Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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‡ALIST, adv. Back to consciousness, in phr. to come alist, to recover consciousness (see also first quot.). [ə′lɪst]n.Sc. 1808 Jam.:
To come alist, to recover from faintness or decay; applied both to animals and vegetables. The expression is used with respect to one recovering from a swoon.Mry.1 a.1925:
Alist, to revive from a swoon; to come alist, to recover consciousness.Abd. 1768 A. Ross Helenore 8:
With baith my hands I rais'd your head; But never a sinacle of life was there, An' I was just the neest thing to despair; And well's my heart that ye are come alist.Abd. 1824 G. Smith Douglas 76:
Wish, wisht, for see my lady's come alist.Abd.(D) 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xlix.:
Aw heard that he was feerious far gane in a swarf the tither day, an' hardly expeckit to come a-list again.Dundee 1989 W. N. Herbert in Joy Hendry Chapman 55-6 92:
An whan thi sun cemm up
an Dundee cam alist in clementines
an neuralgia wiz bestowit oan me. Edb. 2003:
Efter the shock [stroke] she never came alist.
