[References are usually to volume, page, and stanza.]
wa, wae IV, 448 a, 3rd st.: wo.
waaf II, 72, (Child #62 B) (Child #62 C) 2: waif.
wad n., II, 63, (Child #61 app) 23; 172, 31, 32: pledge, in security. I, 340, (Child #39 A) 2; 343, 2; II, 376, (Child #98 C) 39; III, 455, (Child #182 C) (Child #182 D) (Child #182 E) 10: forfeit.
wad I wad, I, 130, F (Child #10 F) 14, 15, 20: I wot, in a weak sense, assuredly, truly. See a = I, and wat.
wad, wade I, 71, (Child #5 B) 55, 56; 74, 76, 77; III, 465, (Child #185 A) 30; V, 299, 2: would. See wads.
wad, wade v., IV, 18, (Child #192 A) (Child #192 B) 17; 185, 7; 384, 5; 385, 2, 7; 386, 2; V, 219, 23; 275 b, 6; 300, 14: wager. IV, 432, (Child #262 A) 4, 5: engage (to fight).
wadded I, 272, (Child #29 A) 11: of woad color, blue.
wadded V, 261, 6: wedded.
wadding, wadin II, 131 f., (Child #66 B) (Child #66 C) 11, 16, 19, 20; IV, 470, 15-17: wedding.
wade, wad pret. of wide, wade, II, 97, (Child #63 J) 12, 13; 283, 4; 461, 10; IV, 68, (Child #200 D) (Child #200 E) 6; 190, 27, 28; 438, 13; 455, 9.
waders IV, 188, (Child #216 A) (Child #216 B) 20: miscopied by Skene for mideers, mothers.
wadin See wadding.
wads II, 133, D (Child #66 D) 4, 5, 6: wishes (wad, would, treated as a present tense).
wae, wa I, 69, (Child #5 A) 48; 127, 28; 169, 3; 217, 3, 6; V, 306, 10: wo.
wae adj., I, 367, (Child #41 A) 11; II, 70, (Child #62 A) 25; 89, 36; 129, 17: unhappy.
wael IV, 443, 5: choice. See wale.
waely IV, 59, d 3: a rhyme-word for wae, sad.
waesome IV, 369 b: woful.
waft I, 420, (Child #46 A) 15, 16; 422, 12, 13: weft, woof.
wafu woful.
wainless II, 72, (Child #62 B) (Child #62 C) 8: homeless (without a wane, habitation).
wair II, 472, (Child #110 G) (Child #110 H) 24: bestow. See war.
wait I wait, a wait, wate, IV, 128, (Child #209 B) 16, 17; 169, 3; 371, 2, 3, 6; 447, 6, 17; 470, 17; 510, W 2; 515, 12, 16; 617, 20: I wot, know, indeed. See wat, and {a{a}r} = I.
wait IV, 456, 7: = wite, blame.
wait, wayte III, 57, (Child #117 A) 18; 66, 209; 83, 202; 86, 202; 412, 21: watch, lie in wait, seek an opportunity, to do.
waith, steed V, 176, (Child #301 A) 18: waif, stray, wandering.
waitmen II, 424, (Child #104 A) 3: waiting-men (or possibly, wight men, strong men).
wake II, 327, (Child #93 D) (Child #93 E) 2, 4, 5: aperture, way. (Icel. vök, aperture, especially one cut in ice, or remaining in water not completely frozen over; passage cut for ships in ice; Swed. vak, hole in ice; Dutch vak, empty space. "In Norfolk, when the 'broads' are mostly frozen over, the spaces of open water are called wakes." Wedgwood.)
wake I, 107, (Child #8 A) 5; IV, 446, 5; 447, 6: watch (people set to watch me), but the reading at I, 107; IV, 447, is probably wrong; cf. I, 108, B (Child #8 B) 4. See wane.
wake IV, 141, (Child #209 app) 12: merry-making, sport.
wake v., V, 277, 2: walk.
wake III, 88, 340, is an original misprint.
waken I, 433, (Child #48 A) 24: waking.
wakerife See waukrife.
wald, walde I, 334, 6: would.
wale, wael, walle IV, 265, A b 10; 477, 19; V, 256 a, 2: choice.
wale, weil, wile, wyle I, 428, (Child #47 B) 14; IV, 169, (Child #214 F) (Child #214 G) 6; 300, 12; 461, 19; V, 105, B (Child #277 B) 1: choose.
wale wight I, 490, 13. See wall wight.
walker I, 272, (Child #29 A) 14: fuller.
wall I, 387, (Child #42 A) 2, 4; 440, 4, 6; V, 206 a, 3: well, spring. The water at St. Johnston's wall was fifty fathom deep, II, 21, (Child #58 A) (Child #58 B) 14: an alleged deep place in the Tay; cf. 24, 14, there's a brig at the back o Sanct John's toun, it's fifty fadom deep.
wall green wall sea, green wall wave, V, 275 b, 7, 8: apparently wave, despite tautology; cf. II, 22, (Child #58 C) 15, green-waved sea. (haw sea, IV, 379, (Child #245 B) (Child #245 C) 10; 380, 19. Prof. Murison informs me that when Mrs. Murison sings the ballad mechanically, or without attention, she invariably sings haw.)
walle V, 256 a, 2: wale, choice. See wale.
wallourt See wallowt.
wallowd II, 392, (Child #99 J) (Child #99 K) 10: rolled over (?).
wallowit II, 361, (Child #96 C) 32: withered.
wallowt IV, 127, (Child #209 A) 3: drooped, grew pallid, was wallourt, IV, 138, M: (misspelt) was pallid.
wall-wight II, 123, (Child #65 H) 15; 403, 9; III, 10, (Child #114 H) (Child #114 I) 23; IV, 392, (Child #249 A) 11, 12; V, 37, (Child #269 C) (Child #269 D) (Child #269 E) 6; 41, 29, 32 (all from Buchan's ballads): explained by Donaldson as waled wight, picked strong men. Donaldson cites weild wightman from Semple of Beltrees. See well wight, wale wight men, I, 490, 13.
wallwood swine, II, 299, (Child #89 A) 16: wild-wood, compare II, 144, 3, wild-wood steer (unhallowed swine, II, 154, (Child #68 K) 10).
waiting IV, 312, (Child #235 A) 8: welting, edging.
waly IV, 21, (Child #192 D) (Child #192 E) 13: fine large.
waly, wallie, wally II, 363, (Child #96 D) (Child #96 E) 1, line 1; IV, 109 f., (Child #206 A) 5, 8; 293, A 1, 2, 7, 9 (oh and a waly); V, 195, (Child #305 B) 8; 197, 9, 10, 11: exclamation of admiration. O braw wallie, IV, 296, P 1: literally, O good, lucky! or, O good luck! but, as before, an exclamation of admiration.
waly, wally II, 363, (Child #96 D) (Child #96 E) 1, line 3; IV, 92, 1, 3; 94, 1; 95, 1, etc.: interjection of lamentation (probably A.S. wá lá!). the wally o 't, IV, 290, D b 1: sorrow, pity of it! waly's my love! V, 208, 1, 2, etc.
