GLOSSARY
- ae, one.
- antinomian, one of a sect which holds that under the gospel dispensation the moral law is not obligatory.
- Auld Hornie, the Devil.
- ballant, ballad.
- bauchles, brogues, old shoes.
- bauld, bold.
- bees in their bonnet, eccentricities.
- birling, whirling.
- black-a-vised, dark-complexioned.
- bonnet-laird, small landed proprietor, yeoman.
- bool, ball.
- brae, rising ground.
- brig, bridge.
- buff, play buff on, to make a fool of, to deceive.
- burn, stream.
- butt end, end of a cottage.
- byre, cow-house.
- ca', drive.
- caller, fresh.
- canna, cannot.
- canny, careful, shrewd.
- cantie, cheerful.
- carline, old woman.
- cauld, cold.
- chalmer, chamber.
- claes, clothes.
- clamjamfry, crowd.
- clavers, idle talk.
- cock-laird. See Bonnet-laird.
- collieshangie, turmoil.
- crack, to converse.
- cuist, cast.
- cuddy, donkey.
- cutty, jade, also used playfully = brat.
- daft, mad, frolicsome.
- dander, to saunter.
- danders, cinders.
- daurna, dare not.
- deave, to deafen.
- denty, dainty.
- dirdum, vigour.
- disjaskit, worn out, disreputable-looking.
- doer, law agent.
- dour, hard.
- drumlie, dark.
- dunting, knocking.
- dwaibly, infirm, rickety.
- dule-tree, the tree of lamentation, the hanging-tree.
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