[References are usually to volume, page, and stanza.]
s, se as sign of the future tense. I'se, III, 488, (Child #188 A) 19; IV, 428, (Child #260 B) 18. thou's,'se, IV, 3, (Child #189 A) 31; 12, C 6. he's, hee'se, II, 442, (Child #109 A) 16; IV, 146, (Child #211 A) 6. we's, I, 467, (Child #53 C) 29; IV, 181, D (Child #215 D) 14. ye'se, IV, 22, (Child #192 E) 18; 109, 7. yow's, IV, 504, 36. they's, IV, 486, 32. itt's, II, 443, (Child #109 A) 22. heart's, IV, 181, (Child #215 D) (Child #215 E) 17. Jocky Ha's, III, 487, (Child #188 A) 6. thy dinner's, III, 489, (Child #188 A) (Child #188 B) 41. (The s being the initial letter of sal, it would be better to write I s', etc.) s attached to the verb, be's, III, 160, (Child #134 A) 9. We even find shals, I, 481, (Child #53 N) 28.
-s, -is of the genitive, omitted, III, 97 f., (Child #119 A) 8, 23, 28; 111, 39. moder son, III, 98, (Child #119 A) 24, 27, as in A.S.
's II, 375, (Child #98 C) 19: of his.
-s, -se termination of the 2d pers. sing, of the pres. indic., thou was, I, 222, E (Child #20 E) 11; seese þou, I, 328, 38-42; þou commes, 44. thou's welcome, III, 488, (Child #188 A) 24. shals thou, I, 481, (Child #53 N) 28. istow, 175 f., D 4, 10, 16. See I, 130, (Child #10 E) (Child #10 F) 5; 327, 20; 328 f., 56, 58; 341, 13; 411, 4; 413, 3; II, 54, (Child #60 A) 57; 148 f., 12, 20; 218, 8, 10, 16; III, 97, (Child #119 A) 11, 15; 99, 62; 110, 23. Etc., etc.
-s, -es, -ys termination of pres. indic., plur.. cods that sleeps, cheeks gars, bairns has, lies men, raches rynnys, fowles synges, I, 68, (Child #5 A) 29; 115, C 3; 130, P 11; 327, 16; 329, 59; 342, 40; 345, 39; II, 32, P (Child #58 P) 4. So, is, was, I, 68, (Child #5 A) 27; 69, 43; 255, 3-5; 342, 30; 344, 28; II, 71, (Child #62 B) 13, 14. Etc.
saa pret., saw.
sabelline I, 221, D (Child #20 D) 8, 9: sable.
sackless, sakeless, saikless II, 145, (Child #68 A) (Child #68 B) 22, 23; 153, 19, 21; III, 437, (Child #178 G) 27; IV, 373, (Child #244 C) 9: innocent.
sad III, 67, (Child #117 A) 215; 357, 40: steadfast, firm, stanch.
saep v., III, 269, D (Child #157 D) 3: soap.
saerd p.p., IV, 494, 33: served.
safe II, 160, (Child #69 B) 4, 6, 7: save.
safeguard V, 66, (Child #272 A) 11: riding-skirt.
safer V, 283, 21: saffron.
safly IV, 18, (Child #192 A) (Child #192 B) 10: softly.
saft (of sleep), III, 489, (Child #188 A) (Child #188 B) 11: lightly.
saikless See sackless.
sain I, 351, (Child #39 G) 36, 48: cross, bless, p.p. sained, I, 354, (Child #39 I) 26. ill sained, pret., I, 350, (Child #39 G) 25. well saint, p.p., III, 488, (Child #188 A) 37.
saint III, 488, (Child #188 A) 37: blest. See sain.
saint v., disappear. See sainted.
St. Mary knot, St. Mary knott III, 465, (Child #185 A) 26, 27: a triple knot (see 462, note *).
sainted, saunted I, 331, C (Child #38 C) 8; 333 b, 8: disappeared.
saipy-sapples I, 303, D (Child #33 D) 5 (the right reading): soap-suds in which clothes have been washed (probably meaning the strang of V, 213, 5).
sair sore. I, 100, (Child #7 A) (Child #7 B) 9: lamentable.
sair, sare, saer, sere I, 301, (Child #33 A) 2; II, 71, (Child #62 B) 15; 105, 9; 408, 1, 2; IV, 248, (Child #225 C) (Child #225 D) 10; V, 105, B (Child #277 B) 3, 11; 239, 34: serve.
sairly IV, 358, (Child #241 C) 19: rhyme word; much is all the meaning.
salt set.
sakeless See sackless.
sale V, 228, 19: sold.
sail shall, pret. sould.
sally rod III, 252, (Child #155 N) (Child #155 O) 12: sallow, willow.
salten adj., IV, 452, 6; 475, 6: salt.
salued III, 61, (Child #117 A) 102: greeted.
Saluter III, 250, (Child #155 J) (Child #155 K) 3: corrupted from Sir Hugh (see other versions of the ballad).
same alle in same, III 91 a: all, together, vppon the same, III, 361, b 33: again, after the same fashion (?).
san, sane, sayn, syne V, 214 f., 4, 9; 221, 24; 242 a, 7; 257, 14: since.
sanchoþis of his bryk, III, 13, (Child #115 A) 3: apparently the fork of the breeches, but the etymology is to me inexplicable.
sang pret. of sing, to singe, II, 155, (Child #68 K) 37, 38.
sauna shall not.
sarbit II, 132, (Child #66 C) 33, 34: exclamation of sorrow.
sare serve. See sair. sare a man a wear, I, 301, (Child #33 A) 2: serve, supply, a man (of) with his wear, clothing.
sark I, 15, (Child #2 A) (Child #2 B) 8, 17; 16, B 8, 18, C 6, 18, etc.; 387 f., A 5, 8, 9; B 5, 6, 7: shirt, shift.
sarsenent IV, 312, (Child #235 A) 8: sarcenet.
sassaray II, 209, E (Child #75 E) 5: imitation of the sound of church-bells. See céserará.
sat, saut I, 310, (Child #34 B) 4: salt.
sate sit a gude sate, a silly sate, IV, 469, 8: occupy, be in, a good, pitiable, position.
sathe I, 333, appendix (Child #38 G) 1, wrongly written (or read) for sagh (or something equivalent), saw. (th in this piece very frequent for gh.)
saugh III, 459, (Child #184 A) 15; IV, 95, (Child #204 B) (Child #204 C) 2: willow.
saun faile V, 297 b: assuredly.
saunted, sainted I, 331, C (Child #38 C) 8; 335 b, 8: disappeared.
saut, sat IV, 258, (Child #226 B) (Child #226 C) 26: salt.
saute III, 327 b: assault, attack.
sauyour see (saw) my sauyour, III, 97, (Child #119 A) 7: attended mass, or, took the sacrament.
saving tree III, 398, D 4: corruption of savin tree.
saw v., I, 427, (Child #47 A) (Child #47 B) 13, 15; 428, 11: sow.
sawe p.p. of see, III, 59, (Child #117 A) 60.
sawe speech.
sawten v., 3 pl., III, 100, (Child #119 A) 63: assault, attack.
sawtrye I, 328, 49: psaltery, a stringed instrument.
say II, 87, (Child #63 A) (Child #63 B) 30: try.
say, saye pret. of see, III, 111, (Child #121 A) 34; 309, 44; V, 79, (Child #273 app) 35; 80, 47.
sayn, san, sane, syne V, 239, 34; 254, 9, 11, 13, 22; 257, 15: since, then.
sayne I, 70, (Child #5 A) (Child #5 B) 19, strong participle of say. In, I yow sayne, III, 297, (Child #161 A) 46, an auxiliary, do or can, must be omitted, or else we must read saye, as in 32, 34, 62, 65.
scad I, 102, (Child #7 C) (Child #7 D) 12: reflection (of the color of). In other texts, shade, shadow, I, 490, 21; 491, 20; 492, 12.
scaith, skaith, scath n., III, 162, (Child #134 A) 52, 66: hurt.
scaith, skaith v., III, 5, D (Child #114 D) 8; 6, 17: hurt.
scale I, 429, (Child #47 B) (Child #47 C) 11: a drinking-vessel. (Icelandic skál, Danish skaal, a bowl for drinking.)
scale III, 403 a: scatter, disperse. III, 393, (Child #173 I) 6: expel, drive away, scaling wide, III, 301, D (Child #161 D) 2: scattering, covering a good deal of ground.
scales V, 211, 25, 31-34: discs worn as ornaments on the head.
scanct I, 336 a, last line but one: shone, gleamed.
scarson II, 434, (Child #107 A) 29: scarcely up to.
scart I, 301, (Child #33 A) 5, 6; 303, D 2: scratch, scrape.
scath, scaith n., I, 284, (Child #30 A) 18: harm.
scathe awayte me scathe, III, 66, (Child #117 A) 202; wayte me skathe, wait me scath, III, 83, 202; 86, 202: lie in wait, seek an opportunity to do me harm.
scathe away I, 348 f., (Child #39 E) (Child #39 F) 6, 8: expel, get rid of? See skaith, I, 397, (Child #43 D) (Child #43 E) 14.
scaur Braidscaur, III, 5, D (Child #114 D) 2, 6: a bare and broken place on a steep hill; also, cliff, precipice. Broad-spear, 6, 2, 5, is probably a corruption.
