† gaigeourn.
Obsolete. Scottish.
A wager or bet.
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c1598 King James VI & I Basilicon Doron (1944) I. iii. 193 To gage sa mekill of his awin money as he pleisis upon the hazarde of the rinning of the cairtes or dyce, alsueill as he ualde doe upon the speid of a horse or a dogge or any siclyke gagoure & sa gif thay be unlaufull all gagoures upon uncertainties must lykeuayes be condemned.
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n.c1598- to the rightward
- to the rightward of
- to the rightwards
- to the rightwards of
- to the riverward
- to the root
- to the roots
- to the safeguard of
- to the same
- to the same purpose
- to the satisfaction of
- to the scout
- to the sea
- to the seaward
- to the seaward of
- to the seawards
- to the second order
- to the semblance of; to have or take the semblance of; in semblance of
- to the semblance of; to have or take the semblance of; in the semblance of
- to the sense
- to the shoreward
- to the show
- to the show of the world
- to the showers
- to the side