tinye, n., a little tinye, V, 51, 69: bit.
tip, tippet (of horse’s mane), IV, 410, 18, 21; 413, 13:==tate, lock.
tirl at the pin, trill, rattle, at that part of the door-fastening which lifts the latch. See pin.
tit, V, 125, 9: quick pull.
tithyngus, III, 98, 40-42: tidings.
tittles and tattles, I, 302, B 7: tits, bits.
to, III, 110, 14, 16: two.
to, till.
tobreke, subj., I, 243, 6: break, burst (apart), p. p. to-broke, broken up.
tocher, toucher, tougher, taucher, n. See toucher.
to-clouted (gowne), III, 179 a: with patches set to it.
tod, I, 355, 44; IV, 193, 11; 194, 4; 196, 9; 196, 13, etc.: fox.
toe from home, boune, IV, 504, 24: to a place away from? (perhaps corrupt).
to-hande, III, 110, 14: two-hand, two-handed.
tolbooth, tolbuith, tollbooth, III, 482, 18; 489 f., 9, 10, 15: prison, jail. That in Edinburgh, III, 385, 12; 386, 12; 389, 14; IV, 508 b, 8; 509, 9 (Towbooth).
tolde, III, 59, 67-69; 68, 247: counted.
to-morne, I, 328, 57: to-morrow.
ton, tone, the, III, 296 f., 12, 30: the one. tone, tother, II, 53, 27, 32. the tone, the tother, II, 51, 2. See tane.
tooke, III, 405, 14: put. See take.
tooken vpon one part, III, 404, 3: engaged, enlisted, on the same side.
toom, teem, I, 72, 17; II, 124, 38; IV, 143, B 1, 3, C 6; 180, 8; V, 196, 53; 251, 30, 32; 256, 8: empty.
toomly, IV, 181, 11: empty.
toorin, I, 500, R 1-4: cooing. (Imitative, cf. Scott. curr, curroo, Germ, gurren.)
too-too, to-towe, III, 217, b, c, 41: a strong too.
top, IV, 288, E 3: should be toss, toast.
topcastle, III, 340 f., 32, 58; 344 f., 28, 46; IV, 504 f., 32, 58 (topcasaille)==top. See topps.
topps, III, 419, 15; IV, 506, 61: “Among seamen tops are taken for those round frames of board that lye upon the cross-trees, near the heads of the masts, where they get up to furle or loose the topsails.” Phillips. A noble ship at III, 419, 15, has five tops.
tor (of saddle), IV, 410, 21: pommel.
tor, tore, II, 323, 11; 334, M 2; IV, 480, 8: projection or knob at the corner of old-fashioned cradles (as also, ornamental balls surmounting the backs of chairs).
torne, III, 112, 56: turn, bout.
tortyll-tre, III, 112, 56: corruptly for trystell-tre.
toss, IV, 288, E 3: toast (as a beauty). (misprinted top.)
to t’, III, 439, 4: to the.
to-towe, III, 430, 1: too-too, a strong too.
toucher, tougher, taucher, n., IV, 283 f., 10, 22, 23; 285, 12, 13; 286, 11; 287, 4; 487, 30; 489, 29; V, 267, 12, 13: tocher, dowry.
toucher, v., IV, 284, 23: pay a dowry to.
touchered, V, 224, 11: dowered.
toun, town, IV, 200, 19; 201, 11; 202, K 5; 203, 13; V, 228, 27: a farmer’s steading or place (or, a small collection of houses). V, 267, 7: perhaps simply house.
toun-head, V, 267, 11: centre or principal part of the town.
tour, lyin in a tour, IV, 87, 20: continuous route.
tout, I, 274, 18: backside.
touting, blowing.
tow, III, 396, N 8; 449 b; V, 125, 9: rope.
tow, III, 434, 17, 18; 435, 12: let down by a rope. V, 123, 15, 16: draw up and let down.
towbooth. See tolbooth.
toweld, II, 194, 22: twilled (?).
town. See toun.
tows, went to the, IV, 380, 8: tows==touts, drinking-bouts, fell to drinking (in contrast to Allan, who went to pray. Tows cannot be ropes; they had not gone aboard the ship).
trace, II, 479, 16: track, path, way.
trachled, V, 169, 9: tired out.
trade, II, 454, 37: should be train, as in 445, 62; 450, 67.
train, IV, 107, 1, 13, 15: company.
