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ble life, and left him a prey to anxiety and want, to sorrow and despair.

Of his poems, which have been so often printed, and so eagerly read, it is unnecessary to enter into a critical examination. All readers of taste and sensibility assign him the first place among the poets of his country; and acknowledge the presence of that "light from heaven," which consecrates and eternizes every monument of genius.

GLOSSARY.

THE ch and gh have always the guttural sound. The sound of the English diphthong oo, is commonly spelled ou. The French u, a sound which often occurs in the Scottish language, is marked oo, or ui. The a in genuine Scottish words, except when forming a diphthong, or followed by an e mute after a single consonant, sounds generally like the broad English a in wall. The Scottish diphthongs ae, always, and ea very often, sound like the French e masculine. The Scottish diph thong ey, sounds like the Latin ei.

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rent, sagacions, cun ning, prudent. Auld lang syne, olden time, days of other years.

Auld, old, ancient, advanced in years. Auntie, an aunt. Ava', at all, of all, of any. Awa', away, absent. Awfu', awful, terrible. Awn, the beard of barley, oats, &c. Awnie, bearded. Ayont, beyond, at a distance, out of the reach

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Backets, ash boards; a square wooden vessel for carrying coals to the fire; a kind of box for holding salt. Backlins comin', coming back, returning. Bad, did bid. Baide, endured, did stay. Bailie, a magistrate in Scotland, answering to an alderman in England. Baggie, dimin. of bag, a familiar term used to signify the belly,

Bainie, having large Belyve, by-and-by.

bones, stout.

Bairn, a child.

Bairntime, a family of children, a brood. Baith, both, likewise. Bake, a small cake or biscuit.

Ban, to swear, to make an irreverent exclamation; reproach, cenBane, bone.

sure.

Bang, to beat, to strive, to excel. Bardie, dimin. of bard. Barefit, barefooted, without shoes or stockings. Barmie, of, or like barm. Batch, a crew, a gang. Batts, botts, small worms in the entrails of horses. Baudrons, a cat. Bauld, bold, intrepid. Bawk, a strip of land left unploughed, two three feet in width; a ridge, a bank. Baws'nt, having a white strip down the face. Be, to let be, to give over,

to cease.

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Bear, barley.
Beastie, dimin. of beast.
Beet, to add fuel to fire.
Beld, bald, without hair
on the head.

Ben, into the spence or

parlour. Benmost, innermost. Benlomond,

a

noted

mountain in Dumbartonshire. Bethankit, grace or short prayer after the time or act of eating. Beuk, a book. Bicker, a kind, of wooden dish, a short race. Bie, or Bield, shelter. Bien, wealthy, plentiful. Big, to build. Biggin, building,a house. Biggit, built. Bill, a bull.

Billie, a brother, a young
fellow.
Bing, a heap of grain,
potatoes, &c.
Birk, birch.
Birken-shaw. Birchen-
wood-shaw, a small
wood.

Birkie, a clever fellow.
Birring, the noise of par-
tridges, &c. when they
spring.
Bit, crisis, nick of time.
Bizz, a bustle; to buzz.
Blae, livid.
Blastie,

a shrivelled dwarf, a term of tempt.

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Blastit, blasted. Blate, bashful, sheepish. Blather, bladder. Blaud, a flat piece of any thing; to slap. Blaw, to blow, to boast. Bleerit, bleared, sore with rheum. Bleert and blin, bleared and blind. Bleezing, blazing, flaming. Blellum, idle, talking fellow.

Blether, to talk idly;

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lins.

Bonie, or bony, handsome, beautiful. Bannock, a kind of thick cake of bread, a small jannack, or loaf made of oat meal. Boord, a board. Boortree, the shrub elder; planted much of old in hedges of barnyards, &c. Boost, behoved, must needs.

Bore, a hole in the wall. Botch, blotch, an angry

tumor.

Bouk, body, a person. Bousing, drinking, quaffing. Bow-kail, cabbage. Bow-hough'd, applied to the lower part of the thighs, when crooked or bent outwards. Brachens, fern. Brae, a declivity, a precipice, the slope of a hill. Braid, broad, plain. Bragin't, reel'd forward.

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