pages, his vital
poetry of vision and magic of presentment. Surely no son of Scotland has
died leaving with his last breath a worthier tribute to the land he
loved.

S. C.

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, cock-laird, _small landed proprietor, yeoman_.

bool, _ball, technically marble, here = sugar-plum_.

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_.

cuddy, _donkey_.

cuist, _cast_.

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_.

dule-tree, _the tree of lamentation, the hanging tree_.

dunting, _knocking_.

dwaibly, _infirm, rickety_.

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 inside 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_.

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