Delphi Complete Works of Robert Burns (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series) (101 page)

D

Dad,
daddie, father.
Daez’t,
dazed.
Daffin,
larking, fun.
Daft,
mad, foolish.
Dails,
planks.
Daimen icker,
an odd ear of corn.
Dam,
pent-up water, urine.
Damie,
dim. of dame.
Dang,
pret. of ding.
Danton,
v.
daunton.
Darena,
dare not.
Darg,
labor, task, a day’s work.
Darklins,
in the dark.
Daud,
a large piece.
Daud,
to pelt.
Daunder,
saunter.
Daunton,
to daunt.
Daur,
dare.
Daurna,
dare not.
Daur’t,
dared.
Daut, dawte,
to fondle.
Daviely,
spiritless.
Daw,
to dawn.
Dawds,
lumps.
Dawtingly,
prettily, caressingly.
Dead,
death.
Dead-sweer,
extremely reluctant.
Deave,
to deafen.
Deil,
devil.
Deil-haet,
nothing (Devil have it).
Deil-ma-care,
Devil may care.
Deleeret,
delirious, mad.
Delvin,
digging.
Dern’d,
hid.
Descrive,
to describe.
Deuk,
duck.
Devel,
a stunning blow.
Diddle,
to move quickly.
Dight,
to wipe.
Dight,
winnowed, sifted.
Din,
dun, muddy of complexion.
Ding,
to beat, to surpass.
Dink,
trim.
Dinna,
do not.
Dirl,
to vibrate, to ring.
Diz’n, dizzen,
dozen.
Dochter,
daughter.
Doited,
muddled, doting; stupid, bewildered.
Donsie,
vicious, bad-tempered; restive; testy.
Dool,
wo, sorrow.
Doolfu’,
doleful, woful.
Dorty,
pettish.
Douce, douse,
sedate, sober, prudent.
Douce, doucely, dousely,
sedately, prudently.
Doudl’d,
dandled.
Dought
(pret. of dow), could.
Douked,
ducked.
Doup,
the bottom.
Doup-skelper,
bottom-smacker.
Dour, doure,
stubborn, obstinate; cutting.
Dow, dowe,
am (is or are) able, can.
Dow,
a dove.
Dowf, dowff,
dull.
Dowie,
drooping, mournful.
Dowilie,
drooping.
Downa,
can not.
Downa-do
(can not do), lack of power.
Doylt,
stupid, stupefied.
Doytin,
doddering.
Dozen’d,
torpid.
Dozin,
torpid.
Draigl’t,
draggled.
Drant,
prosing.
Drap,
drop.
Draunting,
tedious.
Dree,
endure, suffer.
Dreigh,
v.
dreight.
Dribble,
drizzle.
Driddle,
to toddle.
Dreigh,
tedious, dull.
Droddum,
the breech.
Drone,
part of the bagpipe.
Droop-rumpl’t,
short-rumped.
Drouk,
to wet, to drench.
Droukit,
wetted.
Drouth,
thirst.
Drouthy,
thirsty.
Druken, drucken,
drunken.
Drumlie,
muddy, turbid.
Drummock,
raw meal and cold water.
Drunt,
the huff.
Dry,
thirsty.
Dub,
puddle, slush.
Duddie,
ragged.
Duddies,
dim. of duds, rags.
Duds,
rags, clothes.
Dung,
v.
dang.
Dunted,
throbbed, beat.
Dunts,
blows.
Durk,
dirk.
Dusht,
pushed or thrown down violently.
Dwalling,
dwelling.
Dwalt,
dwelt.
Dyke,
a fence (of stone or turf), a wall.
Dyvor,
a bankrupt.

E

Ear’,
early.
Earn,
eagle.
Eastlin,
eastern.
E’e,
eye.
E’ebrie,
eyebrow.
Een,
eyes.
E’en,
even.
E’en,
evening.
E’enin’,
evening.
E’er,
ever.
Eerie,
apprehensive; inspiring ghostly fear.
Eild,
eld.
Eke,
also.
Elbuck,
elbow.
Eldritch,
unearthly, haunted, fearsome.
Elekit,
elected.
Ell
(Scots), thirty-seven inches.
Eller,
elder.
En’,
end.
Eneugh,
enough.
Enfauld,
infold.
Enow,
enough.
Erse,
Gaelic.
Ether-stane,
adder-stone.
Ettle,
aim.
Evermair,
evermore.
Ev’n down,
downright, positive.
Eydent,
diligent.