Scere-thorsday I, 243, (Child #23 A) 1: Maundy Thursday, Thursday before Easter. (Icelandic Skíri-þorsdagr.)
schane pret., shone.
scharpper compar., V, 283, 6, 16: sharper. V, 283, 8: emend to strenger.
schele, scheel II, 164, (Child #69 F) 2; 335, N 5; IV, 328, A b, after 7: school. See schule.
schet, schette pret. of schote, shoot, III, 13 f., (Child #115 A) 13, 15.
schill See shill.
scho II, 146, (Child #68 B) 19; IV, 418, (Child #257 A) 2: she.
schon, shon, shone V, 79, (Child #273 app) 27: shoes. See sheen.
schoote his horsse away, froo, III, 297, (Child #161 A) 32, 33: discarded, sent off.
schrewde (arrow), III, 13, (Child #115 A) 6: accursed, pernicious, baneful.
schule, scheel, squeel II, 175, (Child #72 A) (Child #72 B) 16; IV, 327 f., (Child #236 E) (Child #236 F) 2, 5; 329, D d 7: school.
schunte besides, schunte beside III, 361, b, c 38, 41: turn aside from.
schylde imperat., V, 283, 14: shield, protect.
sckill I, 295, (Child #31 A) 28: reason, judgment. See skill.
sclasps twa lang sclasps between his eyes, IV, 489, 25: clasps. Span would answer were it not that there are but three sclasps between the shoulders. (In L 18, of the same ballad, II, 394, there are three women's spang (span) between his brows.) If sclasps were taken in the sense of fathom, the space between the arms extended, this would suit the shoulders well enough, but the absurd disproportion in relation to the eyes would remain. Probably yard or ell has dropped out in 254. (yards three in L 18.)
sclavin I, 190 a: pilgrim's cloak.
scob, scobb, scope, scoup II, 313, (Child #91 B) 26; 316, 10: gag.
scop III, 138, (Child #126 A) 9: (scalp) pate, head.
scope, scoup, scob II, 312, (Child #91 A) (Child #91 B) 29; V, 229, 33: gag.
score See cor.
scorn, skorne II, 105, (Child #64 B) 20; III, 113, (Child #121 A) 77: shame, humiliation, mortification, give the, this, a, scorn, III, 111, (Child #121 A) 12; 360, 23; 362, 35; 363, D 14; 367, 49; IV, 201, (Child #217 H) (Child #217 I) 23; 224, 24, 25; 254, 25; 357, B 6, 10; 358, 16; 465, 35, 36: put to shame, subject to humiliation (especially, by showing a preference as to marriage, or by slighting a woman). So, playd you the scorn, IV, 483, 25; get the scorn, II, 367, (Child #96 G) 47; IV, 221, (Child #221 C) (Child #221 D) 16; 222, 18, 19; 227, 16, 17; 228, 19; 230, 24.
scort I, 334, 4: short.
scoup n., V, 229, 33: gag. See scob, scope.
scoup v., II, 70, (Child #62 A) 15: move hastily from one place to another, fly.
scouth III, 161, (Child #134 A) 42: room, range.
scray III, 116, (Child #122 A) 4, as to form suggests scrag, scrog; but the meaning required is, branches, branchage, or even spray.
scread II, 425, A (Child #104 A) 6: shred, bit, piece.
screeded (or scrieded) pret., II, 212, (Child #75 I) 13: rent.
screeking, screening II, 485, (Child #112 C) 17: screeching.
screfe, screffe, shryve III, 111 ff., (Child #121 A) 27, 33, 38-42, etc.: sheriff.
screighed IV, 174, (Child #214 L) (Child #214 M) 20: shrieked.
scrieded See screeded.
scrime IV, 10, (Child #191 A) 2; serime, 15, d 2: seem to be corrupt; possibly, crime; pursuing the crime for pursuing the criminal.
scrodeley V, 79, (Child #273 app) 14: shrewdly, rudely, ungraciously.
scroggs, scrogs III, 3, (Child #114 A) 12; 5, C 3; 7, E, F 11; 9, G 10, H 13; 10, I 5; IV, 496, 8: stunted bushes, or perhaps trees; underwood. "Scroggs, blackthorn." Halliwell, from a Manuscript scrogg-bush, V, 10, (Child #266 A) (Child #266 B) 4 (high enough here to hang the pair on).
scroggy, scroggie IV, 174, (Child #214 L) (Child #214 M) 10; 273, 14: covered with stunted bushes; "abounding in underwood," Halliwell.
scug to scug his deadly sin, II, 283, (Child #86 A) (Child #86 B) 22: shade, screen. (Icel. skyggja, overshadow; Dan. skygge, Swed. skugga, shade.) expiate, W. Scott.
scuttle-dishes II, 467, (Child #110 E) 43: the larger dishes, in which things are served, in distinction from those out of which things are eaten (T. Davidson); platters.
se sign of the future tense. See s.
se pret. of see. See see.
sea-ground I, 448, (Child #51 A) (Child #51 B) 11: bottom of the sea.
sea-maw II, 363, (Child #96 D) (Child #96 E) 7; 365, 5; IV, 482 b, 6: gull.
seal IV, 409, (Child #253 A) 5: (A.S. sáel) happiness, blessing, gude seal that it sae spread, II, 420, (Child #103 A) (Child #103 B) 1: (happiness result from its spreading?) quod faustum sit!
seale III, 412, (Child #176 A) 24: sail.
sear, sair IV, 456 f., 15, 19: sore.
sear V, 223, 8: sure.
sear serve. See sair.
search her IV, 446, 2: look her up, see about her, overhaul (should, perhaps, be seek, visit).
seat V, 274 b, 1: sight.
seek I, 15, (Child #2 A) (Child #2 B) 15: sack. Second person of pret. indic. without termination, thou made, thou did, thou came, etc., I, 221, C (Child #20 C) 9; 222, E 10-17; 434, 27; II, 148 f., (Child #68 C) (Child #68 D) 12, 14, 20; 218, 16. So, thou will, schall, thou'll, well thow, I, 130, (Child #10 E) (Child #10 F) 4; 221, C 10, 11; III, 110, (Child #121 A) 24; 112, 48.
securly III, 98, (Child #119 A) 34: surely.
see (videre), pret. say, saye, sey, se, see, seed. pret. se, see, I, 283, (Child #30 A) 1; 295, 27; II, 46, (Child #59 A) (Child #59 B) 40; 245, 27; III, 24, (Child #116 A) 47; 27, 99; 97, 19. p.p. se, III, 27, (Child #116 A) 102.
see save and se(e), II, 44, (Child #59 A) 6, 15; 52 f., 10, 18, 44; III, 65, (Child #117 A) 177; IV, 198, G (Child #217 G) 4; 455, 4: protect (tueri).
see well mot ye fare and see, III, 266, (Child #157 A) 3: as here used, see well would have to mean, see prosperity; but apparently there is a confusion of well may you fare and God see you, protect you (as in, save and see). In B 3, p. 268, weel may ye save might mean, may God save you, but far better, in the next line, is not in concatenation, and we shall be obliged to understand weel as good fortune. The passage must be corrupted, well may you sit and see, lady, well may you sit and say, II, 290, (Child #88 B) 15: (corrupted) nonsense.
see sigh and see, IV, 193, (Child #217 A) 14: apparently a doublet of sigh, as ne of neigh and nigh, he of high.
see n., V, 283, 5, 15: sea.
seed pret. of see, IV, 151, (Child #212 A) (Child #212 B) 6.
seek, seke I, 75, (Child #5 D) 46; II, 146, (Child #68 B) 18, 20; 171, 16; III, 68, (Child #117 A) 255; V, 256 b, 14: search. I, 202, (Child #17 A) (Child #17 B) 16; 204, 11; V, 211, 19, 23: ask. socht, II, 30, (Child #58 K) (Child #58 L) 8: asked for. partic. seek and, seeking.
seek in V, 180, (Child #303 A) 13, 15: ask admission.
seeke to, seeke unto III, 444, (Child #180 A) 6: resort to.
seel o downs IV, 218, 12: chelidonium, celandine, mallow-wort.
seely happy, seely court, I, 315, (Child #35 A) 12; 507 f., 2, 12: fairy court (as I, 346, (Child #39 D) 16; elfin court, 351, so).
seen I, 504, 7: sun.
seen I, 183, (Child #15 A) 9, 15; II, 166, (Child #69 G) 20; 257, 30; IV, 135, (Child #209 I) (Child #209 J) 26: soon, seener, IV, 262, (Child #226 E) 31.
seen = syne, afterwards.
seene I scene, V, 53, (Child #271 A) 105: ellipsis of have.
seep II, 148, (Child #68 C) (Child #68 D) 10: ooze, leak.
seeth III, 281, (Child #158 C) 7: sooth.
seke III, 68, (Child #117 A) 255; 100, 76: search. See seek.
seke to, III, 110, (Child #121 A) 14: at a loss.
seker III, 67, (Child #117 A) 215: firm, resolute.
sekirlye I, 327, 18: certainly, truly.
seld IV, 2, (Child #189 A) 2: sold.
selerer III, 61, (Child #117 A) 91, 93; 67, 233: the monk who has charge of the provisioning of a convent.
selke V, 283, 21: silk.
selkie, silkie II, 494 a: seal.
selle I, 326, (Child #37 C) 6: saddle.
semblant, semblaunce, semblaunte, semblaunt III, 57, (Child #117 A) 22; 79, 22; 82, 22; 85, 22: mein, look.
sembled III, 160, (Child #134 A) 15: met. (b, asembled.)
sen sent.
sen II, 32, Q (Child #58 Q) 2; 110, 2; 272, 10, 12: since.
send, sene II, 360, (Child #96 B) (Child #96 C) 10; 365 f., (10), 17, 18: a thing sent. II, 109, (Child #64 F) 15: the messengers sent to fetch the bride.
send pret., I, 204, D (Child #17 D) 3: sent.
sendered IV, 229, (Child #221 K) 12, 16: sundered, parted.
senes IV, 315, (Child #235 C) (Child #235 D) 2; 316,25: sends, messages. See send.
sent III, 75, (Child #117 A) 384: sendeth.
sent sent I me, III, 76, (Child #117 A) 414: assent.
sentence past IV, 514, 6: order given.
sere serve. See sair.
serre II, 59, (Child #61 A) 29: sair, sore? (Manuscript serrett).
serundad, surunded V, 262, No 225, A 3; 263, 4: surrounded.
servit II, 371, (Child #97 C) 5: (serviette) table-napkin.
seruyd him of bred and cloth I, 241, (Child #22 A) 1: for would make an easier reading than of, which will have to be understood, on terms of (receiving food and clothing).
set V, 80, (Child #273 app) 57: sitteth.
set II, 168, (Child #70 A) (Child #70 B) 1; 282, 7; 463, 19, 25; III, 216, (Child #149 A) 29; IV, 135, (Child #209 I) (Child #209 J) 20; 204, 9; 331, 18: sit, become, suit, set a petticoat, IV, 331, (Child #236 app) 18: became (looked well in) the petticoat. See become.
set p.p., III, 37, (Child #116 app) 61: fixed, determined. See set for, below.
set her brest (and sworn), II, 459, (Child #110 A) 8: brought her breast to a level with the water. (Elsewhere, smoothed.)
set set a mill, I, 134, O, (Child #10 O) 8: to stop the machinery by turning off the water from the wheel.
set set the mouke to-fore the brest, III, 67, (Child #117 A) 223: assailed, shot at.
set (sete, and wrongly sat) a dynt on, vppon, of, III, 309, (Child #162 A) 42, 45, 46: inflicted a blow, stroke.
set by IV, 11, (Child #191 A) (Child #191 B) 15, 20: lay aside, cease, let be.
set for IV, 229, (Child #221 K) 12, 16: set upon, bent upon.
set them up in temper wood IV, 222, (Child #221 D) (Child #221 E) 20: corrupt. See note, 231, D 20.
sete n., III, 63, (Child #117 A) 133: suit, dress.
sett III, 340, (Child #167 A) 31: take aim.
