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▪ I. mird, v. Sc.
1. intr. To meddle. Also, to sport amorously.
1614Bp. P. Forbes To a Recusant 27 (Jam.) Except that there perhaps he thought some occasion might be catched to calumniat, or that there was ministred to him some matter of mirding. 1768Ross Helenore (1789) 91 'Tis nae to mird with unco fouk ye see, Nor is the blear drawn easy o'er her ee. c1768― in Whitelaw Bk. Sc. Song (1875) 360/1 He there wi' Meg was mirdin' seen. 1806R. Jamieson Pop. Ball. II. 335 Wi' lasses I ne'er mean to mird or to mell.
2. trans. To attempt, to venture.
c1740J. Skinner Christmas Ba'ing vii. Misc. Coll. Poetry (1809) 125 He squeel' to her like a young gyte, But wad na mird to gang Back a' that day. 1863Janet Hamilton Poems & Ess. 300 But the nameless, though giftit, are caul' i' the yird, Ere a sang or a word i' their praise she wull mird!
▪ II. mird
variant of merd Obs., excrement. |