SCOTS LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES, EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

The most authoritative dictionaries are those from Scottish Language Dictionaries published by Edinburgh University Press, unless otherwise indicated
http://www.scotsdictionaries.org.uk

Concise Scots Dictionary (1985), a comprehensive one-volume dictionary covering the Scots language from its earliest records to the present, based largely on the two major historical works:
Scottish National Dictionary  (1931-76), 10 vols, from 1700 to the 1970s (published by Scottish Language Dictionaries), and:

Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (1931-2002), 12 vols, from the earliest records up to 1700 (published by Oxford University Press).

The Scottish National Dictionary and the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue are now available free on the Internet, as the Dictionary of the Scots Language,  at  http://www.dsl.ac.uk  A New Supplement bringing the language into the 21st century was added to the website in 2005.

Pocket Scots Dictionary (1988). Scots-English.

Scots Thesaurus (1990). Traditional areas of Scots vocabulary arranged thematically, with English-Scots index.

Concise English-Scots Dictionary (1993).

Essential Scots Dictionary (Scots-English, English-Scots) (1996). A small two-way dictionary, aimed  mainly at schools, but also a useful general reference work.


OTHER SCOTS LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES

Collins Scots Dictionary (2003), Glasgow: Collins.

Concise Scots Dialect Dictionary (2006), New Lanark: Waverley Books. Originally published in 1911 by Chambers as the Scots Dialect Dictionary,and later as Chambers Scots Dictionary. Simply a list of Scots words, old and new, and their meanings. Now out of copyright and reissued with new title.

Graham, William (1977) The Scots Word Book (English-Scots/Scots-English), Edinburgh: Ramsay Head Press.

Jamieson, John (1808, 1825 and later editions) An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. The standard Scots dictionary of the 19th century.

Stevenson, James A (1989) Scoor-Oot: A Dictionary of Scots Words and Phrases in Current Use, London: Continuum.


SCOTS DIALECT DICTIONARIES
    
Buchan, Peter and David Toulmin (1989)  Buchan Claik. The Saut and the Glaur o't. A Compendium of Words and Phrases from the North-East of Scotland, Edinburgh: Gordon Wright.

Edmonston, Thomas (1866) An Etymological Glossary of the Shetland and Orkney Dialect, with some derivations of names of places in Shetland, London: The Philological Society.

Fenton, James (1995, 2000) The Hamely Tongue. A Personal Record of Ulster-Scots in County Antrim, Belfast: Ullans Press. An annotated glossary showing present-day currency.

Graham, John (1979, 1999) The Shetland Dictionary, Lerwick: Shetland Times.

Gregor, Walter (1866) The Dialect of Banffshire with a Glossary of Words not in Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary, London: The Philological Society.

Jakobsen, Jakob (1921,1928) Etymologisk Ordbog over det Norrne Sprog p Shetland. Translated as An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland, 2 volumes, London: David Nutt, reprinted New York: AMS Press, n.d.

Kynoch, Douglas (1996) A Doric Dictionary. Two-way Lexicon of North-East Scots. Doric-English, English-Doric, Edinburgh: Scottish Cultural Press.

Lamb, Gregor (1988) Orkney Wordbook. A Dictionary of the Dialect of Orkney, Birsay: Byrgisey.

Macafee, Caroline (1983) Varieties of English Around the World: Glasgow, Amsterdam: Benjamins. A study of Glasgow Scots, past and present, in current speech and literature.

Macafee, Caroline ed. (1996) A Concise Ulster Dictionary, Oxford University Press.

Mackie, Albert (1984) The Illustrated Glasgow Glossary, Belfast: Blackstaff.
MacTaggart, John (1824, 1981) The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, London: printed for the author; reprinted by Clunie, Strath Tay, Perthshire
Marwick, Hugh (1929, 1992) The Orkney Norn, Dunfermline: W. I. A. Murray. Originally published by Oxford University Press.

Montgomery, Michael, From Ulster to America. The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English, Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006.

Munro, Michael (2001) The Complete Patter, Edinburgh: Birlinn.

Pepper, John [Fred Gamble] (1981) John Pepper's Ulster-English Dictionary, Belfast: Appletree Press.

Riach, W. A. D. (1988) A Galloway Glossary, Glsgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Occasional Papers 7.

Smyth, Anne, Michael Montgomery and Philip Robinson eds, The Academic Study of Ulster-Scots: Essays for and by Robert J. Gregg National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, 2006.

Watson, George (1923) The Roxburghshire Word-Book, Cambridge University Press.

Wright, Joseph (1898-1905) English Dialect Dictionary, London: Henry Frowde. Words and phrases from all over Britain, including a generous amount of  Scots from different parts of Scotland