WEIR OF HERMISTON
- earrand, errand.
- ettercap, vixen.
- fechting, fighting.
- feck, quantity, portion.
- feckless, feeble, powerless.
- fell, strong and fiery.
- fey, unlike yourself, strange, as if urged on by fate, or as persons are observed to be in the hour of approaching death or disaster.
- fit, foot.
- flit, to depart.
- flyped, turned up, turned in-side out.
- forbye, in addition to.
- forgather, to fall in with.
- fower, four.
- fushionless, pithless, weak.
- fyle, to soil, to defile.
- fylement, obloquy, defilement.
- gaed, went.
- gang, to go.
- gey an', very.
- gigot, leg of mutton.
- girzie, lit. diminutive of Grizel, here a playful nickname.
- glaur, mud.
- glint, glance, sparkle.
- gloaming, twilight.
- glower, to scowl.
- gobbets, small lumps.
- gowden, golden.
- gowsty, gusty.
- grat, wept.
- grieve, land-steward.
- guddle, to catch fish with the hands by groping under the stones or banks.
- gumption, common sense, judgment.
- guid, good.
- gurley, stormy, surly.
- gyte, beside itself.
- hae, have, take.
- haddit, held.
- hale, whole.
- heels-ower-hurdie, heels over head.
- hinney, honey.
- hirstle, to bustle.
- hizzie, wench.
- howe, hollow.
- howl, hovel.
- hunkered, crouched.
- hypothec, lit. in Scots law the furnishings of a house, and formerly the produce and stock of a farm hypothecated by law to the landlord as security for rent; colloquially 'the whole structure,' 'the whole concern.'
- Idleset, idleness.
- Infeftment, a term in Scots law originally synonymous with investiture.
- jaud, jade.
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