A Dictionary of Lowland ScotchPriv. print. at the Ballantyne Press, 1888 - Всего страниц: 398 |
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... applied in Germany to the German or High Dutch , or to any of the languages that sprang out of it , known as Low Dutch . Even in the little kingdom of Saxony itself , the language spoken by the people is always called Deutsch ( or ...
... applied in Germany to the German or High Dutch , or to any of the languages that sprang out of it , known as Low Dutch . Even in the little kingdom of Saxony itself , the language spoken by the people is always called Deutsch ( or ...
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... applied to the natives of South Britain , is of recent origin , and was not known in the golden age of English literature , when Shakspeare and Spenser flourished , nor until the second half of the eighteenth century . Great Britain was ...
... applied to the natives of South Britain , is of recent origin , and was not known in the golden age of English literature , when Shakspeare and Spenser flourished , nor until the second half of the eighteenth century . Great Britain was ...
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... a tassel , a fringe , a knot , a cluster ; and babach , in- nocent pleasure , applied to the bab as a symbol . A cockit hat with a bab o ' blue ribbons at it . -SIR WALTER SCOTT : Old Mortality . Bairn - time , a whole family of chil- dren.
... a tassel , a fringe , a knot , a cluster ; and babach , in- nocent pleasure , applied to the bab as a symbol . A cockit hat with a bab o ' blue ribbons at it . -SIR WALTER SCOTT : Old Mortality . Bairn - time , a whole family of chil- dren.
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... applied to the cross - beam of the roof because it prevented the roof from giving way , and to other wooden partitions ne- cessary for division . It also came to signify to disappoint , because disappointment was the prevention or ...
... applied to the cross - beam of the roof because it prevented the roof from giving way , and to other wooden partitions ne- cessary for division . It also came to signify to disappoint , because disappointment was the prevention or ...
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... applied to a young woman or child . And by my word , the bonnie bird In danger shall not tarry , And though the storm is raging wild , I'll row ye o'er the ferry . -THOMAS Campbell . Birdalane or burdalane . A term of sorrowful ...
... applied to a young woman or child . And by my word , the bonnie bird In danger shall not tarry , And though the storm is raging wild , I'll row ye o'er the ferry . -THOMAS Campbell . Birdalane or burdalane . A term of sorrowful ...
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according to Jamieson ALLAN RAMSAY'S Scots Ambrosianæ applied Arnha auld bairns Ballad beautiful better bonnie Border Minstrelsy BURNS Busk called canna cauld Chaucer corruption de'il Deil Dictionary Dutch and Flemish e'en England English word etymology Flemish fool frae French Gaelic gang GEORGE BEATTIE German hame haud Highland Holy Fair Jacobite JAMES BALLANTINE Jamie Jamieson derives John kirk lady laird lish Lord Lost Preterites mair maun meaning mickle Minstrelsy mony muckle ne'er never o'er obsolete old English origin phrase Piers Ploughman poem poet possibly preterite probably RAMSAY RAMSAY'S Scots Proverbs Robert Burns root Ross's Helenore says Scotland Scottish Border Scottish language Scottish word sense Shakspeare Shanter signifies Sir Walter Scott slang sometimes written song synonymous Teutonic thou tion Twa Dogs verb weel whence wife WIRRY-COW woman ye'll Ye're
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Стр. 86 - Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red-rusted ; Five scimitars wi' murder crusted ; A garter, which a babe had strangled ; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o...
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Стр. 23 - Coffins stood round, like open presses; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish cantrip slight Each in its cauld hand held a light— By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims; Twa span-lang, wee unchristen'd bairns; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape; Five tomahawks, wi...
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Стр. 287 - But still as wilder blew the wind, And as the night grew drearer, Adown the glen rode armed men, Their trampling sounded nearer. "O haste thee, haste!" the lady cries, "Though tempests round us gather; I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father.
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Стр. 120 - But a' your doings to rehearse, Your wily snares an' fechtin fierce, Sin' that day Michael* did you pierce, Down to this time, Wad ding a' Lallan tongue, or Erse, In prose or rhyme. An' now, auld Cloots, I ken ye're thinkin, A certain Bardie's rantin, drinkin, Some luckless hour will send him linkin, To your black pit ; But, faith ! he'll turn a corner jinkin, An' cheat you yet. But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben ! O wad ye tak a thought an...
Стр. 16 - For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne. We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine ; But we've wander'd mony a weary foot Sin auld lang syne.