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N.B. Figures placed after words denote the pages in which they occur.

 a, one.

 a', all.

 abee, abene, be.

 aboon, abune, above.

 aby, pay for.

 ae, only, sole.

 ae, aye, still,

 ahin, behind.

 airn, iron.

 ald, old.

 all and some, each and all.

 als, as.

 als, also.

 ance, anes, once.

 appone, upon.

 araye, order.

 arblast-bow, cross-bow.

 are, before.

 arena, are not.

 arighte, laid hold of.

 armorie, 237, band of armed men.

 asey, assay.

 ask, newt, a kind of lizard.

 askryede, described.

 asurd, azured, blue.

 at, 296, of.

 atteynt, seize.

 aught, owed.

 avanse, gain, succeed.

 avow, vow.

 awa, away.

 awenn, own.

 ay, a.

 ayont, beyond.

 ba', ball.

 backefysyke, 22.

 bade, prayed for.

 bade, abode, staid.

 bairnly, childlike.

 bald, bold.

 bale, blaze, fire.

 bale, harme, ruin, sorrow.

 ban', bound.

 bane, bone.

 bankers, 276, coverings for benches.

 bann, curse.

 barn, child, wight.

 beck, stream.

 bedone, 8, bedecked.

 begane, bedecked.

 begynne the bord, sit at the head of the table.

 ben, in.

 ben, prompt, ready.

 bent, plain, field, (from the coarse grass growing on open lands);

 bentis, bents, coarse grass.

 beryde, 98, cried, made a noise.

 bese, will or shall be.

 best man, bride's, 85, bridesman, (corresponding to the best maid, or bridesmaid).

 bestedde, circumstanced.

 bi, be.

 bierly, 148, proper, becoming, comfortable.

 bigg, build.

 bilive, quickly.

 Billy Blind, or Billy Blin, a Brownie, or domestic fairy.

 binkes, benches.

 bird, lady.

 birk, birch.

 birled, 211, poured out drink, or drunk.

 blae, livid.

 blee, color, complexion.

 blewe, 99, sounded a horn.

 blin, blyn, stop, cease.

 bogle, spectre, goblin.

 bone, boon.

 boome, 287. Qy. goome, man?

 bord, table.

 borrow, stand surety for, ransom, rescue.

 bouir, chamber, dwelling.

 boun, boon.

 boun, ready;

 make ye boun, 289, boun, 187, go straightway.

 bourdes, jests.

 boure, bower, chamber.

 bouted, bolted.

 bown, ready, ready to go.

 bowrd, jest.

 brade, broad.

 brae, hill-side.

 brast, burst.

 brayd, started, turned.

 braw, brave, fine.

 bree, brow.

 brening, burning.

 brent, burnt.

 brether, 26, brethren.

 bricht, bright.

 brimes, water.

 britled, 15, brittened, 16, cut up, carved.

 brok, brook.

 broom-cow, bush of broom.

 brook, enjoy, preserve.

 brues, brows.

 brunt, burnt.

 bryste, burst.

 bue, 234, 235, fair?

 bugyle, horn.

 bunge, 239?

 buntin, buntlin, blackbird; al. wood-lark.

 burd, maid, lady.

 burd-alane, alone.

 Burlow-beanie, 241, name of a fiend or spirit.

 burn, brook.

 busk, dress, make ready.

 but, 208, and;

 but and, and also.

 by and by, straightway.

 bydeene, 13, continuously, in numbers.

 byggis, builds.

 bygone, bedecked.

 byhouys, behoves.

 byleve, 98, remain.

 byrde, lady.

 byre, cow-house.

 byrnande, burning.

 byteche, commit.

 ca', call.

 can, (sometimes gan,) used as an auxiliary with an infinitive mood, to express the past tense of a verb.

 carknet, necklace.

 carline, female of churl, old woman.

 carlist, 37, churlish.

 carp, talk, tell stories.

