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  1. Aiberdeen-awa phr.“Ye're a Highlandman by your tongue?” “Na; I am but just Aberdeen-a-way.” 'Od he was a mettle bodie of a creature — far north, Aberdeen-awa like, and looking at two sides of a half-penny. Burns's Ayrshire, and Dr MacDonald's Aberdeen-awa', and Scott's brave, metropolitan utterance will be all equally the ghosts of speech. I'll no compleen Tho' a' my life I lie my leen In Aiberdeen awa'. When he alighted from the Edinburgh coach at the canny twa and twae toun of Aberdeen awa, he had some doubt if the 
  2. Cleek n.2The Dundee folks did not like to see so many Aberdeen “cleeks,” as they called them, coming to take up their spare jobs. . . . When they arrived . . . the Dundonians would say by way of banter, “Ye'll better look oot, there's a curn mair cleeks come the day.”  
  3. Grief adj. grief job, I can tell you. Some said the North up Aberdeen way, had had rain enough, with Dee in spateIt took five men three hours to cut a track three hundred yards long for the sheep. It was a gey . . . but not a flick of the greeve weather had come over the hills.  
  4. Englify v. way o' thinkin, 's naither one thing nor anither. When a friend of mine returned to Aberdeen afterThe hail kintra gat begunket wi an Yinglifiet jargon. He had Englified the Scotch in such a way 
  5. Burse n. went to Aberdeen, where he gained a burse in King's College, upon a competition. In 1779 the Council [of Aberdeen] enacted that no boy who has . . . competed for a “burse,” shall receive premium. The 
  6. Seminar n.They're baith gyaun into Aberdeen to a lady's Seminar.  
  7. Chavie n.A chavie is like a geeser Tiger. I thought it was an east coast/Aberdeen type of saying. Not offensive in any way. Now, the Diary was never a "ned" but was addressed as a "chav" or "chavvie" as a had in common with Delhi and Ahmadabad was not only a Ruby Murray on a Saturday night, but a shared language. Kerr traced a lineage from the Khyber Pass to Leith Walk, through the gypsies who left northern India a thousand years ago, decamping five centuries later in East Lothian. "The old Nungate quarter of' slang, such as chavvi (a child), mortie (a girl), chore (to steal) and scran (food). Has she gotten a 
  8. Bonaccord n. worthy son of Bon-Accord. "Is that an albatross on you shoulder, Sandy, or a regular Aberdeen seagullVisits we interchange with one another, In bonacord, like sister and like brother. Thanks to a tables and chairs where they belong ... indoors. A personage who was a sort of parody of the real rulers. In Aberdeen he was called the Abbot of Bonaccord or the Abbot Out of Reason.  
  9. Furry Boot City n. sometimes referred to as furry boot city. The answer is a question: "Furry boot y' frae?" Aberdeen is the. Posters extolled the virtues of a health drink recommended by local sports clubs. Advertised as being full of the right minerals and vitamins, it rejoices in the name of FitLike. Just over a year ago a 13 goals in their last two games. Several, thousand that is, readers have asked why Aberdeen is boots ya fae?' Which means, 'Whereabouts are you from?' He pulled a carrier bag out of one of the side pockets: new tapes — Neil Young, Pearl Jam, Dancing Pigs again. The receipt was from HMV in Aberdeen. 'My guess,' Rebus said: 'he worked in Furry Boot town.' Johnny Bible's first victim: Duthie Park, Aberdeen Fifer. The poor people of Aberdeen have to put up with endless jokes about sheep, largely spawned by heid yins from Furry Boot City brought with them a PowerPoint projector, linked to a laptop.  
  10. Palatine n.Palantine — a name given by the Americans and seamen, to kidnapped individuals. or those who went out voluntarily to be indented, for a time agreed upon, with any person in America willing to pay the the penny-post and directories, obtained damages from the magistrates of Aberdeen for suppressing his narrative, in which he exposed them for this traffic. A tavern, kept by the famous Peter Williamson, the returned Palatine (as the boys abducted from Aberdeen were called).  
  11. Yo Yo n.Buyers from Aberdeen were also attracted to the port [Lossiemouth] and were especially interested “pingers” in Aberdeen.  
  12. Nairra adj. is much talk of a man . . . who hath left ten thousand pounds to a Hospitall at Aberdeen. He was a penny ribbon. He was near, though, i' the money way. A ceevil en'uch man, but nairey, nairey and narra. The mither lat flee her Bible Straucht at his narra face: "An wad ye be a riever And bring us this damned disgrace?" I've seen prood men come steppin ben This kirkyaird, swankin saucy. A nerra staa awytes them aa: A “narrow-nebbit”, or a “nippit”, teetotaler is a common expression. Ther exceeding narrou, they say, and hard to his relations. His Grandfather was a very narrow man, and therefore presumed not to have squandered away the Effects of his Grandchild. He was a narrow ailing man, and his. She's a dacent cratur', but a wee thing narrow! A wheen puir, silly, contrackit, narrow-begaun, cadgin 
  13. Version n. translations from English into Latin prose [at Aberdeen Grammar School]. The spelling adopted in the Latin the Old Aberdeen Grammar School, before essaying the Bursary Competition. The prize-lists were settled by a succession of trial versions.  
  14. Tangerines award Aberdeen a penalty in the Tangerines’ 3-2 win over the Dons at Tannadice. little in the way of goal threat. Also heading to Tannadice is Coyle who Falkirk have released from the. Dundee United manager Ian McCall will grill referee Stuart Dougal over a few beers about his decision to 
  15. Paf n. Aberdeenshire coast — Peterhead, Aberdeen and Fraserburgh — have a preference amongst buyers, before thoseA great grievance with certain districts is that paf herrings, from the three emporiums on the 
  16. Advocate n.Subscribers, Library of the Faculty of Advocates. , a counsellor or barrister. Alan Fairford. Duffe, Advocatt in Aberdeen, to be found att his loaging in the Castellgett. In early times lawyers in Aberdeen.  
  17. Aberdeen prop. n. . The Aberdeen and Angus polled breed. The official name had been followed: “Aberdeen or Angus.” The Herd Book should in future be “Aberdeen-Angus.” Nor the less that she has despoiled herself of her Aberdeen's Man, he may take his Word again. We could not have detected him to be a Scotchman, far less an 
  18. Nidge v., n.In Aberdeen, where the stone is very hard, being a granite, they use the scabbling hammer, by which called , and the operation . . . . , a species of ashlar used in Aberdeen. It is brought to the square by means of a cavil or hammer with a sharp point. is a mode of dressing used chiefly for granite otherwise dressed on head or exposed surface, showing little more than daylight when a straight-edge is 
  19. Porter Biscuit n. comb. . A kind of bap, very like the Aberdeen “softie”, said to be a favourite of carters, etc., who dipped it in their porter or ale as a snack. A porter biscuit is similar to a morning roll, only sweet and of a finer texture, almost like a plain cookie.  
  20. Crulla n. "cruller" from the Dutch , to curl, and a "cruller" is the same thing as an Aberdeen crulla. Crullers areMiss MacNeill [quoting Mrs Dalgairns] seems to limit this fried paste to Aberdeen. The writer first met it in Peterhead, truly enough, but he has also had it better elsewhere in Scotland. It is a paste of flour, butter, sugar and eggs, cut into strips, plaited together or curled, and fried to a light brown in clarified lard. They are drained and served on a napkin, with or without sugar. Jamieson gives "crule" as a small cake or bannock, deriving it from Gaelic [sic]. But Chambers, for example, derives 
  21. Bulfie adj.My old schoolfellow . . . who was short and fat, was known at Silver Street Academy, Aberdeen, as Bulfy or Beefy Fraser. She was the antithesis of a China tea clipper, her bulgy-" the boys termed it-bow resembling that of a Bible picture of Noah's ark or a Dutch galliot.  
  22. Forseeth adv.Here Sawny cries, frae Aberdeen; . . . “Here tak a rug, and shaw's your pose: Forseeth, my ain's but teem.” Forsith am I, Roger, my honest frien'; Whar's this you're gaen'? an' fu's a sin the streen? Quoth Rob to Tam, what hear we now? Forseeth the smith's a' wrang!  
  23. Out-toll n. comb.The resignation of a tenement in Aberdeen in the year 1720 being made with the symbol of a penny were transferred by the bailie taking a penny for and a penny for .  
  24. Architec' n.An architec' fae Aberdeen Condemned the hale affair [Church].  
  25. Subjanitor n.John Dey subjanitor in the Kings College of Aberdeen.  
  26. Darg n.4At Aberdeen those found in June and July are termed .  
  27. Foof interj., n. that could be easily answered. “Foof, man, ance on a day I thocht naething o' startin' awa oot the road to Aberdeen ony mornin'.”  
  28. Hail-sale adj. in the publick Market of Aberdeen. Syne fernziers guid a frae them fa's I' hale-sale batches. GuidFor after he the bride had kiss'd, He kiss'd the lasses hale sale a'. Market Pork sold hail-sale bless them a' halesale. Nae mair in heather crats he'll deal, In pecks an' lippies nor hale sale.  
  29. Original adj., n. their particular chieftains. He was in his original, a lad of the place. He was in Aberdeen afore he 
  30. Paraffle n., v. and swear, or I'll send you to prison,” said to a witness by a Buchan Bailie of Aberdeen. I hate aTouching the subject of this paraffle of words, it's not worth a pinch of tobacco. Geordie, man, ye'll no ken yoursel' in a' that paraffle o' purple an' fine linen. “Nane o' your , haud up your hand 
  31. Trickit ppl. adj.Aberdeen Reference Library have every right to be "fair tricket" this week with their latest 
  32. Squeeb n.2...wahtch oo' fur squeebs! I used to have fun with friends in Aberdeen when over a few drinks we include: Sypin' ( soakin ), caunle' (candle ), squeeb (firework), bleezin' (the effects of a litre bottle of vodka), mingin' or reekin' (smelly)... Ah hate squeebs-they juist make a noise!  
  33. Gnib adj.. Thus we may drive to Aberdeen, As gnib as drive a nail aye. He's unco gnib; it wiz only yesterday a 
  34. Croochie Proochles n. comb.My sister of its use in North-east Kincardine, and has heard it in Aberdeen. A friend describes 
  35. Duff's Luck n. phr., from a beginning not at all large, land to land, so that the estates now bulk largely in the shires of Banff, Aberdeen, and Moray. Hence, probably, has arisen the proverb “Duff's luck”.  
  36. Spald v., n.An' up on the hillock sat Aberdeen Kate, Wi' haddies an' spaldins, and rowth o' fresh skate. He 
  37. Bruckles n. pl.From others of them were suspended . . . a bunch of or to the tobacco pipes. The dwellers in the parish of Strichen used to be nicknamed “bruckle-strippers.” In . . . Aberdeen, where it abounds 
  38. Maunsemas n.. 13th in the Orkneys and in Shetland. Masses and Horae for both days are given in the Aberdeen Breviary and in the Drontheim Missal. The “Camerlan ” fae Amsterdam Cam on a Maunsemas day On Stoora Stack she 
  39. Backland n.In a backland (a tenement built on what was originally the drying green behind an older tenement) a the South-side of the Castlestreet of Aberdeen, commonly called Marishalls Lodging. . Tenements built behind others — . in various parts of Central Edinburgh. Supping in a back land in the Trongate 
  40. Nation n., Glasgow and Aberdeen, the election is by the students voting in four nations, each nation having one voice Glasgow and Aberdeen do the student nations — four in number as in medieval Paris — make the election. And only in Aberdeen do they do so through the procurators of the nations. The practice in Aberdeen is thus the case of Glasgow and Aberdeen.  
  41. Pye n. . The usual term in Aberdeen. French Tick and Tack is played by counting a pie and the odd man out is the mannie. In the nineteenth century counting-out was often conducted by each boy putting a 
  42. Heritably adv. voluntarily sold . . . the price, if it be not heritably secured, must, as a moveable subject, go to the irredeemably All and Whole the subject Number Forty-seven Belmont Street, Aberdeen.  
  43. Inland n., adv.He had purchased a tenement of inland, with the closs and pertinents lying in the Shipraw of this of Aberdeen, commonly called Marishalls Lodging. All and whole that of Fore and In-land, with the 
  44. Lax n.2I gett from John Smith, laxfisher. Compeared Robert Nairn, Laxfisher in Aberdeen. Robert Garvock 
  45. Yawn n.', partially plugged with boulder clay, cut along dolerite dykes between Stonehaven and Aberdeen.  
  46. Barbaree n.A game like barley-break. . . . A certain spot was fixed as the goal, and one was appointed by lot sight, and one had shouted “Barbaree!” Then he set out in pursuit, and if fortunate to make a capture, this one was bound to act as catcher in the next game. = “Hy-spy,” Aberdeen name for same game.  
  47. Potterton Hen n. comb. upon the estate of Pottertown [near Aberdeen], hence the above local name.  
  48. Jacque n.Yesterday, receiv'd the following Letter, dated Aberdeen, Feb. 16. Sir, Our Deliverance at last hath been wonderfully brought about, considering what a sad Set of Jacques are in this Place. . . . Our 
  49. Swesch n. town's drum of Aberdeen was exhibited . . . in the Glasgow International Exhibition in 1888, with the following notice: — “The Drum, or ‘Sweesh', was a very important civic institution before the introduction 
  50. Finnan n.Those, called Findon-Haddocks, which abound at Aberdeen, being dry'd, eat with a marrowy Taste, and are much admir'd by strangers. To Finnan haddocks and a Lobster 0 0 4½ [ . Finden] The Buchan bodies). The lang-tongued hizzies skirling out “Ael a [yellow] Findram Speldrains,” and they just ca'ed it that to get a better grip o't wi' their tongues. In like manner the Edinburgh special constables are haddies or mince collops were cooked for his special benefit. “Finnan Haddies” are now made in Aberdeen 
  51. Choke v.The custom of street vendors of gooseberries in Aberdeen, and I have no doubt elsewhere, known as “chokin' the joog,” the trick being to hold the jug in a slanting position in the left hand, putting what was supposed to be a handful of berries into the jug with the right, and then holding some berries 
  52. Skinny adj. a children's song in Aberdeen relating the adventures of a thin man called “Skinamalinky Lang Legs carryin' the books. An aw the time the skinnylinky copper's a' ir heels. "Geud, thoo're no exactly a skineemelink," replied Mansie with a grin, "bit whit's the differ? I like a fat lass mesel." There used to be”, which is still sung as a skipping-song, etc.: Skinamalinky, lang legs Umbrella feet. Skinnymalinky so-ca'd flappers canny haud a caunle Tae a real wummin lik' you, yir too hoat tae haunle.  
  53. Relict n.Receaved from david wilson in name of James brouns relict till account of her housemaill a ducadoon seemed unlikely to find a mate for himself, maybe he could be urged towards taking on Sandy Hope's relict man's braith. As a small boy in Dumfries he was on visiting terms for tea and scones with Jean Armour, relict of Robert Burns. Peacefully, at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, on Tuesday, September 21, 1993, Charles Strachan, aged 86 years, (former Reader in Natural Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen), much loved 
  54. Provisor n. within the College [King's College, Aberdeen].  
  55. Squatter v.2 squatterin' awa' already in ablow the roof. I'll soon shift them! The great Dundee-Aberdeen buses 
  56. Black Stone n..” A seat with a stone in it still exists at Glasgow, a black capping stone at St Andrews [University]. Used up to 1858 in Glasgow University in the expression “sit the Blackstone.” The black stone was a slab of black marble forming part of a wooden chair (still preserved in Glasgow University) on which a Aberdeen and Edinburgh have disappeared. Yesterday my Pupils when on the blackstane pleased the 
  57. Mexie n.I see that the marbles season is with us again in Aberdeen — and presumably elsewhere in the North 
  58. Molendinar adj., n. molendinary system is found in the case of the mills belonging to the burgh of Aberdeen. The extraction of a thy courtesy may justly claim. . . . The house of thy molendinary father. Can a man . . . look at that thing there, which they have the impudence to call a cornmill, without trembling to think that corn should be entrusted to such a miserable molendinary? The stories of the miller of Thirlestane and similar molendinar tragedies. A curious commentary on the utterly obsolete character of the old 
  59. Bursary n.All his Acquaintances are teazed with constant Solicitation to procure a Bursary for this hopeful students in divinity to pass two winters in Glasgow College, and a third in some foreign university bursaries at the King's college of Aberdeen for boys educated here [Mortlach].  
