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ca, caw, call drive, strike, ca a nail, I, 403, (Child #44 A) 13; III, 495, B b, after 7. ca a pin, IV, 381, (Child #245 C) (Child #245 D) 9, 11. ca in the stake, II, 123, (Child #65 H) 14, 27. caw shoon on a steed, IV, 470, 18. ca up a gallows, II, 253, (Child #81 H) (Child #81 I) 8. ca'd holes, V, 141 b, 8. ca hogs, II, 258, (Child #81 L) (Child #81 M) 32. ca the mare, IV, 17 f., (Child #192 A) 5, 13. ca horse, IV, 109, (Child #206 A) 1. call sheep, II, 255, (Child #81 J) 17. caw ky, IV, 193, (Child #217 A) 13; 194, 17. ca the pleugh, V, 105, A (Child #277 A) 10. waft (emend from wraft) was neer ca'd throw, I, 424 a, 12, 13; 425, 12, 13. ca'd the table wi her foot, II, 313, (Child #91 B) 20. ca'd out the sheriff's een, IV, 392, (Child #249 A) 19.
ca'd by ca'd by Andrew Lammie, IV, 302, (Child #233 A) 1: called by the name of.
caddie See cadie.
cadger, cauger an itinerant huckster, corn-caugers, III, 479, (Child #187 A) (Child #187 B) 8 (= corn-buyers, 491, 6; corn-dealers, 492, 4).
cadgily V, 115, (Child #279 app) 1: merrily.
cadie, caddie IV, 351, (Child #240 A) 4, 5; 353, 6, 7, 9, 10, etc.: a young fellow who does errands, or any inferior kind of work.
caft IV, 330 a, appendix, (Child #236 app) 2: calved.
cairdman II, 474, (Child #110 I) (Child #110 J) 9, 10: tinker, beggar.
cald III, 455, (Child #182 C) (Child #182 D) (Child #182 E) 10: could.
cale, call, calle V, 221, 20; 228, 19; 247, 1 (Manuscript calld); 248, 21; 257, 15: cold.
call a call opon, V, 221, 14, 19: a call out, (simply) call.
call v., III, 62, (Child #117 A) 113; 111, 38: address.
calland II, 267, (Child #83 B) (Child #83 C) 9: lad.
called their grandmother over IV, 70, G (Child #200 G) 2: corrupted from cast their glamour oer her.
caller, cauler IV, 484, after 23; 485, 19: (of air), fresh.
cam pret. of come: III, 61, (Child #117 A) 91; 69, 259.
came home, came hame of child-birth, IV, 405, (Child #252 B) (Child #252 C) 54; 420, 5. See bring hame.
cammer II, 131, (Child #66 B) (Child #66 C) 6: (conjecture for cannell) cambric (Scottish cammeraige, camroche).
camovine IV, 212, (Child #219 A) 4; 213, 12: camomile.
campioun II, 386, (Child #99 E) (Child #99 F) 18: champion.
campy I, 304, (Child #33 E) (Child #33 F) 1: having the quality or make of a champion, or (name) champion (like kempy).
camric cambric.
can II, 445, (Child #109 A) 62; 450, 67; III, 66, (Child #117 A) 210; 67, 227; 162, 55: knows.
can inf., will never can steer ye, IV, 69, (Child #200 E) 15.
can, cann an auxiliary of the present tense, can bee = is: II, 442, (Child #109 A) 14; 443, 30; 444, 51; 446, 93. Cf. do be (are), I, 184, (Child #15 A) (Child #15 B) 47. (may be, II, 448, (Child #109 B) 33; 451, 100; might be, III, 452, (Child #182 A) 10, show a misunderstanding of this.) auxiliary of the past tense, = did: II, 446, (Child #109 A) 81, 84; III, 65, (Child #117 A) 184; 67, 223; 298, 56. (Probably a corruption of gan.) cold, colde, could, cowde, = did: I, 294, (Child #31 A) 23, 24; III, 298, (Child #161 A) 56, 59; 440, 10; IV, 3, (Child #189 A) 19; V, 278, 37. cold be, II, 443, (Child #109 A) 34; III, 413, (Child #176 A) 34: were, was. cold see, III, 413, 32: saw, have seen. (An extension of the use of can = gan.)
cankerdly III, 160, (Child #134 A) 13; 267, 10: crossly.
cankred III, 189, A (Child #142 A) 9: ill-humored, complaining, crabbed (Scottish canker, to fret), with reference to the behavior in 6. But as John shows no crooked temper to the palmers, possibly cankred is to be taken literally as crooked (see B 10), having in mind Icel. kengr, a crook of metal, English kink, etc.
cannas, cannis, canies V, 239, 35; 276, 14, 15: canvas, coarse cloth.
cannel II, 147, (Child #68 C) 3, 4: candle.
canny adj., IV, 303, (Child #233 A) 16; 304, 4: gentle. IV, 305, (Child #233 B) (Child #233 C) 25: cautious. IV, 306, (Child #233 C) 17: clever, expert. V, 121 a: wily. IV, 132, G (Child #209 G) 4: canny (Cannygate) seems to be for jingle, but may be a term of general commendation.
canny, cannie, cannilie adv., IV, 154, (Child #212 F) 4; 304, 14; 306, 29: cautiously. IV, 133, (Child #209 G) (Child #209 H) 3, 4; 306, 18; 354, 2, 3: attentively. I, 245 f., (Child #24 A) 11-14: carefully, expertly. I, 245, (Child #24 A) 8, 9: expertly, or gently. II, 161, (Child #69 C) 18: slowly, or softly.
