adv
(Scotland, Britain, Cheshire dialect) Above.
n
(obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
n
(UK, slang, obsolete) Synonym of Newgate knocker (“a lock of hair worn twisted back toward the ear”)
n
(UK dialectal and Scotland) An eft; newt.
n
(chiefly Scotland) Bone.
n
(slang, obsolete) A good job, or snack easily obtained.
n
(Scotland, chiefly in the plural) An old shoe.
adj
(Scotland) Wearing cheap or old shoes.
n
(Scotland, Northern England) A building, especially an outbuilding.
n
(UK, Northern England, Scotland, dialect) A bench.
n
(Scotland) A portfolio; a blotting-book or blotting-pad.
n
(Scotland) A thin membrane or small piece of skin.
n
One who takes part in apple bobbing.
n
Alternative form of bob wig [A short wig with bobs or short curls.]
n
(Scotland) A small closet.
n
A puffy, round hairstyle, popular in the mid-to-late 16th century, characterized by hair raised high on the head and usually covering the ears or hanging down on the sides.
n
(obsolete or dialectal, Scotland) The eyelid.
n
(Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England) Bridge.
n
(Scotland) A box or chest.
n
(Scotland, obsolete, slang) A blacksmith.
n
(Australia, informal) A yellow sticker of unroadworthiness.
n
(Scotland) The top of the head.
n
(Scotland) The capercaillie.
n
(Scotland, Highlands) A type of foot plough with a crooked spade component, used in the Scottish Highlands.
n
(dialect, Scotland, Northern England) The jaw.
n
(obsolete, slang) A thimblerigger.
n
(Scotland, possibly obsolete) Chimney.
n
(Australia, slang, derogatory) A trail bike or other small motorcycle.
n
(Scotland) A small pebble.
n
(chiefly Scotland) A large hook.
n
(Scotland) A piece of rag.
n
(obsolete) The common burdock; the clotbur.
n
(UK dialectal) An attack of illness, such as swooning, pangs of childbirth, etc.
n
(obsolete, Scotland) A roll or twist of hair worn at the nape of the neck; a bun.
n
(Scotland) A person's face.
n
(chiefly Scotland) A parcel of goods for sale; a peddler's pack; a kit
n
(US, New England, Maine) An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use.
n
(Scotland) A transfer for the skin, used as a sort of temporary tattoo.
n
(archaic or UK dialectal) The bagpipes.
n
(Scotland) The bottom end of something; the human buttocks.
n
A style of pruning in which an upper limb is cut back to the next lower lateral.
n
(obsolete) A person employed in the dunging of textiles.
n
(obsolete except Britain, dialectal) An addition.
n
Alternative form of father lasher [A shorthorn sculpin.]
n
(Scotland) Alternative form of fouat (“houseleek”) [(Scotland) houseleek]
n
(historical) A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century.
adj
Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses.
n
(Scotland) Alternative form of whitret [(Scotland, UK dialect) A weasel or stoat.]
n
(Scotland, historical) A pouch carried by a strolling beggar.
n
Alternative form of gallows bird [(archaic) A person who deserves, or is likely, to be hanged.]
n
(Australia, sports, informal) A muddy playing field.
n
A long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
v
To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
v
Alternative form of green-shave [To scrape the flesh side of an untanned hide.]
n
(Scotland, obsolete) Synonym of greyhound.
n
Obsolete spelling of groundsill: threshold. [(rare) A timber beam used as the foundation for a building.]
n
(obsolete, Scotland) A cellaret.
n
(Scotland) A guild or its members.
n
A wrestling match in which the loser undergoes the forfeit of having the head shaved bald.
n
One who cuts hair; a barber or hairdresser.
n
(obsolete, derogatory) One who is fit to be hanged; a scoundrel.
n
Alternative form of hamesucken [(Scotland) An assault on a person in his own home, having broken in for that purpose.]
n
(UK, Scotland, dialect) Oats (the cereal).
adv
(Scotland) Lying beside each other, the head of the one by the feet of the other.
n
(obsolete) A hunch, hump (on the back).
n
(obsolete or Scotland) An open fireplace.
adj
(obsolete or Scotland) Beside an open fireplace.
n
(Scotland) A gauge or standard.
v
(pottery) To use a jigger.
n
(Scotland) A shepherd's staff.
n
(Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
n
(Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) The stomach; the belly.
n
One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
adj
Something to do with knackers
n
(countable, obsolete, Scotland) A quantity of corn or flour due to a miller's servant from each batch in a thirlage mill
v
(Northern England, of animals) To graze, crop; (of horses) to bite in play.
n
(archaic) Someone who makes wigs.
n
(obsolete) A lout; a rustic person.
v
To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
n
(Scotland) Alternative form of laverock
n
(archaic, UK, Scotland) A dyer.
n
(Ireland, Scotland, Northern England) See messages (“groceries, shopping”).
n
(obsolete) A handkerchief.
n
Alternative form of muckender [(obsolete) A handkerchief.]
n
Alternative form of muckender [(obsolete) A handkerchief.]
n
Alternative form of mudder [A racehorse that performs well on muddy or wet tracks.]
n
(Scotland) A promontory.
n
(now rare, Scotland) A nightcap (hat worn to bed).
n
(chiefly Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.
n
(Northern England, Scotland) A cup, bowl.
adj
(Australia, slang, simile) Making a rapid departure; away.
n
(Scotland, obsolete) unhoused cattle, wintered in the fields
n
(Scotland, dated) Cyclopterus lumpus, the lumpsucker or lumpfish.
