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WEIR OF HERMISTON

* earrand, errand.
  • ettercap, vixen.
  • fechting, fighting.
  • feck, quantity, portion.
  • feckless, feeble, powerless.
  • fell, strong and fiery.
  • fey, unlike yourself, strange, as if urged on by fate, or as persons are observed to be in the hour of approaching death or disaster.
  • fit, foot.
  • flit, to depart.
  • flyped, turned up, turned in-side out.
  • forbye, in addition to.
  • forgather, to fall in with.
  • fower, four.
  • fushionless, pithless, weak.
  • fyle, to soil, to defile.
  • fylement, obloquy, defilement.
  • gaed, went.
  • gang, to go.
  • gey an', very.
  • gigot, leg of mutton.
  • girzie, lit. diminutive of Grizel, here a playful nickname.
  • glaur, mud.
  • glint, glance, sparkle.
  • gloaming, twilight.
  • glower, to scowl.
  • gobbets, small lumps.
  • gowden, golden.
  • gowsty, gusty.
  • grat, wept.
  • grieve, land-steward.
  • guddle, to catch fish with the hands by groping under the stones or banks.
  • gumption, common sense, judgment.
  • guid, good.
  • gurley, stormy, surly.
  • gyte, beside itself.
  • hae, have, take.
  • haddit, held.
  • hale, whole.
  • heels-ower-hurdie, heels over head.
  • hinney, honey.
  • hirstle, to bustle.
  • hizzie, wench.
  • howe, hollow.
  • howl, hovel.
  • hunkered, crouched.
  • hypothec, lit. in Scots law the furnishings of a house, and formerly the produce and stock of a farm hypothecated by law to the landlord as security for rent; colloquially 'the whole structure,' 'the whole concern.'
  • Idleset, idleness.
  • Infeftment, a term in Scots law originally synonymous with investiture.
  • jaud, jade.

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