read, reade, red, v., II, 52 f., 6, 34; III, 104, 2, 4; 105, 25: advise. read my rede, II, 186, 1: corrupted from riddle my riddle, 187, 2, 8. See riddle.
readilie, readylye, II, 23, E 7; 444, 43: (without difficulty or hesitation) certainly.
ready, V, 75, 6, 7; 81, 10: direct. readye, II, 58, 16: indubitable, certain.
reaf, reif, III, 458 b: plunder.
reak, smoke. See reek.
reaming, a suit o claise were o the apple reamin, IV, 176, 15: reaming==creaming, foaming, which of course gives little or no meaning. Apples were sometimes used to scent clothes.
rean, rin, run.
reap, V, 165 f., 6, 9:==ripe, search, rummage; see V, 306, 9.
reapen, p. p. of reap, II, 9, 26.
rear, rare.
reas, praise. See roos.
reas, ryse, III, 307, 5: rouse.
reast, reest, V, 256 b, 4: roost.
reaths. See raiths.
reave, IV, 26, 1: rob.
reave, rave, rive, pret. of rive, I, 442, 6; IV, 416, 18.
reavel(l)d, II, 140, 19, 20: ravelled, disordered (of hair).
reaver, rever, riever, IV, 85, 2: robber.
recher, compar., V, 283, 10, 20: richer.
reck, v., II, 340 b, 2d line: rock (perhaps miswritten).
recones, IV, 496 b: reckonings.
record, sma, III, 319, 22: note.
red, redd, rede, n., II, 182, 4; III, 112, 58: counsel. I, 22, B 1; 227 a, 5: talk, tale. See read.
red, redd, rede, reid, v., I, 329, 58; II, 59, 20; 62 a, 15; 182, 4, 6, 9, 10; 272, 6; IV, 495, 2; V, 191, 8: advise.
red, III, 163, 80: to rid, clear out. of hair, comb (see redding-kaim). red the question, II, 253, 18: clear up, settle.
red lan(d), I, 16, C 11; IV, 274, 6; V, 206 a, 5: cleared, ploughed.
red river comb, II, 216, 19, 21: corrupted, as are other versions in this passage.
redding-kaim, reeding-comb, III, 452, 8; IV, 515, 7: comb (for disentangling).
rede. See red.
rede, p. p., III, 298, 53: read, divined, discerned.
rede, pret. of ride, III, 63, 134 (reden, they rode); IV, 182, F 5. See read.
redly, III, 67, 223: quickly.
reeding-comb. See redding-kaim.
reef, I, 333, 5: roof.
reef-tree, I, 299, 5: roof-tree, beam in the angle of a roof.
reek, reak, reik, n., II, 191, 24; 193, 21; 195, 33; III, 433, C 6-8, D 12; 434, 15; 435, 14; IV, 514, 16, 20: smoke.
reek, v., I, 304, E 3; II, 30, L 2; V, 152, E b 1: rake, range, move, turn. See rake.
reekit, V, 108, B 7: smoked, smoky.
reel, reel went round, V, 155, C 2: revel, riot (of merry-makers)?
reem, II, 335, N 7: room.
reest, reast, IV, 189, 3, 4: roost.
reet, I, 367, 7; V, 213, 8: root.
reeve, V, 69 b: bailiff, steward. pl. reues.
refell, I, 110, 22: repel.
refer, message, II, 286, C 10: report, announce.
regulate, III, 509, 1, 7: corruption of, riddle it.
reid, v., V, 200 a, after 50: advise.
reif, reiff, III, 365 b; 471, note ‡; V, 198 b, after 52: robbery.
reign, II, 8, 1: for rhyme; range ? or rein, as 9, b 1.
reik, smoke. See reek.
reill, reel.
reiver, rever, riever, III, 472, 6; 473, 22: robber. See reaver.
rejoyfull, IV, 173, 7: rejoicing.
remeid, II, 367, 42; 371, 13; IV, 405, 49; 428, 7: remedy.
remorse, III, 209, 10; 231, 94: compassion.
remoued, II, 58, 4: agitated.
renisht, renisht them to ride of twoe good renisht steeds, II, 52, 8; 53, 42 (42 emended from, on tow good renish, in conformity with 8): should have some such meaning as accoutred, but a derivation is not to be made out. Qy. [ha]renisht, harnessed?
