Definitions
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gwynhefarcrusie: (n) 1. A small iron lamp with a handle, burning oil or tallow; also, a sort of triangular iron candlestick with one or more sockets for candles, having the edges turned up on the three sides.
2. A crucible, or hollow piece of iron with a long handle, used for melting metals. The common sense in South of Scotland; crusies were commonly used by stocking-weavers in middle of the 19th century to melt lead or pewter for setting the needles in their frames.
ben: (n) 1. A mountain-peak. Used with the names of Scottish mountains; e.g. Ben Nevis, Ben Lomond.
2. The inner room. The words "but" and "ben" have special reference to the structure of dwelling houses formerly prevalent in the north, in which there was only one outer door, so that it was usual to enter through the kitchen into the parlour, and through the latter to an inner chamber, bedroom, or the like. In reference to the kitchen, the two latter rooms are ben and far-ben respectively; they constitute the ben-end of the house: in reference to the parlour, the kitchen is but, or but the house, or the but end. These phrases are retained even in more modern houses, where the parlour has a separate entrance: ‘go but’ = ‘go into the kitchen’; ‘come ben’ = come into the parlour, etc. Also apartments on opposite sides of a passage are said to be but and ben with each other, though neither is farther out or farther in than the other: come ben, go but are then used of either. Their occupants are said to live but and ben with each other.
lichtly/lightly: (v) To make light of, despise, disparage, disdain.
ettle: (v) 1. To intend, purpose, plan; to make it one's object, to endeavour.
2. To purpose, seek to bring about (a result).
3. To intend.
4. To destine, ordain, assign.
5. To direct (speech or actions) to an object; especially to aim (a blow or missile) at a person or a mark; to take aim (at).
6. To direct one's course.
7. To aim at (a thing); to make an effort at.
8. To arrange, set in order, range; to prepare.
9. To prepare oneself.
10. To guess, conjecture, divine.
cantrip: (n) A spell or charm of necromancy or witchcraft; a witch's trick or mischievous device. Also jocosely, any playfully mischievous trick; any whimsically mad, eccentric, or extravagant piece of conduct; in phrase "to play one a cantrip".
jocosely: (adv) In a jocose manner; playfully; in joke.
speir/speer: (v) 1. To put a question or questions; to make inquiries; to ask.
2. To inquire one's way; to make one's way, proceed or go, to a place, etc.
3. With objective clause: To inquire or ask how, what, who, etc.
4. To make inquiries concerning, to ask questions regarding (a thing or fact).
5. With special objects, as tidings, price, etc.
6. To request the return of (money); to ask back.
7. To ask for (advice); to beg (leave).
8. To trace or find out by inquiry. Usually with 'out'.
9. To question or interrogate (a person).
10. To call upon or demand formally.
11. To invite.
braw: (n) Fine clothes, finery.
fleech: (v) To beguile, cajole, coax, wheedle; to entice, wheedle into going, to a place. Also, in good sense: To beseech, entreat. To speak coaxingly or beseechingly; to flatter, fawn.
kist: (n) 1. A chest, box, coffer. (In Scotland the specific term for a servant's trunk.)
2. Applied to the ‘ark’ of bulrushes in which Moses was placed; and to Noah's ark.
3. kist o' whistles/whustles: an organ.
4. A basket.
5. A chest or place in which money is kept; a treasury; also the store of money itself.
6. A coffin; a stone coffin or sarcophagus.
7. In Archaeology: A sepulchral chest or chamber excavated in rock or formed of stones or hollowed tree-trunks; especially a stone-coffin formed of slabs placed on edge, and covered on the top by one or more horizontal slabs.
pupative: (adj) The quality of being in the act of changing into a pupa. Also: concerning the process or stage of the life cycle undergone by an insect while in the form of a pupa.
soupçon: (n) A suspicion, a suggestion, a very small quantity or slight trace, of something.
guiser: (n) One who goes about in disguise; a masquerader, a mummer.
orra: (adj) Spare, superfluous, sundry, occasional; odd, different, strange, unmatched. Of a person, especially a servant or labourer: unattached, without (fixed) employment; idle, disreputable.
colorado: (adj) of medium strength and color: said of cigars.
kaffeeklatsch: (n) Gossip over coffee cups; a coffee party
2. A crucible, or hollow piece of iron with a long handle, used for melting metals. The common sense in South of Scotland; crusies were commonly used by stocking-weavers in middle of the 19th century to melt lead or pewter for setting the needles in their frames.
ben: (n) 1. A mountain-peak. Used with the names of Scottish mountains; e.g. Ben Nevis, Ben Lomond.