cantie, canty IV, 261, (Child #226 D) (Child #226 E) 3; 317, F 6; V, 115, (Child #279 app) 2: merry.
cap, caup II, 344, (Child #94 A) 1: cup.
cap, cape V, 230 a, 10, 11: catch, pret., p.p. caped, II, 317, B b 20; V, 219, 23; 271, 14: struck. See kep.
cape V, 79, (Child #273 app) 32: cloak.
capull-hyde III, 92, (Child #118 A) 7; 93, 44; 94, 48: horse-hide.
care car, cart.
care v., II, 370, (Child #97 B) 16: mind, object.
care-bed II, 58, (Child #61 A) 4; 433, 3; 434, 28; 435, 47; 436 f., 58, 79 (of a hopeless lover): almost, or quite, sick-bed; (of a mother) III, 3, (Child #114 A) 2; so, bed of care, V, 227, 11. "care-bed lair, a disconsolate situation; a sick-bed." Jamieson.
carefull III, 57, (Child #117 A) 28; 343, 18: full of care, sorrowful.
carket, carknet I, 69, (Child #5 A) 56; 71, 46: necklace.
carl, carle, carel, carril, cerl II, 466 f., (Child #110 E) 35, 36, 45, 46; III, 189, B (Child #142 B) 10, 11; IV, 493 f., 7, 11, 30; V, 237, 6, 7; 238, 12, 13, etc.: fellow, man of low condition, peasant.
carlin, carline old woman, V, 26, (Child #268 A) 24; of a gentleman's mother, I, 71, (Child #5 B) 31; of a wealthy woman, II, 238, 1, 2. low-born woman, peasant woman: II, 467, (Child #110 E) 40, 47; 469 f., 42, 51, 56-58; V, 26, (Child #268 A) 24.
carlish churlish, uncivilized.
carrlis careless.
carnal II, 8, (Child #55 A) 1, 2, 4: (cornicula, corneille) crow.
carp, carpe III, 127, play, (Child #123 app) 31; 310, 58: talk. In, harp and (or) carp, I, 324, (Child #37 A) (Child #37 B) 5; 325, 5; 329, 2; IV, 18, (Child #192 A) (Child #192 B) 9, 10; 19, B 5, 6, 12; 20 f., C 7, D 7, 8; 21, E 8; 23, A c 22; 454 b; 455, 8, carp seems to mean tell tales, probably sing or chant tales (ballads) to the harp. See I, 329, 2, 3.
carping III, 13, (Child #115 A) 1; IV, 21, (Child #192 D) (Child #192 E) 17: talk, tale.
carry IV, 247, C (Child #225 C) 11; 253, 15: pass, allow to pass, make effective, hold good.
case, in case that I, 351, (Child #39 G) 38; II, 103, (Child #64 A) 1, 8; 171, 22; IV, 205, (Child #217 M) 17: against the chance that, lest.
case, cassed V, 274, 4, 5: cause, caused.
casey, cassie IV, 354, (Child #240 C) (Child #240 D) 4; V, 16, (Child #267 B) 2, 3, 5, 6: causeway.
cast n., III, 68, (Child #117 A) 248: venture. (Possibly cost, outlay.)
cast pret., coost, koost, cust, cuist, keist, kiest, kyst, kest. p.p. casten, castin, coosten, custan, cuisten.
cast III, 308, (Child #162 A) 17: project, intend, cast on sleepe, III, 401, (Child #174 A) 10: thrown into a sleep, fallen asleep.
cast pret., III, 344, (Child #167 B) 34: struck, (upcast, III, 349, 34.)
casten, castin p.p. of cast, I, 245, (Child #24 A) 7; 463, 3; II, 115, (Child #65 A) (Child #65 B) 29; V, 300, 2; 306, 14.
cat o clay III, 11, L: a roll of straw and clay wrought together, used in building mud walls. Perhaps only a bit of clay.
caterans V, 253 b, 1: robbers, Highland or Irish irregular soldiers. (Gaelic ceatharnach, soldier.)
cauger See cadger.
caul, kell IV, 483, 20: a woman's cap.
cauler IV, 26, (Child #193 A) (Child #193 B) 6; 485, 19: cool, fresh. See caller.
caup II, 472, (Child #110 G) (Child #110 H) 27: cup. See cap.
cause in that cause to flee, II, 421, (Child #103 B) 34: exigency (such exigency that you had to flee).
caution III, 447 b; 451, note *: surety.
cavil, kavil, kaivle, kevel (Dutch kavel), I, 69, (Child #5 A) 46, 48: lot.
caw, cawd See ca'.
cawte III, 296, (Child #161 A) 26: wary.
ceppet, kepit II, 410, (Child #101 B) (Child #101 C) 6; 407, 13: received, caught, when falling. See cap, cape.
cerl See carl.
cerstyn III, 111, (Child #121 A) 44: Christian.
certyl III, 14, (Child #115 A) 15: kirtle (man's garment).
césererá, sassaray II, 207, A (Child #75 A) 5; 209, E 5: intended for an imitation of the sound of bells.
chaflare III, 111, (Child #121 A) 33; 113, 68; V, 79, (Child #273 app) 21, 25: ware, merchandise.
chaffe III, 34, (Child #116 app) 11: chuff, clown, loon, simpleton.
chaft-blade III, 269, (Child #157 C) (Child #157 D) 9; V, 243, 12: jaw-bone.
chafts III, 267, (Child #157 A) (Child #157 B) 16: chaps, jaws.
chalmer, chamer, chaumer, chamber chamber thy words, II, 435, (Child #107 A) 45: restrain, suppress, be chary of.