renown, spake wi renown, IV, 348, 11: force of authority (of prestige), or, with the air of a person of repute.
repair, II, 163, 18: resort to? fix upon? (probably nonsense for rhyme).
require, II, 427, 6: ask for. (Other texts, inquire.)
reset, IV, 281 a: harboring.
respect, in respect, III, 364 b: considering.
rest, pret. of rest, IV, 424, 12.
restore, IV, 425, 8: restore, because the morning-gift would revert to the father and be at his disposition, no son having been born.
retour, IV, 91, note †: return.
returned, III, 356, 33: turned away.
reuelle, I, 328, 51, 52: festivity.
rever, III, 458 b; IV, 472, 11: robber. See reaver.
reues, III, 68, 254: bailiffs. See reeve.
rewe, be rewe, II, 479, 15: in a row, one after another, each of the whole class. See rawe.
rewth, III, 28, 136: pity.
ribless kiln, I, 18, F 11: the ribs of a kiln for drying grain are the cross-beams, on which were laid the “stickles,” or short pieces of wood, to support a layer of straw (or hair-cloth, or bricks) on which the grain was placed. It would of course be impossible to dry grain on a ribless kiln.
rid, ried, red.
riddle, II, 184, 5, 8, 11, 18; 186, 1; 187, 2, 8; 196, e 1, 7: resolve. riddle my riddle, 187, 2, 8: resolve my dilemma. read my rede, 186, 1, is probably corrupted from riddle my riddle; cf. 187, 2, 8.
ried, ride.
rien, V, 161, 9; 162, B 6: riven.
riever, reiver, rever, IV, 84, 8; 195, C 3: robber. See reaver.
rig, rigg, riggin, ridge.
rig, rigg, of land, I, 19, 9; II, 152, 11; V, 164, 16; rig-length, III, 273, 23: a measure of land 600 feet by 15, containing 9000 square feet. Donaldson.
riggin, III, 459, 5: ridge.
right, III, 356, 19: right off, directly.
rigland, land under the plough, and so in rigs, ridges. rigland shire, II, 132, 32: a shire of such land (?).
rin, rine, rean, V, 221, 15: run.
ring, plural, II, 285, 16 f.: misprint in Scott?
ring (dancing), II, 104, 23; so, take me to the middel o the ring, V, 273, 12.
ring, knocked at the, with the, ring, II, 187, 12; 201, 2; 459, 10; III, 106, 4; 250, 11. rappit wi a, II, 462, 10. rapped on the, V, 293 b, 10. pulled at a, II, 490, D b 9. tinkled at the, II, 196 b, 4; 251, 4; 266, 7; 267, 9; 393, 11; 475, K 6: the hammer of a doorknocker. But, perhaps, in the case of tinkling, the ring may have been gently drawn up and down or struck against the projecting bow or rod of a door-handle (often wound with a spiral), an operation which, when vigorously performed, is described as risping or rasping.
ring (game), to ride at the ring, III, 448, A 3: to attempt, while at full gallop, to carry off, on the point of a rod, a ring suspended on a cross-beam resting on two upright posts. Jamieson.
ring and the ba, IV, 257, 4; 354, A b 1, 2: a game in which a ring was thrown up, and a ball was to be thrown through before the ring fell. Dr. W. Gregor. The rantin lassie plays at this, IV, 354.
ringle-tree, V, 112, B b 11: probably the huge block of wood used for scutching flax and mangling clothes. An old game-keeper tells me that he has heard the word and so understands it. When not in use for beating flax, the beetle and tree-block were used by the women to mangle their clothes after washing. W. Walker.
ripe, reap, rype, III, 160, 16; 163, 83, 84; V, 306, 9: search, rummage, clear or clean out, rifle.
rise, III, 332, 2: branch.
rise==raise: III, 513 b, 4. pret. rose, 514 a, 5. See ryse.
rise, pret. of rise, III, 369, 17.
rise, did on anchor rise so high, III, 344, 34: said of a ship in full sail; no apparent sense. (ride in B c, g, 347, 34; upon an anchor rose so high in h, 349, 34.)
rispen, fine rispen kame, II, 225, J 2: keen, sharp, risping, rasping? or, p. p., filed? (This passage is variously corrupted in different versions.)
ritted, II, 295, B b 4, 22: stuck, stabbed.
