This glossary of old Scots terms (and some from Upper Canada) has been consolidated
from the glossaries published in the following McCowan Society Publications.
| Term |
Publ |
Page / Note |
Meaning |
| Aliment |
CU |
|
Support, or sum payable for support, of a
dependant. (RD 1153) |
| Ameliorations |
CU |
|
Improvements |
| Anon |
WG |
13 |
Soon or presently |
| Answer |
TS |
15 |
Written pleading in reply to an application to
a court, such as a petition. (RD 1154) |
| Arrest / Attach |
CU |
|
To seize or put under the control of a court
(attach), property owed by others to one's debtor to secure payment of one's debt.
(RD 1154-5) An Arrestment is the execution of the associated decree of the court. |
| Auch |
WG TS |
8, 22, 47, 52 2, 12, 13, 18, 22, 23 |
Anglicised form of the Gaelic word for field.
(See Auchtool, Auchtyfardle, Auchlochan and Auchanbeg [meaning "small field"].)
(Nicolaisen 125) |
| Bailiff, Farm |
WG |
25 |
A land agent managing an estate for its owner.
(RD 1156) |
| Baillie |
TS WG |
2 17, 19; N54 |
Estate officer who presided over the Baron
Court. (Whyte 269) |
| Bairnes |
TS |
3, 4 |
Children. |
| Barony |
TS WG |
2, 5, 9, 10, 16, 21 11;
N54 |
Basic unit of local government in rural parts
of medieval and early-modern Scotland. (Sanderson 248) |
| Bear or Bere |
WG |
5 |
Four-rowed variety of barley (Whyte 269); Good
for malt (Robertson 145) |
| Bee |
FF |
18, 20, 22, 31 |
A gathering of neighbours and friends to
complete a task |
| Beltane |
TS |
4 |
May 1. (Lanark 415) |
| Bent |
WG |
33 |
Reedy or rush-like stiff-stemmed grass; heath
(RD 89) |
| Bent / Plate |
FF |
29 |
A bent is a section of a barn frame that was
assembled on the ground and tipped up into place. Each bent would resist wind loads
applied against either side wall of the barn. Wind loads applied against either end wall
are resisted by the network of plates and braces which connect one bent to the next. |
| Beseikand |
TS |
3, 4 |
Beseeching. |
| Beynes, milk |
CU |
|
Staved wooden containers, broad and open.
(SAM) |
| Biggings |
TS |
14 |
Buildings. (Lanark 415) |
| Boll |
CU |
|
Unit of grain measurement. One boll was four
firlots or 16 pecks. (Whyte 268) |
| Bolster |
CU |
|
Pillow |
| Bonnet-Laird |
WG |
8, 16, 17 |
Small proprietor. (Sanderson 249) |
| Brae |
WG |
8, 51; N10 |
Slope of a small hill. (See Cleughbrae in
text) (RB 609) |
| Broose |
FF |
5, 21 |
A race at country weddings (RB 610) |
| Bruk |
TS |
4 |
To posses, hold and use. (Lanark 416) (A
bruking would be a holding of a piece of ground.) |
| Burgh |
FF WG |
4-11 13, 17, 18, 20, 21 |
A town that was generally administered on a
local level by a Town Council (RD 1158). A Royal Burgh derived its charter directly from
the Crown while a Burgh of Barony was under the jurisdiction of a Baron. (Whyte 269) |
| Burn |
WG |
14, 62 |
Small river or rivulet (See Coalburn,
Burnhouse in text) (RB 610) |
| But and Ben |
WG |
7 |
Two-roomed cottage where the But was the
kitchen or outer room and the Ben was the parlour or inner room. (GRR 489-90) |
| Ca' the crack |
FF |
4 |
Keep up the talk (RB 612) |
| Candlemas |
CU |
|
February 2 |
| Candle-Coal or Cannel-Coal |
WG |
24 |
A grade of coal with illuminating qualities,
eventually used for making gas for lighting. |
| Caution, (Bond of) |
WG |
17 |
A written guarantee of payment or performance
by another, given by a guarantor or Cautioner. (RD 1157, 1159) |
| Chalf Beds |
CU |
|
Chalf from the thrashing was used to fill the
mattresses. (SAM) |
| Chamberlain |
WG |
25 |
Usually treasurer of a Burgh. (RD 1160) |
| Chapman |
WG |
20, 21; N53 |
Pedlar (RB 611) |
| Chesurts, cheese |
CU |
|
A staved wooden container with holes in the
bottom. Stone weights were placed on the movable wooden lid. The lid pressed down on the
curds which were wrapped in cheesecloth. The whey was thus squeezed out. (SAM) (Fenton
152) |
| Churl |
FF |
7 |
Person of low birth; peasant; ill-bred fellow
(RD 164) |
| Clachan |
WG |
40 |
Small village or hamlet (RB 611) |
| Claes |
FF |
14 |
Clothes (RB 611) |
| Coalheugh |
WG |
