10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLAUGHT»
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. A-Kut
Flaught-bred upon her, butt the house he sprang, And frae her mother's oxter
fiercelings wrang. Ross's Helenore, p. 82, Sibb. views this as " perhaps the same
with belly-flaught, stretched flat on the ground. But this is not the proper sense of
...
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A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: ...
There was neither moon nor stars — naething but a flaught o' fire every now and
than, to keep the road by." Blackw. Mag. Nov. 1820, p. 202. V. Fire- FLAUCHT.
Flaught, adv. With great eagerness, q. with the wings fully spread, in full flight,
Ayrs ...
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
NORTH Nodes (ed. 1856) IV. 153. Gall. Blafi'! like a flaught o' fire—Yon comes
upon ye; and where are ye? Cnocxz'rr MossHags (1895) xliii. NJ.' 4. A hot coal or
live ember. n.Yks.l (s.v. Flet). m.Yko.l Applied to the particle of'live' gaseous coal ...
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An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language: ...
FLAUCHT, Flaught, s. A handful, S. B. A monrnful ditty to hcrscll she sung, In
flaughts roove out her hair, her hands she' wrung. Ross's Helenore, p. 55. He's
sent to you what ye lo'cd maist, Aflaught o' his yellow hair. Jamieson's Popular
Ball. i.
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A Dictionary of the Scottish Language
FLAUGHT, adv. With great eagerness ; q. with the wings fully spread, Ayrs.
FLAUGHT, s. l. Flutter, like that of a fowl, Ayrs. Gait. 2. Bustle; hurried and
confused exertion, Ayrs. ibid. To FLAUGHTER, e. 1!. 1. To flutter, Galloway. 2. To
shine fiti'ully ...
John Jamieson, John Johnstone, 1846
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Horse race betting: a comprehensive account of pari-mutuel ...
$2 on Benefactress returned $8.30, a profit of $6.30; then— 2 on Marogay
returned 9.90, a profit of 7.90; then2 on Flaught returned 7.20, a profit of 5.20 $6
bet returned $25.40, a profit of $19.40 Place and show “if” bets may also be made
, but ...
Frederick Silas Buck, 1971
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A Sequel to the Diversions of Purley: containing an essay on ...
common practice of changing or dropping the Anglosaxon G: and .floged or
flanged (using the other participial termination), would become flocht or flaught.
Flaught is, I think, still used in the Scotch word FIREFLAUGHT (lightning), which ...
John BARCLAY (of Calcots.), 1826
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The poetic remains of some of the Scotish Kings ...
When all the yunkeris yoklrit ; As fierce as any _fyr¢flaught fell,' Frie/res' to the
field they fiokkit : The carlis with clubbis could other quell' vast. So in R. Gloc.,
kest, and in Langtoft, and in R.itson's Rom. And keyst, in Ritson's Anc. Songs : “
He ...
FLAUGHT: i) A lock of hair. English Ballad: "He's sent ye boys what ye lo'ed maist
, Aflaught o' his yellow hair. " ii) A sudden blast; a flash (of lightning); a tongue of
flame. Thus both insight and inconstancy. Swinburne: "When your eyes Wax red
...
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Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal: Selected Early Writings
91; suggesting the tenaciousness of the satirical writer. fire—flaught: like a
meteor or a flash of lightning, Scots and northern dialect; cf. Scott, Old Mortality,
ch. 38, 'He passed by me like a fire—flaught' (OED). Zamorna: a thriving industrial
and ...
Christine Alexander, 2010
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