train(e), II, 445, 62; 450, 67: training.
traitorye, III, 411, 2: treachery.
tralled, V, 274, 10: trailed (had rather have married A. and have trailed).
trance, II, 468 f., 18, 22; V, 268, 7: passage in a house.
tranckled, I, 284, 10: travelled. (Dutch trantelen, tranten, tarde progredi; morari. Hexham, to go lazily, at a soft pace.)
trap, a doublet of trip. trip for trap, II, 328, 17: tripping.
trapand, p. p., (of horse) IV, 44, 4: treacherously dealt with.
trappin, IV, 342, 12: tape.
trattles, II, 152, 5: tattles.
travisse, II, 92, 20: (a frame for confining cavalry horses) horse’s stall.
trawale, III, 41 a: travail, operations.
tray, tree (A. S. trega), injury, suffering, grief, vexation. tene and traye, I, 328, 40; tray and tene, III, 66, 218: grief and vexation, tree and teene, III, 412, 22: grief and injury. (tregan and téonan, Genesis, 2274.)
tray, try.
tread, tred, pret. of tread, II, 160, 5, 6; 165, 9; 171, 10, 12; IV, 468, 3, 4. p. p., IV, 128, 19.
treasonie, II, 344, 14: treason.
tree, tre, I, 343, 42; 345, 40; II, 218, 19; III, 23, 26; 309, 44: wood. I, 465, 2; 473, 4: pole, shaft of a cart. I, 341, 21; 344, 20; III, 25, 59; 29, 154; 63, 147; 97, 4: the cross. III, 160, 22, 25; 161, 42; 162, 55, 62; 163, 78; 267, 9; 268, 8; 270, D 8; 271, F 10: staff, straight piece of rough wood. crooked tree, III, 160, 18: bow. trenchen tree, III, 164, 91: truncheon, cudgel, staff. of (a) myghttë tre, III, 308 f., 27, 42: of strong wood. a trusti tree, III, 309, 40: perhaps shaft; but the a is likely to be of, as Professor Skeat suggests, and the meaning, of trusty wood (cf. 44, bowe made off trusti tree). horse of tree, III, 478, 13: bridge, or, at least, tree-trunk.
tree, III, 412, 22. See tray.
trenchen tree, III, 164, 91: truncheon, cudgel, staff.
trew, true, II, 384, 20, 21; III, 474, 45: trow, believe.
trews, trues, IV, 157, 18, 19; 267, 7; 272, 3; V, 165, 1; 267 a, 6; 306, 1: trousers.
treyffe, III, 113, 81: thrive.
triest, trist. See tryst.
trinkle, I, 497, 15; II, 197, 17; 209, D 7; 290, 25; 326, 11; 411, B 17; IV, 236, 5; 409, 6; 487, 27: trickle.
trip for trap, came down the stair, in, 328, 17: tripping, trip-trap (trap, a doublet of trip).
tristil-tre, III, 98, 37. See trystell-tre.
troule, V, 84, 13: go round (of a bowl of ale).
trow, trew, true, believe, suppose. I trow, I, 104, c 13: assuredly.
trowt, trowet, III, 110, 23, 26: troth.
truce, my petticoat, IV, 288, E 2: put in a trouss, tuck or fold, to shorten.
true, days of, III, 352 a: (singular of truce, trews, pledges of good faith) truce.
true, IV, 486 f., 5, 21; 491, 5: trow. See trew.
true-love, lover, betrothed lover (often not to be distinguished from true love), passim.
trues, trousers. See trews.
truff, II, 144 f., 14, 24: turf.
trust, II, 307, 34; 379, 4; IV, 494, 37; V, 38, 5: trow, believe, suppose (of the things one would rather not believe).
truste, III, 66, 207: trusty.
trusty tree, III, 92, 8; 116 f., 2, 21; 200, 37; V, 75, 4: an obvious corruption of trystill-tree, a tree appointed for a meeting or assemblage. (Trusty also in later copies of Adam Bell and the Gest for trysty, trystell, which see.)
trusyd, III, 13, 9: trussed, bound up.
tryst, tryste, n., I, 394, A 1; 395, 1; IV, 2, 4, 6: appointment to meet. IV, 413, 7; 414, 3, 4: appointment for wedding. I, 326, 18: market.
tryst, tri(e)st, v., I, 314, 1; II, 270, 3; 272, 4; IV, 201, 8; V, 171, 4: engage, induce, entice, to come, go with. II, 294, 13; IV, 194, 6; 198, 8; 200, 19; 201, 11; 202, K 5: prepare a way for coming, cause to come.
