marchandise, III, 92,22: dealing.march-man, III, 296,8: one who lives on the march, or border.March-parti,Marche-partes, III, 310,58,67: Border-part, -parts, Border, Borders.marie, III, 491,14: mare.marie.Seemary.mark, II, 62 b,11; 132,29; IV,202,K2: murky. the mark, II, 164,3. Seemirk.marke,merk, I, 394 ff.,B1;C2; III, 68,243,246; 69,270: two thirds of a pound.marke hym, III, 297,44: commit himself by signing the cross.marries, IV, 487,25: maids. Seemary.marrow, I, 147,5; 148,G4; 149,I4; IV, 165,13; 168,2; V,41,16: (of man or woman) mate, husband, wife. IV, 165,8,9;B2; 166,2,3; 167,D6; 169,5,6; 170,G3;H3: match, equal in rank, equal antagonist. bear ye marrow, 169,4: should perhaps be, be your marrow, as in 170,G3.mary,marie,marrie,marry, II, 369,13,15,19,20; 370,13,14,17; 371,14,15,20,21, etc.; 390,25; 391,19; IV, 487,25; 489,26: a queen’s lady, maid-of-honor (cf. III, 381 b; 385,18; 386,19; etc.), maid (like abigail).mary mild, IV, 213,13: marigold; cf. V,259,5.Mas(James Melvine), III, 471 a: Magister, Mr. Mess James Murray, V,196,51: seeMess.masar,maser, III, 65,175; 83, 86,175: a drinking-vessel, of wood, especially of knotty-grained maple, often mounted with bands or rings of precious metals. See Way’s note, Prompt. Parv., p. 328.mass, in the frequent formula, when bells were rung and mass was sung and a’ men bound to bed, II, 70,21, etc.: a domestic religious service at the end of the day. evening-mass, II, 168,A4.mast,maste, III, 296 f.,22,31; V,79,22: mayst.master-man, II, 16,2: captain of a ship. V,191,19: chief.masteryes, make, III, 92,27: do feats of skill.mat,matt, mat he (ye) dee! wae mat fa, mat(t) worth!==mot, in the sense of may: II, 27,7,10; 472,25,33; IV, 391,6; 392,9,21; 428,6; V,166,10;306,10. Seemet.maught,maugt, might.maugre, maugre in theyr teethe, III, 67,225: in spite of.maun, I, 16,B8,9, etc.;C7-10, etc.; 17,D5-7, etc.; 146,5,6; 183,25,26: must. 71,39inpret.sense. Seeman,mun.maunna, I, 185,25: must not. Seemanie.mavosie, I, 465,8: mavis, song-thrush.maw,sea-maw, II, 360,3; 363,7; 365,5; IV, 482,6: sea-mew, gull.maw,v., I, 427,13,15: mow.mawys, I, 326,2: mavis, song-thrush.may,mey, I, 115,B1,3, etc.; 173 f.,6,10; III, 93,39; 286,45; IV, 432,9; 515,2: maid.may,optative, frequently put after the subject, as, Christ thy speed may bee! thou mayst sune be! I may be dead ere morn! III, 355 f.,5,23; 359,87; 370,8,11; IV, 365,18.may be==is, likecan be: II, 448,33; 451,100. might be==was, III, 452,10. (So, possibly, might see, I, 434,30.)may gold, III, 497,13: marigold.mayne, strength.maystry, mastery.me, I, 243 f.,5,15: men, Frenchon.me,ethical dative, sawe I me, etc., III, 65,184; 68,249; 75,381; 79,147; 80,169.meal, III, 163,77: meal-bag.meal, II, 230,14,15; 362,36: mold, dust, earth. Seemeel.mean, man of, I, 358,30; II, 233,F3; 400,4,5; 404,6,7; V,36,B8,9: mere verbiage, I judge;meanlooks like an attempt to escape frommain, which see. (man of mean, II, 233,F3, not being joined with man of might, might be understood as, man of main, or violent man.)mean,meane,meen,v., I, 426,5; V,246,4,6: moan, lament. I, 388,A7,10: bemoan, lament the state of. not to mean, V,160,2: not to be pitied. mean, V,160,1, is doubtful, but the verb corresponding to moan is to be preferred. Seemane,menyd.mean,n., moan. Seemeen.meany, III, 307,3,10: troop. Seemenë.meaten,meeten, II, 434,17; III, 33,158: measured.meathe, IV, 378,9; 380,17: landmark.meatrif, III, 163,87: abounding in food.meckle,meikle,muckle, IV, 513,6,7: much.medder, V,221,11: mother.medill-erthe, I, 327,27. Seemiddle-earth.meed, I, 68,10,14; II, 172,33: mood, heart, state of feeling.meed, warld’s meed, I, 108,14; IV, 446 f.,14: seems to be corrupted from mate (make). Woreldes make is a familiar phrase in Old English, and not unfrequent in ballads.meel, meel or mor, III, 281,8,10: mold, earth, ground; but perhaps an error for mede, mead. Seemeal.meen,v., moan, lament. Seemean,v.meen,mean, I, 427,5; II, 124,39; 417,11; III, 389,12,13: lamentation. Seemane.meen, I, 222,8; 315,8; IV, 416,10: moon.meet, I, 148,F10: (causative) pass, put, thrust in.meet,meete, II, 46,45: even, equal. II, 229,13: scant, close, and so, perhaps, II, 436,61.meeten,meaten, II, 434,17: measured, by measure. Seemet.meiht, I, 243,3: mayst.meikle,meickle,mickle,muckle, I, 72,24,25; 86,2,3; 309 f.,2,4; 330,A3,B3; IV, 514,5: much, great.meisseine, V,132,7: spanker, or perhaps, Fr. misaine, foresail.mell, I, 299,6; 304,10;F6; 305,12; V,108,B6: mall, wooden hammer, beetle.mell, IV, 177 b,I7: mail.mell, III, 172,24: meddle.meller’s hoops, I, 304,F5: mill-casings, the circular wooden frames which surround mill-stones.melten(goud), IV, 471,37: molten.menë,menye,meany,menyie,meynë,maney,monie, III, 72,335: followers, band.menement, V,242,9,11,13: amendment.menji, menji feathers in her hat, V,163,13: many.mennie,manie, V,270,8: maunna, must not.mensked, I, 334,11: honored, dignified.menyde(of hir songe), I, 326,2: moaned, uttered, delivered. Seemean.menye,menyie, household, retinue, people: III, 91 a; IV, 127,4,5. Seemenë.mere, IV, 493,21: more.meri.Seemery.merk,marke, I, 394 f.,B1,C2: two thirds of a pound.merk.Seemerkes.merk,v., mark, merked them one, III, 297,47: took their aim at.merkes, III, 75,397: distances between the bounds.merke-soote, I, 334,4: mark-shot, distance between the marks (cf. III, 75,397), from bow to target, bow-shot.merlion,merlyon, II, 45,21,33: merlin, the smallest of British falcons.merrilye, III, 329,11: in good or valiant fashion. So, nearly, IV, 477,8.merry(men). Seemery.merry Cock land, III, 250,1: corruption of themerry Scotlandof 249,I,J,1; 251,M,1; 252,O,1.merrys, I, 327,22: mars, marrest.mery,meri,merry,merrie,myrri,myrry(men), II, 386,12; III, 66,205; 71,316; 73,340; 97,9; 114,121,131; 116,2; 285 f.,30,48; 309,37; 330,17; 430,5; 431,4; 432,2; 433,2; IV, 234,39; V,191,4,14: a standing phrase for followers, companions in arms.mese, I, 328,45: course (at table).mese, III, 484 a,16: mitigate.Mess, an