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▪ I. skair, n. Sc. and north. dial.|skɛə(r)|
Also 6 scair, 8–9 skare.
[var. of share n., but the sk- is difficult to account for.]
A share, portion.
c1573Satir. Poems Reform. xlii. 556 That ressoun is bot vane, To say a man may do na mair, But serue a kirk vntil his skair. 1585Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 43 Six hundreth yeares and fourtie was her scair, Which Nature ordained her for to fulfill. c1650R. Sempill Piper of Kilbarchan xiv, For of his springs I gat a skair, At every play, race, feast and fair. 1721Ramsay Poet's Wish iii, May he then but gie then Those blessings for my skair. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 115 And chang'd her camstane for a skair O' belly-timber sweet. 1858M. Porteous Real Souter Johnny 31 In a tuilzie..to tak your skair.
▪ II. skair, v.1 Sc. and north. dial.|skɛə(r)|
[Cf. prec.]
trans. and intr. To share.
1720Ramsay Wealth 114 Thrice lucky pimps,..That can in a' his wealth and pleasure skair. 1725― Gentle Sheph. iii. iii, Had I fifty times as mickle mair, Nane but my Jenny shou'd the samen skair. 1773Fergusson Caller Water xiii. (1789) ii. 41 Caller burn..That gars them a' sic graces skair, And blink sae bonny. 1858M. Porteous Real Souter Johnny 31 To seek wi' fremmit folk, to skair A safer beild.
▪ III. † skair, v.2 Obs.
Also 3 skeȝȝrenn, 4 skayre.
[Of obscure origin.]
trans. To scatter, disperse; to send out in various directions.
c1200Ormin 16451 Forr þatt all Adamess stren Todrifenn wass & skeȝȝredd Inntill þiss wide middellærd. a1400Morte Arth. 2467 Thane the price men..skyrmys a lytill; Skayres thaire skottefers, and theire skowtte-waches. c1400Destr. Troy 1089 [They] Skairen out skoute-wacche for skeltyng of harme.
▪ IV. skair
Sc. variant of scar n.1 |