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A custodian. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark. [Scot.]

A low stool [Scot.]

To act foolishly; to be foolish or sportive; to toy. [Scot.] Jamieson.

lirious; insance; as, he has gone daft. Let us think no more of this daft business Sir W. Scott.

mp; to moisten. The warrior's very plume, I say, Was daggled by the dashing spray. Sir W. Scott.

In Scott's "Guy Mannering", a Border farmer of eccentric but fine character, who owns two terriers claimed to be the progenitors of the Dandie Dinmont terriers.

y; as, to dangle the feet. And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume. Sir W. Scott.

; variegated; as, a dapple horse. Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. Sir W. Scott.

Manacles; handcuffs. [Cant] Jem Clink will fetch you the darbies. Sir W. Scott.

rk; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or less than that of a day. [Local, Eng. & Scott]

Twilight; gloaming. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Wright.

The chairman of an incorporated company. [Scot.]

sident of the incorporation of advocates in Edinburgh. -- Dean of guild, a magistrate of Scotch burghs, formerly, and still, in some burghs, chosen by the Guildry, whose duty is to superintend the erection of new buildings and see that they conform to the law. -- Dean of a monastery, Monastic dean, a monastic superio…

See Dais. [Scot.]

To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen. [Scot.]

Land or Ground, a tract of land between the Esk and the Sark, claimed by both England and Scotland; the Batable Ground.

se of religion was debated with the same ardor in Spain as on the plains of Palestine. Prescott.

d. Jenyns. The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by this last effort. Sir W. Scott.

r other confined spot, into open ground; to issue. Battalions debouching on the plain. Prescott.