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flaught
▪ I. flaught, n.1 Chiefly Sc. (flɔːt, Sc. flaxt) Also 4–5 flaght(e, 8–9 flaucht. [ME. flaȝt, prob. repr. either OE. *fleaht or ON. *flaht-r (Icel. fláttr, used only in the sense ‘act of flaying’: see Fritzner s.v.); the OTeut. type would be *flahtu-z, f. either of the parallel roots flah-, flak- (Ar...
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Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
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Song, It was upon a Lammas night
Song, Now westlin winds, and flaught'ring guns
Song, From thee, Eliza, I must go
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belly-flaught
ˈbelly-flaught, a. Sc. [f. belly n. + flaught, ‘in full flight’ (Jam.).] 1. Headlong; precipitate.c 1375 ? Barbour St. Barthol. 316 And bely-flawcht flede alsone. 1712–58 A. Ramsay Poems (1844) 78 The bauld guid-wife..Came *bellyflaught. 1805 Nicoll Poems I. 31 (Jam.) Beath flew bellie-flaught I' th...
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fire-flaught
ˈfire-flaught Orig. Sc. [f. fire n. + flaught. Cf. fireslaught.] 1. Lightning; a flash of lightning; a storm of thunder and lightning.c 1375 ? Barbour Troy-bk. i. 468 Ande fyre-flauthtis our þe feldes flee Ine syk fladdanis & flambys briht. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. v. 33 A gret fyre flawcht..Ðan hap...
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
Many years later, the abbey is visited by Monsignors Aguerra (God's Advocate) and Flaught (the Devil's Advocate), the Church's investigators in the case
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flaughter
▪ I. ˈflaughter, n. Sc. Also 5–9 flauchter, (6 -tir), 9 flachter. [prob. a parallel formation to flaught n.1, with suffix -tro- instead of -tu-.] A paring of turf. Also Comb., flaughter-fail, a turf cut with a flaughter-spade, i.e. a breast-plough used for this purpose.1492 Act. Dom. Conc. (1839) 28...
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flaughtbred
ˈflaughtbred, adv. Sc. [f. flaught adv. + bred, pa. pple. of brede v.2 to spread out.] With the arms spread out like the wings of a flying bird; hence, eagerly.1768 Ross Helenore (1789) 14 Lindy..catcht a fa', Flaught⁓bred upon his face, and there he lay. Ibid. 82 Flaught⁓bred upon her, butt the hou...
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flocht
† flocht Sc. Obs. (flɒxt) Also 6–7 flought. See also flaught n.2 [app. repr. an OE. *flohta, parallel with the -ti stem flyht, flight n.1 4.] A state of agitation or excitement. Chiefly in phrases in, on flocht, in a flocht, in a flutter. Cf. flight n.1 4.1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxvii. 66 Thair hairtis...
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tulchan
tulchan Sc. (ˈtʌlxən) Forms: 6 tulchen, 6–9 -in, 9 -ane, 8– tulchan. [a. Gaelic tulchan, app. local variant of tulachan ‘little hillock’, applied locally to a device used to induce a cow to give her milk: still so called in the Outer Hebrides, and in Moidart in Inverness-shire, and prob. more widely...
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glint
▪ I. glint, n.1 (glɪnt) See also glent. [f. the vb. The text of the first quot. is insecure, and the existence of the word before 19th c. is therefore doubtful.] 1. A gleam; a faint or momentary appearance of light or of some lustrous object.a 1541 Wyatt Ps. cxliii. Prol. 13 The glint of light, that...
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flake
▪ I. flake, n.1 (fleɪk) Forms: 4–6 flek(e, 5–6 fleyke, 6 fleake, Sc. flaik, 7–8 fleak, (7 fleack), 5– flake. dial. 9 fleigh, fleak, flaik. [? a. ON. flake, fleke wk. masc., hurdle, wicker shield (Da. flage hurdle), corresponding to MDu. vlāke fem. (mod.Du. vlaak hurdle on which wool is beaten), MLG....
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widdendream
† ˈwiddendream, ˈwiddrim Sc. Obs. Also wudden dream, widdrum, -dreme, windrem, woo-, wuddrum. [OE. wódendréam ‘furor animi’ and wóddréam ‘demonium’ (also phr. on wódum dréame in delirium, lit. in mad joy: see wood a., dream n.1). For its survival in Sc. cf. wedenonfa’. For the phonology of the first...
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flight
▪ I. flight, n.1 (flaɪt) Forms: 1 fliht, flyht, flyð, 2–3 fluht(ü), south. vluht, 3–4 fliȝt, (fliht, flith), 3, 5 flygt, 4–6 flyght(e, (6 fleight, flighte), 5 flyte, 6 Sc. flicht, 3– flight. [OE. flyht masc. = OS. fluht fem. (MDu., Du. vlucht fem.):—OTeut. *fluhti-, f. *flug- weak root of *fleug-an ...
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flag
▪ I. flag, n.1 (flæg) Also 4–7 flagg(e, (5 flegge). [Of obscure origin; cf. Du. flag, occurring in Bible 1637, Job viii. 11 margin (the Eng. Bible has the same word in this passage), also mod.Da. flæg (in Dansk Ordb. 1802, but not found in MDa., which has flæ, flæde in the same sense).] 1. a. One of...
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