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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Proverbs of Scotland, by Alexander Hislop
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+THE PROVERBS OF SCOTLAND.
+
+
+
+
+    "I am of opinion, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that there is no
+    proverb which is not true, because they are all sentences drawn from
+    experience itself, the mother of all the sciences."
+
+
+
+
+                 THE
+
+         PROVERBS OF SCOTLAND
+
+                 WITH
+
+  EXPLANATORY AND ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES
+           AND A GLOSSARY.
+
+
+                  BY
+
+          ALEXANDER HISLOP.
+
+
+             NEW EDITION.
+
+ _ENTIRELY REVISED AND SUPPLEMENTED._
+
+
+              EDINBURGH:
+     ALEXANDER HISLOP & COMPANY.
+                1868.
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+    Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect
+    spellings and inconsistent hyphenation have been retained. The oe
+    ligature is represented by [oe].
+
+
+
+
+                  TO
+
+    SIR WILLIAM STIRLING MAXWELL,
+         BART. OF KEIR, M.P.,
+
+ "ONE DEEPLY VERSED IN PROVERB LORE,"
+
+      THE PRESENT COLLECTION OF
+
+          SCOTTISH PROVERBS
+
+          IS, BY PERMISSION,
+
+     MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+The gathering together of the Proverbs of Scotland has occupied the
+attention of several collectors. The earliest work on the subject which
+has been traced is that of Beaton, Archbishop of Glasgow, who, about the
+time of the Reformation, made a small collection. The definite
+information which we have of this work is so very slight, however, that
+it has been of little or no value to subsequent collectors and writers
+on the subject. The first collection of importance is the well-known one
+made by the Rev. David Fergusson, minister of Dunfermline, who was a
+contemporary of Archbishop Beaton. Fergusson's collection, which
+numbered 940 proverbs, was, all circumstances considered, a very
+commendable one; and it has served as a foundation to the labours of
+subsequent workers in the same field. The next is that of James Kelly,
+published in London in 1721. This volume contains nearly 3000 proverbs,
+and is very carefully arranged, with notes and parallel illustrations.
+The collection of Kelly is an able and valuable one, as he was perfectly
+conversant with the subject of proverbs generally; but we are compelled
+to agree with Motherwell, when he says that this writer's rendering of
+the Scottish dialect is "most barbarous;" nor do we wonder that it
+excited the profound contempt of Allan Ramsay, who, from his thorough
+knowledge of the Scottish vernacular, was openly indignant at the
+reputation gained by Kelly's work, and made a collection himself, which
+was published at Edinburgh in 1763. In a sensible but pedantic preface,
+which he addressed to the "Tenantry of Scotland, Farmers of the Dales,
+and Storemasters of the Hills," he states his reasons for issuing a work
+on the subject, and strongly recommends the use of proverbs,
+particularly among the agricultural portion of the community. After
+alluding to the work of Kelly as a "late large book of them, fou of
+errors, in a style neither Scots nor English," he goes on to say:--"As
+naething helps our happiness mair than to hae the mind made up with
+right principles, I desire you, for the thriving and pleasure of you and
+yours, to use your een and lend your lugs to these _guid auld says_,
+that shine with wail'd sense, and will as lang as the world wags. Gar
+your bairns get them by heart; let them hae a place among your family
+books; and may never a window-sole through the country be without them.
+On a spare hour, when the day is clear, behind a rick, or on the green
+howm, draw the treasure frae your pouch and enjoy the pleasant
+companion. Ye happy herds, while your hirdsels are feeding on the
+flowery braes, you may eithly mak yoursels maisters of the hale ware!
+How usefou it will prove to you (wha hae sae few opportunities of common
+clattering) when you forgather with your friends at kirk or market,
+banquet or bridal! By your proficiency, you'll be able, in a proverbial
+way, to keep up the soul of a conversation, that is baith blythe and
+usefou."
+
+Nearly a hundred years elapsed before a new collection appeared,
+although, during that period, many editions of the works which we have
+mentioned were brought out to supply the demands of a proverb-loving
+public. In 1832, the collection formed by Andrew Henderson was published
+at Glasgow. It is based upon the previous books, and is a very extensive
+one, although in arrangement it is defective. This collection, which is
+more ample than the former ones, has the advantage of an elaborate
+historical and literary disquisition on the general subject, in the
+form of an introduction by the poet Motherwell, which is allowed to be
+one of the most interesting and comprehensive papers on proverbs which
+has yet appeared.
+
+The present collection of Scottish Proverbs, the first edition of which
+appeared in 1862, while it is the most extensive and systematic that has
+yet appeared, claims to be little more than a mere mechanical
+compilation. It was suggested by the work of Henderson, and has been
+carefully collated with it, and also with the previous collections of
+Fergusson, Kelly, and Ramsay. Large additions have been made from
+various sources, such as the works of Sir Walter Scott, Galt, Hogg, and
+other national writers, while not a few have been picked up and
+registered as they fell from the lips of friends and strangers with whom
+the compiler came in contact.
+
+Throughout the volume, a considerable number of notes are introduced.
+These notes the compiler had some hesitation in inserting, from a
+feeling that many of them were mere literal explanations or
+illustrations, conveying generally but a very poor idea of the deeper
+meaning which the proverbs themselves are capable of yielding; and also
+in deference to opinions which have been expressed as to the propriety
+of adding notes to a collection of proverbs at all, as every reader of
+intelligence is competent to put an individual construction upon each,
+suited to circumstances; while the very wide inferences and applications
+which can be extracted from many of them, render the adapting of a brief
+and satisfactory note, in many cases, an impossibility. As it is,
+however, little merit is claimed for them; and if they are found to be
+of no aid in facilitating an interpretation, they will, at least, tend
+to relieve the monotonous or catalogue effect, so to speak, which is apt
+to be felt by many readers when perusing works arranged in alphabetical
+order. In all cases where the compiler could adapt a quotation or
+parallel proverb, he did so in preference to inserting an original note.
+To apply a proverb from the collection, it is hoped that, after all, the
+notes will be found no worse than "Like a chip among parritch--little
+gude, little ill." A simple but comprehensive Glossary is appended,
+containing and explaining the meaning of the Scottish words to be found
+in the book.
+
+Of course, in a work of this nature, it is impossible to prevent
+redundancies and repetitions; and when it is mentioned that the
+gathering and arrangement of the first edition of this little work
+occupied the leisure hours of six years, and a similar period during
+the preparation of the present, it will be readily understood that many
+of the faults are to be attributed to the length of time which elapsed
+during its compilation.
+
+In conclusion, the compiler begs to state that the present edition of
+this little work differs very considerably from its predecessor. Upwards
+of 2000 additions, alterations, and corrections have been made upon it,
+most of which he is of opinion are improvements; so that the book is,
+practically speaking, a new one. He has also to thank the members of the
+press for the very flattering reception accorded to the first edition,
+and hopes that the new one will be found equally worthy of their
+commendation. To several private friends, and very many total strangers,
+he desires to express his acknowledgments for many valuable hints and
+important additions. As he is anxious that this collection should be as
+complete as possible, he will be most happy to receive any suggestion or
+addition which may occur to readers, and would respectfully solicit such
+with a view to their incorporation in a subsequent edition, should such
+be required.
+
+EDINBURGH, _May 1868_.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+SCOTTISH PROVERBS.
+
+
+A' ae oo'.
+
+    Literally, "_all one wool_." "A proverbial phrase, equivalent to all
+    one, all to the same purpose."--_Jamieson._
+
+A' ae oo', a' ae price.
+
+A' are gude lasses, but where do the ill wives come frae?
+
+    "All are good maids, but whence come the bad wives?"--_Spanish._
+
+A' are no friends that speak us fair.
+
+    "All are not friends who smile at you."--_Dutch._
+
+A' are no thieves that dogs bark at.
+
+A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill.
+
+A bairn maun creep afore it gangs.
+
+A bald head is sune shaved.
+
+A bark frae a teethless dog is as gude as a bite.
+
+A bauld fae is better than a cowardly friend.
+
+A bawbee cat may look at a king.
+
+A beggar's wallet is a mile to the bottom.
+
+    Because it generally contrives to contain all he gets.
+
+"A begun turn is half ended," quo' the wife when she stuck the graip in
+the midden.
+
+    A jocular beginning of work, which, if it went no further, would be
+    long enough ere it were finished.
+
+A beltless bairn canna lee.
+
+    "I suppose it means a child before it be so old as to wear belted
+    truese, will not have the cunning to invent a lie."--_Kelly._
+
+A bird in the hand's worth twa fleeing by.
+
+A bit but and a bit ben maks a mim maiden at the board end.
+
+    "A jocose reflection upon young maids when they eat almost nothing
+    to dinner, intimating that if they had not eaten a little in the
+    pantry or kitchen, they would eat better at the table."--_Kelly._
+
+A bit is aften better gi'en than eaten.
+
+A black hen can lay a white egg.
+
+A black shoe maks a blythe heart.
+
+    "Whan a man's shoe is blackened and bedaub'd with industry, it will
+    procure him such a supply as will make him cheerful."--_Kelly._
+
+A Blainslie lawin'--there's mair for meat than drink.
+
+A blate cat maks a proud mouse.
+
+    When discipline is not enforced, subordinates are apt to take
+    advantage of it.
+
+A blind man needs nae looking-glass.
+
+A blind man's wife needs nae painting.
+
+A blythe heart maks a bloomin' look.
+
+A body's no broke while they hae a gude kail stock.
+
+    "When all is not lost, all can be recovered."--_English._
+
+A bonnie bride is sune buskit, and a short horse is sune wispit.
+
+    "For little adornment is required to set forth the bride's charms;
+    and the smaller the horse, it is the sooner 'wispit' or
+    cleaned."--_Kelly._
+
+A bonnie gryce may mak an ugly sow.
+
+    "Fair in the cradle may be foul in the saddle."--_English._
+
+A borrowed len' should gae laughing hame.
+
+    When we return an article which has been borrowed, to its owner, we
+    should do it with a good grace.
+
+About the moon there is a brugh: the weather will be cauld and rough.
+
+    "The halo seen round the moon, being a consequence of the humidity
+    of the atmosphere, may well betoken wet weather."--_Robert
+    Chambers._
+
+A bow o'erbent will weaken.
+
+Abundance o' law breaks nae law.
+
+A careless watch invites the thief.
+
+A' cats are grey in the dark.
+
+A clean synd's better than a dirty dry.
+
+"A clean thing's kindly," quo' the wife when she turned her sark after a
+month's wear.
+
+A close mouth catches nae flees.
+
+    "A shut mouth keeps me out of strife."--_Portuguese._
+
+A cock's aye crouse on his ain midden-head.
+
+    "A cock is valiant on his own dunghill."--_Danish._
+
+A' complain o' want o' siller, but nane o' want o' sense.
+
+A coward's fear maks a brave man braver.
+
+A crackit bell will never mend.
+
+A' cracks mauna be trew'd.
+
+    All that is heard must not be believed.
+
+A crafty man's ne'er at peace.
+
+A' craiks a' bears.
+
+    "Craik," to complain: great complainers wish to make others believe
+    that their own lot is a very hard one.
+
+A crammed kyte maks a crazy carcase.
+
+    "A full belly sets a man jigging."--_French._
+
+A craw will no wash white.
+
+A crooked man should sow beans, and a woad man peas.
+
+    "The one agrees to be thick sown, the other thin."--_Kelly._
+
+A crookit stick will throw a crookit shadow.
+
+A croonin cow, a crawin hen, and a whistlin maid, were ne'er very
+chancy.
+
+    "The two first are reckoned ominous, but the reflection is on the
+    third, in whom whistling is unbecoming."--_Kelly._
+
+A cuddy's gallop's sune done.
+
+A cumbersome cur is hated in company.
+
+A daft nurse maks a wise wean.
+
+A day to come seems langer than a year that's gane.
+
+A dear ship lies lang in the harbour.
+
+A dink maiden aft maks a dirty wife.
+
+    A "dink," neat or trim, maiden often forgets her "dinkness" after
+    marriage.
+
+A dish o' married love grows sune cauld.
+
+A dog's life--muckle ease, muckle hunger.
+
+    "We have dogs' days, hunger and aise, through the blue
+    month."--_Irish._ The "blue month" being the interval between the
+    failure of the old crop of potatoes and the coming on of the new
+    one, commonly the month of July.
+
+A dog winna yowl if ye fell him wi' a bane.
+
+    "Pelt a dog with bones, and you will not offend him."--_Italian._
+
+A doucer man ne'er brak warld's bread.
+
+    A saying expressive of unqualified respect.
+
+A drap and a bite's but a sma' requite.
+
+    Used to induce a friend to sit down to dinner or tea, meaning that
+    such is but a poor requital of the friend's past services.
+
+A dreigh drink is better than a dry sermon.
+
+A drink is shorter than a tale.
+
+    An excuse for drinking during the telling of a story.
+
+A drudger gets a darg, and a drucken wife the drucken penny.
+
+    A willing labourer gets a day's work, and people fond of drink,
+    however poor they are, contrive to get it some way or other.
+
+A dry summer ne'er made a dear peck.
+
+    "Drought never bred dearth."--_English._
+
+A duck winna dabble aye in ae hole.
+
+A dumb man hauds a'.
+
+    That is, figuratively, makes no disclosures.
+
+A dumb man ne'er got land.
+
+A dumb man wins nae law.
+
+    A loquacious advocate is more likely to gain his case than a
+    taciturn one.
+
+Ae beggar's wae that anither by the gate gae.
+
+    He is sorry that another beggar should overtake him while pursuing
+    his calling. This feeling is not strictly confined to the begging
+    fraternity.
+
+Ae fine thing needs twa to set it aff.
+
+Ae gude friend is worth mony relations.
+
+Ae gude turn deserves anither.
+
+Ae gude turn may meet anither, an' it were at the brig o' London.
+
+    Meaning that a favour done may be returned at a time when least
+    expected, and perhaps when very much required.
+
+Ae half o' the warld disna ken how the ither half lives.
+
+Ae hand winna wash the ither for nought.
+
+Ae hour in the morning is worth twa at night.
+
+Ae hour's cauld will drive oot seven years' heat.
+
+Ae lawsuit breeds twenty.
+
+Ae man may tak a horse to the water, but twenty winna gar him drink.
+
+    "'Reuben Butler! he hasna in his pouch the value o' the auld black
+    coat he wears--but it doesna signify.' And, as he spoke, he (the
+    Laird of Dumbiedikes) shut successively, and with vehemence, the
+    drawers of his treasury. 'A fair offer, Jeannie, is nae cause o'
+    feud--ae man may bring a horse to the water, but twenty wunna gar
+    him drink. And as for wasting my substance on other folks'
+    joes----'"--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+Ae man may steal a horse where anither daurna look ower the hedge.
+
+    A man with a bad character is liable to be blamed for any misdeed
+    which may be done; while a person who is not open to suspicion may
+    commit depredation without challenge.
+
+Ae man's meat is anither man's poison.
+
+Ae scabbit sheep will smit a hirsel.
+
+    One bad character may pollute a whole company.
+
+Ae scone o' that baking's enough.
+
+Ae shook o' that stook's enough.
+
+    One specimen of a bad article is sufficient.
+
+Ae swallow disna mak a summer.
+
+Ae word before is worth twa behint.
+
+Ae year a nurse and seven years a daw.
+
+    Does this very old proverb mean, that if a woman nurses for one
+    year, it takes seven years to recover from the effects of it? Ray
+    has a very ungallant note on the English version of this: "Because,
+    feeding well and doing little, she becomes liquorish, and gets a
+    habit of idleness."
+
+A' fails that fools think.
+
+A fa'ing maister maks a standin' man.
+
+A fair maid tocherless will get mair wooers than husbands.
+
+A fair offer is nae cause o' feud.
+
+A' fellows, Jock and the laird.
+
+    "Spoken when unworthy fellows intrude themselves into the company of
+    their betters."--_Kelly._
+
+A fey man and a cursour fearna the deil.
+
+    Meaning literally, that a predestined man and a war-horse (or
+    stallion, as the word "cursour" more immediately implies) fear not
+    the devil.
+
+Affront your friend in daffin', and tine him in earnest.
+
+    Affront him not in jest, lest you lose him in earnest.
+
+A fidging mare should be weel girded.
+
+    "A thief does not always steal, but always be on your guard against
+    him."--_Russian._
+
+A findsilly bairn gars his faither be hang'd.
+
+A fisherman's walk--twa steps and overboard.
+
+A fleyer wad aye hae a follower.
+
+    This proverb illustrates a song of Allan Ramsay's, after an ode by
+    Horace, referring to a girl running out of the room, in the hope
+    that her lover would follow her.
+
+A fool and his money are sune parted.
+
+A fool at forty will ne'er be wise.
+
+A fool is happier thinking weel o' himself, than a wise man is o' others
+thinking weel o' him.
+
+A fool may earn money, but it taks a wise man to keep it.
+
+A fool may gie a wise man a counsel.
+
+    "'Fair and softly gangs far,' said Meiklehose; 'and if a fule may
+    gie a wise man a counsel, I wad hae him think twice or he mells with
+    Knockdunder.'"--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+A fool may speer mair questions than a wise man can answer.
+
+A fool's bolt is sune shot.
+
+A fool winna gie his toy for the Tower o' London.
+
+A foul foot maks a fu' wame.
+
+    "Industry will be sure of a maintenance. A man that carefully goes
+    about his business will have foul feet."--_Kelly._
+
+A foul hand maks a clean hearthstane.
+
+A friend at court is worth a penny in the purse.
+
+    Kelly's note on this proverb is not favourable to the court usances
+    of his time (1721). "A purse seems to be the only friend at court,
+    for, without that, there is nothing there but neglect and empty
+    promises."
+
+A friend in need is a friend indeed.
+
+A friend to a' is a friend to nane.
+
+    "Everybody's friend is nobody's friend."--_Spanish._
+
+A friend's dinner's sune dished.
+
+    That is, a true friend is easily served, and will not readily take
+    offence.
+
+A friend's ne'er ken't till he's needed.
+
+Aft counting keeps friends lang thegither.
+
+    "Short accounts make long friends."--_English._
+
+After a sort, as Costlet served the king.
+
+    "One Captain Costlet, boasting much of his loyalty, was asked how he
+    served the king when he was a captain in Cromwell's army, answered,
+    'After a sort.' Spoken when a thing is done slightly."--_Kelly._
+
+After a storm comes a calm.
+
+After cheese, naething.
+
+After clouds comes fair weather.
+
+After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.
+
+    This advice is unfitted for the dining practices of the present day;
+    but when our ancestors breakfasted at six, dined at eleven, and
+    supped at four or five, the counsel may have been good enough.
+
+After joy comes annoy.
+
+After Lammas, corn ripens by day and night.
+
+After that comes a cow to be shod.
+
+After words come weird: fair fa' them that ca' me "Madam."
+
+    After libel comes proof: let those who speak ill of me look to
+    themselves.
+
+After you is gude manners.
+
+    "Spoken when our betters offer to serve us first."--_Kelly._
+
+Aft ettle, whiles hit.
+
+    Often try, occasionally succeed.
+
+Aft times the cautioner pays the debt.
+
+A fu' cup is ill to carry.
+
+A fu' heart is aye kind.
+
+A fu' heart never lee'd.
+
+    Intimating that the truth generally comes out under the impulse of
+    the feelings.
+
+A fu' man and a hungry horse aye mak haste hame.
+
+A fu' man's a true man.
+
+    A man under the influence of drink, if he speak at all, speaks
+    truth, and often more of that than is pleasant.
+
+A fu' purse maks a haverin merchant.
+
+    A man with a full purse engaged in commercial transactions is apt to
+    "haver," or gossip freely.
+
+A fu' purse never lacks friends.
+
+A fu' sack can bear a clout on the side.
+
+    A man in prosperous circumstances can afford to listen to the
+    envious remarks of those who have not been so fortunate.
+
+A fu' wame maks a straught back.
+
+    A full stomach makes a man walk erectly.
+
+A gaun fit's aye getting, were it but a thorn or a broken tae.
+
+    "A man of industry will certainly get a living; though the proverb
+    is often applied to those who went abroad and got a mischief, when
+    they might safely have stayed at home."--_Kelly._
+
+A gentle horse should be sindle spurr'd.
+
+A gi'en game was ne'er won.
+
+    A voluntary concession may be no tribute to the skill of the
+    opponent.
+
+A gi'en horse shouldna be looked i' the mouth.
+
+A gi'en piece is soon eaten.
+
+A gowk at Yule 'll no be bright at Beltane.
+
+    He that is a fool at Christmas will not be wise in May.
+
+A great rooser was ne'er a gude rider.
+
+    A great boaster is rarely a great performer.
+
+A greedy e'e ne'er got a fu' wame.
+
+A greedy e'e ne'er got a gude pennyworth.
+
+    This and the preceding proverb signify that a covetous or greedy man
+    is never satisfied.
+
+A green wound is half hale.
+
+A green Yule maks a fat kirkyard.
+
+    "Ance I wrought a simmer wi' auld Will Winnet, the bedral, and
+    howkit mair graves than ane in my day; but I left him in winter, for
+    it was unco cauld wark; and then it cam a green Yule, and the folk
+    died thick and fast."--_The Antiquary._
+
+A groat is ill saved that shames its master.
+
+A grunting horse and a graneing wife seldom fail their master.
+
+    People that are constantly in the habit of complaining how ill they
+    are, generally contrive to live as long as their neighbours.
+
+A gude beginning maks a gude ending.
+
+A gude calf is better than a calf o' a gude kind.
+
+    The one is good already, while it is possible that the other may
+    turn out bad.
+
+A gude cause maks a strong arm.
+
+A gude conscience is the best divinity.
+
+A gude day's darg may be done wi' a dirty spade.
+
+A gude dog ne'er barkit about a bane.
+
+A gude face needs nae band, and an ill ane deserves nane.
+
+A gude fellow is a costly name.
+
+A gude fellow ne'er tint but at an ill fellow's hand.
+
+A gude goose may hae an ill gaiflin.
+
+A gude green turf is a gude gudemother.
+
+    A mother-in-law is best in the churchyard.
+
+A gude grieve is better than an ill worker.
+
+A gude ingle maks a roomy fireside.
+
+A gude lawyer may be an ill neighbour.
+
+A gude man maks a gude wife.
+
+A gude name is sooner tint than won.
+
+    "Good repute is like the cypress; once cut, it never puts forth leaf
+    again."--_Italian._
+
+A gude pawn never shamed its master.
+
+    "It is no shame for a man to borrow on a good pawn; though I think
+    it would be more for his honour to be trusted without
+    one."--_Kelly._
+
+A gude paymaster ne'er wants hands to work.
+
+A gude steel is worth a penny.
+
+A gude tale's no the waur o' being twice tauld.
+
+    "It's very true the curates read aye the same words ower again; and
+    if they be right words, what for no?--a gude tale's no the waur o'
+    being twice tauld, I trow; and a body has aye the better chance to
+    understand it."--_Old Mortality._
+
+A gude tongue's a gude safeguard.
+
+A gude wife and health is a man's best wealth.
+
+A gude word is as easy said as an ill ane.
+
+A gude year winna mak him, nor an ill year mar him.
+
+    "A beggar will ne'er be a bankrupt."--_English._
+
+A guilty conscience self accuses.
+
+A hadden tongue maks a slabbered mou'.
+
+A hairy man's a geary man, but a hairy wife's a witch.
+
+A half burn'd peat is easily kindled.
+
+A hanfu' o' trade is worth a gowpen o' gold.
+
+    Literally, the knowledge of a trade is worth a handful of gold.
+
+A hantle cry Murder! and are aye upmost.
+
+    Many that are least hurt cry loudest
+
+A hasty man is never lusty.
+
+A hasty man never wanted wae.
+
+A hearty hand to gie a hungry meltith.
+
+A hen that lays thereout should hae a white nest-egg.
+
+    Some attractions should be provided at home for those who are not
+    naturally attached to it.
+
+A' his buz shakes nae barley.
+
+    All his talking does no good, or, _vice versa_, all his stormy
+    temper does no harm.
+
+A hook is weel tint to catch a salmon.
+
+    "Throw sprats to catch whales."--_Spanish._
+
+A horn spoon hauds nae poison.
+
+    The humble rank indicated by the horn spoon is one in which
+    simplicity and contentment are so general that no poisoning need be
+    feared. "No hemlock is drunk out of earthenware."--_Latin._
+
+A horse broken and a wife to break, is a horse made and a wife to make.
+
+A horse hired never tired.
+
+A horse wi' four feet may snapper.
+
+    Snapper, to stumble. Even the best of men may err.
+
+A houndless hunter and a gunless gunner aye see routh o' game.
+
+    Applied to those who are always boasting of what they can do, when
+    they know that there is no fear of their powers being tested.
+
+A house built and a garden to grow never brought what they cost.
+
+A house fu' o' folk, and a pouch wi' three fardens i' the corner o't,
+dinna sort weel thegither.
+
+    Poverty and a desire to keep up appearances do not "sort weel."
+
+A house in a hastrie is downright wastrie.
+
+A house wi' a reek and a wife wi' a reard will mak a man rin to the
+door.
+
+    "Smoke, a dripping roof, and a scolding wife, are enough to drive a
+    man out of his life."--_Spanish._
+
+A hungry louse bites sair.
+
+    "Spoken when the needy are importunate in their cravings, or
+    exacting."--_Kelly._
+
+A hungry man has aye a lazy cook.
+
+A hungry man's an angry man.
+
+A hungry man smells meat far.
+
+A hungry stomach is aye craving.
+
+A hungry wame has nae lugs.
+
+    A hungry man is deaf to reason.
+
+A' I got frae him I could put in my e'e, and see nane the waur for't.
+
+    A satirical way of expressing that some service has been allowed to
+    go unrewarded.
+
+A' ills are gude untried.
+
+Air day or late day, the fox's hide finds aye the slaying knife.
+
+    Sooner or later justice overtakes evil-doers.
+
+A Januar' haddock, a Februar' bannock, and a March pint o' ale.
+
+    "This semi-metrical proverb expresses the season at which the
+    haddock and some other articles of aliment are supposed to be at
+    their best. This, however, as far as the haddock is concerned, would
+    appear questionable, as there is an almost universal notion that the
+    young of this fish at least are best after a little of May has gone.
+    It is said in the Mearns,--
+
+      "'A cameral haddock's ne'er gude
+      Till it get three draps o' May flude.'"--_Robert Chambers._
+
+    Formerly, brewers made ale only twice a year,--the _summer ale_ in
+    March, and the _winter_ in October.
+
+A Kelso convoy--a step and a half ower the door-stane.
+
+    "Ye ken in this country ilka gentleman is wussed to be sae civil as
+    to see the corpse aff his ain grounds. Ye needna gang higher than
+    the loan-head--it's no expected your honour suld leave the
+    land--it's just a Kelso convoy, a step and a half ower the
+    door-stane."--_The Antiquary._
+
+A kindly word cools anger.
+
+A kiss and a drink o' water mak but a wersh breakfast.
+
+    Spoken disapprovingly of those who marry for love, without due
+    regard to means.
+
+A landward lad is aye laithfu'.
+
+    A country or rustic lad is always bashful.
+
+A lang gather'd dam soon runs out.
+
+A lang tongue has a short hand.
+
+    "They who are lavish in their promises, are often short in their
+    performances."--_Kelly._
+
+A lass that has mony wooers aft wails the warst.
+
+A laughing-faced lad often maks a lither servant.
+
+A layin' hen is better than a standin' mill.
+
+    A standing mill is profitless, whereas a laying hen is not.
+
+A leaky ship needs muckle pumping.
+
+A leal heart never lied.
+
+Ale-sellers shouldna be tale-tellers.
+
+    They hear everybody's story, but prudence demands that they should
+    keep it to themselves.
+
+A liar should hae a gude memory.
+
+A light-heeled mother maks a heavy-heeled dochter.
+
+A light purse maks a heavy heart.
+
+Alike every day maks a clout on Sunday.
+
+A little wit ser's a lucky man.
+
+A' law's no justice.
+
+A loving heart and a leal within, are better than gowd or gentle kin.
+
+A lucky man needs little counsel.
+
+A maid aft seen and a gown aft worn, are disesteemed and held in scorn.
+
+"Amaist" and "Very near" hae aye been great liars.
+
+Amaist was ne'er a man's life.
+
+A man at five may be a fool at fifteen.
+
+A man at forty is either a fool or a physician.
+
+A man canna bear a' his ain kin about on his back.
+
+A man canna wive and thrive the same year.
+
+Amang you be 't, priest's bairns: I am but a priest's oe.
+
+A man has nae mair gudes than he gets gude o'.
+
+A man is a lion for his ain cause.
+
+    "No man so zealous for, or assiduous in, a man's business as
+    himself."--_Kelly._
+
+A man maun spoil ere he spin.
+
+A man may be kind, yet gie little o' his gear.
+
+A man may haud his tongue in an ill time.
+
+    A man may keep silent at a time or under circumstances where it is
+    an injury to himself.
+
+A man may lose his ain for lack o' craving.
+
+A man may see his friend in need, that wouldna see his pow bleed.
+
+    That is, a friend may be willing to do anything, even to fight for
+    him, _except_, and as is too generally the case, to give him
+    pecuniary assistance.
+
+A man may speer the gate he kens fu' weel.
+
+A man may spit in his neive and do but little.
+
+    He may make a great show of working, but still _do_ very little.
+
+A man may woo where he will, but maun wed where his weird is.
+
+A man o' mony trades may beg his bread on Sunday.
+
+    "Jack of all trades, master of none."--_English._
+
+A man o' straw is worth a woman o' gold.
+
+    "It seems that the men contrived these proverbs, they run so much in
+    their favours."--_Kelly._
+
+A man o' words, and no o' deeds, is like a garden fu' o' weeds.
+
+A man's aye crouse in his ain cause.
+
+A man's hat in his hand ne'er did him ony harm.
+
+A man's mind is a mirk mirror.
+
+A man's weel or wae as he thinks himsel sae.
+
+A man was ance hang'd for leaving his drink.
+
+    "It took its rise from the villain that assassinated the Prince of
+    Orange. Spoken when men proffer to go away before their drink be
+    out."--_Kelly._
+
+A man wi' ae ee, can see mair than you wi' your twa.
+
+A master's ee maks a fat horse.
+
+    "No eye like the master's eye."--_English._
+
+A mear's shoe will fit a horse.
+
+    "Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander."--_English._
+
+A Merse mist alang the Tweed, in a harvest morning's gude indeed.
+
+    "Because it generally precedes a fine, warm, and breezy
+    harvest-day--excellent for the winnowing and in-bringing of the
+    precious grain."--_G. Henderson._
+
+A midge is as big as a mountain, amaist.
+
+    The latitude afforded in the meaning of the word "almost," furnishes
+    the point in this and several other proverbs.
+
+A mind that's scrimpit ne'er wants care.
+
+      "But aiblins, neibour, ye hae not a heart,
+      And downa eithly wi' your cunzie part.
+      If that be true, what signifies your gear?
+      A mind that's scrimpit never wants some care."--_Gentle Shepherd._
+
+A misty morning may be a clear day.
+
+A morning's sleep is worth a fauld o' sheep to a hudderin dudderin daw.
+
+    "A reflection upon lazy, sleepy drabs, who prefer nothing to soaking
+    in their bed in the morning."--_Kelly._
+
+A mouthfu' o' meat may be a tounfu' o' shame.
+
+    "That is, if it be stolen--intimating that a little thing picked
+    will procure a great disgrace."--_Kelly._
+
+A muckle mouth has aye gude luck for its meat.
+
+A muffled cat was ne'er a gude hunter.
+
+An Aberdeen man ne'er stands to the word that hurts him.
+
+A nag wi' a wame and a mare wi' nane are no a gude pair.
+
+An air winter maks a sair winter.
+
+A naked man maun rin.
+
+    A man that is destitute must exert himself.
+
+An auld dog bites sicker.
+
+An auld horse may dee ere the grass grow.
+
+    "While the grass is growing the steed is starving."--_German._
+
+An auld knave's nae bairn.
+
+    "An old fox needs learn no new tricks."--_English._
+
+An auld man's a bedfu' o' banes.
+
+An auld mason maks a gude barrowman.
+
+An auld pock is aye skailing.
+
+An auld pock needs muckle clouting.
+
+    Old things, generally, are often in need of repair.
+
+An auld tout on a new horn is little minded.
+
+    An old story or complaint receives little attention even although it
+    may be told in a different form.
+
+Ance awa, aye awa.
+
+    When people once go away from home for a time, there is always a
+    feeling among those left that the bond which binds them to home is
+    weakened, and very little persuasion is required to take them away
+    again.
+
+Ance is nae custom.
+
+Ance paid, never craved.
+
+Ance Provost, aye My Lord.
+
+Ance wud, and aye waur.
+
+Ance wud, never wise.
+
+    A person once "wud," or deranged, is always suspected of being so,
+    in the event of anything strange taking place.
+
+Ane at a time is gude fishing.
+
+An eating horse ne'er foundered.
+
+    An excuse for taking a hearty meal, meaning that plenty of food will
+    injure neither man nor beast.
+
+Ane beats the bush, and anither grips the bird.
+
+Ane does the skaith, anither gets the scorn.
+
+Ane gets sma' thanks for tineing his ain.
+
+Ane is no sae soon healed as hurt.
+
+An elbuck dirl will lang play thirl.
+
+Ane may like a haggis weel enough that wouldna like the bag bladded on
+his chafts.
+
+Ane may like the kirk weel enough, and no aye be riding on the rigging
+o't.
+
+Ane would like to be lo'ed, but wha would mool in wi' a moudiewort?
+
+    The three preceding proverbs mean, that although a man may be very
+    fond of his relations, property, and what not, still there are
+    certain extremes to be avoided, for if even approached, they verge
+    into the ridiculous.
+
+Ane may think that daurna speak.
+
+Ane never tines by doing gude.
+
+Ane o' the court, but nane o' the council.
+
+    Meaning that although your presence and advice may on certain
+    occasions be requested, it is only for form's sake.
+
+Ane's ain hearth is gowd's worth.
+
+Ane will gar a hundred lee.
+
+A new pair o' breeks will cast down an auld coat.
+
+    A new article of dress will make the others look much more worn than
+    they really are. The acquisition of a new friend may tend to lower
+    our esteem for those of longer standing.
+
+Anger's mair hurtfu' than the wrang that caused it.
+
+Anger's short-lived in a gude man.
+
+An honest man's word's his bond.
+
+An idle brain is the deil's workshop.
+
+    "He that labours is tempted by one devil; he that is idle by a
+    thousand."--_Italian._
+
+An ilka-day braw maks a Sabbath-day daw.
+
+    He that wears his best at all times will have nothing to suit
+    extraordinary occasions.
+
+An ill cook should hae a gude cleaver.
+
+An ill cow may hae a gude calf.
+
+An ill custom is like a gude bannock--better broken than kept.
+
+An ill lesson is easy learned.
+
+An ill life maks an ill death.
+
+An ill plea should be weel pled.
+
+An ill servant ne'er made a gude maister.
+
+An ill shearer ne'er got a gude heuk.
+
+      "And now some learner tries to shear,
+      But comes right little speed, I fear;
+      'The corn lies ill,' and aye we hear
+                  'The sickle's bad:'
+      The byeword says, 'Ill shearer ne'er
+                  A gude hook had.'"--_The Har'st Rig._
+
+An ill turn is soon done.
+
+An ill wife and a new-kindled candle should hae their heads hadden down.
+
+    "But both must be done with care, caution, and discretion; otherwise
+    you may put the candle out and make the wife worse."--_Kelly._
+
+An ill-willy cow should hae short horns.
+
+    "It were a pity that a man of ill-nature should have much authority,
+    for he'll be sure to abuse it."--_Kelly._
+
+An ill-won penny will cast down a pound.
+
+An inch breaks nae squares.
+
+    "A little difference ought not to occasion any contests among good
+    neighbours."--_Kelly._
+
+An inch o' a nag is worth a span o' an aiver.
+
+    "A little man, if smart and stout, is much preferable to an unwieldy
+    lubber, though much bigger."--_Kelly._
+
+An inch o' gude luck is worth a faddom o' forecast.
+
+A nod frae a lord is a breakfast for a fool.
+
+A nod o' honest men's eneugh.
+
+A nod's as gude's a wink to a blind horse.
+
+An olite mother maks a dawdie dochter.
+
+An only dochter is either a deil or a daw.
+
+An ounce o' mither-wit is worth a pound o' clergy.
+
+An ounce o' wit is worth a pound o' lear.
+
+    "An ounce of mother-wit is worth a pound of school-wit."--_German._
+
+An unlucky fish taks bad bait.
+
+An unlucky man's cart is eithly coup'd.
+
+An ye loe me look in my dish.
+
+    A delicate request for a second supply of soup.
+
+A' owers are ill, but ower the water and ower the hill.
+
+      "All owers are repute to be vyce,
+      Ower heich, ower law, ower rasch, ower nyce,
+        Owre het or zit ower cauld."--_Cherrie and the Slae._
+
+A' owers spills.
+
+A party pot ne'er plays even.
+
+    An interested or prejudiced individual cannot be an impartial judge
+    of both sides of a question.
+
+A penny hain'd's a penny clear, and a preen a-day's a groat a-year.
+
+A penny hain'd's a penny gained.
+
+A penny in my purse will gar me drink when my friends winna.
+
+A penny in the purse is a gude friend.
+
+A penny in the purse is better than a crown awa.
+
+A pennyweight o' love is worth a pound o' law.
+
+A pickle's no miss'd in a mickle.
+
+A poll parrot thinks weel o' itsel.
+
+A poor man is fain o' little.
+
+A poor man's debt maks muckle din.
+
+A pound o' care winna pay an ounce o' debt.
+
+    _Care_ here means sorrow, or trouble of mind, and must not be
+    associated with _care_ in the sense of frugality or economy, which
+    has paid many an ounce of debt.
+
+A pound o' woo' is as heavy as a pound o' lead.
+
+A primsie damsel maks a daidlin' dame.
+
+A proud heart in a poor breast has muckle dolour to dree.
+
+A proud mind and an empty purse gree ill thegither.
+
+    "A true proverb! and the worst is, they meet often."--_Kelly._
+
+A raggit coat was ne'er a mote in a man's marriage.
+
+A raggit cowte may be a gude gelding.
+
+    An uncouth, unpromising colt may turn out a fine horse. An ignorant,
+    dull boy may ultimately prove a very clever man.
+
+      "Yet aft a ragged cowte's been known
+        To mak a noble aiver;
+      So, ye may doucely fill a throne,
+        For a' their clish-ma-claver."--_Burns._
+
+A reckless house maks mony thieves.
+
+A red nose maks a raggit back.
+
+A reeky house and a girnin' wife, will lead a man a fashious life.
+
+A reproof is nae poison.
+
+    "No, indeed! but a wholesome medicine, which whosoever refuseth is
+    brutish!"--_Kelly._
+
+A rich man has mair cousins than his faither had kin.
+
+A rich man's wooing's no lang doing.
+
+A rough bane maks a fu' wame.
+
+As a carl riches he wretches.
+
+    "Wretch, a covetous or niggardly person."--_Jamieson._ As a man
+    becomes rich he also becomes more parsimonious.
+
+A safe conscience maks a sound sleep.
+
+A saft aiver was ne'er a gude horse.
+
+As ane flits anither sits, and that keeps mailins dear.
+
+As brisk as bottled ale.
+
+As broken a ship's come to land.
+
+    "'I fear,' said Morton, 'there is very little chance, my good friend
+    Cuddie, of our getting back to our old occupation.' 'Hout, stir;
+    hout, stir,' replied Cuddie, 'it's aye gude to keep up a hardy
+    heart--as broken a ship's come to land.'"--_Old Mortality._
+
+A's but lip-wit that wants experience.
+
+A scabbed horse is gude enough for a sca'd squire.
+
+A sca'ded cat dreads cauld water.
+
+As canker'd as a cow wi' ae horn.
+
+    "As proud as a hen with one chick."--_English._
+
+A scar'd head is eith to bleed.
+
+A scar'd head is soon broken.
+
+    A reputation already questionable is easily lost altogether.
+
+As coarse as Nancie's harn sark,--three threads out o' the pound.
+
+A Scotch mist will weet an Englishman to the skin.
+
+A Scotsman and a Newcastle grindstane travel a' the world ower.
+
+    Alluding to the wandering propensities of the one and the good
+    qualities of the other.
+
+A Scotsman is aye wise ahint the hand.
+
+    "It is too late to throw water on the cinders when the house is
+    burned down."--_Danish._
+
+As dark as a Yule midnight.
+
+As day brake, butter brake.
+
+    "Spoken when a person or thing that was wanting comes
+    opportunely."--_Kelly._
+
+A seven years' maiden is aye at the slight.
+
+As fain as a fool o' a fair day.
+
+A's fair at the ba'.
+
+    "All's fair in war."--_English._
+
+As fause as Waghorn.
+
+    "Waghorn, a fabulous personage, who, being a liar nineteen times
+    greater than the devil, was crowned King of liars."--_Jamieson._
+
+A's fine that's fit.
+
+A's fish that comes to the net.
+
+As fu' o' mischief as an egg's fu' o' meat.
+
+As gentle as Gorman's bitch, that lap ower the ingle and ate the roast.
+
+As gude a fellow as ever toom'd a bicker.
+
+As gude eat the deil as sup the kail he's boiled in.
+
+As gude fish in the sea as e'er cam out o't.
+
+As gude gie the lichtly as tak it.
+
+    "Lichtly, an expression of contempt or insult: to undervalue, to
+    slight, to despise."--_Jamieson._
+
+As gude may haud as draw.
+
+As gude may haud the stirrup as he that loups on.
+
+As gude merchants tine as win.
+
+As gude ne'er a bit, as ne'er the better.
+
+    "Unless you make a thing the better for you, you had as good let it
+    alone."--_Kelly._
+
+A's gude that God sends.
+
+A shave aff a new cut loaf's never missed.
+
+A shor'd tree stands lang.
+
+    "Men do not die of threats."--_Dutch._
+
+A short grace is gude for hungry folk.
+
+A short horse is sune wispit.
+
+A sight o' you is gude for sair een.
+
+    "'Wha's this o't?' again exclaimed Madge Wildfire. 'Douce Davie
+    Deans; the auld doited whig body's daughter, in a gipsy's barn, and
+    the nicht setting in! this is a sight for sair een!--Eh, sirs, the
+    falling off o' the godly!--and the t'other sister's in the Tolbooth
+    of Edinburgh.'"--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+A sillerless man gangs fast through the market.
+
+A silly man will be slily dealt wi'.
+
+    "He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the
+    wolf."--_English._
+
+A sinking maister maks a rising man.
+
+A skelpit bum breaks nae banes.
+
+Ask the tapster if his ale be gude.
+
+Ask your purse what you should buy.
+
+Ask nae questions, and I'll tell nae lees.
+
+    "'What needs ye be aye speering then at folk?' retorted Effie. 'I'm
+    sure, if ye'll ask nae questions, I'll tell ye nae lees. I never ask
+    what brings the Laird of Dumbiedykes glowering here like a wull cat
+    (only his een's greener, and no sae gleg), day after day, till we
+    are all like to gaunt our chafts aff.'"--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+As lang as a dog would be bound wi' a bluidy puddin'.
+
+As lang as the bird sings before Candlemas he greets after it.
+
+As lang as ye serve the tod ye maun carry his tail.
+
+As lang as ye stand ye dinna stay.
+
+    "It is enough to make it appear that you did not stay, if you can
+    say you never sate down; an argument to make our friend, who is in
+    haste, to stand and chat awhile."--_Kelly._
+
+As lang lasts the hole as the heel leather.
+
+    "Spoken to them that quarrel with a hole in your coat or shoe: often
+    applied otherways."--_Kelly._
+
+As lang lives the merry man as the sad.
+
+As lang rins the tod as he has feet.
+
+A slow hand maks a sober fortune.
+
+A slow fire maks a sweat maut.
+
+A sma' leak will sink a great ship.
+
+As menseless as a tinkler's messan.
+
+As merry's a mautman.
+
+A smith's house is aye lowin'.
+
+As mony heads as mony wits.
+
+As muckle upwith as muckle downwith.
+
+A's no gowd that glitters, nor maidens that wear their hair.
+
+    "It was the fashion some years ago (1721) for virgins to go
+    bareheaded. The proverb means that everything is not so good as it
+    appears."--_Kelly._
+
+A's no help that's at hand.
+
+A's no ill that's ill like.
+
+A's no part.
+
+A's no tint that fa's bye.
+
+A's no tint that's in hazard.
+
+A sorrowfu' heart's aye dry.
+
+    "Spoken when widows or widowers drink liberally, alledging it was to
+    quench their sorrow."--_Kelly._
+
+A sooth bourd is nae bourd.
+
+    "'D'ye hear that, Provost?' said Summertrees. 'Your wife's a witch,
+    man; you should nail a horse-shoe on your chamber door. Ha, ha, ha!'
+
+    "This sally did not take so well as the former efforts of the
+    laird's wit. The lady drew up, and the Provost said, half aside,
+    'The sooth bourd is nae bourd; you will find the horse-shoe hissing
+    hot, Summertrees.'"--_Redgauntlet._
+
+As poor as a kirk mouse.
+
+A spunefu' o' stink will spoil a patfu' o' skink.
+
+    "Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a
+    stinking savour; so doth a little folly him that is in reputation
+    for wisdom and honour."--_Ecclesiastes_, x. 1.
+
+A spur in the head's worth twa in the heel.
+
+As sair fights the wren as the crane.
+
+As sair greets the bairn that's paid at e'en as it that gets its paiks
+in the morning.
+
+As sib as sieve and riddle that grew in ae wood.
+
+    "Spoken of them who groundlessly pretend kindred to great
+    persons."--_Kelly._
+
+As sune comes the lamb's skin to the market as the auld tup's.
+
+    "Of young die many, of old 'scape not any."--_English._
+
+As sure's death.
+
+    An emphatic assertion that the truth had been told. At school we had
+    a pious faith in these words. Any narrative clenched with them was
+    invariably believed. If anything was said of a questionable nature,
+    the listener would say, "Say sure's death to that, then." If
+    repeated, confidence was fully restored.
+
+A steek in time saves nine.
+
+As the auld cock craws the young cock learns.
+
+As the day lengthens the cauld strengthens.
+
+As the fool thinks the bell clinks.
+
+As the market gangs the wares sell.
+
+As the sow fills the draff sours.
+
+As the wind blaws seek your beild.
+
+    That is, endeavour to suit yourself to circumstances. Kelly pawkily
+    remarks, This is "a politick proverb! advising us to make our
+    interest as the times change. This proverb some act very
+    dexterously, and others cannot get acted."
+
+A still sow eats a' the draff.
+
+A's tint that's put in a riven dish.
+
+    All is lost that is put into a broken dish. Favours bestowed on
+    ungrateful persons are thrown away.
+
+As tired as a tyke o' langkail.
+
+    "Are ye fou already, Watty Walkinshaw? If ye mudge out o' that seat
+    again this night, I'll mak you as sick o' pies and puddings as ever
+    a dog was o' langkail."--_The Entail._
+
+As true as Biglam's cat crew, and the cock rocked the cradle.
+
+    "Spoken when we hear one call that true that we know to be a
+    lye."--_Kelly._
+
+A' Stuarts are no sib to the king.
+
+    Although all of the same name, we are not of the same family. "There
+    is some distance between Peter and Peter."--_Spanish._
+
+A sturdy beggar should hae a stout nae-sayer.
+
+As wanton as a wet hen.
+
+As weel be hang'd for a sheep as a lamb.
+
+As weel be sune as syne.
+
+    Used as a suggestion that a thing had better be done at present than
+    put off till a future time, or _vice versa_. "Ae wise body's eneugh
+    in the married state. But if your heart's ower fu', take what siller
+    will serve ye, and let it be when ye come back again--as gude syne
+    as sune."--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+As weel be out o' the warld as out o' fashion.
+
+As wight as a wabster's doublet, that ilka day taks a thief by the neck.
+
+As ye are stout be merciful.
+
+As ye brew sae ye maun drink.
+
+      "Some will spend, and some will spare,
+        And wilfu' folk maun hae their will;
+      Syne as ye brew, my maiden fair,
+        Keep mind that ye maun drink the yill."--_Burns._
+
+As ye brew weel ye'll drink the better.
+
+    "'So ye hae gotten your auld son married? I hope it's to your
+    satisfaction.'
+
+    "'An he has brewed good yill, Mr Keelevin, he'll drink the better,'
+    was the reply; 'but I hae come to consult you anent a bit alteration
+    that I would fain make in my testament.'"--_The Entail._
+
+As ye mak your bed sae ye maun lie on't.
+
+A's yours frae the door out.
+
+    "A jest upon those who pretend that such and such things in the
+    house are theirs. As if you would say, all the household goods
+    without the doors are yours."--_Kelly._
+
+A taking hand will never want, let the world be e'er sae scant.
+
+A tarrowing bairn was never fat.
+
+    A child that refuses or is slow in taking its food. People who will
+    not take advantage as opportunities offer, cannot expect to prosper
+    so well as those who do.
+
+A tale never tines in the telling.
+
+A' that's said in the kitchen shouldna be tauld in the ha'.
+
+A' that's said shouldna be sealed.
+
+A' that ye'll tak wi' ye will be but a kist and a sheet, after a'.
+
+    In allusion to the death of persons who may be proud of their
+    possessions.
+
+A' the claes on your back was ance in clues.
+
+A' the corn's no shorn by kempers.
+
+    To kemp, to strive. All do not strive alike. All cannot equally
+    excel in work. This proverb supports the claims of those who do not
+    excel, by suggesting that even the "kempers" cannot overtake all the
+    work that is to do.
+
+A' the keys of the country hang na in ae belt.
+
+    All the influence or power is not in one man's possession.
+
+A' the men i' the Mearns can do nae mair than they may.
+
+    No man can do more than he has strength to do. There is an
+    Aberdeenshire saying of similar import, "I can dee fat I dow: the
+    men in the Mearns can dee nae mair."
+
+A' the speed's no in the spurs.
+
+A' the winning's in the first buying.
+
+A' the wit o' the world's no in ae pow.
+
+A'thing angers ye, and the cat breaks your heart.
+
+A' things thrive at thrice.
+
+A'thing wytes that no weel fares.
+
+A thoughtless body's aye thrang.
+
+A thrawn question should hae a thrawart answer.
+
+A thread will tie an honest man better than a rope will do a rogue.
+
+At my leisure, as lairds dee.
+
+    "Fair and softly, as lawyers go to heaven."--_English._
+
+A tocherless dame sits lang at hame.
+
+A tocher's nae word in a true lover's parle.
+
+      "Oh wae on the siller, it is sae prevailing!
+      And wae on the love that is fixed on a mailen!
+      A tocher's nae word in a true lover's parle,
+      But gie me love, and a fig for the warl!"--_Burns._
+
+A toolying tike comes limping hame.
+
+    "Toolying tike," quarrelsome dog.
+
+A toom hand is nae lure for a hawk.
+
+A toom pantry maks a thriftless gudewife.
+
+A toom purse maks a thrawn face.
+
+At open doors dogs gae ben.
+
+A travelled man has leave to lee.
+
+A tree's no a mast till its hewn.
+
+      "I like the lassie, Mundy, wi' my heart,
+      An' as she's bonny, dootna but she's smart;
+      The creature's young, she'll shape to ony cast--
+      Nae tree till it be hewn becomes a mast."--_Ross's Helenore._
+
+A tricky man's easiest tricket.
+
+A turn weel done is sune done.
+
+A twalpenny cat may look at a king.
+
+Auld chimes and auld rhymes gar us think on auld times.
+
+Auld folk are twice bairns.
+
+Auld moon mist ne'er died o' thrist.
+
+    "Foggy weather in the last quarter of the moon is supposed to
+    betoken moisture."--_Robert Chambers._
+
+Auld sins breed new sairs.
+
+Auld sparrows are ill to tame.
+
+Auld springs gie nae price.
+
+    Things out of fashion are valueless.
+
+Auld stots hae stiff horns.
+
+Auld use and wont hings about the fire.
+
+    Old manners and customs are difficult to be got rid of.
+
+Auld wives and bairns mak fools o' physicians.
+
+Auld wives were aye gude maidens.
+
+A vaunter and a liar are near akin.
+
+A wa' between best preserves friendship.
+
+    Meaning that friends are best separate.
+
+A wad is a fule's argument.
+
+    "Fools, for argument, lay wagers."--_Butler._
+
+A waited pat's lang o' boiling.
+
+A wamefu's a wamefu' wer't but o' bare cauf.
+
+    A bellyful is a bellyful, no matter what kind of meat is taken. A
+    variation occurs in _St Ronan's Well_:--"A wamefu's a wamefu'
+    whether it be o' barley meal or bran."
+
+A wee bush is better than nae beild.
+
+    "Dame Elspeth is of good folk, a widow, and the mother of
+    orphans,--she will give us house-room until something be thought
+    upon. These evil showers make the low bush better than no
+    beild."--_The Monastery._
+
+A wee house has a wide throat.
+
+A wee house weel fill'd, a wee piece land weel till'd, a wee wife weel
+will'd, will mak a happy man.
+
+A wee mouse will creep beneath a muckle corn stack.
+
+A wee spark maks muckle wark.
+
+A wee thing fleys cowards.
+
+A wee thing puts your beard in a bleeze.
+
+A wee thing ser's a cheerfu' mind.
+
+A wet May and a winnie, brings a fu' stackyard and a finnie.
+
+    "Implying that rain in May and dry winds afterwards produce a
+    plentiful crop, with that mark of excellence by which grain is
+    generally judged of by connoisseurs--a good feeling in the
+    hand."--_Robert Chambers._
+
+A whang off a cut kebbuck's never miss'd.
+
+A wife is wise enough when she kens her gudeman's breeks frae her ain
+kirtle.
+
+    Kelly gives a very indifferent version of this proverb, and says,
+    "This is old, and a good one if rightly understood: that is, she is
+    a good wife who knows the true measure of her husband's authority
+    and her obedience."
+
+A wight man ne'er wanted a weapon.
+
+A wild goose ne'er laid tame eggs.
+
+A wilfu' man maun hae his way.
+
+    "'Reuben Butler! Reuben Butler!' echoed the Laird of Dumbiedykes,
+    pacing the apartment in high disdain,--'Reuben Butler, the dominie
+    at Liberton--and a dominie-depute too!--Reuben, the son of my
+    cottar!--Very weel, Jeanie, lass, wilfu' woman will hae her
+    way--Reuben Butler! he hasna in his pouch the value o' the auld
+    black coat he wears.'"--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+A wilfu' man ne'er wanted wae.
+
+      "It has been said, and may be sae,
+      A wilfull man wants never wae,
+          Thocht he gets little gains."--_Cherrie and the Slae._
+
+A wilfu' man should be unco wise.
+
+A willing mind maks a light foot.
+
+A winking cat's no aye blind.
+
+A winter day and a wintry way is the life o' man.
+
+A winter night, a woman's mind, and a laird's purpose, aften change.
+
+    "Women, wind, and luck soon change."--_Portuguese._
+
+A wise head maks a close mouth.
+
+A wise lawyer ne'er gangs to law himsel.
+
+A wise man carries his cloak in fair weather, an' a fool wants his in
+rain.
+
+    "An encouragement to care, caution, and foresight, and especially
+    not to leave your cloak, be the weather e'er so
+    encouraging."--_Kelly._
+
+      "Chiels carry cloaks, when 'tis clear,
+      The fool when 'tis foul has nane to wear."--_Ramsay._
+
+A wise man gets learning frae them that hae nane o' their ain.
+
+A wise man wavers, a fool is fixed.
+
+A woman's gude either for something or naething.
+
+A word is enough to the wise.
+
+A working mither maks a daw dochter.
+
+    Another rendering of "A light-heeled mother," &c.
+
+Aye as ye thrive your feet fa's frae ye.
+
+    "Unexpected interruptions occur in business."--_Kelly._
+
+    "The farther you go, the farther behind."--_English._
+
+Aye flether away;--since I'll no do wi' foul play, try me wi' fair.
+
+A yeld sow was never gude to gryces.
+
+    This more expressive than elegant proverb means that those people
+    who have no family of their own are rarely inclined to be kind to
+    the children of others.
+
+Aye takin' out o' the meal pock and ne'er puttin' in't soon comes to the
+bottom.
+
+Aye tak the fee when the tear's in the ee.
+
+Aye to eild, but never to wit.
+
+    That is, he is always growing older, but never any wiser.
+
+A' you rin you win.
+
+    "Taken from playing at bowls: applied to endeavours about a project
+    that seems not feasible, where what you can make is clear
+    gain."--_Kelly._
+
+A Yule feast may be done at Pasche.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Bachelors' wives and auld maids' bairns are aye weel bred.
+
+Bad legs and ill wives should stay at hame.
+
+Bairns are certain care, but nae sure joy.
+
+Bairns speak i' the field what they hear i' the ha'.
+
+Baith weal and woe come aye wi' world's gear.
+
+    "'And I positively must not ask you how you have come by all this
+    money?' said the clergyman.... 'Is it anything that distresses your
+    own mind?' 'There is baith weal and woe come wi' warld's gear,
+    Reuben: but ye maun ask me naething mair.--This siller binds me to
+    naething, and can never be speered back again.'"--_Heart of
+    Midlothian._
+
+Baked bread and brown ale winna bide lang.
+
+Bannocks are better than nae bread.
+
+    "Half a loaf is better than no bread."--_English._
+
+Barefooted folk shouldna tread on thorns.
+
+    "Those who live in glass houses should not throw
+    stones."--_English._
+
+Bare gentry, bragging beggars.
+
+Bare words mak nae bargain.
+
+Bastard brood are aye proud.
+
+Be a friend to yoursel, and others will.
+
+Bear and forbear is gude philosophy.
+
+Bear wealth weel, poortith will bear itsel.
+
+Beauty, but bounty's but bauch.
+
+Beauty is but skin deep.
+
+Beauty's muck when honour's tint.
+
+    Beauty is worthless when honour is lost.
+
+Be aye the thing you would be ca'd.
+
+"Because" is a woman's reason.
+
+    "I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I
+    think him so."--_Shakespeare._
+
+Beds are best, quo' the man to his guest.
+
+    We presume he said so on the score of economy, _i.e._, to evade
+    supplying supper.
+
+Beefsteaks and porter are gude belly mortar.