wamb, wambe, wame II, 130, (Child #66 A) (Child #66 B) 2; 183, 24; 189, 27; 195, 33; III, 437, (Child #178 G) 23: womb. See weam.
wan one.
wan dark-colored, pallid, colorless, white. II, 92, (Child #63 E) 4, 9; 97, 11; 144, 13; 147, 10; 150, 14: dark-colored. II, 74, E (Child #62 E) 6; 79, 28; 185, 33; 187, 16; 399, 2: pallid, wan water (as contrasted with wine), II, 70, (Child #62 A) 17; 74, D 7; 75, 10; 92, 4; 96, J 7, 8: colorless, far got ye that water that washes ye so wan, II, 191, (Child #73 F) 23: white (ye wad never be so white, 24).
wan, wane pret. of win, I, 73, (Child #5 C) 53; II, 21, (Child #58 A) (Child #58 B) 4; 123, 22; III, 474, (Child #186 A) 32; IV, 180, (Child #215 C) (Child #215 D) 7. he wan free, V, 300, 11: got free.
wan p.p. of win, IV, 385, (Child #246 A) (Child #246 B) 26.
wand II, 146, (Child #68 B) 13; 147, 14; 150, E 9; 151, O 4: of (willow) twigs, staff made of the wand, II, 118, (Child #65 C) (Child #65 D) 22 (very nearly verbiage): made of a rod.
wane I, 334, 7; III, 63, (Child #117 A) 148: habitation, in my bower there is a wane, IV, 446, 5: wane, says Jamieson, denotes not only a dwelling (Old Eng. wone), but "different apartments in the same habitation;" if so, in my house there is a room, is the sense here, wan, in the wake there is a wan, IV, 447, 5: should at least be, in the wane there is a wake, as the rhyme shows, and as we have at 446, 5. In, at the wake there is a wane, I, 107, (Child #8 A) 5, wane was meant by Scott to be understood as a collection of people (wheen). See wake.
wane III, 309, (Child #162 A) 36: "quantity, multitude; a single arrow out of a vast quantity." Skeat (quantity as in Chaucer's wone, see wheen). This is to me quite unsatisfactory, but I have no better interpretation to offer. Wain, in the sense of a vehicle for a missile, ballista, catapult, would be what is wanted, but I have not succeeded in finding a case.
wanhappy IV, 386, (Child #246 B) (Child #246 C) 1: unlucky.
wanna did not win, go.
wannelld III, 488, (Child #188 A) 38: was unsteady, staggered. (A.S. wancol, North Eng. wankle, unstable, Germ. wankeln.)
wannle IV, 491, 32: agile, vigorous, strong.
wanny II, 261, (Child #82 A) 8, 9: small wand, rod.
want IV, 196, (Child #217 D) (Child #217 E) 3; 268, 17, 22; 357, B 7; 358, 17: do without, dispense with, sae soon as we've wanted him, IV, 359, (Child #242 A) 12: had to do without. III, 613 b, 2, pret.: wanted.
wanton III, 452, (Child #182 A) 1; 453, 1: free and easy, frolicsome. (rantin, 455, 1.) Cf. Wanton Brown (a horse), IV, 17, (Child #192 A) 1, etc.
wantonlie, wantonly III, 488, (Child #188 A) 27; 490, 14: gaily, merrily. rode, lap, wantonly, IV, 146 f., (Child #211 A) 8, 38: in easy, spirited style.
wap horse will gie his head a wap, I, 182 f., (Child #15 A) 8, 14: throw, toss.
wap n., coost a wap on horse's nose, IV, 21, (Child #192 D) (Child #192 E) 9: noose.
wap v., wrap, lap. wap cloth into ship's side, II, 27, (Child #58 H) (Child #58 I) 19: stuff, roun ship's side, 20: wrap, wap halter oer horse's nose, IV, 17, (Child #192 A) 4: lap, twine, perhaps throw.
wap v., throw, wappin corn and hay oer to horse, IV, 21, (Child #192 D) (Child #192 E) 18: throwing, wappit wings, II, 139 f., (Child #67 A) (Child #67 B) 7, 12, 22: beat, flapped.
war, ware be war, ware, a, of, on, I, 273, (Child #29 A) 37; II, 46, (Child #59 A) (Child #59 B) 37; III, 66, (Child #117 A) 213; 109, 4; 296, 20; 307, 10: be aware, have a sight of. was war wher, III, 98, (Child #119 A) 39.
war, waur I, 388, A (Child #42 A) 10; 420, 12, 13; 466, 22; II, 417, (Child #103 A) 6, 9; V, 193, (Child #305 A) 48: worse.
war, waur I, 132, I (Child #10 I) 1; 149, I 1; 331, B 8: were.
war, ware, wair I, 431, (Child #47 D) (Child #47 E) 3; 478, 7; II, 418, (Child #103 A) 22; 472, 24; V, 142, 11: expend, bestow, ware my dame's cauf's skin on thee, IV, 7, (Child #190 A) 31; V, 250, 29: apply, use, my wife's (mother's) whip.
waran, warran, warrand, warraner, warrant III, 430, (Child #178 A) 15; 435, F 7; 436, 5, 7: sponsor for, security. III, 405, (Child #175 A) 7; IV, 310, (Child #234 B) 4 (cf. warn): safeguard.
ward, warde III, 404 b; 470 b: defence. III, 72, (Child #117 A) 332, 337; 449 a; IV, 11, (Child #191 A) (Child #191 B) 18: prison, confinement, enter himself in ward, III, 447 b: voluntarily go into confinement.
ward IV, 446, 1: corrupt. See weird.
warde II, 273, (Child #83 F) 25; 340 b, line 8: forewarn, advise.
warden I, 161, (Child #12 D) (Child #12 E) (Child #12 F) (Child #12 G) 4; V, 209 a, 4: guardian, tutor.
warden IV, 317, F (Child #235 F) 3, 4: facing, edging (cf. the waiting, welting, of 312, A 8).
warden pies III, 216, (Child #149 A) 35: made of large pears called wardens.
wardle I, 127, (Child #10 B) 14; V, 214 f., 1, 6: world, wardle's make, see warld.
ware V, 169, (Child #296 A) 11: sea-weed, alga marina (used for manure).
ware V, 306, 2, 3: were.
ware pret., V, 221, 20: wore.
ware See war.
warison, waryson III, 100, (Child #119 A) 74; 297, 43: reward.
warld world, warld's make, I, 129, (Child #10 D) (Child #10 E) 8; 348, 17; 351 f., 40, 64; 353, H 12; wardle's make, I, 127, (Child #10 B) 14; warldly, worldly, make, mate, I, 344, (Child #39 B) 30; II, 118, (Child #65 C) (Child #65 D) 6, 7; world's make, I, 128, (Child #10 C) 11; 348, 11; wordlye make, II, 86, (Child #63 A) 18, 20: world's, earthly, mate, consort, world's mait, I, 508, 9.