changehouse IV, 153, E (Child #212 E) 3: tavern, ale-house.
channerin II, 239, (Child #79 A) (Child #79 B) 11: fretting, petulant.
chap knock, rap, tap: I, 107, (Child #8 A) 3, 4; 465, 11; 481, 29; II, 140, (Child #67 B) (Child #67 C) 15; 177, 14, 16; 272, 14; 313, 14; IV, 445 f., 3, 4; V, 228, 16; 306 b, 1. of the striking of the hour, II, 371, (Child #97 C) 7.
chaperine III, 514, 10, would make some sense as chapel, but the form is unaccountable except as a popular diminutive.
chare, III, 250, J (Child #155 J) 7, 8: turn, charge, IV, 457, 1, must be understood as charge not, forbid.
charter (simply): III, 358, (Child #168 app) 82. See chartre of peace.
chartre of peace III, 27, (Child #116 A) 108: grant of pardon, paper condoning past offences.
chase III, 26, (Child #116 A) 74: follow up, hunt down, chase the wine, III, 169, (Child #136 A) 24: follow, keep up, like follow strong drink. (But a rhyme-end.)
chaunler-chaftit I, 303, (Child #33 C) (Child #33 D) (Child #33 E) 6: having chafts (chops) like a chandler (candlestick, lantern), lantern-jawed, with a long, thin face.
chaunter I, 438, B (Child #49 B) 6: usually, tube of the bagpipe, which would not be expected here. A book of chants would suit. Cf. Sir Hugh, III, 247, (Child #155 E) (Child #155 F) 20; 248, 14; 249, H 7, I 5, etc.
chays hunting-ground.
che I, 415 b: she.
chear II, 193, (Child #73 G) (Child #73 H) 27: sounds expressing a state of feeling (here sad). IV, 18, (Child #192 A) (Child #192 B) 19: referring to the evening's entertainment, or, simply doing and saying. See chore.
chear well to III, 160, (Child #134 A) 11: have good cheer at.
check tether's check, V, 213, 10: spike of a tether.
cheel IV, 69, (Child #200 E) 12: child, fellow.
cheepe better cheepe, V, 15, (Child #267 A) 26: (price) cheaper.
cheeped IV, 516, 15: chipped, broken.
cheik II, 336, P (Child #93 P) 2, close to the cheik and chin: cheik is door-post, chin of ten = gin, the contrivance for fastening, but gin would not come in well here, and it is likely that chin is meaningless, coming in because of its frequent association with cheek (kissed her cheek and chin, etc.), see door-cheik.
chelvellrye IV, 503, 1: corrupt. Read, chevauchie, excursion on horseback? (would a progress ride, III, 343, (Child #167 B) 2.)
chepe, cheepe n., bargain, better chepe, III, 69, (Child #117 A) 259: more cheaply, gret chepe! III, 111, (Child #121 A) 34: great bargain!
chepe v., III, 110, (Child #121 A) 26; 111, 33: cheapen, bargain for, or buy.
chere, cheer, cheir, chier, chear carefull, sorry chere, III, 57, (Child #117 A) 28; 68, 239: face, countenance. I, 109, (Child #8 B) (Child #8 C) 14; 117, 6; 330, B 7; II, 189, (Child #73 E) 37; III, 441, (Child #179 A) 37; IV, 20, (Child #192 C) (Child #192 D) 15: of state of mind, bearing, or behavior. III, 66, (Child #117 A) 197; 67, 215; 75, 394; IV, 18, (Child #192 A) (Child #192 B) 19: entertainment, merry-making, here is a symple chere, III, 59, (Child #117 A) 61. made gode chere, III, 100, (Child #119 A) 67: repast.
cherish v., I, 76, (Child #5 D) (Child #5 E) 19; IV, 96, C (Child #204 C) 11; 437, 25: cheer.
cherry V, 264, 4: sherry.
chess I, 86, (Child #6 A) 15: jess, strap; properly, leather strap for a hawk's leg (explained by R. Jamieson, hawk's bell).
chess IV, 457, L 8, dancin in a chess: chace? forest? Probably corrupt, since A 10, B 10, I, 341, 343, have playing at the chess.
chess, chiss of farie, V, 165 f., (Child #294 A) 6, 9, 10: corrupt; read, cheese o Fyvie (see V, 305 f.).
chest, kist IV, 342, (Child #238 E) 12: coffin.
cheue v., III, 73, (Child #117 A) 349: end. See chewys.
cheverons III, 374, (Child #170 B) (Child #170 C) 8: gloves.
chewys I, 327, 20: endest, comest off. (French chevir.) See cheue.
cheys III, 112, (Child #121 A) 48: choose.
child, chiel, chil, cheel child, young fellow: I, 72, (Child #5 C) 8; 367, 3; IV, 69, (Child #200 E) 12; 432, 15; V, 278, 33. as an appellation, II, 85 f., (Child #63 A) 1, 2, 6, etc.; 128 f., 1, 5, 8, etc.; 264 f., 1, 7, etc.; V, 157, (Child #291 A) 1, 6, etc. auld chiel, V, 125, 6, 8: devil. pl. chylderin, III, 13, (Child #115 A) 2, 3.
childer III, 478, (Child #187 A) 24; IV, 99, (Child #204 G) (Child #204 H) 11: children.
chill V, 287, 16: child.
chimly II, 71, (Child #62 B) 9; IV, 481, 22; V, 122, (Child #281 A) 5: chimney.
