GLOSSARY
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- Girnal, 135, 155, same word as granary, but app. to a chest. See meal-girnal
- Girnin in a widdie, 187. See gairnjam, waddja
- Girss, grass, 19, 23, 70, Go. gras in sense of herb: cog. with grow
- Girt, 85, 170, Cu. great, Sc. grit, Ger. gross
- Gistra dagis, 254, Go. yestreen-day
- Giutan, 33, Go. to pour out water: Ger. giennen, Sc. gizzend, Eng. gush. See gaisen
- Glaur, 186, mud. "They say Christ will get a blecked face by the gate. An (if) He get this done, He must waide the glarre myre of our sins." "17th c. Sermons"
- Glegs, clegs, glegee, 85, 122, 123, 131, gad-fly, horse-fly
- "Gleg i' the up-tak," 32, 85, 86, 207, quick in intelligence, N. glegg-r, clear, clear-sighted, Go. glaggwuba, O. E. gleaw, clever
- Glegly, 32, cg. Go. glaggwuba, accurately ἀκριβῶς
- Gleshan, 116, Cptn.
- Gleg, glee, gleed, 69, Sc. squint, to look asquint, gleid, glyd, squint-eyed
- Gliff, 174, also Cu.
- Glisk o' cauld, a cold coming on, 138, spec. Sc.: glisk, also a slight look.—N. E. D.
- Glove, 16, A. S. glôf for ge-lof. See lofa
- Glower, 174, spec. sc. to stare with wide-open eyes: glower-oot, Cu. Da. glo, to stare, E. glewr
- Go, 85, Eng. Sc. through-pit
- Goavy dick, 120, 138, 170, goave, to stare stupidly: a broad, vacant stare. Jam. gives also goif, gove, goup, gawe, gauf. Not in N. E. D.
- Gob, 170, var. of gab; gubb, seum, froth, spit, Shet.
- Goed, die, 224, C. Du. Go. gôd-s, good, Sc. gude. Here goods, property. A common Sc. derivative is goodin, manure, both as v. and n. "There's naething waur nir seed hay for giddein golacks an' ither craiters o' that kin," was the bold figure of an Ab. farmer
- Golak, 122, 140, 149, a beetle, Gael. forchar (forked) gollach, the carwig. Jam. gelloch (Ayr., Dfr.), gavelock. Not in N. E. D. Also as gollack or horny gollack
- Gold, 26, Go. gulth, radical sense "yellow." See gool
- Gomas, 170, Cu. Not N. E. D.
- Gomeril, 85, 136, gommeral, Cu., Sc. a fool, silly fellow. Jam. gomral, "a daft gomeril o' a wife"
- Goodie (little), 123, sun spurge
- Gool, guld, 64, 148, 177, in Mo. generally called gweel; guil(d), the gold floewr, Du. goud-bloem. Ger. gold-blume, E. corn-gool
- Goose, 134, a tailor's iron, handle like a goose's neck
- Gope, 170, C. Du.
- Gorbel, gorbal, gorblin, 125, 176, unfledged birds, from gorb, greedy; gorp, Cu. young bird: cog. with grab, grip, grasp
- Gorrock, 149, red or moor cock
- Gorlin, 176, Cu. var. of gorp. See gorbel, gorlin; gurlin, a boy, a gorbet, Shet., conn. Ic. karl
- †Gorse, 19, O. E. gorst, Ger. gerste, barley, akin to Lat. hordeum, or. something bristly or prickly: not conn. with grass
- Gospel, 27, O. E. gód spel, trans. of Gr. evangelium. Go. thinth-spillon from thinths, good, and spillon, to announce, spell
- Gossip, 137, O. E. god-sibb, related godfather or godmother
- Gote, 172, Lan., gwote, Cu. "About the draining of the loch allows him to make his stank-gote to that effect."—"Glasgow Records," 1696
- Gow-an, lucken-gowan, 182, also Gael. and Ic., from golland, globe flower. See gool and lock
- Gowk, cuckoo, 216, 242, 251
- †Gowpen, gowpin full, goupen-fu', 33, 138, handful. N. gaupn; or. sense single hand hollowed. N. E. D. does not mention Go. kaupatjan in this connection as in text
- Graep, graip, 146, spec. Sc. Sw. grep, Da. greb, a fork for manure; var. grip, grope. See gripple
- Graphic descriptive epithets, 86
