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The Pirate

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2017
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Peery, sharp-looking, disposed to examine narrowly.

Pixie, a fairy.

Pleugh, a plough.

Puir, poor.

Pye-holes, eye-holes.

Ranzelman, a constable.

Rape, a rope.

Reimkennar, one who knows mystic rhyme.

“Roose the ford,” judge of the ford.

Sae, so.

Sain, to bless.

Sair, sore.

Saunt, a saint.

Scald, a bard or minstrel.

Scat, a land-tax paid to the Crown.

“Sclate stane,” slate stone.

Scowries, young sea-gulls.

Sealgh, sealchie, a seal.

Shogh! (Gaelic), there!

Sic, siccan, such.

Siller, money.

Sillocks, the fry of the coal-fish.

Skelping, galloping.

Skeoe, a stone hut for drying fish.

Skeps, straw hives.

Skerry, a flat insulated rock.

Skirl, to scream.

Slade, slid.

Sombrero, a large straw hat worn by Spaniards.

Sorner, one who lives upon his friends.

Spae-women, fortune-tellers.

Spaed, foretold.

Speer, to ask, to inquire.

Speerings, inquiries.

Spring, a dance tune.

Stack, an insulated precipitous rock.

Staig, a young horse.

Suld, should.

Swatter, to swim quickly and awkwardly.

Swap, to exchange.

Swelchies, whirlpools.

Syne, since, ago.

Taen, taken.

“Taits of woo’,” locks of wool.

Tauld, told.

Thae, these, those.

Thairm, catgut.

Tint, lost.

Trow or Drow, a spirit or elf believed in by the Norse.

Ugsome, frightful.
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