devall, v. Now only Sc.
(dɪˈvɔːl)
Forms: 5–6 deuale, 6 deuaill, dewall, 7–9 devall, 9 deval, devaul, devawl.
[a. F. dévaler, OF. devaler to descend = Pr. devalar, davalar, It. divallare:—Rom. *devallare, f. L. de- I. 1 down + vallis valley: cf. avale v.]
Hence devalling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
† 1. intr. To move downwards, sink, fall, descend, set (as the sun). Obs.
| c 1477 Caxton Jason 25 b, The sonne began to deuale in to the Weste. 1481 ― Myrr. ii. ix. 88 He.. deualeth down into the water. 1501 Douglas Pal. Hon. i. vi, Thy transitorie plesance quhat auaillis? Now thair, now heir, now hie, and now deuaillis. 1597 Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 83, I saw an river rin..Dewalling and falling Into that pit profound. 1632 Lithgow Trav. ix. 392 marg., The combustious devalling of ætnæs fire. Ibid. x. 506 Devalling floods. |
† b. To lower the body, stoop. Obs.
| 1513 Douglas æneis x. vii. 58 As onwar he stowpyt, and devalyt. |
† c. To slope downwards: as a line or surface.
| 1632 Lithgow Trav. v. 210 This Petrean Countrey..devalling even downe to the limits of Jacob's bridge. Ibid. viii. 365 The..devalling faces of two hills. 1645 Siege of Newcastle (1820) 14 A number of narrow devalling lanes. |
† 2. trans. To lower. Obs.
| 1501 Douglas Pal. Hon. ii. liii, And euerie wicht..Thankand greit God, their heidis law deuaill. |
3. intr. To cease, stop, leave off. mod.Sc.
| a 1774 Fergusson Poems (1789) II. 99 (Jam.) Devall then, Sirs, and never send For daintiths to regale a friend. 1822 Galt Sir. A. Wylie II. x. 92 She ne'er devauls jeering me. 1827 Scott Let. 26 Apr. in Lockhart, I have not till to-day devauled from my task. 1891 ‘H. Haliburton’ Ochil Idylls 20 Sair dings the rain upon the road, It dings,—an nae devallin' o't. |
Hence devall n. Sc., ‘a stop, cessation, intermission’ (Jamieson).
| 1802 Sibbald Gloss., Without devald, without ceasing. |