D.

_Daddie_, a father.

_Daffin_, merriment, foolishness.

_Daft_, merry, giddy, foolish; _Daft-buckie_, mad fish.

_Daimen_, rare, now and then; _Daimen icker_, an ear of corn occasionally.

_Dainty_, pleasant, good-humored, agreeable, rare.

_Dandered_, wandered.

_Darklins_, darkling, without light.

_Daud_, to thrash, to abuse; _Daudin-showers_, rain urged by wind.

_Daur_, to dare; _Daurt_, dared.

_Daurg_, or _Daurk_, a day's labour.

_Daur_, _daurna_, dare, dare not.

_Davoc_, diminutive of Davie, as Davie is of David.

_Dawd_, a large piece.

_Dawin_, dawning of the day.

_Dawtit_, _dawtet_, fondled, caressed.

_Dearies_, diminutive of dears, sweethearts.

_Dearthfu'_, dear, expensive.

_Deave_, to deafen.

_Deil-ma-care_, no matter for all that.

_Deleerit_, delirious.

_Descrive_, to describe, to perceive.

_Deuks_, ducks.

_Dight_, to wipe, to clean corn from chaff.

_Ding_, to worst, to push, to surpass, to excel.

_Dink_, neat, lady-like.

_Dinna_, do not.

_Dirl_, a slight tremulous stroke or pain, a tremulous motion.

_Distain_, stain.

_Dizzen_, a dozen.

_Dochter_, daughter.

_Doited_, stupefied, silly from age.

_Dolt_, stupefied, crazed; also a fool.

_Donsie_, unlucky, affectedly neat and trim, pettish.

_Doodle_, to dandle.

_Dool_, sorrow, to lament, to mourn.

_Doos_, doves, pigeons.

_Dorty_, saucy, nice.

_Douse_, or _douce_, sober, wise, prudent.

_Doucely_, soberly, prudently.

_Dought_, was or were able.

_Doup_, backside.

_Doup-skelper_, one that strikes the tail.

_Dour and din_, sullen and sallow

_Douser_, more prudent.

_Dow_, am or are able, can.

_Dowff_, pithless, wanting force.

_Dowie_, worn with grief, fatigue, &c., half asleep.

_Downa_, am or are not able, cannot.

_Doylt_, wearied, exhausted.

_Dozen_, stupified, the effects of age, to dozen, to benumb.

_Drab_, a young female beggar; to spot, to stain.

_Drap_, a drop, to drop.

_Drapping_, dropping.

_Draunting_, drawling, speaking with a sectarian tone.

_Dreep_, to ooze, to drop.

_Dreigh_, tedious, long about it, lingering.

_Dribble_, drizzling, trickling.

_Driddle_, the motion of one who tries to dance but moves the middle only.

_Drift_, a drove, a flight of fowls, snow moved by the wind.

_Droddum_, the breech.

_Drone_, part of a bagpipe, the chanter.

_Droop rumpl't_, that droops at the crupper.

_Droukit_, wet.

_Drouth_, thirst, drought.

_Drucken_, drunken.

_Drumly_, muddy.

_Drummock_ or _Drammock_, meal and water mixed, raw.

_Drunt_, pet, sour humour.

_Dub_, a small pond, a hollow filled with rain water.

_Duds_, rags, clothes.

_Duddie_, ragged.

_Dung-dang_, worsted, pushed, stricken.

_Dunted_, throbbed, beaten.

_Dush-dunsh_, to push, or butt as a ram.

_Dusht_, overcome with superstitious fear, to drop down suddenly.

_Dyvor_, bankrupt, or about to become one.

E.

_E'e_, the eye.

_Een_, the eyes, the evening.

_Eebree_, the eyebrow.

_Eenin'_, the evening.

_Eerie_, frighted, haunted, dreading spirits.

_Eild_, old age.

_Elbuck_, the elbow.

_Eldritch_, ghastly, frightful, elvish.

_En'_, end.

_Enbrugh_, Edinburgh.

