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en. HAME, home. HANTLE, a great deal. HARST, harvest. HERSHIPS, plunder. HILDING, a coward. HIRSTS, knolls. HORNING, charge of, a summons to pay a debt, on pain of being pronounced a rebel, to the sound of a horn. HOWE, a hollow. HOULERYING AND POULERYING, hustling and pulling. HURLEY-HOUSE, a brokendown manor house. ILK, same; of that ilk, of the same name or place. ILKA, each, every. IN THE BEES, stupefied. INTROMIT, meddle with. KEN, know. KITTLE, tickle, ticklish. KNOBBLER, a male deer in its second year. KYLOE, a small Highland cow. LAIRD, squire, lord of the manor. LANG-LEGGIT, long-legged. LAWING, a tavern reckoning. LEE LAND, pasture land. LIE, a word used in old Scottish legal documents to call attention to the following word or phrase. LIFT, capture, carry off by theft. LIMMER, a jade. LOCH, a lake. LOON, an idle fellow, a lout, a rogue. LUCKIE, an elderly woman. LUG, an ear, a handle. LUNZIE, the loins, the waist. MAE, mair, more. MAINS, the chief farm of an estate. MALT ABUNE THE MEAL, the drink above the food, half-seas over. MAUN, must. MEAL ARK, a meal chest. MERK, 13 1/3 pence in English money. MICKLE, much, great. MISGUGGLED, mangled, rumpled. MONY, many. MORN, the morn, tomorrow. MORNING, a morning dram. MUCKLE, much, great. MUIR, moor. NA, nae, no, not. NAINSELL, own self. NICE, simple. NOLT, black cattle. ony, any. ORRA, odd, unemployed. ORRA-TIME, occasionally. OWER, over. PEEL-HOUSE, a fortified tower. PENDICLE, a small piece of ground. PINGLE, a fuss, trouble. PLENISHING, furnishings. PLOY, sport, entertainment. PRETTY MEN, stout, warlike fellows. REIFS, robberies. REIVERS, robbers. RIGGS, ridges, ploughed ground. ROKELAY, a short cloak. RUDAS, coarse, hag-like. SAIN, mark with the sign of the cross, bless. SAIR, sore, very. SAUMON, salmon. SAUT, salt. SAY, a sample. SCHELLUM, a rascal. SCOUPING, scowping, skipping, leaping, running. SEANNACHIE, a Highland antiquary. SHEARING, reaping, harvest. SHILPIT, weak, sickly. SHOON, shoes. SIC, siccan, such. SIDIER DHU, black soldiers, independent companies raised to keep peace in the Highlands; named from the tartans they wore. SIDIER ROY, red soldiers, King George's men. SIKES, small brooks. SILLER, silver, money. SIMMER, summer. SLIVER, slice, slit. S
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