ettle_, to cherish.

_Philabeg_, the kilt.

_Phraise_, fair speeches, flattery, to flatter.

_Phraisin_, flattering.

_Pibroch_, a martial air.

_Pickle_, a small quantity, one grain of corn.

_Pigmy-scraper_, little fiddler; a term of contempt for a bad player.

_Pint-stomp_, a two-quart measure.

_Pine_, pain, uneasiness.

_Pingle_, a small pan for warming children's sops.

_Plack_, an old Scotch coin, the third part of an English penny.

_Plackless_, pennyless, without money.

_Plaidie_, diminutive of plaid.

_Platie_, diminutive of plate.

_Plew_, or _pleugh_, a plough.

_Pliskie_, a trick.

_Plumrose_, primrose.

_Pock_, a meal-bag.

_Poind_, to seize on cattle, or take the goods as the laws of Scotland
allow, for rent, &c.

_Poorteth_, poverty.

_Posie_, a nosegay, a garland.

_Pou, pou'd_, to pull, pulled.

_Pouk_, to pluck.

_Poussie_, a hare or cat.

_Pouse_, to pluck with the hand.

_Pout_, a polt, a chick.

_Pou't_, did pull.

_Poutherey_, fiery, active.

_Pouthery_, like powder.

_Pow_, the head, the skull.

_Pownie_, a little horse, a pony.

_Powther_, or _pouther_, gunpowder.

_Preclair_, supereminent.

_Preen_, a pin.

_Prent_, printing, print.

_Prie_, to taste; _prie'd_, tasted.

_Prief_, proof.

_Prig_, to cheapen, to dispute; _priggin_, cheapening.

_Primsie_, demure, precise.

_Propone_, to lay down, to propose.

_Pund, pund o' tow_, pound, pound weight of the refuse of flax.

_Pyet_, a magpie.

_Pyle, a pyle, o' caff_, a single grain of chaff.

_Pystle_, epistle.

Q.

_Quat_, quit

_Quak_, the cry of a duck.

_Quech_, a drinking-cup made of wood with two handles.

_Quey_, a cow from one to two years old, a heifer.

_Quines_, queans.

_Quakin_, quaking.

R.

_Ragweed_, herb-ragwort.

_Raible_, to rattle, nonsense.

_Rair_, to roar.

_Raize_, to madden, to inflame.

_Ramfeezled_, fatigued, overpowered.

_Rampin'_, raging.

_Ramstam_, thoughtless, forward.

_Randie_, a scolding sturdy beggar, a shrew.

_Rantin_', joyous.

_Raploch_, properly a coarse cloth, but used for coarse.

_Rarely_, excellently, very well.

_Rash_, a rush; _rash-buss_, a bush of rushes.

_Ratton_, a rat.

_Raucle_, rash, stout, fearless, reckless.

_Raught_, reached.

_Raw_, a row.

_Rax_, to stretch.

_Ream_, cream, to cream.

_Reamin'_, brimful, frothing.

_Reave_, take by force.

_Rebute_, to repulse, rebuke