† wanweird Sc. Obs.
In 6 wan-, wanewerd.
[f. wan- + weird n.]
Hard lot, ill fate, misfortune. (In quot. 1631 personified.)
| 1513 Douglas æneis i. v. 24, I tuik comfort heirof, thinkand but baid That hard wanwerd suld follow fortun glaid. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 407 Sen gratius [God] that hes all thing in erd At his weil[d]ing to weill or ȝit wan werd. ? a 1550 ‘Doun by ane rever’ 76 in Dunbar's Poems (S.T.S.) 307 Sen for no wisdome, nor no strenth, Nor for no richess in this erd, That ony man his lyf may lenth, Naythir for freyndschip agane wanewerd. a 1580 Murning Maiden 19 in Maitland Fol. MS. 360 Wanweird, scho said, quhat haue I wrocht That on me kythit hes all this cair? 1631 A. Craig Pilgr. & Heremite 9 Perchance before that thou her againe see, By vote of the Wan-weirds, that buried shee bee. 1802 Jamieson Water Kelpie xvi, Nor wit nor pow'r put aff the hour, For his wanweird decreed. |