A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1501-1513, 1572, 1661
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Ery, adj. Also: hery, erie, yrrie. [Northern ME. eri (c 1300), of obscure origin. In later Sc. as eerie.] Affected with fear or dread.a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxvi. 843.
Sanctulus, that wes hery, To sancte Iohnne baptist can cry a1400 Ib. xxxix. 321.
Scho, that wes for hym hery, Mad sare chere 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. Prol. 103.
With ery courage, febill strenthis sary, Bownand me hame 1513 Id. Æn. viii. iv. 91.
Swyft as the wynd he fled … , And to his cave hym sped with ery spreit 1572 Satirical Poems xxxii. 101.
We pure sall cry, with erie hartis fast dontane, To thee, O God 1661 Black Sc. Witches 43.
When I had done all my work, ... I began to be yrrie, being late in the eavening
