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St. Ronan’s Well

CHAPTER XIX
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B.Memorial," a legal statement which does not give the names of the parties concerned.
Abee, alone.
Ae, one.
Aff, off.
Afterhend, afterwards.
Ain, own.
Airn, iron.
Ajee, awry.
Amaist, almost.
Andrew Ferrara, a sword.
Ane, one.
Assoilzie, to acquit.
Asteer, astir.
Atween, between.
Aught, possession; to own, to possess.
Auld, old.

"Auld lang syne," the days of long ago.
Aw, all.
Awa, away.
Awing, owing, or bill.
Awmry, a cupboard.
Bairn, a child.
Baith, both.
Ballant, a ballad.
Bane, a bone.
Bangster, a victor Bawbee, a halfpenny.
Bee--"to hae a bee in one's bonnet," to be harebrained.
Beltane, a festival on the first of May, hence Whitsuntide.
"Bent, to take the," to provide for one's safety, to flee country.
Bide, to stay, to remain; to bear, to endure.
Bigg, to build.
Bind, one's ability or power.
Bink, a plate-rack.
Birl, to turn, to toss.
"Blaw in my lug," a flatterer.
Blude, bluid, blood.
Bodle, a small copper coin.
Bogle, a scarecrow.
Bombazine, the silk and worsted stuff of which a lawyer's gown was made.
Bonnet-laird, a small proprietor or freeholder who farms his own land.
"Bow Street runners," London detectives.
Braw, brave, fine.
Bruick, possessed.
"By ordinar," out of the common run.
Ca', to call.

Ca'd, called.
Callant, a lad.
Caller, fresh.
Canna, cannot.
Cantle, the crown of the head.
Canty, lively, cheerful.
Capillaire, a syrup made from maidenhair fern.
Cappie, a kind of beer.
Carle, a fellow.
Carline, a witch.
Carvy, carraway.
Cauld, cold.
Cheek-haffit, side of the cheek.
Chucky, a pebble.
Claithes, clothes.
Claver, gossip.
Claw, to beat.
Cleck, clack or hatch.
Cleeket, cleiket, caught, ensnared, taken.
Clink, to chime, to rhyme.
Clouted, patched, and so strengthened.
Cock-a-leeky, cockie-leekie, soup made of a cock boiled with leeks.
Cock-bree, cock-broth.
Cockernonnie, a top-knot.
Cogue, a wooden measure.
Condiddling, appropriating.
Courie, cowry, a shell used as money in parts of Southern Asia and Africa.
Coventry.

To send one to Coventry is to refuse to have anything to do with him socially, not even to speak to him.
Cowt, a colt.
Craig, a rock.
Crap, a wig of rough short hair.
Craw, a crow.
Cuitle, to wheedle.
Cumbers, drawbacks, vexations.
Cutty, a jade.
Daffing, frolicking.
Daft, crazy.
Daur, to dare.
"Day, the," to-day.
Decerniture, a decree of the court.
Deil, the devil.

"Deil's buckie," devil's imp.
Deleerit, distracted.
Diet-loaf, a kind of spongecake.
Dinna, don't.
Doited, dotard.
Donnart, stupid.
Dookit, ducked.
Douce, quiet, sensible.
Dought, was able.
Doun, down.
Dowcot, a dovecot.
Drap, a drop.
Drappie, a drop of spirits.
Dree'd, endured.
Drogs, drugs.
Dung, knocked, beaten.
Ee, the eye Een, eyes.
Eneugh, enough.
Fa'an, fallen.
Fash, trouble.
Fashious, troublesome.
Faut, fault.
Feck, part, the greater part.
Feckless, spiritless.
Fend, defence.
Fern-seed.


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