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shooting of two Covenanters near where the parishes of Penpont, 

 Tynron, and Dahy join at an elevation of 1500 feet, it is stated 

 that the martyrs were shot on the adjoining Fawns of Altry. 

 • Faiklijke, a wall built of sods. 



Fern-year, last year. In Chaucer feme means " before." 

 Allan Eamsay. S. Ayrshire. 



Feil, soft and smooth and warm. An unfeil day is an un- 

 comfortable day. A feil hand is a smooth, warm hand. 



Feat, in the ballad of " Aitken Drum " we are told of a new- 

 fangled wife fond of a' things feat, , in the sense of nice, exact. In 

 Shakespeare's " Tempest" we have the comparative degree, " Look 

 how my garments sit upon me much feater than before." Allan 

 Eamsay. Burns. 



Feuing, working or attempting. " He's feuing well at the 

 mawing," He's making a good beginning. 



Flauchter-^pade, a long two-handed spade for working with 

 in the peat moss. Eamsay. 



Flichen, anything small or light, as flichens of soot. 



To Fleg, to fly from place to place. 



Firple, the Eenfrewshire faiple, under lip (more frequently of 

 a horse). 



Fitchet, the pole cat. This is an old English word spelt fit- 

 chew. It is in Shakespeare. The original meaning is " the beast 

 that smells bad." 



Flash, a swamp, a bog. In this sense it is employed in the 

 title of a popular English novel, " The Mill on the Floss." Flosh 

 is the name of a place near Gasstown, Dumfriesshire. 



Fo)/, an entertainment to a person about to leave a place. — 

 ■• \Vaverley Novels." 



Fow, a pitch pork. 



Flake, a bar. 



Foiv or Fooze, the house-leek. In the " Waverley Novels" it 

 is spelt Fouats. 



J' rem or Fremmit, strange, foreign. This is one of the Dum- 

 friesshire words used by Burns. It is also used by Eanisaj' and 

 Scott. Burns says — " And mony a friend that kissed his cup is 

 now a fremit wight." Vide the Five Carlines. So that it was 

 employed by the poet after his residence in Dumfries. The word 

 is spelt fremde in Chaucer, and fremed in Shakespeare. The sense 

 in these is the same. Eamsay. 



