_Ill-washen_; dirty. 227, etc.
_Improbation_; action to prove forgery, or that the person had no right to what he claimed. 178.
_Incontinently_; immediately, as if unable to restrain himself. 241.
_Indent_ Its common English sense occurs in Letter 288, to set in corresponding notches. But also to sign a paper containing agreement to certain articles. 173. --Zachary Boyd's "Samson" has, "As I indented, so I'll undertake."
_Ingyne._ 64. --See _Engyne_.
_Inhibit_; forbid.
_Instant_; earnest. 16.
_Instruct of_; instruct concerning. 225.
_Instruments, to take_; to take documents from the hand of the proper party by way of attestation. 107, 110, 144, etc.
_Interdict_; forbid by positive injunction to do or use a thing for a time, to enter on possession.
_Into_; for in. 336. --Rollock (Lect. xlvii.): "When the Spirit is wrestling _into us_."
_Intromit_; intermeddle, a law phrase; handle. 82, 105.
_In-under_; close under. 260.
_Irresponsal_; not able to pay, insolvent. 104, 204.
_Jealousy_; suspicion. So the Adjective. 74, 144, 148, 152, etc.
_Jouk_; to bend down, in order to escape a storm or a stroke; to dissemble, compromise. 16, 181, 284.
_Kep_; intercept, catch when falling. 165.
_Kind_; nature. 276. --"Man doth _his kind_ in committing evil," says Trappe on Gen. vii. 21; that is, does what his nature leads to.
_Kindly_; what our kindred give us right to. 261. Also according to nature; natural. 66, 98, 102, 254. --In "Christ Dying" (p. 30) we find, "The life of Christ had infirmities _kindly_ to it."
_Kingly._ 55, 61, 281, 363; and used by him on his deathbed.
_Kinless_; who have no kindred. 250.
_Knot_; difficulty to be solved. 312. --Rollock (Lect. li.) speaks of "getting office with a knot" --a difficulty accompanying it.
_Knottiness_; full of knots. 287.
_Lair_; a bog. 110. "To lair" is to stick in the mire.
_Laird._--See _Goodman_.
_Lap_; the loose part or fold of a garment. 78.
_Laureation_; obtaining or conferring academic honours. 274.
_Law-biding._ 106, 231, 299.--See _Bide_.
_Law-burrows_; giving a pledge not to injure. --See _Burrows_. 61, 66, 163, 184, 275, etc.
_Lea_; an unploughed part of a field, where the grass grows. 75, 234.
_Lead._ In the phrase, "_Lead stones to a wall_;" convey them, _q.d._ by leading the horse and cart. 24.
_Leal_; honest, genuine, loyal. 182, 225.
_Learn_; in the sense of "to teach." 175, 199, 222.--(German, "_lehren_.")
_Leave_; dismissal from a situation. 277, 311.
_Leavings_; the overplus of the feast.
_Leck_; a leak. 130. --In Row's "History" (398) we find, "The ship being _leck_."
_Leel-come_; what has been got in an honest way. 182.
_Lee-side_; sheltered side. 115.
_Leme_; earthen; our "_loam_." Lat., "_limus_." 182. --In Row's "Hist." (260), "A leme pig" is an _earthen jug_. Rutherford in a sermon on Dan. vi. 26 speaks of the potter making a "leme vessel."
_Let_; to hinder. --"_To let in_," to admit. To let on. 182. To seem to notice.
_Lift_; part of a load. 298.
_Lightly_, a Verb; to trifle with. 201, 260, 272. Knox and Rollock use this word.
_Like_; same as _likely_; probable. 21, 267, 384. --"_The like of_;" such as. 92, 158, 275, 284, 336.
_Lippen_; to trust, entrust. 69, 182, 260.
_Lith_; a joint. --"The shoulder-blade _out of lith_." Sermon, 1634. The A.S. word for the joints of the body. 86, 167.
_Lone_; one's self, alone. 49, 162, 192, etc.
_Long._ "Think long;" to weary for. 14, 93, etc.
_Loof_; the palm of the hand. --Gaelic, "_lambh_." 77, 122.
_Look by_; neglect, look aside. 23.
_Loun_; a rogue, worthless fellow; _q.d._ low one. 116, 160, 232, 241.
_Love-blinks_; love-glances.
_Low_; of low stature. 236.
_Lucks-head_; chance of winning, prospect of success. 178, 182. Brown of Wamphray, p. 150, "Swan-Song."
_Lust_; to desire a thing. 226, 276.
_Lustred_; made to shine, 89, 117, 191. --Noun, 75, 260, 289, 295, 297, 298. A fair, shining look.
_Mail_; rent, tax. --"_Mail free_;" rent free. 29, 50, 284, 321.
_Mailing_; sometimes written "_mealing_;" a farm, for which rent is paid. 29, 50.
_Make_; to mould, turn to use. 145.
_Make on_; to make up by putting the fuel in order. 32.
_Make up with._ 247. Become friends with.
_Man_, a Verb; "to man the house," act as the goodman of the house, attending to visitors, etc. 142.
_March-boundary_; limit. 82, etc. --"March-stones;" 278. In his Treatise on Prayer, he calls Christ, as God-man, "the common march-stone."
_Market-sweet_ (like "eye-sweet"); pleasing to the frequenters of the market; suitable for sale, and so set up in open market. 213, 216, 237.
_Marrow_; a match, companion. 26, 133, 148, etc. --"Marrowless" occurs, 180. Unequalled; peerless.
_Mask_; to infuse. 287.
_Masterless_; owned of no one. 120.
_Mealing._ --See _Mailing_. 50.
_Mean_; to consider, reckon. 86, 250. Noun; resource, 257.
_Meikle_; much. "Meikle world's good," as much as having a world's good things. 165, 180, 225.
_Melancholious_; melancholy. 293.