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250 Ant. p. 158). In a letter of 18th August 1612, “Act for Servandis”, noted in “Acts and Statutes”, “thrieskoir (= three score) gulyeonis” or 60 florins are explained as £72 Scots (“that it sall not be lesum to servile persones not worth thrieskoir gulyeonis quhilk is LXXII £ i Scottis to tak vp housis”). One is consequently worth £¹⁄₅ Scots. Balfour explains “gudling, gullion” as a measure originally answering to a) six “cuttels” (1 cuttel = one Scottish ell); b) ¹⁄₁₀ of a “pakke” of wadmal (“a pack of wadmæl”;   pakki, pakkavaðmál). Later, to Balfour, a “gudling” was raised to the value of 8 “cuttels”. — In E.D.D. the “gullion” is stated as being equal to 2 shillings. — Is the same word as $2$, ;

gollen$2$, goljen [gȯᶅən],, recorded in the “-g. [slȯm·gȯᶅ·ən]”, badly prepared, unappetizing food, a soft, muddy or slimy mass. Also adjectivally: -g. dirt. — possibly represents explained as an original *gyrja-n ( form);  gyrja,, mud; mire; pulpy mass, görja,  For change of r to l (and conversely) in Norn, see Introd. V (also N.Spr. VII), § 38, h. One might, however, also suggest gogli,, mud; mire, but this word is common in (also in ) in forms with preserved g, such as and.
 * , and, in that case, to be

gol(l)ur [gȯᶅūr·, gȯᶅū$f$r·] and goller [gȯᶅər],, the pericardium, that of a cow, hung up to dry, stuffed with the surrounding fat mixed with spices (pepper, cloves and salt) to cure it; de g. o’ a coo. (and ). In is found a parallel form  [gaᶅūr·, gaᶅū$ə$r·] of which the o in the first part has changed to a, because the second sec- ond part has received the full stress. The word is sometimes found as a place-name, name of a rock or hill: de [gȯᶅər], a hill (Lunna Ness, ), and “de  [gaᶅū$mo$r·]-stakk”, a skerry near — from the likeness of these places to an inflated pericardium. — gollorr, gollurr,, the pericardium; gollur ( r),, the pericardium of a sheep, full of fat (B.H.).
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golmoget [gȯlmō·gət, gȯᶅmō·gət] and goilmoget [gȯilmō·gət],, 1) applied to a cow: a) dark-coloured with lighter (yellow, whitish) belly; b) spotted on the forehead, and having a light (white) stripe down the breast and belly; a g. coo [‘cow’]. 2) a) having small stripes or spots on the head, sometimes reddish, sometimes greyish-yellow or dirty-white, of a cow; also applied to sheep; a g. sheep, a sheep having a dirty, light-coloured head; b) having dirty stripes or spots on the face, of people; dirty, of the face; a g. face. Sense 2 b may, however, be a mingling with, ; 3) in a  sense, sulky; peevish; sullen.  — Sense 1 a, "having a yellow belly”, is the original one; sense 2 has doubtless been developed from sense 1 a, with sense 1 b as the natural link, after the proper meaning of the word had been lost. The colour of the head has then gradually  to be regarded as the main point. Sense 3, sullen and peevish-looking, must doubtless spring from sense 2 b: “with a dirty-looking face”. — *gul- or *gol-mǫgóttr;  gulr,, yellow; on the belly — see ,   gulmøgutur, gulmutur, , having a yellowish (light or reddish-yellow) belly, of sheep;  golmögóttur, , is somewhat : brownish with a darker shade on
 * mǫgóttr,, of a certain colour