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'And that's a' your Whiggery, reechoed the Jacobite heroine; 'that's a' your Whiggery, and your presbytery, ye cut-lugged, graning carles! What! d' ye think the lads wi' the kilts will care for yer synods and yer presbyteries, and yer buttock-mail, and yer stool o' repentance?

BURD, bird, a term of familiarity. BURN, a brook. BUSKING, dress, decoration. BUTTOCK-MAIL, a fine for fornication. BYDAND, awaiting. CAILLIACHS, old women on whom devolved the duty of lamenting for the dead, which the Irish call keening. CALLANT, a young lad, a fine fellow. CANNY, prudent, skillful, lucky. CANTER, a canting, whining beggar. CANTRIP, a trick. CARLE, a churl, an old man.

'And that's a' your Whiggery, reechoed the Jacobite heroine; 'that's a' your Whiggery, and your presbytery, ye cut-lugged, graning carles! What! d' ye think the lads wi' the kilts will care for yer synods and yer presbyteries, and yer buttock-mail, and yer stool o' repentance?

'And that's a' your Whiggery, re-echoed the Jacobite heroine; 'that's a' your Whiggery, and your presbytery, ye cut-lugged, graning carles! What! d'ye think the lads wi' the kilts will care for yer synods and yer presbyteries, and yer buttock-mail, and yer stool o' repentance? Vengeance on the black face o't!

'And that's a' your Whiggery, reechoed the Jacobite heroine; 'that's a' your Whiggery, and your presbytery, ye cut-lugged, graning carles! What! d' ye think the lads wi' the kilts will care for yer synods and yer presbyteries, and yer buttock-mail, and yer stool o' repentance?