The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral ComedyRamsay, Allan
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The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy
Ramsay, Allan
Scottish drama -- 18th century
_Eastlin_, easterly, eastward.
_Een_, eyes.
_Eild_, old age.
_Eith_, easy. _Eithly_, easily.
_Elf-shot_, bewitched, shot by fairies.
_Elritch_, wild, hideous, uninhabited except by imaginary ghosts.
_Elvand_, the ell measure.
_Ergh_, scrupulous; when one makes faint attempts to do a thing,
without a steady resolution; to be timorous.
_Ether_, an adder.
_Ethercap_, or _ettercap_, a venomous spiteful creature.
_Ettle_, to aim, design.
_Even'd_, compared.
_Evens_, equals, compares, allies.
F.
_Fa_, fall.
_Fae_, foe.
_Fain_, joyful, tickled with pleasure.
_Fairfa'_, when we wish well to one, that a good or fair fate may
befall him.
_Fand_, found.
_Farder_, farther.
_Farer seen_, more knowing.
_Fash_,--_never fash your thumb_, be not the least vexed, be easy.
_Fash_, to vex or trouble. _Fasheous_, troublesome.
_Fauld_, fold.
_Fause_, false.
_Faut_, fault.
_Fawn_, fallen.
_Feckless_, feeble, little and weak.
_Feg_, a fig.
_Fell_, good, valuable, keen; a rocky, or wild, hill.
_Fere_, sound, entire.
_Ferlie_, wonder.
_Feu_, tenure, a fief.
_Firlot_, four pecks, the fourth part of a boll.
_Fit_, the foot.
_Flaes_, fleas.
_Flaw_, lie or fib.
_Flawing_, lying, fibbing.
_Fleetch_, to coax or flatter.
_Fleg_, fright.
_Flesh a' creep_, a phrase which expresses shuddering.
_Flet_, the preterit of _flyte_, did chide.
_Fley_, or _flie_, to affright. _Fleyt_, or _fleid_, afraid or
terrified.
_Flighter_, flutter.
_Flit_, to remove.
_Flite_, or _flyte_, to scold or chide. _Flet_, did scold.
_Flyp_, to turn inside out.
_Fog_, moss.
_Forby_, besides.
_Forgainst_, opposite to.
_Forgather_, to meet, encounter.
_Forrow cow_, a cow that is not with calf, and therefore continues to
give milk throughout the winter.
_Fou_, or _fu_, full.
_Fouth_, abundance, plenty.
_Fowk_, folk.
_Fow-weel_, full well.
_Frae_, fro, or from.
_Fraise_, to make a noise. We use to say "one makes a _fraise_," when
they boast, wonder, and talk more of a matter than it is worthy of,
or will bear.
_Freath the graith_, to froth the suds about the clothes in washing.
_Fundling_, foundling.
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