_Take up house_; enter on housekeeping. 250. --_I take myself_. 98. --_I retract my word._
_Taken up with_; occupied with. 185.
_Taking_; that is, attractive. 305. South's sermons has it.
_Tarrow_; to be pettish at, reluctant. 23, 118.
_Tell_; count up. 85, 167, 241, 249, 265. --"_Telling_;" something to mark down. 209.
_Testificate_; certificate, testimony to character. 149.
_That_; often for "so;" _e.g. that_ much. 41, 59, 85, 293.
_Then_; in that case. 24, 39, 220, 238, 241. --"_Or then_;" if that be not so, otherwise. 43, 46, 72, 323.
_Thereanent_; regarding this. 110.
_Thereaway_; to or in that quarter. 133.
_Therefor_; on account of this. 34. --See _note_.
_Thick_; a crowd or throng. 209, 225, 251. --Adjective; very familiar with one. 94, 128.
_Thieves'-hole_; a prison. 178.
_Thin._ 223. --_Thin-skinned_; soft. 256.
_Think long._ 16, 207, 133, 151, etc. --See _Long_. --It is still common to write, "I think long after you."
_Threap_; to assert vehemently, over and over. 85.
_Thring_; to push in by force. 147, 226, 282.
_Throng_; the multitude and the busy part. 206. --_Thronging_; crowding in. 180, 206.
_Through other_; one thing blended with the other, promiscuously. 226, etc.
_Tig_; dally, toy with. 48. --Also a civil sort of begging, when a new-married person brought his cart to the house of friends, that they might put in something to his store.
_Timeous_; early, seasonable, opportune. 180, 212, 275. --So Knox uses it; and our metre version of Psalms, cxix. 148.
_Tine_; to lose. 182, 226, etc.
_To_; used for "in comparison of," in the phrase, "little to." 361.
_Tocher_; a marriage dowry. "Tocher-good." 265, 285.
_Toom_; quite empty; nothing in it. 138, 178, 188, etc.
_Topic-maxim_; a maxim for general use. 259, 260.
_Tops_; to be "on one's tops," to assault or oppose. 231. --"To tope" is to oppose. "He has continued all his days _on tops with_ God, and will not make peace with Him." Durham Sermon 54, Isa. liii.
_Totch_; a push. 183. --See _note_.
_Touches_; to "keep touches," 121, an English phrase for the exact performance of an engagement.
_Towe_; rope made of tow, a hauser. 196.
_Train_; to draw, entice. 30. --It is French, _trâiner_.
_Trance_; passage. Latin, _transitus_. 26.
_Tree_; for the _wood_ of a tree. 225. --As in sermon on Rev. xix.
_Trindle_; same as _trundle_. 107.
_Truant_; pretended, like boys' pretences for play. 181.
_Tryst_; to appoint a meeting at a certain place and time. Noun and Verb. 176, etc.
_Turnpike_; stair that winds. 300.
_Tutor_; to discipline. 282.
_Twin_; to separate. 82. --It is _q.d._ to make into two.
_Unco_; uncommon, strange. Same originally as _uncouth_, and so written very often. --Noun; _Unconess_; 179.
_Undercote_, or _undercoat_; fester _under the skin_ (_coat_ is "_cutis,_" skin). 66, 82, 151, 284. --Calderwood in his "History" uses this word, v. 658.
_Under-tools_; lesser tools. 311.
_Under-water_; bilge-water. 82, 86, 203, 284.
_Unfriend_; less than friendly. 178.
_Unheartsome_; sad. 277.
_Unlaw_; transgress the law; also, to fine for transgressing the law. 201.
_Unrid_, or _unred_. 133. --It is _q.d. unred-up_; the boundaries not fixed. --In A.S., _unrid_ is "disorderly."
_Upsun_; the sun above the horizon.
_Uptaking_; as a Noun, apprehension, 56, 275; as an Adjective, exhilarating, or exalting, 210.
_Vaccane_, or _vacanse_; vacation, holidays. 84.
_Vively_; in a lively manner, to the life. 4.
_Voyage_; journey. 226. --The French "voyage," from _via_.
_Wad-fee_; the sum paid in hiring, as a pledge of the person being engaged. --_Wad_ is a pledge. --See Wed.
_Wadset_; to pledge in mortgage, alienate by reversion. 79, 191, 201, 206, etc. --Noun, the money paid in hiring as a pledge of engagement. 182.
_Wager_; something hazarded. 220. A pledge. 170.
_Wair'd_, or _wared_. --See _Ware_.
_Wale_; to choose (Noun and Verb), select out of other articles. 39, 192, etc.
_Walkings_; weights of a clock. 199. --Possibly the _waggings_ of the pendulum, though some say it is the striking of the hour that "_waukens up_." It is connected with _motions_. 292, 342.
_Wandhand_; the hand that holds the rod, or whip, as the hand that guided the horse was the working hand. 186.
_Want_; to be destitute of. 95.
_Ward_; guard. 254.
_Ware_; to expend, use. 37, 104, 201, 228, etc.
_Warmly_; heart-warming. 227.
_Washen_; washed or whitened, with fair appearance. 167.
_Waster_, Adj.; prodigal, wasteful. 226.
_Watch-glass_; hour-glass. 276.
_Watered_; plated over. 206, 280. --"The watering will go off and leave nothing but dross" is a sentence in a sermon on Zech. xiii. 7.
_Wed_; a pledge or fee. Written also _wad_. --Our "wedding" is a derivative, signifying the security or pledge given by the parties.
_Weight_, or _wecht_; to put on a weight or burden, depress. 115, 159. In one of his sermons he says, "Death did not weight the martyrs. "--"_To bear weight_," 249, is to stand the weighing.