saughen, sauchen, a. Sc.
(ˈsɑx(ə)n)
[f. saugh + -en.]
Pertaining to or made of sallow. Also fig., ‘soft, weak, wanting in energy’ (E.D.D.).
| 1724 Peden in Biogr. Presbyt. (1838) I. 82 He caused dig a Cave, with a Saughen-bush covering the Mouth of it. 1875 J. Veitch Tweed 172 They brought him slow From the hills on a sauchen bier. |