Chapter 19

_Whilliwha_, to cheat, to influence, to cozen.

_Whinger_, "a short hanger, used as a knife at meals, and as a sword in broils."

_Whins_, furze.

_Whisquer_, windy, blustering.

_Whittle_, a knife.

_Whupshaft_, a whip handle.

_Wi'_, with.

_Widdie_, a rope; a gallows.

_Widdle_, to wriggle, bustle; to attain by violent exertion.

_Wight_, courageous, stout.

_Wimple_, a curl, an undulation.

_Window-bole_, "the part of a cottage-window that is filled by a wooden blind, which may occasionally be opened."

_Windlin_, a bottle of straw or hay.

_Wink_, an instant, a twinkling.

_Windlestrae_, a stalk of ryegrass.

_Winna_, will not.

_Wist_, wished.

_Wisp_, to clean; to tie up with straw; a handful of straw.

_Withershins_, the contrary direction.

_Wizen_, weasand, the throat.

_Woad_, mad.

_Woo_, wool.

_Woodie_, diminutive of wood.

_Worry_, to strangle, to suffocate.

_Wow_, the cry of a cat.

_Wrang_, wrong, injury, hurt.

_Wud_, mad.

_Wuss_, to wish.

_Wylie-coat_, a flannel vest.

_Wyte_, to blame, to find fault with.

_Yaird_, a yard, a kitchen garden.

_Yeld_, barren.

_Yer_, your.

_Yerk_, to writhe, to start with pain.

_Yeuky_, itchy.

_Yewns_, "the refuse of grains blown away by the fanners."

_Yirr_, to snarl like a dog.

_Yokin_, the time that a horse should be in a cart.

_Yoursel_, yourself.

_Yowl_, to howl; the cry of a dog.

_Yule_, Christmas.

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End of Project Gutenberg's The Proverbs of Scotland, by Alexander Hislop