epithet said to be contemptuous for a priest or parish minister (as one who says, or said, mass), so Mess John, IV, 442,10,12; but there is no reason to suppose disrespect in V,196,51. SeeMas.mestoret, V,80,42: needed.met, I, 324,3; IV, 455,4; V,195,9: mat, may. Seemat.met,pret.of mete, III, 60,73: measured.p. p.met, mete, III, 60,72; 203,17; IV, 465,23; 467,13.methe, meat.mett, meet.met-yard, III, 105,27: measuring-rod.mey, V,161,9: maid. Seemay.meynë, III, 27,96; 58,31; 61,95,97; 76,419: retinue, suite, household, company, body of people. Seemenë.meythe, III, 112,59: might.micht,v., V,299,4: might.micht’ll, might well.mickle, great, much. Seemeikle.midder,mideer, mother.middle-earth,medill-erthe, I, 327,27; II, 59,25: (A.S. middangeard, middaneard), earth (conceived as being the middle of the universe; see miðgarðr in Vigfusson).middle stream, III, 125,19: middle of the stream.middle waist, IV, 523,6: middle of his waist.mid-larf, crowing a, II, 230,5,8: corrupt (changed by Scott to merry midnight). Taking into account the young cock crew i the merry Linkem, II, 239,B4, midlarf may stand for some locality (suggestion of Professor Kittredge).might be==was, III, 452,10. Seemay,can.mild, maidens mild, II, 312,1; 314,C1,D1; 316,1: meek, gentle, demure. So Mild Mary, II, 315,E7; Mary(-ie) Mild, III, 395,M1,3; 396,N1; 398 a,c4; Mary Mile, III, 386,5,6,8. Corrupted to Moil, IV, 507 b,S2; Miles, IV, 511 a,5. myld(e) Mary, of the Virgin, III, 97,7,17; 98,35: lenient, compassionate. myld myȝth, V,283,13.milk-dey, IV, 262,26; 524,6: dairy-woman.mill,mille, IV, 503,13; 505,45; V,221,15,16;224,25: mile.millaine, I, 286,42,45: of Milan steel. Seemyllan.mill-capon, II, 477 b,D27: a poor person who asks charity at mills from those who have grain grinding,the alms usually given being a gowpen, or handful, of meal.millering, II, 467,42: waste meal, sweepings of a mill (dust [which] lyes in the mill, II, 470,43).mill-town,mill-toun, II, 471,18; V,238,29: miller’s steading or place.miln, I, 18,11: mill.milner,mylner, III, 85,4; 360,111: miller.min.Seemind.mind, II, 216,12,15; 218,13,16: recollection. her mind she keeped, II, 72,13: did not forget what she had promised. for changing o her min, 81,32: seems to mean, lest she should change her mind; but the sense is not striking.mind.mind o, on, I, 481,26; IV, 194,16,9; 195,15; 196,17; 197,17, etc.: remember.pret.mind, I, 183,30. mind of, on, mind to, I, 470,16; IV, 403 f.,14,28; 437,24: remind of. he mind’t him on, V,18,5: remembered.minde, ffor the maydens loue that I haue most minde, II, 58,5: elliptical or corrupt. Comparing 59,24(where the MS. reads, wrongly, most meed) we see thatforis not to be taken withminde. We must understandmost in mindormost mind toorof, or, possibly,mindemay be (from minnen, remember)had in mind.minge(A. S. myndgian), III, 355,6; 362,72: utter. minged, II, 59,21: didst name the name of, mention (or, perhaps, only bore in mind). myn, III, 358,72.minikin, V,201b: little, pretty little.minion, I, 284,12: dainty.minnie,minny, II, 473,16,17; IV, 69,16; 294,C9,10; V,115,9: mother. IV, 6,15; V,250,14: dam.mint to, II, 469,31; IV, 493,20; V,28,67;238,21: put out the hand towards, move towards. minted as, V,9,7: took a direction as if, made as if.mire,myre, I, 428,13,14; 429,7,8; III, 475 b: swamp, bog. mire an moss, bog, an miery hole, IV, 22,12; cf. 184,5.mirk,myrke,mark, I, 326,16; IV, 517,14: dark.Mirry-land toune, III, 244,B1: probably a corruption of themerry LincolnofA16,17; 246,D1; 251,L1.miscarry me, IV, 267,11: get me into trouble; fail, disappoint me (?).misgae, misgave.misgiding, V,117,15: ill treatment.misguide,misgiding, V,117,15;119,15: ill treatment.miss,n., IV, 317,E5; 325,C5,D3: mistress, whore.miss,n., II, 465,4: wrong or injury.miss(e),v., I, 210,12: omit, fail. miss your Wanton slack, IV, 22,10,12: fail to keep him tightly reined (?).mis-sworn, I, 395,C5: mansworn, perjured.mister,myster, III, 450 a; IV, 268,26; 464,15: need, requirement, an exigency. misters, III, 164,90: sorts of.mistkane, I, 105 a,18, if not miswritten, seems to be simply a phonetic variation of mistane.mith,mithe,n., I, 334,6,7,11: might.mith,mithe,v., II, 139,10; IV, 493,19: might. mith slain, II, 165,23: might [have] slain.mode, I, 328,47: spirit.modther, IV, 260,3,7: mother.mody,mudie, I, 334,10: proud, high-spirited.mold,molde, mane of molde, I, 327,20: earth. ouer the mold, into the Scottish mold, I, 433,21,23: land, country. I, 434,37; II, 246,7: ground.Moll Syms, I, 126,13; IV, 448,7: a well-known dance tune of the sixteenth century.mome, III, 352,7: dolt.monand,n., II, 87,36: moaning.mone, I, 326,1: moan, lamentation, complaint. Seemeen.monie, IV, 437,2: menie, company, suite. Seemenë.montenans.Seemountnaunce.monty, IV, 42 a, note §: staircase. (Fr. montée.)mood, giue me, III, 105,23: thoughgive me my Godlooks like a bold change, it is not improbable. We have, yeve me my savyour, in the Romaunt of the Rose, 6436, le cors nostre Seigneur, 12105, Michel. And again: For it was about Easter, at what times maidens gadded abrode, after they had taken their Maker, as they call it. Wilson, Arte of Logike, fol. 84 b. “In 1452 John Bulstone (of Norwich) bequeathed to the church of Hempstede ‘j pyxte, to putte owre lord god in.’” Academy, XL, 174. (These last two citations furnished by Prof. J. M. Manly.) Again, the Breton ballad, Ervoan Camus, Revue Celtique, II, 496, st.6, has ‘she has received my God.’ (Dr F. N. Robinson.) See V,297a.moody-hill,moudie-hill,mould-hill, IV, 148 f.,48; 150,g,h48: mole-hill.mool,mools. Seemoul.morn, morrow. the morn, III, 480,18; 482,14; 488,19; 489,11; IV, 517,18: to-morrow. the morn’s morning, IV, 373,8.mornin’s gift,morning gift, II, 132,32; 135,28: gift made the morning after marriage.mort, III, 307,8; IV, 26,8: note on the horn to announce the death of deer.mose-water.Seemoss-water.moss,muss,mose, I, 78,32; 99,6; III, 4,3,48; 440,10; IV, 443 f.,6,19; 445,8: bog.moss-water,mose-water, II, 193,21; 195,33; V,224,19: water of a peat-bog.most, I, 328,50: greatest.mostly,maistly, IV, 242 b: almost.mot, I, 473,5: must.mot,mote, I, 333,2; III, 7,9; 68,243; 75,394; 113,81; IV, 137,29; V,82,25,27;83,44,50,53;283,3: may.mote, III, 68,253: meeting.moten, molten.mothe,mouthe, I, 334,4,6: for meahte (mohte), might.mother-in-law, II, 71,11; 72 f.,14,15: stepmother.mother-naked, I, 344,33: naked as in, or coming from, the womb.mothly, III, 148,27: motley.motion, III, 216,38:proposal.mou,moue,mow, I, 302,B8; III, 149,34; IV, 277,10; V,115,9;268,18;269,13:mouth.moudie-hill.Seemoody-hill.moue, I, 16,C15: put up in ricks.mought, V,76,28;83,b25, etc.: mote, may. III, 30,98: might, were able.moul,mouls,mool,mools, IV, 329,A b, after16; 330,D d20: mould, dust, ashes (of the dead). I, 184,10; II, 233,6; 429,6; IV, 492,6; V,210,10: earth of a grave. See meal, II, 230,14,15.mould-hill.Seemoody-hill.mould-warpe, III, 420,20: mole.mountnaunce,montenans, I, 327,31; III, 64,168:amount.mouthe.Seemothe.mow, III, 149,34: seems to be meant for mouth (lip). But perhaps we may understand grimace (for a tyrant to make faces at). Seemou.mow,mows,IV, 224,22; 225,20: jest.moyen, IV, 42 a, note:means.mucell.Seemuckle.muck, IV, 323,6: dung.muck the byre, IV, 293,9; 294,C9,10; 295,D9; 297,9: carry out dung from the cow-house.muckle,mukle,mucell,meikle, IV, 398,6; 494,33: big. IV, 399,40; V,271,13: much.mudie, III, 434,27,28: bold. Seemody.muir, moor.mullertd, IV, 86,12: miller.mun,maun,man, II, 59,20; 314,28; IV, 343,6: must.mune, moon.munt, I, 304,E2: come to, make out.mure, V,202b: moor, heath (?).muss, III, 4,3,4,8: moss, bog. Seemoss.myght, welcome myght thou be, III, 65,177: Old Eng.2d pers. pres. ind.== mayst.myght neuer no tyme to sleepe, III, 77,441: probably corrupt, and to be read, no tymë slepe; but the construction is not unknown.myȝth,n., V,283,13: might, power.myld,mylde. Seemild.myle, two myle way, III, 64,168: the time it takes to go two miles.myllan, III, 309,31: Milan steel. Seemillaine.mylner,milner,III, 81,4; 97,8:miller.myn, III, 358,72: say. Seeminge.myneyeple, III, 308,30: corruption of manople, a gauntlet protecting the hand and the whole forearm (?). Skeat.myre.Seemire.myrke,mirk,mark, I, 327,30: dark.myrri,myrry. Seemery.myrthëscan, III, 66,210: knows pleasant stories.mysaunter, III, 13,10:mischance.myster, III, 68,244: need, occasion. Seemister.mystery,mysterie, III, 495,B b, after7; IV, 517,15: craft.Nn, carried on from preceding word to following. noo nother, no noder, III, 81,58; 100,80: none other. a nother, nether, III, 80,200; V,247,9: an other. a naughtless, noughtless, IV, 286,12; 287,5: an aughtless, good for nought. a noke, V,81,45: an oke. they nere, they nee, III, 112,50; 204,b31: theyn ere, thyn ee. my nane, I, 469,29(but nane should probably be name). So, his nawn, her nain (nen), yer nane, as if from hisn, hern, yern, I, 469,28; III, 269,1; IV, 132,13; V,224,24. In, an oute-horne, III, 30,87, n seems to have been carried back, from noute (see V,297a). n in nant, III, 35,24,31, is an arbitrary prosthesis.na,nae, no, not: I, 68 f.,12,22,31,44,51; 107,3,8; 310,9,11,13; V,260,16. Frequently united with the preceding verb. hadna, I, 343,5,18. winna, 354,27. canno, 368 f.,35,37,39. coudna, 369,51. wadna, 394,9,11. shanae, 394,B1. woudna, 396,23,26. shoudna, 396,27. didna, 397,12. kensnae, 466,13. wasnae, 467,34, etc., etc.naesaid, IV, 371,7:refused.nags,naggs,nogs, III, 480,11; 481,8; 484 a,11: notches, nicks.nain, own. Seen.nane,nen, yer nane, my nane, etc.: own. (n, originally, carried on from mine.) Seen.nane,neen, none. I, 16,6; 309,12; II, 108,13; 129,16; 425,3: adverbially, not, not at all. Seenone.nant, III, 35,24,31: aunt.naow, V,304,5,12,14: now.napkin (-ken, -kain), I, 395,9,14: neckerchief. II, 108,3; 158 f.,5,8; 160,4,7; 163,4,6: pocket handkerchief. pocket-napkin, IV, 468,2.nappy, V,84,13(of ale): strong.naps, naps of gold were bobbing bonnie, IV, 295,8,9: knobs, balls, mentioned as ornaments to gloves, II, 133,D6, golden-knobbed gloves; 134,8,13, siller-knapped gloves.napskape,knapscap, IV, 7,35; V,251,31: head-piece.nar= nor, with comparative, forthan: III, 112 f.,57,69; V,78f.,12,18. Seenor.nas, I, 244,15: ne was, was not.naught, V,102,A13: naughtiness.naughtless, a naughtless lord, IV, 287,5; a noughtless heir, 286,12: an aughtless, oughtless, good-for-naught, impotent.naughty, V,267,13: good-for-naught.naur, II, 62 a,15: near, or nearer.naw= na = no.naw, IV, 442,2: nay. V,296, a: not.nawn, own. Seen.naye, withowghten naye, III, 296,18: undeniably, truly.ne, III, 349,46; V,272b,5,6;273,16: no. III, 62, 128: not.ne, stand ye nè aw, III, 350,53: misprint (in original);g, stand in no awe.nean, V,219,27;220,1;257,11: none.near,neare,ner,nere, I, 101,19; II, 183,30; 191,37; III, 62,119; 111,46; V,224,28: nearer.near, IV, 446,144; 447,144: corrupt, as the repetition from the second verse shows;while(till)my days are near(to an end) would be extremely forced, in any case.near,neer, never.near-hand,adj., IV, 197,4,5: near, short.adv., III, 161,36; IV, 222,8(near-han): near, almost.neast,neist,nist,nest, V,117,A7;216f.,1,5,7,10,18;242a,10,12: next.neathing, nothing.neave, III, 123,16,20: fist.neb, I, 425,A16: beak.nee, III, 422,67: nigh.needle-tack, II, 217,5: fastening or stitch with a needle.neen, none. Seenane.neen nae, II, 318 b,4: need na, need not.neerice, nurse. Seenourice.neeze, V,222b,26: sneeze, snort.neigh,v., II, 54,54,55: nigh, approach.neis, I, 302,B8; IV, 247,B12: nose.neist,niest, I, 223,9; 314,5; 419 f.,1,3, etc.: next.nelle, V,284,22: ne will, will not.nen, her nen, V,224,24: own. Seenane.ner,nere, III, 62,119; 111,46: nearer. Seenear.nere, III, 113, 75: were [it] not.nere, they nere, III, 112,50: theyn ere, thine ear.neshe, III, 445,31: of delicate quality.nest, next. Seeneast.nettle-dyke, II, 463,22: wall with nettles growing on it, or near it. Cf. II, 467,40; 469,42.neuk, coat-neuk, II, 107,4,5: nook, corner.new-fangle, I, 272,9: fond of novelties, capricious, inconstant.next, I, 412,27; II, 45,30,34: nighest.nextand, II, 94,6. See-an.neys, V,80,39: nice (ironically).nicher,nicker,n.andv., III, 370,10; IV, 18,15; 19,13; 20,10; 21,11: neigh.nicht, the, to-night.nicked him of naye, II, 52,12; nickd them wi nae (nay), V,182f.,12,30(clearly borrowed from the above in Percy’s Reliques): refused with nay.nicker.Seenicher.nick-nack, playd nick-nack on the wa, V,123,16; 124,B14: to express the sound of successive collisions.niddart, niddart ither wi lang braid-swords, II, 422,49: thrust at. Jamieson, pressed hard upon. Correspondents from the North of Scotland say, notched, slashed.nie, III, 473,27: neigh.nie,neigh, nigh.niest, I, 15,B3; 147,5: next, nearest. come niest, IV, 485,30: nigh to. Seeneist.niffer,n.andv., I, 203,C10,15; IV, 406,24: exchange.night-coif, III, 514,3; 515,1; V,225,4: night-cap.night-wake, IV, 453,3,4: night-watch, as of a dead body, perhaps a corruption oflyke-wake.nimble,nimle, wrongly for thimble, thimber, I, 332,E2,F2,G2.nine, the, III, 392,8: the nine justices of the supreme criminal court of Scotland. Kinloch, A. S. B., p. 259.ning, V,165f.,4,12: nine. nine,111,26, is changed from ninge. In the older stages of the language, remarks Dr. Murray (Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland, p. 125), ng was often written for Latin gn, and vestiges of this substitution of the nasal for the liquid n are still found in the spoken dialect.nip, III, 160,18,19: bit.nires,norice, nurse. Seenourice.nist,nest,neast, V,216,10;242a,10,12: next.nit, III, 465,20: knit, fasten.nit, I, 450,2-4: nut.nit-broun, IV, 469,7; 470,23,29, etc.: nut-brown.no, I, 86,13; 100,10; 108,6,8; 135,P8,10; II, 218,12; 222,19; III, 465,32: not.noble,nobellys, III, 113,81; 126,39; 201,29: a gold coin of the value of one third of a pound. (Fifteen score nobles is of course exactly an hundred pound.) == 20 groats, V,76f.,18,19, etc.nocked, III, 82,132; 86,132: notched.noder,nother, III, 81,58; 100,80, no noder, noo nother=none other. Seen.nog.Seenags.noghte, not.nolt,nout, V,249,4: neat, neat-cattle.nom, III, 51 b,13-15: take.none,adv., II, 361,24; V,295,1: not at all. Seenane.none of, none of my brother, II, 11,3,5,7: not at all my brother.noo, V,307,11: now.noorice.See nourice.nor,nar, after a comparative, I, 5,C9-18; II, 134 f.,15,29; 268,21; 374,13; 409,19; IV, 166,12; V,184,49: than. nor be, II, 97,22: than to be (if liker means more likely). too gude nor ever woud make a lie, II, 372,26: better than, too good, to make. I doubt not nor she be, II, 390,23,=je ne doute pas qu’elle ne soit.not, IV, 331 b,8: misprint forout.note,notte, V,283,9,19: nut.note, III, 512,E6: corrupt (nutinF7). Some impossibility is required.noth,nothe, I, 334,7,8: not.nother.Seenoder.noughtless,naughtless, IV, 286,12; 287,5: a noughtless==an oughtless, good-for-nothing, impotent.noumbles,nowmbles, noumbles of the dere, of a do, III, 58,32; 64,172: frequently defined entrails; Palsgrave, praecordia, the numbles, as the heart, the splene, the lunges, and lyver. At least a part of the noumbles are the two muscles of the interior of the thighs of a deer: venatores nombles vocant frustumcarnis cervinae sectum inter femora (Ducange). See the elaborate directions for breaking or undoing deer in Juliana Barnes’s Boke of Huntynge, and in Madden, Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyȝt, vv. 1344-48 especially.nourice,nourrice,noorice,nourry,nurice,nurische,nury, II, 322,6,13-17; 333,5-7; III, 433,C7; IV, 31,7; 32,3; 480,5,10, etc.: nurse.nout,nolt, III, 460,25,36; IV, 246,13; V,116,1: neat cattle.noute-horne, a, III, 26,87: horn of neat, ox, cow (wrongly substituted for, an oute-horne; see V,297).nouthe, I, 334,5: not.nouther, IV, 219,8: neither.now, V,78f.,5,24,25: new.noy, I, 217,7,12: grief.nul,nule, I, 244,11,13: will not.nume,pret., III, 355,4: took.nurice.Seenourice.nurische, IV, 28 a, 29 a: nurse. Seenourice.nury.Seenourice.nyghtgales, I, 327,33: nightingales.nyll, II, 478,4: will not.OO, brighter O shall, IV, 170,G10: heard forrose. Forrose(which the last letter ofbrighter, theo, and the first letter ofshallmake) cf. 167,17; 169,14; 175,M11.o= of. diel o there, III, 488,26: devil (i. e. not a bit) of anything in that way (?) (devil be there, 489,43).o= on: I, 232,A2; II, 375,15,16; III, 488 f.,23,39,45; IV, 84,19.ochanie,och how, IV, 103,14; III, 392, 11: interjections of sorrow.ocht, IV, 230,1: aught.ochree.Seeohon.of= on: I, 284,14,16; II, 59,23; 452,5; III, 105,19; 309,46(on,45, vppone,42); 355,8; 359,89; 464,2; IV, 503,20. beate of mee, II, 54,53(?). In, put of the pot, put of the pan, II, 118,8,ofis perhaps simply an error of the scribe; we have, put on, 119,5,6. In, seruyd (q. v.) himof bred, I, 241,1,foris required, andof, which would signifywith, cannot stand.officier, V,155, D2: officer.oȝaines, I, 192 a: against, towards.oger, I, 202,1: auger.ohon ochree, III, 390,13: exclamation of sorrow.okerer, III, 58,46: usurer.old,auld, old (auld) son, of babe just born, II, 95,11,12; 105,7; 107,4,5,6,17: called young son, II, 104,12,15; 106,8,10,18, and, at II, 95, immediately after,13,14. Seeauld son. old daughter, II, 382,1; 387,1; 388,15: oldest. old sister, I, 175,D8: one older than a second sister.old,auld, in your fifteen year old, I, 115,13; in fifteen years old, I, 116,13: of age. Seeaull,auld.on= of: III, 93,38; 132,3; 231,84; 296,20; 308,13.on= one: V,78f.,7,26,28;80,52. on for on, III, 308,21.on, wedded on, I, 146,24; married on, I, 497,22: on the strength of (to have as a dowry).on ane, I, 334,6: anon.on fere, III, 98,38: in company.on o= on (on upon?): III, 349,38(calld on o); 488,25,27; IV, 470,18; 517,9. (cald of, IV, 503,20.)onbred, I, 415 b: incompletely grown.one, I, 104,6; II, 45,28: a. of one, I, 104,62should have been retained (=on a).
marchandise, III, 92,22: dealing.
march-man, III, 296,8: one who lives on the march, or border.
