shapen, III, 79, 81, 85, 50: devised, ordained.

share, I, 388, B 7; IV, 416, 17: cutting, portion.

shathmont. See shaftmont.

shaw, shawe, I, 422, 3; III, 91, 1; 97, 1; V, 250, 25: wood, thicket. See wode shawe. In Teviotdale shawe is “a piece of ground which becomes suddenly flat at the bottom of a hill or steep bank.” Jamieson. So, perhaps, V, 250, 25.

shaw, sha, show.

shay, V, 110, 8, 9: shy.

she, III, 318, 4: spurious Highland dialect, representing he, they, and even Highlander, for which she, her, hernanesell have become a nickname. (The Gaelic having no word for the neuter it, the masc. e and fem. i do duty for the absent form. i in some Highland districts is largely used in speaking of sexless objects.)

sheaf, shefe, of arrows, III, 3, 5; 62, 131: bundle of twenty-four. Cf. II, 168, 5; III, 13, 9.

shealin, shiel, shielin, shielen, shieling, shield, IV, 258, 23; 259, 17; 260, 16; 262, 27, 29; 266, 17: herdsman’s hut.

shear, III, 307, 6, 8: several. (Scot. seir.)

sheave, shive, n., I, 470, 32; II, 358, 27; 367, 44; V, 16, 13, 14; 18, 3, 4; 219, 25: slice.

sheave, v., IV, 476, 7: slice.

sheave-wisps, V, 213, 5: wisps of straw from a sheaf, put by peasants into their shoes for more warmth.

shed, II, 116, 27; 118, 21: a piece of ground on which corn grows, so called as being separate from adjacent land.

shed by (hair), II, 129, 26, 27: parted, threw off from the face on both sides. shed back, II, 135, 39 (shook back, 135, 38).

shedd, pret. See sheede.

shee, shie, I, 68, 9, 12; III, 271, F 9; 384, 9: shoe.

sheed, V, 251, 36: sheet.

sheede, I, 273, 43, 44: shed, spill.

sheen, sheene, sheyne, I, 490, 7; II, 52, 5, 11; 372, A b 2; III, 24, 48; 91, 1; 97, 1: shining, bright, beautiful. (bright is also beautiful, I, 285, 25; 293, 2.) In, shawes been sheene, III, 91 and 97, 1; shadowes sheene, III, 24, 48, we must take sheene in the secondary sense, beautiful.

sheen, shene, I, 176, 2, 7, 12; II, 395, 17; IV, 380, 26; 416, 12; V, 306, 2, 3: shoes. See schon.

sheen, shene, v., III, 392, 9, 10: shine. pret. shane.

sheene, n., II, 183, 13: brightness, splendor (evidently a word of Percy’s here).

shefe. See sheaf.

shend, III, 27, 114; 63, 140; 123, 13: put to shame, injure, destroy.

shent(e), p. p., III, 27, 114: blamed. III, 75, 396; 123, 13: hurt, etc.

shete, shoot. shete a peny, III, 97, 10, 11: shoot for a penny-stake. pret. shet, III, 97, 12; shyt, III, 26, 83.

sheu, IV, 289, F 9: show.

sheugh, II, 238, 6; V, 108, B 1: trench, ditch, furrow.

shew, I, 299, a 13; II, 332, J 6: sew.

shewed, III, 450 b: represented.

sheyne. See sheen.

shie, shoe. See shee.

shiel, shielen, shieling, shield. See shealin.

shill, schill, I, 16, 1; 17, E 1; II, 254, 10; 382, 28; 383, 29; 386, 24; IV, 200, 2; 201, 1: shrill.

shimmerd, glittered.

shin’d, pret. of shine, IV, 240, 2.

shirife, shirrfe, shrife, sheriff. See screfe.

shirrs, shears.

shive, sheave, V, 219, 25: slice.

shock, v., IV, 106 b: collide, encounter.

shoder, V, 221, 10: shoulder.

shogged, III, 332, 14: moved away.

shon, schon, shone, shoon(e), shoun, I, 69, 52; 71, 42; 73, 64; 78, 39; III, 65, 193; V, 83, 55: shoes.

shook (sword over the plain), II, 393, K 14: the MS. has shook, not strook, but strook must at any rate be meant (cf. 380, A 32). See II, 378 a.

shooled, I, 184, 10; V, 210, 10: shovelled. See shule.

