Raxed strained, stretched
Reconfort to strengthen or inspire with new courage or confidence
Regent (1) in the ancient Scottish universities, a master who took a class of students through the full four-year course of instruction leading to the degree of Master of Arts
(2) Someone appointed to rule during the minority of a monarch: the regent Morton
Ribald a waster; a fornicator
Ripples a disease of the back and loins, believed to result from sexual excess
Rummle to rumble
Sair injured [of body part]; severe, harsh, extreme(ly) or excessive(ly)
Salat a salad vegetable
Sark an undershirt or shift
Scabbart scabbard or sheath; vagina
Scaffery the act of obtaining benefit by fraud
Scathless unharmed
Scolage school or college fees
Scudlar lowest rank of servant; drudge
Scummer to defecate; hence ‘scummer pan’: a chamber
pot
Sea-maw the common gull
Secretar a trusted scribe or servant; a confidential clerk
Selkie a seal
Serkinet a small jerkin or bodice
Shairds small pieces or fragments
Shakebuckler a nickname for a serving man who is easily antagonised
Shotill a drawer or compartment
Sic such
Sin since, considering that
Sink a sewer, cesspit or drain
Skeich timid, shy
Skift a small light boat
Skite /skitter to defile with excrement
Slaffert a slap, box on the ear
Sledger a sledgehammer
Slops wide, baggy breeches fashionable in the late 16th century
Soddins scraps of boiled meat; food that has been boiled
Sops bread soaked in milk or wine
Speir to make inquiries
Speke speech, way of expression
Spinkes prickles, spines
Squire to escort
Steir the pot stir the pot; stir up; copulate
Stew a stench, a blast of stinking air; a cloud of filth or dust
Stomachat offended, resentful, put out
Stoup a flagon or pitcher
Stour (rb) to spray
Stour a cloud of dust
Strack struck
Stummar to stumble or stammer
Subtle ingenious or clever
Succar candies sweets made from clarified sugar
Succats candied fruits
Swak to dash, hurl violently
Swyfing copulating
Tam Lin protagonist of the ballad by Thomas the Rhymer, who rescued his true love from the fairy queen
Tertians students in their third year
Thole suffer, bear patiently
Thrang crowded
Thrawe a throe or spasm
Thrist (1) a pang or throe, a stabbing sensation, thrust
(2) thirst
Thristing jostling, pushing
Ticket of account a bill of expenses
Tippet a narrow strip of cloth worn across the shoulders; the pennant of an academic hood
Traffick to do business with, negotiate
Trance a passageway; the stone trance: the entrance to St Leonard’s College
Trattle to prattle
Trauchled exhausted
Trow-shot struck by a fairy dart [Trow = troll]
Trucour a traitour
Tulchan Gaelic word for a straw calf, used to coax a cow into giving up its milk. Disparaging name for titular bishops after the Reformation
Unco uncouth; strange, unfamiliar, unknown; extraordinary
Vennel a narrow lane or thoroughfare
Visitor an inspector or examiner; a physician appointed to establish the cause of suspicious or unnatural deaths. Giles Locke was appointed Visitor of St Andrews at the end of Fate & Fortune
Wabbit feeble, weak
Wallowed withered
Wam the stomach
Wammil to feel sick
Ward custody, imprisonment
Warkmen workmen
Wattir-kaill cabbage soup made without meat
Wha devil what devil! What the devil!
Wrabil to wriggle
Wrackful vindictive, harsh or cruel, vengeful, destructive
Wynd a narrow street or alley
Yett a gate
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