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GLOSSARY

 

* jeely-piece, a slice of bread and jelly.
  • jennipers, juniper.
  • jo, sweetheart.
  • justifeed, executed, made the victim of justice.
  • jyle, jail.
  • kebbuck, cheese.
  • ken, to know.
  • kenspeckle, conspicuous.
  • kilted, tucked up.
  • kyte, belly.
  • laigh, low.
  • laird, landed proprietor.
  • lane, alone.
  • lave, rest, remainder.
  • linking, tripping.
  • lown, lonely, still.
  • lynn, cataract.
  • Lyon King of Arms, the chief of the Court of Heraldry in Scotland.
  • macers, officers of the supreme court. [Cf. Guy Mannering, last chapter.]
  • maun, must.
  • menseful, of good manners.
  • mirk, dark.
  • misbegowk, deception, disappointment.
  • mools, mould, earth.
  • muckle, much, great, big.
  • my lane, by myself.
  • nowt, black cattle.
  • palmering, walking infirmly.
  • panel, in Scots law, the accused person in a criminal action, the prisoner.
  • peel, fortified watch-tower.
  • plew-stilts, plough-handles.
  • policy, ornamental grounds of a country mansion.
  • puddock, frog.
  • quean, wench.
  • rair, to roar.
  • riff-raff, rabble.
  • risping, grating.
  • rout, rowt, to roar, to rant.
  • rowth, abundance.
  • rudas, haggard old woman.
  • runt, an old cow past breeding; opprobriously, an old woman.
  • sab, sob.
  • sanguishes, sandwiches.
  • sasine, in Scots law, the act of giving legal possession of feudal property, or, colloquially, the deed by which that possession is proved.
  • sclamber, to scramble.
  • sculduddery, impropriety, grossness.
  • session, the Court of Session, the supreme court of Scotland.
  • shauchling, shuffling, slipshod.
  • shoo, to chase gently.
  • siller, money.
  • sinsyne, since then.
  • skailing, dispersing.

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