Glossary

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

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• TABETLESS, TAPETLESS, TEBBITLESS, adj. benumbed.
• TACK, s. a slight hold, as a stitch or two; a lease.
• TACKET, s. a small nail with a head.
• TACKSMAN, s. the holder of a lease.
• TAE, s. a toe.
• TAID, s. a toad.
• TAILE, TAILYE, s. a covenant; an entail.
• TAIS, TASSIE, s. a cup.
• TAIVERS, TATTERS, s. pl. Meat which has been much overboiled is said to be boiled to taivers.
• TAIVERSUM, adj. tiresome.
• To TAK THE GATE, v. n. to go off on a journey.
• To TAK-ON, v. a. to buy on credit.
• TALE-PIET, s. a tale-bearer: a tattler.
• TAM, TAMMIE, TAMMAS, s. Thomas.
• TANGLE, s. an icicle; the large fuci or sea plant.
• TANGS, TAINGS, s. tongs.
• TANTRUMS, s. high airs; exhibiting a proud and dignified aspect.
• To TAPE, v. a. to use sparingly.
• TAPPIE-TOORIE, s. anything erected on a slight, tottering foundation.
• TAPPIT-HEN, s. a crested hen; a quart measure of ale or beer with a top of foam.
• TARRY, s. delay.
• TARRY-FINGERED, adj. light-fingered; a thief.
• TARTAN, s. cloth chequered of various colours, and originally worn only in the Highlands, every clan adopting its own peculiar tartan.
• To TASH, v. a. to tuffle; to soil.
• TATE, TAIT, s. a very small portion of any dry substance.
• TATTER-WALLOPS, TAUTER-WALLOPS, s. pl. rags fluttering in the wind.
• TATTIES, s. pl. potatoes.
• TAULD, adj. told.
• TAUPIE, TAWPIE, s. an inactive, silly, and slovenly woman.
• TAWIS, TAWES, s. a whip; a lash; the ferula used by a schoolmaster.
• TEAZLE, s. a severe brush; an onset.
• To TEET, v. n. to peer; to look with the eyes half shut.
• TEHEE, s. a loud laugh.
• TEINDS, s. pl. tithes.
• To TEND, v. to guard.
• TENEMENT, s. a house, sometimes applied to one containing several separate dwellings under one roof.
• TENT, s. care; attention.
• To TENT, v. n. to attend.
• To TENT, v. a. to observe; to remark; to put a value upon.
• TENTLESS, adj. inattentive.
• TERCER, s. a widow living upon a terce.
• TEUCH, TEUGH, adj. tough.
• To TEYME, TEME, TUME, v. a. to empty.
• THACK, THEIK, s. thatch.
• THAFTS, s. pl. the benches of a boat.
• THAIRANENT, adv. concerning that.
• THAIRATTOUR, adv. concerning.
• THAIRBEN, adv. in an inner apartment of a house.
• THAIRM, s. the belly.
• THAN, adv. then; at that time.
• THANE, THAYNE, s. an ancient Scottish title of honour, denoting presidency in a county or province.
• THEE, THEY, s. thigh.
• THEGITHER, adv. together.
• To THEIK, v. a. to cover with straw; to thatch.
• THEIVIL, s. a porridge-stick, or stick for stirring broth while boiling.
• THEN, conj. than.
• THEWLESS, THOULESS, THIEVLESS, adj. unprofitable; useless; feeble.
• THICK, adj. intimate; familiar.
• THIR, pron. pl. these.
• THIRL, s. to bind; to enslave.
• THIRLWALL, s. the name given to the wall between England and Scotland thrown up by Severus.
• THO, adv. at that time.
• To THOLE, v. n. to bear; to endure; to suffer.
• THON, adv. yonder; yon.
• THOUELL, s. the nitch in which the oars of a boat work.
• THOUGHT, THOUGHTY, s. a moment.
• To THOW, v. n. to thaw.
• THOWLESS, adj. inactive.
• To THRAPPLE, v. a. to throttle.
• THRAW, s. a pang; an agony.
• THRAW-CRUK, s. an instrument for twisting straw or hair ropes.
• THRAWIN, part. adj. distorted.
• To THREPE, v. n. to aver pertinaciously; to argue; to persist.
• THRESUM, adj. three together.
• THRETTY, adj. thirty.
• THRIFTY, adj. industrious and economical.
• THROPILL, THRAPILL, s. the windpipe.
• THUD, s. a dull noise.
• THUMBIKINS, s. an instrument of torture applied as a screw to the thumbs to force the sufferer to confess or divulge a secret, etc.
