Font, C, fond, foolishly attached, “spooney.” “Whey, Gworge, thou’s owder feul or _font_, To think o’ sec a frow.” _Anderson._ Betty Brown. Foorsett, C, to get in front of and face, to intercept. A ghost used to haunt the “Crossgates” in Lamplugh, of which it was said, “Whativer way folk turns it _foorsetts_ them.” Footh and Foothy, S and C, abundance, well provided, plentifully stocked. “He’s brought _footh_ o’ foreign trash, An’ dibbled it in our yairdie.” Song—The wee wee German Lairdie. “It’s a _foothy_ hoose is Betty Turnbull’s.” Said by old Cuddy Wilson at Workington. Foregather, S, meet. “To bear the milk-bowie nae pain was to me, When I at the buchtin’ _foregathered_ wi’ thee.” _Ramsay._ The Gentle Shepherd. Forfouchten, S, over fatigued, exhausted. “I’m but like a _forfouchten_ hound Has been fechtin’ in a dirty syke.” Ballad.—Hobbie Noble. Fratch, C, quarrel. “He’s just a _fratchin_’, feightin’ feul.” _Anderson._ Dick Watters. Fusionless, S, pithless, insipid. “God! the aul’ doited body’s as _fusionless_ as a docken!” _Michael Scott._ Tom Cringle’s Log. G. Ga, C; Gang, S and C, go. “I’ll _gang_ nae mair to yon toon.” _Burns._ Song. Gangrel, S, vagrant. “A merry core O’ randy _gangrel_ bodies.” _Burns._ The Jolly Beggars. Gar, S, make, compel. “The first Scots kirk that they cam’ to They _garr’t_ the bells be rung; The next Scots kirk that they cam’ to They _garr’t_ the mass be sung.” Ballad—The Gay Goss-hawk. Gay, C; Gey, S, (adverb form, Gaily) tolerable, considerable. “Here’s a _gay_ canny mwornin’.”—A common salutation. “No verra, but _gey_.”—By-saying. “Hoo irr ye preuvin?” “_Gaily, gaily_, gangin’ aboot!” A common salutation and reply. Geàl, C, split, rend, ache severely as from cold. “I’ve an oald teuth, when t’ coald gits tull’t, it maks o’ _geàl_ ageàn.”—Said to a Doctor. Gear, S and C, wealth, substance. “A gleib o’ lan’—a claut o’ _gear_ Was left me by my auntie, Tam.” _Burns._ Ane an’ twenty, Tam. “Bruff-side lairds bang’t aw the rest For braggin’ o’ their _gear_.” _Anderson._ Bleckell Murry-Neet. Ged, S, the pike.