shoon(e), shoun, shoes. See shon.

shoon, shoun, soon.

shoot at sun and moon, III, 201, 21; to the sun or the moon, III, 203, 18: they wish to have no mark measured, are ready to take any distance.

shope, III, 59, 64: created.

shopen, shapen, III, 82, 50: devised, ordained.

short-bread, V, 262, 22: “a thick cake of fine flour and butter, to which caraways and orange-peel are frequently added.” Jamieson. (A sweet short-bread is still well known in Scotland.)

shorten her, I, 478, 14: while away the time for herself; cf. Germ, kürzen, kurzweilen. See shortsome.

shortlye and anone, III, 23, 10: speedily.

shortsome, adj., II, 371, 2: enlivening, cheering.

shortsome, v., II, 370, 13, 14: divert (while away the time, opposed to langsum). See shorten.

shot, o wheat, IV, 459, 2: field, patch.

shot, V, 76, 9; 127, 3: reckoning. trust me one shott, V, 15, 22.

shot, II, 256, K 2==schawit, looked at(?).

shot, p. p., IV, 458, 3: shod.

shot-window, II, 122, 5; 141, 10; 177, 24; 230, 9; 322, 7; 357, 8; 368, 3; 375, 22; 376, 37, 40; III, 23, 22; 105, 20; IV, 135, 19; 151, 6; 153, E 6; 154, 11; 428, 3; 493, 12; V, 248, 8. II, 141, a princess looks out at a shot-window; II, 368, a lady draws her shot-window in her bower, harps and sings; II, 376, a knight jumps to a shot-window to escape; III, 105, Robin Hood glides out of a shot-window; IV, 135, a queen looks oer her shot-window; IV, 493, a knight goes in at a shot-window.—“Windows called shots, or shutters of timber with a few inches of glass above them.” Wodrow’s History, II, 286. But the shot-window of recent times is one turning on a hinge, above, and extensible at various angles by means of a perforated bar fitting into a peg or tooth. Donaldson, Jamieson’s Dictionary, 1882, notes that in the west of Scotland a bow-window is called an out-shot window. A bow-window would be more convenient in some of the instances cited.

shott, V, 15, 22: reckoning (oddly used here as of an ale-house.) See shot.

shouir, shower, III, 385: throe, pang. See showr.

shoulder, looked over the left, III, 339, 7; 368, 11; 369, 13, etc.: apparently a gesture of vexation or of indignant perplexity. See the passages cited at V, 286 a.

shoun, shun, shoes. See shon.

shoun, soon.

shour, sure.

shourn, V, 225, 5: shoulders,

shouther, showther, shuder, I, 21 b, 3; 302, A 7; 303, 9; 331, D 2; 332, F 2; IV, 297, 10: shoulder.

showded, V, 124, C 15: swung.

shower. See showr.

shower o his best love, I, 476, J 4: share, or cut, of his best loaf.

showing-horne, II, 437, 78: shoeing-horn, a pun on the beggar’s horn, whether as a means of sponging liquor, or of helping one to take in drink.

showne, pret., III, 37, 84: showed.

showr, shower, shouir, I, 68, 32; II, 105, 3; III, 385, 5; 386, 7: throe, paroxysm of pain.

shradds, III, 91, 1: coppices (Halliwell, perhaps conjecturally). The equivalent shard, he says, is in Yorkshire an opening in a wood. (A. S. scréadian, cut, dock?)

shrewde, shrewed, a term of vituperation; originally, cursed. thou art a shrewed dettour, III, 61, 104; thou arte a shrewde hynde, III, 64, 164: perhaps ironical (devilish pretty). shrewde wyle, III, 65, 181: clever.

shroggs, III, 93, 28: rods, wands (serving for prickes, marks).

shryuë, III, 70, 287: sheriff. See screfe.

shuder, IV, 493, 8: shoulder. See shouther.

shule, v., IV, 207, 20: shovel. See shooled.

shun, shoun, shoes.

shun, III, 357, 41: better, shunte, as in the other texts, turn off, aside. Shunte is to be understood in 43, 45, 47.

shuped, I, 204, E 2: shipped. (The reading may be sheeped.)

shyt, pret., III, 26, 83: shot.

shyt, imperative, III, 71, 314: shut. p. p., III, 25, 53: shut.

si, so.

siccan, sic, sick, sicke, sicken, such, such a.