chin chappit at the chin, II, 140, (Child #67 B) (Child #67 C) 15, 24; stecked doors close to the chin, II, 336, P (Child #93 P) 2: gin, that is, pin. See gin, pin.
chine IV, 188, (Child #216 A) (Child #216 B) 18: chin.
chip-hole I, 305, (Child #33 G) 3: a hole chipped or cracked, a chink.
chiss, chess V, 165 f., (Child #294 A) 6, 9, 10: cheese. See V, 305 f.
chive II, 362, (Child #96 C) (Child #96 D) 34 = schive, slice.
chiven play the, III, 145, (Child #128 A) 8: "run away precipitately," Nares; chiven, chivin = chub, or any shy fish, chivie = fearful.
choice, choise II, 463, (Child #110 C) 17; 469, 34; 473, 12; V, 269, 15: choose.
choised chosen.
choose, chose I, 103, (Child #7 D) (Child #7 E) (Child #7 F) 7; 329, 2; IV, 211, notes, (Child #218 A) (Child #218 B) 6: choice.
choosed p.p., III, 440, (Child #179 A) 23.
chossen p.p., chosen.
christendom, christendame, christendoun, christendoom I, 341, (Child #39 A) 21; 344, 20; 346, 11; 350, 24; 369, 48; 370, 15, 19: christening (as in Old English).
christentie, cristendie I, 286, (Child #30 A) 46; II, 53, (Child #60 A) 41; V, 192, (Child #305 A) 22, 33; 194, 65: Christendom.
chrystall II, 52, (Child #60 A) 17: rock-crystal, a variety of quartz.
church-style IV, 412, (Child #254 A) (Child #254 B) 14: the gate of the enclosure round a church.
churlish I, 102, (Child #7 C) (Child #7 D) 2: of vulgar derivation.
chylderin See child.
cirsned p.p., V, 224, 19: christened.
clade, clead, cleed clad.
claes, claise I, 488, 17; II, 90, (Child #63 C) 25; IV, 18, (Child #192 A) (Child #192 B) 16; 262, 22; V, 118, (Child #280 B) (Child #280 C) 6, 7, 14: clothes.
claiding, cleadin etc., IV, 424, (Child #258 A) 12: clothing.
claith II, 131, (Child #66 B) (Child #66 C) 8: garment.
clam pret. of climb, II, 166, (Child #69 G) 35; V, 249, 4.
clap in a clap, IV, 41 b: moment.
clap II, 269, (Child #83 D) 25; IV, 278, (Child #229 A) (Child #229 B) 4; 303, 18; 403, 12; 414, 25, 14; V, 125, (Child #281 D) 4; 277, 7: pat, fondle, embrace.
clappit at V, 173, (Child #299 A) (Child #299 B) 1: knocked at (with ellipsis of the door).
clarry claret.
clatter IV, 21, (Child #192 D) (Child #192 E) 14: to be loquacious.
clead, cleed, cleid, clied I, 220, B (Child #20 B) 6; 224, J 6, 7; 225, L 2, 4; 504 b, 2; IV, 451 a, 2; V, 211 b, 4: clothe. pret. cled, IV, 492 a, 1. p.p. clead, IV, 456, 1.
cleadin, cleeding, cleiding, clieden, cliding n., II, 92, (Child #63 E) 7; 108, 6; 183, 19; 273, 24; IV, 445, 12; 457, 2, 7; 515, 4: clothing, one of thy cleeding, II, 271, (Child #83 E) 18: dresses.
cleare III, 307, (Child #162 A) 5; IV, 166, C (Child #214 C) 7; 477, 21; 506, 22: bright.
cleathe I, 222, F (Child #20 F) 11, 12; V, 128, (Child #282 A) 27, 28: clothe.
clecked, clekit pret., p.p., I, 254 a; II, 261, (Child #82 A) 7: hatched.
cleek n. and v., I, 494, 13; V, 106 E (Child #277 E) 4; 122, 5: hook.
clef pret. of cleave, III, 13 f., (Child #115 A) 5, 15.
cleffe III, 109, (Child #121 A) 6; 112, 52: cleave.
cleiding, clieden clothing. See cleadin.
clekit, clecked I, 254 a: hatched.
cleugh, clough III, 22, (Child #116 A) 1; IV, 6, (Child #190 A) 13; 7, 26; V, 182, (Child #304 A) 1; 250, 12: a hollow between steep banks, narrow glen or valley, high rocky bank.
cleynt pret., V, 80, (Child #273 app) 43: clung.
clied See clead.
clift I, 137, A c 6: cliff.
clifting IV, 179, (Child #215 A) (Child #215 B) 4: clift, cleft, fissure.
cliitt III, 179, (Child #140 A) 5: read clutt, clouted, patched.
cling V, 154, (Child #290 A) (Child #290 B) 15: shrink.
clintin IV, 179, B (Child #215 B) 1: crevice, fissure, = clifting, A 4.
cloathe III, 93, (Child #118 A) 43; 174, 24: garment.
clock IV, 3, (Child #189 A) 20, 22: limper, hobbler (Fr. clocher, Picard cloquer).
clocken-hen V, 92, (Child #274 A) 15, 16: sitting hen.
clod got the clod that winna cling, V, 154, (Child #290 A) (Child #290 B) 15: the loaf of bread (?) that will not shrink (but will rise?), referring to the impending increase of her size.
cloks II, 166, (Child #69 G) 36: beetles.
