Chapter XVI

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From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

on the subject of; concerning

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

in actual fact

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

later than; following

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

Having no one else present.

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

surrounded by; in the company of

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

used of a single unit or thing; not two or more

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

completing its life cycle within a year

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

in or to or toward a former location

From this reading O goodwife, it wad be a great thief that wad run awa’ wi’ a barn on his back I wonder ye let it stand out all night: Hute awa’ ye daft body, how can we get it in, ke awa’ chapman ye’re joking me now.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

an official prohibition or edict against something

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

the estate of a baron

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

the past participle of “be”

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

earlier than; in front of

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

inflected form of “begin” — take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

the -ing form of “be”

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

the supreme effort one can make

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

in the space, time, or range separating two things

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

on the far side of; further than

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

plural of “blanket” — bedding that keeps a person warm in bed

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)

From this reading O goodwife, it wad be a great thief that wad run awa’ wi’ a barn on his back I wonder ye let it stand out all night: Hute awa’ ye daft body, how can we get it in, ke awa’ chapman ye’re joking me now.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

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From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

showing who or what does the action

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

past form of “call” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

to be able to, or to be allowed to

From this reading O goodwife, it wad be a great thief that wad run awa’ wi’ a barn on his back I wonder ye let it stand out all night: Hute awa’ ye daft body, how can we get it in, ke awa’ chapman ye’re joking me now.

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From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845)

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

possessive form of “chapman” — United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845)

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

applying to ordinary citizens as contrasted with the military

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

a subordinate who performs an important but routine function

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

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From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

brought together in one place

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

several things grouped together or considered as a whole

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

plural of “come” — the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

the act of drawing spatially closer to something

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

carefully weighed

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

From this reading O goodwife, it wad be a great thief that wad run awa’ wi’ a barn on his back I wonder ye let it stand out all night: Hute awa’ ye daft body, how can we get it in, ke awa’ chapman ye’re joking me now.

act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

plural of “dish” — a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

turn aside; turn away from

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

having finished or arrived at completion

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

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From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

all the members of a group, with none left out

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

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From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

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From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

possessive form of “farmer” — a person who operates a farm

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

more distant in especially space or time

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

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From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “a”; a small but indefinite number

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

plural of “fill” — a quantity sufficient to satisfy

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

start firing a weapon

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

at a previous time

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

containing as much or as many as is possible or normal

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

plural of “give” — the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

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From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986)

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

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From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

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From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

(with “in”) guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

past form of “happen” — come to pass

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

plural of “hill” — a local and well-defined elevation of the land

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

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From this reading O goodwife, it wad be a great thief that wad run awa’ wi’ a barn on his back I wonder ye let it stand out all night: Hute awa’ ye daft body, how can we get it in, ke awa’ chapman ye’re joking me now.

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From this reading O goodwife, it wad be a great thief that wad run awa’ wi’ a barn on his back I wonder ye let it stand out all night: Hute awa’ ye daft body, how can we get it in, ke awa’ chapman ye’re joking me now.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

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From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

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From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

on condition that; in the event that

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

in truth (often tends to intensify)

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

moving to the inside of something

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

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From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

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From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

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From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

characterized by jokes and good humor

From this reading O goodwife, it wad be a great thief that wad run awa’ wi’ a barn on his back I wonder ye let it stand out all night: Hute awa’ ye daft body, how can we get it in, ke awa’ chapman ye’re joking me now.

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From this reading O goodwife, it wad be a great thief that wad run awa’ wi’ a barn on his back I wonder ye let it stand out all night: Hute awa’ ye daft body, how can we get it in, ke awa’ chapman ye’re joking me now.

spin, wind, or twist together

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

a boy or man

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

plural of “lad” — a boy or man

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

immediately past

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

the sound of laughing

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

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From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

put into a certain place or abstract location

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

the act of departing

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

time available for ease and relaxation

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker

From this reading O goodwife, it wad be a great thief that wad run awa’ wi’ a barn on his back I wonder ye let it stand out all night: Hute awa’ ye daft body, how can we get it in, ke awa’ chapman ye’re joking me now.

past form of “lodge” — be a lodger; stay temporarily

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

structures collectively in which people are housed

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

of or befitting a lord

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

a compact mass

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

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From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

engage in

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

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From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

the time period between dawn and noon

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

a Scottish unit of liquid measure equal to 0.9 United States pint

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

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From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

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From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

near in time or place or relationship

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

information about recent and important events

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

immediately following in time or order

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

not any; not one

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events

From this reading O goodwife, it wad be a great thief that wad run awa’ wi’ a barn on his back I wonder ye let it stand out all night: Hute awa’ ye daft body, how can we get it in, ke awa’ chapman ye’re joking me now.

a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

throughout a period of time

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

past form of “offer” — make available or accessible, provide or furnish

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

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From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

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From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

having a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

belonging to the speaker and others

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

not allowed to continue to bat or run

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

above and across; more than

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

have ownership or possession of

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

arrange in a container

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

a set of two similar things considered as a unit

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

give money, usually in exchange for goods or services

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

plural of “pin” — a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

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From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

(baseball) the person who does the pitching

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

a point located with respect to surface features of some region

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

experiencing or manifesting pleasure

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

more desirable than another

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

put into a certain place or abstract location

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

past form of “refuse” — show unwillingness towards

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

To recall to mind.

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

not move; be in a resting position

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time

From this reading O goodwife, it wad be a great thief that wad run awa’ wi’ a barn on his back I wonder ye let it stand out all night: Hute awa’ ye daft body, how can we get it in, ke awa’ chapman ye’re joking me now.