+
+Bees that hae honey in their mouths hae stings in their tails.
+
+Before an ill wife be gude, even if she was a' turned to tongue.
+
+Before, I ween'd; but now, I wat.
+
+    Before, I only suspected; now, I am certain. "Spoken on the full
+    discovery of some malefice, which before we only
+    suspected."--_Kelly._
+
+Before the deil gaes blind, and he's no blear e'ed yet.
+
+Before ye choose a friend, eat a peck o' saut wi' him.
+
+Be gaun, the gate's before you.
+
+    Be going, the road lies before you. A jocose or surly hint to go.
+
+Beg frae beggars and you'll ne'er be rich.
+
+Beggars breed, and rich men feed.
+
+Beggars downa bide wealth.
+
+Beggars shouldna be choosers.
+
+Begin wi' needles and preens, and end wi' horn'd nowte.
+
+    That is, beginnings apparently trifling may lead to very great
+    results. Used here as a caution against dishonesty.
+
+Be it better, be it worse, be ruled by him that has the purse.
+
+Be it sae, is nae banning.
+
+    Used in yielding a point in dispute because you are either unwilling
+    or unable to argue further; but also indicating that you do not
+    admit yourself to be in the wrong.
+
+Be lang sick, that ye may be soon hale.
+
+Believe a' ye hear, an' ye may eat a' ye see.
+
+Belyve is twa hours and a half.
+
+    A jocular allusion to the fact that if a person says he will be
+    back, or done with anything "belyve," that is, immediately, or in a
+    little, the probability is he will be longer than expected.
+
+Be ready wi' your bonnet, but slow wi' your purse.
+
+Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
+
+Best to be off wi' the auld love before we be on wi' the new.
+
+Be thou weel, or be thou wae, yet thou wilt not aye be sae.
+
+Better a bit in the morning than a fast a' day.
+
+Better a clout in than a hole out.
+
+    That is, a patched garment is better than one with holes in it.
+
+Better a dog fawn on you than bark at you.
+
+Better ae e'e than a' blind.
+
+Better ae wit bought than twa for nought.
+
+Better a finger aff as aye wagging.
+
+    "The first night is aye the warst o't. I hae never heard o' ane that
+    sleepit the night afore the trial, but of mony a ane that sleepit as
+    sound as a tap the night before their necks were straughted. And
+    it's nae wonder--the warst may be tholed when it's kend: Better a
+    finger aff as aye wagging."--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+Better a fremit friend than a friend fremit.
+
+    Better have a stranger for your friend than a friend turned
+    stranger.
+
+Better a gude fame than a fine face.
+
+Better alane than in ill company.
+
+Better a laying hen than a lying crown.
+
+Better a lean horse than a toom halter.
+
+    Better a poor horse than no horse at all.
+
+Better a mouse in the pat than nae flesh.
+
+Better an auld man's darling than a young man's warling.
+
+    "Used as an argument to induce a young girl to marry an old man, to
+    the doing of which no argument should prevail."--_Kelly._
+
+Better an even down snaw than a driving drift.
+
+Better an ill spune than nae horn.
+
+Better a saft road than bad company.
+
+    "'I redd ye, Earnscliff' (this Hobbie added in a gentle whisper),
+    'let us take a cast about, as if to draw the wind on a buck--the bog
+    is no abune knee-deep, and better a saft road than bad
+    company.'"--_The Black Dwarf._
+
+Better a sair fae than a fause friend.
+
+Better a shameless eating than a shamefu' leaving.
+
+Better a sma' fish than an empty dish.
+
+Better at a time to gie than tak.
+
+Better a thigging mither than a riding father.
+
+Better a tocher in her than wi' her.
+
+    That is, better that a wife have good qualities without money than
+    _vice versa_.
+
+Better a toom house than an ill tenant.
+
+Better auld debts than auld sairs.
+
+Better a wee bush than nae beild.
+
+Better a wee fire to warm you than a big fire to burn you.
+
+Better bairns greet than bearded men.
+
+Better be a coward than a corpse.
+
+    "Discretion is the better part of valour."--_English._
+
+Better be at the end o' a feast than at the beginning o' a fray.
+
+Better be before at a burial than ahint at a bridal.
+
+Better be blythe wi' little than sad wi' naething.
+
+Better be envied than pitied.
+
+Better be friends at a distance than enemies at hame.
+
+Better be happy than wise.
+
+Better be idle than ill doing.
+
+Better be John Tamson's man, than Ring and Dinn's, or John Knox's.
+
+    "John Thomson's man is he that is complaisant to his wife's humours;
+    Ring and Dinn's is he whom his wife scolds; John Knox's is he whom
+    his wife beats."--_Kelly._
+
+Better be kind than cumbersome.
+
+Better belly burst than gude meat spoil.
+
+    A plea for gluttony on the score of economy.
+
+Better bend than break.
+
+Better be out o' the warld than out o' fashion.
+
+Better be sonsy than soon up.
+
+Better be the head o' the commons than the tail o' the gentry.
+
+      "To reign is worth ambition, though in hell;
+      Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."--_Milton._
+
+Better be the lucky man than the lucky man's son.
+
+Better bow to my faes than beg frae my friends.
+
+Better buy than borrow.
+
+Better cry "Feigh, saut," than "Feigh, stink."
+
+    The first can be remedied or improved in cooking; but a putrid
+    article cannot.
+
+Better day the better deed.
+
+Better do it than wish it done.
+
+Better eat brown bread in youth than in eild.
+
+Better fed than bred.
+
+Better find iron than tine siller.
+
+Better fleech a fool than fight him.
+
+    "'I have as much mind as ever I had to my dinner, to go back and
+    tell him to sort his horse himself, since he is as able as I am.'
+    'Hout tout, man!' answered Jasper, 'keep a calm sough: better to
+    fleech a fool than fight with him.'"--_The Monastery._
+
+Better gang about than fa' in the dub.
+
+    Rather a long road and safety than a short one attended with danger.
+
+Better gang to bed supperless than rise in debt.
+
+Better gie the slight than tak it.
+
+Better greet ower your gudes than after your gudes.
+
+    Meaning that it is better not to sell goods at all than to sell and
+    not be paid for them.
+
+Better gude sale than gude ale.
+
+Better guide weel than work sair.
+
+Better hae than want.
+
+Better hain weel than work sair.
+
+Better half egg than toom doup.
+
+    "Better half an egg than empty shells."--_German._
+
+Better half hang'd than ill married.
+
+Better hand loose nor bound to an ill bakie.
+
+    "_Bakie_, the stake to which an ox or cow is bound to the
+    stall."--_Jamieson._
+
+Better hands loose than in an ill tethering.
+
+Better happy at court than in gude service.
+
+Better haud at the brim than at the bottom.
+
+Better haud by a hair than draw by a tether.
+
+Better haud out than put out.
+
+    "Prevention is better than cure."--_English._
+
+Better haud wi' the hounds than rin wi' the hare.
+
+    The policy of the Vicar of Bray. It is better to side with the
+    strongest or winning party.
+
+Better keep the deil out than hae to put him out.
+
+Better keep weel than make weel.
+
+Better lang little than soon naething.
+
+Better late thrive than never do weel.
+
+Better laugh at your ain pint stoup, than greet and gather gear.
+
+    It is better to be merry spending money, than sorrowful acquiring
+    it.
+
+Better learn frae your neebor's skaith than frae your ain.
+
+    Learn experience rather from the misfortunes of others than from
+    your own.
+
+Better leave to my faes than beg frae my friends.
+
+Better leave than lack.
+
+    That it is better to have too much of some things than too little.
+
+Better live in hope than die in despair.
+
+Better marry ower the midden than ower the muir.
+
+    Rather marry among those whom you know than go among strangers for a
+    wife. "Marry over the mixon, and you will know who and what she
+    is."--_German._ "Your wife and your nag get from a
+    neighbour."--_Italian._
+
+Better master ane than fight wi' ten.
+
+Better my bairns seek frae me than I beg frae them.
+
+Better my friends think me fremit than fashious.
+
+    Better visit friends seldom than so often as to prove troublesome.
+
+Better nae ring nor the ring o' a rash.
+
+Better ne'er begun than ne'er ended.
+
+Better ower 't than in 't.
+
+    Better beyond the fear of danger than in it.
+
+Better plays the fu' wame than the new coat.
+
+    A man may be well dressed but still have a hungry belly, and _vice
+    versa_. He that has the "fu' wame" is the more likely to be in good
+    spirits.
+
+Better rough an' sonsy than bare an' donsy.
+
+    It is better to be rough in manners, if coupled with prosperous
+    circumstances, than be "genteel" and at the same time poverty
+    stricken.
+
+Better rue sit than rue flit.
+
+    Better not remove at all than do so and then regret it.
+
+    "Didna I see when gentle Geordie was seeking to get other folk out
+    of the Tolbooth forby Jocky Porteous? but ye are of my mind,
+    hinny--better sit and rue, than flit and rue--ye needna look in my
+    face sae amazed. I ken mair things than that, maybe."--_Heart of
+    Midlothian._
+
+Better saucht wi' little aucht than care wi' mony cows.
+
+    Better comfort and peace of mind with little, than care and
+    contention with much.
+
+Better saut than sour.
+
+Better say "Here it is" than "Here it was."
+
+Better short and sweet than lang and lax.
+
+Better sit idle than work for nought.
+
+Better sit still than rise an' fa'.
+
+Better skaith saved than mends made.
+
+    Better that offence should not be given than committed and then
+    apologized for.
+
+Better sma' fish than nane.
+
+Better soon as syne.
+
+    "I tell'd your honour a while syne, that it was lang that I hae been
+    thinking o' flitting, may be as lang as frae the first year I came
+    to Osbaldistone Hall; and now I'm o' the mind to gang in gude
+    earnest--better soon as syne--better a finger aff as aye
+    wagging."--_Rob Roy._
+
+Better spared than ill spent.
+
+Better speak bauldly out than aye be grumphin'.
+
+    If a complaint requires to be made, make it openly and
+    straightforwardly, instead of continuing to fret about it in an
+    indirect manner.
+
+Better the barn filled than the bed.
+
+    Because a full barn denotes prosperity, a full bed trouble.
+
+Better the end o' a feast than the beginning o' a fray.
+
+Better the mother wi' the pock, than the faither wi' the sack.
+
+    "The mother, though in a low condition, will be more kindly to, and
+    more careful of, orphans, than the father can be, though in a
+    better."--_Kelly._
+
+Better the ill ken'd than the gude unken'd.
+
+Better the nag that ambles a' the day than him that makes a brattle for
+a mile and then's dune wi' the road.
+
+Better thole a grumph than a sumph.
+
+    Be troubled rather by an intelligent, though surly man, than by a
+    stupid one.
+
+Better tine life than gude fame.
+
+    "I might hae fled frae this Tolbooth on that awfu' night wi' ane wha
+    wad hae carried me through the warld, and friended me, and fended
+    for me. But I said to them, Let life gang when gude fame is gane
+    before it."--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+Better tine your joke than tine your friend.
+
+Better to haud than draw.
+
+Better to rule wi' the gentle hand than the strang.
+
+Better twa skaiths than ae sorrow.
+
+    "Losses may be repaired, but sorrow will break the heart and ruin
+    the constitution."--_Kelly._
+
+Better unkind than ower cumbersome.
+
+Better unmarried than ill married.
+
+Better wade back mid water than gang forward and drown.
+
+    Rather withdraw from a bargain or position found likely to prove bad
+    or dangerous than proceed with either in hopes of improvement.
+
+Better wait on cooks than leeches.
+
+Better wear shoon than wear sheets.
+
+Better you laugh than I greet.
+
+    Meaning, I would rather be ridiculed for not doing a thing, than do
+    it and be sorry for it.
+
+Better your feet slip than your tongue.
+
+Between Martinmas and Yule, water's wine in every pool.
+
+Between the deil and the deep sea.
+
+    Between two extremes equally dangerous.
+
+    "I fell into Claverhouse's party when I was seeking for some o' our
+    ain folk to help ye out o' the hands o' the whigs; sae, being atween
+    the deil and the deep sea, I e'en thought it best to bring him on
+    wi' me, for he'll be wearied wi' felling folk the night, and the
+    morn's a new day."--_Old Mortality._
+
+Between three and thirteen, thraw the woodie when it's green.
+
+    Train the minds and principles of children when young.
+
+Between you and the lang day be'it.
+
+Be what ye seem and seem what ye are.
+
+Bid a man to a roast and stick him wi' the spit.
+
+    Pretend to show kindness to a man while your intention is to injure
+    him.
+
+Bide weel, betide weel.
+
+    Wait well or patiently and you will fare well; or at least as well
+    as those who are hasty.
+
+Biggin and bairns marrying are arrant wasters.
+
+    "Building is a sweet impoverishing."--_Spanish._
+
+Bind the sack ere it be fou.
+
+    Do not tax any person or thing to the utmost.
+
+Birds o' a feather flock thegither.
+
+Birk will burn be it burn drawn; sauch will sab if it were simmer sawn.
+
+    Literally, wood will burn even if drawn through water, and the
+    willow will droop if sown out of season. Figuratively, natural will
+    and inclination will predominate and exhibit themselves, although
+    submitted to the most antagonistic influences.
+
+Birth's gude but breeding's better.
+
+Bitter jests poison friendship.
+
+Black's my apron, and I'm aye washing 't.
+
+    When a man has got a bad character, although he may endeavour to
+    redeem it, he will find great difficulty in doing so.
+
+Black will tak nae ither hue.
+
+Blaw the wind ne'er sae fast, it will lown at the last.
+
+Blind horse rides hardy to the fecht.
+
+    "Who so bold as blind Bayard?"--_French._
+
+Blind men shouldna judge o' colours.
+
+Blue and better blue.
+
+    "That is, there may be difference between things of the same kind
+    and persons of the same station."--_Kelly._
+
+Blue's beauty, red's a taiken, green's grief, and yellow's forsaken.
+
+    Examples of the "Poetry of colour."
+
+Blue is love true.
+
+Bluid's thicker than water.
+
+    "'Weel, weel,' said Mr Jarvie, 'bluid's thicker than water; and it
+    liesna in kith, kin, and ally, to see motes in ilk other's een if
+    other een see them no.'"--_Rob Roy._
+
+Bode a robe and wear it, bode a pock and bear it.
+
+    According as our aspirations are high or low, so do we succeed or
+    fail. "As you make your bed, so you must lie on it."
+
+Bode for a silk gown and ye'll get a sleeve o't.
+
+    That is, if we "bode" or earnestly wish for an article or result, we
+    will get at least something approaching to it. An Aberdeenshire
+    parallel to this is, "They never bodet a house o' gowd, but aye got
+    a caber o't."
+
+Bode gude and get it.
+
+Boden gear stinks.
+
+    The theory of the fox and grapes.
+
+Bonnet aside! how sell you your maut?
+
+Bonny birds are aye the warst singers.
+
+Bonny sport, to fare weel and pay nothing for't.
+
+    "Diogenes is said to have thought that the best wine which cost him
+    nothing."--_Kelly._
+
+Bourdna wi' bawty lest he bite ye.
+
+Bourdna wi' my e'e nor wi' mine honour.
+
+    Do not jest or trifle with subjects of delicacy, character, &c.
+
+Bread and cheese is gude to eat when folk can get nae ither meat.
+
+Bread and milk is bairns' meat: I wish them sorrow that loe it.
+
+Bread's house skail'd never.
+
+    A full or hospitable house never wants visitors.
+
+Break my head and syne draw on my how.
+
+Breeding wives are aye beddie.
+
+Bridal feasts are soon forgotten.
+
+Broken bread maks batet bairns.
+
+Broken friendships may be souther'd, but never sound.
+
+Burnt bairns dread the fire.
+
+Busy folk are aye meddling.
+
+But middlin' bonny, like Boles' gudemither.
+
+Butter and burn trouts are kittle meat for maidens.
+
+Butter's king o' a' creesh.
+
+Butter to butter's nae kitchen.
+
+    Like to like is no improvement or relish.
+
+Buy a thief frae the widdie and he'll help to hang ye.
+
+    "Save a rogue from the gallows, and he will hang you up."--_French._
+
+Buy friendship wi' presents, and it will be bought frae you.
+
+Buy in the market and sell at hame.
+
+Buy what you dinna want and ye'll sell what you canna spare.
+
+By chance a cripple may grip a hare.
+
+By doing naething we learn to do ill.
+
+
+
+
+Ca' a cow to the ha' and she'll rin to the byre.
+
+      "Set a frog on a golden stool;
+      Off it goes again to the pool."--_German._
+
+Ca' again: you're no a ghaist.
+
+    An intimation that your visits are agreeable.
+
+Ca' canny and flee laigh.
+
+Ca' canny, and ye'll break nae graith.
+
+    Literally, drive slowly, and you will not overstrain the harness.
+
+Ca' canny, lad, ye're but a new-come cooper.
+
+    A caution to those who are new or inexpert at an occupation,--a hint
+    that more experience or information is desirable.
+
+Cadgers are aye cracking o' creels.
+
+Cadgers hae aye mind of lade saddles.
+
+    The conversation of most men turns more or less on their own
+    business.
+
+Caff and draff is gude eneuch for aivers.
+
+    Chaff and draff, _i.e._, brewers' grains, are good enough for
+    horses. Common food suits common people.
+
+Can do is easily carried.
+
+    "At this moment the door opened, and the voice of the officious
+    Andrew was heard,--'A'm bringin' in the caunles--ye can light them
+    gin ye like--can do is easily carried about wi' ane.'"--_Rob Roy._
+
+Ca'ing names breaks nae banes.
+
+      "Sticks and stanes 'll break my banes,
+      But names will never hurt me."--_Schoolboy Rhyme._
+
+Ca' me what ye like, but dinna ca' me ower.
+
+Canna has nae craft.
+
+    To an unwilling person, or one who will _not_ learn, instruction is
+    of little or no use.
+
+Canny stretch, soon reach.
+
+Care will kill a cat, yet there's nae living without it.
+
+Careless folk are aye cumbersome.
+
+Carena would hae mair.
+
+    "Carena" refers here to an answer that may be construed into either
+    "yes" or "no," and is treated accordingly. "'I don't want it, I
+    don't want it,' says the friar; 'but drop it into my
+    hood.'"--_Spanish._
+
+Carles and aivers win a'; carles and aivers spend a'.
+
+    "Servants' wages, buying and keeping of horses, and purchasing other
+    utensils, eat up the product of a farm."--_Kelly._
+
+Carrick for a man, Kyle for a cow, Cunningham for corn and ale, and
+Galloway for woo'.
+
+    "This old rhyme points out what each of the three districts of
+    Ayrshire, and the neighbouring territory of Galloway, were
+    remarkable for producing in greatest perfection. The mountainous
+    province of Carrick produced robust men; the rich plains of Kyle
+    reared the famous breed of cattle now generally termed the Ayrshire
+    breed; and Cunningham was a good arable district. The hills of
+    Galloway afford pasture to an abundance of sheep."--_Robert
+    Chambers._
+
+Carry saut to Dysart and puddings to Tranent.
+
+    This proverb, the meaning of which is obvious enough, is paralleled
+    in all languages. The English say, "To carry coals to Newcastle."
+    The French and German suggest that it is not necessary "To send
+    water to the sea." The French also say, "To carry leaves to the
+    wood;" and the Dutch are wise enough not "To send fir to Norway."
+    Neither will the Asiatic "Carry blades to Damascus."
+
+Cast a bane in the deil's teeth.
+
+Cast a cat ower the house and she'll fa' on her feet.
+
+Cast nae snawba's wi' him.
+
+    That is, do not trust him too much; he is churlish or dangerous.
+
+Cast not a clout till May be out.
+
+Cast the cat ower him.
+
+    "It is believed that when a man is raging in a fever, the cat cast
+    ower him will cure him; applied to them whom we hear telling
+    extravagant things, as if they were raving."--_Kelly._
+
+Cast ye ower the house riggin', and ye'll fa' on your feet.
+
+    "Throw him in the Nile, and he will rise with a fish in his mouth,"
+    says the Arab; and we have met somewhere with this saying, that "If
+    he lost a penny he would find a ducat."
+
+Castna out the dowed water till ye get the clean.
+
+Cat after kind.
+
+Cats and carlins sit i' the sun, but fair maidens sit within.
+
+    A rhyming intimation that exposure to the sun is not favourable to
+    beauty.
+
+Cats eat what hussies spare.
+
+Cauld grows the love that kindles ower het.
+
+Cauld kail het again is aye pat tasted.
+
+Cauld kail het again, that I liked never; auld love renewed again, that
+I liked ever.
+
+Cauld parritch are sooner het than new anes made.
+
+Cauld water scauds daws.
+
+Chalk's no shears.
+
+    "Taken from tailors marking out their cloth before they cut it,
+    signifying that a thing may be proposed that will never be
+    executed."--_Kelly._
+
+Change o' deils is lightsome.
+
+Change your friend ere ye hae need.
+
+Changes are lightsome, and fools like them.
+
+Changes o' wark is lightening o' hearts.
+
+Charge nae mair shot than the piece 'll bear.
+
+Charity begins at hame, but shouldna end there.
+
+Cheatery game will aye kythe.
+
+    "Kythe," to appear. That is, cheatery or evil-doing will almost
+    invariably come to light. A qualified version of the English saying,
+    "Murder will out."
+
+Choose your wife on Saturday, not on Sunday.
+
+    This saying suggests that a wife should rather be chosen for her
+    good qualities and usefulness, which are seen in her daily labours,
+    than for her fine dress or her Sunday manners.
+
+Claw for claw, as Conan said to the deil.
+
+    "In the Irish ballads relating to Fion (the Fingal of MacPherson),
+    there occurs, as in the primitive poetry of most nations, a cycle of
+    heroes, each of whom has some distinguishing attribute; upon these
+    qualities, and the adventures of those possessing them, many
+    proverbs are formed, which are still current in the Highlands. Among
+    other characters, Conan is distinguished as in some respects a kind
+    of Thersites, but brave and daring even to rashness. He had made a
+    vow that he would never take a blow without returning it; and
+    having, like other heroes of antiquity, descended to the infernal
+    regions, he received a cuff from the archfiend who presided there,
+    which he instantly returned: hence the proverb."--_Sir Walter Scott,
+    Note to Waverley._
+
+Claw me and I'll claw thee.
+
+    Speak well of me and I will speak well of thee, whether, we presume,
+    it is deserved or not.
+
+Clawing and eating needs but a beginning.
+
+Clean pith and fair play.
+
+Clear in the south beguiled the cadger.
+
+    Cadgers (beggars, or gipsy pedlars), from their out-of-door
+    experience, are allowed to be good judges of coming weather. The
+    proverb means that even the best judges may be occasionally mistaken
+    in their opinions. The one following is of similar import.
+
+Clear in the south drown'd the ploughman.
+
+Clecking time's aye canty time.
+
+    Good cheer and mirth in the house when a birth has taken place.
+
+    "'Perhaps,' said Mannering, 'at such a time a stranger's arrival
+    might be inconvenient?' 'Hout, na, ye needna be blate about that;
+    their house is muckle enough, and clecking time's aye canty
+    time.'"--_Guy Mannering._
+
+Clippet sheep will grow again.
+
+Clout upon a hole is gude gentry, clout upon a clout is gude yeomanry,
+but clout upon a clouted clout is downricht beggary.
+
+    "Facetiously spoken to those who quarrel with a patch about
+    you."--_Kelly._
+
+Come a' to Jock Fool's house and ye'll get bread and cheese.
+
+    Spoken sarcastically of those who invite every person
+    indiscriminately to dine or sup with them.
+
+Come day, go day, God send Sunday.
+
+    "Spoken to lazy, unconscionable servants, who only mind to serve out
+    their time, and get their wages."--_Kelly._
+
+Come it air, or come it late, in May will come the cow-quake.
+
+Come not to council unbidden.
+
+      "Thair is a sentence said be sum,
+      Let nane uncalled to counsell cum,
+          That welcum weins to be;
+      Zet I haif hard anither zit,
+      Quha cum uncallt, unserved suld sit,
+          Perhaps, sir, sae may ze."--_Cherrie and the Slae._
+
+Come unca'd, sits unserved.
+
+Come when ye are ca'd and ye'll no be chidden.
+
+Come wi' the wind and gang wi' the water.
+
+Common saw sindle lies.
+
+    Common fame seldom lies; but another proverb says, "Common fame is a
+    common liar."
+
+Condition makes, condition breaks.
+
+Confess and be hang'd, and syne your servant, smith.
+
+Confess debt and crave days.
+
+Confess'd faut is half amends.
+
+Content's nae bairn o' wealth.
+
+Contentibus, quo' Tammy Tamson, kiss my wife, and welcome.
+
+    "Spoken facetiously when we comply with a project."--_Kelly._
+
+Corbies and clergy are kittle shot.
+
+Corbies dinna gather without they smell carrion.
+
+    "Where the carrion is, there do the eagles gather."--_Danish._
+
+Corbies dinna pike out corbies' een.
+
+    One rogue does not wrong another. "Crows do not peck out crows'
+    eyes."--_Portuguese._
+
+Corn him weel, he'll work the better.
+
+Counsel is nae command.
+
+      "Quod _Danger_, Sen I understand
+      That counsell can be nae command,
+            I have nae mair to say,
+      Except gif that he thocht it good;
+      Tak counsell zit or ze conclude
+            Of wyser men nor they."--_Cherrie and the Slae._
+
+Count again is no forbidden.
+
+Count like Jews and 'gree like brithers.
+
+Count siller after a' your kin.
+
+Courtesy is cumbersome to him that kens it na.
+
+Crabbit was and cause hadna.
+
+Crab without a cause, mease without mends.
+
+    That is, if you are peevish and ill-pleased without cause, you must
+    regain your good nature without amends.
+
+Craft maun hae claes, but truth gaes naked.
+
+Credit is better than ill-won gear.
+
+Credit keeps the crown o' the causey.
+
+Creep before ye gang.
+
+    "Ye will never make your bread that way, Maister Francie. Ye suld
+    munt up a muckle square of canvass, like Dick Tinto, and paint
+    folk's ainsells, that they like muckle better to see than ony craig
+    in the haill water; and I wadna muckle objeck even to some of the
+    Wallers coming up and sitting to ye. They waste their time war, I
+    wis--and, I warrant, ye might mak a guinea a-head of them. Dick made
+    twa, but he was an auld used hand, and folk maun creep before they
+    gang."--_St Ronan's Well._
+
+Cripples are aye better planners than workers.
+
+Cripples are aye great doers--break your leg and try.
+
+    People who are always very ready to give advice are generally slow
+    in giving assistance.
+
+"Crookit carlin," quo' the cripple to his wife.
+
+      "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us
+      To see oursels as others see us!
+      It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
+            And foolish notion."--_Burns._
+
+Cry a' at ance, that's the way to be served.
+
+Curses mak the tod fat.
+
+    So long as he is cursed only, not hunted, does he thrive; for "A
+    curse will not strike out an eye unless the fist go with
+    it."--_Danish._
+
+Cut your coat according to your cloth.
+
+
+
+
+Daffin' and want o' wit maks auld wives donnart.
+
+    "Daffin'" is defined by Ramsay as "folly in general;" so the proverb
+    means that foolish conduct in the aged is inconsistent or "donnart,"
+    _i.e._, stupid.
+
+Daffin' does naething.
+
+    Playing accomplishes nothing.
+
+Daily wearing needs yearly beiting.
+
+    Literally, clothes that are worn daily, require to be renewed
+    annually.
+
+Dame, deem warily, ye watna wha wytes yoursel.
+
+    "Deemer," one who judges.--_Jamieson._ That is, judge other people
+    cautiously; we know not who blames ourselves.
+
+Dammin' and lavin' is gude sure fishing.
+
+    "'Dammin' and lavin',' a low poaching mode of catching fish in
+    rivulets, by _damming_ and diverting the course of the stream, and
+    then _laving_ or throwing out the water, so as to get at the devoted
+    prey."--_Jamieson._
+
+Danger past, God forgotten.
+
+Daughters and dead fish are kittle keeping wares.
+
+    A suggestion that daughters should be married, and dead fish eaten,
+    otherwise they will both spoil on the hands of their possessors.
+    "Daughters are brittle ware."--_Dutch._ "Marry your son when you
+    will, and your daughter when you can."--_Spanish._
+
+Daughters pay nae debts.
+
+Dawted bairns can bear little.
+
+Dawted daughters mak daidling wives.
+
+    Daughters who have been too much indulged or petted at home before
+    marriage make but indifferent wives.
+
+Daylight will peep through a sma' hole.
+
+Dead men are free men.
+
+Dead men do nae harm.
+
+Deal sma' and ser' a'.
+
+Death and drink-draining are near neighbours.
+
+    In allusion to the drinking usages formerly common at burials.
+
+Death and marriage break term-day.
+
+Death at ae door and heirship at the other.
+
+Death comes in and speirs nae questions.
+
+    "Death does not blow a trumpet."--_Danish._
+
+Death defies the doctor.
+
+Death pays a' scores.
+
+Death's gude proof.
+
+Deil be in the house that ye're beguiled in.
+
+    A compliment, meaning that a person is so shrewd that no less a
+    person than his Satanic majesty can deceive him.
+
+Deil be in the pock that ye cam in.
+
+Deil mend ye if your leg were broken.
+
+    The two last sayings are directly opposed to the preceding one, as
+    they wish all manner of evil to the agencies that bring any
+    particular person, whose presence is disagreeable.
+
+Deil speed them that speir, and ken fu' weel.
+
+    That is, shame befall those who ask questions upon subjects with
+    which they are perfectly well acquainted; and who, by cross
+    questioning, &c., lead people to commit themselves.
+
+Deil stick pride--my dog died o't.
+
+Deil's in our bairns: they'll no bed when their belly's fu'.
+
+    "Spoken with indignation, when people who are already well enough
+    cannot hold themselves so, or be satisfied."--_Kelly._
+
+Delays are dangerous.
+
+Did ye ever fit counts wi' him?
+
+    Do not boast of your friend, or consider his friendship too
+    stedfast, until you have had money transactions with him.
+
+Diet cures mair than doctors.
+
+Ding doon Tantallan, and big a road to the Bass.
+
+Ding down the nest, and the rooks will flee away.
+
+    "Destroy the places where villains shelter, and they will disperse.
+    This proverb was unhappily apply'd at the Reformation to the
+    destroying of many stately cathedrals and collegiate
+    churches."--_Kelly._
+
+Dinna bow to bawtie, lest he bite.
+
+    Be careful how you are familiar with your superiors. "Too much
+    familiarity breeds contempt."
+
+Dinna cast awa' the cog when the cow flings.
+
+    Do not throw away the milking pail if the cow should kick it over:
+    do not be discouraged if a misfortune should occur.
+
+Dinna dry the burn because it may wat your feet.
+
+    Do not remove a public good or convenience because of an individual
+    objection.
+
+Dinna empty your ain mouth to fill other folk's.
+
+Dinna gut your fish till ye get them.
+
+    This saying is common to many countries. "Don't cry herrings till
+    they are in the net."--_Dutch._ "Don't sell the bearskin before you
+    have caught the bear."--_Italian._ "Unlaid eggs are uncertain
+    chickens."--_German._
+
+Dinna lee for want o' news.
+
+Dinna lift me before I fa'.
+
+    "'Weel, I've keepit a house this mony a year, and I never heard o'
+    warm plates to a hot dinner before.' 'Then you refuse to give us
+    them?' 'By no manner o' means, Dr Seggie, so ye needna lift folks
+    before they fa'--you're welcome to any plates you please; and a'
+    that I have to say is, that the langer a body lives they see the
+    mair ferlies.'"--_Laird of Logan._
+
+Dinna meddle wi' the deil and the laird's bairns.
+
+Dinna scaud your mouth wi' other folk's kail.
+
+    Be cautious in interfering with the affairs of neighbours or
+    strangers.
+
+Dinna sigh for him, but send for him: if he's unhanged he'll come.
+
+    Do not speak about a thing, or wish it done, but do it. "Talking is
+    easier than doing, and promising than performing."--_German._
+
+Dinna speak o' a raip to a chield whase father was hanged.
+
+Dinna straik against the hair.
+
+    "Ony way, I wadna hae liked to have offended Mr Treddles; he was a
+    wee toustie when you rubbed him again the hair--but a kind,
+    weel-meaning man."--_The Highland Widow._
+
+Dinna stretch your arm farther than your sleeve 'ill let ye.
+
+    "'I'll no let ye rest if ye dinna mak me a bailie's wife or a' be
+    done.' I was not ill pleased to hear Mrs Pawkie so spiritful; but I
+    replied, 'Dinna try to stretch your arm, gudewife, farther than your
+    sleeve will let you; we maun ca' canny mony a day yet before we
+    think of dignities.'"--_The Provost._
+
+Dinna tell your fae when your foot sleeps.
+
+Dinna touch him on the sair heel.
+
+    Do not speak to him on a subject on which he is known to be
+    sensitive.
+
+Dirt bodes luck.
+
+Dirt defies the king.
+
+Dirt parts gude company.
+
+Dit your mouth wi' your meat.
+
+    "Dit," close. A suggestion intended to put a stop to idle
+    conversation.
+
+Do a man a good turn, and he'll never forgie you.
+
+    "'Are you mad?' cried Bryce Snailsfoot, 'you that lived sae lang in
+    Zetland to risk the saving of a drowning man? Wot ye not, if you
+    bring him to life again, he will be sure to do you some capital
+    injury?'"--_The Pirate._
+
+Do as the cow o' Forfar did, tak a stannin' drink.
+
+    "A cow in passing a door in Forfar, where a tub of ale had been
+    placed to cool, drank the whole of it. The owner of the ale pursued
+    the proprietor of the cow for the value of the ale; but a learned
+    bailie, in giving his decision, decreed, that since the ale was
+    drank by the cow while standing at the door, it must be considered
+    _deoch an dorius_, or stirrup cup, for which no charge could be
+    made, without violating the ancient hospitality of Scotland."--_Sir
+    Walter Scott, Note to Waverley._
+
+Do as the lasses do--say No, but tak it.
+
+    "Maids, in modesty, say 'No' to that which they would have the
+    profferer construe 'Ay.'"--_Shakespeare._
+
+Do as the miller's wife o' Newlands did--she took what she had and she
+never wanted.
+
+Dogs and bairns are fain o' fools.
+
+    That is, fools attract the attention of children and dogs.
+
+Dogs bark as they are bred.
+
+Dogs will redd swine.
+
+    "Redd," is here used in the sense of to put in order.
+
+Dolour pays nae debts.
+
+Dool and an ill life soon mak an auld wife.
+
+    "Sorrow and an evil life maketh soon an old wife."--_English._
+
+Do on the hill as ye wad do in the ha'.
+
+    Let your private character be consistent with your public one.
+
+Do't by guess, as the blind man fell'd the dog.
+
+Do the likeliest and hope the best.
+
+Double charges rive cannons.
+
+    That is, surfeits are dangerous; but the proverb which follows
+    shows, as usual, that there is no rule without an exception.
+
+Double drinks are gude for drouth.
+
+Do weel, an' doubt nae man; do ill, an' doubt a' men.
+
+Do weel and dread nae shame.
+
+Do weel and hae weel.
+
+Do what ye ought and come what can; think o' ease, but work on.
+
+    The first clause of this is common to many countries; but as the
+    second only occurs in Henderson's collection, we suspect it is an
+    addition of his own.
+
+Do what ye ought, and let come what will.
+
+Do your turn weel, and nane will speir what time ye took.
+
+    Meaning, that work should rather be done well than quickly.
+
+Draff he sought, but drink was his errand.
+
+    That is, while pretending to ask for one thing, his great object was
+    to get another.
+
+Draff is gude enough for swine.
+
+Dree out the inch when ye have tholed the span.
+
+    Since you have suffered patiently, or submitted to injustice for a
+    long time, bear on quietly when there is a prospect of early relief.
+
+Driest wood will eithest lowe.
+
+Drink and drouth come na aye thegither.
+
+Drink little, that ye may drink lang.
+
+Drive the swine through't.
+
+    "You should sift Jamie's tender passion--that's the novelle-name for
+    calf-love; and if it's within the compass o' a possibility, get the
+    swine driven through't, or it may work us a' muckle dule, as his
+    father's moonlight marriage did to your ain, worthy man!"--_The
+    Entail._
+
+Drunk at e'en and dry in the morning.
+
+Drunk folk seldom tak harm.
+
+    The French say, "God helps three kinds of people: fools, children,
+    and drunkards;" and another of our own states that "God's aye kind
+    to fu' folk and bairns."
+
+Dry bargains bode ill.
+
+    A bargain in times gone by was not "lucky," unless ratified by a
+    drink.
+
+Dummie canna lee.
+
+Dunse dings a'.
+
+    "It may be mentioned that this is only the opinion which the people
+    of Dunse entertain of the town, as their neighbours, in general,
+    scout the idea with great indignation."--_Robert Chambers._ There
+    are several local additions to this saying, such as "Dunse dings a'
+    for braw lads and drucken wives;" "for gude yill and bonnie lasses,"
+    &c.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Eagles catch nae fleas.
+
+    Spoken of conceited people who affect disdain for petty details.
+
+Eagles flee alane, but sheep herd thegither.
+
+Early birds catch the worms.
+
+Early crooks the tree, that good cammock should be.
+
+Early maister, lang servant.
+
+Early sow, early mow.
+
+East or west, hame is best.
+
+East and wast, the sign o' a blast; north and south, the sign o' a
+drouth.
+
+Easy learning the cat the road to the kirn.
+
+    When the natural inclination tends towards any particular subject,
+    it assists the learner greatly.
+
+Eat and welcome--fast and twice as welcome.
+
+Eaten meat is ill to pay.
+
+    "Eaten bread is soon forgotten."--_Italian._
+
+Eating, drinking, and cleaning need but a beginning.
+
+Eat in measure and defy the doctor.
+
+Eat peas wi' the prince and cherries wi' the chapman.
+
+Eats meat, an's never fed; wear claes, an's never cled.
+
+    Of some people it may be said, that "they put their meat in an ill
+    skin;" for, notwithstanding that they live well, they appear always
+    thin and hungry, and not at all, to use a Scotticism, "like their
+    meat." Some people are equally unfortunate with regard to their
+    clothing; always amply dressed, they seem the very reverse.
+
+Eat till ye sweat and work till ye freeze.
+
+Eat-weel's Drink-weel's brither.
+
+    Signifying that good drinking must necessarily go hand in hand with
+    good eating.
+
+Eat your fill and pouch nane, is gardener's law.
+
+E'en as ye won't, sae ye may wear't.
+
+    As you won it, so you may wear it; applied either in a good or bad
+    sense.
+
+E'ening grey and a morning red, put on your hat or ye'll weet your head.
+
+E'ening orts are gude morning's fodder.
+
+    "Orts," rejected provender. Meaning that a thing which is rejected
+    or despised at present may be acceptable or valuable at another
+    time.
+
+E'ening red an' a morning grey is taiken sure o' a bonnie day.
+
+E'en pickle in your ain pock-neuk.
+
+    "'Ye'll find the stane breeks and the iron garters--ay, and the hemp
+    cravat, for a' that, neighbour,' replied the bailie. 'Nae man in a
+    civilised country ever played the pliskies ye hae done; but e'en
+    pickle in your ain pock-neuk--I hae gi'en ye warning.'"--_Rob Roy._
+
+Eident youth maks easy age.
+
+    "Industry is the parent of fortune."--_German._
+
+Eild and poortith are a sair burden for ae back.
+
+    "Eild and poortith," age and poverty. "Poverty on an old man's back
+    is a heavy burden."--_English._
+
+Eild and poortith's sair to thole.
+
+    This saying is of similar import to the preceding one. Literally,
+    age and poverty are hard to bear.
+
+Eild should hae honour.
+
+Either live or die wi' honour.
+
+Either prove a man or a mouse.
+
+Either win the horse or tine the saddle.
+
+    Win the horse or lose the saddle. "Neck or nothing."
+
+Eith keeping the castle that's no besieged.
+
+    "It is easy to sit at the helm in fair weather."--_Danish._
+
+Eith learned soon forgotten.
+
+    "Easy come, easy go."--_English._
+
+Eith to that thy ain heart wills.
+
+Eith working when will's at hame.
+
+    The two preceding maxims have a similar meaning to the French
+    sayings, that "Will is power;" and "A willing heart helps work."
+    "Where the will is ready the feet are light."--_German._
+
+Ell and tell is gude merchandise.
+
+Ell and tell is ne'er forgotten, and the best pay's on the peck bottom.
+
+    "Ell and tell," if we mistake not, refers to good measure and prompt
+    payment; and the latter saying may be construed thus:--The grain is
+    emptied from the "peck" measure, the measure is inverted, and
+    payment for the grain is "told" on the bottom of it.
+
+Enough's as gude as a feast.
+
+Enough's enough o' bread and cheese.
+
+    Meaning, that too much of one thing is not good. The French and
+    Dutch say, "Enough is better than too much," while the Italians are
+    of opinion that "Enough is enough, and too much spoils."
+
+Envy shoots at a high mark.
+
+Even stands his cap the day, for a' that.
+
+    "It took its rise from a minister in our country, who, in a sermon
+    preached most fiercely against the supremacy of the Pope, at the
+    conclusion said, 'Even stands his cap for all that I have said,
+    drinking good Romany wine this day.' Applied when we signify that
+    all we can say against any great man can do him no harm."--_Kelly._
+
+Ever busy, ever bare.
+
+    "Great cry and little wool."--_English._
+
+Every ane loups the dyke where it's laighest.
+
+    Every one leaps the wall at the lowest part,--a man may "loup the
+    dyke" by oppressing those who are unable to resist.
+
+Every bird thinks its ain nest best.
+
+Every cock craws crousiest on his ain midden head.
+
+    "Every cock crows loudest on his own dunghill," is a saying common
+    to all nations.
+
+Every craw thinks his ain bird whitest.
+
+    All think well of their own offspring. "Every mother's child is
+    handsome," say the Germans. They also have, "No ape but swears he
+    has the finest children."
+
+Every day is no Yule day; cast the cat a castock.
+
+    The first half of this proverb is used literally by the Italians and
+    Dutch. A "castock" is the stalk or core of a cabbage.
+
+Every dog has its day.
+
+Every dud bids anither gude-day.
+
+Every fault has its fore.
+
+Every flow has its ebb.
+
+Every Jack will find a Jill.
+
+    "'Never you fash your thumb about that, Maister Francie,' returned
+    the landlady with a knowing wink, 'every Jack will find a Jill, gang
+    the world as it may; and, at the warst o't, better hae some fashery
+    in finding a partner for the night, than get yoked with ane that you
+    may not be able to shake off the morn.'"--_St Ronan's Well._
+
+Every land has its laigh; every corn has its ain caff.
+
+    Meaning that everything may be found fault with; and silly
+    objections be raised against the most valuable and useful things.
+
+Every man bows to the bush he gets beild frae.
+
+    "Every one pays court to him who gives him protection."--_Jamieson._
+
+Every man buckles his belt his ain gate.
+
+    Every man does his work after his own fashion.
+
+Every man can guide an ill wife weel but him that has her.
+
+Every man can tout best on his ain horn.
+
+    "Tout," to blow. Meaning, that every man knows best how to tell his
+    own story.
+
+Every man for himself, and God for us a'.
+
+Every man for his own hand, as Henry Wynd fought.
+
+    "Two great clans fought out a quarrel with thirty men of a side, in
+    presence of the king, on the North Inch of Perth, on or about the
+    year 1392; a man was amissing on one side, whose room was filled by
+    a little bandy-legged citizen of Perth. This substitute, Henry
+    Wynd--or, as the Highlanders called him, _Gow Chrom_, that is, the
+    bandy-legged smith--fought well, and contributed greatly to the fate
+    of the battle, without knowing which side he fought on;--so, 'To
+    fight for your ain hand, like Henry Wynd,' passed into a
+    proverb."--_Sir Walter Scott, Note to Rob Roy._
+
+Every man has his ain bubbly-jock.
+
+Every man has his ain draff poke, though some hang eider than others.
+
+    The two last sayings are similar in meaning, viz., that every man
+    has his imperfections or faults. The latter qualifies the proverb by
+    admitting that in some these appear more prominently than in others.
+
+Every man kens best where his ain sair lies.
+
+Every man kens best where his ain shoe binds him.
+
+Every man's blind to his ain cause.
+
+Every man's man had a man, and that gar'd the Threave fa'.
+
+    "The Threave was a strong castle belonging to the Black Douglases.
+    The governor left a deputy, and he a substitute, by whose negligence
+    the castle was taken."--_Kelly._
+
+Every man's no born wi' a siller spoon in his mouth.
+
+Every man's nose winna be a shoeing horn.
+
+    Certain things can only be used for certain purposes.
+
+Every man's tale's gude till anither's tauld.
+
+Every man thinks his ain craw blackest.
+
+"Every man to his ain trade," quo' the browster to the bishop.
+
+Every man to his taste, as the man said when he kiss'd his cow.
+
+Every maybe hath a may not be.
+
+Every miller wad weise the water to his ain mill.
+
+    "Every miller draws the water to his own mill."--_English._
+
+Every play maun be played, and some maun be the players.
+
+Every shoe fits not every foot.
+
+Every sow to her ain trough.
+
+    People should keep their own place; or, according to Ray, "Every man
+    should support himself, and not hang upon another."
+
+Everything has a beginning.
+
+Everything has an end, and a pudding has twa.
+
+Everything has its time, and sae has a rippling-kame.
+
+    "Rippling-kame," a coarse comb used in the preparation of flax. The
+    proverb means that there is a time _proper_ for everything.
+
+Everything is the waur o' the wear.
+
+    That is, worse for wearing.
+
+Everything wad fain live.
+
+Every wight has his weird, and we maun a' dee when our day comes.
+
+Evil words cut mair than swords.
+
+Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in nae ither.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Facts are chiels that winna ding.
+
+Faint heart ne'er wan fair lady.
+
+Fair an' foolish, black an' proud, lang an' lazy, little an' loud.
+
+    How far this proverb is borne out by fact is certainly open to
+    question. It appears in Ray's collection as English, and as a remark
+    upon it he says, "Beauty and folly do often go hand in hand, and are
+    often matched together."
+
+Fair and softly gangs far.
+
+    "Who goes softly goes safely, and he that goes safely goes
+    far."--_Italian._
+
+Fair exchange is nae robbery.
+
+Fair fa' gude drink, for it gars folk speak as they think.
+
+    "Fair fa'," well betide; good luck to. This is the Scotch version of
+    the common saying, "When the wine is in, the wit is out;" or, "What
+    is in the heart of the sober man is on the tongue of the drunken
+    man."--_Latin._
+
+      "Leeze me on drink! it gi'es us mair
+        Than either school or college,
+      It kindles wit, it waukens lair,
+        It pangs us fu' o' knowledge:
+      Be't whisky gill, or penny wheep,
+        Or ony stronger potion,
+      It never fails, on drinking deep,
+        To kittle up our notion,
+                      By night or day."--_Burns._
+
+Fair fa' the wife, and weel may she spin, that counts aye the lawin' wi'
+a pint to come in.
+
+    Literally, good luck to the hostess who includes a pint _still to
+    come_ when the reckoning is called for. This saying, so far as we
+    can discover, is exclusively Scottish.
+
+Fair fa' you, and that's nae fleaching.
+
+    "Fleach," to flatter. A good wish sincerely expressed.
+
+Fair folk are aye foisonless.
+
+    Kelly says of the word "foisonless," that it means "without strength
+    or sap; dried up; withered." Scott, in _Old Mortality_, uses it in
+    the moral sense, "unsubstantial."
+
+Fair gae they, fair come they, and aye their heels hindmost.
+
+    Meaning that they go and come regularly, decently, and in order.
+
+Fair hair may hae foul roots.
+
+Fair hechts mak fools fain.
+
+      "_Hope_ puts that haste into zour heid,
+        Quhilk boyls zour barmy brain;
+      Howbeit fulis haste cums huly speid,
+        Fair hechts will mak fulis fain."--_Cherrie and the Slae._
+
+Fair in the cradle may be foul in the saddle.
+
+Fair maidens wear nae purses.
+
+Fair words are nae cause o' feuds.
+
+Fair words hurt ne'er a bane, but foul words break mony a ane.
+
+Fair words winna mak the pat boil.
+
+Falkirk bairns dee ere they thrive.
+
+Falkirk bairns mind naething but mischief.
+
+Fa' on the feeblest, the beetle among the bairns.
+
+    "Spoken when we do a thing at a venture, that may be good for some
+    and bad for another; and let the event fall upon the most
+    unfortunate. Answers to the English 'Among you blind
+    harpers.'"--_Kelly._
+
+Fancy flees before the wind.
+
+Fancy was a bonnie dog, but Fortune took the tail frae't.
+
+Fann'd fires and forced love ne'er dae weel.
+
+Far ahint maun follow the faster.
+
+Far ahint that mayna follow, an' far before that canna look back.
+
+Far awa fowls hae fair feathers.
+
+      "She wad vote the border knight,
+        Though she should vote her lane;
+      For far-off fowls hae feathers fair,
+        And fools o' change are fain."--_Burns._
+
+Far frae court far frae care.
+
+Far frae my heart's my husband's mother.
+
+Far sought and dear bought is gude for ladies.
+
+Farewell frost, fair weather neist.
+
+Fare-ye-well, Meg Dorts, and e'en's ye like.
+
+    A jocose adieu to those who go away in the sulks.
+
+Farmer's fauch gars lairds laugh.
+
+Farther east the shorter west.
+
+Farthest frae the kirk aye soonest at it.
+
+    In contradistinction to those who are "near the kirk but far frae
+    grace."
+
+Fashious fools are easiest flisket.
+
+    Troublesome or fretful persons are easily offended.
+
+Fast bind, fast find.
+
+    This saying is very old, and common to many countries. Shakespeare
+    terms it "a proverb never stale to thrifty minds."
+
+Fat flesh freezes soon.
+
+Fat hens are aye ill layers.
+
+Fat paunches bode lean pows.
+
+    Ray explains this by adding, "Full bellies make empty skulls."
+
+Fause folk should hae mony witnesses.
+
+Fausehood maks ne'er a fair hinder-end.
+
+    Meaning, that falsehood is sure to be exposed in the long run.
+
+Favours unused are favours abused.
+
+Feather by feather the goose is plucked.
+
+February, fill the dike, be it black or be it white; if it's white, it's
+the better to like.
+
+Feckfu' folk can front the bauldest wind.
+
+      "I own 'tis cauld encouragement to sing,
+      When round ane's lugs the blattran' hailstanes ring;
+      But feckfu' folk can front the bauldest wind,
+      An' slunk through muirs, an' never fash their mind."
+                                                     --_Allan Ramsay._
+
+Feckless folk are fain o' ane anither.
+
+    "Feckless folk," silly people. Fools are fond of one another.
+
+Feckless fools should keep canny tongues.
+
+    Silly or mischievous people should be cautious what they say.
+
+Feed a cauld, but hunger a colic.
+
+Feeding out o' course maks mettle out o' kind.
+
+Feeling has nae fellow.
+
+Few get what they glaum at.
+
+Fiddlers, dogs, and flesh-flies come aye to feasts unca'd.
+
+Fiddler's fare--meat, drink, and money.
+
+Fiddler's wives and gamester's drink are free to ilka body.
+
+Fight dog, fight bear; wha wins, deil care.
+
+Fill fu' and haud fu', maks the stark man.
+
+    Plenty of meat and drink makes a strong man.
+
+Fine feathers mak fine birds.
+
+Fine to fine maks a bad line.
+
+    Or, "Butter to butter's nae kitchen," _q. v._
+
+Fire and water are gude servants but ill maisters.
+
+Fire is gude for the fireside.
+
+    All things are good in their proper places.
+
+First come, first ser'd.
+
+Fish guts an' stinkin' herrin' are bread and milk for an Eyemouth bairn.
+
+    "The small seaport town of Eyemouth was formerly distinguished for
+    its 'ancient fishlike smells,' its narrow, intricate streets, and
+    smuggling trade."--_G. Henderson._
+
+Fish maun soom thrice.
+
+    First in water, second in sauce, third in wine.
+
+Fleas and a girning wife are waukrife bedfellows.
+
+Flee as fast as you will, your fortune will be at your tail.
+
+Fleying a bird is no the way to grip it.
+
+    To frighten a bird is not the way to catch it; severity or constant
+    threatening do not tend to make children or servants better.
+
+Fling at the brod was ne'er a gude ox.
+
+Flit an auld tree and it'll wither.
+
+Flitting o' farms mak mailens dear.
+
+    See "As ane flits," &c., of which this is merely a variation.
+
+Folk are aye free to gie what's no their ain.
+
+Folk maun grow auld or dee.
+
+Folk's dogs bark waur than themsels.
+
+Folk should never ask for mair than they can make a good use o'.
+
+Follow love and it will flee thee: flee love and it will follow thee.
+
+Folly is a bonnie dog, but a bad ane.
+
+Fools and bairns shouldna see half-dune wark.
+
+Fools are aye fond o' flittin', and wise men o' sittin'.
+
+Fools are aye fortunate.
+
+Fools are aye seeing ferlies.
+
+Fools are fain o' flattery.
+
+Fools are fain o' naething.
+
+Fools are fond o' a' they forgather wi'.
+
+Fools aye see ither folk's fauts and forget their ain.
+
+Fools big houses and wise men buy them.
+
+Fools' haste is nae speed.
+
+Fools laugh at their ain sport.
+
+Fools mak feasts and wise men eat them.
+
+    "This was once said to a great man in Scotland, upon his giving an
+    entertainment. He readily answered, 'Wise men make proverbs, and
+    fools repeat them.'"--_Kelly._
+
+Fools ravel and wise men redd.
+
+    Literally, fools entangle affairs and circumstances, and require
+    "wise men" to assist them out of their troubles.
+
+Fools set far trysts.
+
+Fools shouldna hae chappin-sticks.
+
+For as gude again, like Sunday milk.
+
+    "A precise woman in the country would not sell her milk on the
+    Sunday, but would give it for as good again. Spoken when we suspect
+    people's kindness to be mercenary."--_Kelly._
+
+For a tint thing, carena.
+
+    Do not fret about a thing or opportunity which has been lost.
+
+For better acquaintance' sake, as Sir John Ramsay said when he drank to
+his father.
+
+    "Sir John Ramsay had been long abroad, and coming home he
+    accidentally met with his father, who did not know him; he invites
+    his father to a glass of wine, and drinks to him for more
+    acquaintance."--_Kelly._
+
+Forbid a fool a thing, an' that he'll do.
+
+Force without foresight aften fails.
+
+Forewarned is forearmed.
+
+For fashion's sake, as dogs gae to market.
+
+For faut o' wise men fools sit on binks.
+
+Forgotten pain, when follows gain.
+
+For gude cheese and cheer mony haunt the house.
+
+    Many frequent the house for the sake of what they get to eat.
+
+For my ain pleasure, as the man thrashed his wife.
+
+For puir folk they seldom ring.
+
+Fortune and futurity are no to be guessed at.
+
+Fortune favours the brave.
+
+Fortune gains the bride.
+
+Fortune helps the hardy.
+
+      "For I haif aft hard suith men say,
+        And we may see oursells,
+      That fortune helps the hardy aye,
+        And pultrones aye repels."--_Cherrie and the Slae._
+
+For want o' a steek a shoe may be tint.
+
+    "A stitch in time saves nine." The old nursery lines fully explain
+    the philosophy of this doctrine. "For want of a nail the shoe was
+    lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, for want of a horse the
+    man was lost."
+
+Foster the guest that stays--further him that maun gang.
+
+Foul fa' nought, and then he'll get naething.
+
+    Used in satirical allusion to those who expect a legacy from a very
+    improbable source.
+
+Foul water slockens fire.
+
+Frae saving comes having.
+
+Frae the teeth forward.
+
+    He speaks from the lips only, not from the heart.
+
+Freedom's a fair thing.
+
+Fresh fish and poor friends soon grow ill-faur'd.
+
+Fresh fish and unwelcome friends stink before they're three days auld.
+
+Friday flit, short time sit.
+
+    Meaning that to remove on a Friday is unlucky.
+
+Friday rules Sunday.
+
+Friends are like fiddle-strings, they mauna be screwed ower ticht.
+
+Friends gree best separate.
+
+Friendship canna stand aye on ae side.
+
+Frost and fausehood hae baith a dirty wa' gang.
+
+Fry stanes wi' butter and the broo will be gude.
+
+Fu' o' courtesy, fu' o' craft.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Gae shoe the goose.
+
+Gae hap and hang yoursel, then you'll dee dancing.
+
+Gae kiss your Lucky--she lives in Leith.
+
+    "A cant phrase, from what rise I know not, but it is made use of
+    when one thinks it is not worth while to give a distinct answer, or
+    think themselves foolishly accused."--_Allan Ramsay._
+
+Gae to bed wi' the lamb and rise wi' the laverock.
+
+Gae to the deil, and he'll bishop you.
+
+    Meaning, that the person addressed is so well versed in evil ways as
+    to be able to occupy a high position in the service of the Evil One.
+
+Gae to the deil, for his name's sake.
+
+Gane is the goose that laid the muckle egg.
+
+Gang farther and fare waur.
+
+Gardener's law--Eat your fill, but pouch nane.
+
+Gar wood's ill to grow; chuckie stanes are ill to chow.
+
+Gather haws before the snaws.
+
+Gathering gear is weel liket wark.
+
+    Acquiring wealth is pleasant employment.
+
+Gaunting bodes wanting ane o' things three--sleep, meat, or gude
+companie.
+
+    Yawning is proverbially supposed to indicate the want of one of the
+    three things mentioned.
+
+Gaunting gaes frae man to man.
+
+Gawsie cow, gudely calf.
+
+    Handsome mother, goodly daughter.
+
+Gaylie would be better.
+
+    When a person says he is "gaylie," _Anglice_, middling, he is
+    understood not to be so well as he would like to be.
+
+Gear is easier gotten than guided.
+
+Gentlemen are unco scant when a wabster gets a lady.
+
+    The "wabster," or weaving profession, seems to have stood very low
+    in the estimation of proverb makers.
+
+Gentle partans hae lang taes.
+
+Gentle servants are poor men's hardships.
+
+Gentle servants are rich men's tinsel.
+
+Gentry's dowff wi' an empty purse.
+
+Get the word o' soon rising, an' ye may lie in bed a' day.
