fuir-days Sc.
Also foor-, fure-, fuor-.
[Somewhat obscure; the sense would suggest identification of the first element with fore adv., but the phonology is in that case abnormal.]
a. Late in the day: = far days, forth days (see far adv. 3 c, forth A. 4 b). b. Broad daylight.
| 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 517 The king..left his sueit that tyme, and tuke gud rest, Sleipand rycht sound quhill all the nycht wes past, And on the morne, quhill it wes neir fuir-dais. 1718 Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. iii. 17 Be that time it was fair foor days. 1807 J. Stagg Poems 17 At last 'twas gitten wheyte fuor days, The lavrocks shrill war whuslin'. |