[37] 40. =Reaming swats=; foaming new ale. [38] 41. =Souter=; shoemaker. [39] 68. =Maun=; must. [40] 78. =The Deil=; the Devil. [41] 81. =Skelpit=; hurried. [42] 81. =Dub=; puddle. [43] 86. =Bogles=; bogies or goblins. [44] 88. =Houlets=; owls. [45] 90. =Smoored=; smothered. [46] 91. =Birks=; birches. [47] 91. =Meikle stane=; huge stone. [48] 93. =Whins=; furze bushes. [49] 93. =Cairn=; pile of stones. [50] 94. =Bairn=; child. [51] 102. =Bleeze=; blaze. [52] 103. =Bore=; hole. [53] 105. =John Barleycorn=; a Scotch term for whiskey. [54] 108. =Usquebae=; whiskey. [55] 110. =Boddle=; farthing. [56] 116. =Brent=; brought. [57] 117. =Strathspeys.= The strathspey was a Scottish dance. [58] 119. =Winnock-bunker=; window-seat. [59] 121. =Towzie tyke=; shaggy dog. [60] 123. =Gart them skirl=; made them shriek. [61] 124. =Dirl=; ring. [62] 127. =Cantrip slight=; magic charm. [63] 134. =Gab=; throat. [64] 147. =Cleekit=; took hold. [65] 148. =Carlin=; witch. [66] 149. =Coost her duddies=; threw off her clothes. [67] 150. =Linket=; tripped. [68] 150. =Sark=; shirt. [69] 151. =Queans=; young women. [70] 153. =Creeshie flannen=; greasy flannel. [71] 154. =Seventeen-hunder linen=; fine linen. Technical weaving terms were familiar to the hand-loom workers of Burns's district. [72] 157. =Hurdies=; hips. [73] 158. =Burdies=; maidens. [74] 159. =Beldams=; hags. [75] 160. =Rigwoodie=; ancient. [76] 160. =Spean=; wean. [77] 161. =Crummock=; a short staff. [78] 163. =Brawlie=; perfectly. [79] 164. =Walie=; large. [80] 165. =Core=; corps. [81] 169. =Bear=; barley. [82] 171. =Cutty-sark=; short shirt. [83] 171. =Paisley harn=; a coarse cloth, made in Paisley, a Scotch town famous for its cloth-making industry. [84] 174. =Vauntie=; proud. [85] 176. =Coft=; bought. [86] 181. =Lap and flang=; leapt and capered. [87] 184. =E'en=; eyes. [88] 185. =Fidged fu' fain=; fidgeted with eagerness. [89] 186. =Hotched=; jerked his arm while playing the bagpipe. [90] 187. =Syne=; then. [91] 188. =Tint=; lost. [92] 193. =Fyke=; fret. [93] 194. =Byke=; hive. [94] 200. =Eldritch=; unearthly. [95] 201. =Fairin'=; reward. [96] 208. According to an old superstition, witches are unable to pursue their victims over running water. Compare the story of the Headless Horseman in Irving's _The Legend of Sleepy Hollow_. [97] 213. =Ettle=; aim. WALTER SCOTT