Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweir
Literary usage of Sweir
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"The same with sweir- tree. The amusement is conducted in Tweed- dale by the persons
... The same kind of instrument which is also called sweir Kitty, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"It -was the drink," rejoined Malcolm ; "an'eh, sir, afore ye rise frae that bed
sweir to the great God 'at ye'Il never drink ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are Explained in by John Jamieson (1867)
"It. sweir, and Kitty, a-contemptuous term fora woman. sweir MAN'S LADE, sweir «AX'S
LIFT. The undue load, taken on by a lazy person, in order to avoid a ..."
4. The Catechism of John Hamilton, Archbishop of St. Andrews, 1552 by Catholic Church, John Hamilton, Thomas Graves Law (1884)
"For thow suld nocht sweir at all tymes nor for all ... bot sall performe thi eith
to God : bot I say to yow, sweir nocht ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"To do a thing with sweir teilt, to do it reluctantly. ... The same with sweir-tree.
The amusement is conducted in Tweeddale by the persons grasping each ..."
6. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"The same with sweir-trte. The amusement is conducted in Tweeddale by the person»
... An instrument for winding yam ; the same with sweir-kitty, Aberd. ..."
7. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are ...by John Jamieson by John Jamieson (1818)
"S. Niggardly, unwilling to part with any thing, SO DEAD-sweir, <•<;'/. ...
An instrument for winding yarn, SB sweir, and fitly, a contemptuous term for a ..."
8. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"The same with sweir- tree. The amusement is conducted in Tweed- dale by the persons
... The same kind of instrument which is also called sweir Kitty, ..."
9. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"It -was the drink," rejoined Malcolm ; "an'eh, sir, afore ye rise frae that bed
sweir to the great God 'at ye'Il never drink ..."
10. A Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are Explained in by John Jamieson (1867)
"It. sweir, and Kitty, a-contemptuous term fora woman. sweir MAN'S LADE, sweir «AX'S
LIFT. The undue load, taken on by a lazy person, in order to avoid a ..."
11. The Catechism of John Hamilton, Archbishop of St. Andrews, 1552 by Catholic Church, John Hamilton, Thomas Graves Law (1884)
"For thow suld nocht sweir at all tymes nor for all ... bot sall performe thi eith
to God : bot I say to yow, sweir nocht ..."
12. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"To do a thing with sweir teilt, to do it reluctantly. ... The same with sweir-tree.
The amusement is conducted in Tweeddale by the persons grasping each ..."
13. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"The same with sweir-trte. The amusement is conducted in Tweeddale by the person»
... An instrument for winding yam ; the same with sweir-kitty, Aberd. ..."
14. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are ...by John Jamieson by John Jamieson (1818)
"S. Niggardly, unwilling to part with any thing, SO DEAD-sweir, <•<;'/. ...
An instrument for winding yarn, SB sweir, and fitly, a contemptuous term for a ..."
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