+
+    Obtain a reputation for early rising, and you may lie in bed all
+    day. The Spanish say, "Get a good name, and go to sleep."
+
+Get and save, and thou wilt have.
+
+      "Get and saif and thou salt haif,
+      Len and grant and thou salt want;
+      Wha in his plenty taks not heid,
+      He sall haif falt in time of need."--_The Evergreen._
+
+Get weel, keep weel.
+
+Get what you can, and keep what you hae, that's the way to get rich.
+
+Get your rock and spindle ready, God will send the tow.
+
+    "Let us do our duty, and refer the rest to God's
+    providence."--_Ray._
+
+Gibbie's grace--Deil claw the clungiest.
+
+    This saying of the graceless Gibbie means literally, "Devil take the
+    hungriest."
+
+Gie a bairn his will, and a whelp its fill, and nane o' them will e'er
+do weel.
+
+Gie a beggar a bed, and he'll pay you wi' a louse.
+
+Gie a carl your finger, and he'll take your haill hand.
+
+Gie a gaun man a drink, and a rising man a knock.
+
+Gie a greedy dog a muckle bane.
+
+Gie a thing, tak a thing, and that's the ill man's ring.
+
+"Gie her her will, or she'll burst," quo' the man when his wife kamed
+his head with the three-legged stool.
+
+Gie him a hole, and he'll find a pin.
+
+    That is, give him an opportunity, and he will take advantage of it.
+
+Gie him an inch, and he'll tak an ell.
+
+Gie him tow enough, and he'll hang himsel.
+
+Gie is a gude fellow, but he soon wearies.
+
+    Meaning, that one tires of giving at all times.
+
+Gie losin' gamesters leave to talk.
+
+Giff gaff maks gude friends.
+
+Gie my cousin kail enow, and see my cousin's dish be fu'.
+
+    We presume that this is an ironical signification that the cousin's
+    "room" is preferred to his company.
+
+Gie ne'er the wolf the wedder to keep.
+
+Gie ower when the play's gude.
+
+Gie't about, it will come to my faither at last.
+
+Gie the deil his due, and ye'll gang to him.
+
+Gie ye a use, and ye'll ca't a custom.
+
+Gie ye meat, drink, and claes, and ye'll beg among your friends.
+
+    Applied to unreasonable people, who get everything they want, and
+    still are not satisfied.
+
+Gie your heart to God, and your alms to the poor.
+
+    From the remarkable paucity of proverbs relating to religion in the
+    older collections, we infer that this saying is Henderson's own, as
+    it only appears in his collection.
+
+Gie your tongue mair holidays than your head.
+
+Girn when you knit, and laugh when you louse.
+
+    Meaning, that while enforcing discipline we should do so with
+    firmness, and relax it freely when occasion requires.
+
+Glasgow for bells, Lithgow for wells, Falkirk for beans and pease.
+
+Glasgow people, Greenock folk, and Paisley bodies.
+
+    "These words imply gradations of dignity, the Paisley bodies being
+    (how far deservedly would admit of much question) at the bottom of
+    the scale. Some years ago, when a public dinner was given to
+    Professor Wilson, of Edinburgh, in Paisley, which is his native
+    place, on his speaking of it as a town containing such and such a
+    number of souls, his friend, Thomas Campbell, who sat by his side,
+    whispered, 'Bodies, you mean.'"--_Robert Chambers._
+
+Glasses and lasses are brittle ware.
+
+Glib i' the tongue is aye glaiket at the heart.
+
+    A smooth tongue betokens a deceitful heart.
+
+Glowering is nae gainsaying.
+
+Glum folk's no easily guided.
+
+    "Glum" or morose people are difficult to manage.
+
+God be wi' the gude Laird o' Balmaghie, for he ne'er took mair frae a
+poor man than a' that he had.
+
+God comes wi' leaden feet, but strikes wi' iron hands.
+
+God helps them that help themselves.
+
+God help the rich, for the poor can beg.
+
+God help you to a hutch, for ye'll never get a mailing.
+
+    Spoken of an incompetent person, that he may succeed in making a
+    bare living, for his abilities will never secure him a fortune.
+
+God keep ill gear out o' my hands; for if my hands ance get it, my heart
+winna part wi't,--sae prayed the gude Earl of Eglinton.
+
+God keep the cat out o' our gate, for the hens canna flee.
+
+God ne'er measures men by inches.
+
+God ne'er sent the mouth, but he sent the meat wi't.
+
+God's aye kind to fu' folk and bairns.
+
+    As instanced by the marvellous manner in which men escape injury
+    while under the influence of drink.
+
+God sends fools fortunes.
+
+God sends meat and the deil sends cooks.
+
+God sends men claith as they hae cauld.
+
+God send us siller, for they're little thought o' that want it.
+
+God send water to that well that folk think will ne'er be dry.
+
+    "Spoken when our poor kin and followers are always asking of us; as
+    if we should never be exhausted."--_Kelly._
+
+God send ye mair sense, and me mair siller.
+
+God send ye readier meat than running hares.
+
+God send ye the warld you bode, and that's neither scant nor want.
+
+God shapes the back for the burden.
+
+God's help is nearer than the fair e'en.
+
+Gold's gude, but it may be dear bought.
+
+Go to Hecklebirnie.
+
+    "This term is used in a strange sort of imprecation. If one say, 'Go
+    to the d----l!' the other often replies, 'Go you to Hecklebirnie!'
+    which is said to be a place three miles beyond hell!"--_Jamieson._
+
+Graceless meat maks folk fat.
+
+Grass grows nae green in the common road.
+
+Gratitude preserves auld friendships and begets new.
+
+Great barkers are nae biters.
+
+Great pains and little gains soon mak a man weary.
+
+Great tochers makna aye the greatest testaments.
+
+Great winning maks wark easy.
+
+Greed is envy's auldest brither: scraggy wark they mak thegither.
+
+Greedy folk hae lang arms.
+
+Gree, like tykes and swine.
+
+Greening wives are aye greedy.
+
+Grey-eyed, greedy; brown-eyed, needy; black-eyed, never blin', till it
+shame a' its kin.
+
+Gude advice is never out o' season.
+
+Gude ale needs nae wisp.
+
+    "A wisp of straw stuck upon the top of a country house is a sign
+    that ale is to be sold there; but if the ale be good, people will
+    haunt the house though there be none."--_Kelly._
+
+Gude bairns are eith to lear.
+
+Gude bairns get broken brows.
+
+    For they are as liable to injury as bad ones.
+
+Gude be wi' auld langsyne, when our gutchers ate the trenchers.
+
+Gude breeding and siller mak our sons gentlemen.
+
+Gude cheer and cheap gars mony haunt the house.
+
+Gude claes open a' doors.
+
+Gude counsel is abune a' price.
+
+Gude-enough has got a wife and Far-better wants.
+
+Gude folk are scarce, tak care o' me.
+
+Gude foresight furthers wark.
+
+Gude gear gangs into little bouk.
+
+Gude gear's no to be gaped at.
+
+Gude health is better than wealth.
+
+Gude kail is half meat.
+
+Gude night, and joy be wi' you a'.
+
+Gude reason and part cause.
+
+    Signifying that a person has _both_ good reason and cause to
+    complain.
+
+Gude to fetch sorrow to a sick wife.
+
+Gude! ye're common to kiss your kimmer.
+
+Gude wares may come frae an ill market.
+
+Gude wares mak a quick market.
+
+Gude watch hinders harm.
+
+Gudewill ne'er wants time to show itsel.
+
+Gudewill should be ta'en in part payment.
+
+Gude wit jumps.
+
+Gude words cost naething.
+
+Guessed work's best if weel done.
+
+"Gulp!" quo' the wife when she swallowed her tongue.
+
+Gunpowder is hasty eldin.
+
+Gust your gab wi' that.
+
+                "He's no ill boden,
+      That gusts his gab wi' oyster sauce,
+                An' hen weel soden."--_Fergusson._
+
+Gut nae fish till ye get them.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Ha' binks are sliddry.
+
+    "Great men's favours are uncertain."--_Kelly._
+
+Had I fish was never gude to eat mustard.
+
+    "An answer to them that say, Had I such a thing, I would do so or
+    so."--_Kelly._
+
+"Had I wist," quo' the fool.
+
+Had you sic a shoe on ilka foot, you would shochel.
+
+    Or, had you my sorrows to bear, you would look equally miserable.
+
+Hae! gars a deaf man hear.
+
+Hae God, hae a'.
+
+Hae, lad,--rin, lad; that maks an olite lad.
+
+Hae you gear or hae you nane, tine heart and a' is gane.
+
+Hain'd gear helps weel.
+
+    "Hain'd gear"--saved money--is of great assistance.
+
+Hair by hair maks the carl's head bare.
+
+Hale sale is gude sale.
+
+Hale claith's afore cloutit.
+
+Half acres bear aye gude corn.
+
+    Meaning that when people have but little property, they take good
+    care of it.
+
+Half a tale is enough for a wise man.
+
+Hallowe'en bairns see far.
+
+    "And touching the bairn, it's weel kent she was born on Hallowe'en
+    was nine years gane, and they that are born on Hallowe'en whiles see
+    mair than ither folk."--_The Monastery._
+
+Hame's a hamely word.
+
+"Hame's hamely," quo' the deil when he found himsel in the Court o'
+Session.
+
+Hand in gear helps weel.
+
+Hand in use is father o' lear.
+
+    The constant practice of our profession is the surest road to "lear"
+    or affluence.
+
+Handle your tools without mittens.
+
+Hand ower head, as men took the covenant.
+
+    "Alluding to the manner in which the covenant, so famous in Scottish
+    history, was violently taken by above sixty thousand persons about
+    Edinburgh, in 1638; a novel circumstance at that time, though
+    afterwards paralleled by the French, in voting by
+    _acclamation_."--_Fielding._
+
+Handsome is that handsome does.
+
+Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll no steal when he's auld.
+
+Hang him that has nae shift, and hang him that has ower mony.
+
+Hang hunger and drown drouth.
+
+Hanging gaes by hap.
+
+Hanging's nae better than it's ca'd.
+
+Hanging's sair on the eesight.
+
+Hankering an' hinging-on is a poor trade.
+
+Hands aff is fair play.
+
+Hap an' a ha'penny is world's gear enough.
+
+    Happiness and moderate means in this world are enough.
+
+Happy for the son when the dad gaes to the deil.
+
+    "For commonly they who first raise great estates, do it either by
+    usury and extortion, by fraud and cozening, or by flattery, and by
+    ministering to other men's vices."--_Ray._
+
+    "Alas for the son whose father goes to heaven!"--_Portuguese._
+
+Happy is the bride that the sun shines on; happy is the corpse that the
+rain rains on.
+
+Happy is the wooing that's no lang o' doing.
+
+Happy man be his dool.
+
+    A good wish,--that happiness may be the greatest affliction sent
+    him.
+
+Happy man, happy kavel.
+
+Happy the man that belongs to nae party, but sits in his ain house, and
+looks at Benarty.
+
+    "Sir Michael Malcolm, of Loch Ore, an eccentric baronet, pronounced
+    this oracular couplet in his old age, when troubled with the talk of
+    the French Revolution. As a picture of meditative serenity and
+    neutrality, it seems worthy of preservation."--_Robert Chambers._
+
+Happy's the maid that's married to a mitherless son.
+
+Hard fare maks hungry bellies.
+
+Hardships seldom come single.
+
+Haste and anger hinder gude counsel.
+
+Haste maks waste, and waste maks want, and want maks strife between the
+gudeman and the gudewife.
+
+Hasty meet, hasty part.
+
+    "An observation upon marriage suddenly contracted, as if it were
+    ominous, and portended a sudden separation."--_Kelly._
+
+Hasty was hanged, but Speed-o'-foot wan awa.
+
+Haud the hank in your ain hand.
+
+    Do the difficult part of your work yourself, or retain every
+    advantage you can.
+
+Haud your feet, Lucky Dad, auld folk's no fiery.
+
+    Literally, look to your feet, as you are not nimble: applied when
+    people stumble.
+
+Haud you hand, your father slew a whaup.
+
+Haud your hands aff ither folk's bairns till ye get some o' your ain.
+
+Hawks winna pike out hawks' een.
+
+    "It was an unco thing to see hawks pike out hawks' een, or ae kindly
+    Scot cheat anither."--_Rob Roy._
+
+Hearken to the hinder-end, after comes not yet.
+
+Hearts may 'gree though heads may differ.
+
+He begs frae them that borrowed frae him.
+
+He bides as fast as a cat does to a saucer.
+
+    Meaning that a person will "bide" or stay only so long as he can get
+    anything, or serve his own purpose.
+
+He blaws in his lug fu' brawly.
+
+    "Blaw his lug," to praise a person in an extravagant or fulsome
+    manner.
+
+He blushes at it like a beggar at a bawbee.
+
+He breeds o' the gowk that casts a' down at e'en.
+
+He brings a staff to break his ain head.
+
+He can do ill, and he may do gude.
+
+He can haud the cat and play wi' the kitten.
+
+He can ill rin that canna gang.
+
+He can lee like a dog licking a dish.
+
+He canna see an inch before his nose.
+
+He can say "My Jo," and think it no.
+
+    That is, he can be complimentary in his speech, but not in his
+    intentions.
+
+He can suck the laverock's frae the lift.
+
+    "In relation to one who possesses great power of wheedling. It
+    evidently alludes to the idea of the fascinating power of serpents
+    by means of their breath."--_Jamieson._
+
+He can wile the flounders out o' the sea.
+
+    "'Heard ye ever the like o' that, laird?' said Saddletree to
+    Dumbiedikes, when the counsel had ended his speech. 'There's a chiel
+    can spin a muckle pirn out o' a wee tait o' tow!... And he's cleckit
+    this great muckle bird out o' this wee egg! He could wile the very
+    flounders out o' the Firth.'"--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+He caresna wha's bairns greet if his ain laugh.
+
+He ca's me scabbed because I winna ca' him sca'd.
+
+    Meaning that a man has endeavoured to make his opponent in a
+    particular transaction lose his temper, but failing to do so, he
+    loses his own.
+
+"Hech!" quo' Howie, when he swallowed his wife's clue.
+
+    "Hech!" is here used as an expression of surprise and relief that a
+    disagreeable operation has been performed. A "clue" is a ball of
+    worsted.
+
+He comes oftener wi' the rake than the shool.
+
+    "Spoken of a poor friend whose business is not to give us, but to
+    get from us."--_Kelly._
+
+He comes o' gude, he canna be ill.
+
+    A satirical expression applied to persons who are vain enough to
+    suppose that they can do no wrong.
+
+He complains early that complains o' his parritch.
+
+He counts his ha'penny gude siller.
+
+    Meaning that a person may confer a very small favour, and have a
+    greatly exaggerated idea of his own generosity.
+
+He cuts near the wood.
+
+    To "cut near the wood" is to be very keen in driving a bargain.
+
+He daurna say "Bo" to your blanket.
+
+He doesna aye ride when he saddles his horse.
+
+He doesna ken a B frae a bull's foot.
+
+    A saying denoting that a person is extremely ignorant.
+
+He doesna ken what end o' him's upmost.
+
+He doesna like his wark that says "Now!" when it's done.
+
+He doubles his gift that gies in time.
+
+He eats the calf i' the cow's wame.
+
+    Which means, in other words, he has spent his fortune before he
+    received it; that "He has eaten his corn in the blade."--_French._
+
+Heedna says, or ye'll ne'er sit at ease.
+
+He fells twa dogs wi' ae bane.
+
+      "Pate disna fend on that alane;
+      He can fell twa dogs wi' ae bane,
+                  While ither folk
+      Must rest themselves content wi' ane,
+                  Nor farer trock."--_Fergusson._
+
+He flings the helve after the hatchet.
+
+He fyles his neighbour's cog to get the brose himsel.
+
+    Meaning that a person has been wicked enough to injure the character
+    of another that he might supplant him in influence or position.
+
+He gaed for oo' but came hame shorn.
+
+    "A camel going to seek horns lost his ears."--_Arabic._
+
+He gangs awa in an ill time that ne'er comes back again.
+
+He gangs far aboot seeking the nearest.
+
+He gangs frae the jilt to the gellock.
+
+    To "jilt," to throw or dash water on a person; "gellock" (gavelock),
+    an iron lever or crowbar. Meaning, perhaps, that a man's temper is
+    such that he passes from the extreme of playfulness to that of
+    passion very quickly.
+
+He gangs lang barefoot that waits for dead men's shune.
+
+He gaes nae whitings without banes.
+
+    Or, if he confers an obligation, it is sure to have some condition
+    attached to it.
+
+He girns like a sheep's head in a pair o' tangs.
+
+    "Little Andrew, the wratch, has been makin' a totum wi' his
+    faither's ae razor; an' the pair man's trying to shave himsel
+    yonder, an' girnan like a sheep's head on the tangs."--_Hugh
+    Miller._
+
+He got his mother's malison the day he was married.
+
+    Spoken of a man who has a bad wife.
+
+He had gude skill o' horse flesh wha bought a goose to ride on.
+
+He harps aye on ae string.
+
+He has a bee in his bonnet-lug.
+
+    Applied when a person is very much occupied with a project of his
+    own.
+
+He has a cauld coal to blaw at.
+
+    "A' things o' religion hae settled into a method that gies the
+    patronless preacher but little chance o' a kirk. Wi' your oye's
+    ordinar looks, I fear, though he were to grow as learned as Matthew
+    Henry himsel, he would hae but a cauld coal to blaw at."--_Sir
+    Andrew Wylie._
+
+He has a crap for a' corn.
+
+He has a gude judgment that doesna lippen to his ain.
+
+He has a hearty hand for a hungry meltith.
+
+    He bestows charity liberally.
+
+He has a hole beneath his nose that winna let his back be rough.
+
+    Meaning that his extravagance in the matter of food is such that it
+    prevents his back being "rough" or well clothed.
+
+He has a lang clue to wind.
+
+    "I might hae been in a state and condition to look at Miss Girzy;
+    but, ye ken, I hae a lang clue to wind before I maun think o'
+    playing the ba' wi' Fortune, in ettling so far aboun my
+    reach."--_The Entail._
+
+He has an ill look among lambs.
+
+He has a saw for a' sairs.
+
+    That is, a salve or "balm for every wound."
+
+He has a slid grip that has an eel by the tail.
+
+    "Spoken to those who have to do with cunning fellows whom you can
+    hardly bind sure enough."--_Kelly._
+
+He has been rowed in his mother's sark tail.
+
+    Synonymous with being "tied to his mother's apron-string," _i.e._,
+    kept too strictly under parental authority.
+
+He has brought his pack to a braw market.
+
+He has come to gude by misguiding.
+
+He has coosten his cloak on the ither shouther.
+
+He has coup'd the muckle pat into the little.
+
+    Sarcastically applied to those who claim to have executed
+    extraordinary deeds.
+
+He has drowned the miller.
+
+    Meaning that in mixing liquids, as in mixing toddy, too much water
+    has been added. The English say, "He has put the miller's eye out."
+
+He has faut o' a wife that marries mam's pet.
+
+He has feathered his nest, he may flee when he likes.
+
+He has gane without taking his leave.
+
+He has gi'en up a trade and ta'en to stravaigin'.
+
+    A humorous way of expressing that a man has retired from business to
+    live comfortably. To "stravaig" is to walk about idly.
+
+He has got a bite o' his ain bridle.
+
+He has gotten his kail through the reek.
+
+    "To meet with severe reprehension. To meet with what causes
+    bitterness or thorough repentance as to any course that one has
+    taken."--_Jamieson._
+
+He has gotten the boot and the better beast.
+
+    This saying has evidently emanated from the stable. When persons
+    wish to exchange horses, he who has the poorest animal gives a
+    "boot" or compensation in addition to the horse, to make the
+    exchange equal. The proverb is applied to a person who has
+    over-reached his neighbour.
+
+He has gotten the whip hand o' him.
+
+He has got the heavy end of him.
+
+    Meaning that in an argument or struggle he has the best of it.
+
+He has help'd me out o' a deadlift.
+
+    Or rendered very great assistance in an emergency.
+
+He has hit the nail on the head.
+
+He has it o' kind, he coft it not.
+
+    Meaning that a person's bad qualities are inherited from his
+    parents; equivalent to the saying, "What's bred in the bone won't
+    out of the flesh."
+
+He has left the key in the cat-hole.
+
+He has licket the butter aff my bread.
+
+    To "lick the butter," in proverbial phraseology, is to supplant a
+    person in business, or so interfere with his arrangements as to
+    injure them.
+
+He has made a moonlight flitting.
+
+    To "shoot the moon," as the English say, is to decamp from a house
+    without paying the rent.
+
+He has mair floor than he has flail for.
+
+    Or more work than he can overtake.
+
+He has mair jaw than judgment.
+
+He has mair wit in his wee finger than ye hae in your hale bouk.
+
+He has muckle prayer, but little devotion.
+
+He hasna a bauchle to swear by.
+
+He hasna a hail nail to claw him wi'.
+
+He hasna as muckle sense as a cow could haud in her faulded nieve.
+
+He has nae clag till his tail.
+
+    "A vulgar phrase, signifying that there is no stain on one's
+    character, or that no one can justly exhibit a charge against
+    him."--_Jamieson._
+
+He has nae mair mense than a miller's horse.
+
+    _Vide_, "As menseless as a tinkler's messan."
+
+He has naething to crave at my hand.
+
+He has need o' a clean pow that ca's his neighbour nitty now.
+
+    "A man ought to be free of those faults that he throws up to
+    others."--_Kelly._
+
+He has neither stock nor brock.
+
+    He has neither money nor meat.
+
+He has ower many greedy gleds o' his ain.
+
+    Meaning that a man has too many family claims upon his generosity to
+    meet, to be able to attend to those of strangers.
+
+He has skill o' roasted woo--when it stinks it's ready.
+
+He has some sma' wit, but a fool has the guiding o't.
+
+He has soon done that never dought.
+
+He has spur metal in him.
+
+He has swallowed a flee.
+
+He has ta'en the country on his back.
+
+    A proverbial expression of the fact that a man has run away.
+
+He hastit to his end like a moth to a candle.
+
+He has the best end o' the string.
+
+He has the gift o' the gab.
+
+    "'I wish,' said Dumbiedikes, 'I were as young and as supple as you,
+    and had the gift o' the gab as weel.'"--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+He has wit at will that wi' an angry heart can sit still.
+
+He hauds baith heft and blade.
+
+    That is, he has a thing entirely at his own option.
+
+He hearsna at that ear.
+
+He hears wi' his heels, as the geese do in hairst.
+
+    "That is, he heard, had he been pleased to answer."--_Kelly._
+
+He hid a bodle and thought it a hoard.
+
+He hides his meat and seeks for mair.
+
+    "Spoken when covetous people pretend poverty, and conceal their
+    wealth to plead pity."--_Kelly._
+
+He is not a merchant bare, that hath either money, worth, or ware.
+
+    "A good merchant may want ready money."--_Kelly._
+
+He jump'd at it, like a cock at a grossart.
+
+    "'I had quite forgotten,' said Tyrrel, 'that the inn was your own;
+    though I remember you were a considerable landed proprietor.' 'Maybe
+    I am,' replied Meg, 'maybe I am not; and if I be, what for no? But
+    as to what the laird, whose grandfather was my father's landlord,
+    said to the new doings yonder--he just jumped at the ready penny,
+    like a cock at a grossart.'"--_St Ronan's Well._
+
+He keeps his road weel enough wha gets rid o' ill company.
+
+He kens a'thing that opens and steeks.
+
+He kens his ain groats amang other folk's kail.
+
+He kens how many beans mak five.
+
+He kens how to butter a whiting.
+
+    The import of the two preceding sayings is, that a man is very sharp
+    in looking after his own interests.
+
+He kens how to turn his ain cake.
+
+    "'Never fash your beard, Mr Bide-the-Bent,' replied Girder; 'ane
+    canna get their breath out between wives and ministers. I ken best
+    how to turn my own cake. Jean, serve up the dinner, and nae mair
+    about it.'"--_Bride of Lammermoor._
+
+He kens muckle wha kens when to speak, but far mair wha kens when to
+haud his tongue.
+
+He kens nae a mavis frae a madge-howlet.
+
+He kens nae a selgh frae a salmon.
+
+He kens nae the pleasures of plenty wha ne'er felt the pains o' poverty.
+
+He kens whilk side his bannock's buttered on.
+
+    "There was a set of ancient brethren of the angle from Edinburgh,
+    who visited St Ronan's frequently in the spring and summer, a class
+    of guests peculiarly acceptable to Meg, who permitted them more
+    latitude in her premises than she was known to allow to any other
+    body. 'They were,' said she, 'pawky auld carles, that kend whilk
+    side their bread was buttered upon.'"--_St Ronan's Well._
+
+He kicks at the benweed.
+
+    _Benweed_, ragwort. That is, he is headstrong, or unreasonable.
+
+He lay in his scabbard, as mony a gude sword's done.
+
+    Meaning that he prudently allowed an insult or slight to pass
+    without notice.
+
+He left his siller in his ither pocket.
+
+    A sarcastic allusion to those who seek to evade paying their share
+    of the reckoning. It was remarked of a friend of ours, that on such
+    occasions he "was the first to put his hand in his pocket, but the
+    last to draw it out."
+
+He likes nae beef that grows on my banes.
+
+He'll claw up their mittans.
+
+    Metaphorically, "He will kill them, or give the finishing
+    stroke."--_Jamieson._
+
+He'll either win the horse or tine the saddle.
+
+He'll gang mad on a horse wha's proud on a pownie.
+
+    Spoken of those who take undue advantage of the slight authority
+    they possess.
+
+He'll gang nae farther than his tether's length.
+
+He'll gang to hell for house profit.
+
+He'll get the poor man's answer, "No."
+
+He'll gie his bane to nae dog.
+
+He'll gie you the whistle o' your groat.
+
+He'll hae enough some day, when his mouth's fu' o' mools.
+
+    "Spoken of covetous people, who will never be satisfied while they
+    are alive."--_Kelly._
+
+He'll hing by the lug o't.
+
+    "Keep a firm hold of it, as a bull-dog does of his
+    prey."--_Jamieson._
+
+He'll hing that ower my head.
+
+    "'She would haud me nae better than the dirt below her feet,' said
+    Effie to herself, 'were I to confess I hae danced wi' him four times
+    on the green down by, and ance at Maggie Macqueen's; and she'll
+    maybe hing it ower my head that she'll tell my father, and then she
+    wad be mistress and mair.'"--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+He'll kythe in his ain colours yet.
+
+    "He'll appear without disguise; he'll be known for the man he
+    is."--_Jamieson._
+
+He'll lick the white frae your e'en.
+
+    "This phrase is always applied when people, with pretence of
+    friendship, do you an ill turn, as one licking a mote out of your
+    eye makes it blood shot."--_Allan Ramsay._
+
+He'll mak a spune or spoil a horn.
+
+    "Ay, ay, we're a' subject to a downcome. Mr Osbaldistone is a gude
+    honest gentleman; but I aye said he was ane o' them wad mak a spune
+    or spoil a horn, as my father, the worthy deacon, used to
+    say."--_Rob Roy._
+
+He'll mend when he grows better, like sour ale in summer.
+
+    "The young laird of Balmawhapple, ... he had no imperfection but
+    that of keeping light company at a time; such as Jinker the
+    horse-couper, and Gibby Gaethroughwi't, the piper o' Cupar; 'O'
+    whilk follies, Mr Saunderson, he'll mend, he'll mend,' pronounced
+    the bailie. 'Like sour ale in summer,' added Davie Gellatley, who
+    happened to be nearer the conclave than they were aware
+    of."--_Waverley._
+
+He'll need to dree the dronach o't.
+
+He'll ne'er send you awa wi' a sair heart.
+
+He'll neither dance nor haud the candle.
+
+    Like the dog in the manger, he will neither enjoy himself, nor allow
+    others to do so.
+
+He'll neither dee nor do weel.
+
+    Sarcastically applied to people who may be peevish or fretful
+    through ill health.
+
+He'll neither haud nor bind.
+
+    "'Then, if ye maun hae't, the folk in Lunnun are a' clean wud about
+    this bit job in the north here.' 'Clean wood! what's that?' 'Ou,
+    just real daft--neither to haud nor to bind--a' hirdy girdy--clean
+    through ither--the deil's ower Jock Wabster.'"--_Rob Roy._
+
+    "A proverbial phrase expressive of violent excitement, whether in
+    respect of rage, or of folly, or of pride; borrowed, perhaps, from
+    the fury of an untamed beast, which cannot be so long _held_ that it
+    may be _bound_ with a rope."--_Jamieson._
+
+He'll neither hup nor wine.
+
+    Of similar import to the preceding. _Hup_ and _wine_ are two words
+    used in guiding plough and cart horses.
+
+He'll never rue but ance, and that'll be a' his life.
+
+    "Ride down to Portanferry, and let nae grass grow at the nag's
+    heels; and if ye find him in confinement, ye maun stay beside him
+    night and day for a day or twa, for he'll want friends that hae
+    baith heart and hand; and if ye neglect this, ye'll never rue but
+    ance, for it will be for a' your life."--_Guy Mannering._
+
+He'll no gie an inch o' his will for a span o' his thrift.
+
+    That is, regardless of expense, his wishes must be gratified.
+
+He'll no gie the head for the washing.
+
+    To "keep the head for the washing" is to retain possession of an
+    article which has been made to order or repaired until all charges
+    upon it are paid.
+
+He'll no let the grass grow at his heels.
+
+He'll no sell his hen on a rainy day.
+
+    He will not sell his wares at an unpropitious time.
+
+He'll rather turn than burn.
+
+He'll shoot higher that shoots at the moon, than he that shoots at the
+midden, e'en though he may miss his mark.
+
+He'll soon be a beggar that canna say "No."
+
+He'll tell it to nae mair than he meets.
+
+He'll wag as the bush wags.
+
+    That is, he will do as circumstances compel him.
+
+He loes me for little that hates me for nought.
+
+    His love has never been very strong if it turns for a trifle.
+
+He'll wind you a pirn.
+
+    "An my auld acquaintance be hersel, or onything like hersel, she may
+    come to wind us a pirn. It's fearsome baith to see and hear her when
+    she wampishes about her arms, and gets to her English, and speaks as
+    if she were a prent book--let a-be an auld fisher's wife."--_The
+    Antiquary._
+
+He lo'ed mutton weel that lick'd where the ewie lay.
+
+    "Spoken to them who will sip the bottom of a glass where good liquor
+    was, or scrape a plate after good meat."--_Kelly._
+
+    "He loved mutton well that dipped his bread in wool."--_English._
+
+He looks as if he could swallow a cow.
+
+    This saying and the four which follow are expressive of
+    peculiarities in the appearance of persons.
+
+He looks as if the wood were fu' o' thieves.
+
+He looks like a Lochaber axe fresh frae the grundstane.
+
+He looks like the far end of a French fiddle.
+
+      "Gin ye wad thole to hear a friend,
+      Tak tent, and nae wi' strunts offend,
+      I've seen queans dink, and neatly prim'd
+                        Frae tap to middle,
+      Looking just like the far-aff end
+                        O' an auld fiddle."--_The Farmer's Ha'._
+
+He looks like the laird o' fear.
+
+He loses his time that comes sune to a bad bargain.
+
+Help for help in hairst.
+
+    Farmers in time of harvest occasionally give each other a "day's
+    shearing," or the use of the whole reaping staff for a day. Of
+    course, the favour is returned, and the benefit rendered mutual.
+
+Help is gude at a'thing, except at the cog.
+
+    "At the cog," signifies in taking our food.
+
+He maks nae bairn's bargains.
+
+He maun be a gude friend when you dinna ken his value.
+
+He maun be soon up that cheats the tod.
+
+He maun hae leave to speak that canna haud his tongue.
+
+    Addressed to people who talk foolishly or without purpose.
+
+He maun lout that has a laigh door.
+
+He maun rise soon that pleases a'body.
+
+He may be trusted wi' a house fu' o' unbored millstanes.
+
+    Meaning that such a person cannot be trusted at all.
+
+He may find fault that canna mend.
+
+He may laugh that wins.
+
+He may tine a stot that canna count his kine.
+
+      "The man may ablens tyne a stot
+        That cannot count his kinsch,
+      In zour awin bow ze are owre-schot
+        Be mair than half-an-inch."--_Cherrie and the Slae._
+
+He may weel soom wha has his head hauden up.
+
+    Meaning that a task is easy when assistance is given.
+
+He needs a lang-shanket spoon that sups kail wi' the deil.
+
+    "He that has to do with wicked and false men had need to be cautious
+    and on his guard."--_Kelly._
+
+He needs maun rin that the deil drives.
+
+He ne'er did a gude darg that gaed grumbling about it.
+
+    "A gude darg" means here a good day's work.
+
+He ne'er tint a cow that grat for a groat.
+
+    Literally, he never lost a cow who cried for the loss of a groat.
+
+He never lies but when the holly's green.
+
+    The holly being an evergreen, that is to say, a person never speaks
+    truth at all.
+
+He picked it up at his ain hand, as the cow learned flinging.
+
+He puts his meat in an ill skin.
+
+    Meaning that although a person takes plenty of food and nourishment,
+    his appearance belies it.
+
+He puts in a bad purse that puts in his pechan.
+
+He reads his sin in his punishment.
+
+Henry Clark never slew a man till he come at him.
+
+    "A ridicule upon them that threaten hard and dare not
+    execute."--_Kelly._
+
+Hen's are aye free o' horse corn.
+
+Hen scarts and filly tails, make lofty ships wear lowly sails.
+
+    "Certain light kinds of clouds are thus denominated, from their
+    supposed resemblance to the scratches of hens on the ground and the
+    tails of young mares. They are held as prognosticative of stormy
+    weather."--_Robert Chambers._
+
+Here-awa, there-awa, like the Laird o' Hotch Potch's lands.
+
+    "Castle fa'an?--na', but the sute's fa'an, and the thunners come
+    right down the kitchen-lumm, and the things are a' lying here-awa,
+    there-awa, like the Laird o' Hotch Potch's lands."--_Bride of
+    Lammermoor._
+
+Here's the wine, but where's the wa-nuts?
+
+He reives the kirk to theek the quire.
+
+    To "steal from the church to roof the choir," is "to rob Peter to
+    pay Paul."
+
+He rides on the riggin' o't.
+
+    That is, he goes to a very great extreme.
+
+He rides sicker that never fa's.
+
+    He rides well that never falls: he is a perfect man who never errs.
+
+He rules easier wi' a saugh wand than wi' a sharp brand.
+
+He's aftener there than in the parish kirk.
+
+He's a bodie o' the nick-stick kind.
+
+    "One who proceeds exactly according to rule; who will not dine a
+    second time with any person till he has made a return in
+    kind."--_Jamieson._
+
+He's a cake and pudding courtier.
+
+He's a causey saint and a house deil.
+
+    One whose outward deportment towards strangers is not in unison with
+    the harshness which he exercises at home.
+
+He's a' fair gude e'en, and fair gude-day.
+
+He's a fool that asks ower muckle, but he's a greater fool that gies it.
+
+He's a fool that forgets himsel.
+
+He's a fool that marries at Yule; for when the bairn's to bear the
+corn's to shear.
+
+He's a gude horse that never stumbled, and a better wife that never
+grumbled.
+
+    "Both so rare, that I never met with either."--_Kelly._
+
+He is a gude piper's bitch; he's aye in at meal-times.
+
+He's a gude shot that hits aye the mark.
+
+He's a hardy man to draw a sword at a haggis.
+
+He's a hawk o' a right nest.
+
+He's a man o' wise mind that o' a foe can mak a friend.
+
+He's an auld horse that winna nicher at corn.
+
+He's ane o' snaw-ba's bairntime.
+
+    "That is, such as wealth and prosperity make worse, or who
+    insensibly go behind in the world."--_Kelly._
+
+He's a poor beggar that canna gang by ae door.
+
+He's a poor man that's never missed.
+
+He's a proud beggar that maks his ain awmous.
+
+    That is, he is proud or well pleased who succeeds in realising his
+    own expectations or wishes.
+
+He's a proud horse that winna carry his ain corn.
+
+He's a sairy cook that canna lick his ain fingers.
+
+He's as bare as the birk at Yule.
+
+He's as bauld as a Lammermuir lion.
+
+    "A sheep is called a Lammermuir lion; and the proverb is applied, in
+    a sarcastic way, to a boasting or assuming person, or to a
+    braggadocio fellow, who is a coward at bottom."--_G. Henderson._
+
+    "As fierce as a lion on Cotswold."--_English._
+
+He's as gleg as a gled.
+
+He's as happy as a dead bird.
+
+He's a selfish skyte that cares but for his ain kyte.
+
+He's as fu' as a fiddler.
+
+    Equivalent to being as "drunk as a lord."
+
+He's as gleg as M'Keachen's elshin, that ran through sax plies o'
+bend-leather into the king's heel.
+
+    Quoted in the _Heart of Midlothian_ when Sharpitlaw, accompanied by
+    Ratcliffe and Madge Wildfire, go to Muschat's Cairn in search of
+    Robertson.
+
+He's as hard wi' me as if I had been the wild Scot o' Galloway.
+
+He's a silly chield that can neither dae nor say.
+
+He's as stiff as if he had swallowed the poker.
+
+He's as welcome as snaw in hairst.
+
+He's as welcome as water in a riven ship.
+
+He's auld and cauld, and ill to lie beside.
+
+He's awfu' big ahint the door.
+
+    To be "big ahint the door," is to be very courageous when there is
+    no occasion for it.
+
+He's a wise man that can tak care o' himsel.
+
+He's aye for out o' the cheese-fat he was moulded in.
+
+    "'Keep back, sir, as best sets ye,' said the bailie, as Andrew
+    pressed forward to catch the answer to some question I had asked
+    about Campbell; 'ye wad fain ride the forehorse an ye wist how. That
+    chield's aye for being out o' the cheese-fat he was moulded
+    in.'"--_Rob Roy._
+
+He's aye wise ahint the hand.
+
+      "Ye noo hae hit the nail upo' the head,
+      I better wi' less travel micht hae deen,
+      Had I been tenty as I sud hae been;
+      But fouks, they say, are wise ahint the han',
+      Whilk to be true unto my cost I fan."--_Ross's Helenore._
+
+He's as wise as Wudsie's calf, that kent milk frae water.
+
+He's been at the kirk o' Crackabout, whaur the kail pat was the
+minister.
+
+He's better fed than bred.
+
+He's blind that eats marrow, but far blinder that lets him.
+
+He's but Jock the laird's brither.
+
+    "The Scottish lairds concern and zeal for the standing and
+    continuance of their families, makes the provision for their younger
+    sons very small."--_Kelly._
+
+He's cooling and supping.
+
+    "That is, he has nothing but from hand to mouth."--_Kelly._
+
+He's cowpet the crans.
+
+    "It's a great misery to me that I hae nae books to let you look ower
+    to see my losses; but what gude, when I think on't, would the sight
+    o' losses do to you? It wouldna put a plack in your pouch--aiblins
+    every twa or three pages ye wad see this ane or that ane cowpet the
+    crans, and deep in my debt."--_Laird of Logan._
+
+He seeks nae mair than a bit an' a brat.
+
+    Meaning that he is content with little.
+
+He's either a' honey or a' dirt.
+
+    He is either exceedingly affectionate and kind, or _vice versa_.
+
+He sell't his soul for a cracket saxpence.
+
+He's failed wi' a fu' hand.
+
+    When a man "fails wi' a fu' hand," he defrauds his creditors with
+    the assistance of the Bankruptcy Act.
+
+He's frae the tap o' the wing, but ye're a grey-neck quill.
+
+    Meaning, we presume, that a man is not so good as he would like to
+    be thought, or as some person he may have compared himself with.
+
+He's free o' fruit that wants an orchard.
+
+He's fond o' barter that niffers wi' Auld Nick.
+
+He's gane aff at the nail.
+
+    Or "destitute of any regard to propriety of conduct; mad;
+    wrongheaded; tipsy."--_Jamieson._
+
+He's gane a' to pigs and whistles.
+
+    "Hech, sirs, what a kyteful o' pride's yon'er! and yet I would be
+    nane surprised the morn to hear that the Nechabudnezzar was a' gane
+    to pigs and whistles, and driven out wi' the divors bill to the
+    barren pastures of bankruptcy."--_The Entail._
+
+He's gane ower the buss taps.
+
+    "To behave extravagantly; to go over the tops of the
+    bushes."--_Jamieson._
+
+He's gane to seek his faither's sword.
+
+He's gane to the dog-drave.
+
+He's got his leg ower the harrows.
+
+He's got his nose in a gude kail pat.
+
+    Meaning that a person has been well provided for. Generally applied
+    to a poor man who has married a rich wife.
+
+He's gude that never failed.
+
+He's his faither's better, like the cooper o' Fogo.
+
+    "Fogo is a small decayed village near Dunse. It appears that each
+    generation of its coopers improved upon the plans or workmanship of
+    their ancestors, and the son became better than the father."--_G.
+    Henderson._
+
+He's horn deaf on that side o' his head.
+
+    That is, he has already made up his mind upon that matter.
+
+He should be seldom angry that has few to mease him.
+
+He's idle that might be better employed.
+
+He's ill-faur'd that dogs bark at.
+
+    "'I have had that wad sober me or ony ane,' said the matron. 'Aweel,
+    Tib, a lass like me wasna to lack wooers, for I wasna sae
+    ill-favoured that the tikes wad bark after me.'"--_The Monastery._
+
+He's in the wrang when praised that glunshes.
+
+He sits fu' close that has riven breeks.
+
+    "This elegant speech was made by the Earl of Douglas, called
+    Tineman, after being wounded and made prisoner at the battle of
+    Shrewsbury, where
+
+                            "'His well-labouring sword
+      Had three times slain the semblance of the king.'"
+                                                --_Fortunes of Nigel._
+
+He sits wi' little ease wha sits on his neighbour's coat tail.
+
+He's John Tamson's man.
+
+    "'Atweel, Cuddie, ye are gaun nae sic gate,' said Jenny, coolly and
+    resolutely. 'The deil's in the wife!' said Cuddie, 'd'ye think I am
+    to be John Tamson's man, and maistered by women a' the days o' my
+    life?' 'And whase man wad ye be? And wha wad ye hae to maister ye
+    but me, Cuddie, lad?'"--_Old Mortality._
+
+He's laid down the barrow.
+
+    That is, "he's cowpet the crans," _q. v._
+
+He sleeps as dogs do when wives sift meal.
+
+    Meaning that a person is very sharp, and that he, figuratively,
+    sleeps with one eye open.
+
+He's lifeless that's faultless.
+
+    Implying that no one is without fault.
+
+He's like a bagpipe, ne'er heard till his wame's fu'.
+
+He's like a chip amang parritch--little gude, little ill.
+
+He's like a cow in a fremit loaning.
+
+    That is, strange, or out of place. "Fremit loaning," strange lane.
+
+He's like a flea in a blanket.
+
+He's like a singet cat--better than he's bonny.
+
+He's like the craws, he eats himsel' out o' ply.
+
+He's like the smith's dog--so weel used to the sparks that he'll no
+burn.
+
+    Spoken of people who are so much accustomed to tipple, that they
+    never seem any the worse of it.
+
+He's like the wife's bawty--kens naething about it.
+
+He slippet awa like a knotless thread.
+
+He's loose in the heft.
+
+He's mair buirdly i' the back than i' the brain.
+
+He's mair fleyed than hurt.
+
+He's mair worth hanging than hauding.
+
+He's nae gude weaver that leaves lang thrums.
+
+    No good workman who wastes material, or leaves work in a slovenly
+    state.
+
+He's nae sma' drink.
+
+He's ne'er at ease that's angry.
+
+He snites his nose in his neighbour's dish to get the brose himsel.
+
+    This rude but expressive saying is used when a person has done
+    another an injury in order to benefit himself.
+
+He's no a man to ride the water wi'.
+
+    "A phrase applied to one who, it is believed, cannot be depended
+    on."--_Jamieson._
+
+He's no a stirk o' the right stock.
+
+    "I was a friendless lad, and ye took me by the hand,--and could I
+    sit still and see scathe befa' my benefactor, I wouldna be a stirk
+    o' the right stock, that's bred on the land o' Scotland."--_Sir
+    Andrew Wylie._
+
+He's no gude to creel eggs wi'.
+
+    "Not safe or easy to deal with."--_Jamieson._
+
+He's no nice but needfu'.
+
+He's no sae daft as he lets on.
+
+He's no steel to the bane.
+
+He's no the best wright that casts maist spails.
+
+He's no the fool that the fool is, but he that wi' the fool deals.
+
+He's no the happiest wha has maist gear.
+
+He's no worth kissing caps wi'.
+
+    To "kiss caps wi'," is to keep company with, to associate together
+    in drinking.
+
+He's out and in, like a dog at a fair.
+
+He's ower auld a cat to draw a strae before.
+
+    "The rents and the lands are but a sair fash to me," re-echoed
+    Ailie; "and I'm ower failed to tak a helpmate, though Wylie
+    Mactrickit, the writer, was very pressing, and spak very civilly;
+    but I'm ower auld a cat to draw that strae before me--he canna
+    whilliwhaw me as he's done mony a ane."--_Old Mortality._
+
+He's ower-shot wi' his ain bow.
+
+    Overreached with his own weapons.
+
+He's ower soon up that's hanged ere noon.
+
+He's soger bred but major minded.
+
+He's ta'en a start and an owerloup.
+
+    "The usual expression for a slight encroachment on a neighbour's
+    property."--_Sir Walter Scott._
+
+He speaks like a prent book.
+
+He speaks in his drink what he thinks in his drouth.
+
+He spoke as if every word would lift a dish.
+
+    In allusion to a person who has addressed another in a very pompous
+    or affected manner.
+
+He's poor enough that's ill faur'd.
+
+He's poor that canna promise.
+
+He's rich that has nae debt.
+
+He's sairest dung that's paid wi' his ain wand.
+
+    That is, he suffers most who injures himself by his own folly, or by
+    means which may have been intended to injure another.
+
+He's silly that spares for ilka speech.
+
+He's sometimes i' the air, but ye're aye on the grund.
+
+He's the bee that maks the honey.
+
+He's the best spoke o' your wheel.
+
+He's the slave o' a slaves wha ser's nane but himsel.
+
+He's twice fain that sits on a stane.
+
+    "That is, glad to sit down, because he is weary, and glad to rise,
+    because the stone is hard."--_Kelly._
+
+He starts at straes, and lets windlins gae.
+
+    This saying is, we think, exclusively Scotch. It very briefly but
+    pithily applies to those who, while anxiously correcting trifling
+    errors, allow greater ones to pass unheeded: who strain at gnats,
+    and swallow camels.
+
+He streaks reem in my teeth.
+
+    "Spoken when we think one only flattering us, and not earnest or
+    sincere in what they pretend."--_Kelly._
+
+He struts like a craw in the gutter.
+
+He stumbles at a strae and loups ower a linn.
+
+He's unco fond o' farming that wad harrow wi' the cat.
+
+He's unco fu' in his ain house that canna pick a bane in his
+neighbour's.
+
+    Satirically applied to those who are unwilling to partake of a meal
+    in a friend's house.
+
+He's waur to water than to corn.
+
+    Fonder of his meat than his drink.
+
+He's weel boden there ben that will neither borrow nor lend.
+
+    Meaning that a person must be very well off indeed who can afford to
+    dispense with all assistance.
+
+He's weel eased that has o' his ain.
+
+He's weel worthy o' sorrow that buys it wi' his ain siller.
+
+He's wise that kens when he's weel enough.
+
+    "This is a pitch of wisdom to which few attain."--_Kelly._
+
+He's wise that's timely wary.
+
+He's worth gowd that can win it.
+
+He's worth nae weel that can bide nae wae.
+
+He that ance gets his fingers i' the dirt can hardly get them out again.
+
+He that bides weel betides weel.
+
+He that bids me to meat wishes me to live.
+
+He that blaws best bears awa the horn.
+
+He that blaws in the stoor fills his ain een.
+
+He that borrows and bigs, maks feasts and thigs, drinks an's no
+dry,--nane o' these three are thrifty.
+
+He that buys a house that's wrought has mony a pin and nail for nought.
+
+He that buys land buys stanes; he that buys beef buys banes; he that
+buys nuts buys shells; he that buys gude ale buys naething else.
+
+He that can hear Dumbuck may hear Dumbarton.
+
+    Dumbuck Hill, in Argyleshire, is farther from Glasgow (the _locale_
+    of this saying) than Dumbarton: proverbially applied to those who
+    are better acquainted with circumstances than they pretend to be,
+    but who, in their anxiety to gain more information, betray
+    themselves.
+
+He that canna do as he would maun do as he may.
+
+He that canna gie favours should seek nane.
+
+He that canna mak sport should mar nane.
+
+He that cheats in daffin winna be honest in earnest.
+
+He that cheats me ance, shame fa' him; he that cheats me twice, shame
+fa' me.
+
+He that comes first to the ha' may sit where he will.
+
+He that comes o' hens maun scrape.
+
+He that counts a' costs will ne'er put plough i' the grund.
+
+    "He that forecasts all difficulties that he may meet with in his
+    business will never set about it."--_Kelly._
+
+He that counts without his host may have to count twice.
+
+He that deals in dirt has aye foul fingers.
+
+He that does as he's bidden deserves nae bannin'.
+
+He that does his turn in time sits half idle.
+
+He that doesna mind corn pickles never comes to forpits.
+
+    "Get a large sheet of paper, man, and make a new pen, with a sharp
+    neb, and a fine hair-stroke. Do not slit the quill up too high, it's
+    a wastrife course in your trade, Andrew. They that do not mind corn
+    pickles never come to forpits. I have known a learned man write a
+    thousand pages with one quill."--_Fortunes of Nigel._
+
+He that does you an ill turn will ne'er forgie you.
+
+He that drinks when he's no dry will be dry when he has nae drink.
+
+He that eats a boll o' meal in bannocks eats a peck o' dirt.
+
+He that eats but ae dish seldom needs the doctor.
+
+He that fa's in a gutter, the langer he lies the dirtier he is.
+
+He that fishes before the net, fishes lang or he fish get.
+
+He that gapes till he be fed may gape till he be dead.
+
+He that gets forgets, but he that wants thinks on.
+
+He that gets gear before he gets wit is but a short time maister o't.
+
+He that gies a' his gear to his bairns, tak up a beetle and ding out his
+harns.
+
+    "Taken from the history of one John Bell, who, having given his
+    substance to his children, was by them neglected. After he died
+    there was found in his chest a mallet with this inscription,--
+
+      "'I, John Bell, leave here a mell, the man to fell,
+      Who gives all to his bairns, and keeps nothing to himsel.'"
+                                                            --_Kelly._
+
+He that grapes in the dark may fyle his fingers.
+
+He that hains his dinner will hae the mair to his supper.
+
+He that has a bonnie wife needs mair than twa een.
+
+He that has a dog at hame may gang to the kirk wi' a clean breast.
+
+He that has ae sheep in a flock will like a' the lave the better for't.
+
+    "Spoken when we have a son at such a school, university, army, or
+    society, we will wish the prosperity of these respective bodies upon
+    his account."--_Kelly._
+
+He that has a goose will get a goose.
+
+    Or, he that is rich already has legacies left him; as, "The fat
+    sow's tail's aye creash'd."
+
+He that has a gude crap may thole some thistles.
+
+    He that has been very fortunate can easily put up with slight
+    drawbacks.
+
+He that has a muckle nose thinks ilka ane speaks o't.
+
+    "People who are sensible of their guilt are always full of
+    suspicion."--_Kelly._
+
+He that has a wide wame ne'er had a lang arm.
+
+    That is, a corpulent person is never very active.
+
+He that has a wife has a maister.
+
+    "He that's not sensible of the truth of this proverb may blot it out
+    or pass it over."--_Kelly._
+
+He that has but ae ee maun tent it weel.
+
+He that has gall in his mouth canna spit honey.
+
+He that has his hand in the lion's mouth maun tak it out the best way he
+can.
+
+    Meaning that he who has willingly jeopardized himself must extricate
+    himself without assistance.
+
+He that has horns in his bosom needna put them on his head.
+
+He that has just enough can soundly sleep; the owercome only fashes folk
+to keep.
+
+He that has muckle wad aye hae mair.
+
+He that hasna purse to fine may hae flesh to pine.
+
+    "'It will be nonsense fining me,' said Andrew, doughtily, 'that
+    hasna a grey groat to pay a fine wi'--it's ill taking the breeks aff
+    a Hielandman.' 'If ye hae nae purse to fine, ye hae flesh to pine,'
+    replied the bailie, 'and I will look weel to ye getting your deserts
+    the tae way or the tither.'"--_Rob Roy._
+
+He that hasna siller in his purse should hae silk on his tongue.
+
+He that has routh o' butter may butter his bread on baith sides.
+
+He that has siller in his purse may want a head on his shouthers.
+
+He that has twa hoards can get a third.
+
+He that hath and winna keep it, he that wants and winna seek it, he that
+drinks and is not dry, siller shall want as well as I.
+
+He that hews abune his head may get a spail in his ee.
+
+    He who aims at things beyond his power may be injured by his
+    projects.
+
+He that hides kens whaur to seek.
+
+He that ill does never gude weens.
+
+    He who is in the habit of ill-doing himself always has a bad opinion
+    of others.
+
+He that invented the maiden first handselled her.
+
+    James, Earl of Morton, who invented the "maiden" or guillotine, was
+    the first who suffered by it.
+
+He that isna handsome at twenty, strong at thirty, wise at forty, rich
+at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, wise, or rich.
+
+He that keeks through a keyhole may see what will vex him.
+
+    "He who looks through a hole will discover his dole."--_Spanish._
+
+He that keeps the cat's dish keeps her aye crying.
+
+He that kens what will be cheap or dear, needs be a merchant but for
+half-a-year.
+
+    As the exercise of his foresight will enable him to acquire a
+    competency in that time.
+
+He that kisses his wife at the market cross will hae mony to teach him.
+
+He that lacks my mare may buy my mare.
+
+    Used when a person disparages an article that he may secure it to
+    himself.
+
+He that laughs alane will mak sport in company.
+
+He that lends his pot may seethe his kail in his loof.
+
+He that lends money to a friend has a double loss.
+
+    Because he loses both his money and his friend.
+
+He that lends you hinders you to buy.
+
+He that lippens to chance lippens his back to a slap.
+
+He that lippens to lent ploughs may hae his land lang lea.
+
+    He that relies on favours being granted is liable to disappointment.
+
+He that lives on hope has a slim diet.
+
+He that lo'es law will soon get his fill o't.
+
+He that looks not ere he loup will fa' ere he wat.
+
+He that looks to freets, freets will follow him.
+
+    "He that notices superstitious observances (such as spilling of
+    salt, Childermass day, or the like) it will fall to him
+    accordingly."--_Kelly._
+
+He that maks friends fear'd o' his wit should be fear'd o' their
+memories.
+
+He that marries a beggar gets a louse for a tocher.
+
+He that marries a daw eats muckle dirt.
+
+    He who is connected with a "daw," or drab, has many troubles to put
+    up with.
+
+He that marries a widow and twa dochters has three back doors to his
+house.
+
+    Or, as Kelly quotes, "three stark thieves; because his wife will put
+    away things to them, or for them."
+
+He that marries a widow will hae a dead man's head often thrown in his
+dish.
+
+He that marries before he's wise will dee ere he thrive.
+
+He that middles wi' tulzies may come in for the redding stroke.
+
+    To "middle with tulzies" is to interfere with quarrelsome people;
+    the chances are that a person who does so will come off at a loss.
+
+He that never eats flesh thinks harigals a feast.
+
+    Parallel to the English proverb, "He who never eats flesh thinks
+    pudding a dainty."
+
+He that never rade never fell.
+
+He that never thinks will ne'er be wise.
+
+He that oppresses honesty ne'er had ony.
+
+He that pays his debt begins to mak a stock.
+
+He that pays last ne'er pays twice.
+
+He that pities another minds himsel.
+
+He that plants trees lo'es ithers beside himsel.
+
+He that plays wi' fools and bairns maun e'en play at the chucks.
+
+    When a man mixes with children, or fools or rogues, he must adapt
+    himself to them.
+
+    "What signifies what I desired, man? when a wise man is with fules
+    and bairns, he maun e'en play at the chucks. But you should have had
+    mair sense and consideration than to gie Babie Charles and Steenie
+    their ain gate; they wad hae floored the very rooms wi' silver, and
+    I wonder they didna."--_Fortunes of Nigel._
+
+He that pleads his ain cause has a fool for his client.
+
+He that puts the cat in the pock kens best how to tak her out.
+
+He that puts on the public gown maun aff the private person.
+
+    A maxim of proverbial philosophy which many persons in petty
+    authority might practise with advantage--to the public.
+
+He that rides ahint anither doesna saddle when he pleases.
+
+    That is, he who is dependent on another must submit to his
+    superior's authority.
+
+He that rides or he be ready wants aye some o' his graith.
+
+He that's angry opens his mouth and steeks his een.
+
+    That is, vents himself in abuse without looking into the details of
+    the case.
+
+He that's aught the cow gangs nearest the tail.
+
+    He that has most interest in an undertaking or property is willing
+    to run a greater risk than he that has none.
+
+He that says what he likes will hear what he doesna like.
+
+He that's born to a plack 'll ne'er get a pound.
+
+He that's born to be hanged will never be drowned.
+
+He that's crabbit without cause should mease without amends.
+
+He that seeks alms for Godsake begs for twa.
+
+He that seeks motes gets motes.
+
+He that seeks trouble 'twere a pity he should miss it.
+
+He that sells his wares for words maun live by the loss.
+
+He that's far frae his gear is near his skaith.
+
+    A man who is away from his property, or not sufficiently careful of
+    it, is liable to be wronged in his absence.
+
+He that's first up's no aye first ser'd.
+
+He that shames, let him be shent.
+
+    "An old Scottish proverb not now used, scarcely understood: a wish
+    that he who exposes his neighbour may come to shame
+    himself."--_Kelly._
+
+He that shows his purse tempts the thief.
+
+He that's ill o' his harboury is gude at the way-kenning.
+
+    He that is unwilling that a visitor or friend should remain in his
+    house, is very ready to give information as to the way home, and the
+    advantages of following it.
+
+He that's ill to himsel will be gude to naebody.
+
+He that sleeps wi' dogs maun rise wi' flaes.
+
+    Or, he who keeps bad company will be contaminated by it.
