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Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century

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2017
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to a woman,’ refutation of a man’s argument by an example

drawn from his own conduct.

ARIES, earnest-money, a gift.

ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS, art is long, life short.

ARS MEDENDI, art of medicine.

APPROBATE, approve.

ATLANTES, a character in ORLANDO FURIOSO.

AULD REEKIE, Edinburgh.

ADVOCATO DEL DIABOLO, lit. ‘the devil’s advocate’, one whose duty

it is to oppose the canonization of a person on whose behalf

claims to sanctity are made.

AWSOME, awful, fearful.

BACK-GANGING, behind hand in paying.

BACKSPAUL, the back of the shoulder.

BALLANT, a ballad, a fable.

BANNOCK, a flat, round cake.

BARLEY-BROO, barley-broth.

BARON-OFFICER, the magistrate’s officer in a burgh of barony.

BARTIZAN, a small overhanging turret, the battlements.

BEAUFET, cupboard.

BEAVER, the lower part of the helmet.

BEIN, comfortable.

BELISARIUS, a general of the Eastern Empire ungratefully treated

by the Emperor Justinian.

BENEDICTE, bless you.

BETIMES THE MORN, early in the morning.

BICKER, a wooden vessel for holding drink; a quarrel.

BILLIE, a term of familiarity, comrade.

BIRKIE, a smart fellow.

BIRLING, merry-making.

BIT, small.

BLATE, shy, bashful.

BLAWING, flattering.

BLEEZING, bragging.

BLUE-CAP, a Scotsman.

BOGLE, a ghost, a scarecrow.

BON VIVANTS, lovers of good living.

BONA ROBA, a showy wanton.

BONUS SOCIUS, good comrade.

BORREL, common, rude.

BRAID, broad.

BRASH, a sudden storm, an attack.

BRATTLE, a clattering noise, as of a horse going at full speed.

BRAW, brave, fine.

BRENT BROO, high brow.

BROCARD, maxim.

BROSE, oatmeal which has had boiling water poured upon it.

BROWN, a famous landscape gardener.

BROWST, a brewing.

BUCEPHALUS, the favourite horse of Alexander the Great.

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