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† ˈeyelast, ˈeyelist Sc. Obs.
[? f. eye n.1 + ME. lest, last fault.]
1. A flaw, deformity, defect.
1591R. Bruce Serm. B viij, The last eyelast that appeareth in this denunciatioun is this. 1606Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) 357 Ony defaulte or Eilest, be þe quhilk the richt or possessioun of the saidis landis may be challangeit. 1610J. Melvill Diary (1842) 761 They fand thrie or four dangerous eyelistis that they could not digest. 1624Calderwood Ep. Chr. Brother 12 The uncomely eye-lasts required to be introduced upon the sound work of this Sacrament. 1768Ross Helenore 142 From any ee-list I'm free.
2. A grievance, grudge; ill-will, malice.
1584J. Carmichael in Wodr. Soc. Misc. (1844) 415 To repare all bygane elistis. 1595in Pitcairn Crim. Trials I. 349 All and sindrie personis amangis quhome deidlie feid and eleist is presentlie standing. 1644D. Hume Hist. Douglas 87 These two lived after..without suspition, grudge, or eye-list on either partie. |