+
+He that's mann'd wi' boys and hors'd wi' colts will hae his meat eaten
+and his wark ill done.
+
+    In sarcastic allusion to those who entrust matters of importance to
+    youthful or inexperienced persons. "Because," as Kelly says, "the
+    boy will neglect his business, and the colt will throw him."
+
+He that's no my friend at a pinch is no my friend at a'.
+
+He that spares to speak spares to speed.
+
+    That is, he who is afraid to speak for his own advancement when an
+    opportunity occurs, does injury to himself.
+
+He that speaks the thing he shouldna will hear the thing he wouldna.
+
+He that speaks to himsel speaks to a fool.
+
+He that speaks wi' a draunt an' sells wi' a cant, is right like a snake
+in the skin o' a saunt.
+
+    This humorous but withal libellous expression of opinion literally
+    means, that they who speak in drawling, canting terms are wolves in
+    sheep's clothing.
+
+He that speers a' gets wit but o' pairt.
+
+He that speers a' opinions comes ill speed.
+
+He that spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks.
+
+He that spends his gear before he gets 't will hae but little gude o't.
+
+He that spits against the wind spits in his ain face.
+
+He that's poor when he's married shall be rich when he's buried.
+
+He that's rede for windlestraes should never sleep on leas.
+
+    Equivalent to the English saying, "He that's afraid of the wagging
+    of feathers must keep from among wild fowl;" and the Dutch one, "He
+    who is afraid of leaves must not go to the wood."
+
+He that's scant o' wind shouldna meddle wi' the chanter.
+
+    A "chanter" is the drone of a bagpipe, and a good supply of wind is
+    required to fill it. Proverbially applied to those who undertake
+    more than they are able to accomplish.
+
+He that steals a preen may steal a better thing.
+
+He that steals can hide.
+
+He that strikes my dog wad strike mysel if he daur'd.
+
+He that stumbles twice at ae stane deserves to break his shin bane.
+
+    For not removing the stumbling-block at first.
+
+He that's welcome fares weel.
+
+He that thinks in his bed has a day without a night.
+
+He that tholes owercomes.
+
+    To "thole" is to suffer or endure.
+
+He that tigs wi' a stranger pays the smart.
+
+He that tigs wi' the tailor gets a button in his sleeve.
+
+He that tines his siller is thought to hae tint his wit.
+
+    Meaning that he who willingly loses or risks money is readily
+    supposed to be a fool.
+
+He that wants content canna sit easy in his chair.
+
+He that wants to strike a dog ne'er wants stick.
+
+He that wears black maun wear a brush on his back.
+
+He that will be angry for onything will be angry for naething.
+
+He that will to Cupar maun to Cupar.
+
+    Applied to foolish or reckless persons who persist in carrying on
+    projects in the face of certain failure, of which they have been
+    duly advised. Why Cupar, the capital of the kingdom of Fife, should
+    have been selected as typical of such "pig-headedness," we are
+    unable to say.
+
+He that winna be counselled canna be helped.
+
+He that winna hear Mother Hood shall hear Stepmother Hood.
+
+    "That is, they who will not be prevailed upon by fair means, shall
+    meet with harsher treatment."--_Kelly._
+
+He that winna lout and lift a preen will ne'er be worth a groat.
+
+    That is, he who despises trifles will never be rich.
+
+He that winna thole maun flit mony a hole.
+
+    He who will not bear the crosses of the world patiently only
+    increases his sorrows in trying to evade them.
+
+He that winna use the means maun dree the moans.
+
+He that winna when he may, shanna when he wad.
+
+    "Spoken of him who has refused a good offer, and then would have it
+    again."--_Kelly._
+
+He that woos a maiden maun come seldom in her sight: he that woos a
+widow maun ply her day and night.
+
+He that would climb the tree maun tak care o' his grip.
+
+He that would eat the kernal maun crack the nut.
+
+He that would pu' the rose maun sometimes be scarted wi' the thorns.
+
+He thinks himsel nae sheepshank.
+
+    Spoken of conceited persons who think themselves of great
+    consequence.
+
+He tines bottles gathering straes.
+
+    A variation of "He starts at straes, and lets windlins gae." "Ye hae
+    found it to your cost, that she is a most unreasonable, narrow,
+    contracted woman, and wi' a' her 'conomical througality--her
+    direction-books to mak grozart wine for deil-be-licket, and her Katy
+    Fisher's cookery, whereby she would gar us trow she can mak fat kail
+    o' chucky-stanes and an auld horse-shoe--we a' ken, and ye ken,
+    laird, warst o' a', that she flings away the pease, and maks her
+    hotch-potch wi' the shawps, or, as the auld byeword says, tynes
+    bottles gathering straes."--_The Entail._
+
+Het kail cauld, nine days auld, spell ye _that_ in four letters.
+
+    The key to this childish puzzle is to be found in the word _that_:
+    it has no deeper meaning.
+
+Het love, hasty vengeance.
+
+Het sup, het swallow.
+
+He wad gang a mile to flit a sow.
+
+    "Spoken of sauntering persons, who would take any pretence to go
+    from their proper business."--_Kelly._
+
+He was miss'd by the water, but caught by the widdie.
+
+    He has escaped drowning only to be hanged, as "He that is to be
+    hanged will never be drowned--unless the water goes over the
+    gallows."--_Dutch._
+
+He wasna the inventor o' gunpowder.
+
+    Meaning that a person is very timid or cowardly.
+
+He was ne'er a gude aiver that flung at the brod.
+
+    "Spoken of them who spurn at reproof or correction, whom Solomon
+    calls brutish."--_Kelly._
+
+He was scant o' grey cloth that soled his hose wi' dockens.
+
+    "The return of a haughty maid to them that tell her of an unworthy
+    suitor."--_Kelly._
+
+He was scant o' news that tauld his faither was hang'd.
+
+    "They're scarce of news who speak ill of their mother."--_Irish._
+
+He was the bee that made the honey.
+
+He watsna whilk end o' him's upmost.
+
+    He does not know whether he stands on his head or his heels.
+
+He wears Langton's coat o' mail.
+
+    "Once, in a skirmish with the English, the Laird of Langton, being
+    unarmed, turned his coat inside out, to make his opponents believe
+    he had on a coat of mail, and so rushed on to the fray. By
+    'Langton's coat of mail,' is meant a presumptuous but brave
+    man."--_G. Henderson._
+
+He wears twa faces aneath ae cowl.
+
+He wha mair than his worth doth spend, aiblins a rape his life will end.
+
+He wha marries a maiden marries a pockfu' o' pleasure; he wha marries a
+widow marries a pockfu' o' _pleas_-sure.
+
+    "These two are always joined together, and are a dissuasive from
+    marrying a widow, because she is often involved in law
+    suits."--_Kelly._
+
+He wha marries for love without money, hath merry nights and sorry days.
+
+He wha tells his wife a' is but newly married.
+
+He winna send you away wi' a fair heart.
+
+    Or, he will not grant you the favour you are going to seek.
+
+He woos for cake and pudding.
+
+He would fain be forward if he wist how.
+
+He would fain rip up auld sairs.
+
+    That is, gladly rake up old grievances, to enable him to pick a
+    quarrel.
+
+He would gar you trow that the mune's made o' green cheese.
+
+    Applied to simple, credulous people, who readily believe the most
+    absurd statements.
+
+He wouldna lend his gully,--no! to the deil to stick himsel.
+
+    In sarcastic allusion to those who decline to oblige borrowers, and
+    who carry their principles so far that they "would not lend the
+    devil a knife to cut his throat."--_Italian._
+
+He would need to be twice sheeled and ance grund that deals wi' you.
+
+He would rake hell for a bodle.
+
+He would skin a louse for the tallow o't.
+
+    In allusion to greedy, parsimonious people, who would rather be put
+    to a great deal of trouble than incur a trifling expense.
+
+He would tine his lugs if they were not tacked to him.
+
+    He is so careless and forgetful, that he would lose his ears were
+    they not attached to his head.
+
+He's horn deaf on that side o' his head.
+
+    That is, he is wilfully deaf on that subject.
+
+Highest in the court, nearest the widdie.
+
+Highlanders--shoulder to shoulder.
+
+High trees show mair leaves than fruit.
+
+    In disparaging allusion to tall persons.
+
+His absence is gude company.
+
+His auld brass will buy her a new pan.
+
+    Spoken of young maidens who marry wealthy old men, meaning that when
+    the husband dies his money will help her to a younger one.
+
+      "Though auld Rob Morris be an elderly man,
+      Yet his auld brass it will buy you a new pan;
+      Then, doughter, you shouldna be so ill to shoo,
+      For auld Rob Morris is the man ye maun loo."
+                                             --_Tea-Table Miscellany._
+
+His bark's waur nor his bite.
+
+    "'Hout, mother,' said Hobbie, 'Elshie's no that bad a chield; he's a
+    grewsome spectacle for a crooked disciple, to be sure, and a rough
+    talker; but his bark is waur than his bite.'"--_The Black Dwarf._
+
+His corn's a' caff.
+
+    "I'll lay my lugs that's the true reason, and brawly does he ken his
+    corn's a' caff, or he wadna keep the sack mouth tied, and try to put
+    us aff wi' bletheration."
+
+His e'ening sang and his morning sang are no baith alike.
+
+His eggs hae a' twa yolks.
+
+His geese are a' swans.
+
+    Or, his stories are all of a Munchausen order, told more for the
+    sake of effect than of truth.
+
+His head will never fill his faither's bonnet.
+
+His head's in a creel.
+
+      "My senses wad be in a creel,
+      Should I but dare a hope to speel
+      Wi' Allan, or wi' Gilbertfield,
+                        The braes o' fame;
+      Or Ferguson, the writer chiel,
+                        A deathless name."--_Burns._
+
+His heart's in his hose.
+
+His meal's a' daigh.
+
+His purse and his palate are ill met.
+
+    As the first is light, while the second is heavy.
+
+His room's better than his company.
+
+His tongue's nae slander.
+
+    For his bad character or motives are so well known that none would
+    believe him were he to speak ill of a person.
+
+His wame thinks his wizen's cut.
+
+    This humorous saying is expressive of the most extreme hunger, when
+    the belly has come to the conclusion that the throat has been cut,
+    and all further supply of food stopped.
+
+His wit gat wings and would hae flown, but pinchin' poortith pu'd him
+down.
+
+Honest men marry soon, wise men never.
+
+Honesty hauds lang the gate.
+
+    To "haud the gate" is to "maintain the even tenor of your way."
+
+Honesty may be dear bought, but can ne'er be an ill pennyworth.
+
+Honesty's the best policy.
+
+Honours change manners.
+
+Hooly and fairly gangs far in a day.
+
+    "Working constantly, though soberly (slowly), will despatch a great
+    deal of business."--_Kelly._
+
+Hooly and fairly men ride far journeys.
+
+Hope hauds up the head.
+
+Hope is sawin' while death is mawin'.
+
+Hope weel and hae weel.
+
+Horns an' grey hair dinna aye come o' years.
+
+Horses are gude o' a' hues.
+
+    "A good horse ne'er had a bad colour."--_English._
+
+Hotter war sooner peace.
+
+Hout your dogs and bark yoursel.
+
+    "A sharp return to those that say 'Hout' to us, which is a word of
+    contempt; in Latin, _apage!_"--_Kelly._
+
+Humble worth and honest pride gar presumption stand aside.
+
+Hunger is hard in a hale maw.
+
+    Or, to a healthy stomach.
+
+Hunger me, and I'll harry thee.
+
+    "If servants get not their meat honestly and decently, they will
+    neglect their master's business, or embezzle his goods."--_Kelly._
+
+Hunger never fails of a gude cook.
+
+Hunger's gude kitchen.
+
+    "Hunger is the best sauce."--_English._
+
+Hunger's gude kitchen to a cauld potato, but a wet divot to the lowe o'
+love.
+
+    That is, hunger is good sauce for common meat, but a wet turf
+    (_vulgariter_, "a damper") to love.
+
+Hunger will break through stane wa's.
+
+    The English add to this, "or anything except a Suffolk cheese."
+
+Hungry dogs are blythe o' bursten puddins.
+
+    "To him who is hungry any bread seems good, or none comes
+    amiss."--_Ray._
+
+Hungry folk are soon angry.
+
+Hungry stewards wear mony shoon.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+I ance gied a dog his hansel, an' he was hanged ere night.
+
+    Used as a reason for not giving a gratuity, intimating that it would
+    harm rather than benefit a person.
+
+I bake nae bread by your shins.
+
+    Or, I am not indebted to you for any obligation.
+
+I brought him aff the moor for God's sake, and he begins to bite the
+bairns.
+
+    "Spoken when they whom we have supported make unhandsome and
+    unthankful returns."--_Kelly._
+
+I canna afford ye baith tale and lugs.
+
+    Spoken to a person who is inattentive to what has been said to him,
+    and who asks to have it repeated.
+
+I canna baith spin an' rin.
+
+I canna sell the cow an' sup the milk.
+
+    "He cannot eat his cake and have it."--_English._
+
+I can scarce believe ye, ye speak so fair.
+
+I can see as far into a millstane as he that pick'd it.
+
+I carena whether the fire gae about the roast, or the roast gae about
+the fire, if the meat be ready.
+
+    That is, no matter what means are employed to accomplish an end, so
+    that it be done.
+
+I carena whether the tod worry the goose, or the goose worry the tod.
+
+I could hae done that mysel, but no sae weel.
+
+I deny that wi' baith hands and a' my teeth.
+
+    Expressive of the most emphatic denial.
+
+Idle dogs worry sheep.
+
+Idle young, needy auld.
+
+If a' be weel I'll be wyteless.
+
+    "Spoken with a suspicion that all will not be well, and if so, I
+    have no hand in it."--_Kelly._
+
+If a' bowls row right.
+
+    "Ye are right, Mr Owen--ye are right; ye speak weel and wisely; and
+    I trust bowls will row right, though they are awee ajee
+    e'enow."--_Rob Roy._
+
+If ae sheep loup the dyke, a' the rest will follow.
+
+If a gude man thrive, a' thrives wi' him.
+
+If a lee could hae chokit you, ye wad hae been dead langsyne.
+
+    An indirect or jocular manner of intimating to a person that he is
+    guilty of falsehood.
+
+If a man's gaun down the brae ilka ane gies him a jundie.
+
+"If" an' "an" spoil mony a gude charter.
+
+If ane winna, anither will; sae are maidens married.
+
+If ane winna, anither will--the morn's the market day.
+
+If a' thing's true, _that's_ nae lee.
+
+    A saying expressive of unbelief of some improbable story.
+
+If a' things were to be done twice, ilka ane wad be wise.
+
+If a' your hums and haws were hams and haggises, the parish needna fear
+a dearth.
+
+    "To 'Hum and Haw,' to dally or trifle with one about any business by
+    indefinite and unintelligible language."--_Jamieson._
+
+If better were within better wad come out.
+
+If Candlemas day be dry and fair, the half o' winter's to come and mair;
+if Candlemas day be wet and foul, the half o' winter's gane at Yule.
+
+If e'er you mak a lucky puddin' I'll eat the prick.
+
+    "That is, I am much mistaken if ever you do good."--_Kelly._
+
+If grass does grow in Janiveer, 'twill be the worse for't a' the year.
+
+If he be na a souter, he's a gude shoe clouter.
+
+    If he cannot make new shoes well, he is very good at repairing old
+    ones.
+
+If he binds his pock she'll sit down on't.
+
+    "Spoken when a niggardly man is married on a more niggardly
+    woman."--_Kelly._
+
+If he gies a duck he expects a goose.
+
+If I canna do't by might I can do't wi' slight.
+
+If I canna keep my tongue I can keep my siller.
+
+If I canna kep geese I can kep gaislins.
+
+    "If I cannot work my revenge upon the principal author of my injury,
+    I will upon his children, relations, or friends."--_Kelly._
+
+If I come I maun bring my stool wi' me.
+
+    For, as I am not properly invited, there will be no seat allotted to
+    me.
+
+If "ifs" an' "ans" were kettles an' pans there would be nae use for
+tinklers.
+
+    "Were it not for 'if' and 'but,' we should all be rich for
+    ever."--_French._
+
+If I had a dog as daft, I wad shoot him.
+
+    Signifying that mischievous or silly doings should be put a stop to.
+
+If I had you at Maggy Mill's house, I would get word about wi' ye.
+
+    Used when, in argument or dispute, a man has not a proper
+    opportunity to defend himself.
+
+If I hae done amiss, I'll mak amends.
+
+If I live anither year, I'll ca' this fern-year.
+
+If I'm no kind I'm no cumbersome.
+
+If it be a faut it's nae ferlie.
+
+    Or, it is no wonder, as any other result should not have been
+    expected.
+
+If it be ill it's as ill rused.
+
+    "Spoken of those who discommend what we have."--_Kelly._
+
+If it can be nae better, it's weel it's nae waur.
+
+If it sair me to wear, it may sair you to look at.
+
+    A pertinent reply to those who find fault with a person's dress.
+
+If it werena for hope the heart would break.
+
+If it werena for the belly the back wad wear gowd.
+
+If it winna be a gude shoe we'll mak a bauchel o't.
+
+If it winna sell it winna sour.
+
+    Meaning that an article is good, and will not spoil by keeping.
+
+If marriages are made in heaven, you twa hae few friends there.
+
+If ony body speir at ye, say ye dinna ken.
+
+    Meaning that a person is unwilling to give another some information.
+
+    "'Madge,' said Ratcliffe, 'have ye ony joes now?' 'An ony body ask
+    ye, say ye dinna ken. Set him to be speaking of my joes, auld Daddie
+    Ratton!'"--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+If she was my wife I would mak a queen o' her.
+
+If strokes be gude to gie they'll be gude to tak.
+
+If that God gie the deil daurna reive.
+
+If the auld wife hadna been in the oven hersel, she ne'er wad hae
+thought o' looking for her dochter there.
+
+    That is, if a person had not been guilty of a particular crime
+    himself, he would never have suspected another of it. Kelly inserts
+    this proverb, but says it is English; and Henderson makes it the
+    subject of an illustration.
+
+If the badger leave his hole the tod will creep in.
+
+If the deil be laird, ye'll be tenant.
+
+If the deil find ye idle, he'll set ye to wark.
+
+    For "An idle brain is the devil's workshop."--_English._
+
+If the deil were dead, folk would do little for God's sake.
+
+If the laird slight the leddie his menyie will be ready.
+
+    _Menyie_--the servants or followers will be ready to follow the
+    example.
+
+If the lift fa' the laverocks will be smoored.
+
+    Literally, if the sky falls the larks will be smothered. Spoken when
+    people are anticipating some very improbable occurrence.
+
+If the mare has a bald face the filly will hae a blaze.
+
+    Equivalent to saying, that if the mother is of one complexion the
+    child will be the opposite.
+
+If this be a feast, I hae been at mony.
+
+    The inference is, that he is not pleased with the treatment he is
+    receiving.
+
+If we canna preach in the kirk, we can sing mass in the quire.
+
+If we haena the warld's wealth, we hae the warld's ease.
+
+If wishes were horses beggars wad ride, and a' the warld be drowned in
+pride.
+
+If you be angry, claw your wame, an' cool i' the skin ye het in.
+
+    "Spoken to them whose anger we value not."--_Kelly._
+
+If you be angry, sit laigh and mease you.
+
+If ye be na gall'd ye needna fling.
+
+    Synonymous with the English saying, "If the cap fits, wear it."
+
+If ye dinna haud him he'll do't a'.
+
+    Spoken of lazy people, meaning, that if not restrained they will do
+    too much. Applied tauntingly of course.
+
+If ye dinna like what I gie ye, tak what ye brought wi' ye.
+
+If ye dinna see the bottom, dinna wade.
+
+    If you do not see your way clearly through an undertaking, do not
+    venture on it at all.
+
+If ye do nae ill, dinna be ill like: if ye steal na my kail, breakna my
+dike.
+
+    "He that would no evil do, must do nought that's like
+    thereto."--_English._
+
+If ye gang a year wi' a cripple, ye'll limp at the end o't.
+
+    For "Evil communications corrupt good manners."
+
+If ye had as little money as ye hae manners, ye would be the poorest man
+o' a' your kin.
+
+If ye'll blaw your ain whistle, ye maun uphaud the win'.
+
+If you had been anither, I would hae denied you the first word.
+
+    Meaning that you are granted more indulgence than another would be
+    if similarly situated.
+
+If ye had stuck a knife in my heart it wadna hae bled.
+
+    He was so much surprised by some information.
+
+If ye hae little gear ye hae less care.
+
+If ye're nae better, ye're snoder like, quo' the wife, when she cut off
+the doggie's lugs.
+
+If you laugh at your ain sport, the company will laugh at you.
+
+If you lo'e me, let it kythe.
+
+    That is, if you love me let it appear.
+
+If ye like the nut, crack it.
+
+If ye sell your purse to your wife, gie her your breeks to the bargain.
+
+    "For if your wife command your purse, she will certainly have the
+    mastery in everything else."--_Kelly._
+
+If you spend muckle, put mair to the fore.
+
+If you want your business weel done, do't yoursel.
+
+If you win at that you'll lose at naething.
+
+    "Spoken to them that are about an ill thing, which will undoubtedly
+    prove to their damage."--_Kelly._
+
+"If you winna come you'll bide," quo' Rory to his bride.
+
+    It was a matter of perfect indifference whether Rory got her or not.
+
+If you would be a merchant fine, beware o' auld horses, herring, and
+wine.
+
+    Because, proverbially speaking, the first will die, the second
+    stink, and the third sour.
+
+I gaed through the bear-land wi' him.
+
+    "This is a phrase used by a person who has gone through all the
+    particulars of a quarrel with another, or told him all the grounds
+    of umbrage at his conduct."--_Jamieson._
+
+I gied his birn a hitch.
+
+    Or, assisted him in a strait.
+
+      "Though he bans me, I wish him well,
+        We'll maybe meet again;
+      I'll gie his birn a hitch, an' help
+        To ease him o' his pain."--_Poems in the Buchan Dialect._
+
+I had but little butter, an' that I coost on the coals.
+
+    Said by a person who has been reduced either in circumstances, or in
+    the possession of a particular article, signifying that even the
+    little that was left had been allowed either by carelessness or
+    accident to slip through his fingers.
+
+I had nae mind that I was married, my bridal was sae feckless.
+
+    Meaning that a circumstance was of so little importance that no
+    notice was taken of it.
+
+I hae a gude bow, but it's i' the castle.
+
+    Satirically remarked of those who pretend that they could do great
+    things if they had some article by them, but which they know very
+    well is not near at hand.
+
+I hae a Scotch tongue in my head--if they speak I'se answer.
+
+I hae baith my meat and my mense.
+
+I hae gi'en a stick to break my ain head.
+
+    Engaged in an undertaking which will be to my own disadvantage.
+
+I hae gotten an ill kame for my ain hair.
+
+I hae had better kail in my cog, and ne'er gae them a keytch.
+
+    "The return of a haughty maid to them that tell her of an unworthy
+    suitor. It alludes to an art among the Scottish reapers, who, if
+    their broth be too hot, can throw them up into the air, as they turn
+    pancakes, without losing one drop of them."--_Kelly._
+
+I hae ither fish to fry.
+
+I hae ither tow on my rock.
+
+    That is, I have other work to do.
+
+I hae mair dogs than I hae banes for.
+
+I hae mair to do than a dish to wash.
+
+    That is, I have work of importance to do.
+
+I hae muckle to do, and few to do for me.
+
+I hae my back to the wa': if I dinna slip I'll no fa'.
+
+    A saying expressive of a feeling of confidence or security.
+
+I hae seen as fu' a haggis toom'd on the midden.
+
+    Or as good an article thrown away. Applied disparagingly to any
+    article in question.
+
+I hae seen mair snaw on ae dike, than now on seven.
+
+I hae seen mair than I hae eaten, else ye wadna be here.
+
+    A sharp retort to those who doubt a statement of which the narrator
+    has had ocular demonstration.
+
+I hae taen the sheaf frae the mare.
+
+I hae the Bible, an' there's no a better book in a' your aught.
+
+I hae tint the staff I herded wi'.
+
+    I have lost the support I depended upon.
+
+I hae twa holes in my head, an' as mony windows.
+
+"I hate 'bout gates," quo' the wife when she haurl'd her man through the
+ingle.
+
+    Meaning that she approves of straightforward conduct. Kelly says
+    that the second part is "added only to make it comical."
+
+I ken a spune frae a stot's horn.
+
+    "I had the honour to visit his late gracious Majesty, at his palace
+    of Holyrood, where, I can assure you, I was as civilly entreated as
+    the first in the land, not excluding the Lord Provost of Glasgow,
+    tho' he and his tounfolk tried to put themselves desperately far
+    forrit; but the king saw thro' them brawly, and kent a spoon frae a
+    stot's horn as well as the maist of his liege
+    subjects."--_Motherwell._
+
+I ken by my cog how the cow's milk'd.
+
+    That is, I know by the appearance of a thing when it is properly
+    done.
+
+I ken by your half-tale what your hale tale means.
+
+    Having told me so much I can guess the rest. Applied to those who
+    come to borrow money.
+
+I ken him as weel as if I had gane through him wi' a lighted candle.
+
+I ken how the warld wags: he's honour'd maist has moniest bags.
+
+I ken your meaning by your mumping.
+
+Ilka bean has its black.
+
+    "Ye hae had your ain time o't, Mr Syddall; but ilka bean has its
+    black, and ilka path has its puddle; and it will just set you
+    henceforth to sit at the board end, as weel as it did Andrew
+    langsyne."--_Rob Roy._
+
+Ilka bird maun hatch her ain egg.
+
+Ilka blade o' grass keps it's ain drap o' dew.
+
+Ilka corn has its shool.
+
+Ilka dog has its day.
+
+    "'You have made a most excellent and useful purchase, Cuddie. But
+    what is that portmanteau?' 'The pockmantle?' answered Cuddie: 'It
+    was Lord Evandale's yesterday, and it's yours the day. I fand it
+    ahint the bush o' broom yonder. Ilka dog has its day--ye ken what
+    the auld sang says,
+
+    "'"Take turn about, mither," quo' Tam o' the Linn.'"--_Old
+    Mortality._
+
+Ilka land has its ain land-law.
+
+    "Jeannie Deans, writing from London to Reuben Butler, says,--'Ye
+    will think I am turned waster, for I wear clean hose and shoon every
+    day; but it's the fashion here for decent bodies, and ilka land has
+    its ain land-law.'"--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+Ilka land has its ain leid.
+
+    "Leid," language.--_Jamieson._
+
+Ilka man as he likes--I'm for the cook.
+
+Ilka man buckles his belt his ain gate.
+
+    "'Oh but, sir, what seems reasonable to your honour will certainly
+    be the same to them,' answered Jeanie. 'I do not know that,' replied
+    the Duke; 'ilka man buckles his belt his ain gate--you know our old
+    Scots proverb?'"--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+Ill bairns are aye best heard at hame.
+
+I'll big nae sandy mills wi' you.
+
+    Or I will not join with you in any project.
+
+Ill comes upon waur's back.
+
+    Parallel to the saying, "Misfortunes never come single." In this
+    case it is more forcibly expressed, and means literally, a great
+    misfortune is followed by a greater one.
+
+Ill counsel will gar a man stick his ain mare.
+
+I'll do as the man did when he sell't his land.
+
+    "That is, I will not do it again, for selling of an estate is a
+    fault that few are twice guilty of."--_Kelly._
+
+Ill doers are aye ill dreaders.
+
+Ill flesh ne'er made gude broo.
+
+    Bad meat never made good soup; or, a bad man cannot be expected to
+    do a good act.
+
+I'll gar him draw his belt to his ribs.
+
+    Meaning that a person will be compelled to defend himself.
+
+I'll gar his ain garters bind his ain hose.
+
+    "That is, what expense his business requires I will take it out of
+    his own money."--_Kelly._
+
+I'll gar ye blairt wi' baith your een.
+
+I'll gar ye claw where its no yeuky.
+
+    "Ye bardy loon, gae but the house and mind your wark. Ye thought and
+    they thought; but if it wasna mair for ae thing than anither, I hae
+    a thought that wad gar baith you and them claw where it's no
+    yeuky."--_Sir Andrew Wylie._
+
+I'll gar you sing Port-youl.
+
+    That is, cry, weep:--
+
+      "I'll make them know they have no right to rule,
+      And cause them shortly all sing up Port-yeull."
+                                               --_Hamilton's Wallace._
+
+I'll get a better fore-speaker than you for nought.
+
+Ill getting het water frae 'neath cauld ice.
+
+I'll gie ye a bane to pike that will haud your teeth gaun.
+
+    I will give you work to do which will keep you busy for a time.
+
+I'll gie ye a sark fu' o' sair banes.
+
+    A shirtful of sore bones: _vulgariter_, a thrashing.
+
+I'll gie ye let-a-bee for let-a-bee, like the bairns o' Kelty.
+
+    That is, he will give as good as he gets. "Let-a-bee for let-a-bee,"
+    generally speaking, is expressive of mutual forbearance; but the
+    "bairns o' Kelty" reversed the usual meaning.
+
+Ill got gear ne'er prospered.
+
+I'll haud the grip I've got.
+
+    "'When ye hae gotten the better o' the sore stroke o' the sudden
+    removal of the golden candlestick o' his life from among us, ye'll
+    do everything in a rational and just manner.'
+
+    "''Deed, I'll do nae sic things, mother,' was the reply; 'I'm mindit
+    to haud the grip I hae gotten.'"--_The Entail._
+
+Ill hearing maks wrang rehearsing.
+
+Ill herds mak fat tods.
+
+I'll keep my mind to mysel, and tell my tale to the wind.
+
+Ill laying up maks mony thieves.
+
+    Answered by people who are blamed for breach of confidence.
+
+I'll learn you to lick, for suppin's dear.
+
+Ill-less, gude-less, like the priests' holy water.
+
+I'll mak a shift, as Macwhid did wi' the preachin'.
+
+    "Macwhid was a knowing countryman, and a great stickler for the king
+    and the church. At the Restoration, clergymen being scarce, he was
+    asked if he thought he could preach; he answered that he could make
+    a shift; upon which he was ordained, and got a living."--_Kelly._
+
+I'll mak the mantle meet for the man.
+
+    "That is, I'll pay you according as you serve me."--_Kelly._
+
+I'll neither mak or mar, as the young cock said when he saw the auld
+cock's neck thrawn.
+
+I'll ne'er brew drink to treat drinkers.
+
+    Applied to those who are slow to partake of anything which is
+    offered to them, and signifying that although the article is good,
+    still, if unwilling, they will not be "treated," _i.e._, urged or
+    forced to take it.
+
+I'll ne'er buy a blind bargain, or a pig in a pock.
+
+I'll ne'er dirty the bannet I'm gaun to put on.
+
+I'll ne'er keep a cow when I can get milk sae cheap.
+
+I'll ne'er keep a dog and bark mysel.
+
+    To "keep a dog," &c., is to keep servants and do their work for
+    them.
+
+I'll ne'er lout sae laigh an' lift sae little.
+
+    That is, I will never put myself to so much trouble for such a small
+    remuneration.
+
+I'll ne'er put the rogue aboon the gentleman.
+
+I'll no slip my dog afore the game's afoot.
+
+I'll no tell a lee for scant o' news.
+
+Ill payers are aye gude cravers.
+
+I'll pay you, and put naething in your pouch.
+
+    Intimating that a person will give another a flogging.
+
+I'll put daur ahint the door, and do't.
+
+    Or carry my threats into execution. Used when in a dispute one
+    person "daurs" another to do such a thing.
+
+I'll rather strive wi' the lang rigg than the ill neighbour.
+
+    Meaning that a person would rather conduct a large business himself
+    than be troubled with a disagreeable partner.
+
+Ill's the gout, an' waurs the gravel, but want o' wit maks mony a
+travel.
+
+I'll say naething, but I'll yerk at the thinking.
+
+    He will keep his sorrows to himself, but the recollection of them
+    will make him "yerk," _i.e._, writhe, or start with pain--applied in
+    a mental sense.
+
+I'll see the stars gang withershins first.
+
+      "Bid Iceshogels hammer red gauds on the studdy,
+      And fair simmer mornings nae mair appear ruddy:
+      Leave thee, leave thee, I'll never leave thee;
+      The starns shall gang withershins ere I deceive thee."
+                                             --_Tea-Table Miscellany._
+
+I'll sell my lad, quo' Livistone; I'll buy't, quo' Balmaghie.
+
+    "If a man have a good pennyworth to sell, he will still find a
+    buyer."--_Kelly._
+
+I'll serve ye when ye hae least to do.
+
+I'll take nae mair o' your counsel than I think fit.
+
+I'll tak the best first, as the priest did o' the plooms.
+
+I'll tell the bourd, but no the body.
+
+    That is, I will tell the jest or story, but cannot mention the name
+    of the person to whom it refers.
+
+Ill to tak and eith to tire.
+
+Ill weeds wax weel.
+
+    A saying common to all nations. "Ill weeds grow apace."
+
+Ill will ne'er spak weel.
+
+Ill won gear winna enrich the third heir.
+
+Ill won, ill wair'd.
+
+Ill workers are aye gude onlookers.
+
+I'm as auld as your auncient.
+
+I maun do as the beggars do; when my wame's fu', gang awa.
+
+    Spoken jocularly when a person who has been partaking of a meal with
+    another rises to go away.
+
+"I'm but beginning yet," quo' the wife when she run wud.
+
+I'm flytin' free wi' you.
+
+    That is, on terms of familiarity with you.
+
+I'm forejidged, forefoughten, and forejeskit.
+
+    An alliterative saying of those who are very much fatigued.
+
+I might bring a better speaker frae hame than you.
+
+I'm neither sma' drink thirsty, nor grey bread hungry.
+
+    Spoken when a person is not so freely entertained as he would like
+    to be. Applied generally by those who do not get what they expect,
+    and are offended thereat.
+
+I'm no every man's dog that whistles on me.
+
+I'm no obliged to simmer and winter it to you.
+
+I'm no sae blind as I'm blear-e'ed.
+
+    That is, I am not so blind as unwilling to see.
+
+I'm no sae scant o' clean pipes as to blaw wi' a brunt cutty.
+
+I'm no that fu', but I'm gayly yet.
+
+    I am not fully satisfied, though I am nearly so.
+
+I'm ower auld a dog to learn new tricks.
+
+I'm speaking o' hay and you o' horse corn.
+
+    That is, I am talking on one subject, while you are talking on
+    another.
+
+In a frost a nail is worth the horse.
+
+    Because it may save the horse from falling, and perhaps losing its
+    life. A mere trifle may, at an opportune moment, be of very great
+    service.
+
+In a thousand pounds o' law there's no an ounce o' love.
+
+Industry maks a braw man and breaks ill fortune.
+
+I ne'er lo'ed meat that craw'd in my crappie.
+
+    Metaphorically, I do not like to interfere with matters which may
+    injure me.
+
+I ne'er lo'ed water in my shoon, and my wame's made o' better leather.
+
+    Spoken when a drink of water is offered to a person who is not so
+    fond of it as he is of something stronger.
+
+I ne'er sat on your coat-tail.
+
+    That is, I never interfered with or impeded your progress in any
+    way.
+
+In ower muckle clavering truth is tint.
+
+    _Anglice_, In too much gossiping truth is lost.
+
+It comes to the hand like the bowl o' a pintstoup.
+
+    "It's been the gipsies that took your pockmanky, when they fand the
+    chaise stickin' in the snaw; they wadna pass the like o' that: it
+    wad just come to their hand like the bowl o' a pintstoup."--_Guy
+    Mannering._
+
+I prick'd nae louse since I darned your hose, and then I might hae
+prick'd a thousand.
+
+    Kelly attaches a meaningless remark to this proverb--"An answer of a
+    tailor to him that calls him pricklouse." Is it not meant as a reply
+    of one who may have been under the evil influence of another, and
+    who, having shaken himself free of it, can say honestly that since
+    he has done so he has been perfectly free, however much he may have
+    been under it before?
+
+It canna be worse that's no worth a tinkler's curse.
+
+It doesna set a sow to wear a saddle.
+
+    Or vulgar people to wear fine dress.
+
+It gangs as muckle into my heart as my heel.
+
+Ither folk are weel faur'd, but ye're no sae vera.
+
+    To be "weel faur'd" is to be good-looking; and the proverb is a
+    jocular allusion to the fact that the person addressed is not an
+    Apollo.
+
+I think mair o' the sight than the ferlie.
+
+I think mair o' your kindness than it's a' worth.
+
+I think you hae taen the grumple-face.
+
+    Applied to persons who make a show of displeasure at anything which
+    may be said or done to them.
+
+It keeps his nose at the grundstane.
+
+It maun e'en be ower shoon ower boots wi' me now.
+
+    That is, since I have gone so far in the matter, I must go through
+    with it. "In for a penny in for a pound."--_English._
+
+It may be that swine may flee, but it's no an ilka day's bird.
+
+    An emphatic expression of incredulity at an extraordinary, or what
+    may be deemed improbable, statement.
+
+It may be true what some men say; it maun be true what a' men say.
+
+It may come in an hour what winna gang in seven years.
+
+It's a bare moor that ye gang through an' no get a heather cow.
+
+    A "heather cow," a twig or tuft of heath. Equivalent to the English
+    saying, "It is a long lane that has no turning."
+
+It's a bauch brewing that's no gude in the newing.
+
+"It's a bauld moon," quo' Bennygask--"Anither pint," quo' Lesley.
+
+    This saying has nothing to recommend it but its antiquity. It
+    expresses the reluctance of a convivial party to break up.
+
+    "'Hout, awa, Inverashalloch,' said Galbraith;--'Mind the auld saw,
+    man--It's a bauld moon, quo' Bennygask--Anither pint, quo'
+    Lesley;--we'll no start for anither chappin.'"--_Rob Roy._
+
+It's a cauld stamach that naething hets on.
+
+It's dry tale that disna end in a drink.
+
+It's a far cry to Lochow.
+
+    That any speaking or application is useless. The person addressed
+    either will not or cannot hear.
+
+It's a friend that ruses you.
+
+It's a gude goose that draps aye.
+
+It's a gude maut that comes wi' will.
+
+It's a gude poor man's blade; it will bend ere it break.
+
+    "Spoken of an ill-tempered knife, that will stand as it is bent, or
+    the like."--_Kelly._
+
+It's a gude tongue that says nae ill, but a better heart that thinks
+nane.
+
+It's a gude tree that has neither knap nor gaw.
+
+    That is, a good thing that is without fault.
+
+It's a gude enough warld if it haud.
+
+    A jocular reply to those who complain that this world is a "weary"
+    one.
+
+It's a gude warld, but it's ill divided.
+
+      "It's hardly in a body's pow'r
+      To keep at times frae being sour,
+          To see how things are shar'd,--
+      How best o' chiels are whiles in want,
+      While coofs on countless thousands rant,
+          And kenna how to wair't."--_Burns._
+
+It's a gude warld, but they're ill that are in't.
+
+It's a gude wood that hath ne'er a withered branch in it.
+
+It's a lamb at the up-takin', but an auld sheep or ye get it aff.
+
+    In allusion to the unconscious contraction of bad habits.
+
+It's an ill bargain where nane wins.
+
+It's an ill bird that files its ain nest.
+
+    "Where's the use o' vilifying ane's country, and bringing a
+    discredit on ane's kin, before Southrens and strangers? It's an ill
+    bird that files its ain nest."--_Rob Roy._
+
+It's an ill cause that the lawyer thinks shame o'.
+
+It's an ill fight where he that wins has the warst o't.
+
+It's an ill kitchen that keeps the bread awa.
+
+    Or an ill master that starves his servants.
+
+It's an ill pack that's no worth the custom.
+
+It's an ill thow that comes frae the north.
+
+It's an ill turn that patience winna owercome.
+
+It's an ill wind that blaws naebody gude.
+
+It's a' outs an' ins, like Willie Wood's wife's wame.
+
+It's a pity fair weather should e'er do harm.
+
+It's a poor tongue that canna tell its ain name.
+
+    "'Nane o' your deil's play-books for me,' said Lucky Dods; 'it's an
+    ill world since sic prick-my-dainty doings came into fashion. It's a
+    poor tongue that canna tell its ain name, and I'll hae nane o' your
+    scarts upon pasteboard.'"--_St Ronan's Well._
+
+It's a poor world that winna gie a bit and a brat.
+
+It's a rare thing for siller to lack a maister.
+
+It's a sair dung bairn that mayna greet.
+
+It's a sair field where a's dung down.
+
+It's a sair time when the mouse looks out o' the meal barrel wi' a tear
+in its ee.
+
+It's a sairy collop that's ta'en aff a chicken.
+
+It's a sairy flock where the ewie bears the bell.
+
+    That is, a "sairy," uncomfortable, or poor house where the wife
+    commands, "though," as Kelly slily remarks, "there are some such
+    houses in the world."
+
+It's a sairy mouse that has but ae hole.
+
+It's a shame to eat the cow an' worry on the tail.
+
+    To "eat the cow," &c., is to overlook very great faults, and make a
+    severe example of a trifling one.
+
+It's a silly hen that canna scrape for ae bird.
+
+It's a sin to lee on the deil.
+
+It's a sma' sheil that gies nae shelter.
+
+It's as plain as a pike staff.
+
+    "Na, na, gudeman, ye needna be sae mim; every body kens, and I ken
+    too, that ye're ettling at the magistracy. It's as plain as a pike
+    staff, gudeman, and I'll no let ye rest if ye dinna mak me a
+    bailie's wife or a' be done."--_The Provost._
+
+It's a sooth dream that's seen waking.
+
+It's a sour reek when the gudewife dings the gudeman.
+
+    "A man in my country coming out of his house with tears on his
+    cheeks, was asked the occasion; he said, 'There was a sour reek in
+    the house;' but, upon further inquiry, it was found that his wife
+    had beaten him."--_Kelly._
+
+It's a staunch house that there's never a drap in.
+
+It's as true as Biglam's cat crew, and the cock rock'd the cradle.
+
+It's a thrawn-fac'd wean that's gotten against the father's will.
+
+It's a' tint that's done to auld folk an' bairns.
+
+"It's aye gude to be ceevil," quo' the auld wife when she beckit to the
+deevil.
+
+    A dying Spaniard was being exhorted by his confessor, who told him
+    that the wicked were sent to hell and subjected to all manner of
+    torments by the devil. "I hope," said the Spaniard, "my lord the
+    devil is not so cruel." His confessor reproved the levity of the
+    wish. "Excuse me," said the Don, "I know not into whose hands I may
+    fall; and if I happen to fall into his, I hope he will use me the
+    better for giving him good words."
+
+It's best travelling wi' a horse in your hand.
+
+    Simply, that it is better to travel on horseback than on foot.
+
+It's better sheltering under an auld hedge than under a new planted
+wood.
+
+It's better to drag soon than draw late.
+
+    "Signifying that it is preferable to use strong measures in proper
+    season, than such as are more feeble when it is too
+    late."--_Jamieson._
+
+It's better to sup wi' a cutty than want a spoon.
+
+It's but a year sooner to the begging.
+
+    "Facetiously spoken when we design to be at a little more expense
+    than we thought."--_Kelly._
+
+It's but kindly that the pock savour of the herring.
+
+    Literally, it is but natural that the bag should bear traces of what
+    it has contained.
+
+It's by the mouth o' the cow that the milk comes.
+
+    According to the meat given, or means employed, is the quality of
+    milk, or the result obtained.
+
+It's clean about the wren's door when there's nought within.
+
+It's dear coft honey that's licked aff a thorn.
+
+It's drink will you, but no drink shall you.
+
+    That is, a person's hospitality is not very warm. For courtesy's
+    sake he offers refreshments, but does not press them.
+
+It's easier to big lums than keep them reeking.
+
+It's easier to forgie than to forget.
+
+It serves naething to strive wi' cripples.
+
+    "'Aweel, aweel,' said Hobbie, mounting his horse, 'it serves
+    naething to strive wi' cripples,--they are aye cankered; but I'll
+    just tell you ae thing, neighbour, that if things be otherwise than
+    weel wi' Grace Armstrong, I'se gie you a scouther if there be a tar
+    barrel in the five parishes.'"--_The Black Dwarf._
+
+It sets a haggis to be roasted.
+
+It sets you weel to gab wi' your bannet on.
+
+It's far to seek an' ill to find.
+
+It's folly to live poor to dee rich.
+
+It's gane the thing I lo'ed you for.
+
+It's God that feeds the craws, that neither till, harrow, nor saw.
+
+It's growing to the grund, like a stirk's tail.
+
+    Meaning that a person, or project, is not progressing favourably.
+
+It's gude baking beside the meal.
+
+It's gude fighting under a buckler.
+
+It's gude fishing in drumly waters.
+
+It's gude fish when it's gripp'd.
+
+It's gude game that fills the wame.
+
+It's gude gear that pleases the merchant.
+
+It's gude sleeping in a hale skin.
+
+It's gude to begin weel, but better to end weel.
+
+It's gude to be in your time; ye kenna how lang it may last.
+
+"It's gude to be merry and wise," quo' the miller when he mouter'd
+twice.
+
+    The miller must have been more rogue than fool when he thus took
+    advantage of his customers, for to "mouter," as he did, is to take
+    the fees twice over.
+
+It's gude to be out o' harm's gate.
+
+It's gude to be sib to siller.
+
+    To be "sib to siller," is to be related to rich persons.
+
+It's gude to dread the warst, the best will be the welcomer.
+
+    "Expect the worst, hope for the best, and bear whatever
+    happens."--_English._
+
+It's gude to hae friends baith in heaven and in hell.
+
+It's gude to hae your cog out when it rains kail.
+
+    That is, it is good to take advantage of any opportunities of
+    benefit or advancement which may come in our way: to "make hay while
+    the sun shines."
+
+It's gude to nip the briar in the bud.
+
+It's hard baith to hae and want.
+
+It's hard for a greedy ee to hae a leal heart.
+
+    Or for a covetous person to be honest.
+
+It's hard for an auld mare to leave aff flinging.
+
+It's hard to be poor and leal.
+
+It's hard to keep flax frae the lowe.
+
+It's hard to sit in Rome and strive wi' the pope.
+
+It's ill ale that's sour when it's new.
+
+It's ill baith to pay and to pray.
+
+It's ill bringing but what's no ben.
+
+    The meaning of this proverb is, that it is ill to produce what we
+    are not possessed of.
+
+      "'Swith roast a hen, or fry some chickens,
+      And send for ale to Maggy Pickens,'--
+      'Hout I,' quoth she, 'ye may weel ken,
+      'Tis ill brought but that's no there ben;
+      When but last owk, nae farder gane,
+      The laird got a' to pay his kain.'"--_Allan Ramsay._
+
+It's ill limping before cripples.
+
+It's ill meddling between the bark and the rind.
+
+    "It is a troublesome and thankless office to concern ourselves in
+    the jars and outfalls of near relations, as man and wife, parents
+    and children, &c."--_Kelly._
+
+It's ill praising green barley.
+
+    Because it is hard to tell how it will turn out.
+
+It's ill speaking between a fu' man and a fasting.
+
+    "I have been waiting this hour for you, and I have had a snack
+    myself; and, as they used to say in Scotland in my time--I do not
+    ken if the word be used now--there is ill talking between a full
+    body and a fasting."--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+It's ill taking corn frae geese.
+
+It's ill to be ca'd a thief, an' aye found picking.
+
+    "It is ill to have a bad name, and to be often found in a suspicious
+    place or posture."--_Kelly._
+
+It's ill to mak an unlawful oath, but waur to keep it.
+
+It's ill to put a blythe face on a black heart.
+
+It's ill to quarrel wi' a misrid warld.
+
+It's ill to say it's wrang when my lord says it's right.
+
+    It is ill or dangerous to speak against those who are in authority.
+
+It's ill to tak the breeks aff a Hielandman.
+
+    Highlanders proper wear none, so it means it is difficult to take
+    from a person that which he does not possess.
+
+It's ill waur'd that wasters want.
+
+It's kittle for the cheeks when the hurlbarrow gaes ower the brig o' the
+nose.
+
+It's kittle shooting at corbies and clergy.
+
+      "As for your priesthood, I shall say but little,
+      Corbies and clergy are a shot right kittle;
+      But under favour o' your langer beard,
+      Abuse o' magistrates might weel be spared."--_Burns._
+
+It's kittle to wauken sleeping dogs.
+
+It's lang ere ye saddle a foal.
+
+It's lang or four bare legs gather heat in a bed.
+
+    Applied to young people who get married before they have all that is
+    necessary for housekeeping.
+
+    "It's comfort to hae a frugal woman for a helpmate; but ye ken
+    now-a-days it's no the fashion for bare legs to come thegether. The
+    wife maun hae something to put in the pot as weel as the man."--_The
+    Entail._
+
+It's lang or Like-to-dee fills the kirkyaird.
+
+    Spoken of those who are always complaining how ill they are, and
+    likely to die; but who, nevertheless, generally contrive to live as
+    long as other people.
+
+It's lang or the deil dees at the dike side.
+
+    That is, it will be long ere we hear of the removal or death of a
+    particular person who is a cause of annoyance to us.
+
+It's lang or ye need cry "Schew!" to an egg.
+
+It's lang to Lammas.
+
+    "Spoken in jest when we forget to lay down bread at the table, as if
+    we had done it designedly, because it will be long ere new bread
+    come."--_Kelly._
+
+It's like Truffy's courtship, short but pithy.
+
+It's little o' God's might that makes a poor man a knight.
+
+It's muckle gars tailors laugh, but souters girn aye.
+
+It's nae laughing to girn in a widdy.
+
+    To "girn in a widdy" is to laugh or girn when a halter is round the
+    neck--meaning that it is no joke to be placed in a difficult or
+    dangerous position.
+
+It's nae play when ane laughs and anither greets.
+
+It's nae shift to want.
+
+It's nae sin to tak a gude price, but in gieing ill measure.
+
+It's nae mair ferlie to see a woman greet than to see a goose gang
+barefit.
+
+    "Mattie had ill will to see me set awa on this ride, and grat awee,
+    the silly tawpie; but it's nae mair ferlie to see a woman greet than
+    to see a goose gang barefit."--_Rob Roy._
+
+It's nae wonder wasters want and lathrons lag behint.
+
+It's needless pouring water on a drowned mouse.
+
+It's neither a far road nor a foul gate.
+
+It's neither here nor there, nor yet ayont the water.
+
+It's neither rhyme nor reason.
+
+It's no aye gude i' the maw what's sweet i' the mouth.
+
+It's no easy to straucht in the oak the crook that grew in the sapling.
+
+It's no for nought that the gled whistles.
+
+    "'I think,' said John Gudyill, while he busied himself in
+    re-charging his guns, 'they hae fund the falcon's neb a bit ower
+    hard for them--it's no for nought that the hawk whistles.'"--_Old
+    Mortality._
+
+It's no lost what a friend gets.
+
+It's no safe wading in unco waters.
+
+It's no the burden, but the owerburden, that kills the beast.
+
+It's no the cowl that maks the friar.
+
+It's no the gear to traike.
+
+    "'Wha kens what would be the upshot o' a second marriage?'
+
+    "'That's looking far ben,' replied the laird; 'my wife, to be sure,
+    is a frail woman, but she's no the gear that 'ill traike.'"--_The
+    Entail._
+
+It's no the rumblin' cart that fa's first ower the brae.
+
+    It is not the oldest or most likely person that dies first.
+
+It's no tint that comes at last.
+
+It's no "What is she?" but "What has she?"
+
+It's no what we hae, but what we do wi' what we hae, that counts in
+heaven.
+
+It's ower far between the kitchen an' the ha'.
+
+It's ower late to lout when the head's got a clout.
+
+    "It is too late to throw water on the cinders when the house is
+    burnt down."--_Danish._
+
+It's ower late to spare when the back's bare.
+
+It's ower weel hoardet that canna be found.
+
+It's past joking when the head's aff.
+
+It's sair to haud drink frae drouth.
+
+It spreads like muirburn.
+
+    "Muirburn," furze on fire. Said of ill news.
+
+It's stinking praise comes out o' ane's ain mouth.
+
+It stinks like a brock.
+
+                "Our gentry care sae little
+      For delvers, ditchers, and sic cattle;
+      They gang as saucy by poor folk,
+      As I would by a stinking brock."--_Burns._
+
+It's the barley pickle breaks the naig's back.
+
+It's the best feather in your wing.
+
+It's the best spoke in your wheel.
+
+It's the laird's commands, an' the loon maun loup.
+
+    Orders from those in authority, no matter how ridiculous or
+    unreasonable, must be obeyed. "There's nae bailie-courts among
+    them.... But it's just the laird's command, and the loon maun loup;
+    and the never anither law hae they but the length o' their
+    dirks."--_Rob Roy._
+
+It's the life o' an auld hat to be weel cocket.
+
+It's the wanton steed that scaurs at the windlestrae.
+
+    "Ghaist! my certie, I shall ghaist them--if they had their heads as
+    muckle on their wark as on their daffing they wad play na sic
+    pliskies--it's the wanton steed that scaurs at the windlestrae.
+    Ghaists! wha e'er heard of ghaists in an honest house!"--_St Ronan's
+    Well._
+
+It's the waur o' the wear.
+
+It's time enough to mak my bed when I'm gaun to lie down.
+
+It's time enough to skreigh when ye're strucken.
+
+It's weak i' the wow, like Barr's cat.
+
+It's weel that our fauts are no written in our face.
+
+It's weel won that's aff the wame.
+
+    Or well saved that is won from the belly.
+
+It was but their claes that cast out.
+
+    "That is, the quarrel was not real, but only with design, in order
+    to accomplish some end."--_Kelly._
+
+It was my luck, my leddy, and I canna get by it.
+
+It wasna for naething that the cat licket the stane.
+
+It were a pity to put a foul hand on't.
+
+It were a pity to refuse ye, ye seek sae little.
+
+It will aye be a dirty dub between them.
+
+    "A dirty dub," a puddle of foul water. That is, it will always be a
+    cause of contention between them.
+
+It will be a feather in your cap.
+
+It will be a feather out o' your wing.
+
+It will be a het day gars you startle.
+
+It will be an ill web to bleach.
+
+It will be lang ere you wear to the knee lids.
+
+It will be the last word o' his testament.
+
+    That is, he will delay doing a thing as long as possible.
+
+It will come out yet, like hommel corn.
+
+    "Hommel corn," grain that has no beard. The meaning of the proverb
+    is, that on account of particular circumstances, a certain result
+    may be expected in due time.
+
+It will haud out an honest man, but naething 'll haud out a rogue.
+
+It will mak a braw show in a landward kirk.
+
+    Spoken when a person is asked to give an opinion of something which
+    is considered vulgar--that a gaudy article of dress will look well
+    in a country church--but only there.
+
+It would be a hard task to follow a black dockit sow through a burnt
+muir this night.
+
+It would be a pity to hae spoilt twa houses wi' them.
+
+    "Spoken when two ill-natured people are married."--_Kelly._
+
+It would do a blind man gude to see't.
+
+I will add a stane to his cairn.
+
+    A "cairn" is a heap of stones thrown together in a conical form to
+    mark the grave, or in memory, of a person. To add a stone may mean,
+    proverbially, that a person will bear testimony to the good
+    qualities of another.
+
+"I winna mak a toil o' a pleasure," quo' the man when he buried his
+wife.
+
+    "A man going under his wife's head to the grave was bid go faster,
+    because the way was long and the day short; answered, 'I will not
+    make a toil of a pleasure.'"--_Kelly._
+
+I wat weel how the world wags; he's best lik'd wha has maist bags.
+
+I winna mak fish o' ane an' flesh o' anither.
+
+    I will favour no one, but will treat all alike.
+
+I wish I had a string in his lug.
+
+I wish it may be the first sight ye'll see.
+
+    An expression used when a person is telling that he has received a
+    promise of something welcome--it may be payment of an outstanding
+    account.
+
+I wish you had brose to lay the hair o' your beard.
+
+I wish you had wist what you said.
+
+I wish you may hae as muckle Scotch as tak you to your bed.
+
+    "Spoken when our companions, beginning to take with the drink,
+    begin to speak Latin, ... believing that by and by they will be at
+    that pass that they will be able to speak no language."--_Kelly._
+
+I wish you may lamb in your lair, as mony a good ewe has done.
+
+I wish you readier meat than a rinnin' hare.
+
+I wish you the gude o't that the dogs get o' grass.
+
+I wish you were able, e'en though you didna do't.
+
+I wish you were laird o' your word.
+
+I would as soon see your nose cheese and the cat get the first bite o't.
+
+I would hae something to look at on Sunday.
+
+    The reply of a man who is asked of what use a wife would be to him.
+
+I wouldna be deaved wi' your keckling for a' your eggs.
+
+    That is, your services do not compensate for the annoyance you
+    cause.
+
+I wouldna ca' the king my cousin.
+
+    Expressive of contentment.
+
+I wouldna fodder you for a' your muck.
+
+    Of similar import to "I wouldna be deaved," &c.
+
+I wouldna hae kent ye if I had met ye in my parritch.
+
+    A phrase to express that a person whom you had not seen for a long
+    time had so much altered in appearance as to be scarcely
+    recognisable.
+
+I would rather see't than hear tell o't, as blind Pate said.
+
+I would sooner be your Bible than your horse.
+
+    A jocular allusion to the fact that a person neglects the one, but
+    overworks the other.
+
+I would sooner gae by his door than ower his grave.
+
+    "Nothing but a wish that our sick friend may recover."--_Kelly._
+
+I would sooner hear the lark sing than the mouse cheep.
+
+    Or abroad early in the morning than late at night.
+
+I would sooner my bannock burn than that you should turn't.
+
+    That is, I would rather allow an article to spoil than be indebted
+    to you for assistance in keeping it right.
+
+I would sooner see ye fleipeyed, like a French cat.
+
+    "A disdainful rejection of an unworthy proposal; spoken by bold
+    maids to the vile offers of young fellows."--_Kelly._
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Jeddart justice--first hang a man, syne try him.
+
+    "According to Crawford, in his Memoirs, the phrase _Jedburgh
+    justice_ took its rise in 1574, on the occasion of the Regent Morton
+    there and then trying and condemning, with cruel precipitation, a
+    vast number of people who had offended against the laws, or against
+    the supreme cause of his lordship's faction. A different origin is
+    assigned by the people. Upon the occasion, say they, of nearly
+    twenty criminals being tried for one offence, the jury were equally
+    divided in opinion as to a verdict, when one who had been asleep
+    during the whole trial suddenly awoke, and, being interrogated for
+    his vote, vociferated, 'Hang them a'!'