siccarlie, III, 492, 27: so as to make all safe. sickerlie, III, 491, 5: securely. III, 491, 12: so as to make certain, make sure of the effect.

siccer, sicker (siccer and honestly), III, 487, 9; IV, 31, B 6: securely, safely.

sich, sick, n., sigh: II, 139, 6; 168, 15; 230, C 1.

sich, sick, v., I, 451, 12; V, 164, D b 10: sigh. pret. sicht, I, 73, 66; III, 453, 2. sikt, II, 241, 8. siched, I, 72, 21. sight, IV, 503 f., 6, 21, 23. pres. p. sichand, sichan, sichin, II, 96, I 3, 4, 6; 471, 13; V, 41, 31; IV, 382, 6.

sichin, n., II, 286, C 10: sighing.

sicht, sight.

sicke, sicken, III, 367, 3; 441, 32; V, 194, 64 (sicken-like): such.

sicker. See siccer.

sickles of ice, ickles of ice, III, 152, 1; 154, f 1: icicles.

side, keeping her flocks on yon side, IV, 323, 1: ellipsis of hill, river, or the like.

side, adj., II, 122, H 7, 8; 407, 9; 409, 15; 466, 37, 38; 469, 38, 39; IV, 165, 15; 283, 12; 285, 4; V, 267, 4: long, and so, probably, IV, 130, 4; 134, 8. I, 80, 12, of stirrup too long, low for the foot (Icel. síðr, demissus). saddle a steed side, IV, 464, 18: wide. wear your boots sae side, I, 428, 8; 429, 5: of boots the tops of which lap a good way over, or perhaps of boots wide at the tops; I, 430, 2. See syde.

side be, mother-in-law side be, II, 71, 11: seems to mean, side by, by his side. Possibly, sud, should, be.

sighan, sighend, pres. p. of sigh.

sight, sikt, pret., IV, 503 f., 6, 21, 23: sighed. See sich, v.

signd, IV, 288, 10: that is, sind. Sind is to wash, rinse; here she has simply wet her lips.

signots, took out the gowd signots, IV, 53, 13: ornaments, whether seals or not, attached to the ears by “grips.” Three sygnets hang at a gold ring, IV, 37, 13; 38, 13, which is taken off in the latter place, and was, therefore, a finger-ring.

sike, syke, II, 238, 6; IV, 3, 28: ditch, trench (watercourse, marshy bottom with a stream in it. Jamieson.) IV, 470, 25: (perhaps) rivulet.

sikt, sighed.

sile, IV, 118, C 3: flow.

silkie, selkie (A. S. seolh), II, 494, 3, 4: seal.

siller-knapped (gloves), II, 134, 8, 13: ornamented with silver balls or tassels. (golden-knobbed, 133, D 6.)

silly. silly tin, silly twine, II, 224, 12, 17: simple, mean, of slight value. silly sisters, II, 311, 1: harmless, innocent? silly old man, silly old woman, etc., III, 5 f., 10, 11, 20; 6 f., 9, 10; 9, G 9; 180 f., 3, 8, 9, 19; 271, 8: of a “puir body,” palmer, beggar. V, 129, 1; 130, 1; 131, d 1, e 1-3: of a supposedly simple old man who turns out to be shrewd. V, 253 f., No 203, D 2, 8: (perhaps) spiritless, cowardly. sit a silly sate: see sit.

simmer, II, 261, 10; V, 299, 4; etc.: summer. simmer-dale, II, 261, 8, 9.

simple, III, 163, 72: poor, scant.

sin, III, 281, 7; IV, 260, 17: son.

sin, II, 494, 6; IV, 77, 3; 280, b 22: sun.

sin, sine, syne, I, 16, C 9; 17, 7; 204, E 3; II, 32, 3; 160, 4, 7; 161, 5, 7; III, 433, 11; 436, 9 (?): since (temporal and causal), then. II, 237, 6: when, as in Shakspere after verbs of remembering (Winter’s ale, v, i, 219, etc.). See syne, then.

sin-brunt, V, 224, 19: sun-burnt.

sinder, II, 164 f., 18, 19, 21: sunder.

sindle, II, 261, 8: seldom.

sindry, II, 344, 4: several. IV, 219, A 5: sundry (people).

sine, then, since. See sin and syne.

single, liverie, IV, 261, 5: dress of a plain or inferior man; IV, 334, 11, 12: dress of a private soldier. single man, sodger, soldier-lad, IV, 335, b, c, d 16; 337, f, g 15; 338, h after 15: private.

