| 释义 |
† mackallow Sc. Obs.
Also 7 mac(k)helve, 8 macalive.
[Gael. macaladh fostering.]
Something handed over to a foster-parent along with a child for the benefit of the latter. Also attrib.
1580in Black Bk. Taymouth, etc. (Bannatyne Club) 224 The said father and foster father giving between them of makhelve guddis in donation to the said bairn at Beltane thereafter the value of two hundred merks of ky [etc.]. 1671Contract in Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. XXX. (1896) 22 The makhelve is 9 ky. 1678Ibid. 20 Whilk wholl mackallow goods..the said Duncan and Margret oblidges them..to gress and pastur and hird to the behoofe of ther said foster. 1775Johnson Western Isl. Wks. X. 484 These beasts are considered as a portion and called Macalive Cattle. |