settle by IV, 219, (Child #221 A) (Child #221 B) 13: set you aside (?).
settled gun, III, 341, (Child #167 A) 44: levelled, adjusted.
sevent II, 75, (Child #62 E) (Child #62 F) 7: seventh.
several III, 224, (Child #152 A) 13: variously.
sey pret. of see, V, 80, (Child #273 app) 41.
seyn, syen, syne then, afterwards.
seyte neys seyte, V, 80, (Child #273 app) 39: pretty sight!
sez I V, 304, b, 4: say(s) I.
sha, shaw V, 267, 10: show.
shack, shake IV, 325, (Child #236 C) (Child #236 D) 9; 326, 7: shake straw so that the corn may fall out (?).
shade, shadow, scad I, 101, (Child #7 B) (Child #7 C) 13; 490, 21; 491, 20; 492, 12: reflection (of the color of). We have, shaddoowes greene, in one copy of Adam Bell, see III, 32, 48.
shaft their arrows on the wa IV, 3, (Child #189 A) 16: so in both copies, unintelligible; corrected by Scott to sharp.
shaftmont, shathmont I, 330 f., A (Child #38 A) 2, B 2, C 2; 332, E 2: the measure from the top of the extended thumb to the extremity of the palm, six inches. (A.S. "ix. scæfta munda." Lex. Ath.)
shake See shack.
shals thou I, 481, (Child #53 N) 28. See s as sign of the future tense.
shambo II, 376, (Child #98 C) 26: shamoy, chamois.
shame the, II, 70, (Child #62 A) 15; III, 464, (Child #185 A) 11; 466 f., 44, 52, 68: euphemism for the Devil, shame a ma, III, 490, (Child #188 B) 15, 27, 29: devil a bit.
shamefu reel II, 110, (Child #64 F) (Child #64 G) 28: the first reel that is danced with the bride, her maiden, and two young men; called the Shame Spring or Reel, because the bride chooses the tune. Buchan.
shames death II, 60, (Child #61 A) 41; III, 330, (Child #165 A) 14: death of shame, shameful death.
shamly III, 80, 337: shamefully.
shane pret. of sheen, shine, IV, 469 a, 11.
shank IV, 37, A (Child #195 A) 6, B 8: the projecting point of a hill, joining it with the plain.
shapen III, 79, 81, 85, 50: devised, ordained.
share I, 388, B (Child #42 B) 7; IV, 416, (Child #256 A) 17: cutting, portion.
shathmont See shaftmont.
shaw, shawe I, 422, (Child #46 B) (Child #46 C) 3; III, 91, (Child #118 A) 1; 97, 1; V, 250, 25: wood, thicket. See wode shawe. In Teviotdale shawe is "a piece of ground which becomes suddenly flat at the bottom of a hill or steep bank." Jamieson. So, perhaps, V, 250, 25.
shaw, sha show.
shay V, 110, (Child #279 A) 8, 9: shy.
she III, 318, (Child #163 A) 4: spurious Highland dialect, representing he, they, and even Highlander, for which she, her, hernanesell have become a nickname. (The Gaelic having no word for the neuter it, the masc. e and fem. i do duty for the absent form, i in some Highland districts is largely used in speaking of sexless objects.)
sheaf, shefe of arrows, III, 3, (Child #114 A) 5; 62, 131: bundle of twenty-four. Cf. II, 168, (Child #70 A) (Child #70 B) 5; III, 13, 9.
shealin, shiel, shielin, shielen, shieling shield IV, 258, (Child #226 B) (Child #226 C) 23; 259, 17; 260, 16; 262, 27, 29; 266, 17: herdsman's hut.
shear III, 307, (Child #162 A) 6, 8: several. (Scot, seir.)
sheave, shive n., I, 470, (Child #53 E) 32; II, 358, (Child #96 A) 27; 367, 44; V, 16, (Child #267 B) 13, 14; 18, 3, 4; 219, 25: slice.
sheave v., IV, 476, 7: slice.
sheave-wisps V, 213, 5: wisps of straw from a sheaf, put by peasants into their shoes for more warmth.
shed II, 116, (Child #65 B) 27; 118, 21: a piece of ground on which corn grows, so called as being separate from adjacent land.
shed by (hair), II, 129, (Child #66 A) 26, 27: parted, threw off from the face on both sides, shed back, II, 135, (Child #66 E) 39 (shook back, 135, 38).
shedd pret. See sheede.
shee, shie I, 68, (Child #5 A) 9, 12; III, 271, F (Child #157 F) 9; 384, 9: shoe.
sheed V, 251, 36: sheet.
sheede I, 273, (Child #29 A) 43, 44: shed, spill.
sheen, sheene, sheyne I, 490, 7; II, 52, (Child #60 A) 5, 11; 372, A b 2; III, 24, (Child #116 A) 48; 91, 1; 97, 1l: shining, bright, beautiful, (bright is also beautiful, I, 285, (Child #30 A) 25; 293, 2.) In, shawes been sheene, III, 91 and 97, 1; shadowes sheene, III, 24, (Child #116 A) 48, we must take sheene in the secondary sense, beautiful.
sheen, shene I, 176, (Child #14 D) (Child #14 E) 2, 7, 12; II, 395, (Child #99 N) 17; IV, 380, (Child #245 C) 26; 416, 12; V, 306, 2, 3: shoes. See schon.
sheen, shene v., III, 392, (Child #173 H) (Child #173 I) 9, 10: shine, pret. shane.
sheene n., II, 183, (Child #73 A) 13: brightness, splendor (evidently a word of Percy's here).
shefe See sheaf.
shend III, 27, (Child #116 A) 114; 63, 140; 123, 13: put to shame, injure, destroy.
shent, shente p.p., III, 27, (Child #116 A) 114: blamed. III, 75, (Child #117 A) 396; 123, 13: hurt, etc.
shete shoot, shete a peny, III, 97, (Child #119 A) 10, 11: shoot for a penny-stake, pret. shet, III, 97, (Child #119 A) 12; shyt, III, 26, 83.
sheu IV, 289, P 9: show.
sheugh II, 238, (Child #79 A) (Child #78 D) 6; V, 108, B (Child #278 B) 1: trench, ditch, furrow.
shew I, 299, a (Child #32 A) 13; II, 332, J G: sew.
shewed III, 450 b: represented.
sheyne See sheen.
shie shoe. See shee.
shiel, shielen, shieling, shield See shealin.
shill, schill I, 16, (Child #2 B) (Child #2 C) 1; 17, E 1; II, 254, (Child #81 I) (Child #81 J) 10; 382, 28; 383, 29; 386, 24; IV, 200, (Child #217 H) 2; 201, 1: shrill.
shimmerd glittered.
shin'd pret. of shine, IV, 240, (Child #223 A) 2.
shirife, shirrfe, shrife sheriff. See screfe.
shirrs shears.
shive, sheave V, 219, 25: slice.
shock v., IV, 106 b: collide, encounter.
shoder V, 221, 10: shoulder.
shogged III, 332, (Child #166 A) 14: moved away.
shon, schon, shone, shoon, shoone, shoun I, 69, (Child #5 A) 52; 71, 42; 73, 64; 78, 39; III, 65, (Child #117 A) 193; V, 83, (Child #273 app) 55: shoes.
shook (sword over the plain), II, 393, K (Child #99 K) 14: the Manuscript has shook, not strook, but strook must at any rate be meant (cf. 380, A 32). See II, 378 a.
shooled I, 184, (Child #15 A) (Child #15 B) 10; V, 210, 10: shovelled. See shule.
shoon, shoone, shoun shoes. See shon.
shoon, shoun soon.
shoot at sun and moon III, 201, (Child #145 B) 21; to the sun or the moon, III, 203, (Child #145 C) 18: they wish to have no mark measured, are ready to take any distance.
shope III, 59, (Child #117 A) 64: created.
shopen, shapen III, 82, 50: devised, ordained.
short-bread V, 262, 22: "a thick cake of fine flour and butter, to which caraways and orange-peel are frequently added." Jamieson. (A sweet short-bread is still well known in Scotland.)
shorten her I, 478, (Child #53 M) 14: while away the time for herself; cf. Germ, kürzen, kurzweilen. See shortsome.
shortlye and anone III, 23, (Child #116 A) 10: speedily.
shortsome adj., II, 371, (Child #97 C) 2: enlivening, cheering.
shortsome v., II, 370, (Child #97 B) 13, 14: divert (while away the time, opposed to langsum). See shorten.
shot o wheat, IV, 459, 2: field, patch.
shot V, 76, (Child #273 A) 9; 127, 3: reckoning, trust me one shott, V, 15(Child #267 A) , 22.
shot II, 266, K 2 = schawit, looked at(?).
shot p.p., IV, 458, 3: shod.
shot-window II, 122, (Child #65 G) (Child #65 H) 5; 141, 10; 177, 24; 230, 9; 322, 7; 357, 8; 368, 3; 375, 22; 376, 37, 40; III, 23, (Child #116 A) 22; 105, 20; IV, 135, (Child #209 I) (Child #209 J) 19; 151, 6; 153, E 6; 154, 11; 428, 3; 493, 12; V, 248, 8. II, 141, a princess looks out at a shot-window; II, 368, a lady draws her shot-window in her bower, harps and sings; II, 376, a knight jumps to a shot-window to escape; III, 105, Robin Hood glides out of a shot-window; IV, 135, a queen looks oer her shot-window; IV, 493, a knight goes in at a shot-window. "Windows called shots, or shutters of timber with a few inches of glass above them." Wodrow's History, II, 286. But the shot-window of recent times is one turning on a hinge, above, and extensible at various angles by means of a perforated bar fitting into a peg or tooth. Donaldson, Jamieson's Dictionary, 1882, notes that in the west of Scotland a bow-window is called an out-shot window. A bow-window would be more convenient in some of the instances cited.
shott V, 15, (Child #267 A) 22: reckoning (oddly used here as of an ale-house.) See shot.
shouir, shower III, 385: throe, pang. See showr.
shoulder looked over the left, III, 339, (Child #167 A) 7; 368, 11; 369, 13, etc.: apparently a gesture of vexation or of indignant perplexity. See the passages cited at V, 286 a.
shoun, shun shoes. See shon.
shoun soon.
shour sure.
shourn V, 225, 5: shoulders.
shouther, showther, shuder I, 21 b, (Child #2 L) 3; 302, A 7; 303, 9; 331, D 2; 332, P 2; IV, 297, (Child #232 G) (Child #232 H) 10: shoulder.
showded V, 124, C (Child #281 C) 15: swung.
shower See showr.
shower o his best love I, 476, J (Child #53 J) 4: share, or cut, of his best loaf.