24, 40 |
Coalworks or coal pit. |
| Collier |
TS WG |
27, 28 9 |
A worker at the coal face, a
"pickman" or a "hewer" of coal. The term "miner" (with
respect to coal) was generally reserved for those who sank the mine shafts to the coal
seams. (Duckham 46) |
| Commonty |
TS WG |
6, 14; N15 24, 26 |
Rough pastureland possessed jointly by
different proprietors. (Whyte 269) |
| Compear |
FF |
5, 6, 10 |
To appear (in court) (RD 1162) |
| Conjoining of Actions |
CU |
|
Putting together two or more pending actions
for the same cause of action where the parties are the same or where one party is
plaintiff (pursuer) or defendant (defender) in all of them. (RD 1163) |
| Cord |
FF |
22 |
A measure of cut wood for fuel, 4'x4'x8'. |
| Cottar |
FF TS
WG
|
3, 19 2, 11, 12, 16, 17, 21, 22; N54
7, 9, 13, 20, 30, 37, 49 |
The holder of a cotland, usually under a
husbandman, the most substantial of rural tenant, and owing labour-services to him (ie a
subtenant) but sometimes holding directly from the baron, with fewer rights and
responsibilities than a husbandman. (Sanderson 250) |
| Court of Session |
WG |
N75 |
Supreme civil court in Scotland. (RD 1165) |
| Craig |
WG |
8 |
A high rock. (See Craignethan, Craighead in
text.) (RB 613) |
| Creel |
FF |
16 |
Stag party (also, a basket, RB 613) |
| Croft |
TS WG |
ii ii, 33, 51 |
A small piece of land enclosed for tillage and
pasture. (Sanderson 250) (See also "Infield / Outfield".) |
| Cryit |
FF |
9, 11 |
Proclaim (Lanark 417) |
| Deal Ground |
TS |
14 |
Apparently those lands that had been formally
divided into portions and then allocated (Sanderson 250). An "Akerdaill" was a
portion of land one acre in extent (Lanark 415). A "Deal" or "Dale"
was also an old measurement of land in eastern Scotland equivalent to two
"rigs". One rig was 1/4 of a Scots acre. A Scots acre was equivalent to 1.26
English acres. (Whyte 267) |
| Dearth |
FLE |
|
Scarcity and dearness of food (RD 232) |
| Deponent |
CU |
|
A person who makes an affidavit. (RD 1167) |
| Dispone |
CU |
|
To convey or transfer land. (RD 1168) |
| Divot |
WG |
26 |
Turf |
| Draught |
WG |
23 |
Load (Lanark 417) |
| Driving |
CU |
|
Delivering |
| Drokin |
FF |
8 |
Drunk (Lanark 417) |
| Duds and Duddies |
FF |
13 |
Ragged or mean clothes (RB 615) |
| Dung |
TS WG |
16 30, 33, 52 |
Manure. |
| Enclosure |
TS |
14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 24; N54 |
The process of dividing land into discrete
fields by hedges or dykes. |
| Entry |
TS |
14 |
Date at which possession of land is to be
given under a contract. (RD 1170) |
| Ex |
FF |
26, 32-33, 38 |
The Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto,
Canada (the CNE) |
| Excambion |
CU |
|
Exchange of one piece of land for another. (RD
1170) |
| Factor |
FF TS
WG |
12, 15 16, 18, 19, 25, 27
13 |
Manager of estate, houses, etc., on behalf of
the landlord or owner (RD 1171). A Judicial Factor was an administrator appointed by a
court to manage the property of a person unable to manage his own (RD 1178) |
| Fall |
TS |
21 |
6.22 imperial yards or 8 ells. |
| Fanners |
CU |
|
Instrument for winnowing grain. |
| Fasten-e'en or Fastern's E'en |
FF |
4, 7 |
Fasten's Even; the evening before Lent (RB
615); Shrove Tuesday in the Lowlands (Hole 114) |
| Fauld |
TS WG |
20 8, 51 |
An enclosed piece of ground used for
cultivation. (See Greenfauld, Fauldhouse in text.) (Sanderson 251) |
| Fee |
FF TS
WG |
13, 14 4; N33
27-28 |
The regular payment to a hired or contracted
servant. (Sanderson 251) |
| Fenuble / Finuble |
TS WG |
15 31 |
Fencible. Professor R. Sunter has kindly
commented -- "The process of making a fence proof against livestock was undertaken by
skilled workers -- it involved cutting, but not severing, the young limbs and then
interweaving them. Today it's almost a lost art." |
| Fermtoun |
FF
TS
WG |
2-4, 16, 18, 27, 43 2, 11, 12, 14, 22, 24;
N48
1, 4-8, 13, 21, 22; N4 |
A farm settlement of several families having
both arable land and pasture. (Sanderson 251) (See Wattistoun, Orchardtoun, Robertoun,
Bartoun in text.)