rive, rave, reave, pret. of rive, tear, V, 256, 13. p. p. II, 465, 4, 6, 8.
rive up, I, 303, 7: plough up, tear up.
riued, I, 284, 9: arrived, travelled.
river, III, 364 b: robber. See reaver.
river-comb, red, II, 216, A 19: is river a corruption of ivory? In B 2, 4, it is a tabean brirben kame. H 1, brown berry comb. J 2, fine rispen kame: fine-filed (?). All seem to be badly corrupted.
rook, roke, IV, 84, 14; 85, 4; 86, 6; 87, 4; V, 254 a, 4: distaff.
rocked, rocket, roked, II, 191, 24; 195, 33: smoked.
rod, III, 8, 21: a bier was extemporized by taking rods from bushes for spakes, spokes, or bars.
roddins, II, 408, 19, 20; 409 f., 21, 23: berries of mountain ash. (But the berries are said to grow on yonder thorn, 409, 21.)
rode, rood.
roelle-bone, I, 326; 6. royal bone, I, 466 f., 10, 33; royal ben, I, 478 f., 12, 46: interpreted variously, without satisfaction. See rewel-boon, Professor Skeat’s note to Chaucer’s Sir Thopas, v. 2068. Hertzberg suggests Reval bone, mammoth tooth, fossil ivory, imported into western Europe via Reval, Chaucer Nachlese, in Jahrbuch für Rom. und Engl. Litteratur, VIII, 164 f.; and Prof. Skeat (with a different derivation), ivory of the walrus, citing Godefroy, “rochal, ivoire de morse.”
roke, III, 298, 51: reek, vapor.
roke, V, 254 a, 4: rock, distaff. See rock.
roked, rocket, rocked, II, 191, 24; 193, 21; 195, 33; V, 224, 19: smoked.
rom, V, 304 b, 2: room.
rood, III, 93, 28: rod (a measure).
rood, four and thirty stripes comen beside the rood, II, 59, 29: referring to the scourging of Jesus (?).
room ye roun, II, 89, 29: move round so as to make room.
roome, III, 36, 44: companye (the reading in b).
roos, rous, reas, v., IV, 69, 21; 378, 2; 379, 2; 384, 2; V, 275, 2: to praise, laud, boast.
roose, n., IV, 503, 19: rose.
roosing, rosin, rousing, n., IV, 378, 1; 379, 1; 383, 1; V, 275, 1: praising, boasting, bragging.
root, I, 304, F 5: the end of a rafter, resting on a wall. ring of an auld tree-root, I, 304, F 4: hoops are sometimes made of tree-roots, which are very tough; the point here is the size of the fingers which such a ring would fit.
root of his sword, III, 268, 11: a blunder; see note, III, 275.
rose-garlonde, III, 75, 398: a “garland” appears to have been attached to the yerdes (397), and every shot outside of the garland was accounted a failure. The garland as the limit of allowable shots is mentioned at 93, 31. This must have been an extemporized ring of twigs in the latter case, and was so, perhaps, in the other, for it is likely that the term would become conventional, and mean, as Mr C. J. Longman suggests, nothing more than a disk with circular rings, such as survive to this day in archery targets.
rosin, V, 275, 11: boasting. See roosing.
rosses, roses.
rottens, rottons, I, 466, 8; V, 124, 6: rats.
roudes, II, 284, 4: haggard (subst., an old wrinkled woman).
roun, rown, round, III, 199, 28; 356, 19: whisper.
rounin(g), n., V, 256, 10: whispering.
round, so it went round, IV, 146, 7: so much it came to (?).
round tables, II, 343, 1: a game.
roundlie, I, 104, 6: at a good pace.
rous, roos, reas, IV, 379, 2; V, 275, 2: boast of.
rousing, n., boasting. See roosing.
rout, n., III, 160, 22: blow.
rout, n., IV, 113, 3; 114, D 1: row, brawl, disturbance.
rout, v., II, 318 a; IV, 378, 5; 380, 11: roar. IV, 6, 15; V, 250, 14: bellow.
route, rowte, rowght, III, 23, 22; 26, 88; 180, 9; 207, 33: company, band, crowd. In III, 297, 33: perhaps mêlée, affray.
routh, I, 298, 1: plenty.
row, rough.
