The peculiarities of the Scottish dialect have been explained by many writers, much more ably, as well as more at length, than may be done by me. Therefore the only assistance towards the understanding my Scots rhymes that I offer the reader is to intermingle, in the glossary appended, such Scottish words as I have used, with those proper to Cumberland and those common to both sides the Border. The brief glossary here given consists, then, only of the words used in Scotland or Cumberland, or both, which appear in the foregoing _Tales and Rhymes_; corruptions and abbreviations being omitted. The significations I alone am answerable for, having, in nearly all instances, adopted the sense I can recollect the words being used in by the people speaking them in their daily talk. The quotations are intended to make these significations more intelligible, and also, by showing the manner in which the words so illustrated are used by others, to prove that the meanings I have so adopted are generally correct. A GLOSSARY OF SCOTCH AND CUMBRIAN WORDS OCCURRING IN THE RHYMES AND TALES CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME. C signifies that the word it follows is Cumbrian. S that it is Scotch. S and C that it is common to both dialects. A. Addle, or Eddle, C, earn. “What, I mun tak’ my flale wimma, antres I git a job er two a threyshin, Ise _addle_ summat be’t.” _Rev. T. Clarke._ Johnny Shippard. Aiblins, S, perhaps. “But _aiblins_ neighbour ye have not the heart, An’ downa eithly wi’ the cunzie part.” _Ramsay._ The Gentle Shepherd. Aneuf, C, enough in quantity. Anew, C, enough in number. “We’ve _anew_ o’ sec as thee, an’ _aneuf_ o’ what thou brings wid thee.”—Said to a Hawker. Aslew, C, amiss, out of course. “There’s nowte sa far _aslew_ but gud manishment med set it streight.”—Proverb. Atweel, S, I wot well. Used to strengthen either affirmation or denial. “Are they a’ Johnie’s? Eh! _atweel_ na; Twa o’ them were born When Johnie was awa.” Song—We’re a’ Noddin’. B. Back-end, C, late autumn. “T’ _back-end’s_ ola’s t’ bare-end.”—Proverb. Bain, C, near, convenient. Used in most of the northern counties. “I swin’d my ways t’ _bainest_ geeat ower t’ fell into Sleddle.” _Rev. T. Clarke._ Johnny Shippard. Bairn, S, a child; Barne, C. “Maidens’ _bairns_ are aye weel bred.”—Proverb. “They hed _barnes_ an’ bits o’ flesh persirv’d i’ bottles as fwok does berries.”—_Ritson._ The Borrowdale Letter. Barken’t, S and C, encrusted. “For God-seak put that barne in t’ dolly-tūb an’ scrūb’t: it’s fairly _barken’t_ ower wid mūck.”—Said of a rarely washed infant. Barrow-back’t, C, bent by heavy work, such as wheeling loaded _barrows_.