Glossary

ACCIDENTS: incidental accompaniments, not essentials.

AIRT, or AIRTH: direction, quarter of the heavens.

BACK-BOND: one givers after an earlier bond, making the person who gave the first bond free.

BACK-ENTRY: back door.
BAILIE: magistrate.
BAIRNS: children.
BANN: curse.
BLAFLUME: a sham or bubble.

BLENCH: white moneys, a pepper-corn or nominal rent.

BLOCK: a bargain.
BODE: to offer with a view to a bargain.
BRAE: slope of a hill.
BROOK: enjoy, possess.
BUD: bribe.
BURROWS: a pledge.

LAW-BURROWS: security given not to injure another or his property.

BY-BOARD: side-table at which the children sat.
BY-HAND: aside.
BY-WORK: a leisure time occupation.
CAUMS: a mould.

CAUSEWAY or CAUSEY: a street. To keep the crown of the causey' is a bold public appearance.

CAUTION: surety.

CHEAP: barter, hence good cheap' or better-cheap' means a good bargain,

COAST: to sail close to the land,
COG: to stop the motion of a wheel.
COLD-RIFE or CAULD-RIFE: chilly, heartless.

COMMON: with reference to sharing a common table. To be in one's common' is to be indebted to.

COMPEAR: to appear at a court of law. So COMPEARANCE, appearing in court in obedience to a summons.

CONTRAIR: contrary to.
COUNTRY: common, in contrast to fine.
DAWTED: petted.
DING: to knock in violently.
DITTY or DITTY: indictment.
DO FOR: to act on behalf of.
DOW: to be able.
DYKE: a wall.
DYVOUR: a debtor, or bankrupt.
EASE-ROOM: a room for leisure and rest.
FASH: to trouble by importunity.
FEARED: alarmed, timid.
FECKLESS: futile, ineffective.
FEU DUTY: yearly ground rent.
FREMD: strange, foreign.
FRIEND-STED: to befriend.
FRYST or FRIST: to postpone possession or action.

GATE: road, way, manner of acting. Start to the gate'; get early on the road.

HAND-FAST: to join hands in a compact or betrothal.

HAND-WRIT: written with one's own hand.
HEAP-METE: full measure.
HEARTSOME: cheerful.
HING: hang.
HOMELY: at home with.
HOME OVER: homewards.

JOUK: to dodge or bend down in order to escape something.

LAIRD: landed proprietor.
LAW-BURROWS: a pledge not to harm.
MAIL: rent or tax.
MARCH: boundary or frontier.
MASK: to infuse.
MINT: to attempt.
MISSIVE: a letter giving authority to act.
NEED-FORCE: by hook or by crook.
NICK: mark, point.
DIFFER: barter or bargain.
OBTEST: to adjure, beseech.
ON-WAITING: patient waiting.
OUTFIELD: waste land,
PACKALDS: bargains.
PAINFUL: painstaking, laborious.
PICKLE: a small grain.
PLEA: a quarrel or dispute.
PROFESSOR: one professing the Christian faith.
PROPANE: to present, to offer a gift.
REVERSION: the right to future possession.
SCAUR: to take fright.
SPEAT or SPAIT: a flood or overflowing stream.
SPEED: to come speed' is to succeed.
SPEAR or SPEER: to ask questions.
SPILL: spoil.
SPUNK: spark.
STARTS: at starts', fitfully.
ASTOUND: an overpowering stroke.
TARROW: reluctant.
THRING: to push forcefully.
TRANCE: passage.

TRYST: to arrange a meeting at a given time and place.

UNCO: uncommon, strange.
UNDER-TOOLS: lesser tools.
WAD SET: mortgage.
WALE: to choose.
WARE: to use or expend.
WHILE or WHILL: until.
WIN: reach, attain to.
Index of Scripture References
Deuteronomy
[1]32:29
1 Samuel
[2]2 [3]12:3
Job
[4]9:25 [5]9:26
Psalms

[6]2:6 [7]10:13 [8]21:3 [9]44:17 [10]78:34 [11]78:36 [12]119:92

Song of Solomon
[13]2:8 [14]5:10
Isaiah
[15]22:23-24 [16]50:6 [17]63:9
Jeremiah
[18]9:15
Ezekiel
[19]24:1 [20]43:11 [21]48:35
Hosea
[22]2:6-7 [23]2:14
Joel
[24]1:8
John

[25]6:37 [26]11:35 [27]12:27 [28]14:19 [29]17:24

Acts
[30]1:15 [31]1:16 [32]6:3-5
Romans
[33]8:29
1 Corinthians
[34]15:42 [35]15:43
2 Corinthians
[36]2:15 [37]2:16 [38]4:8 [39]4:9 [40]13
Galatians
[41]2:10
Ephesians
[42]1:13
Philippians
[43]3:10
Colossians
[44]1:24
Hebrews

[45]2:10 [46]2:10 [47]10:34 [48]11:26 [49]12:7-8 [50]12:8

1 Peter
[51]2:23
2 Peter
[52]3:10
1 John
[53]3:14
Jude
[54]1:21
Revelation

[55]1:18 [56]3:19 [57]11:9 [58]22:3 [59]22:3