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Nups, the cloudberry. We have Nupberry hill in Closeburn 

 — well named, for there the plant grows. 



Niddle, to work quicklj'' with the fingers. 



Nibble, a walking staff, a shepherd's crook. 



Nightingales, moths. Communicated. 



Nochet, a luncheon. 



Nap, a wooden dish. In Renfrewshire " to take your nap off 

 one " is to befool him. 



Notour, notorious. Avowedly persisted in in spite of warn- 

 ing. Bennett's " Tales of Nithsdale." 



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Oon, apparently a contraction of oven, but applied to a large 

 shallow pan with suitable lid in which the guidwives make loaves. 

 Glowing peats are heaped on the top of the lid. 



Parroch, a small enclosure in which a ewe is confined when it 

 is desired that she take to a lamb not her own. 



Pemy, conceited. Ramsay. — " Waverley Novels." 



Paidle, a stake net. Communicated. 



Peps, cherry stones. 



Piwjy, cold, not able to endure cold. 



Pint or plout, to put down with a plump. A farmer's wife 

 being irritated one morning at the servants grumbling to sup por- 

 ridge out of the same dish took the pet, I was told, and plutted a 

 lot here and a quantity there along the wooden table in front of 

 each of the grumblers. 



pettles,ieet. This word occurs in Clark of Glencairn's Poems, 

 1801. 



Picked calf, a dead born calf. To prevent this mishap intro- 

 duce a billy-goat into the byre. 



Peefer or P/ffer, to whimper, to complain. 



A Peefering body, a trifling person. 



Pingle, a small tin goblet with a long handle, a pan. 



Piskie, dry, shrivelled ; applied to grass or to the hair of 

 cattle. 



Pry, the carnation carex ; esteemed as an early feeding grass. 



Puist, bien, m easy circumstances. 



