Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
[right pointing hand] Figures placed after words denote the pages in
which they occur.
ablins, _perhaps_.
aboon, abune, _above_.
abugge, _aby_, _pay for_.
adrenche, _drown_.
ae, _one_; first ae, _first_.
agynneth, _begin_.
ahint, _behind_.
airns, _irons_.
airt, _quarter of the compass_, _direction_.
alacing, _saying alas_.
alane, mine, _alone by myself_.
alast, _latterly_.
alles, _all_.
allinge, _altogether_.
alow, 245, _below_.
al so, _at once_.
amense, _amends_.
American leather, 244?
anew, _enough_.
an honde, 283, _in hand_.
anis, _once_.
aplyht, 273, a particle of confirmation, _indeed_, _on my word_, &c.
aquelleden, _killed_.
arewe, 269, _rue_, _feel aggrieved by_.
assoygne, 271, _delay_: (lines 66, 67, should probably be transposed.)
asteir, _astir_, _moved_, (his anger.)
avow, 261, _consent_, _undertake_.
avowerie, _protection_, _support_.
awin, _own_.
awsome, _frightful_.
ayeyn, _against_: 278, v. 103, a word seems to have dropped out. The
sense is, _there is no resisting the stars_. Wright reads _stare_.
ayont, _beyond_, _on one side of_.
bangisters, _violent and lawless people_, _those that have the upper
hand_, _victors_.
basnet, _helmet_.
batts, _beating_.
beet, 90, _help_.
ben, _in_.
bent, _coarse grass_;
_open country_, covered with the same.
benty, _covered with the coarse grass called bent_;
benty-line, 13?
beseen, weil, 132, _well appointed_.
bide, 273, _pray to_.
bigged, _built_.
biheveded, _beheaded_.
billie, _comrade_.
birk, _birch_.
birst, (_burst_) _fray_.
blan, _stopped_.
blink, 49, _glanced_.
blive, _quickly_.
bobaunce, _vanity_, _presumption_.
bode, _bid_.
borrow, _rescue_.
bot and, _and also_.
bote, 274, _amends_;
bote, no, _not better off_.
boun, _ready_, _gone_.
brae, _hill-side_.
braid, 245, qy. corrupt?
brain, gang, _go mad_.
brank, 124, _prance_, _caper_.
branks, _a rude sort of bridle of rope and wood_, used by country people.
braw, bra', _brave_, _fine_.
brayd on, 32, _move on_ (rapidly).
breast, 249, _voice_.
breasting, _springing forward_.
brecham, _collar of a working horse_.
brede, o, ant o leynthe, _in breadth and in length_, _far and wide_.
breek, _breeches_;
70, breek-thigh, _the side pocket of the breeches_.
brie, _brow_.
broked cow, _a cow that has black spots mixed with white in her face_.
broken men, _outlawed men_.
browhead, _forehead_.
brugge, _bridge_.
brusten, _burst_.
bryd, _bird_.
bryttled, _cut up_.
bueth, _be_.
bufft coat, _leather coat_.
bund, _bound_.
burel, _sackcloth_.
burn, _brook_.
busk, _make ready_.
buss, _bush_.
bussing, 137, _covering_ (stolen from the packs).
but, _out_;
236, but the floor, _across the floor out of the room_, or _to the
outer part of the house_.
by (sometimes) _besides_.
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