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lint-white, a. Sc. (ˈlɪnthwaɪt) [f. lint1 + white.] White as lint or flax; flaxen.1794 Burns ‘Now nature cleeds’, Lassie wi' the lint⁓white locks. 1866 Miss Mulock Noble Life viii. 148 With the sun shining on the lint-white hair.
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lintwhite
lintwhite, n. Chiefly Sc. (ˈlɪnthwaɪt) Forms: 1 l{iacu}naethu{iacu}ᵹae, l{iacu}netu{iacu}ᵹe, -tw{iacu}ᵹe, 4 lynkwhytte, 6 lyntquhit, -yte, 7– lintwhite. [OE. l{iacu}netw{iacu}ᵹe, perh. f. l{iacu}n flax + -tw{iacu}ᵹe (? cogn. w. OHG. zwigôn to pluck, vellere, carpere), found also in þisteltw{iacu}ᵹe ...
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Jean Lorimer
Jean Lorimer (1775–1831) was a friend of the poet Robert Burns, often referred to by him as the "Lassie wi' the lint-white locks" or "Chloris". On departing Jean said "Now, dinna forget when you are a big man that you had the good wish of the Lassie wi' the Lint-white Locks.
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Transatlantic Sessions
Programme Two: Bleeding All Over You (Martha Wainwright), O'Farrell's Farewell to Limerick / Oot East by the Vong (Aly Bain & Dónal Lunny), Lassie Wi' the Lint-white
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lint
▪ I. lint1 (lɪnt) Forms: 4–7 lynt(e, 5 lyn(n)et, 6 linte, 7 (9 dial.) linet, 5– lint. [In ME. linnet; related (somewhat obscurely) to line n.1; perh. a. F. linette (recorded only in the sense ‘linseed’, but possibly of wider meaning in OF.), f. lin line n.1: see -et1.] 1. (Now only Sc.) The flax-pla...
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touse
▪ I. touse, n. dial. (taʊz, taʊs) [f. touse v.] 1. Rough pulling about, horse-play; a ‘row’, commotion, uproar; an outcry, a fuss.1795 Wolcott (P. Pindar) Lousiad iv. 173 Let's have no more touse. 1802 ― Middlesex Elect. ii. vi, Amongst the derty, lowzy crew, There's zich a touse and hallibulloo. 18...
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tress
▪ I. tress, n. (trɛs) Forms: pl. 3 tressene, 4– tresses, (5 -is, trissis); sing. 4–6 tresse, (6 Sc. tres), 6– tress. See also trace n.3 [a. F. tresse, in OF. tresce a plait or braid of hair (12th c. in Littré, etc.) = Pr. tressa, treza, It. treccia, beside the vb. F. tresser, OF. trecier, It. trecci...
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counter
▪ I. † counter, n.1 Obs. (ˈkaʊntə(r)) Forms: 4 cuntre, cunter, 5 countire, cowntere, 6 counter. [Aphetic form of acuntre, acounter, encounter.] Encounter, hostile meeting, opposition.c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 38 Tille þei com to mide⁓weie, cuntre non þei fond. c 1350 Will. Palerne 1344 Ȝe ne he...
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fold
▪ I. † fold, n.1 Obs. Forms: 1 folde, 3–5 folde, (3 south. volde, 4 foulde), 4– fold. [OE. folde wk. fem. = OLG. folda, ON. fold:—OTeut. *foldôn-, *foldâ, prob. related to *felþu field n.] 1. a. The surface of the earth; the ground. b. Dry land; the earth, as the dwelling-place of man. in, on, upon ...
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lock
▪ I. lock, n.1 (lɒk) Forms: 1 loc, locc, 3–7 locke, 4–5 loke, 4–6 lokk(e, 5, 7 lok, look(e, (8–9 dial. in sense 2 luck, Sc. loake), 5– lock. [OE. loc masc. = OS.? loc (MS. loci, glossing cesariem; MDu. locke, Du. lok fem.), OHG. loc masc. (MHG. loc masc., pl. locke, mod.G. locke fem.), ON. lokk-r ma...
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summer
▪ I. summer, n.1 (ˈsʌmə(r)) Forms: 1 sumor, (-ur), 1–4 sumer, 3–6 somer, 4–5 somere, Sc. -yr(e, 4–6 Sc. somir, 4–7 sommer, (3 Orm. sumerr, 4 Kent. zomer, 5 somare, -or, sommyr, sommure, Sc. swmyr, 6 sommar), 6– summer. β. Sc. 6 symmer, 8–9 simmer. [OE. sumor masc. = OFris. sumur, -er (Fris. sommer, ...
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