tryst, n. or v., IV, 154, 5: appoint a place, or, appointment of a place.
trystell-tree, trysty-tre, trystyll-tre, tristil-tre, III, 69 f., 274, 286; 71, 298; 75, 387; 76, 412: a tree serving for a meeting-place (of Robin Hood’s band). (In later texts, trusty.)
trysty tre, III, 26 f., 95, 98; 27, 102: tree fixed upon for rendezvous (trusty, trustie in later copies).
tu, V, 303 a: to.
tua, the tua part, V, 254 b, 4: two thirds. But twa part, V, 276, 20, seems to mean second part, half, which we have at IV, 120 F 7; 381, 16; that is, it is more likely that an equal share should be offered.
tul, III, 440, 25; til, to. tul a, III, 440, 13: to have.
turn, IV, 477, 14; turning o the tune, II, 249, 11; o the note, 250, 13; IV, 477, 13: refrain (owreturn, I, 332, E, F 7; owreword, II, 254, 8, 9). turnin o the bell, IV, 314, 19.
turn the wind wi thee, IV, 379, 6:==take the wine (i.e. wind) fra thee, V, 275, 5. (The meaning is clear, but whether turn is in actual use in the required sense I have not ascertained.)
turning. See turn.
tust, IV, 224, 20: tost.
twa, two. twa part, see tua.
twafald(-fold), oer a tree, staff, II, 461, 19; III, 268, 8: bent double over a stick. twafald ower his steed, III, 8, 18: doubled, head hanging on one side, feet on the other. See twofold.
twain, v., part. See twin.
twal, twelve.
twalmon, twalmont, twelvemonth.
twalt, twelt, twelfth.
twan, pret. of twine, I, 256, 2.
twatling, dishes, V, 86, 36: unmeaning, nonsensical, of no account.
twaw, two.
twig, IV, 31, B 6: twitch, pull.
twin, twine, twyne, twin me o my make, twin babe of life, I, 129, 8; 174, 18; 175, D 6, 12; 177, 17; 220, B 3; 222, 7; II, 218, 16; IV, 179, A 2: deprive. twine a mantle, I, 453, 3; twine me, IV, 154, 5: part with. twin(n) with, I, 175, 4, 5, 10, 11; II, 232, 7, 10, 12; twin(e) me and my make, etc., I, 127, 14; 128, 11; 350, 15; II, 159, 12, 13 (twain); V, 178, 1: separate. gar twa loves twin (twain), etc., I, 56, B 9; II, 63, 23; 230, B 3, 6: part, intrans.
twine, coarse linen, duck, crash. for towel, IV, 460, No 47, 1, 2; shift (contrasted with holland), II, 224, 17. II, 27, 19, 20: canvas. I, 221, C 9; 504, 4: coarse stuff of some kind. Lincoln twine, III, 5, D 5; 8, 12; IV, 496, 10, is doubtless the Lincoln green of other versions, and so simply texture. III, 192, 10: yarn, ropes o silken twine, IV, 472, 10: twist, shoes of small corded twine, V, 301 b, 3.
twinkle, II, 409, 17; 425, A 7: trinkle, trickle.
twinn, v. See twin.
twinn, part in twinn, I, 432, 3: in twain, in two.
twirld, at the pin, IV, 390, b 4: tirled, rattled.
twofold oer a staff, threefold oer a tree, III, 267, 9; the body being bent double over the staff, the whole presentation is, with the staff (tree) threefold. Corruptly, III, 188, 6, two foote on a staffe, the third vpon a tree. See also twa-fald.
tydand, II, 433, 9: tidings.
tyde. See tide.
tyndes, III, 65, 186: (A. S. tind) tynes, antlers.
tyne, I, 17, 11:==tynd, harrow-tooth (harrow-pin, I, 19, 10).
tyne, v., to lose, to perish. See tine.
tyte, his backe did from his belly tyte, III, 277, 17: quickly. A verb of the sense fall away may have dropped out after did, and is at any rate to be understood, unless tyte had that sense. A Scottish tyte, to totter, fall (tyte oer, fall over), is noted by Jamieson.
tythance, tythand(e)s, tythyng, III, 361, b, c 1; c 14, 49; 362, 93; V, 78, 5: tidings.
