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=brast=, I, 370, 14, 18; V, 76, 26; 80, 45; 82, 40: burst, broke, broken.

=brauches=, I, 271, 2: brooches. But perhaps _branches_, the clothes embroidered with rings and sprigs.

=braw=, I, 491, 1, 2, etc.; II, 80, 3-7: comely. I, 127, 21; 467, 29; II, 23, =E= 5: fine, handsome, finely dressed. I, 184, 11; V, 210, 11: (of a meeting) pleasant. See =bra= and =braws=. braw wallie, IV, 296, =F= 1: exclamation of admiration.

=brawn=, IV, 212, 5: calf of the leg.

=braws=, IV, 269, f, 19: fine things, finery.

=bray=, =brae=, hillside, hill.

=brayd on=, V, 198 b, after 52: move on, fall on.

=brayde=, =breyde=, at a brayde, III, 26, 91; of a, III, 32, 91: in a moment, of a sudden.

=breachan.= See =bracken=.

=bread=, =breed=, =bred=, III, 339, 13, 16; 341, 42: breadth.

=bread=, broad.

=breaden=, I, 433, 9: braided (here, perhaps, woven).

=break=, =brake=, V, 166, 8; 306, 7: cause to break off, correct, cure.

=break=, till five minutes break, II, 325, 19, 20: expire.

=breaken.= See =bracken=.

=breast.= smoothd his breist and swam, II, 248, 9, 15: made it even, level with the water. set her, his brest and swom, II, 459, 8; V, 137, 5, 9. bent his breast and swam, V, 138, =C= 3, 5; 141 b, 6, 9; 142 a, 4. lay on his brest and swumme, II, 247, 14.

=breast=, in a, IV, 11, 12, 13: in one voice (all at once, p. 13, 4). in a breast, Scottish, sometimes=abreast, side by side.

=breast=, _v._, II, 299, 22, breast a steed: mount, by bringing the breast to it.

=breast-mills=, II, 403, 15: mills operated by a breast-wheel.

=breastplate=, II, 380, 15; 383, 14; 385, 4, etc.; IV, 486, 6, etc.: some part of a woman’s attire, said here to be of steel instead of gold. Possibly a stomacher. “Curet, breastplate, or stomager.” Huloet, 1552. “Torace, also a placket, a stomacher, or brest plate for the body.” Florio. At II, 381, 10, we have _bracelets_, which would be a plausible emendation for _breastplate_, did not the latter occur quite a dozen times.

=breast-wine=, II, 338, =T= 7: milk (Irish ballad).

=breathed=, II, 47, unto, 21, on, 22: does not seem to be the right word. Possibly _breved_, gave information to (but the word is antique for the text, and _on_ in 22 would not suit).

=brecham=, III, 480, 9: 492, 4; brechen, III, 491, 6: a straw collar for a horse, also a pack-saddle made of straw, so more probably here, carts not being used.

=brechan=, =brichan=, IV, 157, 7, 12, 14, 18, 19: (Gael. breacan) plaid.

=brechen.= See =brecham=.

=breckan=, =-en=, =-in=. See =bracken=.

=bred=, =brede=, V, 283, 8, 18: bread.

=bred=, =bread=, =breed=, III, 347, =c= 44, =g= 38: breadth.

=brede=, I, 242, 7: to have the whims attributed to breeding women? (Not satisfactory, as not being sufficiently simple. Prof. Kittredge has suggested to me gynnyst to wede, to go mad; which seems to me quite worth considering. The rhyme with the same sound in a different sense, is entirely allowable.)

=bree=, =brie=, I, 129, 14; 341, 3, 8, 17; 417, 13; III, 11, =K=; V, 191 f., 3, 18, 31: brow, eyebrow.

=bree=, =broth=. See =broo=.

=breed=, =bread=, =bred=, =braid=, III, 349, 38; IV, 503, 13, 16; 505, 45: breadth.

=breek-thigh=, III, 464, 15: thigh of his breeches.

=breeme=, III, 285, 19: fierce.

=breist.= See =breast=.

=bren=, =brene=, =brenne=, =brin=, II, 45, 24; 59, 32; III, 24, 29, 35; 361, =b=, =c=, 28: burn. _p. p._ brent, II, 44, 3, 14; 46, 47.

=brent= (brow), II, 191, 25; IV, 272, 2; 387, 1: high and straight. Also, smooth, unwrinkled.

=brents=, I, 74, 76, 78: door-posts, or doors. (Icelandic brandar, postes, Egilsson; ships’ beaks used as ornaments over the chief door of dwellings, Vigfusson.)

=brest.= See =breast=.

=brest=, burst.

=brether=, brothers, brethren, I, 104, 10; III, 478, 15. bretheren, III, 26, 74; 478, 14. brethern, bretherne, II, 73, 17; 160, 3, 9; III, 57, 27; 67, 217. brothren, III, 29, 148. brethen, III, 22, 4, 6; 23, 10; V, 135 b, 19.

=bretther o degs=, with a b. of d. ye’ll clear up my nags, IV, 312, 3 (the reading may be _bretlher_ ... _clean_): corrupt. “brathay an degs would mean with old cloth and torn rags: brathay (obsolete) worn out brats or clothes.” W. Forbes.

=breyde=, _n._, with a breyde, III, 110, 20: with a rush, in haste.

=breyde=, _v._, III, 110, 9: rushed, bounded.

=bride-steel=, =brid-stell=, =bride-stool=, =bride-styl=, IV, 181, 7, 8; 182, =F= 2, 3; 183, 2; V, 256 a, 4, 5: seat in church where the bridegroom and bride sat before the beginning of the service.

=brie=, brow. See =bree=.

=brig=, =brigue=, I, 118, =D= 2; II, 24, 14; 177, 13, 15; 272, 13: bridge.

=bright=, =bryghte=, I, 285, 25; 293, 2; 296, 51, 56; 327, 12, 21: sheen, beautiful.

=brim=, II, 274, 3: sea. In, fa oure the brim, IV, 419, 16, 26, the brim of a precipice may be meant.

=brin=, II, 146, 23; V, 223 a, No 68, =A= 22: burn.

=bring hame=, I, 76, 53; 367, 9; II, 97, 24; 425, 9, 10; V, 41, 17: give birth to. brought King James hame, II, 345, 29: brought into the world, (come hame, be born, see =hame=.)

=brirben=, II, 217, 2, 4. tabean brirben (printed by Herd birben) is corrupt. A copy mentioned by Finlay had birchen; see IV, 471, 221.

=brither=, II, 163, 7, 11, 16; 164, 17; 165, 3; V, 123, 4; 299, 4: brother.

=Brittaine=, =Litle=, I, 285, 24, 33, 37.

=brittled=, =bryttled=, =brittened=, I, 328, 51; III, 7, 7: cut up.

=broad= (=brode=) =arrow=, =brod arwe= (=aro=), III, 13, 9; 29, 153, 159; 106, 16; 307, 5; 341, 56; “catapulta.” Prompt. Parv. The Catholicon explains catapulta to be “sagitta cum ferro bipenni, quam sagittam barbatam vocant.” Way. Cotgrave: “Rallion. An arrow with a forked, or barbed head; a broad arrow.” broode-headed arrowe, IV, 505, 56; 506, 64; broode-arrowe-head, 506, 59.

=broad letter.= See =braid letter=.

=broad-mouthd axe=, IV, 123, 14: broad axe.

=broad sow=, V, 91, 3: a sow that has a litter (brod=breed).

=brockit=, =brookit=, =bruckit=, I, 303, 8; 304, =E= 8, =F= 8; V, 213, 8: streaked or speckled in the face, streaked with dirt. See =broked=, =bruchty=.

=brodinge=, II, 58, 14: shooting up, sprouting. (Old Eng. brodden.)

=brogues=, IV, 70, =G= 4; 72, =I= 7; 269 a, =d= 20; V, 265, No 227, 20; 301, No 200: coarse light shoes of horse-hide, worn especially by Highlanders.

=broke=, =brook=, III, 69 f., 271, 274, 279; 310, 62: enjoy.

=broked cow=, III, 459, 7: a cow that has black spots or streaks mixed with white in her face. See =brockit=.

=broken=, IV, 356, 12: bankrupt, ruined.

=broken men=, III, 473, 19, 24; IV, 41, note *: men under sentence of outlawry, or who lived as vagabonds and public depredators, or were separated from their clans in consequence of crimes. Jamieson.

