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Leighton, Revised by Alexander

"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV."

_ bespattered with mud.
JAW, JAWE, _s._ a wave; coarse raillery.
JEDDART, _s._ Jedburgh, a town of Roxburghshire.
JEDDART-JUSTICE, _s._ a legal trial after punishment has
been inflicted on the accused.
_To_ JEE, _v. n._ to move to one side.
_To_ JELOUSE, _v. n._ to suspect.
JENNY, _s._ Jess.
JIFFIE, _s._ a moment.
JILLET, _s._ a giddy girl.
JIMP, _s._ neat, slender.
JINK, _v. n._ the act of one eluding another.
JO, JOE, _s._ a sweetheart.
JOCK, JOCKIE, _s._ John.
JOCKTELEG, _s._ a clasp knife; a folding knife.
_To_ JOGILL, _v. n._ to jog; to move from side to
side.
JOG-TROT, _s._. to trot at a slow rate on horseback;
anything done in a slow manner.
_To_ JOUK, _v. n._ to bend down the body with a quick
motion so as either to elude the sight or a blow.
JOUKRY-PAWKRY, _s._ trickery; juggling.
JUGGS, JOUGS, JUGGES, _s. pl._ a kind of pillory, used on
the Borders, whereby criminals were fastened to a post on the
wall, with their necks enveloped in an iron collar.
JUPE, _s._ a kind of short mantle for a female.

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KAIL, KALE, _s._ common colewort.
KAIL-BROSE, _s._ raw meal placed in a basin with boiling
broth poured over it, and then stirred all together.
KAIL-RUNT, _s._ stem of colewort.
KAIM, _s._ a comb.
KAR-HANDED, _adj.


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