| absolvitor | A decree or decision of a court in favour of a defendant in an action. Also as… | 1547 | Go To Quotation |
| allocate | As past participle: allocated. | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| assedate | To let on lease. | 1545 | Go To Quotation |
| back-gate | A gate at the back of, or leading to the rear part of, a house or other premises. | 1442 | Go To Quotation |
| boatsman | = boatman n. 1. | 1512 | Go To Quotation |
| bole | A small square recess in the wall of a room for holding articles. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| bow-sting | = bowstaff n. | 1551 | Go To Quotation |
| boyart | = hoy n. a. Cf. boyer n. | 1545 | Go To Quotation |
| Care Sunday | ‘According to Bellenden, Sunday immediately preceding Good Friday; but now generally used for the fifth in Lent’ (Jamieson). | 1538 | Go To Quotation |
| centry | The centre or centering of a bridge. | 1522 | Go To Quotation |
| charter | A repository for charters or deeds. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| collude | intr. To act in secret concert with, chiefly in order to trick or baffle some third… | 1525 | Go To Quotation |
| conduction | Hiring. Obs. exc. in Roman Law. | 1538 | Go To Quotation |
| cramery | ‘Merchandise, such goods as are usually sold by a pedlar’ (Jamieson). | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| cumming | ‘A small tub or wooden vessel. Angus, Fife.’ (Jamieson 1825.) | 1538 | Go To Quotation |
| cunster | = conner n., ale-conner. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| cust | A base, low fellow; a custroun. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| decade | To fall down, fail. | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| dowrier | = dowager n. | 1551 | Go To Quotation |
| fabulator | One who fabulates or relates fables; a story-teller. | 1604 | Go To Quotation |
| fatholt | ? Staves for casks. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| fauch | trans. To fallow (ground). | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| ferine | Meal. | 1538 | Go To Quotation |
| fleshing | = fleshing-knife n. | 1547 | Go To Quotation |
| freare | = frail n. | 1565 | Go To Quotation |
| freeing | The action of free v. (in various senses). | 1492 | Go To Quotation |
| free quartering | The action of free-quarter v.; the billeting of troops at the householder's expense. | 1644 | Go To Quotation |
| garron | Sc. ? A beam of wood. Obs. | 1543 | Go To Quotation |
| gettable | That can be got. | 1555 | Go To Quotation |
| gofe | sing. and pl. The pillory. | 1489 | Go To Quotation |
| gratification | Something given to gain favour, or as a recompense for anything done or to be done… | 1576 | Go To Quotation |
| great-line | A long line used in deep-sea fishing for cod, ling, etc. Also attrib., as great-line fish, great-line fishing. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| guard | One who keeps, protects, or defends; a protector, defender; spec. one of a guard (sense… | 1412 | Go To Quotation |
| guard-house | A building in which prisoners are detained under guard. | 1592 | Go To Quotation |
| gubernatrix | She that governs or rules. Also appositively = Governing, gubernative. | 1556 | Go To Quotation |
| gulden | The name was subsequently transferred to a silver coin, the value of which differed… | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| gun-hole | An embrasure; a port-hole for a gun. | 1532 | Go To Quotation |
| gunnery | concr. Guns collectively. | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| half-net | A fishing-net set or held so as to intercept the fish as the tide ebbs. See also quot. 1812. | 1538 | Go To Quotation |
| hussy | (cf. housewife's cloth n. at housewife n. 2). | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| in-borrow | trans. To redeem from pawn. | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| infecting | That infects something or someone (in various senses); infectious. | 1539 | Go To Quotation |
| inquit | trans. ‘To redeem from being pledged’ (Jamieson). | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| in-town | Sc. = infield n. adv. Chiefly attrib., as intown pasture; intown multure n. = insucken adj. multure… | 1538 | Go To Quotation |
| invitor | Sc. corrupt forms of inventar n., inventory. Cf. invitory n. | 1545 | Go To Quotation |
| knaveship | Sc. The quantity of corn or meal payable to a miller's servant (cf. knave n. 2) as one… | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| laden | trans. = lade v. | 1514 | Go To Quotation |
| leakness | Leakiness. | 1508 | Go To Quotation |
| leet | A list of persons designated as eligible for some office. Phrases, to be in leet, to be on the… | 1441 | Go To Quotation |
| lib. | abbrev. of Latin libræ pounds. | 1442 | Go To Quotation |
| linget | The seed of ‘lint’ or flax, linseed. oly(e lingeat: linseed oil. | 1477 | Go To Quotation |
| locumtenent | = lieutenant n. Sc. Obs. | 1492 | Go To Quotation |
| Lord-lieutenant | In Scotland. Obs. | 1453 | Go To Quotation |
| lossing | The action of unloading a vessel, or of discharging goods. | 1531 | Go To Quotation |
| Lubish | In mark Lubish, schilling Lubish, denominations belonging to a money of account… | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| mandate | Sc. Law. A contract by which one person authorizes another to act without payment on his… | 1521 | Go To Quotation |
| merchantman | A merchant, a trader. Obs. | 1449 | Go To Quotation |
| misperson | trans. To treat (a person) with indignity; esp. to insult, slander. | 1530 | Go To Quotation |
| mother-of-law | Prob.: = mother-in-law n. 1. Perh.: a stepmother. | 1538 | Go To Quotation |
| Naples | With of and attrib. Designating or symptomatic of the disease syphilis. Cf. Neapolitan adj. 2. Now hist. | 1507 | Go To Quotation |