sinner, V, 254, 12: sooner.

sinsyne, synsyne, I, 227 b; III, 394, J 2; 396, N 2: since, afterwards.

sir, title of parson: III, 217, 49.

sit a sate, IV, 469, 8: maintain or enjoy a position. (You may live comfortably if you are well stocked with cattle, but only in a beggarly or pitiable way with nothing but beauty.) “You shall sit at an easier rent.” Scott’s Redgauntlet, Wandering Willie’s Tale. Falstaff sits at ten pounds a week (his expenses came to that), Merry Wives, I, 3.

sitt, p. p., III, 400, 5: seated.

sitten, sutten, p. p. of sit, II, 273, 37; III, 433, 4.

skail (blood), IV, 373, 13: spill.

skaith, skaeth, n., I, 370, 5; II, 292 f., 8, 18: III, 162, 66: harm. gien the skaeth, II, 364, 36; IV, 465, 35, 36: done a wrong, injury.

skaith, v., III, 371, 21: harm.

skaith frae, v., I, 397, 14: keep from. (A. S. scéadan, Germ. scheiden, O. Eng. shed, part, divide.) See scathe. A skaithie in Scottish is a fence or wall to keep off wind.

skeely, skilly, III, 26, 1: skilful, intelligent.

skeigh, III, 495 b, 23, 24: shy, skittish.

skelp, V, 106, E 6: drub.

skerry, rocky. skerry fell, I, 325, 10: rocky hill.

skerry, skerrie, II, 494: a rock or rocky islet in the sea.

skill, sckill, skylle, reason, discernment, knowledge. a baron of sckill, I, 295, 28: reasonable, of good judgment, etc. that’s but skill, I, 295, 44: reason, something right and proper. the skylle I sall þe telle wharefore, I, 328, 56: the reason why. can skill, little they can skill of their train, etc., II, 445, 62; 450, 67, 69: Icel. kunna skil, to know distinctions, have knowledge. could noe skill of the whisstill heare, IV, 506, 70: perception (that is, literally, could not hear whether there was a whistle or not). had no skill, IV, 213, 3: knew nothing of the matter, or, possibly, had no regard, felt no approbation.

skilly, skeely, II, 97, 21: intelligent, knowing, skilful.

skink, I, 190 a: pour out liquor.

skinkled, II, 183, 19: sparkled.

sklate, II, 293, 15: slate.

skomfishes, III, 433, C 4, 7: stifles (discomfits).

skorne, III, 113, 77: disgrace, humiliation. See scorn.

sky-setting, I, 351, 31: sunset.

skylle. See skill.

skyred, IV, 413, 12, 14: startled, blenched, shrank back.

slack, II, 116, 20; 117, 14; 313, 23; III, 181, 29; 281, 12; 363, note †; IV, 7, 27; 184, 2, 3; 467, 11; V, 250, 25; 262, 19. 1.) a gap or narrow pass between two hills. 2.) low ground, a morass. It is often not possible to determine which is intended. In III, 281, 12, the meaning is morass. Plain ground will suit III, 181, 29. Such terms vary according to locality and time. Cf. slap.

slacke (woe), V, 83, 44: lessen, mitigate.

slade, III, 92, 12: “a valley, ravine, plain.” Halliwell. Cf. slack, slap.

slae, I, 450, 2: sloe.

slap, II, 120, 14; III, 185, 24, 25; V, 228, 26: a narrow pass between two hills (==slack). In III, 185, 24, 25, there is a contrast with glen, the word replacing the slack of III, 181, 29; perhaps, plain ground. IV, 300, 12: a breach in a dyke or wall.

slate, slait, of whetting a sword by passing it over a straw or the ground (Icel. sletta, to slap, or slétta, to level, smooth). has slaited on the strae, II, 273, 30. slate it on the plain, IV, 491, 11. slait it on the plain, V, 235, 32. See strip, stroak, streak, straik, strike.

slawe, p. p. of slay, III, 14, 16, 17; 71, 306. y-slaw, III, 28, 140.

slee, sly.

sleste, slist, III, 70, 292; 79, 146: sliced, split.

slet, pret. of slit, III, 63, 146.

slichting, slighting.

slight, III, 473, 13: demolish. we’ll fecht them, we’ll slight them, IV, 85, 5: make light of (?).