• THUMBLICKING, s. an ancient mode of confirming a bargain by the parties licking their thumbs and then placing them against each other.
• TIBBIE, s. Elizabeth.
• TICK, TICKER, s. a dot.
• To TICK, v. n. to click as a clock or watch.
• TID, s. humour.
• To TID, v. n. To choose the proper time.
• TIFT, s. the act of quarrelling; a hasty fit of ill humour.
• To TIG, v. n. to touch lightly; a game played by children.
• TIKE, TYKE, s. a cur; a dog; a rough bad-tempered fellow.
• TIL, TIYL, prep. to.
• TILL, adv. while; during the time that.
• TIME-ABOUT, adj. alternately.
• TIMMER, s. timber.
• TIMMER-TUNED, adj. unmusical; destitute of ear.
• TINCHELL, TINCHEL, s. a circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding an extensive space, gradually closing, bring a number of deer and game within a narrow compass.
• To TINE, TYNE, v. a. to lose.
• TINT, pret. of To lose.
• To TIRL, s. to give a stroke.
• TIRLESS, TIRLASS, s. a lattice; a wicket.
• TIRLIEWIRLIE, s. a whirligig.
• To TIRR, TIRLE, v. a. to tear; to uncover.
• TIRRIVEE, s. a fit of passion.
• TIRWIRR, TIRRWIRRING, adj. habitually growling.
• TITTY, s. a sister.
• TO, adv. shut. The door is to, i.e. shut.
• TOCHER, s. the dowry brought by a wife.
• TOCHERLESS, adj. destitute of portion.
• TOD, s. a fox.
• TODLE, TODDLE, v. n. to walk in a tottering manner, or with short unsteady steps.
• TODDY, s. whisky, sugar, and hot water.
• TODDY-LADLE, s. a small ladle of wood or silver used in filling a glass from a tumbler in which toddy is made.
• TOFALL, s. a building annexed to the wall of a larger one.
• TOIT, TOUT, s. a fit of illness; a fit of bad humour.
• TOKIE, s. the head-dress of an old woman, resembling a monk's cowl.
• TO-NAME, s. a surname.
• TOOM, TUME, adj. empty.
• TOOT, TOUT, s. the blast of a horn or bugle.
• TOOTHFU', s. a moderate quantity of strong drink.
• TOSCH, TOSH, TOSHE, adj. neat; trim.
• TOT, s. a term of endearment used to a child.
• TOUSIE, TOWSIE, adj. disordered; shaggy; rough.
• To TOUSLE, v. a. to pull at; to put in disorder, as tearing at a girl in sport or rough dalliance.
• TOUT, s. a copious draught.
• TOW, s. a rope of any kind.
• TOWMONT, TOWMOND, s. a year.
• TOY, s. a woollen or linen headdress worn by women of the lower orders, with the lower part hanging down to the shoulders.
• To TOYTE, TOT, v. n. to totter as in childhood or old age.
• TRAIST, TRYSTE, s. an appointed meeting.
• TRAM, s. the shaft of a cart or carriage.
• To TRAMP, v. a. to tread with vigour; to walk, as opposed to riding.
• TRANCE, s. a passage within a house leading from one part to another.
• To TRANSMUGRIFY, v. a. to transform; to transmute; to change in appearance.
• TRAWART, adj. perverse.
• TREWS, s. pl. trowsers.
• TRIG, adj. neat.
• To TRIM, v. a. to drub.
• To TROKE, v. a. to bargain in the way of exchange; to barter.
• TROTTERS, s. pl. sheep's feet.
• To TROW, TREW, v. a. to believe.
• TROWTH, s. truth; belief.
• TRUE-BLUE, s. an epithet applied to rigid Presbyterians, in allusion to the colour of the cockad worn by the Covenanters.
• TRUMPH, s. the trump at cards.
• TRUNSCHEOUN, s. a plate; a trencher.
• TRYSTING-PLACE, s. a place of meeting previously agreed on.
• TUCK, s. tuck of drum, beat of drum.
• TUILYIE, TOOLYIE, s. a quarrel; a broil.
• To TUME, v. a. to empty.
• TUP, s. a ram; a foolish, stupid fellow.
• TUTTIE-TUTTIE, interj. pshaw!
• TWAL, adj. twelve.
• TWA-TIIREE, s. pl. a few in number.
• To TWIN, TWYNE, v. n. to separate.
• TWOPENNY, s. small beer.
• TYDY, TYDIE, adj. neat; clean in person or house.
• TYRE-CAP, s. a hat of tyre, part of the dress of Bruce at Bannockburn.

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