F

Fa’,
fall.
Fa’,
lot, portion.
Fa’,
to get; suit; claim.
Faddom’d,
fathomed.
Fae,
foe.
Faem,
foam.
Faiket,
let off, excused.
Fain,
fond, glad.
Fainness,
fondness.
Fair fa’,
good befall! welcome.
Fairin.,
a present from a fair.
Fallow,
fellow.
Fa’n,
fallen.
Fand,
found.
Far-aff,
far-off.
Farls,
oat-cakes.
Fash,
annoyance.
Fash,
to trouble; worry.
Fash’d, fash’t,
bothered; irked.
Fashious,
troublesome.
Fasten-e’en,
Fasten’s Even (the evening before Lent).
Faught,
a fight.
Fauld,
the sheep-fold.
Fauld,
folded.
Faulding,
sheep-folding.
Faun,
fallen.
Fause,
false.
Fause-house,
hole in a cornstack.
Faut,
fault.
Fautor,
transgressor.
Fawsont,
seemly, well-doing; good-looking.
Feat,
spruce.
Fecht,
fight.
Feck,
the bulk, the most part.
Feck,
value, return.
Fecket,
waistcoat; sleeve waistcoat (used by farm-servants as both vest and jacket).
Feckless,
weak, pithless, feeble.
Feckly,
mostly.
Feg,
a fig.
Fegs,
faith!
Feide,
feud.
Feint,
v.
fient.
Feirrie,
lusty.
Fell,
keen, cruel, dreadful, deadly; pungent.
Fell,
the cuticle under the skin.
Felly,
relentless.
Fen’,
a shift.
Fen’, fend,
to look after; to care for; keep off.
Fenceless,
defenseless.
Ferlie, ferly,
a wonder.
Ferlie,
to marvel.
Fetches,
catches, gurgles.
Fetch’t,
stopped suddenly.
Fey,
fated to death.
Fidge,
to fidget, to wriggle.
Fidgin-fain,
tingling-wild.
Fiel,
well.
Fient, fiend,
a petty oath.
Fient a,
not a, devil a.
Fient haet,
nothing (fiend have it).
Fient haet o’,
not one of.
Fient-ma-care,
the fiend may care (I don’t!).
Fier, fiere,
companion.
Fier,
sound, active.
Fin’,
to find.
Fissle,
tingle, fidget with delight.
Fit,
foot.
Fittie-lan’,
the near horse of the hind-most pair in the plough.
Flae,
a flea.
Flaffin,
flapping.
Flainin, flannen,
flannel.
Flang,
flung.
Flee,
to fly.
Fleech,
wheedle.
Fleesh,
fleece.
Fleg,
scare, blow, jerk.
Fleth’rin,
flattering.
Flewit,
a sharp lash.
Fley,
to scare.
Flichterin,
fluttering.
Flinders,
shreds, broken pieces.
Flinging,
kicking out in dancing; capering.
Flingin-tree,
a piece of timber hung by way of partition between two horses in a stable; a flail.
Fliskit,
fretted, capered.
Flit,
to shift.
Flittering,
fluttering.
Flyte,
scold.
Fock, focks,
folk.
Fodgel,
dumpy.
Foor,
fared (
i. e.,
went).
Foorsday,
Thursday.
Forbears,
forebears, forefathers.
Forby,
forbye, besides.
Forfairn,
worn out; forlorn.
Forfoughten,
exhausted.
Forgather,
to meet with.
Forgie,
to forgive.
Forjesket,
jaded.
Forrit,
forward.
Fother,
fodder.
Fou,
fow, full (
i. e.,
drunk).
Foughten,
troubled.
Foumart,
a polecat.
Foursome,
a quartet.
Fouth,
fulness, abundance.
Fow,
v.
fou.
Fow,
a bushel.
Frae,
from.
Freath,
to froth.
Fremit,
estranged, hostile.
Fu’,
full.
Fu’-han’t,
full-handed.
Fud,
a short tail (of a rabbit or hare).
Fuff’t,
puffed.
Fur, furr,
a furrow.
Fur-ahin,
the hindmost plough-horse in the furrow.
Furder,
success.
Furder,
to succeed.
Furm,
a wooden form.
Fusionless,
pithless, sapless, tasteless.
Fyke,
fret.
Fyke,
to fuss; fidget.
Fyle,
to defile, to foul.

