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12. Miscellaneous: short tail that remains after docking, small tuft of hair under the chin of a ram, scabby sheep losing their wool, any other words

Origin: [the questionnaire gives Ross and Cromarty but it is most probably meant as the county not origin]
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

[cír]

Cír do cheann. – Comb your hair.

Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[falt]

Falt sniomhainach. Plaited hair.

Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[feusag]

small tuft of hair under the chin of a ram. Chan eil ainm suidhichte mar sin againn airson a leithid seo ach chanadh sinn ‘feusag’ airson rud de’n t-seòrsa.

Origin: Leòdhas [Lewis], Uig an Iar
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

[fionnadh a chait]

Note 4: (also) ‘Fionnadh a chait’ was a remedy for cuts on the Island of Scalpay, Harris fifty years ago. An informant told me that the remedy was applied to a cut on her forehead by her father, and that was about 50 years ago (from 1978). Her father cut some of the cats [sic] hair with the scissors and spread the hair on a bandage and then on to the cut, it was believed that it had healing properties beside effective in the case of bleeding and seemingly a ‘disinfectant’ advantage. My informant again showed me where the cut was on her forehead. You could hardly believe there was a cut there, it healed that well, by very close observation you could discover there was something not of a mark very distinguishable.

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[fro-stick]

Another thing that was used in connection with milk, I do not know the Gaelic name for it but in English it is called a fro-stick. In fact we used to have one here though I have not seen it for some time. I’ll try and make a drawing of one which will give you an idea what it looked like. It was used for what we called a ‘fuarag’. This was some cream in the bottom of a flat dish or any vessel with a flat bottom, you put the fro-stick in it and kept the handle tight between the palms of the hands and made a rubbing movement causing the fro-stick to go one way then the other continuing this for about five minutes, depending on the quality of the cream, until it almost reached the stage what we called the ‘bainne-briste’ stage. ‘Bainne-briste’ was when the milk was starting to change from milk to buttermilk. The ‘fuarag’ was the stage before that when the cream went sour and this was often taken. The material which went round the four spokes was the long hard hair at the end of a cow’s tail like a rope. It didn’t fall off as the ends of the spokes were scouped out cup shaped.

Origin: Inverness-shire, Nethy Bridge
Category: Crodh / Cattle

[mullach]

Sithean mullach a chinn. The very crown of the head where the hair parts. [NOTE in second hand: appears good.]

Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[snʹɔ̃ʔəṉ]

Notes: eggs of the hair louse.

Origin: Islay, Ballygrant
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

aimhreideach

adj. ‘hair in disarray’: [a͂i ͂ɲt´ɛr´əx], [a͂i͂rɛt´əx]

Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Broadcove
Category: Field Notebooks of Seosamh Watson June-August 1983

an dosan

a fringe of hair on the forehead.

Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

an dosan

the fringe of short hair on the forehead.

Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bad fuilt

A tuft of hair.

Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bad fuilt

A tuft of hair.

Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ball gaosaid

a ball made of hair.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

beannhnag

[?] a piece of cotton cloth wound round the head to keep the hair tidy when at work. Resembling the head-scarves of today but much smaller.

Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bioran-fuilt

hair pins.

Location: [Harris], Scalpaigh [Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bròg

Quot.: brogan [sic] tionndaidh. Note: thinks they were made of hide – possibly turned inside out to have hair inside.

Origin: Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

caidhea(rr?)

coir yarn. From coconut hair. [NOTES: corrected to ‘caidheàr’.]

Origin: [Note: From North Uist, information from Alex O’Henley / RÓM 4 Dec 2023]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

caileas

smooth, down hair.

Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

calg

[kɑɫɑɡ] Quot.: “calg mairt”. Note: hair on cattle.

Location: Lewis, Uig, Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

calg

Quotation: Tha calg math air a’ bheathach sin. Notes: hair on the beast.

Location: Skye, Sleat, Calligary
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

calg

Quotation: a’ cur a’ chalg. Notes: shedding hair (a beast).

Location: Ross-shire, Aultbea
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

calg

hair.

Origin: Geàrrloch [Gairloch]
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

calg

hair.

Origin: Geàrrloch [Gairloch]
Category: Crodh / Cattle

calg

hair.

