Glossary

The following is taken from Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland:

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KAIL, KALE, s. common colewort.
KAIL-BROSE, s. raw meal placed in a basin with boiling broth poured over it, and then stirred all together.
KAIL-RUNT, s. stem of colewort.
KAIM, s. a comb.
KAR-HANDED, adj. left-handed.
KAY, KA, KAE, s. a jack-daw.
KAYME, KAME, s. honeycomb.
KEBBUCK, CABBACK, s. a cheese.
KEGIE, adj. cheerful.
KEEK, KEIK, v. n. to look with a prying eye.
KEEK-BO, s. bo-peep.
KEEKING-GLASS, s. a mirror.
KEELIVINE, s. a blacklead pencil.
To KEKKIL, KEKIL, v. n. to cackle; to laugh aloud.
KELL, KULL, s. a dress for a woman's head. A caul, the hinder-part of a woman's cap.
KELPIE, WATER-KELPIE, s. the spirit of the waters, who, as is vulgarly believed, gives warning of those who are to be drowned within the precincts of his beat. This is indicated by preternatural noises and lights. He is supposed to appear in the form of a horse. Many wonderful exploits are attributed to the kelpie.
KELT, s. a salmon that has just spawned; a foul fish that has not been in salt water.
KEMP, s. a champion.
KEMPIN, s. the act of striving on the harvest field.
To KEN, v. n. to know.
KENNED, part. pa. of to know.
KENSPECKLE, adj. having so remarkable an appearance as to be easily known.
KEP, KEPP, v. a. to intercept.
KICK, s. a novelty. Kickshaw, a new piece of finery.
KILL, s. a kiln.
KILT, s. a short petticoat extending from the belly to the knee, used by the Highlanders of Scotland instead of breeches.
To KILT, v. a. to tuck up.
KIMMER, s. a young woman.
KIN, s. kindred.
KINK, s. a violent fit of coughing, with suspension of breathing.
KINKHOST, KINGCOUGH, s. the hooping-cough.
KINSCH, s. a loop made on a string or rope.
KIPPER, s. a salmon split open, salted, and dried.
KIRK, s. church; a body of Presbyterian Christians.
To KIRK, v. a. to carry to church as a bride after being married.
KIRN, s. a churn.
To KIRN, v. a. to make a confused mass of anything.
KIRN-MILK, s. butter-milk.
KIST, KYST, s. a chest; a coffin.
KISTING, s. the act of placing a corpse in a coffin.
KIT, s. the whole of a person's property.
KITCHEN, KITCHING, s. anything taken to bread, as meat, cheese, or butter.
KITH, s. acquaintances, friends.
KITLING, s. a kitten.
KITTIE, KITTOCK, s. an immodest female.
To KITTLE, v. a. to litter; to tickle; to puzzle; to perplex.
KITTLIE, adj. itchy.
KITTY-WREN, s. the common wren.
KNACKETY, adj. self-conceited; small; trifling.
KNACKY, adj. quick at a reply or repartee.
KNAPPISH, adj. snappish; tart.
KNOCK, s. a clock.
KNOIT, NOYT, s. a sharp blow.
KNOW, KNOWE, NOW, s. a little hill; a hillock.
KNYFE, s. a hanger; a dagger; a cutlass.
KOBIL, s. a small boat.
KOWSCHOT, CUSHAT, s. the ringdove.
To KRUYN, v. n. to murmur.
KY, KYE, s. pl. cows.
KYLE, s. a strait of the sea; a sound.
KYNRIK, s. a kingdom.
KYTE, s. the belly.
KYTIE, s. fat; big-bellied.