 cast, planned.

 chalmer, chamber.

 channerin', fretting.

 chere, countenance.

 chese, choose.

 chess, jess, strap.

 chewys, choosest.

 chiel, child, young man.

 christendame, christendoun, christening.

 christentye, christendom.

 claes, clothes.

 clapping, fondling.

 clear, clere, fair, morally pure.

 cockward, cuckold.

 coft, bought.

 coiffer, 260, coif, head-dress, cap?

 cold, could, knew; used as an auxiliary with the infinitive to express a past tense; e.g. he cold fling, he flung.

 coleyne, Collen, Cologne steel.

 com'nye, 237, communing, discourse.

 compass, circle,

 compenabull, 21, sociable, admitting to participation.

 coost, coosten, cast.

 couth, could, knew, understood.

 covent, convent.

 cow-me-doo, 171, like curdoo, name for a dove, from its cooing.

 craftelike, craftily.

 crapoté, 99. Qy. cramasee, crimson?

 cropoure, crupper.

 crowt, 12, curl up.

 crystiante, christendom.

 cure, 279, till.

 dag-durk, dagger, dirk.

 damasee, damson.

 dang, beat, struck.

 dasse, dais, raised platform.

 daunton, daunt.

 decay, destruction.

 dee, die.

 dee, do.

 deid, death.

 dele, dell, part.

 delle, 101. dally.

 dere, harm.

 derne, secret.

 des, dese, dais, elevated platform.

 devyse, direction.

 deynteous, dainty.

 dight, 225, placed, involved.

 dight (corn), winnow.

 dinne, 12, trouble, circumstance.

 distans, 23, dissension, strife.

 done, do.

 doo, dove.

 doubt, dout, fear.

 dought, could, might; 112, may, am able.

 dow, could.

 dowie, mournful, doleful.

 dree, suffer.

 drest, arranged.

 drumlie, troubled, gloomy.

 dryssynge, dressing.

 dule, sorrow, trouble.

 dullfull, doleful.

 dyght, dygzht, adorned, arrayed, dressed.

 ear, soon, early.

 eerie, eiry, fearful, producing superstitious dread.

 eghne, eyes.

 eglis, eagle's.

 elde, eldren, old.

 Elfin, 262, Elf-land.

 elritch, elvish.

 endres-daye, 98, past day? other day? See Halliwell's Dictionary.

 "Of my fortune, how it ferde,

 This endir day, as y forth ferde."

 erdelik, 275, earthly. (Finlay, "clidelik.")

 erlish, elvish.

 esk, newt.

 etin (Danish jette), giant.

 even cloth, 113, fine cloth?

 everlk, every.

 everychon, every one.

 faem, foam.

 faine, desire.

 faine, glad.

 fairest, forest.

 fand, found.

 fare, go.

 farer, further.

 fawte, want.

 fayrse, fierce.

 feat, neat, dexterous, nimble.

 fee, 100, animals, deer; 107, rent, tribute.

 feed, same as food, fud, creature, man, woman, or child.

 feires, companions, mates.

 fele, many.

 fell, hill, moor.

 ferli, 275, fairly?

 ferlie, ferly, wonder.

 ferlich, wondrous.

 fernie, covered with fern.

 fet, fette, fetched.

 fethill, fiddle.

 fforthi, therefore.

 fifthen, fifth.

 fil, fell.

 first ane, first.

 firth, (frith,) wood.

 fize, 274, five.

 flang, flung.

 flaugh, flew.

 flaw, 175, lie.

 fleer, floor.

 fley'd, frightened.

 flone, arrow.

 fode, creature, child.

 fond, try, make trial.

 fonde, found.

 forbye, aside.

 fordoo, destroy.

 foremost man, 158, (like best man), bridesman.

 forowttyn, without.

 forteynd, happened.

 forther, further.

 forthi, therefore.

 fowles, birds.

 fraine, question.

