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High Gate, now High Street, and what is now English Street 

 in Dumfries was formerly Lochmaben Gate ; as the way to the 

 " auld kirk" of St. Michael's was and still is the Kirk Gate. 



Burns, in one of his many tender pieces, used the term 

 gate in its old sense :— 



" I gaed a waefu gate yestreen, 

 A gate I fear I'll dearly rue, 

 I gat my dead frae twa sweet een, 

 Twa lovely een o' bonny blue." 



Where there was a line of houses without any foimed 

 street, it was a row or raw. Such a line opposite the Friars' 

 Vennel was the Mid Raw, and what is now Lorehurn Street 

 was the East Barns Raiv. 



To grudge is used in its old sense of murmuring or re- 

 pining : — 



" Our bonny baimie's there, Jean, 

 She was baith guid and fair, Jean, 

 And we grudged her right sair 



To the land o' the leal." 



Silly is constantly used in the old sense of iveah in mind 

 or body, and thence, by extension, sim^ple, foolishly doating 

 foolish. 



" The pawky auld carle came o'er the lea, 

 Wi' mony gude days and eens to me ; 

 And saying gudewife, for youi courtesy 

 Will ye lodge a silly puir man." 



Wife is used in the sense of woman in general. Thus 

 an Herb woman or dealer in herbs and vegetables is, with 

 the Scotch, a Green wife ; and a fortune teller is a Spae wife. 



Chancers' Wife of Bath may perhaps be taken as an ex- 

 ample of the English use of the word in its old sense.. The 

 last term we shall notice is Womb, or in its Saxon and 

 Scotch form Wambe. This term was formerly used not in 



