1818 Scott Rob Roy xxvii.: It will be nonsense fining me. Songs 79: We aw him nought but a grey groat. your manhood hide Sae for a poor gray groat. wi' the grey geese, as they ca' thae great loose stanes. 1898 Shetland News (19 Feb.): Some o' da gray folk have walked aff wi' dem. 1888 Edmonston & Saxby Home of a Naturalist 144: She had in her hand a bulwand (a reed that grows in the marshes), and that ye ken is what the grey folk use for horses. 10 1954: “Gray Daylicht” is another name for the strathspey tune Stirling Castle. 1910 “Camlach” Ballads 30: Ae winter morn at grey day-licht. Douglas” Green Shutters xxiv.: I would like to hear “Miss Drummond o' Perth” or “Grey Daylicht” - they might buck me up a bit. 1838 Justiciary Reports (1842) 73: Next morning about gray day light, just after witness got up. 96: Like your grey corn in time of rain That withers in a frost. 1745 Forfeited Estate Papers (S.H.S.) 298: The Boll Gray Corn, Two pound, therteen shill. 2): Gie us of your white bread And nane of your gray. 56: First, I am awing Andro Rid At the Wast-port for six Gray-bread, Five shilling. The 90th Perthshire Light Infantry (now the Second Battalion of the Scottish Rifles), when raised by Lord Lynedoch in 1794, was known as the “Perthshire Grey-breeks.” (2) em.Sc. Fusiliers 8–9: The new regiment was soon known popularly as the “Earl of Mar's Grey-breeks,” and up to 1683 at any rate, and probably till after the Revolution, grey was the ordinary dress of the private and non-commissioned officers. a large surface rock or boulder of grey stone, often used as a landmark or boundary stone, formerly treated with some superstitious regard. (19) (24) gray stane, a grey volcanic rock specif. 1955) a kind of flagstone used for roofing (Ork.
(23) gray slate, laminated sandstone (Abd., Ags. 1955) (21) gray saugh, see Saugh (22) gray scool ( scull, school, schule), a species of salmon of an inferior quality found in the rivers of the south of Scot.
(22) and see also Plies (20) gray room, the room where cloth is inspected and darned after it comes off the loom (Ayr. (18) gray-pig, = Graybeard (19) gray plies, strata of gray freestone. (4) ( b) and (11) above (17) gray paper, brown paper used for wrapping (Cai. (16) gray oats, an inferior species of oats. See Maggie (15) gray meal, the refuse and sweepings of a meal-mill, dirty meal, used for feeding poultry (wm.Sc. (13) gray maggie, “coal which has been converted into coke through the proximity of an igneous intrusion” (Rnf. (13) gray licht, dawn, early daylight, sometimes also evening twilight (Cai., ne. (10) gray gud(e)wife ( pear), a species of pear (11) gray-heads, “heads of gray-coloured oats, growing among others that are not” (Gall. (24) below (9) gray groat, a silver fourpenny piece, used as a symbol of small value = a mite ( cf. See Trow (8) gray goose, a large boulder of grey stone. (16) (5) gray dark, dusk, evening twilight (Rxb. †(4) gray corn, ( a) the refuse of oats after winnowing (e.Lth. 1825 Jam.) (3) gray-bulwand, the mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris (Ork.
†(2) gray breid, bread or a loaf made of rye, perhaps also of oats (Sc. 77), and now to the Royal Scots Fusiliers (wm. Combs.: (1) Gray Breeks, a popular name given to the Earl of Mar's Fusiliers, the Perthshire Light Infantry (Per. As in Eng.: of an indeterminate shade between black and white sometimes greyish-brown.ġ. The surname Gray is almost invariably so spelt in Scotland. Hide Quotations Hide Etymology Cite this entry
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