March-parti,Marche-partes, III, 310,58,67: Border-part, -parts, Border, Borders.
marie, III, 491,14: mare.
marie.Seemary.
mark, II, 62 b,11; 132,29; IV,202,K2: murky. the mark, II, 164,3. Seemirk.
marke,merk, I, 394 ff.,B1;C2; III, 68,243,246; 69,270: two thirds of a pound.
marke hym, III, 297,44: commit himself by signing the cross.
marries, IV, 487,25: maids. Seemary.
marrow, I, 147,5; 148,G4; 149,I4; IV, 165,13; 168,2; V,41,16: (of man or woman) mate, husband, wife. IV, 165,8,9;B2; 166,2,3; 167,D6; 169,5,6; 170,G3;H3: match, equal in rank, equal antagonist. bear ye marrow, 169,4: should perhaps be, be your marrow, as in 170,G3.
mary,marie,marrie,marry, II, 369,13,15,19,20; 370,13,14,17; 371,14,15,20,21, etc.; 390,25; 391,19; IV, 487,25; 489,26: a queen’s lady, maid-of-honor (cf. III, 381 b; 385,18; 386,19; etc.), maid (like abigail).
mary mild, IV, 213,13: marigold; cf. V,259,5.
Mas(James Melvine), III, 471 a: Magister, Mr. Mess James Murray, V,196,51: seeMess.
masar,maser, III, 65,175; 83, 86,175: a drinking-vessel, of wood, especially of knotty-grained maple, often mounted with bands or rings of precious metals. See Way’s note, Prompt. Parv., p. 328.
mass, in the frequent formula, when bells were rung and mass was sung and a’ men bound to bed, II, 70,21, etc.: a domestic religious service at the end of the day. evening-mass, II, 168,A4.
mast,maste, III, 296 f.,22,31; V,79,22: mayst.
master-man, II, 16,2: captain of a ship. V,191,19: chief.
masteryes, make, III, 92,27: do feats of skill.
mat,matt, mat he (ye) dee! wae mat fa, mat(t) worth!==mot, in the sense of may: II, 27,7,10; 472,25,33; IV, 391,6; 392,9,21; 428,6; V,166,10;306,10. Seemet.
maught,maugt, might.
maugre, maugre in theyr teethe, III, 67,225: in spite of.
maun, I, 16,B8,9, etc.;C7-10, etc.; 17,D5-7, etc.; 146,5,6; 183,25,26: must. 71,39inpret.sense. Seeman,mun.
maunna, I, 185,25: must not. Seemanie.
mavosie, I, 465,8: mavis, song-thrush.
maw,sea-maw, II, 360,3; 363,7; 365,5; IV, 482,6: sea-mew, gull.
maw,v., I, 427,13,15: mow.
mawys, I, 326,2: mavis, song-thrush.
may,mey, I, 115,B1,3, etc.; 173 f.,6,10; III, 93,39; 286,45; IV, 432,9; 515,2: maid.
may,optative, frequently put after the subject, as, Christ thy speed may bee! thou mayst sune be! I may be dead ere morn! III, 355 f.,5,23; 359,87; 370,8,11; IV, 365,18.
may be==is, likecan be: II, 448,33; 451,100. might be==was, III, 452,10. (So, possibly, might see, I, 434,30.)
may gold, III, 497,13: marigold.
mayne, strength.
maystry, mastery.
me, I, 243 f.,5,15: men, Frenchon.
me,ethical dative, sawe I me, etc., III, 65,184; 68,249; 75,381; 79,147; 80,169.
meal, III, 163,77: meal-bag.
meal, II, 230,14,15; 362,36: mold, dust, earth. Seemeel.
mean, man of, I, 358,30; II, 233,F3; 400,4,5; 404,6,7; V,36,B8,9: mere verbiage, I judge;meanlooks like an attempt to escape frommain, which see. (man of mean, II, 233,F3, not being joined with man of might, might be understood as, man of main, or violent man.)
mean,meane,meen,v., I, 426,5; V,246,4,6: moan, lament. I, 388,A7,10: bemoan, lament the state of. not to mean, V,160,2: not to be pitied. mean, V,160,1, is doubtful, but the verb corresponding to moan is to be preferred. Seemane,menyd.
mean,n., moan. Seemeen.
meany, III, 307,3,10: troop. Seemenë.
meaten,meeten, II, 434,17; III, 33,158: measured.
meathe, IV, 378,9; 380,17: landmark.
meatrif, III, 163,87: abounding in food.
meckle,meikle,muckle, IV, 513,6,7: much.
medder, V,221,11: mother.
medill-erthe, I, 327,27. Seemiddle-earth.
meed, I, 68,10,14; II, 172,33: mood, heart, state of feeling.
meed, warld’s meed, I, 108,14; IV, 446 f.,14: seems to be corrupted from mate (make). Woreldes make is a familiar phrase in Old English, and not unfrequent in ballads.
meel, meel or mor, III, 281,8,10: mold, earth, ground; but perhaps an error for mede, mead. Seemeal.
meen,v., moan, lament. Seemean,v.
meen,mean, I, 427,5; II, 124,39; 417,11; III, 389,12,13: lamentation. Seemane.
meen, I, 222,8; 315,8; IV, 416,10: moon.
meet, I, 148,F10: (causative) pass, put, thrust in.
meet,meete, II, 46,45: even, equal. II, 229,13: scant, close, and so, perhaps, II, 436,61.
meeten,meaten, II, 434,17: measured, by measure. Seemet.
meiht, I, 243,3: mayst.
meikle,meickle,mickle,muckle, I, 72,24,25; 86,2,3; 309 f.,2,4; 330,A3,B3; IV, 514,5: much, great.
meisseine, V,132,7: spanker, or perhaps, Fr. misaine, foresail.
mell, I, 299,6; 304,10;F6; 305,12; V,108,B6: mall, wooden hammer, beetle.
mell, IV, 177 b,I7: mail.
mell, III, 172,24: meddle.
meller’s hoops, I, 304,F5: mill-casings, the circular wooden frames which surround mill-stones.
melten(goud), IV, 471,37: molten.
menë,menye,meany,menyie,meynë,maney,monie, III, 72,335: followers, band.
menement, V,242,9,11,13: amendment.
menji, menji feathers in her hat, V,163,13: many.
mennie,manie, V,270,8: maunna, must not.
mensked, I, 334,11: honored, dignified.
menyde(of hir songe), I, 326,2: moaned, uttered, delivered. Seemean.
menye,menyie, household, retinue, people: III, 91 a; IV, 127,4,5. Seemenë.
mere, IV, 493,21: more.
meri.Seemery.
merk,marke, I, 394 f.,B1,C2: two thirds of a pound.
merk.Seemerkes.
merk,v., mark, merked them one, III, 297,47: took their aim at.
merkes, III, 75,397: distances between the bounds.
merke-soote, I, 334,4: mark-shot, distance between the marks (cf. III, 75,397), from bow to target, bow-shot.
merlion,merlyon, II, 45,21,33: merlin, the smallest of British falcons.
merrilye, III, 329,11: in good or valiant fashion. So, nearly, IV, 477,8.
merry(men). Seemery.
merry Cock land, III, 250,1: corruption of themerry Scotlandof 249,I,J,1; 251,M,1; 252,O,1.
merrys, I, 327,22: mars, marrest.
mery,meri,merry,merrie,myrri,myrry(men), II, 386,12; III, 66,205; 71,316; 73,340; 97,9; 114,121,131; 116,2; 285 f.,30,48; 309,37; 330,17; 430,5; 431,4; 432,2; 433,2; IV, 234,39; V,191,4,14: a standing phrase for followers, companions in arms.
mese, I, 328,45: course (at table).
mese, III, 484 a,16: mitigate.