(See Yondertown, Fockertown in text.) |
| Feuar |
TS |
2, 4 |
The holder of land by feu-ferme tenure.
Feu-ferme was a feudal tenure where the annual rent or feu-duty was paid to the superior
as a fixed cash sum in perpetuity. (Whyte 270, Sanderson 251 and RD 1171) |
| Fisk |
WG |
27 |
Old Scots law term for "Fiscal" --
"Every Sheriff or Fisk of Court..." (JP 186). A Procurator-Fiscal was a public
prosecutor at the Sheriff Court. (RD 1189) |
| Flesher |
TS |
13 |
Butcher (RD 333) |
| Fodder |
CU |
|
Feed for cattle |
| Forestalling |
FLE |
|
Buying goods before they reached the market or
before it was formally opened in order to resell at higher prices (Justices liii) |
| Freeholder |
FF TS |
21 3 |
For all practical purposes (though not in
theory), the absolute owner of the land. (RD 1172) |
| Frie Geir |
TS |
3 |
Moveable wealth of a deceased person after
deduction of debts from the total moveables. (Sanderson 251) |
| Furthcoming, Action of |
CU |
|
Action taken when one's debtor does not
voluntarily authorize the delivery of property under the terms of an arrestment. (RD 1154) |
| Gill |
FF |
15 |
Quarter-pint (in some districts half-pint)
liquid measure (RD 368) |
| Gin, horse |
WG |
47; N109, N122 |
Machine to hoist water or coal up the shaft. |
| Gowk |
WG |
40 |
Fool (RB 618) |
| Gowpins |
WG |
40 |
Double handfuls. |
| Grassum |
TS |
14, 18 |
A lump sum paid on entry to a lease or feu, or
for the renewal of a lease. (Whyte 270) |
| Greetin' |
FF |
20 |
Weeping (RB 618) |
| Grieve |
TS |
19 |
Country Overseer. |
| Heath |
WG |
33, 39 |
Barren flat waste tract of land esp. if
covered with low herbage and dwarf shrubs, so hence the plants found on heath land. (RD
403) |
| Herd |
TS |
19 |
Cattle keeper. |
| Herezeld |
TS |
4 |
Death duty to the superior on a husbandman's
moveable estate. (Sanderson 251) |
| Heritable Bond and Disposition |
WG |
28 |
Heritable property is land that passes on
through right of blood. Heritable Security is money secured to a creditor over land. (RD
1173) A Bond and Disposition in Security is a promise to pay money combined with a
disposition of land to the creditor in security -- the creditor may enter into possession
and uplift [collect or draw] the rents, or, after notice to the debtor, sell the land, to
satisfy the debt. (RD 1157) |
| Heritor |
TS WG |
3 28 |
An owner or proprietor of heritable property.
Persons in the records designated "of" a certain residence or place were
"lairds" or proprietors of land under the terms of an arrangement with either
the King or some other superior. Tenants (or those designated "in") did not have
heritable tenure of land. |
| Hogmanay |
FF |
7, 16 |
The last night of the year |
| Holm |
TS WG |
13, 22 8, 22, 51 |
Arable land beside a river.
(See Holme and Langholm in Text.)
