An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language - LightNovelsOnl.com
You're reading novel online at LightNovelsOnl.com. Please use the follow button to get notifications about your favorite novels and its latest chapters so you can come back anytime and won't miss anything.
_Crosraguel._
4. To oppose, to resist.
_Hist. Ja. s.e.xt._
5. _To thraw out_, to extort.
_R. Bruce._
A. S. _thraw-ian_, torquere.
~Thrawin~, _part. adj._
1. Distorted, S.
2. Having the appearance of ill-humour; applied to the countenance, S.
_Douglas._
3. Cross-grained, of a perverse temper, S.
_Anderson._
4. Expressive of anger or ill humour, S.
_Ramsay._
~Thrawynlye~, _adv._ In a manner expressive of ill humour.
_Douglas._
~Thrawn-muggent~, _adj._ Having a perverse disposition, Ang.
V. ~Ill-muggent~.
THRAW, _s._ A pang, an agony, S.; throe, E.
_Douglas._
A. S. _threa_, poena, inflictio; _threow-an_, agonizare.
THRAW, _s._ Anger, ill humour, S.
V. ~Thra~, _s._
_R. Galloway._
THRAW, _s._ A little while, a trice.
_Doug._
A. S. _thrah_, Isl. _thrauge_, cursus temporis.
THRAW, _s._ Perh. favour.
_Douglas._
Su. G. _traa_, Isl. _thra_, desiderium.
THRAW, _adv._
V. ~Thra~.
THRAWART, THRAWARD, _adj._
1. Froward, perverse.
_Balnavis._
2. Backward, reluctant, S.
_Baillie._
Isl. _thrayrdi_, pervicax contentio.
~Thrawart~, _prep._ Athwart, across.
_Doug._
THRAW-CRUK, _s._ An instrument for twisting ropes of straw, hair, &c. S.
_Bannatyne P._
THREFT, _adj._ Reluctant, perverse, Loth.
V. ~Thraftly~.
_To_ THREPE, _v. n._ To aver with pertinacity, in reply to denial, S.