warldly See warld.
warlock II, 220, (Child #76 D) 11, 12; 223 f., 8, 14; IV, 472 f., 24, 25: wizard.
warn IV, 309, (Child #234 A) 2, 6: surety, safeguard. Cf. warran, IV, 310, (Child #234 B) 4, and see waran.
warn p.p., IV, 445 b, 2, No 8: warnd (as 446, b 2).
warp v., I, 312, 8; II, 503, 7: curl, twist.
warran, warrand See waran.
warraner See waran.
warsle n., I, 438, A (Child #49 A) 1: wrestle.
warsle, warsel v., I, 438, A (Child #49 A) 2; 439, 2; 440, 3; 441, 1-3: wrestle, warsled, I, 56, (Child #4 B) (Child #4 C) 14: wrestled, struggled, bestirred herself.
warslin, a-warslin I, 440, (Child #49 C) (Child #49 D) 1, 2: a-wrestling.
warwolf I, 311, 15, 16: werewolf, man-wolf, man transformed into a wolf.
waryson See warison.
wa's ways.
was See wash.
wash pres. was, I, 494, 7; III, 111, (Child #121 A) 41. pret. weesh, wish, wush. p.p. washen (I, 304, E (Child #33 E) 5; II, 111, (Child #64 G) 10; V, 102, B (Child #276 B) 15), wushen, which see.
wast west.
waste I, 349, F (Child #39 F) 9: seems to be nonsense (ride expected).
wat, wate, wait, watt, weet, wet, wit, wite, wyte, wis, wot, know. I wat, wate, a wat, a wite, etc., frequently nothing more than assuredly, indeed: II, 159, (Child #69 A) 11, 13, 15, 16, 19, 23; 160, 10-16, 18, 19; 161, 12, 13, 17; III, 199, (Child #145 A) 23; 464 f., 10, 15, 34; 466, 43; IV, 175, M (Child #214 M) 7; 359, 4, 5, 7, etc.; 470, 17; V, 300, 2. pret. wist. p.p. wist, west.
wat pret. of weet, weit, to wet, I, 17, D (Child #2 D) 6; II, 21, (Child #58 A) (Child #58 B) 12, 13; 23 f., D 7, F 10, etc.; IV, 424, (Child #258 A) 5. p.p., I, 55, B (Child #4 B) 7; II, 23, B 8.
wate knew. See wat, wait.
wate pret. of wite, blame, II, 273, (Child #83 F) 25.
water, water-side IV, 7, (Child #190 A) 25; V, 250, 24, 25: "the banks of a river, in the mountainous districts of Scotland the only inhabitable parts." Scott.
water-cherry II, 186, (Child #73 C) 18: perhaps a species of cherry used as a cosmetic.
water-gate IV, 510, 6; V, 250, 12: street leading to the water, way along the water.
water-kelpy IV, 185, (Child #215 app) 10: water-sprite.
water-side See water.
water-sluice bored nine holes in her water-sluice, V, 142, f 5, should mean in the gate or valve of some vent for water; bored a watery sluice, or aperture for water, g 6, is a more rational reading.
water-stoups V, 91, (Child #274 A) 7, 8: water-buckets or pitchers.
wather, wither, wuther V, 107, 3, 5: wether.
watt III, 199, (Child #145 A) 23: know. See wat.
waught I, 299, (Child #32 A) 14: draught.
wauk walk.
wauk II, 139, (Child #67 A) (Child #67 B) 5, 13: watch, be awake.
wauken II, 139, (Child #67 A) (Child #67 B) 11, 13: waken, pret. waukenit, II, 79, (Child #62 I) (Child #62 J) 38: awoke.
waukend at, waukened at II, 162, (Child #69 D) (Child #69 E) 12: tried to waken; perhaps, chid, expostulated with.
waukrife, wakerife IV, 389 b: watchful, wakeful.
waur, war I, 5, (Child #1 C) (Child #1 D) 13, 18; 422, 17; 475, 44; 476, J 6; II, 421, (Child #103 B) 26; IV, 26, (Child #193 A) (Child #193 B) 4, 5: worse.
waur I, 147, C (Child #11 C) 1; II, 61, (Child #61 app) 9; IV, 417, (Child #256 A) 5, 10: were.
wavers wi the wind II, 266, B (Child #83 B) 1: is as restless, changeable (?).
wawis IV, 196, (Child #217 D) (Child #217 E) 19: walls.
way I, 4, A (Child #1 A) 13, 16; B 8, 9; 5, D 4, 9; V, 283, 7, 17. the Milky Way.
way would I way or would I wight, I, 77, (Child #5 E) (Child #5 F) 13; 78, 42: nonsense. See weight. Motherwell conjectures, would I away, or would I wait. See wee.
waylawaye alas.
ways IV, 196, (Child #217 D) (Child #217 E) 15: in a direction.
wayte, wait III, 57, (Child #117 A) 18; 66, 209; 83, 202; 86, 202; 412, 21: look out for; watch, lie in wait, seek an opportunity, to do. pret. wayted, III, 72, (Child #117 A) 331: lay in wait for.
waythmen III, 41 a: hunters. See wight-men.
we V, 302 a, 13: with.
we an E an O me, we an E an O an O me V, 275 a, 9, 10: these words have been treated as interjections. It is possible that they are corrupted from something like, were a' foald in a yeir to me, III, 370, (Child #169 C) 9; cf. II, 465, 9.
wea see your body wea, V, 226 b, 7: = wae, suffering? (strange expression, see II, 305, (Child #90 B) 7, you red and blue.)
wead would.
weal III, 310, (Child #162 A) 60: "clench so as to leave marks, mark with wales"(?). " Perhaps read wringe and wayle." Skeat.
weame IV, 505, 56: belly. See wamb, wambe, weme.
wean II, 136 a, 16; III, 253, R; 397, A b 2: wee an, little one, child.
wear sare a man a wear, I, 301, (Child #33 A) 2: sair, supply, a man, of, with, his wear, clothing.
wear pret., V, 221, 21: wore.
