19, etc. Seehind,n.hynde,adj., II, 177 f.,20,35: gentle, or the like. Seehind,adj.hyne, II, 314,C3: (up) behind.hyne, II, 314,C3: hence, away.hypped, III, 77,429: hopped.I(See also underJ,Y.)I, II, 59,34; 160,10-16; 264 f.,4,18; III, 185 f.,3,4,15,23; 203,18; 287,59; 356,28: ay.i,abridgment ofin,passim.i,abridgment ofwith: IV, 465,23.i-bouht, bought.ickles of ice, III, 154f1: icicles.i-dyght,y-dyght, III, 62,131,132: furnished, adjusted. III, 75,392: made ready.if,apparent ellipsis of, II, 62,9, with honour that ye do return.i-fedred, feathered.i-flawe, III, 13,6: flayed.ile,oil. ’inted (anointed) bar with ashen ile, V,305a,6: gave her a beating with an ashen cudgel.ilk,ilke, same. of that ilk, III, 451, note *: having a title the same as the surname: as, Wemys of Wemys. in that ilke, I, 287,72: in that same; III, 105,14: at that same moment.ilka, I, 107,7; 302,A9,11,12; 474,40: each, either. ilka ane, ilkone, II, 185,25; III, 97,16: each one.ilkone.Seeilka.ill,ell,ull, will.ill-bukled, V,276,18: badly run down at the heel. Seebaucheld. (Unlessillbe forold.)ill-far’d, I, 342,41: ill-favored.ill-fardly, V,115,9: ill-favoredly, in an ugly way.ill-wordie, V,243,15: unworthy.im, am.impale, V,182,5: make pale.imy, I, 243,7: in my.in, IV, 464,3; V,277,5,9: an, and, if.in o==in (in some part of?), III, 495 b,23,24; IV, 19,3; 517,19.in one, II, 186,1; 187,8; 196e1,7; into ane, 184,5,8,11,18: anon, or, at once==in a single answer. In, riddle both of us into ane, the intention was, perhaps, together, simultaneously; and so, all in one, III, 4,7; both as one, II, 187,2.inbearing, II, 28,15: obtrusive, over-officious, inter-meddling (with the object of thereby ingratiating oneself).infeft with,in, I, 478,5,10; IV, 350,B b,4,5; V,274,6,7; convey (land, money) to, put in possession of. inheft (o), IV, 349,B4,5: mistakenly forinfeft.in-fere, together. Seefere.ingle, III, 484 a,36; V,451: fire.inheft, IV, 349,B4,5, forinfeftb, to invest with a possession in fee.inn,inne, III, 117,11; 118,8; 200,6,7; 212,5: lodging.i-nocked, III, 62,132: nocked, notched.inowe, III, 57,13; 58,43: enough.instiled, III, 227,3: styled, intitled.’inted, V,305a,6: anointed. Seeile.intil,intill, I, 68,28; 69,36; 302,A11, IV, 171,1: into, in.into, I, 70,20; 71,29; 127,5; 440,13-15; IV, 263,35: in. into his age, IV, 359,12: at, of.into ane, II, 184,5,8,11,18: anon, in a single answer, or simultaneously. Seein one.intoxicate,pret., II, 47,8: intoxicated.i-pyght, III, 63,136: put.ir, are.irale(stane, as the rhyme shows the reading should be), I, 326,9: an undetermined stone mentioned in romances.ire, thro, II, 408,17: seems to mean, as resenting the covering (not ballad-like). wi ire, II, 411,10, is sufficiently incongruous.irkewith, V,15,14: tired, weary of.is, III, 440,11: has.-is,-ys, termination of 3dpers. pres. indic., he stendis louys: III, 98,22; 101,88.I’se, IV, 506,68: I am.istow, I, 175 f.,4,10,16: is thou, art thou.it(==O. Eng. his), its. defile it nest, III, 445,32.ith, in the.’ith, with.ither, IV, 210 a; V,306,15: other. IV, 110,9: one another.I wat,a wat,I wot,I wad==surely: I, 107,1; 471,11; and very often. See a==I.I wis, IV, 405,1: probably to be taken as assuredly, since we have I wot in that sense in7.i-wis,i-wisse,i-wys, II, 46,43; 265 f.,9, 26; III, 27,104; 277,17; 359,84: surely, indeed. As toi-wis that, III, 277,18,19, it is to be remembered that a superfluousthatis common in the Percy MS.I wist, III, 187,32: for iwis, indeed. Perhaps the Scottish I wat, surely, has influenced the form.iyen,iyn, III, 57,23,28; 59,58: eyen, eyes.JJack, IV, 112,4; 113,5: insolent fellow.iacke, III, 342,64: (here) coat of mail, cf.58,59,60. soldans iack, III, 422,75. An ordinary soldier’s jack (III, 440,18; 465 f.,33,42,49; IV, 147,41) consisted of two folds of stout canvas, or some quilted material, with small pieces of metal enclosed. Fairholt. Old Robin, II, 241,21, puts a silke cote on his backe was thirteen inches folde.jail-house, V,300,16: jail.jamp,pret.of jump, II, 121,21: jumped.iapis, III, 59,63: japes, jests, waggery, trifling.jauel, V,81,11: a term of abuse, good-for-nothing, idle fellow. Prompt. Parvulorum, gerro. “He called the fellow ribbalde, villaine, iauel, backbiter, sclaunderer, and the childe of perdition.” Utopia, Arber, p. 53.jaw,jawe, I, 127,10; 128,8; II, 21,8; 24,11; 29,10-12: wave.jawing, jawing wave, II, 223,F7; IV, 472,16: surging.jawing,n., IV, 462,24: surging.jee, I, 389,7; IV, 476,5: move, stir.jelly(jolly), I, 69,51; 298,2; 452,10; II, 403,5; IV, 413,20: handsome, pleasant, jovial. Jamieson: “upright, worthy, excellent in its kind.”ietted, III, 199,19; V,86,30: moved in state or with pride.jimp,gimp,jump,adj., I, 330,8; 333,6; II, 216,18,20; 217,1,3; 221,1,3; 225,J1; IV, 212,1; 272,2: slender, slim.jimp,adv., II, 74,D3: tightly, so as to make slender.jo, II, 103,5: sweetheart.jobbing(of faces), III, 219,14: billing (like doves).jobbing at, I, 104 b,10: jogging. The at is difficult. The old prefix means off, away, but is not separable.Jock Sheep,John Sheephead, II, 480 a; IV, 290,23: a man deficient in virility (?). V,206a,9: simpleton, of one who has been stultified or outwitted.iollye, III, 278,32: should probably be iollytë. See enter plea.joukd, V,9,12: bent forward. Seejuks.jow(of bell), II, 277,A8: stroke.juks, V,110,5: bows, obeisances. Seejoukd.jule, jewel.jully-flowers, gilly-flowers.jumbling, V,102B13: mudding, fouling.jumly, IV, 182,F9: turbid.jump, V,267b,5: jimp, slender.jumpted, IV, 519 a,3: jumped.justle, III, 280,26: joust, tilt.justler, III, 280,31,32: jouster, tilter.justling, III, 279,12,14,16: jousting.Kkail,kale, colewort, made the baron like kail to a pot, IV, 86,13: cut him up. broth made of greens, especially of coleworts: II, 