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▪ I. rouk, n. Sc. and north.|raʊk, ruk|
[Var. of roke n.1, and of rook n.3]
Mist, fog.
c1500Rowlis Cursing 168 in Laing Anc. Poet. Scotl. 215 Quhair thair is hunger, cald and thrist, Dirknes, mirknes, rouk and mist. a1510Douglas K. Hart i. 10 For wes he never ȝit with schouris schot, Nor ȝit ourrun with rouk, or ony rayne. 1659Hay Diary (S.H.S.) 170 Thick rouk in the morning. 1808in Jamieson. 1825in Brockett. 1861J. Brown Horæ Subs. Pref. p. vii, Now, the rouk (mist born of early frosts) is lying white and chill. a1870H. S. Riddell Poet. Wks. (1871) I. 199 Yon rouke that's floating by sae grey.
▪ II. † rouk, v. Obs. north. and Sc.
Also 5–6 rowk.
[Perh. a special sense of rouk ruck v.1, but see also runk v.]
intr. Only in phrase rouk and roun(d), to talk privately.
c1440York Myst. vii. 48 Me liste noȝt nowe to rouk nor rowne. a1500in Ratis Raving, etc. 103 A woman suld..with no ȝonge men rouk [v.r. rowk] na roune. 1529Lyndesay Compl. 185 Roundand and rowkand, ane tyll vther. a1575Diurn. Occurr. (Bann. Cl.) 45 The Inglismen begouth to gif bakkis, and to rouk and round, sayand it was ane greit matter to brek the Scottis.
Hence † ˈrouker, a whisperer, tale-bearer.
1551Abp. Hamilton Catech. 71 A rowkar and rownar sall fyle his awin saule. Ibid., Ane rowkar and doubil toungit.
▪ III. rouk(e
obs. or dial. ff. ruck n. and v. |