Wearie I, 55 f., (Child #4 A) (Child #4 B) 3, 4, 6, etc.: the Devil.
wearied, wearit See wearyd.
wearifu V, 115, (Child #279 app) 7: tiresome, vexatious, cursed.
wearin's wa I, 333, (Child #38 G) 6: wearing his way, growing less and less, slowly vanishing.
weary fa IV, 389 b: a curse befall.
weary, wearie I, 310, (Child #34 B) 16; II, 131 f., (Child #66 B) (Child #66 C) 11, 16; 231, 1; III, 319, (Child #163 A) (Child #163 B) 24; IV, 56, A (Child #199 A) 3, B 3; 57, C 3, 6; 133, G 6; V, 16, (Child #267 B) 1, 2, 5, 8; 192, 25: sad, unhappy, distressed. IV, 44, (Child #196 A) 6; 290, B c 5; 359, 6; 480, 3: vexatious, hateful, horrid, cursed.
weary weary high hat, III, 184, (Child #140 app) 13: monstrously, deucedly.
wearyd, wearied, wearit III, 261 f., (Child #156 C) (Child #156 D) 8, 10; IV, 128, (Child #209 B) 5; 132, 8: troubled, afflicted.
wearyin for me in V, 155, (Child #290 C) (Child #290 D) 6: longing to have me indoors.
weate III, 341, (Child #167 A) 47: corrupt. Possibly, I weate, wit, know.
weather TV, 213, 17, 18: storm of rain or snow.
wed, wedd, wedde, wad III, 66, (Child #117 A) 214; 71, 298; 110, 7, 8, 12, 13; 356, 34: pledge, fine, forfeit (ley a wed, 110, 7, 8, = leffe, leave a wed, 12, 13). sette to wedde, III, 59, (Child #117 A) 54: put in pledge.
wed v., I, 481, (Child #53 N) 42: wager. See wad.
wed proudest wed, III, 4, (Child #114 A) (Child #114 B) 5: proudest dressed (from wede).
wede, weed II, 28, (Child #58 I) (Child #58 J) 28; III, 61, (Child #117 A) 97; 74, 368, 371; IV, 212, (Child #219 A) 2, 7; 213, 10, 15; V, 306, 13: clothing, garment.
wee I, 163, J (Child #12 J) 1, 2, etc.; 164, K 1, 2, etc.: little. I, 203, (Child #17 B) (Child #17 C) 5; IV, 412, (Child #254 A) (Child #254 B) 15; 413, 18; 421, 25: short time.
wee would I wee or would I way, I, 77, (Child #5 E) (Child #5 F) 12; 78, 41: would I (stay) wi (him) or (go) away, is all the meaning this can have. Motherwell conjectures, would I wait or would I away. See way.
weed See wede.
weel well. See well.
weel the weel gae wi his body, IV, 129, (Child #209 B) (Child #209 C) 21, 23-25: prosperity.
weel, well weel fa! good luck befall, I, 388, B (Child #42 B) 5. for my weel, II, 461, (Child #110 B) 8; 466, 24: well, advantage (461, 9, for my better). Euphemism for God: weel met thee save! I, 324, (Child #37 A) (Child #37 B) 3 (Manuscript thou); well met ye (you) save! IV, 455, 4; V, 195, (Child #305 B) 9; well (weel, weill) may ye (you) save! IV, 195, (Child #217 C) (Child #217 D) 13; 198 f., G 4, 21. So III, 268, (Child #157 B) (Child #157 C) 31, originally; the far better in the line following, is nonsense.
weel, well IV, 517, 19: a pot, deep place, or whirlpool in a river.
weel that was her own II, 73, (Child #62 C) 20: seems to mean that the roses and ribbons were indeed hers by right.
weel-busked hat, IV, 199, (Child #217 G) 9: handsomely adorned.
weel-fared, weel-fart, weil-faurit etc.: well-favored. See fared.
weel-worst V, 214 a, 1: very worst.
ween II, 132, (Child #66 C) 21: whimper, whine, lament.
ween heigh a ween and oh a ween (where a may be I), II, 504, 27: exclamation of distress.
weep n., V, 241 a, 4, 5: weeping, tears.
weer I, 72 f., (Child #5 C) 6, 61: weird, fortune.
weer war. See weir.
weesh pret. of wash, V, 213, 6.
weet II, 293, (Child #88 D) 13: know.
weet n., III, 160, (Child #134 A) 6; IV, 379, (Child #245 B) (Child #245 C) 15: rain, shower of rain.
weet, weit v., III, 401, (Child #174 A) 7: wet.
weetie, weety IV, 197, (Child #217 E) (Child #217 F) 9, 17; 258, 25: rainy.
weighed more II, 455, (Child #109 C) 57: made more account.
weight IV, 224, (Child #221 F) 23: wight, strong.
weight was he weel or was he weight, I, 80, (Child #5 G) (Child #5 H) 9: nonsense; weight would be wight, strong, etc., which has no pertinency. The same of, would I way or would I wight, 77, 13. See way.
weil, weel IV, 182, G (Child #215 G) 8: a pot, deep place, or whirlpool in a river, well-head, II, 153, (Child #68 J) (Child #68 K) 17: vortex of a whirlpool.
weil, wile V, 10, (Child #266 A) (Child #266 B) 2: wale, choose. See wale.
weil = well, very. See well.
weir, weer, were III, 480, (Child #187 B) 9; 491, 6; IV, 432, (Child #262 A) 14; V, 183, (Child #304 A) 21: war.
weir bot weir, I, 140 N: without doubt. (Pinkerton.)
weir-window, wire-window IV, 44, (Child #196 A) 10; 46, 11, 7: seems to be a window grated with iron bars.
weird, wierd, weer n., I, 69, (Child #5 A) 42, 47; 71, 37; 72 f., 6, 61; 77, 6; 309, B 1; 482, E: fate, fortune, destiny.
weird v. I, 311, 3: destine.
weird I, 107, (Child #8 A) 1: the reading at this place is compounded from, weird her a grit sin, IV, 445, 1, and ward her in a great sin, IV, 446, 1; the reading of IV, 445, would mean, destined, put her in the way of, a great sin; ward in of the other text does not give an easy sense, and ward is perhaps a corruption of weird.
weirdleas III, 391, H (Child #173 H) 3: unlucky.
weit I, 140, N (Pinkerton): know.
welde III, 112, (Child #121 A) 52: would.
well euphemism for God. See weel.
well III, 112, (Child #121 A) 48: will.
well the well o wine gaed in, IV, 428, (Child #260 B) 16: perhaps wale, choice, the best; but since the wine was poisoned, this must be meant ironically.
well, weel, weil very, right, well good, II, 46, (Child #59 A) (Child #59 B) 43; III, 132, (Child #124 B) 5; 478 f., 15, 34; V, 49, (Child #271 A) 11: very good, weil gaucy, V, 152, 3. well warst, V, 180, (Child #303 A) 14, 16; 214 a, 1: very worst, well faire mayde, II, 439, (Child #108 A) 3, 8, should perhaps be well-fared.
well and wellsome II, 159, (Child #69 A) 16: should probably be wae and waesome (sad and woful).
well o Spa IV, 286, (Child #231 B) (Child #231 C) 6: a spring to the west of Aberdeen.
well or wae was he well or was he wae, I, 80, (Child #5 G) (Child #5 H) 8: whether he liked or disliked. (The passage is variously corrupted, and the original reading probably nowhere preserved.)
well-a-woo III, 77, (Child #117 A) 438: a variety of well-a-way. (A.S. wá-lá-wá.)
well-bespoke V, 149, (Child #289 A) 9-11: well spoken.
well-strand I, 165, M (Child #12 M) 4; IV, 172, (Child #214 J) 15; 174, 16: stream from a spring.
