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▪ I. blout, n. Sc.|blaʊt|
[App. onomatopœic: cf. blow, blast, blash, etc.]
1. The sudden breaking of a storm; a sudden downpour of rain, hail, etc., accompanied by wind.
1786Harvest Rig in Chambers Hum. Sc. Poems (1862) 52 For 'tis a blout will soon be laid, And we may hap us in our plaid, Till it blaws ower. 1804W. Tarras Poems 63 (Jam.) Vernal win's, wi' bitter blout, Out owre our chimlas blaw.
2. Cf. gouts (of blood).
1827J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 338 Wringing her hauns as if washin them in the cleansin dews frae the blouts o' blood.
▪ II. † blout, a. Sc. Obs.
Also blowt.
[Cf. Du. bloot naked, bare, ON. blaut-r soft, wet. The ON. accounts best for the form, but the Du. agrees in sense.]
Naked, bare, desolate.
1513Douglas æneis vii. Prol. 65 Woddis, forestis, wyth nakyt bewis blout, Stud strypyt of thair weyd in every hout. Ibid. xi. xvii. 8 The baneris left all blowt and desolait. Ibid. xiii. vi. 227 Planys..blowt of bestis; and of treis bayr.
▪ III. blout(e
obs. form of bloat. |