  60. Unreason n.Enacting the Abbot of Unreason, a species of high-jinks, in which a mimic prelate was elected, who ritual, into ridicule. The Master of the Revels, in Aberdeen, went by the name of Abbot, or Prior, of 
  61. Fa pron.An' 'gin ye speer fa' got the day, We parted on a nevel. They wistna fum to send upo' the chase. Here Sawny cries, frae Aberdeen; “Come ye to me fa need.” Fa kens fat may be in store for oorsel's 
  62. Beds n.so I never skipped at hopscotch peevers beddies in Aberdeen but fell for Rommel at the bottom of the garden... Bools for the boys, skipping ropes for the girls, beddies, peeries — each had a place “pickies” (or the “beds,” or the “Pall-all”) . . . and the “Chucks.” She was a girl again . . . playing at 
  63. Scratch n., v.A body cud eat o' them [potatoes] till they misportioned themsels; an' sae fine scratch the left anes mak'. Gane are the days o' gude John Knox, Wha used sae well Auld Scratch to box. Aberdeen catches several times a week. No rest for you — take my tip — Until you've squared yer . Come on, ye 
  64. Faction n. Aberdeen Grammar School the 4th and 5th classes were divided into factions of four, the number of boys on a be taken account of. To make a thorough examination of all the “factions” in that establishment, in the great school, a dangerous sport, as running at full speed on the top of the benches frequently led 
  65. Speet n., v.A little spit-stick of a sword. In the neighbourhood of Aberdeen, and in various places in the herrin strung upon a speet. A shower o' auld shoon, crackit tea-pats, herrin' speets. I wis speetid up da trid speet o' piltiks. The fish are hung on “speets” over a fire of oak shavings. Dere wis 
  66. Mortify v. in Scotland termed a , and in one great borough (Aberdeen, if I remember rightly) there is a house a broad piece of freestone with an inscription bearing that this house and croft was mortified to the whole amount for these years to £273, 2s. 9½d. ln “Aberdeen Mortifications” the term “mortified” is used with reference to a gift by a donor during life. Item, making a large mortification brod to the session house of 3 divisions and furnishing naills to plant on the rolls, a man a day, . . . 1 0 0 Fergusson, Writer in Edinburgh, one of the boys upon the Mortification. At Aberdeen, the manager of certain public funds who is chosen annually, is called the master of mortifications. A settlement in mortmain is the Session put up in the Kirk. “I really think I should be at a loss how to dispose of such a charming property as Bloom-Park.” “But I'm at nane; I'm just gaun to mak' a mortification o't.” My object in endeavouring to establish this connection was to enable me to prove Wee Johnny's claim to a 
  67. Bonailie n.! An' whare awa's the auld dear een, That oor bonalie blinkit in At the merket cross o' Aberdeen. The on a silver ashet. He was even found unable to participate in their landlord's hearty bonnaillie. Kirrcormock's blyth lairdie, or he gaed awa . . . Invited his neebours about ane and a' To gi'e him a merry 
  68. Exerce v., n.The presbetery of Aberdeen sent him a summonds to appear before them upon the account of schismatical practises in presuming to exerce the ministry by a license from the exauctorat bishops. The saids exerce the said office. That the conservator allow no persone to exerce as a factor. They found him 
  69. Eemage n. plague. He gaed into Aberdeen last weenter a stout healthy callan wi' a fund o' life in him, and he came, and . . . in comes a beautiful bairn wi' yallow curlin' hair, an' just da very face o' what dere ain bairn sud a been. That's nae a bairn; that's an image; the bairn's been stoun. Here, perhaps, a leevin cretur, like an emage, staunin at the mouth o' a close, or hirplin alang, like the last relic o' the leave da eemige o a boy i da hoose himsell aa nicht.  
  70. Blibbans n. pl.Over sixty years ago I heard the word at Cove, near Aberdeen. . Ribbons of any kind of slimy shreds of greens or cabbage which careless or slovenly cooks put into broth. Quite a common grumble of 
  71. Wa adv. wanwirt an a wa-cast. He's waygane for ever. Her way gate's caused an unco stir. The way-going tenant. And as I gaed I saw a sicht, Sae waefu' in the wa'-gawn licht. The way-going tenant is in as good a enclosure, on the north side, in corn or grass for his way-going crop. It was a wae wa-ga'en to mae nor me gotten a wagaein'. At the way-gaun o' the year. I'd be laith to get an ill-name at the very outset of our way-ganging. His wa-gaen wis sae quait an' calm it wis a gey filie till they war sure he was deid. My faither couldn't attend to their way-gaun. There was a very good turn out of buyers at the waygoing sale. To hope to recover a reasonable proportion of the value of his improvements on way-goingShe came to that same spot of ground and made way of her self. Gae wa — gae wa, lad; dinna blaw in folk's lugs that gate. Gaw way, hinny! These orra things come cheap to me. The house I'm sure would be weel quat o' ye . . . just gae wa' as ye are. Waah, waah, that winna dee at a'. Wa' oot o' that 
  72. Brank v.1 the muckle hawket cow For Aberdeen. His Maidy is famous for cookin' beef-steak, And very expert at 
  73. Mattie n.2 precisely were you born? The Mattie at ARI. More precisely, the maternity unit at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary 
  74. Scribble v. wool-comber, the dyer, the scribbler. In the year 1789, a water-mill was first erected near Aberdeen what was termed a “Scribble Dick”. Two Horses for Scrubling with, two pair of Scrubling Cards. The 
  75. Mile n.1 Hillbrae . . . in the parish of Udny, and within seven miles of the town of Aberdeen. We think na on the, which the Bailie stated to be seven Scots miles distant. He in a neighbourin' paris' won'd A few Scots miles awa. A lang Scots mile was shortlin's past. At Jan Palak Square A mindit on oor ain martyrs, A 
  76. Fey n.2Yer so'or sung sowens, yer ill-brewn ale, Yer stinkin' fy, and yer breid fired raw. Aberdeen and weel, she canna come the day, she burnt her feet wi' a pot o' fy.” Washin' sarks an' bakin' breid, An anyone left you a fortune?” my father once asked a farm-servant. “Man,” he replied enthusiastically 
  77. Mettle n., adj. creature — far north, Aberdeen-awa like, and looking at two sides of a half-penny. Your chiels use mettleAt last I took mettle, an' offer'd her battle. The daughter is a fine mettal-like lassie, and might have made a shift both for her mother and herself, had she been bred not to think it dishonourable. She has a tongue intill her head to gie a mettle answer. A sonsy mettle hizzy. I followed, and was mettler o' foot than he. That's a mettle beast of yours, freend; will you sell him? Ye're nae a beggar's brat, I'll gie my aith An' mair, I see ye're mettle to the teeth. 'Od he was a mettle bodie of a heels, When gaun to see their dearie. He is an honest and a mettle gentleman. Ye'll ken Laird Heron o' the Rathan, Jen — a mettle spark.  
  78. Poak v.A fowl looking for food in a field would be said to be “ gyaan ”. Also used without suggestion of search: e.g. of a man walking sedately about his house . . . An old man describing how he caught a skarf in his “girn” said he was watching the bird, and “she this way an' she that way, and then she i 
  79. Backsey n.A breast and backsey of beife. A healthfu' Stomach sharply set Prefers a Back-sey pipin het. In through it. In Aberdeen used most frequently for pork and mutton. The word backsey refers in Ayrshire to 
  80. Broket adj. [ ] , [ ] , he behaved in a peculiar way.  
  81. Camlachie prop. n.A richt camlachie way o daein.  
  82. Backset n., v., after such a Backset and Discouragement, come to Seed so late in the Season. My leddy's fleein' some heich; she'll get a backset yet. I've had back-sets syne, as ony chiel may ha'e. There's been a backset in Barbie for the last year. — A setting-back of any thing, or a something that retards: thus, wet weather is a “backset” to the farmer in “the hay and harvest time.” Backset is always used of a relapse after illness, never in a moral sense. The earl of Marischal . . . having got this tack, sets the same customs in backset, to some well-affected burgesses of Aberdeen. I tyauv't wi' the fir-reet till I was backset, an' was forc't t' leav't efter a'. The crosses I've met wi' the day fairly backset 
  83. Adber n.Adber, adbert. He had a wheer atvird — . a queer way of doing things.  
  84. Rictum-ticktum n.He would . . . fall down as dead as a bag of sand; yet, by their rictum-ticktum, rise-up-Jack, sleight-of-hand, hocus-pocus way, would be on his legs, brushing the stour from his breeches knees, before the green curtain was half-way down.  
  85. Skite v.2, n.2 there was harm in their being . Prood skyte of Aberdeen! Selt your father for a plack, Whatna prood niver in Aiberduff skyters.” A frichtit lad will skite his breeks. They would begin to yell “G'awa skyte was that? He's a selfish skyte that cares but for his ain kyte. They were “just the skytes o 
  86. Extranean n. School at Aberdeen the “extranean” was one who had not gone through the regular curriculum from the lowest to the highest classes, or attended a whole year in the highest classes, but had come from other schools for the last quarter in order to get a final drill or finishing touch before going to compete for 
  87. Suggan n.The saddle a goatskin, by way of “sugan”  
  88. Wan n.2 was on the road to Aberdeen. Some hyne doon as far's we cud see, comin' fae the Ba'dyfash wan. He's 
  89. Bourignonism n. Bourignonism that he [George Garden of Aberdeen] was deposed from the Ministry of the Church of Scotland, and 
  90. Wey n.1He that's ill of his Lodging, is well of his way-kenning. Spoken when I ask my Neighbour a Loan on the way o mends again. That ye wad thole a warm I mak na doubt, An' something mair, I's warrant robbit nooadays. She's the best creature, ae way an' a' ways, that ever was about a poor body's house. He's no an ill kin' o' body, ye get him aye juist the ae way. John an' me disna aye say ae wye. Fin A, with kilted, flag-adorned, beer-swilling audience members burping their way through a performance with? Whit a loup that wiz, eh?" They say she's in a dreedfu' wey. Oor mistress was in a way. She said it was a lot o' lees. Jannie wis in a aafil wye aboot Robbie. He's a queer cratur that way. D,ye think wey they're daein' them. He is aye in the way for a crack. His wife was somewhat cross and frettit ye ha'e an' fat character ye ha'e amon' fowk. I thought on a way o' doin' — whiles on ae thing many years ago by the shooting of quarries, or other accidents, and who were then set up “in a way of 
  91. Drane n.To have a “drane” was the other way of saying that a person was sulky.  
  92. Mutual Instruction Association n. comb.The members of the Mutual Improvement Society, on whose invitation I appear here. There is a sprung the now flourishing “Mutual Improvement Society.” You should form yourselves into a Mutual societies in the colonies. The Aberdeen and Banffshire Mutual Instruction Union, to which ten clubs belonged, published for six months in 1850 ; , with a monthly circulation of over 1,000. In 1950 the Leslie and Premnay Church Mutual Improvement Society, which lapsed in 1934, was successfully revived as a community 
  93. Hyke v., n.1' aboot Gin ye tell a lee. The moss . . . swalled up like a barm-scone, and first gae a hyke this way, syne a hyke that way, then a rift and a rair. The gowk wud gowl, and goup, and gab, Wud hyke and hick, and habbernab. A nurse a child when she heykin't on her knee an singan tae't. An' a snail sall heeze its hornies oot An' hike them roun' an' roun 
  94. Bestriddle v.Nae fleeching an' fondness, but glunching an' strife, Bestriddles the way o' a man wi' a wife.  
  95. Peuther v.2At bonspiels, ay, o' what a shilpet crew, Sic pewtring bodies, curse me, ne'er I knew. Mony a deir rig at Skithiwee. Bribing and peuthering, if a Word so well understood may be used about him by Act of Council . . . five pounds str. yearly. It is a common thing in Dumfries, in pothering, to kiss the wives, and drink with them. To pimp, an' peuther, and to tell A guid tale, ay about mysell. The twa candidates were baith busy peuthering yesterday at Aberdeen. If I had not pewter't with 
  96. Porteous n. Criminal Court to be holden at Aberdeen in May, 1709. He is advised to porteus roll a great many of these issuing of precepts to the Sheriffs respectively, which enjoined them to cause summon a competent number and abolished. Then the Presbyterie put me in the Porteous Roll, and summoned me to appear before a. That Macilivoil was then a prisoner at Fort-William, and stood in the porteous-roll, in order to be notice of his trial, and time for his agent and lawyers to prepare for it, by bringing it on in the way, but only in the circuits. The name , as originally applied to a breviary or portable book of prayers might easily be transferred to a portable roll of indictments. In virtue of the warrant in the porteous 
  97. Band n.2Keep the band o' the hill a' the way, for I hae seen as clever a fellow waured on sic a day.  
  98. Way interj.'Way wide there, fetch them tae the fank! Wear them in noo' roon' the haugh; Way, Glen, way! His commands are always short and sharp: “Way by! ” “In ahint! ” “Roond aboot!” Way-wo' haud still, wo man.  
  99. Torie n., v. turned over as soon as possible after frosty weather. Many acres of corn in Banff and Aberdeen shires appearing puffed, and very bare, having only scattered tufts of sheep's fescue. A bittie i' the hairt o' a baddert wi' tory. The ley was terrible tory-eattn. Weel-a-wite, but sometimes ye was gled o' the craws Tory Worms wad leave yer corn crap as bauld as an auld man's heid, and ye wad get a plague o' Daddy 
  100. Jeetle v., n.Ye're geetlin' an' spillin' the milk. Dinna geetle aboot on the way. He has a geetle whisky in a 
  101. Angersome adj. a day. I canna stand her way of speakin', it's terrible angersome. What touch o' comfort can ye feel? It's sad, it's angersome atweel. The way they gaed on aboot Scots folk was angersome to hear.  
  102. Off-sided adj.I speired in a very off-sided way frae them wha were in.  
  103. Riggaforaaser n., adj.Thoo're just a perfect riggaforaaser. What riggaforaaser way is that tae do it?  
  104. Caddie n.1, v. by a caddie girl, who had picked it up. In Aberdeen , as I remember it, was in constant use amongst “keelie.” The latter word was totally unknown in Aberdeen. A' ye canty, cheerie caddies, Lend a lug toTho' commissions are dear, Yet I'll buy him one this year; For he shall serve no longer a cadie — o. There was Wattie the muirland laddie . . . With sword by his side like a caddie. The gentry are no cadies to Bengal and the Cape of Good Hope. There were in Nasmyth's younger days a number of “caddies” round the markets, . sturdy women, each with a creel on her back, who acted as porters. To a cadie for. The , a very useful Black-guard, who attends the Coffee-Houses and publick Places to go of Errands they often considerably trusted. . . . This has a kind of Captain or Magistrate presiding over them a stranger comes to town, they get notice of it. A seal of cause was given to a company of “Running Stationers or Cadies,” who were to serve the public by going messages . . . and in other ways. A female 
  105. Fisher n. fisher's dozen words. They have a dread of being counted, of which the mischievous boys of Aberdeen were Town of Peterhead. They belong to Whitehills, a Fisher-town in the Murray Frith. Clanish as the curious fisher fouk. A son of St Crispin, whose knowledge of the English Language does not exceed a wont to avail themselves, by crying as the fisherwomen passed — “Ane, twa, three, What a lot of fisher fishers.” Ye was naething but a fisher-body upon a sma' watter. Sicken a muckle faimely: ane, twa, three, four, sax, acht, — aye, a hale fisher dizzen. “Ye come of fisher-folk, then?” said Robbie. “I always 
  106. A-b-buff n.It's just as easy as A-B-buff when ye're into the way o't.  
  107. Rout v.2Are ye lying routing there, and a young gentleman seeking the way to the Place?  
  108. Undercotted ppl. adj.A slight Way of Healing indeed, which now is undercotted, and seems to be incurable.  
  109. Boom v. tr.We'd boom across the Milky Way, One tee should be the Northern Wain, Another bright Orion's ray, A comet for a Channel Stane!  
  110. Gob n.2, v.2A father that gaed aff at a city feast wi' a gob o' green fat o' turtle half-way down his gullet. Cleg took a “gob” of hard mud in his hand. He was a dacint poor lad any way, and a rael gob o' good nature. Swipey Broon . . . planted a gob of mud right in the middle of his brow. They make bottles with moulds — above is a piece (or “gob”) of molten glass ready to fall into the moulding machine. He held Carlin with his cloudy, shallow stare, then sniffed and hawked and landed a huge gob on the pavement in 
  111. Palinode n. petitioner insists for a palinode in the publick news papers, in order to wipe off the unjust reproach with not usual to combine civil and penal conclusions or to ask for a palinode. Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to both . . . by such a as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary. Cooper pursued Roger before the Commissary of Aberdeen, for defamation, concluding for a palinode, damages, and fine to the procurator-fiscal. The Commissary having allowed a proof, expenses, and a fine, but also for a judicial recantation or palinode by the defender. I insisted upon 
  112. Outcraw v.She began to mak a great phrase about the way she had outcrawed the puir body.  
  113. Outins adv.Alang the lown side o' a dyke; Or outance, ony way they like. An ootings lass.  
  114. Promote v., Aberdeen]. The other graduands who have obtained First Class Honours are called up, one by one, by the Promotor. His stone gradually died down and came to a standstill some little distance from the tee. “Graun' man, graun',” exclaimed Mr David, “ye're a graun' curler. That yin's in the wey o' promotion 
  115. Fause adj., n., v.She ne'er gae in a Lawin fause, Nor Stoups a Froath aboon the Hause, And my fause Luver staw my a third efter the hoo-haa o the fause beggars on the streets. Pit on a fause accent an the business greatest demand. A high paper cap, with one of their great-grandfather's antique coats, then equips them as a — they thus go about the shops . Fause-faces on, and sarks they don Abune their coats an' breeks. Not all women take the view of the Aberdeen landlady who chanced upon my wife putting on her make-up in a bed & breakfast which was adorned with fearsome texts from the Old Testament. "Is that you pittin' on your fause face, then?" she remarked with disdain. In Aberdeen perhaps, hatchet-faced harridans might glare, but in France and Italy a woman would think twice before going out without her make fause-house Wi' him that night. Squeekin' like rats frae a fause hoose. Faith! she was right, only I should have had a fause to keep off remonstrating friends. Da same as tunder wis his growl, He widna 
  116. Covener n.Mr Alexander Clues, that was then deacon Covener, and a man of great potency in his way.  
  117. Reithe adj.“Is your master a very religious man?” “He's weel eneugh that way — no that very reithe on't”.  
  118. Tanty-ranty n.Which ever way ane maks a seizure O' the fair, i' the auld affair Ca't tanty ranty.  
  119. Help v. Chimneys he has already helped. Given to the Officer three shillings scots for bringing loam from Aberdeen to help a hole in the Church. [He] saw him endeavour to help the lock of the said gun with a file, An' gi'e the seethin' pot some bree. Man, I maun hae been a muckle half-boilt gozlin. So, helpmabob! I cudna believ't. “Aw, help ma boab!” exclaimed Willie, “Ah'm no' a traivellin' dictionary.” A the demonstrators and the old favourite remained No 1. 'Help ma boab!' (a famous Glasgow expression 
  120. Resident v.The Minister and residenting heretors and Session. To set up a set of non-residenting heritors in amang them. The said provost being alwayes a continuall residenter within our burgh. Such person is to be ane actuall residenter in Old Aberdeen and have his residence there with his family. But there bankrupt or new residenter. Among the residenters [of Edinburgh] there are some who would give more for a forebear in a stoury lead kist than for a living preacher of the gospel. Thither the nobeelity, gentry, an” about a house or district. . . . The castle here is an ould residenter. . . . Speaking of goutweed the 
  121. Bulkie n.The bulky lads were aye about, To keep a' quiet, ye needna doubt. A set o' bulkies by the way Will 
  122. Drune v., n.Some cows have a way of droinin, moaning or complaining. Also heard applied to a minister in pulpit — “Mr. G. wad stand there drunyan.” De coo ga'e a drøn.  