row, rowe, I, 71, 61; 80, 33; 441, 6, 8; II, 443, 35; 448, 39; IV, 267, 9; 269 b, 9: roll. pret. and p. p. rowed, rowd, rowit, rowt, I, 441, 7, 9; IV, 274, 15; V, 106, D 7: rolled, wound.
rowan, rowon, rown, tree, II, 504, 18: mountain-ash.
rowe, on a, III, 67, 229; 117, 24: in a line, file.
row-footed, III, 473, 25: rough-footed.
rowght, III, 297, 33: company. ryall in rowghte, kingly among men. See route.
rowght, wrought.
rown, I, 312, 17, 22: rowan, mountain-ash. See rowan.
rown, roun, round, III, 356, 19: whisper.
rowt, pret., V, 106, D 7: rolled. See row.
rowte. See route.
rowynde, III, 297, 33: round.
royal bone, royal ben. See roelle-bone.
royaltye, III, 411, 5: splendid display, or the like.
rub-chadler, rub-chandler, I, 285 f., 31, 43: rubbish-barrel. See I, 279.
rudd, n., I, 272, 13, 20, 24: (redness) complexion, face.
rudd, v., IV, 28, 34: redden.
rudely, III, 162, 49: sturdily.
rue, III, 220, 6: cause to rue.
rugge, I, 243, 2: back.
rule, III, 98, 32: going on, taking on, noisy bewailing.
run, IV, 289, F 6: issue, outcome (said to be slang).
run, red runs i the rain, II, 304, 4: gives no sense, and so of Scott’s reading at this place, the red sun’s on the rain. It will be observed that the day has not dawned.
run a reel, II, 108, 17: gone through, danced.
rung, I, 202, A 12; III, 161, 43; IV, 444, 20: staff, pike-staff.
rung (of the noise of a cannon), n., IV, 52, 14: ring; appears to have been altered, for rhyme, from ring, which is in two other copies.
rusty, V, 151, E 6: surly.
rybybe, I, 328, 49: a stringed instrument.
ryght, straight, directly, ryȝth, V, 283, 14: aright.
rynde, be rynde and rent, III, 297, 42: flayed., (rynde should perhaps be riven.)
rype, v. See ripe.
ryse, III, 22, 2; 23, 20: rouse. See rise.
rysse, I, 328, 39: probably rising ground, elevation (compare mountayne, playne, delle, hill, in 38, 40-42: not twig, brushwood).
rysyt, I, 242, 11: riseth (old imperat. pl.), rise.
s, se, as sign of the future tense. I’se, III, 488, 19; IV, 428, 18. thou’s,’se, IV, 3, 31; 12, C 6. he’s, hee’se, II, 442, 16; IV, 146, 6. we’s, I, 467, 29; IV, 181, D 14. ye’se, IV, 22, 18; 109, 7. yow’s, IV, 504, 36. they’s, IV, 486, 32. itt’s, II, 443, 22. heart’s, IV, 181, 17. Jocky Ha’s, III, 487, 6. thy dinner’s, III, 489, 41. (The s being the initial letter of sal, it would be better to write I s’, etc.) s attached to the verb, be’s, III, 160, 9. We even find shals, I, 481, 28.
-s (-is), of the genitive, omitted, III, 97 f., 8, 23, 28; 111, 39. moder son, III, 98, 24, 27, as in A. S.
’s, II, 375, 19: of his.
-s (-se), termination of the 2d pers. sing, of the pres. indic. thou was, I, 222, E 11; seese þou, I, 328, 38-42; þou commes, 44. thou’s welcome, III, 488, 24. shals thou, I, 481, 28. istow, 175 f., D 4, 10, 16. See I, 130, 5; 327, 20; 328 f., 56, 58; 341, 13; 411, 4; 413, 3; II, 54, 57; 148 f., 12, 20; 218, 8, 10, 16; III, 97, 11, 15; 99, 62; 110, 23. Etc., etc.
