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And our braw bawsint yaud,

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A Scotch form of jade. The Murray, on the auld gray yaud, Wi' winged spurs did ride. Burns, Election Ballads, iv. I will content me with … the haunch and the nombles [of venison], and e'en heave up the rest on the old oak-tree yonder, and come back for it with one of the yauds. Scott, Monastery, xvii.

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A mettl'd, but canny young yaud, for the yokin ', — The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
And our braw bawsint yaud, — English Songs and Ballads
"Far yaud! far yaud!" and then, with eldritch scream, "_Bauty_," it cried. — Stories of the Border Marches
far yaud, far yaud!' — Guy Mannering — Complete
Yarrow, man! far yaud, far yaud! 'he muttered between his teeth, imagining, doubtless, that he was calling to his sheep-dog, and hounding him in shepherds' phrase against some intruders on the grazing. — Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02

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