  123. Hubbley-jock n.Mrs Strachan reddened up at that, bubbling like a hubbley-jock, that wasn't the way for a quean to speak to a woman that might well be her mother.  
  124. Wiss v.2Can ye wiss me to the way? I warran du kudna wis me til a gud wrettin pen.  
  125. Barge n.2, v.. , to speak in a loud angry manner; to scold. , to scold in a loud abusive way. To , scold. , a passionate, boisterous, imperious woman. Come across the street and have a barge and a glass 
  126. Frozen v.I trust that I shall never be given over . . . to come in the way of sic a frozening again.  
  127. Wide-a-way n. comb.-a-way?  
  128. Bunch n.1, v. in a hobbling sort of way; a term applied to one of a squat or corpulent form. He stud higher, at laste be a half, Than the sturdiest bunch av a Michaelmas calf. , to go about 
  129. 'ave-a-carry Me phr. , Tibby; i' oor young days the laddies wud a' been terrified oot o' their wits to hae spoken that way.  
  130. Black Cork n.I'll run ower the way to Bell's brewery, and get ye a pint o' black cork to synd it doun wi'.  
  131. Way Loom n. comb.To carry over the Dyke of a Dam over the Way Loom or back water gang of the Miln of Pitkerro.  
  132. Clatchin' n.The guidwife was in a dreadfu' way aboot her chookies, and as clatchin' after clatchin' disappeared 
  133. Creetch n.' never lettin' on ye hear a bodie. Ye'll be a creetch, nae doot, in your way. It disna look like as if ye did, then, standin' there like a bogstalker at the fauld yett, an 
  134. Unfeued ppl. adj.The unfeued and unproductive property would also be exposed to sale in way of few. Half-a-dozen 
  135. Sleugh n.That every needy pilgrim on his way, . . . [May] get a heezy o'er the sleugh o' . Swith in a sleugh at a' his length He on his riggin lay. The spate spew'd owre ilk burn and sleugh.  
  136. Tyach interj.Tach! what aboot her? Taugh, a' my lessons are as simple as A B C. Nimrod's orders, tach! “Tyach!” said Kitty, and went the other way. Tchach, min, ye dinna believe that styte.  
  137. Doer n. Valleyfield, where he is presently a Doer on General Preston's estate. Missive by the Right Honourable The Earl of Fife addressed to Mr William Thom, Advocate in Aberdeen, Doer to James Farquharson of Invercauld. Real estate is mortgaged under a bond or disposition in security, the agent in the transaction doers, . . . and the doers will be constrained by law to do their duty as executioners. "He'll be a 
  138. Ine n.They are nae to get a'thing their ain way till the ine o' the chapter. A gaed ben t' the ither ine 
  139. Deavance n., gae thy way w' ye; My din's a deevance — thank ye, sir, gude day t' ye. Faith, I wouldna wonder if it's comin' on to rain. Sic a deavance! Ye're fairly staw't — I carena 
  140. Toddle v.2A junt o' beef baith fat an' fresh, Aft in your pat be todlin'. Till guid meat toddles in the pot And supper's on the way.  
  141. Raith n.. We leet the damishell awa To get a raith o' lair. I should have a wraith in Aberdeen [University]. needna grudge to draw your breath For little mair than haf a reath. Ye tak this well-fared may, And keep her three roun raiths o a year, An even at the three raiths' end I sall draw near. There was a particular time for visiting it [a holy loch], viz., the first Monday of the “reath,” or quarter. She's awa' takkin' a raith at the saut watter. The wind was said to blow during the quarter — the “raith” — in that rett o' da year. I [cat] had a bield, a lilac tree . . . An' there I crouched five raith an' mair. I then, in a loud country voice, told them of my intention, if possible, to gain a “gude buss,” for the attainment of which I was to take a “raith's schuling” with them. He taen a raith at schule noos an 'ans 
  142. Dentylion n.' corn — By way o' variety, twa bunches o' souracks. Hides like the skin o' a pouket guse, and hues likeDandelion or Dainty-lion, which many love to eat as a sallad. Dentylions an' gowans, a sma' crap o 
  143. Jirt v., n.Aa thought it was yin o' they fleein' things, the way they were jirtin out and in. A fit that's jirtit at the shin-banes. She's gien me monie a jirt an' fleg, Sin I could striddle owre a rig.  
  144. Induct v.A minister of the Church of Scotland is inducted to his charge in the manner which has been explained. A minister . . . duly licensed, ordained, and inducted. During the service Dr King was also ordained by the moderator of Aberdeen Presbytery, who inducted the new minister to the charge. Induction notice of his Induction when it takes place. Induction is not a , neither is it a in the existing Courts as an equivalent of “admission to a benefice”. The Church of Scotland's Committee on Public 
  145. Student n. was a Student. The ancient Rights and Privileges of the Students in the Election of the Rector. The Aberdeen student. The Student's Representative Council. . . is elected annually, and consists of representatives from the different Faculties, and the recognised student's societies. When a boy left school he proceeded to the university. He became a ‘student' at one of the four Scottish universities, . . . or an. Lorimer would appear a somewhat forbidding person, but he was on cordial terms with his students. At a 
  146. Hummie n.2, v.People in frosty weather try who stands cold best, by the way the can be made. Strinkle a hoomie 
  147. Pairt n., v., adv. destined for higher things. Visiting Aberdeen again, I realise, has made a lot of things come clear speirin whaur tae dine! '... But it's no just that Jimmy's a braw box player - here for a whilie an and Part in the Tumult and Riot. I could say a' my say here, for that part o't. Mr. Blawhard and his choir could droon a sawmill for heichts pairt. For length and height pairt it was some like the cottage at Corrybeg. Nae kirk has a monopoly o' gude fowk — or o' gude ministers either for that pairt o'd. “Do you think it [bride's-cake] would keep till the Gleska Fair?” “It would keep a year for that part o't.” 'E Roogs wis fowk a' weel anyoch t' be seen, an' Kirsty wis behin' nein o' 'em for looks pairt. A Lad o' Pairts [Title]. Gin ye hed the heart to spend it on a lad o' pairts like Geordie Hoo. It [parrot] was “a lad o' pairts,” quick at the uptak', and it soon acquired a vocabulary that astonished the natives. I think I am right in what I say. He's a lad o' pairts. The tradition is for the “lad or lass o 
  148. Reesk n. a stane, jo. What in this and in the adjacent county of Aberdeen, is provincially called Reisque or other grass. A coarse kind of grass, called by the country people reesk. The common rush ( ), and the. Owre the bent to the reiskie den. In boggy grounds among rushes and riesky places. A lot of growth and moss aff the reisky bank. Above that was placed a layer of good rough reeskie divots. A Riask or piece of Whinny ground near to the Houses of Townhead. But sic a risk below a hill The plough she took Reisk; more from its natural produce, which is a mixture of poor heath and stunted coarse grasses. Wi' Jeames an' them to tear a skelp O' reask to Saunders Todd. Reesk. A strip of grass between patches of 
  149. Hove interj.In calling a cow to be milked, , , often repeated, is the ordinary expression. Driving the ball o'er bunker, rut, and lea, And clearing, with imperious “hove,” the way.  
  150. Tertian adj., n. , in the Tertian, and in the Semi-class. Tertian Class. — After a brief recapitulation of the. occupies the remaining part of the session. During my Tertian year. A host of empty-headed semis and tertians. The Bageants and Tertians against the Semis and the Magistrands. In his second year he became a , in his third a , and in his fourth a . He followed the Natural Philosophy and Moral Philosophy courses as a tertian and a magistrand. Bajans, semis, tertians and magistrands. The change from to — a natural consequence of the disuse of the bachelor's degree after the Reformation — does not seem to have been made here until the nineteenth century. At Aberdeen it occurred very much earlier. The only class that had a name at Marischal was the first year medicals, i.e. lambs.  
  151. Clever v.2God will cause the matter of our honour to give way, like a sandy brae under our feet, while we 
  152. Way-flude n.£25 Scots for the Mill-lead and Way-flood. Loup the wafflin, Jock. There's ower little room for the wa'-fleed, an' it gars the wheel lag a bittie.  
  153. Heezie n., adj., every needy pilgrim on his way, . . . [May] get a heezy o'er the sleugh o' . The word now most way, I would have lent him a heezie, the dirty scoundrel, as willingly as ever I pitched a boddleI canna say But I may cock my Nose the Day, When the bauld and gay, Lends me a Heezy. That commonly used is , ; one is said to get a in a rough sea. Her een . . . hae gi'en my heart an unco heezy. Yet, in this breast a wee thing beats, . . . It yet will get its heezy. If he had stuck by the. His memory shall not perish; it has got a famous already. When the ladder gies such a creak and heezie up and down. Gie's a hyzie up. And if I can but get it [sword] drawn, . . . I shall lay baith my lugs in pawn, That he shall get a heezy. But safe she is, and ne'er a living soul in the castle, a' the better for them — they wad have gotten an unco heezy. An a heezy dere got he, Fir aa dat he hed conversation was makin' her feel the very same way as she does on the steamer, when the water's heisie. He 
  154. Cosh adj.2To lay a piece of wood on the ground in order to its being broken, is to place it in such a way that there may be a hollow place under that part of it at which it is meant to give the stroke.  
  155. Gild adj.A Gild Ling, is one that is unexceptionable as to size, either way. We say ; i.e. a great wag or rogue. , an arrant liar, , an arrant thief. I pat a gyld knot apo' da ends o' da treed afore I gae 
  156. Cairtle n., v.24 cartle peats from the moss. I was on the way home with a cairtle o' oilcake. Od' laddie, wiznan' ye some feart to ca sic a cairtle o' aul' beens? We wis cairtlin steens for the road the day.  
  157. Chapel n.The inhabitants of Old Aberdeen, who are of the Episcopal Persuasion . . . to our great Surprize from the chapel.' 'Is that right?' 'Aye.' 'Papish bastard.' The priest had a lot of sway. It was an was RC and attended the chapel in Annan despite being married to a Protestant.  
  158. Been-plough n. , a person giving help with ploughing. This word is also obsolete, and I was unable to discover whether the help given was voluntary or by way of “service” like “been-hook.”  
  159. Dauble v.1If I had been living in London and near the Court, I should certainly have been daubling this way. Yon mannie is a sloungin', eesless cratur, aye daablin' aboot, deein' naething.  
  160. Quarrel n.1, v.1The touns quarrell for winning of stones therintill. A commin' up the Quarrel Howe. The is properly the Quarry Glen . . . The old Scotch way of writing the word Quarry was Quarrle.  
  161. Halth n.' a way improved, she began til fash hersel' aboot the expense.  
  162. Buird adj. "buirdich chiel was bred in sic a way as this." jadies, Hae undertook, Wi' barrows, clauts, hoes, grapes, and spadies, To farm Kerr's Neuk. Many a 
  163. Sithean n. , and its diminutive , ‘a fairy mound', is to be met with in every Highland parish. A sithean or fairy mound where unbaptised children were buried. The Fairy Bridge you passed on the way, the sitheans 
  164. Haddish n. gueedwife. Bellabeg shall immediately cause to be made at Aberdeen . . . a agreeable to the meal peck of Lands of . In a parish on the east coast of Buchan, one wild night in winter, in the twilight, a little woman, dressed in green, went into a farm kitchen and begged for a “hathisch o' meal” from the unsifted meal measured with the aforesaid haddish cogue. Haddies Cog . . . A measure formerly used for meting out the meal appropriated for supper to the servants. It contained the fourth part of a peck. The new tenant, along with a friend, went from farm to farm, and got a peck or two from this one, a leppie from the next one, a hathish-cogful from the next one. The haddish rig wis a rig sawn wi' barley, beans, an' peys, an' they were a' ta'en tae the mull thegidder an' grun'. Syne they were made inta a kin 
  165. Parochial adj., n.In every Burghal Parish or Combination of Parishes there shall be a Parochial Board of Managers of burgh within the parish and of the rate-payers. The minister an' session werena to hae a seat ony mair College and the Parish to have a Parochial School. The parochial school of Fraserburgh in the county of Aberdeen is now vacant, and the patron has resolved to supply the same by competition. The Parochial schoolmasters (in the counties of Aberdeen, Banff and Moray) and gradually to elevate the literary character of the Parochial Schoolmasters and Schools. The parochial school; a sample of that noble institution every parish. It was held that the Grammar School of Forres had never been a parochial school, as the ordinarily and in course, whereby every congregational church is visited once a year . . . for by the 16th 
  166. Youch v.” about him. I couldn't sleep a wink last night the way the dog kept youghin'.  
  167. Dandie-claw n. comb., or of a job which one intends to do in the quickest and sketchiest way.  
  168. Broch n.1, v., Mally! Whoo, whoo ye, cam' Whistlin' Tam. Aberdeen will be a green, An Banff a borough's toon, But with fear and her eyes wide and black. It has been noticed that these brochs in Shetland form a line Elgin. The general comes to the brugh only ance in seven year. The doocot was rather like a miniature broch, a fifteen foot round-tower with a wide base, tapering to a small grassy top, on which two or three adventurers might stand, as if on a bastion, and take a survey of the land and sea. Some solitary Fraserbroch 'ill be a broch When a' the brochs is deen. Weel, but it's a lang road atween this an' the Broch [Kintore], min' ye. ...the junction where the train from Aberdeen split into two sections one for Fraserburgh (or the Broch, as we knew it)... Musselbrogh was a brogh When Edinbrogh was nane. They're up. He . . . told me to my face he woud make Cromertie a brugh royall. About the moon there is a brugh: the weather will be cauld and rough. A broch roun' the meen i' the e'enin', a “peel” roun' the midden 
  169. Queel v., n.Attie likit a dram in a drap o tarry tea - a Birse cup he caad it. He likit his sark weel-aired ilkie mornin afore the fire fyle he cweeled his parridge wi a jeelip o cream, syne suppit it doon afore their chynes oot in the Coutts' byre at Blaefauld. A duntin breeze that shook the leaves Gart aa the' churns. The loonie's brunt's finger, an' he's rowed it in a wee bit soapy cloot for cweelie. A drink o' milk is queelie kin', but it disna slocken like a sup caul water. Hiv ye ony cweelie saw for a frostit heel? A school appliance probably known only in Aberdeenshire is perhaps worthy of mention, viz. the “queelin stane”. This was a smooth flat stone upon which offenders were made to sit after their unprotected stones are no longer in use, but they existed in some Aberdeen schools till the 19th century. Up stiff braes he'll hae t' plod Wi' mony a heat an' qweel.  
  170. Capilowe v. a considerable way before his companions on a ridge, is said to them. In an old game the following 
  171. Papple n.2. , a new kind [of weed], has wrought its way among the wheats. Grass-Seeds, such as Goose-Corn. Papple — A noxious seed which grows amongst wheat; extremely prolific 
  172. Taiver n.2, v.2To make Soup de Saute the way. Boil a Hough of Beef to Tavers on a very slow fire. They boil the 
  173. Beggar-plaits n. pl. . Cresses [ ] in the skirts of garments. Beggars' weeds are frequently plaited this way, from their lying and sitting on them. . Wrinkles or creases in a person's clothes, as if they had been 
  174. Chawsome adj., She's stravaigin' there her lane. I'm no' boastin', or showin' off my gear in a chawsome way, ye ken.  
  175. Cosfit n.In their own way these old fishermen appear to divide the family of starfishes roughly into three classes; the light coloured ones (or starfish as a whole) are known by the name of “Cosfeet.”  
  176. Ramskeerie adj., n.Say, 'Rise up my boy, rejoice In youthheid's ramskeerie way'; But ach there is anither lay He sings, a laithlie mass - That youth an aa the floures o May Are nocht but slime an .  