+
+    "The English phrase 'Lidford Law,' commemorated by Grose, bears the
+    same signification."--_Robert Chambers._
+
+Jock's a mislear'd imp, but ye're a run deil.
+
+    That is, "Jock," although very mischievous, is a quiet and
+    well-behaved person compared to you.
+
+Joke at leisure; ye kenna wha may jibe yoursel.
+
+Jouk, and let the jaw gang by.
+
+    Literally, stoop, and let the rush of water go over your head;
+    meaning, yield to adverse circumstances, and their effects will pass
+    away.
+
+"Just as it fa's," quo' the wooer to the maid.
+
+    "A courtier went to woo a maid: she was dressing supper with a drop
+    at her nose. She asked him if he would stay all night; he answered,
+    'Just as it falls:' meaning, if the drop fell among the meat, he
+    would be off; if it fell by, he would stay."--_Kelly._
+
+Just enough and nae mair, like Janet Howie's shearer's meat.
+
+Just, father, just; three half-crowns mak five shillings; gie me the
+money and I'll pay the man.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Kail hains bread.
+
+Kame sindle, kame sair.
+
+    If the hair is seldom combed it soon becomes a difficult and painful
+    operation to perform. Proverbially applied when simple but necessary
+    matters of business are neglected to such an extent that they become
+    troublesome.
+
+Kamesters are aye creeshy.
+
+    "Kamesters," or wool-combers, are always greasy. People are always
+    like their work.
+
+Katie Sweerock, frae where she sat, cried, "Reik me this, and reik me
+that."
+
+    "Applied to lazy people, who ask others to do this or that for them
+    which they ought to do for themselves."--_Kelly._
+
+Keek in the stoup was ne'er a gude fellow.
+
+    "Spoken when one peeps into the pot to see if the liquor be out;
+    whereas a jolly good fellow should drink about, and when the pot's
+    empty call for more."--_Kelly._
+
+Keep a calm sough.
+
+    That is, keep your own counsel on matters of danger or delicacy.
+
+    "'Thir kittle times will drive the wisest o' us daft,' said Neil
+    Blane, the prudent host of the Howff; 'but I'se aye keep a calm
+    sough.'"--_Old Mortality._
+
+Keep aff and gie fair words.
+
+    Or promise much, but perform little.
+
+    "The assets he carried off are of nae mair use to him than if he
+    were to light his pipe wi' them. He tried if MacVittie & Co. wad gie
+    him siller on them--that I ken by Andro Wylie; but they were ower
+    auld cats to draw that strae afore them--they keepit aff and gae
+    fair words."--_Rob Roy._
+
+Keep a thing seven years, and ye'll find a use for't.
+
+Keep gude company, and ye'll be counted ane o' them.
+
+Keep hame, and hame will keep you.
+
+Keep out o' his company that cracks o' his cheatery.
+
+    Shun the company of him who boasts of his cunning.
+
+Keep something for a sair fit.
+
+    "Keep something for a rainy day."--_English._
+
+Keep the feast till the feast day.
+
+Keep the head and feet warm, and the rest will tak nae harm.
+
+Keep the staff in your ain hand.
+
+Keep woo, and it will be dirt; keep lint, and it will be silk.
+
+    "Lint mellows and improves by keeping, but wool rots."--_Kelly._
+
+Keep your ain fish-guts to your ain sea-maws.
+
+    "'Why, Mrs Heukbane,' said the woman of letters, pursing up her
+    mouth, 'ye ken my gudeman likes to ride the expresses himsel--we
+    maun gie our ain fish-guts to our ain sea-maws--it's a red
+    half-guinea to him every time he munts his mear.'"--_The Antiquary._
+
+Keep your ain cart-grease for your ain cart-wheels.
+
+    Of similar meaning to the preceding proverb.
+
+Keep your breath to cool your parritch.
+
+    Applied to people who are angry without cause, or exercising undue
+    authority.
+
+    "The only wiselike thing I heard ony body say, was decent Mr John
+    Kirk of Kirk-knowe, and he wussed them just to get the king's mercy,
+    and nae mair about it. But he spak to unreasonable folk--he might
+    just hae keepit his breath to hae blawn on his porridge."--_Heart of
+    Midlothian._
+
+Keep your gab steekit when ye kenna your company.
+
+    Be silent or cautious in speaking when in the company of strangers.
+
+Keep your kiln-dried taunts for your mouldy hair'd maidens.
+
+    "A disdainful return to those who are too liberal with their
+    taunts."--_Kelly._
+
+Keep your mocks till ye're married.
+
+Keep your mouth shut and your een open.
+
+Keep your tongue a prisoner, and your body will gang free.
+
+Keep your tongue within your teeth.
+
+Kenn'd folk's nae company.
+
+Ken when to spend and when to spare, and ye needna be busy, and ye'll
+ne'er be bare.
+
+Ken yoursel, and your neighbour winna misken you.
+
+Kindle a candle at baith ends, and it'll soon be done.
+
+Kindness comes o' will; it canna be coft.
+
+Kindness is like cress-seed, it grows fast.
+
+Kindness will creep where it canna gang.
+
+Kings and bears aft worry their keepers.
+
+    "Witness the tragical end of many courtiers."--_Kelly._
+
+Kings are kittle cattle to shoe behint.
+
+    "'Kittill to scho behind,' not to be depended on; not worthy of
+    trust."--_Jamieson._
+
+King's cheese gaes half away in parings.
+
+    For a greater part of the income is absorbed in the expenses of
+    collecting it.
+
+King's cauff's worth ither folk's corn.
+
+    "'I am sure,' said Ritchie, composedly, 'I wish Laurie a higher
+    office, for your lordship's sake and for mine, and specially for his
+    ain sake, being a friendly lad; yet your lordship must consider that
+    a scullion--if a yeoman of the king's most royal kitchen may be
+    called a scullion--may weel rank with a master-cook elsewhere; being
+    that king's cauff, as I said before, is better than ----.'"--_Fortunes
+    of Nigel._
+
+Kings hae lang hands.
+
+Kiss and be kind, the fiddler is blind.
+
+Kiss a sklate stane, and that winna slaver you.
+
+      "'Ah! bonny lass,' says he, 'ye'll gies a kiss,
+      An' I sall set ye richt on, hit or miss.'
+      'A hit or miss I'll get, but help o' you,
+      Kiss ye sklate-stanes, they winna weet your mou'.'
+      An' aff she gaes, the fallow loot a rin,
+      As gin he ween'd wi' speed to tak her in,
+      But as luck was, a knibblich took his tae,
+      An' o'er fa's he, an' tumbled doun the brae."--_Ross's Helenore._
+
+Kissing gaes by favour.
+
+Kissing is cried down since the shaking o' hands.
+
+    Kelly says (1721), "There is a proclamation that nobody should kiss
+    hereafter, but only shake hands." Spoken by a woman who is asked for
+    a kiss, but who is unwilling to allow it.
+
+Kiss my foot, there's mair flesh on't.
+
+    A sharp reply to those who obsequiously ask permission to kiss the
+    hand.
+
+Kiss ye me till I be white, an' that will be an ill web to bleach.
+
+Knock a carle, and ding a carle, and that's the way to win a carle; kiss
+a carle, and clap a carle, and that's the way to tine a carle.
+
+    "Both these are joined together, and signify that people of mean
+    breeding are rather to be won by harsh treatment than
+    civil."--_Kelly._
+
+Kythe in your ain colours, that folk may ken ye.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Lacking breeds laziness, but praise breeds pith.
+
+    "Discommend a boy, and you discourage him; but commend him, and it
+    will spur him on."--_Kelly._
+
+Lads will be men.
+
+Laith to bed, laith oot o't.
+
+Laith to drink, laith frae't.
+
+    Meaning that although some people are slow or "laith" to begin a
+    thing, still, when they do commence, it is difficult to get them to
+    leave off.
+
+Lang and sma', gude for naething ava.
+
+    Jocularly applied to those who are tall and of "genteel" build.
+
+Langest at the fire soonest finds cauld.
+
+Lang fasting gathers wind.
+
+Lang fasting hains nae meat.
+
+Lang leal, lang poor.
+
+Lang lean maks hamald cattle.
+
+    That is, poorly kept cattle makes homely, domestic, or common meat.
+
+Lang look'd for come at last.
+
+Lang mint, little dint.
+
+    "Much ado about nothing."
+
+Lang noses are aye taking till them.
+
+Lang or ye saddle a foal.
+
+Lang or you cut Falkland wood wi' a pen-knife.
+
+    Spoken when people enter into extensive undertakings without
+    sufficient preparations or means.
+
+Lang sick, soon weel.
+
+Lang sport turns aft to earnest.
+
+Lang standing and little offering maks a poor priest.
+
+"Lang straes are nae motes," quo' the wife when she haul'd the cat out
+o' the kirn.
+
+Lang tarrowing taks a' the thanks awa.
+
+    "He loses his thanks that promises, but delays."--_English._
+
+Lang-tongued wives gang lang wi' bairn.
+
+    "Applied to those who discover their projects, designs, and
+    intentions long before they are put in execution."--_Kelly._
+
+Lasses and glasses are bruckle ware.
+
+Lassies are like lamb-legs: they'll neither saut nor keep.
+
+Lassies now-a-days ort nae God's creatures.
+
+    "The proverbial reflection of an old woman, as signifying that in
+    our times young women are by no means nice in their choice of
+    husbands."--_Jamieson._
+
+Last to bed, best heard.
+
+Laugh and lay't down again.
+
+Laugh at leisure, ye may greet ere night.
+
+Laugh at your ain toom pouches.
+
+    "'The japanned tea-caddie, Hannah--the best bohea--bid Tib kindle a
+    spark of fire--the morning's damp--draw in the giggling faces of ye,
+    ye d--d idle scoundrels, or laugh at your ain toom pouches--it will
+    be lang or your weel-doing fill them.' This was spoken, as the
+    honest lawyer himself might have said, _in transitu_."--_St Ronan's
+    Well._
+
+Law licks up a'.
+
+    "The Laird has been a true friend on our unhappy occasions, and I
+    have paid him back the siller for Effie's misfortune, whereof Mr
+    Nichil Novit returned him no balance, as the Laird and I did expect
+    he wad hae done. But law licks up a', as the common folk say. I have
+    had the siller to borrow out o' sax purses."--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+Law-makers shouldna be law-breakers.
+
+Law's a deadly distemper amang friends.
+
+Law's costly: tak a pint and gree.
+
+      "How easy can the barley bree
+                    Cement the quarrel!
+      It's aye the cheapest lawyer's fee,
+                    To taste the barrel."--_Burns._
+
+Lay a thing by and it'll come o' use.
+
+Lay the head o' the sow to the tail o' the grice.
+
+    Or place the profit against the loss.
+
+    "An' I am to lose by ye, I'se ne'er deny I hae won by ye mony a fair
+    pund sterling--sae, an' it come to the warst, I'se e'en lay the head
+    o' the sow to the tail o' the grice."--_Rob Roy._
+
+Lay the sweet side o' your tongue till't.
+
+    "An answer to them that ask what they will get to their hasty
+    pudding."--_Kelly._
+
+Lay up like a laird, and seek like a lad.
+
+Lay your wame to your winning.
+
+    That is, let your housekeeping expenses be in unison with your
+    income.
+
+Laziness is muckle worth, when it's weel guided.
+
+Lazy youth maks lousy age.
+
+Leal folk ne'er wanted gear.
+
+Leal heart leed never.
+
+      "A' was toom, a' heartless-like, an' bare;
+      Her dowie pain she culdna mair conceal--
+      The heart, they'll say, will never lie that's leal."
+                                                  --_Ross's Helenore._
+
+Lean on the brose ye got in the morning.
+
+    Spoken facetiously to a person who leans heavily on another.
+
+Leap year was never a gude sheep year.
+
+Learn the cat the road to the kirn, and she'll aye be lickin'.
+
+Learn young, learn fair; learn auld, learn mair.
+
+Learn your gudewife to mak milk kail.
+
+    That is, "Teach your grandmother to suck eggs."
+
+Learn you an ill habit and ye'll ca't a custom.
+
+Least said soonest mended.
+
+Leave aff while the play's gude.
+
+Leave a jest when it pleases you best.
+
+Leave the court ere the court leave you.
+
+Leave welcome aye behint you.
+
+    Prolong your stay only so long as you find your company approved of,
+    so that you may not be considered tedious.
+
+Lee for him and he'll swear for you.
+
+Leein' rides on debt's back.
+
+Lend your money and lose your friend.
+
+    "It is not the lending of our money that loses our friend; but the
+    demanding of it again, and that will lose a friend to my certain
+    knowledge. They have a proverbial rhyme to this purpose:--
+
+    "'I had a     }       {and a  }        {as many of this land,
+    I lent my     }       {to my  }        {when he did it demand,
+    I sought my   } penny {from my} friend {when he had kept it long,
+    I lost my     }       {and my }        {and was not that a wrong?
+    Had I a       }       {and a  }        {as I have had before,
+    I wo'd keep my}       {and my }        {and play the fool no more.'"
+                                                            --_Kelly._
+
+Let-a-be for let-a-be.
+
+    "Mutual forbearance."--_Jamieson._
+
+Let ae deil dang anither.
+
+    An expression of indifference at two bad persons quarrelling.
+
+Let a horse drink what he will, but no when he will.
+
+Let alane maks mony a loon.
+
+"Let a' trades live," quo' the wife when she burnt her besom.
+
+Let aye the bell'd wether break the snaw.
+
+    A "bell'd wether" is a ram with a bell round its neck; and the
+    proverb means that a difficult or dangerous undertaking should be
+    led by a person of experience.
+
+Let folk bode weel, and do their best.
+
+Let him cool in the skin he het in.
+
+Let him drink as he has brewen.
+
+Let by-ganes be by-ganes.
+
+    "'Hout, ay,' said Elliot, 'just let by-ganes be by-ganes, and a'
+    friends again; deil ane I bear malice at but Westburnflat, and I hae
+    gi'en him baith a het skin and a cauld ane.'"--_The Black Dwarf._
+
+Let him haud the bairn that's aught the bairn.
+
+Let him ride his ain horse wi' his ain hauding.
+
+Let him tak a spring on his ain fiddle.
+
+Let him tak his fling, and he'll find oot his ain weight.
+
+Let him that's cauld blaw the ingle.
+
+Let him that pays the lawin' choose the lodging.
+
+    "'I dinna ken, sir,' she replied in a dry _revêche_ tone, which
+    carried me back twenty years, 'I am nane of thae heartsome
+    landleddies that can tell country cracks, and make themsells
+    agreeable; and I was ganging to pit on a fire for you in the red
+    room; but if it is your will to stay here, he that pays the lawing
+    maun choose the lodging.'"--_The Highland Widow._
+
+Let his ain wand ding him.
+
+Let ilka ane roose the ford as they find it.
+
+    That is, let every one speak of a thing as he finds it.
+
+Let ilka ane soop before their ain door.
+
+Let ilka cock fight his ain battle.
+
+Let ilka herring hing by its ain head.
+
+Let ilka man soop the ice wi' his ain besom.
+
+Let ilka sheep hang by its ain shank.
+
+Let ilka tub stand on its ain bottom.
+
+Let na the plough stand to kill a mouse.
+
+    Do not quit or neglect an important matter to look after trifles.
+
+Let ne'er your gear owergang ye.
+
+    Never let your wealth make you give way to pride, or forget your old
+    friends.
+
+Let never sorrow come sae near your heart.
+
+Let sleeping dogs lie.
+
+Let that flee stick to the wa'.
+
+    "'Hout tout, man! let that flee stick in the wa',' answered his
+    kinsman; 'when the dirt's dry it will rub out.'"--_Rob Roy._
+
+Let the eird bear the dike.
+
+    "Eird and dike" are earth and stone wall. The proverb means that
+    heavy or important undertakings should have a solid basis.
+
+Let the horns gang wi' the hide.
+
+    The horns bearing but insignificant value in comparison with the
+    hide, they should be thrown into the purchase of the latter free of
+    charge.
+
+Let the kirk stand i' the kirkyaird.
+
+    That is, let everything be in its proper place.
+
+Let them care that come behint.
+
+Let the morn come and the meat wi't.
+
+Let the muckle horse get the muckle windlin.
+
+Let the tail follow the skin.
+
+Let the tow gang wi' the bucket.
+
+Let your meat dit your mouth.
+
+Liars should hae gude memories.
+
+Lick and lay down.
+
+    A proverbial form of expression of a man's being able to pay his
+    way.
+
+    "And what for suld I no have a _corpus delicti_, or a _habeas
+    corpus_, or ony other _corpus_ that I like, sae lang as I am willing
+    to lick and lay down the ready siller?"--_St Ronan's Well._
+
+Lick your loof and lay't in mine, dry leather jigs aye.
+
+    "This signifies no more but kiss your hand and give it. Spoken
+    facetiously upon some good fortune unexpected."--_Kelly._
+
+Lie in your bed and lippen to that.
+
+Life's life ony gate.
+
+    "'And now we're settled ance mair,' said Cuddie to his mother, 'and
+    if we're no sae bein and comfortable as we were up yonder, yet
+    life's life ony gate, and we're wi' decent kirk-ganging folk o' your
+    ain persuasion, mither; there will be nae quarrelling about
+    that.'"--_Old Mortality._
+
+Light burdens break nae banes.
+
+Light lades mak willing horses.
+
+Lightly come, lightly gang.
+
+Light maidens mak langing lads.
+
+"Light's heartsome," quo' the thief to the Lammas mune.
+
+Lightsome sangs mak merry gate.
+
+    "Ratcliffe, speaking apart to Madge, asked her 'whether she did not
+    remember ony o' her auld sangs?' 'Mony a dainty ane,' said Madge;
+    'and blithely can I sing them, for lightsome sangs make merry
+    gate.'"--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+Light suppers mak lang days.
+
+Like a sow playing on a trump.
+
+    "Trump," a Jew's harp. Typical of extreme awkwardness.
+
+Like Bauldy's wedding, there's nae meat but muckle mirth.
+
+Like blood, like gude, like age, mak the happy marriage.
+
+Like butter in the black dog's hause.
+
+    That is, a dangerous position, as butter in the embrace of a dog
+    certainly is.
+
+Like Cranshaws kirk--there's as mony dogs as folk, and neither room for
+reel nor rock.
+
+    "In a remote pastoral region, like that of Cranshaws, lying in the
+    midst of the Lammermoor hills, it is or was usual for shepherds'
+    dogs to accompany their masters to the church; and in times of
+    severe stormy weather, few people except the shepherds, who are
+    accustomed to be out in all weathers, could attend divine service;
+    and in such circumstances, it may have occurred that the dogs may
+    have equalled in number the rational hearers of the Word. We have
+    heard the saying applied by bustling servant girls to a scene where
+    three or four dogs were lounging about a kitchen hearth, and
+    impeding the work."--_G. Henderson._
+
+Liked gear is half-bought.
+
+    "When wares please, a bargain is soon made."--_English._
+
+Like draws aye to like, like an auld horse to a fell dike.
+
+    Persons of similar tastes draw towards and sympathize with each
+    other. "Like will to like--a scabbed horse and a sandy
+    dike."--_Danish._ "Like will to like, as the devil said to the
+    coal-burner."--_German._
+
+Like hens, ye rin aye to the heap.
+
+    Spoken jocularly to those who help themselves to what there is most
+    of on the table.
+
+Like Hilton kirk, baith narrow and mirk, and can only haud its ain
+parish folk.
+
+    "Hilton kirk was a very small edifice in Berwickshire, and it would
+    seem from the saying not very well lighted. When any number of
+    strangers came as hearers, the accommodation was deficient; the
+    saying is used when many persons assemble in a small house, and
+    there is little room to stir about."--_G. Henderson._
+
+Like Lamington's mare, ye break brawly aff, but sune set up.
+
+Likely lies i' the mire, and unlikely gets ower.
+
+    Meaning that many undertakings which promise favourably at first
+    often fail; while those of which no great hopes are entertained are
+    successfully carried through.
+
+Like maister, like man; like priest, like offering.
+
+Like Moses' breeks, neither shape, form, nor fashion.
+
+Like Orkney butter, neither gude to eat nor creesh woo.
+
+    "A minister having in these words compared the covenant, made it a
+    proverb. Applied to a thing that is useful no way."--_Kelly._
+
+Like paddy's ghost, twa steps ahint.
+
+Like's an ill mark amang ither folk's sheep.
+
+Like the bairns o' Falkirk, they'll end ere they mend.
+
+    "This is a proverbial saying of ill-doing persons, as expressive of
+    there being no hope of them. How the children of Falkirk came to be
+    so characterized, it would be difficult now to ascertain. The adage
+    has had the effect of causing the men of Falkirk jocularly to style
+    themselves 'the bairns;' and when one of them speaks of another as
+    'a bairn,' he only means that that other person is a native of
+    Falkirk."--_Robert Chambers._
+
+Like the cat, fain fish wad ye eat, but ye are laith to weet your feet.
+
+    "The cat is fain the fish to eat, but hath no will to wet her
+    feet."--_English._
+
+    "Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' like the poor cat i' the
+    adage."--_Macbeth._
+
+Like the cowts o' Bearbughty, ye're cowts till ye're best's by.
+
+Like the cur in the crub, he'll neither do nor let do.
+
+    A Scottish version of the dog in the manger.
+
+Like the dam o' Devon, lang gathered and soon gane.
+
+Like the fiddler o' Chirnside's breakfast, it's a' pennyworth's
+thegither.
+
+    "This is said of people who buy very small quantities of any
+    article. Fiddlers are proverbially poor, and the one of Chirnside
+    was no exception to the rule. One morning he sent his boy for
+    materials for breakfast, and the order was delivered to the
+    shopkeeper in the following measured terms:--
+
+      "'A pennyworth o' tea,
+      A pennyworth o' sugar,
+      Three penny loaves,
+      And a pennyworth o' butter;
+      And a pennyworth o' he herring,
+          For my faither likes melts!'"--_G. Henderson._
+
+Like the gudeman o' Kilpalet, ye're ower simple for this warld, and hae
+nae broo o' the next.
+
+Like the laird o' Castlemilk's foals--born beauties.
+
+Like the lassies o' Bayordie, ye learn by the lug.
+
+Like the man o' Amperly's coo, she's come hame routin', but no very fu',
+wi' the tow about her horns.
+
+    "The cow came home unsold; and the rhyme is applied to a young woman
+    who comes home from a fair or market without a 'jo' or
+    sweetheart."--_G. Henderson._
+
+Like the man wi' the sair guts--nae getting quat o't.
+
+Like the smith's dog, sleep at the sound o' the hammer, and wauk at the
+crunching o' teeth.
+
+Like the tod's whalps, aye the aulder the waur.
+
+Like the wabster, stealing through the warld.
+
+    Another insult to the weaving profession. The reply of a person who
+    is asked how he is getting on.
+
+Like the wife that ne'er cries for the ladle till the pat rins o'er.
+
+    That is, never asks for an article until it is too late.
+
+Like the wife wi' the mony dochters, the best's aye hindmost.
+
+    Or, at least, she would have the lover of the last believe so.
+
+Like the wife's tongue, aften better meant than timed.
+
+Like the witches o' Auchencrow, ye get mair for your ill than your gude.
+
+    "That is, people sometimes grant an individual a favour through fear
+    of malevolence, or to get rid of his importunity."--_G. Henderson._
+
+Like to like.
+
+    "I'll tell ye, Ratton, blithe will Nicol Muschat be to see ye, for
+    he says he kens weel there isna sic a villain out o' hell as ye are,
+    and he wad be ravished to hae a crack wi' ye--like to like, ye
+    ken--it's a proverb never fails; and ye are baith a pair o' the
+    deevil's peats, I trow--hard to ken whilk deserves the hettest
+    corner o' his ingleside."--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+Like water to leather--the langer the tougher.
+
+    "Although my mither has been, past the memory o' man, in a
+    complaining condition, I ken nae odds o' her this many a year; her
+    ail's like water to leather, it makes her life the tougher."--_The
+    Entail._
+
+Lippen to me, but look to yoursel.
+
+Lips gae, laps gae, drink and pay.
+
+    "If you put your lips to the cup to drink, put your hand to your lap
+    to take out your purse."--_Kelly._
+
+Listen at a hole, and ye'll hear news o' yoursel.
+
+List to meat's gude kitchen.
+
+Little and aften fills the purse.
+
+Little can a lang tongue layne.
+
+Little does the puir gude, and as little get they.
+
+Little dogs hae lang tails.
+
+Little folk are soon angry.
+
+    A frequent addition gives the reason--for their heart gets soon to
+    their mouth.
+
+Little gear, little care.
+
+Little Jock gets the little dish, and that hauds him lang little.
+
+    "Poor people are poorly served, which prolongs their
+    poverty."--_Kelly._
+
+Little kens the auld wife, as she sits by the fire, what the wind is
+doing on Hurley-Burley-Swire.
+
+    "Hurle-Burle-Swire is a passage through a ridge of mountains that
+    separate Nithsdale from Twadale and Clydsdale: where the mountains
+    are so indented one with another that there is a perpetual blowing.
+    The meaning is that they who are at ease know little of the trouble
+    that others are exposed to."--_Kelly._
+
+Little kent, the less cared for.
+
+Little may an auld horse do if he maunna nicher.
+
+Little meddling maks fair pairting.
+
+Little mense o' the cheeks to bite aff the nose.
+
+    It is bad policy for a person to injure another with whom he is
+    intimately connected, or upon whom he is depending.
+
+Little odds between a feast and a fu' wame.
+
+Little said is soon mended, little gear is soon spended.
+
+Little's the light will be seen far in a mirk night.
+
+    "'But the flame!' demanded Ravenswood; 'the broad blaze which might
+    have been seen ten miles off--what occasioned that?' 'Hout, awa!
+    it's an auld saying and a true, "Little's the light will be seen far
+    in a mirk night"--a wheen fern and horse litter that I fired in the
+    courtyard, after sending back the loon of a footman.'"--_Bride of
+    Lammermoor._
+
+Little to fear when traitors are true.
+
+Little troubles the ee, but less the soul.
+
+Little wats the ill-willy wife what a dinner may haud in.
+
+    Although a wife be very angry and "ill-willy" with her husband in
+    private, still in public she should be cautious for obvious reasons,
+    one of which is, Kelly says, "That a handsome treat may secure good
+    friends and great interest."
+
+Little winning maks a light purse.
+
+Little wit in the head maks muckle travel to the feet.
+
+    People of few resources, or poor imagination, are apt to be put
+    about by trifles.
+
+Little wit in the pow that lights the candle at the lowe.
+
+Live in measure, and laugh at the mediciners.
+
+Live upon love, as laverocks do on leeks.
+
+Living at heck and manger.
+
+    To live at "heck and manger" is to fare sumptuously every day, even
+    beyond our income.
+
+Lock your door, that you may keep your neighbours honest.
+
+Lo'e me little an' lo'e me lang.
+
+Look before ye loup, ye'll ken better how to light.
+
+      "Luke quhair thou licht befoir thou lowp,
+      And slip na certainty for howp,
+      Quha gyds thee but begess."--_Cherrie and the Slae._
+
+Loud coos the doo when the hawk's no whistling; loud cheeps the mouse
+when the cat's no rustling.
+
+    That is, subordinates take advantage when superiors are out of the
+    way. "When the cat's away, the mice will play."--_English._
+
+Loud i' the loan was ne'er a gude milk cow.
+
+    Noisy people, or those who are always boasting of what they can do,
+    are seldom so clever even as their neighbours. Kelly says this is "a
+    reprimand to noisy girls."
+
+Love and jealousy are sindle sindry.
+
+Love and lairdship's like nae marrows.
+
+    "Marrow," that is, an equal, match, or antagonist.
+
+Love and light winna hide.
+
+Love has nae lack, be the dame e'er sae black.
+
+Love has nae law.
+
+Love is as warm amang cottars as courtiers.
+
+      "The rose blooms gay on shairney brae,
+        As weel's in birken shaw;
+      And love will lowe in cottage low,
+        As weel's in lofty ha'."--_Tannahill._
+
+Love ower het soon cools.
+
+Love your friend and look to yoursel.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Maidens should be mild and meek, quick to hear, and slow to speak.
+
+Maidens should be mim till they're married, and then they may burn
+kirks.
+
+    "Spoken often, by way of reflection, when we say that such a one is
+    a good-humoured girl, as if you would say, 'Observe how she'll prove
+    when she is married.'"--_Kelly._
+
+Maidens' tochers and ministers' stipends are aye less than ca'd.
+
+Maidens want naething but a man, and then they want a'thing.
+
+Mair by luck than gude guiding.
+
+    That is, a person has been successful by mere force of
+    circumstances, and by no particular merit of his own.
+
+Mair hamely than welcome.
+
+"Mair haste the waur speed," quo' the tailor to the lang thread.
+
+Mair nice than wise.
+
+Mair pride than pith.
+
+Mair than enough is ower muckle.
+
+Mair than the deil wear a black manteel.
+
+"Mair whistle than woo," quo' the souter when he sheared the sow.
+
+    The saying, "Great cry and little wool," is common to all nations;
+    the Scottish version, however, is the most expressive and humorous
+    we have met with.
+
+Maister's will is gude wark.
+
+    For the master himself is sure to be pleased with it.
+
+Maistry maws the meadows doun.
+
+    "The captain's a queer hand ... he keeps a high hand ower the
+    country, and we couldna deal with the Hielandmen without his
+    protection, sin' a' the keys o' the kintray hings at his belt; and
+    he's no an ill body in the main; and maistry, ye ken, maws the
+    meadows doun."--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+Mak ae wrang step and down ye gae.
+
+Mak ae pair o' legs worth twa pair o' hands.
+
+    "He freed Rashleigh from my hold, and securing me, notwithstanding
+    my struggles, in his own Herculean gripe, he called out, 'Take the
+    bent, Mr Rashleigh--make ae pair o' legs worth twa pair o' hands; ye
+    hae done that before now.'"--_Rob Roy._
+
+Mak a kiln o't, and creep in at the logie.
+
+    We surmise that this is intended as an advice to a person who has
+    become possessed of an article, and does not know what to do with
+    it, like the old lady who won the principal prize in the lottery,
+    said prize consisting of a live elephant! A "killogie" is, says
+    Jamieson, "a vacuity before the fireplace in a kiln for drawing
+    air."
+
+Mak a kirk or a mill o't.
+
+    Similar to the preceding proverb. Equivalent to saying such a thing
+    is entirely in your own control; you may do what you please with it.
+
+Mak friends o' fremit folk.
+
+Mak hay while the sun shines.
+
+Mak nae bauks in gude bear-land.
+
+    To "bauk" is to leave small strips of land unturned in ploughing.
+    Kelly says of this proverb that it is "spoken when it is proposed to
+    marry the youngest daughter before the eldest."
+
+Mak nae orts o' gude hay.
+
+    Literally, do not throw aside good hay.
+
+Mak nae toom ruse.
+
+    "Toom ruse" means empty praise, and the proverb signifies that we
+    should not praise indiscriminately, or without knowledge of the
+    subject.
+
+Mak the best o' a bad bargain.
+
+Mak your wife a gowdspink, and she'll turn a water-wagtail.
+
+    That is, if you indulge a person freely to a certain extent, the
+    probability is he will exceed the limits.
+
+Malice is aye mindfu'.
+
+Man proposes, God disposes.
+
+Man's twal is no sae gude as the deil's dizzen.
+
+    No, because "man's twal" is twelve, while the "deil's dizzen" is
+    thirteen.
+
+March comes like a lion and gangs like a lamb.
+
+March comes wi' adders' heads and gangs wi' peacocks' tails.
+
+March dust and March win', bleaches as weel as simmer's sun.
+
+March dust and May sun mak corn white and maidens dun.
+
+March water and May sun makes claes clear and maidens dun.
+
+    The explanation of this saying, which belongs to the Mearns, is,
+    that water in the month of March is supposed to be of a more
+    cleansing quality than in any other month. The same idea is also
+    expressed in the following saying:
+
+March water's worth May soap.
+
+March whisquer was ne'er a gude fisher.
+
+Marriage and hanging gae by destiny.
+
+Married folk are like rats in a trap--fain to get ithers in, but fain to
+be out themsels.
+
+Marriage wad tame the sea, if a match could be got for her.
+
+      "Of all comforts I miscarried,
+      When I played the sot and married:
+      'Tis a trap, there's none need doubt on't;
+      Those that are in would fain get out on't."--_Tea-Table Miscellany._
+
+Marry abune your match, and get a maister.
+
+Marry for love, and work for siller.
+
+Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.
+
+Marry your son when you will, but your dochter when you can.
+
+Maun-do is a fell fallow.
+
+    "Necessity is a hard master."--_German._
+
+May-be's are no aye honey bees.
+
+    "An answer to them that say, 'Maybe it will fall out so or
+    so.'"--_Kelly._
+
+May-be's flee na at this time o' the year.
+
+Maybe's a big book.
+
+Maybe your pat may need my clips.
+
+    Perhaps some day you will be glad of my assistance, although you
+    despise it just now.
+
+May birds are aye cheeping.
+
+    This refers to the popular superstition against marrying in the
+    month of May, the children of which marriages are said to "die of
+    decay."
+
+May he that turns the clod ne'er want a bannock.
+
+Mealy mou'd maidens stand lang at the mill.
+
+Measure twice, cut but ance.
+
+Meat and mass ne'er hindered wark.
+
+    "'Happy will I be to serve you, my gude auld acquaintance,' said the
+    clerk; 'but sit you down--sit you down--sit you down, Mrs
+    Dods,--meat and mass never hindered wark. Ye are something overcome
+    wi' your travel--the spirit canna aye bear through the flesh, Mrs
+    Dods.'"--_St Ronan's Well._
+
+Meat and measure mak a' men wise.
+
+Meat feeds, claith cleeds, but breeding maks the man.
+
+Meat is gude, but mense is better.
+
+Men are no to be mete by inches.
+
+Men speak o' the fair as things went there.
+
+Mettle's kittle in a blind mare.
+
+Michaelmas mune rises nine nights alike sune.
+
+Mills and wives are aye wanting.
+
+Mind me to a' that ask for me, but blad me in naebody's teeth.
+
+Mind thysel, the warld will mind the lave.
+
+Mint before you strike.
+
+Minting gets nae bairns.
+
+Mischief's mother's but like midge's wing.
+
+Mister makes a man o' craft.
+
+Misterfu' folk maunna be mensefu'.
+
+    "Beggars should not be choosers."--_English._
+
+Mist in May and heat in June mak the harvest right soon.
+
+Mistress before folk, gudewife behint backs; whaur lies the dishclout?
+
+    A jocular manner of addressing those who are very particular in
+    their manner of speaking.
+
+Mocking's catching.
+
+Money's aye welcome, were it even in a dirty clout.
+
+Money's better than my lord's letter.
+
+Money's like the muck midden, it does nae gude till it be spread.
+
+Money makes and money mars.
+
+    "He who hath gold hath fear, and he who hath none has sorrow."
+
+Money maks a man free ilka where.
+
+Money maks the mare to go whether she has legs or no.
+
+Mony a dog has dee'd sin' ye were whelped.
+
+Mony a dog will dee ere you fa' heir.
+
+Mony a frost and mony a thowe, sune makes mony a rotten yowe.
+
+Mony a gude tale is spoilt in the telling.
+
+    "Applied often when a good sermon is ill delivered, to my certain
+    knowledge."--_Kelly._
+
+Mony ane for land taks a fool by the hand.
+
+    That is, many marry only for the sake of money and possessions.
+
+Mony ane kens the gude fellow that disna ken the gude fellow's wife.
+
+    The reason being that he is a "gude fellow" only when abroad or in
+    the taproom, and not when he is at home.
+
+Mony ane kisses the bairn for love o' the nurse.
+
+    "That is, show their kindness to the companions, friends, or
+    relations of those upon whom they have a design, which they hope by
+    their influence to effect."--_Kelly._
+
+Mony ane lacks what they would fain hae in their pack.
+
+Mony ane maks an errand to the ha' to bid my leddy good day.
+
+    Or, many occupy themselves with trifles.
+
+Mony ane opens his pack and sells nae wares.
+
+Mony ane's coat saves their doublet.
+
+    "Spoken when clergymen use you saucily, whom, in deference to their
+    profession, you will not beat."--_Kelly._
+
+Mony ane ser's a thankless maister.
+
+Mony ane's gear is mony ane's death.
+
+Mony ane speaks o' Robin Hood that ne'er shot wi' his bow.
+
+    "Doctor Luther's shoes do not fit every parish priest."--_German._
+
+Mony ane tines the half-merk whinger for the ha'-penny whang.
+
+    This nearly obsolete saying means, literally, loses a sixpenny
+    dagger for the sake of a halfpenny thong. "Spoken," says Kelly,
+    "when people lose a considerable thing for not being at an
+    inconsiderable expense."
+
+Mony ane wad blush to hear what he wadna blush to dae.
+
+Mony ane wad hae been waur had their estates been better.
+
+Mony an honest man needs help that hasna the face to seek it.
+
+"Mony a thing's made for the penny," as the wifie said when she saw the
+black man.
+
+Mony a true tale's tauld in jest.
+
+Mony aunts, mony emes, mony kin, but few friends.
+
+    The word "eme" signifies uncle, and the saying--its claims as a
+    proverb are small enough--means that a person may have many
+    relations but very few friends among them.
+
+Mony care for meal that hae baked bread enough.
+
+    "Spoken against whining, complaining people, who have enough, and
+    yet are always making a moan."--_Kelly._
+
+Mony cooks ne'er made gude kail.
+
+Mony fair promises at the marriage-making, but few at the tocher-paying.
+
+    A man may "promise like a merchant and pay like a man-of-war's-man;"
+    that is, promise anything that may be asked, for the sake of
+    concluding a bargain, but which, once made, he is in no haste to
+    perform.
+
+Mony gude-nights is laith away.
+
+    "He shakes hands often who is loath to go."--_French._
+
+Mony hands maks light work.
+
+Mony hawes, mony snawes.
+
+    "When there is a great exhibition of blossoms on the hedgerows, the
+    ensuing winter will be a remarkable one for snow storms."--_Robert
+    Chambers._
+
+Mony hounds may soon worry ae hare.
+
+Mony kinsfolk but few friends.
+
+Mony 'll sup wi' little din, that wadna gree at moolin in.
+
+Mony littles mak a muckle.
+
+Mony purses haud friends lang thegither.
+
+Mony rains, mony rowans; mony rowans, mony yewns.
+
+    "Yewns being light grain. The rowans are the fruit of the mountain
+    ash, which never are ripe till harvest. It is a common observation,
+    that an abundance of them generally follows a wet season."--_Robert
+    Chambers._
+
+Mony sae "weel" when it ne'er was waur.
+
+    "Spoken to them that say 'well' by way of resentment."--_Kelly._
+
+Mony time I hae got a wipe wi' a towel, but ne'er a daub wi' a dishclout
+before.
+
+    Or reprimanded by a person who had authority to do so, but never
+    roughly handled by one who had no right to interfere. Kelly says
+    this is "spoken by saucy girls when one jeers them with an unworthy
+    sweetheart."
+
+Mony ways to kill a dog though ye dinna hang him.
+
+Mony words dinna fill the firlot.
+
+    A "firlot" is a fourth part of a boll, dry measure. Equivalent to
+    the proverb, "Many words go to a sackful."--_Dutch._
+
+Mony words, muckle drouth.
+
+Mony wyte their wife for their ain thriftless life.
+
+    That is, many persons blame others for what are the consequences of
+    their own faults. Kelly says, "I never saw a Scottish woman who had
+    not this at her finger's end."
+
+Mouths are nae measure.
+
+    The Irish are not of this opinion, for it is recorded that one of
+    them said his mouth held exactly a glass of whisky--that is, if he
+    could have retained it; but there was a hole in the bottom of it
+    which continually prevented him from proving the fact.
+
+Mows may come to earnest.
+
+    "To 'mow,' to speak in mockery."--_Jamieson._
+
+Moyen does muckle, but money does mair.
+
+    Influence or interest does much, but money will do more.
+
+Muck and money gae thegither.
+
+Muckle corn, muckle care.
+
+"Muckle din about ane," as the deil said when he stole the collier.
+
+Muckledom is nae virtue.
+
+Muckle fails that fools think.
+
+Muckle gifts mak beggars bauld.
+
+Muckle gude may it do you, and merry go doun, every lump as big as my
+thoom.
+
+    A bad wish--that every bite may choke you.
+
+Muckle head, little wit.
+
+Muckle maun a gude heart thole.
+
+Muckle meat, mony maladies.
+
+Muckle mou'd folk are happy at their meat.
+
+Muckle musing mars the memory.
+
+Muckleness has nae mair, or else a cow could catch a hare.
+
+Muckleness is no manliness.
+
+Muckle pleasure, some pain.
+
+Muckle power maks mony faes.
+
+Muckle skaith comes to the shae before the heat comes to the tae.
+
+Muckle spoken, part spilt.
+
+    So much was said on a subject that a great deal was lost.
+
+Muckle wad aye hae mair.
+
+    The more a person has the more he would have.
+
+Muckle water rins by that the miller watsna o'.
+
+Muckle wi' thrift may aye be mair.
+
+"Must" is for the King to say.
+
+My market's made, ye may lick a whup-shaft.
+
+    The saucy reply of a maid already betrothed, to a would-be wooer.
+
+My neighbour's skaith's my ain peril.
+
+My son's my son till he's got him a wife; my dochter's my dochter a' the
+days o' her life.
+
+My tongue's no under your belt.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Naebody daur say Straa to him.
+
+Naebody is riving your claes to get you.
+
+    Or going out of their wits for your sake.
+
+Nae butter will stick to my bread.
+
+    That is, good fortune follows nothing I do.
+
+Nae carrion will kill a craw.
+
+Nae cows, nae care.
+
+Nae curb will tame love.
+
+Nae equal to you but our dog Sorkie, and he's dead, so ye're marrowless.
+
+    Applied to boasters, meaning sarcastically that in their own
+    peculiar faculty they are unequalled.
+
+Nae faut; but she sets her bannet ower weel.
+
+    The only fault is, she is too good-looking.
+
+Nae fleeing frae fate.
+
+Nae fleeing without wings.
+
+Nae fools like auld anes.
+
+Nae faut that the cat has a clean band, she sets a bannet sae weel.
+
+    "Ironically spoken to them who pretend to do, have, or wear what
+    does not become them."--_Kelly._
+
+Nae friend like the penny.
+
+Nae gain without pain.
+
+Nae great loss but there's some sma' 'vantage.
+
+Nae man can baith sup and blaw at ance.
+
+    That is, sup his soup and cool it together; or, plainly, do two
+    things at once.
+
+Nae man can live langer in peace than his neighbours like.
+
+    "For an ill neighbour, with his scolding noise, complaints,
+    lawsuits, and indictments, may be very troublesome."--_Kelly._
+
+Nae man can mak his ain hap.
+
+    Or plan his own destiny.
+
+Nae man can seek his marrow i' the kirn sae weel as him that has been
+in't himsel.
+
+    "Spoken to those who suspect us guilty of a thing in which they take
+    measure of us by their practices and inclinations."--_Kelly._
+
+Nae man can thrive unless his wife will let him.
+
+Nae man has a tack o' his life.
+
+Nae man is wise at a' times, nor on a' things.
+
+Nae mills, nae meal.
+
+Nae penny, nae paternoster.
+
+Nae plea is the best plea.
+
+Nae rule sae gude as rule o' thoom--if it hit.
+
+Nae service, nae siller.
+
+Nae sooner up than her head's in the aumrie.
+
+    Applied to lazy or greedy servants; implying that the first thing
+    they do in the morning is to go to the "aumrie" or cupboard for
+    something to eat.
+
+Nae swat, nae sweet.
+
+Naething but fill and fetch mair.
+
+    A philosophic way of meeting troubles. If a thing be wrong done, do
+    it over again; or if it be lost, procure another.
+
+Naething comes fairer to light than what has been lang hidden.
+
+Naething comes out o' a close hand.
+
+Naething freer than a gift.
+
+Naething is got without pains but an ill name and lang nails.
+
+Naething is ill said if it's no ill ta'en.
+
+Naething is ill to be done when will's at hame.
+
+Naething like being stark dead.
+
+    Meaning there is nothing like doing a thing thoroughly. "A vile,
+    malicious proverb," says Kelly, "first used by Captain James Stewart
+    against the noble Earl of Morton, and afterwards applied to the Earl
+    of Strafford and Archbishop Laud."
+
+Naething's a bare man.
+
+    "A jocose answer to children when they say they have gotten
+    nothing."--_Kelly._
+
+Naething's a man's truly but what he comes by duly.
+
+Naething sae bauld as a blind mear.
+
+    "Who so bold as blind Bayard?"--_English._
+
+    "Ignorance breeds confidence; consideration, slowness and
+    wariness."--_Ray._
+
+Naething sae crouse as a new wash'd louse.
+
+    "Spoken of them who have been ragged and dirty, and are proud and
+    fond of new or clean clothes."--_Kelly._
+
+Naething sooner maks a man auld-like than sitting ill to his meat.
+
+    "To sit ill to one's meat, to be ill fed."--_Jamieson._
+
+Naething to be done in haste but gripping fleas.
+
+    In his introduction to Henderson's _Proverbs_, Motherwell relates a
+    humorous anecdote in connection with this proverb. An indefatigable
+    collector of "rusty sayed saws," a friend of his, was in the habit
+    of jotting down any saying new to him on the back of cards, letters,
+    &c., and thrusting them into his pocket. On one occasion he had an
+    altercation with a stranger at a friend's house. The quarrel
+    becoming warm, ended by Motherwell's friend excitedly handing the
+    other (as he thought) his card. On the gentleman's preparing to
+    vindicate his honour next morning, it occurred to him to learn the
+    name of his antagonist. On looking at the card he found no name,
+    but, in place of it, traced in good legible characters, "Naething
+    should be done in a hurry but catching fleas." The effect of this
+    was irresistible, and the result an immediate reconciliation.
+
+Naething to do but draw in your stool and sit down.
+
+    Everything is so far advanced that the finishing stroke only is
+    wanting. Applied to a man who is courting a widow or spinster
+    already in possession of a well-furnished house.
+
+Naething venture, naething win.
+
+Nae weather's ill an the wind be still.
+
+Nae wonder ye're auld like, ilka thing fashes you.
+
+    That is, because you allow every little trifling occurrence to vex
+    you.
+
+Nane are sae weel but they hope to be better.
+
+Nane but fools and knaves lay wagers.
+
+    Henderson, in his _Proverbs_, reads "poets" for "fools," possibly as
+    a hit upon some of his friends, several of whom were poets of local
+    celebrity.
+
+Nane can mak a bore but ye'll find a pin for't.
+
+    Meaning that none can find fault with you but you will be able to
+    give an excuse for it. "As soon find hare without a mense as you
+    without excuse."--_English._
+
+Nane can play the fool sae weel as a wise man.
+
+Nane can tell what's i' the shaup till it's shelt.
+
+    That is, in the husk until it is shelled.
+
+Nane kens whaur a blister may light.
+
+Narrow gathered, widely spent.
+
+Nature passes nurture.
+
+Nearer e'en the mair beggars.
+
+Nearer God's blessing than Carlisle fair.
+
+    "You need but go to your closet for the one, but you must go out of
+    the kingdom for the other."--_Kelly._
+
+Nearer the bane, sweeter the flesh.
+
+    "And for eating--what signifies telling a lee? there's just the
+    hinder end of the mutton-ham that has been but three times on the
+    table, and the nearer the bane the sweeter, as your honours weel
+    ken; and--there's the heel of the ewe-milk kebbuck, wi' a bit o'
+    nice butter, and--and--that's a' that's to trust to."--_Bride of
+    Lammermoor._
+
+Nearer the rock, the sweeter the grass.
+
+Nearest the heart, nearest the mou.
+
+    "Spoken to them who, designing to name one person, by mistake names
+    another, perhaps a sweetheart."--_Kelly._
+
+Nearest the king, nearest the widdy.
+
+    "Widdy," rope or gallows. Meaning that those who occupy political or
+    subservient positions do so only during the pleasure of their
+    superiors.
+
+Near's my kirtle, but nearer's my sark.
+
+Near's my sark, but nearer's my skin.
+
+    The two last sayings are common to many nations. "Some friends are
+    nearer to me than others--my parents and children than my other
+    relations, those than my neighbours, my neighbours than strangers;
+    but, above all, I am next to myself."--_Ray._
+
+Near the kirk, but far frae grace.
+
+    This fact is so well ascertained that there is another to the same
+    effect. "Farthest frae the kirk aye soonest at it;" and the English
+    are of a similar opinion, for Spenser writes:
+
+      "At kirke the narre from God more farre,
+      Has been an old sayed sawe."
+
+Necessity has nae law.
+
+Necessity's the mither o' invention.
+
+Neck or naething, the king lo'es nae cripples.
+
+    "A prophane jest upon those who are like to fall, wishing that they
+    may either break their neck or come off safe; for breaking a limb
+    will make them useless subjects."--_Kelly._
+
+Need gars naked men run, and sorrow gars wabsters spin.
+
+    "Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood."--_Italian._ In the second
+    clause we have another discreditable imputation on the weaving
+    fraternity, implying that they only work when compelled by hunger,
+    and are not naturally industrious.
+
+Need gars the auld wife trot.
+
+    "'This is your mother, is it not?' (Cuddie nodded.) 'What can have
+    brought your mother and you down the water so late?' 'Troth, stir,
+    just what gars the auld wives trot--neshessity, stir. I'm seeking
+    for service, stir.'"--_Old Mortality._
+
+Need maks a man o' craft.
+
+Need maks greed.
+
+Need maks the naked quean spin.
+
+Ne'er break out o' kind to gar your friends ferlie at you.
+
+    Do not do strange acts merely for the sake of astonishing your
+    friends.
+
+Ne'er count the lawin' wi' a toom quaich.
+
+    "Quaich," a small and shallow drinking-cup with two ears. The
+    proverb has a similar meaning to "Fair fa' the wife," &c., _q. v._
+
+Ne'er do ill that gude may come o't.
+
+Ne'er draw your dirk when a dunt will do.
+
+    That is, do not resort to extreme measures when mild means will
+    suffice.
+
+Ne'er fash your beard.
+
+    "'Tell them all this, and hear what they say till't.'
+
+    "'Indeed, mistress, I can tell ye that already, without stirring my
+    shanks for the matter,' answered Nelly Trotter; 'they will e'en say
+    that ye are ae auld fule, and me anither, that may hae some judgment
+    in cock-bree or in scate-rumples, but maunna fash our beards about
+    onything else.'"--_St Ronan's Well._
+
+Ne'er fash your thoom.
+
+      "Ne'er mind her flytes, but set your heart at ease:
+      Sit down and blaw your pipe, nor fash your thoom,
+      An' there's my hand, she'll tire, and soon sing dumb."--_Fergusson._
+
+Ne'er find faut wi' my shoon, unless you pay my souter.
+
+    Addressed to impertinent persons who find fault with the personal
+    appearance or dress of others.
+
+Ne'er gang to the deil wi' the dishclout on your head.
+
+    "If you will be a knave, be not in a trifle, but in something of
+    value. A Presbyterian minister had a son who was made Archdeacon of
+    Ossery; when this was told to his father, he said, 'If my son will
+    be a knave, I am glad that he will be an archknave.' This has the
+    same sense, 'As good be hanged for an old sheep as a young
+    lamb.'"--_Kelly._
+
+Ne'er gie me my death in a toom dish.
+
+    This means, jocularly, if you wish to kill me, do it not by
+    starvation; in other words, give me something to eat.
+
+Ne'er gude, egg nor bird.
+
+Ne'er kiss a man's wife, or dight his knife, for he'll do baith after
+you.
+
+Ne'er let on, but laugh in your sleeve.
+
+Ne'er let the nose blush for the sins o' the mouth.
+
+Ne'er let your feet rin faster than your shoon.
+
+    "'But you must recollect, that before taking such a step you ought
+    to be pretty well provided with means.'
+
+    "'Ou', fegs! I hae nae trick o' letting my feet rin faster than my
+    shoon. I'll no forget the means, ye may be sure; and as for Jean
+    hersel, I hae nae skill o' women folk, if she's no just as willing
+    as me.'"--_The Disruption._
+
+Ne'er lippen ower muckle to a new friend or an auld enemy.
+
+Ne'er marry a penniless maiden that's proud o' her pedigree.
+
+Ne'er marry a widow unless her first man was hanged.
+
+Ne'er misca' a Gordon in the raws o' Stra'bogie.
+
+    The Gordons were the ruling clan in Strathbogie; and the proverb
+    means that we should never speak ill of a man on his own property.
+
+Ne'er put your arm out farther than you can draw it easily back again.
+
+    "The deacon used to say to me, 'Nick--young Nick' (his name was
+    Nicol as well as mine, sae folk ca'd us, in their daffin, young Nick
+    and auld Nick)--'Nick,' said he, 'never put out your arm farther
+    than ye can draw it easily back again.'"--_Rob Roy._
+
+Ne'er ower auld to learn.
+
+Ne'er put a sword in a wudman's hand.
+
+Ne'er put the plough before the owsen.
+
+Ne'er quit certainty for hope.
+
+Ne'er rax abune your reach.
+
+    That is, do not exert yourself beyond your strength.
+
+Ne'er say gae, but gang.
+
+Ne'er say "Ill fallow" to him you deal wi'.
+
+Ne'er shaw me the meat, but the man.
+
+    "If a man be fat, plump, and in good liking, I shall not ask what
+    keeping he has had."--_Kelly._
+
+Ne'er shaw your teeth unless ye can bite.
+
+Ne'er speak ill o' the deil.
+
+Ne'er speak ill o' them whase bread ye eat.
+
+Ne'er spend gude siller looking for bad.
+
+    "John had never before taken any debtor to law, his motto being,
+    'Never spend gude siller looking for bad;' but in this case, he
+    said, he was determined to roup them to the door, although it
+    shouldna put a penny in his pouch."--_Roy's "Generalship."_
+
+Ne'er strive against the stream.
+
+Ne'er tak a forehammer to break an egg.
+
+Ne'er tell your fae when your fit sleeps.
+
+Ne'er throw the bridle o' your horse ower a fool's arm.
+
+Ne'er use the taws when a gloom will do.
+
+    Of similar import to "Ne'er draw your dirk," _q. v._
+
+Ne'er was a wife weel pleased coming frae the mill but ane, and she brak
+her neck bane.
+
+    Kelly says this is "commonly said to wives when they come from the
+    mill, but the occasion, sense, or meaning I know not." Is it not
+    because they are always dissatisfied with the "mouter" which the
+    miller takes?
+
+Ne'er waur happen you than your ain prayer.
+
+Neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor gude red herring.
+
+    Used to signify that an article is good for nothing.
+
+Neither sae sinfu' as to sink nor sae holy as to soom.
+
+Never's a lang word.
+
+New lairds mak new laws.
+
+    "They were decent, considerate men, that didna plague a puir herd
+    callant muckle about a moorfowl or a mawkin, unless he turned common
+    fowler--Sir Robert Ringhorse used to say, the herd lads shot as mony
+    gleds and pyots as they did game. But new lords new laws--naething
+    but fine and imprisonment, and the game no a feather the
+    plentier."--_St Ronan's Well._
+
+Next to nae wife, a gude ane's best.
+
+Nineteen naesays o' a maiden is half a grant.
+
+      "Her laugh will lead you to the place,
+        Where lies the happiness ye want;
+      And plainly tell you to your face,
+        Nineteen nae-says are half a grant."--_Tea-Table Miscellany._
+
+Nipping and scarting's Scotch folk's wooing.
+
+    "It may be Scotch folk's wooing; but if that's the gait Betty Bodle
+    means to use you, Watty, my dear, I would see her, and a' the
+    Kilmarkeckles that ever were cleckit, doon the water, or strung in a
+    wuddy, before I would hae onything to say to ane come o' their seed
+    or breed. To lift her hands to her bridegroom!"--_The Entail._
+
+Now-a-days truth's news.
+
+Now's now, and Yule's in winter.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+O' ae ill come mony.
+
+O' a' fish i' the sea, herring is king.
+
+O' a' ills, nane's best.
+
+O' a' little tak a little; when there's nought tak a'.
+
+O' a' meat i' the warld the drink gaes best down.
+
+O' a' sorrow, a fu' sorrow's the best.
+
+    "Spoken when friends die and leave good legacies."--_Kelly._
+
+O' a' the months o' the year curse a fair Februar.
+
+O' bairns' gifts ne'er be fain; nae sooner they gie than they tak it
+again.
+
+O' gude advisement comes nae ill.
+
+O' ill debtors men get aiths.
+
+    "Aith," or oath, is here used in the sense of promise, signifying
+    that from "ill debtors" men get not money but promises, which, of
+    course, are never performed.
+
+Oh for a drap o' gentle blude, that I may wear black abune my brow.
+
+    "In Scotland no woman is suffered to wear a silk hood unless she be
+    a gentlewoman; that is, a gentleman's daughter, or married to a
+    gentleman. A rich maid having the offer of a wealthy yeoman, or a
+    bare gentleman, wished for the last, to qualify her to wear a black
+    hood. It is since spoken to such wealthy maidens upon the like
+    occasion."--_Kelly._
+
+O' little meddling comes muckle care.
+
+On painting and fighting look abeigh.
+
+On the sea sail, on the land settle.
+
+Onything for ye about an honest man's house but a day's wark.
+
+"Onything sets a gude face," quo' the monkey wi' the mutch on.
+
+Open confession is gude for the soul.
+
+Oppression will mak a wise man wud.
+
+O' the marriages in May, the bairns die o' decay.
+
+O' twa ills choose the least.
+
+Our ain reek's better than ither folk's fire.
+
+Our sins and debts are aften mair than we think.
+
+Our sowens are ill sour'd, ill seil'd, ill sauted, ill sodden, thin, an'
+little o' them. Ye may stay a' night, but ye may gang hame if ye like.
+It's weel kenn'd your faither's son was ne'er a scambler.
+
+    This proverb is, we think, fairly entitled to rank as the second
+    longest on record, the first being, as recorded by Trench, the
+    German one, "Folk say there is a lack of four people on earth," &c.