467,41; III, 300,12; 388,3; IV, 500,13. Seekell.kailylips, I, 302,A10: covered with kail, and so repulsive.kaim,kame,keem, comb.kaivle, II, 298 f.,3,19: lot. Seekavil.kale. Seekail.kame,keem, comb.kamen, combing.kane, I, 353,15; 356,56: tribute (originally a duty in the form of a part of the produce, paid by an occupant of land to his superior).kauk, V,116,10: chalk.kavil,kaivle,kevel,cavil, I, 71,36,38: lot.kay,key, kine.keach, V,123,17: perturbation, shaking up.kean,v., V,110,4: ken.kebars, I, 332,F6; II, 227 a: rafters.kebbuck, IV, 323,5: cheese.keckle-pin, burnt like keckle-pin, II, 155,38: that is, I suppose, like heckle-pin, the sound of thekbeing carried on fromlike. Mr William Forbes, of Peterhead, suggests the following explanation: The pins used to hold the straw raips which hold down the thatch on cob or mud huts; being driven into the top of the walls close to the eaves, they are always dry and ready to burn. The mass of interlaced straw is called a hackle. Used all over East Aberdeenshire.keeked,keekit, I, 303,D1; 304,E3: peeped.keel, V,116,10: red chalk.keem,kem,kemb,kame, comb.keen,v., V,238,18;278,38: ken, know.keen, armour, II, 62,10: no sense except for arms of offense (as in Old Eng.).keen(of tying), II, 162,D3: strong or hard.keen(e), II, 45,26; 46,39; V,192f.,27,57: bold. spak sharp and keene, III, 394,K3: cuttingly, poignantly.keep, catch. Seekep.keep up, V,114,12: keep under custody, safe from the hands of others, lock up. Seekept up.keep(e)with, II, 411,15; III, 36,41: stay, live with.keepita bower, II, 407,8: frequented, lived in.keepit, IV, 215,A2: heeded, observed.keist,kiest,kest,kyst,pret.of cast, I, 69,46; 241,3.kell, II, 264 f.,5,12; 364,30; V,161,7: a cap of network for women’s hair.kell.lang kell, V,110,9,10. Seelang kell.kelter, kelter-coat, V,54,20: made of kelt, black and white wool mixed and not dyed. Dillon, Fairholt’s Costume in England, where a kelter-coat is cited from a will. Kelt, cloth with the knap, generally of native black wool. Jamieson.keltit, IV, 493,5: kelted, tucked.kem,kemb, comb.kemp,kempe,kempy, I, 301,1; 302, 6,B1; 303,C1,9; 309,3,5; II, 53 f.,25,31,55; III, 447 a: champion, fighting-man (A. S. cempa). kemp o the ship, V,151f.,F2,4, is no doubt a corruption.kempery(e), II, 54 f.,54,66,68: company of fighting men (or, if adjective, fighting).kempy.Seekemp.ken, I, 343,42; 345,41; 348,21; III, 268,4: know. III, 266,4: to make known.kene, cawte and kene, III, 296,26: wise, shrewd, or, perhaps, brave.kenna, know not.kep,keep,cap,cape, catch, stop, intercept: II, 322,21; 325,21; 407,13; 413,6,8; III, 125,34; 245,2; 246,E2; 436,5,7; IV, 480 f.,17,18,19; V,230,10,11. she keppit him (received him) on a penknife (as he leaned over to her), II, 147,6. she keppit Lamkin, II, 335,M7; V,230b,Y10: encountered. he kepped the table, door, wi his knee, I, 476,J5; 481,42; II, 91,26; 94,18; 271,17: took, struck. keppit, III, 246,D2, is an obviously wrong reading, and should bekicked; cf. 243,2; 245,2; 246,E2. kepd the stane wi her knee, II, 421,29, is absurdly taken from other ballads (and from ball-playing).pret.kept, kepd, kepped, kepit, keppit. Seecap.kepe, I, 329,2: care for, value. kepe I be, III, 100,80: care I to be.keping, IV, 313,20: meeting. The meaning is that he went to meet (comeshould became) the body which was lying at the gates. There was no procession towards him.kepping, keeping.kept up, IV, 287,15: shut up. Seekeep up.kerches, kerchiefs.kest,keste,pret.of cast, III, 76 f.,421,422. Seekeist.kettrin, IV, 84,8: cateran, Highland marauder. Seecaterans.kevel,kevil, I, 74 f.,3,36; 77,4; 80,4-6; II, 16,2; 301,1; IV, 394,C1: lot. Seekavil.key, kye.keys, rang the keys, IV, 430,2: keys of her spinnet.kickle, III, 230,59(the actual reading): not easily managed, unsteady, Scot, kittle. (But perhaps we should readkick, since a verb would be expected.)kiest,keist,pret.of cast, I, 74,2; 75,36; 80,4; 351,44; IV, 32,11.kilt, IV, 257,3: a skirt worn by Highlanders, reaching from the belly to the knees.kilt,kelt, tuck up: I, 341,3,17; 343 f.,3,8,16,35; 369,2; II, 92,7; 461,5; 462,5; 471,4.p. p.kilt, II, 423,8; IV, 210,7.kin, a’kin kind, II, 114,2: a’kin, all kind, equivalent to every. na kin thing, I, 394,10.kin, ken.kind,kindly, II, 319,7; III, 266 f.,1,5,21; 300,26; IV, 501,30: kindred, native. kindly cockward, I, 285,24: natural, born, fool. kindly rest, V,124,C14: natural.kine, what kine a man, IV, 504,27: kind (of).king’s felon,kynggis felon,kings ffelon, III, 98,21; 180,16: traitor, or rebel, to the king.kinnen, III, 370,4: coney, rabbit.kintra, country.kipeng, keeping.kipple, I, 333,5; IV, 432,6: couple, rafter.kipple-roots, I, 304,F5: the ends of couples (rafters) that rest on the top of the wall. “In rude erections the couples were rough unhewn tree-stems, which were placed with their thickest, or root, ends on the walls, the smaller ends abutting at the ridge of the roof.” J. Aiken.kirking, I, 371,6,12,14: churching.kirk-shot, IV, 359,10: the fishings on the water where nets are shot, belonging to, or adjacent to, the kirk.kirk-style, I, 441,8-10; 498,16,24; IV, 183,9,11; 360,16: the gate of the enclosure round a church, or, the stile in the church-yard wall.kirk-toun, II, 219,13: village in which is a parish church.kirkyard, V,299,4: churchyard.kirn,n.andv., V,115,6: churn.kirtle,kirtell,kyrtell, part of a man’s dress, perhaps waistcoat: III, 65,194; 71,299. name given to a variety of articles of female attire, explained as jacket, corsage or waist, upper petticoat, a loose upper garment, tunic or short mantle, etc. dress of silk worn under a gown, over a petticoat, I, 433,9. gown, petticoat and kirtle, III, 273,14. kirtle and gown, III, 215,10; IV, 432,7,8.kist, chest, I, 15,A3;B3; 17,D2; III, 189,34; IV, 