ugsome, II, 47, 15: exciting disgust or abhorrence. (Icel. uggr, fear.)
ull, I ull, V, 267, 5: will.
umber, I, 331, C 2: seems to be the same as thimber (I, 330, A 2): massive.
unbeen, my barn’s unbeen, IV, 143, A 4: not thoroughly closed in or made tight? (been, well-provided, warm, dry and snug. A bein cask, watertight, Jamieson.) a house is beind when thoroughly dried.
vnbethought him, I, 214, A 17 (printed um-); II, 240, 5; V, 15, 16: bethought himself of.
unbigged, IV, 143, A 4: unbuilt.
unco, adj., A. S. uncúð (uncouth, III, 245, 11). unco man, IV, 235, 11: unknown, strange, unco land, ground, I, 182, 1, 3; 324, 4; IV, 410, 10, 11. unco squire, V, 26 f., 25, 36: stranger, unco woman, I, 78, 26: unfriendly. unco lair (lear), II, 118, 1; 119, 1; 174, 1; 178, 2; III, 385, 1; IV, 411, 1; 467, 1: extraordinary.
unco, adv., I, 370, 5: unusually, very.
uncouth, vnkowth, vnkuth, vnketh, I, 344, 25; III, 245, 11: (A. S. uncúð) unknown, strange. See unco.
vnder, Grenwich, III, 358, 78: perhaps, below, further down the Thames.
vnder hand, shott it vnder hand, III, 199, 29; 202, 33; shot under his hand, III, 204, 26: Dr Furnivall and Mr C. J. Longman suggest, putting the bow horizontally, in which case you shoot with the arrow under the left hand, instead of beside it, as in shooting with the bow vertical. Ascham speaks of an underhand shaft, but without defining it: “The underhande [shafte] must have a small breste, to go cleane awaye oute of the bowe; the forehande muste have a bigge breste, to bere the great myght of the bowe.” Toxophilus, 1545, ed. Arber, p. 126. And again, as cited by Dr W. Hand Browne, of Johns Hopkins University: “Men doubt yet, in looking at the mark, what way is best, above or beneth hys hand”; “a byg brested shafte for hym that shoteth under hande, bycause it will hobble.” Upon which Dr Browne remarks, “As he is here speaking only of taking aim, under-hand shooting would seem to be done when the archer raised his bow high, and looked at the mark under the arrow-hand.”
under night, I, 100, 1: in the night.
vndergoe, II, 59, 33: undertake.
undertaking, be your, IV, 152, 6; 153, D 7: will undertake, manage for you.
vnfaine, III, 355, 14: not glad.
unfriends, III, 470 b: enemies.
vngoodly, III, 322 a: unhandsome.
vnhappie, V, 82, 29: ill-conditioned, having bad tricks.
unhappy, IV, 64 a: mischievous.
unhappy, V, 86, 32: unlucky (as speaking inopportunely). (The on of horson occasioned the omission of un-.)
unkensome, III, 495 B b 7: not to be known.
unkent, IV, 435, 12: unknown.
vnketh, vnkouth, vnkuth, III, 56, 6; 57, 18; 66, 209; 79, 6, 18; 82, 6, 18; 85, 6: uncouth, unknown, stranger.
vnmackley, II, 59, 30: misshapen. (Scott. makly, well proportioned, mackerly, Northumberland, shapely. Halliwell.)
vnneth, unneath, III, 73, 358; 171, 17: with difficulty, scarcely.
vnready, V, 81, 10: indirect, or, attended with difficulties.
unright(e), I, 294, 7; III, 339, 5; IV, 503, 5: wrong.
unruly, IV, 383, 1: should probably be unseally, as in IV, 378, 1.
unseally, IV, 378, 1: unlucky.
vnsett, III, 358, 71: surrounded, invested. (A. S. ymbsettan.)
unshemly, V, 215, 14: unseemly.
unthought, unthocht, onthought lang, haud, keep, I, 478, 13; 482, C b 16, 20; II, 139, 3; III, 492, 5; IV, 260, 10: keep from thinking long, wearying, from ennui. See think lang.
vnthrift, V, 81, 16: spendthrift.
until, untill, I, 221, D 3, 4; III, 488, 35, 36: unto, to.
unto, IV, 170, 11; 467, 11; V, 262, 19: into, in.
vnto the same, I, 284, 12: after the same fashion.
vntyll, gates shut them vntyll, III, 25, 52: to, against.
