Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer

periapts, amulets.

pike, pick.

pinners, a headdress.

pirn, a reel.

pit, put.

plash, splash.

plough-gate of land, land that can be tilled with one plough.

pock, a pouch, a bag.

poinded, impounded.

poschay, a post-chaise.

pouches, pockets.

pow, the head.

powny, a pony.

preceese, exact.

precentor, a leader of congregational singing.

prin, a pin.

puir, poor.

quean, a young woman, a wench.

rade, rode.

ramble, a spree.

rampauging, raging.

randle-tree, a horizontal bar across a chimney, on which

pot-hooks are hung; sometimes used as an opprobrious epithet.

randy, wild.

ranging and riping, scouring and searching.

rape, rope.

rasp-house, a custom-house.

red cock craw, kindle a fire.

redding-straik, a blow received when trying to separate

combatants.

reek, smoke.

reif and wear, robbery and injury.

reise, a bough.

reist, smoke.

reiver, a robber.

retour, return of a writ.

rin, run.

ripe, search.

rive, rend, rob.

rotten, rottan, a rat.

roup, an auction.

roupit, sold at auction.

routing, snoring, bellowing.

rubbit, robbed.

rump and dozen, meat and drink, a good dinner.

run goods, smuggled goods.

sack, sackcloth.

sae, so.

saft, soft.

sain, bless.

sair, sore.

sail, shall.

samyn, the same.

sang, song.

sark, a shirt.

saugh, a willow tree.

saul, soul.

saut, salt.

sax, six.

scaff-raff, riff raff.

scart, scratched, written on.

schnaps, a dram of liquor.

scones, flat round cakes.

scouring the cramp-ring, said metaphorically for being

thrown into fetters or, generally, into prison.

screed o’ drink, a drinking bout.

sell’d, sold.

semple, simple, poor people.

shake-rag, a tatterdemalion.

shanks, legs.

shealing, sheiling, a shed, a hut.

shear, cut.

sherra, a sheriff.

shoeing-horn, something that leads to more drinking.

shoon, shoes.

shouther, a shoulder.

sic, so, such.

siclike, such.

siller, money.

sinsyne, since.

skeel, a bucket, a tub.

slack, a hollow, a morass.

slap, a breach.

sleepery, sleepy.

slow-hund, a sleuth hound.

sma’, small.

smack, smaik, a rogue, a low wretch.

snaw, snow.

soup o’ drink, a spoonful.

souple, a cudgel.

spae, foretell.

speir, ask.

sprug, a sparrow.

spunk, a spark.

start, betray.

stell, a stall, a covert.

stickit, stopped, hindered.

stir your gear, disturb your goods.

stark, a heifer, a bullock.

stiver, a small Dutch coin.

stoppit, stopped.

stoup, a drinking vessel, a wooden pitcher.

stown, stolen.

strae, straw.

strammel, straw.

streik, stretch.

suld, should.

sune, soon.

sunkets, delicacies, provisions of any kind.

sunkie, a low stool.

swear, difficult.

swure, swore.

syne, since.

ta’en, taken.

tait, a tuft.

tak, take.

tap, the top.

tass, a cup.

tat, that.

tell’d, told.

tent, care.

thack, thatch.

thae, those.

thegither, together.

thereawa’, thence, thereabout.

thrapple, the windpipe, the throat.

thristle, a thistle.

till, to.

tippenny, ale at twopence a bottle.

tod, a fox.

tolbooth, a jail.

toom, empty.

tow, a rope.

trine to the cheat, get hanged.

troking, intercourse, trafficking.

trow, trust.

tulzie, tuilzie, a scuffle, a brawl.

twa, two.

tweel, a web.

tyke, a cur.

umwhile, formerly, late.

uncanny, weird, unlucky.

unco, strange, very.

uphaud, uphold.

upright man, the leader (and greatest rogue) of the gang.

wa’, wall.

wad, would.

wadded, wedded.

wae, woe.

waefu’, woeful.

wale, choice.

ware, spend.

wark, work.

warld, the world.

warlock, a wizard.

waster, a long spear.

waur, worse.

wean, a young child.

wear, war.

weary fa’, curse.

wedder, a wether.

wee, small.

weel, well.

weel-faured, well-favored, prepossessing.

weize, direct, incline.

wessel, westward.

wha, who.

whaap, the (or the Hope), is the sheltered part or hollow of the

hill. Hoff, howff, haaf, and haven are all modifications of

the same word.

wheen, a few.

whigging, jogging.

whiles, sometimes.

whilk, which.

whin, a few.

whinger, a kind of knife, a hanger.

whistle, give information against one.

whittret, a weasel.

wi’, with.

win, get.

witters, the barbs of the spear.

woo’, wool.

woodie, wuddie, a rope, a halter, the gallows.

worricow, a hobgoblin.

wots na, does not know.

wrang, wrong.

wrang side of the blanket, illegitimate.

writer, an attorney.

wuddie, a rope, the gallows.

wuss, wish.

yaffing, chattering, barking.

yet, yere, your.

yont, beyond.