485,19; V,115,5: coffin.kithe, a, III, 93,36: of kith, of the same country, region, people. kith, kyth, and kin, II, 216,6,8; 252,29; III, 93,36.kitt, V,240,14: outfit, supply.knabby, IV, 262,23: knobby, rough.knack fingers(in sign of grief): IV, 418,7; 435,13; knak, V,227,5(passage corrupted); knick, III, 455,E1; knock, II, 312 f.,5,6,7: crack the finger-joints. (Elsewhere, wring, II, 315,D7; 319,17; III, 477,4.) ladies crackt their fingers, II, 26,G16.knapped, II, 134,8,13: knobbed, ornamented with balls or tassels. Seenaps. golden-knobbed, II, 133,D6. (knob, sometimes a tassel to the cord of a mantle.)knapscap,napskape, IV, 7,35; V,251,31: head-piece.knaue, III, 14,16,17; 60,81; 94,50; 127,44(play): servant. IV, 501,37: person of servile or low rank.knave-bairn, I, 350,20; II, 418,23: male child. knave-boy, V,235b, after30.kneene, III, 362,87: knees.knell,v., II, 189,23: ring.knet,pret.of knit, III, 431,17; IV, 31,B6: knitted, knotted.knicking fingers, III, 455,E: making the finger-joints crack. Seeknack.knight-bairn, V,236f.,21,28,29: male child.knip-knap, V,213,6: a knock, tap. V,124,C15: to express the sound of cracking.knobbed.Seeknapped.knock.Seeknack.knocking-stane, I, 304,10: stone mortar.knoe.Seeknow.knop, III, 138,9: (knap), blow.knoppis, knobs.know(e),knoe, II, 308 b; III, 464,5; 466,38; IV, 171,4; 193,1; 195,1; 201,10; 205,22: hillock.knowe-tap, IV, 60,C b6: top of a hill.kod,kuod, quoth.koors, I, 353,15: turns.koupd.Seecouped.kouthe, II, 499 b: known.kow, V,157,11,12: twig. Seecow.ky,kye,kyne, III, 464,6,7; 465 f.,19,62; IV, 7,29-32; 84,17,18: cows.kyrtell.Seekirtle.kyst, I, 241,3: cast.kyth(and kin), home, country, people. Seekithe.kythe, II, 168,10: be manifest, appear,pret.kythed, I, 117,10: appeared.Llaa, law.lachters,lauchters, IV, 166,14: locks.lack,lake,adj.=laigh, low, humble, in lack o luve, II, 376,24,27,30. so lack a knight as bid her ride, II, 97,10. thought his father lack to sair, II, 408,1(lake, V,235b,1; cf. thought father’s service mean, II, 178,2); V,272b,8,10: of mean position.lack,lake,n.(think, hae, lack), reproach, discredit, IV, 15,16; 518,8. woman, lack o our kin, IV, 325,13. had ye nae lack (reproach or fault), IV, 281,3. what other ladies would think lack, II, 159,22(but here lack may=laigh, and meanbeneath them, as in II, 97,10). tooke a lake, III, 419,2: incurred a reproach or blame? of his friends he had no lack, IV, 11,18: corrupted from, of him his friends they had no lack (or the like). Seelauch.lad, insurgeon-lad, IV, 484, after25: man. lad nor lown, IV, 304,8,9: should probably read, laird.lad-bairn, II, 299,12,21; III, 392,7; 395,L1,5; IV, 510,V3: boy.lad,pret.of lead, III, 75,388.lade, led, taken.lader, V,265b,20: leather.laid, III, 35,15: laid a plan. laid about, III, 329,1: invested.laid, laid her bye, V,169,6: lay down by her.laidler, II, 503 f.,10,11, etc.: corruptly for laidley (as in7).laidley,laily,laylë,layely, etc. (A. S., láðlíc), I, 312,8,13; 348,14,20; II, 503 f.,7,32,35; V,214f.,2,3,5, etc.: loathly, loathsome.laigh, II, 188,3; III, 384,2; 397,A b1; IV, 200,9; 268,21; V,236,11: low, mean. oer laigh, III, 480,12: too low, too short. Seelack.laigh,leugh,n., III, 162,49: low ground. III, 489,10: lower part; so, leugh, 487,6,14,16.laily,laylë,layly,layelly, V,214f. Seelaidley.lain,laine,layne,leane,lene,len(Icel. leyna), III, 332,7; IV, 7 f.,30,47; V,250f.,27,40: conceal.lain, alone. Seelane.laine,p. p., III, 401,16: laid.lair,lear(A. S., lár), II, 175,16; 305,15: instruction. unco lair, to learn, get: II, 118,1; 119,1; 174,1; 178,2; III, 385,1; IV, 411,1; unco lear, IV, 467,1: strange lesson, applied to one who is to have an extraordinary experience; cf. English lair, IV, 466,1. Seelear.lair,lear, II, 311,1: lying-in.laird, a landholder, under the degree of knight; the proprietor of a house, or of more houses than one. Jamieson.lairy, IV, 22,10: miry, boggy.laith, loath. Seeleath.lake,n., III, 419,2; V,235b,1;272b,8,10. Seelack.lake, I, 254,8: pit, cavity. Seelaigh,n.lake, V,235b,1;272,8,10=laigh, of mean position. Seelack,adj.lake-wake,leak-wake,lyke-wake, II, 311,19: watching of a dead body.lamar,lamer,lammer, II, 131,6; 323,24; IV, 203,5; 204,14: amber.lambes woole, V,85,18: pulp of roasted apples mixed with ale.lammas beds, II,96,J4, in virtue leave your: corrupt. See note, II, 100 b. Dr Davidson, correcting by sound, would read, never to leave. For lammas beds we may perhaps read, families. Cf. 87,B1, that ye dinna leave your father’s house.lammer,lamer,lamar, amber. Seelamar.land, V,128,29: country (opposed to town).land-lieutenant, IV, 517,17. lord lieutenant, III, 492 f.,7,11,17. lieutenant, III, 488,32,33,35,37. See next word.land-serg(e)ant, III, 481,33; 482,27; IV,2,9,14: officer of the gendarmerie of the Borders, called land-lieutenant, IV, 517,17.landart, V,106,E1; 111,1: belonging to the country, rural.landen, II, 29,17: landing.landen span, III, 511,16,18: corrupted from London band, or the like.landsman, III, 489,44: land owner.lane, III, 357,51: lane, as where poor men live? (Rhymed with aye, and perhaps corrupt. 