vnwieldie, V, 82, 29: unmanageable.
vowsed, uowsed, V, 79, 14: used, practised.
vp chaunce, III, 57, 18; 66, 209: on, for, the chance.
up stark, IV, 378, 5; 380, 11: (came, blew) up strong, as still common, with the like ellipsis, V, 51, 68; 56, 45.
upgive, V, 193, 59: avow, acknowledge, own up.
vpon, vppon, I, 271, 2; 433, 15, 16: on. stay upon, wait upon, III, 450 b: for.
upper hand, II, 245, 29: upper tier, above.
upricht, I, 473, 3: right out.
upstart, II, 54, 56: sprang up.
us, I us gar, V, 267, 12: shall, will. See s, sign of future.
used, V, 85, 23: frequented. used him in her company, IV, 98, F 6: accustomed him to.
vtter, III, 361, b, c 52: outer.
utuer, IV, 506, 59. See beame.
vain, streams proud and vain, IV, 204, 8: repetition of proud in the sense of fierce, etc.
valiant (of ladies), V, 119, 1: of worth, estimation.
value (of an hour), IV, 514, 15, 16: amount.
value, va(l)low, v., II, 162, E 2: think important, make ado about, stick. vallow not the feed, IV, 36, 3: value, care not for the feud which will ensue; cf. B 3.
vance, spak wi a vance, IV, 465, 30: seems to be meant for vaunt. It is hardly probable that the plural of the old Scottish and English avant, vaunt (with avants) can be intended.
vanitie, IV, 300, 2, is nonsense.
vawward, III, 284, 14; vanward, III, 285, 21, 34; 333, 27: vanguard, van.
veiwe, vew, vewe, III, 92, 15: yew.
velvaret, IV, 369, 1: meant for velvet; not velveret.
venie (?), III, 219 b, note: vein.
venison, II, 59, 38: hunting (prerogative of).
vension, III, 196, d 4: venison.
vepan, weapon.
verament, III, 308, 26; 333, 26: truly.
vessell, pl., III, 65, 175, 179, 191: vessels.
vew, your vew, V, 86, 40: sight of you.
vew, vewe, veiwe, III, 92, 15; 105, 27; 362, 78: yew. (The v is not for u. The word is pronounced vewe in Cheshire.)
vild, V, 53, 102: vile.
virgus, I, 420, 13: verjuice, a kind of vinegar (green juice).
virr, I, 183, 16: vigor.
virtue, in virtue leave your lammas beds, II, 96, J 4: corrupt. Cf. B 1. Dr Davidson suggests, never tae leave your lammie’s, lambkin’s beds (lammie’s, innocent).
vo, vou, woe.
vogie, IV, 176, 11: vain, merry; no longer have you cause for self-gratulation, to be demonstratively joyful.
vones, I, 334, 6: dwellest.
voss. a voss o, IV, 224, 8, 12: comparing G 8, 10, 21, K 22, the voice of, this last seems to be meant. Otherwise, a corruption of, it was a (cf. A 11; C 15; D 17; E 19; H 11).
votes, IV, 114, C 2: for voters? probably a corruption.
vou’s me, V, 271, 16, 17, wo is me!
vouch it safe, III, 75, 381: grant, bestow (safe corrected from halfe).
voued, pret., V, 268, 17: viewed.
vour. o vour, II, 25, F 13: half owre, as in C 18.
vow, wow, IV, 133 f., 12, 15; 136, 21; V, 118, C 11: exclamation of surprise, emphasis, or admiration.
voyded, III, 26, 79: made off.
vue, v., V, 265, 17: view.
vyld, wild.
vytouten nay, I, 334, 4: without, beyond, denial.
wa, wae, IV, 448 a, 3d st.: wo.
waaf, II, 72, 2: waif.
wad, n., II, 63, 23; 172, 31, 32: pledge, in security. I, 340, 2; 343, 2; II, 376, 39; III, 455, 10: forfeit.
wad. I wad, I, 130, F 14, 15, 20: I wot, in a weak sense, assuredly, truly. See a=I, and wat.
wad, wade, I, 71, 55, 56; 74, 76, 77; III, 465, 30; V, 299, 2: would. See wads.
wad, wade, v., IV, 18, 17; 185, 7; 384, 5; 385, 2, 7; 386, 2; V, 219, 23; 275 b, 6; 300, 14: wager. IV, 432, 4, 5: engage (to fight).
