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 * jeely-piece, a slice of bread and jelly.
 * jennipers, juniper.
 * jo, sweetheart.
 * justifeed, executed, made the victim of justice.
 * jyle, jail.
 * kebbuck, cheese.
 * ken, to know.
 * kenspeckle, conspicuous.
 * kilted, tucked up.
 * kyte, belly.
 * laigh, low.
 * laird, landed proprietor.
 * lane, alone.
 * lave, rest, remainder.
 * linking, tripping.
 * lown, lonely, still.
 * lynn, cataract.
 * Lyon King of Arms, the chief of the Court of Heraldry in Scotland.
 * macers, officers of the supreme court. [Cf. Guy Mannering, last chapter.]
 * maun, must.
 * menseful, of good manners.
 * mirk, dark.
 * misbegowk, deception, disappointment.
 * mools, mould, earth.
 * muckle, much, great, big.
 * my lane, by myself.
 * nowt, black cattle.
 * palmering, walking infirmly.
 * panel, in Scots law, the accused person in a criminal action, the prisoner.
 * peel, fortified watch-tower.
 * plew-stilts, plough-handles.
 * policy, ornamental grounds of a country mansion.
 * puddock, frog.
 * quean, wench.
 * rair, to roar.
 * riff-raff, rabble.
 * risping, grating.
 * rout, rowt, to roar, to rant.
 * rowth, abundance.
 * rudas, haggard old woman.
 * runt, an old cow past breeding; opprobriously, an old woman.
 * sab, sob.
 * sanguishes, sandwiches.
 * sasine, in Scots law, the act of giving legal possession of feudal property, or, colloquially, the deed by which that possession is proved.
 * sclamber, to scramble.
 * sculduddery, impropriety, grossness.
 * session, the Court of Session, the supreme court of Scotland.
 * shauchling, shuffling, slipshod.
 * shoo, to chase gently.
 * siller, money.
 * sinsyne, since then.
 * skailing, dispersing.