1. Kain, something which a tenant pays his landlord over and above his money-rent. Hence, "to gar ane pay kain," to exact from him severe retribution. -- Jamieson.
2. Blaeberries, and crowberries are very plentiful in these muirs as are alas the crane and the cloudberry.
3. To "guddle" fish," to catch fish with the hands, by grasping under the stones or banks of a stream. -- Jamieson.
4. "Fine skran," a phrase used by young people, when they meet with any thing, especially what is edible, which they consider a valuable acquisition. -- Jamieson.
5. Flowe, a deep morass. -- Jamieson.
6. Several instances are related, both in history and by tradition, of the Covenanters being delivered by the providential intervention of mist between them and their persecutors. One is recorded in the life of Peden. He with some others, had been hotly pursued, both by horse and foot, for a considerable way. At last, getting some little height between them and their persecutors, he stood still, and said, "Let us pray here, for if the Lord hear not our prayers, and save us, we are all dead men." Then he prayed, and said, "O Lord, this is the hour and the power of thine enemies; they may not be idle! But hast thou no other work for them than to send them after us? Send them after those to whom thou wilt gie strength to flee; for our strength is gane. Twine them about the hill, O Lord! and cast the lap of thy cloak over puir auld Sanders, and thir puir things, and save us this ae time; and we will keep it in remembrance, and tell it to the commendation of thy gudeness, thy pity, and compassion, what thou didst for us at sic a time." And in this he was heard; for a cloud of mist was interposed immediately between them and their persecutors, and in the meantime, orders came to the soldiers to go in quest of James Renwick, and a great company with him.
7. "Surely," said Renwick," if God could be tied to a spot, it would, methinks, be to the muirs of Scotland. -- The muirs [MS text illegible]."
8. At the buik, at family worship.
9. To stog: to push a stick, sword, or other instrument, into any thing not liquid for the purpose of ascertaining what is below.
10. Mill-rynd, a piece of iron, resembling a star, or the rowel of an old spur, sunk into the centre of the upper mill-stone. There is a square orifice in the middle of it for receiving the iron spindle by which the upper mill-stone is turned. -- Jamieson.
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