_Eneugh_, and _aneuch_, enough.

_Especial_, especially.

_Ether-stone_, stone formed by adders, an adder bead.

_Ettle_, to try, attempt, aim.

_Eydent_, diligent.

F.

_Fa'_, fall, lot, to fall, fate.

_Fa' that_, to enjoy, to try, to inherit.

_Faddom't_, fathomed, measured with the extended arms.

_Faes_, foes.

_Faem_, foam of the sea.

_Faiket_, forgiven or excused, abated, a demand.

_Fainness_, gladness, overcome with joy.

_Fairin'_, fairing, a present brought from a fair.

_Fallow_, fellow.

_Fand_, did find.

_Farl_, a cake of bread; third part of a cake.

_Fash_, trouble, care, to trouble, to care for.

_Fasheous_, troublesome.

_Fasht_, troubled.

_Fasten e'en_, Fasten's even.

_Faught_, fight.

_Faugh_, a single furrow, out of lea, fallow.

_Fauld_, and _Fald_, a fold for sheep, to fold.

_Faut_, fault.

_Fawsont_, decent, seemly.

_Feal_, loyal, steadfast.

_Fearfu'_, fearful, frightful.

_Fear't_, affrighted.

_Feat_, neat, spruce, clever.

_Fecht_, to fight.

_Fechtin'_, fighting.

_Feck_ and _fek_, number, quantity.

_Fecket_, an under-waistcoat.

_Feckfu'_, large, brawny, stout.

_Feckless_, puny, weak, silly.

_Feckly_, mostly.

_Feg_, a fig.

_Fegs_, faith, an exclamation.

_Feide_, feud, enmity.

_Fell_, keen, biting; the flesh immediately under the skin; level moor.

_Felly_, relentless.

_Fend_, _Fen_, to make a shift, contrive to live.

_Ferlie_ or _ferley_, to wonder, a wonder, a term of contempt.

_Fetch_, to pull by fits.

_Fetch't_, pull'd intermittently.

_Fey_, strange; one marked for death, predestined.

_Fidge_, to fidget, fidgeting.

_Fidgin-fain_, tickled with pleasure.

_Fient_, fiend, a petty oath.

_Fien ma care_, the devil may care.

_Fier_, sound, healthy; a brother, a friend.

_Fierrie_, bustle, activity.

_Fissle_, to make a rustling noise, to fidget, bustle, fuss.

_Fit_, foot.

_Fittie-lan_, the nearer horse of the hindmost pair in the plough.

_Fizz_, to make a hissing noise, fuss, disturbance.

_Flaffen_, the motion of rags in the wind; of wings.

_Flainen_, flannel.

_Flandrekins_, foreign generals, soldiers of Flanders.

_Flang_, threw with violence.

_Fleech_, to supplicate in a flattering manner.

_Fleechin_, supplicating.

_Fleesh_, a fleece.

_Fleg_, a kick, a random blow, a fight.

_Flether_, to decoy by fair words.

_Flethrin_, _flethers_, flattering--smooth wheedling words.

_Fley_, to scare, to frighten.

_Flichter_, _flichtering_, to flutter as young nestlings do when their dam approaches.

_Flinders_, shreds, broken pieces.

_Flingin-tree_, a piece of timber hung by way of partition between two horses in a stable; a flail.

_Flisk_, _flisky_, to fret at the yoke.

_Flisket_, fretted.

_Flitter_, to vibrate like the wings of small birds.

_Flittering_, fluttering, vibrating, moving tremulously from place to place.

_Flunkie_, a servant in livery.

_Flyte_, _flyting_, scold: flyting, scolding.

_Foor_, hastened.

_Foord_, a ford.

_Forbears_, forefathers.

_Forbye_, besides.

_Forfairn_, distressed, worn out, jaded, forlorn, destitute.

_Forgather_, to meet, to encounter with.

_Forgie_, to forgive.

_Forinawed_, worn out.

_Forjesket_, jaded with fatigue.

_Fou'_, full, drunk.

