# Weir of Hermiston/Glossary

GLOSSARY
* ae, one.
* antinomian, one of a sect which holds that under the gospel dispensation the moral law is not obligatory.
* Auld Hornie, the Devil.
* ballant, ballad.
* bauchles, brogues, old shoes.
* bauld, bold.
* bees in their bonnet, eccentricities.
* birling, whirling.
* black-a-vised, dark-complexioned.
* bonnet-laird, small landed proprietor, yeoman.
* bool, ball.
* brae, rising ground.
* brig, bridge.
* buff, play buff on, to make a fool of, to deceive.
* burn, stream.
* butt end, end of a cottage.
* byre, cow-house.
* ca', drive.
* caller, fresh.
* canna, cannot.
* canny, careful, shrewd.
* cantie, cheerful.
* carline, old woman.
* cauld, cold.
* chalmer, chamber.
* claes, clothes.
* clamjamfry, crowd.
* clavers, idle talk.
* cock-laird. See Bonnet-laird.
* collieshangie, turmoil.
* crack, to converse.
* cuist, cast.
* cuddy, donkey.
* cutty, jade, also used playfully = brat.
* daft, mad, frolicsome.
* dander, to saunter.
* danders, cinders.
* daurna, dare not.
* deave, to deafen.
* denty, dainty.
* dirdum, vigour.
* disjaskit, worn out, disreputable-looking.
* doer, law agent.
* dour, hard.
* drumlie, dark.
* dunting, knocking.
* dwaibly, infirm, rickety.
* dule-tree, the tree of lamentation, the hanging-tree. ​
* 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. ​
* 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. ​
* skelp, slap.
* skirling, screaming.
* skriegh-o'day, daybreak.
* snash, abuse.
* sneisty, supercilious.
* sooth, to hum.
* sough, sound, murmur.
* spec, The Speculative Society, a debating Society connected with Edinburgh University.
* speir, to ask.
* speldering, sprawling.
* splairge, to splash.
* spunk, spirit, fire.
* steik, to shut.
* stockfish, hard, savourless.
* suger-bool, suger-plum.
* syne, since, then.
* tawpie, a slow foolish slut, also used playfully = monkey.
* telling you, a good thing for you.
* thir, these.
* thrawn, cross-grained.
* toon, town.
* two-names, local soubriquets in addition to patronymic.
* tyke, dog.
* unchancy, unlucky.
* unco, strange, extraordinary, very.
* upsitten, impertinent.
* vennel, alley, lane. The Vennel, a narrow lane in Edinburgh running out of the Grassmarket.
* vivers, victuals.
* wae, sad, unhappy.
* waling, choosing.
* warrandise, warranty.
* waur, worse.
* weird, destiny.
* whammle, to upset.
* whaup, curlew.
* whiles, sometimes.
* windlestae, crested dog's-tail, grass.
* wund, wind.
* yin, one.
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