wadded, I, 272, 11: of woad color, blue.
wadded, V, 261, 6: wedded.
wadding, wadin, II, 131 f., 11, 16, 19, 20; IV, 470, 15-17: wedding.
wade, wad, pret. of wide, wade, II, 97, 12, 13; 283, 4; 461, 10; IV, 68, 6; 190, 27, 28; 438, 13; 455, 9.
waders, IV, 188, 20: miscopied by Skene for mideers, mothers.
wadin. See wadding.
wads, II, 133, D 4, 5, 6: wishes (wad, would, treated as a present tense).
wae, wa, I, 69, 48; 127, 28; 169, 3; 217, 3, 6; V, 306, 10: wo.
wae, adj., I, 367, 11; II, 70, 25; 89, 36; 129, 17: unhappy.
wael, IV, 443, 5: choice. See wale.
waely, IV, 59, d 3: a rhyme-word for wae, sad.
waesome, IV, 369 b: woful.
waft, I, 420, 15, 16; 422, 12, 13: weft, woof.
wafu, woful.
wainless, II, 72, 8: homeless (without a wane, habitation).
wair, II, 472, 24: bestow. See war.
wait, I wait, a wait, wate, IV, 128, 16, 17; 169, 3; 371, 2, 3, 5; 447, 6, 17; 470, 17; 510, W 2; 515, 12, 15; 517, 20: I wot, know, indeed. See wat, and a=I.
wait, IV, 456, 7:=wite, blame.
wait, wayte, III, 57, 18; 66, 209; 83, 202; 86, 202; 412, 21: watch, lie in wait, seek an opportunity, to do.
waith, steed, V, 176, 18: waif, stray, wandering.
waitmen, II, 424, 3: waiting-men (or possibly, wight men, strong men).
wake, II, 327, 2, 4, 5: aperture, way. (Icel. vök, aperture, especially one cut in ice, or remaining in water not completely frozen over; passage cut for ships in ice; Swed. vak, hole in ice; Dutch vak, empty space. “In Norfolk, when the ‘broads’ are mostly frozen over, the spaces of open water are called wakes.” Wedgwood.)
wake, I, 107, 5; IV, 446, 5; 447, 5: watch (people set to watch me), but the reading at I, 107; IV, 447, is probably wrong; cf. I, 108, B 4. See wane.
wake, IV, 141, 12: merry-making, sport.
wake, v., V, 277, 2: walk.
wake, III, 88, 340, is an original misprint.
waken, I, 433, 24: waking.
wakerife. See waukrife.
wald, walde, I, 334, 6: would.
wale, wael, walle, IV, 265, A b 10; 477, 19; V, 256 a, 2: choice.
wale, weil, wile, wyle, I, 428, 14; IV, 169, 5; 300, 12; 461, 19; V, 105, B 1: choose.
wale wight, I, 490, 13. See wall wight.
walker, I, 272, 14: fuller.
wall, I, 387, 2, 4; 440, 4, 6; V, 206 a, 3: well, spring. The water at St Johnston’s wall was fifty fathom deep, II, 21, 14: an alleged deep place in the Tay; cf. 24, 14, there’s a brig at the back o Sanct John’s toun, it’s fifty fadom deep.
wall, green wall sea, green wall wave, V, 275 b, 7, 8: apparently wave, despite tautology; cf. II, 22, 15, green-waved sea. (haw sea, IV, 379, 10; 380, 19. Prof. Murison informs me that when Mrs Murison sings the ballad mechanically, or without attention, she invariably sings haw.)
walle, V, 256 a, 2: wale, choice. See wale.
wallourt. See wallowt.
wallowd, II, 392, 10: rolled over (?).
wallowit, II, 361, 32: withered.
wallowt, IV, 127, 3: drooped, grew pallid. was wallourt, IV, 138, M: (misspelt) was pallid.
wall-wight, II, 123, 15; 403, 9; III, 10, 23; IV, 392, 11, 12; V, 37, 6; 41, 29, 32 (all from Buchan’s ballads): explained by Donaldson as waled wight, picked strong men. Donaldson cites weild wightman from Semple of Beltrees. See well wight, wale wight men, I, 490, 13.
wallwood, swine, II, 299, 16: wild-wood, compare II, 144, 3, wild-wood steer (unhallowed swine, II, 154, 10).
walting, IV, 312, 8: welting, edging.
waly, IV, 21, 13: fine large.