_Foughten_, _forfoughten_, troubled, fatigued.

_Foul-thief_, the devil, the arch-fiend.

_Fouth_, plenty, enough, or more than enough.

_Fow_, a measure, a bushel: also a pitchfork.

_Frae_, from.

_Freath_, froth, the frothing of ale in the tankard.

_Frien'_, friend.

_Frosty-calker_, the heels and front of a horse-shoe, turned sharply up for riding on an icy road.

_Fu'_, full.

_Fud_, the scut or tail of the hare, coney, &c.

_Fuff_, to blow intermittently.

_Fu-hant_, full-handed; said of one well to live in the world.

_Funnie_, full of merriment.

_Fur-ahin_, the hindmost horse on the right hand when ploughing.

_Furder_, further, succeed.

_Furm_, a form, a bench.

_Fusionless_, spiritless, without sap or soul.

_Fyke_, trifling cares, to be in a fuss about trifles.

_Fyte_, to soil, to dirty.

_Fylt_, soiled, dirtied.

G.

_Gab_, the mouth, to speak boldly or pertly.

_Gaberlunzie_, wallet-man, or tinker.

_Gae_, to go; _gaed_, went; _gane_ or _gaen_, gone; _gaun_, going.

_Gaet_ or _gate_, way, manner, road.

_Gairs_, parts of a lady's gown.

_Gang_, to go, to walk.

_Gangrel_, a wandering person.

_Gar_, to make, to force to; _gar't_, forced to.

_Garten_, a garter.

_Gash_, wise, sagacious, talkative, to converse.

_Gatty_, failing in body.

_Gaucy_, jolly, large, plump.

_Gaud_ and _gad_, a rod or goad.

_Gaudsman_, one who drives the horses at the plough.

_Gaun_, going.

_Gaunted_, yawned, longed.

_Gawkie_, a thoughtless person, and something weak.

_Gaylies_, _gylie_, pretty well.

_Gear_, riches, goods of any kind.

_Geck_, to toss the head in wantonness or scorn.

_Ged_, a pike.

_Gentles_, great folks.

_Genty_, elegant.

_Geordie_, George, a guinea, called Geordie from the head of King George.

_Get_ and _geat_, a child, a young one.

_Ghaist_, _ghaistis_, a ghost.

_Gie_, to give; _gied_, gave; _gien_, given.

_Giftie_, diminutive of gift.

_Giglets_, laughing maidens.

_Gillie_, _gillock_, diminutive of gill.

_Gilpey_, a half-grown, half-informed boy or girl, a romping lad, a hoyden.

_Gimmer_, an ewe two years old, a contemptuous term for a woman.

_Gin_, if, against.

_Gipsey_, a young girl.

_Girdle_, a round iron plate on which oat-cake is fired.

_Girn_, to grin, to twist the features in rage, agony, &c.; grinning.

_Gizz_, a periwig, the face.

_Glaikit_, inattentive, foolish.

_Glaive_, a sword.

_Glaizie_, glittering, smooth, like glass.

_Glaumed_, grasped, snatched at eagerly.

_Girran_, a poutherie girran, a little vigorous animal; a horse rather old, but yet active when heated.

_Gled_, a hawk.

_Gleg_, sharp, ready.

_Gley_, a squint, to squint; _a-gley_, off at the side, wrong.

_Gleyde_, an old horse.

_Glib-gabbit_, that speaks smoothly and readily.

_Glieb o' lan'_, a portion of ground. The ground belonging to a manse is called "the glieb," or portion.

_Glint_, _glintin'_, to peep.

_Glinted by_, went brightly past.

_Gloamin_, the twilight.

_Gloamin-shot_, twilight musing; a shot in the twilight.

_Glowr_, to stare, to look; a stare, a look.

_Glowran_, amazed, looking suspiciously, gazing.

_Glum_, displeased.

_Gor-cocks_, the red-game, red-cock, or moor-cock.

_Gowan_, the flower of the daisy, dandelion, hawkweed, &c.