361,C51, lawne.)lane,lain,leen,lean,lone,alane,alone, annexed to the dative or genitive of the personal pronoun (as in Old Eng. him ane, hire ane), my, mine, thy, our, your, her, his, him, its: I alone, by myself, etc. my lane, I, 79,22. thy lane, IV, 197,8. our lane, I, 72,20. your lane, II, 69,1. your lone, IV, 195,16. her lane, lean, I, 350,10; IV, 456,1. his lane, lean, IV, 227,6; 345,5. him lane, leen, I, 368,26,28; II, 90,18. their lane, I, 254,C1. its lone, I, 132,J4; II, 308,3. its leen, IV, 418,1. it lane, II, 82,J; 307,22; III, 388,5. me ane, I, 333,1. by my lane, I, 330,B1. mine alone, alane, I, 332,E1,F1; III, 489,1. him alone, III, 159,2; cf. IV, 464,1.lane, IV, 281,2: misprint for bane.lang, at lang, IV, 318,F9: at length.lang kell, V,110,9,10: coleworts not cut up and mashed. “lang kail [a tall-growing cabbage?] became extinct about 60 years ago, giving place to finer-flavored varieties.” W. Forbes.langin, she’s gane langin hame, IV, 198 a,7: perhaps simply longing, languishing; lingering would be more appropriate if the interpretation were justifiable.lang-sought, V,35,B5: been long (and fruitlessly) seeking for some object (if the reading is right), indicating a hopeless passion.lap, grip her in his lap, II, 325,18: (possibly) embrace, clutch.lap,lappe, III, 59,70; 65,194; 353,12; 430 f.,15,17: wrap, roll.lap,pret.of loup, leap, I, 330,A5,7,B5; 331,C5,7; III, 270,1; V,228,16. lap him, III, 266,2: the old construction of dative of the subject after a verb of motion.lappen,p. p.of loup, leap.lapperin, III, 395,L4; IV, 224,23: clotting.lappin, IV, 510,V3: covering; probably corrupted from lapperin ofL4, clotting.lard,leard, V,36,B8,9: laird.lass-bairn,lassie-bairn, I, 350,20; II, 301,10,11; IV, 418,5: girl.lat, I, 310,8; 351,37: let.lat down, III, 281,2,5,6: give over, discontinue.late, III, 164, b51: let, hindrance.late,pret.of let, allow, V,256,13.latten,p. p.of let, II, 189,26; IV, 493 f.,7,28,31(left).lau, low.lauch,n., II, 20,4; 385,6; 390,7; IV, 259,9: laugh. IV, 327,12: perhaps laughing-stock; but cf. lack, 325,13, reproach.lauch,lawhe,v., IV, 121,G2; V,80,48: laugh.pret.laugh, laughe, leuch, leugh, luke, lough, low, lowe, lowhe, laucht, lought.laucht,pret.of laugh, II, 106,14.lauchter, IV, 385,6: laugh.lauchters, I, 74,68,72; 79,25: locks.lauchty, V,213a, No 33,10: the reading in Sharpe’s Ballad Book corresponding to tauchy, I, 302,A10. In the copy of Sharpe used (a presentation copy), a line is drawn through the l, indicating, probably, the editor’s intention to emend to tauchty or tauchy.laue, law.laugh,laughe,pret.of laugh, II, 418,34; 420,59; III, 287,59.launde,lawnde, III, 27,105; 33,105: plain ground in a forest; “a small park within a forest, enclosed in order to take the deer more readily, or to produce fatter venison by confining them for a time.”launsgay, III, 63,134: a kind of lance, javelin (compound of lance and the Arabic zagaye).lave,leve, II, 78,11; III, 495 b,23,24; IV, 220,3; 428,6; 517,20: rest, remainder.lauede ablode, I, 244,9; V,288,16: swam in blood.lav(e)rock, I, 201,3; 202,3; 205,F4; IV, 266,16: lark.law, I, 209 a: faith, creed.law, Castle-law, II, 149,4,7; Biddess-law, III, 460,29: hill (A. S. hlǽw).lawhe, V,80,48: laugh.pret.lowhe.lawin(g), III, 472,7; IV, 151 f.,A2-4,B5,9,10, etc.; 157,5,6: tavern-reckoning.lawing, V,266,8: lying (reclining).lawnde.Seelaunde.lax, IV, 233,18: relief.lay, II, 59,25: law, faith.lay, II, 483,1; IV, 203 f.,6,7,23; V,260,10,11: land not under cultivation, grass, sward. lays, IV, 224,23: fields, plains, ground.lay,v., lie.lay, I, 399 a,E11: seems to be nonsense; probably we should read gray, as in No 248, IV, 389 f.lay by, IV, 519,5,7,11; 520,5,10(lay’d==lay it): lay aside, let be, cease. lay bay, V,275b,3: put aside or behind, outsail.layelly, loathsome. Seelaidley.laying, IV, 174,1: lawing, reckoning.lay-land, II, 59,23: (Old Eng. leyland) lea land, untilled land; simply plain, ground.laylë, loathsome. Seelaidley.layn(withouten), III, 97,17; 100,81: lie (truly).layne(Icel. leyna), IV, 7 f.,30,47: conceal. Seelain.layne,v.(A. S. légnian), III, 297,35,40: lie.layne,v., II, 87,33: lean.lazar,-er, II, 44-46,4,5,9,11, etc.: leper.lea,lee,lie,loe,loi,loie,loy,loo,low,lue,v., I, 438,10; II, 260,4; 408,23; 417,2; 419,52; V,116,2,3;117,3;220,6;221,9;242,14;260,13;272b,3,7,11;277f.,1,4,23,31: love.lea,lee, lie,mentiri.lea, III, 457,A2; IV, 100,4; 102,L6; 263,2: leave. (so leave, IV, 94,15, is to be sounded.)lea,n.Seelee.lea,lee, lie lea, lie lee: IV, 26,5; 350,B bafter2; 520,2: untilled. lay lee, V,189b: lay waste.leace, withouten leace, III, 27,108,115: falsehood.lead, III, 460,26: lead their horses?lead, V,36,11;117,14;221,18;268,18: led.lead, laid.lead(e), I, 232,9; V,53,103: vat, boiler.leaf, loaf.leaf, gae out under the leaf, IV, 379,6: luff, loof, after part of a ship’s bow; or here, as opposed to lee, the weather side. Seelowe.leak,adj., V,111,20;224,26: like.
hound, IV, 19,4; 20,9: chase, drive.
houp,hope, IV, 2,13: (A. S. hóp) sloping hollow between two hills.
hour, whore.
house, V,273, No 237,20: hose.
housen, II, 3,10; 5 b,2: house (sing.).
house-end,-en, I, 254,b1,c1: gable.
housle,houzle, II, 46,46; III, 330,13: give the sacrament.
houzle, III, 105,22,23: communion.
hove, hove hole, I, 304,F2: a hole which one haunts or lives in.
hoved, III, 296,20: hung about, tarried.
hoved on, III, 358,69: moved on (hied, 362,69).
hoves, V,227,4: hoofs.
how, how soon, III, 450 a: so soon as.
how,howe,n., III, 164,b49; 316 a, last line; IV, 110,10; 303,7: hollow, sometimes, plain.
how,adj., IV, 476 a,4: hollow.
how, III, 392,11,13(as verb): exclamation of grief.
howbeit, III, 450 a: although.
howd, hold. Seehaud.
howded, V,124,C15: swung.
howk,howked, etc. Seehouk.
howm.Seehoum.
howre, V,78,5,6;79,28,33,35;80,37: our.
howther o dirt, II, 184,13: a mass of dirt.
howyn, own.
hoyse,hoise, II, 26,8: hoist.
huddin,hooding(hud, hod, to hide), IV, 262,30; 266,15: covering, coverlet.
huddle, II, 246,B7: (hide) cover, protect (Scot. hiddle, hide).
huggar, I, 303,D5: stocking without a foot.
huggell, II, 244,16: hug, or, perhaps, a variety of huddle.
huly,hooly,healy, II, 168,B4; 169,12; 216,2; IV, 413,18; 436,8: slowly, softly.
humming, III, 136,30: heady, strong, as causing a hum in the head.
hunder,hundre,hunner,huner,hundredth, hundred.
hunger,hungre,v., II, 382,4; 386,4; 387,2; 391,2: starve.
hunkers, V,213,9==clunkers, clots of dirt.