showing-horne II, 437, (Child #107 A) 78: shoeing-horn, a pun on the beggar's horn, whether as a means of sponging liquor, or of helping one to take in drink.
showne pret., III, 37, (Child #116 app) 84: showed.
showr, shower, shouir I, 68, (Child #5 A) 32; II, 105, (Child #64 B) 3; III, 385, (Child #173 A) (Child #173 B) 5; 386, 7: throe, paroxysm of pain.
shradds III, 91, (Child #118 A) 1: coppices (Halliwell, perhaps conjecturally). The equivalent shard, he says, is in Yorkshire an opening in a wood. (A.S. scréadian, cut, dock?)
shrewde, shrewed a term of vituperation; originally, cursed, thou art a shrewed dettour, III, 61, (Child #117 A) 104; thou arte a shrewde hynde, III, 64, (Child #117 A) 164: perhaps ironical (devilish pretty), shrewde wyle, III, 65, (Child #117 A) 181: clever, shroggs, III, 93, (Child #118 A) 28: rods, wands (serving for prickes, marks).
shryue III, 70, (Child #117 A) 287: sheriff. See screfe.
shuder IV, 493, 8: shoulder. See shouther.
shule v., IV, 207, (Child #217 N) 20: shovel. See shooled.
shun, shoun shoes.
shun III, 357, (Child #168 app) 41: better, shunte, as in the other texts, turn off, aside. Shunte is to be understood in 43, 45, 47.
shuped I, 204, E (Child #17 E) 2: shipped. (The reading may be sheeped.)
shyt pret., III, 26, (Child #116 A) 83: shot.
shyt imperative, III, 71, (Child #117 A) 314: shut. p.p., III, 25, (Child #116 A) 53: shut.
si so.
siccan, sic, sick, sicke, sicken such, such a.
siccarlie III, 492, (Child #188 C) (Child #188 D) 27: so as to make all safe, sickerlie, III, 491, (Child #188 C) 5: securely. III, 491, (Child #188 C) 12: so as to make certain, make sure of the effect.
siccer, sicker (siccer and honestly), III, 487, (Child #188 A) 9; IV, 31, B (Child #194 B) 6: securely, safely.
sich, sick n., sigh: II, 139, (Child #67 A) (Child #67 B) 6; 168, 15; 230, C 1.
sich, sick v., I, 451, (Child #52 A) (Child #52 B) 12; V, 164, D b 10: sigh. pret. sicht, I, 73, (Child #5 C) 66; III, 453, (Child #182 A) (Child #182 B) 2. sikt, II, 241, 8. siched, I, 72, (Child #5 C) 21. sight, IV, 503 f., 6, 21, 23. pres. p. sichand, sichan, sichin, II, 96, I (Child #63 I) 3, 4, 6; 471, 13; V, 41, (Child #270 A) 31; IV, 382, (Child #245 D) (Child #245 E) 6.
sichin n., II, 286, C (Child #87 C) 10: sighing.
sicht sight.
sicke, sicken III, 367, (Child #169 A) 3; 441, 32; V, 194, (Child #305 A) (Child #305 B) 64 (sicken-like): such.
sicker See siccer.
sickles of ice, ickles of ice III, 152, (Child #131 A) 1; 154, f 1: icicles.
side keeping her flocks on yon side, IV, 323, (Child #236 A) 1: ellipsis of hill, river, or the like.
side adj., II, 122, H (Child #65 H) 7, 8; 407, 9; 409, 15; 466, 37, 38; 469, 38, 39; IV, 165, (Child #214 A) (Child #214 B) 15; 283, 12; 285, 4; V, 267, 4: long, and so, probably, IV, 130, (Child #209 C) (Child #209 D) 4; 134, 8. I, 80, (Child #5 G) (Child #5 H) 12, of stirrup too long, low for the foot (Icel. síðr, demissus), saddle a steed side, IV, 464, 18: wide, wear your boots sae side, I, 428, (Child #47 B) 8; 429, 5: of boots the tops of which lap a good way over, or perhaps of boots wide at the tops; I, 430, (Child #47 C) (Child #47 D) 2. See syde.
side be mother-in-law side be, II, 71, (Child #62 B) 11: seems to mean, side by, by his side. Possibly, sud, should, be.
sighan, sighend pres. p. of sigh.
sight, sikt pret., IV, 503 f., 6, 21, 23: sighed. See sich, v.
signd IV, 288, (Child #231 E) (Child #231 F) 10: that is, sind. Sind is to wash, rinse; here she has simply wet her lips.
signots took out the gowd signots, IV, 53, (Child #198 B) 13: ornaments, whether seals or not, attached to the ears by "grips." Three sygnets hang at a gold ring, IV, 37, (Child #195 A) (Child #195 B) 13; 38, 13, which is taken off in the latter place, and was, therefore, a finger-ring.
sike, syke II, 238, (Child #79 A) (Child #78 D) 6; IV, 3, (Child #189 A) 28: ditch, trench (water-course, marshy bottom with a stream in it. Jamieson.) IV, 470, 25: (perhaps) rivulet.
sikt sighed.
sile IV, 118, C (Child #208 C) 3: flow.
silkie, selkie (A.S. seolh), II, 494, (Child #113 A) 3, 4: seal.
siller-knapped (gloves), II, 134, (Child #66 E) 8, 13: ornamented with silver balls or tassels, (golden-knobbed, 133, D 6.)
silly silly tin, silly twine, II, 224, (Child #76 G) (Child #76 H) 12, 17: simple, mean, of slight value, silly sisters, II, 311, (Child #91 A) 1: harmless, innocent? silly old man, silly old woman, etc., III, 5 f., (Child #114 B) (Child #114 C) (Child #114 D) 10, 11, 20; 6 f., 9, 10; 9, G 9; 180 f., 3, 8, 9, 19; 271, 8: of a "puir body," palmer, beggar. V, 129, (Child #283 A) 1; 130, 1; 131, d 1, e 1-3: of a supposedly simple old man who turns out to be shrewd. V, 253 f., No 203, D 2, 8: (perhaps) spiritless, cowardly, sit a silly sate: see sit.
simmer II, 261, (Child #82 A) 10; V, 299, 4; etc.: summer, simmer-dale, II, 261, (Child #82 A) 8, 9.
simple III, 163, (Child #134 A) 72: poor, scant.
sin III, 281, (Child #158 C) 7; IV, 260, (Child #226 D) 17: son.
sin II, 494, (Child #113 A) 6; IV, 77, (Child #201 A) 3; 280, b 22: sun.
sin, sine, syne I, 16, C (Child #2 C) 9; 17, 7; 204, E 3; II, 32, (Child #58 P) (Child #58 Q) (Child #58 R) 3; 160, 4, 7; 161, 5, 7; III, 433, (Child #178 C) (Child #178 D) 11; 436, 9 (?): since (temporal and causal), then. II, 237, (Child #78 B) (Child #78 C) (Child #78 D) 6: when, as in Shakspere after verbs of remembering (Winter's Tale, v, I, 219, etc.). See syne, then.
sin-brunt V, 224, 19: sun-burnt.
sinder II, 164 f., (Child #69 F) 18, 19, 21: sunder.
sindle II, 261, (Child #82 A) 8: seldom.
sindry II, 344, (Child #94 A) 4: several. IV, 219, A (Child #221 A) 5: sundry (people).
sine then, since. See sin and syne.
single liverie, IV, 261, (Child #226 D) (Child #226 E) 5: dress of a plain or inferior man; IV, 334, (Child #237 A) 11, 12: dress of a private soldier, single man, sodger, soldier-lad, IV, 335, b, c, d (Child #237 A) 16; 337, f, g 15; 338, h after 15: private.
sinner V, 254, 12: sooner.
sinsyne, synsyne I, 227 b; III, 394, J (Child #173 J) 2; 396, N 2: since, afterwards.
sir title of parson: III, 217, (Child #149 A) 49.
sit a sate IV, 469, 8: maintain or enjoy a position. (You may live comfortably if you are well stocked with cattle, but only in a beggarly or pitiable way with nothing but beauty.) "You shall sit at an easier rent." Scott's Redgauntlet, Wandering Willie's Tale. Falstaff sits at ten pounds a week (his expenses came to that), Merry Wives, I, 3.
sitt p.p., III, 400, (Child #174 A) 5: seated.
sitten, sutten p.p. of sit, II, 273, (Child #83 F) 37; III, 433, 4.
skail (blood), IV, 373, (Child #244 C) 13: spill.
skaith, skaeth n., I, 370, (Child #41 B) (Child #41 C) 5; II, 292 f., (Child #88 C) (Child #88 D) 8, is: III, 162, (Child #134 A) 66: harm, gien the skaeth, II, 364, (Child #96 E) 36; IV, 465, 35, 36: done a wrong, injury.
skaith III, 371, (Child #169 C) 21: harm.
skaith frae v., I, 397, (Child #43 D) (Child #43 E) 14: keep from. (A.S. scéadan, Germ, scheiden, O. Eng. shed, part, divide.) See scathe. A skaithie in Scottish is a fence or wall to keep off wind.
skeely, skilly III, 26, (Child #116 A) 1: skilful, intelligent.
skeigh III, 495 b, 23, 24: shy, skittish.
skelp V, 106, E (Child #277 E) 6: drub.
skerry rocky, skerry fell, I, 325, (Child #37 B) (Child #37 C) 10: rocky hill.
skerry, skerrie II, 494: a rock or rocky islet in the sea.
skill, sckill, skylle reason, discernment, knowledge. a baron of sckill, I, 295, (Child #31 A) 28: reasonable, of good judgment, etc. that's but skill, I, 295, (Child #31 A) 44: reason, something right and proper, the skylle I sail þe telle wharefore, I, 328, 56: the reason why. can skill, little they can skill of their train, etc., II, 445, (Child #109 A) 62; 450, 67, 69: Icel. kunna skil, to know distinctions, have knowledge, could noe skill of the whisstill heare, IV, 506, 70: perception (that is, literally, could not hear whether there was a whistle or not), had no skill, IV, 213, (Child #219 B) 3: knew nothing of the matter, or, possibly, had no regard, felt no approbation.
skilly, skeely II, 97, (Child #63 J) 21: intelligent, knowing, skilful.
skink I, 190 a: pour out liquor.
skinkled II, 183, (Child #73 A) 19: sparkled.
sklate II, 293, (Child #88 D) 15: slate.
skomfishes III, 433, C (Child #178 C) 4, 7: stifles (discomfits).
skorne III, 113, (Child #121 A) 77: disgrace, humiliation. See scorn.
sky-setting I, 351, (Child #39 G) 31: sunset.
skylle See skill.
skyred IV, 413, (Child #254 B) 12, 14: startled, blenched, shrank back.
