_Pinning_; a small stone to fill up a crevice. 211, 239. In a sermon on Zech. xi. 19 he says: "Would they give Christ no room? Might they not have made Him _a pinning_?" R. Blair's "Life" (p. 115). "Weak _pinnings_ are very useful in building a wall; and so are _graces_, though they are not the foundation."
_Playmaker_; director of the play. 70.
_Plea_; a quarrel between parties. 240, etc.
_Plenishing_; furniture, possessions. 4, 133, 258. The Verb, fill. 247, 250, 326.
_Ply_; a fold or turn. Verb; to ply, applied to a ship. 95, 105, 152.
_Poind_; to distrain, make seizure of goods. 160. "Drive the poind" is to drive away the cattle thus seized.
_Point_; to fill up crevices in a wall with lime and little stones. 299.
_Port_; gate. 241, 336, 339. --"He went out at the ports, bearing His cross." Sermon on Heb. xii.
_Pose_; a hoard, store. 206. --In a sermon by Rutherford, we find the "_miser's hoard_" called "the wretch's pose."
_Prevent_; anticipate. 297. Be first in acting.
_Prig_; to chaffer or higgle about a thing. 21, 81.
_Proctor-fee._ 285. A fee to the procurator, one who manages a cause, paid when the suit is ended.
_Professor_; in the sense of confessing or professing the faith. 105, 284, 292, 304.
_Propine_; Noun and Verb; hold out a gift, to present. 37, 88, 130, 165. Used as a Noun, 29.
_Put_; to "put" as a ram, push, help. --"_Put by_;" to put away from, cause to pass by. 111. --"_Put it down_;" make it more easily swallowed. 62. --"_Put off_;" spend time. 162. Also, put aside as finished. 190. --"_Put to_;" apply; also to shut. 97, 275. --"_Put upon_;" urge, to set on one in the way of importunity. 7, 12. --To cause difficulty. 319. --"_Put up_;" push up. 29.
_Quarrelous_; fault-finding, provoking to quarrels. 184, 189, 239. --He writes it "_querulous_" in his "Christ Dying," p. 179: "Querulous love-motions against the reality of Christ's love."
_Quick_; alive. 61, 265.
_Quit_; to set one free from. 224, 268.
_Ragged_; torn and incomplete. 151.
_Ravel_; disorderly twisting of threads. 196.
_Reckon_; consider of importance. 230, 233.
_Red_, Adj., in the phrase, "_red hunger_," intensive. 213. --"_Red war_," and "_red wet_," means soaked in wet.
_Redd up_; to clear up, settle. 34, 38, 48, 136, etc.
_Refreshful_; full of refreshment. 333.
_Registrate_; to register, to protest. 85, 249. --See _note_.
_Repair_; make amends to. 312.
_Resemble_; to represent. 3.
_Respective_; to each individual. 136. --Is this Sibbs' meaning, "Every saint has something lovely and respective in him" (on 2 Cor. i. 1)? But, also, Sibbs uses it for _respectful_: "Dependency is always very respective." And so Ferguson on Col. iii. 22: "Servants respective to their masters." --See _Disrespective_. Letters 321, 360.
_Responsal_; solvent, able to pay. 231.
_Rest_; in the Latin sense, "_remains_." 244.
_Reverence_; _q.d._ rendering homage, power. 30, 43, 233, 298. --"_I will not be in your reverence_" was a phrase for, "I will not submit to your dictation."
_Reversion_; the right held by some one to the future possession of an estate. 148.
_Rid_ (see _Redd_); annihilate. Participle, put away. 133.
_Ridable_; can be crossed on horseback. 160.
_Rifle_; same as _ruffle_. 158.
_Rift_; a rent, crack. 241, 284. --Verb, to vomit, or come back with violent retching. 72. --_Rifty_; broken, full of rents. 120.
_Right_, Verb; to put right. 196.
_Rights_; title-deeds. 77.
_Rink_; the ring, or race-course. 122, 276, 286.
_Ripe_; to examine and search carefully. Connected with "rip up." 203.
_Rive_; rend, tear; break up. 16, 50, 72, etc.
_Rooftree_; the beam that runs across the roof, and supports the rafters. 270.
_Room_; place. 22, etc.
_Round_; whisper or sing in the ear. (German, _raunen_.) 293.
_Roup_; set up to sale by action. 37, 131, 199, etc.
_Rovers_; "at rovers," at random. 182.
_Roving_; wandering through excitement of mind, raving. 161.
_Rub_; trouble. 323.
_Rue_; to repent, be sorry, 115. --"_Rue upon_;" take pity. 21, 69, 186, etc.
_Run by_; run past. 226.
_Rush_; to push forward with violence. 270. --See _note_.
_Sad_; settled, solid, real. 62, 75, 99, 163, 191, 203. --It is from old English "_set_," settled down. Wickliffe's Bible, Rom. xv. 1: "We that are _sadder_ men" (stronger). Pilkington on Neh. iv.: "A good builder digs down to the _sad_ earth."
_Salt_; bitter, unpleasant, sarcastic. 115. --In his "Christ Dying," p. 690, he says: "A violent death hath a _salter_ bite."
_Sanded_; driven on the sands. 217.
_Scad_; the red tinge of a burn. "_Scadded_ and burnt in the furnace" (Rutherford's "Cov. of Life," p. 69). The tinge given by reflected light. 291. It is connected with "_scald_."
_Scaur_, or _scar_; to boggle, take fright. 70, 119, 183, etc.
_School-heads_; worldly wise. 337.
_Second_, Noun and Verb; one who helps. --Often used by Lord Kenmure in "Last Speeches." 2, 91, 247.
_Seen-in_; experienced in a matter. 86.