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GLOSSARY
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  • Tailzeour, 92, 230, teelyir, tiler, teilleur
  • Tap, 238, toupie
  • Tansy, 148, O.F. tanasie, athanasie, Gr. ἀθανασία, immortality. Not in Jam.
  • Tapischere, 230, tapisserie
  • Tarre, 69, tirran, Orc. to cross, provoke. Under "tarry," Skeat shows it is due to confusion of M.E. tarien, to irritate, and M.E. targen, to delay, from O.F. targer, Mod. F. tarder, L. Lat. tardicare, tardus, slow. We also find O.F. tarier, to vex. Cf. O.Sc. targe, to beat, rate severely. "Tarveal, fretful."—"Elgin K. S. Records"
  • Tassis, 230, tasse
  • †Tawpie, 136, 242, taupe; French or. doubtful
  • Thrammels, thrammel, 147, stall-fastening of a cow, E. trammel, F. tramail, a net, Sc. trammel-net
  • Tincler, 232, étinoelle
  • Tirlets, 236, tirailler
  • Tooly, toolye, tulzie, 107, 184, 241, Cu. combat, a quarrel, broil. Jam. O.F. touiller, to mix
  • Toy, 243, toque. Da hoved-toi, headdress
  • Trances, 135, 146, a passage inside a house, F. transe
  • Travelloure, 232, 236, travailleur
  • Trebuchet, 232, trébuchet
  • Trencher, 231, 235, tranchoir
  • Truncheor, 235
  • Treviss, 131. 140, 176, 241, O.F. tref, Lat. trabs, a beam
  • Triacle, treckle, 234, triacle, "treacle," Cot., Mod. F. thériaque
  • Tripans, 231, trépan
  • Trockit, 151, bartered, F. troquer, to barter, E. truck
  • Turcusses, 231, O.F. torser
  • Tureen, 241, terrine
  • Turse, 231, O.Fr. trusser, torser (Lat. tortiare, to twist, bind up); cf. tirr
  • Turner, 241, tournois
  • Tweel, 241, toile
  • Twis, 230, étui

V

  • Vacations, 128, long holidays at school, Fr. vacance
  • Valour, 236, valeur
  • †Vie, 23. Not, as in text, conn. with Go., but contracted from O.F. envie, M.F. envier, Lat. invitare

I have to thank Mons. F. J. Amours, B.A., for carefully revising the foregoing section (Sc. Fr.) in the light of his exceptional knowledge of old and modern French as well as of Lowland Scots.

printed by william green and sons, edinburgh.