RAMSTAM, adj. indiscreet, with an idea of rushing into anything
    thoughtlessly.  Burns, 32, 22.  O.N. rammr, vehement, and
    stam, stiff, hard, unbending.  Cp.  Cu. ram, strong, and
    rammish, violent, and American slang rambunktious,
    obstreperous.

RANEGILL, sb. a scapegrace, a worthless fellow.  Johnnie Gibb, 179,
    11.  Cp.  Norse rangel, ranglefant, a loafer, rascal. 
    Doubtful.

RANGALE, sb. rabble, mob.  Wyntoun, VIII, 36, 35; Bruce, XII, 474. 
    O.N. hrang, noise, tumult, especially the noise a crowd
    makes.

RED, vb. to clear away, clear up, set to rights.  R.R., 1242;
    Isaiah, LX, 10.  O.N. hryethja, to clear away, Norse rydja,
    rydda, Sw. roedja, Dan. rydde.  Cp.  Eng. rid, O. Fr.
    hredda, O.E. hreddan, Norse redda, save, liberate. 
    Germ. retten is another word.

RED UP, vb. open up.  Isaiah, XL, 3; LXII, 10.  O.N. hryethja upp,
     Norse rydde op, clear up.  In Ramsay, II, 225, red up
    pp. means dressed.  See also Wall under red.

REDDING, sb. growing afraid.  Lyndsay, 356, 1263.  See rad, red.

REESE, vb. to extol.  Ramsay, I, 262.  Eng. raise.  See also
    raise above, as used in Burns.

RESTIT (very frequently reestit), adj. dry, withered.  Burns, 6, 5. 
    Dan. riste, to dry something over a rist, ristet, dried. 
    O.N. rist, a gridiron.  Cp.  Cu. reestit, rancid, rusty.

RIVE, RYFE, RIF (r[-i]v), vb. to tear, break open, cleave. 
    Lyndsay, 434, 156; Wynyet, II, 6514; Psalms, XXIX, 5.  O.N.
    rifa, to tear, Norse riva, reiva, Dan. rive, Sw.
    rifwa, M.E. raven id.  Cp.  Dunbar, T.M.W., 350, “rif into
    sondir,” tear to pieces, and Norse “rive sonde.”  Cu. reavv,
    and ryve.

ROCK, sb. a loom, spinning wheel, spinning distaff.  Lyndsay, 109,
    3330; Burns, 223, 112, 3; 240, 148, 1.  O.N. rokkr, a loom,
    Norse rokk, Dan. rok, spinning wheel.

ROCKING, sb. “a chat, a friendly visit at which they would spin on
    the rock which the visitor carried along with her” (Wagner). 
    Burns, 4, 28.  See rock.

ROVE, RUFE, sb. rest, repose.  Montg., M.P., VI, 20; Scott, 62, 19. 
    O.N. ro, Norse, Dan. ro, quiet, rest, Orm. ro (see
    Brate).  Final epenthetic v also occurs in other words in
    Sco.  Cp. qhwov for qwho, cruive, besides crue, etc.

ROWSTE, vb. “to cry with a rough voice.”  Douglas, III, 304, 11. 
    O.N. raust, the voice.  Dan. roest, Sw. roest, Norse
    ryest.  Cp.  O.N. rausa, to talk loud or fast.  Shetland
    ruz (Cl. and V.).  The Sco. vb. seems to be formed from a sb.
    rowste, which occurs in Orm.