+    Kelly says that "this was a speech of a countrywoman of mine to a
+    guest that she would gladly have shaken off, and being so oddly
+    expressed it became a proverb, which we repeat when we think our
+    friend does not entertain us heartily."
+
+Out o' debt, out o' danger.
+
+Out o' God's blessing into the warm sun.
+
+Out o' Davy Lindsay into Wallace.
+
+    "Davy Lindsay and Wallace" were two books formerly used in schools;
+    and the proverb is used when a person changes, or, more properly,
+    advances from one thing to another.
+
+Out on the highgate is aye fair play.
+
+Out o' sight, out o' languor.
+
+    "Long absent, soon forgotten."--_English._
+
+Out o' the peat pot into the gutter.
+
+    "Out of the frying pan into the fire."--_English._
+
+    "Out of the mire into the brook."--_Spanish._
+
+Out o' the warld and into Kippen.
+
+    Kippen, in Stirlingshire, was formerly so very remote and little
+    frequented by strangers, that a visit to it was jocularly deemed
+    equivalent to going out of the world altogether; and the remark
+    passed into a proverb, used when a person is going to a strange
+    place. The feudal lord of this district was formerly styled King of
+    Kippen.
+
+Own debt and crave days.
+
+Ower braw a purse to put a plack in.
+
+    That is, externally grander or more showy than internal means
+    justify. "Spoken when one builds a magnificent house upon a small
+    income."--_Kelly._
+
+Ower high, ower laigh, ower het, ower cauld.
+
+    That is, from one extreme to the other.
+
+Ower holy was hanged, but rough and sonsy wan awa'.
+
+Ower mony cooks spoil the broth.
+
+Ower mony grieves hinder the wark.
+
+Ower mony irons in the fire, some maun cool.
+
+    Spoken when a person has too many projects in hand; meaning that
+    some must fail.
+
+"Ower mony maisters," quo' the puddock to the harrow, when ilka tooth
+gied her a tug.
+
+Ower muckle hameliness spoils gude courtesy.
+
+    "Too much familiarity breeds contempt."--_English._
+
+Ower muckle loose leather about your chafts.
+
+    A rude but expressive way of saying that a person is not looking
+    well, or is, _Scotice_, "thin."
+
+Ower muckle cookery spoils the brochan.
+
+Ower muckle o' ae thing is gude for naething.
+
+Ower narrow counting culyes nae kindness.
+
+    To "culye" is to gain, to draw forth. "When people deal in rigour
+    with us we think ourselves but little obliged to them."--_Kelly._
+
+Ower reckless may repent.
+
+Ower sicker, ower loose.
+
+    Or, you are either too harsh and stringent, or the very reverse.
+
+Ower strong meat for your weak stamack.
+
+Ower sune is easy mended.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Patch and lang sit, build and soon flit.
+
+    A slow and gradual rise is likely to prove a permanent one; but a
+    rapid or sudden one merely temporary; or, as the Irishman said, "Up
+    like a rocket, and down like its stick."
+
+Paterson's mare aye goes foremost.
+
+Pay-before-hand's never weel ser'd.
+
+    The tradesman is said to be troubled with two kinds of bad
+    customers, viz., those who pay in advance, or "before-hand," and
+    those who do not pay at all.
+
+Pay him in his ain coin.
+
+Pennyless souls maun pine in purgatory.
+
+Penny-wheep's gude enough for muslin-kail.
+
+    "Penny-wheep," says Jamieson, "is the weakest kind of small beer,
+    sold at a _penny_ per bottle;" and muslin-kail is a common kind of
+    broth. The proverb expresses that poor service merits poor reward.
+
+Peter's in, Paul's out.
+
+    "Spoken when, after we had wanted a necessary person a long time,
+    upon his arrival, another equally necessary is gone."--_Kelly._
+
+Pigs may whistle, but they hae an ill mouth for't.
+
+    Applied when an awkward person is attempting to perform some work of
+    which he is incapable.
+
+Penny wise and pound foolish.
+
+Pint stoups hae lang lugs.
+
+    For a great deal is said over them, which, but for their influence,
+    would not be heard.
+
+Pith's gude at a' play but threading o' needles.
+
+Plack aboot's fair play.
+
+Placks and bawbees grow pounds.
+
+Plaister thick and some will stick.
+
+Play carle wi' me again if you daur.
+
+    "Do not dare to offer to contest with me. Spoke by parents to
+    stubborn children."--_Kelly._
+
+Play's gude while it's play.
+
+Pleading at the law is like fighting through a whin bush--the harder the
+blows the sairer the scarts.
+
+    The knowledge that "whin bush" is the furze renders this saying
+    easily intelligible.
+
+Please your kimmer, and ye'll easy guide your gossip.
+
+Please yoursel and ye'll no dee o' the pet.
+
+Plenty is nae plague.
+
+Plenty maks dainty.
+
+Poets and painters are aye poor.
+
+    This appears in no collection preceding Henderson's, and is probably
+    a record of his own experience and that of his friends, he being a
+    painter himself by profession, and on intimate terms with Motherwell
+    and others.
+
+Poets and painters hae liberty to lo'e.
+
+Poor folk are fain o' little.
+
+Poor folk maun fit their wame to their winning.
+
+Poor folk seek meat for their stamacks, and rich folk stamacks for their
+meat.
+
+Poor folk's friends soon misken them.
+
+Poortith pairts gude company.
+
+Poortith's better than pride.
+
+Poortith's pain, but nae disgrace.
+
+Poortith taks awa pith.
+
+    "'I tell you, Master Moniplies,' said Jenkin, 'I am as poor as any
+    Scot among you. I have broken my indenture, and I think of running
+    the country.' 'A-well-a-day!' said Ritchie. 'But that maunna be,
+    man. I ken weel, by sad experience, that poortith takes away pith,
+    and the man sits full still that has a rent in his
+    breeks.'"--_Fortunes of Nigel._
+
+Poortith wi' patience is less painfu'.
+
+Possession's worth an ill charter.
+
+Poverty's a bad back friend.
+
+Praise without profit puts little i' the pat.
+
+Prayer and practice is gude rhyme.
+
+Pretty man, I maun say; tak a peat and sit down.
+
+    We are unable to make much either of this proverb or of Kelly's note
+    to it--"An ironical expression to a mean boy who would gladly be
+    esteemed."
+
+Pride and grace ne'er dwell in ae place.
+
+Pride an' sweer'dness need muckle uphaudin.
+
+    "Sweer'd," lazy or unwilling. Pride and laziness require much to
+    support them.
+
+Pride finds nae cauld.
+
+    "Spoken heretofore to young women when, in compliance with the
+    fashion, they went with their breasts and shoulders bare; and may
+    now (1721) be applied to ladies with their extravagant
+    hoops."--_Kelly._
+
+Pride ne'er leaves its maister till he get a fa'.
+
+Pride prinks her brow for the deil to pouse.
+
+    That is, pride bedecks herself, and the devil despoils.
+
+Pride's an ill horse to ride.
+
+Pride that dines wi' vanity sups wi' contempt.
+
+Pride will hae a fa'.
+
+Provision in season maks a bien house.
+
+Prudence should be winning when thrift is spinning.
+
+Puddins and paramours should be hetly handled.
+
+    "Puddings when cold are uneatable; and love when coldrife is near
+    the breaking off."--_Kelly._
+
+Put a coward to his mettle, and he'll fight the deil.
+
+    "A baited cat is as fierce as a lion."--_English._
+
+Put anither man's bairn in your bosom, and he'll creep oot at your
+sleeve.
+
+    "That is, cherish or love him, he'll never be naturally affected
+    towards you."--_Ray._
+
+Put nae force against the flail.
+
+Put on your spurs and be at your speed.
+
+Put twa pennies in a purse, and they'll creep thegither.
+
+Put your finger in the fire, and say it was your fortune.
+
+    Spoken of a person who has wittingly placed himself in difficulties,
+    and who attributes his bad position to fortune.
+
+Put your hand in the creel, tak out an adder or an eel.
+
+    "In buying horses and taking a wife, shut your eyes and commend
+    yourself to God."--_Italian._
+
+Put your hand nae farther oot than your sleeve will reach.
+
+Put your hand twice to your bannet for ance to your pouch.
+
+    "Put your hand quickly to your hat, and slowly to your purse, and
+    you will take no harm."--_Danish._
+
+Put the man to the mear that can manage the mear.
+
+Put the saddle on the right horse.
+
+Put your shanks in your thanks and mak gude gramashes o' them.
+
+    Literally, put your legs in your thanks and make good gaiters of
+    them. A sharp remark on those who pay in thanks only, when a more
+    substantial reward is expected.
+
+Put your thoom upon that.
+
+    "Conceal it carefully--keep it secret."--_Jamieson._
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Quality without quantity is little thought o'.
+
+Quey calves are dear veal.
+
+    A "quey calf" is a female calf. They are generally kept to replenish
+    the stock; it is bull calves that are principally fattened for
+    killing young.
+
+Quick at meat, quick at wark.
+
+Quick, for you'll ne'er be cleanly.
+
+    "That is, do a thing nimbly, for you'll never do it
+    neatly."--_Kelly._
+
+Quick returns mak rich merchants.
+
+Quietness is best.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Rab Gibb's contract,--stark love and kindness.
+
+Raggit folk and bonny folk are aye ta'en haud o'.
+
+    Spoken jocularly when a person has rent or caught his clothes upon a
+    nail or other projection.
+
+Raise nae mair deils than ye are able to lay.
+
+    "Raise no more spirits than you can conjure down."--_German._
+
+Rather spoil your joke than tine your friend.
+
+Raw dads mak fat lads.
+
+Raw leather raxes weel.
+
+    "Raw leather will stretch."--_English._
+
+Reavers shouldna be ruers.
+
+    Literally, robbers should not repent.
+
+Reckless youth maks ruefu' eild.
+
+    "People who live too fast when they are young will neither have a
+    vigorous nor a comfortable old age."--_Kelly._
+
+Reckon up your winning at your bed-stock.
+
+Red brackens bring milk and butter.
+
+    "In October, the bracken or fern on hill pastures becomes red with
+    the first frosty nights, and about that time the autumnal herbage is
+    very rich, and productive of the good things in question."--_Robert
+    Chambers._
+
+Red wood maks gude spindles.
+
+    "'Red wood,' the name given to the reddish or dark-coloured and more
+    incorruptible wood found in the heart of trees."--_Jamieson._
+
+Refer my coat and lose a sleeve.
+
+"Rejoice, bucks," quo' Brodie, when he shot at the buryin' and thought
+it was a weddin'.
+
+Remember, man, and keep in mind, a faithfu' friend is hard to find.
+
+Remove an auld tree an' it'll wither.
+
+Riches are got wi' pain, kept wi' care, and tint wi' grief.
+
+Rich folk hae routh o' friends.
+
+    "Routh o' friends," that is, many of them.
+
+Rich folk's wit rives poor folk's jaws.
+
+Rich mixture maks gude mortar.
+
+Ride fair and jaup nane.
+
+    "Taken from riding through a puddle, but applied to too home
+    jesting."--_Kelly._
+
+Right, Roger, sow's gude mutton.
+
+    A proverbial expression, meaning that a person is totally mistaken
+    about a matter.
+
+Right wrangs nae man.
+
+Ripe fruit is soonest rotten.
+
+Rise when the day daws, bed when the night fa's.
+
+Robin, that herds on the height, can be blithe as Sir Robert the Knight.
+
+Rome wasna built in a day.
+
+Rot him awa' wi' ham and eggs.
+
+Rowan-tree and red thread mak the witches tine their speed.
+
+    These particular articles were formerly supposed to have a
+    controlling power over witches.
+
+Royt lads may mak sober men.
+
+    To "royt" is to go about idly or dissolutely.
+
+Rue and thyme grow baith in ae garden.
+
+Rule youth weel, for eild will rule itsel'.
+
+Ruse the fair day at e'en.
+
+    "Commend not a thing or a project till it has had its full
+    effect."--_Kelly._
+
+    "It is not good praising the ford till a man be over."--_English._
+
+Ruse the ford as ye find it.
+
+    Speak only of things as your experience has found them.
+
+Rusted wi' eild, a wee piece gate seems lang.
+
+    Literally, decayed by age, a short road seems a very long one.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Sae mony men, sae mony minds.
+
+"Saft beddin's gude for sair banes," quo' Howie when he streekit himsel
+on the midden-head.
+
+"Saft's your horn, my friend," quo' the man when he grippit the cuddy's
+lug.
+
+"Sail," quo' the king: "Haud," quo' the wind.
+
+Sair cravers are ill-payers.
+
+    "This proverb, and the reverse, viz., 'Ill payers are sore cravers,'
+    I have never yet seen fail."--_Kelly._
+
+Sairs shouldna be sair handled.
+
+    That is, delicate or painful subjects should be cautiously alluded
+    to.
+
+Sair wark and poortith downa weel be joined.
+
+Sairy be your meal-pock, and aye your nieve i' the neuk o't.
+
+    An uncharitable saying, expressing literally a wish that the meal
+    bag may be empty when the hand is put in to take some.
+
+"Saut," quo' the souter, when he had eaten a cow a' but the tail.
+
+    "Spoken to them that flag when they have almost finished a difficult
+    task."--_Kelly._
+
+Save yoursel' frae the deil and the laird's bairns.
+
+    "A caution of poor people to their children, how they meddle with
+    their superiors; for, if they hurt the laird's bairns, they will be
+    sure to be punished, but, if hurt by them, they will get no
+    right."--_Kelly._
+
+Saw thin, shear thin.
+
+Saw wheat in dirt and rye in dust.
+
+Saw ye that and shotna at it, and you sae gleg a gunner.
+
+    A satire upon a boaster who is telling of some extraordinary thing
+    which he pretends to have seen.
+
+Say aye "No," and ye'll ne'er be married.
+
+    A jocular remark to a person who has refused something which has
+    been offered to him.
+
+Saying gangs cheap.
+
+    "Talking pays nae toll."--_English._
+
+Say weel and dae weel, end wi' ae letter: say weel is gude, but dae weel
+is better.
+
+Say what you will, an ill mind will turn't to ill.
+
+Scant-o'-grace hears lang preachings.
+
+    Or, at least, thinks them so.
+
+Scanty cheeks mak a lang nose.
+
+Scart-the-cog wad sup mair.
+
+    To "scart the cog" is to scrape the inside of the dish.
+
+Scorn comes wi' skaith.
+
+Scornfu' dogs eat dirty puddin's.
+
+    "'Hout, fye--hout, fye--all nonsense and pride,' said the Laird of
+    Summertrees, 'scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings, cousin Crosbie.
+    Ye little ken what some of your friends were obliged to do yon time
+    for a sowp of brose or a bit of bannock.'"--_Redgauntlet._
+
+Scorn not the bush ye get beild frae.
+
+Scotsmen aye reckon frae an ill hour.
+
+Scotsmen aye tak their mark frae a mischief.
+
+    That is, always reckon from the date of some untoward event, such as
+    a death, an accident, or a fire.
+
+See for love and buy for siller.
+
+Seein's believin' a' the world ower.
+
+Seek muckle, and get something; seek little, and get naething.
+
+Seek till you find, and ye'll never lose your labour.
+
+Seek your sa' where you got your ail, and beg your barm where you buy
+your ale.
+
+    The surly reply of a person who has been shunned for some trivial or
+    mistaken reason by one who is compelled by circumstances to apply to
+    him for information or assistance.
+
+Seil ne'er comes till sorrow be awa.
+
+Seldom ride tines his spurs.
+
+Seldom seen, soon forgotten.
+
+Self-praise comes aye stinking ben.
+
+Self-praise is nae honour.
+
+Sel, sel, has half-filled hell.
+
+    "Sel, sel," that is, the sin of selfishness.
+
+Send a fool to France, and a fool he'll come back.
+
+Send your gentle blude to the market, and see what it will buy.
+
+    A reproach upon those who boast of their gentle birth, but who
+    possess nothing of greater value.
+
+Send your son to Ayr: if he do weel here, he'll do weel there.
+
+Send you to the sea, and ye'll no get saut water.
+
+    "Spoken when people foolishly come short of their errand."--_Kelly._
+
+Ser' yoursel', and your friends will think the mair o' ye.
+
+    An answer of those who are asked to do a favour when they would
+    rather not oblige.
+
+Ser' yoursel' till your bairns come o' age.
+
+Set a beggar on horseback, he'll ride to the deil.
+
+Set a stout heart to a stey brae.
+
+          "Delay not,
+          And fray not,
+      And thou sall sie it say;
+          Sic gets ay,
+          That setts ay,
+      Stout stomaks to the brae."--_Cherrie and the Slae._
+
+Set a thief to grip a thief.
+
+Set him up and shute him forward.
+
+    "'A lord!' ejaculated the astonished Mrs Dods: 'a lord come down to
+    the Waal!--they will be neither to haud nor to bind now--ance wud
+    and aye waur--a lord!--set them up and shute them forward--a
+    lord!--the Lord have a care o' us!--a lord at the hottle! Maister
+    Touchwood, it's my mind he will only prove to be a Lord o'
+    Session.'"--_St Ronan's Well._
+
+Set that doun on the backside o' your count-book.
+
+    That is, I have done you a service, see that you repay it.
+
+Set your foot upon that, an' it winna loup in your face.
+
+Shallow waters mak maist din.
+
+"Shame fa' the couple," as the cow said to her fore feet.
+
+Shame fa' the dog that, when he hunted you, didna gar you rin faster.
+
+Shame fa' them that think shame to do themsels a gude turn.
+
+Shame's past the shed o' your hair.
+
+Sharp sauce gies a gude taste to sweetmeats.
+
+She brak her elbow at the kirk door.
+
+    "Spoken of a thrifty maiden when she becomes a lazy wife."--_Kelly._
+
+She frisks about like a cat's tail i' the sun.
+
+She has an ill paut wi' her hind foot.
+
+She has gi'en them green stockings.
+
+    Spoken when a young woman marries before her elder sisters.
+
+She hauds up her gab like an aumos dish.
+
+      "And aye he gies the touzie drab
+        The tither skelpin' kiss,
+      While she held up her greedy gab
+        Just like an aumos dish."--_Burns._
+
+She hauds up her head like a hen drinking water.
+
+    The two last sayings are applied to persons who behave in an
+    impudent or forward manner.
+
+She'll keep her ain side o' the house, and gang up and down yours.
+
+    "Spoken to dissuade our friend from marrying a woman whom we suspect
+    to be too bold."--_Kelly._
+
+She'll wear like a horseshoe, aye the langer the clearer.
+
+She lookit at the moon, but lichtit i' the midden.
+
+    Applied to young women who have boasted, before marriage, of the
+    "fine match" which they will get, but who afterwards are allied to
+    common every-day people.
+
+She looks as if butter wadna melt in her mou.
+
+She looks like a leddy in a landward kirk.
+
+    This means that a person may appear very conspicuous on account of a
+    peculiar dress or manner.
+
+She pined awa like Jenkin's hen.
+
+    "To die like _Jenkin's hen_ is to die an old maid."--_Jamieson._
+
+She's a bad sitter that's aye in a flutter.
+
+She's a drap o' my dearest blude.
+
+She's a wise wife that wats her ain weird.
+
+    That is, who knows her own destiny.
+
+She's better than she's bonny.
+
+    A Highlander, in speaking favourably of his wife, is reported to
+    have misquoted this, and characterized her as being "bonnier than
+    she was better."
+
+She's black, but she has a sweet smack.
+
+    That is, she is not very beautiful, but she is rich.
+
+She's dinket out, neb and feather.
+
+    "Dressed completely; from top to toe."--_Jamieson._
+
+She's grown gatty that was ance a dautie.
+
+She's no to be made a sang about.
+
+    "An abatement of a woman's commendation to beauty."--_Kelly._
+
+She that fa's ower a strae's a tentless taupie.
+
+She that gangs to the well wi' an ill will, either the pig breaks or the
+water will spill.
+
+She that taks a gift, hersel she sells; and she that gies ane, does
+naething else.
+
+She wadna hae the walkers, and the riders gaed by.
+
+    "It is recorded of a celebrated beauty, Becky Monteith, that being
+    asked how she had not made a good marriage, having replied, 'Ye see,
+    I wadna hae the walkers, and the riders gaed by.'"--_Ramsay's
+    Reminiscences._
+
+Shod i' the cradle, and barefit i' the stubble.
+
+    Applied to people who dress out of keeping with their work.
+
+Shored folk live lang, an' so may him ye ken o'.
+
+    "'Force our way with the king's keys, and break the neck of every
+    living soul we find in the house, if ye dinna gie it ower
+    forthwith!' menaced the incensed Hobbie. 'Threatened folks live
+    lang,' said the hag, in the same tone of irony; 'there's the iron
+    gate--try your skeel on't, lads--it has kept out as good men as you
+    or now.'"--_The Black Dwarf._
+
+Short accounts mak lang friends.
+
+Short rents mak careless tenants.
+
+Shouther to shouther stands steel and pouther.
+
+Show me the man and I'll show you the law.
+
+Sic a man as thou wad be, draw thee to sic companie.
+
+Sic as ye gie, sic will you get.
+
+Sic faither, sic son.
+
+Sic reek as is therein comes out o' the lum.
+
+Sic things maun be if we sell ale.
+
+    "This was the good woman's reply to her husband when he complained
+    of the exciseman's too demonstrative gallantry."--_W. K. Kelly._
+
+Silence and thought hurt nae man.
+
+Silence grips the mouse.
+
+Silly bairns are eith to lear.
+
+Sins and debts are aye mair than we think them.
+
+Sit down and rest you, and tell us how they drest you, and how you wan
+awa.
+
+    A jocular way of asking a person about people whom he has been to
+    see.
+
+Sit on your seat, and nane will rise you.
+
+    "Sit in your place, and none can make you rise."--_English._
+
+Skill is nae burden.
+
+Slander leaves a sair behint.
+
+Slighted love is sair to bide.
+
+Slipshod's no for a frozen road.
+
+Slow at meat, slow at wark.
+
+    A reverse of this saying is common to many countries--"Quick at
+    meat, quick at work."
+
+Sma' fish are better than nane.
+
+Sma' winnings mak a heavy purse.
+
+Smooth water rins deep.
+
+      "Tweed said to Till,
+      'What gars ye rin sae still?'
+      Till said to Tweed,
+      'Though ye rin sae wi' speed,
+      And I rin slaw,
+      Where ye drown ae man,
+      I drown twa.'"--_Berwickshire Rhyme._
+
+Sober, neighbour! The night's but young yet.
+
+    A remonstrance with a person who is doing a thing too hurriedly,
+    signifying that there is plenty of time to spare for the purpose.
+
+Sodgers, fire, and water soon mak room for themsels.
+
+Some ane has tauld her she was bonny.
+
+Some are gey drouthy, but ye're aye moistified.
+
+    An insinuation that a person is very much addicted to tippling.
+    "'Moistify,' a low word, generally used in a ludicrous sense in
+    regard to topers."--_Jamieson._
+
+Some are only daft, but ye're red-wud raving.
+
+Somebody may come to kame your hair wi' a cutty stool.
+
+    "Spoken by mothers to stubborn daughters, intimating they will come
+    under the hands of a stepmother, who, it is likely, will not deal
+    too tenderly with them."--_Kelly._
+
+Some can stand the sword better than the pintstoup.
+
+Some folk look up, and ithers look down.
+
+    And, we presume, the proverb would have the reader to understand
+    they prosper or fail accordingly.
+
+Some fork low, but ye fork ower the mow.
+
+    That is, some people do not do their work sufficiently, but you
+    overdo it.
+
+Some hae a hantel o' fauts, ye're only a ne'er-do-weel.
+
+    Some, though very bad, still have some redeeming qualities; the
+    party addressed has none.
+
+Some hae hap, and some stick i' the gap.
+
+    Meaning that some have and some have not good fortune.
+
+Some hae little sense, but ye're aye haverin'.
+
+Some show a gliff o' the gowk, but ye're aye goavin.
+
+    To "show a gliff of the gowk" is to behave foolishly.
+
+Some strake the measure o' justice, but ye gie't heapit.
+
+Some tak a', but ye leave naething.
+
+Some that hae least to dree are loudest wi' "waes me."
+
+    "Those who are least hurt cry loudest."--_English._
+
+"So on and accordingly," quo' Willie Baird's doggie.
+
+Soon enough if well enough.
+
+Soon enough to cry "Chuck" when it's out o' the shell.
+
+Soon gotten, soon spent.
+
+Soon ripe, soon rotten.
+
+"Soor plooms," quo' the tod when he couldna climb the tree.
+
+Sorrow an' ill weather come unca'd.
+
+Sorrow be on your hands that held sae well to your head.
+
+    An imprecation on a person who has surpassed another in an
+    undertaking.
+
+Sorrow is soon enough when it comes.
+
+Sorrow shake you out o' the wabster's handiwark.
+
+    Literally, sorrow shake you out of your clothes.
+
+Sorrow's sib to a' body.
+
+Souters and tailors count hours.
+
+    That is, tradesmen and commercial persons are aware of the value of
+    time.
+
+Souters shouldna gae ayont their last.
+
+Spare at the spigot, and let out at the bunghole.
+
+    "Spoken to them who are careful and penurious in some trifling
+    things, but neglective in the main chance."--_Kelly._
+
+Spare to speak, spare to speed.
+
+Spare weel and hae weel.
+
+Spare when ye're young, and spend when ye're auld.
+
+Speak gude of pipers, your faither was a fiddler.
+
+Speak o' the deil and he'll appear.
+
+    Jocularly applied to a person who approaches those who have just
+    been inquiring for him.
+
+Speak when ye're spoken to, and drink when ye're drucken to.
+
+Speak when ye're spoken to, do what ye're bidden, come when ye're ca'd,
+an' ye'll no be chidden.
+
+    A sharp remark to those who join in the conversation of others
+    unsolicited or impertinently.
+
+Speir at Jock Thief if I be a leal man.
+
+    Spoken by rogues, who, when their respectability is questioned,
+    refer to persons equally bad.
+
+    "Ask my comrade, who is as great a liar as myself."--_French._
+
+Spend, and God will send; spare, and be bare.
+
+Spilt ale is waur than water.
+
+Spit in your loof and haud fast.
+
+    This means, simply, take a firm hold of a thing.
+
+Spit on a stane and it will be wat at last.
+
+Stable the steed, and put your wife to bed when there's night wark to
+do.
+
+    "'Am I no gaun to the ploy, then?' said Maggie, in a disappointed
+    tone. 'And what for should ye?' said her lord and master; 'to dance
+    a' night, I'se warrant, and no to be fit to walk your tae's-length
+    the morn, and we have ten Scots miles afore us? Na, na. Stable the
+    steed, and pit your wife to bed when there's night wark to
+    do.'"--_Redgauntlet._
+
+Standers-by see mair than gamesters.
+
+Staunin' dubs gather dirt.
+
+    "Standing pools gather filth."--_English._
+
+Stay and drink o' your ain browst.
+
+    "Take a share of the mischief that you have occasioned."--_Kelly._
+
+      "But gae your wa's, Bessie, tak on ye,
+        And see wha'll tak care o' ye now;
+      E'en gae wi' the Bogle, my bonnie--
+        It's a browst your ain daffery did brew."--_Old Ballad._
+
+Stay nae langer in a friend's house than ye're welcome.
+
+Step by step climbs the hill.
+
+Stickin' gangsna by strength, but by the right use o' the gully.
+
+Stretching and gaunting bodes sleep to be wanting.
+
+Strike as ye feed, and that's but soberly.
+
+Strike the iron while it's hot.
+
+Stuffing hauds out storms.
+
+    "Advising men to take some good thing before they travel in a bad
+    day."--_Kelly._
+
+Sturt pays nae debt.
+
+    "Spoken with resentment to them who storm when we crave of them our
+    just debts."--_Kelly._
+
+Sudden friendship's sure repentance.
+
+Sue a beggar and gain a louse.
+
+Sunday wooin' draws to ruin.
+
+Supp'd out wort ne'er made gude ale.
+
+    "Spoken when one asks us for a drink of our wort, for what is drunk
+    in wort will never be ale, good or bad."--_Kelly._
+
+Suppers kill mair than doctors cure.
+
+Surfeits slay mair than swords.
+
+Swear by your burnt shins.
+
+Sweet at the on-taking, but soor in the aff-putting.
+
+    In allusion to the contraction of debt and other liabilities.
+
+Sweet i' the bed and sweer up i' the morning was ne'er a gude housewife.
+
+    "A jocose reproof to young maids when they lie long
+    a-bed."--_Kelly._
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Tak a hair o' the dog that bit you.
+
+    This is a familiar rendering of the great law of Hom[oe]opathy,
+    _Similia similibus curantur_; but is usually interpreted thus: Sober
+    yourself by taking another glass.
+
+Tak a piece; your teeth's langer than your beard.
+
+    Addressed to children who are diffident in accepting a "piece."
+
+Tak a seat on Maggie Shaw's Crocky.
+
+    "_Maggy Shaw's Crocky_ is a broad flat stone, near to the brink of a
+    precipice, overhanging the sea-shore, about a mile to the north of
+    Eyemouth. This stone was placed over the remains of an old woman who
+    had hanged herself, and who is said to be frequently seen at night
+    sitting upon it, in the shape of a white sea-mew--sitting lonely on
+    the
+
+                              "'glitty stane,
+      Green wi' the dow o' the jauping main.'"--_G. Henderson._
+
+Tak a tune on your ain fiddle; ye'll dance till't afore it's dune.
+
+    "'I can hear no remonstrances,' he continued, turning away from the
+    Bailie, whose mouth was open to address him; 'the service I am on
+    gives me no time for idle discussions.' 'Aweel, aweel, sir,' said
+    the Bailie, 'you're welcome to a tune on your ain fiddle; but see if
+    I dinna gar ye dance till't afore a's dune.'"--_Rob Roy._
+
+      "But sen ze think it easy thing
+      To mount aboif the mune,
+      Of our awin fidle tak a spring,
+      And daunce quhen ze haif done."--_Cherrie and the Slae._
+
+Tak care o' that man whom God has set his mark upon.
+
+    "I went once to a conventicle on a mountain side, in company of a
+    very sage intelligent gentleman, who, seeing the preacher want two
+    joints of each ring finger, having a nail upon the third, he
+    immediately took horse and rode away. I asked him what ailed him? He
+    said, 'God had set a mark upon that man, and he was sure it was not
+    for nothing.' This man proved a great plague to his country, was the
+    death of a great many, and came to a violent end himself."--_Kelly._
+
+Tak a man by his word and a cow by her horn.
+
+Tak him up on his fine eggs, and ane o' them rotten.
+
+Tak nae mair on your back than ye're able to bear.
+
+Tak pairt o' the pelf when the pack's dealing.
+
+Tak the bit and the buffet wi't.
+
+      "What tho' sometimes, in angry mood,
+      When she puts on her barlik hood,
+      Her dialect seems rough and rude,
+                      Let's ne'er be flee't,
+      But tak our bit, when it is gude,
+                      An' buffet wi't."--_Allan Ramsay._
+
+    Bear patiently taunts and ill usage, if advantages come with them.
+
+Tak the head for the washing.
+
+Tak the readiest to serve the needfu'ist.
+
+Tak the will for the deed.
+
+Tak time ere time be tint.
+
+      "Tak tyme, in tyme, or tyme be tint,
+      For tyme will not remain."--_Cherrie and the Slae._
+
+Tak your ain will and ye'll no dee o' the pet.
+
+Tak your ain will o't, as the cat did o' the haggis--first ate it, and
+then creepit into the bag.
+
+    This and the preceding proverb, Kelly says, "are spoken to them who
+    obstinately persist in an unreasonable design."
+
+Tak your meal wi' ye an' your brose will be thicker.
+
+    Used sarcastically by those who take a good meal _before_ they go to
+    partake of one with a friend; signifying that they do not expect to
+    be too well treated.
+
+Tak your thanks to feed your cat.
+
+Tak your venture, as mony a gude ship has done.
+
+Tak your will, you're wise enough.
+
+Tak wit wi' your anger.
+
+Tam-tell-truth's nae courtier.
+
+Tappit hens like cock-crowing.
+
+Tarry breeks pays nae freight.
+
+    Persons in the same trade are generally willing to oblige one
+    another. "Pipers don't pay fiddlers."--_English._ "One barber shaves
+    another."--_French._
+
+Tarry lang brings little hame.
+
+Tell nae tales out o' schule.
+
+Tell the truth and shame the deil.
+
+Thank ye for cakes, I have scones in my pocket.
+
+That bolt came ne'er out o' your bag.
+
+    That is, such a thing is better done or told than you could do it.
+
+That'll be a sap out o' my bicker.
+
+    Or will injure me by reducing my income or prospects.
+
+That's abune your thoom.
+
+    Spoken to a person who is about to attempt a thing of which he is
+    considered incapable.
+
+That's a piece a stepmother never gied.
+
+    A hearty expression accompanying a substantial "piece" or meal.
+
+That's a sair hair in my neck.
+
+    "I canna but think I maun hae made a queer figure without my hat and
+    my periwig, hanging by the middle like bawdrons, or a cloak flung
+    ower a cloakpin. Bailie Grahame wad hae an unco hair in my neck an
+    he got that tale by the end."--_Rob Roy._
+
+That's as ill as the ewes in the yaird and nae dogs to hunt them.
+
+    The "yaird" being the safest place where the ewes could be, the
+    proverb means that a thing is quite right.
+
+That's a tale o' twa drinks.
+
+That's a tee'd ba'.
+
+That's but ae doctor's opinion.
+
+That's equal aqual.
+
+    "Mr Novit, ye'll no forget to draw the annual rent that's due on the
+    yerl's band--if I pay debt to other folk, I think they suld pay it
+    to me--that equals aquals.--Jock, when ye hae naething else to do,
+    ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when
+    ye're sleeping. My father tauld me sae forty years sin', but I ne'er
+    fand time to mind him."--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+That's felling twa dogs wi' ae stane.
+
+That's for that, as butter's for fish.
+
+    Meaning that such a thing is exactly what is wanted.
+
+That's for the faither, and no for the son.
+
+    "Spoken when a thing is done with slight materials, and,
+    consequently, will not be lasting."--_Kelly._
+
+That's Halkerston's cow, a' the ither way.
+
+    Halkerston, a lawyer and landed proprietor, gave permission to one
+    of his tenants to graze an ox. The tenant's ox was gored to death by
+    a heifer belonging to the lawyer. The tenant went to Halkerston, and
+    told the story the reverse of what had occurred. "Why, then," said
+    the lawyer, "your ox must go for my heifer--the law provides that."
+    "No," said the man, "your heifer killed my ox." "Oh," said
+    Halkerston, "the case alters there," and forthwith reversed his
+    tactics.
+
+That's ill paid maut siller.
+
+    "Metaphorically, a benefit ill requited."--_Jamieson._
+
+That's like seekin' for a needle in a windlin o' strae.
+
+That's my gude that does me gude.
+
+That's my tale, whaur's yours?
+
+    Spoken by a person who has forestalled another by telling the same
+    news or story which the other was about to do.
+
+That's no a heel to my shoe.
+
+That's the ane the souter killed his wife wi'.
+
+That's the best gown that gaes up and down the house.
+
+That's the way to marry me, if ere you should hap to do it.
+
+    A sharp reply to those who presume to be too familiar.
+
+That's waur and mair o't.
+
+That which God will gie the deil canna reeve.
+
+    "Spoken when we have attained our end in spite of
+    opposition."--_Kelly._
+
+That will be when the deil's blind, and he's no bleer-ee'd yet.
+
+That winna be a mote in your marriage.
+
+The ass that's no used to the sunks bites his crupper.
+
+    "'Sunks,' a sort of saddle made of cloth, and stuffed with straw, on
+    which two persons can sit at once."--_Jamieson._
+
+The back and the belly hauds ilka ane busy.
+
+The ba' maun aye row some way.
+
+The banes bear the beef hame.
+
+The banes o' a great estate are worth the picking.
+
+The best is aye the cheapest.
+
+The best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft agley.
+
+The best o' wabs are rough at the roons.
+
+The best that can happen to a poor man is that ae bairn dee and the rest
+follow.
+
+    Kelly is democratically angry at the questionable sentiment of this
+    proverb,--"A cursed distrustful proverb!" he says. "God is able to
+    maintain the poor man's child as well as the young master or young
+    miss, and often in a more healthy and plump condition."
+
+The better day the better deed.
+
+    The jocular answer of a person who is blamed for doing something on
+    Sunday.
+
+The biggest horse is no aye the best traveller.
+
+The biggest rogue cries loudest out.
+
+The bird maun flicher that has but ae wing.
+
+The bird that can sing, an' winna sing, should be gar'd sing.
+
+The black ox ne'er trod on his foot.
+
+    "The _black ox_ is said to _tramp_ on one who has lost a near
+    relation by death, or met with some severe calamity."--_The
+    Antiquary._
+
+      "Auld Luckie cries, 'Ye're o'er ill set,
+      As ye'd hae measure, ye sud met;
+      Ye ken na what may be your fate
+                      In after days,
+      The black cow has nae trampet yet
+                      Upo' your taes.'"--_The Farmer's Ha'._
+
+The blind horse is aye the hardiest.
+
+The blind man's peck should be weel measured.
+
+The blind mear's first in the mire.
+
+The bonny moon is on her back, mend your shoon and sort your thack.
+
+    "When the new moon is in such a part of the ecliptic as to appear
+    turned much over upon her back, wet weather is expected."--_Robert
+    Chambers._
+
+The book o' may-be's is very braid.
+
+The breath o' a fause friend's waur than the fuff o' a weasel.
+
+The cart doesna lose its errand when it comesna hame toom-tail.
+
+    "To come back toom-tail is to go away with a load and come back
+    empty."--_Jamieson._
+
+    The proverb is applied to those who accomplish more than their
+    errand.
+
+The cat kens whase lips she licks.
+
+The cat's oot o' the pock.
+
+The cause is gude, and the word's "fa' tae."
+
+    A profane grace of hungry persons who sit down to a good meal.
+
+The clartier the cosier.
+
+    Literally, the dirtier the more comfortable. Whether true or not we
+    cannot say.
+
+The cost owergangs the profit.
+
+The cow may dee ere the grass grow.
+
+    "While the grass is growing the steed is starving."--_German._
+
+The cow may want her tail yet.
+
+    "You may want my kindness hereafter, though you deny me yours just
+    now."--_Kelly._
+
+The cow that's first up gets the first o' the dew.
+
+    Used as an incentive to diligence and industry.
+
+    "The early bird catches the worm."--_English._
+
+The cure may be waur than the disease.
+
+The day has een, the night has lugs.
+
+    Prudence and caution are necessary at all times.
+
+The day you do weel there will be seven munes in the lift and ane on the
+midden.
+
+    The inference is, that the person addressed has a very remote chance
+    indeed of ever doing well.
+
+The death o' ae bairn winna skail a house.
+
+The death o' his first wife made sic a hole in his heart that a' the
+lave slippit easily through.
+
+    "It is supposed that he who has lost the wife of his youth and love
+    will easily bear the loss of a second or third, who are commonly
+    married rather for convenience than love."--_Kelly._
+
+The deil and the dean begin wi' ae letter; when the deil gets the dean
+the kirk will be better.
+
+The deil aye drives his hogs to an ill market.
+
+The deil bides his time.
+
+The deil doesna aye show his cloven cloots.
+
+The deil gaes awa when he finds the door steekit against him.
+
+The deil gaes ower Jock Wabster.
+
+      "The deil gaes ower Jock Wabster, hame grows hell;
+      And Pate misca's ye mair nor tongue can tell."--_Gentle Shepherd._
+
+The deil gae wi' ye and a sixpence, and ye'll neither want money nor
+company.
+
+The deil made souters sailors that can neither steer nor row.
+
+    Applied to those who undertake work of which they are incapable.
+
+The deil ne'er sent a wind out o' hell but he sail'd wi't.
+
+The deil's a busy bishop in his ain diocese.
+
+The deil's aye gude to his ain.
+
+The deil's cow calves twice in ae year.
+
+The deil's greedy, but ye're mislear'd.
+
+The deil's greedy, sae are ye.
+
+The deil's gude when he's pleased.
+
+The deil's journeyman ne'er wants wark.
+
+The deil's no sae black as he's ca'd.
+
+    "'Hout tout, neighbour, ye maunna tak the warld at its word,' said
+    Saddletree; 'the very deil is no sae ill as he's ca'd; and I ken
+    mair than ae advocate that may be said to hae some integrity as weel
+    as their neighbours; that is, after a sort o' fashion o' their
+    ain.'"--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+The deil's ower grit wi' you.
+
+    "Ower grit," too familiar.
+
+The deil's pet lambs lo'e Claverse's lads.
+
+    A saying of the Covenanters, that the followers of Graham of
+    Claverhouse were on affectionate terms with the favourites of the
+    Evil One.
+
+The deil was sick, the deil a monk wad be; the deil grew hale, syne deil
+a monk was he.
+
+    Meaning that promises of amendment made on a sick-bed are seldom
+    kept.
+
+    "All criminals preach under the gallows."--_Italian._
+
+The deil will tak little or he want a'.
+
+The dorty dame may fa' in the dirt.
+
+    "Dorty," says Jamieson, "is applied to a female who is saucy with
+    her suitors." That she may have to marry a more ineligible person
+    than the one refused is here implied.
+
+The drucken sot gets aye the drucken groat.
+
+The e'ening brings a' hame.
+
+The Englishman greets, the Irishman sleeps, but the Scotchman gangs till
+he gets it.
+
+    "A pretended account of the behaviour of these three nations when
+    they want meat."--_Kelly._
+
+The farther ben the welcomer.
+
+The farther in the deeper.
+
+The farthest way aboot is aft the nearest way hame.
+
+The fat sow's tail's aye creeshed.
+
+    Those who have sufficient money or property already are always
+    getting additions to their stores.
+
+The feathers carried awa the flesh.
+
+The feet are slow when the head wears snaw.
+
+The first dish is aye best eaten.
+
+The first fuff o' a fat haggis is aye the bauldest.
+
+    Or the first threat of a boaster or coward is always the worst.
+
+The first gryce and the last whalp o' a litter are aye the best.
+
+The fish that sooms in a dub will aye taste o' dirt.
+
+The flesh is aye fairest that's farthest frae the bane.
+
+    However, although fairest, it is not the best, for another proverb
+    of our own says, "Nearer the bane the sweeter."
+
+The foot at the cradle and the hand at the reel, is a sign that a woman
+means to do weel.
+
+The foremost hound grips the hare.
+
+The fu'er my house, the toomer my purse.
+
+The goat gies a gude milking, but she ca's ower the cog wi' her feet.
+
+    Spoken of useful people who are, however, as troublesome as they are
+    useful.
+
+The grace o' a grey bannock is in the bakin' o't.
+
+The grace o' God is gear enough.
+
+The grandsire buys, the faither bigs, the son sells, and the grandson
+thigs.
+
+    Alluding to the uncertainty of earthly things; meaning, literally,
+    that the grandsire buys estates on which the father builds, the son
+    sells the property, and forces the grandson again in turn to beg.
+
+The gravest fish is an oyster; the gravest bird's an ool; the gravest
+beast's an ass; an' the gravest man's a fool.
+
+The greatest burdens are no the maist gainfu'.
+
+The greatest clerk's no aye the wisest man.
+
+The greedy man and the cook are sure friends.
+
+The greedy man and the gileynour are weel met.
+
+The gude dog doesna aye get the best bane.
+
+The gude man's mither is aye in the gait.
+
+    "The husband's mother is the wife's devil."--_Dutch._
+
+The gude man's no aye the best man.
+
+The gude or ill hap o' a gude or ill life, is the gude or ill choice o'
+a gude or ill wife.
+
+    "He who has a good wife can bear any evil; he who has a bad wife can
+    expect no happiness that can be so called."--_Spanish._
+
+The happy man canna be herried.
+
+The haughty hawk winna stoop to carrion.
+
+The height o' nonsense is supping soor milk wi' an elshin.
+
+    This is equalled by a saying of another country, which has "keeping
+    the sea back with a pitchfork" as its type of nonsense.
+
+The hen's egg gaes to the ha' to bring the goose's egg awa.
+
+    "Spoken when poor people give small gifts to be doubly
+    repaid."--_Kelly._
+
+The higher climb the greater fa'.
+
+The higher the hill the laigher the grass.
+
+The higher the tree the sweeter the plooms; the richer the souter the
+blacker his thooms.
+
+The king lies doun, yet the warld rins round.
+
+    Applied to persons who have an exaggerated idea of their own
+    importance.
+
+The king may come in the cadger's gait.
+
+    This proverb, which is exclusively Scottish, means that a person who
+    has been slighted, or whose services have been despised, may have an
+    opportunity of retaliating at a future time.
+
+The king may come to Kelly yet, and when he comes he'll ride.
+
+    "It signifies that the time may come that I may get my revenge upon
+    such people, and then I will do it to purpose."--_Kelly._
+
+The kirk's aye greedy.
+
+The kirk's muckle, but ye may say mass i' the end o't.
+
+    "Spoken when people say something is too much, intimating that they
+    need take no more than they have need for."--_Kelly._
+
+The laird may be laird, and still need the hind's help.
+
+The laird's brither's an ill tenant.
+
+The langer we live we see the mair ferlies.
+
+The langest day has an end.
+
+The lass that has ower mony wooers aft wales the warst.
+
+The lass that lightlies may lament.
+
+    To "lightlie" is to despise or treat with contempt.
+
+The lazy lad maks a stark auld man.
+
+The lean dog is a' fleas.
+
+The leeful man is the beggar's brither.
+
+The less debt the mair dainties.
+
+"The less I lee."
+
+    This is merely a phrase, but a very expressive one. It implies
+    emphatically that "the _whole_ truth, and _nothing_ but the truth,"
+    has been told.
+
+The less wit a man has, the less he kens the want o't.
+
+The loudest bummer's no the best bee.
+
+The lucky pennyworth sells soonest.
+
+The mair cost the mair honour.
+
+The mair dirt the less hurt.
+
+The mair mischief the better sport.
+
+The mair the merrier; the fewer better cheer.
+
+The mair ye steer the mair ye'll sink.
+
+The maister's brither's an ill servant.
+
+The maister's ee maks the horse fat.
+
+    A fat man riding upon a lean horse was asked how it came to pass
+    that he was so fat while his horse was so lean? "Because," said he,
+    "I feed myself, but my servant feeds the horse."
+
+    "The master's eye puts meat on the horse's ribs."--_Irish._
+
+The maister's foot's the best measure.
+
+The man may eithly tine a stot that canna count his kine.
+
+    Or the man who does not know his business cannot look properly after
+    it.
+
+The man wha sits on the silk goun-tail o' the wife wha's tocher bought
+it, never sits easy.
+
+The maut's abune the meal.
+
+    "Donald Bean Lean, being aware that the bridegroom was in request,
+    and wanting to cleik the cunzie (that is, hook the siller), he
+    cannily carried off Gilliewhackit ae night when he was riding
+    _dovering_ hame (wi' the maut rather abune the meal), and with the
+    help of his gillies he gat him into the hills with the speed of
+    light, and the first place he wakened in was the Cove of Vaimh an
+    Ri."--_Waverley._
+
+"The meal cheap and shoon dear," quo' the souter's wife, "I'd like to
+hear."
+
+The miller mouters best wi' his ain hand.
+
+The morn's the morn.
+
+      "When northern blasts the ocean snurl,
+      And gars the heights and hows look gurl,
+      Then left about the bumper whirl,
+                  And toom the horn;
+      Grip fast the hours which hasty hurl,
+                  The morn's the morn."--_Allan Ramsay._
+
+The moudiwart feedsna on midges.
+
+Them that canna get a peck maun put up wi' a stimpart.
+
+    A "stimpart" is the fourth part of a peck. They who cannot obtain
+    luxuries must content themselves with necessaries.
+
+Them that canna ride maun shank it.
+
+    "'To shank,' to travel on foot."--_Jamieson._
+
+Them that likesna water brose will scunner at cauld steerie.
+
+    "'_Cauld steerie_,' sourmilk and meal stirred together in a cold
+    state."--_Jamieson._
+
+    Used as a taunt to those who complain of common food.
+
+Them that winna work maun want.
+
+Them that's ill fleyed are seldom sair hurt.
+
+Them that's slack in gude are eydent in ill.
+
+The muck midden is the mither o' the meal kist.
+
+Them wha gae jumpin' awa aft come limpin' hame.
+
+Them wha stand on a knowe's sure to be noticed.
+
+    Or they who elevate themselves to a public position are sure to be
+    conspicuous.
+
+Then's then, but noo's the noo.
+
+      "'Weel, Lindy man,' says Colin, 'that's a' true,
+      But then was then, my lad, an' noo is noo;
+      'Bout then-a-days, we'd seldom met wi' cross,
+      Nor kent the ill o' conters or a loss.
+      But noo, the case is altered very sair.'"--_Ross's Helenore._
+
+The name o' an honest woman's muckle worth.
+
+The nearer e'en the mair beggars.
+
+    A jocular salutation to those who drop in to visit a friend.
+
+The next time ye dance, ken wha ye tak by the hand.
+
+    "Spoken to them who have imprudently engaged with some who have been
+    too cunning or too hard for them."--_Kelly._
+
+The peasweep aye cries farthest frae his ain nest.
+
+The piper wants muckle that wants the nether chaft.
+
+    "Spoken when a thing is wanting which is actually
+    necessary."--_Kelly._
+
+The poor man is aye put to the warst.
+
+The poor man pays for a'.
+
+The poor man's shilling is but a penny.
+
+The post o' honour is the post o' danger.
+
+The proof o' the pudding's the preein' o't.
+
+The proudest nettle grows on a midden.
+
+    And a very proud person may have sprung from a poor family.
+
+The rain comes scouth when the wind's in the south.
+
+    To rain "scouth," is to rain abundantly or heavily.
+
+There are great stots in Ireland, but they canna get here for horns.
+
+There are mair foxes than there are holes for.
+
+There are mair knaves in my kin than honest men in yours.
+
+There are mair maidens than maukins.
+
+    Literally, there are more maidens than young hares. Figuratively, he
+    has lost one sweetheart, but he'll soon get another.
+
+There are mair married than gude house hauders.
+
+    Or more persons in the capacity of householders than are competent
+    for the duties of the position.
+
+There are mair wark-days than life-days.
+
+There are nane sae weel shod but may slip.
+
+There belangs mair to a bed than four bare legs.
+
+    Spoken to persons about to marry, signifying that more expenses are
+    incurred in housekeeping than they are aware of.
+
+There belangs mair to a ploughman than whistling.
+
+There grows nae grass at the market cross.
+
+There ne'er came ill frae a gude advice.
+
+There ne'er was a bad that couldna be waur.
+
+There ne'er was a fair word in flyting.
+
+There ne'er was a fire without some reek.
+
+There ne'er was a poor man in his kin.
+
+There ne'er was a slut but had a slit, or a daw but had twa.
+
+There ne'er was a five pound note but there was a ten pound road for't.
+
+    Such was the reply of a respected lady friend of ours when asked
+    what she did with all the money she got. It does not appear in any
+    previous collection, but it is too good to be lost.
+
+There's a day coming that'll show wha's blackest.
+
+There's a difference between fen o'er and fair well.
+
+    "There is a great difference between their way of living who only
+    get a little scrap to keep them alive, and theirs who get every day
+    a full meal."--_Kelly._
+
+There's a difference between the piper and his bitch.
+
+There's a difference between "Will you sell?" and "Will you buy?"
+
+There's a dub at every door, and before some doors there's twa.
+
+    A "dub" is a pool or puddle of water. Proverbially, there is a
+    skeleton in every house.
+
+There's ae day o' reckoning and anither day o' payment.
+
+There's a flee in my hose.
+
+    "That is, I have some trouble of mind or body about me that takes up
+    my thought."--_Kelly._
+
+There's a gude and a bad side to everything; a' the airt is to find it
+out.
+
+There's a gude shape in the shears' mouth.
+
+    But it requires talent and skill to bring it forth.
+
+There's a het hurry when there's a hen to roast.
+
+"There's a mote in't," quo' the man when he swallowed the dishclout.
+
+There's an act in the Laird o' Grant's court, that no abune eleven speak
+at ance.
+
+    A jocular remark when too many speak at once: that it is founded on
+    fact is questionable.
+
+"There's an unco splutter," quo' the sow i' the gutter.
+
+There's a reason for ye, an' a rag about the foot o't.
+
+    The meaning of this is, that a very trifling or lame reason has been
+    given for something having been done.
+
+There's as gude fish in the sea as ever came out o't.
+
+    "I jalouse it's neither siller nor the Kirk o' Scotland that's
+    fashing him. If I'm no mista'en, he's vexing himsel' a hantle mair
+    about Miss Migummerie; but he needna be sic a fule--there's as gude
+    fish in the sea as ever yet cam oot o't--that's a' that I'll
+    say."--_The Disruption._
+
+There's a sliddery stane before the ha' door.
+
+    "Signifying the uncertainty of court favour, and the promises of
+    great men."--_Kelly._
+
+There's as mony Johnstones as Jardines.
+
+    Meaning that there are as many on the one side as there are on the
+    other; that the chances are equal.
+
+There's a storm in somebody's nose, licht where it like.
+
+    Spoken when we see a person angry, and about to break into a
+    passion.
+
+There's a time to gley and a time to look straught.
+
+There's a tough sinew in an auld wife's heel.
+
+There's a whaup i' the raip.
+
+    There is a knot in the rope--there is something wrong.
+
+There's a word in my wame, but it's ower far down.
+
+    Spoken by a person who is at a loss for a particular word to express
+    himself.
+
+There's aye a glum look where there's cauld crowdy.
+
+    Glum looks when there is cold shoulder of mutton for dinner, in
+    England, are proverbial.
+
+There's aye a wimple in a lawyer's clew.
+
+    "'The judge didna tell us a' he could hae tell'd us, if he had
+    liked, about the application for pardon, neighbours,' said
+    Saddletree; 'there is aye a wimple in a lawyer's clew; but it's a
+    wee bit o' a secret.'"--_Heart of Midlothian._
+
+There's aye enough o' friends when folk hae ought.
+
+    "Daft Will Speirs was sitting on the roadside picking a large bone,
+    when the Earl of Eglinton came along. 'Weel, Will,' said the Earl,
+    'what's this you've got noo?' 'Ay, ay,' said Will, 'anew o' friends
+    when folk has ocht; ye gaed by me a wee sin', an' ne'er loot on ye
+    saw me.'"--_The Scotch Haggis._
+
+There's aye ill-will among cadgers.
+
+    Synonymous with "Two of a trade seldom agree."--_French._
+
+There's aye life in a living man.
+
+There's aye some water where the stirkie drowns.
+
+There's aye sorrow at somebody's door.
+
+"There's baith meat and music here," quo' the dog when he ate the
+piper's bag.
+
+There's beild beneath an auld man's beard.
+
+    Beild, that is, shelter or protection.
+
+There's brains enough ootside his head.
+
+There's but ae gude wife in the warld, and ilka ane thinks he has her.
+
+    "This rule admits large exceptions, for some are fully apprised of
+    the contrary."--_Kelly._
+
+There's life in a mussel as lang as it cheeps.
+
+There's little for the rake after the shool.
+
+    "There is little to be gotten of such a thing when covetous people
+    have had their will of it."--_Kelly._
+
+There's little wit in the pow that lichts the candle at the lowe.
+
+    He has little wit who does a thing in a dangerous or extravagant
+    manner. There is an addition to this saying common in the north,
+    "And as little in the croon, that kindles 't ower far doon."
+
+There's little sap in a dry pea-shaup.
+
+"There's little to reck," quo' the knave to his neck.
+
+There's mair ado than a dish to lick.
+
+There's mair knavery among kirkmen than honesty amang courtiers.
+
+There's mair knavery on sea and land than all the warld beside.
+
+    "A facetious bull, upon mentioning of some knavish
+    action."--_Kelly._
+
+There's mair room without than within.
+
+    A churlish remark of one who thinks his company is not wanted.
+
+There's mair ways o' killing a dog than hanging him.
+
+There's mair ways than ane o' keeping craws frae the stack.
+
+There's mair ways to the wood than ane.
+
+There's mair whistling wi' you than gude red land.
+
+    Or more play than work.
+
+    "'Red land,' ground turned up with the plough."--_Jamieson._
+
+There's measure in a' things, even in kail supping.
+
+    "There is reason in roasting of eggs."--_English._
+
+There's mirth among the kin when the howdie cries "A son."
+
+There's mony a true tale tauld in jest.
+
+There's mony a tod hunted that's no killed.
+
+    "'Oh, I hae nae friend left in the warld!--O, that I were lying dead
+    at my mother's side in Newbattle kirkyard!'--'Hout, lassie,' said
+    Ratcliffe, willing to show the interest which he absolutely felt,
+    'dinna be sae dooms doon-hearted as a' that; there's mony a tod
+    hunted that's no killed. Advocate Langtale has brought folk through
+    waur snappers than a' this, and there's no a cleverer agent than
+    Nichil Novit e'er drew a bill o' suspension.'"--_Heart of
+    Midlothian._
+
+There's mony chances, baith o' gude and ill, befa' folk in this warld.
+
+There's muckle ado when dominies ride.
+
+    When people engage in a thing to which they are unaccustomed the
+    necessity must be urgent. A Peeblesshire couplet embodies the same
+    meaning:--
+
+      "There's muckle ado when muirland folk ride--
+      Boots and spurs, and a' to provide!"
+
+There's muckle between the word and the deed.
+
+There's muckle hid meat in a goose's ee.
+
+There's muckle love in bands and bags.
+
+      "There's meikle good love in bands and bags,
+        And siller and gowd's a sweet complexion;
+      But beauty and wit, and virtue in rags,
+        Have tint the art of gaining affection."--_Tea-Table Miscellany._
+
+There's my thoom, I'll ne'er beguile thee.
+
+    This is the name of an old Scottish song, but is often used as a
+    proverb.
+
+There's nae breard like middling breard.
+
+    Applied to low-born people who suddenly come to wealth and honour;
+    in allusion to the stalks of corn which spring up on a dunghill.
+
+There's nae birds this year in last year's nest.
+
+There's nae corn without cauf.
+
+There's nae fey folk's meat in my pat.
+
+There's nae friend like the penny.
+
+There's nae friend to friend in mister.
+
+There's nae fules like auld fules.