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LAB, s. a stroke; a blow; a lump.
To LABOUR, v. a. to plough.
LACHTER, s. the whole eggs laid successively by a hen.
To LACK, v. a. to slight.
LAD, s. a sweetheart
LADDIE, s. a boy, or young man.
LADE, LAID, s. a load.
LADE, LEAD, s. a mill course.
LAFE, LAVE, s. the rest.
LAIF, LAEF, s. a loaf.
LAIGH, LAYCHE, adj. low; flat.
LAIRD, LARDE, s. a person of superior rank; a landholder, under the degree of a knight or squire.
LAIRDSHIP, s. a landed estate.
LAITH, adj. reluctant; unwilling.
LAITHFOW, adj. bashful.
To LAMB, to yean.
LAMMER, LAMBER, s. amber. Lammer beads and red thread, when together, were supposed to be a charm with power to repel witchery in former times.
LAMPER, s. a tall woman.
LAMPET, LEMPET, s. the limpet, a testaceous shellfish which adheres to rocks.
LAND, s. a house consisting of several stories, generally including separate dwellings.
LAND O' THE LEAL, state of the blessed; heaven.
LAND-LOUPER, s. a person who shifts frequently from one place of the country to another.
LANE, adj. alone; lone.
LANELY, adj. lonely.
LANESOME, adj. lonesome.
To LANG, v. n. to long; to weary; to think long.
LANG-NEBIT, adj. long-nosed or long-billed.
LANG-RIN, adv. at length.
LANGSUM, adj. slow; tedious.
LANGSYNE, adv. long ago.
LANG-TONGUED, adj. babbling; given to tell secrets.
LAP, pret. leaped.
LAPPORED, part. pa. coagulated.
LARE, LERE, s. learning.
To LARE, LERE, v. a. to teach; to learn.
LARICK, LAVROCK, s. a lark.
LASS, s. a sweetheart; a young woman.
To LAT, v. a. to permit; to suffer; to lat-be, to let alone.
LAWIN, LAWING, s. a tavern bill; money subscribed or paid for drink.
LAW, s. a conical hill.
LEA, s. pasture land not ploughed.
LEA-LANG, adj. livelong; tedious; long in passing.
To LEATHER, v. a. to lash; to flog.
LEDDIE, LEDDY, s. lady.
LEE, adj. lonely; fallow land.
LEE, s. a lie.
LEESOME, adj. pleasant.
LEEZE-ME, LEESE-ME, dear is to me--expressive of strong affection or love.
To LEG, v. n. to run.
LEG-BAIL, s. to run off.
LEGLIN, LAIGLIN, s. a milk-pail.
LEID, LEDE, LUID, s. a song; a lay.
LEIF, adj. willing.
LEIL, LEELE, LELE, adj. lawful; right.
LEISCH, s. a lash; a thong.
LEISTER, LISTER, s. a pronged instrument for striking fish, generally used by poachers.
To LEN, v. a. to lend.
To LET-BE, v. n. to let alone.
LEUCH, LEUGH, pret. laughed.
To LEUE, LUVE, v. n. to court; to make love.
LEVIN, s. lightning.
LEW-WARME, adj. tepid.
LIART, LYART, adj. having grey hairs intermixed.
LICHTER, LICHTARE, part. pa. delivered of a child.
LICHTS, s. pl. the lungs.
To LICK, v. a. to strike; to beat.
LIFT, LYFT, s. the atmosphere; the sky.
LIGLAD, s. a confused noise of tongues; a deal of idle or noisy talk.
LIKAND, part. pleasing.
LIKE-WAKE, s. the watching of a dead body.
LILT, s. a cheerful air.
To LILT, v. n. to sing cheerfully and merrily; lively music.
LILT-PYPE, s. a musical instrument, the upper part of which was in the form of a flageolet, terminating below in a kind of trumpet-shaped mouth.
LIMMAR, LIMMER, s. a scoundrel; a woman of loose manners.
LIN, LYN, s. a cataract; a waterfall,
To LINK, v. a. to trot or walk smartly.
LINKS, s. pl. sandy barren ground.
LINTIE, s. the grey linnet.
To LIPPEN, v. n. to expect; to place confidence in.
LIPPIE, s. the fourth part of a peck.
LISK, LEESK, s. the groin.
LISTER, s. a fishing spear.
To LITHE, v. a. to thicken; to render mellow; to soften.
LITTLEANE, s. a child.
LOAN, LONE, LOANING, s. an opening between fields of corn; lane; a narrow enclosed way.
LOCH, LOUCH, s. a lake.
LOCK, LOAKE, s. a small quantity.
LOGIE, KILLOGIE, s. a vacuity in a kiln for producing a draft of air.
LOME, LOOM, (pronounced Lume,) s. a utensil of any kind.
LOOT, LOUT, LOWT, v. a. to bow down the body; to make obeisance.
LOSH! n. a. an exclamation of wonder.
To LOUE, LOWE, LUVE, v. a. to love.
LOUN, LOWN, LOON, s. a tricky, worthless person; a boy.
LOUN'S-PIECE, s. the first slice of a loaf of bread.
LOUN, LOWNE, adj. sheltered; calm.
To LOUNDER, v. a. to beat severely.
LOUNDIT, part. pa. beaten.
To LOUP, v. n. to leap; to spring.
LOUPIN-AGUE, s. St. Vitus' dance.
LOUPIN-ON-STANE, s. a large stone, or flight of steps, for assisting a person to leap on a horse easily.
LOW, s. a flame.
LOZEN, s. a pane of glass.
LUCKEN, part. pa. shut up; contracted.
LUCKIE, LUCKY, s. an elderly woman; a grandmother; the mistress of an alehouse.
LUCK-PENNY, s. a sum given to a person who makes a bargain.
LUESOME, adj. lovely; worthy of being loved; attractive in manner or appearance.
LUFE, LUIF, LUFFE, LOOF, s. the palm of the hand.
LUG, s. the ear.
LUGGIE, s. a small wooden dish for holding meat or drink, made of staves in the manner of a tub, with one of them prolonged considerably above the others.
LUM, LUMB, s. a chimney.
LUM-HEAD, s. the chimney-top.
LUNCH, s. a large piece of anything, particularly applied to something eatable.
LURE, s. the udder of a cow.
LUSTY, adj. beautiful; pleasant; of agreeable manners.
LYART-HAFFETS, s. grey hairs on the cheeks.

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