=broo=, =brue=, =bree=, =brie=, II, 30, 11: brow.

=broo=, =brue=, =bree=, I, 160, =C= 2, =D= 3; 161, =E= 3; IV, 449, 2, 3: broth. I, 499, 4; V, 98, 9, 10: water in which something has been boiled.

=brook=, =broke=, =bruik=, II, 189, 33, 34; 420, 7; III, 212, 8; IV, 435, 14: enjoy.

=broom-cow=, I, 394, 5: twig of broom.

=brose-cap=, II, 463, 25: pottage-, porridge-bowl.

=brot=, _p. p._, V, 296, 2, 3, etc.: brought.

=brothered=, IV, 373, 17: broidered? (He is to have a change of clothes every month, and those embroidered?)

=brough=, V, 128, 29, 30: borough, town.

=brought hame.= See =bring hame=.

=broun=, =brown=, IV, 169, =F= 2; =G= 1 (browns, brouns, in the MSS.). Might be thought a corruption of _brand_, but _brand_ occurs in each case immediately after. _Brown_ for _brown blade_ would be extraordinary.

=browen=, III, 9, 4: brewed, (_brown_ corrected from earlier MS.)

=browȝt=, =browt=, =browthe=, brought.

=brown ground=, IV, 27, 12: brown with heather.

=brown sword=, I, 70, 22; 294, 24; III, 71, 305. Brún as an epithet of sword in Anglo-Saxon has been interpreted literally, as denoting that the weapon was wholly or in part of bronze; also as gleaming, which may at first seem forced. Gleaming is the meaning given to brown sword by Mätzner, who cites three cases from romances. We have bright brown sword, II, 139, 22; 241, 24; 266, 26, 27; and, blades both browne and bright, III, 93, 36. The late Mr. Edward Bangs, remarking upon these passages, suggests that the blades may have been artificially browned with acid and then polished, as gun-barrels still are, and he refers to P. Lacombe’s description of the magnificent sword of Charles V, Armes et Armures, p. 221: “la lame est d’acier bruni presque noir.” We have browne tempered blade, III, 35, 13, meaning, probably, a blade tempered to that color.

=browt=, =browthe=, brought.

=browst=, V, 306, 12: brewage.

=bruchty=, =brucket=, =brockit=, I, 301 f., =A= 5, 9; V, 213 a, No 33, 5: spotted or streaked with dirt; of a sheep, streaked or speckled in the face. See =brockit=.

=brue=, V, 209 a: broo, broth, soup.

=brue=, I, 334, 3: brow.

=bruik=, II, 422, 2; IV, 385, 27; V, 179, 12, 13: enjoy, possess. See =brook=.

=brune=, III, 9, =H= 8: error for _brume_ (which is the reading in an earlier MS.).

=brung=, _pret._, _p. p._ of bring, IV, 191, =B=, after 7; 466, 11.

=brunt=, IV, 211, 2; 392, 17; 468, 17: burnt.

=brusted=, =brusten=, II, 186, 15; IV, 2, 6: burst.

=bryde=, II, 442, 3; 478, 1: young woman.

=bryk=, III, 13, 13: breeches, hose.

=bryn=, I, 136, =R= 4: should probably be _brim_, as in =R=, =b=, =c=. _brin_, brow, from the Icelandic, is unlikely.

=bryng= yow on your way, III, 99, 45: take, accompany.

=bryste=, I, 327, 12: burst.

=brytlyng=, =bryttlynge=, III, 307, 8; 308, 13: (breaking) cutting up. See =brittled=.

=bucht=, =bught=, =bought=, _n._, IV, 193, 1, 2, 5; 194, 6, 9; 195 f., 1, 3, 4; 198 f., 1, 3, 6; etc.: a small pen, usually put up in the corner of the field, into which it was customary to drive the ewes when they were to be milked. Jamieson.

=bucht=, =bught=, _v._, IV, 200, 1, 18; 201, 10; 205, 22: go into the bucht, or pen. _pret._ buchted, IV, 201, 24: drove into the pen; _p. p._, 201, 11: built a pen for (cf. 198, 8; 200, 19).

=buckle=, crisp, curl (of hair). Curling Buckle, IV, 357, =C= 6, 7: one with hair crisped or curled.

=buckled up our lap=, II, 473, 17: fastened up apron or gown so as to make a bag for carrying away meal.

=bucklings=, V, 183, 21: encounters?

=bud=, I, 72 f., 7, 62: behooved. See =buse=.

=bug=, IV, 199, 17, _pret._ of big: built.

=bugge=, I, 243, 1: buy.

=buggin=, =bugn=, _p. p._ of big, IV, 445 b, 1; 446 b, 1: built.

=buik=, =bouk=, IV, 485, 12, 14: body.

=buik=, =buke=, IV, 411, 2; V, 122, 9: book.

=buik=, II, 71, 10: _pret._ of bake (A. S. bóc).

=builded=, _pret._, III, 123, 4; sheltered, hid. (A. S. byldan, Scot, bield.)

=buird=, V, 138, 11, 12, 14: board.

=buirdly=, =buirlie= (bride), II, 82, 51; 130, 8: portly, stately, large and well made. buirdlie men, II, 315, =E= 6. See =bierly=.

=buke=, II, 165, 14: bouk, body. The verse is suspicious; more sense could be had by reading Maist fair, etc., and making the line the beginning of the speech of the fourth brother. See =bouk=, =buik=.

=buke=, =buik=, book.

=bukeld=, V, 276, 18. See =baucheld=.

=buld=, build, built.

=bull-baits=, I, 103, =E= 4: represents strokes, blows (cf. other versions), and must have some such sense. Possibly a corruption of buffets, though I see not how. A compounding of Old English _bollen_, to strike, and of _beat_ would be unlikely. _Bull-baits_, for violent assaults, no doubt seemed good enough to the reciter.

=bully=, =billy=, IV, 146 f., 5, 12, 18-21, etc.: brother, fellow, mate. See =billie=.

=bullyship=, IV, 147, 29, 33: comradeship.

=bun=, II, 191, 26; IV, 45, 6: boun(d), ready to go.

=bun=, V, 267 a, 9: bound, tied up.

=bune= (how she is), II, 191, 30: going on, faring.

=burd=, =bird=, I, 69 f., 70, 72; 71, 57; II, 282, 6; III, 393, 14; 394, =K= 3; IV, 418, 2, 3, 5, etc.; 420, 2, 4, 5, etc.; 424, 1, 2, 4; V, 228 f., 12, 22, 34, 35: damsel, maid, lady; V, 229, 32: perhaps offspring.

=burd-alone=, he lay burd-alone, I, 298, 2: solitary, by himself; cf. maid alone, II, 149, 2.

=Burd Alone=, II, 95, 1, 3, 4, 5: desolate, forlorn one; corruption of Burd Helen, 96, =J= 2: cf. bird her lane.

=bure=, I, 108, 8: bore (_pret._).

=Burgesse= (=?=), IV, 503, 4; 504, 24: Bordeaux. Should probably be Burdesse.

=burgh=, IV, 53, 15-17: town.

=burken=, II, 133, 8: birken, birchen.

=Burlow-beanie=, I, 287, 60, 65, 70, 74: =Billy Blin, which see (I, 67).

=burly=, I, 300, 4. See =beerly=.

=burn=, =bourn=, I, 438, =A= 3, 4; III, 440, 16; 460, 27: brook.

=burn-brae=, IV, 76, 1: hillside with a brook at the bottom.

=burnyssht=, III, 63, 136: shining, made bright.

=burrow-town=, =burrows-town=, IV, 288, =E= 3; 299, =d= 13: properly, chartered town, corporate town; perhaps nothing more than a town of some size, larger than a village. See =borrows-town=.

=bursen=, IV, 4 =b= 6: burst, bursen day, IV, 481, 20: overpoweringly fatiguing.

=buse=, þe buse agayne, I, 328, 54: it behoves thee (other texts, thou most). _pret._ (personal) bot, II, 94, 3; beet, III, 281, 2; bud, boud, I, 73, 62; V, 176, 17.