waly, wallie, wally, II, 363, 1, line 1; IV, 109 f., 5, 8; 293, A 1, 2, 7, 9 (oh and a waly); V, 195, 8; 197, 9, 10, 11: exclamation of admiration. O braw wallie, IV, 296, F 1: literally, O good, lucky! or, O good luck! but, as before, an exclamation of admiration.
waly, wally, II, 363, 1, line 3; IV, 92, 1, 3; 94, 1; 95, 1, etc.: interjection of lamentation (probably A. S. wá lá!). the wally o’t, IV, 290, D b 1: sorrow, pity of it! waly’s my love! V, 208, 1, 2, etc.
wamb(e), wame, II, 130, 2; 183, 24; 189, 27; 195, 33; III, 437, 23: womb. See weam.
wan, one.
wan, dark-colored, pallid, colorless, white. II, 92, 3, 4, 9; 97, 11; 144, 13; 147, 10; 150, 14: dark-colored. II, 74, E 6; 79, 28; 185, 33; 187, 16; 399, 2: pallid. wan water (as contrasted with wine), II, 70, 17; 74, D 7; 75, 10; 92, 4; 96, J 7, 8: colorless. far got ye that water that washes ye so wan, II, 191, 23: white (ye wad never be so white, 24).
wan, wane, pret. of win, I, 73, 53; II, 21, 4; 123, 22; III, 474, 32; IV, 180, 7. he wan free, V, 300, 11: got free.
wan, p. p. of win, IV, 385, 26.
wand, II, 146, 13; 147, 14; 150, E 9; 151, G 4: of (willow) twigs, staff made of the wand, II, 118, 22 (very nearly verbiage): made of a rod.
wane, I, 334, 7; III, 63, 148: habitation. in my bower there is a wane, IV, 446, 5: wane, says Jamieson, denotes not only a dwelling (Old Eng. wone), but “different apartments in the same habitation;” if so, in my house there is a room, is the sense here. wan, in the wake there is a wan, IV, 447, 5: should at least be, in the wane there is a wake, as the rhyme shows, and as we have at 446, 5. In, at the wake there is a wane, I, 107, 5, wane was meant by Scott to be understood as a collection of people (wheen). See wake.
wane, III, 309, 36: “quantity, multitude; a single arrow out of a vast quantity.” Skeat (quantity as in Chaucer’s wone, see wheen). This is to me quite unsatisfactory, but I have no better interpretation to offer. Wain, in the sense of a vehicle for a missile, ballista, catapult, would be what is wanted, but I have not succeeded in finding a case.
wanhappy, IV, 386, 1: unlucky.
wanna, did not win, go.
wannelld, III, 488, 38: was unsteady, staggered. (A. S. wancol, North Eng. wankle, unstable, Germ. wankeln.)
wannle, IV, 491, 32: agile, vigorous, strong.
wanny, II, 261, 8, 9: small wand, rod.
want, IV, 196, 3; 268, 17, 22; 357, B 7; 358, 17: do without, dispense with. sae soon as we’ve wanted him, IV, 359, 12: had to do without. III, 513 b, 2, pret.: wanted.
wanton, III, 452, 1; 453, 1: free and easy, frolicsome. (rantin, 455, 1.) Cf. Wanton Brown (a horse), IV, 17, 1, etc.
wantonlie, -ly, III, 488, 27; 490, 14: gaily, merrily. rode, lap, wantonly, IV, 146 f., 8, 38: in easy, spirited style.
wap, horse will gie his head a wap, I, 182 f., 8, 14: throw, toss.
wap, n., coost a wap on horse’s nose, IV, 21, 9: noose.
wap, v., wrap, lap. wap cloth into ship’s side, II, 27, 19: stuff. roun ship’s side, 20: wrap. wap halter oer horse’s nose, IV, 17, 4: lap, twine, perhaps throw.
wap, v., throw. wappin corn and hay oer to horse, IV, 21, 18: throwing. wappit wings, II, 139 f., 7, 12, 22: beat, flapped.
war, ware. be war, ware, a, of, on, I, 273, 37; II, 46, 37; III, 66, 213; 109, 4; 296, 20; 307, 10: be aware, have a sight of. was war wher, III, 98, 39.
war, waur, I, 388, A 10; 420, 12, 13; 466, 22; II, 417, 6, 9; V, 193, 48: worse.
war, waur, I, 132, I 1; 149, I 1; 331, B 8: were.
