The numbers given in the references are self-explanatory. They are generally to page and line, in some cases to book and verse, as in Bruce and Wyntoun. T.W.M. refers to Dunbar's "Twa Mariit Wemen." F. to "The Flyting with Kennedy." F. after Montgomery's name refers to "The Flyting." G.T. refers to Dunbar's "Golden Targe," and C. and S. to Montgomery's "Cherrie and the Slae." M.P. to the "Miscellaneous Poems" and S. to the "Sonnets."
Only words that are specifically Scotch in form or usage have been included. Very well known Scotch words, that occur in older Scotch as well as the modern dialects, such as _blether_, _busk_, _ettle_, _kilt_, etc., are given without references to texts where they have been found, otherwise one or more references are given in each case. For the sake of comparison and illustration Shetland and Cumberland forms are frequently given. Wherever a W. Scand. source is accepted for a loanword the O.N. form is given if it be different from O. Ic. Examples from Danish dialects or Swedish dialects are given as Dan. dial. or Sw. dial. Those from Norse dialects are cited as Norse simply. Those that are specifically literary Norse are cited as Dano-Norse.
AGAIT, _adv._ uniformly. R.R. 622. Sco. _ae_, one, + O.N. _gata_ literally "ae way," one way.
AGAIT, _adv._ astir, on the way. See Wall.
AGROUF, _adv._ on the stomach, grovelling. Ramsay, II, 339. O.N. _á grúfu_, id. See _grouf_.
AIRT (ę̆rt), _vb._ urge, incite, force, guide, show. O.N. _erta_, to taunt, to tease, _erting_, teasing. Norse _erta_, _örta_, id. Sw. dial. _erta_, to incite some one to do a thing. Sw. _reta_ shows metathesis. M.E. _ertin_, to provoke.
ALLGAT, _adv._ always, by all means. Bruce, XII, 36; L.L. 1996. O.N. _allu gatu_. O. Ic. _öllu gǫtu_. See Kluge, P.G.(2)I, 938.
ALGAIT, ALGATIS, _adv._ wholly. Douglas, II, 15, 32; II, 129, 31. See Kluge, P.G.(2)I, 938.
ALTHING, as a _sb._ everything. Gau, 8, 30, corresponding to Dan. _alting_. "Over al thing," Dan. _over alting_. Not to be taken as a regular Sco. word, however. Gau has a number of other expressions which correspond closely to those of the Dan. original of Kristjern Pedersen, of which Gau's work is a translation.
ANGER, _sb._ grief, misery. Bruce, I, 235. Sco. Pro. 29. O.N. _angr_, grief, sorrow. See Bradley's Stratmann, and Kluge and Lutz. The root _ang_ is general Gmc., cp. O.E. _angmod_, "vexed in mind." M.L.G. _anxt_, Germ. _angst_, Dan. _anger_. The form of the word in Eng., however, is Scand.