exies, n. pl. Sc.
(ˈɛksiːz)
[? corruption of access n.]
? Hysterics.
| 1816 Scott Antiq. xxxv, ‘Jenny Rintherout has ta'en the exies, and done naething but laugh and greet’. 1818 ― Br. Lamm. xi, ‘The cook-maid in the trembling exies’. |
exies, n. pl. Sc.
(ˈɛksiːz)
[? corruption of access n.]
? Hysterics.
| 1816 Scott Antiq. xxxv, ‘Jenny Rintherout has ta'en the exies, and done naething but laugh and greet’. 1818 ― Br. Lamm. xi, ‘The cook-maid in the trembling exies’. |
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