152 TRANSACTIONS. 
Neif, the fist. In “ Midsummer Night’s Dream,” 
“* Give me your neif.” 
Puttock, a worthless species of hawk. The word, I believe, is twice 
in Shakespeare. 
‘*T chose an eagle and did avoid a puttock.”—Cymbeline. 
The interest that attaches to it is that it occurs in our well- 
known, world-known I might say, Galloway place name, 
Craigenputtock. A sparrow hawk is named from its habit of 
preying upon small birds. A puttock preyed on pouts, young 
game birds. Pout, sometimes spelled poult, is akin to our 
poultry or pullet. Ock is probably a corruption of hawk. 
Quick. We have this word in the Creed meaning “alive.” In 
the sense of “alive” it occurs in Chaucer and Spenser. In 
Dumfriesshire Quickens is the name for couch-grass, a grass 
possessed of wonderful vitality. 
Ramps. The Tynron word for wild garlick (Alium ursinum).—/. 
Ramsons is the old English word. 
Reechy, begrimed. Rogge or Rug, to shake. Are in the Chaucer, 
Spenser, and Shakespeare Glossaries. 
Skarre, Scarre, Scaur, Skair.—f. Bare place on a hill. Rock 
through which there is an opening. Rock in the sea. 
“Bank, bush, and scaur.”—W. Scott. 
Rock, precipitous cliff. 
‘¢ Men make ropes in such a Scarre.”—A/l’s Well that Ends Well. 
The word is in Wycliff’s bible. In Orkney, Skerry a rock in 
the sea. I recommend study of the word as possibly throw- 
ing light on the name of the river Skarr, the principal 
tributary of the Nith, the most remarkable part of whose 
course is the precipitous rocks of Glenmarlin, near Penpont. 
Skathe, harm, mischief.—Spenser’s “‘ Faerie Queen.” 
Stour, fight, stir, trouble, misfortune—/. Dustin motion, trouble, 
vexation. With the first four meanings it is found in 
Spenser’s ‘‘ Faerie Queen.” 
“* How gladly would I bide the stour, 
A weary slave frae sun to sun.” 
—Burns’s ‘* Mary Morison.” 
Il. “ Zhe Grave” at Conchieton, Borgue. By Mr FREDERICK 
R. COLEs. 
In this paper, which was fully illustrated with diagrams and 
plans, Mr Coles described an ancient burial place on the farm of 
Conchieton, in Borgue Parish, its main features being a ¢madlus of 