Clootie I, 5, (Child #1 C) (Child #1 D) 18: a name for the Devil, from cloot, the half-hoof of a cloven-footed beast.
close, closs enclosure, yard, and, before a house, court-yard: I, 145, (Child #11 A) 15; 146, 10, 19, 21; 147, 14; 148, G 10; 149, I 7; V, 173, (Child #299 A) (Child #299 B) 1; 279, No 257, 11; 306 b, 2. castle-yard: IV, 84, (Child #203 A) 22; 86, C 10; 87, 7; 89, 10. lady standing in the close pinning her gown, III, 436, (Child #178 G) 3. close parler, III, 431, (Child #178 A) (Child #178 B) 22: securely enclosed, or fastened? 23, you are in close: one (not trustworthy) transcript has to chose, which would make easier sense. Saint Evron's closs, I, 146, (Child #11 B) 19, 21: cloister?
closely III, 470 a: covertly, without attracting observation.
closs See close.
cloth and fee III, 433, (Child #178 C) (Child #178 D) 7: clothing and wage, holde with cloth and fee, III, 61, (Child #117 A) 107: retained by presents of clothes and money.
clot-lether, clout-lether V, 79, (Child #273 app) 27: mending-leather.
cloudy II, 31, N (Child #58 N) 1, cloudy stone: (A.S. clúdig) rocky. (Read, cloud and stone reef and rock?)
clout n., V, 116, (Child #280 A) (Child #279 app) 10: patch. See clouts.
clout-leather, clouting-leather V, 77, (Child #273 A) 39; b 39; 83, 55: leather for mending, patching.
clouts II, 463, (Child #110 C) 24, 470, 54: pieces of cloth for bed-coverings, or sheets (linsey clouts, canvas clouts). II, 470, (Child #110 F) 53: duds, clothes. See clout.
clouty I, 206, (Child #17 G) (Child #17 H) 35; 207, 33; V, 110, (Child #279 A) 2; 116, 4, 5: patched.
clud IV, 174, (Child #214 L) (Child #214 M) 12, clud o night: cloud.
clunkers, clunkerts I, 305, (Child #33 G) 13; V, 213, 9: clots of dirt.
clutt III, 179, (Child #140 A) 5: clouted (given wrongly cliitt).
clyffe III, 91 a (play): rive, sunder, be split.
co V, 250, 17, 19: quo, quoth.
coad II, 132, (Child #66 C) 27. See cod.
coardie V, 244, 7: cowardice.
coat-neuk II, 107, (Child #64 C) (Child #64 D) 3, 5: corner of his coat.
coate-armor III, 284, (Child #159 A) 11, 13: surcoat or tabard, embroidered with armorial bearings, worn over the armor as a personal distinction, and for identification, the face being concealed.
coble IV, 128, (Child #209 B) 7; 359, 2, 5, etc.: boat (yawl, flat-bottomed boat).
cock II, 472, (Child #110 G) (Child #110 H) 20, 28; V, 269, 14: knots, or other arrangements, of ribbon for the hair. (French coque.)
cockward I, 285, (Child #30 A) 24, 26: old cock, fool (French coquard).
cod, coad I, 68, (Child #5 A) 29; II, 132, (Child #66 C) 27; 270, 27: pillow.
coffer trunk or box, for clothes and valuables: I, 69, (Child #5 A) 60; 71, 49; II, 375 f., (Child #98 C) 23, 26, 29; IV, 258, (Child #226 B) (Child #226 C) 19. In a commonplace with mantle: I, 350, (Child #39 G) 16; III, 244, (Child #155 A) (Child #155 B) 11; IV, 385, (Child #246 A) (Child #246 B) 26; V, 175, (Child #300 A) 2; absurdly introduced in the first two instances; ridiculously corrupted, I, 348 f., F (Child #39 F) 1,3, 13; II, 475, (Child #110 J) (Child #110 K) 5.
coft I, 356, (Child #39 I) 56; 394, 9; 397, D 8, 10, 12; III, 11, (Child #114 J) (Child #114 K) (Child #114 L) (Child #114 M) 6; V, 118, (Child #280 B) (Child #280 C) 9; 162, C 7; 163, 13: bought.
cog, coug II, 30, (Child #58 K) (Child #58 L) 6; IV, 378 f., (Child #245 A) (Child #245 B) 2, 3, 20; 379 f., 2, 4, 17-19; V, 275, 2, 3, 9: boat, vessel.
cog, cogie II, 273 a; IV, 199, (Child #217 G) 15; 200, 17; 206, 9; V, 273 a: milk-pail.
coif, quoif II, 280, B (Child #85 B) 3; III, 514 b, 3; 515 a, 1, 4: cap.
coil (of hay), II, 233, (Child #77 E) (Child #77 F) (Child #77 G) 7: cock.
coilyear V, 70 b: collier, charcoal-burner.
cold, could, coud understood, cold of wisdome, of curtesye, I, 271, (Child #29 A) 1, 3. cold of his curtesie, I, 286, (Child #30 A) 49; V, 132, 3. cold, could, coud his curtesye, II, 433, (Child #107 A) 10; 435, 35; III, 75, (Child #117 A) 385; V, 132, 3.
cold, could, coud did. See can.
cole III, 74, (Child #117 A) 372; 76, 421: cowl, monk's hood, also frock, which last is intended here, for the king wears a broad hat and puts on a green garment when he casts off his cowl.
coled (high coled). See colld.
coll v. See cow.
coll cold.
collaine, collayne, collen swords of, III, 298, (Child #161 A) 50: of Cologne steel, collaine, collen brand, I, 286, (Child #30 A) 45, 42, 43.
