| 释义 |
ˈewest, adv. (quasi-a.) Sc.
Also 6 ewoss, ewous, euous, euuse, ewuse. Comp. more ewous.
[Perh. evolved by a wrong division of anewst (an ewest for a newest).]
Close at hand.
1527Burgh. Rec. Aberd. 3 June (Spald. 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. 1543Aberd. 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. 1572Sc. Acts Jas. VI, §48 The Manses..maist ewest to the Kirk. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 153 That a gleeb of four aikers of land be designed off the most ewest and commodious land. a1657Sir J. Balfour Ann. Scotl. (1824–5) II. 258 The remanent Lordes of the clergie, being ewest to him. 1814Scott Wav. xlii, ‘To be sure, they lie maist ewest’ said the Bailie. |