_Common_; alluding to persons sharing at a _common_ table in College. As this was a privilege enjoyed by special favour, "_To be in one's common_" is to be indebted to, under obligation to. 42, 52, 157, 252, etc. --"_To quit commons_" (214); to be freed from obligation by requiting the person. In 275 and 285, "_It is ill my common_" seems to mean, It ill becomes me, having no right.
_Communion_; the dispensing of the Lord's Supper. 14, 20, 25, etc.
_Companionry_; companionship. 147, 280. --The termination "ry" marks plurality in old English.
_Compear_; appear judicially, at the bar. 3, etc.
_Compearance_; the act of appearing in court in obedience to a citation.
_Compose_; compromise. 357. --_Composition_, in same sense.
_Comprize_; to arrest by a writ; attach by a legal process. 130, 160, 171. Seize for debt. 184, 206, etc.
_Concional._ 179.--See _note_.
_Concredit_; entrust. 260. Used often by Dickson on Job.
_Conquest_; written also _conquess_; acquisition, made not by inheritance but by purchase and exertion. 2, 54, 79, 182, 190, 191. --"The young heir knows not how hard the conquest was to his poor father" (Sermon at Anwoth on Zech. xi. 9).
_Conscionable_; according to conscience, reasonable, just. 365.
_Considerable_; worthy of consideration or regard. 321, 331.
_Construct_; for construe. 361, etc.
_Contestation_; strife. 189.
_Contrair_; adversary, contrary to. 6.
_Convoy_; to accompany a friend on the way. 210, 230, 231.
_Couchers_; cowards; or rather lazy fellows. Fr., _coucher_, to lie down. 251.
_Count_; to lay the count. 289. To settle, balance.
_Country_, in opposition to city; common, in contrast to fine. 153, 353.
_Coup_; to upset, overturn. 120.
_Court._ "_No great court_;" no influence. 78, 141, 148, 151, 158, 183, etc. --"_To be in court_," in favour. See "Sermons."
_Cow_; to cut out, eat up, carve (Fr., _couper_). 170, 178.
_Cripple_; halting. 258.
_Crook_; to walk crookedly, lamely; halt. 233, 299.
_Cry down_; depreciate, cause to lose good name. 280. --As a Noun. 289. --"_Cry_," proclamation, 289.
_Cuff_; a blow with the hand. 130.
_Cumber_; trouble. 196.--Adj., "cumbersome." 292.
_Daft_; foolish, crazy. 93, 285.--"A daft young heir" (Sermon on Zech. xi. 9).
_Dainty_; that has in it something fine, 301.
_Dawted_; made a favourite, petted. 89, 98, 166. --"_Dawted Davie_;" a petted child. 110. --"Better be God's sons than the world's dawties" (Sermon on Isa. xlix. 1).
_Daylight_; note in 315.
_Dead_; in the expression, "_Dead-sweer_," thoroughly lazy; as incapable of moving as one dead. 105.
_Deaf nuts_; no kernel in them. 138.
_Dear_; where provision is sold at a high price. 84.
_Deave_, from _deaf_; to make deaf; distract. 286.
_Decore_; to adorn. 42.--(Lat., _decorus_.)
_Decourt_; to discard, send out of court. 188, 197, 284.
_Decreet_; a judicial sentence. 3, 12, 132, etc.
_Depone_; state as a witness. 180.
_Depursement_; same as disbursement. 59. --_Q.d._, taking out of the purse, or _bourse_ (291).
_Dew_; a Verb; to moisten. 333.
_Din_; noise. 38, 59, 100, 155, 249, 282, 325.
_Ding_; knock in with violence. 248.
_Dint_; the stroke, or force. 332. --Zachary Boyd speaks of "The dint of God's judgments."
_Dispone_; make over. 19, 261.
_Disrespective_; disrespectful. 300. --See _Respective_.
_Ditty_, or _Dittay_; indictment, ground of accusation. 12, 44, 180, 233.
_Do._ "_To do for_;" to act for; make effort for; accomplish a thing. 93, 116, 135, 162, 206, 228, 244.--See Ps. cix. 21.
_Dool-like_; in mourning guise. 268. --_Dool_; grief; "Dolor." 272.
_Doomster_; pronouncer of sentence. 229.
_Dorts_; the sulks, offence taken. 23, 70, 89.
_Double_; a duplicate. 353.
_Dow_; to be able; can. 23, 260, etc. --_Dought_ is the past tense. Hogg's "Queen's Wake" uses the perf.: "She turned away and _dought_ luck nae mair." So Letter 74, "dought."
_Draff-poke_; the beggar's bag, for carrying anything put in. 249. --_Draff_; a useless thing; "draught," Matt. xv. 17. "Corruption like a draff-poke at my heels" (Eliz. West).
_Draught_; plans drawn out and sketched. 14.
_Draw_; in the sense of "_remove_;" table drawn. 146. In Lady Montague's Letters, "drawing-room, or _withdrawing_ room, as they now say."
_Draw by_; draw aside. 11.
_Draw-knot_; a slip-knot, easily loosened. 51.
_Dreary_; sad. 87.
_Drink over the board_; renounce.
_Drink-silver_; gift, or token of regard for kindness shown or service done, --a gift to servants. 119. --_Drink-money_, 277; the same.
_Drouthy_; from "drought;" very dry. 256.
_Drumbled_; made muddy; troubled water. 153.
_Dry_; reserved, backward. 181, 182, 187, 206, etc.
_Dumps_; bad humour. 187.
_Dwine_; to pine away. 85, 169, etc.
_Dyke_; a wall. 194, 276, etc.
_Dyvour_; a debtor; sometimes a bankrupt --Fr., "_Devoir_."
_Earnest_; the foretaste. 179.
_Ease-room_; a room for pleasure or repose. 5, 247, 311.
_Ebb_, Adj.; shallow, like tide going back. 94, 120, etc. --_Ebbness._ 175.