 free, 275, lord, 253, lady.

 free, freely, noble, lovely.

 frem, strange.

 freyry, fraternity.

 frowte, fruit.

 fu', full.

 fundyd, 275, went.

 fytt, canto, division of a song.

 gad, bar.

 gae, gave.

 gae, go, going.

 gait, nae, no way, no where.

 galid, 276, sang?

 gangande, going.

 gar, make, cause.

 gare, 193, strip.

 garthes, girths.

 gate, 225, way.

 gesing, 276, guessing; or, desire, A. Sax. gitsung?

 getterne, giitern, kind of harp.

 ghesting, lodging, hospitable reception.

 gied, went.

 gien, given.

 gin, giue, if.

 gleed, a burning coal.

 glided, 274. Qy. gilded?

 glint, gleam.

 gon, begun, performed.

 gon, went.

 goud, gold.

 goupen, the hollow of the hand contracted to receive anything.

 gowan, flower.

 gowd, gold.

 gowden, golden.

 gown of green, got on the, 259, was with child.

 gravil, 260?

 gree, favor, prize.

 green'd, longed.

 greet, weep.

 grew, gray.

 groom, man, young man.

 gule, red.

 gurlie, stormy, surly.

 gyne, device.

 ha', hall.

 had, hold, keep.

 hailsed, saluted.

 halch, salute, embrace.

 hallow, hollow.

 Hallowe'en, 120, the eve of All-Saints' day, supposed to be peculiarly favorable for intercourse with the invisible world, all fairies, witches, and ghosts being then abroad.

 hals, halse, neck;

 halsed, greeted.

 haly, holy.

 hame, home.

 hap, cover.

 harde, heard.

 harns, brains;

 harn-pan, skull.

 hate, hat.

 hat, hit.

 hand, hold.

 haved, had.

 heal, conceal.

 heathennest, heathynesse, 234, heathendom.

 hegehen, eyes.

 hegh, high; heghere, higher.

 hem, them.

 hende, handsome, gentle.

 hent, took.

 herbere, arbor, orchard.

 herme, harm.

 hethyn, 107, hence.

 hett, bid.

 heved, head.

 hi, 275, I.

 high-coll'd, high-cut.

 hind, gentle.

 hind, 180, stripling.

 him lane, alone.

 hingers, hangings.

 hirn, corner.

 hith, hight, is called.

 hollen, holly.

 hore, hoar, hoary.

 hose, 238, clasp.

 howkit, dug.

 howm, holm; level, low ground on the bank of a stream.

 hunt's-ha', hunting-lodge.

 hye, in, in haste; 23, perhaps aloud.

 hyghte, bid; was called.

 hynde, youth, stripling, swain.

 hyȝe, in, 20, in haste, of a sudden.

 ic, I.

 iknow, known.

 ilka, each.

 ilke, same.

 inowȝe, enough.

 intill, into, upon.

 iralle, 99. Qu. rialle, royal?

 jawes, 227, dashes;

 jawp'd, 257, dashed, spattered.

 jelly, jolly, pleasant.

 jimp, slender, neat.

 jolly, pretty, gay.

 kaim, comb.

 kane, rent.

 karp, talk, relate stories.

 kemb, comb.

 ken, know.

 keppit, caught, kept.

 kevels, lots.

 kiest, cast.

 kilted, tucked.

 kin', kind of.

 kindly, 236, "good old"?

 kirk, church.

 kist, chest.

 knave-bairn, male child.

 knicht, knight.

 laidley, loathly, loathsome.

 laigh-coll'd, low-cut.

 laith, loath.

 lane, alone; joined with pronouns, as, my lane, his lane, her lane, their lane, myself alone, &c.

 lang, to think, originally, to seem long, then to be weary, feel ennui.

 lapande, lapping.

 lappered, coagulated, clotted.

 lat, latten, let.

 lauchters, locks.

 laverock, lark.