=busk=, =buss= (Icel. búask, old reflexive of búa, make ready, from the participle of which comes boun, so that busk and boun are of the same origin and equivalent). =1.= make ready, buske you, III, 73, 340. busk and boune, II, 24, 5; III, 434, 22. buske yee, bowne yee, III, 91, 5. the[y] buske them bowne, he buskes him bowne, III, 285, 26, 38. they busked and made them bowne, III, 284, 2. =2.= dress, deck. busk and mak yow braw, II, 23, =E= 5. busk the bride, II, 104, 16, 18; 105, 10, 11; 106, 11. _p. p._ busket, III, 433, 3. weel-busked hat, IV, 199, 9: decorated. buskit wi rings, V, 203 a. busk on you the flowers, II, 465, 3: put on as ornaments. buskit fire wi leaves, II, 411, 10: set about. busk your ship roon (with feather beds), IV, 381, 8, cf. 10: wrap, sheathe. =3.= betake oneself, go. I wol me buske ouer the salte see: III, 59, 56. See =buskit=.

=buske=, III, 97, 12: bush.

=busker=, III, 252, 16: corrupt; _testament_ in other copies.

=buskit=, =-et=, III, 433, 3: dressed, buskit his bow in her hair, I, 131, 15: furnished, strung. See =busk=.

=buss=, I, 130, 16; II, 133, 8; III, 3, 6;5, =D= 7; 6, 6: bush.

=buss=, IV, 510, 4; 513 a, 1: busk, make ready, dress. See =busk=.

=busshement=, III, 71, 301: ambuscade.

=busting=, _n._, V, 301 =b=, 3: padding or the like used to improve the figure.

=but=, _prep._, without: I, 16, 6; 420, 9, 10; 430, 3; III, 161, 30; IV, 41 b; 326, 16; 329, =A=, =b= after 12.

=but=, III, 267, 20; 268, 17; 270, 16; 272, 20; 274, 33: towards the outer apartment or kitchen, without, out. gae butt the house and bid her come ben, V, 115, 6. he wood her butt, he wood her ben, I, 56 f., =C= 2, 14; cf. V, 219, 10. but it speaks, V, 306, 6: out speaks.

=but=, if ye be a maiden but, I, 72, 25: corrupt; read, binna maiden yet?

=but and=, =bot and=, =but an=, =bat an===and also: I, 18, =F= 7; 69, 49; 72, 5; 345, =C= 8, 9, 10; 464, 8; 474, 36; IV, 418, 5; V, 246 b, 4, 6, 8.

=but nor hed=, II, 191, 27: but and had not.

=but than===but and, IV, 465, 23.

=by= (cf. also =be=), II, 56 a; 433, 2; III, 22, 2; 91, 2; IV, 420, 2, 4; 422, 2: about, concerning (as, by a knight I say my song). V, 272 b, 3, 7, 11; 277, 4; 278, 20 (spelled _bay_), 31: in comparison with, on comparing (_by_ 272 b, 3^4, should perhaps be _but_; cf. 11^4). kend thy freind by thy foe, III, 420, 18: in distinction from. by than, III, 77, 435: by the time that. by weeke, spend forty pounds by weeke, II, 442, 7: distributively, a week. So, by yere, III, 61, 92. he maun do them by, V, 169, 12: do without. no far by, V, 123, 10: not far off. called young Brichen by, I, 465, 5: called on, to. ca’d by Andrew Lammie, IV, 302, 1: called by the name of.

=by and bye=, the keys hang at that lady by and bye, I, 471, 4: one next to the other (?).

=by and by=, IV, 196 f., 1, 14: nigh.

=by and by=, I, 287 f., 60, 71, 75, 77; V, 122, 1; 123, 1: directly, immediately.

=by=== aby, pay for, atone for: III, 97, 15.

=byckarte=, _pret._ of bicker, III, 307, 5: (fought) attacked (the deer).

=byd=, must, am under necessity.

=byddys=, III, 308, 26: abides.

=byde=, III, 297, 37: wait. _p. p._ byddin, V, 202 a: staid. _pret._ byde, there was naething byde him wi, IV, 428, 11: nothing which did remain.

=bydene.= See =bidene=.

=bye fell=, III, 440, 8: a rocky hill or piece of high land lying off or aside of the way.

=bye-yett=, IV, 21, 10: side-gate (subsidiary, not principal).

=bygane=, gone by.

=byggande=, _ptc._, I, 327, 33: building.

=byrde=, I, 327, 22: woman (wife or maid). See =burd=.

=byre=, II, 182, 8; 184, 13; 188, 13; IV, 293, 9; 297, 9: cow-house.

=bystode=, hard bystode, III, 98, 33: hard pressed.

=bytecke=, commit to: I, 327, 29.

C

=ca=, =caw=, =call===drive, strike. ca a nail, I, 403, 13; III, 495, =B b=, after 7. ca a pin, IV, 381, 9, 11. ca in the stake, II, 123, 14, 27. caw shoon on a steed, IV, 470, 18. ca up a gallows, II, 253, 8. ca’d holes, V, 141 b, 8. ca hogs, II, 258, 32. ca the mare, IV, 17 f., 5, 13. ca horse, IV, 109, 1. call sheep, II, 255, 17. caw ky, IV, 193, 13; 194, 17. ca the pleugh, V, 105, =A= 10. waft (emend from _wraft_) was neer ca’d throw, I, 424 a, 12, 13; 425, 12, 13. ca’d the table wi her foot, II, 313, 20. ca’d out the sheriff’s een, IV, 392, 19.

=ca’d by=, ca’d by Andrew Lammie, IV, 302, 1: called by the name of.

=caddie.= See =cadie=.

=cadger=, =cauger=, an itinerant huckster. corn-caugers, III, 479, 8 (== corn-buyers, 491, 6; corn-dealers, 492, 4).

=cadgily=, V, 115, 1: merrily.

=cadie=, =caddie=, IV, 351, 4, 5; 353, 6, 7, 9, 10, etc.: a young fellow who does errands, or any inferior kind of work.

=caft=, IV, 330 a, appendix, 2: calved.

=cairdman=, II, 474, 9, 10: tinker, beggar.

=cald=, III, 455, 10: could.

=cale=, =call=, =calle=, V, 221, 20; 228, 19; 247, 1 (MS. calld); 248, 21; 257, 15: cold.

=call=, a call opon, V, 221, 14, 19: a call out, (simply) call.

=call=, _v._, III, 62, 113; 111, 38: address.

=calland=, II, 267, 9: lad.

=called their grandmother over=, IV, 70, =G= 2: corrupted from cast their glamour oer her.

=caller=, =cauler=, IV, 484, after 23; 485, 19: (of air), fresh.

=cam=, _pret._ of come: III, 61, 91; 69, 259.

=came home=, =hame=, of child-birth, IV, 405, 54; 420, 5. See =bring hame=.

=cammer=, II, 131, 6: (conjecture for _cannell_) cambric (Scottish cammeraige, camroche).

=camovine=, IV, 212, 4; 213, 12: camomile.

=campioun=, II, 386, 18: champion.

=campy=, I, 304, 1: having the quality or make of a champion, or (name) champion (like _kempy_).

=camric=, cambric.

=can=, II, 445, 62; 450, 67; III, 66, 210; 67, 227; 162, 55: knows.

=can=, _inf._, will never can steer ye, IV, 69, 15.

=can=, =cann=, an auxiliary of the present tense, can bee==is: II, 442, 14; 443, 30; 444, 51; 446, 93. Cf. do be (are), I, 184, 47. (may be, II, 448, 33; 451, 100; might be, III, 452, 10, show a misunderstanding of this.) auxiliary of the past tense,==did: II, 446, 81, 84; III, 65, 184; 67, 223; 298, 56. (Probably a corruption of gan.) cold, colde, could, cowde,==did: I, 294, 23, 24; III, 298, 56, 59; 440, 10; IV, 3, 19; V, 278, 37. cold be, II, 443, 34; III, 413, 34: were, was. cold see, III, 413, 32: saw, have seen. (An extension of the use of can==gan.)

=cankerdly=, III, 160, 13; 267, 10: crossly.

=cankred=, III, 189, =A= 9: ill-humored, complaining, crabbed (Scottish canker, to fret), with reference to the behavior in 6. But as John shows no crooked temper to the palmers, possibly cankred is to be taken literally as crooked (see =B= 10), having in mind Icel. kengr, a crook of metal, English kink, etc.

=cannas=, =cannis=, =canies=, V, 239, 35; 276, 14, 15: =canvas=, coarse cloth.