Mess, an epithet said to be contemptuous for a priest or parish minister (as one who says, or said, mass), so Mess John, IV, 442,10,12; but there is no reason to suppose disrespect in V,196,51. SeeMas.
mestoret, V,80,42: needed.
met, I, 324,3; IV, 455,4; V,195,9: mat, may. Seemat.
met,pret.of mete, III, 60,73: measured.p. p.met, mete, III, 60,72; 203,17; IV, 465,23; 467,13.
methe, meat.
mett, meet.
met-yard, III, 105,27: measuring-rod.
mey, V,161,9: maid. Seemay.
meynë, III, 27,96; 58,31; 61,95,97; 76,419: retinue, suite, household, company, body of people. Seemenë.
meythe, III, 112,59: might.
micht,v., V,299,4: might.
micht’ll, might well.
mickle, great, much. Seemeikle.
midder,mideer, mother.
middle-earth,medill-erthe, I, 327,27; II, 59,25: (A.S. middangeard, middaneard), earth (conceived as being the middle of the universe; see miðgarðr in Vigfusson).
middle stream, III, 125,19: middle of the stream.
middle waist, IV, 523,6: middle of his waist.
mid-larf, crowing a, II, 230,5,8: corrupt (changed by Scott to merry midnight). Taking into account the young cock crew i the merry Linkem, II, 239,B4, midlarf may stand for some locality (suggestion of Professor Kittredge).
might be==was, III, 452,10. Seemay,can.
mild, maidens mild, II, 312,1; 314,C1,D1; 316,1: meek, gentle, demure. So Mild Mary, II, 315,E7; Mary(-ie) Mild, III, 395,M1,3; 396,N1; 398 a,c4; Mary Mile, III, 386,5,6,8. Corrupted to Moil, IV, 507 b,S2; Miles, IV, 511 a,5. myld(e) Mary, of the Virgin, III, 97,7,17; 98,35: lenient, compassionate. myld myȝth, V,283,13.
milk-dey, IV, 262,26; 524,6: dairy-woman.
mill,mille, IV, 503,13; 505,45; V,221,15,16;224,25: mile.
millaine, I, 286,42,45: of Milan steel. Seemyllan.
mill-capon, II, 477 b,D27: a poor person who asks charity at mills from those who have grain grinding,the alms usually given being a gowpen, or handful, of meal.
millering, II, 467,42: waste meal, sweepings of a mill (dust [which] lyes in the mill, II, 470,43).
mill-town,mill-toun, II, 471,18; V,238,29: miller’s steading or place.
miln, I, 18,11: mill.
milner,mylner, III, 85,4; 360,111: miller.
min.Seemind.
mind, II, 216,12,15; 218,13,16: recollection. her mind she keeped, II, 72,13: did not forget what she had promised. for changing o her min, 81,32: seems to mean, lest she should change her mind; but the sense is not striking.
mind.mind o, on, I, 481,26; IV, 194,16,9; 195,15; 196,17; 197,17, etc.: remember.pret.mind, I, 183,30. mind of, on, mind to, I, 470,16; IV, 403 f.,14,28; 437,24: remind of. he mind’t him on, V,18,5: remembered.
minde, ffor the maydens loue that I haue most minde, II, 58,5: elliptical or corrupt. Comparing 59,24(where the MS. reads, wrongly, most meed) we see thatforis not to be taken withminde. We must understandmost in mindormost mind toorof, or, possibly,mindemay be (from minnen, remember)had in mind.
minge(A. S. myndgian), III, 355,6; 362,72: utter. minged, II, 59,21: didst name the name of, mention (or, perhaps, only bore in mind). myn, III, 358,72.
minikin, V,201b: little, pretty little.
minion, I, 284,12: dainty.
minnie,minny, II, 473,16,17; IV, 69,16; 294,C9,10; V,115,9: mother. IV, 6,15; V,250,14: dam.
mint to, II, 469,31; IV, 493,20; V,28,67;238,21: put out the hand towards, move towards. minted as, V,9,7: took a direction as if, made as if.
mire,myre, I, 428,13,14; 429,7,8; III, 475 b: swamp, bog. mire an moss, bog, an miery hole, IV, 22,12; cf. 184,5.
mirk,myrke,mark, I, 326,16; IV, 517,14: dark.
Mirry-land toune, III, 244,B1: probably a corruption of themerry LincolnofA16,17; 246,D1; 251,L1.
miscarry me, IV, 267,11: get me into trouble; fail, disappoint me (?).
misgae, misgave.
misgiding, V,117,15: ill treatment.
misguide,misgiding, V,117,15;119,15: ill treatment.
miss,n., IV, 317,E5; 325,C5,D3: mistress, whore.
miss,n., II, 465,4: wrong or injury.
miss(e),v., I, 210,12: omit, fail. miss your Wanton slack, IV, 22,10,12: fail to keep him tightly reined (?).
mis-sworn, I, 395,C5: mansworn, perjured.
mister,myster, III, 450 a; IV, 268,26; 464,15: need, requirement, an exigency. misters, III, 164,90: sorts of.
mistkane, I, 105 a,18, if not miswritten, seems to be simply a phonetic variation of mistane.
mith,mithe,n., I, 334,6,7,11: might.
mith,mithe,v., II, 139,10; IV, 493,19: might. mith slain, II, 165,23: might [have] slain.
mode, I, 328,47: spirit.
modther, IV, 260,3,7: mother.
mody,mudie, I, 334,10: proud, high-spirited.
mold,molde, mane of molde, I, 327,20: earth. ouer the mold, into the Scottish mold, I, 433,21,23: land, country. I, 434,37; II, 246,7: ground.
Moll Syms, I, 126,13; IV, 448,7: a well-known dance tune of the sixteenth century.
mome, III, 352,7: dolt.
monand,n., II, 87,36: moaning.
mone, I, 326,1: moan, lamentation, complaint. Seemeen.
monie, IV, 437,2: menie, company, suite. Seemenë.
montenans.Seemountnaunce.
monty, IV, 42 a, note §: staircase. (Fr. montée.)
mood, giue me, III, 105,23: thoughgive me my Godlooks like a bold change, it is not improbable. We have, yeve me my savyour, in the Romaunt of the Rose, 6436, le cors nostre Seigneur, 12105, Michel. And again: For it was about Easter, at what times maidens gadded abrode, after they had taken their Maker, as they call it. Wilson, Arte of Logike, fol. 84 b. “In 1452 John Bulstone (of Norwich) bequeathed to the church of Hempstede ‘j pyxte, to putte owre lord god in.’” Academy, XL, 174. (These last two citations furnished by Prof. J. M. Manly.) Again, the Breton ballad, Ervoan Camus, Revue Celtique, II, 496, st.6, has ‘she has received my God.’ (Dr F. N. Robinson.) See V,297a.
moody-hill,moudie-hill,mould-hill, IV, 148 f.,48; 150,g,h48: mole-hill.
mool,mools. Seemoul.
morn, morrow. the morn, III, 480,18; 482,14; 488,19; 489,11; IV, 517,18: to-morrow. the morn’s morning, IV, 373,8.
mornin’s gift,morning gift, II, 132,32; 135,28: gift made the morning after marriage.
mort, III, 307,8; IV, 26,8: note on the horn to announce the death of deer.
mose-water.Seemoss-water.
moss,muss,mose, I, 78,32; 99,6; III, 4,3,48; 440,10; IV, 443 f.,6,19; 445,8: bog.
moss-water,mose-water, II, 193,21; 195,33; V,224,19: water of a peat-bog.
most, I, 328,50: greatest.
mostly,maistly, IV, 242 b: almost.
mot, I, 473,5: must.
