Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume XXIV Part 58

OUTSHOT, _s._ a projection.

OUTSPECKLE, _s._ a laughing-stock.

OUTSPOKEN, _s._ free of speech; undisguised in conversation or opinion.

OUTSTRIKING, s. an eruption.

OUTWAILE, OUTWYLE, _s._ the refuse.

_To_ OUTWAIR, _v. a._ to expend.

OUTWITH, _prep_, without; on the outer side or exterior; outwards; out from.

OVERLY, _adj._ careless.

OWKLY, _adj._ weekly.

OXTAR, OXTER, _s._ the armpit.

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PACKMAN, _s._ a pedlar.

PADDOCK-STOOL, _s._ a toad-stool; agaricus in general.

PAFFLE, _s._ a small landed estate.

PAFFLER, _s._ a farmer of a small estate.

_To_ PAIK, _v. a._. to beat; to drub.

PAIKER, _s. a causey-paiker_, a street-walker.

PAILIN, PAILING, _s._ a fence of stakes.

PAINCHES, _s._ tripe.

PALAVER, _s._ idle talk.

_To_ PALE, _v. a._ to make an incision in cheese to try its quality.

PALLACH, _s._ a porpoise; a l.u.s.ty person.

PAND, _s._ a pledge.

PAN-KAIL, _s._ broth made of cole-worts, thickened with oatmeal.

PANNEL, _s._ one brought to the bar of a court for trial.

PAP-O'-THE-Ha.s.s, s. uvula.

PAPE, PAIP, _s._ the pope.

PAPEJAY, PAPINGAY, _s._ a parrot.

PARITCH, PARRITCH, _s._ hasty-pudding; oatmeal and water boiled together.

PARROT-COAL, _s._ cannel coal which burns clearly.

PARTAN, _s._ the common edible crab.

PARTICATE, _s._ a rood of land.

PARTRICK, PATRICK, _s._ a partridge.

PAT, _pret_. of put.

_To_ PATTER, _s._ to mutter uninterruptedly.

PATTLE, PETTLE, _s._ a stick wherewith a ploughman clears away the earth which adheres to his plough.

PAUK, _s._ art; wile.

PAUKY, _adj._ sly; artful.

PAWMIE, _s._ a stroke on the hand with the ferula.

p.a.w.n, _s._ a narrow curtain fixed to the roof or bottom part of a bed.

PAY, _s._ a drubbing.

PAYS-EGGS, _s. pl._ eggs boiled in dye of various colours, and given to children to amuse themselves during Easter.

PEARIE, _s._ a pegtop in the shape of a pear.

PEARLIN, _s._ a species of thread lace.

_To_ PECH, _v. n._. to puff; to pant.

PEEL, PEIL, _s._ a place of strength; a Border tower.

_To_ PEENGE, PINGE, _v. n._ to whine; to complain.

PEESWEIP, PEEWEIP, _s._ the lapwing.

PEG, _s._ a stroke.