=cannel=, II, 147, 3, 4: candle.

=canny=, _adj._, IV, 303, 16; 304, 4: gentle. IV, 305, 25: cautious. IV, 306, 17: clever, expert. V, 121 a: wily. IV, 132, =G= 4: canny (Cannygate) seems to be for jingle, but may be a term of general commendation.

=canny=, =cannie=, =cannilie=, _adv._, IV, 154, 4; 304, 14; 306, 29: cautiously. IV, 133, 3, 4; 306, 18; 354, 2, 3: attentively. I, 245 f., 11-14: carefully, expertly. I, 245, 8, 9: expertly, or gently. II, 161, 18: slowly, or softly.

=cantie=, =canty=, IV, 261, 3; 317, =F= 6; V, 115, 2: merry.

=cap=, =caup=, II, 344, 1: cup.

=cap=, =cape=, V, 230 a, 10, 11: catch, _pret._, _p. p._ caped, II, 317, =B b= 20; V, 219, 23; 271, 14: struck. See =kep=.

=cape=, V, 79, 32: cloak.

=capull-hyde=, III, 92, 7; 93, 44; 94, 48: horse-hide.

=care=, car, cart.

=care=, _v._, II, 370, 16: mind, object.

=care-bed=, II, 58, 4; 433, 3; 434, 28; 435, 47; 436 f., 58, 79 (of a hopeless lover): almost, or quite, sick-bed; (of a mother) III, 3, 2; so, bed of care, V, 227, 11. “care-bed lair, a disconsolate situation; a sick-bed.” Jamieson.

=carefull=, III, 57, 28; 343, 18: full of care, sorrowful.

=carket=, =carknet=, I, 69, 56; 71, 46: necklace.

=carl=, =carle=, =carel=, =carril=, =cerl=, II, 466 f., 35, 36, 45, 46; III, 189, =B= 10, 11; IV, 493 f., 7, 11, 30; V, 237, 6, 7; 238, 12, 13, etc.: fellow, man of low condition, peasant.

=carlin=, =carline=, old woman, V, 26, 24; of a gentleman’s mother, I, 71, 31; of a wealthy woman, II, 238, 1, 2, low-born woman, peasant woman: II, 467, 40, 47; 469 f., 42, 51, 56-58; V, 26, 24.

=carlish=, churlish, uncivilized.

=carrlis=, careless.

=carnal=, II, 8, 1, 2, 4: (cornicula, corneille) crow.

=carp=, =carpe=, III, 127, play, 31; 310, 58: talk. In, harp and (or) carp, I, 324, 5; 325, 5; 329, 2; IV, 18, 9, 10; 19, =B= 5, 6, 12; 20 f., =C= 7, =D= 7, 8; 21, =E= 8; 23, =A c= 22; 454 b; 455, 8, carp seems to mean tell tales, probably sing or chant tales (ballads) to the harp. See I, 329, 2, 3.

=carping=, III, 13, 1; IV, 21, 17: talk, tale.

=carry=, IV, 247, =C= 11; 253, 15: pass, allow to pass, make effective, hold good.

=case=, =in case that=, I, 351, 38; II, 103, 1, 8; 171, 22; IV, 205, 17: against the chance that, lest.

=case=, =cassed=, V, 274, 4, 5: cause, caused.

=casey=, =cassie=, IV, 354, 4; V, 16, 2, 3, 5, 6: causeway.

=cast=, _n._, III, 68, 248: venture. (Possibly cost, outlay.)

=cast=: _pret._, coost, koost, cust, cuist, keist, kiest, kyst, kest. _p. p._ casten, castin, coosten, custan, cuisten.

=cast=, III, 308, 17: project, intend. cast on sleepe, III, 401, 10: thrown into a sleep, fallen asleep.

=cast=, _pret._, III, 344, 34: struck, (upcast, III, 349, 34.)

=casten=, =castin=, _p. p._ of cast, I, 245, 7; 463, 3; II, 115, 29; V, 300, 2; 306, 14.

=cat o clay=, III, 11, =L=: a roll of straw and clay wrought together, used in building mud walls. Perhaps only a bit of clay.

=caterans=, V, 253 b, 1: robbers, Highland or Irish irregular soldiers. (Gaelic ceatharnach, soldier.)

=cauger.= See =cadger=.

=caul=, =kell=, IV, 483, 20: a woman’s cap.

=cauler=, IV, 26, 6; 485, 19: cool, fresh. See =caller=.

=caup=, II, 472, 27: cup. See =cap=.

=cause=, in that cause to flee, II, 421, 34: exigency (such exigency that you had to flee).

=caution=, III, 447 b; 451, note *: surety.

=cavil=, =kavil=, =kaivle=, =kevel= (Dutch kavel), I, 69, 46, 48: lot.

=caw=, =cawd=. See =ca’=.

=cawte=, III, 296, 26: wary.

=ceppet=, =kepit=, II, 410, 6; 407, 13: received, caught, when falling. See =cap=, =cape=.

=cerl.= See =carl=.

=cerstyn=, III, 111, 44: Christian.

=certyl=, III, 14, 15: kirtle (man’s garment).

=césererá=, =sassaray=, II, 207, =A= 5; 209, =E= 5: intended for an imitation of the sound of bells.

=chaffare=, III, 111, 33; 113, 68; V, 79, 21, 25: ware, merchandise.

=chaffe=, III, 34, 11: chuff, clown, loon, simpleton.

=chaft-blade=, III, 269, 9; V, 243, 12: jaw-bone.

=chafts=, III, 267, 16: chaps, jaws.

=chalmer=, =chamer=, =chaumer=, chamber.

=chamber thy words=, II, 435, 45: restrain, suppress, be chary of.

=changehouse=, IV, 153, =E= 3: tavern, ale-house.

=channerin=, II, 239, 11: fretting, petulant.

=chap=, knock, rap, tap: I, 107, 3, 4; 465, 11; 481, 29; II, 140, 15; 177, 14, 16; 272, 14; 313, 14; IV, 445 f., 3, 4; V, 228, 16; 306 b, 1: of the striking of the hour, II, 371, 7.

=chaperine=, III, 514, 10, would make some sense as chapel, but the form is unaccountable except as a popular diminutive.

=chare=, III, 250, =J= 7, 8: turn.

=charge=, IV, 457, 1, must be understood as _charge not_, forbid.

=charter= (simply): III, 358, 82. See next word.

=chartre of peace=, III, 27, 108: grant of pardon, paper condoning past offences.

=chase=, III, 26, 74: follow up, hunt down, chase the wine, III, 169, 24: follow, keep up, like _follow strong drink_. (But a rhyme-end.)

=chaunler-chaftit=, I, 303, 6: having chafts (chops) like a chandler (candlestick, lantern), lantern-jawed, with a long, thin face.

=chaunter=, I, 438, =B= 6: usually, tube of the bagpipe, which would not be expected here. A book of chants would suit. Cf. Sir Hugh, III, 247, 20; 248, 14; 249, =H= 7, =I= 5, etc.

=chays=, hunting-ground.

=che=, I, 415 b: she.

=chear=, II, 193, 27: sounds expressing a state of feeling (here sad). IV, 18, 19: referring to the evening’s entertainment, or, simply doing and saying. See =chere=.

=chear well to=, III, 160, 11: have good cheer at.

=check=, tether’s check, V, 213, 10: spike of a tether.

=cheel=, IV, 69, 12: child, fellow.

=cheepe=, better cheepe, V, 15, 26: (price) cheaper.

=cheeped=, IV, 516, 15: chipped, broken.

=cheik=, II, 336, =P= 2, close to the cheik and chin: cheik is door-post, chin often=gin, the contrivance for fastening, but gin would not come in well here, and it is likely that chin is meaningless, coming in because of its frequent association with cheek (kissed her cheek and chin, etc.), see door-cheik.

=chelvellrye=, IV, 503, 1: corrupt. Read, _chevauchie_, excursion on horseback? (would a progress ride, III, 343, 2.)

=chepe=, =cheepe=, _n._, bargain. better chepe, III, 69, 259: more cheaply. gret chepe! III, 111, 34: great bargain!

=chepe=, _v._, III, 110, 26; 111, 33: cheapen, bargain for, or buy.

