A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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(Hale-,) Hail(l)-ware, -wair, n. [hail(l, Hale a., 4; wair, Ware n. Anglicized as Whole-ware.] The whole number or amount; the sum total, the whole. —1562-3 Winȝet I. 52/12.
This first and speciall part, and almaist the hail-wair is, that [etc.] Ib. II. 73/9.
Nocht that the canoun allane may nocht be sufficient to the hail wair 1563–64 Prot. Bk. G. Grote 66.
[The survivor should succeed to the] hailwair a1578 Pitsc. I. 154/20.
Sa the haill wair, being comptit, was threttie thowsand pund sterling 1592 Crim. Trials. I. 325.
There falles out sike cummeris tuichin that land, that we ar able to lose the hail ware first
