GLOSSARY
- jeely-piece, a slice of bread and jelly.
- jennipers, juniper.
- jo, sweetheart.
- justifeed, executed, made the victim of justice.
- jyle, jail.
- kebbuck, cheese.
- ken, to know.
- kenspeckle, conspicuous.
- kilted, tucked up.
- kyte, belly.
- laigh, low.
- laird, landed proprietor.
- lane, alone.
- lave, rest, remainder.
- linking, tripping.
- lown, lonely, still.
- lynn, cataract.
- Lyon King of Arms, the chief of the Court of Heraldry in Scotland.
- macers, officers of the supreme court. [Cf. Guy Mannering, last chapter.]
- maun, must.
- menseful, of good manners.
- mirk, dark.
- misbegowk, deception, disappointment.
- mools, mould, earth.
- muckle, much, great, big.
- my lane, by myself.
- nowt, black cattle.
- palmering, walking infirmly.
- panel, in Scots law, the accused person in a criminal action, the prisoner.
- peel, fortified watch-tower.
- plew-stilts, plough-handles.
- policy, ornamental grounds of a country mansion.
- puddock, frog.
- quean, wench.
- rair, to roar.
- riff-raff, rabble.
- risping, grating.
- rout, rowt, to roar, to rant.
- rowth, abundance.
- rudas, haggard old woman.
- runt, an old cow past breeding; opprobriously, an old woman.
- sab, sob.
- sanguishes, sandwiches.
- sasine, in Scots law, the act of giving legal possession of feudal property, or, colloquially, the deed by which that possession is proved.
- sclamber, to scramble.
- sculduddery, impropriety, grossness.
- session, the Court of Session, the supreme court of Scotland.
- shauchling, shuffling, slipshod.
- shoo, to chase gently.
- siller, money.
- sinsyne, since then.
- skailing, dispersing.
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