Blair Collection > Sar-obair nam bard gaelach, or, The beauties of Gaelic poetry, and lives of the Highland bards

Innidh, entrails, bowels
Innse-Gall, primitive nameof theHeb-
ritles, now confined to Isle of Skye
lomchuinn, comlucl, beliaviour, de-
Iivann, a patriarchal woman, a dam,
the mother of a race
Isncach, or ohneac.h, a rifle gun
làdmhaU, a fngitive, a coward, a low
Laniii-ach, full of chains or fetters
Là-iuain, doom's-day, the last day
Lenr, the wide ocean, the main
Lffira, a small plain or hiU, a battle-
field, a giecii goose
Liobasda^ slovenly, untidy, awkward,
L'tob, a contemptuous name for the
innuth.ptece of a bag-pipe, athick lip
lAobhar, polished, burnished
Lohtean, pleasure-boats, lodgings,
tents, or booths
Lon, an elk, a blackbird, an ouzle
Loriiair, one that traces or tracks, a
dog that follows by scent
7.fiA, a roe (now obsolete)
Litdi-àrmunn, a pigmy, a dwarf
Lunn, penetrate, a heaving-billow, &c.
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Mac-fraoir^ s«Mj>,the gannet, a vora-
cious fowl or person
Mac-iàmhaich, cat-marUt griasaich,
the fish called a sea-devil
Maidnfan, matins, morning prayers
or devotions
Maighdcann, a maiden, an instru-
merit for bohuading with
Maut.ciaran, a child of grief, me-
lancholy
Màrsat, màrsadh, a march, or march,
ing of troops
Mathalt, a blunt sword, knife, or other
weapon
Meardrach, meter, crambo (Irish id.)
Mt'tila;!, belly, protuberance
Miara-caitic/i, active, nimble, vigorous
Mfirahf, a baimer, flag, peinion
Mri/òheag, niralMau^. a corn.pnppy
Mhàn, sios, downward, from above
M>g/tunn, sounds of musical instru-
ments
Miiireardncb, female fighter or cham.
pion, an undaunted female
Mwrtc/ii/iH, children, inmates, occu-
pants of one house
Mtitrneinn, (Irish id.) darling, or be-
Munaiih, a hill or hillock, (used poeti-
cally fur monad/i)
Olach, an eunuch, a fumbler, &c.,&c.
Olachd, ho-ipitality, kindness, bounty
Oinid, iin oration, a speech, an essay
Vrd/i'i, shining like gold, gilded, ex-
Peiglii,
! of land (not i
Pigidh, brtl-dhearg, robin red-breast
Pliathach, splay-footed, bandy-legged
Prabadh, botching, bungling, spoiling
Pràbar, the rabble, tlie refuse of any
Prais, praiseacht a pot or pot-metal, a
still
Priobartaich, parsimony, meanness,
shabbiness
Prioblosgadh, a sudden burning or
sense of heat, a twinkling blaze
PUfhart a wound or hurt, a scar
Puic, bribe, veil, cha tu^ e pttic dheth^
he made nothing of him
Uanntannan, title deeds, deeds of con-
veyance, chattels
Ranntar-bktht a confused dance with-
out system
Rati, a ludicrous appellation made to
signify whisky
Riastradh, outbreaking, immorality,
eruption
Rintaich, diolain, illegitimate
Robain, towering waves, swelling roar-
ing billows, heavy rains
Roiseal, the lowest and basest rabble,
a high swelling wave
Rd-seot, the highest of a ship's sails,
top-gallants, full sails
Rosg, prose writing, an eye, eyelids
Ruanach, firm, fierce, steadfast, stony
Samh, surge, the agitation of waves
onthesea-beach, the crest of whiten-
ed billows
SaoU, a seal, a mark, an impression
Sàradh, a broaching, a distraining, an
Seasdar, rest, repose, comfort, pallet,
pillow, a place whereon to rest
Seas-ghr'tan, the equinoctial line
Sew, a musical air, the humming of
Seis, one's match or equal.a companion
Stroig/tn, rare, superior, out of the
common order, eccentric
Seol-ait, an anchorage, a harbour
Sgalaiche, a man ready to raise the hu-
man cry against his neighbour
Sgibidh, tight, active, handsome, neat
Sglihrach, a clumsy person, a slattern,
a female tattler, a young sea gull
Siatnig, ioini, rheumatism, rheumatic
pains
Siogaideach, dwarfish, bony, ill-made
Sith, a span, a squint, determined
position in standing
Siuiinachftn, bianaii, phosphoric fire
Siàn. a defence, agarrison, a protection
SmeoU, Gen. of A'/«n/, Gleami.sineoily
the glen of mist
Sifteoirn, the end of an arrow next the
bow-string
Snaois, a spit of dried fish, &c., &c.
Sdrn, a hearth, the fiue of a kiln or
Spatigan, spangles, glittering toys, de-
orations, embellishments
Speach, a dart, virus, a blow or thrust,
Spreidfi, or spreigh, velocity, gallant
movement, gliding
Srianacht a badger, a brock
Stairbhanach, an athletic well-built
person
Staonag, ronnan, saliva, spittles
Sual, tumours, suail (Ir. id), wonder
Suc/ite, filled, saturated, tightened
Samaire, a coarse cudgel, a lethal wea-
pon, a beetle
Siunnailt, a likeness, a comparison, a
resemblance
Tarbharnacht fuaimneach, noisy, gar-
rulous
Tafaid, the string of a bow for throw-
ing arrows
Taisdeal, a journey, a travel, a march,
a voyage
Taobhluaih, a division of a pipe tune
Targanach, a prognostication, a pro-
phesying
Tcallsanack or fiallsanack^ a philoso-
pher, or astronomer
Teamhaii; season, in season, fit time
Tetridneach, eiridneach, medicinal,
having the power to cure
Tcbllachd, cowardice, cowardliness
T/ieasd, chaochail, dh'eug, he died,
thcasd e
TobhOy ball. Top, rope, cable
Tògbhail. a feud, a levying of forces, a
rising in arms
Toinihscit-, sensible, prudent, frugal
Toiteat, ail attack in battle, a warlike
movement, a flock of waterfowls
Toitearlach, a thick gigantic man, a
dense column of smoke
Turroichtm, a deep snoring or sleep
Tosan, on onset, beginning, prelude
Tosgair, messenger, harbinger, am-
bassador
Treabhair, tighean, houses, outhouses,
steadings
Tno-haid, a stitch in one's side, ivc.
TriuUinn, no trealainn, nonsensical
stuff, doggerel
Troghad, rosg-troghad, soft rolling
eyes, full orbed
Troidh, Troy, an ancient citv which
hafiled the united efforts of all Greece
for ten years
Trosg, a cod, in Sutherlandshire a fool
Tuninieag, a round knob or sm^ili cup
Turaratch, a rattling or i uuibling
Turcadaich, nodding, a sudden jerk
from the sensation of sleep
Tuthn, Gen of iolin, a hillock, a
mound, a knoll
Tulg, a grudge, an upbraiding, puking
Tuillhi, canvass, sea storm, a shipped
Tuiiin, ducklings (obsolete}, waves
Tutrneikas, a striking of heads against
each other as rams, contact, collision
Vachdair, farm stock ; Jo uachdair^
under stock
Vcsa, ucas, the gadus or coal fish,
stenlock (Sc.)
Vrfhaitteacli, anecdotal, jocular,
cheerful in conversation
Vrtainn, the countenance, beauty, the
fore part of a ship
Urlar, division of a pipe tune
Urracag, a thowl, an oar pin, a elate
t/rraii^cfln, inundations, overflowings,