NOTES TO CANTO FOURTH.
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GLOSSARY.
St. 1. Wold, a wood; a woody fastness.
Husbande, from the Dan. hos, with, and bonde, a villain, or bondsman, who was a cultivator of the ground, and could not quit the estate to which he was attached, without the permission of his lord. This is the sense of the word, in the old Scottish records. In the Scottish "Burghe Laws," translated from the Rej. Majest. (Auchinleck MS. in the Adv. Lib.) it is used indiscriminately with the Dan. and Swed. bondè.
Bigg, build.
Ligg, lie.
Daes, does.
2. Shaw, wood.
Sairly, sorely.
3. Aik, oak.
Grousome, terrible.
Bald, bold.
Kipples, (couples,) beams joined at the top, for supporting a roof, in building.
Bawks, balks; cross beams.
Moil, laborious industry.
Speer'd, asked.
Knock, hillock,
5. Weiest, smallest.
Crean'd, shrunk, diminished; from the Gaelic, crian, very small.
Immert, emmit; ant.
Christian, used in the Danish ballads, &c. in contradistinction to demoniac, as it is in England, in contradistinction to brute; in which sense, a person of the lower class, in England, would call a Jew or a Turk, a Christian.
Fley, frighten.
6. Glowr'd, stared.
Hald, hold.
7. Skugg, shade.
Skaith, harm.
8. Nighed, approached.
9. Yowls, howls,
Toots—in the Dan. tude, is applied both to the howling of a dog, and the sound of a horn.
Scraichs, screams.
10. Laidly, loathly; disgustingly ugly.
Grim, fierce.
11. Winnock, window.
Mint, aim at.
12. Coost, cast.
Chalmer, chamber.
Maist, most.
Ava, of all.
13. Norwart, northward.
Trow, believe.
Husbande, from the Dan. hos, with, and bonde, a villain, or bondsman, who was a cultivator of the ground, and could not quit the estate to which he was attached, without the permission of his lord. This is the sense of the word, in the old Scottish records. In the Scottish "Burghe Laws," translated from the Rej. Majest. (Auchinleck MS. in the Adv. Lib.) it is used indiscriminately with the Dan. and Swed. bondè.
Bigg, build.
Ligg, lie.
Daes, does.
2. Shaw, wood.
Sairly, sorely.
3. Aik, oak.
Grousome, terrible.
Bald, bold.
Kipples, (couples,) beams joined at the top, for supporting a roof, in building.
Bawks, balks; cross beams.
Moil, laborious industry.
Speer'd, asked.
Knock, hillock,
5. Weiest, smallest.
Crean'd, shrunk, diminished; from the Gaelic, crian, very small.
Immert, emmit; ant.
Christian, used in the Danish ballads, &c. in contradistinction to demoniac, as it is in England, in contradistinction to brute; in which sense, a person of the lower class, in England, would call a Jew or a Turk, a Christian.
Fley, frighten.
6. Glowr'd, stared.
Hald, hold.
7. Skugg, shade.
Skaith, harm.
8. Nighed, approached.
9. Yowls, howls,
Toots—in the Dan. tude, is applied both to the howling of a dog, and the sound of a horn.
Scraichs, screams.
10. Laidly, loathly; disgustingly ugly.
Grim, fierce.
11. Winnock, window.
Mint, aim at.
12. Coost, cast.
Chalmer, chamber.
Maist, most.
Ava, of all.
13. Norwart, northward.
Trow, believe.