colld, coled cut, shaped, fashioned, high-colld hose, I, 69, (Child #5 A) 52; 71, 42. high coled stockings, I, 72, (Child #5 C) 9: made to go to the knee or above (perhaps in contradistinction to short hose, worn by common people), high-coled shoon, I, 73, (Child #5 C) 64. laigh-colld shoon, I, 69, (Child #5 A) 52; 71, 42; 72, 9: low-cut shoes, high-colld hat, IV, 204, (Child #217 L) (Child #217 M) 12: hat peaked before and behind.
colleen II, 497 f., 4, 13, 16: (Ir. and Sc. Gaelic cailin, diminutive of caile, simple country maid) girl.
collen of Cologne. See collaine.
com, come pret. of come, I, 244, (Child #23 A) 10, 13; 328, 46.
comand V, 80, (Child #273 app) 56: commanded. (Read, comanded?)
comd pret. of come, III, 430, (Child #178 A) 6; 467, 61. p.p., I, 324, 4; III, 464, (Child #185 A) 3, 7.
come pret. cam, com, come, coom, comd. pret. pl. come. ptc. pres. coomin. p.p. comen, commen, coom, comd.
come pret. pl. of come, III, 216, (Child #149 A) 34.
come by (life), IV, 515, 7: get, obtain, gain.
comen, commen p.p. of come, II, 52, (Child #60 A) 19; 54, 46; III, 35, (Child #116 app) 32.
comentye, comyntie III, 361, b, c 58: commonalty.
comfort p.p. of comfort, II, 370, (Child #97 B) 22.
commant p.p. of command, III, 9, (Child #114 G) (Child #114 H) 1.
commaunded theym agayne III, 77, (Child #117 A) 430: come has perhaps dropped out; later editions, them to come.
compare made him no compare, V, 260, No 221, 1: made no comparison (of others) with him.
compass I, 346 f., (Child #39 D) 17, 25; 351, 32, 44: circle.
compear, compeir III, 364 b; IV, 81 b; 164 a: appear.
comt count.
complete sang sae sweet and sae complete, V, 301, No 200: excellently, skilfully.
compted III, 77, (Child #117 A) 437: emendation for commytted of 80 and 81, 437. (85, 88, commended for.)
comunye I, 285, (Child #30 A) 31: communing.
comyn-bell III, 100, (Child #119 A) 73: town bell, a clerc the commun belle rong. Robert of Gloucester, p. 541, Hearne.
condescend upon IV, 41 b, note: particularize.
conduction III, 403 a: direction, charge.
cone liftet up the cone, IV, 484, a, last stanza: apparently the face-cloth, which may have been gathered into a conical form the better to fit the face. J. Aiken.
conferred III, 336, note †: made the subject of conference.
conform IV, 63 b: conformably.
confound II, 443, (Child #109 A) 38; 449, 44: be the destruction of.
conquess V, 191 f., (Child #305 A) 9, 13, 23, 35: conquer.
convay See convoy.
conve V, 117, (Child #280 A) (Child #280 B) 13; 268, 27, 28: convoy, escort.
convened III, 409 a, note: agreed.
convenient IV, 78, (Child #202 A) 4: suitable.
convention made a, III, 364 a: had a meeting.
convey See convoy.
convoy, convay n., I, 252, (Child #25 B) (Child #25 C) (Child #25 D) 16; IV, 37, (Child #195 A) (Child #195 B) 15; 38, 15; 267, 14: escort. IV, 453, 6: of attendance upon the dead.
convoy, convey v., II, 27, (Child #58 H) (Child #58 I) 4: convey. IV, 267, (Child #227 A) 3, 10; 269 f., f 2, 3, g 3; 317, 7; 318, 12; V, 119, (Child #280 D) (Child #280 E) 12: escort, accompany part of the way homeward, or on a journey, see a friend off, a young woman home.
coom p.p., V, 296 a: come.
coomin ptc., V, 296 a: coming.
coops IV, 461, 4: carts (tip-carts).
coost, koost pret. of cast, I, 73, (Child #5 C) 59; 102, 18; IV, 477, 6; V, 173, (Child #299 A) (Child #299 B) 3, 4. I, 74, (Child #5 C) (Child #5 D) 70; 78, 48: threw things about. p.p. coosten, I, 77, (Child #5 E) (Child #5 F) 5; 324, B 6; 371, 3.
coot, queet IV, 212, (Child #219 A) 5: ankle.
cop, coppe I, 244, (Child #23 A) 9; III, 123, (Child #123 A) 6: head.
coped overset. See couped.
cor, Corehead, Corhead V, 192, (Child #305 A) 37; 195 f., 35 (Manuscript, Carhead); 196, 52: (Gaelic coire, cauldron, dell) corrie, a hollow in a hill. Jamieson. Penman's Core, 193, 51, 55, 58, described as a hollow on the top of a high ridge of hills, might possibly be Penman score (score, a deep, narrow, ragged indentation on the side of a hill, South of Scotland. Jamieson). poor man's core, V, 196, (Child #305 B) 52, corruption.
corbie I, 253, 1; 254, b 1, c 1; III, 473, (Child #186 A) 23: raven.
cordain, cordan, cordevine II, 435, (Child #107 A) 50; IV, 312, (Child #235 A) 7; 317, P 3: Cordovan leather.
cordin shoon laced with cordin, IV, 435, (Child #263 A) 8: cording, cord (and not with whangs of leather).
cordiuant adj., V, 49, (Child #271 A) 23: of Spanish, Cordovan leather.
cored II, 217 f., (Child #76 A) (Child #76 B) 5, 10: covered.
coresed (hors), III, 61, (Child #117 A) 100: bodied (?) (later texts, corese, corse).
