10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOUSTY»
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
Cor.1 Dried cow-dung used for firing. (s. v. Glaws.) GOUSTY, ad)? Sc. Nhb. Yks.
Also written gowsty Sc. N.Cy.' Nhb. [gau'StL] 1. Waste, desolate, dreary, gloomy ;
ghastly, supernatural, unearthly. Sc. Is it not an unco lucre 0' gain wad bring this ...
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. A-Kut
S. GOUSTY, adj. 1. Waste; desolate; dreary in consequence of extent or
emptiness, S. See Sup. Eolus the kyng In gousty cauis, the windis loud quhisling
And braithlie tempcstis, by his power refranys In bandis hard. » Vasto antro, Virg.
Doug.
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
GOUSTY. an'/Zl Sc. th. Yks. Also written gowsty Sc.N.Cy.l th.l [gau'sti.] 1. \Vastc,
desolate, dreary, gloomy; ghastly, supernatural, unearthly. Sc. ls it not an unco
luere 0' gain wad bring this Dousterdivcl . . . at twal o'eloek at night to thir gousty ...
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A Dictionary of the Scottish Language
Tempestuous; as, “ a gousty day,” Roxb. ; merely a slight change from E. gusty.
GOUSTY, adj. l. Desolate ; dreary, S. Dou . 2. Ghostly; preternatural. Pop. Bal . 3.
Applied to a person whose haggard appearance marks his being wasted by age
...
John Jamieson, John Johnstone, 1846
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Princess Isabel of Brazil: Gender and Power in the ...
Meanwhile, August's parents continued to pitch their demands very high, insisting
that Gousty, as their son was known, marry the future empress and requiring
changes in the draft marriage contract. At the last moment they did consent that ...
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An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language: ...
GOUSTY, adj. l. Waste, desolate; drear j in consequence of extent or emptiness,
S. Eolus the kyng In gousty cauis, the windis loud quhisling And braithlic
tumpestis, by his power rcfranys In bandis hard. Doug. Virgil, 14. 46. Vasto antro,
Virg.
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The Roxburghshire Word-Book
Of weather, etc.: Dark and stormy; boisterous. [From Sc. gouster to bluster]
GOUSTY, a.1 Also gowsty. NE, C. Of places: Large, bare, and dreary: “A gowsty
hoose.” [med. Sc. gowstie] GOUSTY ('gAusti), a.2 Also gowsty. 1. Of the wind:
Blowing ...
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Models & Methods for Project Selection: Concepts from ...
Khorramshahgol and Gousty further explicitly assume that each project can be
partially funded, and that returns and market share are proportional to the level of
funding. While these assumptions are restrictive, they do not detract from the ...
Samuel B. Graves, Jeffrey L. Ringuest, Andrés L. Medaglia, 2003
Thus we are led to the Scotch gouszy, waste, desolate, dreary; then as loneliness
and darkness impress the mind with a. feeling of indefinite horror, gousty
acquires the sense of awful. The word now becomes confounded with gbostly,
which ...
John Milton, Richard Charles Brown, Henry Bradley, 1886
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A glossary of North country words, with their etymology, and ...
Gowsty, dreary, frightful, ghastly, ghostly. It is frequently used as signifying dismal
or uncomfortable, and so applied to a dwelling-house without ceiling, &c. " What
agowsty hole he lives in." Sc. gousty, gusty. " Cald, mirk and gousty is the nicht.
John Trotter Brockett, William Edward Brockett, 1846
