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 * ae, one.
 * antinomian, one of a sect which holds that under the gospel dispensation the moral law is not obligatory.
 * Auld Hornie, the Devil.
 * ballant, ballad.
 * bauchles, brogues, old shoes.
 * bauld, bold.
 * bees in their bonnet, eccentricities.
 * birling, whirling.
 * black-a-vised, dark-complexioned.
 * bonnet-laird, small landed proprietor, yeoman.
 * bool, ball.
 * brae, rising ground.
 * brig, bridge.
 * buff, play buff on, to make a fool of, to deceive.
 * burn, stream.
 * butt end, end of a cottage.
 * byre, cow-house.
 * ca', drive.
 * caller, fresh.
 * canna, cannot.
 * canny, careful, shrewd.
 * cantie, cheerful.
 * carline, old woman.
 * cauld, cold.
 * chalmer, chamber.
 * claes, clothes.
 * clamjamfry, crowd.
 * clavers, idle talk.
 * cock-laird. See Bonnet-laird.
 * collieshangie, turmoil.
 * crack, to converse.
 * cuist, cast.
 * cuddy, donkey.
 * cutty, jade, also used playfully = brat.
 * daft, mad, frolicsome.
 * dander, to saunter.
 * danders, cinders.
 * daurna, dare not.
 * deave, to deafen.
 * denty, dainty.
 * dirdum, vigour.
 * disjaskit, worn out, disreputable-looking.
 * doer, law agent.
 * dour, hard.
 * drumlie, dark.
 * dunting, knocking.
 * dwaibly, infirm, rickety.
 * dule-tree, the tree of lamentation, the hanging-tree.