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GLOSSARY.

row-footed, rough-footed. rule, see note, Monk, 32¹. rung, staff. ryall, royal. rynde, flayed. rysyt, imperative pi., arise.

Sad, earnest, serious, heavy. sae, so. sair, sore. sakelessy guiltless, innocent. salued, greeted. sark, a shirt. saty salt. sawtetty assault. sayy to essay, try (Child Water s^ 27*). sayncy to say. scathe, harm, injury. schoote, shot, i.e, let go, sent off (Otterburtty yz% scobsy gags. . se (Chevioty 40*), saw. sey seey to protect (in the phrase

  • save and see *).

sekey to search. sekety secure, sure. selerery cellarer, the officer who furnished the convent with pro- vbions (Ritson). semblydey assembled. seriy since. seny sent. senty sendeth. sent (sent I tne)y to assent. set (to fore: Gesty 223^), hit, struck upon. setty to aim (Bar tony 31*). settey leased, placed in pledge (in sette to wedde)^ settledy aimed. shannay shall not. shathmonty a span, a measure of about six inches; A.-S. scaft- mund. shawey wood, grove, thicket. shear (Chevioty 6*, 8*), probably for j/r, sere = several, particular. sheavey slice. sheey shoe. sheeney sheyney beautiful. shefe (of a^ows), * sheaf,* twenty- four. shendey to harm, rebuke, punish. shenty hurt. shety shot. shetey to shoot. sheughy seughy furrow, ditch. shifty change, resource. shopey created. shot-windowy a projected window (?) ; a window opening out- wards, on a hinge (not set in a sash), still, or till lately, in use in Scotland. — Jamieson. shraddsy coppices, openings in a wood. shrewedy cursed. shroggSy stunted shrubs. shryvey sheriff. sichy sigh. sichiny sighing. sickey such. sillery silver. siny sun. sindryy sundry, * all sorts of peo- ple.* sithy since. skinkledy sparkled. slack (Fair Mary of L,y 20*), low ground, hollow, narrow pass between hills. sladey greensward between two woods, valley. slany slain. slawcy slain. slight (Kinmont fV,y 13^), raze, dismantle, level to the ground. slisty sliced. sloy slooy slony to slay. Digitized by LjOOQIC