smurr

Day broke -- a dull smurr of gray in an interval between two sleet-laden squalls.

Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

"There's a smurr o 'rain beginnin' to fa ', I think," he said, apologetically.

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

When they were quite at the summit of the pass, a smurr, as we say in

The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols William Black 1869