Transactions. 159 



APPENDIX. 



Bern, a scorched piece of heather or shrub which can be used 

 for kindling a fire. It is said of a niggardly frugal person, " It's 

 a queer brae that he eouldna get a bern off." 



Gull. Jamieson says a "chill." I hear it more frequently 

 when one is obliged to have a much lower estimate of any one. 

 " This incident was the first that gave me a gull at him.'' 



Eek, sweat or damp from the body, as "an eek from his head 

 has stained the pillow." We may recollect that the Greek word 

 ichor means " juice in the veins of gods." Vide, Skeat. 



Goggles. To put the goggles on you, to lead you a dance, to 

 take your nap off one. Jamieson gives gog-gles as a name for the 

 blinds of horses. 



Fidd'.ring., fluttering-. " There's a badly spelled letter 

 announcing her engagement. Slie would be fiddering " — i.e., she 

 would be in a flutter. 



Hoitimel, to take the awns off barley. At a show of 

 curiosities, Moniaive, I saw an oblong instrument with jjarallel 

 knives which was once used for hommelling barley. 



Snisie, half burned. A piece of hard soot is said to be snisled. 

 Ham when singed in the cooking is snisled. 



Slipshod. The meaning in Tyuron is that the person is wearing 

 slippers without stockings or hose. We all know its metaphorical 



A very interesting paper, entitled " Seal and Rings," was 

 read by Mr JoHN R. WILKINSON, Annan. 



11th May, 189Jf. 



The Rev. William Andson, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Donations. — The Report of the Society of Antiquaries of 

 Scotland, 1893 ; Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Society, Chapel 

 Hill, North Carolina ; Transactions of the Banffshire Field Club, 

 1890-3 ; a specimen of Mispickel (arsenical pyrites) found in the 

 Soewartry, presented by Mr Patrick Dudgeon. Mr Frank 

 Miller presented, on behalf of Mr Charles Baxter, of High Street, 