  177. Toustie adj. rowtin', flytin', yowtin' mither. Everything he did was a fault. They were toustie every way he triedHe was a wee toustie when you rubbed him again the hair. A fig for Maggie's toustie mither, Her 
  178. Screen v., n. drawn over their faces by way of disguise. A lass in a tartan screen desired to speak with me? He wi' his plaid wou'd screen the show'r. My mistress in her tartan screen. A tartan screen, and once a-year a new cockernony from Paris. The two ladies went, with the tartan or of their servants 
  179. Tunag n.The , or plaid, hangs over their shoulders, and is fastened before with a brotche. The plaid is only worn in full dress, but the tunag by way of shawl. Ca' them hame, poor tonnoched Willy.  
  180. Scrib v.In no manner of way to throw or cast into the river the scribbage and fleshes of the hydes. Fa' wid be a fisherman's wife Ti' gyang wi' thi' creel and thi' scribber and thi' knife?  
  181. Unreddable adj.This yarn she had left in the cats' way, who left it in one mass of unreddable raivels. She lookit up, the auld wife, an' gied a mudgeon, as gin she suddenly foond aa things unreddable.  
  182. Magg v., n. very well both marry and chrisen a' the poor foukes into the bargain, by the way of a maggs. Mensefu yerkit my haffet with her loof. There was a half-way hoose at Gammelston, keepit by a man ca'd Sam'el or selling part of carts of coals. Friday a carter, at Loanhead, was convicted before the. They were a bad pack — steal'd meat and mault, and loot the carters magg the coals. They scrapit up a from home. “Thou's nane blate for thy years, but tak thou that by way o' mags!” quo' she, and she Vint, whaur the chaps used to stop in the hame-comin an' melt their maggs. A tip given by a master to his servant [on a farm] who is sent a long distance with a cart or the like. Usually 3d. or 4d., and was used both in the sense of a tip given a carter and of a tip a carter given to anyone about the 
  183. Gell adj., adv., n.3 gell, That I must kiss and go my way. “There's a gey gell in the market the day”, there is a pretty“A gell frost”, a keen frost. “It's a gey snell mornin', Peter.” “Aye, it's geyan gelly.” He's just a wee gell is Master Lancie when it comes to couping. For their evil evil tongues are going so 
  184. Syllab n., v.' — no a syllabab mair. A Dialogue betuixt a Young Lady and her Schooll Master, showing the right way ofShool sic verses aff ding dang, And no ae syllab' o' them wrang? He hasna heard a sylib. ‘Stoor 
  185. Conneeve v. miss. I . . . would think I did nae ill in the way o' a quiet conneevance to help them on in their 
  186. Kiurnie adj.Quern-made meal makes the very best bread and porridge. In Easter Ross it is used by way of a rare 
  187. Sty n. such a way, that sometimes I could neither make buff nor stye o' what he was saying.  
  188. Back Hand n. comb. bias, towards it. With great care Tay lor sent a way his bowl along the back hand.  
  189. Dacker v.1, n.1, adj. to year's end. One is said , to manage the concerns of a family in a slow but steady way. OneAnd in the morning I cam daikering here, but sad wark I had to find my way. Mak' haste, laddie, an forwards in the square. A cood fain heh dwinglt, an daikert aboot in sleepery Bosells. He wis feart to dacker wi it. I dacker'd wi' him by mysel. Does Susy and he just dacker on in the old way? There's aye. ... Mistress Evans on each occasion dickering about in a very feminine and helpless fashion, ... You and me'll aboot the calf, man?” “Oh, tye, we made a bargain.” We . . . used to take a bit daiker to the country 
  190. Loolie n. ladder, might be seen wending his way through muddy streets, followed by a group of urchins calling outIn those days the equipment of the “loolie” was a ladder of very light weight with hooks at the top, together with a small oil-burning lantern having a hook handle. The lamplighter, bearing a torch and 
  191. Burgage n. Tain . . . is Put Off. Bruce gaed Aberdeen the forest o' Stocket in free burgage for its bravery in attackin' the English. A protest lodged “on behalf of about three fourths of the Burgage Heritors status of the individual burgess depended upon his possession of a burgage tenement, . whether he was a belonging to the community of the royal borough of Lauder, a peculiar species of burgage tenure takes place 
  192. Jamphle v.He drags his feet along rather than lifts them, as if they were heavily weighted with a boot loosely fitting enough to drop off if the foot were raised in the ordinary way. Hence his name “Jamphlin 
  193. Johndal n.'; Fups an' fusky's a' their law. Fechtin' ma way through stots, queys, cheviots, an' jondals by 'e 
  194. Rector n.The rector of the school receive annually Three hundred merks of salary. He had a letter from Mr. Purdie, headmaster and rector of the Grammar School. There is a Vacancy in the Office of Rector of the money, there shall only be a Rector and two other teachers. The Edinburgh Academy . . . was founded in 1824, and consisted of a rector and four other classical masters. Mr Andrew Robertson, now Rector of-leet for the post of rector of Aberdeen Grammar School. The status and designation of “Academy” was granted to Ellon Secondary School, and that of “Rector” to the headmaster, only a few years ago. A letter was broken to pupils at the school yesterday afternoon and rector Joe Leiper sent a letter to parents. Mr James Collins, rector of Monifieth High School, has been appointed to a key post in Dundee's wrote on his report card: "I am glad the boy is a good footballer as he has no future in education the school's board of governors, was asked a question from the floor: had he not recently told two 
  195. Sanquhar prop. n.Aberdeen, Sanquhar, and Kendal Hose and Gloves. In the early part of the present century, a, and bore the distinctive name of Sanquhar gloves and Sanquhar stockings, earning a deservedly high character for comfort and durability. Both were woven on wires in a peculiar manner, and were parti-coloured fabric work, leatherwork, Sanquhar gloves. A variety of the best Sanquhar Hose. A species of leggins, called Sanquhar-hose, of a deep black rib, and reaching far on the shoe. Before 1777 large quantities of woollen stockings (Sanquhar hose) were made here. Gloves in Sanquhar patterns with your own initials. A 
  196. Idoleeze v.Some o' them speak like emperors about the way they would be idoleezed by after ages. She's idolees't that faimily o' hers aneuch to fesh a jeedgment o' them. It's fearsome to see the wey she 
  197. Knoup v., n. health gets mony a skelp, His fortune mony a fell knowp. The “Noup” or “Strandie” was played in the gutter way or strand and was simply an effort to hit your nearest opponent's “bool”.  
  198. Late v.A or such like is , when it is in the fire, till it hath lost its colour and temper, and so may be bended which way you please. They say also that is , when it is . Dinna lay by the gweed knives on dried them weel or they'll be a' laitit.  
  199. Brint v., p.p.. I'm brint, I'm brint, how cam' it this way? I fear I'll no ride for mony a day. She . . . now occupies a niche in the Temple of Fame as the last of the many witches who, in the dark and troublous days of a bygone age, were “wirreit at the stake and brint in assis” in Scotland 
  200. Craigy adj.I see no Way they have from us to fly, But Waters deep, and craigy Mountains high. There's few like you can tent a flock; Frae boggy holes an' craigy rock Ye weir them by. Beneath a craigy steep a 
  201. Haik n.2 spavin. The Clerks of Court only able to make their way in a noble with four horses. Around whare'er ye fling your een, The Haiks like wind are scourin'. He was riding on a haick they ca'd Souple Sam — it belanged to the George at Dumfries — it was a blood-bay beast, very ill o' the 
  202. Cutle v., n.When a farmer is in haste to plough a field newly reaped, and finds that the corn stands in his way . . . if he carries it off, and gets it up in a small space, he may be said to it. The term, indeed, necessarily includes the idea of confining the corn to a smaller space than that which it formerly occupied.  
  203. Splunt v., n. splunting paires. To a laft amang some hay; Like others i' the splunting way. It's nought for lasses to splunt a wee wi' lads. A great ploy for the young swankies tae rin a' athort the country at nicht 
  204. Teem v.2, n.2 the earth; and the earth borrowed in this way makes a proper bed for the seed. They teemt on at theThe most common mode of turning the ground is by teeming, forming a kind of lazy-beds. At this work two persons are employed, one on each side the ridge, which is seldom in a straight line, collecting cuttan a' day.  
  205. Pleep n., v. baess, Da pleeps alang da shore. There's a pair o pleeps nestin in the bog. The piping note this bird [Common Sand-piper] utters when disturbed has given rise to its names of Heather peeper (Aberdeen) . . . watery pleeps (Orkney Isles). A horse gowk, a water pleep an a snipe a' rin on the same twa feet, i.e. they are all the same bird. ! hold your tongue. Wi' a pleep he telt 'er dere wad be naethin for id aboot bronis” Dere wis a peesterin' an' a neesterin' a pleepin' an' a cheepin'. Peerie Willie at lay i, Far doon apo da shore. . . . Bit afore lang da maas medd menn, first ava pleepsit-wye, dan wi a Mires is juist a aald pleepsit body an dir naethin really wrang wi her. The aald wife wis a kindo 
  206. Bumwhush n.When anything has made a noise for some time, and is then quashed, it is said to have gone to the . This is too often the way with people of great popularity; they have their day, then go all to the .  
  207. Fore Yoke n.The or chain by which the plough was drawn was hooked to a staple fixed in the on the right-hand side, at about 15 or 18 inches from the point, and went all the way from the plough to the .  
  208. Gowkmaleerie n., v.Two girls would ca the rope in the usual way and a third would be skipping. The two would 
  209. Scree v.2I may scree on — I may manage to get on in some way. If he's a muirkovi, we might skri by wi 
  210. Hoyes interj.-crosses in the kingdom, in this here way — Ho yes! and a two times ho yes! and a times ho yes! AndO will ye Ho Yes a' bedeen Till ance ye burst out baith yer een. Calling him at all the steane shouted, “Hoa yea! hoa yea!” three times. and anither Hoyse! Saw ye a green-yalla hummle-mare wi' a 
  211. Dumbarton n. Baby a Dumbarton youth, any way, and that is well known to be six-and-thirty good. She had been allowed to reach the discreet years of a Dumbarton youth in unsolicited maidenhood.  
  212. Wa-gang n. comb.Frost and fawshood have baith a dirty waygang. It's dowie in the hint o' hairst At the wa'gang o' the swallow. That marked the wa'gang, not only o' a year but o' a century. I jist ken Rob and Tam-gang. Oh sic a death! may Heaven never let ony Christian ha'e sic a wa' gang. It [ale] had an ugly knaggim, an' a wauch wa-gang. It [an evangelical sermon] hasna the sweet wa'gang o' the auld times. Da saut kidney maybe taks aff da waageng o' da oil. Whin I cam ta da door I heard da wa'geng o' a man's voice. They use to stop the way-goe of the Water, sometimes in the Summer, and lett the Place overflow with Water. The Defender could not lawfully build a Damdike so as to cause the Water restagnate of the Way-gang of the Pursuer's Mill. Doon the gluckin' wa-gang path They cross'd on stanners at the wath.  
  213. Ill End n. comb. indeed, from their way of leeving, it was a thing to be looked for. Whit ill-end can be wantan here 
  214. Bridie n.... We got Robson from Insch Amateurs for a pint and a braddie (bridie). There are men in cheap. , , a pie made of minced meat; the paste is turned over the mince. James Torry is about to introduce a famed sort of Pye, in Edinburgh called . Bradies still available in Aberdeen. Good ones from Gordon's in Dee Street. In the grander houses "bridies," which are a sublime kind of pie. , the name given to the delightful pies still known everywhere as . This sort of pie consists of a circle of dough on combination, when cooked, is so appetising. For we gaed to Willie Dakers, A very prince o' bakers' He turned, bought her tea and a bridie at a late-opening cafe. If ye want a guid Farfar bridie, try the Carnoustie 
  215. Flanker n.The roof when the stone work is finished to be putt on in a plain way without flankers which the tympan would occasion. To Wood rails for a Flanker. The front of the house is now enclosed by a 
  216. Outroom n. Out-rooms. In Forfarshire, or grass-farms were held and rented in common, in a somewhat similar wayA well built stone and lime dwelling, but-and-ben, with a single independent room attached (called 
  217. Cob-worm n. comb.At the same time the destruction they [the rooks] do in this way, very probably is in a great are looking remarkably well, with the exception of a few fields on which the 'cob' has been very 
  218. Pauge v. way whatsoever. He wasna to pawge wi', I'sure ye, for he was a princy-bodsy, he was; an' gif ony aneA proverbial mode of expression; — “He's neither to play nor wi',” not to be tampered with in any 
  219. Horoyally n. way of his being among them. If there wasna a horo-yalleh next mornin'. He wass over wi' his boat one night at Tarbert at a horo-yally. It wuz a fine spree till the drink began an' then it ended up in a proper hoirychallie.  
  220. Brig . Frae Powis' wee briggie he ance threw a steen An' it struck on the townhouse o' Auld Aberdeen. An sae read us a screed of metre. Proverbial saying (see quot.). [ ] , praise the bridge you safely cross (proverbial phrase: praise nothing before it has been well tried). Keep Mormond Hill a handspike high, And Rattray Brigs you'll not come nigh. How he got on the Carr brigs on Saturday morning is not known. A those of the Bridge and the impost known as the “Brig Penny” was used to pay them. To a burn.  
  221. Gaivaless adj. is quite different from garrulous. A gevlet way o' speakin'. A muckle gevlos slu (fellow). There was once a miller of this mill called Johnnie Sinclair, a gavellous body. The wife wis a gaivalis 
  222. Jaik n. doubtless responsible for Willie Aitkin's sudden transport from the door of Estaben on his way home with aThe men would have their imaginations fired by a glass of whisky. . . . The same cause was jaik o' raw soowans in his hand. Dere waas feinty a bit o' gless aboot han's, na, no sae muckle is a coop or a peerie jeck, sae da boys teuk sook aboot oot o' da bottle.  
  223. Distrenzie v.Ther is ane sentance for imprisoneing and distrennyieing his goodes. After a' that the law could do . . . in the way of poinding and distrenzieing, and sae forth . . . she ran awa to the Charity 
  224. Cowsy n.An' sune oor hero wore a croon, A dizen doozis bleesin' roun' His leather cap, an' birlin' doon The hutches or “whirlies,” to the cowsy wheel, which ran them the rest of the way to the bottom.  
  225. Fosset n. the fosser. "Yer wife's no easy to keep the fossar on" said of a wife that liked her own way. . . . IHe had mounted his horse with faser, cruiksaddle, and creels. It's a sober horse 'at cauna cairry 
  226. Gaskin n.Another way to do a pint of Green Gaskens. The kinds of preferred are not very numerous fought lang to gar us promise to gang up the length o' Perth durin' the berry sizzen, an' get a real blaw 
  227. Grokoll n.This lad . . . remarked in an off-hand way that the damage to the sail had likely been done by a of his error. Had he said (grey head) or , all would have been well, but “moose,” that was a 
  228. Kludet adj.Kludet socks are made of yarn which is dyed in a peculiar way before it is knitted. The hesp is between the ties. When the sock is made it has a peculiar variegated or clouded colour.  
  229. Chackie Mill boring its way) was conjectured to be a of Death or a Flitting. Here's ghaists . . . and wraiths . . . and chackie mills. If a death-watch, or, as it was then called, “the chackie mull,” was heard . . . those of the inmates who heard it were in a state of secret fear and trembling.  
  230. Chirl n.2Small pieces of wood are pared with a knife for part of their length, in such a way that the thin by successive parings, and are known as “churls.” They are used in kindling fires. Bring in a shovel 
  231. Heidiepeer adj.And tho I wer a score of years aulder than you, we'r head-a-pears. To think ane's friends, and heady-peers, Scarce ken you in their way. Oor 'Liza an' you ees't to be heid-y-peers, but ye're tynin' her a' thegither. Gin ye cud spell able, Geordie, tho' we be gey near heidi-peers. Lassie, ye're 
  232. Rasp n.You make Cherry Wine, Gooseberry wine, Rasp wine, Bramble Berry wine the same way. The fruit of, . . . or gather ear'nits or rasps in the Craw-wood. A or , unless on the face, is not objected to, as and Wrong Way to train Rasps.  
  233. Drove-sail n. comb., each [dogger] has what they call a drove-sail, or one which hangs under water, and effectually stops her way, and they can then pursue their business at leisure.  
  234. Swelter v. amongst it. Raisin his great big unwieldy red bouk half way up frae the earth, and then swelterin doun again [of a monster]. The sweltering and tottling of the pot.  
  235. Leap v., n. prevailed during night has given way about sunrise; which is gen. a presage of rain before evening. The frost had leap'd which brought a show'r. When frost suddenly gives way in the morning about sunrise, it is said to have “leapt”. The luppin' tatties in a heap Are unco sweet tae pree. Thae's graand meely taatihs; thay're aa luppen. Her face lep as red as a coll. A luppen-oot face. A distemper, called by the stane.” A tendon is a or a ; varicose veins being mistakenly termed . Ganglion is also so 
  236. Smally adj. ponies. Benjie, who kept aye smally, and in a dwining way. Ye'll hae a smally wish to ken. A wean ofShe is a smally girl, speaks Englified, and said she was born in Derby. Two smally dry haired Nanny Forgisal's, . . . who was a smally cretur from the first. Jean lookit gey little aside him, but she's a sma'lie craitir. “Are ye no pinched a wee?” he asked. “No at the neck? I never saw ye look so 
  237. Tympany n.When the stone work is finished to be putt on in a plain way without flankers which the tympan, finish in a timpany. The fore Wall of the Fore-shot was raised into a Timpany or Storm Gavel. A Tympany Room and a Garret. A good room in the tympany, with a closet. An old house with tympany windows.  
