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GLOSSARY.
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Whigmeleeries, whims, fancies, crotchets.
Whingen, crying, complaining, fretting.
Whirligigums, useless ornaments, trifling
appendages.
Whissle, a whistle, to whistle.
Whisht, silence ; to hold one's whisht, to
be silent.
Whisk, to sweep, to lash.
Whiskit, lashed.
Whitter, a hearty draught of liquor.
Whun stane, a whin-stone.
Whyles, whiles, sometimes.
Wi', with.
Wick, to strike a stone in an oblique di-
rection, a term in curling.
Wicker, willow (the smaller sort).
Wiel, a small whirlpool.
Wifie, a diminutive, or endearing term
for wife.
Wimple, to meander.
Wimpl't, meandered.
Wimplin, waving, meandering.
Win, to win, to winnow.
Win't, winded, as a bottom of yarn.
Win\ wind ; ivin's, winds.
Winna, will not.
Winnock, a window.
Winsome, hearty, pleasing, winning, gay.
Wintle, a staggering motion ; to stagger,
to reel.
Winze, an oath.
Wiss, to wish.
Withoutten, without.
Wizen'd, hide-bound, dried, shrunk.
Wonner, a wonder ; a contemptuous ap-
pellation.
Wons, dwells.
Woo', wool.
Woo, to court, to make love to.
Woodie, a rope; more properly, one made
of withs or willows.
Wooer-lab, the garter knotted below the
knee with a couple of loops.
Werdy, worthy.
Worset, worsted.
Wow ! an exclamation of pleasure or
wonder.
Wrack, to tease, to vex.
Wraith, a spirit, a ghost; an apparition
exactly like a living person, whose ap-
pearance is said to forbode the person's
approaching death.
Wrang, wrong, to wrong.
Wreeth, a drifted heap of snow.
Wud, mad, distracted.
Wumhle, a wimble.
Wyle, beguile.
Wyliecoat, a flannel vest.
Wyle, blame, to blame.
Ye; this pronoun is frequently used for
thou.
Yearns, longs much.
Yearlings, born in the same year, coevals .
Year, is used for both singular and plural
years.
Yell, barren, that gives no milk.
Yerk, to lash, to jerk.
rerA;i<, jerked, lashed.
Yestreen, yesternight.
Yett, a gate, such as is usually at the
entrance into a farm-yard or field.
Yill, ale.
Yird, earth.
Yokin, yoking, a bout.
Yont, beyond.
Yoursel, yourself.
Yowe, a ewe.
Yoivie, dimin. of yowe.
Yule, Christmas.