_Gowany_, covered with daisies.

_Goavan_, walking as if blind, or without an aim.

_Gowd_, gold.

_Gowl_, to howl.

_Gowff_, a fool; the game of golf, to strike, as the bat does the ball at golf.

_Gowk_, term of contempt, the cuckoo.

_Grane_ or _grain_, a groan, to groan; _graining_, groaning.

_Graip_, a pronged instrument for cleaning cowhouses.

_Graith_, accoutrements, furniture, dress.

_Grannie_, grandmother.

_Grape_, to grope; _grapet_, groped.

_Great_, _grit_, intimate, familiar.

_Gree_, to agree; _to bear the gree_, to be decidedly victor; _gree't_, agreed.

_Green-graff_, green grave,

_Gruesome_, loathsomely, grim.

_Greet_, to shed tears, to weep; _greetin'_, weeping.

_Grey-neck-quill_, a quill unfit for a pen.

_Griens_, longs, desires.

_Grieves_, stewards.

_Grippit_, seized.

_Groanin-Maut_, drink for the cummers at a lying-in.

_Groat_, to get the whistle of one's groat; to play a losing game, to feel the consequences of one's folly.

_Groset_, a gooseberry.

_Grumph_, a grunt, to grunt.

_Grumphie_, _Grumphin_, a sow; the snorting of an angry pig.

_Grun'_, ground.

_Grunstone_, a grindstone.

_Gruntle_, the phiz, the snout, a grunting noise.

_Grunzie_, a mouth which pokes out like that of a pig.

_Grushie_, thick, of thriving growth.

_Gude_, _guid_, _guids_, the Supreme Being, good, goods.

_Gude auld-has-been_, was once excellent.

_Guid-mornin'_, good-morrow.

_Guid-e'en_, good evening.

_Guidfather_ and _guidmother_, father-in-law, and mother-in-law.

_Guidman_ and _guidwife_, the master and mistress of the house; _young guidman_, a man newly married.

_Gully_ or _Gullie_, a large knife.

_Gulravage_, joyous mischief.

_Gumlie_, muddy.

_Gumption_, discernment, knowledge, talent.

_Gusty_, _gustfu'_, tasteful.

_Gut-scraper_, a fiddler.

_Gutcher_, grandsire.

H.

_Ha'_, hall.

_Ha' Bible_, the great Bible that lies in the hall.

_Haddin'_, house, home, dwelling-place, a possession.

_Hae_, to have, to accept.

_Haen_, had, (the participle of hae); haven.

_Haet_, _fient haet_, a petty oath of negation; nothing.

_Haffet_, the temple, the side of the head.

_Hafflins_, nearly half, partly, not fully grown.

_Hag_, a gulf in mosses and moors, moss-ground.

_Haggis_, a kind of pudding, boiled in the stomach of a cow, or sheep.

_Hain_, to spare, to save, to lay out at interest.

_Hain'd_, spared; _hain'd gear_, hoarded money.

_Hairst_, harvest

_Haith_, petty oath.

_Haivers_, nonsense, speaking without thought.

_Hal'_, or _hald_, an abiding place.

_Hale_, or _haill_, whole, tight, healthy.

_Hallan_, a particular partition-wall in a cottage, or more properly a seat of turf at the outside.

_Hallowmass_, Hallow-eve, 31st October.

_Haly_, holy; "haly-pool," holy well with healing properties.

_Hame_, home.

_Hammered_, the noise of feet like the din of hammers.

_Han's breed_, hand's breadth.

_Hanks_, thread as it comes from the measuring reel, quantities, &c.

_Hansel-throne_, throne when first occupied by a king.

_Hap_, an outer garment, mantle, plaid, &c.; to wrap, to cover, to hap.

_Harigals_, heart, liver, and lights of an animal.

_Hap-shackled_, when a fore and hind foot of a ram are fastened together to prevent leaping he is said to be hap-shackled. A wife is called "the kirk's hap-shackle."

_Happer_, a hopper, the hopper of a mill.

