150 TRANSACTIONS. 
Collie, shepherd’s dog.—/. In Brockett’s Glossary of N. English 
Words, 1825. 
Daft. In Langland’s “ Piers the Plowman,” it means a stupid, a 
dolt. 
“Thou dobert, daffe, quo she, dull are thy wits.” 
Deck. In Moniaive old people talked of a deck of cards, meaning 
a pack. This meaning is not noticed by Jamieson. 
Dwined, wasted.—7 Chaucer's “ Romaunt of the Rose.” 
Dool, grief.—/. 
And I alone left all sole, 
Full of complaint and of dole. 
—Chaucer’s ‘* Romaunt of the Rose.” 
To Drie or Dre, to suffer ; to endure. Chaucer, zbéd.—/. 
Dicht.—/., and in Dumfriesshire to clean, to wipe. 
Dight, to order, prepare, dress, adorn.—Spenser. 
Liild, Eld, advanced age, old people.—/. 
** And doth beg the alms of palsied eld.” 
Sh. Measure for Measure. 
£Lyen. This plural, and also shoon for shoes, are found in all three 
authors. 
Foisonless. We have this adjective meaning dry, sapless, without 
pith.—/f. The word Foysons, for abundance, is found in 
Spenser and Shakespeare. 
feat. In the ballad of Aiken Drum, by a Galloway man, we are 
told of a wife “fond of a’ things feat.” Shakespeare uses 
feat in the sense of nice, exact. In “ The Tempest” we have 
the comparative degree. 
‘* Look how my garments sit upon me, much feater than before.” 
Fern, Ferne, before—Ch. In J. Fern year, the preceding year. 
Mr Baird of Sanquhar has heard the word so used in South 
Ayrshire, 
Frush, Frusch, brittle ; dry ; crumbling.—/. Shakespeare uses it 
as a verb, meaning to break. 
‘*T’ll frush it, and unlock the rivets all.”—Tvoilus and Cressida. 
Gab, to talk idly. In Chaucer it means to lie. 
; “ Gab I of this ?” 7.e., ‘* Do I lie concerning this ?” 
Gipe, Gipon, Jupe, wpper frock or cassock ; a word known to 
country lasses of the old school. In Chaucer’s “ Romaunt of 
the Rose” and 75th line Canterbury Tales. 
“Of fustian he wered a gipon.—J/. 
Glede, a burning coal—Cz. In Captain Dennistoun’s Battle of 
Craigneddin, published in Galloway about the beginning of 
the century. I don’t recollect hearing the word.—/. 