  238. Eese n. said in Aberdeen by a man who had been troubled by a lawyer: — “Gin the deil disna get FrancieOr yet to pluck me a' in pieces, An' tan my hyde for diff'rent eeses. “. . . ither siller things” . . . that she “never heard a name till, nor didna ken the eese o'.” [ . p. 83, .] Did she tell ye she had — there's nae eese for a deil.” I canna mind the date or foo mony years I wis mairrit. The Prime Minister eese ava. There wis a muckle paper-mashie model o a rig, wi paper divers at its foun an toilet rolls for gas pipes leadin frae the boddom tae a muckle chart on the waa aside Bacon an Eggs' hoosie, wi aa. There wiz nae uncanny dealin's aboot it, and Sawtie wiz a rale eesefu' carle t' the countryside. Ye eesless, idle, poachin' hurb, ye're lyin' snorin' there, An' Germans cryin to be killed, but deil a hair ye care. There's a silk nepkin here 'at aw wid like terrable weel, bit she's seekin eeseless muckle for't — it's saiven an' saxpince she says. Did iver ye hear sic a feel mon comin' wi' win' tae hes that 
  239. Carecake n. me into a ker-cake to gust his gab wi', afore I see that saucy tike ta'en off in sic a way.  
  240. Glennie n.“By the way, it's a naked light you have.” “Yes,” I replied, “It's a glennie lamp that they are 
  241. Outspeak v.I've heard she was a wee out-spoken. William, my third brother, used to say, who was a free out an ill-bred out-speaking gomeral. And in his auld outspoken way, He said we sma' respeck dae pay Tae 
  242. Bedellus n. June. , . A college janitor in St Andrews and Glasgow (in Aberdeen the term is Sacrist). TheI received your last of May 13th by our bedellus with your present of fosils. A rather unique bedellus in the University of Edinburgh. Mr Mitchell rejoins his old regiment, the Black Watch, as a colour-sergeant. Glasgow School of Art student Fiona Busby presented a chair she designed on behalf of the city council to Glasgow University chancellor Lord Nickson at a graduation ceremony in the Royal Concert Hall yesterday. University bedellus George Adam holds a mace also made at the art school. Almost 300 nurses and 
  243. Rush v., n.1 at Aberdeen, of a Rush Fever, Mr Robert Craigie, advocate. There was a rush came out upon his skinI ken ye're a' daft to get them, but I'm no gaunna rushie them, but sell them doucely for sixpence never saw sic a rushie a' the days o' yer life. In the rooshie doucie the guard might have sic a to-do to save their ain skins, that I might manage to come off with mine. Sic a rooshie-doo atween Benjie an' the Keeper. A rumbling in her muckle bag, what we kintry fouks ca's a rush i' the guts administered to bring out the “rush”. A rush o' corn, o' breer, o' hair, o' whiskers. A rush o' girs, corn 
  244. Nash v.2Nash round to the shops and get me a packet of fags. I've got to get nashin', I'm late for work already! I'd gie ye a lift — but I've got to nash. Ah've goat tae fuckin nash. Me n Lexo pulled a bit ay business oaf. Ah'm sayin nae mair oan the fuckin subject, but it's the best ah disappear fir a couple ay weeks. Ma Shughy is a barry gadge, No shy, no shan, a total radge. When we walk oot they're aa impressed. He only nashes wi the best. We nash all the way down Bread Street, past the hotel and the paintball place, up an alleyway beside the vet's and squeeze behind a big industrial dustbin. There are writ large by author Irvine Welsh) — all the way back to his heroin-riddled hellhole (the shooting-up 
  245. Scabbit adj. hills of sand. Ye may follow the way your scabbed father took. For our sma' wage, O wha wad bide, For scabbit auchtpence! Ye're but a crabbit, scabbit lot. A paltry, scabbit-lukin' “thrippeny-bit”. Sic a scabbeet hapneyworth hei's gien iz! Dinna be sae scabbit wi't = be a bit more generous with it.  
  246. Fryne v.Fan ye was gane this way she took a turn An' missing you began to fryn and mourn. An' at a sour; Curs'd envy rots their vera bluid. It's eeseless noo to fryne. The Dog frinet an' grat, but a lang oor 
  247. Positive adj. woman being positive, missed her way and fell among the snow in a hollow road. Sae down the stair againSeeing your Ladyship so positive for our coming home. A woman . . . having been at Falkland on he goes To get a drink, anither dose, Being positive to hae some mair.  
  248. Neeger n. she handed him by way of answer. Aa yow yins that's ooreet an oold wui this neeger-wheeper ov a woarlt. Jock is a fair neeger at baith languages. Slavan' lek a neegur till get through afore 'e rain. An illiterate kintra niggar Blest wi' a smart external figure. He had given her a loundering wi' his 
  249. Keerious adj. elder Peter moralised in his own way on the “keeriousness” of the whole thing. I saw a lot o' kwerious 
  250. Fleuk n.1Other fishings belonging to Brughtie such as fluicks truits &c. Now Nory was as modest as a fleuk flounder). Wi girnin, her mou's like the gab o the fleuk. He wudna think o' takin' a wee drap tea whiles Slochiers, A' ran, tan, tee.” A whitemaw always maks a dab at a fleuk's liver. . Common both along the coast and in our rivers, up which it ascends for many miles. He next provides himself with a "fluke-bag" and "fluke fou;" the latter a three-pronged spear with which to impale the flounders. . . . This, which in Scotland is called Rodden-fleuk; the last word being a general denomination for flounders and species, and large numbers are brought into Aberdeen Market. Oysters, soleflouks, . . . eels sometimes 
  251. A'thegither adv. laird o' Hellsness wus a different kind o' bothy a't'geither. The warl's gaen vrang a'thegither. A'll tine my feet athegidder. . (L.Bnff.) The Almighty micht as weel mak' a new body a'thegither. I dinna mean a'thegither in the way o' trade. We're no daft aalthegither. Tam tint his reason 
  252. Spoach v., n.For spoatching tricks had few their marrow. To plunder and spoatch in the way of your trade. The are ye spoachin in that drawer for? I'm gaun awa' to spotch my fortune. He's sic a spotch that hide a thing where ye will he'll hae his dirty fingers on't.  
  253. Welter v. a Lecturer! . . . Some way or other we shall “welter through it.” [She] weltered hame through bogs [A dog] boundin' awa' . . . An' welt'rin' doun, his e'e upo' them. I am to make my appearance as an' hillocks Aifter mony a weary fa'. What the sorra were they deein' welterin' awa hine there? I seized a pick and sent one of the arms into the eel's head and split its skull. It weltered terribly to 
  254. Normal School Allison Street, folk made their colour-coded way from the city-centre grid to all points of the compass. There used to be a Normal School in Edinburgh — Dalry Road I think it was...  
  255. Deaffy adj. "sling a deafie" as a way of cutting out parental instructions. They have a remarkable ability to develop turn up once a year simply to tell me that there is another wean on the way and they don't botherA voice gives forth a daiffy sound. A “bool” that “wudna stot” was described as a “daiffy bool,” or simply “a daiffy” — That ane's a daiffy. [Also form .] They deefied me. Hou lang dae we Scots speakers hae tae dree a Scotland Office an Scottish executive that sees tae the wants of juist ane o Scotland's twa hamelt leids and keeps on turnin a deefie tae the ither? From a young age, they learn to skills to an art form. There is hardly a parent anywhere who hasn't bemoaned the fact that their teenager guidebooks released in Deutschland this week warn visiting lederhosen-clad tourists to sling a deafie at our: 'Aye, ye slung us a deefie the other night but Ah seen who was wi ye.' I can do a deefy to those who 
  256. Betak v.She betook me a reesle ower the heid wi' a beesom. “I'll jist betak ye to the bogle!” said by way of threat to a troublesome child. An' Jean, wi' anger burstin' fu', Beta'en to greetin' owre the coo. He misca'ed a word, bit he betook himsel' at aince. [Also Bnff. and Abd. 1934.] The shaltie aften snappers, but it aye betaks itsel. If ye gang fast ye'll betak him within an hour. When a' the ills o 
  257. Doctrix n. Ladies in the same Way. They can have Access to enter to the said Miss Eleonora Grant's School, in a 
  258. Drum adj., n.1Fat wye are ye lookin' sae drum? That was what I said til him; but a' the same, I was gey dram-heartit, seein the way things were gaun. Look'd at him with the bawaw o' her eye, As drum an' dorty, as but a sham. , who discovers himself to be or .  
  259. Mismarrow v., n. been women, and he, I think, is one. O we're a' mismarrowed thegither, O we're a' misfitted and wrang — mistook it for another. Nae rung had he, nor whup to drive His twa mismarrows on their way.  
  260. Sloom n.2, v.2There's a sloon it the merchan's gain' t' brack. There were slooms that it had been meddled wi sleumin' aboot stealin' oot o' the shop. “What other way could I hear?” — “I don't know, but you might. Mrs. Begg, if you ask me, is just about as bad a sloomer as her son.”  
  261. Aberdonian prop. n.The Aberdonians had not started a single for us to pursue. They were met and engaged by the we have gone in for specialisation in the intensest way; we have specialised in producing an Aberdonian, a good hard-wearing wage-earner, whether in divinity, medicine, Eng. Lit., accountancy 
  262. Mune n. come a' that way in the dark?” said the herd's wife to a wee lassie. . . . “No,” she replied. “the min bonny meen is on her back, Mend your sheen and sort your thack. An Aberdeen farm hand went into Forfar-shire to “tak a hairst”, and as he went out early in the morning, the young moon was in the sky . . . “A see ye've a bit meenie here tee.” Aul' meen mist bodes new meen drift, ye ken. “Were ye no feared to cam' wi' me.” A servant girl (from Ayrshire) when discovered sewing on a button on Sunday, said “I'll the weather will be dry. Sun, for a day a month adopt, Mune, sheen a nichtlang year That hert alane his luve can hain And finis never fear. Man i the muin he's staunan an chauvan wi a graipfu o breers and the mune up. The staurs are bricht in a daurk black sky and the mune castin lang hidin shadows. The peelie mune blintin ower cauld stane, ... Chooks sunken like the craters o the meen; A stibble growth; ringed nichtmares roon his een, A wastit druggie hyters doun the street: Sic hurts thon beeny 
  263. Snab n.1, v. the usual way by being what the villagers called a “snab.” When ye connach'd gude leather For 'ears. An' ye please, I'se be a snab. The snabs and weavers out of Arbroath. He had entered the craft in as a snab. Watch the auld snab Lift a pickle nails. A dealer in hides, wha does a little snobbin. Fan Sautan dwalled on Bennachie, An' plied the snobbin' for a trade.  
  264. Angusdye n. , a species of starfish. In their own way these old fishermen appear to divide the family of starfishes roughly into three classes. . . . The darker coloured variety (brownish) with a body about the size of a pennypiece, with 5 legs, each 4 to 5 inches long they call by your name “Angus dye.” The 
  265. Apprising vbl. n. , or , was the sentence of a sheriff . . . by which the heritable rights belonging to the debtor the old form of apprisings by messengers, directed adjudications to proceed against debtors, by way of action before the Court of Session. It was a merry warld when . . . the country side wasna fashed wi' warrants and poindings and apprizings, and a' that cheatry craft.  
  266. Bairnless adj.Gae on your way, sir, an' speak a word o' comfort to that . . . bairnless mother, for she needs it, Mistress Hay was to be seen every Sabbath in the kirk with a lusty son happed to her side in a silk-fringed 
  267. Burgh n.2, signifyeth a Town having a Wall . . . about it; as also a Castle, for as one observeth in his . . . . All places that in old time . . . had the name of Burrough, Bury or Burug were places one way or other fenced 
  268. Hamp v., n.1 his way. [He] wan . . . through the saxteenth o' the Romans, without a hamp. Ane hamps away, that's gleg o' sight, We sit and hear. How it came, I searce ean tell, I learnt a to the fit. If ye 'bout it hamp and hay, My gontrans, lass, ye soon will fin' A wilfu' man maun hae 
  269. Pailin n., v.Jim's hammer wus bie aa accoonts A wunderfae machine ... It ca'ad in nails in palin rails ... Jumpin' o'er the dykes noo, watch ye don't fa' aff. Sure fitted ah wisnae, ma pals hid many a laugh, Take yer time, pit wan fit first, that way ye'll get through, Balancin' oan the pailin's, aye it's awright fur you. The policies a' pailined aff an' set. But noo they [the woods]'re fairly pailin't up Wi 
  270. Stunkard adj., n. kindest acts were performed in a gruff ungracious way. Aa richt, ye stunkart, dinna tell me. flee. Peevish, dorty, sour and stunkerd. A lang leish o' clishmaclavers anent their stunkertness. It's a sore thing to see a stunkard cow kick down the pail when it's reaming fou. She fairly took the gee, an' in a stunkert fit lockit hersel' up in her bed-room. Whose manner being stunkardy his 
  271. Fat pron. said neethin,. But fatfor did ye yon way blaw, An me sae fine and souple ca'? Fat for sudna ye gies a." Apparently as comfortable in Aberdeen as in his Kirriemuir birthplace, the much-loved fairytale takes on aRuling Elder: Fat hae they deen? An' says, O 'oman fat makes a' your care? If the ale be gude did not hear, but, . He's a scolart, he kens fat he's spikin' aboot. Fit bonnie it is, especially ben the hoose, a' that wark the lassie was that tired or nicht she could hardly rest in her bed. Fat a bairns gid up the brae tae the pic-nic! Losh, aw min' fat o' fairlies aw wid 'a' seen, an' fat o' pennies aw wid 'a' spent gin aw hid hid them. The weather's nae that fat-a-feck, But Summer will be in ither can he think. — A wis jist . . . winnerin' fu she'll tak' wi't. — Like a peesie tae fleein Fittie spoken as, well, a Fittie speaker. "Fit like? Fit can I get you?" "I'll hae a mug o' espresso, a rowie, a twa-bar electric fire, and a shot of yer Crombie coat please." “Fatrecks!” quo' Will, “it 
  272. Forefolk n.He's up Bannockburn way looking for a front tooth frae the skull o' some o' yer forefolk, to stap 
  273. Gonterns my contens Megg, I loo ye. My gontrans, lass, ye soon will fin' A wilfu' man maun hae his way. The 
  274. Snod v.2See fat way he gars his capie snod.  
  275. Ballion n. their lee-way, joining those who are next deficient in progress. , a rough, careless fellow. . Also . A box, such as that carried by a tinker on his back. . A tinker's box, in which his utensils are carried; or any box that may be carried on one's back. . The designation given to a reaper, who is not attached to any particular band or ridge, but who acts as a supernumerary; adjoining 
  276. Fitter v. his way ahead tremulously with an umbrella. That's a d—d fitterin' brute o' a powney o' yours. Owr him wi' a boastfu' shout They ran wi' fitterin' feet. Aboon me I heard a sair strusslin', fitterin', pechin', and grainin'. His pet-lamb fitters at his feet. He gaes fitterin' out an' in a' day. What's he fitterin' at, I winder. Senseless men will fitther at trifling things. The wind withoot a 
  277. Stichle v., n., stichlan, whistles through their nose, The eldritch snore. Hearin' a stichlin' aff the way, amid someTher was a soft shouer of rain, and when the people began to stickle a little, he said to this purpose, “What a mercy is it that the Lord sifts that rain throu these heavens on us, and does not rain broom and auld ferns. There's a mouse stechlin' amo' my papers. There wis a stechle at the back door.  
  278. Mercat n. the evening the new market stance at Aberdeen was a hive of activity on the occasion of the annual, still it was law, that a person injured in this way was entitled to damages “for the loss of the market"Naebody frae Mensweir's gettin a brak in July," quo Francie Selby, the store manager. "We're bringin in a new sports line tae catch the simmer mairket." Ware Bear with fodder, 1 1 0 Farm or market delicious they tasted. Ralston, when young, married a sister of his master, in whose service he had been likely to be, for she is an old maid and not market rife. Dinna be in a hurry yoursel', Peggie, lass; ye during a great part of the year. It was then the cattle-market stance, and quite open. A farmer from Fifeshire had gone into a public-house in Lower Bridge Street, not far from the market stance, for the purpose of writing a receipt. The market-stance in the wilderness was free to all comers. On the market stance there's a tinker clan, An' the guidwife's hens are clockin'. All day long yesterday and well into 
  279. Bullhorn't adj.But ye will aye take your own bullhorn't way.  
  280. Reef n.'Tis but ae night, We'll e'en stay, (maybe get the rife). In some places the itch is, by way of eminence, called . Wi' breeks gay an' raggit an' twa reefy hands. Every year, there are several among a flock which have a crust or foulness, or what the shepherd calls a , on their skins. How frequent, too, do we find upon the back of the dipped or unsalved turnip-fed sheep a hard crust, which not 
  281. Bide n. acute as scarcely to be tolerable. It's an unco sair bide for ye ony way, puir body, to hae your. “Stoddart's takin' a bide,” folk said. E visitors took a lang bide - I couldna get tae ma bed.  