slipe, sleep.

slist, III, 70, 292: sliced, split.

slo, sloe, sloo, slon, I, 210, 9; III, 77, 438; 97, 8; 110, 19: slay. pret. sloughe, III, 308, 25. p. p. slo, slowe, slone, II, 479, 17; III, 35, 22; 77, 428. slawe, y-slaw.

slocken, sloken, IV, 386, 16: quench.

slode, pret. of slide, II, 59, 22: split.

sloe, sloo, I, 210, 9; III, 77, 438: slay. pret. sloughe. p. p. slowe, slone. See slo.

slogan, III, 474, 32: war-cry, gathering word of a clan. Jamieson.

sloken, slocken, III, 473, 14: quench (fire), p. p., IV, 60 b, after 10 (with ellipsis of have).

slough-hounds, IV, 3, 15: sleuth-hounds, blood-hounds (slooth, b, 4, 15).

sloughe, pret. of slo, slay, III, 308, 25.

slowe, p. p. of slo, slay, II, 479, 17.

sma, small. of linen, I, 428, 18; 419, 3; II, 128, 5; 130, 4; 133, D 3; 134, 7; 269, 15; III, 7, E 12: of fine texture. of the blast of a horn, II, 258, 31; small, V, 83, 48: shrill, keen. of wine, I will drain it sma, IV, 476, 8: should mean, strain it fine, or, pour out in a thin stream, run it off gently; the intention seems to be, give but a small quantity.

smeek, IV, 385, 25: smoke.

smiddie, IV, 470, 18: smithy. In smiddy-bour, II, 186, 12, bour for room or workshop is strange.

smirkling, smirkling smile, IV, 117, 3: suppressed.

smit, II, 149, 2: noise, clash.

smithered, III, 268, 17: smothered.

smoldereth, III, 431, 19: smothereth.

smooth, II, 233, 14; V, 167, A 7: pass lightly over. smooth the breast for swimming, see breast.

smore, V, 37, 6: smother.

smotley, V, 79, 15: pleasantly.

snack, IV, 415, 6: quick.

snags, III, 483, 7: protruding remnants of branches hewn off.

sned, II, 274, C 19; 462, 26: cut, lop. (misprinted sued, II, 462.)

sneed, V, 165, 4, 5: snood, fillet for a maiden’s hair.

sneer, IV, 18, 15; 19, 13: snort.

sneeters, V, 213, 10:==snotters, gatherings of snot.

snell, of weather, wind, frost, I, 342, 23; 344, 22; III, 435, 1; IV, 213, 17; 214, 4; V, 99, 2: sharp, keen. of a blast of a horn, III, 195, 7: keen, shrill. of talk, III, 492, 31: sharp, caustic.

snoded, tied with a snood.

snood, V, 306, 4, 5: a fillet with which a maiden’s hair was bound up. See sneed.

snotters, V, 213, 10: gatherings of snot. See sneeters.

soberly, III, 487, 17: quietly, making no noise.

socht, sought, pret., I, 147, 11, 12; II, 30, 8; III, 466, 46: asked for.

sodde, pret., V, 53, 103: seethed, boiled.

solace, I, 328, 53: pleasure. solaces, III, 287, 65: merry-makings, diversions.

soldan, II, 59, 35-37: sultan, any pagan king; hence, giant. See soudan.

Soldanie, Soudonie, V, 199 b, 33; 200 b, 33: Sultan’s people.

solde, I, 326, 4: should.

some, with singular, some clean white sheet, V, 294, 7.

somers, III, 67, 216, 224; 74, 374: sumpter-horses, pack-horses.

sone, at once.

sone so, I, 243, 8: as soon as.

sonsie, II, 370, 16: plump.

soom, soum, sume, swoom, II, 29, 19; III, 394, K 4; IV, 493, 9; 511 b, 4; V, 138, B 6: swim.

soon, III, 440, 13: early. soon at morn, IV, 446, 2: early in the morning.

soone, II, 446, 92: swoon.

sore, as, they mighten a had, III, 441, 26: on whatever hard terms.

sorn, IV, 464, 14: sworn.

sorners, IV, 41, note *; 81 b: sojourners, properly those who take free quarters (such may be expected to make free generally with the property of those upon whom they impose themselves); “forcible intruders, people quartering themselves on tenants, etc., masterful beggars.”

sorowe, sorrow, III, 61, 96; IV, 174, 6; 241 b; V, 28, 55: sorry, sorrowful, sad.

sorraye, II, 209, 9: sorrow.

sorrowful, III, 440, 12: sorry, pitiful.

sorte, III, 128, 97: set.

souce, V, 84, 7: the head, feet and ears of swine boiled and pickled.

soud, sude, should.

soudan, sowdan, souden, soldan, I, 54, 65; V, 195, 26; 197, 5.