slack II, 116, (Child #65 B) 20; 117, 14; 313, 23; III, 181, (Child #140 B) 29; 281, 12; 363, note †; IV, 7, (Child #190 A) 27; 184, 2, 3; 467, 11; V, 250, 25; 262, 19. 1.) a gap or narrow pass between two hills. 2.) low ground, a morass. It is often not possible to determine which is intended. In III, 281, (Child #158 C) 12, the meaning is morass. Plain ground will suit III, 181, (Child #140 B) 29. Such terms vary according to locality and time. Cf. slap.
slacke (woe), V, 83, (Child #273 app) 44: lessen, mitigate.
slade III, 92, (Child #118 A) 12: "a valley, ravine, plain." Halliwell. Cf. slack, slap.
slae I, 450, (Child #52 A) 2: sloe.
slap II, 120, (Child #65 E) (Child #65 F) 14; III, 185, (Child #141 A) (Child #140 app) 24, 25; V, 228, 26: a narrow pass between two hills (= slack). In III, 185, (Child #141 A) (Child #140 app) 24, 25, there is a contrast with glen, the word replacing the slack of III, 181, (Child #140 B) 29; perhaps, plain ground. IV, 300, (Child #232 app) 12: a breach in a dyke or wall.
slate, slait of whetting a sword by passing it over a straw or the ground (Icel. sletta, to slap, or slétta, to level, smooth), has slaited on the strae, II, 273, (Child #83 F) 30. slate it on the plain, IV, 491, 11. slait it on the plain, V, 235, 32. See strip, stroak, streak, straik, strike.
slawe p.p. of slay, III, 14, (Child #115 A) 16, 17; 71, 306. y-slaw, III, 28, (Child #116 A) 140.
slee sly.
sleste, slist III, 70, (Child #117 A) 292; 79, 146: sliced, split.
slet pret. of slit, III, 63, (Child #117 A) 146.
slichting slighting.
slight III, 473, (Child #186 A) 13: demolish, we'll fecht them, we'll slight them, IV, 85, (Child #203 A) (Child #203 B) 5: make light of (?).
slipe sleep.
slist III, 70, (Child #117 A) 292: sliced, split.
slo, sloe, sloo, slon I, 210, (Child #18 A) 9; III, 77, (Child #117 A) 438; 97, 8; 110, 19: slay. pret. sloughe, III, 308, (Child #162 A) 25. p.p. slo, slowe, slone, II, 479, (Child #111 A) 17; III, 35, (Child #116 app) 22; 77, 428. slawe, y-slaw.
sleeken, sloken IV, 386, (Child #246 B) (Child #246 C) 16: quench.
slode pret. of slide, II, 59, (Child #61 A) 22: split.
sloe, sloo I, 210, (Child #18 A) 9; III, 77, (Child #117 A) 438: slay. pret. sloughe. p.p. slowe, slone. See slo.
slogan III, 474, (Child #186 A) 32: war-cry, gathering word of a clan. Jamieson.
sloken, slocken III, 473, (Child #186 A) 14: quench (fire), p.p., IV, 60 b, after 10 (with ellipsis of have).
slough-hounds IV, 3, (Child #189 A) 15: sleuth-hounds, blood-hounds (slooth, b, 4, 15).
sloughe pret. of slo, slay, III, 308, (Child #162 A) 25.
slowe p.p. of slo, slay, II, 479, (Child #111 A) 17.
sma small, of linen, I, 428, (Child #47 B) 18; 419, 3; II, 128, (Child #66 A) 5; 130, 4; 133, D 3; 134, 7; 269, 15; III, 7, B 12: of fine texture, of the blast of a horn, II, 258, (Child #81 L) (Child #81 M) 31; small, V, 83, (Child #273 app) 48: shrill, keen, of wine, I will drain it sma, IV, 476, 8: should mean, strain it fine, or, pour out in a thin stream, run it off gently; the intention seems to be, give but a small quantity.
smeek IV, 385, (Child #246 A) (Child #246 B) 25: smoke.
smiddie IV, 470, 18: smithy. In smiddy-bour, II, 186, (Child #73 C) 12, bour for room or workshop is strange.
smirkling smirkling smile, IV, 117, (Child #208 A) 3: suppressed.
smit II, 149, (Child #68 D) (Child #68 E) 2: noise, clash.
smithered III, 268, (Child #157 B) (Child #157 C) 17: smothered.
smoldereth III, 431, (Child #178 A) (Child #178 B) 19: smothereth.
smooth II, 233, (Child #77 E) (Child #77 F) (Child #77 G) 14; V, 167, A (Child #295 A) 7: pass lightly over. smooth the breast for swimming, see breast.
smore V, 37, (Child #269 C) (Child #269 D) (Child #269 E) 6: smother.
smotley V, 79, (Child #273 app) 15: pleasantly.
snack IV, 415, (Child #255 A) 6: quick.
snags III, 483, (Child #187 C) (Child #187 D) 7: protruding remnants of branches hewn off.
sned II, 274, C 19; 462, 26: cut, lop. (misprinted sued, II, 462.)
sneed V, 165, (Child #294 A) 4, 5: snood, fillet for a maiden's hair.
sneer IV, 18, (Child #192 A) (Child #192 B) 15; 19, 13: snort.
sneeters V, 213, io: = snotters, gatherings of snot.
snell of weather, wind, frost, I, 342, (Child #39 A) 23; 344, 22; III, 435, (Child #178 E) (Child #178 F) 1; IV, 213, (Child #219 B) 17; 214, 4; V, 99, (Child #275 B) (Child #275 C) 2: sharp, keen, of a blast of a horn, III, 195, (Child #144 A) (Child #144 B) 7: keen, shrill, of talk, III, 492, (Child #188 C) (Child #188 D) 31: sharp, caustic.
snoded tied with a snood.
snood V, 306, 4, 5: a fillet with which a maiden's hair was bound up. See sneed.
snotters V, 213, 10: gatherings of snot. See sneeters.
soberly III, 487, (Child #188 A) 17: quietly, making no noise.
socht, sought pret., I, 147, (Child #11 C) (Child #11 D) (Child #11 E) 11, 12; II, 30, (Child #58 K) (Child #58 L) 8; III, 466, (Child #185 A) 46: asked for.
sodde pret., V, 53, (Child #271 A) 103: seethed, boiled.
solace I, 328, 53: pleasure. solaces, III, 287, (Child #159 A) 65: merry-makings, diversions.
soldan II, 59, (Child #61 A) 35-37: sultan, any pagan king; hence, giant. See soudan.
Soldanie, Soudonie V, 199 b, 33; 200 b, 33: Sultan's people.
solde I, 326, (Child #37 C) 4: should.
some with singular, some clean white sheet, V, 294, 7.
somers III, 67, (Child #117 A) 216, 224; 74, 374: sumpter-horses, pack-horses.
sone at once.
sone so I, 243, (Child #23 A) 8: as soon as.
sonsie II, 370, (Child #97 B) 16: plump.
soom, soum, sume, swoom II, 29, (Child #58 J) 19; III, 394, K 4; IV, 493, 9; 511 b, 4; V, 138, B (Child #286 B) 6: swim.
soon III, 440, (Child #179 A) 13: early, soon at morn, IV, 446, 2: early in the morning.
soone II, 446, (Child #109 A) 92: swoon.
sore as, they mighten a had, III, 441, (Child #179 A) 26: on whatever hard terms.
sorn IV, 464, 14: sworn.
sorners IV, 41, note *; 81 b: sojourners, properly those who take free quarters (such may be expected to make free generally with the property of those upon whom they impose themselves); "forcible intruders, people quartering themselves on tenants, etc., masterful beggars."
sorowe, sorrow III, 61, (Child #117 A) 96; IV, 174, (Child #214 L) (Child #214 M) 6; 241 b; V, 28, (Child #268 A) 55: sorry, sorrowful, sad.
sorraye II, 209, (Child #75 D) (Child #75 E) 9: sorrow.
sorrowful III, 440, (Child #179 A) 12: sorry, pitiful.
sorte III, 128, (Child #123 app) 97: set.
souce V, 84, (Child #273 app) 7: the head, feet and ears of swine boiled and pickled.
soud, sude should.
soudan, sowdan, souden, soldan I, 54, 66; V, 195, (Child #305 B) 26; 197, 6.
Soudron V, 192, (Child #305 A) 22: Southron.
Soudronie V, 192, (Child #305 A) 33: Southronry.
sough sound.
sould should.
soum, soom, sume II, 464, (Child #110 D) 2, 3; 474, J 5; V, 237, 9: swim.
soun make bed saft and soun, IV, 279, (Child #229 B) 31, 32: smooth, lead the bridle soun, II, 105, (Child #64 B) 14: steadily, so as not to cause a jolt by jerking it.
sound IV, 206, (Child #217 M) (Child #217 N) 10: safe and well, sailed it sound, II, 223, P 8: safe.
sound a sound, III, 165, (Child #135 A) 88: a-swoon.
sound IV, 172, (Child #214 J) 12, 14; 173, 7, 10, 11: in the sleep of death.
sounded IV, 99, (Child #204 G) (Child #204 H) 3: should probably be rounded, whispered.
souner I, 442, (Child #49 E) (Child #49 F) 10: sounder.
soup I, 324, B (Child #37 B) 9: sup.
sour (reek), III, 433, C (Child #178 C) 6: sharp, bitter.
souter, soutter III, 282 a; IV, 262, (Child #226 E) 16: shoe-maker.
south I, 334, 9: sweet.
southen, southin II, 358, (Child #96 A) 16, 28; IV, 482 b, 2, 3, 4; 483, 9, 17, 18: southern.
southering IV, 48, b 18: soldering (corruption of, seeth-ing).
sowdan See soudan.
sowe III, 41 b, line 17: to be corrected to sowter, cobbler (?).
sowens V, 108, B (Child #278 B) 10: flummery; "oat-meal sowr'd amongst water for some time, then boiled to a consistency, and eaten with milk or butter." Herd.
sowt III, 13, (Child #115 A) 8: sought, peered, scanned.
sowt south.
soyt III, 110, (Child #121 A) 23; 111, 31, 43; 112, 55; V, 79, (Child #273 app) 30: sooth.
spait III, 473, (Child #186 A) 26; 479, 2: flood.
spak well in his mind V, 260, 15: sounded well, suited his own thoughts.
spakes I, 61, C c, 15: the bars of a bird-cage.
spald See spaul.
spang II, 394, (Child #99 L) (Child #99 M) 18: span.
spare I, 302, A (Child #33 A) 10; 446, 10; 451, 11; III, 246, B 7: opening in a gown or petticoat.
