GLOSSARY |
burd: [Scots] a amiden; a damsel. |
claver: [Scots] v. to talk idle nonsense, to gossip, prate./ n.gossip, idle chatter. |
crupper: [Colonial American slang] a person's backside. |
doxy: [Colonial American slang] a prostitute. |
gillie: [Scots] also gilly a manservant in the Scottish Highlands. |
gyve: n. [ME. gyves, pl.] 1. a shackle, esp. for the legs; a fetter; --usually in plural. Archaic or Poetic 2. (v.t.) to shackle. Archaic or Poetic |
jay: 1. an impertinent character. 2. a stupid or gullible person. Slang |
keek: [Scots. / New England] to peep / a peep. |
smutch: A dark or dirty mark or stain; a smudge. |
spoor: 1. a track or trail, esp. that of a wild animal pursued as game. 2. (v.t., v.i.) to track by or follow a spoor. |
sublunary: earthly, "beneath the moon". |
ululame: [Mannyism] a cross between ululate + lamentation. (the werewolf, of the poem, is howling in lamentation for having killed its' mate. |