Soudron, V, 192, 22: Southron.

Soudronie, V, 192, 33: Southronry.

sough, sound.

sould, should.

soum, soom, sume, II, 464, 2, 3; 474, J 5; V, 237, 9: swim.

soun, make bed saft and soun, IV, 279, 31, 32: smooth. lead the bridle soun, II, 105, 14: steadily, so as not to cause a jolt by jerking it.

sound, IV, 206, 10: safe and well. sailed it sound, II, 223, F 8: safe.

sound, a sound, III, 165, 88: a-swoon.

sound, IV, 172, 12, 14; 173, 7, 10, 11: in the sleep of death.

sounded, IV, 99, 3: should probably be rounded, whispered.

souner, I, 442, 10: sounder.

soup, I, 324, B 9: sup.

sour (reek), III, 433, C 6: sharp, bitter.

souter, soutter, III, 282 a; IV, 262, 16: shoe-maker.

south, I, 334, 9: sweet.

southen, southin, II, 358, 16, 28; IV, 482 b, 2, 3, 4; 483, 9, 17, 18: southern.

southering, IV, 48, b 18: soldering (corruption of, seething).

sowdan. See soudan.

sowe, III, 41 b, line 17: to be corrected to sowter, cobbler (?).

sowens, V, 108, B 10: flummery; “oat-meal sowr’d amongst water for some time, then boiled to a consistency, and eaten with milk or butter.” Herd.

sowt, III, 13, 8: sought, peered, scanned.

sowt, south.

soyt, III, 110, 23; 111, 31, 43; 112, 55; V, 79, 30: sooth.

spait, III, 473, 26; 479, 2: flood.

spak well in his mind, V, 260, 15: sounded well, suited his own thoughts.

spakes, I, 61, C c, 15: the bars of a bird-cage.

spald. See spaul.

spang, II, 394, 18: span.

spare, I, 302, A 10; 446, 10; 451, 11; III, 246, E 7: opening in a gown or petticoat.

sparks out o a weet, IV, 379, 15: rain-drops from a shower. “Spirks, spirkins, applied to drops of water in Scotland; sparks usually to fire.” W. Forbes.

sparred, III, 97, 20; 99, 61: shut.

spartled, v., II, 94, 6: sprang. spartling, II, 306, 15: kicking, struggling.

spartles, n., II, 94, 4: springs.

spaul, spauld, spald, spole, III, 473, 17; V, 105, A 3, B 6; 106, D 6, E 4; 107, 3: shoulder.

spayed, spied.

speal, I, 428, 17; 430, 6, 7: another form of scale, a wooden drinking vessel.

speals, spells, II, 410, 24; V, 236, 18: chips.

spear, v., IV, 85, 1: spare.

spear, speer, speir, spier, sper, ask. See spyrr.

speed, prosperity, help.

speel, v., II, 73, 25: climb.

speen, IV, 287, 19; 357, C 8, 9: spoon.

speer, inquire. See spyrr.

speere, V, 15, 20: “a hole in the wall of the house, through which the family received and answered the inquiries of strangers.” Ritson. This, I fear, may be conjectural. Speere, a screen (wall) between fire and door to keep off the wind is well known both in England and Scotland. But the Heir seems to be outside and could not look up at this speere.

speir, ask. See spyrr.

spelle, v., I, 329, 3: discourse.

spells, speals, II, 410, 24; V, 236, 18: chips.

spendyd, a spear, III, 309, 40: “spanned; hence, got ready, placed in rest.” Skeat.

sper, V, 78, 5: inquire. See spyrr.

spier-hawk, IV, 484, 1, 2: sparrow-hawk.

spin, spine, gar your blood, IV, 84, 3, 6; V, 253, D 1: spirt (as in Shakspere’s Henry V, iv, 2, spin in English eyes).

spird, II, 144, 12: spurred.

spite, I, 211, 27: spital.

spleen, v., III, 220, 5: regard with spleen, hatred.