well-wight III, 3 f., (Child #114 A) 12, 16, 21; 487, 5, 7; IV, 165, (Child #214 A) (Child #214 B) 7; 222, 9 (wiel-wight); 428, 4: very strong, sturdy, stalwart; but, sometimes, brave, see III, 4, (Child #114 A) (Child #114 B) 16. See wall-wight.
welt pret. of wield, III, 74, (Child #117 A) 366: disposed of.
welth, welthe III, 77, (Child #117 A) 436: either, simply, his money, or, more probably, his well-being, his palmy days; so III, 287, (Child #159 A) 65. III, 295, (Child #161 A) 5, 6; 296, 15, (rich) booty.
weme (of ring), III, 412, (Child #176 A) 21: belly, hollow. See weame.
wen III, 200, (Child #145 A) (Child #145 B) 3: win, get, go. V, 256, 7: pret. of win.
wend III, 38, (Child #116 app) 104: gone (gone, b).
wend, went V, 80, (Child #273 app) 42; 81, 14: weened.
wenion with a, III, 138, (Child #126 A) 11: wanion, a curse, bad luck (waniand, waning (of the moon). Skeat).
wenking winking.
went See wend.
were I, 334, 11: war. See weir.
were vulgar English, he were, II, 4, (Child #54 C) (Child #54 D) 2; 8, 8.
werne II, 139, (Child #67 A) (Child #67 B) 23: were.
werre I, 327, 20: worse.
werryed I, 273, (Child #29 A) 37: worried.
werschepyd III, 109, (Child #121 A) 3: showed respect to.
west p.p., III, 113, (Child #121 A) 70: wist.
west-airt lands II, 73, (Child #62 C) 30: western. See airt.
westlan, westlin, westryn II, 258, (Child #81 L) (Child #81 M) 34; III, 431, (Child #178 A) (Child #178 B) 20; 435, E 7; IV, 240, (Child #223 A) 18: western.
wet, wete III, 63, (Child #117 A) 141; 70, 287; 112, 50: know.
wether I, 210, (Child #18 A) 14; III, 430, (Child #178 A) 2; 432, 19 (perhaps = whether): whither.
wex, weks n., V, 283, 11, 21: wax.
weynde III, 297, (Child #161 A) 41: wend, go.
wha who.
wha's, whae's aught. See aucht.
whall white as whall, II, 478, (Child #111 A) 7: that is, whale's bone.
whang I, 19, (Child #2 F) (Child #2 G) (Child #2 H) (Child #2 I) 11; II, 168, A (Child #70 A) 5: thong. In II, 217, (Child #76 A) (Child #76 B) 1, 3, lace his middle with a whang, the reading should no doubt be band as in other versions.
whang (of cheese), V, 115, (Child #279 app) 8: slice.
whar, whaur I, 164, K (Child #12 K) 1, 3, L 1, 5: where.
whas whose.
what an a, whaten a, whatna, whattna, whatten, I, 169, B (Child #13 B) 4; 203, C 18; 441, 19; II, 195, (Child #73 H) 34; III, 433, (Child #178 C) (Child #178 D) 2; 434, 2; 453, 12, 13; V, 162, C (Child #293 C) 2: what sort? what (in particular)? what a! So, what for a? V, 160, (Child #293 A) 3; what like a? V, 163, (Child #293 D) 5; 164, E b 2.
wheder III, 57, (Child #117 A) 11: whither.
wheen a wheen blackguards, IV, 67, (Child #200 B) (Child #200 C) 5, 6: number, pack, etc.
whether II, 455, (Child #109 C) 62; III, 92, (Child #118 A) 26: which of the two.
whether whither.
whew, whue, whute III, 440, (Child #179 A) 10: whistle.
whidderand, whithering V, 191, (Child #305 A) 16: (of arrows)
whizzing moving with a whiz.
whight See wight.
whikety whack V, 304, 9: whick-whack (whick, doublet of whack).
while the other, I, 414, (Child #45 B) 18: the remaining time, henceforth (?).
while I, 232, A (Child #21 A) 2: for a while.
while, whyll, whylle II, 223, P 1, 2; III, 201, (Child #145 B) 23, 31; 298, 50, 54; 309, 47: till.
whiles I, 115, B (Child #9 B) 1; C 1; 131, Q 9; 256, 2; II, 470, (Child #110 F) 59: at times.
whiles, whilest, whileste, whilste, whyllys, the whyles III, 87, 278; 107 b, 7; 357, 38, 45; 358, 83; 361, b, c 38, 43, c 41: while.
whilk IV, 373, (Child #244 C) 10; 476, 1: which.
whin, whun, win, fun II, 116, (Child #65 B) 10, 18; 117, 4, 12; 360, 5, 7: furze.
whirpled V, 106, E (Child #277 E) 5: evidently whipped, stripped (but I have not found the word elsewhere).
whistling (of ladies moving), II, 386, (Child #99 E) (Child #99 F) 19: whisking.
white bookes III, 357, (Child #168 app) 58: clear of oppressive charges.
white bread II, 88, (Child #63 B) 15, 16, 22, 23: wheat bread, as in 89, 4; 92, 5, 6 (white meal is contrasted with corn and oats, II, 88, (Child #63 B) 17, 18). So 96, J 5, 6; fite bread, whit bread, V, 220 f., 6, 7, 9.
white-fish II, 129, (Child #66 A) 8; IV, 436, (Child #264 A) 10, 18, 19; V, 122, (Child #281 A) 1; 124, 1; 274, 10 (fait fish): haddock, cod, ling, etc., as distinguished from gray-fish, coal-fish; in Banff, as opposed to salmon, trout, herring.
white-fisher IV, 436, (Child #264 A) 18, 19: one who fishes for haddock, cod, etc. (as distinguished from salmon).
white-land IV, 213, (Child #219 B) 14: wheat-land.
white meal and gray II, 261, (Child #82 A) 12; IV, 494, 29; V, 238, 29: oat-meal as distinguished from barley-meal (oat-meal and grey, II, 462, so). But white meal, II, 88, (Child #63 B) 17, 18, being contrasted with corn (oats), must there be wheat.
white money, white monie I, 464, (Child #53 A) 7; 471, 11, 12; 473, 12; II, 352 f., E (Child #95 E) 5, 7; 473, 7, 8, 14; 475, 13, 14; 476, 10, 13; III, 389, (Child #173 E) (Child #173 F) 17, 18, 20, 22: silver.
white rigs IV, 131, (Child #209 D) (Child #209 E) (Child #209 F) 14: of grain (to distinguish from crops which remain green).
whithering, whidderand V, 191, (Child #305 A) 16; 199 b, 16: whizzing.
who would III, 163, (Child #134 A) 87: if one would.
whorle V, 116, (Child #280 A) (Child #279 app) 10; 118, 4; 119, 7; 120, 6: the fly of a spinning-rock.
whue See whute.
whummil I, 255, (Child #27 A) 2: wimble, gimlet.
whun, fun III, 5, D (Child #114 D) 7; 6, 12: whin, furze. See whin.
