Lexicographical Neighbors of Aizle
Literary usage of Aizle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1887)
"AISLE, aizle, ISEL, «. 1. A red-hot ember, a fragment shot from a fierce wood-
fire, a gleaming point ; as, " Fra the hill we saw the licht ¡h the windo ..."
2. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"aizle, a live coal that flies out of the fice. It is a superstition in England
to call the live coals ... She noticed that an aizle brunt Her braw new ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"aizle tree, sb. an axle-tree. Allan-hawk, sb. the great northern diver, and the
red-throated diver. The skua was also so called in Mourne, ..."
4. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"... rouses the indignation of the old lady: ' She fuff't her pipe wi' sic a lunt,
In wrath she was sae vap'rin', She notic't na, an aizle brunt Her braw new ..."
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