Origin: [Arran]
Category: Crodh / Cattle

calg ()

[masc.] hair.

Origin: Leodhas [Lewis], Uig
Category: Crodh / Cattle

camagan

curls, i.e. in hair.

Location: Harris, Leverburgh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

caraichd

a thick crop of hair.

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ceadan (m)

lock of hair, bunch; ceadan clòimhe.

Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ceann-ghlas

grey head, grey hair.

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ceasg (m)

tuft of hair, grass, etc.; ceasg lìn (flax); ceasg clòimhe (wool); hence ceasganna – baskets, made of such; applied to ‘mermaid’ because of her long hair.

Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ciabhag

[ciɤvɑɡ] Notes: used for a few hairs hanging down as well as hair growing on the side of the face.

Location: Sutherland, Embo
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ciu

pigtail of hair; ? ciabh – dial. ci-u; ? Eng. queue.

Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ciutha

hair of a female made into a ball at the back of the head with hair pins inserted.

Location: [Harris], Scalpaigh [Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ciutha

a bun of hair.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

clamadh

castration by tying horse hair around the scrotum.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

clasp, pl. claspaichean

clip(s), comb for the hair of a female, clipped in her hair.

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cleigean

compressed lumps still attached to animals when shedding their hair or fur. Falt cleigeach – unruly, uncombed hair.

Location: [Lewis], Ness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

clenagach

curly bunch of hair.

Location: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

clotcheann

Notes: (1) an untidy head of hair. (2) ’Se do chlotcheann a th’ann – it’s actually you.

Location: North Uist, Grimsay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cluigean

[kɫu̜ɡʹɑṉ] Note: a lump of matted hair.

Location: Lewis, Uig, Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cluimhteach

[hair?]

Origin: Barra
Category: Crodh / Cattle

cluiteach

[kɫu̜tʹɑx] Quotation: ’S ann ort a tha a chluiteach. Notes: cloimhteach in Dw. – down of feathers. Used figuratively of a mop of hair.

Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cléigeanach

[kle:ɡʹɑṉɔx] Quot.: “Cléigeanach dubh-cheann gun chìreadh, Cha teid mìr an ìre dha.” (waulking song) Note: (1) having unruly hair. (2) a person with unruly hair.

Origin: [Ness]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cnaimhseag (f)

Notes: lice in hair (cnuimh).

Location: Harris, Ardhasaig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

coinghig

an angry look, often applied to a dog with his hair ruffled. [NOTES: note in the margin – confhadh, rage, fury (N. Uist). (black ink)]

Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

crabhcan

[kɾɑu̟kɑ̃ṉ] Note: A.C. can’t remember seeing one but was told that it was used originally for twisting flax. Functioned like a “dealgan” but was curved. Latterly used for making rope out of the hair from a horse’s tail. “Crabhcan” also used of people. “Crabhcan grannda de dhuine” – duine camaiceach, lùbach na dhòigh.

Origin: Ness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

craic fuilt

mop of hair.

Location: Harris, Sgarastamhor
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

craic fuilt

mop of hair. [NOTES: already quoted at the beginning.]

Location: Harris, Sgarastamhor
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

croisg

abundant with hair. “Nach ann air a tha chroisg.”

Location: North Uist, Sollas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cràic

a heavy crop of hair. Cràic fhuilt.

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cràic

cràic fuilt – a thick crop of hair.

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cràisgeach

frizzy hair.

Location: South Uist, South Boisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cròtaichean

bits of wood added to an oar so that they would be tighter in the rowlocks. Also used for the bows put in a young girl’s hair. [NOTES: corrected to ‘crotaichean’.]

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cuailean

[ku̟ɤɫɑṉ] Quot.: “cuailean fuilt”, “cuailean cloimh”. Note: a lock of hair, (of wool). When used of wool, applied to longish wavy strands.

Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cuir

Quotation: a’ cur a’ chalg. Notes: shedding hair (a beast).

Location: Ross-shire, Aultbea
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cuiseag

[kɤʃɑɡ] Notes: single strand of hair.

Location: Achlyness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cèiceach

[cɛ:cɑx] Quot.: falt cèiceach, cloimh chèiceach. Note: unruly hair. (I would have thought “matted” would be nearer the meaning – AJS.)

Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

céise-bal

[ce:ʃəbɑɫ] Note: ball as used in the game of Cat and Bat (speileaban [q.v.]); sometimes made with rags, sometimes made with the shed hair of cattle in early summer. This was scraped off the beast and made gradually with spits, rolling hair on till it was of the required size. Céise-bal-ghaoisd [ce:ʃəbɑɫɣw:ʃdʹ].

Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

dath

Quotation: Chan fhaca mi a dhubh no a dhath. Notes: I saw neither hide nor hair of him.

Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

dosan

small tuft, dosen (hair).

Location: [Harris], Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

dosan

Notes: hair falling over horse’s forehead.

Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

dosan

small tuft of hair under chin.

Origin: [Arran]
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

dualan-fuilt

a wee curl of hair.

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

duall fuillt

a lock of hair. [NOTES: ‘duall’ corrected to ‘dual’.]

Origin: [Note: From North Uist, information from Alex O’Henley / RÓM 4 Dec 2023]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

dubh

Quotation: Chan fhaca mi a dhubh no a dhath. Notes: I didn’t see hide nor hair of him.

Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fail

Quotation: Tha ’m beathach sin air faileadh. Notes: a beast which was patchy, some of the hair or wool having come out.

Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

failtein

single hair.

Location: Tummel and Rannoch
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

falt camagach

curly hair.

Location: Na Hearadh [Harris], Horgabost
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance

fasganadh

searching hair for nits (sniginn) – “A’ fasganadh do chinn.”

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fiasag

[small tuft of hair under the chin of a ram.]

Origin: [the questionnaire gives Ross and Cromarty but it is most probably meant as the county not origin]
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

fionna

hair. [NOTES: ‘beast’ added in second hand (most probably the fieldworker).] [SLIP: Beast’s hair.]

Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle

fionnadh

hair.

Location: Na Hearadh, Gòbhaig [Harris, Gobhaig]
Category: Crodh / Cattle

fionnadh

hair. Ach cho fad ’s is aithne dhomh cha chan sinn fionnadh uair sam bith ri nì timchioll air caora.

Origin: Leòdhas [Lewis], Uig an Iar
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

fionnadh

hair.

Origin: [Arran]
Category: Crodh / Cattle

fionnadh

[hair.]

Origin: [Islay, Ballygrant]
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

fionnadh

[hair.]

Origin: [Islay, Ballygrant]
Category: Crodh / Cattle

fionnadh (m)

hair.

Origin: Mull, Bunessan, Ardtun or Mull, Tobermory
Category: Crodh / Cattle

fionntrachad

[?] hair.

Origin: ([Canada], Inverness Co.) or ([Canada], Inverness Co.) or ([Canada], Victoria Co.)
Category: Crodh / Cattle

foinne-riobach

shaggy wart; a hair tied round the wart cuts its way, cuts through it, off [sic].

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Blàthan-Leighis / Medicinal Plants

fàs-fuilt

hair growing well indicates the health and growth of the body. Fàs fuilt fàs cuirp.

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

gaoisd

[ɡw:ʃdʹ] Quot.: gaoisd bó. Note: cow’s hair.

Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

gaoisdean

Notes: a hair.

Location: Skye, Elgol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

gaoisid

Quotation: Tha an cù a’ cur na gaoisid. Notes: The dog is shedding its hair.

Location: Skye, Harlosh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

gaosaid (f)

hair.

Origin: [Skye, Camus Chroise]
Category: Crodh / Cattle

geadach

Notes: ‘tufty’. Dw. has geadach ‘having the hair in tufts or bunches’.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ghruich-fhuilt

matted crop (mop) of hair, unorderly [sic] [disorderly?] set, perhaps rendered from ‘cruach-fhuilt’. (Harris)

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

gibeagan

hair coming down on horses’ ‘toes’.

Location: Harris, Leverburgh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

giragach

short hair.

Location: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

gireach

having straggling hair. [NOTES: definition added in second hand.]

Location: [Lewis], Stornoway, Upper Bayble
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

girean

Quotation: “Hó!, an girean!”, said my Uncle Alex, as he pulled the straggling hair of a girl in front of him in the Kinloch church. Notes: Not in Dw.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

god

[ɡɔd̪] Quot.: “Cha do dh’fhàs god fochann.” “Chaneil god dhan an fhalt ann.” Note: the least amount of something growing like grass or hair.

