SCOTO–FRENCH SECTION
The head word is always Scots; the French follows. Meanings will be found in the text. A few words have been introduced here though they have not been included in the text, but these are distinguished by the absence of any reference.
The Glossary is intended to be taken as a whole, so that a word not found in the one section may be looked for in the other.
A
- Abillzeaments, 236, habillement
- Accrese, accresce, accress, 239, accroissement
- Aiver, 21, 71, horse, goat, &c., O.F. aveir, avoir, property, "having," E. aver-age.—N.E.T).
- Allya, 228, 235, allié
- Ashet, 239, assiette
- Aumous, 242, almesse, alms
- Awal, 65, 189, awald, of a sheep lying helpless on its back, avaler, F. to gulp down, descend, Lat. ad vallem, O.F. avaler, to descend, fall (Spenser)
- Awmrie, 235, 242, aumônerie; aumry, chest, O.F. aumoiren, Lat. armarium, depôt of arms
B
- Babies, 231, babiole, It. babbeo, bauble, babble, "a pet form of babe from common root"
- Babuttis, 230, bibs, Fr. bavette
- Backet, bucket, 66, 68, 155, 209, in saut-backet, dim. of back, Du. bak, trough, tub, F. bac, ferry-boat, dim. baquet
- Bain, 66, 156, 209, Sc. a bucket, F. bain, It. bagno, Lat. balneum, bath, obsc. E. N.E.D. tub, Jam. boin, boyen, bine, washing tub
- Bajan, bejant, 75, 240, first-year student, bajan, F. bec-jaune, yellow beak, Ger. Gelb-Schnabel
- Banns, 74, same as ban, a proclamation, F. ban, Med. Lat. bannum
- Barley, 240, parley, parler
- Bases, 236, base, "app. an E. application of base, 'bottom' to a short skirt from waist to knee."—N.E.D.
- Bass, a door-mat, Sc.–F. base, M.E. has, baas, basse
- Bavard, 230, F. baveur
- †Bawbee, 240, has billon. This origin questioned in N.E.D.
- Bawsent, bawson, 223, O.F. bauzan, It. balzano, Lat. balteus=striped with white
- Beaver, 240, bevoir
- Begyte, 150, Sc. foolish, "nasty begoyt creature," Bff. Fr. bigaut, ass or fool.—Jam.
- †Bicker, 237, 238, bitch. M. Amours says, "I do not think F. becquée has anything to do with bitch or bicker." He notes, also, that "les trois Rois" refers to Twelfth Night or Epiphany (Jan. 6)
- Bilgets, 238, O.F. billete, billets.
- Boge, 230, bougie.
- Boise, 233, O.F. busse, buss, a fishing-boat, Du. buis
- Bonet, 233, O.F. bonet
- Bonnie, 97, bonne, fair
- Bools, 127, 238, Sc; F. boule, Lat. bulla, a bubble, a round thing.—N.E.D.
- Boss, of a shield, 207; cf. emboss, F. bosse
- Bowie, 68, a milk-bowl, Sc. milk dish, usually referred to F. buie, but possibly dim. of bowl
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