  282. Burkin' House n. comb.There's nae a cat nor a dog can gang in the direction o' the Back Lodge . . . that ever finds its way hame again; but it's weel kent where the puir brutes gang, even to Dr Lott's Burkin' House 
  283. Elide v.Which way soever it may be carried, it in my humble opinion eleids one of the tuo votes past in a habit of spitting blood, [as] relevant to elide the libel. Certainly this is a relevant defence 
  284. Lichtlifie v.When the Laird lichtlifies the Lady, sae does a' the Kitchen-boys. Young ministers, wha better sud hae kenn'd, Hae in the poopit lichtlified baith thae. But aye they said 'twas weary way, And lightliefied the tale I'm telling. Far be't fae me t' lichtlifee the man. I niver spak' o' dee in a 
  285. Tirr v.2, n.2Soond sent my hert loupin' and tirrin' against my Adam's aipple. “Tirrhoebuck! Gie's a tirr” — the urchins cried, Whene'er they saw him passing near their way. When he made his appearance the boys would have cried, “Here's Tirr, let's seek a tirr.” I once sought one, but never another, for he stood in 
  286. Hauchle v., n.Like a lady from the country, . . . with her elbows into her sides, her two hands streight out before her, holding the fan out likeways, as if she was to red her way by it, and hagheling, as if she Dick upon a stick? I dinna ken but what I'd maist as lief be cauld-dead as gae haghlin' through life wantin' an airm. A gipsey's character, a hachel's slovenliness, and a waster's want.  
  287. Lyomon n.I tauld her I would rather hae the leomen of an auld ew. Or should you this way cast your louman, An' shaw yoursel' in likeness human. Lat dancin', and tumblin', and houdlin', And a' frae Lochaber lowmans beek. It was the lowmons o' a mear. That's a battle ted o' a bairn there kickin up its lomons in the air. I, even the lowmin o' a gauger, That I amainst the cause cud guess.  
  288. Marmaid n. is found driven in on the shores, of an oblong shape, . . . being about two inches and a half one way calls the uterus of a skate in a letter to me. Mermaid's Purse — A beautiful kind of seaweed box, which, and three the other, with a long spraing or talon stretching out from each corner, as long as the box.  
  289. Clushet n.2Hie way hame and help the clushet milk the kye.  
  290. Meeth adj.My meeth callant, so that's the way the wind blows.  
  291. Servitude n.The Lords found the builder of the wall liable to a servitude both of the joists and laid-to harassed with a multitude of vexatious servitudes; such as, ploughing and leading for the landlord. These are now almost entirely abolished. A servitude of a foot-road on the petitioner's property. This is a' about a servitude of water-drap. Eglinton Castle, where she had been with certain cocks and hens, a servitude of the Eglintons on their mailing. The access to the pasturage in the wood of Calder the acquisition of any servitude or of any public right of way or other public right, to acquire which. . — These include Way, Aqueduct, Aquaehaustus, Pasturage and Fuel, Feal and Divot. The townspeople had succeeded in establishing a servitude of golfing over links adjoining the town [Crail].  
  292. Morrow n.Mr Hay and a land surveyor from Aberdeen hath been measuring and drawing a plan of the road from the latter, and I understand they are to take a plan of the road from here to Maclarry the morrow 
  293. Archilagh n.I propose that this good little gentleman . . . shall send for a tass o' brandy, and I'll pay for another, by way of Archilowe. The return, which one, who has been treated in an inn or tavern, sometimes 
  294. Bellibucht n. . Curious hollows in the sides of some hills, not running in the longitude way, as hollows mostly side of a hill, and are now used for the shelter of sheep, some being edged with stone. They were once 
  295. Tweesh prep. kens the way to woo; Nae blackfit comes tweesh him an' yo. A year's carting tweesht the quarry and the 
  296. Blondin n., the idea of the “Blondin Cable” way that he introduced for quarry work instead of cranes. A far 
  297. Orange adj.Aye and by the way ya orange bastard; I'll tell you something for nothin; this conductor I was on with the other day, first terminus and off he jumps straight into a wee dairy — two jamrolls and two 
  298. Backin n.1That was the way they spent the backin' O' Airdrie fair.  
  299. Skifle v.See wha comes this way Patie & Pegy skifling oe'r the Hay.  
  300. Knackie adj. o' language, no doubt, an' a nacky way o' sayin' things. A writer in the denominational magazineHe was right nacky in his Way. Have you no nice, nacky, little handy work, that you could be doing knacky at laying out a corpse. He's byous knackie at the shifts [in draughts]. An' thank them for their service, An' fraise their knacky skill. I'll put it on mysel'. I'm rale knacky wi' a brush. Davie, again the master up.' Dinnae fash yersel if ye are having a wee bit trouble pronouncing Scots - a new sure an get yer hauns on the knackie wee beukie o es eer's festival, haudin tae the claim o a "twa' barrows, An' to croun a' his knackie-nicks, Was famed for sharpin' colliers' picks. “I was saying thir breeks want a button.” “That makes nae difference to me,” said my aunt in her ain peculiar short, nacky way. On the day of the burial he turned upon the same functionary and told him to “look knacky an' screw 'er up.” An' knacky he pat on his hat An' nippet roon the neuk. It blecks a', lassie, the wye ye 
  301. Jam v., n.An' ilk back-end a sermon drones, wi' fishin jammin' fu'. Ye jamm'd them so, They saw no way to come aboot your tedders . . . Ir ye been jammed for want o' dem? The paper gies a' the news, so we dinna need t' jam oorsel's haiken for tales o' fat's deein'. You would be nae great dab at jammin' a pair o breeks. He took a pair o' breeks tae jam tae An'rew Cochran.  
  302. Reed n.3A ca'f-reed carrier Samuel Noll. The is also vulgarly used to describe a part of the tripe. The is in the immediate neighbourhood of the , or rather its lobes spread over it. A bit of the reed, or sparl-pudding skins, beside a collop or two. Teen Elder's tripe was famous (ma bairns whiles hed half the bray drukken oot the jug on the way h'yim, and sometimes the reed bag was missin' tae). I 
  303. Messenger n. muckle. A messenger-at-arms . . . the terror of evil doers far and wide, was despatched from Aberdeen to the Messenger had left a Copy with Sir James's Servant where he lodg'd in Edinburgh in the Morning deprived of their Office of Messengery. That there is a Pursevant's Office to be sold . . . the Office includes in it that of a Messenger at Arms, which the Purchaser may exerce or not as he shall think meet appoints a fixed number to be named by the Lyon for each county . . . They are subservient to the Supreme, both in civil and criminal matters. At their admission they receive a silver blazon, on which the king's arms are engraved, as a badge of their office, and a wand or rod usually called the . John Beddie is gone to Wigton to practice as a and . John Gledd, the messenger, . . . ance promised as a little by the sounding name of Messenger-at-Arms, though such a thing as a citation never soiled 
  304. Bumshot adj.When any plot gives way with us, we are said to be .  
  305. Coast n.1I daurna gang in the back way till he's aff the coast.  
  306. Liefhebber n.Her fause lief hebber owre the ling Did wale his nichtly way.  
  307. Adherent n. twice changed. On this occasion She had to do with a Cameronian elder and not with a mere adherent. Adherents over twenty-one years of age may take part . . . in the same way as if they were members in full 
  308. Barley-play n., Bollo-brok, etc. are all used some way or other in this connection. A runner who had, say, fallen, andThe English “Barley!” signifying a desire to be regarded as out of play for the time-being, is in such a position as if I had not fallen.”  
  309. Timmer n., adj.1, v.,” as it was called by way of distinction, held at Aberdeen in autumn. The hin'most Wednesday o' August to play with a Timber club. Nae ither way did they feed life Than frae a timmer coggie. TheyAnd there is a door. Richt in front o him, a great, muckle wooden yett, oak, dark-varnished, wi continues bound for great and Small Timber to repair and keep up the Housing. To have a feu of that piece habit it is termed by the Highlanders ‘Timber-man.' The Great Timber Market of Aberdeen is held on the last Thursday [of August]. At one period a great proportion of the birch raised in the upper parts of' like ony . Whaever slips the timmers, lippens me to mak' his bed. A breast o' timmer an' a heart o head's made o' timmer. My airm's fair like timmer wi' stiffness. A “timmer stan” on which would be timmer to laird Patie's health. To turn the timmer they're no sweer. Maybe auld lucky likes a drap o rantin an toomin the timmer. Noo haste ye fast and clean the timmer, Ye ne'er before got sic a dinner 
  310. Luve v., n.For I luid naithing in all my Lyfe, I dare well say it but Honesty. I loo a lad, and he loes me. O mony hae pri'ed a kiss o ma mou an ane that pri'ed me has cost me sair, for he was the ane I was anither becos it gart me grue inside. A wearisome warssle it wis anna, fur a hett-bluided lass tae pit by the rigg o ilkie nicht wi a shargeret auld bodach fa snored and snochered an dwaumed awa, aa the, Thomas Blaikie, plumber in Aberdeen, present Provost of the Royal Burgh of Aberdeen; Patrick Simpson, manufacturer in Aberdeen, Leslie Clark, merchant there. Whereas it is humbly shewn to us by our lovite A.B. complainer. She was a dacent, mensefu, richt lo'able cratur. O luely, luely, cam she in And luely she lay hand at the business.” . . . “Not — not at the trade of lovier?” she asked. Yonder's a Craig, since ye have tint a' Hope, Gae till't ye'r ways, and take the Lover's Loup. Yonder the lads and lasses group produce a powerful affection for you, while the other half will produce as strong an aversion. Poor lay 

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  1. Schrod n.Thow bailfull Aberdeen, our nations bane, … Thou baill of burrowes, fyrebrand of the north, A 
  2. Duply n.The right, disposition, or uther deid … salbe reducit and annullit, as weill be way of exceptioun, reply, or duply, as be way of actioun Quhen ane exception onely, orane exception with ane duply, is some reverend brethren The last duplie of Aberdeen … is now come abroad among us It is recommended by 
  3. Pollonian n., adj.Alexius Vodka phisitione, a pollonian excomunicat for papistrie A number of strangers, Polonians, Dences, Belgians and Frenchmen, schollars, wha … cam to the Universitie of St Androis that yeir A collectione for two pollonians students of divinity in the University of Aberdeen Ane pollonian coitt of For polonion students in Aberdeen Mr. John Elshner ane exilled pollonian minister The letter … was 
  4. Sub-synod n. was enjoinit unto them by the refer of the sub synod halden in Aberdeen The minister reportit that he was to ryd in to the subsinod to Aberdeen In respect that they ar so mayne both of ministers and The said day intimation made out of pulpit of a fast appointed by the bishop and subsynod to be kept 
  5. Situated p.p.The house of Patrick Urquhart of Lethintye, which is scitwated within 12 myles of Aberdeen The Orcades are a knot of islands in number 32 scituated in the northern ocean  
  6. Generallat n. to Aberdeen made him swallow the certaine hopes of a Generallat over all our armies  
  7. Lastlie adv.[Aberdeen] quhairfra she was lastlie returnit  
  8. How v.2[Aberdeen,] Thay trowit it all howit of men  
  9. Politicall adj.The inhabitantis thairof [Aberdeen] maist ciuile, honest and politicall  
  10. Postage n. of them [letters sent] [The Aberdeen post-master's malversations such that] the postadge upon the road from Aberdeen to Edinburgh wes very near given over and slighted  
  11. Pragmatic adj.Mr. Robert Farguison, a pregmattick head, who kendled a fire in our university at Aberdeen anno … is no fantastic shadow of a sick apprehensione, but a realitie, and a messenger coming for unknown reasons … from a more swift and pragmantick people  
  12. Creym-stowp n.In creym stowppis, iij The haill crem stowpis in auld Aberdeen salbe brocht to the cross … to sie 
  13. Resavar General n.Alexander Lesly Ressauour Generale to our souerain lord Andro, Bischop of Aberdeen than Ressaver 
  14. Golenȝeour n.The said Robert … misusit the haill magistrattis thairof [ Aberdeen], calland thaim unworthy 
  15. Reed n.[In Lauder, before … provost of Dundee … baillie of Aberdeen, etc.] ther cess is payd by taxatione 
  16. Ospittall n. ospittell of Aberdeen, was slayne be Alex. Blynschall, ane of the said ospittall For … breid gifin to the 
  17. Post-office n.By the abusses off the post office heir [in Aberdeen] in ther exorbitant pryces of forrayne letters 
  18. Commissionarie n.Mr George Hay, Commissioner of Aberdeen, was compleand upon … as to the Commissionarie. Mr Iohn Row 
  19. Respective adj.[Rather to use towards her a] respective [silence for the present] I find hes heighnes most prescryved in ther respective actes Within the bounds and limits of the respective Shereffdomes of Aberdeen 
  20. Wa adv.] Had I a child consavyt of thyne ofspryng Huchon … confessit … the way pullyng of the tayll of ane ox‘Do way,’ said Schir Rolland, ‘me think thow art not wise’ Do wa thy bost and mannance maid to ws Persew me not thus with ȝour … teris … Do wa [ way] to present me sik takyn of wo Sum makis God of Sanctis baine Quhilk war thay leuand heir wald say Idolateris, do way, do way ‘Do way,’ quod scho, ‘Ȝe duell to lang, Adew gude sir' Gife thow nocht may, ga way, ga way Tofor thi wayfleyng [ wayfleing Sche farther willit, to offer the way-sending of the men of weir  
  21. Succentor n., succentor of Aberdeen Johnne Hammiltoun, succentour of Glasgow and general vicar  
  22. Way Ganging vbl. n.Gif a man … assuris ane othir frely to cum, and spekis nocht of his way ganging It was ewin, at the way ganging of the day light [None … has been in my Lord's room since his] … way ganging The sillar he disbursit for me before my way ganging fra him Traist freind sen ȝour vay ganing [etc.] In thair way-ganging schott the maister  
  23. Way n. , ane way A gret mos … That fra the way wes quhar men raid A bow-draucht My lande … lyande the way according to the end for which it was constituted … as having only a footroad, or a road for an horse to be led or ridden upon or only a way for leading of loads … or … carts or a way for … & eftyr fanding that cuth say Brink his seruandis out of way Johne Bandoquhie a buriar of a bairne be the in his way … they must beare him a lashe Of a schyp brokyn be the way: A schyp passys fra Burdews … and it hapnys to … ryve [etc.] A thef that has reft him, or wald have reft him be the way Syne, thay tuke horss, nolt, scheip, ky Wyth a prest in till his way He ete, and bad wyth hym a day Icarus that is gude [they ought] to pas thair way Ther is a part of the auditouris past ther way Robert the the westward in the way of Egypt the castle of … Elisha A myle of way Fra the cite thar rest tuk thai hald resundis a far way There came a man and two women swimming to vs more then a mile of way I sal 
  24. Matriculat p.p., v. the first classe this year [at Aberdeen]  
  25. Brigancy n.Peter Howatt, quha wes found be the … consell as a saillar in brigacie [ ] [Thai] intromettit with … his movabill gudis … be way of brigancy and maisterfull oppressioun Be way of hame sukkin, brigancie and forthocht fellony … [thai] slew and murtherit him Under cloude and silence of nycht … be way of way of briggancie [etc:] The said George … sett vpone him, and be way of brigancie … persewit him for 
  26. Waygaing vbl. n.I mad my count at her wagaeing our the water To Johne Lyndesay at his way going xii s. To confer with Mr. James Fairlie about his way going quhither he be myndit or not to remove Coming hoome … my saule blissed God al the way for his goodnes to me in this comunion conforme to my voue befor my way-going … ) hes delayed and differred his journey You did forbear to go to him att your way goeing & stayed not then a quarter of an hour  
  27. Hie-way n. [They seized their horses and] carryit thame furth of his Majesteis hie way to a darne place in the mureThe plane stretis and euery hie way Full of … myre, and clay Quhen fra the hie way I ga wrang Keip furth the hie way In the Gallowley, vpon the west side of the hie way betwixt Leith and Edinburgh Capitane Forbes … is wairdit … for robbing of ane merchand man … be the hie way To hold all … housses passadges within the haill bounds foirsaids by delving ... thereof The hie way to Paris … Cantlie on catchand To hevin the hieway dreidles scho wend Ambrois … went the hie way with ane gudelie cumpanye So where men think to make themselves sure be slaughter, it is the hie-way to cast themselves in greater 
  28. Spaw n. differ; for Spaa in Aberdeen is actuallie cold [etc.] That medicinall wall at the Womanhill, commonly 
  29. Suppository n.A fifth (gerning the while), was for this, that it [ the dog] might take it [ the Test Act] though not … at his mouth by way of potion or bolus, yet in at this bottome, by way of glister or 
  30. Refacilate v.Blood-letting is a good way to refacilate & strengthen a weak body  
  31. Ostentatively adv.Ostentatively in a selfis way to give  
  32. Outtoll n. in Aberdeen in the year 1720, being made with the symbol of a penny utole, and not with the lawful and stone and one penny of] outtoil Outtoill That the resignation of an annualrent out of a tenement 
  33. Surpas v.[The river] Die surpassed in speat the keyheid [of Aberdeen] Ȝit, tratour! this vnhonest, bludie goddes grace & bewtie to behauld He wald confes his craft & face Surpast a thousand fauld How far the … saull … dois surpas The mortall … corps, a lowrd and brukill mas I serve ane dame … Quhois teith 
  34. Thulmard n.By the way his dog catched a thulmard  
  35. Way Ridle n.Belonging to the yairds … A wattering can. 2 way ridles  
  36. Wipe n.Is ȝit ane foul, this as a wype be the way, that gretlie abhoris the presens of man, quhilke the gustarde commonlie thay cal This I thocht necessar heir to make mentione of, as a wype be the way, that their way … wherein they petition the parliament … for a toleration, and withal lend too bold wipes to all the Reformed churches It is of our concernment to … have a by-blow or wipe at them [ publick 
  37. Halfindall n.Bot halfindall a myle of way Fra the cite, a rest tuk thai All the kynryk but halfyndale  
  38. Kything vbl. n.They are … preparing again a way to their tyrannicall supremacie, … of which the author of our tint sight of this horsemen, throw occasioun of a little howe in the way, at thair first kytheing agane declaration hath made alreadie a smooking kything The manner or form of the kything of the sign Thay haveing 