hunt’s ha, I, 298,2: hunting-house or lodge.
husbande,husbonde, III, 57,13; 295,1: farmer, husbandman. III, 58,46: economist, manager.
hussyfskap,husseyskep, V,98,A3,B3: housewifery (she was making puddings). But perhaps, specifically, hussyskep, a sort of basket or bin of straw, formerly used, especially in ruder districts, for holding corn or meal. In like manner, a “platted hive of straw” is called a bee-skep. G. F. Graham’s Songs of Scotland, III, 181.
hy,hye,hyght, on, vpon, III, 296,9; 297,31,47,48; 359,91: in a loud voice. on hy, hye, III, 309,51; 297,45: on high, up, erect. on hyght, III, 297,34: on high.
hye,hie,n., I, 328,37; III, 99,50: haste.
hyer,heyer,compar., V,283,5,15: higher.
hyf, V,283,4: if.
hyghte, I, 328,36: promise, hyght,p. p., III, 297,29: promised; III, 77,442: vowed.
hym, wente hym, stert hym, III, 62,120,126: dative of subject after verb of motion. Seehim.
hyndberry, I, 177,A c: raspberry or brambleberry.
hynd-chiel.Seehind.
hynde,n., III, 64,164: fellow. hynde Henry, II, 306 f.,6,8, etc.; hynde squire, V,25f.,2,13,19, etc. Seehind,n.
hynde,adj., II, 177 f.,20,35: gentle, or the like. Seehind,adj.
hyne, II, 314,C3: (up) behind.
hyne, II, 314,C3: hence, away.
hypped, III, 77,429: hopped.
(See also underJ,Y.)
I, II, 59,34; 160,10-16; 264 f.,4,18; III, 185 f.,3,4,15,23; 203,18; 287,59; 356,28: ay.
i,abridgment ofin,passim.
i,abridgment ofwith: IV, 465,23.
i-bouht, bought.
ickles of ice, III, 154f1: icicles.
i-dyght,y-dyght, III, 62,131,132: furnished, adjusted. III, 75,392: made ready.
if,apparent ellipsis of, II, 62,9, with honour that ye do return.
i-fedred, feathered.
i-flawe, III, 13,6: flayed.
ile,oil. ’inted (anointed) bar with ashen ile, V,305a,6: gave her a beating with an ashen cudgel.
ilk,ilke, same. of that ilk, III, 451, note *: having a title the same as the surname: as, Wemys of Wemys. in that ilke, I, 287,72: in that same; III, 105,14: at that same moment.
ilka, I, 107,7; 302,A9,11,12; 474,40: each, either. ilka ane, ilkone, II, 185,25; III, 97,16: each one.
ilkone.Seeilka.
ill,ell,ull, will.
ill-bukled, V,276,18: badly run down at the heel. Seebaucheld. (Unlessillbe forold.)
ill-far’d, I, 342,41: ill-favored.
ill-fardly, V,115,9: ill-favoredly, in an ugly way.
ill-wordie, V,243,15: unworthy.
im, am.
impale, V,182,5: make pale.
imy, I, 243,7: in my.
in, IV, 464,3; V,277,5,9: an, and, if.
in o==in (in some part of?), III, 495 b,23,24; IV, 19,3; 517,19.
in one, II, 186,1; 187,8; 196e1,7; into ane, 184,5,8,11,18: anon, or, at once==in a single answer. In, riddle both of us into ane, the intention was, perhaps, together, simultaneously; and so, all in one, III, 4,7; both as one, II, 187,2.
inbearing, II, 28,15: obtrusive, over-officious, inter-meddling (with the object of thereby ingratiating oneself).
infeft with,in, I, 478,5,10; IV, 350,B b,4,5; V,274,6,7; convey (land, money) to, put in possession of. inheft (o), IV, 349,B4,5: mistakenly forinfeft.
in-fere, together. Seefere.
ingle, III, 484 a,36; V,451: fire.
inheft, IV, 349,B4,5, forinfeftb, to invest with a possession in fee.
inn,inne, III, 117,11; 118,8; 200,6,7; 212,5: lodging.
i-nocked, III, 62,132: nocked, notched.
inowe, III, 57,13; 58,43: enough.
instiled, III, 227,3: styled, intitled.
’inted, V,305a,6: anointed. Seeile.
intil,intill, I, 68,28; 69,36; 302,A11, IV, 171,1: into, in.
into, I, 70,20; 71,29; 127,5; 440,13-15; IV, 263,35: in. into his age, IV, 359,12: at, of.
into ane, II, 184,5,8,11,18: anon, in a single answer, or simultaneously. Seein one.
intoxicate,pret., II, 47,8: intoxicated.
i-pyght, III, 63,136: put.
ir, are.
irale(stane, as the rhyme shows the reading should be), I, 326,9: an undetermined stone mentioned in romances.
ire, thro, II, 408,17: seems to mean, as resenting the covering (not ballad-like). wi ire, II, 411,10, is sufficiently incongruous.
irkewith, V,15,14: tired, weary of.
is, III, 440,11: has.
-is,-ys, termination of 3dpers. pres. indic., he stendis louys: III, 98,22; 101,88.
I’se, IV, 506,68: I am.
istow, I, 175 f.,4,10,16: is thou, art thou.
it(==O. Eng. his), its. defile it nest, III, 445,32.
ith, in the.
’ith, with.
ither, IV, 210 a; V,306,15: other. IV, 110,9: one another.
I wat,a wat,I wot,I wad==surely: I, 107,1; 471,11; and very often. See a==I.
I wis, IV, 405,1: probably to be taken as assuredly, since we have I wot in that sense in7.
i-wis,i-wisse,i-wys, II, 46,43; 265 f.,9, 26; III, 27,104; 277,17; 359,84: surely, indeed. As toi-wis that, III, 277,18,19, it is to be remembered that a superfluousthatis common in the Percy MS.
I wist, III, 187,32: for iwis, indeed. Perhaps the Scottish I wat, surely, has influenced the form.
iyen,iyn, III, 57,23,28; 59,58: eyen, eyes.
Jack, IV, 112,4; 113,5: insolent fellow.
iacke, III, 342,64: (here) coat of mail, cf.58,59,60. soldans iack, III, 422,75. An ordinary soldier’s jack (III, 440,18; 465 f.,33,42,49; IV, 147,41) consisted of two folds of stout canvas, or some quilted material, with small pieces of metal enclosed. Fairholt. Old Robin, II, 241,21, puts a silke cote on his backe was thirteen inches folde.
jail-house, V,300,16: jail.
jamp,pret.of jump, II, 121,21: jumped.
iapis, III, 59,63: japes, jests, waggery, trifling.
jauel, V,81,11: a term of abuse, good-for-nothing, idle fellow. Prompt. Parvulorum, gerro. “He called the fellow ribbalde, villaine, iauel, backbiter, sclaunderer, and the childe of perdition.” Utopia, Arber, p. 53.
jaw,jawe, I, 127,10; 128,8; II, 21,8; 24,11; 29,10-12: wave.
jawing, jawing wave, II, 223,F7; IV, 472,16: surging.
jawing,n., IV, 462,24: surging.
jee, I, 389,7; IV, 476,5: move, stir.
jelly(jolly), I, 69,51; 298,2; 452,10; II, 403,5; IV, 413,20: handsome, pleasant, jovial. Jamieson: “upright, worthy, excellent in its kind.”
ietted, III, 199,19; V,86,30: moved in state or with pride.
jimp,gimp,jump,adj., I, 330,8; 333,6; II, 216,18,20; 217,1,3; 221,1,3; 225,J1; IV, 212,1; 272,2: slender, slim.
jimp,adv., II, 74,D3: tightly, so as to make slender.
jo, II, 103,5: sweetheart.
jobbing(of faces), III, 219,14: billing (like doves).
jobbing at, I, 104 b,10: jogging. The at is difficult. The old prefix means off, away, but is not separable.
