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† burd-alone, a. Obs. Sc. (a rare archaism in mod. poet.)
Also burd-alane, bird-.
[Origin of burd obscure; perh. = bird n., ‘like a sparrow alone upon the house tops’, Ps. cii. 7. Jamieson says the word ‘is used to denote one who is the only child left in a family’, but the examples show a much more general sense.]
As a solitary person or being; entirely alone, ‘all alone’.
1572Lament. Lady Scotl. in Scot. Poems 16th C. II. 251 Tak ȝe ane, We must not leif the vther bird alane. a1600Auld Maitland Introd. in Scott Minstr. Sc. B., Burd⁓allane, his only son and air. 17..Gallant Grahams, ibid. And Newton Gordon, burd-alone, And Dalgatie both stout and keen. 1717Ramsay Lucky Wood in Poems (1800) I. 228 She's dead and gane, Left us and Willie burd alane, To bleer and greet. a1800Sir Roland x. in Chambers Sc. Ballads (1829) 259 He was riding burd-alane. a1800King Henrie in Scott Minstr. Sc. B., And this was seen o' King Henrie For he lay burd alane. 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 32 When thou a maiden burd-alone, Hadst eighteen summers! |