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Aye – yes
Burn – a stream
Breacan-an-fiele – a kilted plaid held by a belt
Caw canny – take it easy
Capercailie – a very large European grouse
Cateran – outlaws
Ceilidh – a celebration with song and dance
Linty – Linnet, a small finch
Skean dhu – a dagger or dirk
Syne – since
Slàinte mathas – good helath
Sept – branch of a clan
Skelp – smack
Sleekit – crafty, deceitful
Throng – bad-tempered
Uisge beatha – whisky, water of life