Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Distraught.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Scot. To stretch; to make straight.
- imp. & p. p. of
stretch .
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- verb dialectal To
stretch ;make straight . - verb alternative simple past and past participle of
stretch - adjective obsolete
Distraught .
Etymologies
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Examples
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“It is written on his brow, Annie Winnie,” returned the octogenarian, her companion, “that hand of woman, or of man either, will never straught him: dead-deal will never be laid on his back, make you your market of that, for I hae it frae a sure hand.”
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And I'm on the final straught with Da Book --delivery end of Jul, early Aug. Thank Christ.
Drastic Plastic 2006
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Power, wythe his heasod [195] straught [196] ynto the skyes,
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Then roming vp and downe vppon the grasse, he seemed rather to be a man straught and bounde with chaines, than like one that had his wittes and vnderstanding.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Anethe [123] the stronge push of mie straught [124] out speere,
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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For muckle anes an 'straught anes. [big ones, straight]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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I steppit up to Tarn and charged him simple and straught.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869
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Faith! she sat as straught as a rash, wi 'jist a hing i' the heid o 'her, like the heid o' a halm o 'wild aits.'
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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-- Dauvid, man, ye'll hae to saiddle and ride; the doctor maun gang wi 'ye straught to
Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864
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I wud be surer but that I hae thoucht whiles I saw the muckle angels themsels gaein aboot, throu and throu the ondingin flauchter o 'the snaw -- no mony o' them, ye ken, but jist whiles ane and whiles anither, throu amo 'the cauld feathers, gaein aye straught wi' their heids up, walkin comfortable, as gien they war at hame in't.
Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864
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