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The Fortunes of Nigel

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2017
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HEAD-TIRE, head-dress.

HECK AND MANGER, in comfortable quarters.

HEUGHS, glens.

HIRDIE-GIRDIE, topsy-turvy.

HIRPLING, limping, walking lame.

HIRSEL, flock.

HORSE-GRAITH, harness.

HOUGHS, hollows.

HOWFF, rendezvous, place of resort.

ILK ANE, each one.

ILL, bad.

ILL REDD-UP, very untidy.

ILL-WILLY, ill-natured.

INGINE, ingenuity.

INGOTS, masses of unwrought metal.

INGRATE, an ungrateful person.

IRON CARLES, iron figures of men.

JAW, wave.

JEDDART-STAFF, a species of battle-axe peculiar to Jedburgh.

JENNET, a small Spanish horse.

JINGLE, dance.

JOUP, dip, stoop down.

KEMPING, strife.

KENNING, knowledge.

KIMMER, gossip, neighbour.

KIRK, church.

KITTLE, ticklish, difficult, precarious.

KYTHED, seemed, appeared.

LAIGH, low.

LAIR, learning.

LAMB’S-WOOL, a beverage made of the pulp of roasted apples.

LANDLOUPER, adventurer, runagate.

LANG SYNE, long ago.

LATTEN, plated iron or brass.

LAVROCK, lark.

LEASING-MAKING, uttering treasonable language.

LEASINGS, falsehoods, treason.

LEGLIN-GIRTH, the lowest hoop on a leglin, or milk-pail.

LICK, a beating.

LIEFEST, most beloved.

LIFT, steal.

LIGHT O’ LOVE, mistress, wanton woman.

LINKBOYS, juvenile torch-bearers.

LIST, like.

LITHER, soft.

LOOF, palm of the hand.

LOON, LOUN, rascal.

LOUPING, leaping.

LUG, LUGG, ear.

LUVE, love.
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