=chere=, =cheer=, =cheir=, =chier=, =chear=. carefull, sorry chere, III, 57, 28; 68, 239: face, countenance. I, 109, 14; 117, 6; 330, =B= 7; II, 189, 37; III, 441, 37; IV, 20, 15: of state of mind, bearing, or behavior. III, 66, 197; 67, 215; 75, 394; IV, 18, 19: entertainment, merry-making. here is a symple chere, III, 59, 61. made gode chere, III, 100, 67: repast.

=cherish=, _v._, I, 76, 19; IV, 96, =C= 11; 437, 25: cheer.

=cherry=, V, 264, 4: sherry.

=chess=, I, 86, 15: jess, strap; properly, leather strap for a hawk’s leg (explained by R. Jamieson, hawk’s bell).

=chess=, IV, 457, =L= 8, dancin in a chess: chace? forest? Probably corrupt, since =A= 10, =B= 10, I, 341, 343, have playing at the chess.

=chess=, =chiss= of farie, V, 165 f., 6, 9, 10: corrupt; read, cheese o Fyvie (see V, 305 f.).

=chest=, =kist=, IV, 342, 12: coffin.

=cheue=, _v._, III, 73, 349: end. See =chewys=.

=cheverons=, III, 374, 8: gloves.

=chewys=, I, 327, 20: endest, comest off. (French chevir.) See =cheue=.

=cheys=, III, 112, 48: choose.

=child=, =chiel=, =chil=, =cheel=, child, young fellow: I, 72, 8; 367, 3; IV, 69, 12; 432, 15; V, 278, 33. as an appellation, II, 85 f., 1, 2, 6, etc.; 128 f., 1, 5, 8, etc.; 264 f., 1, 7, etc.; V, 157, 1, 6, etc. auld chiel, V, 125, 6, 8: devil, _pl._ chylderin, III, 13, 2, 3.

=childer=, III, 478, 24; IV, 99, 11: children.

=chill=, V, 287, 16: child.

=chimly=, II, 71, 9; IV, 481, 22; V, 122, 5: chimney.

=chin=, chappit at the chin, II, 140, 15, 24; stecked doors close to the chin, II, 336, =P= 2: gin, that is, pin. See =gin=, =pin=.

=chine=, IV, 188, 18: chin.

=chip-hole=, I, 305, 3: a hole chipped or cracked, a chink.

=chiss=, =chess=, V, 165 f., 6, 9, 10: cheese. See V, 305 f.

=chive=, II, 362, 34=schive, slice.

=chiven=, play the, III, 145, 8: “run away precipitately,” Nares; chiven, chivin=chub, or any shy fish. chivie=fearful.

=choice=, =choise=, II, 463, 17; 469, 34; 473, 12; V, 269, 15: choose.

=choised=, chosen.

=choose=, =chose=, I, 103, 7; 329, 2; IV, 211, notes, 6: choice.

=choosed=, _p. p._, III, 440, 23.

=chossen=, _p. p._, chosen.

=christendom=, =christendame=, =christendoun=, =-doom=, I, 341, 21; 344, 20; 346, 11; 350, 24; 369, 48; 370, 15, 19: christening (as in Old English).

=christentie=, =cristendie=, I, 286, 46; II, 53, 41; V, 192, 22, 33; 194, 65: Christendom.

=chrystall=, II, 52, 17: rock-crystal, a variety of quartz.

=church-style=, IV, 412, 14: the gate of the enclosure round a church.

=churlish=, I, 102, 2: of vulgar derivation.

=chylderin.= See =child=.

=cirsned=, _p. p._, V, 224, 19: christened.

=clade=, =clead=, =cleed=, clad.

=claes=, =claise=, I, 488, 17; II, 90, 25; IV, 18, 16; 262, 22; V, 118, 6, 7, 14: clothes.

=claiding=, =cleadin=, etc., IV, 424, 12: clothing.

=claith=, II, 131, 8: garment.

=clam=, _pret._ of climb, II, 166, 35; V, 249, 4.

=clap=, in a clap, IV, 41 b: moment.

=clap=, II, 269, 25; IV, 278, 4; 303, 18; 403, 12; 414, 25, 14; V, 125, 4; 277, 7: pat, fondle, embrace.

=clappit at=, V, 173, 1: knocked at (with ellipsis of _the door_).

=clarry=, claret.

=clatter=, IV, 21, 14: to be loquacious.

=clead=, =cleed=, =cleid=, =clied=, I, 220, =B= 6; 224, =J= 6, 7; 225, =L= 2, 4; 504 b, 2; IV, 451 a, 2; V, 211 b, 4: clothe. _pret._ cled, IV, 492 a, 1. _p. p._ clead, IV, 456, 1.

=cleadin=, =cleeding=, =cleiding=, =clieden=, =cliding=, _n._, II, 92, 7; 108, 6; 183, 19; 273, 24; IV, 445, 12; 457, 2, 7; 515, 4: clothing. one of thy cleeding, II, 271, 18: dresses.

=cleare=, III, 307, 5; IV, 166, =C= 7; 477, 21; 506, 22: bright.

=cleathe=, I, 222, =F= 11, 12; V, 128, 27, 28: clothe.

=clecked=, =clekit=, _pret._, _p. p._, I, 254 a; II, 261, 7: hatched.

=cleek=, _n._ and _v._, I, 494, 13; V, 106 =E= 4; 122, 5: hook.

=clef=, _pret._ of cleave, III, 13 f., 5, 15.

=cleffe=, III, 109, 6; 112, 52: cleave.

=cleiding=, =clieden=, clothing. See =cleadin=.

=clekit=, =clecked=, I, 254 a: hatched.

=cleugh=, =clough=, III, 22, 1; IV, 6, 13; 7, 26; V, 182, 1; 250, 12: a hollow between steep banks, narrow glen or valley, high rocky bank.

=cleynt=, _pret._, V, 80, 43: clung.

=clied.= See =clead=.

=clift=, I, 137, =A= =c= 6: cliff.

=clifting=, IV, 179, 4: clift, cleft, fissure.

=cliitt=, III, 179, 5: read _clutt_, clouted, patched.

=cling=, V, 154, 15: shrink.

=clintin=, IV, 179, =B= 1: crevice, fissure,==clifting, =A= 4.

=cloathe=, III, 93, 43; 174, 24: garment.

=clock=, IV, 3, 20, 22: limper, hobbler (Fr. clocher, Picard cloquer).

=clocken-hen=, V, 92, 15, 16: sitting hen.

=clod=, got the clod that winna cling, V, 154, 15: the loaf of bread (?) that will not shrink (but will rise?), referring to the impending increase of her size.

=cloks=, II, 166, 36: beetles.

=Clootie=, I, 5, 18: a name for the Devil, from cloot, the half-hoof of a cloven-footed beast.

=close=, =closs=, enclosure, yard, and, before a house, court-yard: I, 145, 15; 146, 10, 19, 21; 147, 14; 148, =G= 10; 149, =I= 7; V, 173, 1; 279, No 257, 11; 306 b, 2. castle-yard: IV, 84, 22; 86, =C= 10; 87, 7; 89, 10. lady standing in the close pinning her gown, III, 436, 3. close parler, III, 431, 22: securely enclosed, or fastened? 23, you are in close: one (not trustworthy) transcript has _to chose_, which would make easier sense. Saint Evron’s closs, I, 146, 19, 21: cloister?

=closely=, III, 470 a: covertly, without attracting observation.

=closs.= See =close=.

=cloth and fee=, III, 433, 7: clothing and wage. holde with cloth and fee, III, 61, 107: retained by presents of clothes and money.

=clot-=, =clout-lether=, V, 79, 27: mending-leather.

=cloudy=, II, 31, =N= 1, cloudy stone: (A. S. clúdig) rocky. (Read, cloud and stone==reef and rock?)

=clout=, _n._, V, 116, 10: patch. See =clouts=.

=clout-leather=, =clouting-leather=, V, 77, 39; =b= 39; 83, 55: leather for mending, patching.

=clouts=, II, 463, 24; 470, 54: pieces of cloth for bed-coverings, or sheets (linsey clouts, canvas clouts). II, 470, 53: duds, clothes. See =clout=.

=clouty=, I, 206, 35; 207, 33; V, 110, 2; 116, 4, 5: patched.

=clud=, IV, 174, 12, clud o night: cloud.

=clunkers=, =clunkerts=, I, 305, 13; V, 213, 9: clots of dirt.

=clutt=, III, 179, 5: clouted (given wrongly cliitt).