-s, -es, -ys, termination of pres. indic. plur. cods that sleeps, cheeks gars, bairns has, lies men, raches rynnys, fowles synges, I, 68, 29; 115, C 3; 130, F 11; 327, 16; 329, 59; 342, 40; 345, 39; II, 32, P 4. So, is, was, I, 68, 27; 69, 43; 255, 3-5; 342, 30; 344, 28; II, 71, 13, 14. Etc.
saa, pret., saw.
sabelline, I, 221, D 8, 9: sable.
sackless, sakeless, saikless, II, 145, 22, 23; 153, 19, 21; III, 437, 27; IV, 373, 9: innocent.
sad, III, 67, 215; 357, 40: steadfast, firm, stanch.
saep, v., III, 269, D 3: soap.
saerd, p. p., IV, 494, 33: served.
safe, II, 160, 4, 6, 7: save.
safeguard, V, 66, 11: riding-skirt.
safer, V, 283, 21: saffron.
safly, IV, 18, 10: softly.
saft (of sleep), III, 489, 11: lightly.
saikless. See sackless.
sain, I, 351, 36, 48: cross, bless. p. p. sained, I, 354, 26. ill sained, pret., I, 350, 25. well saint, p. p., III, 488, 37.
saint, III, 488, 37: blest. See sain.
saint, v., disappear. See sainted.
St Mary knot(t), III, 465, 26, 27: a triple knot (see 462, note *).
sainted, saunted, I, 331, C 8; 333 b, 8: disappeared.
saipy-sapples, I, 303, D 5 (the right reading): soap-suds in which clothes have been washed (probably meaning the strang of V, 213, 5).
sair, sore. I, 100, 9: lamentable.
sair, sare, saer, sere, I, 301, 2; II, 71, 15; 105, 9; 408, 1, 2; IV, 248, 10; V, 105, B 3, 11; 239, 34: serve.
sairly, IV, 358, 19: rhyme word; much is all the meaning.
sait, set.
sakeless. See sackless.
sale, V, 228, 19: sold.
sall, shall, pret. sould.
sally rod, III, 252, 12: sallow, willow.
salten, adj., IV, 452, 6; 475, 6: salt.
salued, III, 61, 102: greeted.
Saluter, III, 250, 3: corrupted from Sir Hugh (see other versions of the ballad).
same, alle in same, III 91 a: all, together. vppon the same, III, 361, b 33: again, after the same fashion (?).
san, sane, sayn, syne, V, 214 f., 4, 9; 221, 24; 242 a, 7; 257, 14: since.
sanchoþis, of his bryk, III, 13, 3: apparently the fork of the breeches, but the etymology is to me inexplicable.
sang, pret. of sing, to singe, II, 155, 37, 38.
sanna, shall not.
sarbit, II, 132, 33, 34: exclamation of sorrow.
sare, serve. See sair. sare a man a wear, I, 301, 2: serve, supply, a man (of) with his wear, clothing.
sark, I, 15, 8, 17; 16, B 8, 18, C 6, 18, etc.; 387 f., A 5, 8, 9; B 5, 6, 7: shirt, shift.
sarsenent, IV, 312, 8: sarcenet.
sassaray, II, 209, E 5: imitation of the sound of church-bells. See céserará.
sat, saut, I, 310, 4: salt.
sate, sit a gude sate, a silly sate, IV, 469, 8: occupy, be in, a good, pitiable, position.
sathe, I, 333, appendix 1, wrongly written (or read) for sagh (or something equivalent), saw. (th in this piece very frequent for gh.)
saugh, III, 459, 15; IV, 95, 2: willow.
saun faile, V, 297 b: assuredly.
saunted, sainted, I, 331, C 8; 335 b, 8: disappeared.
saut, sat, IV, 258, 26: salt.
saute, III, 327 b: assault, attack.
sauyour, see (saw) my sauyour, III, 97, 7: attended mass, or, took the sacrament.
saving tree, III, 398, D 4: corruption of savin tree.
saw, v., I, 427, 13, 15; 428, 11: sow.
sawe, p. p. of see, III, 59, 60.
sawe, speech.
sawten, v., 3 pl., III, 100, 63: assault, attack.
sawtrye, I, 328, 49: psaltery, a stringed instrument.
say, II, 87, 30: try.
say, saye, pret. of see, III, 111, 34; 309, 44; V, 79, 35; 80, 47.
sayn, san, sane, syne, V, 239, 34; 254, 9, 11, 13, 22; 257, 15: since, then.
sayne, I, 70, 19, strong participle of say. In, I yow sayne, III, 297, 46, an auxiliary, do or can, must be omitted, or else we must read saye, as in 32, 34, 62, 65.
scad, I, 102, 12: reflection (of the color of). In other texts, shade, shadow, I, 490, 21; 491, 20; 492, 12.