mot,mote, I, 333,2; III, 7,9; 68,243; 75,394; 113,81; IV, 137,29; V,82,25,27;83,44,50,53;283,3: may.
mote, III, 68,253: meeting.
moten, molten.
mothe,mouthe, I, 334,4,6: for meahte (mohte), might.
mother-in-law, II, 71,11; 72 f.,14,15: stepmother.
mother-naked, I, 344,33: naked as in, or coming from, the womb.
mothly, III, 148,27: motley.
motion, III, 216,38:proposal.
mou,moue,mow, I, 302,B8; III, 149,34; IV, 277,10; V,115,9;268,18;269,13:mouth.
moudie-hill.Seemoody-hill.
moue, I, 16,C15: put up in ricks.
mought, V,76,28;83,b25, etc.: mote, may. III, 30,98: might, were able.
moul,mouls,mool,mools, IV, 329,A b, after16; 330,D d20: mould, dust, ashes (of the dead). I, 184,10; II, 233,6; 429,6; IV, 492,6; V,210,10: earth of a grave. See meal, II, 230,14,15.
mould-hill.Seemoody-hill.
mould-warpe, III, 420,20: mole.
mountnaunce,montenans, I, 327,31; III, 64,168:amount.
mouthe.Seemothe.
mow, III, 149,34: seems to be meant for mouth (lip). But perhaps we may understand grimace (for a tyrant to make faces at). Seemou.
mow,mows,IV, 224,22; 225,20: jest.
moyen, IV, 42 a, note:means.
mucell.Seemuckle.
muck, IV, 323,6: dung.
muck the byre, IV, 293,9; 294,C9,10; 295,D9; 297,9: carry out dung from the cow-house.
muckle,mukle,mucell,meikle, IV, 398,6; 494,33: big. IV, 399,40; V,271,13: much.
mudie, III, 434,27,28: bold. Seemody.
muir, moor.
mullertd, IV, 86,12: miller.
mun,maun,man, II, 59,20; 314,28; IV, 343,6: must.
mune, moon.
munt, I, 304,E2: come to, make out.
mure, V,202b: moor, heath (?).
muss, III, 4,3,4,8: moss, bog. Seemoss.
myght, welcome myght thou be, III, 65,177: Old Eng.2d pers. pres. ind.== mayst.
myght neuer no tyme to sleepe, III, 77,441: probably corrupt, and to be read, no tymë slepe; but the construction is not unknown.
myȝth,n., V,283,13: might, power.
myld,mylde. Seemild.
myle, two myle way, III, 64,168: the time it takes to go two miles.
myllan, III, 309,31: Milan steel. Seemillaine.
mylner,milner,III, 81,4; 97,8:miller.
myn, III, 358,72: say. Seeminge.
myneyeple, III, 308,30: corruption of manople, a gauntlet protecting the hand and the whole forearm (?). Skeat.
myre.Seemire.
myrke,mirk,mark, I, 327,30: dark.
myrri,myrry. Seemery.
myrthëscan, III, 66,210: knows pleasant stories.
mysaunter, III, 13,10:mischance.
myster, III, 68,244: need, occasion. Seemister.
mystery,mysterie, III, 495,B b, after7; IV, 517,15: craft.
n, carried on from preceding word to following. noo nother, no noder, III, 81,58; 100,80: none other. a nother, nether, III, 80,200; V,247,9: an other. a naughtless, noughtless, IV, 286,12; 287,5: an aughtless, good for nought. a noke, V,81,45: an oke. they nere, they nee, III, 112,50; 204,b31: theyn ere, thyn ee. my nane, I, 469,29(but nane should probably be name). So, his nawn, her nain (nen), yer nane, as if from hisn, hern, yern, I, 469,28; III, 269,1; IV, 132,13; V,224,24. In, an oute-horne, III, 30,87, n seems to have been carried back, from noute (see V,297a). n in nant, III, 35,24,31, is an arbitrary prosthesis.
na,nae, no, not: I, 68 f.,12,22,31,44,51; 107,3,8; 310,9,11,13; V,260,16. Frequently united with the preceding verb. hadna, I, 343,5,18. winna, 354,27. canno, 368 f.,35,37,39. coudna, 369,51. wadna, 394,9,11. shanae, 394,B1. woudna, 396,23,26. shoudna, 396,27. didna, 397,12. kensnae, 466,13. wasnae, 467,34, etc., etc.
naesaid, IV, 371,7:refused.
nags,naggs,nogs, III, 480,11; 481,8; 484 a,11: notches, nicks.
nain, own. Seen.
nane,nen, yer nane, my nane, etc.: own. (n, originally, carried on from mine.) Seen.
nane,neen, none. I, 16,6; 309,12; II, 108,13; 129,16; 425,3: adverbially, not, not at all. Seenone.
nant, III, 35,24,31: aunt.
naow, V,304,5,12,14: now.
napkin (-ken, -kain), I, 395,9,14: neckerchief. II, 108,3; 158 f.,5,8; 160,4,7; 163,4,6: pocket handkerchief. pocket-napkin, IV, 468,2.
nappy, V,84,13(of ale): strong.
naps, naps of gold were bobbing bonnie, IV, 295,8,9: knobs, balls, mentioned as ornaments to gloves, II, 133,D6, golden-knobbed gloves; 134,8,13, siller-knapped gloves.
napskape,knapscap, IV, 7,35; V,251,31: head-piece.
nar= nor, with comparative, forthan: III, 112 f.,57,69; V,78f.,12,18. Seenor.
nas, I, 244,15: ne was, was not.
naught, V,102,A13: naughtiness.
naughtless, a naughtless lord, IV, 287,5; a noughtless heir, 286,12: an aughtless, oughtless, good-for-naught, impotent.
naughty, V,267,13: good-for-naught.
naur, II, 62 a,15: near, or nearer.
naw= na = no.
naw, IV, 442,2: nay. V,296, a: not.
nawn, own. Seen.
naye, withowghten naye, III, 296,18: undeniably, truly.
ne, III, 349,46; V,272b,5,6;273,16: no. III, 62, 128: not.
ne, stand ye nè aw, III, 350,53: misprint (in original);g, stand in no awe.
nean, V,219,27;220,1;257,11: none.
near,neare,ner,nere, I, 101,19; II, 183,30; 191,37; III, 62,119; 111,46; V,224,28: nearer.
near, IV, 446,144; 447,144: corrupt, as the repetition from the second verse shows;while(till)my days are near(to an end) would be extremely forced, in any case.
near,neer, never.
near-hand,adj., IV, 197,4,5: near, short.adv., III, 161,36; IV, 222,8(near-han): near, almost.
neast,neist,nist,nest, V,117,A7;216f.,1,5,7,10,18;242a,10,12: next.
neathing, nothing.
neave, III, 123,16,20: fist.
neb, I, 425,A16: beak.
nee, III, 422,67: nigh.
needle-tack, II, 217,5: fastening or stitch with a needle.
neen, none. Seenane.
neen nae, II, 318 b,4: need na, need not.
neerice, nurse. Seenourice.
neeze, V,222b,26: sneeze, snort.
neigh,v., II, 54,54,55: nigh, approach.
neis, I, 302,B8; IV, 247,B12: nose.
neist,niest, I, 223,9; 314,5; 419 f.,1,3, etc.: next.
nelle, V,284,22: ne will, will not.
nen, her nen, V,224,24: own. Seenane.
ner,nere, III, 62,119; 111,46: nearer. Seenear.
nere, III, 113, 75: were [it] not.
nere, they nere, III, 112,50: theyn ere, thine ear.