=clyffe=, III, 91 a (play): rive, sunder, be split.

=co=, V, 250, 17, 19: quo, quoth.

=coad=, II, 132, 27. See =cod=.

=coardie=, V, 244, 7: cowardice.

=coat-neuk=, II, 107, 3, 5: corner of his coat.

=coate-armor=, III, 284, 11, 13: surcoat or tabard, embroidered with armorial bearings, worn over the armor as a personal distinction, and for identification, the face being concealed.

=coble=, IV, 128, 7; 359, 2, 5, etc.: boat (yawl, flat-bottomed boat).

=cock=, II, 472, 20, 28; V, 269, 14: knots, or other arrangements, of ribbon for the hair. (French coque.)

=cockward=, I, 285, 24, 26: old cock, fool (French coquard).

=cod=, =coad=, I, 68, 29; II, 132, 27; 270, 27: pillow.

=coffer=, trunk or box, for clothes and valuables: I, 69, 60; 71, 49; II, 375 f., 23, 26, 29; IV, 258, 19. In a commonplace with mantle: I, 350, 16; III, 244, 11; IV, 385, 26; V, 175, 2; absurdly introduced in the first two instances; ridiculously corrupted, I, 348 f., =F= 1, 3, 13; II, 475, 5.

=coft=, I, 356, 56; 394, 9; 397, =D= 8, 10, 12; III, 11, 6; V, 118, 9; 162, =C= 7; 163, 13: bought.

=cog=, =coug=, II, 30, 6; IV, 378 f., 2, 3, 20; 379 f., 2, 4, 17-19; V, 275, 2, 3, 9: boat, vessel.

=cog=, =cogie=, II, 273 a; IV, 199, 15; 200, 17; 206, 9; V, 273 a: milk-pail.

=coif=, =quoif=, II, 280, =B= 3; III, 514 =b=, 3; 515 a, 1, 4: cap.

=coil= (of hay), II, 233, 7: cock.

=coilyear=, V, 70 =b=: collier, charcoal-burner.

=cold=, =could=, =coud=, understood. cold of wisdome, of curtesye, I, 271, 1, 3. cold of his curtesie, I, 286, 49; V, 132, 3. cold, could, coud his curtesye, II, 433, 10; 435, 35; III, 75, 385; V, 132, 3.

=cold=, =could=, =coud=, did. See =can=.

=cole=, III, 74, 372; 76, 421: cowl, monk’s hood, also frock, which last is intended here, for the king wears a broad hat and puts on a green garment when he casts off his cowl.

=coled= (high coled). See =colld=.

=coll=, _v._ See =cow=.

=coll=, cold.

=collaine=, =collayne=, =collen=, swords of, III, 298, 50: of Cologne steel. collaine, collen brand, I, 286, 42, 43, 45.

=colld=, =coled=, cut, shaped, fashioned. high-colld hose, I, 69, 52; 71, 42. high coled stockings, I, 72, 9: made to go to the knee or above (perhaps in contradistinction to short hose, worn by common people). high-coled shoon, I, 73, 64. laigh-colld shoon, I, 69, 52; 71, 42; 72, 9: low-cut shoes. high-colld hat, IV, 204, 12: hat peaked before and behind.

=colleen=, II, 497 f., 4, 13, 16: (Ir. and Sc. Gaelic cailin, diminutive of caile, simple country maid) girl.

=collen=, of Cologne. See =collaine=.

=com=, =come=, _pret._ of come, I, 244, 10, 13; 328, 46.

=comand=, V, 80, 56: commanded. (Read, comanded?)

=comd=, _pret._ of come, III, 430, 6; 467, 61. _p. p._, I, 324, 4; III, 464, 3, 7.

=come=, _pret._ cam, com, come, coom, comd. _pret. pl._ come. _ptc. pres._ coomin. _p. p._ comen, commen, coom, comd.

=come=, _pret. pl._ of come, III, 216, 34.

=come by= (life), IV, 515, 7: get, obtain, gain.

=comen=, =commen=, _p. p._ of come, II, 52, 19; 54, 46; III, 35, 32.

=comentye=, =comyntie=, III, 361, =b=, =c= 58: commonalty.

=comfort=, _p. p._ of comfort, II, 370, 22.

=commant=, _p. p._ of command, III, 9, 1.

=commaunded theym agayne=, III, 77, 430: _come_ has perhaps dropped out; later editions, them to come.

=compare=, made him no compare, V, 260, No 221, 1: made no comparison (of others) with him.

=compass=, I, 346 f., 17, 25; 351, 32, 44: circle.

=compear=, =compeir=, III, 364 b; IV, 81 b; 164 a: appear.

=comt=, count.

=complete=, sang sae sweet and sae complete, V, 301, No 200: excellently, skilfully.

=compted=, III, 77, 437: emendation for _commytted_ of 80 and 81, 437. (85, 88, commended for.)

=comunye=, I, 285, 31: communing.

=comyn-bell=, III, 100, 73: town bell, a clerc the commun belle rong. Robert of Gloucester, p. 541, Hearne.

=condescend upon=, IV, 41 b, note §: particularize.

=conduction=, III, 403 a: direction, charge.

=cone=, liftet up the cone, IV, 484, a, last stanza: apparently the face-cloth, which may have been gathered into a conical form the better to fit the face. J. Aiken.

=conferred=, III, 336, note †: made the subject of conference.

=conform=, IV, 63 b: conformably.

=confound=, II, 443, 38; 449, 44: be the destruction of.

=conquess=, V, 191 f., 9, 13, 23, 35: conquer.

=convay.= See =convoy=.

=convë=, V, 117, 13; 268, 27, 28: convoy, escort.

=convened=, III, 409 a, note: agreed.

=convenient=, IV, 78, 4: suitable.

=convention=, made a, III, 364 a: had a meeting.

=convey.= See =convoy=.

=convoy=, =convay=, _n._, I, 252, 16; IV, 37, 15; 38, 15; 267, 14: escort. IV, 453, 6: of attendance upon the dead.

=convoy=, =convey=, _v._, II, 27, 4: convey. IV, 267, 3, 10; 269 f., =f= 2, 3, =g= 3; 317, 7; 318, 12; V, 119, 12: escort, accompany part of the way homeward, or on a journey, see a friend off, a young woman home.

=coom=, _p. p._, V, 296 a: come.

=coomin=, _ptc._, V, 296 a: coming.

=coops=, IV, 461, 4: carts (tip-carts).

=coost=, =koost=, _pret._ of cast, I, 73, 59; 102, 18; IV, 477, 6; V, 173, 3, 4. I, 74, 70; 78, 48: threw things about. _p. p._ coosten, I, 77, 5; 324, =B= 6; 371, 3.

=coot=, =queet=, IV, 212, 5: ankle.

=cop=, =coppe=, I, 244, 9; III, 123, 6: head.

=coped=, overset. See =couped=.

=cor=, =Corehead=, =Corhead=, V, 192, 37; 195 f., 35 (MS., Carhead); 196, 52: (Gaelic coire, cauldron, dell) corrie, a hollow in a hill. Jamieson. Penman’s Core, 193, 51, 55, 58, described as a hollow on the top of a high ridge of hills, might possibly be Penman score (score, a deep, narrow, ragged indentation on the side of a hill, South of Scotland. Jamieson). poor man’s core, V, 196, 52, corruption.

=corbie=, I, 253, 1; 254, =b= 1, =c= 1; III, 473, 23: raven.

=cordain=, =cordan=, =cordevine=, II, 435, 50; IV, 312, 7; 317, =F= 3: Cordovan leather.

=cordin=, shoon laced with cordin, IV, 435, 8: cording, cord (and not with whangs of leather).

=cordiuant=, _adj._, V, 49, 23: of Spanish, Cordovan leather.

=cored=, II, 217 f., 5, 10: covered.

=coresed= (hors), III, 61, 100: bodied (?) (later texts, corese, corse).

=corn=, II, 88, 17, 18, etc.: in Scotland, unground oats. (Here distinguished from white meal, which is usually oat-meal.)

=corn-caugers=, III, 479, 8: cadgers, hucksters, in corn.

=corp=, II, 218, 25; 229, 11: a vulgar singular of a supposed plural; corps, II, 217, 30; these corps, 31; cf. IV, 483, 23; 484 a, after 31. corpes, III, 231, 97, may be corpse.

