_Well_; a Noun for _weal_, welfare. 72, 202. --"_Well is me_;" it is good for me. 120, 222, 250, 257, etc. --"_Wellcome_;" come in an honest way. 162, 182.
_Well-wared_; well laid out. 104. --Well deserved. 203.
_Wersh_; saltless, insipid. 182.
_While_, or _whill_; till. 12, 24, 44, etc.
_Whiles_; at times. 102, 182.
_White_; the _white_ is the mark aimed at, the bull's eye. 194.
_Whiten._ 287. Like a stick from which the bark is stript.
_Whitsunday_; term day. 21.
"_Who but he?_" a non-such. 23. --See _note_.
_Why but?_ why object although? 295.
_Win_; reach, attain to. 21, 30. --"_Win away_;" to escape from. 6.
_Wind in_; get your way into. 297.
_Windlestrae_ or _windlestraw_; from _Windel_, to hoist about. Used in plaiting. A withered stalk of dog's-tail grass; metaphorically, a mere trifle. 63, 190, 192, 212. --In the "Life" of Pringle of Greenknow, a place is mentioned called "The Windlestraw Law." So Durham on Job, p. 285.
_Wit_; to know. Noun; wisdom, intelligence. 184, 282. --"_Wit's head_;" a wiseacre. 232, 235, 239, 249, 258.
_Wo_, an Adjective; sorrowful. 116, 178, 196. --Generally written "wae" by Scotch writers.
_Wombful_; bellyful. 225.
_Won goods_; goods already got and secured. 128.
_Work on_; it causes care. 230.
_Wrack_; ruin, wreck. 284.
_Wring_; squeeze out water; as Judges vi. 30. 300.
_Writ_; a writing in law. 59, 285, 359. --"_In write_;" by written paper. 359.
_Yoke_; yoke for work; set to, press in. 94, 119, 181, 202. --Noun, _yoking_, a setting to, contest, onset. 117. "He yoked to the Jews early" (sermon on Heb. xii. 1). So Durham on Isa. liii. 8.
_Yonder_; far off in the distance. 245. --"The yonder end."
[532] Apothecary in Edinburgh. See Livingstone's "Charact."
[533] In a sermon at Kirkcudbright on Rev. xix. 11, he introduces the courtiers saying to Daniel, "What need ye _make all the fields ado_ with your prayers?"