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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

MIRKLE, v. To grow dark. Ppl.adj. mirkled, dark, darkened; vbl.n. mirklins, pl., darkness, gloom. Only liter.Sc. 1928 J. Bridie Sunlight Sonata (1932) 103:
Come your ways oot o' the mirklins.Sc. 1935 W. Soutar Poems in Scots 55:
And lichtsome, in the mirkl'd air, A star gangs glaidly owre the hill.

[Prob. a back formation from mirklins s.v. Mirk, I. 3. (1).]

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