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140 sense or form given here) from all the districts, except, of course parts of Fife:—


 * Gellie, leech.
 * Tiki-molie, boys' trick.
 * Gutter-gaw, sores between toes of bare-footed walkers in puddles.
 * Fichils, feats.
 * Pennart, tin case for penholders.
 * Seek sorry, unwilling.
 * Chows, small coal.
 * Speengie-rose, peony.
 * Cummins, in malt. Jamieson has "Cumin, wort.”
 * Hagg, man who tends fat cattle.
 * Treviss, frame to shoe horses; common in other sense.
 * Flauchter-spade, boys' game.
 * Hunker-tottie, cowering slide.
 * Monk, horse's head-stall.
 * Nose o' wax, ninny.
 * Sand-bed o' drink, drunkard.
 * Giglot, laughing girl.
 * Whummle-bore, cleft palate.
 * Onbonny, ugly.
 * Shelly-coat, tortoise-shell moth.
 * Meedge, mark to steer by.
 * Thro-pit, go.
 * Rüenin, wbimpering.
 * Fuggy-toddler, humble bee.
 * Peeler, soft crab.
 * Ringle-e'ed, wall-eyed.
 * Stoom, to look sulky.

It might also be said that these are not in Jamieson either, if one might speak positively on such a point. Upon another set of these words corroboration was got only from Jamieson:—


 * Coo-baikie, pole securing cow in stall.
 * Dunter, eider-duck.
 * Strokannet, burrow-duck.
 * Poddlies, young saithe.
 * Gurthie, nauseous, what "staws."
 * Flaws, ends of horse-shoe nails.
 * Fraekin, wheedling.
 * Wrig, puis-né grice, or young pig.
 * Golack, beetle.
 * Kimmen, a milk-pail.
 * Carrick, shinty stick.
 * Furthie, liberal.
 * Bauk, grass walk in a garden.
 * Gansell, insolent retort.
 * Spar, close a gate.
 * Keelie, a sparrow-hawk.

These lists are given merely as specimens of what are purely local and, in some cases, lost words.

The bulk of the foregoing specimens of the vernacular, regarded as an object-lesson in popular philology, is the common property of that bygone phase of village life in Lowland Scotland which has been dubbed, by unsympathetic critics, the "Kailyard." As the result of the observation of actual usage within a special area, it has features of its own that might be valuable for comparison and suggestion. Such studies do not