=cors=, curse.

=corse=, =corss=, I, 117, 7; 351, 31, 32, 44; IV, 53, 8; 512 a, 9; V, 161, 4: cross.

=corser=, III, 68, 256: should probably be forser==coffer (text =g= has coffer).

=cosh=, =coush=, II, 363, 13: quiet (snug).

=cote a pye=, =coate a pie=, =cote of pie=, III, 65, 194; 80, 194; 86, 194: corruption of courtepi, short cloak or gown. (Dutch kort, short, and pij, coat of warm woolen stuff.)

=cots=, =coats=, III, 481, 2, 6: petticoats.

=couchd=, V, 9, 12: lay, leaned.

=coug=, =cog=, V, 275 =b=, 2, 3, 9: boat.

=could=, did. See =can=.

=couls=, V, 228, 19: cools, chills.

=councell=, =counsell=, II, 58, 3; III, 58, 45; V, 62, 78: secret.

=cound=, IV, 467, 13: count.

=counsell=, II, 246, =C= 9-11; III, 217, 53: secret. See =councell=.

=counterfeit=, _p. p._, V, 300, 10: counterfeited.

=country-keeper=, V, 196, 41: “one employed in a particular district to apprehend delinquents.” Jamieson.

=coup=, =cupe=, cup.

=couped=, =koupd=, =coped=, I, 469, 23; II, 313, 20; IV, 315, 14: overturned.

=couper=, =cowper=, IV, 259, 7; 260, 7: buyer and seller, dealer.

=couple-root=, I, 302, 13: rafter-end (the end resting on the wall).

=courting=, III, 146, 20: demonstration of affection, embracing.

=courtnolls=, V, 85, 14: courtiers.

=courtrie=, V, 191, 5; 198 b, after 52: belonging to a court, courtiers.

=coush=, =cosh=, IV, 483 =b=: quiet.

=coustome=, IV, 507, 78: duty (the king will remit).

=cout=, =cowte=, IV, 18, 20, 21; 21, 16: colt.

=couth=, II, 357, 2: sound, word, Jamieson (the sense required, but the suggested derivation from Icel. kviðr, A. S. cwide, is not easy).

=couent=, III, 60, 86; 357, 55: convent.

=coving-tree=, II, 193, =H= 4: meeting-tree. “A large tree in the front of an old Scottish mansion-house, where the laird met his visitors.” Similar to trysting-tree. Jamieson. In Roxburghshire, covin; in the north of England, covan, coban, and even capon. Denham Tracts, II, 226 ff.

=cow=, twig. See =broom-cow=, =heather-cow=, =kow=.

=cow=, =coll= (locks), II, 423, 4, 7: clip, (brume), III, 9, =H= 8: browse. (Norwegian kolla (Aasen), dock, take off the top.)

=cowing=, eating.

=cowper.= See =couper=.

=cowte=, colt. See =cout=.

=coxcomb=, III, 35, 19: pate.

=crabby= (crabbed), III, 488, 23: provoking.

=crack=, =crak=, II, 271, 18; 488, 6, 10; III, 161, 28; IV, 261, 3; V, 106, =E= 3: talk. III, 487, 6, 14, 16: brag. crackd (the Border-side), IV, 146, 4: defied, challenged. (In Scott’s printed copy, _bragged_, defied.)

=crack=, =crak=, a moment of time. in a crack, within a crack, IV, 314, 16; 315, 13; 317, =E= 6; V, 271, 13: instantly.

=crack fingers=, in grief or perplexity, II, 26, =G= 16. See =knack=.

=crae=, _pret._, V, 253 a, No 200, =B a= 8: crew.

=crak.= See =crack=.

=cramoisie=, =cramasie=, IV, 93, 8, 2, 3; 410, 17, 20; 472, 9: crimson.

=crap=, II, 261, 10; 286, 16: crop, top.

=crap=, _pret._ of creep, II, 323, 3; 330, =H= 3; 336, =P= 2; 337, 3.

=crapotee=, I, 326, 6: toad-stone, supposed to be generated in the head of toads; “in fact, a petrifaction of the teeth of extinct fishes.” Mätzner. Sometimes defined, smaragdus, emerald.

=cravin=, II, 335, =N= 2: asking for, demanding.

=crawen=, =crawn=, _p. p._ of craw, crow, II, 139 f., 7, 12, 22; 222, 17; IV, 473, 36.

=cray=, cry.

=credence=, III, 449 b: credit.

=creed=, _n._, IV, 262, 13, 14: blame.

=creel=, V, 122, 5, 11, 12; 123, 5, 11; 124, 4, 12: basket.

=creep=, _pret._ crap. See =crap=.

=cries=, _n._, II, 73, 22: calls, demands.

=Cristiantë=, =Cristinty=, =Cristendie=: Christendom.

=croche=, I, 413, 36: crouch.

=croft=, IV, 142 a: a piece of land adjoining a house.

=crooden=, =croodin=, =croodlin=, =croudlin=, I, 163 f., =J= 1, 2, etc.; 165, =M= 1, =N= 1, etc.; 166, =K c= 1: cooing.

=cropped= (knee), III, 280, 26: crooked (Icel. kroppinn).

=cross=, _v._, V, 306, 6 (correct V, 166, 7^2, in accordance with this reading): oppose. _p. p._, the sheriff was crost, III, 157, 30: balked.

=croudlin.= See =crooden=.

=crouds=, =cruds=, IV, 260, 5: curds.

=crouse=, =crouselie=, =crously=, II, 169, 9; III, 161, 28; IV, 261, 3; V, 17, 33: briskly, merrily, jubilantly. III, 493, 16: (perhaps) bumptiously. See =crowse=.

=crow=, =craw=, =crow=. ar the coc him crowe, I, 244, 18; V, 288 b, v. 33. _p. p._ crowen, crawen, crawn.

=crowen=, _p. p._ of crow, II, 138, 7.

=crowner=, I, 141 b: coroner.

=crowse=, III, 457, =B= 5: audacious. See =crouse=.

=crowt=, I, 273, 28: draw together, pucker up.

=cruds=, _n._, IV, 260, 7, 18, 19; 262, 30; 265, =A b= 1, 11: curds.

=cry=, =crye=, proclaim, proclamation. cry in, III, 320, =A b= 7: call in. cry on, upo, I, 127, 6; II, 150, 13; III, 318, 7; IV, 7, 24: call upon, summon. cryed out on Robyn Hode, III, 70, 296: cried out against, or, simply, cried out “R. H.”

=cryance=, II, 58 f., 18, 20, 21: cowardice, faintheartedness (disposition to succumb).

=cud=, V, 104 a: cudgel.

=cuddy=, IV, 69, 6: ass.

=cuirt=, _pret._, I, 439, =C= 11: covered.

=cuist=, =cust=, _pret._ of cast, II, 248, 1, 2; IV, 68, =E= 2; 182, =G= 5; 394, =C= 1; V, 116, 5. keist, kiest, I, 69, 46; 75, 36; 80, 4.

=cuisten=, _p. p._ of cast, I, 495, 11. See =custan=.

=cum=, V, 191, 8: become.

=cum=, _pret._ of come, III, 386, 22.

=cumand=, _ptc._, V, 192 f., 35, 49: coming.

=cumber=, V, 53, 104: oppress, torment. See =cumre=.

=cumbruk=, cambric.

=cummers=, V, 106, =E= 2: gossips (commères).

=cumre=, _n._, IV, 316, 19: cumber, trouble. See =cumber=.

=cun thanke=, III, 68, 242: am, feel, grateful.

=cunnes.= nones cunnes, I, 244, 11: of no kind. enes cunnes, I, 244, 12: of any kind.

=cunning=, V, 82, 21: craft (mystery, trade).

=curch=, =curche=, II, 131, 6; III, 472, 10: kerchief, woman’s head covering.

=cure=, III, 262, 7: pains. McNaughtoun’s cure, II, 386, 25: “McNaughtoun’s cure to ye is, Devil relieve ye.” Motherwell.

=curn=, III, 160, 19; IV, 85, 3: quantity, parcel, pack.

=curst turne=, III, 93, 34: malignant, spiteful, ferocious job, piece of work, feat.

=curstlye=, V, 53, 104: fiercely, savagely.

=curtal= (frier), III, 124 ff., 6, 7, 11, 13, etc.: (Lat. curtilarius) having charge of, attached to, the vegetable garden of a monastery. curtal dogs, 125, 34.