_Happing_, hopping.

_Hap-step-an'-loup_, hop, step, and leap.

_Harkit_, hearkened.

_Harn_, very coarse linen.

_Hash_, a fellow who knows not how to act with propriety.

_Hastit_, hastened.

_Haud_, to hold.

_Haughs_, low-lying, rich land, valleys.

_Haurl_, to drag, to pull violently.

_Haurlin_, tearing off, pulling roughly.

_Haver-meal_, oatmeal.

_Haveril_, a half-witted person, half-witted, one who habitually talks in a foolish or incoherent manner.

_Havins_, good manners, decorum, good sense.

_Hawkie_, a cow, properly one with a white face.

_Heapit_, heaped.

_Healsome_ healthful, wholesome.

_Hearse_, hoarse.

_Heather_, heath.

_Hech_, oh strange! an exclamation during heavy work.

_Hecht_, promised, to foretell something that is to be got or given, foretold, the thing foretold, offered.

_Heckle_, a board in which are fixed a number of sharp steel prongs upright for dressing hemp, flax, &c.

_Hee balou_, words used to soothe a child.

_Heels-owre-gowdie_, topsy-turvy, turned the bottom upwards.

_Heeze_, to elevate, to rise, to lift.

_Hellim_, the rudder or helm.

_Herd_, to tend flocks, one who tends flocks.

_Herrin'_, a herring.

_Herry_, to plunder; most properly to plunder birds' nests.

_Herryment_, plundering, devastation.

_Hersel-hirsel_, a flock of sheep, also a herd of cattle of any sort.

_Het_, hot, heated.

_Heugh_, a crag, a ravine; _coal-heugh_, a coal-pit, _lowin heugh_, a blazing pit.

_Hilch_, _hilchin'_, to halt, halting.

_Hiney_, honey.

_Hing_, to hang.

_Hirple_, to walk crazily, to walk lamely, to creep.

_Histie_, dry, chapt, barren.

_Hitcht_, a loop, made a knot.

_Hizzie_, huzzy, a young girl.

_Hoddin_, the motion of a husbandman riding on a cart-horse, humble.

_Hoddin-gray_, woollen cloth of a coarse quality, made by mingling one black fleece with a dozen white ones.

_Hoggie_, a two-year-old sheep.

_Hog-score_, a distance line in curling drawn across the rink. When a stone fails to cross it, a cry is raised of "A hog, a hog!" and it is removed.

_Hog-shouther_, a kind of horse-play by justling with the shoulder; to justle.

_Hoodie-craw_, a blood crow, corbie.

_Hool_, outer skin or case, a nutshell, a pea-husk.

_Hoolie_, slowly, leisurely.

_Hoord_, a hoard, to hoard.

_Hoordit_, hoarded.

_Horn_, a spoon made of horn.

_Hornie_, one of the many names of the devil.

_Host_, or _hoast_, to cough.

_Hostin_, coughing.

_Hotch'd_, turned topsy-turvy, blended, ruined, moved.

_Houghmagandie_, loose behaviour.

_Howlet_, an owl.

_Housie_, diminutive of house.

_Hove, hoved_, to heave, to swell.

_Howdie_, a midwife.

_Howe_, hollow, a hollow or dell.

_Howebackit_, sunk in the back, spoken of a horse.

_Howff_, a house of resort.

_Howk_, to dig.

_Howkit_, digged.

_Howkin'_, digging deep.

_Hoy, hoy't_, to urge, urged.

_Hoyse_, a pull upwards. "Hoyse a creel," to raise a basket; hence "hoisting creels."

_Hoyte_, to amble crazily.

_Hughoc_, diminutive of Hughie, as Hughie is of Hugh.

_Hums and hankers_, mumbles and seeks to do what he cannot perform.

_Hunkers_, kneeling and falling back on the hams.

_Hurcheon_, a hedgehog.

_Hurdies_, the loins, the crupper.

_Hushion_, a cushion, also a stocking wanting the foot.

_Huchyalled_, to move with a hilch.