(See Clydesholme, Scorrieholm, and Holmhead in Text.) |
| Hypothec |
CU |
|
Security right over movable property,
constituted without transfer of possession to the creditor, eg a landlord's hypothec for
rent (RD 1174). Hypothec may be put in force by the process known as landlord's
sequestration. Evidently, this remedy was abolished with respect to rent of farms in 1880
(Gloag 144, referring to the Hypothec Abolition Act, 1880). Hypothec secures one year's
rent, not prior arrears. It fails if not put in force by sequestration within three months
of the last term of payment. It is the usual practice to sequestrate for the rent actually
due and in security of that to become due at the next term (Gloag 145). |
| Ilk |
FF
TS
WG |
5
4
23 |
Each or every (RB 621) |
| Inch / Insh |
WG |
22 |
Small Island generally (RD 440) |
| Incoming |
WG |
40 |
Income |
| Infield / Outfield |
TS WG |
13, 14 33 |
Generally, the "infield" was the
well-fertilized and intensively cultivated ground nearest the farm buildings while the
"outfield" was the poorest of the arable land on the farm. The
"outfield" was fertilized only through the pasturing of cattle over the course
of several years. It was then ploughed and cropped for several years until low yields did
not justify working and seeding. The "outfield" was then allowed to recover
during the pasturing phase of the cycle. (Whyte 60) |
| Interlocutor |
CU |
|
Decree of a court, especially one not
disposing of the case finally. (RD 1177) |
| Interpelled |
CU |
|
Interrupt order |
| Intestate |
CU |
|
A person who dies without a will or dies with
a will that fails to dispose of his property. (RD 1177) |
| Intromissions |
TS |
27 |
Dealings with property. (RD 1177) |
| Irritancy |
CU |
|
A lease may be terminated by the enforcement
of an irritancy, legal or conventional. The legal irritancies relate to non-payment of
rent. There is an irritancy recognised at common law, and enforceable only by an
extraordinary action of removing in the Court of Session, in all cases where two years'
rent is upaid. (Gloag 148) |
| Jade |
WG |
13 |
Wearied |
| Judicial Factor |
CU |
|
Administrator appointed by a court to manage
the property of a person unable for some reason to manage his own. (RD 1178) |
| Kane |
CU |
|
Customary payments from tenants, usually in
kind. (Sanderson 252). |
| Kindness / Kindly Tenant |
TS |
2, 3, 11, 22, 23; N10, N20 |
Kindness was the claim to customary
inheritance on the basis of kinship with the previous holder. (Sanderson 252) |
| Kirn |
FF |
4 |
Harvest-Home (RB 622) |
| Laird |
TS
WG |
2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 13, 26; N39 9, 10, 29 |
A landed proprietor, usually below the level
of the nobility. (Whyte 270) |
| Lammas |
CU |
|
August 1 |
| Lead |
TS |
21, 25, 26 |
To transport grain, coal or other commodity.
(Sanderson 252) |
| Lemmane |
TS |
4 |
Lover. |
| Let |
FF
TS
WG |
15
14, 16, 21
30 |
Lease out or grant use of for rent. (RD 504) |
| Liferent |
WG |
N75 |
Right to the use and income or produce of
property for life or a shorter stated period where the liferenter is liable for
maintenance of the property. (RD 1181) |
| Lors |
TS WG |
14, 15, 19 12, 30 |
Lordship's. |
| Mails and Duties |
CU |
|
Legal action directed against tenants by which
a creditor of a heritable security may obtain control over the rents payable by the
tenants. (Gloag 553) |
| Mal a propos |
FF |
9 |
Inopportunely (RD 541) |
| March |
TS WG |
15, 21 31 |
The boundary of an estate or farm, not
necessarily marked on the ground (especially before the agricultural revolution). (Whyte
270) |
| Mark or Merk |
TS |
2, 4, 12 |
One merk was 13s4d Scots (Whyte 267) or 1s1d
sterling. |
| Markland or Merkland |
TS |
3 |
A nominal value of a piece of land, initially
for taxation purposes. (Whyte 267) |
| Martinmas |
FF WG |
13 38 |
November 11. Payments of rent and interest
were legally due on Martinmas and on Whitsunday (May 15) in the absence of some agreement.
