scheyffv.
Scottish.
intransitive. = eschew v.1 2.
ΚΠ
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iii. l. 264 My lorde, my consaill will I giff. Bot ȝe do it fra scaith ȝe may nocht scheyff.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
<
v.1488- to have the face to do something
- to have the fairer
- to have the fairer of
- to have the field to oneself
- to have the foot of
- to have the forehand of
- to have the front
- to have the gallows in one's face
- to have the game by the throat
- to have the game in one's hands
- to have the gingerbread
- to have the good sense to
- to have the good sense to do something
- to have the goodness to do something
- to have the goods
- to have the goods on
- to have the governing in
- to have the governing of
- to have the grab on
- to have the grace to
- to have the ground on one's side
- to have the guns for
- to have the happiness to
- to have the heart
- to have the heart hanging on a jolly pin