† vult Obs. Chiefly Sc.
Also 5–6 wlt, wult, 5 vilt, 6–7 volt; 5 voute, vowt, wout.
[a. OF. vult, volt, voult, vout (= It. volto, Sp. and Pg. vulto):—L. vult-us face, etc.]
Face, countenance; esp. expression of the features, cheer or bearing.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints v. (John) 350 Sancte Iohne..croysit it, & drank al oute but rednes with blith wlte. Ibid. xxv. (Julian) 705 A laydy..with blyth wlt,..sad to þame þat stud about. ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 137 Þe voute of thi vesage has woundyde us alle! Ibid. 3054 He weres his vesere with a vowt noble. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. v. 3539 Fayr of fasson and of face,..Pert of vult and eloquent. c 1470 Gol. & Gaw. 1278 To that lordly on loft that lufly can lout,..Salust the bauld berne, with ane blith wout. c 1470 Henry Wallace x. 77 Quha couth behald thair awfull lordly wult, So weill beseyn, so forthwart, stern, and stult. 1513 Douglas æneid xii. xi. 93 In the thar wltis, in the thar ene, but faill, The Latyn pepill dressit hes alhaill. 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 497 He was nathing content of this estate; howbeit, he schew gud vult for the time. 1580 Well of Woman Hill, Aberdeen A iij b, This watter, being drunkin, cuirand..prolapsion of the vult, and dolour of the Tonsallis. c 1610 Sir J. Melvil Mem. (1683) 70 She welcomed me with a merry volt, and thanked me for the diligence I had used in hasting to give her that intelligence. |