war, ware, wair, I, 431, 3; 478, 7; II, 418, 22; 472, 24; V, 142, 11: expend, bestow. ware my dame’s cauf’s skin on thee, IV, 7, 31; V, 250, 29: apply, use, my wife’s (mother’s) whip.
waran, warran, warrand, warraner, warrant, III, 430, 15; 435, F 7; 436, 5, 7: sponsor for, security. III, 405, 7; IV, 310, 4 (cf. warn): safeguard.
ward, warde, III, 404 b; 470 b: defence. III, 72, 332, 337; 449 a; IV, 11, 18: prison, confinement. enter himself in ward, III, 447 b: voluntarily go into confinement.
ward, IV, 446, 1: corrupt. See weird.
warde, II, 273, 25; 340 b, line 8: forewarn, advise.
warden, I, 161, 4; V, 209 a, 4: guardian, tutor.
warden, IV, 317, F 3, 4: facing, edging (cf. the walting, welting, of 312, A 8).
warden pies, III, 216, 35: made of large pears called wardens.
wardle, I, 127, 14; V, 214 f., 1, 6: world. wardle’s make, see warld.
ware, V, 169, 11: sea-weed, alga marina (used for manure).
ware, V, 306, 2, 3: were.
ware, pret., V, 221, 20: wore.
ware. See war.
warison, waryson, III, 100, 74; 297, 43: reward.
warld, world. warld’s make, I, 129, 8; 348, 17; 351 f., 40, 54; 353, H 12; wardle’s make, I, 127, 14; warldly, worldly, make, mate, I, 344, 30; II, 118, 6, 7; world’s make, I, 128, 11; 348, 11; wordlye make, II, 86, 18, 20: world’s, earthly, mate, consort. world’s mait, I, 508, 9.
warldly. See warld.
warlock, II, 220, 11, 12; 223 f., 8, 14; IV, 472 f., 24, 25: wizard.
warn, IV, 309, 2, 6: surety, safeguard. Cf. warran, IV, 310, 4, and see waran.
warn, p. p., IV, 445 b, 2, No 8: warnd (as 446, b 2).
warp, v., I, 312, 8; II, 503, 7: curl, twist.
warran, warrand. See waran.
warraner. See waran.
warsle, n., I, 438, A 1: wrestle.
warsle, warsel, v., I, 438, A 2; 439, 2; 440, 3; 441, 1-3: wrestle. warsled, I, 56, 14: wrestled, struggled, bestirred herself.
warslin, a-warslin, I, 440, 1, 2: a-wrestling.
warwolf, I, 311, 15, 16: werewolf, man-wolf, man transformed into a wolf.
waryson. See warison.
wa’s, ways.
was. See wash.
wash. pres. was, I, 494, 7; III, 111, 41. pret. weesh, wish, wush. p. p. washen (I, 304, E 5; II, 111, 10; V, 102, B 15), wushen, which see.
wast, west.
waste, I, 349, F 9: seems to be nonsense (ride expected).
wat, wate, wait, watt, weet, wet, wit, wite, wyte, wis, wot, know. I wat, wate, a wat, a wite, etc., frequently nothing more than assuredly, indeed: II, 159, 11, 13, 15, 16, 19, 23; 160, 10-16, 18, 19; 161, 12, 13, 17; III, 199, 23; 464 f., 10, 15, 34; 466, 43; IV, 175, M 7; 359, 4, 5, 7, etc.; 470, 17; V, 300, 2. pret. wist. p. p. wist, west.
wat, pret. of weet, weit, to wet, I, 17, D 6; II, 21, 12, 13; 23 f., D 7, F 10, etc.; IV, 424, 5. p. p., I, 55, B 7; II, 23, E 8.
wate, knew. See wat, wait.
wate, pret. of wite, blame, II, 273, 25.
water, water-side, IV, 7, 25; V, 250, 24, 25: “the banks of a river, in the mountainous districts of Scotland the only inhabitable parts.” Scott.
water-cherry, II, 186, 18: perhaps a species of cherry used as a cosmetic.
water-gate, IV, 510, 6; V, 250, 12: street leading to the water, way along the water.
water-kelpy, IV, 185, 10: water-sprite.
water-side. See water.
water-sluice. bored nine holes in her water-sluice, V, 142, f 5, should mean in the gate or valve of some vent for water; bored a watery sluice, or aperture for water, g 6, is a more rational reading.