Excerpt from Supplement to Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary: With Memoir, and Introduction IN the following work I have attempted to complete the scottish dictionary compiled by Dr. Jamieson. By far the larger portion of the work consists of materials collected during a long and varied course of reading extending over many years; and the remaining portion consists of additional forms, meanings, and illustrations of words recorded in the dictionary, and of corrections and improvements of a large number of its meanings and etymologies. These materials have been drawn chiefly from works that have been issued since the dictionary was published and many of them were quite unknown to the author of that work. Besides new and more correct editions of various important works which he used, I have specially to note the publications issued under the direction of the Deputy Clerk Register of Scotland, by the Burgh Records Society, and by the Scottish Text Society, - works which cover the whole period of Scottish history during which the vernacular was written and spoken by all classes of society. But, a large number of words have been gleaned from books used by Dr. Jamieson and not a few from works which he must have read with very considerable care. A full list of the books read or consulted during the progress of the work will be found at the close of this Introduction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.