[References are usually to volume, page, and stanza.]
vain streams proud and vain, IV, 204, (Child #217 L) (Child #217 M) 8: repetition of proud in the sense of fierce, etc.
valiant (of ladies), V, 119, (Child #280 D) (Child #280 E) 1: of worth, estimation.
value (of an hour), IV, 514, 15, 16: amount.
value, valow, vallow v., II, 162, E (Child #69 E) 2: think important, make ado about, stick, vallow not the feed, IV, 36, (Child #195 A) 3: value, care not for the feud which will ensue; cf. B 3.
vance spak wi a vance, IV, 465, 30: seems to be meant for vaunt. It is hardly probable that the plural of the old Scottish and English avant, vaunt (with avauts) can be intended.
vanitie IV, 300, (Child #232 app) 2, is nonsense.
vawward III, 284, (Child #159 A) 14; vanward, III, 285, (Child #159 A) 21, 34; 333, 27: vanguard, van.
veiwe, vew, vewe III, 92, (Child #118 A) 15: yew.
velvaret IV, 369, (Child #243 H) 1: meant for velvet; not velveret.
venie (?), III, 219 b, note: vein.
venison II, 59, (Child #61 A) 38: hunting (prerogative of).
vension III, 196, d 4: venison.
vepan weapon.
verament III, 308, (Child #162 A) 26; 333, 26: truly.
vessell pl., III, 65, (Child #117 A) 175, 179, 191: vessels.
vew your vew, V, 86, (Child #273 app) 40: sight of you.
vew, vewe, veiwe III, 92, (Child #118 A) 15; 105, 27; 362, 78: yew. (The v is not for u. The word is pronounced vewe in Cheshire.)
vild V, 53, (Child #271 A) 102: vile.
virgus I, 420, (Child #46 A) 13: verjuice, a kind of vinegar (green juice).
virr I, 183, (Child #15 A) 16: vigor.
virtue in virtue leave your lammas beds, II, 96, J (Child #63 J) 4: corrupt. Cf. B 1. Dr. Davidson suggests, never tae leave your lammie's, lambkin's beds (lammie's, innocent).
vo, vou woe.
vogie IV, 176, (Child #214 N) (Child #214 O) (Child #214 P) 11: vain, merry; no longer have you cause for self-gratulation, to be demonstratively joyful.
vones I, 334, 6: dwellest.
voss a voss o, IV, 224, (Child #221 F) 8, 12: comparing G 8, 10, 21, K 22, the voice of, this last seems to be meant. Otherwise, a corruption of, it was a (cf. A 11; C 15; D 17; E 19; H 11).
votes IV, 114, C (Child #207 C) 2: for voters? probably a corruption.
vou's me V, 271, 16, 17, wo is me!
vouch it safe III, 75, (Child #117 A) 381: grant, bestow (safe corrected from halfe).
voued pret., V, 268, 17: viewed.
vour o vour, II, 25, F is: half owre, as in C 18.
vow, wow IV, 133 f., (Child #209 G) (Child #209 H) 12, 15; 136, 21; V, 118, C (Child #280 C) 11: exclamation of surprise, emphasis, or admiration.
voyded III, 26, (Child #116 A) 79: made off.
vue v., V, 265, 17: view.
vyld wild.
vytouten nay I, 334, 4: without, beyond, denial.
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