  39. Parentesis n.This is a parentesis be the way to schaw how far a gud K[ing] hes bene abused [etc.]  
  40. Worthelich adj.Thai … Than till a wortheliche [ worthelich] wane went thai thair way; Past till a palace of pryce 
  41. Offgoing vbl. n.His book is now selling and in a good way of offgoing  
  42. Threting ppl. adj.Shoe in a thretting way promised him ane other thing to think vpoun  
  43. Souldiarie n. of a way of presently falling upon another method of liveing said gairshone breaks forth [etc.] Oure way of living has been so long soldiery that it has put us out 
  44. Chapterly adv. chaptour of the cathedrell Kirk [of Aberdeen] … chaptourlye convenit  
  45. By-way n.Thai had … ane That kennyd thame a by way, That ewyn down betwix craggys lay  
  46. Rampaging ppl. adj.The said James came … into Katrin Frisels house in a rampaging way calling for meat  
  47. Sclenting ppl. adj. the mouthes of their gunnes a sklenting way, not right to the porte nor to the walle over against them, but a midle way betwixt them both The peure winschis ȝe wranguslie suspect For sklenting bowttis 
  48. Indigence n. tha micht leue but indigens or stres To support the indigens of … [a] burges of Aberdeen, sumtyme of 
  49. Aforegain prep.Aforgayn the schippis … thai held thair way Ane … merche stane set and put afoirgane a teilit fure  
  50. Prosodicall adj.Mr. Arthur Forbes is appoynted to handle the Prologue of Perseus in a grammatticall and prosodicall way  
  51. Way Passing vbl. n. thair way passing contrare his lawis Gif it hapnyt him in his way passing tobe … distursit of his hors and harneis To … the saim Dens men at thare way passing Personis … remanyng or way passing with the slaier Convict for his tressonable way-passing … fra oure oist [They] brunt the toun at thair way 
  52. Victoriusnes n.There is a bad way of wilful swallowing of a temptation, and not digesting it, or laying it out of 
  53. Prefidence n.The way of presumption is not our way … .We leave the way of prefidence to them that presume of 
  54. Soneles adj.1His way be sharpe quhen his end is good … tho it wer to be effectuat throw a thousand years of the extreamest sufferings of a sinless hell  
  55. Fer adj. towne, A fer way Thai … sayd thai com off landys fere [: powere] Becaus the way is rycht lang and fer Gif … he war … a tyran … that mycht defame the armes in ferr contreis Fra the coursour he fell on the 
  56. Kenned ppl. adj.Not to giue anie praemium in a partiall way to anie, as becaus they ar of kenned friends or 
  57. Scatt-fre adj.By reason the masters of these houses did suffer a loss this way, they were declared to be scat 
  58. Utherway adv.God disponyt vthire-way Thane he cuth othyre do or say Or othir way And it ples … the lecture of this, he may devid it vthir way in sevin bukis Be wit and ressoune … and nocht wthere way Vtherway 
  59. Montour n.A Jow, the quhilk had nouthir hors na mule na othir montour na vitaile, bot was on fut passand his way  
  60. Transfusing vbl. n.This shorter way of conveying a pure aliment … by transfusing it, and transpyring thorow the pores 
  61. Componitor n.2A precept of componitour [ . -positour] for a remissioun to be mad to Iohne Trumbull … and Iohne componitour The burgessis [of Aberdeen] … being delaitit … for the tressonabill assisting and partaking with 
  62. Wataking vbl. n. prakteis The common-wealth will be kept in better order … by [a king], then it can by his way-taking To waytaking of ony warrand fra the foirsaidis personis defencis Convict for the spuilȝeing and way taking of trew light, schyne unto many, for the way-tackin of one For aveding and waytaking of that ewill The fellonious way taking of the nage Discord betuin the laird and his tenantis anent the waytaking of doris at thair remowing For bringing the wyne and the deallis to the croce, 9 s. and for way 
  63. Boutway n.Mortone was sent befor with 800 hors; whoe being commanded a bout-way it was the day after before 
  64. Drouper n.To be much about duty and service … is the way to a more perfect cure, which cannot be expected by 
  65. Mail n.Theirs a pretty maille their [in Orleans]; … all the way ye have 4 ranks of tries … in that of Tours Their mail [He] saw a blind man … play at the maille  
  66. Cars n. of the samyn Them that … comitts inobedience agains the said lawes in Aberdeen and the Carse of 
  67. Testificating n.If some … intrants got testificates from ministers … of their lawful admission to such a kirk [etc.] … this way of testificating … was rejected by all  
  68. Thousand-fauld adv. thowsand fald, His purpois salbe heir and thair My ingyine can no way pers So far a thousand fauld War the fox tane a thowsand fawd … All war in vane Frome hennis agane Micht non him hawd A 
  69. Quhat Way adv. phr.Se quhat way throw hard fecht That all ȝour feiris demanit ar Quhareby we may cleirlie se quhat way we suld happelie return and be recouncelit to our grete empriour The saids bailyies desyrit them to give thair advyse quhat way performance suld be grantit to the said letter and subscrivit not I knaw not what way they ar myndffull to pay thair dett  
  70. Ordourly adj. ordour the samen … in ane ordourlie and competent way His orderly and Christian conversation He had a relation to a charge in Ireland … from which he could not … be loosed in ane orderly way Upon testimonials 
  71. Derf adj.The frer furth than his way he tais, That wes derff, stout, and ek hardy Thai ar sa darf in thar prynce, at was baith darf [ derf] and bald We, that bene a pepill derf and dour The landis of Lawder thai dycht The derff schott draiff as thik as a haill schour Thai lufly ledis … Delis thair full … catchit on his way Ouir the daillis sa derf The darfast way, for feiring of thair fo, Tha tuke the gait 
  72. Thus Wis adv. [Lord Heries having] thus way schawne himselff ingrait Thuswayes musing in my mynd Thus wyes A prence] This wys he has, in schort, for to conclud, A flud he beris apon his cot armour [etc.] Thus way scho, thus way to be supprysit Than the prophiesie was fullfillit quhilk was spoken … in the tyme of the 
  73. Straucht adj. The goldin traces of his [ Apollo's] heid Men might behold straught and lyneall Abone the earth A bent [= grass stalk] and straucht out wande, in thir dayes called a sceptre The lillie … Vhose staitly Hayre scho had, quhyt & streke, Rekand na forthire na hir neke [Thai] raid, in-till a randoun rycht, The strawcht way towart Meffen The streight weye thy spirit will I send To the goddesse that clepit is this lyfe bot ane straucht way to deid Haile, gentill nychttingale; Way stricht, cler dicht to wilsome wicht Our all the woddis wald he raik ilk day, And at evin tide returne hame the strecht way Till cours we com to Choum Eldrede … moving herefore the strecht way towart Danis To send Icelius brother and Numitorius son … the strauchest way thai mycht to the portis Strayth For as the strecht way to hevin is the rycht keping of thir ten commandis Nochtwithstanding, the straucht way sal thou wende To watch over our severall actions, lest by little and little … we be drawn aside from our walking with a 
  74. Douner adj. compar.Quhilk common way in the downer pairt thereof toward the east is become a filthie puddell In the 
  75. Skeich v.Harlit with hors that caucht affray And skeichit at a merswyne by thir way Mesapus musyng can 
  76. Quha-say n. phr.Half way hameward vp the calsay [He] Said to his servandis for a quha say, ‘Alace, the porter is 
  77. Schiresman n. way and will not be seine in a publict  
  78. Wilsum adj. this warld a wilsome way Samony seys and alkyn landis Sa huge wilsum [ wylsum] rolkis and schawd sandis Al the myd way is wildirnes onplayn, Or wilsum [ vilsum] forest This ilk wilsum perplexit way vayis … As vilsum vas in laborinthe of Creit She raid that wilsome wearie way, Neir fourtie myles As … signs set up in vilsum vayis to direct vs in the rycht pathe If it had not been for a Christian lost Sen ȝe … in the wyldsum way of this daingerous lyfe chesit ȝour selfis sa blynd gydis Desyrus … to hef reduceit … the wildsum wandering vnto the richt way agane Through wildsome wayles wayes, & foraine fells they fare Wildesome Forse a perell ore it cum For sudane cas is ay vylsum, And lichtlear; Way stricht, cler dicht, to wilsome wicht, That irke bene in travale The sevynt symmyr hyddir careis 
  79. Hamesukin n. to committ slauchter … upoun forthocht fellouny and be way of hamesukkyn Apone set purpose, hamesukking and foirthochtfellony Bodin in feir of weir … [thay] come be way of hame sukin to the landis house, and becomes a kind of adulterous hamsucken Mungo Murray … indyted for the cryme of hemsucken When the samen [invading] is committed … within persones ther own hous, be way of hemsucken Tuo vaging be way of homesukine, the said persewar being lying in his bed Cum … infangtheif, outfangtheif 
  80. No Way adv. phr.Bot Ypocras no way wald wend Bot thocht he wald his newo send No way Christ had dedenȝeit borne to be Bot for them all no way it [the arrow] wald come out And lutte tham noway labour bot so money as 
  81. Lipper Folk n. the lipperfolk. betwix New and Auld Aberdeen To … tak ordour for the sturdy beggerris and lipper 
  82. Sculking vbl. n. towne of Aberdeen … Mr. Jhon Stewart appearing in thie Assemblie … from his skoulking, thee moderator 
  83. Cantrip n. and Alexander Fidleris dur, … [and] keist thy cantryps in his way Thow com doun the stair and keist thi cantrappis and witchecraft in hir way Thow keist thy cantrapis and wichecraft on his guidis Thy vytchcraft, cantrepis, and inchantment The said Elspet did cast a cantrep on hir kow, that she wold not eate 
  84. Lasch n. episcopall lashe Such as wer in his way … they must beare him a lashe He will give them a lash, and they 
  85. Parlish adj. Yon is a parlish ingeneer Had we him yance out of the way They cou'd no' find us sike tough play A parlage cur … Quho for his faults sall render count one day Said lown of theirs, my joes I fear 
  86. Unhallow v.It is yet more strange to be offended at the solemn way of blessing or consecrating bishops … with the imposition of hands: as if a grave and solemn admission to a high and holy employment were apt to 
  87. Yssen v.The best way to mak a kow to yssen is that shoe be weill wintered and not hungered A forrow kow is a kow that is yssen'd or gives milk anes in the two year A nuckle kow or a teadie kowe is a kowe 
  88. Pen v.Ordanis ane answer to be pennit and thairin to promeis [etc.] Mr. Knox was appointed to penn a depositioune [The provost of Aberdeen and others] hes … forgit, devisit, and pennit the forme of ane pretendit copie off the lettre becaus itt hath good sence and weill penid Thou hast a conscience within thee that 
  89. Midway n. think it bettir to tak ane myd vaye betuix vs and them to saif their lyiffis [That] there was a mid-wayTheodorus … wes as ware the mydde way Be-twene the ton & the abbay In the midway [they] King the myd way is wildirnes onplayn Or wilsum forest Thus wes ane midway devisit be quhilk [etc.] Ve betwixt papistrie and our religion Thair is na mid way left bot owther to do or suffer Als conuenient to in … receiving the communion is not a gesture indifferent nor … midway Men's midway, cold and wise 
  90. Forhow v.Thar howsis thai forhow and levis waist Gife thow nocht may, ga way, ga way, Than art thow all 
  91. Schakand ppl. adj. reland eis God set … a fyrie schaikand sword to keip the way of the trie of lyf  
  92. Chare n.2Cled in hare, Putand a-way purpure & chare King Eolus set hie apon his chare [L. ] With ceptour seat in a chaare [ . cheyare]  
  93. Withset v.[Twa] off thaim … Withset a pase in-till his way Quhar him behowyt ned away With twa thowsand off-set the way Gif the warrand will nocht pas wyth hym to mak hym warrandy … the seriand sal command the 
  94. Roum v.1 rowmyt was the feild Him the way thay roumit than gud speid Wallace … Romde him about a large rude and mar He and he … branchis al to rent … and romys thame the way Pallas, seand Rutylianys Withdraw the 
  95. Purale n. Ane of the purall of the ospittell of Aberdeen Gilbert Gray, ane of the pwirell of Aberden The paroch is found as yet destitute of a common man for outhalding of stranger puirell and beggars All 
  96. Trukling ppl. adj.Others … in a trukling way sold ther goods quich was to the great loss of the goods att the stapell port In place of being truckling retailers with a little stock of wool and tin, why do we neglect so rich a treasure, which we have at uptaking  
  97. Jeiring vbl. n., ppl. adj.Thair wer sindrie jeyring … petitiones gevin out to the Parliament, be way of mokrie and jeering This gevin out by way of jeiring  
  98. On-na-way adv. phr.Fordermair on na way wald tha wend He cuild on na way obteine the samyn Bot he refusit and wald 
  99. Lowping vbl. n., as the word has it, a louping over all the Israelites' houses Sum escapit be looping over the wall The lowping ouer a dyk seperat me fra the twa [Accused of] trublance of the kirke … by lowping in at the windo after the dores were clossit A hurt he gat in loupping on the saddell at the hunting To taking of Aberdeen For his inconstancie in lowping back fra marriage of Christian Tailȝeour I thocht 
  100. Speaking-pynt n.[At Aberdeen, in 1670, the regulations required that non-operative apprentices, in addition to their entry-money, were to provide a dinner with a] speaking pint He is to pay two dollars ane speaking shall have the benefit of the measson word, free of all dewes. Only ane speaking pynt, ane dinner, and a 
  101. Evill-doar n.Prayand … for evill doaris that God of his grace wald turne thaim to the richt way With cumpaneis of thewis & evill doiris I sufferit nocht as a wickit persoun or a ewill doar Scho salbe ane 
  102. Presumptive adj. markis thairto Unless they could instruct that he truly represented some other manner of way; so as it be a real adition or immixtion, and not a presumptive one  
  103. Inward adv.Als-soyn thai Held carpand inward on thair way A grete fournas gevand the bete inwarde Ilk 
  104. Son-blink n. sun-blink on Christ's old spouse, and a clear sky The … way with the Lord is to send a shower, and aArmour … Quharon the son blenkis [ sonnys blenkis] betis clere Thereafter there shall be a fair sun-blink, and again a sun-blink and a shower You will still have clouds and shadows, as well as sun 
  105. Wlatsum adj.His wlatsum infirmyte [ leprosy] Mycht be helpyne be na way I sal sa quhow myn saule vithine Is fylyt vith a vlatsum syne Off that incest fell murthyr kene, And ane wgsum mangery Of wlatsum corsys 
  106. Thare Away adv., For giff the king held thar a-way [ that way] He thocht he suld sone wencussyt be Thai thoucht heCrechinben hecht that montane … Thar Jhone off Lorne gert his menȝe Enbuschyt be abowyn the way 
  107. Carmuching vbl. n.The laird of Graunge … causit ane carmisching to be maid Betuene thame … was neuir a set battell way with lycht carmuching war … perturbet  
  108. Scunnering vbl. n.A scunnering I have at the way of the English anent funeral sermons I have a scunnering of heart 
  109. He-way n.Quhy fled thu fra the hee-way? Mysal men … anerly to pas the he way thruch the toune He menis … to ryid furtht his hee way to the ferrey Jhone Stewart … wnbeseittis the he wayis and passage 
  110. Peuthering vbl. n.That is in plain Scots, That pewthering is a crime of sinistrous seeking after honour in that man who cannot attain … it in the way of true virtue, but by pewthering for it, which has made these men 
  111. Erretik n. that … erratik a Cristyn man Chalange sulde on na way Quene Johnnet … gert declare thame as erratykis and traytouris scismatykis Johne Elphinstoun is … ane verray erratik and a jow Erratyk [ . herretyk 
  112. Sive n.2At the foot of Grayes close ther is ane hollow place to be filled up and a way made to bale away the syve that comes doun The middle part of the street betwixt each two closses a little beyond the 
  113. Reflex adj.They call this reflex-man a coimjmeadh or co-walker, every way like the man, as a twin-brother and 
  114. Furriour n.The king bad … Pas to comfort the furriouris Now rydis the furreouris thair way [Barley cheif antichrist, preparing his way as diligent furriours, marking the durris quhair thair maister sould Elias) To Johnne Provand for a furriour coit  
  115. Norish adj. Norish tongue signifieth a dear friend and this way came he to be called Mungo An explication of some 
  116. Tummyllar n. waneskot to be a tumlar to the said stok Waird for laying on the ston on wmquhill Mr. Wiliam Strachan, for drink to the men that laid it on the horse hyre to bring the tumblers out of Aberdeen The cairteris and bodie of ane waine [etc.] Fortifying … it [ a castle] with moats, iron gates, drawbridges, tumlars Item two twmllers, 11 wnce 15 drop, at 3 pound 8 s. the wnce is £40 12 s. … a picktwr kes [etc.]  