 leal, loyal, chaste.

 leccam, body.

 lede, lead.

 lee, lie.

 leesome, pleasant, sweet.

 lelfe, 22, leave?

 lere, lore, doctrine; learn.

 les, lesyng, lying, lie.

 lesse and more, smaller and greater.

 lett, lette, hinder, hinderance; delay;

 withouten lette, for a certainty.

 leuedys, ladies.

 leuer, liefer, rather.

 leuȝe, laughed.

 leven, 111, lawn.

 levin, lightning.

 ley-land, lea-land, not ploughed.

 licht, light.

 lichted, lighted.

 lift, air.

 likes, dead bodies.

 lingcam, 148, body, =leccam?

 linger, longer.

 link, walk briskly; arm in arm.

 lire, face, countenance.

 lith, 275, supple, limber.

 lithe, listen.

 lodlye, loathly.

 loffe, love.

 loof, hollow of the hand.

 loot, bow.

 loot, let.

 loun, loon.

 louted, bowed.

 lown, lone.

 lowȝhe, laughed, smiled.

 luifsomely, lovingly.

 luppen, leapt.

 lygge, lay

 lyggande, lying.

 lyle, little.

 lystnys, listen.

 lyth, member, limb.

 mae, more.

 maen, moan.

 maik, mate.

 makane, making.

 mane, moan.

 mansworn, perjured.

 marrow, mate.

 maste, most, greatest.

 maun, must.

 maunna, may not.

 mawys, mavis, singing thrush.

 may, maid.

 medill-erthe, earth, the upper-world.

 mekill, great, large.

 mell, mallet.

 meloude, melody.

 mensked, 276, honored.

 menyde, moaned.

 merks, marks.

 merk-soot, 274, mark-shot, distance between bow-marks.—Finlay.

 merrys, marrest.

 mese, mess, meal.

 micht, might.

 middle-eard, the upper world, placed between the nether regions and the sky.

 minded, remembered.

 minion, fine, elegant.

 mirk, dark.

 mith, might.

 mode, passion, energy.

 mody, courageous.

 mold, mould, earth, ground.

 montenans, amount.

 more, greater.

 most, greatest.

 moth, might.

 mother-naked, naked as at one's birth.

 mouthe, might.

 Mungo, St., St. Kentigern.

 my lane, alone.

 mykel, much.

 na, not;

 namena, name not, &c.

 nay, denial.

 neist, next.

 newfangle, 9, (trifling, inconstant), light, loose.

 niest, next, nearest, close.

 noth, nouth, not.

 nouther, noyther, neither.

 on, in.

 on ane, anon.

 one, on, in.

 onie, any.

 or, ere, before.

 orfaré, 99, embroidery.

 Oryence, Orient.

 oure, over.

 over one, 23, in a company, together? See Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary, in v. ouer ane.

 owre, over, too.

 owreturn, refrain.

 pae, peacock.

 paines, penance.

 pall, rich cloth.

 palmer, pilgrim.

 papeioyes, popinjays.

 parde, par dieu.

 pautit, paw, beat with the foot.

 pay, 237, pleasure, satisfaction.

 paye, 104, content.

 payetrelle, 99, (otherwise, patrel, poitrail, pectorale, &c.) a steel plate for the protection of a horse's chest.

 payrelde, apparelled.

 perdé, par dieu.

 perelle, pearl.

 pile, 260, down, sometimes tender leaves.

 plas, 19, place, palace.

 plyȝt, plight, promise.

 poterner, 8, pouch, purse. Rightly corrected by Percy from poterver.