Jock Sheep,John Sheephead, II, 480 a; IV, 290,23: a man deficient in virility (?). V,206a,9: simpleton, of one who has been stultified or outwitted.
iollye, III, 278,32: should probably be iollytë. See enter plea.
joukd, V,9,12: bent forward. Seejuks.
jow(of bell), II, 277,A8: stroke.
juks, V,110,5: bows, obeisances. Seejoukd.
jule, jewel.
jully-flowers, gilly-flowers.
jumbling, V,102B13: mudding, fouling.
jumly, IV, 182,F9: turbid.
jump, V,267b,5: jimp, slender.
jumpted, IV, 519 a,3: jumped.
justle, III, 280,26: joust, tilt.
justler, III, 280,31,32: jouster, tilter.
justling, III, 279,12,14,16: jousting.
kail,kale, colewort, made the baron like kail to a pot, IV, 86,13: cut him up. broth made of greens, especially of coleworts: II, 467,41; III, 300,12; 388,3; IV, 500,13. Seekell.
kailylips, I, 302,A10: covered with kail, and so repulsive.
kaim,kame,keem, comb.
kaivle, II, 298 f.,3,19: lot. Seekavil.
kale. Seekail.
kame,keem, comb.
kamen, combing.
kane, I, 353,15; 356,56: tribute (originally a duty in the form of a part of the produce, paid by an occupant of land to his superior).
kauk, V,116,10: chalk.
kavil,kaivle,kevel,cavil, I, 71,36,38: lot.
kay,key, kine.
keach, V,123,17: perturbation, shaking up.
kean,v., V,110,4: ken.
kebars, I, 332,F6; II, 227 a: rafters.
kebbuck, IV, 323,5: cheese.
keckle-pin, burnt like keckle-pin, II, 155,38: that is, I suppose, like heckle-pin, the sound of thekbeing carried on fromlike. Mr William Forbes, of Peterhead, suggests the following explanation: The pins used to hold the straw raips which hold down the thatch on cob or mud huts; being driven into the top of the walls close to the eaves, they are always dry and ready to burn. The mass of interlaced straw is called a hackle. Used all over East Aberdeenshire.
keeked,keekit, I, 303,D1; 304,E3: peeped.
keel, V,116,10: red chalk.
keem,kem,kemb,kame, comb.
keen,v., V,238,18;278,38: ken, know.
keen, armour, II, 62,10: no sense except for arms of offense (as in Old Eng.).
keen(of tying), II, 162,D3: strong or hard.
keen(e), II, 45,26; 46,39; V,192f.,27,57: bold. spak sharp and keene, III, 394,K3: cuttingly, poignantly.
keep, catch. Seekep.
keep up, V,114,12: keep under custody, safe from the hands of others, lock up. Seekept up.
keep(e)with, II, 411,15; III, 36,41: stay, live with.
keepita bower, II, 407,8: frequented, lived in.
keepit, IV, 215,A2: heeded, observed.
keist,kiest,kest,kyst,pret.of cast, I, 69,46; 241,3.
kell, II, 264 f.,5,12; 364,30; V,161,7: a cap of network for women’s hair.
kell.lang kell, V,110,9,10. Seelang kell.
kelter, kelter-coat, V,54,20: made of kelt, black and white wool mixed and not dyed. Dillon, Fairholt’s Costume in England, where a kelter-coat is cited from a will. Kelt, cloth with the knap, generally of native black wool. Jamieson.
keltit, IV, 493,5: kelted, tucked.
kem,kemb, comb.
kemp,kempe,kempy, I, 301,1; 302, 6,B1; 303,C1,9; 309,3,5; II, 53 f.,25,31,55; III, 447 a: champion, fighting-man (A. S. cempa). kemp o the ship, V,151f.,F2,4, is no doubt a corruption.
kempery(e), II, 54 f.,54,66,68: company of fighting men (or, if adjective, fighting).
kempy.Seekemp.
ken, I, 343,42; 345,41; 348,21; III, 268,4: know. III, 266,4: to make known.
kene, cawte and kene, III, 296,26: wise, shrewd, or, perhaps, brave.
kenna, know not.
kep,keep,cap,cape, catch, stop, intercept: II, 322,21; 325,21; 407,13; 413,6,8; III, 125,34; 245,2; 246,E2; 436,5,7; IV, 480 f.,17,18,19; V,230,10,11. she keppit him (received him) on a penknife (as he leaned over to her), II, 147,6. she keppit Lamkin, II, 335,M7; V,230b,Y10: encountered. he kepped the table, door, wi his knee, I, 476,J5; 481,42; II, 91,26; 94,18; 271,17: took, struck. keppit, III, 246,D2, is an obviously wrong reading, and should bekicked; cf. 243,2; 245,2; 246,E2. kepd the stane wi her knee, II, 421,29, is absurdly taken from other ballads (and from ball-playing).pret.kept, kepd, kepped, kepit, keppit. Seecap.
kepe, I, 329,2: care for, value. kepe I be, III, 100,80: care I to be.
keping, IV, 313,20: meeting. The meaning is that he went to meet (comeshould became) the body which was lying at the gates. There was no procession towards him.
kepping, keeping.
kept up, IV, 287,15: shut up. Seekeep up.
kerches, kerchiefs.
kest,keste,pret.of cast, III, 76 f.,421,422. Seekeist.
kettrin, IV, 84,8: cateran, Highland marauder. Seecaterans.
kevel,kevil, I, 74 f.,3,36; 77,4; 80,4-6; II, 16,2; 301,1; IV, 394,C1: lot. Seekavil.
key, kye.
keys, rang the keys, IV, 430,2: keys of her spinnet.
kickle, III, 230,59(the actual reading): not easily managed, unsteady, Scot, kittle. (But perhaps we should readkick, since a verb would be expected.)
kiest,keist,pret.of cast, I, 74,2; 75,36; 80,4; 351,44; IV, 32,11.
kilt, IV, 257,3: a skirt worn by Highlanders, reaching from the belly to the knees.
kilt,kelt, tuck up: I, 341,3,17; 343 f.,3,8,16,35; 369,2; II, 92,7; 461,5; 462,5; 471,4.p. p.kilt, II, 423,8; IV, 210,7.
kin, a’kin kind, II, 114,2: a’kin, all kind, equivalent to every. na kin thing, I, 394,10.
kin, ken.
kind,kindly, II, 319,7; III, 266 f.,1,5,21; 300,26; IV, 501,30: kindred, native. kindly cockward, I, 285,24: natural, born, fool. kindly rest, V,124,C14: natural.
kine, what kine a man, IV, 504,27: kind (of).
king’s felon,kynggis felon,kings ffelon, III, 98,21; 180,16: traitor, or rebel, to the king.
