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Splore, a frolic, a riot, a noise
Sportin, fporting
Sprattle, to fcramble
Speckl'd, fpotted, fpeckled
Spring, a quick air in mufick,
a Scotch reel

Sprit, a tough rooted plant
fomething like rufbes
Sprittie, full of fprits
Springin, fpringing
Spunk, fire, mettle, wit
Squad, a crew, a party
Squatter, to flutter in water
as a wild duck, &c.
Squattle, to fprawl
Squeel, a fcream, a fcreech;
to (cream
Stacher, to ftagger

Stack, a rick of corn, hay, &c.
Staggie, dimin. of stag
Stan', to ftand, fan't, did
ftand

Stane, a ftone

Startle, to run as cattle fung
by the gadfly
Starvin, ftarving
Startin, ftarting

Stank, a pool of standing wa.

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Reaper, in harvest, who takes the lead

Stick an ftow, totally, altogether

Stilt, a crutch; to halt, to
limp
Stimpart, the eighth part of a
Winchester bufbel

Stirk, a cow, or bullock a year old

Stockin, ftocking Stock, a plant of colewort, cabbage, &c.

Stoor, founding hollow, ftrong and boarfe Stot, an ox

Stoup or ftowp, a kind of jug or difb with a handle Stown, ftolen, stownlins, by ftealth

Strapin, tall and handsome
Striddle, to ftraddle
Stroan, to spout, piss, ftroan't,
spouted, piffed
Strewin, ftrewing
Strae, ftraw, to die a fair ftrae
death, to die in bed
Strack, did ftrike.
Streek, ftretched; to stretch,
ftreekit, ftretched

Stoure, duft, more particularly
duff in motion
Straught, ftreight
Stringin, ftringing

Straik, to ftroke, Straiket,
stroked
Strunt, pirituous liquor of any
kind, to walk turdily

Stuff, corn, or pulfe of any kind

Stumpie, dimin. of ftump
Studdie, an anvil
Sturt, trouble; to moleft

Sturtin, frighted
Sucker, fugar
Sud, fhould

Sugh, the continual rubing noife of wind or water

an old

Suthron, Southern,
name for the English nation
Swaird, fward

Swall'd, fwelled

Swap, an exchange; to barter
Swat, did fweat

Swank, ftately, jolly
Swankie or fwanker, a tight,
firapping young fellow or girl
Swatch, a fample
Swervin, fwerving
Sweer, lazy, ayerfe, dead-
fweer, extremely averse
Sweatin, fweating
Swinge, to beat, to whip.
Swingein, beating, whipping
Swirl, a curve, an eddying

blast or pool, a knot in wood Swirlie, knaggy, full of knots Swither, an irrefolute wavering in choice; to hesitate in choice

Swith! get away!
Swoor, fwore, did swear
Syne, fince, ago, then

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Tauted or tautie, matted together, Spoken of hair or rocl

Tawie, that allows itself peaceably to be handled, Spoken of a horfe, cow, &c, Teat, fmall quantity Tearfu', tearful

Tent, a field pulpit, heed, caution; to take heed Tentie, heedful, cautious Tentlefs, heedless Ten hours bite, a flight feed to the horses, while in the yoke in the forenoon

Teugh, tough, teughly, toughly Thack, thatch, thack an' rape, cloathing, neceffaries

Thae, thefe

Thankit, thanked
Thankfu', thankful

Thairms, fmall guts, fiddleftrings

Thegither, together
Themfel, themselves
Thick, intimate, familiar
Thieveless, cold, dry, fpited,
Spoken of a person's demeanour
Thinkin, thinking
Thir, thefe
Thirl, to thrill

Thirl'd, thrilled, vibrated
Thole, to fuffer, to endure.'
Thowe, a thaw; to thaw
Thoulefs, flack, lazy
Thrang, throng, a crowd
Thraw, to fprain, to twift,
to contradict

Thrawn, fprained, twisted, contradicted

Thrawin, twisting, &c. Threap, to maintain by dint of affertion

Threshin, thrashing
Threteen, thirteen
Thrifsle, thriftle

Hap-step-an'-lowp, hop, skip, Hiffel, fo many cattle as one

and leap

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Hear't, hear it

Hech! Oh! Strange!
Hecht, to fortell something

that is to be got or given
Heeze, to elevate, to raise
Hellim, the rudder or helm
Herd, one who tends flocks
Herrin, herring

