TRANSACTIONS. 157 



Silver-shaiers, a very appropriate name for the beautiful grass, 

 briza media. 



Si/re, a sewer. Renfrewshire, syver. 



T. 

 Teep, to stint, to scrimp, to give out sparingly. 

 Teuk or Took, a bye-taste, a disagreeable taste. 

 Tae-daij, every other day. 

 Throchstane, a flat tombstone. 

 Too-fa, a building annexed to a larger. 



Teem, to pour out. " It's just teeming," it's raining heavily. 

 North of England word. 



To Beteem, to pour, is found in Shakespeare. 

 Than for then is universal with our peasantry. 

 Tee-wheet, the lapwing. 



Trounse, to beat, to castigate. A woman complained to me 

 that the dogs leaped over and trounssd her flower pot in front of 

 her house. In the English Bible of 1531, Judges iv. 15, has "But 

 the Lord trounsed Sisera and all his charettes." Skeat connects 

 this word with trunk and truncheon, and says it originally meant a 

 thick stick for beating with. 



Tirr, crabbed. Tir, in Renfrewshire, meant to strip. In this 

 sense Burns uses it concerning the deil. " Whiles on the strong 

 winged tempest flying tirling the kirks." Burns has a " 1 " more° 

 but that's neither here nor there. 



Tove, to talk familiarly in a prolix manner. To flaunt about 

 with girls. 



A Tove, a coquettish person of either sex. 

 Tummock, a tuft, or small plat of rising ground. •• The road 

 is kittle o'er thae hills in the dark, for there's sae mony tummocks 

 that ye knock against ye're ready to be knocked down." 

 Iraik, dead sheep lying putrid, carrion. 

 Tree speeler, the tree-creeper. Communicated. 

 Trade, used as work. The craws are handing a great trade 

 —i.e., are busy building their nests. 

 Trone, a trowel. 



To Trone the School, to play the truant. 



Tyooch, Dumfriesshire pronunciation of tough. Renfrewshire, 

 tyuch. 



Tings, tongs. Eenfrewshu:e, tangs. 

 Trauchle, to walk in a limping manner. 



