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king

Mathum, mellin, mixed

corn Manteele, a mantle

Maw, to mow; mawin, mowing Maukin, a hare Mallie, Molly Mar's year, the Rebellion AD: 1715 Mark marks, this and feverabother nouns, which, in Eglifh, require an 's to for the plural are in Scots like the words theep, deer, the fame in both number's

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Misca'd, abufed Min', mind, remembrance Mind't, mind it, refolved, intending Middin, a dunghill Middin-hole, a gutter at the bottom of the dung

hill Minnie, mother, dai Mifteuk, mistook Morn, the next day, to-mor

row

Moudiwort, a mole
Mony, or monie, many
Moiftify, to moisten
Mournfu', mournful

Moop, to nibble as a fheep
Mottie, full of motes
Mou, the mouth
Moufie, dimin. of mouse

Moorlan,

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Niger, a negroe

Norland, of or belonging to
the North
Notic't, noticed
Nor-weft, North-west

of

"Obfervin, obferving

Ony, or onie, any

Or, is often used for ere, be fore O't, of it

Ourie, fhivering, drooping Ourfel, or ourfels, ourfelves Outler, not houfed Owre, over, too, Owre-hip, a way of fetching a blow with a hammer over the arm

P

ACK, intimate, fami liar; twelves ftones of

wool

Nine-tailed cat, a hang- Painch, paunch

man's whip

Niffer, an exchange; to ex

change, to barter

Nit, a nut

Nowte, black cattle

Parritch, oatmeal pudding,

a well known Scotch dish Pang, to cram Paukie, cunning, fly

Paughty, proud, haughty
Paitrick a partridge

Pat,

Pat, did put; a pot
Pay's, paid, beat
Pattle, or pettle, a plough-
ftaff

Pech to fetch the breath short, as in an afthma Pechán, the crop, the fto

mach

Pettle, to cherish; a ploughstaff

Pet, a domefticated sheep,

&c

Peelin, peeling

Pownie, a little horse
Pow, the head, the fkull
Pout, a poult, a chicken
Prayin, praying
Pridefu', proud, faucy
Provefes, provosts
Prig, to cheapen, to difpute.
Priggin, cheapening
Pryin, prying
Prief, proof
Prent, printing

Propone, to lay down, to

propofe

Primfie, demure, precise

Phraife, fair fpeeches, flat- Prie, to taste

Penfivelie, penfively

tery; to flatter

Phraifin, flattery

Prie'd, tafted

Preen, a pin

Pit, to put

Pine, pain, unea fine fs
Pickle, a small quantity
Platie, dimin. of plate
Plack, an old Scotch coin
Placklefs, pennylefs
Pliskie, a trick

Plew or pleugh, a plow
Plumpit, did plump
Placad, a public proclama-
tion

Poortith, poverty

Powther or pouther, pow. der.

Pouthery, like powder

Pouk, to pluck

Pou, to pull

Pou't, did pull

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Pouffie, a hare or cat

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Ramblin, rambling
Rattlin, rattling
Raucle, rafh, ftout, fearless
Raw, a row

Raible, to rattle nonfenfe
Rair, to roar; rair't, roar-
ed; rairing, roaring
Rax, to stretch

Rafh, a rush; rash buss, a

bush of rushes

Ram-ftam, forward,thought-
lefs
Rarely, excellent, very well
Ragweed, the plant ragwort
Ratton, a rat

Raught, reached

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Row, to roll, to wrap

Raize, to madden, to in- Row't, rolled, wrapped

flame

Ree, half-drunk, fuddled
Ream, cream

Reek, fmoke; to fmoke;
reekin, fmoking; reekit,
fmoked, smoky
Receivin, receiving
Red-wud, ftark mad
Remead, remedy
Remarkin, remarking
Reft, to ftand reftive

Reftit, ftood reftive, ftunt

ed, withered

Requite, requitted

Reftricked, restricted

Reck, to heed

Rede, counfel, to counfel Refus't, refufed

Roamin, roaming

Rood ftands likewife for the plural roods

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Roun', round, in the circle
of neighbourhood
Roofe, to praife, to com-
mend
Rozet, rofin
Roon, a fhred

Rung, a cudgel
Runkl'd, wrinkled

Runt, the stem of colewort

or cabbage Rustlin, rustling Rhymin, rhyming

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Scrieve, to glide swiftly a-
long
Scrievin, gleefomely, swift-
ly

Screechin, fcreeching
Screed, to tear; a rent
Scar, to scare

Scauld, to fcold; fcaulding,
fcolding
Scawl, a fcold
Scaud, to fcald

Scaur, apt to be scared
Scornfu', fcornful

Scrimp, to fcant; fcrimpet, did fcant, scanty

Sconner, a lothing; to lothe
Scraich, to scream as a hen,
partridge, &c.
Scraichin, fcreaming

Sel, felf; a body's fel, one's felf alone

Sets, fets off, goes away
See'd, did fee

Settlin, fettling; to get a fettlin, to be frighted into quietness

Sell't, did fell

Seizin, feizing
Servan', fervant

Sen', to fend; fen't fend it
Shaw, to fhow; a small

wood in a hollow place Sheugh, a ditch, a trench Shootin, fhooting Shouther, the fhoulder Shoon, fhoes

Sheep fhank, to think one's

felf nae Sheep Shank, to be conceited

Shore, to offer, to threaten Shor'd, offered

Shangan, a ftick cleft at one

end for putting the tail of a dog, &c. into, by way of mifchief, or to frighten him away Shaver, a humourous wag,

a barber

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