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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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†INNIRICH, n. Also eanaruich; imrie, -y, -igh.

1. A kind of soup or broth.Sc. 1787 in J. Currie Burns's Wks. (1800) II. 116:
The best and tenderest parts were immediately roasted before the fire, and plenty of innirich, or Highland soup, prepared to conclude their meal.Sc. 1814 Scott Waverley xvii.:
Three cogues . . . containing eanaruich, a sort of strong soup made out of a particular part of the inside of the beeves.

2. The scent of roasted meat (Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 279, imrie).Ib. 135:
He smell'd the imry like an otter.