whunnie IV, 69, (Child #200 E) 22: covered with whins, furze.
whute, fute, whue, whew n. and. v., III, 125, (Child #123 B) 29-31: whistle. 126 B, b 29-31, whues.
why V, 264, 5: whey.
whyles the whyles, III, 70, (Child #117 A) 278: while. See whil.
whyll, whylle till. See while.
whyllys III, 309, (Child #162 A) 37: while. See whiles.
wiald wield.
wicht See wight.
wicker, wigger III, 125, (Child #123 B) 20; 126 f., b, d-f: willow. (Wycker, osier. Palsgrave. Swed. and Dan. dialects, vikker, vægger, willow. Skeat.)
wicker IV, 31, (Child #194 A) (Child #194 B) 6: twist.
wid IV, 456, 15: would.
wide I, 65 f., B 4, 6, 8; II, 88, (Child #63 B) 5; 94, 3; 96, I 5; IV, 424, (Child #258 A) 11: wade. (Spelt wade, but rhymed with -ide, II, 462, (Child #110 B) (Child #110 C) 7; 465, 19; III, 493, (Child #188 D) (Child #188 E) 14.) pres. p. widen, IV, 68, (Child #200 D) (Child #200 E) 6. pret. wade, wad. p.p. wooden.
widifu, widdifu, widifau, widdefu IV, 84, (Child #203 A) 7, 10, 11, 13; 85, 3; V, 253 f., No 203, D 2, 8: one qualified to fill a widdie or halter.
widna, widne would not.
wiel-wight IV, 222, (Child #221 D) (Child #221 E) 9: bold, stanch. See well-wight.
wierd See weird.
wigger See wicker.
wight, wyght, wicht, whight I, 330 f., A (Child #38 A) 3, B 3, C 3; 333, 4; II, 409, (Child #101 B) 16; III, 63, (Child #117 A) 152; 414, 49: strong; but also, denoting bodily activity, brisk, as III, 117, (Child #122 A) 20; III, 63, (Child #117 A) 148, of John, who has shot well. III, 27, (Child #116 A) 97; 65, 195; 75, 389; 78, 448, Adam Bell, Clim, and William, and Robin Hood's men are wight young men. III, 91 f., (Child #118 A) 6, 8, Guy of Gisborne is a wight yeoman: sturdy. See well-wight, wighty, III, 94, (Child #118 A) 48, has perhaps caught the y from the word following. See wighty.
wightdom III, 488, (Child #188 A) 26: weight.
wightlye II, 68, 10: with vigor, or briskness.
wight-men II, 433, (Child #107 A) 7: waith-men, hunters. (Icel. veiði-maðr, Germ, weidmann.) See waythmen.
wightsmen IV, 432, (Child #262 A) 1: wechtsmen, winnowers, wecht is "an instrument for winnowing corn, made of sheep's skin, in the form of a sieve, but without holes."
wighty III, 32, 45, 50; 94, 48; 362, 70: = wight, strong. See wight.
wil IV, 472 f., 24, 25: wild, perhaps vile.
wild I, 334, 6: would.
wild-fire III, 281, (Child #158 C) 12: ignis fatuus. (slack here is marsh.)
wild-wood swine, wild-wood steer drunk as, II, 144, (Child #68 A) 3, 4; 368, 7: a popular comparison like, drunk as a dog.
wile vile.
wilfull III, 92, (Child #118 A) 24, wilfull of my way: (Scottish will, Icel. villr) astray, lost; and of my morning tyde may be that he does not know the hour, or, he has lost his time as well as his road. See will.
wile, wyle, weil, wale I, 428, (Child #47 B) 13; 429, 7, 8; II, 344, (Child #94 A) 12; IV, 287, (Child #231 C) (Child #231 D) 14; V, 127, (Child #282 A) 20, 21; 157, 9: choose.
will pret. wald, walde, wad, wade, wild, wid, wud.
will, would ellipsis of, as muckle guid canvas as wrap the ship a' roun, II, 28, (Child #58 I) (Child #58 J) 22. there's nane come, win, II, 89, (Child #63 B) (Child #63 C) 34; 99 b, 34. So, II, 26, 11; 375, 23; IV, 131, (Child #209 D) (Child #209 E) (Child #209 F) 13; 379, 11; 380, 7; 381, 8, 10; 382, 13; V, 177, (Child #301 A) 9; 184, 38; 276, 14.
will V, 16, (Child #267 B) 10, 15, 20: bewildered, at a loss what to do. will of his way, V, 70 b: lost, astray. See wilfull.
willinglye I, 272, (Child #29 A) 22: at will, freely.
williwa IV, 19, C (Child #192 C) 6: wellaway, interjection of (affected) reluctance.
willy willow.
wilsome IV, 235, (Child #222 B) 3: erratic, intricate.
win I, 72, (Child #5 C) 22, 23: whin, furze, gorse. See -whin.
win, wynne, won, wonne hay, III, 295, (Child #161 A) 1; 299, B 1, C 1; V, 243, 1: dry by airing.
win, wine, wynne, wen, won make your way, arrive. III, 71, (Child #117 A) 314; IV, 314, (Child #235 B) (Child #235 C) 15: get, go. IV, 189, (Child #216 B) (Child #216 C) 2, 4, 6: arrive, get there, win down, I, 481, (Child #53 N) 39. win frie, III, 453, (Child #182 A) (Child #182 B) 11. lat me win in, II, 148, (Child #68 C) (Child #68 D) 25: get in. win up, I, 368 f., (Child #41 A) 34, 36, 44, 47: get up. win on, I, 388, A (Child #42 A) 7: go on, keep on. win through, I, 21 b, (Child #2 L) 4: transitively, allow, cause, to pass through, win to, I, 466, (Child #53 B) (Child #53 C) 13; V, 262, 17: get to, arrive at. pret. wan. p.p. wone, wan, win, wine, wen.
win p.p. of win, I, 101, (Child #7 B) (Child #7 C) 15; IV, 189, (Child #216 B) (Child #216 C) 15; 220, 3; 446, 17; 467, 8, 9.
win your love aff me II, 207, B (Child #75 B) 2: detach your love from me.
wine p.p. of win, V, 276, 22.
winder I, 430, (Child #47 C) (Child #47 D) 1: wonder, wondrous. See wonder.
windie II, 362, (Child #96 C) (Child #96 D) 3: window.
windling sheet III, 245, B (Child #155 B) 13: winding-sheet.
winking II, 463, (Child #110 C) 16: with eye closed as if blind.
winn in your barn, IV, 323, (Child #236 A) 6: do harvest work generally, dry corn, etc., by exposing to the air. (unless meant for winna, winnow.)
winna IV, 326, (Child #236 D) (Child #236 E) 7: winnow.
winna, winne will not.
winten V, 248, 7: (wanting) without.
winter, wynter III, 68, (Child #117 A) 47; 64, 162; 285, 20: year(s).
wir I, 217, (Child #19 A) 9: our.
wire-window See weir-window.
wis I, 217, (Child #19 A) 9: us.