corn II, 88, (Child #63 B) 17, 18, etc.: in Scotland, unground oats. (Here distinguished from white meal, which is usually oat-meal.)
corn-caugers III, 479, (Child #187 A) (Child #187 B) 8: cadgers, hucksters, in corn.
corp II, 218, (Child #76 B) 25; 229, 11: a vulgar singular of a supposed plural; corps, II, 217, (Child #76 A) (Child #76 B) 30; these corps, 31; cf. IV, 483, 23; 484 a, after 31. corpes, III, 231, (Child #154 A) 97, may be corpse.
cors curse.
corse, corss I, 117, (Child #9 E) 7; 351, 31, 32, 44; IV, 63, 8; 512 a, 9; V, 161, (Child #293 A) (Child #293 B) 4: cross.
corser III, 68, (Child #117 A) 256: should probably be forser = coffer (text g has coffer).
cosh, coush II, 363, (Child #96 D) (Child #96 E) 13: quiet (snug).
cote a pye, coate a pie, cote of pie III, 65, (Child #117 A) 194; 80, 194; 86, 194: corruption of courtepi, short cloak or gown. (Dutch kort, short, and pij, coat of warm woolen stuff.)
cots, coats III, 481, (Child #187 B) (Child #187 C) 2, 6: petticoats.
couchd V, 9, (Child #266 A) 12: lay, leaned.
coug, cog V, 275 b, 2, 3, 9: boat.
could did. See can.
couls V, 228, 19: cools, chills.
councell, counsell II, 58, (Child #61 A) 3; III, 58, (Child #117 A) 45; V, 52, (Child #271 A) 78: secret.
cound IV, 467, 13: count.
counsell II, 246, C (Child #81 C) 9-11; III, 217, (Child #149 A) 53: secret. See councell.
counterfeit p.p., V, 300, 10: counterfeited.
country-keeper V, 196, (Child #305 B) 41: "one employed in a particular district to apprehend delinquents." Jamieson.
coup, cupe cup.
couped, koupd, coped I, 469, (Child #53 D) (Child #53 E) 23; II, 313, (Child #91 B) 20; IV, 315, (Child #235 C) (Child #235 D) 14: overturned.
couper, cowper IV, 259, (Child #226 C) 7; 260, 7: buyer and seller, dealer.
couple-root I, 302, (Child #33 A) (Child #33 B) 13: rafter-end (the end resting on the wall).
courting III, 146, (Child #128 A) 20: demonstration of affection, embracing.
courtnolls V, 85, (Child #273 app) 14: courtiers.
courtrie V, 191, (Child #305 A) 5; 198 b, after 52: belonging to a court, courtiers.
coush, cosh IV, 483 b: quiet.
coustome IV, 507, 78: duty (the king will remit).
cout, cowte IV, 18, (Child #192 A) (Child #192 B) 20, 21; 21, 16: colt.
couth II, 357, (Child #96 A) 2: sound, word, Jamieson (the sense required, but the suggested derivation from Icel. kviðr, A.S. cwide, is not easy).
couent III, 60, (Child #117 A) 86; 357, 55: convent.
coving-tree II, 193, H (Child #73 H) 4: meeting-tree. "A large tree in the front of an old Scottish mansion-house, where the laird met his visitors." Similar to trysting-tree. Jamieson. In Roxburghshire, covin; in the north of England, covan, coban, and even capon. Denham Tracts, II, 226 ff.
cow twig. See broom-cow, heather-cow, kow.
cow coll (locks), II, 423, (Child #103 C) 4, 7: clip, (brume), III, 9, H (Child #114 H) 8: browse. (Norwegian kolla (Aasen), dock, take off the top.)
cowing eating.
cowper See couper.
cowte colt. See cout.
coxcomb III, 35, (Child #116 app) 19: pate.
crabby (crabbed), III, 488, (Child #188 A) 23: provoking.
crack, crak II, 271, (Child #83 E) 18; 488, 6, 10; III, 161, (Child #134 A) 28; IV, 261, (Child #226 D) (Child #226 E) 3; V, 106, E (Child #277 E) 3: talk. III, 487, (Child #188 A) 6, 14, 16: brag.
crackd (the Border-side), IV, 146, (Child #211 A) 4: defied, challenged. (In Scott's printed copy, bragged, defied.)
crack, crak a moment of time, in a crack, within a crack, IV, 314, (Child #235 B) (Child #235 C) 16; 315, 13; 317, E 6; V, 271, 13: instantly.
crack fingers in grief or perplexity, II, 26, G 16. See knack.
crae pret., V, 253 a, No 200, B a 8: crew.
crak See crack.
cramoisie, cramasie IV, 93, (Child #204 A) 8, 2, 3; 410, 17, 20; 472, 9: crimson.
crap II, 261, (Child #82 A) 10; 286, 16: crop, top.
crap pret. of creep, II, 323, (Child #93 A) (Child #93 B) 3; 330, H 3; 336, P 2; 337, 3.
crapotee I, 326, (Child #37 C) 6: toad-stone, supposed to be generated in the head of toads; "in fact, a petrifaction of the teeth of extinct fishes." Matzner. Sometimes defined, smaragdus, emerald.
cravin II, 335, N (Child #93 N) 2: asking for, demanding.
crawen, crawn p.p. of craw, crow, II, 139 f., (Child #67 A) (Child #67 B) 7, 12, 22; 222, 17; IV, 473, 36.
cray cry.
credence III, 449 b: credit.
creed n., IV, 262, (Child #226 E) 13, 14: blame.
creel V, 122, (Child #281 A) 5, 11, 12; 123, 5, 11; 124, 4, 12: basket.
creep pret. crap. See crap.
cries n., II, 73, (Child #62 C) 22: calls, demands.
