ewestadv.adj.

Forms: Also 1500s ewoss, ewous, euous, euuse, ewuse. Comparative more ewous.

Etymology: Perhaps evolved by a wrong division of anewst adv. and prep. (an ewest for a newest).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈewest.

Scottish.

Close at hand.

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1527 Burgh. Rec. Aberd. 3 June (Spalding Club) I. 117 One of your landis liand mair evuse to ws..interchange the saidis landis with wtheris haiffand landis liand mair ewuse [printed evnse] to ws.

1543 in Aberd. Reg. V. 18 (Jam.) Causing of your folkis that ar maist ewoss wss to be in redenes. I haf gewin command & charge to my friendis & folkis maist ewous yow.

1572 Sc. Acts Jas. VI §48 The Manses..maist ewest to the Kirk.

1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 153 That a gleeb of four aikers of land be designed off the most ewest and commodious land.

a1657 J. Balfour Hist. Wks. (1824) II. 258 The remanent Lordes of the clergie, being ewest to him.

1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xix. 298 ‘To be sure, they be maist ewest’, said the Bailie.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	ewest
释义	ewestadv.adj. Forms: Also 1500s ewoss, ewous, euous, euuse, ewuse. Comparative more ewous. Etymology: Perhaps evolved by a wrong division of anewst adv. and prep. (an ewest for a newest).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈewest. Scottish. Close at hand. ΚΠ 1527 Burgh. Rec. Aberd. 3 June (Spalding Club) I. 117 One of your landis liand mair evuse to ws..interchange the saidis landis with wtheris haiffand landis liand mair ewuse [printed evnse] to ws. 1543 in Aberd. Reg. V. 18 (Jam.) Causing of your folkis that ar maist ewoss wss to be in redenes. I haf gewin command & charge to my friendis & folkis maist ewous yow. 1572 Sc. Acts Jas. VI §48 The Manses..maist ewest to the Kirk. 1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 153 That a gleeb of four aikers of land be designed off the most ewest and commodious land. a1657 J. Balfour Hist. Wks. (1824) II. 258 The remanent Lordes of the clergie, being ewest to him. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xix. 298 ‘To be sure, they be maist ewest’, said the Bailie. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adv.adj.1527
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