▪ I. † vees1
Sc. variant of vives.
| a 1585 Montgomerie Flyting 318 The weam-eill, the wild⁓fire, the vomit and the vees [v. rr. veis, weis]. 1608 Melrose Recs. (S.H.S.) I. 60 [The mare] thairefter tuik ane seikness callit the veis. |
▪ II. vees2 Mining.
(See quot.)
| 1883 Gresley Gloss. Coal-M. 269 Vees, Veez, and Viese, a kind of soft earth in a fissure or upon the sides of a dyke. |