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 * Scorlins, slimy, cord-like seaweed.
 * Thowl pins=rowlocks.
 * Hochlan, slack in dress, walking clumsily. Cf. hobble.
 * Scleurach, untidy in dress and gait. Celt, sgliurach, slut, gossip, young sea-gull.
 * Trooshlach, worthless thing. Cf. trash.
 * Claty, dirty. Sc. clarty.
 * Skybal, worthless fellow. Celt, gioball, chap, odd fellow. Banffsh. Glossary—Skypal, not having a sufficiency, e.g. "A'll be some skypal o' seed corn."
 * Sclaffer, go slipshod, to sclaff.
 * Haing, a small swear. Hang.
 * Meishachan, subscription dance. Cf. minsh, a change-house.
 * Mainglin', crushing, mangling.
 * Boosach, drinking, boozing.
 * Dyvour, poor looking individual. Lat. debtor. Fr. devoir.
 * Sponged, stole deceitfully.
 * Rhane, rhyme. Orcadian reen, to roar vehemently; exclusively of a pig in distress: reening, squeaking as a pig.
 * Yolus Cronie, a charm (in words). Celt, eolas, knowledge, eoisle, a charm.
 * Rumpled, confused.
 * Hickery-pickery, tonic bitters, Ἱερός, sacred. πικίς, a bitter herb. See Chamb. Encyc., Art. "Hiera Picra."
 * Wallink, brooklime speedwell.
 * Droshachs, doctors' drugs.