Cristiante, Cristinty, Cristendie Christendom.
croche I, 413, (Child #45 A) (Child #45 B) 36: crouch.
croft IV, 142 a: a piece of land adjoining a house.
crooden, croodin, croodlin, croudlin I, 163 f., J (Child #12 J) 1, 2, etc.; 165, M 1, N 1, etc.; 166, K c 1: cooing.
cropped (knee), III, 280, (Child #158 B) 26: crooked (Icel. kroppinn).
cross v., V, 306, 6 (correct V, 166, (Child #294 A) 72, in accordance with this reading): oppose, p.p., the sheriff was crost, III, 157, so: balked.
croudlin See crooden.
crouds, cruds IV, 260, (Child #226 D) 5: curds.
crouse, crouselie, crously II, 169, (Child #70 B) 9; III, 161, (Child #134 A) 28; IV, 261, (Child #226 D) (Child #226 E) 3; V, 17, (Child #267 B) 33: briskly, merrily, jubilantly. III, 493, (Child #188 D) (Child #188 E) 16: (perhaps) bumptiously. See crowse.
crow, craw crow, ar the coc him crowe, I, 244, (Child #23 A) 18; V, 288 b, v. 33. p.p. crowen, crawen, crawn.
crowen p.p. of crow, II, 138, (Child #67 A) 7.
crowner I, 141 b: coroner.
crowse III, 457, B (Child #183 B) 5: audacious. See crouse.
crowt I, 273, (Child #29 A) 28: draw together, pucker up.
cruds n., IV, 260, (Child #226 D) 7, 18, 19; 262, 30; 265, A b 1, 11: curds.
cry, crye proclaim, proclamation, cry in, III, 320, A b 7: call in. cry on, upo, I, 127, (Child #10 B) 6; II, 150, (Child #68 E) (Child #68 F) 13; III, 318, (Child #163 A) 7; IV, 7, (Child #190 A) 24: call upon, summon, cryed out on Robyn Hode, III, 70, (Child #117 A) 296: cried out against, or, simply, cried out R. H."
cryance II, 58 f., (Child #61 A) 18, 20, 21: cowardice, faintheartedness (disposition to succumb).
cud V, 104 a: cudgel.
cuddy IV, 69, (Child #200 E) 6: ass.
cuirt pret., I, 439, C (Child #49 C) 11: covered.
cuist, cust pret. of cast, II, 248, (Child #81 C) (Child #81 D) 1, 2; IV, 68, E (Child #200 E) 2; 182, G 5; 394, C 1; V, 116, (Child #280 A) (Child #279 app) 5. keist, kiest, I, 69, (Child #5 A) 46; 75, 36; 80, 4.
cuisten p.p. of cast, I, 495, 11. See custan.
cum V, 191, (Child #305 A) 8: become.
cum pret. of come, III, 386, (Child #173 B) (Child #173 C) 22.
cumand ptc., V, 192 f., (Child #305 A) 35, 49: coming.
cumber V, 53, (Child #271 A) 104: oppress, torment. See cumre.
cumbruk cambric.
cummers V, 106, E (Child #277 E) 2: gossips (commeres).
cumre n., IV, 316, (Child #235 D) 19: cumber, trouble. See cumber.
cun thanke III, 68, (Child #117 A) 242: am, feel, grateful.
cunnes nones cunnes, I, 244, (Child #23 A) 11: of no kind, enes cunnes, I, 244, (Child #23 A) 12: of any kind.
cunning V, 82, (Child #273 app) 21: craft (mystery, trade).
curch, curche II, 131, (Child #66 B) (Child #66 C) 6; III, 472, (Child #186 A) 10: kerchief, woman's head covering.
cure III, 262, (Child #156 D) (Child #156 E) 7: pains. McNaughtoun's cure, II, 386, (Child #99 E) (Child #99 F) 25: "McNaughtoun's cure to ye is, Devil relieve ye." Motherwell.
curn III, 160, (Child #134 A) 19; IV, 85, (Child #203 A) (Child #203 B) 3: quantity, parcel, pack.
curst turne III, 93, (Child #118 A) 34: malignant, spiteful, ferocious job, piece of work, feat.
curstlye V, 53, (Child #271 A) 104: fiercely, savagely.
curtal (frier), III, 124 ff., (Child #123 A) (Child #123 B) 6, 7, 11, 13, etc.: (Lat. curtilarius) having charge of, attached to, the vegetable garden of a monastery, curtal dogs, 125, 34.
cust pret. of cast, V, 116, (Child #280 A) (Child #279 app) 5. See cuist.
custan p.p. of cast, III, 4, (Child #114 A) (Child #114 B) 2.
cut V, 202 a: horse.
cut V, 112, (Child #279 B) 7; 124, 6; 125, 5: bite, gnaw.
cutted (friar), III, 123, (Child #123 A) 3, 11, 13, 15, 17: short-frocked (but apparently a corruption of curtal, see III, 121 f.).
cutters III, 228, (Child #154 A) 10: bravos, robbers.
cuttie I, 72, (Child #5 C) 13; 74, 74: short.
cutties II, 470, (Child #110 F) 49: spoons.
cweet, queet II, 96, I (Child #63 I) 3: ankle.
cypress queen as fair as a cypress queen, V, 164, (Child #293 D) (Child #293 E) 15: Cyprus, Cypris (Venus).
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