(RD 1180, 1182, 1202) |
| Meadow |
TS WG |
14 51 |
Grassland mowed for hay, often marshy and near
a river. (Sanderson 252) (The farm of "Meadow" on Stockbriggs Estate was
comprised of 11 acres of Croftland or Infield, 30 acres of Outfield, 4 acres of Meadow and
21 acres of Pasture [the higher land].) |
| Messenger-At-Arms |
FF |
11 |
Official who executes citations etc. of the
Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary (RD 1182) |
| Missives |
CU |
|
Letters exchanged in negotiation, embodying
the terms of a transaction, for example, missives of let. |
| Moss |
TS WG |
14 33 |
Boggy ground of deep basin peat in upland or
lowland situations. (Sanderson 252 and Whyte 270) |
| Mug Pettes |
CU |
|
Pet sheep of the breed known as
"Mugs" in southern Scotland: an early form of Border Leicester. (SAM) |
| Muir or Moor |
TS WG |
14, 17, 21 34, 44 |
Shallow hill peat or hill pasture on peaty
ground. (Whyte 270) |
| Multiplepoinding |
CU |
|
Action brought to determine conflicting
claims. (RD 1183) |
| Multures |
CU |
|
Tax or duty on grain ground at a mill, usually
payable in grain. |
| Nappy |
FF |
15 |
Strong ale (RB 624) |
| Natural Child |
CU |
|
Illegitimate child (RD 1183) |
| Outfield |
TS WG |
13, 14; N36 51 |
See "Infield / Outfield". |
| Packman |
WG |
20; N53 |
Chapman or unfree trafiquer, ie pedlar. |
| Pactional Rent |
CU |
|
Payment of a fixed sum as liquidate damages
for any breach of conditions of a lease. (Gloag 150) |
| Park |
FF
TS
WG |
15
16
30 |
An enclosure for animals, grass or crops
(Whyte 271) |
| Patatories, pitt of |
CU |
|
Potatoes. Stored in pits and covered with
straw and earth. (SAM) |
| Peck |
WG |
44 |
One quarter of a bushel. |
| Pedagogue |
WG |
12 |
Schoolmaster |
| Pendicle |
TS |
14 |
A small portion of land. (Lanark 421) |
| Penny Weddings |
FF WG |
5 14 |
Guests donated a small amount to discharge the
expenses of the supper, the drink and the fiddler. Any balance remaining was presented to
the couple as a wedding gift. |
| Plenishings |
TS |
3 |
Furnishings. (Lanark 421) |
| Pley |
TS |
4 |
Plea or lawsuit. (Ayr 288) |
| Plough-Gang |
WG |
38 |
A plough-gate was 104 Scots acres or about 130
English acres (Whyte 267) |
| Poinding |
CU |
|
Execution of a court's decree in the form of
seizure of property in the hands of a debtor by an officer of the court. (RD 1187) |
| Policies |
WG |
45 |
Enclosed ornamental grounds around a large
country house. (Whyte 271) |
| Popery |
WG |
12 |
Roman Catholicism. |
| Portioner |
WG |
29 |
One who owns part of a property; a small
proprietor, often a feuar. (Sanderson 253) |
| Pound / Shilling / Pence |
|
|
May be designated herein by
"xx/yy/zz". One pound Sterling was equivalent to 20s (shillings) or 240d (pence
[pre-decimal]). Hence, one shilling was worth 12 pence. Scots money was worth one twelfth
of the value of Sterling. £1 Scots = 1s8d or 20 old pence Sterling (MP xi). A Shilling
Scots was equivalent to 1 old penny Sterling. After about the middle of the eighteenth
century, the Pound Sterling generally prevailed in Scotland. (Duckham 372) A merk (or
mark) was equivalent to 13/4d Scots. |
| Precisian |
FF |
7 |
One who is rigidly precise, especially in
religious observance (RD 694) |
| Process |
CU |
|
Formal steps or proceedings taken at the
various stages of any legal action. |
| Procurator-Fiscal |
CU |
|
Public prosecutor at the Sheriff Court. (RD
1189) |
| Pro indiviso |
CU |
|
Undivided |
| Proof |
CU |
|
Hearing of evidence in a case before deciding
whether the claim or defence is relevant or sufficiently specific. (RD1189) |
| Provost |
FF |
11 |
Chief magistrate of a burgh, elected by and
from, and presiding over the town council (RD 1190) |
| Pursuer |
WG |
24, 26 |
Plaintiff or the person bringing the action.
(RD 1190) |
| Ques |
CU |
|
Calves still fed on milk. (AL 81) |
| Quhill |
TS |
4 |
Until. (Ayr 289) |
| Raising |
FF |
18, 19, 29, 31 |
Erection of a barn or house with the help of
friends and neighbours |
| Reduction, Action of |
CU |
|
Action in the Court of Session to set aside a
document, order, decree etc., alleged to be invalid. (RD 1191) |
| Regrating |
FLE |
|
Buying all the goods that were exposed in the
market in order to sell them elsewhere outside the market at higher prices. Or keeping
goods out of the market to create a scarcity (Justices liii, Lanark 422, Ayr 289) |
| Remit |
CU |
|
To submit a matter for report by an expert.