sparks out o a weet IV, 379, (Child #245 B) (Child #245 C) 15: rain-drops from a shower. "Spirks, spirkins, applied to drops of water in Scotland; sparks usually to fire." W. Forbes.
sparred III, 97, (Child #119 A) 20; 99, 61: shut.
spartled v., II, 94, (Child #63 G) 6: sprang, spartling, II, 306, (Child #90 B) (Child #90 C) 16: kicking, struggling.
spartles n., II, 94, (Child #63 G) 4: springs.
spaul, spauld, spald, spole III, 473, (Child #186 A) 17; V, 105, A (Child #277 A) 3, B 6; 106, D 6, B 4; 107, 3: shoulder.
spayed spied.
speal I, 428, (Child #47 B) 17; 430, 6, 7: another form of scale, a wooden drinking vessel.
speals, spells II, 410, (Child #101 B) (Child #101 C) 24; V, 236, 18: chips.
spear v., IV, 85, (Child #203 A) (Child #203 B) 1: spare.
spear, speer, speir, spier, sper, ask See spyrr.
speed prosperity, help.
speel v., II, 73, (Child #62 C) 25: climb.
speen IV, 287, (Child #231 C) (Child #231 D) 19; 357, C 8, 9: spoon.
speer inquire. See spyrr.
speere V, 15, (Child #267 A) 20: "a hole in the wall of the house, through which the family received and answered the inquiries of strangers." Bitson. This, I fear, may be conjectural. Speere, a screen (wall) between fire and door to keep off the wind is well known both in England and Scotland. But the Heir seems to be outside and could not look up at this speere.
speir ask. See spyrr.
spelle v., I, 329, 3: discourse.
spells, speals II, 410, (Child #101 B) (Child #101 C) 24; V, 236, 18: chips.
spendyd a spear, III, 309, (Child #162 A) 40: "spanned; hence, got ready, placed in rest." Skeat.
sper V, 78, (Child #273 app) 5: inquire. See spyrr.
spier-hawk IV, 484, 1, 2: sparrow-hawk.
spin, spine gar your blood, IV, 84, (Child #203 A) 3, 6; V, 253, D 1: spirt (as in Shakspere's Henry V, iv, 2, spin in English eyes).
spird II, 144, (Child #68 A) 12: spurred.
spite I, 211, (Child #18 A) (Child #18 B) 27: spital.
spleen v., III, 220, (Child #151 A) 5: regard with spleen, hatred.
spleene n., III, 230, (Child #154 A) 70: animosity.
splent (splint), III, 473, (Child #186 A) 17: armor of overlapping plates.
splinders II, 91, (Child #63 C) (Child #63 D) (Child #63 E) 26: splinters.
splits II, 389, (Child #99 H) 10: strands.
sply II, 252, (Child #81 G) (Child #81 H) 1: (perhaps miswritten) spy.
spole III, 342, (Child #167 A) 63: (O. Fr. espaule) shoulder. See spaul.
sporne v., III, 64, (Child #117 A) 161: kick.
spreckld, spreckled I, 159, (Child #12 B) (Child #12 C) 5; 160, 3: speckled.
sprente III, 309, (Child #162 A) 32: sprang, spurted.
spring IV, 265, (Child #226 G) 13: probably miswritten or corrupted for young, which we find in the next stanza.
spring I, 129, (Child #10 D) (Child #10 E) 17; 130, 20; 132, 13; 135, O 18, P 18, 19; IV, 312, (Child #235 A) 4; 313, 7: quick tune.
spring (well both clear and spring), II, 198 a, last line: spring water, pure as a spring.
sprunks fine, III, 221, (Child #151 A) 12: showily dressed women? (Cf. prank, prink, Dan., Swed., Germ., prunk.)
spulye n., III, 458 b: spoil.
spulyie, spuilye, spuilzie v., III, 463 a; IV, 53, (Child #198 B) 11; 84, 5, 8: despoil.
spunk-hole V, 213, 3 (spunk = fire): a hollow in the floor, where the fire was made, fire-place.
spurn, spurne n., III, 310, (Child #162 A) 65, 66: kick. The word, though protected by rhyme and by occurring twice, is suspicious. If spurn could be taken as clash, encounter, collision, it might stand, but such a sense is forced.
spurtle V, 92, (Child #274 A) 11, 12: stick for stirring porridge, spy lie, I, 327, 20: mar, destroy.
spyrr, spire, spier, speir, speer, spear, sper (A.S. spyrian), I, 176, (Child #14 D) (Child #14 E) 17; 325, B 13; 349, G 9; 440, 10-15; III, 98(Child #119 A) , 41; 100, 64; V, 115, (Child #279 app) 4: ask, inquire, spear at, I, 151 a, 10; IV, 328, A b, after 3: inquire of. I, 349, G (Child #39 G) 7; II, 268, (Child #83 C) (Child #83 D) 12; 272, 9, 18; 379, 12; IV, 203, (Child #217 L) 9; 205, 15: ask, request.
squar, squer squire.
square-wright V, 124, (Child #281 B) (Child #281 C) 3: carpenter, joiner.
squeel, schele, schule II, 175 f., (Child #72 A) (Child #72 B) 1, 6; 306, 19; IV, 327, (Child #236 E) (Child #236 F) 8.
squier II, 59, (Child #61 A) 30: = swire, neck.
st as sign of the future. I'st, II, 449, (Child #109 B) 62; III, 411, (Child #176 A) 1; 413, 36; thoust,'st, I, 211, (Child #18 A) (Child #18 B) 29; 433, 8, 26; II, 44, (Child #59 A) 13; 442, 10; 449, 60, 61; III, 277, (Child #158 A) 4; 411, 4; 432, 7; 477, 7; V, 50, (Child #271 A) 33. shee'st, she'st, II, 442, (Child #109 A) 3; 447, 3. you'st, II, 451, (Child #109 B) 88; III, 104, (Child #120 A) 6; 412, 12. (All from English ballads.)
sta pret. of steal, III, 464, (Child #185 A) 13, 14.
stack I, 16, B (Child #2 B) 14: stalk.
stad V, 248, 19: stood.
staen stolen.
stage at a, III, 98, (Child #119 A) 39: from a floor, story (?).
stage III, 295, (Child #161 A) 3: stag.
staig III, 301, A a, 3; IV, 26, (Child #193 A) (Child #193 B) 1: a young stallion.
staking III, 138, (Child #126 A) 18: cutting into stakes (cleaving, 140, c 18; stacking, 140, d 18).
stale, stathle I, 18, H 9; 19, 12: the foundation of a stack, the undermost layer of sheaves in a stack, stale straug, V, 213, 5: urine long kept for a lye and smelling strong. (But stale may = urine as well as strang.)
stalle in strete and stalle, III, 101, (Child #119 A) 89: station; from the contrast with street, we may infer the meaning to be, when in movement (on the road) and when stationary, or housed.
stamp o the melten goud, IV, 471, 37: an embossed plate.
stanch III, 364 b: check.
stand (of milk, water), I, 344, (Child #39 B) 34: a barrel set on end.
stand briddel-(bridell-)stand, V, 228, 12, 22: suit of clothes (bridal clothes).
stand III, 453, A (Child #182 A) 14; IV, 515, 13: (of a court) sit. IV, 420, (Child #257 B) 9; V, 222, 34; 269, 1: take place.
stand IV, 152, C (Child #212 C) 11; stand out, III, 439, (Child #179 A) 2: stickle, scruple.
stand na, stane nè, stand no, stand noe, stand awe I, 421, (Child #46 B) 5; III, 350, 53; IV, 505, 54; 506, 69: na may be a contraction of in na. na stand in awe, I, 419, (Child #46 A) 4; stand not in awe, III, 345, 53.
standen p.p. of stand, III, 361, b, c 64.
stane II, 467, (Child #110 E) 56: i.e. the (stone) wall.
stane-auld III, 9 f., (Child #114 G) (Child #114 H) 11, 12, 20: very old (Germ, steinalt).
stane-chucking I, 441, E (Child #49 E) 1: throwing the stone, as in B 2.
stank IV, 47, (Child #196 C) (Child #196 D) 12, 13: (O. Fr. estanc) ditch.
stap n. and v., I, 298, (Child #32 A) 4; II, 88, (Child #63 B) 8, 9: step.
stap, stape stop. II, 494, (Child #113 A) 1: stop, stay, reside, will stap to die, IV, 107, (Child #205 A) 7: shrink, hesitate.
stap I, 439, (Child #49 B) (Child #49 C) 4, 5; 440, 5, 7; 504, 7; II, 294, (Child #88 D) (Child #88 E) 31, 32; 467, 41: stuff, cram.
stare III, 128, (Child #123 app) 104: (eyes) protrude, or, are fixed, cannot move (?).
stare (of hair), V, 66, (Child #272 A) 19: stand up.
starf pret., V, 297 b: died.
stark I, 69, (Child #5 A) 39; III, 474, (Child #186 A) 37: strong, stark thief, III, 365 b = the English strong thief, one who uses violence, stark and stoor, II, 47, (Child #59 B) 5: in a moral sense, wanting in delicacy, rude, violent, or indecent, the wind up stark, IV, 378, (Child #245 A) (Child #245 B) 5; 380, 11: ellipsis of blew, came, before up.
starn, stern I, 440, (Child #49 C) (Child #49 D) 18; IV, 455, 10: (Icel. stjarna), star.
start I, 341, (Child #39 A) 5; 343, 5; 347, 3; 348, 2: spring, jump. III, 164 b, (Child #134 A) 49; 342, 64: recoil, flinch, recede, pret. start, stert, I, 108 b, (Child #8 A) (Child #8 B) 8; 286, 56; II, 454, (Child #109 C) 56; III, 32, 81; 64, 159; IV, 477, 16: sprang. See stert.
state of my lande II, 446, (Child #109 A) 91; state of my father's lands, 451, 98: landed estate.
stathle, stale I, 17, (Child #2 D) 12: the foundation of a stack, the undermost layer of sheaves in a stack.
staw II, 90, (Child #63 C) 23; 184, 13: stall.
staw pret. of steal, II, 76, (Child #62 F) 25; 80 f., 9, 29; IV, 12, (Child #191 B) (Child #191 C) 13; 490, 30.
stawn p.p. of steal, IV, 18, (Child #192 A) (Child #192 B) 19, 20.
stay, stey IV, 262, (Child #226 E) 23: steep.
stead, steade, steed, steede See stede.
steal pret. sta, staw. p.p. stawn, stowen, stown, stoun. stealed, steald, IV, 20, (Child #192 C) (Child #192 D) 16; 166, 2, 3. stelld, III, 459, 7.
stean Marie's stean, II, 183, (Child #73 A) 19: a stone seat at the door of St. Mary's Church.