 See pautonnière, pontonaria, and pantonarius, in Henschel's ed. of Ducange.

 pou, pull.

 prest, priest.

 prieve, prove.

 prink'd, prinn'd, adorned, drest up, made neat.

 pristly, earnestly.

 propine, gift.

 raches, scenting hounds.

 radde, quick, quickly.

 rair, roar.

 rashing, striking like a boar.

 rathely, quickly.

 raught, reached.

 rauine, beasts of chase, prey.

 redd, 22, explained.

 rede, counsel.

 reekit, 299, steamed.

 reele bone, 99, an unknown material, of which saddles, especially, are in the romances said to be made; called variously, rewel-bone, (Cant. Tales, 13, 807,) rowel-bone, reuylle-bone, and (Young Bekie, vol. iv. 12) royal-bone.

 reet, root.

 reme, kingdom.

 renninge, running.

 repreve, reprove, deride.

 rewe, take pity.

 ridand, riding.

 rived, 233, (arrived,) travelled.

 rought, route, rowte, rout, band, company.

 routh, plenty.

 row, roll, wrap.

 rown-tree, mountain-ash.

 rudd, complexion.

 rybybe, kind of fiddle.

 ryn, run.

 rysse, rise.

 safe-guard, a riding-skirt.

 saghe, saw.

 saikless, guiltless.

 sained, crossed, consecrated.

 sall, shall.

 same, 25, some, each.

 sark, shirt.

 sathe, sooth, truth.

 saw, saying, tale.

 sawtrye, psaltery.

 scathe, damage.

 schane, shone.

 scho, she.

 schone, shoes.

 scort, short.

 sculd, should.

 seannachy, genealogist, bard, or story-teller.

 seck, sack.

 sekirlye, truly.

 selle, saddle.

 senne, since.

 sere, sore.

 seres, sires, sirs.

 sey, 18, v. 29, saw.

 share, 193, slip, strip.

 shathmont, 126, [A. Sax. scæftmund,] a measure from the top of the extended thumb to the utmost part of the palm, six inches.

 shee, 166, shoe.

 sheede, spill.

 sheeld-bones, blade-bones, shoulder-blades.

 sheen, bright.

 sheen, shoes.

 sheep's-silver, mica.

 shent, injured, abused; 48, shamed.

 sheugh, furrow, ditch.

 sic, such.

 sichin', sighing.

 sicken, such.

 skaith, harm.

 skaith, [qy. skail?] 136, save, keep innocent of.

 skill, but a, only reasonable?

 skinked, poured out.

 sky sett in, 262, for sunset or evening.

 skyll, reason, manner, matter.

 slae, sloe.

 slawe, slain.

 slichting, slighting.

 smert, quickly.

 snell, quick, keen.

 solace, solas, recreation, sport.

 sooth, soth, truth; sothely, truly.

 soth, 276, sweet.

 soun, sound.

 speed, 11, fare.

 spier, ask.

 spylle, destroy.

 stappin', 148, stopping.

 stark, strong.

 start, started.

 stefly, thickly.

 stered, guided.

 stern light, 112, light of stars.

 stiffe, 29, strong, stout.

 stinted, stopped.

 store, big, strong.

 stown, stolen.

 stowre, strong, brave.

 straiked, stroaked.

 strak, struck.

 stratlins, 183, straddlings?

 streek, stretch.

 sture, 155, big, strong.

 stythe, stead, place.

 suire, neck.

 suld, should.

 swick, blame.

 swilled, 242, shook, as in rinsing.

 swoghyne, 103, soughing.

 swylke, such.

 syde, long.

 syen, since.

 syke, rivulet, marshy bottom.

 sykerly, sykerlyke, certainly, truly.

 syne, then.

 syth, times.

 sythen, since.

 tabull dormounte, 19, standing table, the fixed table at the end of the hall. (?)

 tae, toe.

 taiken, token.

 tee, to.

 teind, tithe.

 tene, grief, sorrow, loss, harm.

 tente, attention, heed; takis gude tente, give good attention to.

 tett, 109, lock [of hair.

 thae, those.

 than, then

 thar, where.

 thar, 275, it needs.

 then, than.

 think lang, to be weary, impatient.

 thir, these, those.

 tho, then.

