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1798.] - 
T have no fault to him—~I find no fault with 
him. 
Thad much in my offer; choice. I had 
much offered me, is good; for offer ap-- 
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lies to the giver. 
A chepman, apediar. Chapman, in Eng- 
lifh, means a buyer, not a feller. 
Overly; fuperficial, carelefs. 
In place of pitying he laughed at me; in- 
ead. : 
To put a man ézfo a paflion—in a paffion. 
Mr. A. is married upon Milfs B; married 
COs. 
To flay; to live, to lodge. 
Prefently; now, at prefent. Thus, He 
Siays prefently at Edinburgh, means, he 
lives at prefentin Edinburgh. 
Poor man; he was /o/? in the river ; drown- 
ed: or, in cockney languag:, drownded. 
Window brods; window fhuiters. 
He is very pointed; accurate, exact. 
- You may day your account with oppofition; 
you may expect oppofition. 
My father is ftill iz life; alive. 
Give meit; give it me. 
He was made to do it; caufed: made, in 
this fenfe, is an Englifth word, but not 
properly applied. . 
Tam very misfortunate ; unfortunate. 
My plan has mifgiven ; failed. 
To pulla flower ; to pluck a flower. 
AL canny wife; a careful woman—a canny 
 borfe; a tteady, fafe horfe. . 
To think fhame; to be afhamed.. 
To think long; to long. 
Deinty, which in Englifh means nice, is 
nearly fynonymous to the word honeff- 
ike, before-mentioned. A dainty lafs, 
is a buxom wench—a dainty ‘lump of 
butter; alarge piece ot butter. Dazzties 
frenity delicacies. 
Canty; cheerful—it is, however, fome- 
thing more: it has no fynonym in 
Englith. 
A. piece paper—a piece bread; piece of 
paper, bread, &. 
Give me a@ drizk;.a draught; or fome- 
thing to drink. 
A trance; a paflage. 
Whitfunday ; Whitfantide. 
I thall be behind ; tog late. 
' My watch is behind, or before; flow, or fat. 
A healthy climate; healthful. 
Gentlemanny; gentlemanly, or genileman- 
like—this error is frequent alfo in Eng- 
land. 
“To exeem; toexempt. The Scottith ex- 
preffion is here, perhaps, the more re- 
gular of the two. 
 pelow ground—Under ground, 
To condefcend uponicertain circumfances ; 
means to {pecity them. 
MontTuLy Maa, No. xxxix. 
Mr. Bannantine on Scotticifms. 
- He is cripple; lame. 
437 
To crave.a debt; to demand a debt; to 
dunaperfon foradebt.  _ 
To extinguish a debt; to pay it. 
To quote a paper, is to indorfe its title; 
but this word is alfo ufed in the Eng- 
lifh fenfe. 
Ihave cut out my hair and got a wig; 
cut off my hair. : 3 
‘He is a very difereet man; a ciyil, oblig- 
ing man. 
Coifirm to agreement—Conformably. 
Silly is wled tor weak in body. 
Dull for deaf. 
For common ; commonly. 
He made an application in my favours; 
favour. 
Frefh weather ; not frofty. 
A coarfe day; abad day—this is fome- 
times ufed in England; but not in 
good language—yet we fay a fine day. 
A fierm of fuow is a common expreffion in 
Scotland, where they alfo ‘ipeak of a 
hivg ftorm, meaning that the {now has 
been long upon the ground. 
In England this 1 
uled as a fubflantive ; as, he is a cripple. 
Tam going ta the fhooting; going a fhoot- 
ing. 
Clofe the door ; fhut the door. 
A. woman’s bonnet is in Scotland called a 
cap; and a man’s cap called a bonnet. 
‘To café up a fault to a perfon; toupbraid 
him, 
Many a one; many perfons. 
A tradefman fignifies in England a grocery 
mercer, butcher, baker, taylor, &c.— 
in Scotland it is confined to an artifan. 
A merchant is a trader, one who imports 
and exports merchandize. In Scotland 
every little retail fhopkeeper is dignified 
with the fitle of merchant. _ 
A, letter conceived in the following words 5 
containing the following words. 
To be difficulted; to be puzzled. 
A felt, or a falt-foot; a falt-cellar. 
To propofe; to purpofe. This mifappli- 
cation is not unfrequent alfo in Eng- 
land. 
To demit an office; to refign. L. 
The Scots are-very apt to ufe the paft 
tenfe for. the participle—as this paper 
was wrote by me; for written—A /e- 
derunt held this day, for a meeting 
holden this day. 
Mafier ; the eldett fon of a baron or vif- 
count. Thus the Vifcount of Arbuth- 
nott’s eldeft fon is ftiled Mafier of Ar- 
buthnott. This, however is getting into 
defuetude. 
The wives of knights or baronets are fn 
legal language called Dames (Fr.) and 
married women are deferibed by their 
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