scaith, skaith, scath, n., III, 162, 52, 66: hurt.
scaith, skaith, v., III, 5, D 8; 6, 17: hurt.
scale, I, 429, 11: a drinking-vessel. (Icelandic skál, Danish skaal, a bowl for drinking.)
scale, III, 403 a: scatter, disperse. III, 393, 6: expel, drive away. scaling wide, III, 301, D 2: scattering, covering a good deal of ground.
scales, V, 211, 25, 31-34: discs worn as ornaments on the head.
scanct, I, 336 a, last line but one: shone, gleamed.
scarson, II, 434, 29: scarcely up to.
scart, I, 301, 5, 6; 303, D 2: scratch, scrape.
scath, scaith, n., I, 284, 18: harm.
scathe, awayte me scathe, III, 66, 202; wayte me skathe, wait me scath, III, 83, 202; 86, 202: lie in wait, seek an opportunity to do me harm.
scathe away, I, 348 f., 5, 8: expel, get rid of? See skaith, I, 397, 14.
scaur, Braidscaur, III, 5, D 2, 6: a bare and broken place on a steep hill; also, cliff, precipice. Broadspear, 6, 2, 5, is probably a corruption.
Scere-thorsday, I, 243, 1: Maundy Thursday, Thursday before Easter. (Icelandic Skíri-þorsdagr.)
schane, pret., shone.
scharpper, compar., V, 283, 6, 16: sharper. V, 283, 8: emend to strenger.
schele, scheel, II, 164, 2; 335, N 5; IV, 328, A b, after 7: school. See schule.
schet, schette, pret. of schote, shoot, III, 13 f., 13, 15.
schill. See shill.
scho, II, 146, 19; IV, 418, 2: she.
schon, shon, shone, V, 79, 27: shoes. See sheen.
schoote his horsse away, froo, III, 297, 32, 33: discarded, sent off.
schrewde (arrow), III, 13, 6: accursed, pernicious, baneful.
schule, scheel, squeel, II, 175, 16; IV, 327 f., 2, 5; 329, D d 7: school.
schunte besides, beside, III, 361, b, c 38, 41: turn aside from.
schylde, imperat., V, 283, 14: shield, protect.
sckill, I, 295, 28: reason, judgment. See skill.
sclasps, twa lang sclasps between his eyes, IV, 489, 25: clasps. Span would answer were it not that there are but three sclasps between the shoulders. (In L 18, of the same ballad, II, 394, there are three women’s spang (span) between his brows.) If sclasps were taken in the sense of fathom, the space between the arms extended, this would suit the shoulders well enough, but the absurd disproportion in relation to the eyes would remain. Probably yard or ell has dropped out in 254. (yards three in L 18.)
sclavin, I, 190 a: pilgrim’s cloak.
scob(b), scope, scoup, II, 313, 26; 316, 10: gag.
scop, III, 138, 9: (scalp) pate, head.
scope, scoup, scob, II, 312, 29; V, 229, 33: gag.
score. See cor.
scorn, skorne, II, 105, 20; III, 113, 77: shame, humiliation, mortification. give the, this, a, scorn, III, 111, 12; 360, 23; 362, 35; 363, D 14; 367, 49; IV, 201, 23; 224, 24, 25; 254, 25; 357, B 6, 10; 358, 16; 465, 35, 36: put to shame, subject to humiliation (especially, by showing a preference as to marriage, or by slighting a woman). So, playd you the scorn, IV, 483, 25; get the scorn, II, 367, 47; IV, 221, 16; 222, 18, 19; 227, 16, 17; 228, 19; 230, 24.
scort, I, 334, 4: short.
scoup, n., V, 229, 33: gag. See scob, scope.
scoup, v., II, 70, 15: move hastily from one place to another, fly.
scouth, III, 161, 42: room, range.
scray, III, 116, 4, as to form suggests scrag, scrog; but the meaning required is, branches, branchage, or even spray.
scread, II, 425, A 6: shred, bit, piece.
screeded (or scrieded), pret., II, 212, 13: rent.
screeking, screehing, II, 485, 17: screeching.
screfë, screffë, shryvë, III, 111 ff., 27, 33, 38-42, etc.: sheriff.
screighed, IV, 174, 20: shrieked.
scrieded. See screeded.