spleene, n., III, 230, 70: animosity.

splent (splint), III, 473, 17: armor of overlapping plates.

splinders, II, 91, 26: splinters.

splits, II, 389, 10: strands.

sply, II, 252, 1: (perhaps miswritten) spy.

spole, III, 342, 63: (O. Fr. espaule) shoulder. See spaul.

sporne, v., III, 64, 161: kick.

spreckl(e)d, I, 159, 5; 160, 3: speckled.

sprente, III, 309, 32: sprang, spurted.

spring, IV, 265, 13: probably miswritten or corrupted for young, which we find in the next stanza.

spring, I, 129, 17; 130, 20; 132, 13; 135, O 18, P 18, 19; IV, 312, 4; 313, 7: quick tune.

spring (well both clear and spring), II, 198 a, last line: spring water, pure as a spring.

sprunks, fine, III, 221, 12: showily dressed women? (Cf. prank, prink, Dan., Swed., Germ., prunk.)

spulye, n., III, 458 b: spoil.

spulyie, spuilye, spuilzie, v., III, 463 a; IV, 53, 11; 84, 5, 8: despoil.

spunk-hole, V, 213, 3 (spunk = fire): a hollow in the floor, where the fire was made, fire-place.

spurn(e), n., III, 310, 65, 66: kick. The word, though protected by rhyme and by occurring twice, is suspicious. If spurn could be taken as clash, encounter, collision, it might stand, but such a sense is forced.

spurtle, V, 92, 11, 12: stick for stirring porridge.

spylle, I, 327, 20: mar, destroy.

spyrr, spire, spier, speir, speer, spear, sper (A. S. spyrian), I, 176, 17; 325, B 13; 349, G 9; 440, 10-15; III, 98, 41; 100, 64; V, 115, 4: ask, inquire. spear at, I, 151 a, 10; IV, 328, A b, after 3: inquire of. I, 349, G 7; II, 268, 12; 272, 9, 18; 379, 12; IV, 203, 9; 205, 15: ask, request.

squar, squer, squire.

square-wright, V, 124, 3: carpenter, joiner.

squeel, schele, schule, II, 175 f., 1, 6; 306, 19; IV, 327, 8.

squier, II, 59, 30: = swire, neck.

st, as sign of the future. I’st, II, 449, 62; III, 411, 1; 413, 36; thoust, ’st, I, 211, 29; 433, 8, 26; II, 44, 13; 442, 10; 449, 60, 61; III, 277, 4; 411, 4; 432, 7; 477, 7; V, 50, 33. shee’st, she’st, II, 442, 3; 447, 3. you’st, II, 451, 88; III, 104, 6; 412, 12. (All from English ballads.)

sta, pret. of steal, III, 464, 13, 14.

stack, I, 16, B 14: stalk.

stad, V, 248, 19: stood.

staen, stolen.

stage, at a, III, 98, 39: from a floor, story (?).

stage, III, 295, 3: stag.

staig, III, 301, A a, 3; IV, 26, 1: a young stallion.

staking, III, 138, 18: cutting into stakes (cleaving, 140, c 18; stacking, 140, d 18).

stale, stathle, I, 18, H 9; 19, 12: the foundation of a stack, the undermost layer of sheaves in a stack.

stale strang, V, 213, 5: urine long kept for a lye and smelling strong. (But stale may = urine as well as strang.)

stalle, in strete and stalle, III, 101, 89: station; from the contrast with street, we may infer the meaning to be, when in movement (on the road) and when stationary, or housed.

stamp o the melten goud, IV, 471, 37: an embossed plate.

stanch, III, 364 b: check.

stand (of milk, water), I, 344, 34: a barrel set on end.

stand, briddel-(bridell-)stand, V, 228, 12, 22: suit of clothes (bridal clothes).

stand, III, 453, A 14; IV, 515, 13: (of a court) sit. IV, 420, 9; V, 222, 34; 269, 1: take place.

stand, IV, 152, C 11; stand out, III, 439, 2: stickle, scruple.

stand na, nè, no(e), awe, I, 421, 5; III, 350, 53; IV, 505, 54; 506, 69: na may be a contraction of in na. na stand in awe, I, 419, 4; stand not in awe, III, 345, 53.

standen, p. p. of stand, III, 361, b, c 64.

stane, II, 467, 56: i. e. the (stone) wall.