wis you wis, IV, 233, (Child #222 A) 13: know.
wis III, 319, (Child #163 A) (Child #163 B) 20, 24; V, 206 a, No 2, 4: was.
wish pret. of wash, V, 36, (Child #269 B) (Child #269 C) 14.
wiss n., I, 420, (Child #46 A) 12; II, 194, (Child #73 H) 8: wish.
wiss, wis v., I, 22, (Child #3 A) 6, 8; 217, 3; III, 463, 3; IV, 168, E (Child #214 E) 15; 169, 12; 461, 8, 9: wish. pret. wist, II, 423, A 1; III, 434, (Child #178 D) (Child #178 E) 20; V, 248, 18.
wiss I wiss, III, 223, (Child #152 A) 10: perhaps for I wot (not i-wiss). wist, III, 187, (Child #141 A) 32; 222, 34: know. (I wist, 187, 32 = assuredly.)
wist pret. of wiss, wish. See wiss.
wiste, wist pret. of wat, etc., I, 243, (Child #23 A) 6; 334, 6; 368, 23; 413, 37. p.p. west, III, 113, (Child #121 A) 70.
wit, witt n., III, 393, (Child #173 I) 22, 23; 419, 8, 12; IV, 509 a, 11; 512, 16, 17: knowledge, information.
wit, wite, wyte I, 334, 6; II, 307, (Child #90 C) 34; III, 67, (Child #117 A) 230; 385, 15, 16; 396, M 8; IV, 98, (Child #204 F) (Child #204 G) 2; 221, 5; 508, 10, 11; 513, 6, 7; V, 81, (Child #273 app) 7; 82, 23: know. p.p. wit, IV, 98, (Child #204 F) (Child #204 G) 2.
wite I wite, II, 160, (Child #69 B) 18; IV, 260, (Child #226 D) 12; 277, 5: I know = indeed. See wat, wyte.
wite, wyte, witt n., I, 350, (Child #39 G) 12; II, 145, (Child #68 A) (Child #68 B) 25; 146, 8; 312, 30; IV, 33, (Child #194 C) 28; 127, 1; 207, 21; V, 171, (Child #298 A) 6; 247, 11: blame.
wite, wyte v., I, 397, (Child #43 D) (Child #43 E) 13; II, 271, (Child #83 E) 19; 273, 25; III, 357, (Child #168 app) 53: blame, pret. wate, II, 273, (Child #83 F) 25.
with I, 334, 7: wit, know (orthography doubtful).
with, wyth III, 297, (Child #161 A) 42; 358, 75; 434, 23: by.
with that II, 478, (Child #111 A) 5; III, 76, (Child #117 A) 414; V, 298 a: on condition that.
wither, wather V, 105, B (Child #277 B) 7, 8: wether.
witherlands, witherlins IV, 378, (Child #245 A) (Child #245 B) 5; 380, 11: (-lins, -lingis as in Scottish backlingis, baeklins, English sidelins, sidelong; -lands a corruption of -lins) in a contrary, unwished-for, direction.
wither shins II, 318 a, (Child #92 A) 2: (M.H. Germ, widersinnes) in the wrong direction, in a direction contrary to the usual, or the desired (contrary to the course of the sun, often, but not necessarily here), within me, lept, III, 127, Play 12: inside of my guard (?).
withouten, withowghten I, 425, f 9, 10; III, 272, (Child #157 F) (Child #157 G) 6; 296, 18: without. See wythowtten.
witt knowledge. See wit.
witt n., blame, V, 247, 11. See wite.
witted V, 132, (Child #284 A) 2: minded.
witter I, 399, A b 8: = wittering, information.
wittering I, 394, (Child #43 A) (Child #43 B) 8: information, indication.
witty III, 131, (Child #124 A) (Child #124 B) 3: corruption of wight, wighty.
wo, woo, woe II, 59, (Child #61 A) 33; 86, 16; 139, 20; III, 23, (Child #116 A) 23; 27, 101; 70, 297; 97, 19: sad, unhappy, a woe ses me, II, 504, 27: exclamation of distress; perhaps corruption of, woe is.
wobs I, 305 a, A 3: webs (of cloth).
wod, wode mad. See wood.
wode III, 54, 3: went.
wode V, 283, 9, 19: wood.
wode-shawe grene-wode shawe, greenwood shaw, III, 57, (Child #117 A) 14; 70, 284; IV, 427, (Child #260 A) 1: thicket of the wood, (wood-shaw is of rather frequent occurrence and Halliwell cites, under the shawe of the wood, Morte d'Arthur, I, 374).
wodewale, woodwele, woodweele I, 326, (Child #37 C) 2; III, 91, (Child #118 A) 2: wood-lark (?).
woe See wo.
wol v., V, 283, 1, etc.: will.
wolt v., V, 283, 4: wilt.
wolwarde III, 77, (Child #117 A) 442: with skin against wool, that is wearing a woolen fleece directly against the skin.
won, wone one.
won I, 18, I 1; 174, 1; 246, 1; 299, 6, 17; II, 419, (Child #103 A) 44, 51; III, 71, (Child #117 A) 315; IV, 19, C (Child #192 C) 5; 26, 15: dwell.
won, wonne, win, hay III, 293 a; IV, 432, (Child #262 A) 1; 499, 1: dry by airing.
won, win I, 464, (Child #53 A) 15; 506, 7; II, 89, (Child #63 B) (Child #63 C) 32; 140, 22; 172, 24; 256, K 2; 407, 12; IV, 242 a; 259, 21, 23: get, go, come, arrive. II, 316, (Child #91 F) 3, 7; IV, 115, D (Child #207 D) 9: gain, earn. (spelt one, IV, 284, (Child #231 A) (Child #231 B) 23; corrected to win.) p.p. wone, V, 276, 20. See wun.
wonder III, 411, (Child #176 A) 2: bewilderment? disaster?
wonder V, 283, 1: wondrous. See winder.
wone III, 98, (Child #119 A) 25: number, plenty.
wone, withowtyn, withowt wone V, 78 f., (Child #273 app) 9, 23: fail.
wonige I, 334, 7: dwelling. Qy. wonninge?
wonynge, wonning III, 63, (Child #117 A) 148; 86, 148: dwelling.
woo wool.
woo See wo.
wood, woode, wode, wod, wud I, 242, (Child #22 A) 7; 244, 9; 328, 51; 348, 12, 18 II, 183, (Child #73 A) 26; 242, 30; 245, 27; V, 80, (Child #273 app) 42: mad.
woodcock, woodcocke III, 199, (Child #145 A) 27; 201, 31: tropically, fool (from the bird's reputation for folly). (A proverb, perhaps.)
wooden p.p. of wide, wade, I, 324, B (Child #37 B) 6.
woodweele, wodewale III, 91, (Child #118 A) 2 (Manuscript woodweete): woodwale, woodlark? (generally explained as woodpecker; sometimes as thrush, red-breast).
woon, won v., III, 146, (Child #128 A) 16: dwell.
