havers, nonsense.
havins, manners, conduct.
hawkie, a white-faced cow; a cow.
heal, v. hale.
healsome, v. halesome.
hecht, to promise; threaten.
heckle, a flaxb.
heels-o'er-gowdie, v. gowdie.
heeze, to hoist.
heich, heigh, high.
hem-shin'd, crooked-shin'd.
herd, a herd-boy.
here awa, hereabout.
herry, to harry.
herryment, spoliation.
hersel, herself.
het, hot.
heugh, a hollow or pit; a crag, a steep bank.
heuk, a hook.
hilch, to hobble.
hiltie-skiltie, helter-skelter.
himsel, himselfk
hiney, hinny, honey.
hing, to hang.
hirple, to move unevenly; to limp.
hissels, so many cattle as one person can attend (r. b.).
histie, bare.
hizzie, a hussy, a wench.
hoast, cough.
hoddin, the motion of a sage countryman riding on a cart-horse
(r. b.).
hoddin-grey, coarse gray woolen.
hoggie, dim. of hog; a lamb.
hog-score, a line on the curling rink.
hog-shouther, a kind of horse-play by jostling with the shoulder;
to jostle.
hoodie-craw, the hooded crow, the carrion crow.
hoodock, grasping, vulturish.
hooked, caught.
hool, the outer case, the sheath.
hoolie, softly.
hoord, hoard.
hoordet, hoarded.
horn, a horn spoon; ab of horn.
hornie, the devil.
host, v. hoast.
hotch'd, jerked.
houghmagandie, fornication.
houlet, v. howlet.
houpe, hope.
hove, swell.
howdie, howdy, a midwife.
howe, hollow.
howk, to dig.
howlet, the owl.
hoyse, a hoist.
hoy't, urged (r. b.).
hoyte, to amble crazily (r. b.).
hughoc, dim. of hugh.
hullions, slovens.
hunder, a hundred.
hunkers, hams.
hurcheon, the hedgehog.
hurchin, urchin.
hurdies, the loins, the crupper (r. b.) (i. e., the buttocks).
hurl, to trundle.
hushion, a footless stocking.
hyte, furious.
i', in.
icker, an ear of corn.
ier-oe, a great-grandchild.
ilk, ilka, each, every.
ill o't, bad at it.
ill-taen, ill-taken.
ill-thief. the devil.
ill-willie, ill-natured, niggardly.
indentin, indenturing.
ingine, genius, ingenuity; wit.
ingle, the fire, the fireside.
ingle-cheek, fireside (properly the jamb of the fireplace).
ingle-lowe, ingle-low, flame of the fire.
i'se, i shall, or will.
itsel', itself.
ither, other, another.
jad, a jade.
janwar, january.
jauk, to trifle, to dally.
jauner, gabber.
jauntie, dim. of jaunt.
jaup, splash.
jaw, talk, impudence.
jaw, to throw, to dash.
jeeg, to jog.
jillet, a jilt.
jimp, small, slender.
jimply, neatly.
jimps, stays.
jink, the slip.
jink, to frisk, to sport, to dodge.
jinker, dodger (coquette); a jinker noble; a noble goer.
jirkinet, bodice.
jirt, a jerk.
jiz, a wig.
jo, a sweetheart.
jocteleg, a clasp-knife.
jouk, to duck, to cover, to dodge.
jow, to jow, a verb which included both the swinging motion and
pealing
sound of a large bell (r. b.).
jumpet, jumpit, jumped.
jundie, to jostle.
jurr, a servant wench.
kae, a jackdaw.
kail, kale, the colewort; cabbage; scots' broth.
kail-blade, the leaf of the colewort.
kail-gullie, a cabbage knife.
kail-runt, the stem of the colewort.
kail-whittle, a cabbage knife.
kail-yard, a kitchen garden.
kain, kane, rents in kind.
kame, ab.
kebars, rafters.
kebbuck, a cheese; a kebbuck heel = the last crust of a cheese.
keckle, to cackle, to giggle.
keek, look, glance.
keekin-glass, the looking-glass.
keel, red chalk.
kelpies, river demons.
ken, to know.
kenna, know not.
kennin, a very little (merely as much as can be perceived).
kep, to catch.