neshe, III, 445,31: of delicate quality.
nest, next. Seeneast.
nettle-dyke, II, 463,22: wall with nettles growing on it, or near it. Cf. II, 467,40; 469,42.
neuk, coat-neuk, II, 107,4,5: nook, corner.
new-fangle, I, 272,9: fond of novelties, capricious, inconstant.
next, I, 412,27; II, 45,30,34: nighest.
nextand, II, 94,6. See-an.
neys, V,80,39: nice (ironically).
nicher,nicker,n.andv., III, 370,10; IV, 18,15; 19,13; 20,10; 21,11: neigh.
nicht, the, to-night.
nicked him of naye, II, 52,12; nickd them wi nae (nay), V,182f.,12,30(clearly borrowed from the above in Percy’s Reliques): refused with nay.
nicker.Seenicher.
nick-nack, playd nick-nack on the wa, V,123,16; 124,B14: to express the sound of successive collisions.
niddart, niddart ither wi lang braid-swords, II, 422,49: thrust at. Jamieson, pressed hard upon. Correspondents from the North of Scotland say, notched, slashed.
nie, III, 473,27: neigh.
nie,neigh, nigh.
niest, I, 15,B3; 147,5: next, nearest. come niest, IV, 485,30: nigh to. Seeneist.
niffer,n.andv., I, 203,C10,15; IV, 406,24: exchange.
night-coif, III, 514,3; 515,1; V,225,4: night-cap.
night-wake, IV, 453,3,4: night-watch, as of a dead body, perhaps a corruption oflyke-wake.
nimble,nimle, wrongly for thimble, thimber, I, 332,E2,F2,G2.
nine, the, III, 392,8: the nine justices of the supreme criminal court of Scotland. Kinloch, A. S. B., p. 259.
ning, V,165f.,4,12: nine. nine,111,26, is changed from ninge. In the older stages of the language, remarks Dr. Murray (Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland, p. 125), ng was often written for Latin gn, and vestiges of this substitution of the nasal for the liquid n are still found in the spoken dialect.
nip, III, 160,18,19: bit.
nires,norice, nurse. Seenourice.
nist,nest,neast, V,216,10;242a,10,12: next.
nit, III, 465,20: knit, fasten.
nit, I, 450,2-4: nut.
nit-broun, IV, 469,7; 470,23,29, etc.: nut-brown.
no, I, 86,13; 100,10; 108,6,8; 135,P8,10; II, 218,12; 222,19; III, 465,32: not.
noble,nobellys, III, 113,81; 126,39; 201,29: a gold coin of the value of one third of a pound. (Fifteen score nobles is of course exactly an hundred pound.) == 20 groats, V,76f.,18,19, etc.
nocked, III, 82,132; 86,132: notched.
noder,nother, III, 81,58; 100,80, no noder, noo nother=none other. Seen.
nog.Seenags.
noghte, not.
nolt,nout, V,249,4: neat, neat-cattle.
nom, III, 51 b,13-15: take.
none,adv., II, 361,24; V,295,1: not at all. Seenane.
none of, none of my brother, II, 11,3,5,7: not at all my brother.
noo, V,307,11: now.
noorice.See nourice.
nor,nar, after a comparative, I, 5,C9-18; II, 134 f.,15,29; 268,21; 374,13; 409,19; IV, 166,12; V,184,49: than. nor be, II, 97,22: than to be (if liker means more likely). too gude nor ever woud make a lie, II, 372,26: better than, too good, to make. I doubt not nor she be, II, 390,23,=je ne doute pas qu’elle ne soit.
not, IV, 331 b,8: misprint forout.
note,notte, V,283,9,19: nut.
note, III, 512,E6: corrupt (nutinF7). Some impossibility is required.
noth,nothe, I, 334,7,8: not.
nother.Seenoder.
noughtless,naughtless, IV, 286,12; 287,5: a noughtless==an oughtless, good-for-nothing, impotent.
noumbles,nowmbles, noumbles of the dere, of a do, III, 58,32; 64,172: frequently defined entrails; Palsgrave, praecordia, the numbles, as the heart, the splene, the lunges, and lyver. At least a part of the noumbles are the two muscles of the interior of the thighs of a deer: venatores nombles vocant frustumcarnis cervinae sectum inter femora (Ducange). See the elaborate directions for breaking or undoing deer in Juliana Barnes’s Boke of Huntynge, and in Madden, Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyȝt, vv. 1344-48 especially.
nourice,nourrice,noorice,nourry,nurice,nurische,nury, II, 322,6,13-17; 333,5-7; III, 433,C7; IV, 31,7; 32,3; 480,5,10, etc.: nurse.
nout,nolt, III, 460,25,36; IV, 246,13; V,116,1: neat cattle.
noute-horne, a, III, 26,87: horn of neat, ox, cow (wrongly substituted for, an oute-horne; see V,297).
nouthe, I, 334,5: not.
nouther, IV, 219,8: neither.
now, V,78f.,5,24,25: new.
noy, I, 217,7,12: grief.
nul,nule, I, 244,11,13: will not.
nume,pret., III, 355,4: took.
nurice.Seenourice.
nurische, IV, 28 a, 29 a: nurse. Seenourice.
nury.Seenourice.
nyghtgales, I, 327,33: nightingales.
nyll, II, 478,4: will not.
O, brighter O shall, IV, 170,G10: heard forrose. Forrose(which the last letter ofbrighter, theo, and the first letter ofshallmake) cf. 167,17; 169,14; 175,M11.
o= of. diel o there, III, 488,26: devil (i. e. not a bit) of anything in that way (?) (devil be there, 489,43).
o= on: I, 232,A2; II, 375,15,16; III, 488 f.,23,39,45; IV, 84,19.
ochanie,och how, IV, 103,14; III, 392, 11: interjections of sorrow.
ocht, IV, 230,1: aught.
ochree.Seeohon.
of= on: I, 284,14,16; II, 59,23; 452,5; III, 105,19; 309,46(on,45, vppone,42); 355,8; 359,89; 464,2; IV, 503,20. beate of mee, II, 54,53(?). In, put of the pot, put of the pan, II, 118,8,ofis perhaps simply an error of the scribe; we have, put on, 119,5,6. In, seruyd (q. v.) himof bred, I, 241,1,foris required, andof, which would signifywith, cannot stand.
officier, V,155, D2: officer.
oȝaines, I, 192 a: against, towards.
oger, I, 202,1: auger.
ohon ochree, III, 390,13: exclamation of sorrow.
okerer, III, 58,46: usurer.
old,auld, old (auld) son, of babe just born, II, 95,11,12; 105,7; 107,4,5,6,17: called young son, II, 104,12,15; 106,8,10,18, and, at II, 95, immediately after,13,14. Seeauld son. old daughter, II, 382,1; 387,1; 388,15: oldest. old sister, I, 175,D8: one older than a second sister.
old,auld, in your fifteen year old, I, 115,13; in fifteen years old, I, 116,13: of age. Seeaull,auld.
on= of: III, 93,38; 132,3; 231,84; 296,20; 308,13.
on= one: V,78f.,7,26,28;80,52. on for on, III, 308,21.
on, wedded on, I, 146,24; married on, I, 497,22: on the strength of (to have as a dowry).
on ane, I, 334,6: anon.
on fere, III, 98,38: in company.
on o= on (on upon?): III, 349,38(calld on o); 488,25,27; IV, 470,18; 517,9. (cald of, IV, 503,20.)
onbred, I, 415 b: incompletely grown.
one, I, 104,6; II, 45,28: a. of one, I, 104,62should have been retained (=on a).