† courtrien.
dialect. Obsolete.
= courtiery n., body of courtiers.
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?a1700 Ballad ‘Outlaw Murray’ iv. (Bord. Minstr.) There was an Outlaw in Ettrick Forest Counted him nought, nor a' his courtrie gay.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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n.?a1700- to hold a person tack
- to hold a person tack to tack
- to hold a person upon the inturn
- to hold a person wag
- to hold a person's feet to the fire
- to hold a pistol at a person's head
- to hold a pistol at head
- to hold a pistol to a person's head
- to hold a pistol to head
- to hold a school
- to hold a shop
- to hold a spurn
- to hold a stop in
- to hold a taper to the devil
- to hold a team scoreless
- to hold a thing in contempt
- to hold a thing in etc reverence
- to hold a thing in great reverence
- to hold a thing in reverence
- to hold a thing in the palm of one's hand
- to hold a thing responsible
- to hold a way
- to hold aback
- to hold all the aces
- to hold all the cards