An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language - LightNovelsOnl.com
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_Douglas._
~Wraithly~, _adv._ Furiously.
_Wallace._
WRAK, WRAIK, WRACK, WRECK, WREK, _s._
1. Whatever is thrown out by the sea, as _broken_ pieces of wood, sea-weed, &c., S.
2. Often appropriated to sea-weed, S.
_Barry._
This receives different names in different parts of S.; as, _b.u.t.ton wrack_, _lady wrack_, &c.
_Stat. Acc._
3. The weeds gathered from land, and generally piled up in heaps for being burnt, S.
_Pennecuik._
4. Trash, refuse of any kind.
_Bannatyne Poems._
Su. G. _wrak_, E. wreck; also, any thing that is of little value, mere trash; Dan. _vrag_, id.
_To_ WRAMP, _v. a._ To sprain any part of the body, S. c.u.mb.
Belg. _wremp-en_, to distort the mouth.
~Wramp~, _s._ A twist or sprain, S.
_Watson._
WRANG, _s._ Wrong, S.
_Barbour._
~Wrangwis~, ~Wrangwiss~, _adj._
1. Wrong, not proper.
_Wallace._
2. Wrongful, unjust.
_Wyntown._
A. S. _wise_, manner, used as a _term._, changes the _s._ to which it is affixed into an _adj._ as _riht-wise_, whence E. _righteous_.
WRANGIS, WRAYNGIS, _s. pl._ The ribs or floor timbers of a s.h.i.+p; Fr.
_varangues_, id.
_Douglas._
Radically the same with S. _rung_.
_To_ WRAPLE, _v. a._ To entangle, to warp, also _warple_, S. B.
_Ross._
Originally the same with _Wrabil_, q. v.
WRAT, _s._ A wart or hard rough excrescence, chiefly on the fingers, S.; the _Verruca_ of physicians.
Belg. _wratte_.
_Z. Boyd._
WRATACK, _s._ A dwarf, S. B.
_Ross._
Gael. _bridach_, _cruitecan_, id.; Dan. _vreden_, tortus.
_To_ WRATCH, WRETCH, _v. n._ To become n.i.g.g.ardly, S.
_Kelly._
Belg. _vrek_, _vrekkig_, n.i.g.g.ardly.
WRATE, _pret. v._ Apparently, died.
_Wyntown._
Moes. G. _wrat-on_, Isl. _rat-a_, peregrinari.
WRE. L. _vre_, chance.
