distrackit, distracted. dizzen, dozen. doobled, doubled. doon-settin’, settlement, start in life. doo’s cleckin, pigeon’s hatch, two of a family. doot, doubt. dootna, do not doubt. dour, obstinate, hard, severe. dree, suffer. drogues, drugs. drooth, thirst. droothy, thirsty. drumlie-like, showing a sediment. druve, drove. duds, clothes. dune, done. dunt, a stroke causing a hollow sound. dwalt, dwelt. dwam, faint turn. dwinin’, wasting, fading.

E Eck, contraction for Alexander. e’e, eye. een, eyes. e’en, even. e’enins, evenings. efterhan’, afterwards. eident, diligent. elbuck, elbow. eneuch, enough. ense, otherwise. ettlin’, inclined to. expeckin’, expecting, enceinte.

F fa’, fall. fand, found. fash, trouble. faurer, farther. fearsome, frightful. fecht, fight. feckless, weak, spiritless, worthless. fegs, an affirmative exclamation, a corruption of Faith. fell, hot, acute. ferlies, wonders. fesh, fetch. fin’, find, feel. finger’t, fingered, palpated. fire (in his e’e), a foreign body. firin’, fire-wood. firstlins, first products. fish-hake, a wooden frame on which to hang fish. flang, flung. flannen, flannel. flee, fly; flee out on, scold. fleechin’, wheedling. fleg, frighten. fleggit, frightened. forbye, over and above, besides. forcy, forceful. forebears, ancestors. fore-handit, paid in advance. fore-nune, forenoon. forfaughen, exhausted. forrit, forward; even forrit, straight on. fosh, fetched. fowk, folk. fowre, four; weel on fowre, nearly four o’clock. freen’s, relations. fricht, fright. fu’, full.

G gae, go. gaed, went; gaed owre, went beyond the power of. gaffer, foreman, overseer. gait, way. gaithrin’, crowd. gang, go. gangrels, wanderers, tramps. gant, yawn. gar, make, cause. gaun, going. gaun-aboot, wandering. gey, very. ghaistly, ghostly. gibbles, tools. gie, give; gie him the name, name the child after him. gillie-callum, a variety of Scots dance. gin, if. girnin’, whining, complaining. gloamin’, twilight. glow’red, stared. govy-dick, govy-ding, an exclamation of surprise. gowpin’, throbbing. granes, groans. granin’, groaning. gree, agree. greenin’, longing for. greet, cry, weep. grew, shiver. grewsin’, shivering. grup, grip. gruppit, gripped. gude, good. gude-gaun, good-going. gude-mither, mother-in-law. guff, smell. gully, large pocket knife.

H hae, have.  Hae!  Here. hail, pour down. haill, whole; haill apotheck, whole affair. hame, home; the nicht that the bairnie cam’ hame, the night that the child was born. hame-owre, homely. hantle, a considerable number. harns, brains. haud, hold. hauf, half. heedin’, paying attention to. heicher, higher. heicht, height. heid, head. heidin’, heading. heirskep, heredity, inheritance. herts, hearts; gart the hert rise, made one sick. het, hot. hielant, Highland. hin’er, hinder. hinna, have not. hirplin’, limping. hives, bowel-trouble of children. hoast, cough. holin’, cutting coal. hoodie-craws, hooded crows. hoor, hour. hoose, house. hornie, fair hornie, fair exchange. howdie, mid-wife. howk, dig. humoursome, humorous. hungert, hungry, starved. hunner, hundred. hurdies, buttocks. hurl, a lift, a drive in a conveyance.