An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language - LightNovelsOnl.com
You're reading novel online at LightNovelsOnl.com. Please use the follow button to get notifications about your favorite novels and its latest chapters so you can come back anytime and won't miss anything.
PYK-MAW, PICK-MAW, _s._ A kind of gull.
_Houlate._
PILCH, _s._
1. A gown made of skin.
A. S. _pylece_, toga pellicea.
_Douglas._
2. A tough skinny piece of meat, S.
3. Any thing short and gross, S.
~Pilch~, _adj._ Thick, gross, S.
PILE, PYLE, _s._
1. In pl. the soft hair, which first appears on the faces of young men.
_Douglas._
2. A tender blade, S.
_Douglas._
3. A single grain, S.
_Gl. s.h.i.+rr._
Teut. _pyl_, Fr. _poil_, Lat. _pil-us_, a hair.
PYLE, _s._ A small javelin; or an arrow for a cross-bow.
_Stat. Will._
Su. G. _pil_, Lat. _pil-um_, a javelin.
PYLEFAT, _s._ L. _gylefat_, q. v.
_Lyndsay._
PILGET, PILGIE, _s._ A broil, S. B.
_Poems Buch. Dial._
Belg. _belgh-en_, to combat.
PILGREN, PYLGRYNE, _s._ A pilgrim, Fr. _pelegrin_.
_Burel._
_To_ PILK, _v. a._
1. To take out of a husk or sh.e.l.l, S. B.
2. To pilfer, S. B.
E. _pluck_, or Teut. _plock-en_, id.
PILLAN, _s._
A species of sea-crab, Fife.
_Sibbald._
PILLOUR, _s._
V. ~Pelure~.
PILLOW, _s._ A tumultuous noise, S. B.
V. ~Hillie-billow~.
PILTOCK, _s._ The coal fish, a year old, Orkn.
PIN, _s._ Summit.
_Dunbar._
Teut. _pinne_, Germ. _pfin_, summitas.
PINALDS, _s._ A spinet; Fr. _espinet_.
