10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRANREUCH»
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cranreuch in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The English dialect dictionary
Thegrasswaswhitewithcranreugh,OcHtL'rnasRcdbumUBg5) xxiii. Abd. Whan the
win ter's cranreuch bleak Drives houseless bodies in, Teen Rhymes (1844'; 31.
Frt'. Full eighty winters thick hae spread Their cranreughs o'er my palsied head, ...
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
Chs.1 am quite sure that a lad of this generation who was called ' cranny' would
by no means take it as a compliment. 3. sb. A simpleton, foolish erson. ||.Cl1s.l
Dhaa' nuwd kraan'i [ ha nowd cranny]. CRANREUCH, sb. Sc. Written cranreugh.
3
The Poetry of Robert Burns: Songs. Unauthorised poems. ...
97. 9- Crankous, fretful : ' in crankous mood,' i. 31. 5. Cranks, creakings : ' what
tuneless cranks,' i. 24. 15. Cranreuch, hoar-frost, rime : 'cranreuch cauld,' i. 116.
16; 'hoary cranreuch drest,' ii. 1. 6. Crap, crop. Crap, to crop: 'that crap the heather
...
Robert Burns, William Ernest Henley, Thomas Finlayson Henderson, 1901
4
The Bluebell Songster. Edited by J. E. Carpenter
The cranreuch's cauld, the breeze is bauld, Then come nestle thee, my dear, in
my plaid's cozie fauld. The great an' gran', the big an' braw— They simp'rin' sit in
gilded ha.' ; But happier are we, lass, A-stowlins i' the shiel, Wi' leal love in our ...
Joseph Edwards CARPENTER, 1867
5
The Poetry of Robert Burns
Now thou's turned out, for a' thy trouble, But house or hald, To thole the winter's
sleety dribble, An' cranreuch cauld ! alone But Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In
proving foresight may be vain : The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft ...
Robert Burns, William Ernest Henley, Thomas Finlayson Henderson, 1896
Cranreuch. − hoar frost. This was one of the words that Burns seemed to favour
when he wanted to create a sense of suffering in the bitter cold. Perhaps his
bestknown use of the word is in To a Mouse, when his accidental destruction of
the ...
Chris Robinson, Eileen Finlayson, 2008
7
The Works with His Lift by Allan Cunningham. -London, James ...
Crambo-clink, or crambo-jingle. Rhymes, doggrel verses. Crank. The noise of an
ungreased wheel—metaphorically inharmonious verse. Crankous. Fretful,
captions. “ This while she's been in crankous mood.” . Burns. Cranreuch The hoar
-frost ...
8
The Songs of Robert Burns
Love and Liberty — A Cantata RECITATIVO WHEN lyart leaves bestrow the yird,
Or, wavering like the bauckie-bird, Bedim cauld Boreas' blast; When hailstanes
drive wi' bitter skyte, And infant frosts begin to bite, 5 In hoary cranreuch drest; Ae
...
9
The Works: In Four Volumes
Polworth. Crambo-clink, or crambojingle. Rhymes, doggrel verses. Crank. The
noise of an ungreased wheel—metaphorically in. harmonious verse. Crankous.
Fretful , captions. “ This while she's been in crankous mood.” Burns. Cranreuch.
Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham, 1835
Peter, let him in — show him ben — and (whispers Peter, who makes his exit and
his entrance, ushering in Tickler in a Dreadnought, covered with cranreuch.t
North and the Shepherd are seen lying on their faces on the hearth rug). Peter.
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Ali Abbasi: Your memories
As the rest of us shivered in the cranreuch cauld of winter, he would march around the newsroom, eyes twinkling under the baseball cap, ... «BBC News, Aug 04»