stane-auld, III, 9 f., 11, 12, 20: very old (Germ. stein-alt).

stane-chucking, I, 441, E 1: throwing the stone, as in B 2.

stank, IV, 47, 12, 13: (O. Fr. estanc) ditch.

stap, n. and v., I, 298, 4; II, 88, 8, 9: step.

stap, stape, stop. II, 494, 1: stop, stay, reside. will stap to die, IV, 107, 7: shrink, hesitate.

stap, I, 439, 4, 5; 440, 5, 7; 504, 7; II, 294, 31, 32; 467, 41: stuff, cram.

stare, III, 128, 104: (eyes) protrude, or, are fixed, cannot move (?).

stare (of hair), V, 66, 19: stand up.

starf, pret., V, 297 b: died.

stark, I, 69, 39; III, 474, 37: strong. stark thief, III, 365 b==the English strong thief, one who uses violence. stark and stoor, II, 47, 5: in a moral sense, wanting in delicacy, rude, violent, or indecent. the wind up stark, IV, 378, 5; 380, 11: ellipsis of blew, came, before up.

starn, stern, I, 440, 18; IV, 455, 10: (Icel. stjarna), star.

start, I, 341, 5; 343, 5; 347, 3; 348, 2: spring, jump. III, 164 b, 49; 342, 64: recoil, flinch, recede. pret. start, stert, I, 108 b, 8; 286, 56; II, 454, 56; III, 32, 81; 64, 159; IV, 477, 16: sprang. See stert.

state of my lande, II, 446, 91; state of my father’s lands, 451, 98: landed estate.

stathle, stale, I, 17, 12: the foundation of a stack, the undermost layer of sheaves in a stack.

staw, II, 90, 23; 184, 13: stall.

staw, pret. of steal, II, 76, 25; 80 f., 9, 29; IV, 12, 13; 490, 30.

stawn, p. p. of steal, IV, 18, 19, 20.

stay, stey, IV, 262, 23: steep.

stead(e), steed(e). See stede.

steal, pret. sta, staw. p. p. stawn, stowen, stown, stoun. stealed, steald, IV, 20, 16; 166, 2, 3. stelld, III, 459, 7.

stean, Marie’s stean, II, 183, 19: a stone seat at the door of St. Mary’s Church.

stear, steer, III, 474, 33: stir, commotion.

steck. See steek.

stede, steed(e), stead(e), I, 334, 7; 411, 7, 16; II, 359, 19; III, 60, 81; 74, 376; 79, 133; V, 194, 71, 72; 197, 55; 199, 71, 72: place, dwelling-place. stand in stead, steed, steede, III, 344 f., 38, 44; 349, 38; IV, 505, 45: hold good, be kept, maintained, made good.

steed, I, 298, 4: stood.

steek, steck, steik, II, 336, P 2; IV, 188, 9; 279, 19, 27; 480, 4, 5; 514, 5: stick, shut, fasten. steekit (dor an window) to the gin, IV, 480, 5: to the fastening.

steek, steik, n., II, 364, 30; IV, 483, 20: stitch with the needle. III, 397, A b 5: stitch (of pain).

steeking, n., II, 361, 26: stitching.

steel, pret., I, 477, 4: stale, stole.

steer, steir, II, 21, 10, 11; 29, 13, 14: rudder.

steer, stear, II, 369, 12: disturbance.

steer, sture, I, 69, 39; 71, 31: strong, robust. (stor, big.)

steer, II, 161, 12; IV, 69, 15: disturb, meddle with (for harm).

steer, I, 251, A 13: stir, move.

steik, n., stitch. See steek.

steik, v., shut. See steek.

steir, n., rudder. See steer.

stell, steel.

stelld, pret. of steal, III, 459, 7.

stelld, IV, 110, 10: placed, planted.

stende, me stende, I, 243, 5: that people should stone.

step-minnie, II, 367 b: stepmother.

stern, starn, I, 326, 16: star.

sterne, III, 308, 30: stern (men).

stert, start, pret. of start, III, 66, 211: sallied. stert out of the dore, sterte (start) to an offycer, stert hym to a borde, III, 26, 81; 32, 81; 62, 120, 125: rushed. stert to foot, IV, 224, 14: sprang to their feet.

steuen, III, 94, 52: voice. vnsett steven, III, 93, 27: time not previously fixed.

stey, stay, IV, 185, 10; 264, 15: steep.