Glossary for Robert Burns' Poemsa': all aft: often agley: aslant ; off the straight ane: one awa': away baith: both bickerin : hurrying; sometimes quarreling big: to build brattle: a short, rapid race canna: cannot cauld: cold coulter: ploughshare cozie, cozy: snug and warm cranreuch: hoar-frost daimen icker: an occasional ear of corn dribble: drizzle ; slaver e'e: eye foggage: moss, fog gae: to go hald, hal': hold ; possession housie: house laith: loath lane: lone lave: the rest; the lave: the others maun: must maunna: must not miss't, mist: missed monie, mony: many na, nae: no, not, but, than neathing, naithing: nothing pattle: a plough-spade rin: run sae: so sleekit: sleek; sly sma': small snell: bitter ; biting stibble: stubble thole: to suffer ; to endure thrave: twenty-four sheaves of corn, in two shocks wa': wall wad: would ; wager ; wed wee: little whyles: sometimes wi': with win': wind |