Birthdays
Footnotes
1 Separating the lint from the stalk.
2 Combing.
Glossary
| A body | a person |
| Airt | direction |
| Ahint | behind |
| Bairn | child |
| Baudrons | Scotch name for a cat |
| Ben | in towards an inner room |
| Ben | a mountain peak |
| Bicker | to argue in a petty way |
| Bonnet-piece | an old Scottish coin |
| Byre | cowhouse |
| Canty | kindly, cheerful |
| Cantrip | a freak, or wilful piece of trickery |
| Chuckie-stone | a small white pebble |
| Clout | a blow |
| Cloving | separating lint from its stalk |
| Clue | a ball of worsted |
| Creel | a large hand-made basket |
| Cutty-pipe | a short clay pipe |
| Daft | silly, weak-minded |
| Dander | to walk aimlessly |
| Darkening | the twilight |
| Divot | a sod |
| Doo | a dove |
| Douce | sedate |
| Dowie | dull, low-spirited |
| Dyke | a wall |
| Eldritch | weird |
| Emprise | an enterprise |
| Entry | a passage |
| Fain | gladly |
| Feared | afraid |
| Forbye | besides |
| Gang | go |
| Girnel | a meal-chest |
| Gled | a hawk |
| Gloaming | the twilight |
| Greeting | crying |
| Hantle | very much, a considerable number |
| Havers | nonsense |
| Heckle | to comb |
| Hinnie | a term of endearment |
| Hirple | to limp |
| Histie | “haste thee” |
| Inbye | inside |
| Ingle neuk | the corner by the fire |
| Joists | the beams in a roof |
| Kailyard | a kitchen garden |
| Ken | know |
| Kirn | a churn, to churn |
| Kist | a chest |
| Knowe | a little hillock |
| Lift | the sky, the air |
| Light | alight |
| Lintie | a linnet |
| Lout | to stoop |
| Lum | chimney |
| Louping-on-stane | a stone from which to mount a horse |
| Malison | a curse |
| Meat | food |
| Migraine | a pain affecting one half of the head |
| Mutch | a cap |
| Onstead | farm buildings |
| Paddock | a toad or frog |
| Pirnie | a woollen nightcap |
| Poke | a bag |
| Rivlins | shoes made of cowhide |
| Sen’ night | a week |
| Shoon | shoes |
| Siccan | such |
| Siller | money |
| Sinsyne | since |
| Smatchet | small boy |
| Sneck | to latch or shut a door |
| Snibbit | bolted, snib, a bolt |
| Thrapple | throat |
| Thole | to bear |
| Unchancy | uncanny |
| Wheen | a few |
| Wheesht | be quiet! |
| Wight | a person |
| Winnock | a window |
| Winnow | to separate the chaff from the grain by wind |
| Yestreen | yesterday |
| Yule | Christmas |
| Unicorns | Ancient Scottish coins |
The Scottish Fairy Book Books in the “Fairy Series”
The English Fairy Book
The Welsh Fairy Book
The Irish Fairy Book
The Scottish Fairy Book
The Italian Fairy Book
The Hungarian Fairy Book
The Indian Fairy Book
The Spanish Fairy Book
The Danish Fairy Book
The Norwegian Fairy Book
The Jewish Fairy Book
The Swedish Fairy Book
The Chinese Fairy Book