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jesses, leather straps round the legs of a hawk.
jeux d'esprit, clever sayings.
joes, sweethearts.
joint-stool, low stool.
justice-air, assizes.

kail, kale, cabbage; broth made from greens.
kain, duty paid by a tenant to hislandlord in eggs, fowls, &c.
keeking-glass, looking-glass.
kelpy, a water-spirit.
ken, know; kend, known.
kenspeckle, peculiar, easily recognized.
kiln, oven.
kirn, churn.
knaveship, mill-dues paid to the knaves or servants.
knowe, knoll, hillock.
kyte, stomach.

laith, loath.
lamping, going with long steps.
lap, leaped.
lapis offensionis et petra scandali, a stone of offence, and a rock of stumbling.
lowing, tavern reckoning.
leaguer, to lie, to be in camp.
levin-bolt, lightning, a thunderbolt.
limmar, rogue, light woman.
lippy, fourth part of a peck.
lith, a joint, a limb.
loon, young man or young woman of doubtful character.
lucubrations, studies by candlelight.
lupus in fabula, the wolf in the fable.

manege, the art of training and managing horses.
mark, merk, a coin worth 13s. 4d. in England: in Scotland about 13d.
mart, a fatted cow; an animal slaughtered for winter use.
Martlemas, the feast of St. Martin, November 11.
mazer-dish, a drinking-vessel, or cup.
mea paupera régna, my poor domains.
meal-girnel, large chest for holding meal.
melder, as much meal as is ground at one time.
menseful, mannerly, mindful, modest.
mew, a cage for hawks.
minched collops, finely minced meat.
misdoubt, mistrusting.
misleard, ill-taught, ill-bred.
molendinar, of or belonging to a mill.
Molinara, maid of the mill.
mortreux, a dish of mixed meats.
moss-hag, pits or sloughs in a mire or bog.
moss-trooper, a marauder, Border thief.
mot, might; a bugle-note.
mows, jest; na mows, no jest.
muckle, much.
mug-ewe, a particular breed of sheep.
mulcture, fines, taxes.
murrey-coloured, of a mulberry, or dark-red colour.

naig, nag.
ne sit ancillae tibi amor pudori, do not be ashamed of loving your hand-maid.
negatur, Gulielme Allan, I deny it, William Allan.
neist, nearest, next.
nicker, neigh.
noil, rap, strike together.
nombles, part of the entrails of a deer.

O gran bonta, &c. (p. 353):
O high nobility of the knights of old!
Enemies were they and of faith diverse.
obnubilated, obscured.
oremus, let us pray.