stear, steer III, 474, (Child #186 A) 33: stir, commotion.
steck See steek.
stede, steed, steede, stead, steade I, 334, 7; 411, 7, 16; II, 359, (Child #96 B) 19; 111, 60, 81; 74, 376; 79, 133; V, 194, (Child #305 A) (Child #305 B) 71, 72; 197, 55; 199, 71, 72: place, dwelling-place, stand in stead, steed, steede, III, 344 f., (Child #167 B) 38, 44; 349, 38; IV, 505, 45: hold good, be kept, maintained, made good.
steed I, 298, (Child #32 A) 4: stood.
steek, steck, steik II, 336, P (Child #93 P) 2; IV, 188, (Child #216 A) (Child #216 B) 9; 279, 19, 27; 480, 4, 5; 514, 5: stick, shut, fasten, steekit (dor an window) to the gin, IV, 480, 5: to the fastening.
steek, steik n., II, 364, (Child #96 E) 30; IV, 483, 20: stitch with the needle. III, 397, A b 5: stitch (of pain).
steeking n., II, 361, (Child #96 C) 26: stitching.
steel pret., I, 477, (Child #53 L) 4: stale, stole.
steer, steir II, 21, (Child #58 A) (Child #58 B) 10, 11; 29, 13, 14: rudder.
steer, stear II, 369, (Child #97 A) (Child #97 B) 12: disturbance.
steer, sture I, 69, (Child #5 A) 39; 71, 31: strong, robust, (stor, big.)
steer II, 161, (Child #69 C) 12; IV, 69, (Child #200 E) 15: disturb, meddle with (for harm).
steer I, 251, A is: stir, move.
steik n., stitch. See steek.
steik v., shut. See steek.
steir n. rudder. See steer.
stell steel.
stelld pret. of steal, III, 459, (Child #184 A) 7.
stelld IV, 110, (Child #206 A) 10: placed, planted.
stende me stende, I, 243, (Child #23 A) 5: that people should stone.
step-minnie II, 367 b: stepmother.
stern, starn I, 326, (Child #37 C) 16: star.
sterne III, 308, (Child #162 A) 30: stern (men).
stert, start pret. of start, III, 66, (Child #117 A) 211: sallied, stert out of the dore, sterte (start) to an offycer, stert hym to a borde, III, 26, (Child #116 A) 81; 32, 81; 62, 120, 125: rushed. stert to foot, IV, 224, (Child #221 F) 14: sprang to their feet.
steuen III, 94, (Child #118 A) 52: voice, vnsett steven, III, 93, 27: time not previously fixed.
stey, stay IV, 185, (Child #215 app) 10; 264, 15: steep.
stiffe I, 293 f., (Child #31 A) 2, 9, 11; II, 55, (Child #60 A) 67: unyielding, stanch.
still had your still, IV, 85, (Child #203 A) (Child #203 B) 7; V, 247, 14: hold your peace.
stime, styme I, 482, E; III, 163 f., (Child #134 A) 78, 91: glimpse, ray, particle of light.
Stincher IV, 69, (Child #200 E) 6: a river of Carrick. Ayrshire. (Misprinted stincher.)
stingy IV, 316, (Child #235 D) 17: forbidding, cross.
stint, stinte I, 334, 8; 411, 8, 17; 412, 28: stop.
stirred III, 162, (Child #134 A) 49: should probably be stirted (shrank, flinched). The other text has, started.
stirt stirred.
stock I, 419, (Child #46 A) 2; 421, 2, 4, etc.; II, 467, (Child #110 E) 56: the outer side of a bed, opposite the wall (the bed, an enclosed box, being enterable at this side only).
stock I, 402, (Child #44 A) 5: (term of disparagement) wanting in vitality, sensibility, youth, or what not.
stogg IV, 480, 7, 8: stick, stab.
stoll yellow IV, 453 a, b 13: corrupt; a has, gold that is yellow.
stomach will givs him II, 447, (Child #109 B) 17: disposition will incline him. II, 450, (Child #109 B) 69: courage.
stomached well, III, 335 b: courageous.
stonde I, 334, 8; III, 286, (Child #159 A) 55: while, time. See stound, stounde.
stonyt I, 242, (Child #22 A) 11: stoneth, old plural of the imperative.
stood V, 269, 1: took place, stood him upon, III, 228, (Child #154 A) 11: was incumbent on. See stand.
stoode my need stoode, III, 412, (Child #176 A) 16: existed.
stook I, 485, 10: put into shocks.
stoor stark and stoor, II, 47, (Child #59 B) 5: (store, big) in a moral sense, rude, brutal.
store I, 328, 50: big. See stoor.
store buffets store, III, 145, (Child #128 A) 8: in plenty.
store purse of gold and store, II, 461, (Child #110 B) 23: treasure (precious things laid up), carryd the store (of constancy), V, 158, (Child #292 A) 16: the totality.
stot, stott IV, 12, B (Child #191 B) 4; 26, 1; 248, 19; 519, 6; 520, 6, 7: young ox.
stoun III, 388, (Child #173 D) (Child #173 E) 8: (stoun, stound, North of England, to smart with pain, Scott, an acute intermittent pain) a painful attack.
stoun p.p. of steal, III, 453, (Child #182 A) (Child #182 B) 10; V, 221, 24. See stowen.
stound, stounde, stonde III, 25, (Child #116 A) 68; 284, 3; 298, 55; V, 83, (Child #273 app) 42: time, point, moment of time.
stoup II, 344, (Child #94 A) 1; V, 91, (Child #274 A) 7, 8: pitcher, can, bucket (narrower at the top than at the bottom).
stour, stoure, stowre II, 55, (Child #60 A) 67; III, 26, (Child #116 A) 89; 298, 58; 309, 47; 441, 27: tumult, brawl, fight, stour of thy hand, III, 280, (Child #158 B) 37: turbulence, destructiveness. III, 270, (Child #157 D) (Child #157 E) 16: disturbance, commotion.
stour II, 195, notes, A; IV, 470, 20: dust.
stourished III, 520 a: read flourished (?), blooming. (Cf. III, 373, (Child #170 A) (Child #170 B) 4.)
stout, stoute II, 282 f., (Child #86 A) 4, 17 (audacious), 18; III, 339, (Child #167 A) 5; IV, 503, 5, 7: haughty, high-mettled, bold. III, 411, (Child #176 A) 8 (traitor): audacious, unflinching. V, 36 f., (Child #269 B) (Child #269 C) 9, 10: unabashed. I, 3, (Child #1 A) 3; IV, 197, (Child #217 E) (Child #217 F) 3: sturdy.
stowen, stown p.p. of steal, I, 367, (Child #41 A) 14; II, 72, (Child #62 B) (Child #62 C) 23; 79, 38; IV, 133, H (Child #209 H) 6, 7; 241 a. See stoun.
stowre n. See stour.
stowre adj., I, 293, (Child #31 A) 2: (originally, big) strong.
stracht, straght III, 521 b, 272, 15; V, 236, 9: straight.
strack struck.
strae, stray, stro II, 162, (Child #69 D) (Child #69 E) 8; 169, 19; 185, 36; 261, 15, etc.: straw.
straik, streak, streek, stroke (a sword) oer (on) a strae (strow), II, 261, (Child #82 A) 15; V, 37, (Child #269 C) (Child #269 D) (Child #269 E) 8: pass it over a straw to give it an edge. See streak, straiked back hair, IV, 184, B 17: stroked, straik (streek) wi a (the) wan(d), II, 188, (Child #73 E) 8; IV, 46, (Child #196 B) (Child #196 C) 3; 480, 15: of a measure, to even at the top by passing a stick over.
straine, streen the, V, 221, 24: evening of yesterday.
strait (a rope), IV, 398, (Child #251 A) 7, 25: straighten, stretch, tighten, pret., of stirrups, III, 492, (Child #188 C) (Child #188 D) 27.
strait IV, 262, (Child #226 E) 23, strait and stay: another word for stay, stey, steep.
straith, strath IV, 184 a: a valley through which a river runs.
straked streaked, straked her trouth on a wand, II, 230, (Child #77 B) (Child #77 C) 9: a symbolical act, of gently rubbing or passing the fingers over a wand, by way of giving back a lover's troth.
strand I, 165, M (Child #12 M) 4; III, 460, (Child #184 A) 28; IV, 172, (Child #214 J) 15; 174, 16: stream. Sometimes hardly more than a rhyme-word. In, Scotland's strands, strand, II, 289, (Child #88 A) (Child #88 B) 7; 294, 8, strand appears to be put for country, bounds; and for nothing more definite than way, road, in he gaed in the strand, etc., II, 177, (Child #72 C) 23; 289, B 2; III, 3, (Child #114 A) 5; IV, 210, (Child #218 A) 1. In, stript it to the stran, II, 390, (Child #99 H) (Child #99 I) 28, stran cannot mean more than plain (ground).
strang V, 213, 5: urine kept for a lye, and smelling strong. See stale.
strang strange.
strange V, 76, (Child #273 A) 16: backward, diffident.
strated V, 228, 15: stretched.
stratlins I, 368, (Child #41 A) 23: straddlings, stridings.
straucht, straught adj. and adv., I, 146, (Child #11 B) 14; 251, A 10; II, 461, (Child #110 B) 5; IV, 94, (Child #204 A) (Child #204 B) 9; 214, 1: straight.
straught V, 199 a, after 61: stretched. See straucht.
stray See strae.
streak, straik of whetting a sword by passing it over a straw (cf. Germ, streichen, strike, smooth, whet), streakd it on a strow, V, 37, (Child #269 C) (Child #269 D) (Child #269 E) 8. straiked it oer a strae, II, 261, (Child #82 A) 15. See stroak, strike, strip, slate.
streak, streek I, 299, (Child #32 A) 17: stretch.
streak by I, 454, (Child #52 D) 12: to put off, put away.
stream-tail IV, 185, (Child #215 app) 12: the lower end of a stream as opposed to the upper. Tail-race is the name given to the stream that carries away the water after it has passed the mill. J. Aiken.
streek, streak I, 299, (Child #32 A) 17; II, 139, (Child #67 A) (Child #67 B) 7, 12; 345, 30; V, 174, (Child #299 B) (Child #299 C) 4; 209 b, 6: stretch, streeket, streekit, strickit, p.p., II, 189, (Child #73 E) 38; IV, 128, (Child #209 B) 17; 316, 25; 318, G 9; 319, H 7: stretched, laid out, as dead.
streekit See straik, and streek.
streen, straine the streen, I, 57, C (Child #4 C) 13; II, 30, (Child #58 K) (Child #58 L) 4; III, 396, N (Child #173 N) 1; IV, 47, (Child #196 C) (Child #196 D) 10, 18; V, 118, B (Child #280 B) 13; 221, 24; 257, 14: yestreen, yester-night.