2. The inner room. The words "but" and "ben" have special reference to the structure of dwelling houses formerly prevalent in the north, in which there was only one outer door, so that it was usual to enter through the kitchen into the parlour, and through the latter to an inner chamber, bedroom, or the like. In reference to the kitchen, the two latter rooms are ben and far-ben respectively; they constitute the ben-end of the house: in reference to the parlour, the kitchen is but, or but the house, or the but end. These phrases are retained even in more modern houses, where the parlour has a separate entrance: ‘go but’ = ‘go into the kitchen’; ‘come ben’ = come into the parlour, etc. Also apartments on opposite sides of a passage are said to be but and ben with each other, though neither is farther out or farther in than the other: come ben, go but are then used of either. Their occupants are said to live but and ben with each other.
lichtly/lightly: (v) To make light of, despise, disparage, disdain.
ettle: (v) 1. To intend, purpose, plan; to make it one's object, to endeavour.
2. To purpose, seek to bring about (a result).
3. To intend.
4. To destine, ordain, assign.
5. To direct (speech or actions) to an object; especially to aim (a blow or missile) at a person or a mark; to take aim (at).
6. To direct one's course.
7. To aim at (a thing); to make an effort at.
8. To arrange, set in order, range; to prepare.
9. To prepare oneself.
10. To guess, conjecture, divine.
cantrip: (n) A spell or charm of necromancy or witchcraft; a witch's trick or mischievous device. Also jocosely, any playfully mischievous trick; any whimsically mad, eccentric, or extravagant piece of conduct; in phrase "to play one a cantrip".
jocosely: (adv) In a jocose manner; playfully; in joke.
speir/speer: (v) 1. To put a question or questions; to make inquiries; to ask.
2. To inquire one's way; to make one's way, proceed or go, to a place, etc.
3. With objective clause: To inquire or ask how, what, who, etc.
4. To make inquiries concerning, to ask questions regarding (a thing or fact).
5. With special objects, as tidings, price, etc.
6. To request the return of (money); to ask back.
7. To ask for (advice); to beg (leave).
8. To trace or find out by inquiry. Usually with 'out'.
9. To question or interrogate (a person).
10. To call upon or demand formally.
11. To invite.
braw: (n) Fine clothes, finery.
fleech: (v) To beguile, cajole, coax, wheedle; to entice, wheedle into going, to a place. Also, in good sense: To beseech, entreat. To speak coaxingly or beseechingly; to flatter, fawn.
kist: (n) 1. A chest, box, coffer. (In Scotland the specific term for a servant's trunk.)
2. Applied to the ‘ark’ of bulrushes in which Moses was placed; and to Noah's ark.
3. kist o' whistles/whustles: an organ.
4. A basket.
5. A chest or place in which money is kept; a treasury; also the store of money itself.
6. A coffin; a stone coffin or sarcophagus.
7. In Archaeology: A sepulchral chest or chamber excavated in rock or formed of stones or hollowed tree-trunks; especially a stone-coffin formed of slabs placed on edge, and covered on the top by one or more horizontal slabs.
pupative: (adj) The quality of being in the act of changing into a pupa. Also: concerning the process or stage of the life cycle undergone by an insect while in the form of a pupa.
soupçon: (n) A suspicion, a suggestion, a very small quantity or slight trace, of something.
guiser: (n) One who goes about in disguise; a masquerader, a mummer.
orra: (adj) Spare, superfluous, sundry, occasional; odd, different, strange, unmatched. Of a person, especially a servant or labourer: unattached, without (fixed) employment; idle, disreputable.
colorado: (adj) of medium strength and color: said of cigars.
kaffeeklatsch: (n) Gossip over coffee cups; a coffee party
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Date: 2008-11-29 06:42 am (UTC)