The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral ComedyRamsay, Allan
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The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy
Ramsay, Allan
Scottish drama -- 18th century
_Taid_, a toad.
_Tald_, told.
_Tane_, taken.
_Tarrow_, to refuse what we love, from a cross humour.
_Tass_, a little dram-cup.
_Tate_, a small lock of hair, or any little quantity of wool, cotton,
&c.
_Taz_, a whip or scourge.
_Tent_, to attend, to take care of; to observe, to remark.
_Thack_, thatch.
_Thae_, those.
_Than_, then.
_Thievless_, wanting propriety, unmeaning.
_Thirle_, to thrill.
_Thole_, to endure, suffer.
_Thow_, thaw.
_Thrang_, throng.
_Thrawart_, froward, cross, crabbed.
_Thrawin_, stern and cross-grained.
_Thrawn-gabet_, wry-mouthed.
_Tift_, good order. _In tift_, in the mood.
_Till_, to. _Till't_, to it.
_Timmer_,--_turn the timmer_, put round the cup.
_Tine_, or _tyne_, to lose. _Tint_, lost.
_Titty_, sister.
_Tocher_, portion, dowry.
_Tocher_,--_but tocher-good_, without dowry.
_Tod_, a fox.
_Tod Lawrie_, a fox.
_Tooly_, to fight; to scramble; to romp.
_Toom_, empty, applied to a barrel, purse, house, &c.; also, to empty.
_Tot_, a fondling name given to a child.
_Touse_, _tousle_, or _towzle_, to rumple, to handle roughly.
_Towin'd_, tamed.
_Towmond_, a year or twelvemonth.
_Towzle_, to handle roughly.
_Trig_, neat, handsome.
_Triste_, or _tryst_, appointment.
_Tron_, an instrument erected in every burgh in Scotland, for the
weighing of wool and other heavy wares.
_Trow_, to believe.
_Tulzie_, a quarrel or broil.
_Twa three_, two or three.
_Twitch_, touch.
_Tyke_, a dog of one of the larger and common breeds.
U.
_Uneith_, not easy.
_Unfother'd_, not foddered.
_Unko_, or _unco_, unknown, strange; very.
_Unsonsy_, unlucky, ugly.
V.
_Virle_, a ferrule.
_Vissy_, to view with care.
W.
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