strenger compar., V, 283, 18 (and so we should read in 8 instead of scharpper): stronger.
strickit See streek.
strike of whetting a sword, etc., on a straw, or the ground, he's struck it (rappier) in the straw, II, 249, (Child #81 D) (Child #81 E) 18. struck it (brand) ower a strow, V, 226 b, 8; (dagger) 227, 21. struck it (bran) across the plain, II, 380, (Child #99 A) 32. See stroak, streak, strip, slate.
strinkled III, 4, (Child #114 A) (Child #114 B) 10; 5, C 6: sprinkled.
strip of whetting a sword by passing it across straw, a stone, the ground; replaced by stroak, streak, strike, slate, draw (cf. German streifen). has striped it throw the straw, II, 159, (Child #69 A) 15. he stript it to the stroe, II, 161, (Child #69 C) 13. he's stripped it athwart the straw, II, 256, (Child #81 K) (Child #81 L) 12. he's stripd it oer a stane, II, 396, 28. has stript it to the stran, II, 390, (Child #99 H) (Child #99 I) 28. he drew it through the strae, II, 185, (Child #73 B) 36; three times thro the strae, II, 162, (Child #69 D) (Child #69 E) 8. See stroak, etc.
stro, stroe, strow, strae, stray II, 131, (Child #66 B) (Child #66 C) 16: straw.
stroak, stroke of whetting a sword by passing it over a straw, stroakd it oer a stro, strae, stray, II, 131, (Child #66 B) (Child #66 C) 16; 166, 17; 169, 19; 305, 8, 21; 306, 14. See strip, streak, straik, strike, slate.
stroe, stro, strow II, 161, (Child #69 C) 13: straw.
stroke See stroak.
stroke III, 180, (Child #140 A) (Child #140 B) 13: probably corrupt; read streke, stretch? (Scott, streik, streek).
stronge thefe, stronge thiefe, strong thief III, 13, (Child #115 A) 2; 67, 221; V, 77, (Child #273 A) 32; 83, 49: a thief using violence. See stark thief.
strook pret. of strike, V, 135, b 18.
strow, stro V, 37, (Child #269 C) (Child #269 D) (Child #269 E) 8; 226 b, 8; 227, 21: straw.
strucken p.p. of strike, II, 48, (Child #59 B) (Child #59 C) 3; III, 487, 13.
stryke pantere V, 72 b: a drinking formula, in response to fusty bandyas.
stubborn IV, 168, (Child #214 D) (Child #214 E) 8; 169, 6, 15; 170, G 4, 11, H 3, 4, 10: seems to have its old meaning of truculent, fierce, rather than wilful, mulish. See note to H 3, 4, IV, 177.
stude, stede I, 244, (Child #23 A) 15: place.
study, studie, studdy II, 374, A (Child #98 A) 2, B 2; 375, 3: stithy, anvil.
sturdy sturdy steel, II, 380, (Child #99 A) 15; 381, 10; 385, 4; 388, 13: stiff, rigid (stubborn, II, 393, (Child #99 K) (Child #99 L) 10).
sture, steer I, 71, (Child #5 B) 31; 69, 39: strong, robust, (stor, big.)
sturt II, 249, (Child #81 D) (Child #81 E) 4: trouble, anger.
stye I, 310, (Child #34 B) 9, 11, 13: pen, den. III, 100, (Child #119 A) 76: a smaller thoroughfare, alley.
styme I, 482, B. See stime.
styrande III, 295, (Child #161 A) 3: stirring, dislodging. See note, 301.
stythe I, 311, 9, 11: place.
suan V, 277, 14: swain.
suar III, 308, (Child #162 A) 27; 309, 42: sure, trusty.
succeed the fame his fame, IV, 249, (Child #225 D) (Child #225 E) (Child #225 F) 9; 251, 10: corrupt for, exceed in fame, or the like. See note, IV, 254, E 9.
such an a IV, 312, (Child #235 A) 12: such a.
sud, soud, suld should.
suddled thy suddled silks, that thou wears every day, etc., II, 186, (Child #73 C) 5, 6, 10, 11: soiled, or rumpled, creased.
suddling suddling silks, III, 398, C 9: soiling, which one would not miud exposing to soiling. Perhaps we should read suddlit. See suddled.
suderen V, 217, 17: southern.
suds leave you in the suds, V, 114, 12: in difficulty, in a strait.
sugar-sops defined in dictionaries as sugar-plums. Fletcher's Monsieur Thomas, ii, 3, "Dandle her upon my knee, and give her sugar-sops." By analogy, bits of bread or cake dipped in sugar juice.
sugh II, 258, (Child #81 L) (Child #81 M) 34: sough, sound (of wind).
suit V, 215, 11; 223 b, 1; 246 b, 2: sweet.
suith III, 468, c 9: sooth.
sulle sell.
sume V, 221, 11, 12; 237, 10: swim. See soum.
sun-bruist IV, 469, 9: should, perhaps, be sun-burnt, as in the following line.
sundry II, 212, (Child #75 I) 17: asunder, apart.
sune adj., V, 256, 12: sound.
sunks IV, 262, (Child #226 E) 29: seats.
supply IV, 154, (Child #212 F) 13: afford help, mak him some supply, V, 196, (Child #305 B) 39, cf. 43: succor, reinforcement.
surrount IV, 245, (Child #225 A) 3: Skene's spelling for the original serundad, surrounded.
suspitious II, 448, (Child #109 B) 37, 38: worthy of Mrs. Malaprop, but not so easy to unriddle: in her mouth, auspicious; here the modern suggestive, significant, would suit.
suþþe III, 514 b, 1st line: then.
sutor I, 430, (Child #47 C) (Child #47 D) 2: shoemaker. See souter.
sutten p.p. of sit, IV, 468, 6.
swack IV, 415, (Child #255 A) 6: nimble.
swack v., V, 305, 5: whack.
swads, swades V, 134, (Child #285 A) 7; 135 b, 7: "swad in the North is a pescod-shell: thence used for an empty shallow-headed fellow." Blount, in Halliwell. Also, a cant term for soldier.
swaft, swaffed III, 511, 8, 11: swapped.
swair, swaird laird o the Ochilberry swair, IV, 207, (Child #217 N) 27, 29; laird o Athole swaird, IV, 198, (Child #217 F) (Child #217 G) 14: sware, neck or slope of a hill, (swaird, a corruption of swair, = sward, grassland, is not likely.)
swak III, 300, (Child #161 C) 21. See swap.
swap, swak swords, with swords, III, 298, (Child #161 A) 50, 54; 299, 9; 300, 21 (swakked); 301, 30; 309, 31; 422, 73; IV, 487, 29; 500 f., 22, 35 (swakked); V, 240, 6, 9: smite.
swarmd III, 347, g 45; IV, 505, 56, 59: climbed. (swarm, to climb a tree that has no side branches to help one.)
swarued, swerved III, 341, (Child #167 A) 53, 56; 345, 45: climbed (= swarmd, IV, 505, 56, 59).
swat pret. of swe(a)t, III, 299, (Child #161 B) (Child #161 C) 9; 300, 21; 301, 30; 309, 31. swett, III, 422, (Child #177 A) 73. swette, III, 298, 50, 54.
swathed II, 305, (Child #90 B) 10: swaddled (as it were) in blood.
swatter I, 135, P it: flounder, splash.
sway howsoeuer this geere will sway, III, 341, (Child #167 A) 47: whatever turn this business may take, however this affair may turn out.
swear pret., swore.
sweauen, sweuen II, 45, (Child #59 A) 18; III, 91, (Child #118 A) 4: dream.
sweer II, 61, (Child #61 app) 4; IV, 229, (Child #221 K) 20: slow, reluctant. III, 160, (Child #134 A) 14: reluctant (to part with money).
swerers quest of, III, 25, (Child #116 A) 69: jurors.
swerved III, 347, d, e, f 45: climbed. See swarued.
swet, swett, swette pret. of swe(a)t. See swat.
swetter compar., V, 283, 9, 19: sweeter.
sweven, sweauen II, 45, (Child #59 A) 18; III, 91, (Child #118 A) 4: dream.
sweythyli V, 80, (Child #273 app) 45: swiftly.
swick IV, 438, (Child #265 A) 12: blame.
swikele I, 243, (Child #23 A) 4: deceptive, treacherous.
swilled I, 287, (Child #30 A) 72: tossed about or shook, as in rinsing (but in this case to effect a mixture).
swimd, swimmed pret. of swim, II, 16, (Child #57 A) 5; 24, F 9; IV, 129, (Child #209 B) (Child #209 C) 5; 130, D 9.
swinke III, 171 f., (Child #137 A) 8, 26: labor.
swire, swyre I, 295, (Child #31 A) 34; III, 91 a: neck. IV, 5, (Child #190 A) 2; 7, 27; V, 249, 2: "the declination of a mountain or hill, near the summit." Jamieson.
swith II, 55, (Child #60 A) 67; 248, 18: quickly.
swither III, 268, (Child #157 B) (Child #157 C) 17; 272, 21: trepidation.
swittert I, 129, (Child #10 D) (Child #10 E) 11: struggled, floundered, splashed (made spasmodic motions to keep herself up).
swoghynge n., I, 327, 31: sounding.
swoom V, 151, F 2: swim.
swoond, swound n., I, 434, (Child #48 A) 29; II, 105, (Child #64 B) 19; III, 373, A (Child #170 A) 4: swoon.
swumd p.p. of swim, III, 482, (Child #187 C) 25.
swylke I, 327, 15: such.
swyre, swire III, 91 a: neck.
syde I, 333, (Child #38 G) 3: (of beard) long, hanging down. I, 426, (Child #47 A) 3: of a horn worn low. See side.
syke, sike II, 238, (Child #79 A) (Child #78 D) 6; IV, 3, (Child #189 A) 28: ditch, trench. IV, 470, 25: perhaps, rivulet, (water-course, marshy bottom with a stream in it. Jamieson.)
syne, sayn, san, sane I, 17 f., F 2, 7; 127, 27; 347, 9; III, 437, (Child #178 G) 16, 20, 21, 24: then, afterwards. I, 204, E (Child #17 E) 3; V, 306 b, 1; III, 436, (Child #178 G) 9 (?): since.
synsyne since. See sinsyne.
sypresa, cypress III, 148, (Child #129 A) 10; 150, b 10: crape (veil).
syre IV, 21, (Child #192 D) (Child #192 E) 10: (sewer) drain, gutter.
syt III, 70, (Child #117 A) 280: old contracted form of sitteth.
sythis I, 327, 21: times.
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