=cust=, _pret._ of cast, V, 116, 5. See =cuist=.

=custan=, _p. p._ of cast, III, 4, 2.

=cut=, V, 202 a: horse.

=cut=, V, 112, 7; 124, 6; 125, 5: bite, gnaw.

=cutted= (friar), III, 123, 3, 11, 13, 15, 17: short-frocked (but apparently a corruption of curtal, see III, 121 f.).

=cutters=, III, 228, 10: bravos, robbers.

=cuttie=, I, 72, 13; 74, 74: short.

=cutties=, II, 470, 49: spoons.

=cweet=, =queet=, II, 96, =I= 3: ankle.

=cypress queen=, as fair as a cypress queen, V, 164, 15: Cyprus, Cypris (Venus).

D

=’d=, for ’t (it). bla’d wind, bla’d weet, II, 21, 6; doo’d, IV, 464, 16; born’d, deal’d, 465, 22, 37; 471, 41; lai’d, 520, 10; dee’d, V, 248, 12.

=dabs=, II, 167 b, =F=: pricks.

=dada=, =dadda=, II, 339, 16, 18; V, 112, =B b= 5: daddie.

=daft= (love), II, 410, 8: foolishly fond.

=dag-durk=, I, 55, 12: dagger.

=daggie=, IV, 258, 25: drizzling (dag, a slight rain).

=daghter=, =dather=, daughter.

=daghterie=, IV, 324, 1: a word of no meaning, the original being simply _daughter_: see V, 272 b, 1.

=daigh=, =daighe=, I, 302, =A= 10; II, 467, 42: dough.

=dail=, IV, 430, 5: (dool) the grief, the ill consequences.

=daily=, =dayly=, daily flower, I, 76, 9, 15, 18; II, 393, 2; IV, 19, 8: (Icelandic dælligr, Danish deilig) beautiful, charming.

=daily dight=, IV, 432, 6: beautifully adorned.

=dairgie=, II, 195, 41: refection given after a funeral.

=dale=, been at a, III, 161, 28, 30: dole (to mendicants), satirically.

=dam=, II, 192, 10: dame.

=damasee=, II, 327, 32: damson plum.

=dame=, addressed to an unmarried girl by her father, IV, 195, 7.

=dandily=, V, 106, =E= 5: over nice or dainty.

=dandoo=, III, 5, =C= 7, 8: dun doe?

=dane=, =done=, I, 68, 20, 24; 69, 45, 53; II, 81 f., 41, 56: done. dane him to, III, 273, 15, 27: betaken himself. See =do=.

=dang=, _pret._ of ding, I, 55, 12; 129, =D= 6; 130, =F= 5; 133, =M= 7, 10; II, 253, 19; 261, 9; IV, 305, 18: beat, struck, knocked, thrust, shoved. dang down, III, 460, 32. _p. p._, II, 282, 10: overpowered.

=danger=, do danger, III, 163, 67: exercise of the power of a superior? violence?

=dank= (moat), V, 295, 7: damp, wet.

=danting=, =danton=, IV, 287, 1 (burden); V, 267, 1 (burden): (Fr. dompter) sexual conquest.

=danton=, V, 248, 19: subdue, intimidate. See =daunton=.

=daown=, _adv._, V, 304, 8: down.

=dapperpy=, IV, 185, 11: diapered, of variegated cloth.

=dather=, =dother=, V, 257, 15: daughter.

=datit=, IV, 467, 15: dawtit, caressed.

_dative of pronoun_: III, 58, 37, 44; 60, 82; 61, 100; 65, 184; 75, 381, 391. after verbs of motion (dative of the subject): I, 244, 10, 13; 326, 1; III, 70, 281.

=daunton=, =danton=, I, 325, 6; III, 364 b: daunt, subdue, put down.

=daut=, =dawt=, IV, 104, =O=; 277, 4; 302, 2: fondle, caress, make much of, pet.

=daw=, _v._, II, 146, 7: dawn. _p. p._ dawen, II, 139, 7, 12.

=dawdy=, II, 308, 5: the unborn young of an animal.

=dawt=, =daut=, IV, 304, 3; V, 106, =D= 3: caress.

=dawtie=, V, 117 f., =B= 5, 9, 13; 173, 11: darling.

=day=, =dey=, =die=, =dye=, IV, 257, =B= 9; 259, 7, 17; 260, 7, 16; 262, 16; V, 265 a, 10: dairy-woman.

=day=, =dayed=, die, died.

=dayly.= See =daily=.

=de=, =dee=, =dea=, =deei=, =die=, == do: I, 165, =N= 8; 183, 24; II, 175 f., 1, 8. a dee, II, 110, 25: to do. dee’d, V, 248, 12: do it. _p. p._ deen. See =dee=.

=dea=, die.

=dead=, =deed=, =deid=, =dede=, =died=, _n._, I, 104, 14; 353, 13; 388, =A= 11; 465, 19; II, 385, 25; 505, 92; III, 387, 16, 10; IV, 36, 3; 505, 57: death.

=dead.= be dead, II, 58, 5, 7; III, 23, 25; 28, 120; 99, 50: die.

=deak=, V, 270, 7: deck.

=dean=, =den=, IV, 167, =D= 5, 6, 11: hollow where the ground slopes on both sides, valley.

=dean=, done.

=dear=, =deare=, =dere=, I, 411, 5; III, 164, =b= 67: injury.

=Dear-Coft=, II, 62, 18: Dear-Bought.

=dearly=, IV, 98, =F= 6: costly.

=dearsome=, III, 488 f., 38, 44: costly.

=dear vow=, interjection of surprise or commiseration.

=deas=, II, 189, 24: pew (stone seat at the door of the church. Chambers). Same word as =dais=. See =dice=.

=deave=, I, 389, =C= 3; IV, 69, 17: deafen.

=debate=, III, 314, 64: quarrel.

=deceivin= (tree), III, 396, =N= 3: corruption of savin (see 380 a).

=decencey=, V, 242 b, 8: corruption of bencite, benedicite.

=deck-board=, =deck-buird=, oer (over), V, 138, =B= 5, 6; 139, =c= 6, 7: overboard.

=dede=, V, 283, 8: death. See =dead=.

=dee=, =deei=, =do=. how can this dee, I, 453, 6: be allowed, borne; and so, perhaps, a’ this winna dee (wont do), II, 97, 14. a’ this winna dee, gif ony prayer can dee, II, 132, 16; 176, 10; it wad na do, IV, 509 b, 13; _it_ widne deei, V, 227, 2: avail.

=dee=, =deei=, do. See =de=.

=dee=, =deei=, die.

=deed=, death. See =dead=.

=deed=, _v._, I, 164, =K= 6; 165, =O= 5: died.

=deed=, indeed. by my deed, III, 262, 12: on my word.

=deed-thraw=, III, 501, 10: death-throe.

=deei=, do, avail; die. See =de=, =dee=.

=deemed=, =demed=, III, 61, 95: judged. III, 356, 35: condemned.

=deen=, I, 16, =C= 18; II, 182 a; 409, 18, 19: done (with no sense in 19).

=deerlye= (dight), III, 340, 28, 36: expensively (ornamented). III, 356, 16, 31, 35: perhaps, with great cost to the sufferer, possibly, to his hurt; lovingly, out of love, would answer in the first two cases, but not in the third.

=deft=, III, 145, 3: neat, nice-looking.

=degree=, III, 323, 58; IV, 258, 20: rank, sort. served him in his ain degree, V, 191, 19; 193, 57: rendered him respect accordant with his rank. wee shall beare no degree, III, 333, 19: shall have no position, standing. (requite, thank, show) in euerye degree, V, 84 f., 9, 14, 27: to the full extent demanded by the occasion.

=deid=, I, 105, 26; 353, 13: death. See =dead=.

=deighte=, IV, 504, 29: dight, furnished, adorned, equipped.

=delated=, III, 449 a, b; IV, 63 b: accused.

=dell=, V, 79, 32: deal, bit, whit.

=dell=, II, 345, 29: we are apparently to understand that it was a dismal dell that brought James into the world (not in itself, but from the melancholy fact of his being born there). Possibly we may understand dell ==dule, affliction. But the piece is spurious, and we need not be nice.

=delle=, I, 327, 22: perhaps, dally, talk, disport; perhaps, deal.