▪ I. yill, n.
(jɪl)
Scotch variant of ale.
| 1785 Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook iii, The Clachan yill had made me canty. ? a 1800 Bonnie Earl o' Murry in Child Ballads (1889) III. 449/2 Her bread it's to bake, Her yill is to brew. 1818 Scott Br. Lamm. xii, If they offer ye a drink o' yill, or a cup o' wine. 1885 J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 98 The guests in the sanded kitchen were content with twopenny bottles of ‘yill’. |
b. attrib. and Comb., as yill-caup [cap n.3], yill-house, yill-maker, yill-making, yill-seller, yill-selling, yill-shop, yill-wife (see also Eng. Dial. Dict.).
| 1786 Burns Holy Fair xviii, The Change-house fills, Wi' yill-caup Commentators. 1789 D. Davidson Seasons 13 Chiels wi' sooty skins, an' yill-caup een. 1790 J. Fisher Poems 59 Ye're welcome neighbour yill wives here. |
Hence yill v. trans., to entertain with ale.
| 1808 Jamieson, To Yill, v.a., to entertain with ale, a term commonly used by the vulgar..to denote one special mode in which a lover entertains his Dulcinea at a fair or market. 1890 Service Notandums ii. 11 He forgot..to bid Maggie..to the yuillin'. |
▪ II. yill, yilt, yin, yinder, ying (ȝing)
see yeld a., yield v., one, yon, yonder, young.