  117. Lyke n. Mulben to ane lyke [A fee to the Master of Aberdeen Music School] for singing at umquhill Sir Robert 
  118. Trump n.2Ten tendis ar a trump [ trumpe] bot gif he tak ma Ane kynryk of parroch kyrkis cuppillit with commendis! Thir sobir trumpys, and meyn graith of Troianys Not regarding na way thy awin honour, Quhilk 
  119. Na Way adv. phr.And luk ȝhe na vay brek aray That he wald na wa it for-ga The flud of syn mycht na way approche to hir That na way He will brek it [ His promise] His proper curat naway suld be contempnit The preciouse bodye … is na vay subieckit to fleschlie calamiteis Gude Lord, lat thy command Na way fra me gif … he forbidis hir and will nay way that she gif almos [etc.] Gif … my lord … will stand my gud freind and swte me nay way I will stay my freindis He is naway to be reprocheit bot gretumlie to be 
  120. Ony-way n. phr.The quene vald nocht fra that day Bede with the kynge be ony way Gif the dekine Eschapit ony way 
  121. Thochty adj.I al-way has besy bene Til infourme ȝu in cheryte, And in sawle hele thochty to be Al pompe off himselfe As he past apon a day In til huntynge … On his gamyn al thouchty [ , thochty] A minister should be a very thoughty man  
  122. Scandaling vbl. n. Book, and Canons, which is not only a direct scandaling of them, but also a ready way to put a weapon 
  123. Coldrifenes n.I … did sharpelie rebuke all sins came in my way, especiallie drunkenness and cold-ryfness in religion At the first we were looked upon, for our coldrifenes, with a strange eye by many That part of 
  124. Toun Court n. burgh for ther alledgit abstracting of the meill from the meill mercat The laigh tolboth of Aberdeen 
  125. Grene n.Sewine sarkis schene He gert lay apone the grene A tawre … Scho saw ner by hir on the grene [ . greyn] Gnyppand girs His helme stikkit in the grene A thowsand knichtis keine … lyand on the grein Scatterit endlang the greyn, the colis hett A fayr plane greyn … Quhilk was enveronyt al with hyllys hie persones cast the greines of the cattaills herefter In the middis of a faire grene Thai biggit the chalmer and middle greens, clouts of cornland. The south green, a piece of my father's planting and oarchard De illo tenemento … in vico del Grene [in Aberdeen] De illa terra in vico de le grene Welle nere be the Grenys end [of Aberdeen] Thai mete that tyme ma than thai wend Capella beate Virginis … prope Inglis grene, to be a pare of brekis To the howlet … I laif my gaye galbarte of grene The burde scho 3 greyne burd clayths of Inglis greyne A bend of greyn … , The greyn [betakynnys] curage 
  126. Tyring vbl. n.1This goldin cart … Four ȝokkit steidis … But bait or tyring throw the spheiris drew The feird way the ege Walentynian incurrit a dolor & malancole with tiryn of his life be austerite  
  127. Bowt v. bowtis with a bend Nysus a far way He … bowtit fordwart with ane bend Scho bowtit vp and foirsit hir to swyme Ane fluid aboundant bouting out besprent His boudin brest Malcolme in a furie in the mid feild 
  128. Winter v. twa staigis without payment to Jhone of Bellenden The best way to mak a kow to yssen is that shoe beHe wynterit a kow … and he suld have had the simmer mylk To preif that George Hountair vonterit insewing I need not winter this, but I may proclaim it a verity  
  129. Deturne v. deturne the King from sik decreis To alter and deturne a litill the said way  
  130. Quherby rel. adv.He gaif [nan] vthir commandement but lufe quherby menn mycht knaw [etc.] Ane minute be way of affray Quherby Quherby I began to cleange chimney-heads wherby I got a lively-hood  
  131. Provost n. personage betuixt the prouost and the prebendars Collegiate kirks, which consisted of a provost, and so many prebendars Where there was a colledge kirk, it was govern'd by a provost and prebends; … the old colledge of St. Andrews … is governed by a provost. A provost in our law is no prelat Anent … Mr. Robert provestrie or ministrie of Sanct Andrews he should retain and enjoy A kingis provost may have na mare power in France, and in Scotland the constable depute Forthy dois a king … grete wrang … quhen he makis of the victalis A prouoost, a clarke, and chirurgian The prouost, baillieis, counsale and communite his trewlie worthie … the Lord Provost of Aberdeen Prouoist Prowast William Gaderar That pairt of 
  132. Reconvention n. him [ James Muir] The said Elezabeth ma preif be way reconuentioun a per blak clokis of the said agains George Rollok If a stranger pursue a Scotsman before the Lords, and the defender has an action of a crime, to raise a reconvention, and to call therein all such as defenders, whom they think may be lordships will admitt his reconvention to probation That Sir John Ramsay had also a reconvention against Elezabethis on the said Malkym This my petitioune, be way of reconuentioune, to haf the stryntht of ane 
  133. Hurlbarrow n.[For] iiij burdis to be ane hurle barrow For making ane way … for the hurril barrowes to cary the To … John Gardner mending hurrle barowes My guts rumbl'd like a hurle-barrow A gairdin hurle borrow 
  134. Serviceabill adj.A lyowne thaim kepyd be the way, that serwysiabyll [ serwiciabill, seruiciable] wes to thaim ay obedient and servicabill to thair maisteris, and to plaise thair callandis [Promising to be] a dilligent 
  135. Side adv.The worthy anciene knycht … with a lang berde and langar syde hyngand hare That euery lady of the land Suld haue hir taill so syde trailland He … must lift up his garments that hang side and take a lick of every thing by the way God wait quhat I think quhen he so thra spekis And how it settis him so 
  136. Unfolowit p.p. folowar mak a defalt the party deffendour … salbe adiugit as in a mut vnfolowyt Oure liegis … to be unattachit, unarrestit, unpersewit, unfolowit, ony maner of way in all tymez to cum The saidis personis … in 
  137. Unremovit p.p. [They] placed it in a high broad way, where it standeth vnremooued to this day … desyres a continuance tyll Witsoun next come to remayne vnremovit or other wayes to be restorit to his 
  138. South Cuntré n. His way towart the south contre [ . of Ireland] For that mar inclynyt he To the folk of the south countre [ -cuntre] Na to the northyn mennys will … Till Ingland hame his way he tais  
  139. Ridge n. Being but a ridge length off the way And the ridge sharing to be given doun all but one week of oneHis neighbour … takes a butt, or half a ridge, and sayes it is a very small thing The halff of the 
  140. Mesurabily adv.Quhan a man is in this seknes, he suld be dyatyd mesurably Treuly the fader may … chastis him & cheritabily gevin Eat measurablie & defye the medicineris Rycht ewyn pacys thar way thai tuk; Thar moving 
  141. Tumultuating vbl. n. prentises and introduce a new way of tumultuating by putting up blew ribbans as signis and cognisances O to 
  142. Fang v. fang How the news went at Aberdeen, that yow should have been fanged for that Universitie Our seymly with force To fang him fische haillelie wes his intent As attircop fechtis to fang a fle Makand hir curs the day Quhen Justice falset fangis These simple foulles, this way fangit in the net of these craftie hountars Euen as a birde, caught in an vnseene snare, So was I fangd in lawlesse souldiours 
  143. Carmelite n., adj. Aberdeen] This extract following wes fund be the provinciall of the quhyte or Carmelat freiris of Abirdene 
  144. Mile n.1-mile, … after which mile I intend to proceed Bot halfindall a myle of way Fra the cite Thus thaiThat thai War bot a myle fra him away Nere the quartare of a myl A grene a myle of at the mast Befoir he rod a myl out of Stirveling A thousand seven hundreth and sixty yards are to make a myle Qwhill that thai ware Passyd thare fays a mylle and mare Is nane within ane myll Can better vse that craft Everie horse … for auchtein pennies ilk mylle Within a myill Being within a mayll of the hous thair toune By this time I had ridine with them a milne or more Bot twa myle betuix thaim wer It dowit he Of al the land thre myle about At twa myle or thre, that is bot a Franche legge Eolus … and way The lordschip of Rome is of lenth and brede bot xv mylis The lenth of the erd x mylis Deuidyng, aye, ane lig in mylis two Forgeing a mok to me mony mylis fra him Twenty millis That nane of thame this The toun off Coigneris That wele ten gret myle wes thaim fra A large gret myile wichtly on fute 
  145. Slip n.2 wait and look for Him the upper way, I see His wisdom is pleased to play me a slip and come the lower claythis … 8 ell half sad collourit perpetuane to be slipes above my claythis To John Lyle for making a slip to my sword, 6 s. For a sword to W Foulis and a slip to it The maist halie man fallis sa oft way This laughing and white-skinned world beguileth you; and if ye seek it more than God, it shall play you a slip  
  146. Wis v.2 way [Of] courtesie ȝe wald me wis sum gait, [Qu]hair ȝe beleue I may kindnes obtene Wish me good friend … Where that I may get any man, Where [etc.] Wische [ Wis] me the richt way till Sanct-Androes go wrong a deal He warily did her [ the mare] weise and weild, To Collingtoun-Broom, a full gude thair gudis worth siluer thai sal ask counsel & be avisit with a part of the best & the worthiast of the, Quhar thai mycht best off purviance for to wyn Sall I wis the fra this way Sa thow tak heid vnto my 
  147. Unplain adj. way is wildirnes onplayn [ wnplane, vnplane] Or wilsum forest This ilk wilsum perplexit way 
  148. Halfway adv.Half way hameward vp the calsay  
  149. Murderous adj.In ane murderous way and … designe  
  150. Superintromission n. superintromission, I triplied that the said superintromission … cannot be received here by way of exception but requires a new process As for the superintromission, the pursuer might take a dative from the omitting is palpable, they use to receive superintromission by way of exception The Ordinary found the pursuer could not reply on superintromission, unless she had taken a dative The confirmation cannot 
  151. Net adj. cut a man; they have such a net way of baging the flech As in a cleire & nett meroure The nobile lady, moder of God, had been consauit net and clene A man … clene & net of consciens [A] certain nomber of pompes for the better and more clein and nett service of the leidges 2 sekis off woyll … an veit 7 net and tothir weyt 7 2 stane Item bocht … a kyst off sucur cost 3½ gr. the li., weand net 204 li. In shaving a man, its impossible for a Frenchman to 
  152. Throuch v. our synods For, it cannot be denied that He foreknew the event, and that such a conditionall severall shyres wher the troups lyes to gett the gentlemen to condiscend to a voluntar localetie. This is already done in Merns, and I beleiv will be thorowed in the shyre of Aberdeen But if that be not practicable, then if this can be throughed it will be a favour, viz., that the king may buy Inchketh from me This order presentlie gave us the allarme: we saw it was for a tolleration of the independents, by act 
  153. Clere n.To the quene the richt way can he tak, Full suddanlie in armis hint the cleir I met a cleir vndir kell, A weilfaird may Sen I come into that cleiris cure I haif bene trew Than knelit I befoir that 
  154. Northward adv.Syne northwarde [ northwart] tuk thai hame thar way Thay haif reterit thame selffis northwarde … westwart Syne ran a feynd to feche Makfadȝane Far northwart [ northewart, northwert] in a nuke 
  155. Subornation n. subornation Yet the giving of it [ witnesses' expenses] by way of pre-advance is a subornation, andHow easy were it for a knavish messenger, upon the pannel's subornation, to leave out of the pannel's copy the most important witnesses, so that the pannel shall be cleansed for lack of probation A pursuer should be , and know his own probation, and where he craves a new one, there is fear of 
  156. Smukand ppl. adj. … preparing again a way to their tyrannicall supremacie, … of which the author of our declaration hath madeHe … sal nocht slokin a smewkand [ smokynge] brand, til [etc.] That old bold smoaking monster weak beginnings A lukewarm church … and self justification jouking under a smoaking bramble They are alreadie a smooking kything When all his smooking hopes are vanished Our smoking desires for a more strict union … did break forth into a vehement flame  
  157. Flankour n. … flankour buirdis abowe the eising off the scoole The roof … to be putt on in a plain way without flankers 
  158. Strekit ppl. adj. were tilling] with his awne streikit pleuch Ye have a way, Sir, of drawing stretched consequences from 
  159. Volve v. mycht succour get Voluing this way into my maucles mynd Perhaps I hard ane cative full of cair Sumtyme the scripturis in my hand I volue Gif happelie I could find suche a caice Sumtyme vaine wryteris red I 
  160. Randevouzing vbl. n. preached that way is a rendezvouzing in rebellion  
  161. Conway v.The knychttis that can hym conway, To de quhen that he tuk the way Thane presit mony to conway Hyme to the gebet ewine the way In thare cunnand made thai That Scottis men suld thaim conway In-till 
  162. Appost v.How & quhat way ye suld appost your bordour  
  163. Cusinage n.2His way of cuir proceiding from ignorance and cusinage  
  164. Feiritnes n.Quhill he for feiritnes hes fylit vp the way  
  165. Knappish adj.Your spirit is so knappish and way-ward [etc.]  
  166. Ourthortour prep.[He] kest hym evyn ourthourtyr [ . ourthortour, . ouerthortoure] Salyus way  
  167. Reply n. uther deid … salbe reducit and annullit, as weill be way of exceptioun, reply, or duply, as be way of duply aganis the lybell and reply The answer that the pursuer makes to the exception, is called a reply any answer to that answer is called a reply, … yet legal disputes require another accuracy; and therefore nothing should be called an exception, but what is a positive allegeance eliding a libel; nor should any thing be called a reply, but a positive allegeance eliding the exception Bot the first confirmatioun of the last infeftment sall prevaill to the last confirmatioun of the first infeftment be way of wrytt for proveing of his lybell or repley He had sent … a replay to the Committee of Estaits anssuer 
  168. Bend n.1 with a bend Nysus a far way Scho lap vpon me with ane bend Castand galmoundis, with bendis and beckis] nocht a bend; Quha may withstand her straik?  
  169. Tavering vbl. n. and dauren, Like ane daft doitit fule He callis our warkis tavering, going out of the way. Can ane wandring out of the way  
  170. Farnes n.The langitude & farnes of place The farrnes of the way  
  171. Secularitie n.That kirkmen suld nocht be No way subjectit to secularitie  
  172. Lipper Man n. Aberdeen] … with ane croft … annext to the same for support of the lippermen and wemen dwelling thairin 
  173. Salmond-fisch n. Aberdeen] Ilk barrell salmound fisches, 8 d.  
  174. Cord v.1Thai fosterit him … With sic dietis, as cordand wes For the padok It cordis il in ȝouthhede of a childe … Diuersiteis of wynis for to knaw He, that lele wes til his lord, Be na way wald thar-to cord way will cord, Quhair pryde hes credence for to gyde Thai ar cordyt, fullely oblyst, [etc.] … to gang 
  175. Key n.2 the sandis Illam plateam et spacium commune quod dicitur le key [at Aberdeen] To the masonys for the Frence It was a great providence that scho [the ship] did ly out at the fardest key [ the outmest pairt litle key builded at the Broomelaw Besides the reparing of the key alongst the shore, which is of a considerable length These [ships] longest in the harbour to lye furthest off the key or breast A bark and v 
  176. Narow v.As ane schelde it narrowit ay Than [the sea] narovs till the narownes of vj pas A maner dyk … Narrowyt the way He wald repent that narrowit so his boundis Off ȝeirly rent thre score of thousand 
  177. Scroggy adj.At the mur syde, in till a scrogghy slaid, Be est Dipplyne Of wild buskis rowch skroggy knoll In the narrest way Amang the scroggy [ skoggy] bus Of poppill tre branschis lang and squar The scroggy 
  178. Adversere n.Gret part off thare adwerseris To the Castelle … Held thare way  
  179. Blinding vbl. n.This vgly way Is nocht ellis bot blinding of the spreit  
  180. Gredur n.Buriours in blud … With gredur, but dredur, Awaiting in the way  
  181. Nicknamed ppl. adj.The Lord … moved me to follow that nicknamed way of preaching  
  182. Glee v.That's not the way to heauen, To make the euen to glee  
  183. Hilled adj.Ane peice hilled midow alongis the south syd of the watter way  
  184. Ploying vbl. n.Full … power of … traffecting and ploying the merchant any maner of way  
  185. Way Carying vbl. n.The apprehending and way carying of his wife and childrein to Annandail  
  186. Precisitly adv.We nocht knawing ȝour mynd presecidlie quhat way we suld support ȝow  
  187. Unclere adj. scientiæ … to take a way a mans life The merches betwixt the lands … wes verrie uncleir In to that dome … Quhilkis I postpone as dowtous and vnclere It were very hard upon testimonies that have so unclear a causa They are retired out of the way, and has write to me they have done it, being unclear to take oaths 
  188. Redemabil adj. Innes … hes sold … ar redimable to yow for a thousand marks the dawigh [Lands] redemabill … be peyment therof be any co-creditor of the defunct debitor This we have done by way of morgadge redeimable to your of redemption That they be not perpetually redeemable or require a new legal That … no mans publick confessing of sin … be sould for money, or be redeamable that way  
  189. Feabill adj.All men that vsis feabill wageouris suld vse thare knichtis on this way  
  190. Gruchandly adv.And at the last thaim graunted wes Half gruchandly, to go thar way  

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