kinnen, III, 370,4: coney, rabbit.
kintra, country.
kipeng, keeping.
kipple, I, 333,5; IV, 432,6: couple, rafter.
kipple-roots, I, 304,F5: the ends of couples (rafters) that rest on the top of the wall. “In rude erections the couples were rough unhewn tree-stems, which were placed with their thickest, or root, ends on the walls, the smaller ends abutting at the ridge of the roof.” J. Aiken.
kirking, I, 371,6,12,14: churching.
kirk-shot, IV, 359,10: the fishings on the water where nets are shot, belonging to, or adjacent to, the kirk.
kirk-style, I, 441,8-10; 498,16,24; IV, 183,9,11; 360,16: the gate of the enclosure round a church, or, the stile in the church-yard wall.
kirk-toun, II, 219,13: village in which is a parish church.
kirkyard, V,299,4: churchyard.
kirn,n.andv., V,115,6: churn.
kirtle,kirtell,kyrtell, part of a man’s dress, perhaps waistcoat: III, 65,194; 71,299. name given to a variety of articles of female attire, explained as jacket, corsage or waist, upper petticoat, a loose upper garment, tunic or short mantle, etc. dress of silk worn under a gown, over a petticoat, I, 433,9. gown, petticoat and kirtle, III, 273,14. kirtle and gown, III, 215,10; IV, 432,7,8.
kist, chest, I, 15,A3;B3; 17,D2; III, 189,34; IV, 485,19; V,115,5: coffin.
kithe, a, III, 93,36: of kith, of the same country, region, people. kith, kyth, and kin, II, 216,6,8; 252,29; III, 93,36.
kitt, V,240,14: outfit, supply.
knabby, IV, 262,23: knobby, rough.
knack fingers(in sign of grief): IV, 418,7; 435,13; knak, V,227,5(passage corrupted); knick, III, 455,E1; knock, II, 312 f.,5,6,7: crack the finger-joints. (Elsewhere, wring, II, 315,D7; 319,17; III, 477,4.) ladies crackt their fingers, II, 26,G16.
knapped, II, 134,8,13: knobbed, ornamented with balls or tassels. Seenaps. golden-knobbed, II, 133,D6. (knob, sometimes a tassel to the cord of a mantle.)
knapscap,napskape, IV, 7,35; V,251,31: head-piece.
knaue, III, 14,16,17; 60,81; 94,50; 127,44(play): servant. IV, 501,37: person of servile or low rank.
knave-bairn, I, 350,20; II, 418,23: male child. knave-boy, V,235b, after30.
kneene, III, 362,87: knees.
knell,v., II, 189,23: ring.
knet,pret.of knit, III, 431,17; IV, 31,B6: knitted, knotted.
knicking fingers, III, 455,E: making the finger-joints crack. Seeknack.
knight-bairn, V,236f.,21,28,29: male child.
knip-knap, V,213,6: a knock, tap. V,124,C15: to express the sound of cracking.
knobbed.Seeknapped.
knock.Seeknack.
knocking-stane, I, 304,10: stone mortar.
knoe.Seeknow.
knop, III, 138,9: (knap), blow.
knoppis, knobs.
know(e),knoe, II, 308 b; III, 464,5; 466,38; IV, 171,4; 193,1; 195,1; 201,10; 205,22: hillock.
knowe-tap, IV, 60,C b6: top of a hill.
kod,kuod, quoth.
koors, I, 353,15: turns.
koupd.Seecouped.
kouthe, II, 499 b: known.
kow, V,157,11,12: twig. Seecow.
ky,kye,kyne, III, 464,6,7; 465 f.,19,62; IV, 7,29-32; 84,17,18: cows.
kyrtell.Seekirtle.
kyst, I, 241,3: cast.
kyth(and kin), home, country, people. Seekithe.
kythe, II, 168,10: be manifest, appear,pret.kythed, I, 117,10: appeared.
laa, law.
lachters,lauchters, IV, 166,14: locks.
lack,lake,adj.=laigh, low, humble, in lack o luve, II, 376,24,27,30. so lack a knight as bid her ride, II, 97,10. thought his father lack to sair, II, 408,1(lake, V,235b,1; cf. thought father’s service mean, II, 178,2); V,272b,8,10: of mean position.
lack,lake,n.(think, hae, lack), reproach, discredit, IV, 15,16; 518,8. woman, lack o our kin, IV, 325,13. had ye nae lack (reproach or fault), IV, 281,3. what other ladies would think lack, II, 159,22(but here lack may=laigh, and meanbeneath them, as in II, 97,10). tooke a lake, III, 419,2: incurred a reproach or blame? of his friends he had no lack, IV, 11,18: corrupted from, of him his friends they had no lack (or the like). Seelauch.
lad, insurgeon-lad, IV, 484, after25: man. lad nor lown, IV, 304,8,9: should probably read, laird.
lad-bairn, II, 299,12,21; III, 392,7; 395,L1,5; IV, 510,V3: boy.
lad,pret.of lead, III, 75,388.
lade, led, taken.
lader, V,265b,20: leather.
laid, III, 35,15: laid a plan. laid about, III, 329,1: invested.
laid, laid her bye, V,169,6: lay down by her.
laidler, II, 503 f.,10,11, etc.: corruptly for laidley (as in7).
laidley,laily,laylë,layely, etc. (A. S., láðlíc), I, 312,8,13; 348,14,20; II, 503 f.,7,32,35; V,214f.,2,3,5, etc.: loathly, loathsome.
laigh, II, 188,3; III, 384,2; 397,A b1; IV, 200,9; 268,21; V,236,11: low, mean. oer laigh, III, 480,12: too low, too short. Seelack.
laigh,leugh,n., III, 162,49: low ground. III, 489,10: lower part; so, leugh, 487,6,14,16.
laily,laylë,layly,layelly, V,214f. Seelaidley.
lain,laine,layne,leane,lene,len(Icel. leyna), III, 332,7; IV, 7 f.,30,47; V,250f.,27,40: conceal.
lain, alone. Seelane.
laine,p. p., III, 401,16: laid.
lair,lear(A. S., lár), II, 175,16; 305,15: instruction. unco lair, to learn, get: II, 118,1; 119,1; 174,1; 178,2; III, 385,1; IV, 411,1; unco lear, IV, 467,1: strange lesson, applied to one who is to have an extraordinary experience; cf. English lair, IV, 466,1. Seelear.
lair,lear, II, 311,1: lying-in.
laird, a landholder, under the degree of knight; the proprietor of a house, or of more houses than one. Jamieson.
lairy, IV, 22,10: miry, boggy.
laith, loath. Seeleath.
lake,n., III, 419,2; V,235b,1;272b,8,10. Seelack.
lake, I, 254,8: pit, cavity. Seelaigh,n.
lake, V,235b,1;272,8,10=laigh, of mean position. Seelack,adj.
lake-wake,leak-wake,lyke-wake, II, 311,19: watching of a dead body.
lamar,lamer,lammer, II, 131,6; 323,24; IV, 203,5; 204,14: amber.
lambes woole, V,85,18: pulp of roasted apples mixed with ale.
lammas beds, II,96,J4, in virtue leave your: corrupt. See note, II, 100 b. Dr Davidson, correcting by sound, would read, never to leave. For lammas beds we may perhaps read, families. Cf. 87,B1, that ye dinna leave your father’s house.
