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oils." _Whins_, furze. _Whisquer_, windy, blustering. _Whittle_, a knife. _Whupshaft_, a whip handle. _Wi'_, with. _Widdie_, a rope; a gallows. _Widdle_, to wriggle, bustle; to attain by violent exertion. _Wight_, courageous, stout. _Wimple_, a curl, an undulation. _Window-bole_, "the part of a cottage-window that is filled by a wooden blind, which may occasionally be opened." _Windlin_, a bottle of straw or hay. _Wink_, an instant, a twinkling. _Windlestrae_, a stalk of ryegrass. _Winna_, will not. _Wist_, wished. _Wisp_, to clean; to tie up with straw; a handful of straw. _Withershins_, the contrary direction. _Wizen_, weasand, the throat. _Woad_, mad. _Woo_, wool. _Woodie_, diminutive of wood. _Worry_, to strangle, to suffocate. _Wow_, the cry of a cat. _Wrang_, wrong, injury, hurt. _Wud_, mad. _Wuss_, to wish. _Wylie-coat_, a flannel vest. _Wyte_, to blame, to find fault with. _Yaird_, a yard, a kitchen garden. _Yeld_, barren. _Yer_, your. _Yerk_, to writhe, to start with pain. _Yeuky_, itchy. _Yewns_, "the refuse of grains blown away by the fanners." _Yirr_, to snarl like a dog. _Yokin_, the time that a horse should be in a cart. _Yoursel_, yourself. _Yowl_, to howl; the cry of a dog. _Yule_, Christmas. _Commercial Printing Company, Edinburgh._ End of Project Gutenberg's The Proverbs of Scotland, by Alexander Hislop *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PROVERBS OF SCOTLAND *** ***** This file should be named 26150.txt or 26150.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/1/5/26150/ Produced by Susan Skinner, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eB
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