Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Preparation; arrangement; manner of doing a thing; the proper course.
- noun Apparatus of whatever kind, for work, for traveling, etc.; furniture; equipment.
- To make ready; prepare; dress. '
- Ready; prepared.
- Straight; direct; free.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb See
greith - noun Scot. Furniture; apparatus or accouterments for work, traveling, war, etc.
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- verb transitive To make
ready ;prepare ; put in order; make fit for use. - verb transitive To
deal with;treat ;handle (a person);complement . - verb transitive, intransitive To
dress ; get dressed. - adjective
Ready ;prepared . - adjective
Straight ;direct ;prompt . - adjective
Free ;clear ;available . - noun obsolete
Preparation ;arrangement ; manner of doing a thing; proper course. - noun Northern England, Scotland An
apparatus of any kind;gadget ;materials orequipment ;tackle ;tools orimplements . - noun Northern England, Scotland
Furnishings ;furniture ;equipment oraccoutrements for work, travelling, war, etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Neither,” answered Harry Gow; “I should but prevent your rest, and for me this easy chair is worth a down bed, and I will sleep like a sentinel, with my graith about me.”
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Sae they began to jeer the Laird, that he saw nae sic graith in his ain poor country; and the Laird, scorning to hae his country put down without a word for its credit, swore, like a gude Scotsman, that he had mair candlesticks, and better candlesticks, in his ain castle at hame, than were ever lighted in
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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“There has been Jock Driver the carrier here, speering about his new graith,” said Mrs. Saddletree to her husband, as he crossed his threshold, not with the purpose, by any means, of consulting him upon his own affairs, but merely to intimate, by a gentle recapitulation, how much duty she had gone through in his absence.
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But how many of her readers realise that she is not out to dizzledazzle with a graith uncouthre-ment of postmantuam glasseries from the lapins and the grigs.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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And then he showed how I suld have done, — and that I suld have held up my hand to my brow, as if the grandeur of the king and his horse-graith thegither had casten the glaiks in my een, and mair jackanape tricks I suld hae played, instead of offering the Sifflication, he said, as if I had been bringing guts to a bear.
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Here farmers gash in ridin 'graith [complacent, attire]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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Then Meg took up her spinnin 'graith, [implements]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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An 'ploughmen gather wi' their graith, [implements]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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Sae they began to jeer the Laird, that he saw nae sic graith in his ain poor country; and the Laird, scorning to hae his country put down without a word for its credit, swore, like a gude Scotsman, that he had mair candlesticks, and better candlesticks, in his ain castle at hame, than were ever lighted in a hall in Cumberland, an Cumberland be the name o 'the country.' '
A Legend of Montrose 1871
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'Thou rides in strange graith on my lord's business,' he said, as he put the key in the lock.
St. George and St. Michael Volume II George MacDonald 1864
chained_bear commented on the word graith
Usage on carline.
January 21, 2010