Herry, to plunder, most pro-
perly to plunder birds nefts
Herryment, plundering, de-
vaftation
Herfel, herfelf
Het, hot

Heugh, a craig, a coalpit
Himfel, himfelf
Hing, to hang

Hilch, to hobble, to halt
Hilchin, halting

Hirpil, to walk crazily, to creep, birplin, creeping

perfon can attend them Hiftie, dry, chapt, barren

Hitch, a loop, a knot Hoddin, the motion of a fage countryman riding on a eartho fe

Hog-fcore, a kind of distance
line, in curling, drawn a-
cross the rink
Hog-fhouther, a kind of horse-
play, by juftling with fhoul-
der; to juftle

Hool, outer fkin or cafe
Hoolie, flowly, leifurely
Hoord, a hoard, to hoard
Hoorder, hoarder

Horn, a spoon made of horn Hornie, one of the many names of the Devil

Heft, or hoaft, to cough; boafting, coughing

Hove, to heave, to swell
Hov'd, heaved, twelled
Houghmagandie, fornication
Howe, hollow, a hollow or
dell

How back't, funk in the back,
Spoken of a herfe, &c.
Howdie, a midwife
Howk, to dig, bowkit, digged,
kowkin, digging
Houfie, dimin. of houfe
Hoy, to urge, Hoyt, urged
Hoyle, a pull upwards
Hoyte, to amble crazily
Hurdies, the loins, the crup-

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Ill-willie, ill-natured, mali

Jumpin, jumping

cious, niggardly

Indentin, indenting

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Ingle, fire, fi e-place

Ingine, genius, ingenuity

I'fe, I thail or will
Ither, other, one another

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J

A D, jade; alfo a familiar term among country folks for a giddy young girl Jauk, to dally, to trifle Jaukin, trifling, dallying Jaup, a jerk of water; to jerk as agitated water Jaw, coarfe raillery; to pour out, to fpurt, to je k, as

water

Jillet, a jilt, a giddy girl Jimp, to jump; lender in the

wait, handiome

Jink, to dodge, to turn a corner, a fudden turning a cor

ner

Jinkin, dodging
Jinker, that turns quickly, a
gay sprightly girl, a wag
Jinglin, jingling
Jirt, a jerk

Jocteleg, a kind of knife
Jokin, joaking

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Kain, fowls, &c. paid as rent by a farmer

Kebbuck, a cheese
Keek, a peep, to peep
Keepit, kept,

Kelpies, a fort of mifchievous fpi.its, faid to haunt folds and ferries at night, elpecially in forms

Ken, to know, kend, ken't, knew

Kennin, a fmall matter
Ket, a matted hairy fleece of
Wool

Kilt, to trufs up the cloaths
Kin, kind, kindred

King's-hood, a certain part of the entrails of an ox, &c. Kimmer, a young girl, a goffip

Kirn, the harvest supper, as

churn to churn

Kitchen, any thing that eats with bread; to ferve for foup, gravy, &c.

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Kittle, to tickle; ticklish,

likely

Kittlin, a young cat
Kiutle, to cuddle
Kiutlin, cuddling

Kiaugh, carking anxiety
Kirfen, to chriften

Kist, cheft, a shop-counter Knaggie, like knags or points of locks

Knappin hammer, a hammer for breaking ftones Knowe, a fmall round hillock Kye, cows

Kythe, to difcover, to fhew one's felf

KYLE; a district of Ayrshire
Kyte, the belly.

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Lapfu', lapful

Lave, the reit, the remainder,

the others

Laverock, the lark

Laughin, laughing
Lawfu', lawful

Leal, loyal, true, faithful
Lea'e, to leave

Lear, pronounce lare, learn-
ing
Lee-lang, live-long

Leeze me, a phrase of con gratulatory endearment Leifter, a three-pronged dart for ftriking, fish Leugh, did laugh

Leuk, a look, to look

Lightiy, fneeringly, to sneer at Lirmer, a kept mitrefs, a ftrumpet

Limpit, limp'd, hobbled
Life, the sky

Lilt, a ballad, a tune; to fing

Link to trip along

Linkin, tripping

Linn, a water-fall

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Lint, fax, lint in the bell, flax

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