yird

If any “yird, ” or earth, stick to the root, that is “tocher, ” or fortune; and the taste of the “custock, ” that is, the heart of the stem, is indicative of the natural temper and disposition.

Halloween 1909

If any _yird_, or earth, stick to the root, that is _tocher_, or fortune; and the taste of the _custoc_, that is, the heart of the stem, is indicative of the natural temper and disposition.

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

When lyart leaves bestrow the yird, [withered, earth]

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

It was howkit oot -- whether oot o 'hard yird or saft stane, I dinna ken; I reckon it wud be some no sae hard kin' o 'a rock -- and whan the deid was laid intil 't, they biggit up the mou o' the place, that is, frae that same skelf to the ane 'at was abune 't, and sae a' was weel closed in. '

Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864

'Eh, wuman,' he said in a fear-struck whisper, 'it's awfu' to see ye come oot o 'the yird like a muckle worm!'

Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864

Weel, maybe he had the root o 'the maitter in him, although it made unco little show aboon the yird.

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

"Ow! sober floories that smell o 'the yird (earth), like."

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

Short fushionless dirt, that canna grow straucht oot o 'the halesome yird, like the bonnie lint-bells, but maun stick itsel' upo 'a buss!

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

I wad to God I cud get that sel 'o' mine safe aneath the yird, for it jist torments the life oot o 'me wi' its ugly face.

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

'To think,' he went on, 'o' a haill kirk o 'cats aneath the yird -- a' sittin kaimin themsels wi 'kaims!

Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864