n
(Scotland) hopscotch (the children's game)
n
(idiomatic, dated) A throat-slitting.
n
(derogatory, slang) A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
n
Alternative form of pirrie [(obsolete) A rough gale of wind.]
n
(Scotland) Obsolete spelling of plout
n
(Scotland, archaic) portmanteau
n
Alternative form of pot-walloper [(now historical) A potwaller.]
n
(UK, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
adj
(obsolete, Scotland) Fit for the gallows.
n
Alternative form of rokelay [(Scotland) A short cloak.]
n
Alternative form of rokelay [(Scotland) A short cloak.]
n
A small ruff of fluted or pleated fabric worn at neck or wrist.
n
(Scotland) A small sack or wallet.
n
(US, slang, also figuratively) A person employed to dig tunnels, or (more generally) to work underground or under water.
n
(Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish.
n
Obsolete spelling of scalp [(now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.]
n
Alternative form of scarf (joint in woodworking) [A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.]
n
(obsolete) A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse.
n
Alternative form of scobby (“chaffinch”) [(UK, dialect) The chaffinch.]
n
(Scotland) The peak of a cap.
n
(UK, dialect, West Country, Herefordshire, obsolete) The burning of a wad of pea straw at the end of harvest.
n
(obsolete, slang) Informal attire or dress code; morning dress
n
(Australia) Someone who travels at speed through the scrub, especially chasing wild or lost livestock.
n
(obsolete) school, shoal (of fish)
n
(veterinary) A distorted horn, regrown after the disbudding operation of a goat, sheep, or cow.
n
A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
n
(obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
n
(chiefly Scotland) The dung or manure of cattle or sheep.
v
(intransitive) To remove hair from one's face by this means.
n
Alternative form of shillelagh [(Ireland) A wooden (traditionally blackthorn (sloe) wood) club ending with a large knob.]
v
Alternative spelling of shnor [To beg or wheedle.]
n
(obsolete) A place baited with chaff to entice birds.
n
Alternative form of shrap [(obsolete) A place baited with chaff to entice birds.]
n
(humorous) Someone who shucks or removes something.
n
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A handful of gleaned grain.
n
(Isle of Man) news or gossip
n
(archaic) A parr; a young salmon.
n
(Scotland) A shallow bow-handled basket.
n
(obsolete) Loose trousers.
v
(Australia, New Zealand, forestry) To drag a log along the ground by means of a chain fastened at one end.
n
(slang, vulgar) A handkerchief.
n
(Scotland, rare) Familiar name for a calf.
n
(Now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A chip or splinter of wood.
n
(Scotland) The shoulder.
n
(Scotland) Alternative form of speldring [(Scotland) A split dried haddock or other small fish.]
n
(Northern English) A rod or switch.
n
Alternative form of spleuchan [(Scotland) A pouch, as for tobacco or money.]
n
a shelter built along roads in 16th and 17th century Scotland as a shelter from wolf attacks
n
(Scotland) A pouch, as for tobacco or money.
n
Alternative form of spleuchan [(Scotland) A pouch, as for tobacco or money.]
n
Alternative form of spulzie [(Scotland) plunder; booty]
n
Obsolete form of spulzie. [(Scotland) plunder; booty]
n
Obsolete form of spulzie. [(Scotland) plunder; booty]
n
(UK, Ireland, obsolete) A newborn calf.
n
(UK, obsolete) Alternative form of stale (“a long, thin handle, as of mops, rakes, etc.”) [(colloquial) Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.]
n
(UK, dialect) A pile of wood.
v
(transitive) To castrate (a male calf).
n
Alternative form of sillock [(Scotland) A pollock or a coalfish, sometimes especially a young coalfish.]
n
(Scotland, obsolete, in the plural) Crutches.
n
(Scotland) A plaster cast.
n
(Scotland) A little stream.
n
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A strickle (rod used to level grain etc. when being measured).
n
(Scotland) a cup of tea.
n
(UK, dialectal) A tail or rump
n
Alternative form of stirk [(Britain, Scotland, dialectal, dated) A yearling cow; a young bullock or heifer.]
n
(obsolete) A swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer.
n
Alternative form of rag, tag and bobtail [(in the plural) Tattered clothes.]
n
(Scotland, obsolete) A tassel or pendant.
n
(UK dialectal, Scotland) A piece of ground dunged by livestock.
v
Alternative form of tath [(UK dialectal, Scotland) To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.]
n
(UK, dialect) Alternative form of theave [(UK, dialect) A ewe lamb of a specific age; in some areas, applied to lambs in their the first or second year (before they have had lambs themselves), in others to lambs in their third year, before their second shearing.]
n
(Scotland, folklore) A magical fairy mound.
adj
Alternative form of tousy [(colloquial) tousled; tangled; rough; shaggy]
adj
Alternative form of towzy [(Scotland) Shaggy and unkempt.]
n
(Now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A large wooden platter.
n
(Scotland, historical) One who wears trews.
n
(slang, obsolete) Pea (vegetable).
n
(UK, obsolete, dialect) A hassock.
n
(UK, dated, dialect, Devon) turf used as fuel
n
(obsolete, Scotland) A leister; a spear for catching fish.
n
(Scotland, Northern England) A large portion, slice or lump.
n
Alternative form of whippet (“nitrous oxide cartridge”) [A dog of a certain breed, similar to a small greyhound, originating in Britain and bred for racing.]
n
A kind of raised seedcake.
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