Origin: [Ness]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

goisdean

hair. Cha’n eil goisdean liath ’na cheann.

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

goisdean

hair. Cha eil goisdean [sic]. [See goisnean.]

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

goisdin

hair, particle of hair. Cha téid goisdin dhe fhalt gu bràth a dhi.

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

goisdne

hair. Goisdne de dh’fhalt. (Scalpay)

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

goisnean

hair. [See goisdean.] Cha ’eil goisnean liath ’na cheann.

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

gosdanach

of wee short hair.

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

gruag

crop of hair. Gruagach [q.v.] may have derived in this sense from a reference to have a crop of hair, etc.

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

gruag chràisdeach

frizzy hair.

Origin: ‘Islay connections’
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

gruaidh

hair.

Category: Crodh / Cattle

gìreach

Quot.: falt gireach [sic]. Note: tousled hair or hair that sticks up and looks uncombed. Porcupine look.

Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

gòisneach

[ɡɔ:ʃnʹɑx] Note: very fine, downy hair.

Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

iris

(f) (of creel) 1. Shoulder straps (horse hair). 2. Rope fitting to creel – for carrying. See diag [NOTES: probably refers to a diagram provided by the informant.]

Category: Àiteach / Agriculture

iris

(f) (of creel) 1. Shoulder straps (horse hair). 2. Rope fitting to creel – for carrying.

Category: Àiteach / Agriculture

iris cléibh

made of horse hair long ago.

Location: Lewis, Arnol
Category: Crodh / Cattle

isean-fionnaidh

fledgeling with the initial development of the feathers, resembling hair. (My own definition: I have heard the term used on Scalpay, but I am afraid not (used) now. (?)

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

lionanaich

green soft hair-like weed. The same name is given to a similar weed found in fresh water, e.g. in wells. ‘Tha an tobair làn lionanaich.’

Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

locaidh

dosen (hair).

Location: [Harris], Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

logaidh

Notes: hair or mane coming down over the forehead.

Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

logaidh bheag

fringe of your hair.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

loin

healthy, fluffy coat of hair on cattle as a result of being fed by the above meal [i.e. min laogh (q.v.)].

Location: South Uist, Lochcarnan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

lòinidh

refers to the healthy glow of an animal’s coat of hair.

Location: North Uist, Grimsay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

lòpaisg

would be applied to long, straggly, dirty, unwashed hair. [NOTES: note above ‘lòpaisg’ – lòbaisg.]

Location: South Uist, Peninerine
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

maghar

Notes: fishing fly, preferably made with dog’s hair.

Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

maise-mhullaich

Notes: ‘baldness’ (an ironic usage). But note the earlier usage, of a luxuriant head of hair, e.g. Ort a dh’fhàs a’ mhaise mhullaiche … Maise gruaige dualach duinne i. (Heb. Folksongs II, 1568-70) Source: Lewis usage recalled (D.S.T.). Date: 1979.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

maolag

Notes: a woman with thinning hair. Dw. has maolag ‘a bald woman’ (MacEachen).

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

mapaid

a brush made with animal hair and used for tarring boats.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

mapaid

a home-made mop made of wool and a bit of wood. Also in the sense of sticky hair – “Do ghruag na mapaid.”

Location: South Uist, South Boisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

mashìun-fuilt

[sic] hair clippers.

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

mearcadan

Quotation: pl. na mearcadain. Notes: eggs laid on the hair of horse’s legs; licked by the horse; lodge on the wall of stomach until fully fed. Seems to be eggs of the horse bot fly. Horse sometimes given “bralais” and then purged with a mixture of turpentine and linseed oil.

Location: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

milleadh-moigheaich

hair lip [sic]. [NOTES: note in the margin – [harelip] RÓM.]

Origin: Tiriodh [Tiree]
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance

mogainn

the hair on a horse’s lower foot. [NOTES: corrected to ‘mogain’.]

Location: South Uist, Milton
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

mongadh

to crop hair, bob hair.

Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

muing

Quotation: muing na coise. Notes: the hair growing behind the horse’s leg.

Origin: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

muirear

bundle, group, etc.; muirear a céibhe, muirear a fholt (fhuilt) – mass of hair.

Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

pap-cheannach

matted hair.

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

peinnteall

a snare made by horse hair on a frame to catch small birds.

Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

peinteall

trap for catching birds, made with horse hair in a frame.

Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

prine fuilt

[prʹinʹə ɸu̟lʹtʹ] Notes: a hair pin.

Location: Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

príne fuilt

a hair pin.

Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

riobag shonais

refers to the hair growing on a woman’s chin. Alternately it may be called ‘riobag chonais’ – hair of temperament.

Location: South Uist, Lochcarnan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

roinn

[rɤ̃ĩnʹ] Note: hair parting.

Location: Harris, Quidinish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ruaineag

[ru̜ɤnʹɑɡ] Notes: a hair.

Location: Sutherland, Embo
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

rusg, craiceann, seiche

hair, hide.

Origin: [Arran]
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

ròinag

a hair lying on fresh meat.

Location: Benbecula, Muir of Aird
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ròineag

Notes: a single strand of hair.

Location: Coll, Arinagour
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ròineag

Notes: a hair.

Origin: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

scalpaich

dandruff; natives of the island of Scalpay in Harris. I have heard of paraffin being used shampoo-like as a preservation item, keeping the hair retaining [sic] its health and crop.

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgoiltean

[sɡɤlʹtʹɑṉ] Notes: parting in the hair.

Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

shodan

tuft of hair or few feathers sticking apart (toban). [NOTES: Slipped under ‘toban’.]

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

slaoigt

hair slide.

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sliobadh

stroking as of a gentleman combing (continually) his hair.

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance

sniginn

white lice in someone’s head, hair. Same as dandruff.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

snodhach

hair restorer.

Location: Barra, Northbay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

snòt

[sn̪ɔ:t̪] Notes: a long horse hair.

Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

speilean

a game like cricket. A hole a few inches deep was dug with heel and a stump was placed there. The ball was made with cow’s hair being rubbed on the cow’s back till a sufficient size was attained. Hereafter the ball was placed in the aforementioned hole. Now with ten people on each side the stump was hit by a ‘caman’, a process which caused the ball to shoot up out of the hole. Once this happened the ball was met on the volley with the ‘caman’ and hit as far as possible. Play continued like this until the ball was caught.

Origin: [Harris]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sprogan

Quotation: “A! chan eil càil as fheàrr leam na sprogan math air boireannach.” (The Piseag, Keose, to my Auntie Bella, who had one such.) Notes: Dw. has sprogaill in sense of crop, dewlap, double chin and sprogan ‘small tuft of hair under chin of deer’.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

srian

Quotation: srian gaosaid. Notes: reins made of horse hair.

Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stireach

hair standing on end on a person’s head. Nach e t’fhalt tha stireach.

Location: [Harris], Scalpaigh [Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stireach

[ʃtʹıðɑx] Quot.: falt stireach. Note: straight, limp hair.

Location: Harris
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stireach

hair sticking on end. Nach e t’fhalt a tha stireach. [SLIP: Standing on end.]

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris,Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stirean

thin person with scraggy hair.

Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stirein

Notes: wisp of hair.

Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

suasan (m)

long uncombed hair.

Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

suircean

[su̟ðcɑṉ] Note: spiked muzzle put on a calf to prevent it suckling its mother. Sometimes put on older beast which had a habit of eating the hair of other beasts.

Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sàilligean (plural)

Notes: footwear made from raw cowhide with the hair on it.

Location: Canada, Christmas Island
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

tart

Quotation: an tart. Notes: disease in cattle. The skin became dry and the beast shed some of its hair.

Origin: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

thoir

Quotation: Thoir a-mach. An toir e mach falt? Notes: “Does he cut hair?”

Location: Berneray
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

toban

Note: a tuft of anything – usually wool or hair.

Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

toinneamh

Quotation: A’ toinneamh shnòtan. Notes: cf. snòd affix a fishing hook to the line. See MacBain, who takes it from Sc. snood, the hair line to which the hook is attached. Dw. has snòd ‘twisted hairs which are fastened to a fishing-hook’.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

toipean

small tuft of hair under chin.

Origin: [Arran]
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

trilis (f)

tress of hair.

Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

òr-fhalt

golden hair.

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous