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GLOSSARY
- Tooth, 18, A.S. tôth=tanth, N. tand, Go. tunthus, tooth
- Toper, 193, Cu. anything excellent in its kind
- Tothed, 200, ted, to spread new-mown grass, tedded; Ic. tethja, to spread tath or manure, töthu-verk, making hay. See koil-tett
- Tove, 100, toss, Shet. See tyaave
- Tow, 68, 161, 208, and C. Du. rope,
"An' or I wad anither jade
I'll wallop in a tow."
A.S. tow, Ic. to, a tuft of wool, tog a rope
"There was an auld wife had a wee pickle tow.
An' she wad gae try the spinnin' o't,
She lootet her doon an' her rock took a low
An' that was a bad beginnin' o't."
Alex. Ross. (J. B. F.)
- Trake, 203, to wander idly, C. Du. trek
- Tramp-colies, 146, Mo. hay stacks
- Trance, 176, perh. Lat. trans, across
- Trances, 146, hey soos. Mo.
- Transpire, 94
- Trap, 135, 207, Ger. Treppe, a ladder, Du. trap
- Traps, 92, for the unwary Englishman
- Treacle peerie, 132, home-made small beer. See peerie
- Treak, 203, Cu.
- Tree, 20, 26, Go. triu, triu-weins, wooden
- Treesh, 148, Mo. call to a cow
- Trek, 211, 203, C. Du.
- Treviss, 131, partitions in a stable forming the stall, Lat. trabs, a beam
- Trig, trigger, 211
- Trogger, 111, Ir. vagrants who gather old clothes
- Troke, troking, 135, 152, 203, to barter
- Tromp, 223, C. Du. trump, Fi. a Jew's harp, trumpet
- Trooie, 148, Mo.
- Trowtis, 62, trouts, Barb.
- Tuig, 208, C. Du. tow, a rope. See tow
- Tull me, 168, Cu.; cf. Sc. till, intill for to, into
- Tummel-car, 181, Cu. tumlin-wheels, primitive solid wooden wheels
- Tunthus, 18, Go. tooth, Lat. dens, dentis
- Tutor, 72, Sc. law term
- Twal oor, 197, twaalf uur, C. Du.
- Twal oors, 129, mid-day meal, twelve hours
- Twa-neukit, 88, two-cornered
- Twicet, 90, twice
- Tyaave, 100, difficulty: "my job's an affle tyaave" (Ab.), buckie-tyanve, a good-humoured wrestle (Bff.)
- Tyeuve, 101, Bu., laboured hard. See taw, tew
U
- U, sounds, thin, and name, 81
- Ubils, 29, Go. evil
- Ubizwa, 25, Go. a porch, A.S. efese, a clipt hedge of thatch, from Go. prep. uf, under, Ger. oben; lit. cover, shelter
- Udal, Udaller, 10, Orc. land tenure. See Othal
- Ug, 154
- Ug-sam, 30, Bord.
- Ug-some, 98. See ugly, ogre
- -uh, 45, Go. affix, Lat. que
- Ulbandus, 21, Go. camel. See elephant
- Umhm! 85
- "Um zu," 91, Ger. for to
- Unco, 171, Cu. in or. sense, unknown, strange, and not an intensive as in Sc.
- Undaurni-mats, 24, Go. morning meal, E. undern, still in prov. dial.; 9 A.M. in Paisley Burgh Recs.
- Und hina dag, 45, Go. unto this day
- Und hita nu, 45, Go. hitherto
- Undomous, 153, Mo. un-demus, incalculable; un and deman to judge.—Jam. Go. ga-domjan, doom, judge. Syn. byous
- Unfewsom, 182, Cu.; cf. Ger. fügsam, pliant
- Unhouseled, 32, Shak., A.S. husel, the Eucharist, Go. hunsl, a sacrifice; or. sense, to kill
- Unhultha, 28, Go. from hulths, gracious, hilthan, to favour; O.E. holde, faithful. Kl. connects with
