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_syne_, then.
_Tack_, lease.
_taigle_, hinder, delay.
_tawnle_, bonfire.
_temming_, a coa.r.s.e thin woollen cloth.
_tent_, heed.
_thacket_, thatched.
_thole_, endure.
_throng_, _adj._ busy.
_thumbikins_, thumbscrews.
_tirl at the pin_, old-fas.h.i.+oned mode of intimating desire of admission to a house.
_tod_, _tod lowrie_, fox.
_tolbooth_, a munic.i.p.al building including a jail.
_toom_, empty.
_toop_, a ram.
_toupie_ (French), toupet.
_trance_, paved pa.s.sage.
_trintle_, _v._ roll.
_trone_, a public weighing-machine standing in a market-place.
_Unco_, _adj._ extraordinary, remarkable; _n._ remarkable object.
_Virl_, ring (as those which bind a fis.h.i.+ng-rod); frill.
_vivers_, provisions.
_vogie_, vain, complacent.
_Wae_, grieved.
_waff_, feeble, worn out.
_warrandice_, warrant.
_warsle_, wrestle.
_wastage_, a place of desolation (J.).
_wastrie_, waste.
_waught_, a large draught.
_wean_, child.
_whin_, furze.
_Whigamore_, sometimes derived from "whig," a word used in the West for urging on horses, and hence applied as a nickname to a political party.
The expedition of the Covenanters under Eglinton to Edinburgh was known as the Whigamore Raid.
_whumple_, overturn, reverse.
_willease_, valise.
_w.i.l.l.y-wa_, palaver, wheedle.
_wise, v._ entice, incline.
_wud_, wild.
_wuddy_, "gallows-looking"; widdy is the gallows.
_wyte_, blame.
_Yett_, gate.
_yird_, _n._ earth; _v. a._ run to earth.
_Colston & Coy. Limited, Printers, Edinburgh._
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