scrime, IV, 10, 2; serime, 15, d 2: seem to be corrupt; possibly, crime; pursuing the crime for pursuing the criminal.
scrodeley, V, 79, 14: shrewdly, rudely, ungraciously.
scroggs, scrogs, III, 3, 12; 5, C 3; 7, E, F 11; 9, G 10, H 13; 10, I 5; IV, 496, 8: stunted bushes, or perhaps trees; underwood. “Scroggs, blackthorn.” Halliwell, from a MS. scrogg-bush, V, 10, 4 (high enough here to hang the pair on).
scroggy, scroggie, IV, 174, 10; 273, 14: covered with stunted bushes; “abounding in underwood,” Halliwell.
scug, to scug his deadly sin, II, 283, 22: shade, screen. (Icel. skyggja, overshadow; Dan. skygge, Swed. skugga, shade.) expiate, W. Scott.
scuttle-dishes, II, 467, 43: the larger dishes, in which things are served, in distinction from those out of which things are eaten (T. Davidson); platters.
se, sign of the future tense. See s.
se, pret. of see. See see.
sea-ground, I, 448, 11: bottom of the sea.
sea-maw, II, 363, 7; 365, 5; IV, 482 b, 6: gull.
seal, IV, 409, 5: (A. S. sǽl) happiness, blessing. gude seal that it sae spread, II, 420, 1: (happiness result from its spreading?) quod faustum sit!
seale, III, 412, 24: sail.
sear, sair, IV, 456 f., 15, 19: sore.
sear, V, 223, 8: sure.
sear, serve. See sair.
search her, IV, 446, 2: look her up, see about her, overhaul (should, perhaps, be seek, visit).
seat, V, 274 b, 1: sight.
seck, I, 15, 15: sack.
Second person of pret. indic. without termination, thou made, thou did, thou came, etc., I, 221, C 9; 222, E 10-17; 434, 27; II, 148 f., 12, 14, 20; 218, 16. So, thou will, schall, thou’ll, well thow, I, 130, 4; 221, C 10, 11; III, 110, 24; 112, 48.
securly, III, 98, 34: surely.
see (videre), pret. say, saye, sey, se, see, seed. pret. se, see, I, 283, 1; 295, 27; II, 46, 40; 245, 27; III, 24, 47; 27, 99; 97, 19. p. p. se, III, 27, 102.
see, save and se(e), II, 44, 6, 15; 52 f., 10, 18, 44; III, 65, 177; IV, 198, G 4; 455, 4: protect (tueri).
see, well mot ye fare and see, III, 266, 3: as here used, see well would have to mean, see prosperity; but apparently there is a confusion of well may you fare and God see you, protect you (as in, save and see). In B 3, p. 268, weel may ye save might mean, may God save you, but far better, in the next line, is not in concatenation, and we shall be obliged to understand weel as good fortune. The passage must be corrupted. well may you sit and see, lady, well may you sit and say, II, 290, 15: (corrupted) nonsense.
see, sigh and see, IV, 193, 14: apparently a doublet of sigh, as ne of neigh and nigh, he of high.
see, n., V, 283, 5, 15: sea.
seed, pret. of see, IV, 151, 6.
seek, seke, I, 75, 46; II, 146, 18, 20; 171, 16; III, 68, 255; V, 256 b, 14: search. I, 202, 16; 204, 11; V, 211, 19, 23: ask. socht, II, 30, 8: asked for. partic. seek and, seeking.
seek in, V, 180, 13, 15: ask admission.
seeke to, unto, III, 444, 5: resort to.
seel o downs, IV, 218, 12: chelidonium, celandine, mallow-wort.
seely, happy. seely court, I, 315, 12; 507 f., 2, 12: fairy court (as I, 346, 16; elfin court, 351, 30).
seen, I, 504, 7: sun.
seen, I, 183, 9, 15; II, 166, 20; 257, 30; IV, 135, 25: soon. seener, IV, 262, 31.
seen==syne, afterwards.
seene, I seene, V, 53, 105: ellipsis of have.
seep, II, 148, 10: ooze, leak.
seeth, III, 281, 7: sooth.
seke, III, 68, 255; 100, 76: search. See seek.
seke, to, III, 110, 14: at a loss.
seker, III, 67, 215: firm, resolute.
sekirlye, I, 327, 18: certainly, truly.
