aˈgley, adv. Sc.
Also aglee, agly.
[f. a prep.1 + glee, gley v.]
Asquint, askew, awry.
| 1785 Burns To a Mouse in Poems (1786) 140 The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley. 1813 E. Picken Misc. Poems I. 67 We haena mense like cruel man; Yet tho' he's paukier far than we, Whatreck, he gangs as aft aglee. 1880 [see go v. 4 d]. 1887 R. L. Stevenson Underwoods xx, Or lads that tak a keek a-glee At sonsie lasses. 1929 C. Day Lewis Transit. Poem ii. 23 These are they who built My house and never a stone of it laid agley. |