(of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

plural of “sack” — a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

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From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

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From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

being the one previously mentioned or spoken of

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

(Old Testament) the first king of the Israelites who defended Israel against many enemies (especially the Philistines)

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

express in words

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

a general conscious awareness

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

put into a certain place or abstract location

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

be seated

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

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From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

a male human offspring

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

in the near future

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

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From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

characterized by dignity and propriety

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

be standing; be upright

From this reading O goodwife, it wad be a great thief that wad run awa’ wi’ a barn on his back I wonder ye let it stand out all night: Hute awa’ ye daft body, how can we get it in, ke awa’ chapman ye’re joking me now.

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From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

plural of “story” — a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

of considerable importance, size, or worth

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

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From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

a small amount of liquid food

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

a light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

a detailed critical inspection

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

inflected form of “swear” — utter obscenities or profanities

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

bound by or as if by an oath

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

carry out

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

plural of “take” — the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

express in words

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

disclosing unintentionally something concealed

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

past form of “thank” — express gratitude or show appreciation to

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

an acknowledgment of appreciation

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

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From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

in or at that place or location

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it

From this reading O goodwife, it wad be a great thief that wad run awa’ wi’ a barn on his back I wonder ye let it stand out all night: Hute awa’ ye daft body, how can we get it in, ke awa’ chapman ye’re joking me now.

Having little thickness or extent.

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

judge or regard; look upon; judge

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

plural of “think” — an instance of deliberate thinking

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

from one end or side of something to the other

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

up to a particular time

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

an instance or single occasion for some event

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

plural of “ti” — a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

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From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

inflected form of “take” — carry out

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

in the direction of

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

familiar with many parts of the world

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

consistent with fact or reality; not false

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary)

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

moved around an axis or center

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

not married or related to the unmarried state

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

up to a particular time

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

precisely as stated

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

compress into a wad

From this reading O goodwife, it wad be a great thief that wad run awa’ wi’ a barn on his back I wonder ye let it stand out all night: Hute awa’ ye daft body, how can we get it in, ke awa’ chapman ye’re joking me now.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

filled with water

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

the speaker together with one or more other people

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

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From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

accept gladly

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

inflected form of “go” — change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

the countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North America and South America

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

used to ask for information about something

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

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From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

plural of “wheel” — a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines)

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

at the time that

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

in or at the place that

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

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From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

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From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

a midwestern state in north central United States

From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

a married woman; a man's partner in marriage

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

a female sorcerer or magician

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

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From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

in the company of; together with

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

an adult female person (as opposed to a man)

From this reading Witch here or witch there, said the wife, swearing by her saul, and that was nae banning, she said they’ll be good substantial meat, a’ what say ye chapman? indeed goodwife, said I, sowens is but saft meat at the best; but if ye make them thick enough, and put a good lump of butter in them, they’ll do very well for a supper: I true sae lad, said she, ye hae some sense; so the old woman put on the pot with her sowens, and went to milk her cows, leaving me to steer; the goodman her son, as soon as she went out, took a great cog full of water and put it into the pot amongst the sowens, and then went out of the house, and left me alone: I considered what sort of a pish the bed supper I was to get if I staid there, I thought to set out, but takes up the pitcher with water, and fills up the pot until it was running over, and then takes up my pack and comes about a mile farther that night, leaving the honest woman and her son, to sup their watery witch’t sowens at their own leisure.

the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising

From this reading O goodwife, it wad be a great thief that wad run awa’ wi’ a barn on his back I wonder ye let it stand out all night: Hute awa’ ye daft body, how can we get it in, ke awa’ chapman ye’re joking me now.

used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

an old word for “you”, speaking to more than one person

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?

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From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

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From this reading So I went to the barn and lay till next morning, about Chapman’s rising time, when pottage was ready, and then gives the wife a fine cotton lace and a few pins, which pleased her so well, that she went through the cogs and collected about a mutchkin of pottage for me, for which I thanked her: “Awat well lad, said she, an ye be coming buy ony time, ye’s be welcome to a night o’ our barn, for ye hae na steal’d naething,” thanks to you goodwife, said I, that’s very fair; “Indeed lad ’tis no every ane we’ll trust wi’ our new barn, farfore sud we?”

the person or people being spoken to

From this reading I then turned towards the east, through a place called Slamanen, and was lodged one night near a place called Tod’s bughts, where there was a boul-horn’d goodwife, but a very civil goodman, when I went in, she took up a dish from the dog wherein was a few he had left, and with a collection more from other cogs, she offered them to me, which I refused, ’m, said she, ye’re a lordly sort of a chapman indeed; so I began to divert the goodman, by telling him a deal of fine stories to make him laugh, but could not get near the fire, at last said, O goodwife, I’ll tell you news; ay, chapman, what’s that, said she? indeed my feet’s very cauld, said I, whereat they all laught but the goodwife, she gloom’d until the rest was done, and then took a laugh at it herself: So the goodman ordered the Johnies, Jamies and Jennies with their wheels to sit about; then I was set beyond the fire, and preferred to steer their sowens, but when they were ready and put up in dishes, the goodwife order’d one of the lads to take a pair of old blankets and two sacks, and shew me where I was to ly in the barn: Ho, ho, thinks I, there’s no supper for me, but I’ll remember this, to pay her stock and annual.

(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth

From this reading I travelled then west by Falkirk, by the foot of the great hills; and one night after I had got lodging in a farmer’s house, there happened a contest between the goodman and his mother, he being a young man unmarried, as I understood, and formerly their sowens had been that thin, so the goodman being a sworn birley-man[89] of that barony, came to survey the sowens before they went on the fire, and actually swore they were o’er thin, and she swore by her conscience they would be thick enough if ill hands and ill een[90] baed awa’ from them: A sweet be here mither, said he, do ye think that I’m a witch?