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Paddock-spit. Renfrewshire cuckoo-spit. The froth secreted 

 on stalks of g-rass around a small immature insect. 



Fumrose, by Tynron peasantry takes the place of Primrose. 

 Janiieson has Pumrock. 



Pttttock, a worthless species of hawk. — Shakespeare. Kirk- 

 cudbrig-ht, Craigenputtock — a place-name. 



Pouts and poultry come from the same root. 



Quickens, couch-grass, allied to the old English word quick, 

 living, used in the Creed, and here applied to this grass, whose 

 A-itality is marked. " I am cut to the quick " means to the parts 

 which are very sensitive, very much alive to the pain. 



R. 



Ramps, allium ursinum. This is an old English word. An 

 old English word for March was Lide. 



^ Eat leeks in Lide, and ramsins in May, 



And all the year after physicians may play. 



liaskiU or Rascal, a young deer. This is Shakespeare's word 

 for a young deer. In Tynron we have Mount Raskill, which I 

 submit is " Deer Hill." 



Reeves, or, as it is pronounced in Renfrewshire, Ree, a perma- 

 nent sheep fold surrounded with a wall of stone and feal. In Ren- 

 frewshire an enclosed place for coal — the coal ree. Ree also 

 means in Renfrewshire half drunk. 



Rejeir, '^ to the refeir," in proportion. "The cook has as 

 much work to the reifer as has the tablemaid." 



Ressum or Reisum, a fragment, a small quantity. 



Rice or Ryss, brushwood. 



And thereupon he had a gay sui-plice, 



As white as is the bloom upon the me. — Chaucer. 



Rittocks, the refuse of tallow when it is first melted or 

 strained. 



Rookits, balls of minced meat or fish with bread crumbs. 



Rizzard, to dry, to bleach clothes. In Renfrewshire the 

 word was haizard. '• This is a fine day for haizarding the 

 clothes." 



Rizzered in the AVaverley Novels means half-salted, half-dried 

 fish. 



