An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language: illustrating the words in their different significations, by examples from ancient and modern writers ; shewing their affinity to those of other languages, and especially the Northern ; explaining many terms, which, though now obsolete in England, were formerly common in both countries ; and elucidating national rites, customs, and institutions, in their anology to those of other nations: to which is prefixed, a dissertation on the origin of the Scottish language: By John Jamieson, D.D. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and of the Society of the Antiquities of Scotland. In two volumes