ket, the fleece on a sheep's body.
key, quay.
kiaugh, anxiety.
kilt, to tuck up.
kimmer, a wench, a gossip; a wife.
kin', kind.
king's-hood, the 2d stomach in a ruminant (equivocal for the scrotum).
kintra, country.
kirk, church.
kirn, a churn.
kirn, harvest home.
kirsen, to christen.
kist, chest, counter.
kitchen, to relish.
kittle, difficult, ticklish, delicate, fickle.
kittle, to tickle.
kittlin, kitten.
kiutlin, cuddling.
knaggie, knobby.
knappin-hammers, hammers for breaking stones.
knowe, knoll.
knurl, knurlin, dwarf.
kye, cows.
kytes, bellies.
kythe, to show.
laddie, dim. of lad.
lade, a load.
lag, backward.
laggen, the bottom angle of a wooden dish.
laigh, low.
laik, lack.
lair, lore, learning.
laird, landowner.
lairing, sticking or sinking in moss or mud.
laith, loath.
laithfu', loathful, sheepish.
lallan, lowland.
lallans, scots lowland vernacular.
lammie, dim. of lamb.
lan', land.
lan'-afore, the foremost horse on the unplowed land side.
lan'-ahin, the hindmost horse on the unplowed land side.
lane, lone.
lang, long.
lang syne, long since, long ago.
lap, leapt.
lave, the rest.
laverock, lav'rock, the lark.
lawin, the reckoning.
lea, grass, untilled land.
lear, lore, learning.
leddy, lady.
lee-lang, live-long.
leesome, lawful.
leeze me on, dear is to me; blessings on;mend me to.
leister, a fish-spear.
len', to lend.
leugh, laugh'd.
leuk, look.
ley-crap, lea-crop.
libbet, castrated.
licks, a beating.
lien, lain.
lieve, lief.
lift, the sky.
lift, a load.
lightly, to disparage, to scorn.
lilt, to sing.
limmer, to jade; mistress.
lin, v. linn.
linn, a waterfall.
lint, flax.
lint-white, flax-colored.
lintwhite, the linnet.
lippen'd, trusted.
lippie, dim. of lip.
loan, a lane,
loanin, the private road leading to a farm.
lo'ed, loved.
lon'on, london.
loof (pl. looves), the palm of the hand.
loon, loun, lown, a fellow, a varlet.
loosome, lovable.
loot, let.
loove, love.
looves, v. loof.
losh, a minced oath.
lough, a pond, a lake.
loup, lowp, to leap.
low, lowe, a flame.
lowin, lowing, flaming, burning.
lown, v. loon.
lowp, v. loup.
lowse, louse, to untie, let loose.
lucky, a grandmother, an old woman; an ale wife.
lug, the ear.
lugget, having ears.
luggie, a porringer.
lum, the chimney.
lume, a loom.
lunardi, a balloon bonnet.
lunches, full portions.
lunt, a column of smoke or steam.
luntin, smoking.
luve, love.
lyart, gray in general; discolored by decay or old age.
lynin, lining.
mae, more.
mailen, mailin, a farm.
mailie, molly.
mair, more.
maist. most.
maist, almost.
mak, make.
mak o', make o', to pet, to fondle.
mall, mally.
manteele, a mantle.
mark, merk, an old scots coin (13 1-3d. sterling).
mashlum, of mixed meal.
maskin-pat, the teapot.
maukin, a hare.
maun, must.
maunna, mustn't.
maut, malt.
mavis, the thrush.
mawin, mowing.
mawn, mown.
mawn, a large basket.
mear, a mare.
meikle, mickle, muckle, much, great.
melder, a grinding corn.
mell, to meddle.
melvie, to powder with meal-dust.
men', mend.
mense, tact, discretion, politeness.
menseless, unmannerly.
merle, the blackbird.
merran, marian.
mess john, mass john, the parish priest, the minister.
messin, a cur, a mongrel.
midden, a dunghill.
midden-creels, manure-baskets.
midden dub, midden puddle.
midden-hole, a gutter at the bottom of the dunghill.
milking shiel, the milking shed.
mim, prim, affectedly meek.
mim-mou'd, prim-lipped.
min', mind, remembrance.
mind, to remember, to bear in mind.