OF OBSOLETE AND SCOTS WORDS AND PHRASES.
Affray , terror; fright: (v.) to frighten. Aggravate , to emphasise an enormity. Aggreage , to aggravate. Appointment , terms; agreement; truce or treaty. Arguesyn , lieutenant (naut.). Assedations , leases. Assurance , truce; agreement for truce. Bauk , beam. Bear , barley. Bide , to abide; biaden , abode. Bill , letter; petition. Birse , bristle; beard. Block-house , tower; fort. Boss , a worthless character. Bourding , jesting. Brook , to soil. Bruik , to enjoy; to possess. Bruit , common talk; rumours; repute. Buds , gifts; bribes. Buist (for browst ), brewing. Buist , box; chest. Burgess , inhabitant of a burgh who has full municipal rights. Burn , brook. Burn his bill , make recantation. Camp-volant , expeditionary force. Cass , to annul. Censement , judgment. Chalder , a grain measure of about 90 bushels. Chamber-child , valet-de-chambre. Chanters , laics endowed with ecclesiastical benefices. Chap , to strike; to knock. Cheek-mate , familiar. Chimley , chimney; fire-basket. Clawback , sycophant. Clerk-play , a dramatic entertainment founded on a passage of Scripture; a “mystery.” Cognition , evidence. Comfort , strength; godly confidence. Commend , an ecclesiastical benefice committed to a temporary holder. Commendator , the holder of a commend. Commodity , advantage. Compear , to present oneself in response to a summons. Compone , to agree. Consequently , in sequence. Consistory , Church Court. Cordelier friar , Franciscan. Cowp , to tilt. Craig , neck. Credit , mandate; written instructions. Crown of the sun , a French crown having as mint mark an emblem of the sun: gold coin worth 18s. Cuid , chrisom. Culverin , the largest cannon used in the 16th century. Cummer , entanglement; broil; brawl. Cunyie , mint, coinage; to mint, to coin. Dad , to knock; to thump. Dag , to shoot. Deambulator , promenade. Delate , to accuse. Delation , accusation. Delatour , procrastination. Dictament , phraseology. Ding , to knock violently; to dash (p. dang , p.p. dung ). Ditement , what is written. Divagation , wandering from the straight course. Divers , sundry. Doctrine , act of teaching. Document , warning; evidence. Dolour , grief; distress. Dontibour , courtesan. Dortour , hangings; decorative draperies. Dot , dowry. Doted , endowed. Down-thring , overthrow. Dule-weed , apparel of mourning. Dyke , wall. Dyttament , dictation; guidance. Effray , to frighten. Eke , to increase. Eke , eik , an addition. Eme , uncle; kinsman. Ensenyes , companies (milit.). Exercition , bodily exercise; military exercise.— Jamieson. Factors , stewards. Factory , Scots equivalent of a power of attorney. Fard , ardour; violence. Fash , to trouble. Fashery , trouble. Fashious , troublesome. Fertour , coffer. File , thread; sequence. Fillocks , giddy young women. Fley , to scare; to frighten. Flyrt and flyre , to mock and deride. Forethink , to repent. Fornent , over against. Frack , active; ready; make frack , make bustling preparation. Fray , fright. Fremmed , strange; unfriendly. Gaird , guard; civil establishment. Gait , way; route; upon the gait , on the move. Gar , to cause; gart , caused. Gear , goods; stuff. Girn , to grind or gnash the teeth. Girnell , granary. Glaise , a scorching. Glister , lustre. Glondours , a state of ill-humour. Good-daughter , daughter-in-law. Goodsire , maternal grandfather. Greet , to weep; grat , wept. Griping , extortionate. Gukstoun Glaikstour , apparently a nickname. “A contemptuous designation, expressive of the combination of folly and vainglory.”— Jamieson. Hackbut , harquebus: species of hand firearm used in 15th and 16th centuries. Hamesucken , the crime of beating or assaulting a person within his own house. Harberous , hospitable. Hardess , harshness. Herschip , plundering. Horn , public intimation of outlawry. Horning , outlawry; process of outlawry. How , hollow; underground. Hurl , to wheel. Improve , to disprove. Inable , to disqualify. Incontinently , forthwith. Indifference , impartiality. Indifferent , impartial. Induration , hardening of heart. Indure , to remain of firm purpose. Ingyne , ingenuity; genius. Institute , to place in authority. Irons , coining dies. Ish , to come out; to sally forth. Jack , a coat of mail. Jackman , armed follower. Jefwellis , jailbirds. Jow , to toll. Kep , to intercept; to catch. Kindness , fealty of retainers. Knap , to strike. Knapscall , head-piece. Kythe , to show; to practise. Lair , to stick in the mire. Lavachre , washing. Lesing , lying. Let , hindrance. Letters , writs under the royal signet; summonses. Lippen , to trust. Manrent , vassalage. Mansworn , perjured. Marrow , match; equal. Mell , to meddle. Menyie , crowd of followers. Mint , threat. Modify , adjust. Mows , jest. Myster , skill; mastery. Napkin , pocket-handkerchief. Navy , fleet. Neifeling , fisticuffs. Neifs , fists. Noisome , annoying; troublesome. Pare , to diminish. Partaker , ally. Patron , skipper. Penult , second last (day). Peregrine , foreign; irrelevant. Placebo , the opening antiphon of vespers for the dead, in the Romish service; from opening words of Psalm xvi. Placeboes , parasites; flatterers. Plack , a small copper coin. Platt , to place close. Platt on his knees , threw himself on his knees. Pock , bag; case. Poise , secret hoard of money. Pottinger , apothecary. Power , forces. Practise , to intrigue. Prevent , anticipate. Propine , to present gifts. Purchase , to sue out; to procure. Purpose , conversation. Rays , yards (naut.). Reduce , to bring back. Reek , smoke. Regiment , rule; control. Reif , robbery. Retreat , to repudiate; to withdraw. Rowping , crying hoarsely. Ruse , boast. Sark , shirt. Scaill , scaling-ladder. Schybald , mean fellow. Scrimple , to shrivel. Scrip , to mock. Seinyiè , synod; consistory. Skaill , to disperse; to spill. Slanting , range of fire. Slogan , battle-cry. Sloken , to quench. Snappers , stumbles. Sned , to clip, as with shears. Sparse , to spread abroad. Speir , to inquire. Splent , armour for the legs. Spunk , spark. Spurtle , porridge stick. Stammer , to stagger. Stark , strong. Stay , impediment. Stock , crop from which teind was drawn. Stog , to stab. Stog-sword , long small-sword. Stool , pulpit. Stoop , support. Stout , staunch. Stowth , theft. Sturr , to make disturbance or trouble. Suppostis , supporters. Sweir , unwilling. Tabernacle , a shrine for host consecrated at mass. Targetting of tails , bordering of gowns with tassels. Teind , tenth-part; tithe. Tine , to lose; tint , lost. Tinsel , loss. To-look , prospect. Tor , arm (of a chair). Umquhile , late; deceased. Upaland , at a distance from the sea; in the country. Upfall , matter cast up; incident. Vassalage , feats of valour. Vilipended , slighted; undervalued. Warsel , wrestle. Whinger , hanger (kind of sword). Wiss , to imagine. Wodness , fury; madness. Wolter , overturn. Wyte , blame. Yett , gate.
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