seld, IV, 2, 2: sold.
selerer, III, 61, 91, 93; 67, 233: the monk who has charge of the provisioning of a convent.
selke, V, 283, 21: silk.
selkie, silkie, II, 494 a: seal.
selle, I, 326, 6: saddle.
semblant, semblaunce, semblaunte, semblaunt, III, 57, 22; 79, 22; 82, 22; 85, 22: mein, look.
sembled, III, 160, 15: met. (b, asembled.)
sen, sent.
sen, II, 32, Q 2; 110, 2; 272, 10, 12: since.
send, sene, II, 360, 10; 365 f., (10), 17, 18: a thing sent. II, 109, 15: the messengers sent to fetch the bride.
send, pret., I, 204, D 3: sent.
sendered, IV, 229, 12, 16: sundered, parted.
senes, IV, 315, 2; 316, 25: sends, messages. See send.
sent, III, 75, 384: sendeth.
sent, sent I me, III, 76, 414: assent.
sentence past, IV, 514, 6: order given.
sere, serve. See sair.
serre, II, 59, 29: sair, sore? (MS. serrett).
serundad, surunded, V, 262, No 225, A 3; 263, 4: surrounded.
servit, II, 371, 5: (serviette) table-napkin.
seruyd him of bred and cloth, I, 241, 1: for would make an easier reading than of, which will have to be understood, on terms of (receiving food and clothing).
set, V, 80, 57: sitteth.
set, II, 168, 1; 282, 7; 463, 19, 25; III, 216, 29; IV, 135, 20; 204, 9; 331, 18: sit, become, suit. set a petticoat, IV, 331, 18: became (looked well in) the petticoat. See become.
set, p. p., III, 37, 61: fixed, determined. See set for, below.
set her brest (and swom), II, 459, 8: brought her breast to a level with the water. (Elsewhere, smoothed.)
set, set a mill, I, 134, O, 8: to stop the machinery by turning off the water from the wheel.
set, set the monke to-fore the brest, III, 67, 223: assailed, shot at.
set (sete, and wrongly sat) a dynt on, vppon, of, III, 309, 42, 45, 46: inflicted a blow, stroke.
set by, IV, 11, 15, 20: lay aside, cease, let be.
set for, IV, 229, 12, 16: set upon, bent upon.
set them up in temper wood, IV, 222, 20: corrupt. See note, 231, D 20.
sete, n., III, 63, 133: suit, dress.
sett, III, 340, 31: take aim.
settle by, IV, 219, 13: set you aside (?).
settled, gun, III, 341, 44: levelled, adjusted.
sevent, II, 75, 7: seventh.
several, III, 224, 13: variously.
sey, pret. of see, V, 80, 41.
seyn, syen, syne, then, afterwards.
seyte, neys seyte, V, 80, 39: pretty sight!
sez I, V, 304, b, 4: say(s) I.
sha, shaw, V, 267, 10: show.
shack, shake, IV, 325, 9; 326, 7: shake straw so that the corn may fall out (?).
shade, shadow, scad, I, 101, 13; 490, 21; 491, 20; 492, 12: reflection (of the color of). We have, shaddoowes greene, in one copy of Adam Bell, see III, 32, 48.
shaft their arrows on the wa, IV, 3, 16: so in both copies, unintelligible; corrected by Scott to sharp.
shaftmont, shathmont, I, 330 f., A 2, B 2, C 2; 332, E 2: the measure from the top of the extended thumb to the extremity of the palm, six inches. (A. S. “ix. scæfta munda.” Lex. Ath.)
shake. See shack.
shals thou, I, 481, 28. See s as sign of the future tense.
shambo, II, 376, 26: shamoy, chamois.
shame, the, II, 70, 15; III, 464, 11; 466 f., 44, 52, 58: euphemism for the Devil. shame a ma, III, 490, 15, 27, 29: devil a bit.
shamefu reel, II, 110, 28: the first reel that is danced with the bride, her maiden, and two young men; called the Shame Spring or Reel, because the bride chooses the tune. Buchan.
shames death, II, 60, 41; III, 330, 14: death of shame, shameful death.
shamly, III, 80, 337: shamefully.
shane, pret. of sheen, shine, IV, 469 a, 11.
shank, IV, 37, A 6, B 8: the projecting point of a hill, joining it with the plain.