Transactions. 



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Stampcole for hay rick. [districts. 



Yawa — throat-disease peculiar to certain 



To Wear (a gate) — to open and shut it at sheep 



shearing. 



Hoshens — footless stockings, Renf. huggers. 



Bedstane — a flat stone used in a girls' game, 



Renf. Peever. 



Wented — soured, (an English north coun- 



try word.) 



Launer — dressmaker. 



Hirsel — shepherd's flock, flock's pasture 



ground. 

 Cosy — baby's cap. 



Pingle — pan. 



Snoysters — pork puddings. 



Sevendle — secure. 



Boiler — kettle. 



Steekers — shoe laces. 



In districts where manufactures and dense population 

 have made several animals, &c., scarce, the following phi-ases 

 are unmeaning, but are generally understood in Dumfries- 

 shire yet : — 



" Stinking like a brock." 

 " As greedy as a gled.'* 

 " As mad as an ettercap." 

 " Reeking like a kilnogie." 

 Stank-hen, heather-bleet, kaid, gowk, are understood • as 

 also the phrase, — 



" As blae as the blawart." 

 A line of Burns unintelligible to a Renfrewshire man, I 

 have found understood by Dumfriesshire peasants, i.e., 

 "A daiman icker in a threeve." 

 Curious pronunciations of proper names in Dumfries- 

 shire — 



Frizzle for Fraser. Tremmle for Turnbull. 



Hodson — Hewison. Mingas — Menzies. 



Foster — Forrester. Dusdeer — Durrisdeer. 



The Sanquhar, the Keir is current, never the Dumfries 

 the Thornliill. The use of as for than is very marked, e.g. 