(RD 1192) |
| Removing |
TS |
15 |
An action brought by a landlord to eject a
tenant. An "Extraordinary" action of removing is taken in the case of
non-payment of rent. An "Ordinary" action of removing is used when the lease has
expired. (RD 1192) |
| Rock or roke |
FF |
4 |
A distaff; a distaff was a cleft staff about 3
feet long on which wool or flax was wound for spinning by hand (RD 257) |
| Rockin' |
FF |
4 |
A small social gathering at which the women
spin on the rock or weave a stocking (RB 627) |
| Roup |
FF TS |
15 17; N36, N44 |
Auction sale or to sell by auction (RD 1194) |
| Rowme or Room |
TS WG |
4, 7 18 |
A holding or piece of occupied land.
(Sanderson 254) |
| Rugy hoggis |
TS |
4 |
One year old sheep or perhaps course or rugged
young sheep. |
| Runrig |
WG |
6, 11, 46, 47; N120 |
Division of pieces of ground among tenants,
those of individual tenants being scattered throughout the cultivated area. (Sanderson
254) |
| Sautie Bannock |
FF |
7 |
A thick cake composed of eggs, milk and
oatmeal, baked on Fastern's E'en (Rampini, 323) |
| Sederunt, Act of |
CU |
|
Regulation dealing with civil procedure made
by the Court of Session. (RD 1151) |
| Sequestration |
CU |
|
Bankruptcy (in general). |
| Sett |
TS WG |
14, 15, 18 30 |
To lease or let. |
| Sinks |
TS |
26;N65 |
Vertical shafts to coal. |
| Spense or Spence |
WG |
6 |
Inner apartment of a house which may be used
as a sitting room, small bedroom or store-room for provisions (GRR 493) |
| Squatter |
FF |
21 |
A person who settles on common land without
right or permission (RD 859) |
| Steelbow |
TS |
8, 9; N20 |
A customary tenure under which the farmer
received stock and seed with the farm. (Sanderson 22, 254) |
| Stipend |
CU |
|
Salary of a Minister, originally payable out
of teinds, the tenth part of the annual produce of land. (RD 1197, 1198) |
| Stobs |
CU |
|
Wooden posts. (AL 82) |
| Stockin' |
FF |
4 |
Stocking (RB 630) |
| Tack |
TS WG |
3, 12, 14, 15, 18; N36
30 |
Lease. |
| Tambouring |
WG |
40 |
Embroidery on circular frames |
| Tawnle |
FF |
8 |
Large fire |
| Terms, legal |
CU |
|
Dates on which payments of rent and interest
are legally due: Whitsunday (May 15) and Martinmas (November 11) in the absence of some
agreement. (RD 1180). The legal terms, in farms primarily arable, and where the
tenant's entry is at Martinmas, are the Whitsunday and Martinmas following the term of
entry. In a pastoral farm, with entry at Whitsunday, the first half-year's rent is legally
due at entry, the second at the following Martinmas. The underlying theory is that rent is
not due legally (though it may be conventionally) until the tenant has had the benefit of
the crop. Rents conventionally payable before the legal term are known as forehand,
payable later, as backhand. (Gloag 146) |
| Testament |
TS WG |
2, 3, 4, 20; N20, N29
35; N143 |
Disposition of personal property. (RD 1198) |
| Thirled |
CU |
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Bound to grind grain at a specified mill. |
| Tocher |
TS |
2 |
Dowry; property brought by a wife to the
husband on marriage. (RB 632 and RD 1169) |
| Tryst |
FF |
7, 10 |
Appointed meeting (RD 951) (In our context,
any "country get-together" such as a fair or market [MP 246]) |
| Tuck of drumb |
FF |
9 |
Drum roll (Lanark 424) |
| Umbrage |
WG |
16 |
Sense of slight or injury, offence. |
| Unco |
FF |
15 |
Strange, uncouth, very (RB 633) |
| Uplift |
FF |
11 |
To collect or draw (rents, money etc.) (RD
1200) |
| Verdure |
WG |
39 |
Flourishing green vegetation |
| Victual |
FLE |
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Food or provisions (RD 976) |
| Whitsunday |
TS |
15 |
May 15. See also Martinmas and Terms, legal. |
| Wrought |
TS |
N63 |
Worked. |
| Yokin' |
FF |
4 |
Yoking; a bout of work; a set-to (RB 635) |
| Yrof |
TS |
4 |
Thereof. |
| Zuill |
TS |
4 |
Yule. |