| glèasach | used for tin foil or shiny paper. Also common in South Uist. |
| blit | means to be full to the brim. “Bha i làn chun a bhlit.” [NOTES: note in pencil – bhliot.] |
| lubseach | an unpleasant, surly woman. |
| tùbrais | consternation, squabbling, fighting. |
| miagail | as in a cat mewing. |
| banais taighe | this word supplied by Mrs C. O’Henley, Garrynamonie, South Uist. The night after a wedding reception celebrants invite those friends who could not attend the wedding due to work commitments to a house wedding. Also other friends and favourites invited. |
| ripa | a snare. [NOTES: note in pencil – ribe.] |
| lus na Frainge | tansy. Boiled and according to tradition used by the Vikings to keep their skins white. |
| cloimh liath | blue mould. Apparently this has healing qualities. Mother of informant used to throw an old boot or shoe into a clump of nettles which was left there till mould gathered on the shoe. Thereafter the mould was scraped off and used as a kind of penicillin to relieve the puss in boils and abscess wounds, swellings, etc. Similarly informant remembers the white of an egg being broken to which fresh unsalted butter and lichen (crotal) was added. Used for healing all kinds of burns. |
| puinnteag (-an) | docken leaves. |
| aoineadh | a steep promontory or brae. |
| cadha | a pass, usually a steep path. |
| càrr | broken ground. |
| cleit | a ridge, reef or rocky eminence. |
| torc | a boar. |
| leitir | a slope. |
| cluain | a field, green pasture land. |
| easg | a bog or natural ditch. A fen. |
| ros | point, promontory. |
| ruigh | a run or sloping piece of moorland ground for cattle. In shieling era. |
| righe | [See ruigh.] |