+
+    "Your auntie's no past the time o' day yet for jumping at a man if
+    she just had the offer. There's no fules like auld fules; and tak ye
+    my word for't, Maister James, neither your lass nor mines cares half
+    as muckle about mautrimony as your aunty."--_The Disruption._
+
+There's nae hair sae sma' but has its shadow.
+
+There's nae hawk flees sae high but he will fa' to some lure.
+
+"There's nae ill in a merry mind," quo' the wife when she whistled
+through the kirk.
+
+There's nae iron sae hard but rust will fret it; there's nae claith sae
+fine but moths will eat it.
+
+There's nae lack in love.
+
+There's nae reek but there's some heat.
+
+There's nae remede for fear but cut aff the head.
+
+There's nae sel sae dear as our ainsel.
+
+There's nae sport where there's neither auld folk nor bairns.
+
+There's naething for misdeeds but mends.
+
+There's naething sae gude on this side o' time but it might hae been
+better.
+
+There's naething ill said that's no ill ta'en.
+
+There's naething sae like an honest man as an arrant knave.
+
+There's nae woo sae coorse but it'll take some colour.
+
+There's nane sae blind as them that winna see.
+
+There's nane sae busy as him that has least to do.
+
+There's nane sae deaf as them that winna hear.
+
+There's ne'er a great feast but some fare ill.
+
+There's ower mony nicks in your horn.
+
+    That is, you are too knowing or cunning for me.
+
+There's plenty o' raible when drink's on the table.
+
+    To "raible" is to speak in a riotous, careless, or loose manner.
+
+There's remede for a' but stark dead.
+
+      "For ony malledy ze ken,
+        Except puir love, or than stark deid,
+      Help may be had frae hands of men,
+        Thorow medicines to mak remeid."--_The Evergreen._
+
+There's skill in gruel making.
+
+"There's sma sorrow at our pairting," as the auld mear said to the
+broken cart.
+
+    "'If ye dinna think me fit,' replied Andrew, in a huff, 'to speak
+    like ither folk, gie me my wages, and my board-wages, and I'se gae
+    back to Glasgow--there's sma sorrow at our pairting, as the auld
+    mear said to the broken cart.'"--_Rob Roy._
+
+There's steel in the needle point, though little o't.
+
+    "Spoken when a thing, commendable for its kind, is found fault with
+    for its quantity."--_Kelly._
+
+There's the end o' an auld sang.
+
+    Or, all the information I can give you.
+
+There's tricks in a' trades but honest horse-couping.
+
+There's twa enoughs, and ye hae got ane o' them.
+
+    "That is, big enough and little enough; meaning that he has gotten
+    little enough. An answer to them who, out of modesty, say they have
+    enough."--_Kelly._
+
+There's twa things in my mind, and that's the least o' them.
+
+    Spoken by a person who declines to give a reason for a thing which
+    he does not wish to do.
+
+There was anither gotten the night that you was born.
+
+    "If one won't another will."--_English._
+
+There was mair lost at Sherramuir, where the Hielandman lost his faither
+and his mither, and a gude buff belt worth baith o' them.
+
+    Spoken jocularly when a person meets with a trifling loss.
+    Sheriffmuir is the name of the field between Stirling and Dunblane,
+    where a disastrous battle between the Scots and English was fought
+    during the rebellion of 1715.
+
+There was ne'er a gude toun but there was a dub at the end o't.
+
+    Or never a thing so perfect as to be faultless.
+
+There was ne'er a height but had a howe at the bottom o't.
+
+There ne'er was a silly Jocky but there was a silly Jenny.
+
+There was ne'er a thrifty wife wi' a clout about her head.
+
+There was ne'er enough when naething was left.
+
+The scabbit head loesna the kame.
+
+The scholar may waur the maister.
+
+The shortest road's the nearest.
+
+The shortest road's where the company's gude.
+
+The silliest strake has aye the loudest "hech."
+
+    This means, literally, that the silliest stroke is accompanied by
+    the loudest exclamation: those who pretend to do most perform least.
+
+The slothfu' man maks a slim fortune.
+
+The smith has aye a spark in his throat.
+
+The smith's mear and the souter's wife are aye warst shod.
+
+The snail is as sune at its rest as the swallow.
+
+The souter gae the sow a kiss; "grumph," quo' she, "it's for a birse."
+
+    "Spoken of those whose service we suppose to be
+    mercenary."--_Kelly._
+
+The stoup that gaes often to the well comes hame broken at last.
+
+    "The pitcher that goes often to the well leaves either its handle or
+    its spout."--_Spanish._
+
+The stoutest head bears langest oot.
+
+    "The broadsword's pursuer, or plaintiff, as you Englishers ca' it,
+    and the target is defender; the stoutest head bears langest
+    out;--and there's a Hieland plea for ye."--_Rob Roy._
+
+The strongest side taks aye the strongest right.
+
+The sun is nae waur for shining on the midden.
+
+The thatcher said unto his man, "Let's raise this ladder if we
+can."--"But first let's drink, maister."
+
+    "Spoken when one proposes something to be done, and another proposes
+    to take a drink before we begin."--_Kelly._
+
+The thiefer-like the better sodger.
+
+The thing that liesna in your gait breaksna your shins.
+
+The thing that's dune's no to do.
+
+The thing that's fristed's no forgi'en.
+
+The third time's lucky.
+
+The thrift o' you and the woo o' a dog wad mak a braw wab.
+
+    A sarcastic manner of informing a person that he is lazy.
+
+The thrift o' you will be the death o' your gudewife.
+
+The time ye're pu'in' runts ye're no setting kail.
+
+The tod keeps aye his ain hole clean.
+
+    "'Hout-tout, Dame Elspeth,' said Tibb, 'fear ye naething frae
+    Christie; tods keep their ain holes clean. You kirk-folk make sic a
+    fasherie about men shifting a wee bit for their living!'"--_The
+    Monastery._
+
+The tod ne'er sped better than when he gaed his ain errand.
+
+    "Every man is most zealous for his own interest. Spoken to advise a
+    man to go about such a business himself."--_Kelly._
+
+The tod ne'er fares better than when he's bann'd.
+
+    "Spoken when we are told that such people curse us, which we think
+    is the effect of envy, the companion of felicity. The fox is cursed
+    when he takes our poultry."--_Kelly._
+
+The tod's whalps are ill to tame.
+
+The tree doesna aye fa' at the first strake.
+
+The warld is bound to nae man.
+
+The warst may be tholed when it's kenn'd.
+
+The warst warld that ever was some man won.
+
+The water will ne'er waur the widdie.
+
+    The water will never cheat the gallows; of similar meaning to "He
+    that's born to be hanged," _q. v._
+
+    "A neighbour of mine was so fully persuaded of the truth of this
+    proverb, that being in a great storm, and dreadfully afraid, espies
+    in the ship a graceless rake whom he supposed destined to another
+    sort of death, cries out, O Samuel, are you here? why then, we are
+    all safe, and so laid aside his concern."--_Kelly._
+
+The waur luck now the better anither time.
+
+The weakest gangs to the wa'.
+
+The wife's aye welcome that comes wi' a crooked oxter.
+
+    That person is always welcome who brings presents. The "oxter" is
+    crooked because the arm is engaged carrying them.
+
+The wife's ae dochter and the man's ae cow, the taen's ne'er weel and
+the tither's ne'er fu'.
+
+The willing horse is aye worked to death.
+
+The wolf may lose his teeth, but ne'er his nature.
+
+The word o' an honest man's enough.
+
+The worth o' a thing is best kenned by the want o't.
+
+The worth o' a thing is what it will bring.
+
+The wyte o' war is at kings' doors.
+
+    "You and me, Gilhaize, that are but servants, needna fash our heads
+    wi' sic things; the wyte o' wars lie at the doors of kings, and the
+    soldiers are free o' the sin o' them."--_Galt's Ringan Gilhaize._
+
+They are eith hindered that are no furdersome.
+
+    They who are unwilling to do a thing are easily hindered.
+
+They are sad rents that come in wi' tears.
+
+They buy gudes cheap that bring hame naething.
+
+They craw crouse that craw last.
+
+    Because they who "craw" last exult that a matter is definitely known
+    to be in their own favour.
+
+They hae need o' a canny cook that hae but ae egg to their dinner.
+
+They draw the cat harrow.
+
+    "That is, they thwart one another."--_Kelly._
+
+      "For every lord, as he thought best,
+      Brocht in ane bird to fill the nest;
+      To be ane watcheman to his marrow,
+      They gan to draw at the cat-harrow."--_Sir David Lyndsay._
+
+They'll flit in the Merse for a hen's gerse.
+
+    "They will flit for a matter of very small importance. Formerly in
+    Berwickshire every hind was allowed to keep a few hens; and some of
+    them actually removed for the sake of the _hen's keep_. Hence the
+    saying."--_G. Henderson._
+
+They gang far aboot that never meet.
+
+They'll gree better when they gang in by ither kirk doors.
+
+    Spoken of two persons who have quarrelled, meaning that they should
+    avoid each other.
+
+They maun be sune up that cheat the tod.
+
+They maun hunger in frost that winna work in fresh.
+
+They may dunsh that gie the lunch.
+
+    "Dunsh" is a word for which there is no perfect equivalent in
+    English. It means to jog or thrust in a violent manner; but those
+    who know its proper application will see how feeble these meanings
+    are. Jamieson approaches it when he says it is to "push as a mad
+    bull." The proverb here means that they upon whom we depend can do
+    with us as they please.
+
+They may ken by your beard what ye had on your board.
+
+They need muckle that will be content wi' naething.
+
+They ne'er baked a gude cake but may bake an ill ane.
+
+They ne'er gie wi' the spit but they gat wi' the ladle.
+
+    Or they never confer a small favour, or give a trifling gift, but
+    they expect a greater in return.
+
+They ne'er saw great dainties that thought a haggis a feast.
+
+They're a' ae sow's pick.
+
+    Or all one kind--all bad alike.
+
+"They're a bonny pair," as the craw said o' his feet.
+
+"They're a bonny pair," as the deil said o' his cloots.
+
+They're a' gude that gies.
+
+They're a' gude that's far awa.
+
+They're a' tarr'd wi' ae stick.
+
+    "'For my part,' said Macwheeble, 'I never wish to see a kilt in the
+    country again, nor a red coat, nor a gun, for that matter, unless it
+    were to shoot a paitrick. They're a' tarr'd wi' ae
+    stick.'"--_Waverley._
+
+They're aye gude will'd o' their horse that hae nane.
+
+    "He's free of his fruit that wants an orchard."--_English._
+
+They're as thick as three in a bed.
+
+"They're curly and crookit," as the deil said o' his horns.
+
+They're fremit friends that canna be fash'd.
+
+    That is, they are strange or false friends who will not allow
+    themselves to be troubled in the least about their relations.
+
+They're keen o' company that taks the dog on their back.
+
+They're lightly harried that hae a' their ain.
+
+They're like the grices, if ye kittle their wame they fa' on their
+backs.
+
+    Synonymous with "Give him an inch and he'll take an
+    ell."--_English._
+
+They're no a' saints that get the name o't.
+
+They're no to be named in the same day.
+
+    Or they are so different that there is no room for comparison.
+
+They're queer folk that hae nae failings.
+
+They're scant o' horseflesh that ride on the dog.
+
+They're weel guided that God guides.
+
+They rin fast that deils and lasses drive.
+
+They should kiss the gudewife that wad win the gudeman.
+
+They speak o' my drinking, but ne'er think o' my drouth.
+
+    "They censure my doing such a thing who neither consider my
+    occasions of doing it, or what provocations I have had."--_Kelly._
+
+They that bourd wi' cats may count upon scarts.
+
+They that burn you for a witch will lose their coals.
+
+    Applied to stupid people who pretend to be very clever. "Nobody will
+    take you for a conjuror."--_English._
+
+They that come wi' a gift dinna need to stand lang at the door.
+
+They that deal wi' the deil get a dear pennyworth.
+
+They that drink langest live langest.
+
+They that get neist best are no ill aff.
+
+    "'Well, my good friend,' said Tyrrel, 'the upshot of all this is, I
+    hope, that I am to stay and have dinner here?' 'What for no?'
+    replied Mrs Dods. 'And that I am to have the Blue room for a night
+    or two--perhaps longer?' 'I dinna ken that,' said the dame. 'The
+    Blue room is the best--and they that get neist best are no ill aff
+    in this warld.'"--_St Ronan's Well._
+
+They that get the word o' sune rising may lie a' day.
+
+They that hae maist need o' credit seldom get muckle.
+
+They that herd swine think aye they hear them grumphin'.
+
+They that hide ken where to seek.
+
+    "What! the siller?--Ay, ay--trust him for that--they that hide ken
+    best where to find--he wants to wile him out o' his last guinea, and
+    then escape to his ain country, the landlouper."--_The Antiquary._
+
+They that laugh in the morning will greet ere night.
+
+They that lie down for love should rise up for hunger.
+
+They that like the midden see nae motes in't.
+
+They that live langest fetch wood farthest.
+
+They that lose seek, they that find keep.
+
+They that marry in green, their sorrow is sune seen.
+
+    "It is rather strange that green, the most natural and agreeable of
+    all colours, should have been connected by superstition with
+    calamity and sorrow.... To this day, in the north of Scotland, no
+    young woman would wear such attire on her wedding day."--_Robert
+    Chambers._
+
+They that love maist speak least.
+
+They that never filled a cradle shouldna sit in ane.
+
+    "Because such will not consider whether there may be a child in it;
+    whereas they who have had children will be more cautious."--_Kelly._
+
+They that rise wi' the sun hae their wark weel begun.
+
+They that see but your head dinna see a' your height.
+
+    "Spoken to men of low stature and high spirits."--_Kelly._
+
+They that see you through the day winna break the house for you at
+night.
+
+    This ungallant proverb signifies that the person addressed is not
+    very good-looking.
+
+They that sin the sin maun bear the shame.
+
+They that stay in the howe will ne'er mount the height.
+
+They walk fair that naebody finds faut wi'.
+
+They were never fain that fidged, nor fu' that lickit dishes.
+
+    "Spoken when people shrug their shoulders, as if it was a sign that
+    they were not content."--_Kelly._
+
+They were never first at the wark wha bade God speed the wark.
+
+They were scant o' bairns that brought you up.
+
+They wha are early up, and hae nae business, hae either an ill wife, an
+ill bed, or an ill conscience.
+
+They wist as weel that didna speir.
+
+    There are those who are more concerned for my welfare than you are,
+    but do not make so many outward protestations of it.
+
+They wyte you an' you're no wyteless.
+
+Things maun aye be someway, even if they're crookit.
+
+Thirteen o' you may gang to the dizzen.
+
+This and better may do, but this and waur will never do.
+
+This world's a widdle as weel as a riddle.
+
+    "'A widdle,' a wriggling motion; metaphorically, a struggle or
+    bustle."--_Jamieson._
+
+Thole weel is gude for burning.
+
+    "Patience and posset-drink cure all maladies."--_English._
+
+Though auld and wise still tak advice.
+
+Thoughts are free, and if I daurna say I may think.
+
+Thoughts beguile maidens.
+
+Though ye tether time and tide, love and light ye canna hide.
+
+Three can keep a secret when twa are awa.
+
+Three failures and a fire make a Scotsman's fortune.
+
+Thrift's gude revenue.
+
+Time and thinking tame the strongest grief.
+
+Time and tide for nae man bide.
+
+Time tint is never found.
+
+Time tries a', as winter tries the kail.
+
+Time tries whinstanes.
+
+Tine heart, tine a'.
+
+    "'I couldna maybe hae made muckle o' a bargain wi' yon lang
+    callant,' said David, when thus complimented on his valour; 'but
+    when ye deal wi' thae folk, it's tine heart, tine a'.'"--_Heart of
+    Midlothian._
+
+Tine needle, tine darg.
+
+    If you lose your needle you lose your day's work. Spoken to
+    shiftless persons who complain loudly on the least trifle going
+    wrong with them.
+
+Tine thimble, tine thrift.
+
+Tit for tat's fair play.
+
+To fazarts hard hazards are death ere they come nigh.
+
+      "Then feir nocht, nor heir nocht,
+        _Dreid_, _danger_, or _despair_,
+      To fazarts hard hazarts
+        Is deid or they cum thair."--_Cherrie and the Slae._
+
+To hain is to hae.
+
+Toom barrels mak maist din.
+
+Toom be your meal pock, and mine ne'er hang on your pin.
+
+Toom stalls mak biting horses.
+
+Touch a gaw'd horse on the back an he'll fling.
+
+    "Spoken when you have said something to a man that intrenches upon
+    his reputation, and so have put him in a passion."--_Kelly._
+
+To work for naething maks folk dead-sweer.
+
+    "'Dead-sweer,' extremely averse to exertion."--_Jamieson._
+
+Traitors' words ne'er yet hurt honest cause.
+
+Tramp on a snail, and she'll shoot oot her horns.
+
+Tramp on a worm and she'll turn her head.
+
+Tramping straw makes trottin' owsen.
+
+Travell'd men are sindle trow'd.
+
+Trot faither, trot mither; how can the foal amble?
+
+    "It is hard for those who have had a bad parentage, and,
+    consequently, an ill education, to be good."--_Kelly._
+
+True blue will never stain, but dirty red will dye again.
+
+True love is aye blate.
+
+True love kythes in time o' need.
+
+    "Kythes," that is, shows itself.
+
+True love's the waft o' life, but it whiles comes through a sorrowfu'
+shuttle.
+
+Truth and honesty keep the crown o' the causey.
+
+Truth and oil come aye uppermost.
+
+Truth hauds lang the gate.
+
+Try before you trust.
+
+Try your friend ere you need him.
+
+Twa blacks winna mak ae white.
+
+Twa cats and ae mouse, twa mice in ae house, twa dogs and ae bane, ne'er
+will agree in ane.
+
+Twa fools in ae house are a pair ower mony.
+
+Twa gudes seldom meet--what's gude for the plant is ill for the peat.
+
+Twa hands may do in ae dish, but ne'er in ae purse.
+
+"Twa heads are better than ane," as the wife said when she and her dog
+gaed to the market.
+
+Twa heads are better than ane, though they're but sheep's anes.
+
+    Spoken when a person offers a suggestion to another who is
+    considering how he will do a thing.
+
+Twa heads may lie upon ae cod, and nane ken whaur the luck lies.
+
+    "Spoken when either husband or wife is dead, and the sorrowing party
+    goes back in the world after."--_Kelly._
+
+Twa hungry meltiths makes the third a glutton.
+
+Twa things ne'er be angry wi'--what ye can help and what ye canna.
+
+Twa words maun gang to that bargain.
+
+    Addressed to a person who is in too great a hurry to conclude a
+    bargain, indirectly implying that the speaker is not quite satisfied
+    with the article or terms.
+
+Twine tow, your mother was a gude spinner.
+
+    "Spoken to those who curse you or rail upon you, as if you would
+    say, take what you say to yourself."--_Kelly._
+
+
+
+
+Unco folk's no to mird wi'.
+
+      "Ye ken yoursel best where ye tint the end--
+      Sae ye maun foremost gae the miss to mend.
+      'Tis nae to mird wi' unco folk, ye see,
+      Nor is the blear drawn easy o'er their e'e."--_Ross's Helenore._
+
+Under water dearth, under snaw bread.
+
+    If a field has been inundated with water the crop will be spoiled;
+    but if covered with snow it will be improved, as the soil is warmed
+    and nourished thereby.
+
+Unseen, unrued.
+
+"Unsicker, unstable," quo' the wave to the cable.
+
+    "'Unsicker,' not secure, not safe, unsteady."--_Jamieson._
+
+Upon my ain expense, as the man built the dyke.
+
+    "Taken from an inscription upon a churchyard in Scotland--
+
+      "'I, John Moody, cives Abredonensis,
+      Builded this kerk-yerd of fitty (Foot-dee?) upon my own expenses.'"
+                                                            --_Kelly._
+
+Untimeous spurring spoils the steed.
+
+Up hill spare me, doun hill tak tent o' thee.
+
+Use maks perfyteness.
+
+    The Scottish version of the very common saying, "Practice makes
+    perfect."
+
+
+
+
+Wad ye gar us trow that the mune's made o' green cheese, or that spade
+shafts bear plooms?
+
+    That is, Would you really try to make us believe anything so false
+    or absurd as we know such a thing to be?
+
+Waes the wife that wants the tongue, but weel's the man that gets her.
+
+Waes unite faes.
+
+Wae tae him that lippens to ithers for tippence.
+
+    Or, who trusts to another for a small obligation.
+
+Wae tae the wame that has a wilfu' maister.
+
+"Wae worth ill company," quo' the daw o' Camnethan.
+
+    "Spoken when we have been drawn by ill company into an ill thing. A
+    jack-daw in Camnethan (Cambusnethan) learned this word from a guest
+    in the house when he was upon his penitentials after hard
+    drinking."--_Kelly._
+
+Walk as your shoes will let ye.
+
+Waly, waly! bairns are bonny; ane's enough and twa's ower mony.
+
+Want o' cunning's nae shame.
+
+Wanton kittens mak douce cats.
+
+Want o' warld's gear aft sunders fond hearts.
+
+Want o' wit is waur than want o' gear.
+
+Want siller, want fish.
+
+Wark bears witness wha does weel.
+
+War maks thieves and peace hangs them.
+
+War's sweet tae them that never tried it.
+
+    "'A soldier! then you have slain and burnt, and sacked, and
+    spoiled?' 'I winna say,' replied Edie, 'that I have been better than
+    my neighbours--it's a rough trade--war's sweet to them that never
+    tried it.'"--_The Antiquary._
+
+Waste water, waste better.
+
+Watch harm, catch harm.
+
+Wealth has made mair men covetous than covetousness has made men
+wealthy.
+
+Wealth, like want, ruins mony.
+
+Wealth maks wit waver.
+
+    "'Weel, weel,' said the banker, 'that may be a' as you say, sir, and
+    nae doubt wealth makes wit waver; but the country's wealthy, that
+    canna be denied, and wealth, sir, ye ken----' 'I know wealth makes
+    itself wings,' answered the cynical stranger; 'but I am not quite
+    sure we have it even now.'"--_St Ronan's Well._
+
+Weapons bode peace.
+
+We are a' life-like and death-like.
+
+We are aye tae learn as lang as we live.
+
+We are bound to be honest, and no to be rich.
+
+We can live without our kin, but no without our neighbours.
+
+We canna baith sup and blaw.
+
+    That is, we cannot do two things at once.
+
+We can poind for debt, but no for unkindness.
+
+We can shape their wylie-coat, but no their weird.
+
+    Literally, we can shape a person's article of clothing, but cannot
+    foretell his destiny.
+
+Wedding and ill wintering tame baith man and beast.
+
+Wee things fley cowards.
+
+Weel begun is half done.
+
+Weel is that weel does.
+
+Weel kens the mouse when pussie's in.
+
+    "When the cat's away the mice will play."--_English._
+
+      "The farmer now comes ben the house,
+      Whilk o' their gabbin' makes a truce,
+      The lads and lassies a' grow douce,
+                    And spare their din;
+      For true's the tale, 'Weel kens the mouse
+                    When pussie's in!'"--_The Farmer's Ha'._
+
+"Weel!" quo' Willie, when his ain wife dang him.
+
+    We presume that this was intended by Willie as an expression of
+    indifference at the punishment which was being administered to him.
+
+Weel's him and wae's him that has a bishop in his kin.
+
+    "Because such may be advanced, and perhaps disappointed."--_Kelly._
+
+Weel won corn should be housed ere the morn.
+
+    "'Won corn,' corn dried by exposure to the air."--_Jamieson._
+
+Weel worth a' that gars the plough draw.
+
+    _Anglice_, Good luck to everything by which we earn money.
+
+"We hounds slew the hare," quo' the messan.
+
+Welcome's the best dish in the kitchen.
+
+We'll bark oursels ere we buy dogs sae dear.
+
+    Addressed to persons who ask exorbitant prices for their wares:
+    meaning that sooner than agree to their terms, we will do without
+    the article altogether.
+
+We'll bear wi' the stink when it brings in the clink.
+
+We'll meet ere hills meet.
+
+    "Men may meet: but mountains never."--_English._
+
+We'll ne'er big sandy bourochs thegither.
+
+    "This refers," says Jamieson, "to the custom of children building
+    houses in the sand for sport." The proverb means, after such an
+    occurrence we need never expect to be on terms of intimacy again.
+
+We maun a' gang ae gate.
+
+    "'Ay--and is it even sae?' said Meg; 'and has the puir bairn been
+    sae soon removed frae this fashious world? Ay, ay, we maun a' gang
+    ae gate--crackit quart-stoups and geisen'd barrels--leaky quaighs
+    are we a', and canna keep in the liquor of life--Ohon, sirs!'"--_St
+    Ronan's Well._
+
+We maun live by the living, and no by the dead.
+
+We maun tak the crap as it grows.
+
+We may ken your meaning by your mumping.
+
+    "To mump, to hint, to aim at."--_Jamieson._
+
+      "Ye may speak plainer, lass, gin ye incline,
+      As, by your mumping, I maist ken your mind."--_Shirref._
+
+We ne'er ken the worth o' water till the well gae dry.
+
+Were it no for hope the heart wad break.
+
+Wersh parritch, neither gude to fry, boil, or sup cauld.
+
+West wind north about never hauds lang out.
+
+Wet your wizen or else it'll gizen.
+
+    Spoken to a person who is telling a story. It may be either meant
+    kindly or as a signification that the story is too "long-winded."
+
+Wha burns rags will want a winding-sheet.
+
+Wha can haud wha will awa?
+
+Wha can help misluck?
+
+"Wha can help sickness?" quo' the wife when she lay in the gutter.
+
+Wha canna gie will little get.
+
+Wha comes oftener, and brings you less?
+
+    Spoken jocularly by a person who is in the habit of visiting a
+    friend frequently.
+
+Wha daur bell the cat?
+
+    In addition to the fabulous illustration of the mice and the cat,
+    this proverb has also an historical fact attached to it, which is
+    well known in Scotland. The Scottish nobles of the time of James the
+    Third proposed to meet at Stirling in a body, and take Spence, the
+    king's favourite, and hang him. At a preliminary consultation, Lord
+    Gray remarked, "It is well said, but wha will bell the cat?" The
+    Earl of Angus undertook the task--accomplished it--and till his
+    dying day was called Archibald Bell-the-cat.
+
+Wha may woo without cost?
+
+Wha never climbs never fa's.
+
+What a'body says maun be true.
+
+    For "There's never much talk of a thing but there's some truth in
+    it."--_Italian._
+
+What better is the house where the daw rises soon?
+
+    "Spoken often by mistresses to their maids when they have been early
+    up, and done little work."--_Kelly._
+
+    "Early up, and never the nearer."--_English._
+
+What carlins hain, cats eat.
+
+What fizzes in the mou' winna fill the wame.
+
+    What is pleasant to the palate may be very unsubstantial for the
+    stomach.
+
+What maks you sae rumgunshach and me sae curcuddoch?
+
+    Literally, why are you so rude or unkind to me when I am so anxious
+    to please or be kind to you?
+
+What may be done at ony time will be done at nae time.
+
+What may be mayna be.
+
+What puts that in your head that didna put the sturdy wi't?
+
+    "Spoken to them that speak foolishly, or tell a story that you
+    thought they had not known."--_Kelly._
+
+What's gotten ower the deil's back is spent below his belly.
+
+What's gude for sick John's gude for hail Janet.
+
+What's in your wame's no in your testament.
+
+    An injunction to a person to eat more: if they eat what is before
+    them they will not leave it in their will.
+
+What's like a dorty maiden when she's auld?
+
+    "'Dorty,' applied to a female who is saucy to her
+    suitors."--_Jamieson._
+
+What's my case the day may be yours the morn.
+
+What's nane o' my profit shall be nane o' my peril.
+
+    That is, I must decline to run any risk if I do not share the
+    profit.
+
+"What's no i' the bag will be i' the broo," quo' the Hielandman when he
+dirked the haggis.
+
+What's pleasure to you bodes ill to me.
+
+    An epitome of Æsop's "Boys and the Frogs."
+
+What's waur than ill luck?
+
+What's your horse the day, may be his mare the morn.
+
+What's yours is mine, what's mine's my ain.
+
+    A maxim occasionally adopted by a selfish husband to enable him to
+    distinguish his own property from that of his wife.
+
+What we first learn we best ken.
+
+What will ye get frae an oily pat but stink?
+
+What winna do by might do by slight.
+
+What winna mak a pat may mak a pat lid.
+
+What ye do when you're drunk ye may pay for when you're dry.
+
+What ye gie shines aye, what ye get smells ill next day.
+
+What ye want up and doun you hae hither-and-yont.
+
+    "'Hither-and-yont,' topsy turvy; in a disjointed
+    state."--_Jamieson._
+
+    If you have not the thing complete, you have everything necessary
+    for making it so.
+
+What ye win at that ye may lick aff a het girdle.
+
+    The inference is that his prospect of success is very poor.
+
+What your ee sees your heart greens for.
+
+When ae door steeks anither opens.
+
+    As one door shuts another opens: as one opportunity is lost another
+    occurs.
+
+When a ewie's drowned she's dead.
+
+    "Spoken when a thing is lost and past recovery."--_Kelly._
+
+When a fool finds a horseshoe he thinks aye the like to do.
+
+When a' fruits fail, welcome haws.
+
+When a hundred sheep rin, how mony cloots clatter?
+
+When a' men speak, nae man hears.
+
+When ane winna, twa canna cast out.
+
+When a's in, and the slap dit, rise herd and let the dog sit.
+
+    "'Slap dit,' gate shut. Jocosely spoken to herd boys after harvest,
+    as if there was no further use for them."--_Kelly._
+
+When death lifts the curtain it's time to be startin'.
+
+When drink's in wit's out.
+
+When folk's missed then they're moaned.
+
+When friends meet hearts warm.
+
+When gude cheer is lacking friends go a-packing.
+
+When he dees of age ye may quake for fear.
+
+When I did weel I heard it never; when I did ill I heard it ever.
+
+    "A reflection of servants upon hard and passionate masters, who are
+    liberal in their reproofs, but sparing in their
+    commendations."--_Kelly._
+
+When ilka ane gets his ain the thief will get the widdie.
+
+When lairds break carls get lands.
+
+    "When the tree falls every one gathers sticks."--_Danish._
+
+When love cools fauts are seen.
+
+When my head's doun my house is theiked.
+
+    "Spoken by those who are free from debts, concerns, or future
+    projects: as common tradesmen, day labourers, and servants, who work
+    their work and get their wages, and commonly are the happiest part
+    of mankind."--_Kelly._
+
+When petticoats woo breeks come speed.
+
+    "Time to marry when the maid wooes the man; parallel to that
+    Cheshire proverb, 'It is time to yoke when the cart comes to the
+    caples,' _i.e._, horses."--_Ray._
+
+When poverty comes in at the door love flies out at the window.
+
+When pride's in the van, begging's in the rear.
+
+When she doesna scold she shores.
+
+    That is, when she does not scold directly, she threatens to do it.
+
+When the bag's fu' the drone gets up.
+
+When the barn's fu' ye may thresh afore the door.
+
+When the burn doesna babble, it's either ower toom or ower fu'.
+
+When the cow's in the clout she soon runs out.
+
+    Meaning that when the cow has been sold and converted into money,
+    the proceeds soon come to an end, as "Ready money will
+    away."--_English._
+
+When the craw flees her tail follows.
+
+When the gudeman drinks to the gudewife a' wad be weel; when the
+gudewife drinks to the gudeman a's weel.
+
+    This will give English readers but a poor opinion of conjugal
+    courtesy in Scotland--that when a man drinks to the good health of
+    his wife, it is more from fear than from affection--more from a
+    desire that she should have things properly done when they are not
+    so.
+
+When the gudeman's awa the board claith's tint; when the gudewife's awa
+the keys are tint.
+
+    Kelly prints this as two sayings, and says of them
+    respectively--_First_, "Because the commons will then be short."
+    _Second_, "For if she be not at home you'll get no drink."
+
+When the heart's fu' o' lust the mou's fu' o' leasing.
+
+When the heart's past hope the face is past shame.
+
+When the hen gaes to the cock the birds may get a knock.
+
+    "Spoken when widows, who design a second marriage, prove harsh to
+    their children."--_Kelly._
+
+When the heart's fu' the tongue canna speak.
+
+When the horse is at the gallop the bridle's ower late.
+
+When the man's fire and the wife's tow, the deil comes in and blaws't in
+lowe.
+
+When the pat's fu' it'll boil ower.
+
+When the pea's in bloom the mussel's toom.
+
+Where the pig's broken let the sherds lie.
+
+    "A proverbial phrase, applied to death, as expressive of
+    indifference with respect to the place where the body may be
+    interred."--_Jamieson._
+
+Where the scythe cuts, and the sock rives, hae done wi' fairies and
+bee-bykes.
+
+    "Meaning that the ploughing, or even the mowing, of the ground tends
+    to extirpate alike the earth-bee and the fairy. In various places,
+    the fairies are described as having been seen on some particular
+    occasion to gather together and take a formal farewell of the
+    district, when it had become, from agricultural changes, unfitted
+    for their residence."--_Robert Chambers._
+
+When the tod preaches tak tent o' the lambs.
+
+    "When the fox preaches, take care of the geese."--_English._
+
+When the tod wins to the wood he caresna how mony keek at his tail.
+
+When the wame's fu' the banes wad be at rest.
+
+When the wame's fu' the tongue wags.
+
+      "Wi' spirit bauld they work, I trow,
+      And mony a strange tale they tell now,
+      Of ilka thing that's braw or new,
+                          They never fag;
+      Auld proverb says, 'When wames are fu'
+                          The tongues maun wag.'"--_The Har'st Rig._
+
+When the will's ready the feet's light.
+
+When we want, friends are scant.
+
+When wine sinks words soom.
+
+When ye are poor, naebody kens ye; when ye are rich, a'body lends ye.
+
+When ye are weel, haud yoursel sae.
+
+When ye ca' the dog out o' your ain kail-yaird, dinna ca't into mine.
+
+When ye can suit your shanks to my shoon ye may speak.
+
+    When you are placed in a position similar to mine you will be
+    competent to speak on the subject.
+
+When ye christen the bairn ye should ken what to ca't.
+
+When you're gaun and comin' the gate's no toom.
+
+When you're ser'd a' the geese are watered.
+
+When your hair's white, ye wad hae it lockering.
+
+    "'Locker,' curled. Spoken of one who is immoderate in his
+    desires."--_Jamieson._
+
+When your neighbour's house is in danger tak tent o' your ain.
+
+Where drums beat laws are dumb.
+
+Where the buck's bound there he may bleat.
+
+    "Men must bear these hardships to which they are bound either by
+    force or compact."--_Kelly._
+
+Where the deer's slain the blude will lie.
+
+Where the head gaes the tail will follow.
+
+Where there are gentles there are aye aff-fa'in's.
+
+    There is such abundance of good prepared, that something may be
+    reasonably expected for the poor. It may also be a delicate allusion
+    to the failings of the aristocracy.
+
+Where there's muckle courtesy there's little kindness.
+
+Where there's naething the king tines his right.
+
+While ae gab's teething anither's growing teethless.
+
+Whiles you, whiles me, sae gaes the bailierie.
+
+    "Spoken when persons and parties get authority by turns."--_Kelly._
+
+White legs wad aye be rused.
+
+Whitely things are aye tender.
+
+White siller's wrought in black pitch.
+
+Wi' an empty hand nae man can hawks lure.
+
+    "If you would have anything done for you, you must give something,
+    for people will not serve you for nothing."--_Kelly._
+
+Wide lugs and a short tongue are best.
+
+Wide will wear, but tight will tear.
+
+    Addressed to those who complain that a new article of dress is too
+    wide for them.
+
+Wiles help weak folk.
+
+Wilfu' waste maks woefu' want.
+
+Will and wit strive wi' you.
+
+Wink at sma' fauts, ye hae great anes yoursel.
+
+Winter thunder bodes summer hunger.
+
+Wipe wi' the water and wash wi' the towel.
+
+Wiser men than you are caught by wiles.
+
+Wishers and woulders are poor house hauders.
+
+Wit bought maks wise folk.
+
+Wit is worth a weel-turned leg.
+
+Wives maun be had whether gude or bad.
+
+Wives maun hae their wills while they live, for they mak nane when they
+dee.
+
+Women and bairns layne what they ken na.
+
+    That is, conceal what they know not.
+
+Women and wine, dice and deceit, mak wealth sma' and want great.
+
+Women laugh when they can, and greet when they will.
+
+Women's wark is never dune.
+
+Wood in a wilderness, moss on a mountain, and wit in a poor man's pow,
+are little thought o'.
+
+Woo sellers ken aye woo buyers.
+
+    "Roguish people know their own consorts."--_Kelly._
+
+Wonder at your auld shoon when ye hae gotten your new.
+
+    A pert reply to persons who say they wonder how you could have done
+    so and so.
+
+Words are but wind, but seein's believing.
+
+Words gang wi' the wind, but dunts are out o' season.
+
+Work legs and win legs, hain legs and tine legs.
+
+Worth may be blamed, but ne'er be shamed.
+
+Wrang count is nae payment.
+
+Wrang has nae warrant.
+
+Wyte your teeth if your tail be sma'.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Ye breed o' auld maids, ye look high.
+
+Ye breed o' gude maut, ye're lang o' comin'.
+
+Ye breed o' Lady Mary, when you're gude ye're ower gude.
+
+    "A drunken man begg'd Lady Mary to help him on his horse, and having
+    made many attempts to no purpose, he always reiterated the same
+    petition; at length he jumped quite over. 'O, Lady Mary,' said he,
+    'when thou art good, thou art ower good.'"--_Kelly._
+
+Ye breed o' our laird; ye'll no do right, and ye'll tak nae wrang.
+
+Ye breed o' Saughton swine, ye're neb's never oot o' an ill turn.
+
+Ye breed o' the baxters, ye loe your neighbour's browst better than your
+ain batch.
+
+Ye breed o' the chapman, ye're aye to handsel.
+
+    "Spoken to those who ask us hansel (that is, the first bit in the
+    morning, the first money for their parcels of wares, or the like).
+    Taken from pedlars who, coming into a house, will say, 'Give us
+    hansel.'"--_Kelly._
+
+Ye breed o' the chapman, ye're never oot o' your gate.
+
+    Spoken to those who do business wherever they go.
+
+Ye breed o' the craw's tail, ye grow backwards.
+
+Ye breed o' the gowk, ye hae ne'er a rhyme but ane.
+
+    Or you are always talking on one subject.
+
+Ye breed o' the gudeman's mither, ye're aye in the gate.
+
+Ye breed o' the herd's wife, ye busk at e'en.
+
+Ye breed o' the miller's dochter, that speir'd what tree groats grew on.
+
+    "Spoken when saucy fellows, bred of mean parentage, pretend
+    ignorance of what they were bred with."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye breed o' the tod's bairns, if ane be gude, they're a' gude.
+
+Ye breed o' the tod, ye grow grey before ye grow gude.
+
+Ye breed o' the witches, ye can do nae gude to yoursel.
+
+Ye breed o' water-kail and cock-lairds, ye need muckle service.
+
+    Used by servants whose employers are troublesome.
+
+Ye ca' hardest at the nail that drives fastest.
+
+    Meaning that a person pretends to work much harder than is really
+    required.
+
+Ye cangle about uncoft kids.
+
+    Literally, quarrel about unbought goods.
+
+Ye canna do but ye ower-do.
+
+Ye canna fare weel but ye cry roast-meat.
+
+    "Bolt thy fine meal, and eat good paste without report or trumpet
+    blast. They that are thirsty drink silently."--_French._
+
+Ye canna gather berries aff a whinbush.
+
+Ye canna get leave to thrive for thrang.
+
+    Literally, you are so busy that you have no time to get rich.
+
+Ye canna mak a silk purse out o' a sow's lug.
+
+Ye canna preach oot o' your ain pu'pit.
+
+    Applied to persons who are diffident in the house of a stranger, or
+    who are backward in describing an article out of their usual way of
+    business.
+
+Ye canna put an auld head upon young shouthers.
+
+Ye canna see the wood for trees.
+
+    On a par with the man who went to London, but could not see the town
+    for houses!
+
+Ye come o' the house o' Harletillem.
+
+    "To 'harle,' to draw to one's-self by gripping or violent
+    means."--_Jamieson._
+
+Ye come o' the M'Taks, but no o' the M'Gies.
+
+    That is, you take all you can get, but take care to give nothing.
+
+Ye come to the gait's house to thig woo.
+
+    Or, you come for a thing which I have not to give. "You beg of him
+    who is ready to steal."--_English._
+
+Ye crack crousely wi' your bannet on.
+
+    A hint to a person that his conduct is too familiar.
+
+Ye cut before the point.
+
+Ye cut lang whangs aff ither folk's leather.
+
+    Spoken to persons who are very liberal with things which do not
+    belong to them.
+
+Ye daur weel but ye downa.
+
+    Or try to do well, but cannot.
+
+Ye didna draw sae weel when my mear was in the mire.
+
+    You did not assist me so much as I now assist you.
+
+Ye didna lick your lips since ye leed last.
+
+Ye drive the plough before the owsen.
+
+Ye fand it where the Hielandman fand the tangs.
+
+    That was, in their proper place, at the fireside. A proverbial
+    manner of saying that a thing has been stolen, in reply to those who
+    say they found it.
+
+Ye fike it awa, like auld wives baking.
+
+    "'To fike,' to dally about a business; to lose time by
+    procrastination while appearing to be busy."--_Jamieson._
+
+Ye gae far about seeking the nearest.
+
+Ye gang round by Lanark for fear Linton dogs bite you.
+
+Ye gae gude counsel, but he's a fool that taks 't.
+
+Ye glower like a cat oot o' a whinbush.
+
+Ye got ower muckle o' your ain will, and ye're the waur o't.
+
+Ye had aye a gude whittle at your belt.
+
+Ye hae a conscience like Coldingham common.
+
+    "Coldingham moor, or common, was an undivided waste of above 6000
+    acres. The saying is applied to persons of lax principles, who can
+    accommodate their consciences to all circumstances."--_G.
+    Henderson._
+
+Ye hae a lang nose, and yet ye're cut lugget.
+
+    In appearance you have an advantage in one way, but not in another.
+
+Ye hae a ready mou' for a ripe cherry.
+
+Ye hae a saw for a' sairs.
+
+Ye hae a streak o' carl hemp in you.
+
+    Figuratively this means that a person possesses firmness, or
+    strength of mind.
+
+Ye hae aye a foot oot o' the langle.
+
+Ye hae as muckle pride as wad ser' a score o' clergy.
+
+Ye hae baith your meat and your mense.
+
+    Applied to a person who has invited another to dine with him, but
+    who has refused, or failed to make his appearance; meaning that you
+    have both the meat he would have eaten, and the honour of having
+    invited him.
+
+Ye hae been gotten gathering nits, ye speak in clusters.
+
+Ye hae been lang on little eird.
+
+Ye hae to be pitied and prayed for, either to end ye or mend ye.
+
+Ye hae been smelling the bung.
+
+    That is, you have been tippling.
+
+Ye hae brought the pack to the pins.
+
+    "You have dwindled away your stock."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye hae ca'd your pigs to an ill market.
+
+Ye hae come aff at the loupin-on-stane.
+
+    "'Loupin-on-stane,' a stone, or several stones, raised one above
+    another, like a flight of steps, for assisting one to get on
+    horseback. Metaphysically, to leave off any business in the same
+    state as when it was begun; also, to terminate a dispute without the
+    slightest change of mind in either party."--_Jamieson._
+
+Ye have fasted lang, and worried on a midge.
+
+Ye hae come in time to tine a darg.
+
+    To "tine a darg," is to lose a day's work: you have arrived too
+    late.
+
+Ye hae found a mear's nest, and laugh at the eggs.
+
+Ye hae gien the wolf the wedders to keep.
+
+    "You have entrusted a thing to one who will lose it, spoil it, or
+    use it himself."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye hae got a stipend--get a kirk when ye like.
+
+Ye hae got baith the skaith and the scorn.
+
+Ye hae gotten a ravelled hesp to redd.
+
+    That is, you have a very difficult matter to arrange.
+
+      "Ance let a hizzy get you in the girn,
+      Ere ye get loose, ye'll redd a ravell'd pirn."--_Allan Ramsay._
+
+Ye hae gotten the chapman's drouth.
+
+    "From the severe exercise of a pedlar who travels on foot, _the
+    chapman's drouth_ is a proverbial phrase for hunger."--_Jamieson._
+
+Ye hae grown proud since ye quatted the begging.
+
+    Applied satirically to persons who pass their acquaintance in a
+    proud manner.
+
+Ye hae gude manners, but ye dinna bear them about wi' you.
+
+Ye hae little need o' the Campsie wife's prayer, "That she might aye be
+able to think enough o' hersel'."
+
+    A reflection upon conceited or selfish people.
+
+Ye hae mind o' yer meat though ye hae little o't.
+
+Ye hae missed that, as ye did your mither's blessing.
+
+Ye hae nae mair need for't than a cart has for a third wheel.
+
+Ye hae nae mair sense than a sooking turkey.
+
+    "I ken I hae a gude deal o' the cuddy in me, when I'm straikit
+    against the hair; and my mother used to say, I had mair than eneuch
+    o' the sookin' turkey in me!"--_The Disruption._
+
+Ye hae ower foul feet tae come sae far ben.
+
+    Spoken jocularly to persons who, when they go to visit a friend,
+    ask, "Will they come in?"
+
+Ye hae ower muckle loose leather about yer chafts.
+
+    "Spoken to them that say the thing they should not."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye hae put a toom spune in my mouth.
+
+    A country farmer complained of having been fed with a "toom spune,"
+    when he had listened to the exhortations of a very poor preacher.
+
+Ye hae run lang on little ground.
+
+Ye hae sew'd that seam wi' a het needle and a burning thread.
+
+    Spoken facetiously when an article of clothing, which has been
+    hurriedly mended, gives way soon.
+
+Ye hae sitten your time, as mony a gude hen has done.
+
+Ye hae skill o' man and beast and dogs that tak the sturdy.
+
+    Addressed satirically to persons who pretend to be very wise by
+    those who do not admit their pretensions.
+
+Ye hae stayed lang, and brought little wi' ye.
+
+Ye hae ta'en the measure o' his foot.
+
+Ye hae ta'en't upon you, as the wife did the dancin'.
+
+Ye hae the best end o' the string.
+
+    Or the best of the argument.
+
+Ye hae the wrang sow by the lug.
+
+Ye hae tied a knot wi' your tongue you winna loose wi' your teeth.
+
+Ye hae tint the tongue o' the trump.
+
+    "That is, you have lost the main thing."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye hae tint yer ain stamach an' found a tyke's.
+
+    Applied to those who, when very hungry, eat a great deal.
+
+Ye hae wrought a yoken and loosed in time.
+
+    You have wrought a day's work in proper time.
+
+Ye ken naething but milk and bread when it's mool'd into ye.
+
+    Or you know or care about nothing but your meat.
+
+Ye kenna what may cool your kail yet.
+
+Ye live beside ill neebors.
+
+    "Spoken when people commend themselves, for if they deserved
+    commendation, their neighbours would commend them."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye'll beguile nane but them that lippen to ye.
+
+Ye'll be hang'd and I'll be harried.
+
+Ye'll break your neck as sune as your fast in this house.
+
+Ye'll dee without amends o't.
+
+Ye'll cool and come to yoursel, like MacGibbon's crowdy when he set it
+oot at the window-bole.
+
+Ye'll dee like a trooper's horse--wi' your shoon on.
+
+Ye'll do onything but work and rin errands.
+
+Ye'll follow him lang or he'll let five shillings fa'.
+
+Ye'll gang a grey gate yet.
+
+    "You will take a bad, evil, or improper course, or meet an evil
+    destiny."--_Jamieson._
+
+Ye'll gar him claw a sair haffit.
+
+    "'Haffit,' the side of the head."--_Jamieson._
+
+    Metaphorically, you will do something to injure or annoy him.
+
+Ye'll gar me seek the needle where I didna stick it.
+
+    "That is, send me a-begging. Spoken to thriftless wives and spending
+    children."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye'll gather nae gowd aff windlestraes.
+
+Ye'll get as muckle for ae wish this year as for twa fernyear.
+
+    "Fern" signifies the preceding year. The proverb means that wishing
+    begets nothing.
+
+Ye'll get nae mair o' the cat but the skin.
+
+Ye'll get waur bodes ere Beltane.
+
+    Addressed to a person who refuses the price offered for an article,
+    meaning that, as worse offers will be made, the seller will be sorry
+    he did not accept the present one.
+
+Ye'll get your gear again, and they'll get the widdie that stole't.
+
+Ye'll get your head in your hands and your lugs to play wi'.
+
+Ye'll get your kail through the reek.
+
+    "The fact is, everybody about the house kens o' the muirburn that
+    the mistress rais'd on you yestreen, for takin' up wi' Miss
+    Migummery. Ye see when your auntie's in an ill key, she gars folk
+    hear that's no hearknin'; an' ye ken yoursel', if she didna gie you
+    your kail through the reek, Maister James."--_The Disruption._
+
+Ye'll hae the half o' the gate and a' the glaur.
+
+    Spoken facetiously when we make a friend take the outside of the
+    footpath.
+
+Ye'll hang a' but the head yet.
+
+Ye'll let naething tine for want o' seeking.
+
+Yellow's forsaken, and green's forsworn, but blue and red ought to be
+worn.
+
+    In allusion to the superstitious notions formerly held regarding
+    these colours.
+
+Ye'll ne'er be auld wi' sae muckle honesty.
+
+Ye'll ne'er cast saut on his tail.
+
+Ye'll ne'er craw in my cavie.
+
+    This means that such a person will never be welcomed in my house.
+
+Ye'll ne'er grow howbackit bearing your friends.
+
+    From this we can infer that the person addressed does not allow
+    himself to be troubled by his friends.
+
+Ye'll ne'er harry yersel wi' your ain hands.
+
+Ye'll ne'er mak a mark in your testament by that bargain.
+
+    That is, you will lose money by that transaction.
+
+Ye'll ne'er rowte in my tether.
+
+    Of similar meaning to "Ye'll ne'er craw in my cavie."
+
+Ye'll neither dance nor haud the candle.
+
+Ye'll neither dee for your wit nor be drowned for a warlock.
+
+    A saying used to signify that a person is neither very wise nor very
+    clever.
+
+Ye'll no dee as lang as he's your deemster.
+
+Ye'll no let it be for want o' craving.
+
+Ye'll no mend a broken nest by dabbing at it.
+
+Ye'll play a sma' game before you stand out.
+
+Ye'll see the gowk in your sleep.
+
+    "When you awake in the morning you will see matters
+    differently."--_Jamieson._
+
+Ye'll sit till ye sweat and work till ye freeze.
+
+Ye'll tak mair in your mou' than your cheeks will haud.
+
+Ye'll worry in the band like M'Ewen's calf.
+
+    "In plain English, you'll be hanged."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye loe a' ye see, like Rab Roole when he's ree.
+
+    Addressed to covetous, greedy persons. When Rab Roole was "ree," he
+    was crazy with drink.
+
+Ye look as bauld as a blackfaced wedder.
+
+Ye look as if butter wadna melt in your mou', but cheese will no choke
+ye.
+
+    "I am beginning to think ye are but a queer ane--ye look as if
+    butter wadna melt in your mouth, but I sall warrant cheese no choke
+    ye.--But I'll thank ye to gang your ways into the parlour, for I'm
+    no like to get muckle mair out o' ye."--_St Ronan's Well._
+
+Ye look as if ye had eaten your bedstrae.
+
+"Ye look like a rinner," quo' the deil to the lobster.
+
+    "Spoken to those who are very unlikely to do what they pretend
+    to."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye look like Let-me-be.
+
+    That is, very quiet and inoffensive.
+
+Ye look liker a deil than a bishop.
+
+Ye look liker a thief than a horse.
+
+Yelping curs will raise mastiffs.
+
+Ye maun be auld ere ye pay sic a gude wad.
+
+    Literally, you will be very old ere you can perform such a promise;
+    proverbially, of course, that you look upon that promise as of no
+    value.
+
+Ye maun hae't baith simmered and wintered.
+
+    "'To simmer and winter,' to spend much time in forming a plan; to
+    ponder; to ruminate."--_Jamieson._
+
+    It also means, to trifle, to dilly-dally, to go round about a
+    subject.
+
+    "'His heart was amaist broken.' 'It maun be unco brittle,' said
+    Claud, with a hem. 'But what's the need o' this summering and
+    wintering anent it? Tell us what has happened.'"--_The Entail._
+
+Ye maun redd your ain ravelled clue.
+
+    That is, you must extricate yourself from your difficulties without
+    assistance.
+
+Ye maun spoil or ye spin.
+
+Ye maun tak the will for the deed.
+
+Ye maunna throw awa the cog, tho' Crummie fling't.
+
+Ye may be godly, but ye'll ne'er be cleanly.
+
+Ye may be greedy, but ye're no greening.
+
+Ye may dight yer neb and flee up.
+
+    An expression of indifference, addressed to a person whose opinion
+    we consider of no value.
+
+Ye may be heard where ye're no seen.
+
+Ye may dance at the end o' a raip yet without teaching.
+
+Ye may drive the deil into a wife, but ye'll ne'er ding him oot o' her.
+
+Ye may end him, but ye'll ne'er mend him.
+
+Ye may gang farther and fare waur.
+
+Ye may gape lang enough ere a bird flee into your mou'.
+
+Ye may live and no pree the tangs.
+
+Ye may tak a drink out o' the burn when ye canna tak a bite out o' the
+brae.
+
+Ye may tine the faither looking for the son.
+
+Ye may wash aff dirt, but never dun hide.
+
+Ye mete my peas wi' your ain peck.
+
+Ye needna mak a causey tale o't.
+
+    That is, I have told you so-and-so, but do not speak of it--do not
+    publish it.
+
+Ye ne'er see green cheese but your een reels.
+
+    Meaning that the person spoken to is very covetous of everything he
+    sees.
+
+Ye rave unrocked, I wish your head was knocked.
+
+    "Spoken to them that speak unreasonable things, as if they
+    raved."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye're a' blawin' like a burstin' haggis.
+
+Ye're a day after the fair.
+
+Ye're a deil and nae cow, like the man's bull.
+
+"Ye're a fine sword," quo' the fool to the wheat braird.
+
+Ye're a foot behint the foremost.
+
+Ye're a' grease, but I'm only grushie.
+
+Ye're a gude seeker but an ill finder.
+
+Ye're a' made o' butter, an' sew'd wi' soor milk.
+
+Ye're a maiden marrowless.
+
+    Satirically applied to conceited maidens who hold high opinions of
+    themselves, that they are unequalled.
+
+Ye're a man amang geese when the gander's awa.
+
+Ye're ane o' Cow-Meek's breed, ye'll stand without a bonoch.
+
+Ye're ane o' snaw-ba's bairn time.
+
+    "That is, such as health and prosperity make worse, or who
+    insensibly go behind in the world."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye're ane o' the tender Gordons--you daurna be hang'd for ga' in your
+neck.
+
+Ye're an honest man, and I'm your uncle--that's twa big lees.
+
+Ye're a' out o't and into strae.
+
+    That is, you are quite mistaken about the matter.
+
+Ye're a queer fish no to hae fins.
+
+Ye're as braw as Bink's wife,--like the sun on shairney water.
+
+Ye're as daft as ye're days auld.
+
+Ye're as fu' o' maggots as the bride o' Preston, wha stopt half way as
+she gaed to the kirk.
+
+    "We have not been able to learn who the bride o' Preston really was;
+    but we have frequently heard the saying applied to young women, who
+    are capricious and changeable.
+
+      "'The bride took a maggot, it was but a maggot,
+      She wadna gang by the West Mains to be married.'"--_G. Henderson._
+
+Ye're as fu' o' mischief as an egg's fu' o' meat.
+
+Ye're as lang tuning your pipes as anither wad play a spring.
+
+Ye're as mim as a May puddock.
+
+Ye're as sma' as the twitter o' a twined rash.
+
+Ye're as souple sark alane as some are mither naked.
+
+Ye're as stiff as a stappit saster.
+
+    "'Stappit saster,' a crammed pudding."--_Jamieson._
+
+Ye're a widdiefu' gin hanging time.
+
+Ye're aye in a hurry, and aye behint.
+
+Ye're best when ye're sleeping.
+
+Ye're black aboot the mou' for want o' kissing.
+
+    "A jest upon a young maid when she has a spot about her mouth, as if
+    it was for want of being kissed."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye're bonny enough to them that loe ye, and ower bonny to them that loe
+ye and canna get ye.
+
+    "Spoken as a comfort to people of an ordinary beauty."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye're busy to clear yoursel when naebody files you.
+
+Ye're buttoned up the back like Achmahoy's dog.
+
+Ye're but young cocks--your craw's roupy.
+
+Ye're cawking the claith ere the wab be in the loom.
+
+    Or plucking your geese before they are caught.
+
+Ye're come o' blude, and sae's a pudding.
+
+    A taunt upon those who boast of their gentle blood.
+
+Ye're Davy-do-little and gude for naething.
+
+Ye're either ower het or ower cauld, like the miller o' Marshach mill.
+
+Ye're feared for the day ye never saw.
+
+    "You are afraid of far-enough."--_English._
+
+Ye're fit for coorse country wark--ye're rather strong than handsome.
+
+Ye're gude to be sent for sorrow.
+
+Ye're gude to fetch the deil a priest.
+
+    The two last sayings are applied to persons who take a long time to
+    do anything about which they are sent.
+
+Ye're like a bad liver--the last day there's aye maist to do wi' ye.
+
+Ye're like a hen on a het girdle.
+
+Ye're like an ill shilling--ye'll come back again.
+
+    Jocularly addressed to a person who is about to go away.
+
+Ye're like a singed cat--better than ye're bonny.
+
+Ye're like a Lauderdale bawbee, as bad as bad can be.
+
+    "The obnoxious Duke of Lauderdale, who was at the head of affairs in
+    Scotland's 'persecuting times,' had, it appears, a principal hand in
+    some detested coinage. The _bawbee_, or halfpenny so issued, soon
+    became base money, and these Lauderdale bawbees were branded with a
+    bad name."--_G. Henderson._
+
+Ye're like a rotten nit--no worth cracking for the kernel.
+
+Ye're like Macfarlane's geese--ye hae mair mind o' your play than your
+meat.
+
+    "Macfarlane (of that ilk) had a house and garden upon the island of
+    Inch-Tavoe. Here James VI. was on one occasion regaled by the
+    chieftain. His majesty had been previously much amused by the geese
+    pursuing each other on the loch. But when one, which had been
+    brought to table, was found to be tough and ill fed, James observed,
+    'That Macfarlane's geese liked their play better than their
+    meat,'--a proverb which has been current ever since."--_Note to The
+    Monastery._
+
+Ye're like a sow--ye'll neither lead nor drive.
+
+Ye're like Brackley's tup--ye follow the lave.
+
+Ye're like laird Moodie's greyhounds--unco hungry like about the pouch
+lids.
+
+Ye're like me, and I'm nae sma' drink.
+
+Ye're like Piper Bennet's bitch--ye lick till ye burst.
+
+Ye're like the cooper o' Fogo, ye drive aff better girs than ye ca' on.
+
+    "Said of those who attempt to reform anything, but who, instead of
+    that, make matters worse."--_G. Henderson._
+
+Ye're like the corbie messenger--ye come wi' neither alms nor answer.
+
+      "He send furth Corbie Messingeir,
+        Into the air to espy
+        Gif he saw ony mountains dry.
+      Sum sayis the Rauin did furth remane,
+      And com nocht to the ark agane."--_Sir David Lyndsay._
+
+Ye're like the cow-couper o' Swinton, ye'll no slocken.
+
+Ye're like the dead folk o' Earlstoun--no to lippen to.
+
+    "This is founded on a popular story, kept up as a joke against the
+    worthy people of Earlstoun. It is said that an inhabitant of this
+    village, going home with too much liquor, stumbled into the
+    churchyard, where he soon fell asleep. Wakening to a glimmering
+    consciousness after a few hours, he felt his way across the graves;
+    but taking every hollow interval for an open receptacle for the
+    dead, he was heard by some neighbour saying to himself, 'Up and
+    away! Eh, this ane up an away too! Was there ever the like o' that?
+    I trow the dead folk o' Earlstoun's no to lippen to!'"--_Robert
+    Chambers._
+
+Ye're like the dog o' Dodha', baith double an' twa-faced.
+
+Ye're like the dogs o' Dunraggit--ye winna bark unless ye hae your
+hinder end to the wa'.
+
+    Spoken to persons who will not complain or "make a noise" about a
+    thing, unless they are guaranteed against any consequences that may
+    ensue.
+
+Ye're like the Kilbarchan calves--like best to drink wi' the wisp in
+your mou'.
+
+Ye're like the lambs--ye do naething but sook and wag your tail.
+
+Ye're like the man that sought his horse, and him on its back.
+
+Ye're like the miller's dog--ye lick your lips ere the pock be opened.
+
+    "Spoken to covetous people who are eagerly expecting a thing, and
+    ready to receive it before it be proffered."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye're like the minister o' Balie, preaching for selie.
+
+Ye're like the swine's bairns--the aulder ye grow ye're aye the thiefer
+like.
+
+Ye're like Towy's hawks--ye eat ane anither.
+
+    "I was ance gain to speir what was the matter, but I saw a curn o'
+    camla-like fallows wi' them, an' I thought they were a' fremit to
+    me, an' sae they might eat ither as Towy's hawks did, for onything
+    that I cared."--_Journal from London._
+
+Ye're looking ower the nest, like the young craws.
+
+Ye're minnie's milk is no out o' your nose yet.
+
+Ye're mista'en o' the stuff; it's half silk.
+
+    "Jocosely spoken to them that undervalue a person or thing, which we
+    think indeed not very valuable, yet better than they repute
+    it."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye're nae chicken for a' ye're cheepin.
+
+Ye're never pleased, fu' nor fasting.
+
+Ye're new come ower--your heart's nipping.
+
+Ye're no light where you lean a'.
+
+Ye're no worth ca'ing out o' a kail-yaird.
+
+Ye're o' sae mony minds, ye'll never be married.
+
+Ye're out and in, like a dog at a fair.
+
+Ye're ower auld farrant to be fley'd wi' bogles.
+
+Ye're ower het and ower fu', sib to some o' the laird's tenants.
+
+Ye're queer folk no to be Falkland folk.
+
+    Falkland, in Fife, was formerly a Royal residence; and the court
+    manners, contrasted with those of the surrounding country, gave rise
+    to the saying.
+
+Ye ride sae near the rump, ye'll let nane loup on ahint you.
+
+Ye rin for the spurtle when the pat's boiling ower.
+
+    That is, take precautions when it is too late.
+
+Ye're sae keen o' clockin', ye'll dee on the eggs.
+
+    "Spoken to those who are fond of any new place, condition, business,
+    or employment."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye're sair fashed hauding naething thegither.
+
+Ye're sair stressed wi' stringing the milsey.
+
+    "A proverb addressed to those who make much ado about nothing, or
+    complain of the weight of that work which deserves not to be
+    mentioned. It refers to the cloth through which the milk is
+    strained, being taken off the wooden frame, wrung out, and tied on
+    again."--_Jamieson._
+
+Ye're seeking the thing that's no tint.
+
+Ye're sick, but no sair handled.
+
+Ye're the weight o' Jock's cog, brose and a'.
+
+Ye're there yet, and your belt hale.
+
+    "Spoken when people say, 'They will go to such a place, and there do
+    thrive and prosper,' &c., which we think unlikely."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye're thrifty and thro' thriving, when your head gangs doun your
+bottom's rising.
+
+Ye're unco gude, and ye'll grow fair.
+
+Ye're up in the buckle, like John Barr's cat.
+
+Ye're very foresighted, like Forsyth's cat.
+
+Ye're weel awa if ye bide, an' we're weel quat.
+
+Ye're welcome, but ye'll no win ben.
+
+Ye rin awa wi' the harrows.
+
+    "To run on with a great flow of language, assuming what ought to be
+    proved, or totally disregarding what has been said on the opposite
+    side."--_Jamieson._
+
+Ye seek grace wi' a graceless face.
+
+Ye ser'd me as the wife did the cat--coost me into the kirn, and syne
+harl'd me out again.
+
+    That is, you have placed me in a good position merely to take me
+    from it again.
+
+Ye'se get your brose out o' the lee side o' the pot.
+
+    A promise of the best that the pot contains.
+
+Ye shanna be niffered but for a better.
+
+Ye shanna want as lang as I hae, but look weel to your ain.
+
+Ye shape shune by your ain shauchled feet.
+
+    You judge of others by yourself.
+
+Ye shine like a white gir about a shairney cog.
+
+Ye shine like the sunny side o' a shairney wecht.
+
+    "A ridicule upon people when they appear fine."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye sit like craws in the mist.
+
+    That is, in the dark.
+
+Ye sleep like a dog in a mill.
+
+    That is, with one eye open.
+
+Ye sleep like a dog when the wife's baking.
+
+Ye soon weary o' doin' weel.
+
+Ye tak a bite out o' your ain buttock.
+
+Ye tak but a foal's share o' the harrow.
+
+Ye tak the first word o' flyting.
+
+    "'Wheelie, I'll be as plain as I'm pleasant--mind you're no to
+    expect me to dance with you.' 'It's verra weel o' you, Miss Mary,'
+    replied Andrew pawkily, 'to tak the first word o' flyting; but ye
+    should first ken whether ye're come up to my mark or no.'"--_Sir
+    Andrew Wylie._
+
+Ye tak mair in your gab than your cheeks can haud.
+
+Ye wad be a gude Borrowstone sow--ye smell weel.
+
+    "Spoken when people pretend to find the smell of something that we
+    would conceal."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye wad be a gude piper's bitch--ye smell out the weddings.
+
+Ye wad clatter a cat to death.
+
+    "'Clatter,' to prattle, to act as a tell-tale."--_Jamieson._
+
+Ye wad gar me trow my head's cowed, though there's no shears come
+near't.
+
+    That is, you would make me believe a thing which I know to be quite
+    false.
+
+Ye wad mak a gude wife, ye haud the grip ye get.
+
+Ye wad mak muckle o' me if I was yours.
+
+Ye wad marry a midden for the muck.
+
+Ye wad steal the pocks frae an auld wife, and syne speir where she got
+them.
+
+Ye was bred about the mill, ye hae mooped a' your manners.
+
+    "Spoken to inferiors when they show themselves rude in their speech
+    or behaviour."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye was ne'er born at that time o' the year.
+
+    "Spoken to them that expect such a place, station, or condition
+    which we think above their birth."--_Kelly._
+
+Ye was put out o' the oven for nipping the pies.
+
+    With the same meaning, we once heard a vulgar little boy say to
+    another, that he was "Put out of the workhouse for eating the number
+    off his plate!"
+
+Ye was sae hungry ye couldna stay the grace.
+
+Ye watna what's behint your hand.
+
+Ye watna what wife's ladle may cog your kail.
+
+Ye watna where a blessing may light.
+
+Ye winna craw trade.
+
+    That is, you will never admit that trade is good.
+
+Ye winna put out the fire wi' tow.
+
+Ye work by Macfarlane's lantern.
+
+    "The clan of MacFarlane, occupying the fastnesses of the western
+    side of Loch Lomond, were great depredators on the Low Countries,
+    and as their excursions were made usually by night, the moon was
+    proverbially called their lantern."--_Note to Waverley._
+
+Ye yirr and yowl--ye bark, but daurna bite.
+
+Young cowtes will canter.
+
+    "Meg, on her part, though she often called them 'drunken
+    neer-do-weels, and thoroughbred High Street blackguards,' allowed no
+    other person to speak ill of them in her hearing. 'They were daft
+    callants,' she said, 'and that was all--when the drink was in, the
+    wit was out; ye could not put an auld head upon young shouthers; a
+    young cowt will canter, be it up hill or down--and what for no?' was
+    her uniform conclusion."--_St Ronan's Well._
+
+Young ducks may be auld geese.
+
+    "A man at five may be a fool at fifteen."
+
+Young folk may dee, auld folk maun dee.
+
+Young saints, auld sinners.
+
+    "'I hae played wi' him mysel at Glennaquoich, and sae has Vich Ian
+    Vohr, often of a Sunday afternoon.' 'Lord forgie ye, Ensign
+    MacCombich,' said the alarmed Presbyterian; 'I'm sure the colonel
+    wad never do the like o' that.' 'Hout! hout! Mrs Flockhart,' replied
+    the Ensign, 'we're young blude, ye ken; and young saints, auld
+    deils.'"--_Waverley._
+
+Your bread's baked, you may hing up your girdle.
+
+Your een's greedier than your guts.
+
+    This is applied to persons who leave a "rough" plate--who, having
+    asked for a dish, are unable to finish it.
+
+Your een's no marrows.
+
+Your een's your merchant.
+
+Your fortune's coming wi' the blind carrier.
+
+    "Deed, Mr Stimperton, I'm no sae daft. Whaur wad the profit o' that
+    be, I wonder? I trow, the principal and interest wad come back to
+    me wi' the blind carrier. Set my nevo up wi' my hard won siller,
+    truly!"--_The Disruption._
+
+Your head canna get up but your stamach follows.
+
+Your mind's aye chasing mice.
+
+Your mou's beguiled your hands.
+
+Your purse was steekit when that was paid for.
+
+    A polite manner of intimating that the article in question has not
+    been paid.
+
+Your tongue is nae scandal.
+
+Your tongue rins aye before your wit.
+
+Your tongue wags like a lamb's tail.
+
+Your thrift's as gude as the profit o' a yeld hen.
+
+"Your will's law," quo' the tailor to the clockin' hen, when she pick'd
+oot his twa een, and cam for his nose.
+
+Your wit will ne'er worry you.
+
+Yule is young on Yule even, and auld on Saint Steven.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+GLOSSARY.
+
+
+
+
+GLOSSARY.
+
+
+_A'_, all.
+
+_A-be_, to let alone.
+
+_A'body_, every person.
+
+_Aboon_, _abune_, above.
+
+_Aboot_, about.
+
+_Adreich_, askant.
+
+_Ae_, one.
+
+_Aff_, off.
+
+_Afore_, before.
+
+_Aft_, oft, frequently.
+
+_Aften_, often.
+
+_Agley_, aside, askant.
+
+_Ahint_, behind.
+
+_Aiblins_, perhaps.
+
+_Ail_, injury, hurt.
+
+_Ain_, own.
+
+_Air_, soon, early.
+
+_Airn_, iron.
+
+_Airt_, art, direction.
+
+_Aith_, an oath.
+
+_Aiver_, a cart-horse, an old horse.
+
+_Ajee_, to one side, askant.
+
+_Alane_, alone.
+
+_Amaist_, almost.
+
+_Amang_, among.
+
+_An_, if.
+
+_An'_, and.
+
+_Ance_, once.
+
+_Aneath_, beneath.
+
+_Anither_, another
+
+_Aqual_, equal.
+
+_A'thing_, everything.
+
+_Atweel_, very well, just so.
+
+_Atween_, between.
+
+_Aucht_, to own, possession.
+
+_Auld_, old.
+
+_Auld-farrant_, sagacious, shrewd, "old-fashioned."
+
+_Aumrie_, a cupboard.
+
+_Auncient_, ancient.
+
+_Ava_, at all.
+
+_Awa_, away, out of sight.
+
+_Awfu'_, awful.
+
+_Awmous_, alms.
+
+_Ayont_, beyond.
+
+
+_Ba'_, ball, the game of ball.
+
+_Backfriend_, one who supports another.
+
+_Baillierie_, the magistracy.
+
+_Bairn_, a child.
+
+_Baith_, both.
+
+_Baken_, baked.
+
+_Bane_, a bone.
+
+_Bann_, to knock, to malign.
+
+_Bannet_, a bonnet.
+
+_Bannock_, home-baked flour cakes, or "_scones_."
+
+_Bardy-loon_, mischievous or impertinent fellow.
+
+_Barefit_, barefooted.
+
+_Barlikhood_, obstinacy, ill-nature.
+
+_Batch_, a baking.
+
+_Bauch_, insipid, tasteless, useless.
+
+_Bauchle_, an old shoe.
+
+_Baudrons_, a cat.
+
+_Bauk_, to baulk, to disappoint.
+
+_Bauld_, bold, courageous.
+
+_Bawbee_, a halfpenny.
+
+_Bawty_, a dog.
+
+_Baxters_, bakers.
+
+_Bear_, barley.
+
+_Beck_, to bow, to curtsy.
+
+_Bedral_, a beadle, church-officer.
+
+_Beetle_, a heavy wooden mallet.
+
+_Behint_, behind.
+
+_Beild_, a shelter, protection, a house.
+
+_Bein_, in comfortable circumstances, well-to-do.
+
+_Beit_, to renew.
+
+_Beltane_, the first of May, O. S.
+
+_Belyve_, immediately, by-and-by.
+
+_Ben_, inwards.
+
+_Bend-leather_, thick leather, such as is used for soles of boots.
+
+_Besom_, a broom, a brush.
+
+_Bicker_, a small wooden dish or basin.
+
+_Bide_, to stay, to endure.
+
+_Big_, to build.
+
+_Biggin_, a small house, a building.
+
+_Bink_, a bench, a seat.
+
+_Birk_, birch.
+
+_Birn_, a burden.
+
+_Bit_, a piece.
+
+_Blad_, a blow or slap; cast or throw.
+
+_Blate_, bashful, shy.
+
+_Blattran_, rattling.
+
+_Blaw_, to blow, to flatter.
+
+_Bleer-ee'd_, bedimmed with tears, weak-sighted.
+
+_Bleeze_, a blaze, to blaze.
+
+_Bletheration_, nonsense, foolish language.
+
+_Blirt_, to gush forth.
+
+_Blude_, blood.
+
+_Board-claith_, a table-cloth.
+
+_Bode_, an offer, a portent.
+
+_Bodle_, an ancient Scottish coin, value one-sixth of the English penny.
+
+_Bogle_, bugbear, an object of terror.
+
+_Bonnie_, _bonny_, pretty, beautiful, handsome, good-looking.
+
+_Bonoch_, a cake or _bannock_.
+
+_Bore_, a hole.
+
+_Bouk_, bulk, compass.
+
+_Bourd_, a jest, to jest.
+
+_Bourdna_, do not jest.
+
+_Bowrock_, cluster, heap, clump.
+
+_Brachens_, ferns.
+
+_Brae_, side of a hill, an inclined road.
+
+_Braid_, broad.
+
+_Braird_, blade of grass.
+
+_Brak_, broke, did break.
+
+_Brat_, a coarse apron.
+
+_Brattle_, a rattle.
+
+_Braw_, _brawly_, finely, gaily dressed.
+
+_Bree_, broth.
+
+_Breed_, to resemble, to take after.
+
+_Breeks_, breeches, trousers.
+
+_Brig_, bridge.
+
+_Brither_, brother.
+
+_Brod_, goad to drive oxen.
+
+_Brogue_, bradawl.
+
+_Broke_, kitchen refuse, pigs meat.
+
+_Broo_, the fluid part of soup, juice.
+
+_Broose_, a race at a country wedding.
+
+_Brose_, a dish of oatmeal and boiling water.
+
+_Browst_, a brewing.
+
+_Browster_, a brewer.
+
+_Brunt_, burned.
+
+_Bubbly-jock_, a turkey-cock.
+
+_Buirdly_, strongly made, stout.
+
+_Bum_, to buzz like a bee.
+
+_Bummer_, a bee.
+
+_Burn_, a running stream, a brook.
+
+_Bursten_, bursting.
+
+_Buskit_, dressed, bedecked.
+
+_But-and-ben_, two adjoining apartments.
+
+_But_, without.
+
+_Buz_, talk, ado, noise.
+
+_By_, over, past.
+
+_By-gane_, what has passed.
+
+_Byre_, cowhouse.
+
+
+_Ca'_, to call, to name, to drive.
+
+_Caber_, a rafter.
+
+_Cadger_, a pedlar, gipsy, beggar.
+
+_Cairn_, a heap of stones.
+
+_Callant_, a boy, a youth.
+
+_Cam'_, did come.
+
+_Cangle_, quarrel, differ.
+
+_Cankered_, fretful, ill-natured.
+
+_Canna_, cannot.
+
+_Canty_, happy, cheerful.
+
+_Carl_, _carle_, old man.
+
+_Carlin_, old woman.
+
+_Castock_, the core of a cabbage.
+
+_Cauff_, chaff.
+
+_Cauld_, cold.
+
+_Causey_, the causeway.
+
+_Cawk_, chalk
+
+_Ceevil_, civil.
+
+_Chafts_, the chops.
+
+_Chancy_, lucky, fortunate.
+
+_Chanter_, the drone of a bagpipe.
+
+_Chapman_, a pedlar.
+
+_Chappin_, a quart measure.
+
+_Chapping-sticks_, dangerous tools or weapons.
+
+_Cheatery_, fraud, deceit.
+
+_Cheep_, to chirp, to squeak.
+
+_Cheil_, a fellow, a person, a young man.
+
+_Chow_, to chew.
+
+_Chuck_, to toss, to play marbles.
+
+_Chuckie-stanes_, pebbles, such as are used for garden walks.
+
+_Claes_, clothes.
+
+_Claith_, cloth.
+
+_Clarty_, dirty, bespattered with mud.
+
+_Claver_, to gossip, to talk foolishly.
+
+_Claw_, to scratch.
+
+_Cleaving_, a cleft.
+
+_Cleck_, to hatch.
+
+_Cled_, clad.
+
+_Cled-like_, well clad.
+
+_Cleed_, to clothe.
+
+_Clink_, money, a blow, to throw down.
+
+_Clips_, tongs for lifting or hanging up a pot.
+
+_Clishmaclaver_, idle talk.
+
+_Clockin'_, clucking of hens.
+
+_Cloot_, a hoof.
+
+_Clout_, a patch, a rag, a slap with the hand.
+
+_Clue_, a ball of worsted.
+
+_Clung_, empty, collapsed, drawn together.
+
+_Cock-laird_, a small landed proprietor who farms his own ground.
+
+_Cod_, a pillow.
+
+_Coft_, bought.
+
+_Cog_, a wooden dish.
+
+_Come-speed_, to succeed.
+
+_Coof_, a simpleton, a stupid person.
+
+_Coorse_, coarse.
+
+_Coost_, to cast, to throw.
+
+_Coostin_, thrown, cast off.
+
+_Corbie_, a raven.
+
+_Corn_, to feed a horse.
+
+_Cowed_, frightened, coerced.
+
+_Cowp_, fall, overturn.
+
+_Cowte_, a colt, young horse.
+
+_Crab_, to be angry, peevish.
+
+_Crabbit_, angry, ill-natured.
+
+_Crack_, a chat, a familiar conversation, to chat.
+
+_Crans_, iron rods for supporting the pot while on the fire.
+
+_Crap_, crop.
+
+_Crappie_, the craw or crop of a fowl.
+
+_Craw_, a crow.
+
+_Craw_, to crow, exult, boast.
+
+_Creel_, a basket carried on the back.
+
+_Creesh_, grease, oil.
+
+_Creeshy_, greasy, oily.
+
+_Croon_, to hum a tune, to moan.
+
+_Crouse_, courageous, lively.
+
+_Crowdy_, gruel, thin _brose_, _q. v._
+
+_Crummie_, the cow.
+
+_Crunsh_, to break with the teeth.
+
+_Cuddy_, a donkey.
+
+_Cumbersome_, troublesome.
+
+_Cunzie_, property, money.
+
+_Curcuddoch_, fond, familiar, warm in attentions.
+
+_Curly_, curled.
+
+_Cursour_, a stallion, a war-horse.
+
+_Cutty_, a short spoon, a short clay pipe.
+
+_Cutty-stool_, a small stool.
+
+
+_Dab_, _dabble_, to peck.
+
+_Dad_, a violent knock, a dash with the hand.
+
+_Dae_, to do.
+
+_Daffin'_, sport, folly in general.
+
+_Daft_, foolish, merry, idiotical.
+
+_Daigh_, dough.
+
+_Daidle_, to dilly-dally, to do a thing in a slow, sluggish manner.
+
+_Dang_, did _ding_, _q. v._
+
+_Darg_, a day's work.
+
+_Darn_, to mend stockings, to conceal.
+
+_Daur_, to dare.
+
+_Daurna_, dare not.
+
+_Dautie_, a pet, fondling.
+
+_Daw_, a drab, slattern.
+
+_Dead-lift_, an emergency.
+
+_Dead-sweer_, very unwilling, extremely averse to exertion.
+
+_Deave_, to deafen with noise.
+
+_Dee_, to die.
+
+_Deem_, to judge, condemn.
+
+_Deil_, _deevil_, devil.
+
+_Dight_, to wipe, rub, to make ready.
+
+_Ding_, to push, knock over, to surpass, excel.
+
+_Dink_, to dress neatly, neat, trim.
+
+_Dinna_, do not.
+
+_Dint_, opportunity, chance.
+
+_Dirk_, a Highland dagger, to stab with a dagger.
+
+_Dirl_, a sharp stroke, the tremulation caused by a stroke.
+
+_Dish-clout_, dish-towel, washing-cloth.
+
+_Disna_, does not.
+
+_Dit_, to close, to stop a hole.
+
+_Divot_, a turf.
+
+_Dizzen_, dozen.
+
+_Dochter_, daughter.
+
+_Dock_, to cut the hair, to shorten.
+
+_Docken_, the dock herb.
+
+_Doited_, stupid.
+
+_Dolour_, sorrow, grief.
+
+_Donnart_, stupid, dull.
+
+_Donsy_, unlucky.
+
+_Doo_, a dove, pigeon.
+
+_Dool_, sorrow, woe.
+
+_Dorty_, proud, saucy, easily offended.
+
+_Dosen_, to settle down, to become cold.
+
+_Douce_, grave, thoughtful, sober.
+
+_Dought_, strength, power.
+
+_Doun_, down.
+
+_Dounwith_, downwards.
+
+_Doup_, the end of a candle, the bottom of an egg.
+
+_Dovering_, stupid, slumbering.
+
+_Dow_, to wither, to decay, dirty.
+
+_Dowff_, humble.
+
+_Downa_, are unable, cannot.
+
+_Draff_, brewer's grains.
+
+_Drap_, a drop, to drop, a small quantity of liquor.
+
+_Draunt_, a drawl.
+
+_Dree_, to suffer, endure.
+
+_Dreigh_, slow, tedious, dry.
+
+_Dronach_, penalty, punishment.
+
+_Drouth_, thirst, drought.
+
+_Drouthy_, thirsty, fond of tippling.
+
+_Drucken_, drunken.
+
+_Drudger_, a plodding, industrious person.
+
+_Drumly_, muddy.
+
+_Dub_, a puddle, a pool of water.
+
+_Dummie_, a dumb person.
+
+_Dune_, done.
+
+_Dung_, overcome, ill-used.
+
+_Dunsh_, to jog, to thrust violently.
+
+_Dunt_, a blow, a large piece.
+
+_Dyke_, _dike_, a stone wall.
+
+
+_Ee_, eye.
+
+_Een_, eyes, even so.
+
+_E'en_, _e'enin'_, evening.
+
+_E'enow_, even now, at present.
+
+_Eider_, more prominently.
+
+_Eild_, age, old age.
+
+_Eird_, earth.
+
+_Eith_, easy.
+
+_Eithly_, easily.
+
+_Elbuck_, the elbow.
+
+_Eldin_, fuel, coal, peat.
+
+_Elshie_, cor. of Alexander.
+
+_Elshin_, shoemaker's awl.
+
+_Eme_, uncle.
+
+_Eneugh_, enough, sufficient.
+
+_Ettle_, to endeavour, aim, an intention.
+
+_Ewie_, a ewe.
+
+_Eydent_, _eident_, thrifty, diligent.
+
+
+_Fa'_, to fall.
+
+_Fa'an_, has fallen.
+
+_Fae_, foe.
+
+_Fair-fa'_, well betide, good luck to.
+
+_Faither_, father.
+
+_Fallow_, fellow.
+
+_Fand_, found.
+
+_Farden_, a farthing.
+
+_Fash_, trouble, annoyance, to vex.
+
+_Fashery_, trouble, vexation.
+
+_Fashious_, troublesome.
+
+_Faugh_, fallow land.
+
+_Fauld_, to fold, embrace; a sheepfold.
+
+_Fause_, false.
+
+_Fausehood_, falsehood.
+
+_Faut_, fault.
+
+_Fazart_, a coward, dastard.
+
+_Fearsome_, fearful, awful.
+
+_Februar_, February.
+
+_Feckfu_, strong, courageous.
+
+_Feckless_, feeble, silly, weak--mentally or physically.
+
+_Feigh!_ an expression of disgust.
+
+_Fend_, to work.
+
+_Ferlie_, a wonder, to wonder at.
+
+_Fernyear_, the preceding year.
+
+_Fey_, predestined, fatality.
+
+_Fiddle_, violin.
+
+_Fidge_, to fidget.
+
+_Fidging_, anxious, skittish, fidgeting.
+
+_Findsilly_, apt to find.
+
+_Fit_, foot.
+
+_Fiz_, to hiss.
+
+_Flae_, a flea.
+
+_Flee_, a fly, to fly.
+
+_Fleech_, to flatter.
+
+_Flether_, to persuade, to influence.
+
+_Fley_, to frighten.
+
+_Fleyer_, a coward.
+
+_Flicher_, to flatter.
+
+_Fling_, to jilt, kick, throw off.
+
+_Flisket_, easily annoyed, fretful.
+
+_Flit_, to remove from one house to another.
+
+_Flounders_, soles, plaice.
+
+_Flyte_, to rage, quarrel, scold.
+
+_Fog_, moss.
+
+_Foisonless_, insipid, tasteless.
+
+_Foot-rot_, a disease affecting the feet of sheep.
+
+_Forecast_, forethought, premeditation.
+
+_Foregather_, to meet with, to overtake.
+
+_Forfoughten_, fatigued.
+
+_Forgie_, forgive.
+
+_Forejeskit_, jaded, worn out.
+
+_Forejidged_, prejudged.
+
+_Forpit_, the fourth of a peck.
+
+_Fou_, drunk.
+
+_Founder_, stumble.
+
+_Frae_, from.
+
+_Freets_, superstitious omens.
+
+_Fremit_, foreign, not akin, strange.
+
+_Fresh_, a thaw after frost.
+
+_Frist_, to delay.
+
+_Fu'_, full.
+
+_Fuff_, to puff, boast, threaten.
+
+_Furdersome_, industrious, pushing.
+
+_Fyke_, to trifle.
+
+_Fyle_, to soil, defile, dirty.
+
+
+_Gab_, the mouth; to speak.
+
+_Gae_, go.
+
+_Gate_, _gait_, road, way.
+
+_Gaislin'_, gosling; a stupid child.
+
+_Gane_, gone.
+
+_Gang_, to go.
+
+_Gar_, to cause, force, compel.
+
+_Gat_, did get.
+
+_Gatty_, old-like, ill-natured.
+
+_Gaud_, a rod or goad.
+
+_Gaun_, going.
+
+_Gaunt_, to yawn.
+
+_Gaw_, to gall.
+
+_Gawsie_, plump, jolly, stately.
+
+_Gaylie_, middling.
+
+_Gear_, wealth, property, goods.
+
+_Geary_, having riches or wealth.
+
+_Gellock_, gavelock, an iron crowbar or lever.
+
+_Ghaist_, a ghost.
+
+_Gien_, given.
+
+_Giff-gaff_, exchange of gifts, mutual obligations.
+
+_Gileynour_, a deceiver, a cheat.
+
+_Gillies_, followers.
+
+_Gin_, if.
+
+_Gir_, girth, hoop.
+
+_Gird_, to keep fast.
+
+_Girdle_, a circular iron plate used for baking bread.
+
+_Girn_, a snare.
+
+_Girnin'_, grinning, fretful.
+
+_Gizen_, to become leaky from drouth.
+
+_Glaiket_, wanton, foolish, playful, trifling.
+
+_Glaum_, to snatch at, to aspire to.
+
+_Glaur_, mud, mire.
+
+_Gled_, a kite.
+
+_Gleg_, smart, sharp-sighted, ready-witted, acute.
+
+_Glib_, quick, ready in speaking.
+
+_Gliff_, a fright; a passing sight.
+
+_Glitty_, smooth, glossy.
+
+_Gloom_, frown.
+
+_Glower_, to stare.
+
+_Glum_, morose, sour, sulky.
+
+_Glunshes_, glooms.
+
+_Goavin'_, staring, looking intently.
+
+_Gowd_, gold.
+
+_Gowdspink_, goldfinch.
+
+_Gowk_, a simpleton, one easily imposed on; a cuckoo.
+
+_Gowpen_, the two hands joined to contain anything, as grain; also the
+quantity so contained.
+
+_Graip_, a dung fork.
+
+_Graith_, harness, horse-clothing.
+
+_Gramashes_, riding hose, gaiters.
+
+_Grane_, to groan.
+
+_Grape_, to grope, search.
+
+_Grat_, did weep, cry.
+
+_Gree_, to agree.
+
+_Green_, to covet, long for, desire.
+
+_Greet_, to cry, weep.
+
+_Greive_, overseer, steward, factor.
+
+_Grewsome_, sullen, quarrelsome.
+
+_Grip_, to catch, take hold of; a hold, a grip.
+
+_Grit_, intimate, familiar.
+
+_Groat_, fourpence.
+
+_Groats_, milled oats.
+
+_Grosset_, gooseberry.
+
+_Grumph_, to grunt.
+
+_Grund_, the ground, to be ground on a grindstone.
+
+_Grundstane_, grindstone.
+
+_Grushie_, thick, flabby, frowsy.
+
+_Gryce_, a pig.
+
+_Gude_, good.
+
+_Gudely_, comely, handsome.
+
+_Gudes_, goods, possessions.
+
+_Gudeman_, husband, master of the house.
+
+_Gudemither_, mother-in-law.
+
+_Gudewife_, wife, mistress of the house.
+
+_Gully_, a large pocket knife.
+
+_Gutcher_, grandfather.
+
+_Guts_, the stomach, belly.
+
+
+_Ha'_, a hall.
+
+_Hadden_, held, kept.
+
+_Hae_, have, take.
+
+_Haffit_, the cheek, side of the head.
+
+_Haggis_, a pudding peculiar to Scotland.
+
+_Hail_, _hale_, whole, sound, healthy.
+
+_Hain_, to economize, to use sparingly.
+
+_Hairst_, harvest.
+
+_Haly_, holy.
+
+_Hamald_, homely, poor.
+
+_Hame_, home.
+
+_Hamely_, homely, frank, affable.
+
+_Handfu'_, handful.
+
+_Hansel_, the first money received for goods, a present at a particular
+season of the year.
+
+_Hantle_, a number or quantity.
+
+_Hap_, to cover; chance.
+
+_Harn_, coarse linen cloth.
+
+_Harns_, brains.
+
+_Harigals_, the heart, liver, &c., of a sheep.
+
+_Hastrie_, reckless haste.
+
+_Haud_, to hold, keep.
+
+_Haurl_, to drag.
+
+_Hause_, the throat; to embrace.
+
+_Haver_, to gossip, to talk foolishly.
+
+_Haws_, the fruit of the hawthorn.
+
+_Hech!_ an expression of surprise, sorrow, or fatigue; an exclamation.
+
+_Hecht_, a promise.
+
+_Heft_, the handle of a knife.
+
+_Here-awa_, hereabout.
+
+_Herry_, to plunder.
+
+_Hersel_, herself.
+
+_Hesp_, reeled yarn.
+
+_Het_, hot.
+
+_Hetly_, hotly.
+
+_Heuk_, hook.
+
+_Hieland_, Highland.
+
+_Himsel_, himself.
+
+_Hing_, to hang, to suspend.
+
+_Hirdy-girdy_, a state of confusion.
+
+_Hirsel_, a flock.
+
+_Hommel-corn_, grain that has no beard.
+
+_Hooly_, slowly, steadily.
+
+_Horse-couper_, horse-dealer.
+
+_Hottle_, hotel.
+
+_Houssie_, a housewife; diminutive of house.
+
+_Hout!_ exclamation, fy! tut!
+
+_Howdie_, a midwife.
+
+_Howe_, a hollow.
+
+_Howkit_, dug, hollowed.
+
+_Hudderin-dudderin_, slovenly, flabby, loose.
+
+_Hurlbarrow_, wheelbarrow.
+
+_Hutch_, a poor cottage.
+
+
+_I'_, in.
+
+_Iceshogels_, icicles.
+
+_Ilka_, every, each.
+
+_Ill-faured_, ill-favoured.
+
+_Ill-willy_, ill-natured, malicious, spiteful.
+
+_Ingle_, the fireside.
+
+_Ither_, other; not the same.
+
+_Itsel_, itself.
+
+
+_Januar_, January.
+
+_Jauping_, plashing.
+
+_Jaw_, a wave or dash of water.
+
+_Jawp_, to throw water upon a person, to bespatter.
+
+_Jig_, to creak.
+
+_Jilt_, a slight dash of water.
+
+_Joe_, a sweetheart.
+
+_Jouk_, to stoop, to avoid a blow; to yield to circumstances.
+
+_Jundie_, a passing thrust.
+
+
+_Kail_, colewort; broth is commonly termed _kail_; but, properly
+speaking, it is not _kail_ until the second day.
+
+_Kail-yaird_, a kitchen garden.
+
+_Kame_, to comb, a comb.
+
+_Kamester_, a woolcomber.
+
+_Kavel_, a mean fellow.
+
+_Kebbuck_, a cheese.
+
+_Kekle_, to cackle, to be noisy.
+
+_Keek_, to peep.
+
+_Kemper_, a diligent worker.
+
+_Ken_, to know.
+
+_Kent_, known, did know.
+
+_Kep_, to catch.
+
+_Keytch_, to throw up, to turn over.
+
+_Kimmer_, a female gossip.
+
+_Kirk_, a church.
+
+_Kirkyaird_, churchyard.
+
+_Kirn_, a churn.
+
+_Kirtle_, a petticoat, a short-gown.
+
+_Kist_, a chest, a coffin.
+
+_Kith_, acquaintance.
+
+_Kittle_, to tickle; ticklish, difficult.
+
+_Kittlen_, a kitten.
+
+_Knibblich_, a small stone.
+
+_Knowe_, a hillock.
+
+_Kyte_, the belly.
+
+_Kythe_, to appear.
+
+
+_Lack_, to depreciate, discommend.
+
+_Laddie_, diminutive of lad.
+
+_Lade_, a load, laden.
+
+_Laigh_, low.
+
+_Laird_, landlord, proprietor, lord of the manor.
+
+_Laith_, loth, reluctant.
+
+_Laithfu'_, shy, modest, bashful.
+
+_Landward_, rustic.
+
+_Landlouper_, an unsettled, changeable person.
+
+_Lang_, long.
+
+_Langle_, a rope by which the fore and hinder feet of a horse or cow are
+fastened together.
+
+_Langing_, longing, wishing.
+
+_Lang-kail_, boiled coleworts.
+
+_Lang-shanket_, long-handed or shafted.
+
+_Langsyne_, long ago, old times.
+
+_Lap_, did leap.
+
+_Lassie_, girl, diminutive of lass.
+
+_Lathron_, a lazy, idle person.
+
+_Lave_, the rest, others, remainder.
+
+_Laverock_, a lark.
+
+_Lawin'_, a tavern reckoning.
+
+_Layne_, conceal.
+
+_Leal_, true, honest, faithful.
+
+_Lear_, to learn, learning.
+
+_Leddy_, lady.
+
+_Lee_, to lie.
+
+_Leear_, liar.
+
+_Len'_, lend, a loan.
+
+_Let-a-bee_, to let alone.
+
+_Licht_, alight.
+
+_Lichtit_, alighted.
+
+_Lightlie_, to undervalue, decry; to make light of.
+
+_Lift_, the firmament.
+
+_Linn_, a waterfall between two rocks.
+
+_Lint_, flax.
+
+_Lippen_, depend upon, trust to.
+
+_List_, agile, active.
+
+_Lither_, sleepy, lazy.
+
+_Loan_, a lane; an open space near a farm or village where the cows are
+milked.
+
+_Loe_, to love, to be in love.
+
+_Loof_, the palm of the hand.
+
+_Loon_, a clown, a rogue.
+
+_Loup_, to leap.
+
+_Lout_, to stoop, submit.
+
+_Lowe_, a flame.
+
+_Lowin'_, flaming.
+
+_Lown_, calm, sheltered.
+
+_Loose_, to loose.
+
+_Lug_, the ear; the handle of an article.
+
+_Lumm_, a chimney.
+
+_Lunnun_, London.
+
+
+_Madge-howlet_, an owl.
+
+_Mailin'_, a farm.
+
+_Mair_, more.
+
+_Maist_, most.
+
+_Maister_, master; an over-match.
+
+_Maistry_, management, superiority.
+
+_Mak_, make.
+
+_Makna_, make not.
+
+_Malison_, malediction, curse.
+
+_Manteel_, a mantle.
+
+_Marrow_, an equal, a match.
+
+_Maukin_, a hare.
+
+_Maun_, must.
+
+_Maunna_, must not.
+
+_Maut_, malt.
+
+_Mavis_, a thrush.
+
+_May be_, perhaps.
+
+_Mayna_, may not.
+
+_Mease_, to settle; to appease.
+
+_Mear_, a mare.
+
+_Meltith_, a meal.
+
+_Mends_, amends, satisfaction.
+
+_Mense_, manners, discretion.
+
+_Menseless_, unmannerly, ill-bred, forward.
+
+_Menyie_, the follower of a chieftain.
+
+_Messan_, a mongrel dog.
+
+_Midden_, a dunghill.
+
+_Middlin'_, moderately.
+
+_Midge_, a gnat.
+
+_Mim_, primness, affectation.
+
+_Mint_, to aim, to endeavour.
+
+_Mird_, jest.
+
+_Mirk_, dark, obscure.
+
+_Misca'_, to abuse, to nickname.
+
+_Misken_, neglect, overlook.
+
+_Mislear'd_, mischievous, wild.
+
+_Misluck_, misfortune.
+
+_Misrid_, entangled, confused.
+
+_Misterfu'_, needy, begging.
+
+_Mither_, mother.
+
+_Moaned_, lamented.
+
+_Moistify_, to moisten, to drink.
+
+_Mony_, many.
+
+_Mool_, to crumble; the earth of a grave.
+
+_Moop_, to mump, to impair.
+
+_Mou_, the mouth.
+
+_Moudiewart_, a mole.
+
+_Mouter_, grist; a miller's perquisite for grinding.
+
+_Mow_, a heap, as of hay, fuel, &c.
+
+_Mows_, jests.
+
+_Moyen_, influence, interest.
+
+_Muck_, dung.
+
+_Muckle_, great, tall, much.
+
+_Muckledom_, _muckleness_, greatness in size.
+
+_Muir_, a moor, a heath.
+
+_Mump_, to hint, to aim at.
+
+_Mune_, moon.
+
+_Muslin-kail_, a very poor broth.
+
+_Mutch_, a woman's cap.
+
+_Mysel_, myself.
+
+
+_Na_, _nae_, no, not.
+
+_Naesay_, a refusal.
+
+_Naething_, nothing.
+
+_Naig_, a nag.
+
+_Nancie_, Agnes.
+
+_Nane_, none.
+
+_Neb_, a point, a bird's bill; the nose.
+
+_Neeboor_, neighbour.
+
+_Needna_, need not.
+
+_Neist_, next.
+
+_Neuk_, a nook, a corner.
+
+_Nicher_, to neigh, to laugh.
+
+_Nieve_, the fist, the hand.
+
+_Niffer_, to barter, to exchange.
+
+_Nip_, to pinch.
+
+_Nit_, a nut.
+
+_Nitty-now_, a lousy-head.
+
+_No_, not.
+
+_Nowte_, black cattle.
+
+
+_O'_, on, of.
+
+_Oe_, a grandchild.
+
+_Olite_, active, nimble, ready.
+
+_Ony_, any.
+
+_Oo_, wool.
+
+_Ool_, an owl.
+
+_Oot_, out.
+
+_Ort_, to reject, throw aside; select.
+
+_Orts_, that which is rejected or set aside.
+
+_Ou_, very well; an expression of surprise or indifference.
+
+_Oursel_, ourself.
+
+_Oursels_, ourselves.
+
+_Ower_, _owre_, over, across, too much, too.
+
+_Owercome_, overcome; the issue, the surplus.
+
+_Owergang_, to overrun, to exceed.
+
+_Owk_, meek.
+
+_Owsen_, oxen.
+
+_Oxter_, the armpit.
+
+
+_Paiks_, chastisement.
+
+_Pairt_, part.
+
+_Paitrick_, a partridge.
+
+_Parritch_, oatmeal porridge.
+
+_Partan_, the common sea-crab.
+
+_Pasche_, Easter.
+
+_Pat_, pot.
+
+_Patfu'_, a potful.
+
+_Peasweep_, the lapwing.
+
+_Peat_, turf, vegetable fuel.
+
+_Pechan_, the stomach, the crop.
+
+_Penny-wheep_, a common kind of beer; small beer.
+
+_Perfyteness_, perfection.
+
+_Pick_, to choose, to select.
+
+_Pickle_, a small quantity.
+
+_Pig_, an earthen pitcher.
+
+_Pike_, to pick, to scratch with the finger nails.
+
+_Pintstoup_, a pint measure.
+
+_Pirn_, a reel, a bobbin.
+
+_Pit_, to put.
+
+_Plack_, two bodles, one-third of the English penny.
+
+_Pliskie_, a mischievous trick.
+
+_Ploom_, a plum.
+
+_Ploy_, a merry meeting, an excursion.
+
+_Pock_, a bag, a sack.
+
+_Poind_, to distrain for rent.
+
+_Poortith_, poverty.
+
+_Pouch_, the pocket.
+
+_Pouse_, to despoil.
+
+_Pow_, the head.
+
+_Powther_, gunpowder.
+
+_Pree_, to taste.
+
+_Preen_, a pin.
+
+_Prent_, printed.
+
+_Primsie_, precise, demure.
+
+_Puddin_, pudding.
+
+_Puddock_, a frog.
+
+_Pund_, a pound weight.
+
+
+_Quaich_, a small, shallow, drinking cup of wood or metal, with two
+handles.
+
+_Quat_, to quit, to relinquish, to give over.
+
+_Quey_, a young cow.
+
+_Quire_, the choir of a church.
+
+_Quo'_, quoth, said.
+
+
+_Raible_, a rhapsody of nonsense.
+
+_Raggit_, ragged.
+
+_Raip_, a rope.
+
+_Rash_, a rush.
+
+_Ravelled_, confused.
+
+_Raw_, a row or line.
+
+_Rax_, to stretch.
+
+_Reavers_, robbers, thieves.
+
+_Red-wud_, stark mad.
+
+_Redd_, to put in order, to counsel, to caution.
+
+_Rede_, afraid.
+
+_Ree_, half-drunk, tipsy.
+
+_Reek_, smoke.
+
+_Reeky_, smoky.
+
+_Reem_, cream, froth.
+
+_Reik_, to reach, to stretch out the hand.
+
+_Reird_, a scolding or noisy tongue.
+
+_Remede_, remedy.
+
+_Reive_, _reeve_, to rob, to steal.
+
+_Riggin'_, the ridge of a house.
+
+_Rin_, to run.
+
+_Rip_, a handful of unthrashed corn.
+
+_Rippling-kame_, a flax-comb.
+
+_Rive_, a tear, a rent.
+
+_Rock_, a distaff.
+
+_Roon_, a selvedge, a shred.
+
+_Rooser_, a boaster.
+
+_Roupy_, hoarse.
+
+_Routh_, plenty, abundance.
+
+_Row_, to roll up.
+
+_Rowan tree_, the mountain ash.
+
+_Rowte_, a roar, a lowing of cattle.
+
+_Royt_, forward, rude, disorderly.
+
+_Ruse_, to praise, to commend.
+
+
+_Sab_, to sob.
+
+_Sae_, so.
+
+_Saft_, soft.
+
+_Sair_, sore, sorely.
+
+_Sairy_, poor, silly.
+
+_Sang_, a song.
+
+_Sap_, a sop.
+
+_Sark_, a shirt.
+
+_Sauch_, _saugh_, a willow-tree.
+
+_Saucht_, peace, ease.
+
+_Saunt_, a saint.
+
+_Saut_, salt.
+
+_Saw_, a proverb, an old saying; salve, plaster.
+
+_Sawn_, sown.
+
+_Sax_, six.
+
+_Sca'd_, scabbed, scared.
+
+_Scambler_, "a bold intruder upon one's generosity at table."
+
+_Scant_, scarcity, want.
+
+_Scart_, a scratch, to scratch.
+
+_Scaur_, to scare, to be scared.
+
+_Schule_, school.
+
+_Sclate_, a slate.
+
+_Scone_, a common flour cake.
+
+_Scouth_, ease, liberty, freedom to say or do anything.
+
+_Scouther_, to scorch, to singe, to burn slightly.
+
+_Scrimpit_, straitened, oppressed.
+
+_Scunner_, to be disgusted, to loathe.
+
+_Sea-maw_, a sea-gull.
+
+_Seil_, happiness, salvation.
+
+_Sel_, self.
+
+_Selgh_, a seal.
+
+_Ser'_, to serve.
+
+_Shae_, a shoe.
+
+_Shairney_, befouled with dung.
+
+_Shank_, to travel on foot.
+
+_Shanks_, the legs, the feet.
+
+_Shanna_, shall not.
+
+_Shauchle_, to go slip-shod, to walk lazily.
+
+_Shaup_, a husk.
+
+_Shaw_, to show.
+
+_Shear_, to reap, to cut close.
+
+_Shearer_, a reaper.
+
+_Shears_, scissors.
+
+_Sheeled_, shelled.
+
+_Shent_, confounded, blamed, disturbed, ashamed.
+
+_Shoo_, force, persuade.
+
+_Shool_, a shovel.
+
+_Shoon_, _shune_, shoes.
+
+_Shore_, to threaten.
+
+_Shot_, a stroke in play, a move in chess or draughts.
+
+_Shouther_, shoulder.
+
+_Shute_, to push.
+
+_Sib_, akin, related.
+
+_Sic_, such.
+
+_Sicker_, sure, certain.
+
+_Siller_, silver, money.
+
+_Simmer_, summer.
+
+_Sindle_, seldom.
+
+_Sindry_, separately.
+
+_Skail_, to disperse, to scatter.
+
+_Skaith_, harm, injury.
+
+_Skeel_, skill.
+
+_Skelp_, to whip, to slap.
+
+_Skink_, a strong soup made of cows' hams.
+
+_Skreigh_, to shriek.
+
+_Skyte_, to shy, to fly off or against anything.
+
+_Slabber_, to besmear.
+
+_Slid_, slippery; wheedling, cunning.
+
+_Sliddry_, slippery.
+
+_Slocken_, to quench.
+
+_Sma'_, small.
+
+_Smit_, to infect.
+
+_Smoor_, to smother.
+
+_Snapper_, to stumble, to err.
+
+_Snaw_, snow.
+
+_Snawba'_, snowball.
+
+_Snite_, to blow the nose.
+
+_Snodder_, neater, tidier.
+
+_Sodger_, a soldier.
+
+_Sonsy_, stout, healthy, thriving.
+
+_Sooking_, sucking.
+
+_Soom_, to swim.
+
+_Soop_, to sweep.
+
+_Soor_, sour.
+
+_Sooth_, true.
+
+_Souck_, wile, persuade.
+
+_Sough_, the low, mournful sound of wind.
+
+_Souter_, a shoemaker, a cobbler.
+
+_Souther_, to solder.
+
+_Sowens_, pottage made of the dust in oatmeal seeds steeped and soured.
+
+_Sowp_, a little (applied to liquids), a spoonful.
+
+_Spail_, a chip of wood.
+
+_Spak_, spoke.
+
+_Speir_, _speer_, to inquire, to ask a question.
+
+_Spring_, a cheerful tune.
+
+_Spune_, a spoon.
+
+_Spurtle_, a short stick for stirring porridge.
+
+_Stamach_, the stomach.
+
+_Stane_, a stone.
+
+_Stannin'_, standing.
+
+_Stark_, strong.
+
+_Starns_, stars.
+
+_Steek_, to close, to shut; a stitch.
+
+_Steer_, to stir, to trouble.
+
+_Stey_, steep, precipitous.
+
+_Stimpart_, the fourth part of a peck.
+
+_Stipend_, the salary of a clergyman, a benefice.
+
+_Stirk_, a young cow or bull.
+
+_Stock_, a head of cabbage.
+
+_Stook_, a stack of corn, consisting of twelve sheaves.
+
+_Stoor_, dust.
+
+_Stot_, a young bull or ox.
+
+_Stoup_, a jug with a handle, a wooden water pitcher.
+
+_Straa_, an expression of defiance.
+
+_Strae_, straw.
+
+_Strake_, to stroke; a stroke, a blow.
+
+_Strang_, strong.
+
+_Straught_, straight, to straighten.
+
+_Stravaig_, to stroll about idly.
+
+_Streek_, to stretch.
+
+_Strunt_, to offend, sullenness.
+
+_Sturdy_, a disease among sheep.
+
+_Sturt_, rage, anger, trouble.
+
+_Sumph_, a blockhead.
+
+_Sune_, soon.
+
+_Sunks_, a pad used in place of a saddle.
+
+_Suld_, should.
+
+_Sute_, soot.
+
+_Swat_, did sweat, to perspire.
+
+_Sweer_, _sweird_, averse, slow, unwilling, indolent.
+
+_Swith_, quickly.
+
+_Synd_, to rinse.
+
+_Syne_, since, after that, then, late.
+
+
+_Tack_, a lease.
+
+_Tacked_, nailed to, attached.
+
+_Tae_, to, too; the toe.
+
+_Taen_, one, correlative of _tither_, the other; taken.
+
+_Taiken_, a mark, a token.
+
+_Tait_, a small quantity.
+
+_Tak_, to take.
+
+_Tam_, Thomas.
+
+_Tangs_, the tongs.
+
+_Tap_, the top.
+
+_Tappit-hen_, a hen with a tuft of feathers on her head.
+
+_Tarrow_, to take a loathing at meat; to be nice, particular.
+
+_Tauld_, told.
+
+_Taury_, tarry.
+
+_Tawpie_, a foolish or idle woman.
+
+_Taws_, the leather scourge used by schoolmasters.
+
+_Tee_, the goal in such games as curling, quoits, &c.
+
+_Tent_, to take care of, to observe.
+
+_Tentless_, careless, incautious.
+
+_Tether_, to tie up, to restrict.
+
+_Thae_, those.
+
+_Theek_, to thatch.
+
+_Theekit_, thatched.
+
+_Thegither_, together.
+
+_Thereout_, without.
+
+_Thig_, to borrow, to beg.
+
+_Thir_, these, these here--used only of things at hand.
+
+_Thole_, to suffer, to endure, to bear.
+
+_Thoom_, the thumb.
+
+_Thow_, a thaw.
+
+_Thrang_, throng, busy.
+
+_Thraw_, to twist, to oppose, to anger, to form.
+
+_Thrawart_, cross-tempered.
+
+_Thrawn_, obstinate.
+
+_Thrist_, thirst.
+
+_Thrums_, waste threads.
+
+_Thunner_, thunder.
+
+_Ticht_, tight.
+
+_Tig_, to jest or trifle.
+
+_Till_, to.
+
+_Tine_, to lose.
+
+_Tinkler_, a tinker.
+
+_Tint_, lost.
+
+_Tippence_, twopence.
+
+_Tither_, the other.
+
+_Tocher_, a dowry, fortune.
+
+_Tocherless_, without a dowry.
+
+_Tod_, a fox.
+
+_Tooly_, to fight.
+
+_Toom_, empty, to empty.
+
+_Toun_, a town.
+
+_Toustie_, cross.
+
+_Tout_, to blow a horn; the blast of a horn.
+
+_Touzie_, disordered, dishevelled.
+
+_Tow_, a rope; hemp or flax in a prepared state.
+
+_Trewed_, believed, trusted.
+
+_Trow_, to believe, to credit.
+
+_Tryst_, a fair, an appointment.
+
+_Tulzie_, a quarrel; to quarrel, to fight.
+
+_Tup_, a ram.
+
+_Twa_, two.
+
+_Twal_, twelve.
+
+_Twalpenny_, a Scots shilling, of value one penny English.
+
+_Tyke_, _tike_, a dog, a clumsy person.
+
+
+_Unco_, strange, unknown, very, extremely.
+
+_Uncoft_, unbought.
+
+_Unsicker_, not secure, unsafe.
+
+_Untimeous_, untimely, unseasonable.
+
+_Uphaud_, to support, to uphold.
+
+_Upwith_, upwards, elated.
+
+
+_Wa'_, a wall.
+
+_Wab_, a web.
+
+_Wabster_, a weaver.
+
+_Wad_, would; a pledge, a wager.
+
+_Wae_, sorrow, woe, sadness.
+
+_Waft_, woof.
+
+_Wa'gang_, a departure, going away.
+
+_Wair_, spend.
+
+_Wail_, _wale_, to choose.
+
+_Waly_, an exclamation of grief.
+
+_Wame_, the womb, the belly.
+
+_Wampish_, to brandish, to flourish.
+
+_Wan_, won.
+
+_Wark_, work.
+
+_Warld_, the world.
+
+_Warling_, a worldling.
+
+_Warlock_, a witch.
+
+_Warst_, worst.
+
+_Wast_, the west.
+
+_Wat_, wet; addicted to tippling.
+
+_Watna_, wot not, know not.
+
+_Wastrie_, waste, prodigality.
+
+_Wauk_, to awake, to watch.
+
+_Waukin_, to awake.
+
+_Waukrife_, wakeful.
+
+_Waur_, worse.
+
+_Wean_, a child.
+
+_Wee_, little.
+
+_Weel_, well, properly.
+
+_Ween_, to suspect.
+
+_Weet_, to wet.
+
+_Weird_, fate, destiny; proof, confirmation.
+
+_Weise_, beguile, attract.
+
+_Wersh_, insipid, tasteless.
+
+_Wha_, who, who?
+
+_Whalp_, a whelp.
+
+_Whang_, a thong, a large slice.
+
+_Whase_, whose.
+
+_Whaup_, a curlew.
+
+_Whaur_, where.
+
+_Wheen_, a number.
+
+_Whilk_, which.
+
+_Whilliwha_, to cheat, to influence, to cozen.
+
+_Whinger_, "a short hanger, used as a knife at meals, and as a sword in
+broils."
+
+_Whins_, furze.
+
+_Whisquer_, windy, blustering.
+
+_Whittle_, a knife.
+
+_Whupshaft_, a whip handle.
+
+_Wi'_, with.
+
+_Widdie_, a rope; a gallows.
+
+_Widdle_, to wriggle, bustle; to attain by violent exertion.
+
+_Wight_, courageous, stout.
+
+_Wimple_, a curl, an undulation.
+
+_Window-bole_, "the part of a cottage-window that is filled by a wooden
+blind, which may occasionally be opened."
+
+_Windlin_, a bottle of straw or hay.
+
+_Wink_, an instant, a twinkling.
+
+_Windlestrae_, a stalk of ryegrass.
+
+_Winna_, will not.
+
+_Wist_, wished.
+
+_Wisp_, to clean; to tie up with straw; a handful of straw.
+
+_Withershins_, the contrary direction.
+
+_Wizen_, weasand, the throat.
+
+_Woad_, mad.
+
+_Woo_, wool.
+
+_Woodie_, diminutive of wood.
+
+_Worry_, to strangle, to suffocate.
+
+_Wow_, the cry of a cat.
+
+_Wrang_, wrong, injury, hurt.
+
+_Wud_, mad.
+
+_Wuss_, to wish.
+
+_Wylie-coat_, a flannel vest.
+
+_Wyte_, to blame, to find fault with.
+
+
+_Yaird_, a yard, a kitchen garden.
+
+_Yeld_, barren.
+
+_Yer_, your.
+
+_Yerk_, to writhe, to start with pain.
+
+_Yeuky_, itchy.
+
+_Yewns_, "the refuse of grains blown away by the fanners."
+
+_Yirr_, to snarl like a dog.
+
+_Yokin_, the time that a horse should be in a cart.
+
+_Yoursel_, yourself.
+
+_Yowl_, to howl; the cry of a dog.
+
+_Yule_, Christmas.
+
+
+_Commercial Printing Company, Edinburgh._
+
+
+
+
+
+
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