lammer,lamer,lamar, amber. Seelamar.
land, V,128,29: country (opposed to town).
land-lieutenant, IV, 517,17. lord lieutenant, III, 492 f.,7,11,17. lieutenant, III, 488,32,33,35,37. See next word.
land-serg(e)ant, III, 481,33; 482,27; IV,2,9,14: officer of the gendarmerie of the Borders, called land-lieutenant, IV, 517,17.
landart, V,106,E1; 111,1: belonging to the country, rural.
landen, II, 29,17: landing.
landen span, III, 511,16,18: corrupted from London band, or the like.
landsman, III, 489,44: land owner.
lane, III, 357,51: lane, as where poor men live? (Rhymed with aye, and perhaps corrupt. 361,C51, lawne.)
lane,lain,leen,lean,lone,alane,alone, annexed to the dative or genitive of the personal pronoun (as in Old Eng. him ane, hire ane), my, mine, thy, our, your, her, his, him, its: I alone, by myself, etc. my lane, I, 79,22. thy lane, IV, 197,8. our lane, I, 72,20. your lane, II, 69,1. your lone, IV, 195,16. her lane, lean, I, 350,10; IV, 456,1. his lane, lean, IV, 227,6; 345,5. him lane, leen, I, 368,26,28; II, 90,18. their lane, I, 254,C1. its lone, I, 132,J4; II, 308,3. its leen, IV, 418,1. it lane, II, 82,J; 307,22; III, 388,5. me ane, I, 333,1. by my lane, I, 330,B1. mine alone, alane, I, 332,E1,F1; III, 489,1. him alone, III, 159,2; cf. IV, 464,1.
lane, IV, 281,2: misprint for bane.
lang, at lang, IV, 318,F9: at length.
lang kell, V,110,9,10: coleworts not cut up and mashed. “lang kail [a tall-growing cabbage?] became extinct about 60 years ago, giving place to finer-flavored varieties.” W. Forbes.
langin, she’s gane langin hame, IV, 198 a,7: perhaps simply longing, languishing; lingering would be more appropriate if the interpretation were justifiable.
lang-sought, V,35,B5: been long (and fruitlessly) seeking for some object (if the reading is right), indicating a hopeless passion.
lap, grip her in his lap, II, 325,18: (possibly) embrace, clutch.
lap,lappe, III, 59,70; 65,194; 353,12; 430 f.,15,17: wrap, roll.
lap,pret.of loup, leap, I, 330,A5,7,B5; 331,C5,7; III, 270,1; V,228,16. lap him, III, 266,2: the old construction of dative of the subject after a verb of motion.
lappen,p. p.of loup, leap.
lapperin, III, 395,L4; IV, 224,23: clotting.
lappin, IV, 510,V3: covering; probably corrupted from lapperin ofL4, clotting.
lard,leard, V,36,B8,9: laird.
lass-bairn,lassie-bairn, I, 350,20; II, 301,10,11; IV, 418,5: girl.
lat, I, 310,8; 351,37: let.
lat down, III, 281,2,5,6: give over, discontinue.
late, III, 164, b51: let, hindrance.
late,pret.of let, allow, V,256,13.
latten,p. p.of let, II, 189,26; IV, 493 f.,7,28,31(left).
lau, low.
lauch,n., II, 20,4; 385,6; 390,7; IV, 259,9: laugh. IV, 327,12: perhaps laughing-stock; but cf. lack, 325,13, reproach.
lauch,lawhe,v., IV, 121,G2; V,80,48: laugh.pret.laugh, laughe, leuch, leugh, luke, lough, low, lowe, lowhe, laucht, lought.
laucht,pret.of laugh, II, 106,14.
lauchter, IV, 385,6: laugh.
lauchters, I, 74,68,72; 79,25: locks.
lauchty, V,213a, No 33,10: the reading in Sharpe’s Ballad Book corresponding to tauchy, I, 302,A10. In the copy of Sharpe used (a presentation copy), a line is drawn through the l, indicating, probably, the editor’s intention to emend to tauchty or tauchy.
laue, law.
laugh,laughe,pret.of laugh, II, 418,34; 420,59; III, 287,59.
launde,lawnde, III, 27,105; 33,105: plain ground in a forest; “a small park within a forest, enclosed in order to take the deer more readily, or to produce fatter venison by confining them for a time.”
launsgay, III, 63,134: a kind of lance, javelin (compound of lance and the Arabic zagaye).
lave,leve, II, 78,11; III, 495 b,23,24; IV, 220,3; 428,6; 517,20: rest, remainder.
lauede ablode, I, 244,9; V,288,16: swam in blood.
lav(e)rock, I, 201,3; 202,3; 205,F4; IV, 266,16: lark.
law, I, 209 a: faith, creed.
law, Castle-law, II, 149,4,7; Biddess-law, III, 460,29: hill (A. S. hlǽw).
lawhe, V,80,48: laugh.pret.lowhe.
lawin(g), III, 472,7; IV, 151 f.,A2-4,B5,9,10, etc.; 157,5,6: tavern-reckoning.
lawing, V,266,8: lying (reclining).
lawnde.Seelaunde.
lax, IV, 233,18: relief.
lay, II, 59,25: law, faith.
lay, II, 483,1; IV, 203 f.,6,7,23; V,260,10,11: land not under cultivation, grass, sward. lays, IV, 224,23: fields, plains, ground.
lay,v., lie.
lay, I, 399 a,E11: seems to be nonsense; probably we should read gray, as in No 248, IV, 389 f.
lay by, IV, 519,5,7,11; 520,5,10(lay’d==lay it): lay aside, let be, cease. lay bay, V,275b,3: put aside or behind, outsail.
layelly, loathsome. Seelaidley.
laying, IV, 174,1: lawing, reckoning.
lay-land, II, 59,23: (Old Eng. leyland) lea land, untilled land; simply plain, ground.
laylë, loathsome. Seelaidley.
layn(withouten), III, 97,17; 100,81: lie (truly).
layne(Icel. leyna), IV, 7 f.,30,47: conceal. Seelain.
layne,v.(A. S. légnian), III, 297,35,40: lie.
layne,v., II, 87,33: lean.
lazar,-er, II, 44-46,4,5,9,11, etc.: leper.
lea,lee,lie,loe,loi,loie,loy,loo,low,lue,v., I, 438,10; II, 260,4; 408,23; 417,2; 419,52; V,116,2,3;117,3;220,6;221,9;242,14;260,13;272b,3,7,11;277f.,1,4,23,31: love.
lea,lee, lie,mentiri.
lea, III, 457,A2; IV, 100,4; 102,L6; 263,2: leave. (so leave, IV, 94,15, is to be sounded.)
lea,n.Seelee.
lea,lee, lie lea, lie lee: IV, 26,5; 350,B bafter2; 520,2: untilled. lay lee, V,189b: lay waste.
leace, withouten leace, III, 27,108,115: falsehood.
lead, III, 460,26: lead their horses?
lead, V,36,11;117,14;221,18;268,18: led.
lead, laid.
lead(e), I, 232,9; V,53,103: vat, boiler.
leaf, loaf.
leaf, gae out under the leaf, IV, 379,6: luff, loof, after part of a ship’s bow; or here, as opposed to lee, the weather side. Seelowe.
leak,adj., V,111,20;224,26: like.