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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 wherefore came she not with you? Think you the Clan Quhele have no cailliachs as active as old Dorothy, whose hand has warmed my haffits before now, to wait upon the daughter of their chieftain's master?" "Again I thank you," said the glover, "and doubt neither your power nor your will to protect my daughter, as well as myself.
Be it from constitution; be it, as our Highland cailliachs will say, from the milk of the white doe; be it from my peaceful education and the experience of your strict restraint; be it, as you think, from an overheated fancy, which paints danger yet more dangerous and ghastly than it is in reality, I cannot tell.
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