adj
(Scotland) alight; ablaze
adv
(UK dialectal, especially Scotland, East Anglia) Backwards.
v
(transitive, Scotland) To dry.
n
(slang, obsolete) A sentence of transportation for life.
n
(UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) A makeshift; substitute.
v
(transitive, usually in the passive) to halt the progress of
n
(obsolete) A person who scavenges for waste materials such as bones and rags to sell.
v
(transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To steal provisions from the larder of (the school housekeeper).
n
(Scotland) An unspecified way or place.
n
One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.
v
(US, of cattle) To handle roughly, as by chasing or scaring.
n
(medicine) One who limps.
n
(slang, mildly derogatory) A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable.
v
Alternative form of creach [(transitive) to raid, plunder]
n
(obsolete) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
v
(dated) To hang upon importunately; to court the favour of; to beset.
v
(obsolete outside Scotland) To dawn.
n
(obsolete) A common labourer who makes mud walls.
n
One who drudges; a drudge.
adj
(Scotland) Mere; sheer.
n
(Scotland, obsolete) A border or fringe.
adj
(UK dialectal, Scotland) Very large; huge.
n
Alternative form of footdragger [One who deliberately delays obligatory action.]
n
(obsolete, chiefly Scotland) A fosse or ditch.
n
(US, military, slang) One who frags (deliberately kills a superior officer with a fragmentation grenade).
n
(Scotland) A superstitious object or observance; a charm, an omen.
n
(Britain, regional) A git.
v
(Scotland) To plunder; to despoil.
n
(obsolete) One who dug out and removed human excrement from privies and cesspits.
n
(lawyer slang) A low-ranking attorney with no clients who works very hard.
n
(Scotland) An assault on a person in his own home, having broken in for that purpose.
n
(Scotland, northern UK) A considerable number or quantity; a great many; a great deal.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To practise; to devote oneself to.
n
(obsolete) A thief who hides amongst hedges and robs travellers on the road.
n
One who hoards; one who accumulates, collects, and stores, especially one who does so to excess.
adj
(of a person) hobbling, walking with a hobble (unbalanced tread).
v
(intransitive, Scotland, obsolete) To bob up and down on horseback, as an inexperienced rider may do; to jog.
n
One who hunkers or squats.
n
One who or that which lags behind; a laggard.
adj
(obsolete) Light; slender, slim; trivial.
n
(now Scotland) Warmth, heat.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To geld; castrate; emasculate (usually said of animals).
adv
(archaic) Into pieces; limb from limb.
n
(archaic) One who limps; a cripple.
n
(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A scoop used to remove scum from brine pans in saltworks.
n
(Scotland, archaic) A spell of work, such as ploughing, carried out for free in a time of need.
n
(Scotland) Calm, tranquillity.
n
That which lugs in either literal or figurative senses.
n
One who lumbers, who moves in a heavy and ungainly manner.
n
(Scotland, archaic) The dungeon of a castle
n
One who mothballs something.
v
(intransitive) To scavenge in river or harbor mud for items of value.
n
(figuratively) One who buries one's head in the sand instead of acknowledging problems.
adj
(law, Scotland) Pertaining to a district not astricted to a particular mill.
n
(now chiefly Scotland) A condition, a state.
n
(obsolete) Someone who collected dog faeces for sale to tanneries (which used it as a siccative for bookbinding leather). Undertaken by poor people in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries.
n
Alternative form of pure finder [(obsolete) Someone who collected dog faeces for sale to tanneries (which used it as a siccative for bookbinding leather). Undertaken by poor people in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries.]
v
(idiomatic, dated) To dine; to eat.
adj
(Scotland, dialectal, with "of") Free; no longer involved with; quit.
n
A promiscuous heap; a jumble; a large quantity; lumber; refuse.
n
A person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and other refuse for a living, a rag and bone man (UK) or ragman (US).
n
(military, slang) A ration.
n
(Ireland) A hill; a mountain.
n
Alternative form of relo [(Australia, colloquial, informal) A relative.]
n
A murderer who kills and often mutilates victims with a blade or similar sharp weapon.
v
Obsolete spelling of rummage [(transitive, nautical) To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.]
v
(Scotland) To sell by auction.
v
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To cower or huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.
n
The act of one who rummages.
n
(Australia, education) The act of being made to pick up litter, especially as a punishment.
n
(by extension) One who scalps any other item with limited availability.
n
(US, Florida, dialect) A rascal.
v
Alternative form of scumber [to void excrement]
v
(intransitive, dialect, Northampton) To stoop.
v
Alternative spelling of skulk [To stay where one cannot be seen, conceal oneself (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).]
n
(UK, dialect) A hobbler; one who limps.
n
(Australia, slang) An unproductive claim or mine; a duffer.
n
One who shirks a duty or responsibility.
n
(finance, UK, historical) One who shunts (carries on arbitrage between London and provincial stock exchanges).
n
One who avoids an obligation or responsibility.
n
One who works with slag.
v
(Scotland, intransitive, dated) to impose upon another for food and lodging.
n
(Scotland) One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board.
n
(Scotland) inferior movables, especially those collected by depredation
v
Obsolete form of spulzie. [(Scotland) To plunder.]
v
Obsolete form of spulzie. [(Scotland) To plunder.]
n
(Scotland, obsolete) A person who walks with long strides.
n
(uncountable, slang, obsolete) Money.
n
(obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
adj
Alternative form of swashbuckling [Adventurous, exciting.]
n
(dialectal or obsolete) A hiding place; den; cave.
n
(Ireland, historical) A paid middleman at a fair or market.
v
(archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) to guard; to hinder.
n
(African-American Vernacular) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
v
(chiefly Britain, uncommon slang) To search for valuables in sewers
n
One who trapans, or ensnares.
n
(Britain, rare) A mound or hillock.
n
(Scotland, archaic) lodging and entertainment
v
(figuratively, colloquial) To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture.
n
(informal) A seat equipped with sensors, used by police to measure the physiological response of a suspect under questioning.
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