| niffering | The process of bargaining; the exchange or barter of goods. | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| organster | An organist. | 1525 | Go To Quotation |
| out-taking | The action of out-take v.; an instance of this; †deliverance; an exception (obs.). | 1442 | Go To Quotation |
| plainteous | Having a grievance; complaining, making or bringing a complaint. | 1444 | Go To Quotation |
| plundered | Of wealth, property, etc.: that has been taken as plunder. Also fig. | 1639 | Go To Quotation |
| plunderer | A person who plunders; a pillager, a looter. | 1639 | Go To Quotation |
| postposition | Sc. The action of postponing something; postponement; delay. Obs. rare. | 1546 | Go To Quotation |
| pounding | Sc. Law. The action of pound v. 1; an instance of this. Obs. | 1401 | Go To Quotation |
| poundler | = poinder n. | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| pram | An open, flat-bottomed boat or lighter, used esp. in the Baltic and the Netherlands for shipping cargo. | 1531 | Go To Quotation |
| primar | The principal of a Scottish university or university college. | 1620 | Go To Quotation |
| propine | Something presented or offered as a gift; a present; (occas.) a gratuity. Formerly also… | 1448 | Go To Quotation |
| purprision | The act or an instance of enclosing or encroaching upon land or property illegally; = purpresture n. 1. | 1448 | Go To Quotation |
| quay | A man-made bank or landing stage, typically built of stone, lying alongside or… | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| rasp | A type of coarse file having many projections or teeth on its surface; (also) any… | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| recoverable | Law. Able to be recovered or obtained by law or a legal process. | 1448 | Go To Quotation |
| redd | The roe of a fish; (also) the spawn of an amphibian. | 1547 | Go To Quotation |
| renverse | trans. To overturn or overthrow (lit. and fig.); to bring to confusion. | 1521 | Go To Quotation |
| resplait | trans. To adjourn, postpone; to defer consideration or payment of. | 1447 | Go To Quotation |
| scalp | A bank providing a bed for shellfish, esp. oysters and mussels; an oyster or mussel bed… | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| scrochat | A kind of sweetmeat. | 1448 | Go To Quotation |
| segstar | = sexton n. | 1531 | Go To Quotation |
| sic-like | Similar; such-like; of such a kind. | 1442 | Go To Quotation |
| single-soled | Of boots or shoes: Having a single thickness of material in the sole. | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| socially | Sc. In company; in an orderly manner. Obs. rare. | 1505 | Go To Quotation |
| stag | trans. To support with piles. | 1610 | Go To Quotation |
| stark | Some implement used in dressing leather. | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| steadable | Serviceable, helpful. | 1467 | Go To Quotation |
| strawer | One who ‘straws’ or squanders. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| strincate | ? earlier form of trinket n. | 1489 | Go To Quotation |
| stut | A prop. | 1559 | Go To Quotation |
| substantiously | With substantial means, support, or effect; substantially. | 1507 | Go To Quotation |
| supersedement | Postponement, adjournment. With of an action or the collection of (a debt). | 1492 | Go To Quotation |
| supprise | Unexpected attack by a military force. Cf. surprise n. 1. | 1412 | Go To Quotation |
| suspender | One who or that which puts a stop to something, esp. temporarily. | 1524 | Go To Quotation |
| swasher | A drummer. | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| tacksman | One who holds a tack or lease of land, a watermill, coal-mines, fisheries, tithes… | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| tilfoir | = tofore prep. adv. conj., before adv. prep. conj. n. | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| tinsel | trans. To subject to loss; to impoverish, to endamage; to punish by a fine, to mulct. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| tuilyier | A quarrelsome person, a brawler. Also in comb. tuilyier-like adj. quarrelsome. | 1444 | Go To Quotation |
| undreaded | (un- prefix 8.) | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| ungettable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1554 | Go To Quotation |
| uninhabitable | (un- prefix 7b. Cf. unhabitable adj.) | 1448 | Go To Quotation |
| unpassed | (un- prefix 8 5d.) | 1541 | Go To Quotation |
| unpoinded | (un- prefix 8.) | 1533 | Go To Quotation |
| unquietation | (un- prefix 12 5b.) | 1604 | Go To Quotation |
| unrounged | Unclipped. | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| unstented | Not assessed. | 1605 | Go To Quotation |
| unwoolled | Lacking wool; shorn. | 1538 | Go To Quotation |
| upbringing | The action of building. Obs. | 1484 | Go To Quotation |
| upmaking | Sc. The action of making up, in various senses. | 1513 | Go To Quotation |
| up-putting | The action of erecting or setting up. Obs. | 1513 | Go To Quotation |
| upwark | Cessation of work. | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| vaguer | An idle stroller or wanderer; a vagrant. | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| venery | The practice or pursuit of sexual pleasure; indulgence of sexual desire. | 1497 | Go To Quotation |
| vesiar | An inspector. Obs. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| warpiss | trans. To cast or throw off, to put aside. | 1444 | Go To Quotation |
| well-baken | Well-baked. | 1549 | Go To Quotation |
| wicked | Furnished with or having a wick or wicks; usually in comb., as broad-wicked, two-wicked. | 1507 | Go To Quotation |
| wort | The snout of a pig. | 1507 | Go To Quotation |
