OF THE OBSOLETE AND SCOTTISH WORDS IN VOLUME THE THIRD. Such words, as the reader cannot find here, he is desired to look for in the Glossaries to the other volumes. Ban, curse. B. Baud, s. bold. Bedeene, immediately. *Ben, s. within doors. Bent, s. long grass; also, wild, Beseeme, become. Beshradde, cut into shreds. Beshrew me a lesser form of Besmirche, to soil, discolour. Blent, blended. Blinkan, blinkand, s. twinkling. Blinking, p. 388, squinting, Blinks, s. twinkles, sparkles. Blinne, cease, give over. Blyth, blithe, sprightly, joyous. Banderolles, streamers, little Boon, favour, request, petition. flags. Bore, born. * Of the Scottish words Ben, and But; Ben is from the Dutch Binnen, Lat. intra, intus, which is compounded of the proposition By, or Be, the same as By in English, and of in. Brast, burst. Braw, s. brave. Brayde, drew out, unsheathed. Bridal, (properly bride-ale) the *Butt s. without, out of doors. Byre, s. cow-house. C. Canna, cannot. Chield, s. is a slight or familiar way of speaking of a person, like our English word fellow. The chield, i. e. the fellow. Christentie, Christendom. Crinkle, run in and out, run into flexures, wrinkle. Crook, twist, wrinkle, distort. Crowt, to pucker up. Cum, s. come. Can, 'gan, began. Caitiff, a slave. But, or Butt, is from the Dutch Buyten, Lat. extra, præter, præterquam, which is compounded of the same preposition By or Be, and of uyt, the same as out in English. D. Dank, moist, damp. Deed, (Introd,) dead. Deid bell, s. passing-bell. Descrye, p. 218, descrive, describe. Demains, demesnes; estate in lands. Fadge, s. a thick loaf of bread; figuratively any coarse heap of stuff. Fain, glad, fond, well-pleased. Feare, fere, feire, mate. Fet, fetched. Fillan', filland, filling. Find frost, find mischance, or disaster. A phrase still in use. Fit, s. feet. Flindars, s. pieces, splinters. Foregoe, quit, give up, resign. Forthy, therefore. Gowd, s. gold. Groomes, attendants, servants. Fou', Fow, s. full: Item, drunk. Gule, red. Frae, s. fro: from. Furth, forth. Fyers, (Introd.) fierce. Fyled, fyling, defiled, defiling. Guerdon, reward. Gyle, guile. H. Ha', s. hall. Gae, s. gave. G. Gae, gaes, s. go, goes. Gaed, gade, s. went. Gan, began. Gane, s. gone. Gang, s. go. Gar, s. make. Gart, garred, s. made. Hame, home. Hauss-bane, s. p. 113, the neckbone (halse-bone,) a phrase for the neck. Hee's, s. he shall: also, he has. Hey-day guise, p. 259, frolick; sportive frolicksome manner Heathenness, the heathen part of the world. Hem, 'em, them. Hente, (Introd.) held, pulled. Gear, geir, s. geer, goods, fur- Heo, (Introd.) they. Her, hare, their. Hett, hight, bid, call, command. Hind, s. behind. Hings, s. hangs. Hip, hep, the berry, which contains the stones or seeds of the dog-rose. Hir; hir lain, s. her; herself alone. Hole, whole. Hollen, p. 414, probably a cor- Honde, hand. This word is perhaps, in p. 259, corruptly given; being apparently the same with HEYDEGUIES, OF HEYDEGUIVES, which occurs in Spenser, and means a "wild frolick dance." John. son's Dictionary. Lacke, want. L. Lamb's wool, a cant phrase for ale and roasted apples, p. 235. Lang, s. long. Lap, s. leaped. Largesse, f. gift, liberality. Leech, physician. Leffe, (Introd.) leefe, dear. Leid, s. lyed. Lemman, lover. Leugh, s. laughed. Lewd, ignorant, scandalous. Libbard's-bane, a herb so called. Limitours, friars licensed to beg Bale, in his Actes of English Votaries (2d Part, fol. 53,) uses the word KYRTLE to signify a Monk's Frock. He says Roger Earl of Shrewsbury, when he was dying, sent "to Clunyake, in "France, for the KYRTLE of holy Hugh the Abbot there," &c. The adverbial Terminations -SOME and -LY were applied indifferently by our old writers: thus, as we have Lothly for Loathsome, above; so we have Ugsome in a sense not very remote from Ugly in Lord SURREY'S Version of Eneid II. viz. "In every place the UGSOME sightes I saw." Page [29.] |