Wit & humour > Gentle shepherd

GLOSSARY.
ORpy to weep with a
convuliive pant
Oivk, week
proud,haughty
Pawky, witty, or fly
Penfy, foppift, conceited
Pith, ftrength, force
Pople, orpaple, the bubbling
or boiling up of water
Pouch, a pocket
Prin, a pin
Propine, gift, or prcfent
Rj4w, did rive or tear
Redd, to rid, unravel,
to feperate folks that are
fighting
Reek, roach ; alfo fraoak
Rife', orryfe, plenty
Rock, a diftaff
Roofe, or rufe, to commend
Rowan, rolling
1 Rowt, toroar,efpeciallythe
lowing of bulls and cows
Rowth, plenty
Rumple', the rump
SMI, (hall
Saw, an old faying
Saugh, awilloworfallowtree
Scrat, to fcratch
Scrimp, narrow, ftraitened
Shaw, a wood or foreit
Shoon, (hoes
. Sic, fuch
; Siller, fdver
; Siair, (hare
; Skaith, hurt, damage
[ Sielf, (hfclf
* to move fmoothly away
Sielp, to run
'Sleek, fmooth
Slid, cunning, flippery
Snod, neat, handfome, tight
Snood, the band for tying
up woman’s hair
Snool, to difpirit by chiding
Sonfy7 happy, fortunate
Sorn, to fpunge
Spaemen, prophets, augurs
Spain, wean from the breafl;
Spait, a torrent, flood
Speer, to a(k, inquire
Spraings, flxipes of differ¬
ent colours
Slang did fting
Stegh to cram
5tra/fl»,clever,tall,handfom
Swith, begone quickly
Syne, afterwards, then
T4ne, taken
Tap, a head
Yarrow, refufe what we love
Tate, a fmall lock of hair
Tam, a whip or fcourge
Tent, attention
Thack, thatch
Thae, thofe
Thole, to endure, fuffer
Thaw, thaw
Thrawart, froward, crofs
Tine, to lofe. Tint, loft
Tod, a fox
Toom, empty
TtSwmand, a year
Trig, neat, handfome
Try/1, appointment
Unko or unco, uncouth
wanfterinjj
. V V Wale, pick & chufe
War, worfe
Warlock, wizard
IVat or wit, to know
Wean or wee ane, a child
Whilk, which
Whindging, whining
Whip, hufh
V/inna, will not
W'tnfom, gaining
Witherpms, crofs motion
Woo or W, wool
/Fow /ftrange! wonderful!
Wreaths, of fnow
Toudith, youthfulnefs