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▪ I. † wangrace1 Sc. Obs.
[f. wan- + grace n.]
Lack of grace, want of propriety.
1513Douglas æneis, Exclam. agst. Detractouris 13 Sum beyn sa frawart in malice and wangrace, Quhat is weill said thai love nocht worth ane ace.
▪ II. wangrace2 Sc. and Anglo-Irish.
Also -grease.
A kind of gruel.
a1733in C. K. Sharpe Ballad Bk. (1823) 113, I gave him wangrace in his bed, And row'd the blankets round him. 1829Acc. Persons remark. Health & Longev. 225 The sweat which he took..was what they call a wangrease in that country. It is made of oatmeal, flummery made very thin, sweetened with honey, and a lump of fresh butter. 1899Century Mag. Oct. 959/1 ‘Aye, an' a bowl i' wan-grace,’ Rosie, the maid, said—‘that's what'll put the sthren'th intil yer bones again.’ |