woone III, 358, (Child #168 app) 77: domicile.
woot V, 82, (Child #273 app) 26, 41: wolt, wilt.
word att a, I, 411, (Child #45 A) 9: in short.
wordie III, 269, (Child #157 C) (Child #157 D) 12: worthy.
wordlye make II, 86, (Child #63 A) 18, 20: earthly mate, consort. See warld.
wordy IV, 135, (Child #209 I) (Child #209 J) 16: worthily.
worrie, worry v., (of smoke, flame) III, 434, (Child #178 D) (Child #178 E) 15; 435, 14; 437, 24; IV, 514, 20: choke.
worselaid V, 217, H 2: wrestled.
worset worset lace, III, 11, J (Child #114 J) 1: worsted; lace must be meant for web; it cannot mean cord, and seems quite out of place.
worth wat sal worth of, I, 334, 11: come, come to pass, wo the worth, worth the! III, 65, (Child #117 A) 189; 70, 296; 400, 1: come, be, to thee. woe worth you, wae worth ye, II, 245, (Child #81 A) (Child #81 B) 27; V, 247, 10; 248, 11. wae mat worth, IV, 236, (Child #222 B) (Child #222 C) 28; 428, 6; V, 166, (Child #294 A) 10; 306, 10: may wo come to.
wou I, 244, (Child #23 A) 13: how.
wouche III, 308, (Child #162 A) 26: (A.S. wóh, Scott, wouch) evil, harm.
would ellipsis of, II, 375, (Child #98 C) 23; IV, 131, (Child #209 D) (Child #209 E) (Child #209 F) 13; V, 177, (Child #301 A) 9; 184, 38; etc. See will.
wound pret., II, 148, (Child #68 C) (Child #68 D) 4; IV, 15, (Child #191 E) (Child #191 F) (Child #191 G) 19; 392, 19: wounded.
wow I, 101, (Child #7 B) (Child #7 C) 20; 299, 8, 10, 12; II, 260 f., (Child #82 A) 1, 11, 14: exclamation of distress. IV, 65, (Child #200 A) 1; V, 272 a, 9: exclamation of admiration, sorrowful surprise. II, 282 (Child #86 A) 2; IV, 271, A (Child #228 A) 3, 4, 7, 9; V, 197, (Child #305 B) (Child #305 C) 6: of confirmation, (vow!). See vow.
wrack ruin.
wrack V, 122, (Child #281 A) 11: mischief! devil!
wraft I, 424, b 12, 13: waft (woof) misspelt.
wraikit III, 427, note ‡: wrecked, destroyed.
wraith wroth.
wraith I, 134, N (Child #10 N) 15; III, 505, 12: apparition.
wreck sea-wreck, IV, 442, 7: whatever is thrown up by the sea.
wreke p.p., I, 243, (Child #23 A) 6: avenged.
wril V, 73 a: a drinking-word, in response to pril.
wrist III, 179, (Child #140 A) 4; 181, 16; 188,3: ankle, instep. (Icel. rist, instep, ristar-liðr, instep-joint; Germ, rist, instep or wrist; fotwerst, fotwriust, hondriust, Kichthofen, Altfriesisches Wörterbuch.)
writer, writter IV, 131, (Child #209 D) (Child #209 E) (Child #209 F) 18; 135, 25: scrivener. IV, 180, D (Child #215 D) 2, 3; 181, 3; V, 256 a, 2, 3: attorney (?).
writhe of III, 413, (Child #176 A) 34: (pret. of writhe, twist) twisted off.
writs (things written), papers.
writter See writer.
wrobbe I, 326, (Child #37 C) 4: wrabbe, warble? or Scottish wrable, warble, wriggle? J.A.H. Murray.
wrocht wrought.
wrocken, wroken p.p., III, 91, (Child #118 A) 3: avenged.
wrongeous II, 129, (Child #66 A) 25: unjust.
wrought p.p., II, 46(Child #59 A) (Child #59 B) , 40: rought, recked.
wrought pret., I, 286, (Child #30 A) 51: raught, reached.
wrthe I, 243, (Child #23 A) 5: worthy.
wruched I, 286, (Child #30 A) 47: thrown up (ruck, a heap, to gather in heaps); perhaps, thrown ashore as wrack (Icelandic rek, originally vrek, reki, originally vreki, a thing drifted ashore).
wrye I, 326, (Child #37 C) 4: twist.
wud II, 249, (Child #81 D) (Child #81 E) 19: mad. See wood.
wud I, 78, (Child #5 F) 53: would.
wuddie IV, 69, (Child #200 E) 18: widdie, withy, a rope of willow-twigs.
wuman V, 304 b, 1, 2: woman.
wun n., II, 315, E (Child #91 E) 6: wind.
wun v., II, 190, (Child #73 E) (Child #73 F) 4, 10: win, gain. See won.
wundouten nay I, 334, 9: without, beyond contradiction, truly.
wus V, 304 b, 1: was.
wush pret. of wash, III, 386, (Child #173 B) (Child #173 C) 20; IV, 166, C (Child #214 C) 7. p.p. wushen, I, 490, 22.
wuther V, 304 b, 3, 4: wether.
wyght adj., strong, sturdy, active. See wight.
wyȝth n., V, 283, 14: wight.
wyld III, 307, (Child #162 A) 6: (like Germ, wild) deer; or, perhaps, an adjective with noun to be supplied, of which there are several cases in the ballad.
wyle choose. See wile.
wyled they wyled the bonny lassie by, IV, 205, (Child #217 M) 26: the meaning cannot be that they (a troop of gentlemen) enticed the lassie aside. Mr. Forbes suggests, very plausibly, wyled (waled, took) their way past the lassie.
wyliecot V, 107, 2: under-vest.
wynd alley, lane.
wynke III, 77, (Child #117 A) 441: shut the eyes.
wynne III, 296, (Child #161 A) 22: joy, pleasure.
wynne v. See win.
wynter, winter III, 58, (Child #117 A) 47; 64, 162; 285, 20: year(s).
wyse in V, 156, B after 16: show the way in (?), let in.
wystly III, 76, (Child #117 A) 410: observingly, thoughtfully.
wyte I wyte, I, 332, G (Child #38 G) 3; II, 376, (Child #98 C) 25; IV, 32 f., (Child #194 B) (Child #194 C) 6, 17, 19, 27; 136, 13; 278, 21; 410, 25; V, 299 b, 1, 300, 14, 17, 18: (I know) indeed, assuredly. II, 307, (Child #90 C) 34: I know, simply. See wit, wyte.
wyte n. and v., blame. See wite.
wyth, with III, 297, (Child #161 A) 42; 358, 75; 434, 23: by.
wythe I, 334, 11: wight, strong. (Orthography questionable.)
wythowtten drede, III, 296, (Child #161 A) 8: without, beyond doubt, withowghten naye, 296, 18: beyond denial, wythowghten (withouten) stryffe (strife), 295, 2; 299, B 2: beyond contestation. See withouten.
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