aur, _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_.

guid, _good_.

gumption, _common-sense, judgment_.

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_.

howf, _haunt_.

hunkered, _crouched_.

hypothec, _lii. 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_.

riffraff, _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, _i