 thoghte, seemed.

 thoth, thouch, thouth, though.

 thought lang, seemed long; grew weary, felt ennui.

 thouth, 274, seemed.

 throw, short time, while.

 thrubchandler, 237 ?

 tide, time.

 till, to.

 tirled at the pin, trilled, or rattled, at the door-pin, or latch, to obtain admission.

 tither, the other.

 tod, fox.

 toute, 22. See Chaucer.

 touting, tooting.

 travayle, labor.

 traye, 104, suffering. [dree?

 tree, wood, staff.

 trew, trow.

 tryst, appointment, assignation.

 twal, twelve.

 twan, twined.

 twine, part, deprive of.

 tyde, time.

 tyte, promptly, quick.

 unco, strangely, very.

 vanes, flags.

 venerye, hunting.

 vent, went.

 verament, truly.

 villanye, vilony, disgrace.

 vntill, unto.

 vones, (wones,) dwellest.

 vytouten, without.

 wa', wall.

 wace, wax.

 wad, pledge.

 wad, 212, waded.

 wadded, 9, woad-colored, blue.

 wadna, would not.

 wae, waefu', waesome, sorrowful, sad.

 waif, straying.

 wald, would.

 walker, 10, fuller.

 wall-wight men, 176, picked (waled) strong men, warriors: see vol. vi., p. 220, v. 15.

 wan afore, 255, came before.

 wane, dwelling.

 war, where.

 ware of, to be, to perceive.

 warld's maike, 264, companion for life.

 warluck, a wizard, a man in league with the devil.

 warsled, wrestled, struggled.

 warwolf, werwolf, manwolf.

 wat, wet.

 waught, draught.

 wauking, walking.

 waylawaye, alas.

 wee, little.

 weiest, 254, [Jamieson,] saddest, darkest.

 weird, fate.

 weird, destine.

 wend, weened.

 wer, were, war.

 wern, refuse.

 werre, worse.

 werryed, worried.

 wesch, wash.

 wete, weten, knowing.

 whareto, wherefore.

 wharfrae, whence.

 whereas, where.

 wi, with.

 wicht, strong, nimble,

 wide, 199, wade.

 widershins, the contrary way, the way contrary to the course of the sun.

 wide-whare, widely, far and near.

 wierd, fate.

 wight, strong, active, nimble.

 wilder'd, carried astray.

 win, go to, attain; win up, get up.

 win, rescue.

 wind blows in your glove, 67 ?

 winna, will not.

 wistna, knew not.

 wit, know, knowledge.

 wittering, information.

 witti, intelligible.

 wodewale, woodpecker.

 woe, sad.

 won, dwell.

 wonige, 275, [adj. qy. woning?] dwelling.

 wood, mad.

 worth, 276, become, be the result.

 worthy, I were, 26, it would become me.

 wow, exclamation of astonishment or grief.

 wpe, up.

 wrebbe, 98; wrebbe and wrye, turn and twist?

 wrought, 240, for raught, reached.

 wrucked up, 240, thrown up.

 wrye, 98, wrebbe and wrye, turn and twist?

 wud, wood.

 wull, 253, wandering in ignorance of one's course, lost in error, bewildered.

 wylos, willow.

 wyndouten, without.

 wyne-berye, grape.

 wysse, wise.

 wyt, with.

 wyte, 136, blame.

 wyth, 276, wight, agile.

 wytouten, without.

 yard, staff.

 yat, that.

 yate, gate.

 y-born, born.

 y-doon, done.

 ychon, each one.

 yeen, 274, against, towards.

 ye'se, ye shall, will.

 yestreen, yesterday.

 yett, gate

 ylk, each.

 yod, went.

 yone, yon.

 yyng, young.

 zede, went.

 zonge, young. &c.

 ȝe, ye.

 ȝede, went.

 ȝit, yet. &c.

English and Scottish Ballads (Vol. 1-8)

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