G

Gab,
the mouth.
Gab,
to talk.
Gabs,
talk.
Gae,
gave.
Gae,
to go.
Gaed,
went.
Gaen,
gone.
Gaets,
ways, manners.
Gairs,
gores.
Gane,
gone.
Gang,
to go.
Gangrel,
vagrant.
Gar,
to cause, to make, to compel.
Garcock,
the moorcock.
Garten,
garter.
Gash,
wise; self-complacent (implying prudence and prosperity); talkative.
Gashing,
talking, gabbing.
Gat,
got.
Gate,
way-road, manner.
Gatty,
enervated.
Gaucie,
v.
Gawsie.
Gaud,
a. goad.
Gaudsman,
goadsman, driver of the plough-team.
Gau’n,
gavin.
Gaun,
going.
Gaunted,
gaped, yawned.
Gawky,
a foolish woman or lad.
Gawky,
foolish.
Gawsie,
buxom; jolly.
Gaylies,
gaily, rather.
Gear,
money, wealth; goods; stuff.
Geck,
to sport; toss the head.
Ged,
a pike.
Gentles,
gentry.
Genty,
trim and elegant.
Geordie,
dim. of George, a guinea.
Get,
issue, offspring, breed.
Ghaist,
ghost.
Gie,
to give.
Gied,
gave.
Gien,
given.
Gif,
if.
Giftie,
dim. of gift.
Giglets,
giggling youngsters or maids.
Gillie,
dim. of gill (glass of whiskey).
Gilpey,
young girl.
Gimmer,
a young ewe.
Gin,
if, should, whether; by.
Girdle,
plate of metal for firing cakes, bannocks.
Girn,
to grin, to twist the face (but from pain or rage, not joy); gapes; snarls.
Gizz,
wig.
Glaikit,
foolish, thoughtless, giddy.
Glaizie,
glossy, shiny.
Glaum’d,
grasped.
Gled,
a hawk, a kite.
Gleede,
a glowing coal.
Gleg,
nimble, sharp, keen-witted.
Gleg,
smartly.
Glieb,
a portion of land.
Glib-gabbet,
smooth-tongued.
Glint,
sparkle.
Gloamin,
twilight; gloamin-shot, sunset.
Glow’r,
stare.
Glunch,
frown, growl.
Goavin,
looking dazedly; mooning.
Gotten,
got.
Gowan,
the wild, or mountain, daisy.
Gowany,
covered with wild daisies.
Gowd,
gold.
Gowdie,
the head.
Gowff’d,
struck, as in the game of golf.
Gowk,
the cuckoo, a dolt.
Gowling,
lamenting (as a dog in grief).
Graff,
a grave, a vault.
Grain’d,
groaned.
Graip,
a dung-fork.
Graith,
implements, gear; furniture; attire.
Graithing,
gearing, vestments.
Grane,
groan.
Grannie, graunie,
grandmother.
Grape,
grope.
Grat,
wept.
Gree,
the prize (degree).
Gree,
to agree.
Greet,
to weep.
Groanin maut,
groaning malt, brewed for a lying-in.
Grozet,
a gooseberry.
Grumphie,
the pig.
Grun’,
the ground.
Gruntle,
the face.
Gruntle,
dim. of grunt.
Grunzie,
growing.
Grutten,
wept.
Gude,
God.
Guid, gude,
good.
Guid-e’en,
good evening.
Guid-father,
father-in-law.
Guid-man,
husband.
Guid-wife,
mistress of the house.
Guid-willie,
hearty, full of good-will.
Gullie, gully,
a large knife.
Gulravage,
riotous play.
Gumlie,
muddy.
Gumption,
wisdom.
Gusty,
tasty.
Gutcher,
goodsire, grandfather.