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 fend, to defend, keep out bad weather, provide against want. fief, an estate held from a feudal superior. firlots, a fourth part of a boll. flamms, pancakes. fleech, flatter, wheedle. fleightering, fluttering. forby, besides. former, chisel. fortune de la guerre, fortune of war. fou, foolish, crazed. frampler, a disorderly person. frater ad succurrendum, brother-assistant. fur, furrow.

gad, an iron bar, a goad. gait, gate, way, manner, method. galliard, a dance. galligaskins, a wide sort of trousers. gambadoes, coverings for the legs. gang, go. gar, compel, make. gathering turf, a fiery peat sent round by the Borderers to alarm the country in time of danger, as the fiery cross was sent by the Highlanders. gear, goods, dress, equipment. ger, compel, make. gey, very. ghaists, ghosts. girth, a refuge, an asylum; girth gate, safe road. gled, a bird, especially the kite. gleg, sharp, alert. glimpse, moment. gnar, a knot in wood, a stout fellow. Gnostics, a sect of the early Church. gorget, throat armour. gratias, favours, thanks. gratias agimus quam maximas, Domine reverendissime, we yield thee all thanks, most reverend lord. guestened, been the guest of. guide, use, treat. guisards, disguised persons, mummers who sing for money at Christmas-time and the New Year. gyre-carline, weird sister, ogress, witch.

hackbut, an old sort of firearm. haggis, a dish composed of the pluck, &c., of a sheep, with oatmeal, suet, onions, &c., boiled inside. haill, all, whole. haill o my ain, all my own. hap up, cover. hart of grease, a hart in the best condition. havings, behaviour, manners. heather-blutters, cock-snipes. heckle, to hackle, to separate the coarse part of hemp from the fine. hempie, rogue, giddy young person. het, hot. heuch, a crag, a dell. hirsel, a flock of sheep; to creep down. hodiernal, belonging to the present day. horse-couper, horse-dealer. hospitium, that part of a convent set apart for strangers and travellers. howk, to dig; howkit, dug. humana perpessi sumus, we have endured the course of human life.

ilk, each, every; of that ilk, of the same. incredulus odi, what I find incredible, I hate. indulgentiae, indulgences. intravit in secretis nostr is, he hath entered into our secrets. invecta et illata, goods brought by the tenant to the property he rents. irritabile genus, irritable class.

jack, breastplate, a coat of mail. jackman, a man that wears a short mail jacket. japes, deceptions. Rh